skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the bug itself has "n00b mistake" written all over it. It should have not been made and should have been noticed in code reviews.

But would you go yell like that at a real person in real life when working at the office? If not, why would it be ok to do it in a bug tracker anonymously?

I can't think of any offense I could do that would make it acceptable to yell at me in an irate manner as in the bug report. I'm really glad I don't work with people who consider this kind of behavior acceptable.
> Prison has to be scary.

No it doesn't. The problem with chest-thumping-ego-driven-bullshit like this is that it is very fact-adverse and causes more problems than it solves. Your type of prison is nothing more than a gang training camp.

Start here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=rehabilitation+vs+punishment...

And don't stop until about page 200ish.
The fire alarm in my dorm, today...
> It is time to stop believing everything that scientists say!

This is exactly the sort of nonsense that I was talking about regarding the response to criticisms of the climate models. You've gone even farther than usual by suggesting that I'm denying the entire edifice of science.

I get that there is uncertainty in science. I get that natural variations in climate aren't perfect fits to pretty theoretical models. I get that short-term variations don't automatically invalidate long-term predictions.

What I don't get is how scientists can advocate multi-trillion dollar public policy initatives and incredibly disruptive changes to our economy based on these uncertain models. Even if you accept the predictions as certain the costs of the 'remedies' seem to exceed the costs of simply adapting to the higher temperatures.
Dan Ariely Commencement Speech [video]
I can't wait to see all the broken applications/unreadable small fonts on my Linux.

I've been excited for a high density display since Apple announced the retina display, but I have a gut feeling that it will take a lot of time for the Linux desktop to support it properly, if ever.
I be inclined to agree but I only advocate "an exceptionally detailed spec" in the case of outsourcing. This is due to a combination of two things:

1. The lower levels of communication between the client and development house and
2. The literal level that outsource companies will take the client at.

Having worked on projects that came bundled with excessively detailed specs, I would agree that said defining detail is a fools errand since it often gets changed further down the line.

However, I don't agree with your assertion that "if the project fails/runs over budget/is late then it's due to a failing on the project management side". For example, what if the dev. company simply aren't as talented/responsive as the client was first led to believe?
That's a problem generally, but not the fundamental problem here.
Sounds pretty generous, actually. They could have given nothing and he would have simply written a slightly more angry blog post; like they really care.
Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?"

Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose...
we would have to discuss terms, of course... "

Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?"

Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you
think I am?!"

Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that.
Now we are haggling about the price”

You're either a black/grey hat or a white hat. Either you're a white hat and believe selling to malicious hackers is fundamentally wrong and you wouldn't do it at any price, or you're a black hat waiting for the right price.

The purpose of reward schemes is to reward white hats, not to compete with the bad guys for the black hat discoveries.
Thank you... Not very interested in watching a youtube video about it, just want to read.
It's also about preventing incarceration problems which have happened before. Like stupid warning signs proliferating on common products (I recall counting 18 warning signs on a bus door), solitary confinement cells are the result of solving problems with highly motivated, creative, and dangerous people. The result is something inhumane - because too often the occupant is.
I think if you market this as a way into any private account, think celebrities, politicians, etc. You could catch quite a price if you wait for the right buyer.

Think about what shady gossip newspapers pay paparazzi for breaking laws to get intimate pictures. In the right hands this exploit could be worth tons.
Generous to have a "benefit", horrible to be trapped in the system.
Big ice cubes
"it makes a local copy of that external library. And if you have a local copy, you can edit it. And meanwhile, that person you copied the OpenGL code from? They are also changing their version (fixing bugs, adding features, adding bugs). Therefore there is no guarantee that your version and their version remain compatible: it takes work to maintain compatibility."

Remote packages in Go are like DLLs for other languages. Yes, if you edit a DLL locally, and other people download the public version of that DLL, they won't be the same. DON'T DO THAT.

