skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The correct response to the trauma that many geeks experienced growing up is to understand the pain and thus avoid inflicting it on others. When we were kids we would have loved for this stuff to be popular (hence why we talked about it to everyone), but now we are so traumatized that we don't want anyone without the same wounding to be allowed access? I refuse to become embittered and grudgeful to the point that I'm lashing out at people for showing merely a passing interest in one of my treasured hobbies (fake geeks on TV is another matter). We're not in high school anymore, most of the jocks grew up and so did most of the geeks. The ones from both camps who are stuck in a mentality formed years before reaching psychological and social maturity are living tragically stunted lives. Our goal should be transcendence; there are many who have suffered far greater abuse than geeks who have achieved it.
If you stick it out, I hope you'll update the community in the coming months!
Useful background info, thanks.

> it's rather hard to parse a meme photo for what text is actually written on the image, right?

Actually it's trivial, but I suspect it's just not being done because most pictures on facebook don't have text so why would facebook bother?
Opera was a slow, bloated browser

Now it's bigger with less features.

The market share of power users might be smaller, but there Opera at least had a chance. Competing for the "I can't do shit so I don't want options" crowd against Google and their shamelessly emotional ads? No chance. No good reason to even try, either.
Most people probably think that Pixar uses Apple computers (e.g. the Apple references in Wall-E). In fact, Pixar is a Linux shop.
Wish you lot of fun with your own Raspberry Pi!
Your argument is completely spurious - the relative weight of our emission is not what determines if we change the climate.
It would be like saying the average human weighs 70Kg so 500micrograms of LSD will do nothing as it is only 7.14^-7% of the body mass.
I like the pricing options at https://tickets.ohm2013.org/:

250 - Overpriced ticket

180 - Normal ticket

125 - Budget ticket

from which you can choose your own price.
pSX definitely deserves a mention on this list; easily the most accurate Playstation 1 emulator!

http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/
Who do you think should read it?

I doubt this can be written in any other style other than a rant.

It will have an impact on people for whom money isn't an issue and who already doubt if there is any real utility to the work they do.
The curious thing about this, is it was the case that you needed a warrant - at the state level - to access email. Such was true for two decades (predating the Web). As a state authority, you stood no chance in hell of getting email records turned over to you without a warrant, until the last four or five years.

Email providers became very pliant toward handing over whatever was requested, first with the Feds, then it trickled down. Email providers and ISPs also decided not to specifically fight for strong privacy legislation (insert comment about being the product if you're not paying for email).

The Feds gave up on warrants and got what they wanted through technology mostly, forcing the hands of the telecoms by threat; they simply stopped asking and just took what they wanted. For the Feds it made sense to them to stop using warrants because of the scale involved. It set a strong precedent for violating civil rights that some states are following.
Nice one. Just updated my page and was searching for fixing google search old results.
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Nope. I'm fully in support of it being legal based on age gap, and neither having position of power etc.

But there is an large age range where it almost certainly should be illegal. Is there any situtation where a 40 year old can have sex with a 10 year old? I think not. This is and should be illegal. We should stamp that out.
A bunch of people on plaintextoffenders.com appear to be confused. They all complain "Oh look they mailed me my password direct after registration, they must store it in plain text". That's wrong.

During registration, I have your password in plain text because you just gave it to me in plain text in order to register your account. Sure, we can discuss about sending the password via email, we can discuss hashing the password client side or server side and so on, but a simple mail "You just registered with this password" doesn't tell anything about password storage.
> when I run out of space around a topic, a force-directed algorithm to create more would be very nice

Have you tried iMindMap (www.thinkbuzan.com)? Pretty sure it does that.
Even more, there is a business ticket for 1337€ that gets you a formal invoice! Oh, and you can pay in bitcoin.
There's nothing bad about about a high rejection rate. Most likely there is a strong correlation between the quality of code and a high rejection rate.
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They signed up for having their ads shown next to content that is within Facebook's posting guidelines. Or else why not advertise on /b/ if you truly had no qualms about the content?

While I don't discount that they're going to get some press over this, raising issues over Facebook tacitly supporting rape culture is perfectly acceptable for a company.
So why have the law on "_consuming_" child pornography?

Yes. And I'm OK with that.

