skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You've backed off from your original position all the way to merely making the point that you wish people would think more about the effect that their actions have on others before acting. I think everyone agrees with that.

That was always my position. Trying reading what I originally posted again rather than posting kneejerk reactions.

> Taking 14 paragraphs to say "people should think more before acting" is the sort of thing I think you think should be self-censored

There was a number of points. And the post doubled in size because I had to dumb those points down to people like yourself who seemed unable to read my post in it's entirety before starting senseless arguments. Perversely, it's yourself that should have considered before replying.

>Communities don't need to have the same standards as governments. If facebook banned the kid for his comment, that doesn't seem wrong to me. Having the government enforce things like this does seem wrong to me (for the reason that I pointed out: we'd end up having to spend tax dollars supporting people like you while they're in jail).

"we'd end up having to spend tax dollars supporting people like you"? What the hell is that supposed to mean? I've probably contributed more towards taxes over my life than you have.

And I was never in favour of sending this kid to jail. I don't know how many times I need to reiterate that before you finally click. Or are you deliberate trolling me just for the irony of being an insensitive moron in a discussion about sensitivity?
VoLTE is not deployed yet (but soon).

Voice and in general IMS traffic will use a separate APN, per the GSMA VoLTE specification. This spec requires that an APN called "IMS" be used, and Verizon is complying (even today, SMS is done over IMS with LTE). All operators will do that.
The animation is very good. Could you explain a bit about how this was done? Did you have to write the code or is there a tool that can generate a page like this?
Japan is so societally uniform that many of the views in society are "the normal people" and "the not normal people".

IMO it's unhealthy.
Bytemark (http://www.bytemark.co.uk/) offer "legacy" VPS and dedicated servers (been a customer for 10 years now) and they also have a new Cloud offering called BigV (http://bigv.io) which I've started using for stuff - great company, great service, they've recently donated a 16-blade, 57Tb server to the Debian project as well (including hosting) - http://blog.bytemark.co.uk/2013/04/04/a-major-infrastructure...

They really are the mutts-nuts!
For the discussion on HTML being a programming language or not, I know there's a war going on about it. My take is that except presentation, you can't achieve anything with HTML. Especially not logic. But writing HTML is coding. Not programming. See the difference?

About Python, I'm talking about becoming a web developer, not a web designer. JavaScript is a front end language (and if you look in my recommended path, I also say one must learn it and I provide sources to material in order to do that). But first, I believe somebody needs to learn 'programming'. When it comes to web development, a lot is done server-side (like for example, database input/output operations) so Python is a very valid choice :-)
> If low prices drove the competitors out, then high prices will surely see them flood back in.

Why? The business of selling books is, like most businesses, capital-intensive and risky. On the other hand, if anyone does go back into the business Amazon just has to change a few lines in their database and the new competitors are out of business with a whole bunch of stock they can't shift and a huge loss for investors.
- Deleted my Facebook account.

- Looking for European alternatives for server locations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5993947

- Looking for a good alternative to GMail.

- Looking for a good alternative to sharing photos with family (currently Google Picasa and Google+)
Around 6 months. It's inhouse project and I spent as much time it was required to make it good. No idea how many actual hours has been spent.
None of those seem to relate to the crypto itself.
I think you are very misinformed.

- because Google and other big companies do pay crazy amount for acqui-hires, more often and more consistently than yahoo does: http://www.siliconbeat.com/2013/03/28/silicon-valleys-bigges... The reason Yahoo is more talked about because of Mayer and she is trying to pick up a sinking ship. A valiant u-turn of a dying silicon giant by an ex-googler story is more interesting than Google/MS/Facebook/Twitter acquiring to keep their strong position.

- Being successful in startup takes a special kind of talent (with lotsa luck), if every joe/moe could do it, they would. Nothing is stopping any yahoo developer to leave their safe job and take on this challenge, but chances are they won't and most people don't.
I think you should re-read what he said.
>The implication being that people who're not working full-time are not considered do be part of society?

If you're not working full time as a formal employee of a company, you are indeed looked down upon.

I have several friends in Japan who earn more from their side gigs (one is an indie musician, another is a designer, another is a programmer) but they all won't quit their day job, saying that it's vital for them to be part of their corporations to be looked upon positively by the rest of society. Hell if you aren't a full employee it's hard to even get married!
Depends. It could easily be a crude guide saying little more than "apt-get install node". Isn't that "deploying"?
They are selling it as a method for getting over shyness or fear of strangers (人見知り)

http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00166NB0I/
Indeed. I taught English to a mid-30s lady who worked for a subsidiary of JR. Every lesson, it was the same complaining about her job, her boss.. I suggested that she find a new job and her reaction was complete terror. "I can only imagine it will be worse than what I have now".
Why? Equifax can't put you in jail indefinitely, or use everything you said in the last few years to build a case against you, just because you have a funny name. I get (and share) your concerns about corporations having so much sensitive data, but for now a company's ability to inflict harm (even when they don't mean to) is far less than a government's.
I couldn't get it out of my head for the whole article.

