skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I DO call you troll, now. Good bye.

>>What kind of examples would satisfy you? The names of people who made those claims who I "exposed"?

The full quote was of what I wrote can hardly be asking for names of people. If you weren't full of it, you'd have links etc.

Quote of me, which was "answered" above:

If you want credibility here, you need to give some examples, where people don't just shrug and say "my opinion here is a working hypothesis, if I had the energy + time + money I'd test it with X, Y and Z ... and if those tests failed, I'd change opinion".
Bottled water is kind of like credit cards—it's a product there is demand for, but it's not in anyone's interest (aside from the bottled water companies) to buy it.

Anyone can buy a single Nalgene bottle ($10-ish) and refill it with tap water every day and they'll make back the price of that Nalgene bottle in a week compared to the price of bottled water. They'll also carry their water around in a reusable, safer plastic that doesn't leech hormones. Or they could use a metal canteen or a Camelbak or any number of other alternatives, almost all of which are better than paying for a completely redundant and inefficient water distribution system that involves bottling factories, trucks, and disposable plastic bottles.
Well, actually, it is those "lusers" who executed the trojan, and their computers, capable of action and under their control, that sent the packets. Since when is "but I didn't know!" an excuse? Sounds like negligence to me; widespread perhaps, but negligence nonetheless.

It's like those people who buy those terrible cheap car alarms that go off at anything at all and then don't stop for an hour. Their car is sitting there, ruining everyone's quality of life with its incessant blaring. Can they just excuse themselves by saying "well it's not me, it's the car alarm"? Of course not. If you own something, and that something is capable of harm, it's your responsibility to ensure its integrity. Blithe ignorance is no excuse at all.

The door lock/money under the mattress analogy doesn't hold up. Mrs Smith did not invite millions of visitors from around the world into her house to walk around her bedroom, relying solely on the mattress to hide her treasure, and if she had no-one would have much sympathy when one of them eventually looked there. Amazon did invite such behaviour and should have taken appropriate safeguards. This is no-one's fault but their own.
If I had Newcastle Brown Ale piped to my apartment, I'd criticize their bottlers too.
Apparently, this guy seems to be a long time troll:

http://valleywag.gawker.com/5032989/journalists-do-it-for-th...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html
So the victim's capabilities are to be taken into account? If Mrs. Smith was trained as a ninja guard, trying to abscond with her mattress stash is ok? I don't buy it.

Also, you can argue that not suing is sending out the wrong message -- that manipulating the flagging mechanism is cool, so long as you're a cool, clever hacker.

If I was running a business, and my employee left a storage shed unlocked, I shouldn't prosecute the thieves because I did something "stupid?" Uh, no. Most people would suggest that you make sure locking the shed is on the checklist and you prosecute.

Someone else being stupid doesn't give you a "Get away with being an asshat" card.
What? He didn't steal anything. It's more like standing outside of the bookstore yelling about the owner.
Blame the immigration rules. It is actually harder to file for a GC, if the person is not already working there.

It works like this:
1. Company hires guy that is foreign. Some are coming from abroad (unfortunately some are coming from the "sweatshop" factories from india), while many, like myself, come young and were educated in the US, and are usually pretty good at what we do.

2. Foreign guy has max 6 years of staying in the country. He needs to get something done. He has already friends, maybe a gf/bf, maybe a house. He is fully integrated, and wants to get a GC, so he is not amymore a "second class human being". Company likes foreign guy, as he is very productive/good, whatever, so they file for GC>

3. In order for the Green Card process to go on, the company has to demonstrate that there are not americans that want the job. They will have to advertise in the news papers, and internally in the company for 60 days. If there are any suitable american employees, the process stops. The american guy doesn't get hired, (why would a company let go somebody that is already proved to be a good engineer?), but foreign guys application stops.

4. Most companies want to keep the foreign guy/girl. He/she is already proven, so they will try to make the position available as closely to mirror what the guy's experience is. There are clear limitations, as by law they can't request things that are unreasonable (like foreign languages, or experience/education that is not revelant for the work).

