skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like how you put "abuse" in quotes like that.

Verbal abuse is recognized as a phenomenon in medicine, religion, and in law. It is not at the same level of unacceptable civilized behavior as physical violence, but it is still unacceptable nevertheless, and can carry severe consequences, quite rightly.

Many people are actually not deeply self-aware or in control of their emotions or reactions. This often is due to the environment they grew up in, their age/maturity, and can be overcome. It also may be due to illness that requires treatment. Some are victims of abuse, that hurts their career, enjoyment of life, etc. Yet abusers themselves are often the most egregiously acting without self awareness or emotional control, as they are often lashing out what they're feeling without restraint or contextual nuance, attempting to inflict pain on others.

Yet other people also are deeply self aware or in control of their emotions but due to community or societal norms are subject to systematic verbal abuse. Sexual harassment, threats against geeks/nerds, racial discrimination are all examples. There's often only so much any well-adjusted person can take.

You seem to be confident that words should not be able to inflict pain. Yet it's clear from history that they do.
Indeed. It is somewhat of a faux-vote. You are given the impression that you 'vote' counts. It doesn't really. I'd never thought about it that way before.
I sincerely hope this 'trend' dies quickly
Exactly. The problem is nothing is genuinely better. Its just turd polish.

The only thing that has made a difference to me in the last decade is an SSD. On a daily basis, I can't tell the difference between my 2007 laptop and my 2013 high end workstation.
You're only seeing the tail end of the conversation. The one that started it all seems to be this:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/13/132
That's a little presumptuous, don't you think? What gave you the impression that these people need to be saved, and from what? You're absolutely right. These are human beings. Treat them like human beings, not pitiful beings that you need to save because they don't have C-sections and cars and Xanax and lawyers. Stop acting like you know what is best for them. What is your expertise in this area?

If you are concerned about their health, then it is best that we stay away anyway. History (and even this article) has taught us that isolated cultures are incredibly susceptible to our diseases (a.k.a. diseases they have never had contact with), and often times the results are fatal.
sup-mail: http://supmua.org/images/old_screenshot_2.png

http://supmua.org/
Have you seen the IPython Notebook?

http://ipython.org/notebook.html

I think it does what you want
Clawing Our Way Back To Precision (garbage collection in SpiderMokey)
My first smartphone literally cost 50$. It was an LG Optimus One. No contract, no obligation. It was 200$ but it came with 100$ gift card for BestBuy and a rebate of 50$. It was first on a monthly contract but it was WAY too expensive (30$) for my use so I switched to prepaid (100$ a year).

3 MPX camera (don't need more for an emergency camera), AM/FM radio (always useful) and enough battery to last more than a week. It was really solid, only a cheap plastic on the screen, it's not flip, so you can't break that.

There was a button for the camera too, which means that you could press the power button, aim, shoot, like your pocket camera.

I fail to see why I would pay the exact same price for an old phone... it has ALL the quality of the old phone. Also most of theses old phone in Quebec doesn't have a SIM slot, which means that you CAN'T change the carrier, like I did.
I am glad there is a great alternative to Gmail. Somehow somebody has to pay for the service you use. It's either your pocket, or your data, or companies paying for ads. Each service provider can use a different option and it's great for us consumers to have all options on the table.
You need to decide whether the examples given are outright lies or are just hypothetical. You can't have both.

But I agree with your point, not everyone has the skills and mentality to be mentors and/or teachers to others who may wish to learn. It's just too bad so many have to be complete assholes about going about informing people of this fact.
NuevaSync offers push for FastMail. http://www.nuevasync.com/index.html
Even if they are targeted, they may not know at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Zersetzung
they have survived there for 65000 years, what are you going to bring themthat will ensure they are still there in another 65000 years? Nothing.

You want to bring them medicine, but with that comes illnesses they have never been exposed to, you want to bring them food, excellent take along obesity with you. You want them to have access to modern amenities that they have never required but could become dependent on.

Tell you what go drop a couple of crates of jack daniles and few 1000 packs of marlboro and some mcdonalds just so they know what they are missing out on.

There is a vast difference between these people and their society and North Korea. In NK the ruling elite have access to everything youmention and the general population do not. On this island they all have equal access to the same stuff, sure some tribal leader may get the "big bit of chicken" or first choice when it comes to games night, but there is not the inequality that exists in NK.
A snapshot of your computer with dd, pv and gzip - Part 1
'Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naïve, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them. No matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.'
The difference is that Linus resorts to such communication for a reason versus you doing this just to prove your point.
It's a hello world rest app. There is nothing interesting about it at all.
Your sources are a TV show and an ex-mormon?
This should be called "How a Trivial Fact Check Became a Hyperbolic Article".
Really dumb argument indeed.