>> "Hide had become 'withdrawn'"

Priceless!
Heya, this was done by one of our talented interns Kushagra A. (https://twitter.com/kushsolitary). We did not use any parallax page making tools, it was written using HTML5, CSS3 and some js library.
Thanks! I used skrollr.js [1] to create the parallax animation and some JS for scroll handling. I will write a blog post [2] on how I made it in detail soon.

[1] https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr
[2] http://kushagra.me/blog/
Works fine on my 21
As you must know, mental health issues are often not considered real health issues that need medical treatment. They seem to still carry this cultural undercurrent that such mental issues are just a product of a weak mind, and that one can overcome it with gutso and bravado.

Then people are pushed to the brink and commit suicide or shut themselves off from the world. Glad I'm no longer working there.
Working fine for me in Firefox 17 (ESR)
I don't understand - many people who seem technology aware sound surprised to discover that anything published digitally can't be unpublished.

My friends and I were already aware of this when messing around on the school LAN in the 80s.

I'm quite happy using Facebook because I only publish what I'm happy to publish.

Generally, I dislike being monitored but I assume it's happening and expect my government to provide protection.

The web is changing but only in the sense that it's evolved rapidly since it was created (only some 25 years ago).

In the future, the web will look different while being exactly the same: people will be using it to communicate.
It also works fine in Safari, although that's likely because of the -webkit- CSS prefixes.
"Under attack" allows people to distort reality as much as they want for their own benefit. Google sure looked like a tough cookie by disclosing bugs in 7 days and now it gets a pass.
> more than 400 had gathered in New York City and Washington, D.C.

That's depressing.
Hi Evan, thanks for your great work on Puma. Back in the days Mongrel was already multithreaded but it never reached its full potential because multithreading in the Rails world was so messed up back then. I'm glad to see that you've developed it into such a good state. When I checked your code, it was simple, clean and easy to read. Wonderful technology.

Unicorn currently does have better fault-tolerance tools than Puma though, e.g. the 1-minute timeout on that Unicorn has by default. Unicorn also currently has more documentation than Puma. So there is a tradeoff in the choice, and there's still plenty that all the app servers can learn from each other.
Logitech did something like this in the 1990s. Couldn't tell you the specifics, but you'd see Engelbart around their offices.
>Japan has imbued the word with a meaning unto itself though. I don't think the British version of the word carries the same kind of social condescension that it does in Japan.

Agreed. But that doesn't change the origins of the word - it just highlights the cultural (mis)representation of the term.

> Also Hikikkomori means that you literally don't leave your room at all (which is not the case for a NEET). If the hermit needs something, they'll often bang the floor to summon their mother (typically for food)

To be fair, Hikikkomori and NEET aren't meant to refer to the same people anyway. It just so happens there's overlap in the context. An example in western culture could be "freeloaders" and "unemployed". The former has negative connotations (ie they live of others like leaches) where as the latter just states they don't have a job. While some who are unemployed could be classed as freeloaders, it's also fair to say that some who are unemployed are very keen to find work and support themselves. So there's overlap in the people covered by those two terms but they don't automatically refer to the same group of people.
I agree. Governance bodies may take public comments, but for the ceremony and to legitimize the process; they ignore them, and vote as if they never took place. I've seen the same elsewhere, such as at the Menlo Park City School District meeting: they take comments, ignore them, then vote how they intended to vote prior to the public discussion. But think how hard it is to process creative discussion on your feet, particularly when arguments arise that repudiate your position, and you have no way to validate the new arguments or to research them prior to the vote. Whom do you trust? What should you do? It is the process that is broken: votes should not happen immediately after the comment period, but after a period of evaluation of the comments; and then the governance body should have to repudiate the comments or at least to reply to them.
Very true. I try to view it as an investment with a payback period. Or another way is to see the initial investment as a sort of "activation energy" required to get you over the hump.
A really good idea, and one that I am going to steal for single sign on and security development
>TODO: Disallow unicode usernames

Can anyone explain why this is necessary?
Who talked about Tokyo ? I dont even live there. There are many places outside of Tokyo where it's full of people too.
I don't consider that verbose at all. It expresses a great deal more information than you're giving it credit. It would not be easy to pare down without destroying this information. Thus, it is very close to the minimum expression of the intended idea.
The first wave of young new graduates having problems finding work hit in the early to mid 90's, when the Japanese bubble crashed. The new grads for the rest of the 90s were called "the lost generation", with many of them never being able to find full time work. (the period was also called "The First Employment Ice Age")