This is a clear example where the "Laws" are out of whack with the reality and needs of companies.

If there have been layoffs in the company for hte past 6months, it becomes even harder for the process to move forward.

Now, you can say, well there are plenty of US workers that just need a little retraining blah blah lbah.

Well, let me give you a clear example. I am a mobile engineer. Been working on the field for 6 years (since the first java phones came out). My official title is "Senior Software Engineer", but that doesn't really tell the story of the huge experience that I have accumulated this years, with trial and error.

Imagine a startup, advertises my job. A US person that has maybe few months of experience or no mobile experience at all,and his title is "Senior Software Engineer" doesn't necessary make him more qualified.

you can claim, well the company should take the time and "train him", as it is the patriotic duty to do it.
I say bullshit. An early stage startup might not even survive wihout the product for the whole year that this guy needs the training.
I'd rather have a startup hire somebody that can get product out, and be able to hire more people later, than hire somebody that doesn't know what they are doing, just because they happen to be American, and risk everybody's job.

Sorry, but that is very un-american.

If you want to just completely stop foreign talent, you are just Detroiting silicon valley. Technology companies will start looking exactly like govermernt/defense companies (where you have to be a us citizen to work, in most cases). Everything comes late, and over budget, and eventually, in a global economy, they will just die.
I buy a Brita pitcher and all of a sudden, in my fridge, I seem to have produced a better product than Evian. Or if worse comes to worse, you can get under-the-sink reverse osmosis filters.

Bottled water is a good convenience product, but my employer has truckloads of Arrowhead water stored on-site. Why they can't have paper cups and a reverse-osmosis filter on site instead is beyond me.
If I've understood this article correctly, the book can be summarized as: Feel free to multiply all the numbers in a recipe by a real number greater than zero. Tolerances on measurements are loose.

Are people really so afraid of math that this comes as a startling revelation?
"it's a product there is demand for, but it's not in anyone's interest to buy it"

Pick one. That's what demand means -- that it's in someone's interest (in their own opinion, since no one else can decide a person's interest) to buy it.
My wife is an engineer at a large corporation, I'm covered as a spouse.

...but that won't cut it if/when I get to the point of needing to hire other people.
It's also easy when you have a way of convincing yourself that you're "superior."
Girl Wars: iMob Swaps Its Guns For High Heels
I don't think I've ever met anyone under 40 who uses StumbleUpon. I learned about it from my dad.
It's more like breaking into the store at night and changing all the signage to read "I molest little children".
Microsoft is not putting IE6 to death any more than they did when they released IE7... Which was also distributed via Automatic Update iirc.
Are there any articles explaining what needs to be done for a startup to be become independent again? I find it interesting that they can keep the StumbleUpon brand with no problem.

I assume it all depends on the terms of the acquisition. For instance, did eBay originally not get full rights to the StumbleUpon brand? Is there a formal negotiation process to settle these types of disputes?
High Performance Web Pages – Real World Examples: Netflix Case Study
At the time Java was first released and MFC was the most widely used OO framework, Java's standard library was like a breath of fresh air. OO has had a few different fashions since the first release of Java but, in my opinion, the base Java API has stood up well. What's so horrible about it?
Learn the difference between 'flaut' and 'flaunt'.
Luke Wrobleski's 1h talk about Web Form Design at MIX09 [mp4]
I've had to do this for a job before. Basically, the beauracracy requires that a position always be advertised even if they already have staff that can do it. I was hired by the company as a contractor at first. When a permanent position became available instead of just asking me if I wanted it I had to do a dog and pony show. My manager wanted to give me the job (it was my freaking job, just a different badge) but told me to type up a job post and be real specific. I walked down to HR and handed in the posting with my CV.