DRM is evil. DRM is not made for the user but for companies that tries to protect an outdated business model. DRM is certainly a technology that should never make it to the HTML5 standard.

You write that not all DRM is bad. Can you come up with an example where DRM is "not bad"? I can come up with plenty of bad examples that hurts legit users more than the users that finds their way around the DRM.
I would argue that the order of declarations is part of the scoping rules. In your example the variable i is not yet in scope when the assignment is done, and thus the compiler complaints. But this is of course somewhat philosophical.

My first argument was that the order of statements is part of the lexical representation of code, and thus should effect the lexical scoping.
Not everyone is wired the same way right? Linus is being his way. If you are a polite person, you are not expected to swear around. Be polite and that'd be wonderful. The same goes for those who just aren't polite. Why expect them to fake it? Let them be themselves.
> the majority of my folks find Calc to be hard, very hard.

I'm not even a middle of the bell curve kind of student, going as far as being outright rejected from all of colleges I applied to. However, there is something I have learned over the years about learning hard topics:

First, dive in and be totally confused. It doesn't matter if you do not understand anything. Your brain will still start to form relationships from what you took in. Revisit the topic again in a week, a month, whatever seems appropriate. You will probably still have a lot of confusion, but the idea is to just refresh those aforementioned relationships. Take a period of time away from it again, and by the third time you visit the subject it will "magically" make sense.

But this does not really fit the traditional education model. If you try to revisit the topic in a couple of months, the course will probably be over. When you are directing your own learning, however, learning these hard topics really turns out to be not that difficult at all.
Can't wait for a code completion editor plugin based off of this API.. 20 requests per minute isn't too bad.
It's also possible that one person's "intense bullying" is another's "gee, I wish my bullying was that low-grade".
I personally hate the "corporate" style culture of being passive agressive, avoiding confrontations, being polite all the times and whatnot.

Agreed. If only that were what she's talking about:

To me, being "professional" means treating each other with respect. I
can show emotion, express displeasure, be direct, and still show respect
for my fellow developers.

For example, I find the following statement to be both direct and
respectful, because it's criticizing code, not the person:

"This code is SHIT! It adds new warnings and it's marked for stable
when it's clearly *crap code* that's not a bug fix. I'm going to revert
this merge, and I expect a fix from you IMMEDIATELY."

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/18/340

We're adults, not high schoolers. We can figure out how to deliver
harsh technical criticism without resorting to name calling, cussing at
people, or personal attacks.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/16/554

You are in a position of power. Stop verbally abusing your developers.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/15/427
Just because it's not a topic which is gender-related doesn't mean gender can't color your opinions of it.
Attitude is enough to be constructive.

When someone says something, replying "F*ck that" is as constructive as replying "I think there is a problem with your point". And it is really important when it comes to a critical area.

Being polite? Well, when things don't get messed up, yes. Otherwise, no. A polite vice-pilot is usually one of the main causes of a crash.
Be my guest but when you write the mandatory post don't single out Google as a link bait.
I wish I weren't a logician!
What would be a good alternative?
It is not. Five years ago we didn't have this crap. There is nothing redeemable about this besides it being a hello world rest app.
Oh, and what is Linus' reason, if not to prove his point? He pretty much outright says so: he thinks it's necessary to swear to get people to listen.
Modern unmanned aerial vehicles like the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 and the General Atomics MQ-1 cost in the millions. Cessna and helicopters do not.

Granted there are cheaper UAV out there, and generally its unlikely they could carry a payload sufficient for the level of surveillance necessary for traffic enforcement.

BTW - my intention isn't to advocate for drones, just to question the rationale of making a distinction between manned and unmanned surveillance, when in fact it might make more sense worrying about being aerial surveillance more generally.
> What can they trade ? [...] genomic studies

and interesting genes will be stolen from them and patented.
At which point a new technology will emerge that circumvents or masks the ban.
Which is where we currently live, so that's good.
They explain the rationale for selling in a couple blog posts. They were a really small company, only 3 or 4 guys. They didn't have any "PR bizspeak" people. They were profitable for 10 years but didn't have the resources to expand into business accounts. It sounded like the meeting with Opera people was kind of a fluke.
Apple Developer Site still down after more than a day
I actually agree with you, and normally I don't post them, but this is just so fragrantly not what HN is about and yet it is almost #1.
This is the worst (although power tripping cops are also pretty bad). Imagine you are driving 5~10 mph over the limit for a long time, distracted by life and generally unaware. How many tickets do you think you would get? You were never stopped and corrected, how were you supposed to know?