And yes there are few cases where a very broad written law can be bad, like a teenager sending a naked picture of themselves. Laws should be written better to exclude that. There is a vast amount of "sexual pictures of children" however that is quite clear to define, and should be illegal.
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Not sure why you are being voted down, but I tend to agree that ODF is the standard to use. Not sure if MS have agreed that they believe it should be the standard to use though :-)
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I'm sorry you understood it that way. I wanted to point out that it is in fact a pretty big deal! Human produced CO2 (mainly from fossil fuel burning) is changing the global environment pretty dramatically. nathannecro wanted to see evidence that we're doing something on the macro scale, here it is.
The standard has to be pragmatic. 1.2 is still new enough to make support an issue. MS Office 2013 was just released with native 1.2 support in January.
I agree with the spirit of your post, and agree that that should be our aspiration. The reality of it can be far different. There have been cases where geeks are being discriminated against for their appearance and social habits in the community they built. Cosplay is a good example, costume quality will only carry you so far, when less conventionally attractive people no longer have a chance to compete the feel of the society starts to change. When the interests you have are shared by the people who discriminate against you and they're still discriminating against you a backlash is inevitable. I am not say it is right or fair, but I do understand it.
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As an Englishman, I think it's sad that when non-native English speakers learn the language they target an American accent.
I'm all for taking a good hard look at your assumptions and personal narrative to clean up biases, but this guy is generalizing way too much. Take this for instance:

> Americans have trouble seeing class, and the intersection between class and intellectualism—or geekishness, if you prefer—can be especially invisible.

"Geekishness" is an intersection of class and intellectualism? That's absolutely horseshit. There are no shortage of poor geeks and rich jocks. Being middle class definitely confers some advantages to pursuing those interests, but it has nothing to do with the innate quality of geekiness. Furthermore, geeky interests are not particularly intellectual per se, it's just we like to get involved in the details of them beyond what most people consider normal.
Ruby is just beautiful. I learnt Python and Ruby last year, and even though they're both really good, I find Ruby's syntax hard to resist.

Metaprogramming is also great (others have commented about that)
Marissa Mayer is making Yahoo more, not less, bloated. Here's why
> Sexual assault is a very serious

Are videos where people actually get hurt[1], not just their feelings, also banned from Facebook? Or are those less serious?

I heave heard this claim that rape jokes somehow contribute to the prevalence of the problem. Is there any empirical proof for that?

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNuaaPoLu1Q&t=44s (unpleasant to watch)
Best book for entrepreneurship: none. You don't learn "entrepreneurship". You experience it.

If you're already kicking the ball (instead of reading books on how to kick a ball), read about anything but "entrepreneurship" :)

I recently unsubscribed from most big tech blogs because all they write about is "X ways to become a better entrepreneur" and all that nonsense.
I built something similar with Rails as a 'hacker news for poker' and open sourced the code, if anybody wants to play around with it (or use it). Pull requests welcomed :)

https://github.com/wilfra/theplayr (live site: http://theplayr.com)
Thanks, that makes more sense. I was expecting a more mathematical than philosophical answer, but in hindsight, I was wrong to do so.
Ask HN: Best Web Host? I'm so much into cloud that I am clueless now.
I am working for a very small website for someone I know and they're looking for a web host.

For the past few years, all I do is run work on cloud instances and servers that I really have no idea who are good web hosts for small websites anymore. Just the good old shared web hosting.

My needs:
- A web server (obviously)
- Email server
- Be able to run Rake (I will use Sinatra for a small part)

What is a good, reliable and cheap web hosting company?

(Please not GoDaddy. That's all I get when I do Google searches).
Whenever I start to worry about this I remember that Canada has laws against hate speech http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_Canada but doesn't seem to have slipped down any slopes.
Oh come on. The US is the global hegemon and the New York Times is by an overwhelming margin the most respected newspaper in the country. I know the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times exist and I have occasionally read stuff from the WSJ and the Washington Post but the New York Times has a global brand in the same way Le Monde has for the Francophone world or Der Spiegel does where German is spoken.

The only comparable publications are in adjacent niches, not the same one; the Economist, and, and ...
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The Bush Admin is worthy of just about any and all criticism one could muster. However, the domestic spying programs predate the Bush Administration. And it's worth noting, the Democrats have in no way been against the Patriot Act, in fact they've been very strongly in favor of it (which is why it wasn't killed during the super majority years).

For example, Carnivore came into existence under President Clinton:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_%28software%29

And there has always been suspicion of domestic abuse of Echelon by the NSA (and that program obviously dates back many decades).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

The only thing that began to change during the Bush years, is domestic spying came out into the open, with very little public resistance unfortunately.

Your note about the GOP is accurate, they abuse power when they're in control just like the Democrats do. For example, it could be similarly said that the Democrats are only in favor of protecting civil liberties when they're the minority party (ie when it's convenient).
Who the hell is igos?

My level of jokes will probably never increase.
Cut the math for now, on what basis are you valued at $30 million? You said it yourself, out of thin air.

If you are not making profit, still in stealth-mode and have no clients, sorry to break it to you but it's worth...: $0.
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>>innate quality of geekiness

Very well put. The problem is most geek/nerd kids don't realize they are geeks/nerds until some point in their teenage.

