skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am female. My behavior is frequently interpreted by other people as extremely aggressive, attention mongering and so on. (Edit: I suspect a lot of it would be interpreted differently if I were male and it would be less of an issue.) It has gotten me loads of extremely negative attention. I have spent many years trying to learn to fly under the radar and deflect attention. This problem began very early in life with being an excessively cute, sunshiny child and continued with being viewed as a beautiful young woman (which came with perks like being raped and told it was my fault for being too beautiful to resist).

There are serious downsides to getting attention. Faking confidence when you do not have it and also do not have the ability that it implies can bring real trouble. I still want to figure out how to get traffic for my websites because I think that is my best hope for financial success but I have put a great deal of effort into learning to deflect attention away from me personally. I hope that if my work ever does garner good attention those lessons will stand me in good stead. Lots of celebrities have been seriously burned at some point and had trouble understanding why they were no longer darlings of the public eye. I got to go through that on a much smaller scale. My hope is that it will pay dividends some day when it matters more.
The Net is a forest. It has fires.
Have you ever been working on something then had some huge company just go ahead and release exactly what you're building? Yeah, um, that totally didn't just happen to me.
Regardless, adding a tangible incentive will undoubtedly increase adoption and will cost Google little to nothing. It seems like a good idea.
discover card apparently does (never owned one though)
Yeah, but Dwolla isn't a bank. And even if they were, just because someone sent me money a month ago doesn't mean their bank is entitled to some of what is now my money when they get overdrawn now.
Noboyd's saying it's defensive, exactly, but I think it is unambiguously a signal that you don't have social ambition in the given context, which makes you unoffensive but also uninteresting.
I haven't actually seen any mentions of stylometric techniques or analyses which look into that question, although I'm sure it's been done. (The only example I can think of, the Federalist papers, was known to have been done by two people with large pre-existing corpuses to go on, and so the question was simply assigning responsibility.)
IMO, buildout is more like maven for python. but again the tools solve this problem of "dependency hell" which to me is a problem all languages have, not just python
If people can accidentally send plain text password to Stripe for a 403 response and don't care about it, I can't see why people can't accidentally send plain text password to the HMAC-SHA protected port 80.

They are the same thing, both will not work.

(Unless you close the port 80, using HMAC-SHA can't solve the issue.)
If you read the article, they actually do an experiment and show via random assignment that assigning the posture actually causes the outcome (in this case, job interview success).

They didn't show the mechanism, but they did in fact show the direction of causality.
That gave me a good chuckle. Well played.
In all seriousness, it's pretty cool to see this small bit of validation for what I'm doing. It's not my project (freelance work that I chose bc I liked it), not on the same platform, and not EXACTLY the same, so this is really nothing but a good thing. Still, threw me back on my heels a bit.
There is, however even if you don't they still will keep it. Also as a bonus. The same law which binds them to keep that information mandates they give you privacy notifications, which Dwolla will not do, because they claim they are not a financial institution.
We are building a (non-free) RSS reader called Creek, you should sign up for the beta: http://creek.io
What was your replacement suggestion? I would say acceptance is often a fair description for lack of rejection.
> If you look at many of the plans already offered by ISP's, you'll find that this isn't the case.

The largest plan offered by iiNet has a quota of 1000GB. If you're on the 100Mbps plan, this can be consumed in less than 1 day. How is this not the case?
And this is the real value of Bitcoin et al. As more and more commerce moves to the Internet, I become increasingly irked by the credit card processing "tax" levied by Visa/Mastercard. I long for the day we can yank those leeches off the legs of the Internet economy...
Which is in direct contradiction to OP's claim that everyone on Earth has the exact same set of tells.
Exactly. I'm writing a (low-frequency) arbitrage program in Clojure for fun, but the long confirmation time for BTC and the inability to move non-BTC currencies between exchanges greatly limits this in practicality.
This is not true, it obviously varies by bank. Bank of America allows free online transfers to other B of A accounts, and it costs between $3 and $10 to transfer to accounts outside the bank. The $3 option to transfer between banks is pretty fast, while the free, inside bank option is instantaneous.
Ah, shucks. Right now I'm having some trouble tracking which ones have already been downloaded... so it re-downloads and re-compiles each time. Can I email you to help figure this out?
It is a classic gimmick that salespeople do to convince themselves that they have a special skill beyond lying through their teeth at a customer.
Writing better Javascript code even when you're not a rockstar
Chrome Web Store - vote
Speaking as someone relatively new to Python (coming from an embedded development background, mostly with C/C++): What's the standard way of distributing client-side programs/libraries? If you only have one script you can just put it in /usr/local/bin/ but otherwise you have to mess with the system site-packages or modify sys.path before importing, right? I've seen a surprisingly large number of distros that didn't check /usr/ and /usr/local/ for packages.

