skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I'm obviously communicating my argument poorly then.

Shorter version of my argument: "How dare you tell other people's parents to change the way they treat them - publicly in an interview?" Some parents might discipline their children more harshly than others. If I went to tell the press about how a parent gave their child a smack for doing something stupid, I'd say that would be very rude to that parent. Linus isn't killing anybody here - he's shouting at people who fucked up, and telling his staff to be more rude in sending away bad patches.

If she went to the press or the press came to her feels very irrelevant. She chose to answer in an interview she knew would be very public - she started this on a very public mailing list.
Does Google favor sites they fund through Google Ventures?
Drones are the new Gods; in more ways than one it would seem (watch everything/arbiters of life and death/random collateral damage).

I remember that when I was a kid, adults would always tell me not to do anything wrong, lest I incur God's or Santa's wrath, and that they were watching my every move, every minute, of everyday. Which was complete bullshit, and struck me as extremely creepy behavior at the time, but that's besides the point.

I guess it's time for the adults to watch out now, because the drones are coming, and they can see (and kill) everything.

The robots are, or rather will be, watching you; so you better be nice, because ARGUS (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5273000) has a kill list (http://www.infowars.com/colbert-warned-he-may-be-on-governme...), and it won't won't be checking it twice (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6061816). Robot Santa Claus is coming to town (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AizNTA3q7Fk).

Welcome to the future, kiddies.

Transcript for people too busy to watch the video:

> He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're on the can, he'll hunt you down and blast your ass from here to Pakistan. Oh, you'd better not breathe, you'd better not move, you're better off dead, I'm telling you, dude. Santa Claus is gunning you down!

From here to Pakistan huh? Wasn't Futurama prescient. Merry Xmas everybody.
Why does it have to be fake politeness? Why can't we have real politeness?
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Does this notice, found at the end of the article, imply it is illegal to post the article on HN? Or is it ok since we are redistributing the link and not the article itself?
Reason.tv (Reason magazine's video site) post videos from shows that their staff / contributors appear on. It has been interesting seeing the number of times RT has shown up. Weird world where libertarians appear on Russian owned media.
One of the correct, but subtle analogies with Ruby is that in times prior to 1.8.x there was nothing, but reference implementation. For the question "define what is Ruby?" the answer was "this MRI".

The differences between, say, Scheme and CL are few and subtle - #' and funcall syntax, behavior of nil, etc. all the foundational special forms and general function application rule are the same.

Of course, CL is a much bigger language, but all its features never broke the basis on which everything is founded - a few special forms, list structure, general evaluation rule with exceptions only for these special forms, each of which follow its own rules.

Most of CL's features are macros and libraries, so they do enrich the base language, without breaking it up.
I Am A Sponge
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>if they only mention aggregators, thats half a demerit

This is silly. Aggregators let the quality articles rise to the top. It's a much more efficient use of your time (assuming you don't become addicted). These are exactly the type of totally arbitrary, no signal producing filters that people need to get away from.
"Keep showing up" is huge. But it's not equivalent to luck. Many people here are talking about how most startups succeed due to luck, and I don't think that is true.

We've been working on product for a very long time, and things didn't start to click until we started being social and talking to others in the industry, helping others out and getting helped out.

Much of the sharing that took place around our products came out of a few new relationships with others. We made an effort to meet new people, so I wouldn't exactly call that luck...

The more we show up, and participate, including writing...the more traction we get. It's amazing how easy it's been once some momentum kicked in!
The fuck do you mean, which is it? Those are two different fucking things, dipshit.

The fucking topic is whether communication on the KML should be a bunch of stupid assholes giving each other shit. The topic has nothing to do with fucking gender. She's just saying (as is obvious to anyone with a BRAIN) that who she is as a person influences her opinion on the topic.

Get it now, dumbass?

[this has been an example of how Linus would like us to talk on the KML]
One great use for this would be to search for known vulnerable code and then get people to patch it.
That's not really what I was getting at though.

Let's say I don't think the NSA has backdoored all the mainstream fablines, but have reason to fear being individually targeted, and assume that the NSA has the power to coerce cooperation from Intel. In that case, would skepticism of post-purchase remote patching not be prudent?
I'd much rather the drone monitor things and just give me a ticket in the mail than a potentially power tripping cop.
Sometimes a little politics goes a long way. You can always be grateful someone is taking their time to contribute to a project even if they're not particularly good at it yet. Version control and branching means things don't have to be implemented immediately or at all.