Make your own copy of the public Go repository, so you can merge in changes from the main branch as you see fit. This is akin to making a copy of the DLL and using that to distribute with your code, rather than just telling people "go download the newest version of the DLL from github".

It's also good practice for go authors to keep any one repository backwards compatible, make it clear when the code is in flux and may have breaking changes... and to make new branches if they have to make significant changes to their code.
Agreed, also contributing to the low-quality feel of it.
Jon Favreau has also said that Musk was one of the inspirations for his version of Tony Stark.
I believe it will be encapsulated like a dedicated guideway train with walls on both sides so that a de-rail is impossible. The failure mode would likely be the craft slowing down and landing on the track if power is lost.
As a result the vehicle can never crash, but simply lands on the track as it slows down.

I believe Elon is referring to aircraft failure modes when he says "crash", as his Hyperloop vehicle won't drop from an altitude high enough to ever hurt the vehicle or passengers.

EDIT - Response to InclinedPlane's comment below:

The vehicle's angle of attack will be kept almost constant with aerodynamic control systems, similar to a rocket. The reason why NASCAR and F1 cars have spectacular lift crashes is because they are not allowed to have active control surfaces, allowing small aerodynamic perturbations to evolve into massive ones.

The vehicle will likely be kept a few meters off the track to allow for these perturbations. Since the angle of attack is controlled, the only way the lifting body can stall is if it is suddenly immersed in a continuous stream of fully turbulent air. Although extremely unlikely, this is possible, so it can be mitigated with an encapsulated tunnel with fans blowing air in from the outside to gaurantee consistent laminar flow, similar to a wind tunnel.
Popsicles
There isn't any citation to the (quite interesting) study finding mentioned as a premise in this article. My two older children are native speakers of BOTH English and Modern Standard Chinese, and they once spoke to each other mostly in Chinese, although in recent years they have much more occasion to use English. There should have been follow-up studies on what happens to native multilingual persons when they suffer strokes by now, and there could even be brain-imaging studies on first-language and second-language multilingual persons by now, perhaps without conclusive results.

This submission makes me curious about the author's premise than about his conclusion.
Could be an array of void pointers.
Pricing 101:
Goal: Get as much as you can from the thing that you're selling.

Purchase Negotiation 101:
Goal: Pay as little as possible for the thing you're buying.

To me what's funny about this is that if Facebook didn't pay the author at all, we probably wouldn't be reading this blog post right now.
Dear Linux, I'm leaving you -- for Windows 8
TL;DR try searching any .ly domain on godaddy, it returns not available even when they are.
Crisis causes communities around the world to trade for food and survival
There are basically two options. Either he's a gibbering idiot, or he's a Reddit troll.

Admittedly, the latter does seem more logical, since he explicitly chose to register under a false name as he clearly knew his report was unacceptable, but I usually choose to assume people are not simply evil, malicious animals.

But if you'd like me to assume he is a Reddit troll, fine. The bug should be closed as presumed invalid and someone who isn't evil should re-file in a manner appropriate to civilized society.
19.4 million unemployed in Europe and its only going to get worse
I don't think he's talking about everyone's comments. There are a few snarky comments in this thread that are totally unproductive.

I looked at my own "A is for Actuary" comment, and even that looks a little mean now. I meant it in a humorous way, personally I like the fact that he had the courage and creativity to write/draw a book for his kids that is relevant to his world, and the world of others.
I've been doing web businesses since I was about 16, circa 1996. I didn't particularly like computers growing up, but when I got introduced to the web, it struck me like a bolt of lightning. I saw the web as an unlimited global canvas that I could build anything on. Webchat Broadcasting! AltaVista and HotBot! Netscape! Yahoo! Geocities! Quake online! Porn! It was all so exciting to a teenager. If I had an idea, I could immediately go to work on it. That's what I still love about the web today, and that's what gets me out of bed in the morning (so to speak). I usually have a lot of things I want to work on when I go to sleep, and so inevitably I wake up with my brain on fire, eager to build.
Google Hangouts - Just say no.
I, like most of you, am an early adopter. So naturally when Google Hangouts plug in and new features in gmail came out I immediately jumped all over it and tried it out. 1 day in. I rolled Gmail Back but left my chrome plug in running. Today I just removed the Chrome plug in as it breaks the old google talk and various other google services such as analytics.