Do you just hand the user an automatic virtualenv script? (Outside of using one of the binary builders out there, obviously.)
Interesting, none of my (four) banks have asked for photo ID. Two of which were started online (but are still a traditional bank).
Sure, but they are the people who feel that they don't need to pay taxes and that anyone doing work for them are lucky not to be unemployed and can easily be exploited.
Only if they are trying to sleep with you and have reqd a PUA book.
IE8 dropped under 10% for me last month. Several years seems fine to me.
Nah, he was likely just an asshole.
Contact the team. Ask for a job.

No, seriously.
I found it a bit weird that they never asked for my email, they just assumed that my Gmail account was my email.
I don't mean their internet infrastructure, I mean their actual utilization of the internet.
Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
Which gets more clicks: spreading a rumor or refuting it?

Link bait is a classic "power pose".
That's kind of a tautology ... all the homes in the US connected to 1Gbps fibre "this year" will also be connected to 1Gbps fibre "this year". The salient missing fact is that the NBN is going to reach only a tiny tiny miniscule minority of homes "this year" (my house is not even scheduled on the plan that stretches out past 2017).
I was discussing their possible evolutionary origins. Hopefully being beaten up is not a possibility in your meetings, but we evolved in an environment where it was until very recently. The whole point of the original article is that such behavior is often unconscious.

Crossed arms is an interesting case because I don't think it's a submissive behavior in other primates. It probably is more indicative of boredom, which is probably also not what you want to signal in meetings. I don't really consider myself a dominant or submissive person, but in the past I think my posture and demeanor radiated distraction and boredom. This isn't very inspiring for the rest of the team. I read an article similar to the one there that inspired me to clean up my act.
The Crypto-Currency: Bitcoin and Its Mysterious Inventor (transcribed)
So they'll tie it to gifting. I gift you $25 that you can donate, $1 a time in One Today. And then you get hooked.

If it does Android Notifications, it'll probably be as successful as those Sarah McLaughlan, Sally Struthers commercials.
via the Atlantic Wire:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/theres-shoot...

MIT issued an emergency alert at 10:48 on Monay night reporting shots fired on the university campus. The school newspaper reports, "Shots fired near 32 Vassar St (Stata Center), police officer down. Please stay inside." For now, details are scarce, but the suspect is on the loose and considered armed and extremely dangerous.

This is a developing story. We'll update you as new information comes in.
I don't want to come down on you because I too dream big, but having a goal without knowing at least vaguely how to accomplish it is stupid. It's this kind of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality that fails a lot of otherwise talented and bright people out there. I would really like to hear more from you, as I like your mentality when you're not shouting it at me from across the interwebz, I just want to read works of substance.
I sent an e-mail to you about 3 weeks ago asking if I could please try out the crypto challenge, and received no response. Should I try again or does your update refer to the fact that you're just backed up at the moment? Thanks!

EDIT: Apologies, it was only 10 days ago. So I'll assume you all are just a little backed up with the volume of requests.
Man finished Boston Marathon moments before bombing witnesses TX explosion
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Of course, we're having an election sometime this year, and the Liberal's — who are probably going to win — are planning on making the NBN slower and cheaper[1] (100Mbps by utilising the existing copper network, rather than fully replacing it with fiber).

1. http://www.zdnet.com/coalitions-nbn-to-cost-almost-30bn-7000...
I think the kind/amount of data and type of analysis that is to be performed on the data should probably lead the decision. Scenarios where you have hundred of GBs of data having to perform text analysis on them, probably would make me think in terms of flat files. But for simple web apps, probably RDBMS or a NoSQL store is the way to go.
Just a side project. Hope you can get some use out of it
Org-mode is a package for Emacs which supports tree outlines in plain text mode, plus a ton of features.

It is intended to cover the ground between what you would write in a notepad during a meeting, and a fully-fledged "reproducible science" notebook.
I'm a U.S. citizen living in the Philippines. The culture in the Philippines has many of the same weird status quirks as that of India and you will never see this in the U.S.

I think any age issues in programming in the U.S. might be more practical than status issues.

Big corps are more rigid than scrappy start ups. Perhaps this causes issues that you might not see elsewhere. For example, everyone wants to make more money (probably through raises.) A 40 year old programmer who has been programming for 20+ years has probably maxed out on experience, possibly has maxed out on time on the job and eventually gets to a point where the position just can't offer any more money. The value of the position might even be less than the money paid to the programmer. At this point, the company would probably rather hire a fresh developer who can do the same job (which probably doesn't require all that experience anyways) for less money. So, if that programmer wants to make more money, then he / she probably needs to move on.

