skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh.

Firstly: Yeah, you should be aware of what things cost and what benefit you get from them. Yeah, be prepared. And, yeah, think about the world in which you live and the other people you share it with. If you really want something, make a plan to get it. The words that describes these are "thoughtful" or "responsible," not "sociopathic." (Disrupting academic conferences and acting obnoxious on airplanes -- that's what we call "childish.")

What bothers me here, though, is that it feeds into this dipshit notion I keep running into that in order to be successful you have to be some kind of self-centered asshole. "Yeah, well Steve jobs would yell at people to their face when they said something he thought was stupid." Yeah, well for every asshole Steve Jobs, there are a million assholes no one wants to have anything to do with.

This woman, for example: she sounds awful. I'm sure she thinks she's some awesome-sauce lion-tamer of the universe, wielding her wiles and "remarkably beautiful breasts" like a ninja and slicing her way through life. The people who have to deal with her on a regular basis probably see right through her, roll their eyes, and try to leave her out of their lives as much as possible because whenever they invite her to a dinner party she makes a huge annoying scene and then steals a bunch of food from the fridge.
I think the real wtf was testing in production. At least their lab now has an environment to do their qa on.
I wonder what the privacy implications are of having a remotely-updatable module inside every phone. Can carriers break encryption this way? Or otherwise snoop on users?

Yes they can snoop on the users, but they can do that now, without any changes to the radio firmware on the phone. The modem can't really do anything without the carrier's network.

If you mean spying on users by surreptitiously turning on the microphone, that's something where you want to control the phone's application processor rather than the modem firmware. Mostly because modern phone architectures have the microphones connected to the app processor instead of directly to the modem as in the feature-phone days (like a few years ago). Modern phones have sophisticated echo and noise reduction and use multiple microphones for that. And the audio is now used for other applications (like Skype or video recording) so it makes sense to hook up the microphones to the app processor instead.
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This man gets it. I liked the article until the examples. They felt like something out of a gossip magazine rather than someone who has a "bloodless rationality"
It's a very good alternative and I'm very that more of the best-of-breed payment providers are expanding outside the US/Canada.

There's also the German Stripe clone, Paymill. Also, not every country is heavy on credit/debit cards (think, Poland, Japan, etc) and Adyen is able to support all kinds of local payment methods.
losethos provides a certain amount of entertainment every so often ... the guy wrote his own OS, with his own compiler for his own language. Sure he is weird, and has his quirks, but I have to give him credit for what he has achieved.
I'm not eating about any deficit eating, but normal eating. And high protein is not always a good idea. Everybody doesnt have the same needs. Also there can be long term effect, some of which are still being studied. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/high-protein-diets/AN00847
A better quadcopter.
And I tend to agree with his point of view...
Didn't mean to come off so accusatory. I had simple open in another tab at the time and thought it was weird that the sign in link had changed text before I realized what was going on :)
Also, there is a growing cadre of people who specialize in data visualizations. What title suits someone who does primarily data visualizations? I also, for example, consider myself a storyteller—though I spend my time coding stories—on the web. Is there such a thing as web storyteller? What's the correct title here?
It used to be a few extra weeks! Quite a few years ago I was buying an expensive (for me) watch in the UK. I asked if they took Amex, they said "yes". "What's it worth to use my bank card" I asked. I think they may have got a little flustered but the difference was £150 on an amount near £1000. It was the only real benefit I got out of having that card for about 15 years.
How is an economic relationship between two independent entities with complete freedom of action for both independent entities best described as "inherently authoritarian" ?
If you look around a bit you'll find a lot of people who are rather bearish on democracy as practised in the first world west - professional politicians with no real world experience, being voted in by the cynical, uninformed masses, propagandised by bought and paid for mass media. Democracy has collided with the middle class and a free press concerned only with their own interests and come off second best - bitter, entrenched political paralysis at best. Like unions, it was a wonderful idea at the time, but now the cure is basically worse than the disease.

Frankly, the age of democracy is over, and we now have the age of the permanent civil service. The good news is, it is almost certainly an improvement. China, Japan and Singapore are run exclusively by their civil services (democracy in the latter two is an irrelevant sideshow), and they are run much better than most western countries, or at least with more long term strategy. In fact, pretty much everything wrong with Japan can be blamed on the idiot government trying to save face by not admitting reality. The USA would be pretty well served, IMO, by taking control of budget away from congress and giving it to - well, almost anyone. The GAO, maybe. The Fed, the SEC, the commerce dept, anyone, so long as they're not elected. Being accountable to the electorate turns out to be the worst idea ever for people who are actually trying to do their jobs. It means never being able to admit you're wrong.