I read the details about how the new interface ditches Jabber support etc. and honestly I can live with that but the lack of google voice (phone calling) support and these issues has made the tool unusable. I hope we can generate enough awareness here to get Google to rethink their plan.

So here's your charge. Submit a feedback item and switch back to standard google talk. That ought to send the right message to google's product folks who thought this was somehow a win.
Learn, Unlearn, and Re-learn
The Fitbit Flex does that too. I just got mine today and I'm counting the hours till tomorrow morning to test it. I want to try being more of a morning person but I don't want to disturb the wife getting up too early.
$4.5k is surely a small amount of money if they had employed someone to do this kind of work.

However, since you the work was done for free the author had sunk the time and risked getting $0 for it. Even if the author is inclined to go black hat, there's a lot more (likely illegal) work to be done for author to extract value from it.

As such, $4.5k is a good deal for the author - Facebook offered it knowing that and author accepted it knowing that.

I don't think this remotely reflects Facebook's true value of privacy (although this admittedly may not be high).

Facebook's only potential loss by making this offer is that it may make it slightly less likely for talented people to work externally on white hat exploits.
Usually a stretch and a phone check followed by another stretch does the job.
> What I don't get is why people drink Starbucks coffee.

* Trusted brand (like McD's)
* Atmosphere
* Free wifi
* Status
* Crack or some other addictive substance added to the beverages
I think his point and yours are both fair enough. At the end of the day though, whether it's $2, £2, or £2k, it's really just a matter of ROI. The latte comparison is somewhat easy: most people like it, and it's (relatively) cheap. The argument at a more fundamental level doesn't extrapolate very well, though - I think it only survives on latte for the aforementioned reasons.
The assumption that a little more focus on one particular thing will make one a specialist. To become a specialist or a master you not only need undivided attention but a natural flair for it. You can practice music all your life and still not compose like Mozart or Bach.Or even someone like Jiro Ono(http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/11/jiro-ono-co...). Most of us will never become Masters, being no more than experienced hacks. That doesn't mean one shouldn't target for it. "Stretching oneself too thin" is a common refrain among technologists implying that if they rather focus on one skill, they are bound to become Masters. In my opinion it's as much about serendipity as it's about perseverance.
Awesome. But I think that reinforces my point - Burn Notice was worth a lot to you right? A random $2 thing is unlikely to give you that much joy. So "this is cheaper than burn notice" would be a poor way to sell to you, because the other half that's needed to complete that argument - "this is more valuable than burn notice" - would be hard to establish.
Is Linux Still Short on Apps vs Windows? Reality Check
(Mistakenly) thinking that I've overslept.
Western European prisons, Australian prisons, Japanese prisons and prisons in other civilized, well-developed, rich countries are much nicer to stay in than American prisons and still our criminal problem isn't nearly as large as yours.

I'm not the least bit afraid of going to prison here. Still I don't break the law, for reasons better than fear of prison.
Alarm --> email and google reader check. GR soon to be Feedly =/
Why a BSD License Might be Wrong for your Embedded Open-Source Project
If you say so. I'm sure somebody will buy anything. But the idea that there's an easily-tapped market for Facebook vulnerabilities, similar to the one for browser vulnerabilities? Like I said, I don't know. But I'm skeptical.
The neighborhood squirrel serenades the sunrise each morning as a sort of mammalian metronome for about an hour, filling me with questions about rhythmic chanting and the mammal brain. It's like a 60 decibel woodblock, only three octaves higher. That wakes me up. I don't recommend it for your alarm clock app.

