skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you ever stop and think that maybe if people were less lazy and started learning English things would actually improve? Information (including "important contributions to furthering computer science") would spread more rapidly, people would have access to an endless stream of news outlets and have a more detailed view of the world. Also, there won't be any need to waste money on translators (do you know how much money is wasted by governments translating official documents, bills and whatnot?). Do you have any idea of the abysmal quality of translation of the many textbooks that are used everyday by college students around the world?

But yeah, I guess ignoring the lingua franca of the world and furthering the status quo is the easiest path.
Can't get the stupid comments and hate get to you.

I remember reading/watching somewhere where someone said (sorry for the vagueness) that you always need a solid little black box in your head you can retreat your conscience to. Where nothing can touch you. Where everything is constant.

Ever since I read that I have never gotten an ounce of hate get to me. I can honestly say I'm living a 100% stress-free happy life. In fact, the more hate I get, the happier I am, I feed off it, it's my fucking life line. It meant I was doing something right.

If I ever let it get to me, I'd retreat to that little black box, and it would tell me everything I accomplished in my life, the things I've been through, where my roots are from. Things nobody will ever take away from me unless they murder me, and that reassurance has helped me get through incredibly tough times.

To cope with hate even further, always look at what's coming your way from their angle. Why are they spouting hate? Do they genuinely feel you have a scammy product? Why would they think that? More often than not it boils down to two things: ignorance and a result, spouting bullshit, and/or personal issues being projected. I know that myself, when I'm in a rage state of mind, I'd spout terrible things at people that I'd instantly regret after. Especially on the internet, typing terrible comments that help to vent your anger temporarily.

I've always been an outsider. I've had so much time to observe people. This is what I found out.

Core human values -> projected mask (either bully, asshole, something else that is fake) -> external projection. You need to see through the mask. I've dealt with huge egos before that after awhile, cried on my shoulder and spilled their guts, all just by being understanding, not getting angry at them, and truly understanding where their emotion comes from and why. By being a source of support.

>Somehow... I read on CML and other idiotic forums, that I an a hypester, a scam artist. I just have to wonder what these guys are smoking. But I have to say... they have gotten to me. I don't need this. I don't deserve this. Life is short and I am tired.

Revolutionized the film industry, yet lets internet comments get to him. Fuck the haters. You changed the world.

Sorry if I went off topic, it's just something I wanted to get off my chest and hopefully this perspective can help others.
That's a brilliant explanation by example.
It would be great if they said "We can't pay him" publicly then just cut him a cheque privately with the understanding that he not tell anyone he got paid. This way, they can go on with the TOS saying you can't affect real users with your hacks, and the dude that blew the whistle gets the reward.
Iran Plans to Teach Hunting of Alien Drones in High Schools
The mainstream media spent twenty years trying to turn the word "hacker" into some sort of unholy cross between thief, terrorist, child pornographer, and teenager. They'd better be getting the sense that hacker == criminal by now!
If he's a sales rep who cold calls people, he's probably experienced dozens of hang ups a day in the year he's been at that job. Something must have pushed him over the edge that day. Either that, or he's done this to many other people, but this is the first time someone called him out on it.
It sounds like Jannard will still be running the company, just not as the public face any more.
Unfortunately negative refraction a secondary effect where you have negative permittivity and permeability at the same time. Negative permittivity is no big deal, metals act like an electron plasma gas around certain frequencies and get all weird, something like the color transmitted thru thin films of gold and how weird gold, silver, copper act in the THz range and all that. The "magic" is creatively negating both .. At The Same Time. Then the negative refraction / metamaterial effects take hold.

Kind of like you can compress ammonia (a bit) and nothing terribly interesting happens, and you can cool ammonia gas (a bit) and nothing terribly interesting happens, but do both at the same time and you've invented liquid ammonia and refrigeration and all kinds of nifty stuff.

On the other hand energy/mass seems rather fundamental. There are no multiple "easily" negatable components you can play with mixing together. There's no "add a to b to get the mass" going on. So you can't get sneaky with combinations and initial conditions to magically make negative mass/energy. It's really a different kind of problem.

