skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A person that has already eschewed the moral code of society to such an extent would not be phased by their targets' words of disapproval.

A voyeur would consider the risk of being yelled at, reported to a local authority (such as a bar owner), being thrown out of an establishment, etc. They would consider these risks and weigh the consequences and determine that they are worth it in the end. They would still get what they wanted, and would be free to carry on their activities in the future, perhaps at another establishment or after enough time had passed.

But the risk of physical violence, that's not so easily dismissed.
"I’ve been a nerd all my life, [but] I felt like a mere mortal among an entirely different class of super-connected humans."

This is the most insightful passage in there, though it's probably unintentional. There is a separation taking place between "nerds" who enjoy the practical benefits of new technologies in their day-to-day lives, and those who believe that new technologies should and will alter our species in ways that frighten us.

And that's nothing new; many (most?) Baby Boomers implicitly distrust PCs and the Internet, let alone smartphones, but many others realize that they are living in the most interesting time of their lives and wish they'd been born a little later.

To be honest, though, I'm a little surprised to see this separation take place so early; Glass is a charmingly inoffensive vision of things to come that really shouldn't be shocking to anyone with an iPhone. If you're worried today that someone might take a picture of your dick, you will be absolutely horrified at what we have become before you die.
I knew England had soccer hooligans, but I wasn't expecting Doctor Who-ligans!
I "upgraded" the talk app on my phone to hangout. It was a terrible decision, it's destroyed the primary use of my phone (using gchat while at work, on the go, etc).

It mixed my gchat and phone contacts, so now the list of contacts is a giant unusable mess. I can't see who of my friends are online. They moved the send button from being at the bottom-right of the virtual keyboard to above the keyboard next to the input text area which is awkward. I don't use google+ and yet multiple friends were "blocked in google+" and I had to unblock them.

GChat / google talk have been the primary way I've kept in touch with friends and family for years. The android talk app was perfect - intuitive, fast, simple. It provided exactly what I needed - who is online, away, busy, offline and a fast simple way to chat with them.

If this is the future for gchat, I'm going to have to try to convince friends and family to switch back to AIM or MSN Messenger.
Flask release 0.10 coming soon (greenlets)
Startup time is relevant to a program that crashes (or gets into an inconsistent state requiring restart) as often as Eclipse.
Thanks. I'd spent a good chunk of time on the initial post itself, so I opted to just see what the community did instead of responding to it. Thankfully, it was downvoted quickly and two people responded to him directly about it.

In another post when I said I didn't want kids, I had about 5 replies insinuating I was risking my future happiness/purpose and I'd regret it in my later years. So.. there's still room to grow.
Armin tweeted "Going to release Flask 0.10 this week. Among other things improved support for working with greenlets:"
Some of us are basically forced to use Eclipse at work, unfortunately, especially those of us whose companies have chosen IBM server software.
We use this at twitch. It is brilliant. Honestly there is little reason to use the clunky mixpanel interface as a power user.
Simple vertical timeline
Financial Times Hacked - Again
>Say you woke up one day and your bed was gone. Your room, too. Gone. It's all gone. You wake up in an inky void. Not even a star. Okay, yes, it's a dumb idea, but just go with it. Now say you want to know if you move or not. Are you held fast in one spot? Or do you, say, list off to the left some? What I want to ask you is: Can you find out? Hell no. You can see that, sure. You don't need me to tell you. To move, you have to move to or away from ... well, from what? You'd have to say that you don't even get to use a word like "move" when you are the only body in that void.

This is not as self-evident as the author believes.

1. Having taught a great many college level physics students, they have trouble grasping this.

2. More importantly, there's a reason people pursued the theory of the aether for so long -- you have to actually do the fucking experiments to show that there's no absolute reference frame you could be said to be moving in. Thinking that you can deduce physical facts about the universe a priori is the opposite of science.

e: Suddenly remembered a Feynman bit from Lectures where he talks about exactly the attitude of treating this is somehow obvious: http://www.sciencechatforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=207...
Explaining Non-Relational Databases To My Mom
It is only a social faux pas for certain people to look at a woman while wearing Glass.
Yes, this is the same person. While it had nothing to do with his AT&T/ CFAA conviction, do not think for a moment that weev cares about your personal privacy. This is, after all, the person whose weapon of choice against individuals is... doxing. For the lulz.
We're programmers here, right? So we of all people should be able to decouple the case from the person. This is the last person we should be calling a hacktivist, or... Hero. He didn't do this for us. He didn't do this for public good. Still doesn't mean he should be in prison, though. I hope he wins on appeal, for all our sakes (CFAA).
He destroyed a good chunk of my life and took some innocent family members along for the ride. Please, fight the CFAA, but don't think for a heartbeat that when it comes to protecting our privacy, rights, etc. that THIS is the guy who "has our back."
Hey, you're the one offering a legal opinion. I'm willing to bet my experience with the justice system beats yours.

