skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's not because Americans are irrational

> One thing our society values highly is justice, and that often requires a disproportionately expensive response to an unjust act, and not solely to buy deterrence.

A disproportionate response of the kind seen on 9/11 is mind-blowingly irrational, even if you call it pursuing "justice".

If you are so in the pursuit of "justice" you inflict a worse injury to yourself than you originally suffered, I'm not sure I can call it "rational" behavior anymore.

Especially if you're not doing it for deterrent effect.
I've actually tried to do stuff like this before. Offers of skilled assistance from individuals seem to be refused or ignored. You're welcome to fill some soup bowls, though!
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Being gay seems as much a lifestyle choice as being straight or being lactose intolerant.
Why wouldn't it just be easier to track IMEI values? That doesn't change when you change the SIM card.
Feel free to show examples of said "well-define legal channels" which Snowden could have used to show the depth of NSA's activity as he did, where the discussion is open for public debate.

Also this has been going on for so long, why didn't anyone else from NSA use said well-defined legal channel to expose NSA activity or at-least put them up for scrutiny.

I can think of 3 reasons:

1) There is no well-defined legal channels to expose NSA illegal activity, to the extend Snowden did.

2) NSA only hires people who are morally corrupt.

3) NSA employees are genuinely concerned about their safety and well-being if they want to expose NSA.
Well, I guess the gain for your team was not the donation - as you admit by saying "I enjoyed the time". The case here is quite different though: The engineers did not package toys or serve food. They brought in expertise to make the whole process of packaging boxes and serving food faster - and with quite impressive results: Cutting down the packaging to ~ 1/20th of the original time is an efficiency gain, even if you hire minimum wage workers to do the job. Cutting the waiting time to 1/5th is a gain for everyone involved, the person waiting and the servers.
does that mean that I could suggest it to my clients as a viable alternative for receiving secure content I send via GPG/Enigmail?

Absolutely!

Also, thank you for building a Windows client.

To be honest, it was a bit outside of our comfort zone but we thought it was important. So, you're very welcome :)

I'm a little hesitant to sign up just yet, but I'll keep an eye on the project!

Awesome! Thanks bhauer. I totally understand your hesitation--it's still a very young, raw piece of software. Is that the only thing holding you back, or do you have other questions/concerns?
Or Devon. Dev for short.
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This is the main reason that the entire "product or tool recommendation" category is off-topic on Stack Overflow. Those types of questions invite that kind of spam.
Awesome. I remember when this came out and it was cool.

Thanks for sharing!
> What's your model, if you don't mind me asking?

Retainers, support agreements, platform hosting, template sales, and some simple SaaS stuff. And I just barely became an Amazon associate/affiliate now that one of my apps is picking up traffic, but we'll see how that goes vs. other types of advertising.
> Code is complex in the best of times...The Holy Grail of a visual, drag and drop environment that could create meaningful business value would have manifest years ago if it were possible or even desirable to do so. This latest attempt may end up having some limited utility for simple applications, but I'm beyond skeptical or pessimistic. This seems hopelessly naive to me.

Before Einstein showed up, most experts in the field of physics thought that they solved nearly all the major problems. It saddens me that the nascent field of CS is showing the same close-mindedness. I refuse to accept your claim that we must live with the complexity. My mom struggled with my Win Mobile 2003 smartphone. If Jobs had your attitude, she probably wouldn't be using one today. There are too many unexplored areas of CS for this defeatist attitude toward complexity.

That being said, I actually agree with most of your criticisms of visual languages on todays HW. But I have an open mind. Like what if the problem with visual languages is that they need a 3D display and a minority report/speech input for UI to resolve the spaghetti code readability issue and all your criticisms? Look at leap motion/Siri. These UIs are not that far off. See what I’m getting at?

I’m sure that with new ideas in HW and SW, we will be able to reduce the complexity of parallel programming. And even if Visual programming is a dead end, I’m thrilled to see people continuing to flush our this area. Call back hell is a real and present problem with JS, I welcome creative attempts to solve it like NoFlo.
1. I've been an caregiver for 20 years and love this idea. But there's no way I would engage any business that uses the f-word in their promotions. And believe me, I'm not the only one who feels this way, especially in this demographic.

2. My feedback, like much that I've give here in the past 6 years, was sincere. I hate to see a promising business shooting itself in the foot like this.