Money, glory, and fun actually get me out of bed.
Limits are above and below ground. The FAA has a limit of 2000ft on structures. Beyond that you'll need to go to the mat to get special dispensation to go higher.
I also believe that it's about the lack of predictability much more than anything else, which is why I still believe we'll end up with a form of try-before-you-buy with variable pricing eventually.

Perhaps we should replace the "Please rate us on the AppStore" notifications with something like:

Did you get more enjoyment out of this app so far than:
* a latte ($1.95)
* a pizza ($4.95)
* a movie ($9.95) or
* a season box ($29.95)?
You're probably right, I was just throwing it out there; some kind of heuristic search algorithm, anyway.

Postgres actually uses GAs for complex plans [1]. Because it's slower than the normal cost-based planner, it only kicks in when a query involves 12 or more tables.

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/geqo.html
This is pretty much exactly what I needed. You win this QA, thank you!
Great way to put it into perspective. Not only do majority of products not meet our "morning coffee" pleasures, but they also lead to tons and tons of time wasted being displeased with the product. Because if you compare this to your morning coffee, once you don't satisfy that comparison there is nothing but disappointment.
What Netflix can teach you about your small business
It's one of those new, cancerous sites, where nothing is visible unless javascript has been enabled.

Because you need to enable javascript from two different sites in order to read a paragraph of text that could have been formatted using the HTML from back in the Mosaic days.
Meanwhile the PQ321 has a refresh rate of ???.
You're talking about Linux, not a BSD. There are many desktop users who are capable of developing support, and I'd be surprised if nobody is already working on similar things for retina.
Police have to return material to Dotcom
No, they won't. But how exactly do you think they will learn? I dont think many 3 years old will grasp what it means, but at the same time I know how I learned to program:

At 5 I was watching my dad program from across the room (it helped that it was a VIC-20 with only 22 characters per line...), and I started copying the words he was typing. Soon enough he found me with sheets of papers with line numers and "IF", "GOTO", "PRINT", "THEN" etc. written all over them, and he sat me down with the computer and showed me a few very simple things. Then left me to experiment.

3-4 years later and I had exceeded his programming skills in most respects, largely because, while I didn't understand most of it for a long time, a 5 year old will relentlessly try things and see what works because what constitutes a sufficient reward to make it fun to keep going is so much simpler. When I discovered "POKE", I spent a day entering random values, and excitedly insisting my dad or mom come see whenever I managed to get random junk on the screen or trigger weird sounds.

And as I got older and started to understand the connections, a lot of the information I needed to make those connections had already been there for me for a long time.

There's a large gap between 3 and 5, but frankly:

Give them the outrageous stuff as soon as they'll pay attention to it, and while they won't understand what most of it is about at first (doesn't matter - kids read nonsensical stuff all the time), chances are quite a few will get much further than you expect if you keep preparing them for when they are ready to start making those connections.
Code reviews can definitely help improve software quality, but there are somethings you have to be mindful of.

* Talk about the design before writing code - if the design is bad very few code reviews will tell the person to throw away what they have done and start again

* Break down the code review into manageable chunks - doing a code review on hundreds of changed files is really hard to maintain focus.
I think this book is a wonderful idea and the illustrations are great. Even if some of the topic explanations are a little more advanced, if nothing else, they should spark further conversations with the child. Which, correct me if I'm wrong, is exactly what sparked the idea to write the book in the first place! Great idea...just purchased. :)
What people use their Raspberry Pi's for
Easy now, even the manufacturer doesn't recommend a full bottle for regular use.