For one thing, I've lived in the USA for my entire life.

For another, I've lived in several states.

For yet another, I've been involved in an altercation that came to the notice of the police. Several in fact. I'm still walking around a free man with nary a scratch on my record.

So my experience would seem to be directly on point and in direct contradiction to your opinion of how these things go in my country and state.

But hey, if you think your penis is so wonderful, feel free to provide a picture link. I promise not to share it.
also http://geocities.ws has an archive.
Kepler is also on track to fix the rest of the 4x perf bugs right? I dled M7 yesterday and noticed it still flashes full screen on Win764 when I move view groups around in a perspective.

I still love eclipse. I'm not ashamed to admit it. I've helped people sell businesses and go public with this damn platform creating millions in revenue along the way. When it's powering my livelihood and my employers happiness, I feel like something went right somewhere.

It's a shame the UX in 4.2 has been such a thing to focus on.
>but it addresses the critical need of having solid unit tests

No, it is entirely orthogonal to having unit tests, that's exactly what I was saying. There is absolutely no evidence to support the claims that TDD is more effective than just being a normal developer who writes tests as needed.

>This last excuse is most egregious because one rarely has time to go back and write tests

Says who? I think it is pretty absurd to invent fake problems to try to justify something. If TDD were actually useful, proponents wouldn't need to compare TDD with "don't write tests at all because obviously the only way to end up with tests is using TDD".
That's not true. Alt-Cmd+A toggles block selection on macs. Not sure what the keybinding is on windows.
I use Google Analytics and I was also trying out clicktale but couldn't get much value from it using their free plan, they don't offer a full trial or something like that, you would need to buy it for a full year to test it and I think it is too expensive, at least for me...
Bayesian Hypothesis Testing with PyMC
If any Eclipse developer(s) is here, please make the following feature happen without a plugin. (it doesn't make sense)

Q: In Eclipse, how to reveal current file in filesystem

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1161240/in-eclipse-reveal...
Or just take it off. Remember when people kept their bluetooth earpiece in their ear all the time?
The keyboard shortcuts make no sense on OS X, either. Most of them are very Windows centric. Eg pressing anything on the F row or that uses Ctrl is not very native. I feel like Eclipse on OSX is an afterthought
> Glass is going to take off with the active crowd. It's perfect for people who either have jobs or hobbies that require the extended use of their hands.

I think Recon is not getting enough recognition. They have been selling a real product for a couple of years and now they announced a new one http://jet.reconinstruments.com
My concern is people like myself who wear prescription eye glasses who may want to try Google Glass so end up putting the device on prescription glasses. It's one thing to remove your Google Glass glasses to be polite or legal i.e. washroom, locker room, driving a vehicle but for me that wouldn't be an option.

Also, I wonder if I could make a pair of infrared LEDs put them on my person somewhere to emit an interference beam pattern to mess up the camera on someone else's Google Glass glasses.
Why are ATMs not 100% flat with 3 holes - for a keypad, note delivery and a hole for the bank card to go in. A skimming device can then not be added without making it very obvious the ATM has been altered.

An ATM could also have a video camera installed that monitors the area where the card is entered - if something changes the ATM does not work and a warning message is displayed.
minor correction: I think you meant to write 'oh-my-zsh' above.
What do you work on? I find there's a huge difference between languages and projects. I don't mind writing Haskell or Python in emacs, but I couldn't live without VS for our fairly large C++ project.

Debugging without the IDE is a huge pain. Finding what functions call a given function, when many functions have the same name (so forget grep), is also something we use very very often to check what impact a change would have. That and "go to definition".
Right. But such understanding will be slow at first, only performing better after years of optimization.
That's really pretty clever. Watch the video for clarity on the design. It's silent, in case that was stopping anyone.
Oh I wish I had that much money for side projects.

You could save a lot of space by hosting from a compressed filesystem or compressed archives (eg through avfs) at the cost of some CPU cycles.
I always get a chuckle out of the very idea of "post scarcity". Like there won't be some guy who wants to shovel an entire solar system (or two) into his replicator to make a really cool Dyson yacht, or yacht fleet. Or just flat out enjoys going "Dark Phoenix" and destroying a few stars like shooting cans for target practice.

Humans will never have all they want, even though we have enough for subsistance. Only a few would be happy to spend a few years rummaging around in the library between meals.
It was never stated that the each of the men at the urinals was overtly taking photos of the next. The author has no way of knowing whether or not the men wearing the glasses and blinking were actually taking photos. The way I read it, that was kind of the point.