The bottom line is that programmers need to always be looking at ways to move up the value chain (or at least demonstrate that he or she is worth that current salary.) The best way to do that is different in every situation. In some cases you might just hit that ceiling and you might need to move on. The only case where someone is going to start looking at age is that situation where he / she is getting too comfortable and too afraid to make big moves.
Crowdfunding campaign raises USD 54k to combat Singapore’s anti-gay law
It is true that Dwolla are not professional but it never was meant to be a real business, it was always intended as a spotlight for Ben Milne.

Nothing wrong with that, ego has driven much of civilization but you certainly should build Dwolla into actual business plans, it won't be around much longer.
No need for TRAMP. https://github.com/juanre/org-jekyll

org is to outliners what emacs is to text editors.
We've got you (you had asked for something different, but we'll make sure you get them).
Hey, I have found another youtube Chinese movie with subtitle. You probably have heard of this movie. It is Lust Caution, a very very famous movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQgpbC4hvHg
Hope everyone stays safe!
IE7 is old enough that I would point users at all of Microsoft's “please upgrade” pages — if you deal with financial or personal information, it's worth doing just for the security benefits.
Are telephone lines and cable lines leased from the public as well? Or the right to? I'm a bit ignorant here, but I would think that in those situations there is no free bidding on infrastructure deals.
The right number
Now how do I get the roll call of the vote on the gun control bill?
True, just that "XXX,XXX homes currently connected to the Australian Government's NBN initiative, will have 1Gbps speed enabled by the end of the year" is a bit long for a title. I've made a small title edit :)

Here's the NBNCo targets:

June 2013 - 661,000 "passed or covered" and 92,000 premises with active service

June 2014 - 1,681,000 "passed or covered" and 551,000 premises with active service

http://www.nbnco.com.au/assets/documents/nbn-co-corporate-pl...
Lessons From A School Cheating Scandal, Two Decades Later
You'd be surprised about hospitals. At a hospital with modern software, a lot of the browser based stuff they use actually runs through Citrix or something similar, so they're using IE9/10 or Chrome for the most part.
Most of these things don't sound like they need OS support. Just writing Go libraries and using Go alongside the existing system can provide a statically linked environment, no need for the application write to use select/poll or worry about memory safety, and garbage collection. It doesn't have to be "Go all the way down" since you won't be modifying your environment at runtime.
I find it very interesting, that there are such websites.
I wonder whether it works, but I guess that if only one life is saved by a notice on a website, that is enough
uhm... that's not universally true - I worked with some folks that had the history when they did it. Not sure if it was vendor provided or home grown, but it was the call history and call stack.
It's exciting to see AngularJS's growth. I think there is a lot of hopefully merited hype out there for Angular as "the one we have been waiting for".

My company has been transitioning away from Flex, and first we tried ExtJS. It worked well as a good direct translation from Flex, but none of us were fans of the heavily generated HTML. It felt to me very much like a plugin, built for dumping thick-app designs into a web framework. Our designers hated it.

AngularJS seems to give the best of both worlds, freeing designers to write pure HTML, while allowing developers to work at a level of abstraction away from the DOM.
Only if you don't pay them off immediately, or you agree to an annual fee for specific benefits.
Let's continue to encourage people to give to charities with shit effectiveness!
> Google has a long-standing commitment to supporting nonprofits and to do doing good.

The best kind of good

/snark
Don't wish to make light of this at all, but I do wonder- how often does this happen? After all, "shots fired" is not an uncommon thing in many cities in the US.

I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" and realise that it was actually just a week in which we found all the things that usually go on every week that we don't hear about.
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At this point that most higher-ed websites not only have their emergency website, but also a whole system. A lot of universities send out text messages simultaneously.
It really depends what kind of business you're building. If you rely on the network effect, for example, 5% of your user base helps to lock in the rest of your users, and so losing it may have a greater overall impact than just 5%.
You can use a CDN and fallback to local if it goes down.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5257923/how-to-load-local...
On or very close to a college campus in Boston/Cambridge? Fairly uncommon...
I can't imagine Provo by itself is a big enough market to be interesting to Google. The entire county isn't much more than half the size of Austin. I have to believe that they see Provo as the starting point for entry into the Wasatch Front.
Walter Maner - "UNIQUE ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY" - http://www.cs.bgsu.edu/maner/ethicomp95/keynote3-THE.html#He...

"In a stimulating paper "On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science,"[35]Edsger Dijkstra examines the implications of one central, controlling assumption: that computers are radically novel in the history of the world. Given this assumption, it follows that programming these unique machines will be radically different from other practical intellectual activities. This, Dijkstra believes, is because the assumption of continuity we make about the behavior of most materials and artifacts does not hold for computer systems. For most things, small changes lead to small effects, larger changes to proportionately larger effects. If I nudge the accelerator pedal a little closer to the floor, the vehicle moves a little faster. If I press the pedal hard to the floor, it moves a lot faster. As machines go, computers are very different.