I don't mind if they keep parliament/congress around for show but they're going to go the way of the Queen of England - a figurehead, kind of a sounding board for the people, a super-ombudsman. A hundred years from now we're going to look back and wonder how we ever could have been so mad to think that giving politicians the reigns of power could ever have been a good idea.
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Why is it that when we are talking about a "functioning" psychopath, we use the term "sociopath" but reserve the word "psychopath" for "crazy guy who kills without remorse"? Sugar coating by using a term (that is generally not used in the research world) confuses the issue even more than it already is in the diagnostic criteria.

Hopefully we'll get some better diagnostic criteria in the future so that we can get away from these pop-culture articles that attribute "sociopathy" to everyone who just happens to be a dick.
I don't believe that a country can become an economic superpower whilst still being an undemocratic dictatorship. If I had to bet I would say some sort of internal unrest or revolution would derail China's attempt.
One title I found interesting recently was Rasmus Lerdorf's (creator of PHP.) He is a 'Distinguished Engineer' at Etsy (http://lerdorf.com/resume/)
Wow. I'm really not sure if I'm going to renew my economist subscription. Things like this make me wonder if the paper is dumbing itself down. I haven't been a reader for long enough to know, but I don't want to pay $100+ for a subscription if this kind of crap is what I'll be getting.
I would not put every Lisp implementation into the context of a Lisp Machine with a Lisp operating system. A Lisp in a browser with some features like files and threads is something different from a computer, a piece of hardware, which actually boots into Lisp. Also Genera, the OS of the Symbolics Lisp Machine, is a complex piece of software, which was based on the work of many person-years. It was also developed over a decade and sold commercially in several releases for several generations of hardware.

As such a Lisp environment in a browser is a nice achievement and it looks like a fun project. Naturally it is far away from a really sophisticated system like Genera. Still, it is interesting to write something like this small project. Though I would prefer something which would be compatible with Common Lisp and would allow reuse in that direction.

If people would want to know more about Genera, the operating system, the Wikipedia article is a good source. If there is something missing, we should add it.

Kalman Reti (who worked for Symbolics for many years) gave a presentation: http://kvardek-du.kerno.org/2013/03/kalman-reti-on-lisp-mach...
> SEO Specialist

As someone who has been called "one of the world's experts on SEO", let me just say this title and industry is BS.

Here is my expert opinion on SEO: Write good content, make it easy for a human to read, and get other humans to share it with other humans in their network of friends.

I'll admit that there is a very small set of things you can so to help your rankings in search engines: have a descriptive URL, a unique title on each page, a proper robots.txt, a sitemap, basically all the stuff that is called out in the Google Webmaster tools.

Beyond that it is all snake oil. I challenge anyone to show my objective metrics proving any one SEO technique works.
Huh. I learned a different lesson from Therac-25: "never write mission-critical software." :)

For those who haven't read it, http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf
That's sort of the point.
Still, I have read somewhere that even that vague declaration is not vague enough, because most of the persons that aided the terrorists are dead already. Basically, most of of the people that organized 9/11 attacks are dead now.

So USA will have to redefine the declaration, most probably.
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Is there a coincidence with the Times being down yesterday and this??
This is an evolutionary dead-end. You want to be the OPPOSITE of a sociopath and learn to love, and give into people.

Read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" and "Never Eat Alone". This be selfish crap is both evil, and harmful to your social-standing, not to mention ineffective.

No one is an island, so reach out to people and give as much of yourself to others as you can. Give unconditionally and don't keep score. Empower and inform others, and seek out the same from people. Life is not a zero-sum game: whole of society is better for it when you help just one person.
Yeah, but look who you have planning ahead - politicians.

If that's not a good point against it I don't know what is.
>I can't agree with the view that people should have the right to decide what they put in their bodies, because it is based on the idea they are making a rational decision.

No, it isn't. It's based on the idea that people have a right to make their own decisions, rational or not. You obviously disagree.

You realize that "The government knows what's best for you, and must therefore prohibit independent decision-making" is the exact opposite of freedom, and more closely associated with authoritarianism and tyranny, right?
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Hey HN,

I work as a photographer & videographer right now, and editing and reviewing video is a painful process. Going back and forth with clients and involved parties sucks, so I came up with a possible solution and didn't think much of it.

A few weeks ago while photographing a tech conference, I decided to join the hackathon and build an idea I had with my friend. He did all the heavy back-end lifting, and I did the front end work. We didn't know what would come out of it, but ended up winning 'Most Monetizeable' and getting great feedback from all of the judges and many participants.