It's this inconspicuous nature that makes Glass so concerning. Personally, the stories I've heard about cameras in bathrooms often involved trying to conceal the camera. It's quite uncommon for someone to whip out a DSLR at a urinal and start snapping photos of the man next to him. If it were to happen, it would be pretty obvious. With Glass, all you have is a person in a bathroom wearing glasses and blinking.
It's not so much anti-google as anti-people-in-ivory-towers-who-think-they-can-unilaterally-do-whatever-they-want. As much as we enjoy reveling in our creepy autistic spectrum ignorance of the world, we do have to integrate with the rest of it.
Note that I'm using "corporation" here to refer specifically to the legal fiction, created by the State, that isolates the owners of a corporation from liablity. The "organization" itself might exist organized through some other means, of course. But using the modern, legal definition of "corporation", they depend on the State for their existence.

Now, you might ask, "mindcrime, aren't you just pedantically arguing about semantics then?" To which I'd say, no. The difference being that the modern, legal definition of "corporation" is a big part of what allows companies to grow very large, thanks to that ability to pool capital and dodge liability as an individual. If we didn't have the corporation (as we know it today) as a legal fiction defined by the State, it's very possible that we wouldn't have the huge mega-companies that you speak of.

Of course that raises the question of whether or not we'd be better off without those, but that's a whole other topic.
That wouldn't do a thing. Patents cover the code, not the names. (Well, the "embodiment", but since all there is here is code, it is clearly covering the code.) That would only help a trademark infringement, and there isn't one here.
That's just Textmate blah blah making its way into the mainstream.

Can you explain the Intellij draw to me? I've spent the last two days off and on look at the community edition via installion and googling and I don't see the killer feature set that everyone is talking about. It looks like a JEdits older brother to me.
The difference is that in traditional IM, the expectation is that if you're online, you'll be around shortly to return the instant message. Since Hangouts disposes of "online" or "away" or whatever, there is less management overhead needed to indicate status, and an immediate response is not necessarily implied because you can't tell if a person is "standing by" their computer or not, as is implied with a green-light IM status.

I never modulate my IM status manually because I don't like broadcasting that information and I don't like the overhead. I want the ability to ignore people and answer when I'm ready. All my IM clients are set to "always online" (without even automatic modulation) because I want people to expect that even if I am online, I may not be able to answer right away, and that they should expect asynchronous replies when attempting any communication with me that is not naturally synchronous (a natural, real-life conversation or a close emulation thereof (video/voice call)).
Listen to yourself, man! If someone peeked their head under a stall, would it be disproportionate violence to push him back out with your foot?

Seriously, sexual harassment is not a light crime. It does serious damage to the victim's mental state. There's no way of knowing if the perpetrator is going to take things further. If you want to state here right now that you feel that violence as a way to stop an ongoing act of close-quarters sexual harassment is a disproportionate response, then that's fine. But don't be surprised if other people in your society don't agree.

And yes, violating someone's privacy to see them naked when they obviously don't want to be seen is sexual harassment. Filming that takes it to the next level.
The Future of Human Data Interaction
It seems pretty clear that this guy was running a dime-a-dozen "buy a ddos" service and was caught by the FBI due to very lax security - like openly posting name/work/age/city. According to a post on webhostingtalk [1] on Dec 10 2013, he may also control the hosting for viphackforums.net.

His story ("now working for the FBI") superficially checks out - there is a Special Agent Stephen Lies who works at the Memphis, TN FBI branch. Here is a similar op this agent took part in: https://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/oct/10/predators-...

1. https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=8462751&po...
Not only is the point not-self-evident, the analogy is fundamentally flawed. You may not have an absolute speed but you can accelerate. If you really want a reference frame to compare to, you can use the one you started in before leaving.

Edit: sorry, changed wording while being replied to
About the cool literary feat: I'm wondering if there are languages other than English in which it'd be possible to write something like this. I speak Spanish and French and I'm sure it's impossible in both -- they just don't have enough short words.
Without judgment or implication-- I'm curious if you feel the same standard applies to a woman who notices a man is staring at her chest.
Ah.. good point.
Personally, I've always found code with a "table structure" prettier but less readable in practice. It's also fussy and time-consuming to maintain. I favor information density and flow.
For the first time I'm surprised that one of the first comments isn't "why was it written in Java, bla, bla bla". Those were getting really annoying.
Is TCP turing complete?
yahoo was buying competition to do what Microsoft does but on the display advertising market.

microsoft and AOL were buying browsers trying to prevent people from reaching competition

man, I'm so glad for Mozilla! and even the unsung opera.
I find the fuzzing of proper names gets annoying, and it would be better if the rule were relaxed for proper names.
Padma Warrior: We’re Only 1 Percent Done Connecting the World
Unexpected ways to use sitemaps
Otto: unifying deployment, application management, and platform management
That may be why they've made it a partner-only program, and why they control the interface for rendering each schema (that they specifically choose to support). While frustrating, it's an interesting point to consider.
Given that we can't get developers to agree on where to place { I highly doubt we'd ever be able to settle on more esoteric formatting issues.