A program is, as a mechanism, totally different from all the familiar analogue devices we grew up with. Like all digitally encoded information, it has, unavoidably, the uncomfortable property that the smallest possible perturbations -- i.e., changes of a single bit -- can have the most drastic consequences.[36]"
I'm hearing a cop was shot.

So this is a bit meatier a problem.
Some crime happens on a college campus probably every day. Most likely hundreds of violent crimes a year. But the reason this is on HN is MIT, nothing more.
Just heard on the police scanner that it was an armed robbery at the 7-11.
This is beamed out to sites that people are actually likely to be looking at meaning it is all inbound to that link. I saw it appear on my FB feed moments after it was posted. My Tweetdeck column for "MIT shooter" is moving nearly as rapidly as the one for #BostonMarathonExplosion and almost everyone is sharing the link to them MIT site.
Stay safe everyone.
Awful big political play considering you know zero details about this
My last job was doing websites for higher education, and I can tell you that it's very much a thing. It's a part of many universities' emergency protocols, sometimes paired with an alert banner on the homepage. (And that banner may or may not link to a further page of information.)

While things like a gunman on campus is most certainly an emergency, these systems also serve other messages. Things like other emergencies (earthquakes, for example), snow days, we're just testing the emergency alarms today, etc.

Edit because I had another thought: the whole field of emergency preparedness in higher education is rather fascinating. Most of what I found interesting I had heard second-hand from clients, but you might find it quite interesting.
Yup. These messages are also sent to MIT students (and, I assume, faculty) via text message, automated phone call, and email.
At my old uni, you could submit a cell number to an emergency alert system and you would get texts if something like this went down. I'm guessing MIT has something similar although not sure if this system is part of it. I'm sure someone will clarify soon.
Also that Provo residents receive free 5 Mbit/sec internet for the next eight years. I assume that is to offset the $39M, which I read was equivalent to $8/mo/resident for the next seven years.
Microsoft uses a tool called Policheck that maintains different wordlists for different locales

There's a blog post on it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2010/12/04/10100294....
Provo has been trying to unload their fiber network for a long time. I don't see this as a backroom deal that only benefits Google, but rather somebody finally putting the "under contract" sign above the "for sale" sign.

That nobody else came calling (or offered deals as good as Google's) is not Google nor Provo's fault.

From a taxpayer perspective, they get to stop paying for the upkeep on what is currently an unprofitable system. And those who keep paying for it get a significant upgrade.
Because I built ConvertKit. :)
Boston Bombing Victim in Iconic Photo Helped Identify Attackers
I don't think there's a report of an officer down on a campus every day.
Actually the company is registered in Finland where everyone's tax records are public, but you need to wait for the next tax year.

I guess that like usually in Finland, salaries are rather modest compared to Bay / US in general (around 40-100k eur), but because of the functioning society, many things are free and taken care of (education, healthcare, daycare), your standard of living can end up higher.

Equity/stock options for employees are almost unheard of and I wish more startups would pick it up. Supercell is also an exception in this regard, that they now offer stock options for everyone (they started it after the last 100M round).
Up to 100 Mbps. By they'll try to get at least 25 Mbps. Don't ask about upload speeds, those apparently don't matter.
Sloppy joe day
As a counter point, in 2005, I had a BofA branch in New Mexico say I need a business account to do a transfer to a BofA in Washington state - and otherwise they’d do a wire transfer for $50. (When I was in Wa state transferring to NM was free.)

It could be time has made things better - or it could be you live in one of the better BofA fiefdoms...
You have universal healthcare
I found this pic interesting:

http://blog.bufferapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-...

What I've found recently is I feel like I think better when I scrunch into a position like this. I don't know why, and it's not like my own scientific study.

Maybe it's just like going into an isolated place like a shower helps me think better, this type of position seems to as well. I'll cross my arms, and even scrunch my shoulders over. It might even look like I'm in pain.

But how many times have you also seen someone say "Let me think", and they might cross one arm over their chest to hold the other arm at the elbow so that arm can rub their head and cover their eyes.

So this thesis about these poses being better for power, and confidence is interesting. But I'm curious if there's a lot of usefulness from both.
"some crime"
So, no major news network or newspaper did itself any favors. NBC, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, Post, etc. all printed or aired bogus stories and the American public is confused and ill informed. CNN earned a spot on the Daily Show.

I don't know the answer other than some network could make a decent business out of only airing confirmed facts and actually giving us a view of the scene without the pundits. Actually interview people there and skip the "inside sources".

Who am I kidding, its all about what KK feels about the event.
Boston is not having a good week.
Aaaaaand I figured it out again. We're all good!
NO. Unsure why that is saying edited 4 minutes ago but they are linking to the AP article from Feb 23rd which did turn out to be a hoax.

This is the article they link to:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/mit-lockdown-after-reports-ar...