Stupid HR drones sent back five CVs and mine wasn't among them. I had to sit down and interview these poor guys without hinting we were wasting their time. And while everyone I interviewed could have done my job, the amount of time retraining would add more overhead
Another's negligence does not justify being an asshole!

If Mrs. Smith was running a bric-a-brac store and didn't know how to secure her display cases, then it's alright to shoplift from her?

If Mrs. Smith was holding a big party at her house, then it's alright for a party goer to steal her life savings?

If I hand a firearm disguised as a jelly donut to a random bystander, then they shoot someone with it, it's their fault and not mine?

Amazon messed up. It doesn't justify Weev's action. He could've just told them. Deception and malicious intent are markings of crime or antisocial behavior. That's just common sense!
Twitter's very much like MySpace in the "follow everyone" mindset. Realistically anyone with more than 100 following is either reciprocating every follow they get or just being unscrupulous in who they follow. Either way there's no way that those with 10's or 100's of friends are reading their timelines.
Heroin has demand. That doesn't mean it's in anyone's best interest to use it.
The internet punditry (including us, mate) get rewarded for reacting quickly and get virtually no punishment for being wrong or late. An uncharitable way to put is that many journalists, pundits and activists are just conduits for other people. You don't blame the pipes when the water is cold.
Of course, with the Brita pitcher, you have to wash it and monitor the filter and remember to refill it and... If you're only going to drink bottled water a few times a day, is it worth it? Obviously, it depends on your personal situation, but while I would rather buy a Brita (or Pur, or something) filter than bottled water, if I did either, I can certainly see the utility in buying bottled water over maintaining a filter.
Researcher Finds Optimal Fix-Free Codes
or some notion of public good, which historically has resulted in the death of millions.

As soon as a country gives up on the concept of individual rights, it seems death follows.
It may not be in their best interest in our opinion, but it certainly is in their own. And that's all there is: opinion, ours and theirs. Top-level goals cannot be reasoned to; there is no "ought from is".
Web 3.0, courtesy of Digg
"I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement." -- PG

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

(Maybe this should be mentioned in the guidelines, as it comes up occasionally?)
Dear god, not this argument again.

Sometimes that's a sign that your point of view is out of whack. (And being able to realize this is a mark of true learning. And yeah, it is painful sometimes.)

What happened here is more like Whole Foods setting out free samples. If someone concocted a scheme to walk out the front door with all of the free samples, I would not be at all surprised if the perpetrator were taken off to jail. "But Whole Foods encourages you to take them!" yeah, right. Something smacks of rationalization here.
How Apple Put Everyone In an App State of Mind
I'm not sure what eBay was planning on doing with StumbleUpon in the first place. Same with Skype - it's been three years seemingly without any real integration of the services.

I recall talk about a grand vision of users calling one-another to negotiate deals and terms, but it looks like eBay has never really pulled the trigger. Perhaps they're trying to stay in a league with Google and Amazon, who have shown significant versatility in their service offerings - but eBay has definitely fallen flat if that was their intention.

I wouldn't be surprised to see eBay spin off Skype eventually too in favor of a leaner organization.
the phrenologists were right all along.
Blogger criticizes S.Korea, gets 18 months in prison
Then we have fundamentally different opinions of what should and should not be legally actionable.

How the hell should anyone be able to drag someone through the courts on the grounds that they might have lied about about feeling sick or not? And what could you possibly do when he just says "I did feel sick" - "no you didn't"? Yes I did, no you didn't?

I don't think you've given much thought to the complexities here. Laws have to be workable and practical and err on the side of freedom of speech and action. Trying to legislate niceness and truthfulness is pure folly, especially considering the imbalance of power between a corporation (or restaurant!) and a person.
Exactly. This is the economic principle of "marginal utility" -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility

The principle is that I'm willing to buy a lottery ticket, even though the odds are slanted (the agency takes a large cut) because the $1 the ticket costs me is meaningless to my life, but the $1 million I might win would fundamentally change my life.