In my case, I always wondered 'Why I was so different from others?'. It was only until a time in teenage that I realized this was actually a positive quality. Over time I saw geeks/nerds do far better than life than others, especially bullies.

Most bullies I know have only gone downwards in their lives, even the rich ones have only gone down with time.
And sincere discussions of alternative political systems could lead to another Stalin/Mao/Hitler. Criticizing Islam might lead to another holocaust.

At what point do you let people share ideas freely without holding them responsible for what "might happen"? When can a joke "just be a joke"?
Can anyone recommend a Markdown editor with Markdown code on the left and a preview on the right? OS X or Windows. Doesn't have to be free.
It probably made it easier for them to rationalize though, if the bullies can think of themselves as vehicles of karmic justice.
Angular is vastly superior to Ember technology wise; Their approach is also more future proof (No stupid getter/setter, string templates, the architecture is based on something very close to web components, etc)
www.hartserver.net/hosting/shared/

Disclaimer: that's my hosting business. ;)
Wow. It is quite scary these pictures. I lived in Vegas for 10 years and personally saw Lake Mead slowly going away every year. I hope more people will take notice and help anyway they can.
'PC' ('personal computer') is a general purpose computing device, based on the original IBM architecture. The point is, it was never tied to any particular operating system.

Any attempt to 'tie' the hardware to a proprietary OS can be met with a legal challenge on these grounds. So, regardless of what manufacturers would like customers to think, it is possible to obtain an OS-free computer, even if it entails refusing an EULA and getting a refund for the unused OS.

Many people think this argument applies to Apple, too. But that's a mistake: Apple computers are not marketed as 'PCs'; and their computing system, from hardware to OS, is Apple throughout.

Microsoft works with PC manufacturers to pull off this anti-competitive hoodwink on an ignorant computing public. If it were tested properly in court, the whole corrupt practice would be torn to pieces.
Please try to remember that this is not Reddit.
This model is somewhat similar to how Datomic models transactions -- Datomic uses immutable datoms and includes a transaction ID with each datom: "A datom consists of an entity, attribute, value and transaction (time)" (http://www.datomic.com/rationale.html).

However, Datomic's design is based on a single, centralized transactor that pushes out all the new transaction information to an index that is distributed to all its clients (peers), whereas NBTA would enable distributed transactors.

See "The Datomic Data Model"
http://www.datomic.com/rationale.html#DataModel

From Datomic's FAQ http://www.datomic.com/faq.html ...

How does Datomic provide ACID guarantees?

The transactor serializes all transactions, and each transaction runs against a stable view of the database, and succeed or fail in their entirety. Transactions are not acknowledged until after they are logged in storage. Atomic read/modify/write operations can be performed by database functions, which run on the transactor within the transaction. Note that Datomic can provide ACID guarantees without utilizing read-transactions, nor read locks, due to the presentation to the query engine(s) of the database as an immutable value.

---//---

Rich Hickey on Datomic's design...

Intro to Datomic (12 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKcqYZZ9RDY#!

The Design of Datomic (60 min)
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Design-of-Datomic

The Datomic Architecture and Data Model (46 min)
https://vimeo.com/45136212
Bit of a difference between 'getting a job' and getting funded at YC or publishing in the NYT :)
PayPal shuts account down for giving away free bitcoins with purchases
That seems acceptable though it's really shitty if you end up not making the cut.

FWIW most european countries allow 1-6 months probation periods (for non-temp jobs, temp jobs have either no probation or much shorter ones). During probation, either side can terminate the contract without most of the restrictive clauses applying, it's essentially a short period of "at-will" to check fit between the company and the new employee.
So does Australia...you might want to look up the case of Andrew Bolt, a journalist who was convicted over making flippant remarks about indigenous Australians.

Many consider this case to be a prime example of excessive application of hate speech laws against speech that was clearly not "hateful".
Amazingly daring:

55 million transactions virtually all of which were illegal

And then all the keywords:

credit card fraud, identity theft, investment fraud, computer hacking, child pornography, and narcotics trafficking

How on earth can you honestly claim that fifty-five million transactions were illegal and at the same time not having acted before? I mean: it is not 'we are at war and we have to let some people die in order to win the great battle'.

But then again, the US is at war, is it not?

So complicated...
I believe his "—or geekishness, if you prefer—" is referring only to "intellectualism", a way of broadening the scope rather than redefining "geek".
FBI ran child porn site for two weeks in attempt to ID over 5,000 pedophiles
Good job, and I regret to hear that it seems you were given some bad advice from authority.

There's a lesson I learned at around 12 or so, good to learn sooner than later. Don't trust the experts, for the sake of being experts.