Long story short, my friend has stated that he has absolutely no intention of wanting to work on it (he's already at a startup) and has agreed to me continuing to work on it without his help. I've showed potential customers the demo, and have received great feedback from other videographers, including a value of $100~ per project as a baseline.

I want to continue with it, but am not sure what to do. I don't have the programming skills to do all of the back end right now (node.js) but am willing to learn it. At the same time, the alpha (if you can call it that) is basically done, and doesn't need too much work before it can go live.

Thoughts?
That is a dumb error code.

404 already exists.
find something that can cut it.
If I take your friend's phone and you find out about it, would you take out your gun, point it at me, and force me to ...?

I expect the answer is "yes", so I'm assuming that for the remainder of this response - if the answer is "no" then let me know and I'll respond to that.

I would contend that the reason you would be okay with responding to theft with (ultimately) violence is because it violates a social agreement (property rights) that our society has predominately agreed to adhere to. I do not see any inherent philosophical reason that violation of other aspects of our social compact (taxation) is different - if you believe it is, either inherently or as a matter of practicality - please explain your reasoning.
Bill Gates did good long before he retired. He, with others, built a company that made low cost computing available to millions of people. People who willingly paid the prices Microsoft asked for their goods because those individuals decided that it was in their self-interest to do so.
Sounds like AUMF needs to be repealed along with the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act. We need to start everything from scratch again.
You could always post on MacRumors' forums to see if anyone wants to beta your application.

However, I'd be willing to put it through its paces for you if you'd like. j.curcio <at> me <dot> com
Mass Effect is another example of an EA game that has always had the option for Male or Female, and on top of that, LGBT friendly.
> So which is it, 'it is stronger' or 'it should be stronger'?

That language simply acknowledges that to date, the work is mostly theoretical -- they don't have enough material to perform empirical measurements. Another way to say it is that it's theoretically stronger, and it will probably be stronger in reality as well.
Job titles (in my experience) have been 100% worthless to my day to day. I go in and do what's necessary based on what skills I have. Sometimes that means writing code for the web (html, css, etc.), sometimes that means writing a windows service to run a long running or recurring process, sometimes it means writing stored procedures, and sometimes it means writing a process to automate deployments.

It's always upset me a little that I've had to communicate with people using this narrow definition of what I do from day to day. And so, I prefer the title Software Engineer because it's not specific to mobile, web, devops, etc.
> but then it wouldn't work for people not on Twitter.

I think the @user idiom is by now understood by anyone not relying exclusively on pigeons to send their missives.
I haven't read the article because Kotaku is blocked at work, but if you're referring to the CoD game mentioned in the title, it's Activision, not EA.
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Great work -
I'd love it if someone would write a web front end to this.
Web hacker's bug
Trademarks are limited in scope. Note how in the parent comment the phrase is trademarked in relation to "Non-alcoholic beverages, namely, soft drinks [ ; syrups, concentrates and powders for making beverages, namely, soft drinks]. "

You should be able to use the phrase outside that context. Of course you might have fun time in court defending that right.
I believe that is why a classification also needs to be attached to the application (e.g. "Non-alcoholic beverages, namely, soft drinks").

While Coke may be asserting they own the trademark for "It's the Real Thing", they're being a little oblique with the fact that they only have it for soft drinks and not printed publications. So it seems Coke is trying to bully the publisher when the publisher seems to know that they are in a different classification. They are pretty much saying this in a sarcastic way in their reply.
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I've decided it's time for a good chair but I don't know which one to get. I had an Aeron at a previous job. I really liked it, but not so much that I won't consider something else. I've noted Steelcase Leap and HM Mirra getting good reviews, among a few others.

What is your favorite chair and why? Also, probably more important, is there a brick and mortar that sells these anywhere that I could actually try them out? Closest I've found is a back store in my area that carries high end chairs, but doesn't actually have any of the above mentioned brands.
I'd use scala actors and not have to worry about this issue. Anything that avoids shared-memory communication means you're safe from this kind of interaction.

IMO raw threads are too dangerous to use as anything other than a primitive to implement higher-level concurrency on.
Right, clearly they do have the trademark on the phrase. But the mark is limited in scope to things related to "Non-alcoholic beverages, namely, soft drinks [ ; syrups, concentrates and powders for making beverages, namely, soft drinks]". So they have no right to enforce it in reference to a book or book advertisement, as they tried to do here.
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My wife and I moved from Australia to Phoenix, AZ, USA. After living here for about 18 months we've finally had to buy a car due to the fact that she's pregnant.