The whole topic is pretty interesting to me because the first metamaterial stuff was constructed out of printed circuit boards with weird etchings right around the ham radio microwave 6cm and 9cm bands, which is right up my alley (doing weird ham radio things involving PCBs and such around those frequencies) Unfortunately I have been unable to figure out any practical engineering demo (like, an antenna or a waveguide or some such) that would be ham radio applicable in a real world demonstration. I guess I could make a really weird lens and place it in front of a 6cm horn waveguide antenna, but I can make a much simpler microwave lens antenna using about 1940s tech. Lens antennas using plates of styrofoam and aluminum foil work pretty well at 10 GHz ham radio band for example, but I digress.

Metamaterials are kind of a solution in search of a problem right now, like lasers in 1960s or home computers in the 80s or whatever. Most likely, much like the examples, it would be pretty hard to predict today just how important they might be in the future. Or maybe we're seeing the next "magnetic bubble memory" or magnetic amplifier technology or fluidic analog computing or whatever. Hard to predict.
I don't really know him that well, I left the week he arrived :)

edit: but it felt like that, he knew the framework, but I guess he had seen quite a few codebases before, also he was young in age.
Short summary, JSON is not removed from PHP. Some distros of Linux (specifically mentioned were Mandriva/Fedora/Debian) have replaced the version written by Crockford with another alternative: jsonc
"Congress tells Mozilla that blocking 3rd party cookies endangers children."
I wasn't raised as a bilingual either, I had to learn English just like most Europeans do, by trial and error.
Because the only way to get the idea is through the details. If the details don't work, then how long should we pursue the idea?

My idea is that we redevelop our city centers so they are more pedestrian and bicycle friendly.

My idea is that we build a bridge (or a tunnel) across the Strait of Gibraltar.

My idea is that we develop a fleet of ekranoplans for medium-speed cargo delivery.

My idea is that we have nuclear bomb powered rockets so we can get from Earth to Mars in a single stage.

All of these are great ideas. Abstractly. All of them have had people spend serious time developing the ideas.

"What's the motivation for trying to hide some fundamental flaw?"

Do you remember the Segway hype? Kamen said that it would be "will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy." ... "In the future he envisions, cars will be banished from urban centers to make room for millions of "empowered pedestrians"--empowered, naturally, by Kamen's brainchild."
- http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,186660,00.h...

He really believed it, and he spent more than $100 million developing the Segway to make that idea happen.

I bring this up to point out that you can believe in an idea so much that you overlook or brush over details, because your heart is pure and you have such noble dreams. Sadly, noble dreams don't have a high tensile strength.
It sounds to me like you're lumping things like writing for loops and mutating state in with the inherent complexity of the algorithm. I think reducing the ability to create abstractions like generic map/filter increases cognitive load. Reducing cognitive load is the whole reason I'm learning Haskell and currently use Clojure.
It is, however, far more commonly used when referring to same-sex couples.
Perhaps only a handful such as Google will use SSL but Google is a HUGE percentage of email.
I have great respect for people who make things like the RED camera, which advances technology and allows people to make amazing films without requiring huge amounts of money.

I have very little respect for people who make things like Oakleys, which allow people to spend a lot of money for a small piece of plastic so they can wear a high-status brand.

I'm not sure how I feel about this guy.
SMS marketing to get a boost from dismissal of pivotal [patent] law suit
* b) Assumption by said governments would be "He's traveling from Germany from Laura Poitras back to Greenwald in Brazil. He's very likely carrying highly sensitive documentation from Snowden"

If i had thousands of documents on how the NSA etc. works i would never ever have anything on my laptop except pictures of my last holiday.

This incident is on the same level as grounding the presidential jet of Bolivia.

A pure and simple power play to intimidate Greenwald and his co-workers/partners. And they want to show "Look we can do with you whatever we want. Remember that !".
Exploiting bugs to impact real users is not acceptable behavior for a white hat

It's pretty arrogant of Facebook to redefine the meaning of white hat don't you think? Posting to the Facebook founders page to let them know of a security vulnerability is not malicious, plain and simply, not. Trying to steer the embarrassment of your failings because this guy didn't read your TOS is incredibly hypocritical.
> Only a handful of mail providers (like Google) have the option to encrypt traffic server to server.