That was roughly 20 years ago. This massive wave of underemployed, often-unmarried folks are now in their late 30s. The middle-aged, unemployed, clinically depressed, hikikkomori problem is about to get a whole lot worse in the coming decades (the graduating classes of 2010-2012 were hit really hard too after the financial crisis. This era was called "The Second Employment Ice Age". The class of 2009 was the last class that really had it good in the 2000s.)
wow only 400 ppl stood up for their 4th amendment rights?

most of the people are waving it goodbye by being at home browsing facebook.
I disagree, because examples that many people can relate to just don't get the point across. We need some space for things that will never win many followers, because there are many different such things and we're all minorities in some aspect of our lives.
This is one of the reasons why I think HTTPS isn't as secure as many perceive. Users have become so acclimatised to ignoring SSL warnings due to mixed content, expired or self signed certs and browsers have made it so inconsequential to skip said warnings that many users wouldn't think twice about ignoring those errors if there was a genuine MITM attack.
Is that true ca believe,
And then go where?
Just before adjourning parliament, a vote was cast to put the bill before a parliament committee to be discussed further. The vote was defeated 24 to 33, 5 didn't vote and one was absent. Seems like this door has closed.

Can't find news articles on this, except this piece
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=is&tl=en&js=n&prev=...
This is so true. I've seen it with my own experience -- had I know what I know today about the industry I'm in, I probably wouldn't have started my business. But a decade ago, I knew nothing, and, well, ignorance was bliss (and worked!)

I think this is also, to some extent, why Silicon Valley seems to favor young entrepreneurs -- not because youth has some fundamental "betterness" to it, but because when a seasoned vet gives 100 ways an idea can fail (because he's seen them happen), an idealistic entrepreneur waves them away -- "bah - not an issue."

They're both right to some extent -- there are 100, 1000, 10000 ways an idea can fail, and the more you know, the more reasons you can come up with to avoid starting. But people still start crazy businesses, people still take risks, and entrepreneurs still do their thing with blissful reckless abandon (as they should!) :)
It was considered ridiculous by the mainstream. If I told that to some of my friends, they would have thought I'm crazy. Not anymore.
Major can of worms lol. Are you arguing that your concern is that the gov is going to change the record if it decides it doesn't like you and then imprison you?

How about a bank creating fictitious > 10k deposits that they'd have to report to government? Now, the FBI is on your tail (see Eliot Spitzer).
No, a proper example would be this:

1. Step One Goes Here
2. Step Two Goes Here
3. Step Three Goes Here

vs

Steps (One, Two, Three)
5 apps that help freelancers & agencies make more money
You are correct, but the system isn't really as strange as you imply. Many wholesalers in many different markets set a recommended retail price that's some multiple of the wholesale price they charge to their customers.

As far as I understand, Amazon works out the optimal discount for a book based on a number of factors including the popularity of the book and the prices charged by their competition. The same book at B&N is $31.49 [1], 88 cents more than Amazon is charging.

[1] http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/born-to-lose-james-g-hollock...
IE8: "There is a problem with this website's security certificate".

Also doesn't render at all well...
Really love the animation, but I can't help but wonder if A/B testing couldn't be explained more powerfully.

Within the example of the store for example, the real pain A/B testing addresses is cyclical variation leading to incorrect conclusions.

Working from that you could've shown the story of:

* the store owner rearranging his display and seeing sales go up

* but then the rest of the year sales actually going way down

* and when he changes things back to the old layout sales went waaay up again! How can that be?

* Cue image of cyclical charts and the facepalm of realizing it wasn't his redesign at all!

* Now ... on his website he can send visitors to different versions at the same time!

* So he'll never have a year of bad sales again!
I think it's just to stop name spoofing using unicode characters. ie pretending to use a registered nick by using characters that look similar. As a non-unicode example: "Bob" looks like "B0b".

Personally though, I'd rather welcome that kind of abuse but not exclude other people from countries who don't use the Latin alphabet. As demonstrated above, it's impossible to automatically moderate username abuse entirely anyway - as you can just start using non-unicode characters or even punctuation such as periods after the username. And if the chat protocol is built in a secure way (which this is not), then there should be other mechanisms for ensuring that Bob is in fact "Bob" and not "B0b" nor "Bob."
Evo Morales threatens to close US embassy in Bolivia as leaders weigh in
>I don't think the British version of the word carries the same kind of social condescension that it does in Japan.

It certainly has a large amount of social condescension in Britain -- "not in employment, education or training" was taken up with glee by the tabloids.
I actually find this plausible. Like the author I also have problems believing that random mutation and selection is a complete/adequate explanation. Just a hunch, there's a deeper theory to be had here.
3D printed Custom Game Controllers for People with Physical Disabilities
Just before adjourning Icelandic parliament for the summer, a vote was cast to put the bill before a parliament committee to be discussed further. That vote was defeated 24 to 33, 5 didn't vote and one was absent. Seems like this door has closed, at least for now.