3. There's not much more "ignorant" that calling constructive feedback from a potential customer "ignorant".

4. If you're going to insult others here, the least you can do is identify yourself in your profile. Comments from anonymous posters like yours send contributors like me away and drive this site further into the toilet.

5. Don't say "Meh".
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> "I have news for you; every large company has been and is doing this type of astroturfing all over the internet for well over a decade now."

I'd have to agree, but Samsung's flavor of astroturfing is pretty gentle and benign compared to the viciousness of microsoft' attack dogs.
Are these the same economists that had NO IDEA that the crash in 2006 would happen? If so I think I've had quite enough of their opinions.
Wow. This looks incredible! I'm a backer now!
Happy to sign, but it would be nice if someone could have checked the spelling and grammar first. It makes the campaign look less serious.
It's feasible, with some training. The first time I have done this, I thought my legs were going to fall off the next day - kick scooter riding is more tiring than riding a bike. After about a week, I was able to do a 6 km commute on a scooter without a problem.
NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ
Didn't read the whole article, but lactose tolerance map seems very false to me. It suggests that in Ukraine and its vicinities tolerance should be about 50% (hard to distinguish those grayish colors). However nobody here really have an idea that somebody can not consume milk or cheese. I've been lightly shocked to make this discovery few years ago. Wikipedia suggests tolerance rate in sad territory should be at least 90%.
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COALESCE(LASTNAME, ''), how hard is that?
Nice to see some movement away from the 79 character limit. I've had to make some incredibly unreadable code in the past just to comply with it.
Vaguely related but we had a customer using some feature that split text blobs using a record separator. One time someone wanted to not split at all and set separator="none" without bothering to look up how to actually turn off record splitting. It worked well enough in quick tests, but by the time we'd gotten the support call, they'd corrupted a massive database where every product with a description containing the string "none" was now corrupted.
It's not real.

1. They don't show up in black SUV's.

2. The FBI will ALWAYS be there. (NSA/CIA/Men In Black/etc cannot physically interact with american citizens on US soil)

3. They don't show up in plain cloths.

4. They would have showed up with a SWAT team.
Well, beware sampling bias. As best I can tell, the tech crowd has very different opinions on these issues than the population at large, and it can be easy to fall into the trap of "most young people think this way" when it's actually "most young people with six-figure salaries at technology companies think this way".
Obama meets lawmakers as anger grows over NSA surveillance program
A. He published the email himself, in a comment on a public blog post.

B. Whatever the forum, this sort of astroturfing is undermining discourse. Yes, it's particularly out of place on SO but it'd be equally bad on XDA (where they don't even need it! Samsung have such a huge following over there that it's almost a religion!) To me, these people need to be called out on it. They need to understand that underhanded tactics will not be tolerated and I stand by every decision in this case so far (explicit or implied).
There is surface advice, which addresses the high level problem at hand. You got into an ivy league - make the most of it. Learn CS, math, philosophy and whatever else interests you.

Then there is the root problem, which is depression. There is no rational advice about "suck it up and go back to school" that will help here. Your problem is uniquely yours, but you are not the only one to feel it. It is a chemicals in the brain problem, not a willpower issue. Depression hits smart people more than dumb people. (Shouldn't it be the other way around?) If you can't go to your parents, do be aware that most Ivy League caliber schools do have strong support networks if you look around.

If you want to talk, create and post a dummy email address and I'll shoot you my contact info.
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Chinese scalpers booking up all Genius Bar appointments and selling online
This is for a smartphone PIN code. Are you suggesting a separate second factor to the physical phone itself?
Not sarcasm. Yes, supplies are one of those first things as well, but I've been to plenty of charities to note that when things get overwhelming (and it's very easy to get to that point, even before they realize that's what's happening because they're so busy with other things), they need outside consultants ASAP.

Often times, bookkeeping and organization become some of the biggest chores when a charity that gets big. It's quite something to watch someone manage a charity with just a bunch of Excel sheets, but I've seen that in action.
And yet weirdly, Appleinsider, the source of the alleged debunking, regularly publishes very similar estimates.

Obviously they started doing so when Apple was far in the lead, they'll probably stop after the latest one, which shows that Samsung has now caught up and is only three percentage points behind after closing a gap of 40 percentage points in the last 3 quarters:

"Apple takes 53% of smartphone profits, Samsung at 50%, remainder lose money"

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/07/31/apple-takes-53-of-...