If there's not a lot of good, I was assuming perhaps it was one part of his contribution, but if there isn't any good at all then how about "Thanks for contributing but in order to be an effective member of the team you're really going to need to work on X, Y, and Z. Unfortunately we cannot commit your patch to the code repository until this is the case. If you do work on X, Y, and Z though you should be at a point where you can contribute to quite a wide variety of areas within this project and will be a quite a valued member! We need people like you with dedication. And don't worry about it, if you look at version 0.a.b you'll see I made a bunch of the same mistakes!"

If you have the time to dole out harsh criticism of someones patch you can't take the time to provide a helpful comment instead of an overtly negative one? "Oh I spent all this time reviewing your code and it sucks." is better to you than taking the what, ten or fifteen minutes to compose a quality reply? I understand the top tier linux manager's time is valuable. But if you can tell the code is wrong, then give reasons for why it is wrong, tell them you can not commit until those reasons are corrected, and do so in a polite manner. In addition, by providing resources, you make your own job easier as the quality of patches continues to improve in quality, you retain talent, and foster new talent within the software community.

If you don't want to provide resources then perhaps a "Hey, if you have any questions trying to work through X, Y, and Z try to contact me here although you'll get far quicker responses on irc.freenode.net #linux".
Then we can never convince each other of anything! But, since we know people convince each other of things routinely, the original premise P is a contradiction, therefore not P.

I'm glad we agree, let's go for drinks.
Huawei spying for Chinese govt, former CIA chief says
What If Snowden's Laptops Hold No Secrets?
And Dave will claim to be the father of FOP.
What's the difference between using a manned aircraft and an unmanned aircraft to do speed enforcement?
I love this and I think it's beautiful. Removing a lot of the symbols will make it far less scary and "techy". I'd really like to see it develop.
I don't personally mind your tone, but your message has no content. If you read any of the 'insulting' posts by Linus, you'll see they're insulting for a reason: someone messed up badly, and he always explains exactly where and how.
If you really want to know if a (otherwise qualified) developer will fit into your team you should do contract-to-hire. Anything less is a guess. Every team is different, every need is different and every candidate's experience is different. Assuming you can ask a magical question or two and know is the realm of psychics.
Where else would a behavior come from if it weren't purely molecular? The reason for a behavior might be that it is from a random mutation that even survived by random chance.
A secret folder full of Facebook messages, called Other.
What is the point when you are sending and receiving unencrypted email anyway...
I really like to read comments that start off with "Linus should do this and Linus should do that, he should be more accommodating, he should stop swearing, he shouldn't be so offensive, etc."

NO! It's perfectly fine to bring up an issue like this on a mailing list, private conversation or anywhere else... What is not fine, is still beating a dead horse when Linus says that he will not change. Who do these people think they are to tell someone else to change? Seems rather arrogant and offensive, doesn't it?
I suspect most of [EDIT: many?] HN readers breezed through calculus using nothing but free online resources. With zero attitude, I say that I am truly impressed. I wish I was that amazing of a student.

I followed the more typical educational path of taking calculus in college. Some of it was easy, some of it was hard, but I seriously doubt that I would have been self-motivated enough to go through the entire sequence of calculus course material on my own. The pressure induced by being part of an in-person class, for a grade, and not for free, made me feel like I had to learn the material, and avail myself of whatever resources I needed, be it asking questions of the professor, going to tutoring sessions, reading extra books, whatever, to make sure that I learned it.

I totally wish I was so self-motivated that I could learn absolutely anything at any breadth and at any depth without any external reason to do so. But on my own, there are limits to what I make myself study. Which isn't to say that I'm stupid on my own, but rather, I appreciated the in-person college experience mainly for applying pressure on me to learn things that I wouldn't have otherwise. (And as a result, I did become more inclined to study broader and deeper on my own.)

In my cursory experience with MOOCs thus far, I don't see them applying that same pressure. Maybe they can; I'm not sure. But unless they do, I think that a lot of people (especially outside of HN, etc.) will find value in actually going to school.
There has actually been a ton of overlap code-wise. Also, we wanted to be able to cross-promote the products which has worked incredibly well, building both audiences simultaneously. Most of our focus is on Minimalytics, but HookFeed is moving very quickly as well due to the overlap.

I would recommend it if the two products are similar.

Also, we have the choice to context-switch and work on what we are most passionate about on any given day.
There is a fundamential principle of programming that I think most failed programmers can't wrap their head around at that is GIGO. When you start typing words, most people will have trouble with the rigorous and literal interpretation of words that are normally far more expressive and nebuluous when shared with people instead of computers. And, if I may step way out on a limb, this is especially difficult for women and seems to be a major tripping point for women who are otherwise more than bright enough to be good programmers. I think that Isla seems to be usable for any minimally literate kids (like 6 years old) and can impart GIGO while being really simple and fun. It's not a replacement for BASIC, but it can be seen as a stepping stone to it.
Some Windows apps will never run on Wine due to the scope of the emulation, but you might someday run them on ReactOS which uses Wine and takes over where Wine stops.
I saw a pair, the one sign said "Speed Checked by RADAR" and the drone one said "Speed Enforced By Aircraft". The one I saw had been hand painted over the regular sign. I thought it was quite funny, wondered if it broke some law. Clearly it does which is understandable I suppose.