I'm also not sure that I want a developer spending much of his brain space or time prettying up the code beyond what is currently considered well formatted code. While it might be nice, there's also probably better things she could be working on.
Without a reference frame, what experiment can you perform that would tell you that you're accelerating?
Ask HN: What are good sources for handling app backends, APIs, etc?
I have an idea for an app, and I am pretty comfy with the client. As for the Backend/API side I am shooting mental blanks. Please give me some resources or some places I should look to get started. I am interested in the following things.<p>-Scaling Infrastructure( and those that have many workers in the background handling transactions)
- Datastore and data fetching
- Geo-coding Technology
- API Design
- Backend Security
- Pros and Cons of Self-Hosted vs using a service
- Anything else I am missing.<p>I am a swift learner, and a begginner Programmer, but I am pretty tired of being in the dark and would like to zero in on my design and implementation. Thank you so much if you could help.
Which rails stack are you running?

Apache/Passenger? Unicorn?
Most interesting. You're the first person I've talked to who's had success with engaging freelancers in this way -- but since it's worked for you, I can't discount it. I'll definitely give more consideration towards taking this route.

And that's quite a good plug for Sococo -- I'll definitely check it out. Thanks again for sharing your experience here!
Good point. There isn't much you can do about usernames, but if the site just uses email addresses as a login then you can protect that.
I think it's an easy thing to get used to, especially if the parentheses are a bit thicker. They're just a more slender character than a curly brace, so they don't appear to take up as much space as the others even in a monospaced font.
Australian government tries to block two sites, takes down 1,200
recording video is an immediate workaround (I'm assuming that the phone doesn't continuously make shutter noises when it records video; if it does then nevermind).
It would be a more equal comparison to compare Textpad to Sublime Text. Compare Intellij startup to Eclipse startup.

Sublime Text is great, I love it, but its a text editor. If I wasn't a lazy guy I would keep using vim/emacs, but I like mice so I use Sublime Text.

When Sublime Text adds drag and drop refactoring, in app debugging, and the millions of other features required from an "integrated development environment" then startup time would be a more equal comparison.
A Start-Up Struggles to Market Its iPhone App
Why Awk for AI? (1997)
You can use bold-faced text instead of all caps. If you have a true bold typeface (instead of applying a bold faux effect), then this will look nicer to read.
Switch careers into data analyst / machine learning any advice?
Anyone have any thoughts on where and how to apply for an entry level position in this field?
My background is a M.S. Mechanical Engineering, and I am an expert python and MATLAB programmer. I’ve been interested in machine learning for quite some time. Entered a couple kaggle competitions, freelanced and wrote small data mining scripts for people, ran through the Andrew Ng machine learning course, worked through several chapters of Bishop’s pattern recognition & machine learning, Stephen Marslands machine learning, and Collective Intelligence etc. I am fully competent in applying classification, regression, clustering algorthims, and know much of the theory behind almost all the main algorithms, ensemble theory, boosting, neural networks, pca, nnmf etc.
I am at a loss on where or how to even begin applying, as I don’t have the standard background and feel I will be filtered out for not having the correct “keywords” on my resume. Perhaps I should focus on smaller companies / start ups? Any suggestions or resources would be appreciated.
The Cold War for Eyeballs
drop something? If it accelerates away from you, you are accelerating (or held stationary in a gravity field, but AFIAK, those are the same things).
ooof... or be a debbie downer the rest of your life, and focus on all the negatives you can't control, and be a total victim. Maybe there are other reasons unseen to yourself that explain your lack of romantic partnerships.... you sound like an 8 grade anorexic girl, complaining about being fat and unpopular. Man up and learn to play with the hand you've been dealt instead of making excuses and searching for validation in all the wrong places. You've got one shot at life, it's up to you weather you want to brood over things you can't change, or keep your head up and make the most of it.
We are not our body
Probably Chinese and Japanese since Chinese characters have such high information density, but non-Western languages might defeat the purpose of the experiment.
When we try to sell our service we usually get told the same thing over and over: "Our engineers can do that. We don't need a service for it.". And you know what, in the end it is true to a certain extent.

Our customers do have amazing engineers, and they can do anything. But do you want your engineers focusing on API maintenance tasks which are not the core of your product?

I think one of the most important things to count on when buying a service, is not buying because you can't do it, but is it something you should be doing? It is not a problem of expertise, it is a problem of focus. Specially in a startup, you should focus on your product. In the case of an API, it is a programmatic portal for your users, it is not the core of most businesses.

Basically you are buying customer support, and that brings all the points the article describes. It is all about the support, and the value that it brings.
Evernote is the most efficient.
The very post you mention is linked to in the first sentence of OP's article, as well as a quote from the author about being threatened with a lawsuit...