Can't find news articles on this, except this piece
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=is&tl=en&js=n&prev=...

Also discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5991203
Superman invented 3D printing 50 years ago
Deliberately manipulate her into falsely attributing her emotional and physiological reactions to you.

Horrifically creepy.
And send him money via Gittip.
The same indoctrination exists elsewhere too. People are given respect for their degrees or position in the hierarchy. Business trainings teach employees to be good to their bosses. while stating that doing so is important if they want their careers to advance. This has become so prevalent that it seems normal and somehow good. I don't deny that businesses also teach other good things, but these heirarchial values take priority in practice.

I don't know what is good anymore.
They're not going to change the working culture by hiring "smart" people - that was one of the problems in the first place...

(That and the byzantinely fractal multi-layered management structure.)
Those are good points, but we were gunning for the marketer who isn't familiar with A/B testing. This because we see that a lot of our potential customers have usually heard the term somewhere but need a basic, easy-to-understand explanation.

Do you think it achieves that purpose?
> Not being blown up by terrorists

I like to scream at wrong moments and so far I've not heard of anyone being raped by wolftrolls riding UFOs. So I saved you and whole world from being raped by wolftrolls. You owe me exactly $1000.
Can you point to a flaw in the cryptography? Otherwise, while I understand where you're coming from I think your criticism is misguided. Cryptography is very interesting and is fun to implement. It is also difficult to get right. Does that mean hobbyists shouldn't implement it? No, it just means that you shouldn't expect security from hobbyist implementations. I find it disconcerting to see comment after comment on HN tearing people down for working on projects that interest them.

The point of criticism is to help people improve. By effectively saying, "You're not cut out for crypto, don't even bother," you do a disservice to others and contribute negativity that HN doesn't need.
I appreciate that, but I referenced Tokyo as that's often the first place people outside of Japan think of (like how people think of London when they think of Britain, or Paris when they think of France)
It's a bit hurtful that they would say "teenage laziness," when it could be depression.

It started when I was 12 (probably). I slowly started losing interest in doing things that I enjoyed, even more so about the things I didn't enjoy doing. By the time I was 15 I stopped caring about my future and from a straight A student I became a C/D student. When I started high school that I wanted (we have similar requirements for HS as you would need for college or university in Croatia) things were better for about a year, but I started to fade and become "numb" again. This continued throughout HS, but since my HS was mostly about sciences (physics, maths, computer science) and linguistics, so my grades didn't suffer because I found the topics interesting.

I am a freshman & 20 years old. I am doing better because I sought help, while everyone I lived with (mum and grandmother) thought I was just a lazy, worthless do-no-good. I should also mention that my mum has an "abusive personality," which probably contributed to my depression (and is hindering recovery, in all fairness).

I was lucky to have a best friend since kindergarten, who was observant enough to notice my mental and physical deterioration and supported me to find help (to paraphrase: "i will beat the fuck out of you if you don't get yourself checked for some shit").

I was diagnosed with MDD (Major depressive disorder). I wouldn't say I am good, yet, but I am better than I was a few years ago and I haven't thought about suicide for almost 2 months now (which I did, for 4/7 days, six months ago).

TL;DR: When you are depressed, it seems like the air is thick and heavy, it seems like every ray of light is trying to push you down onto your shadow, it seems like every movement you do is being countered by an invisible force and requires you to use more energy. All your thoughts are polluted with a dark tint. You have no dreams, no hopes, no desires. You just wish to escape.
Maybe they are not lazy? Maybe hiding in their rooms are the early attempts of escape, and nobody is noticing their silent cries for help.

P. S: Sorry for the long&sad post.
It's interesting listening to Decode DC's podcast, episode 6: http://www.decodedc.com/home/2013/1/17/episode-6-the-future-...

In it, they talk about how Washington (politically speaking) feel like they "lost" to the SOPA/PIPA protesters because they where backed by "internet giants" like Google and Wikipedia. They figured, as long as they keep these giants happy, things will work out just fine.

I believe yesterday proved them right. No real internet-giants where involved in this protest, and I don't think it will have caused any politician to change their minds.

Sometimes, I am remembered what a sad state of affairs todays politics are.
That's a whole other question but at least it opens your options up a bit more.
I rather like this quote attributed to Carl Sagan:

"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
Take the third option. Invalidate your vote. Invalid votes are a recognized form of civil disobedience. If enough people aren't pleased by choices given, it will reduce credibility of any government significantly.
People who write these types of comments do more to set back gender equality than anything written about the subjects themselves. If the subject of the story were a guy would the thought of sexism even cross your mind or would you just, ya know, evaluate the story on its merits?