It contains the same caffeine as a cup of coffee, but costs $3USD instead of $0.10.
You think that, until you've spent a few months, perhaps only a week, in solitary confinement.
IE is dead, God save Chrome!
The $4.5k is intended as a "thank you" card, not a paycheck.
Facebook app is draining your iPhone’s battery
I had serious trouble getting up in college. Someone had given me a bizarre stereo that had an alarm clock that would set off the turntable. I would put Back in Black on vinyl set very loud as the alarm. Once I heard the crackle and high hat count in I knew if I did not get up before the first bar chord I would aggravate quite a few people. Needless to say it never got to the bar chord. :)
My 12 year old son is taking a minecraft mod class -- what I see click is instant-feedback.

He loves minecraft, and the instructor showed how writing 1 line of code could make breaking dirt produce diamonds; he was thrilled. He proceeded to change it to produce anything he wanted (eggs, TNT).
When the instructor went into classes and constructs and the scaffolding to create a block, he was lost. (But to be honest, so was I !)

He loved programming in Scratch -- I know that's simple but it gives you instant feedback to make stuff.
I'm thinking about showing him Python -- it's easy, quick feedback, a little less OO dependent.
Wireline networking groups merge to back Gbps tech
Depends on the language - plenty of them allow you to have more than one type of thing in an array.

There's not usually much POINT, but you can do it..
I get it, but then I don't - if you know what I mean - I looked at the Java version yesterday.

So typically I would just do a Ctrl + F against the log and search for my package name e.g. co.uk.planetjones. And voila it finds the first call that originated in my code.

With stackifier I would have to copy my Exception message to the clipboard, load the website, paste my Exception in and then view the output with the Red Marker on the right hand side.

I'm not saying it's not a neat little tool - I just don't know if it necessarily saves me time i.e. it's probably quicker for me to search for my package in the log file or console log. And the advantage of using the console log is the IDE will hyperlink the line number so I just click on it to go to the line of my code where the Exception originated. With stackifier I need to remember the line number, open the file and go to that line.
Well if you're really talking about history-of-civilization timeframes, warming problems could get pretty bad. Most projections you see don't go past 2100. The last time CO2 levels were as high as they are right now, sea levels were at least ten meters higher. At the same time, the rate at which we're adding CO2 is much higher than the planet has ever seen.

In geologic history, higher CO2 levels have always been associated with higher temperatures and sea levels. However, if you're worried about an ice age, it's easily prevented, because ice ages are actually pretty delicate. A single factory producing NF3 and venting it to the atmosphere would be enough to keep us out of one. (Source: Hansen's book again)
I think that how much exactly 2 pounds are worth is something so subjective that I agree that the original rant feels childish.

From an advertising standpoint, the latte example makes sense, because it's something a large chunk of people (in the US/UK) can make a quick mental comparison. In Italy I have seen many similar examples comparing goods and services to an espresso, or the price of going out for a pizza.

It's a given that for many people the 2 bucks spent on a Latte are completely worth it: I don't see why anyone should find the comparison offensive.

It's not like someone is criticising how you spend your 2 pounds. It's advertising. If you don't find the argument valid, just keep enjoying your Latte, and life goes on as usual.
In a similar vein is Lauren Ipsum (http://www.laurenipsum.org/). Technically it's for kids, but I'm an adult and I really enjoyed it. Highly recommended.
It's a great lesson is how to sell a story to the media.
I don't see the spammy footer link on the 1st one. The page title is "useful web tools" and we have a link in the body part... I don't understand.

Also, what makes you think a blog roll is always "spammy"? The second one seem to be a blog about ASP.NET, the author recommending our software... There are plenty of review people post about our software: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVuB3oGr5pw here's a video review of our Jitbit Crm for example...

.. but anyways, I guess you ARE right, we do have to disavow all these links and contact webmasters so they remove it. Not sure if this the seo-guys we hired who screwed us up, or the result of negative seo (unlikely, but who knows)

PS. feels kinda uncomfortable when everyone's investigating my site, my backlinks, you know my name, my blog, even my home address from whois records, but I know nothing about you. Just some "uts_" guy on HN. Justsayin... It's like you're naked on a scene, everyone sees you, but you see nothing because of the lights :((