The is why people buy insurance: the $1000 I spend every year on homeowner's insurance hurts only slightly, but the amount that I'd lose to a fire would destroy me financially.

It's also the rationale for burglary: the thief is very likely to make a large sum of money, while he only has a small chance of a devastating loss (i.e., going to jail).

The question is all wrapped up in the relative size and likelihood of the events, where the size is judged relative to the difference that it makes to you.
Yes you can. Insulate the pipes! Install pumps that pump out the cold water in the hot water pipes. (Yes they sell these now.)

There are pundit rating sites out there now.
I think so. An MS can put you in a pool with python algorithmic programmers instead of big company Java slingers.

The companies recruiting grad students at UCSD are into machine vision, satellite communications, and the like.
Nice one. But his blog announces that he was going after homosexuals.
Electric cars aren't inherently green - they are only as green as the local source of electricity. Depending on where you are in the US, the percentage of electricity you get from renewable energy varies significantly. If we both have the same identical electric car, but you live on a mostly coal-burning grid, and I live on a mostly geothermal grid, I am a lot greener than you, despite the fact that we drive the same vehicle.

The reasons electric cars are a good idea is that once there is a mass adoption of them, individuals don't have to do anything more; as the grid becomes greener, everybody's car becomes greener. So it allows society to change its fossil fuel consumption much more quickly, vecause bold changes are made in the infrastructure but are transparent to users.

Electric cars are just one piece of the puzzle.
Funny, except it doesn't take "7kWh to move 1Gb" locally, or in an internal network. Or even on the internet!

7kWh costs about $1 and there is no way it costs that much to send a GB.
I think it's a sample size issue - I don't know anyone over 30 who uses it. Although, admittedly, I've been using it much less lately (less time to procrastinate than I did as a pure student, and I use MeFi, YC, and Reddit more)
Help, My Degree Is Underwater
Through a door that was left wide open, and in erasable marker.
Classic title
I had ODEs and integration in the last year of high school (8h/week of math).
You can also get the type of filter that attaches to your tap.

With my Brita pitcher, I don't bother replacing the filter for months after I'm supposed to, and it just filters slower. It doesn't taste any worse and I've never gotten sick. As for refilling it, as long as I have the sink space (no dirty dishes) I refill every time I pour.
As the OP said, there is demand, and the demand comes from perceived added value (on all of those drinks).
I absolutely LOVE code folding. Unfortunately, it seems many editors mess it up in some way :-( Kate, gedit and Geany (which I suppose is representative for all Scintilla-based editors) all expand every code block below the line your editing when you start a string. Really annoying.

And sometimes they get confused about where the folding points are, which means you have to reload the file.

I just wish there was a good GUI editor on Linux with good folding support :'(
Of course eBay got full rights to the SU brand. eBay essentially just SOLD StumbleUpon (to the original founders and some investors). Presumably they did the same thing that the founders did when they sold it to eBay in the first place-- they sold the brain/domain with it.

Of course, any deal can have any terms-- but 99% of acquisitions like this include the brand.
The thorny problem of the cactus stack (re: parallel code)
I wouldn't be too quick to judge defense contractors. I have friends that work at some. These guys do professionalism with a capital-P. You will hear of the occassional disaster story about a project but most (and there are tons) fly under the radar on time, on budget and to spec.

Please remember, a lot of smart people got burned after the dot-bomb. It's not like that sat around for a few years waiting for work to pick up on the internet. A lot of engineers went into defense, unlike the bay area, they pay in cold, hard cash. You rarely ever hear of a defense company going under.
When reading the comments of the users at the NYTimes article, there is another thing that pisses me off: all those xenophobic comments that say "send the foreigners home" etc. etc.

They forget that more than half of techonlogy companies had a foreign born founder.
If these idiots had their way, probably many technology companies (which make about 17% of the US economy) wouldn't had existed today.