But what about those signs that say "Speeders are Losers" in various neighborhoods, are they too subject to citation?
Easy setup for A/B Testing with nginx, Clojure + Compojure
This is my blog article. I am hoping to get suggestions for improvements, possible problems with this approach, etc.
Well... Jim Hefferon wrote this fairly popular textbook on linear algebra for one... http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/
Yes. Google Apps business model, and all Google Enterprise products for that matter, do not rely on ads for revenue. Google sells their business customers a product and generates revenue through those sales. The TOS protects your data.
Not to be rude, but "doing fine but they weren't able to grow" sounds like PR bizspeak for "unable to sustain themselves". It isn't like Opera is a company that can really grow Fastmail when they haven't even done that with their browser. I don't see how you could particularly trust Fastmail to be around for an extended period when they were recently sold to company few would consider stable and healthy.

Then again, I don't really see the point of not using Fastmail as long as you can export your stuff.
Assuming perfect accuracy, how many people would it take aiming standard laser pointers at Cassini during the imaging to noticeably impact the resulting image?
Why?

I think they got desktop computing pretty much spot on. It's ubiquitous, cheap, reliable and good enough.

People aren't buying stuff because they're pretty happy with what they've got.

And 4k on the desktop? Fuck I really don't care if it's a 1280x800 or 1920x1080 display still.
A link is merely a way to direct someone's attention to something someone else has posted online. Sharing a link, unless it is a link specifically generated for an individual who licensed a copy of something and got a unique link to obtain it at, is not a copyright violation.
The important phrase is "This material". A link is no more "the material" than a phone number is a conversation.
Microsoft Excel. It is better to budget using a hacked-up spreadsheet that matches your workflow, than to have no budget at all.

Also, it is installed just about anywhere, is very powerful yet easy to learn, allows advanced charting/visualization, and is easy to customize to your heart's content.
Learning a CSS preprocessor language. Why?
One of my favorite things about The H is (was) that it always seemed to have a handle on how many news stories to run. Many of my RSS feeds (I'm looking at you, Ars) get skimmed simply because of volume. With the H, I generally at least peek at the article for each story. Other news sites come and go from my feeds (since for high-volume feeds it seems like the most important stories will bubble up through other, less chatty aggregators), but I always kept the H around due to the fact that it seemed to consistently run stories I couldn't find anywhere else.

This is sad news.
The thing is that there will always be people who have different thresholds for what is abusive, what is polite, etc. For example, here in Rome swearing is very common and isn't usually considered abusive if it isn't directed to a the person.

Example: "For fucks sake, why the hell did you name that variable X instead of Y, as our naming conventions say?" is not polite, but it's a critic directed at what you did, not what you are. On the other hand "I'm beginning to think that you're never going to be able to follow our naming conventions. You probably just aren't good enough" sounds polite, but it's really a demeaning personal attack. What's more abusive?
Human memory, conversation with computers, and just in time knowledge
Content producers will have to continue to rely on expensive, private video technology/DRM stacks such as Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Media Server.

Whereas with EME you'll have to license PlayReady and Widevine and maybe FairPlay.
As to these ads you're so troubled by: (...)

Yeah, those are good arguments to avoid using Twitter and Facebook as well.
It's probable that you had stronger psychological fortitude in the first place than many people. Not everyone comes to the feel-control realization on their own, some require intense relearning (therapy, counselling, etc.) to figure it out. Many people never make the connection.
Money on the mind - PBS New hour.
The Airplane test: imagine sitting next to this person for 8 hours on an airplane. If your first reaction is "No thank you!" then your team will feel the same about working with them.
The article talks about reductions in extreme poverty, that is living on less than $1.25 a day. Note that doesn't really address wealth disparity, only that more people, esp. in China, are living with higher income.

However, this change doesn't make any statements about increasing equality for different economic classes nor does it talk about sustainability of a lowering extreme poverty rate. It also doesn't talk about various aspects about living just above that extreme poverty line or the challenge facing those people not living in places like China that have seen a big economic boom and are not likely to.
We worked together at an agency for 2 years prior, she was Project Manager, I was a developer. That's actually where we met.

When it came time to decide whether or not we should work together, we weren't really worried about it.