We had managed very well with out a car; my wife cycled to work and I rode the light rail to my work place. My commute took about 2 hours a day, compared to ~50 mins if I drove. This didn't bug me very much at all, I enjoy listening to audiobooks / podcasts and catching a little nap while on the train.

We were also very lucky that my wife's boss would lend us his car when he was out of town, in return for being dropped off and picked up from the airport. This enabled us to do some road trips out to the grand canyon, monument valley, sedona, etc. I was also very lucky to have a fellow skydiver living in the same apartment complex who would give me a ride to the dropzone an hour away to pursue my hobby of falling from the sky.

For 18 months we really enjoyed the response from our American friends when we explained that we didn't have a car. The look of disbelief was very entertaining.
> In this case it was decided that, because they were in different businesses, there was no great likelihood of public confusion

Until iTunes was released.
You just need to try things until you find something you keep going back to. Examples of hobbies:

Exercise (running, crossfit, weight lifting, parkour, tabita, yoga, hiking, biking)

Sports (rock climbing/bouldering, soccer, baseball, basketball, autocross/road racing, roller derby, surfing, archery, sailing)

Martial arts (aikido, thai boxing, brazilian jiu-jitsu, tai chi, capoeira, kendo, eskrima/arnis, krav maga, fencing)

Dancing (salsa, merengue, swing, tango, blues, ballroom, hip hop, jazz)

Music (learn an instrument, live local shows, discover new genres, download and listen to new music)

Literature (join a book club, cheap books from thrift stores or yard sales, try fiction/nonfiction, reflect on what you read, blog it)

Blogging (research and then write about a subject you care about)

Volunteerism (soup kitchens, community gardens, local government, special needs, peace core, hackerspaces, free education community organizations, conventions, public awareness, public services, community programs)

Weird stuff (slacklining, acro-yoga, aerial silks, unicycling, juggling, rope bondage, home brewing, crafting, building models, puzzles, trivia, ham radio, blacksmithing, astronomy, woodworking, car tuning, karaoke, magic, gravestone rubbing, gardening, canning, locksport, leatherwork)
The genie is out of the bottle as far as I'm concerned. Even if the US freaks out & kills all the exchanges over which it has jurisdiction BC will still continue.

Sure it would be better if they didn't shut it down, but BC is designed to circumvent exactly this type of interference.
404 is for "not found". 451 would be for "found, but we can't show it to you".
Entrepreneurship has become too fashionable.
No, the Times episode was clearly the result of an ill-considered and ill-timed system update that went south. Not that the Times isn't sometimes hacked, but yesterday's episode had a pedestrian explanation.
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More like "think for yourself". Sadly it doesn't come with the good advice to sort out your priorities first. I mean seriously, if the only thing you're able get out of a party is snack food, then you're doing social interaction wrong.
There are many languages where you don't have to worry about this particular issue. Clojure for example enforces immutability (which means you cannot unsafely share the reference, since the reference is immutable too) and provides safe sharing mechanisms that would prevent this.
I suspect that Kutcher himself used the part about his real name as link bait.

With that said, it was crucial to the point he was making: he learned these things before he "changed" his name at the age of 19.
The One Commandment of multithreaded programming:

1. Thou Shalt Not touch shared data without synchronization.

You must know what data is shared, and you must synchronize all access to shared data (with one exception, when all access is read-only).

People try to find exceptions to this One Commandment. They think, I'm only writing one value, so what's the harm? Well, this is the harm. Follow the One Commandment and you'll be safe(r).
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This page feels awfully meta.
I'm pretty confident that if Lua were as widespread as JavaScript is, a backwards incompatible change would be less likely to happen, although with Corona SDK, I'm also confident that Lua will have an opportunity to shine :).
The idea is admirable, but the website design needs rethinking -- the resolution of the text and graphic elements in particular.
Have you done an accelerator program?

We did 500 Startups and while some startups obviously don't make it - I think that if you ask the founders on the whole there will be overwhelming consensus that it was extremely helpful. Any good entrepreneur needs to develop a filter and learn how to cut through the noise. If they fail for that reason at an accelerator, they would have failed regardless.

It's still a great mashup of talent, timing, and LUCK. A lot of companies will take years to hit their stride (500S is only 3 years old).

This article reads a bit like it was written by somebody who is unable to speak from first hand experience.
Total bullshit because they later say that the female characters are the same size in the hit boxes as the male characters.

In other words they could have skipped custom character creation and just had static male and female avatars using the exact same engine.