Amusingly, they refer to this as "the latest data to refute a recent claim that Samsung Electronics had dethroned Apple, Inc., in mobile profits." because Samsing being 3, 2 or 1 percentage points behind is so completely different from them being 1, 2 or 3 ahead (and remembering we're talking about estimates here) that it warrants not one but two rants from Appleinsider and John Gruber questioning people's morals and professionalism.
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man they got this girl riding around in circles on one foot, you can't do that?
Percona celebrates its 7th-year by giving back to open source
Is US Administration seeking peace or obedience from rest of the world?
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damn, i was so late!
I don't know if that's necessarily true. The downtown of the small city where I grew up was destroyed by a simultaneous flood and fire and most of the downtown businesses simply disappeared forever. Many small businesses are in economically tenuous positions and a catastrophic event will wipe them out. This causes all the employes to lose their jobs, and a chain reaction to other small businesses who relied upon the destroyed businesses. Applied to NYC scale, suggesting the job loss numbers mean "direct" unemployment in this sense seems reasonable to me, but I could be wrong.
My takeaway from this presentation:

- To achieve instruction-level parallelism, traditional architectures (his example: Haswell) often employ very messy techniques like register renaming which create a huge amount of complexity increasing power-consumption.

- He has focused on one such technique called Very Long instruction word (VLIW), and has taken it to an extreme: the technique he proposes is to throw away general purpose registers, and replace it with a "belt": a write-once linear tape of memory (implemented using stacks).

- He then points out various advantages of this model, including in-order execution (ILP traditionally requires reordering), short pipeline, and overall simplification of architectures.

All this looks fine on paper, but I don't see a proposed instruction set, or any indication of what realization of this model will require. In short, it's a cute theoretical exercise.

So, let's look at what the unworkable problems with Haswell are, and what's being done to fix them. Yes, nobody can seem to be able to figure out how to reduce power consumption on performant x86 microarchitectures beyond a point. It's a very old architecture, and I'm hopeful about the rise of ARM. The solution is not to throw away general purpose registers, but rather to cut register renaming and make ILP easier to implement by using a weak memory model (which is exactly what ARM does). ARM64 is emerging and the successes of x86 are slowly percolating to it [1]. Moreover, the arch/arm64 tree in linux.git is 1.5 years old and is under active development; we even got virt/kvm/arm merged in recently (3 months ago), although I'm not sure how it works without processor extensions (it's not pure pvops). ARM32 already rules embedded and mobile devices, and manufacturers are interested in taking it to heavy computing. In short, the roadmap is quite clear: ARM64 is the future.

The core of the Linux memory barriers model described in Documentation/memory-barriers.txt [2] (heavily inspired by the relaxed DEC Alpha) should tell you what you need to know about why a weak memory model is desirable.

[1]: http://www.arm.com/files/downloads/ARMv8_Architecture.pdf

[2]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
Being gay is not the issue, the issue is people not marrying or having kids and dedicating their lives to it because they see other people not doing the same. Thinking that's normal is good for the individual, but not good for a society. US is doing fine in that regard, but Russia is not, population is declining, people are not marrying or having kids as much as they did before, and lifestyle propaganda is one of the few things the state can do.
"The guns are not to be used against you unless you are violent."

Not true. When you are complying because a gun is present, you fear that gun. There for it is being used.

"You imply you obey laws only because there are men with guns. "

Which implies the specific law may be wrong.

"This indicates you will use violence to avoid obeying laws. "

This indicates that you don't believe in opposing unjust laws, and shooting any one who disagrees.

"That is why I need protection from you."

Or from you.
To the best of my knowledge, the "Fuck these scammers" statement does not appear officially anywhere on their website -- it was something that was said casually in an interview.

Let me ask you this: do you use Facebook? Because Zuckerburg doesn't just call "bad people" (scammers, thiefs) names, he calls the users of his own site "dumb fucks". [1]

There are greater injustices happening elsewhere in the world right now, save your indignation and outrage for them.

[1]: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
I am sorry if this comment spark off any other pointless debate and argument or offended any Apple Fan boys or Samsung Fan boys.

But the truth is, pretty much every company does this.. except Apple.

Ans Samsung are at the top of this game. They are number 1 in spending on advertising and they spend double the advertising budget compared to 2nd in place. ( And their Rate are pretty awesome too compared to others )

You see heavy advertising on a Newspaper from Samsung? Lots of bashing and irresponsible reporting while bending the truth on Apple. Coincidence? You should make up your own mind.