It's turned out amazingly well. But we can handle being around each other ALL DAY most days. That won't work for everyone, I guess.

But I'm glad I didn't blindly avoid it based on the advice of the masses (which is usually wrong/naïve).

:-)
Scale and cost. You can't have hundreds of thousands of manned aircraft watching everything - it's too expensive. You can have drones do it though. Especially if their cameras work like the recent ARGUS demonstration (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5273000).
Sounds like the intense bullying you suffered damaged you. You think of this as a good thing; many others would not.
This could have been handled privately I think. She could have privately said "Linus, I understand you don't like my code but I would appreciate if you wouldn't use foul language".It seems to me she played the victim card. But whether or not Linus cussed at her, her code probably still sucks.
Not sure your OS but if you're running anything with a decent shell (eg Linux, BSD, or Mac OS X) you can do this all from the command line. You should be able to do the majority of what you want with a combination of find/while/sed/mv. If the old-to-new naming scheme is too complicated for sed then replace it with a awk/perl/python/ruby.

If you're relatively new to using the command line to do things like this (I'm guessing yes) make sure to backup your documents first. It's very easy to accidentally delete/rename all your files with a couple typos (but don't let that scare you off from learning).
Technical progress depends on getting people to be unhappy with what they have because theres something new that is genuinely better.
I can only agree with this, very sad...
Who cares if their civilization is 65,000 years old or 2,000 years old. They have clearly indicated, as a matter of their own free will, that they are not interested in our big ships, little ships, helicopters, cameras, or anything else they've seen of us. So why do WE have some moral authority or responsibility to show them "what they're missing". Your perspective is relative to your own life. In order to "inform" them of their options we'd have to basically invade their space, go against their free will, and would probably extinguish most of the population in the process. Once again, as the OP said... LEAVE THEM ALONE!
Age 5-7 I spent figuring out to get sprites and music to work on a Commodore 64 that had no commands for it - it was all "POKE"'s to various memory locations. I was by no means unique for my generation, or even my class.

There's a huge number of us that are evidence that non-custom languages that were massive pains to program are easy enough for children to get started with.

Does Ruby, Python and Scheme have dark corners that are harder to understand than BASIC? Sure. Just like my C64 had all kinds of secrets I couldn't figure out by myself by POKE'ing randomly around at that age.

But I'd hazard a guess that most children will be mature enough at some point between 5 and 10 to be able to pick up the basics of pretty much any reasonably "normal" language if they have the motivation to try (for me it was seeing my dad program a simple game and wanting to be able to do the same thing). I'd hate to dumb it down unnecessarily.
When I read that it really seems one step away from:

"Hello John, we recently received your contribution. It is clear you are aligned with our goal of leveraging core-competencies of a diverse group of synergistic A-players in our problem space. Your algorithm is proactive but we need it aligned to the specific performance/memory axis to support the rest of the product synergies. Sarah is a fantastic and robust resource that is empowered to impact this area of the value-add proposition. If you need to plug into any further best of breed enablement engines, please do as we are committed to our future-shapers building their capabilities to their fullest potential."
Specifically what problem(s) are you trying to solve?

I'm writing a language that uses = for assignment and == for equality comparison. However, expressions and statement are syntactically separate, so that using the wrong symbol is always a syntax error.
On the contrary, they take advantage of this kind of behavior to ensure that he sees their ads. It's a problem they created and exacerbate for their own profit.

This is the whole point of 'gamification.' Dropping a number back down to zero is a form of this.
They're part of the Andamanese people, of which there is data (from the surrounding islands described in the article you read). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andamanese

Also, if it's no one's call to determine whether they leave or not, why would it be anyone's call to unilaterally interject into their society? Besides, I figure if some of those people do really want to leave, they can set up camp near the beach/wreck unarmed (probably at the risk of civil war, but hey, it's their call). One of us will probably notice eventually.

And to build on that, if you really want to give them free choice, rather than going into their island to forcibly "enlighten" them, build them a removed, but easily reachable dock in the reef/wreck or something like that. From there you can do all sorts of things. A mini library, a vessel, etc. Though I wonder if any of them have even bothered to explore the extant wreck.
I think it's horrible, what has been seen cannot be unseen.
Bitcoin Gambling Company SatoshiDice Sold for $11.5 Million
Your comments seem entirely premised on the patch being "complete rubbish". If that is not true (and, there's nothing in the GP's comment to indicate otherwise), and actually "there's a lot of good there", why should the maintainer not be grateful to John?
Why do you think the symbols are "scary and techy" to children?
If true, then there is clearly no real balance of powers in the US; PRISM clearly violates the original spirit of the 4th amendment.

If noone is standing up for the constitution anymore, then the legislature + executive have taken control.