I probably have a few good burn out stories to share, but since this is a public forum and you're anonymous, let's just say that it's part of the experience. Learn, live, move on, towards something better.
It's dunning-kruger and lying in full swing, I feel.

Some people go like "Oh I worked 5 years in that tool, I must be magnificient in this tool. I shall list myself as highly professional in this area!" and do so.

Me... I rather go like "Hmm... Well I worked with C for 3-4 years, but I'm rusty as hell... and I didn't touch many libraries much, I just worked on tiny microcontrollers and implemented a highly multithreaded programming language execution environment. Guess I'm gonna call me <somewhat experienced> there." Though afterwards I just roll over people in an interview.
That's beautiful, also the fact that you think about restful url's beforehand is a big plus.
It's also good to think about the language/terms that you want to use throughout your application.
Mainly from all over Europe, but like any gathering - from all over the World ;-)
Something happened in the past 10-20 years where teachers became the scape goats of the failing American education system. It might be related to the attacks on their unions and the privitization of education. I'm not totally sure. But regardless of your opinions on education privitization teachers are not regarded with the same reverence in American society that they once were.
While the math may turn out that way, your sources aren't reliable given their perspective and extreme bias (both articles rely heavily on weak speculation and their emotional desire to see it happen).

It's like listening to Fox News call the election for Romney.
Different headline between the UK and the US version of the same article.
Trying to keep a certain level of civil discourse on a social website is not a slippery slope. Banning rape jokes is not a slippery slope. For as long as I can remember Facebook has had the option to report posts about:

- Hate speech or symbol

- Spam or scam

- Graphic violence

- Drug use

- Nudity or pornography

That is not trampling the First Amendment. There are plenty of other hate forums where people who are afraid of a slippery slope can freely enjoy and share rape jokes.
I realize it's sort of a funny thing to say, but I would argue that a bitcoin has more intrinsic value than a beanie baby. It's ease of transfer is a huge utility.
It's actually anti-urban-intellectual posturing, suggesting that the comment author is on a higher level intellectually.

I had a good laugh at both the joke itself and that the telling of the joke is an act of "verbally humiliating the dumb".
But... the USA is the greatest country in the world by a lot of metrics... and it isn't a stretch to say NYC is the greatest city in the USA.
>I heave heard this claim that rape jokes somehow contribute to the prevalence of the problem. Is there any empirical proof for that?

Are you seriours, how would you even attempt to prove something like that?

Funny that everyone agrees that overtly racist/anti-semitic (and recently) homophobic images on social sites are wrong, but banning rape jokes is somehow taking things too far.
This is largely subjective.

The largest circulated newspapers in the world are Japanese, the largest English is The Times of India, and the largest US are the WSJ and USA Today.

For online publications by readership, the Daily Mail from the UK often beats the NYT, depending on who is counting.

With regards to being respected, it depends on where you are from, but from where I am standing the British press often attracts more respect in the English speaking world than any US publications.
Maybe. Depends on the felony and the nature of the crime. I'd probably say no to sexual and violent crimes and some non-violent crimes (fraud, theft). Not to be judgemental, but some people really do have physiological issues. Not everyone, but it's hard to pinpoint from a few job interviews. I'd consider it though if I can get some guarantees (but lawyers struggle with this all the time, no?).

In the US I've noticed, some felonies are really nonsense and it's just an over-law'ed system all together. For those, I would probably hire.
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a shibboleth that the author will use a $5 word where a nickel would do
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Completely agree. One must understand that many of the laws are purely absurd and many crimes exaggerated.
It's a sign of our times. Indian English follows more or less the British pattern (colour instead of color etc.). However, recent times have seen a marked shift towards American spellings and pronunciation. I would imagine this is the case in other former British colonies as well.
The problem is that locked ARM is becoming defacto standard. Soon most main-stream laptops will be ARM based and locked down. Compared to that current issues such as "should I accept EULA?" looks very small.
It is commendable, especially since its an important service people should at least know about.
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I am not affiliated with the site, just came across and thought it was a good fit for posting here...
KALQ is the new QWERTY for thumb typing.
I have the same headache with Google Voice not receiving most confirmation SMS and was delighted to see that the test SMS I just sent using this service came through. Well done!
Yeah, I have the impression this is true in a number of places. It does appear to be particularly pronounced in the US (from the view from my bubble).

I worry that reducing the respect given to teachers will result in fewer outstanding people choosing teaching as a career path.

From the smattering of events I noted above I do get the impression that teachers are operating scared. That they perceive that they are reluctant to make judgement calls that involve any kind of bureaucratic risk (as in the Kiera case). That zero tolerance approach seems to be a symptom of this fear and I have a lot of sympathy for both the teachers and the students. Its seems like a real shame :(