Compared to all other dirty thing that Samsung does behind the scene, these things are really tips of the iceberg.
I've had an opportunity to try this contraption (or something remarkably similar) and this problem is academic: it's very much unlike a bike, but you'll learn how to stop and dismount without falling off, very quickly (haven't really tried whether I could stop w/o dismount, as I've played with it for a few minutes at most). It's similar to unicycles in this respect (note how in the videos, users ride back and forth a little bit, instead of coming to a complete stop).
It takes some real special reasoning to spin an explosion of personal income tax collections, which necessarily indicate massive increases in standard of living, as something negative or as a "burden" imposed on individuals by corporations.
A large part of the response is irrational fear, true, a good example of salience bias. That said, there is a rational argument as well, and that is that terrorism has two special features:

- High variance : Even though deaths to date are low, there is a non-zero chance that someone will manage to pull off a very large attack (9/11 is an example, the next one might be a dirty bomb)

- Escalation : The point of terrorism is to create fear - if low level attacks don't promote fear the incentive is just to escalate until the attacks reach a point that does trigger a reaction. In other words - you're battling a human opponent and they will adjust their tactics to what you do.
Or issue more gun permits to lawful, trained gun owners so that citizens can intervene when help is needed, and don't have to wait for the police to arrive.
Yeah that always bugs me too.
And are you looking for a direct employment of someone from europe or a contractor agreement? it is my understanding that it's quite a bit of paperwork for US companies if they have no local branch in a memberstate of the european union.

i'm asking because it sounds interesting (and i'm german ;) ) and i'm looking for a new gig as a software developer right now.
Of course both of you were already thoroughly beaten by SO's own comments.
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Brilliant! Is this actually illegal? I don't own any Apple products and have never booked a Genius Bar appointment so I don't know the terms of that booking. Maybe there is something in the fine print that your appointment is non-transferable? I wish the article went into more details about if this is illegal or just frowned upon. My gut tells me it is a loop hole that Apple will either change... or not care about. :)
Ok. So what's the source of your knowledge about morality? You cannot refer to laws because you may disagree with some of them. Which principle do you use to find out when government is doing right and when it is doing wrong?

Also: why would you turn in police some people, but not your friends and family? It sounds to me that your morality is not universal at all, but just a whim. E.g. "I'm okay to kick people I dislike and not okay kicking people I like".
It's important to differentiate when people are complaining about the language and it's use, and how effective it is. Almost nobody criticizes PHP performance (relative to other scripting languages), whether not not it is technically faster or slower than another language. Then, even a good portion of the criticisms of the language come with the caveat that it does let you get simple stuff done quick.

My main problem with PHP is that I'm primarily a Perl dev (but have done some heavy PHP work in the past), and it's syntax is just close enough to make me always aware of how unintuitive it is in comparison, and all the extra steps I have to take to accomplish something simple. It's maddening.
In the country of Henry Ford, it's sad that it took Toyota to do this.
Just the other day I was looking at some embedded SoC which had some data structures for setting up various GPIOs and pins and such, it was something like:

struct gpio_config {
uint8_t func;
uint8_t options;
uint32_t *loc;
};

struct gpio_alloc {
struct gpio_config pins[4];
struct gpio_alloc *next;
};

struct gpio_alloc fsmc_1 = {
...
};

All the pre-initialization stuff (which was being stored in flash so it was really read-only data) was code I realized not a lot of people wrote in C these days.
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At first reading, I was wondering is this a think piece or is it real. Based on her twitter account, it appears it is real: "You don't believe my story? Ask any of my followers about my credibility. Then kiss my ass. Thanks." https://twitter.com/inthefade/status/362890947165564928
What do you guys think?
Either way, it won't be corporate subsidies.
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Are his initial M. T.?
The future is hybrid. Source code will become non-textual in storage and VCS, but our editors (code lenses) will remain looking and feeling like text editors.

(The danger in trying to invent a next-gen non-plaintext programming environment is the siren song of flow charts, mouse-only editors, XML serializations, and other dead ends.)
Toyota is the Ford of the world lately.
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Do you know if this is because they don't know how to handle that, or because it would step on people's toes (giving volunteers power over presumably-paid staff), or because they're afraid of legal issues (suppose the volunteer bookkeeper gets something wrong), or some other reason?
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