Given the tendency of some courts in the SF area to make you pay the ticket before you can contest it (read this somewhere, not sure 100% on truthfulness of it), this sounds like a nightmare shakedown scenario.
If you haven't seen the video of the House judiciary committee meeting: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/314032-1
> Genocide: ..any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

> (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

> It's definitely not literally genocide.

That is such an incomplete definition of genocide. No doubt genocide commonly is used to refer to physical violence, but cultural genocide is a real and well documented phenomenon. Pulling a dictionary definition of a large concept like this is insulting and is a farce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_genocide
Scala collections wizardry [SlideShare]
Quokka did some really amazing sites back in the day:

http://stamen.com/clients/quokka

I seem to recall them doing motorsports with tons of live data including biometrics of some of the drivers. Heart rate, etc.

I spent the dotcom boom years working for a sports startup that was initially called Pangolin during it's prelaunch phase. I assumed that was a homage to Quokka. Pangolin rebranded itself as Sportal before launching it's consumer sites.
She's equating verbal intimidation "don't do this ever again/this should not have happened" with advocating "physical intimidation and violence", or advocating "verbal abuse". On her blog, Sarah Sharp is "Standing up against verbal abuse".
I feel that this is just as un-helpful as telling people "if you can't take the heat, get back in the kitchen".

Let's start from the facts: LKML is (unlike Wikimedia, or Ubuntu, or other 'pleasant' places) fundamentally open, allowing everyone to open their mouth and potentially be heard. To make this possible, it's necessary for Linus and others to sharply rebuke those that do non-constructive things, be it well-intentioned or not.

The desiderata here are:
1) the rules of what is considered constructive or non-constructive should be such that really everyone can follow them.
2) the people whose authority is trusted should be able to sharply rebuke those doing "shouldn't happen" things in a clear ostentative way, but without the whole thing into verbal abuse. This is clearly a cultural issue, and I feel that some people take reasonable feedback as intentionally abusive, and some people produce abusive language because of a lack of "stop for 10 seconds and let it cool down" when they feel their domain of operation has been encroached upon.

Let's not make a war among cultural groups (be it male/female, small-town/big-town or whatnot, with the whole playbook of us-vs-them rhetoric creeping along) out of what should be a joint search for the culture and conventions that are most effective for solving the task at hand.
There's really no way to know that unless you work for Google. Some of the ads show up with a shaded background, maybe some of them don't?
It's called market saturation. Most people don't need hardware upgrades for facebook and shitty flash games.
> inspiration for Iron Man's playboy superhero Tony Stark

...except Iron Man was created eight years before he was born.
Another thing to note is that even if servers aren't located in US, data may be routed through there. Traceroute from my home connection (in India) to a Singapore IP looks like:

India -> US -> Japan -> US -> Japan -> Singapore

I'm not saying that the NSA has forced other countries to route their data through them. It could be due to several other reasons. But the main point is that it is hard to escape the NSA. Even if you do your best to keep your data away from the US, there are certain factors out of an individual's control (such as routing).
As the author of the original blog post, this is good to know. When I have some more time, I'll get around to contacting you if you're willing to do a similar interview.
We might see something amazing and new, then again maybe not.
Ask HN: Should I charge for a closed beta?
I'm about to finish an application that I've been developing for about a month, and I have a list of 2,000 qualified leads that are waiting for my application to be released.

My question is, should I charge for a closed beta? I feel like I shouldn't charge for a closed beta, but I also want to have a reward for my hard work, at least to break even with my expenses.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated!
I can't see this becoming a thing. Just like the author points out, how would users type these in. At best, special symbols will only be useful outside the domain portion, but they still can't be a good idea. The good part might be that anyone who tries this will fail hard when no one can get to their site.
These same incentives apply at elite institutions. Apparently ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_inflation#Harvard_Univers... ) the average GPA at Harvard in 2004 was 3.48.
Your wish has been granted.
White House We The Geeks, great opprotunity to ask about Spying
Communities can hold themselves to standards and people can try to convince each other that those standards are good.

It is SUPER telling that the only people that disagree with me have accounts that are younger than mine while the ones that agree with me have accounts that are older than mine.
Also, because mobile has less space for adword ads.
The dumb mistake of this article is assuming that all captured data all has to be analyzed hot off the wire. Obviously the data would be warehoused and indexed for specific searches later.
They raised the bar to something over 5000 karma or something.
YES! +1k.

> Some used Facebook as a forum to make rude comments from the relatively safe distance social media provides.
This is the sole purpose of facebook, as far as I can tell. Give a loudmouth a microphone and then try to ignore them as they shout as loudly as possible.