I am all about have good filters, to let the smart people (that there is a need for) in, and give them full rights of movement/freedom (no H-1B shackles), but just kicking people back home is a recipe for future economic malaise.
And one of the senators that is raising a big ruckus is from Alabama! (I the bottom of the barrel in technological terms). I hope people stop listening to these populist voices, unless you want your country look more like Alabama.

It kinda looks like a version of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFG2P-toC6k
Simon Phipps Ain't Happy
People make their own mayo? I am such an underachiever...

(I can definitely make roux without measuring anything)
Communicating Changing Business Dynamics To Your Board And Investors
Procedurally generated landscape flyby
But this isn't a top-level goal. Someone who buys bottled water wants a drink of water. They can get an better drink of water for less money by drinking (possibly filtered) tap water. Bottled water is a poor means to an end, it's not an end in itself.

Using heroin isn't usually a top level goal either. Usually, the top level goal for addictive drug use is to satisfy the addiction. (That's rather recursive, which means there must have been a base-case goal that got the person to use drugs in the first place, but heroin is still not an end in itself either.)
you have to take into account people's overly high time preference when trying to make sense of "irrational" behavior.
http://wiki.snaplog.com/short_url#TOC-Suggestions-from-commu...

the rev attribute is deprecated from HTML5
Like, ohmigod! I must totally show this to Becky, Tiffany, and Amber!
Electric makes the energy source only loosely coupled to the car. Even if the energy doesn't initially come from clean sources, we can solve that problem iteratively.
The reference to "top-level" goals was about heroin. I agree that it's probably no one's top-level goal to drink bottled water. ;)

Reply to edit: Yes, but heroin is so close to the top-level goal of "pleasure" that we can almost treat them as the same (and certainly for purposes of internet arguments). Even assuming the physical addiction was removed, lots of heroin addicts would go back to it, or to something else if it had a better high for them (I'd guess tasps will eventually reduce demand for drugs quite effectively).
under what circumstance is a space block better than a configurable tab?
> Whadaya bet the advertisement is overly specific and tailored just for the guy they want to hire?

Seems like it would be foolhardy for it not to be..

Similarly, when I moved to the US on an L1-B, my company needed to claim that I had very specialist skills that couldn't be filled locally (which arguably I did). However the specific skills that they claimed I had were BS, period. It's a means to an end, not an end in itself.
>Typing text messages on 9 keys and limited to 160 characters is torture as well.

I took this to mean Twitter. As many users of their service originally started out using it to mass-txt their friends.
You should try it. :-) Homemade mayonnaise is wonderful! You'll never get that flavor from a jar.
Your analogy doesn't hold, because people choose not to travel, but nobody can really choose to avoid medical attention. There are people who are --- right now --- less likely to avail themselves of care, yes; if they don't insure themselves, and others do, you have adverse selection. The term for those young people who avoid insurance is "free rider".
> Well then, unless your actual name is "tjic" then we are both criminals right off the bat.

Under US law, there is no such thing as a sole "actual" name. Any name that you use for non-fraudulent purposes is a legitimate name.

TJIC is my initials: Travis James Ignatius Corcoran.

I have been using it as a legitimate name for 15 years. My mom addresses emails and letters to me using that name.

So, no, I'm not a criminal.

...but if someone signed up for an account at Amazon using 500 different names, and one of them was "TJIC", and the intent was to inject bad data ... yes, that person would be a criminal.
Right. And the transport of electricity to the charging station, the storage of electricity (and the attendant need to carry that storage) and the conversion of that storage back to kinetic energy is inefficient. The internal combustion engine, for its flaws, has evolved into a fairly efficient device.

I'm utterly convinced that electric cars are a red herring. Look instead at our insistence on dragging around behemoths of cars. We could save a tremendous amount of energy by quitting the race-to-the-top phenomena of escalating car size due to the (largely false) perception of safety.
I've used SU almost daily for several years. Coolest thing since sliced bread.

The key is to subscribe to lots of people who are similar to you and then stumble on the "friends only" channel.