... and I reference the "Facebook experiment" article a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5811564
Right-hand-side gear pull-down menu: pick Settings.
Then see Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
Your knowledge of the results is not required. Talk to your congressional representative about that.
Disclaimer: I run an exchange

To do arbitrage, you need need the ability to move both BTC and USD between MtGox and BTC-E quickly. BTC is moved easily, at 6 confirmations (~1 hour) However, people are waiting up to 7 weeks to have their USD withdrawn (see Bitcointalk). Combined with lawsuits aimed at MtGox and lack of transparency, this leads to a situation where USD on MtGox is worth less than USD on BTC-E (or Bitstamp)
That's interesting but doesn't seem to be what she is responding to. She's overreacting to comments that are tongue in cheek

"Linus Torvalds is advocating for physical intimidation and violence." is her response to goofy comments about the physical size of the patch reviewer.
Wow what a great interface. Really great clean design and I like the fact that you've used two seperate btc exchanges. I think this tab will be pinned in my browser once I begin my new career as a bitcoin dealer on localbitcoins.com ;)
Pulse of the Alley – Sloane Barbour, Regional Director of Jobspring New York
My time! It's been wasted! Oh noes!
Angel Profile: Jason Klein
Throw a dice: if it's a 6 then he'll be a good team player. No, serious, it's really hard to know that beforehand, an interview with the right questions can help but luck is still involved.
That's an interesting question.

Maybe all politeness is fake to some degree (you're interfacing with someone by being nice regardless of what that person does), but we say "fake politeness" when you're spending a lot of energy to keep the politeness filter on.

Tell me if you have a theory about real vs fake politeness.
Perhaps you didn't understand my point.

Google could easily decide to serve ads to paying customers, and it seems likely that they've left this option open to exercise later.

The fact that they apparently "do not rely on ads" is irrelevant.

There are plenty of existent services that have revenue from customers, but still serve ads (visible examples include: pay-TV, public transport)
I never said that being outside of the US is safe, just that being in the US is known-unsafe.
Apple Reportedly Pays 'Tens of Millions' for Canadian Startup
How real is this and how accurate can it be?

Pure conjecture here, but if retailers are getting in on this jig is it safe to assume that local, state, or federal governments are doing this with public wifi ports? If I walk into a courthouse and my phone is searching for wifi am I tagged as being in the building? Would it be possible for government agencies at any level to subpoena this sort of information from retailers?
The article suggests "turning off wifi" so that stores can't track you. Is it really necessary to turn it off entirely, as opposed to just setting your devices not to join networks automatically? I'd think that the latter—which is the normal setting for many people—would be enough, although I could imagine that there would be a way to track even devices that are not connected. Fingers crossed that stores aren't getting that sophisticated.
I haven't had time to polish these, but would be interested in collaborating with someone to make something robust.

Automatic trader:

https://github.com/abrkn/margin

Common interface to several exchanges:
https://github.com/abrkn/hail

Margin would be very nice with more tests and state.
There's actually a number of different inbox layouts available in Settings.
ClojureScript Core.async Todos
Apple Dev Portal Still Down After Nearly 24 Hours
They're referring to the re-invented character from the recent Paramount Pictures films. He was their "model" that inspired the character.

That's what they say, anyways. Elon Musk isn't nearly as socially heroic as Tony Stark, he's a stuttering nerd. Not that that's a bad thing. He's a genius, but they're really nothing alike except for them both being overly ambitious and successful entrepreneurs.
Meh, it's not more unreadable unless you have issues understanding || in the first place... and "or" is still a boolean operation.

Considering 99.9% of it's use in PHP is some variant of "connect() or die()", I stand by my statement. Besides, those "connect() or die()" expressions are widely considered bad-practice in the first place.
Wow, that's impressive! I just couldn't imagine working that way, so thanks for clarifying.
Sure thing.

1. No principles at all. I know little about education. Since the time I started Isla, and since the time I joined Hacker School as a facilitator, I have been learning as much as I can.

2. It is not tied to any models.

3. I am aiming the language at children who are just learning to read and write. So, children between 5 and 8.

4. I don't know enough, yet, to know if Isla is better than LOGO or Alice.
> I saw this article, and my knee-jerk reaction was to look for whatever popular fad's proliferation on HN spawned it,

I dunno. Reliable backend technology should always be popular if you ask me ;-)

> What is the different strategy?

No strategy or it wasn't configurable. fix_alloc could just dole out fixed sized block and then never return them to the OS. It could be use for say storing atoms. So maybe it went from not having a strategy to having one.

Erlang has a set of allocators. Each one of them has a set of strategies and implementation of those strategies see from erts_alloc docs for more info.