SSL/TLS is available for everyone.

> Most mail servers transmit messages in the clear to each other and only encrypt the server to client side.

I hear this again and again, but I can't really find any data that confirms this claim one way or another. Anyone on HN running their own mailserver wanting to comment on how large portion of connections get encrypted?
This is incredibly cool. I can already think of a few interesting uses.

Some of those uses would depend upon being able to update both the E-ink display and also NFC tag memory with different contents at the same time. In that way, you could store human-readable content on the E-ink tag and store metadata on the NFC tag to download an app and then take some action when reading it with a smartphone or tablet.
Reminded me of a good post a while ago on TechCrunch:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/25/search-googles-castle-moat/
I've followed the RED story from the beginning; I have a friend who bought one of the first run and basically launched his career with it, so I've stayed informed for personal and professional reasons.

They've taken a lot of flak because they make big promises and only sort of keep them (or rather, they keep them with a few galling compromises, as I understand it). But the fact is they kicked the cinema industry right in the ass and made them work for it. RED leapfrogged them into the digital era and because of the industry panic we now have amazing cameras like the Arri Alexa and Sony F35.

I don't know what RED has for a future, but despite all the weirdness, hype, and inside baseball, it has a pretty glorious past. Good work, Jim, and thanks from all of us.
I deliberately leave that question unanswered when I'm speaking to groups I don't know personally (such as HN). When I'm talking about my significant other, I refer to them as my significant other. Not my boyfriend/girlfriend/wife/husband. In this day and age, that really only matters when you're speaking about legal rights as recognized by the state. The gender or legal status of the person I love doesn't generally make one bit of difference.

On the other hand, my dad is a business owner and I've had people assume he was gay when I referred to his co-owner as "his partner, Jeff".
"What can I get..."

Sounds like he really needed the cash and got a bit too eager. ;)
Yes, good catch. If you want to recreate the Youtube bar, you'd need position fixed. For this faux-progress bar, position absolute works most of the time, because you usually load a new webpage without scrolling down.
A Good Developer is a Good Designer (Talk I gave  Flatiron School)
We have this thing called the Internet. Why would people carry physical (only-copy, presumably) documents with them, especially over hostile borders.
I think he prefers it the exact same way. It's just not natural for him (and most people) to say nothing when someone asks him what he's working on. Even if it's just some small hacked together game he's still going to be honest. Most developers love showing off what they're working on no matter what it is because there's usually no downside. Due to his popularity, people go out and start telling everyone that Notch is working on this new super awesome game even though Notch is just fooling around with an idea.
Understatement of the year! RED produces almost as much drama as it does cameras and accessories.
India is really one of the worst places to be a woman. My coworker told me that the constant stress and vigilance needed when she went out would wear her out.
I tend to agree with this, for most folks who present "ADHD" like symptoms puzzles and exercise are pretty good cures. Often parents underestimate their kids, and that is a challenge. I sent a "problem" child off to design the language for a robot project, it had to be understandable by humans and the robot could only speak with four LEDs and a speaker that could play 10 canned sound effects.

He wasn't a problem at all, and his language was awesome! Sort of like C3PO on steroids.
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That can't be true if only for the broad generalization. How are they supposed to have tested all possible, conceivable video games?

Would like to know how they did test, too - did they follow kids who played video games over a 30 year period to see how they turn out?
>"...He's very likely carrying highly sensitive documentation from Snowden"

Given the extremely high profile nature of this entire scenario, I don't see how anyone on the case could expect the probability of Greenwald using his partner as a data mule to rank as "very likely." I'm not saying it's impossible. Just that anyone who's been paying attention for the last decade or so knows better than to travel with hardware across unfriendly borders like the US or the UK. They're just going to take it anyway and then you're out thousands of dollars of gear. Between Snowden and Greenwald and Poitras and The Guardian and Wikileaks, I'd sincerely hope that they'd be capable of utilizing dead drops online.

In my opinion, this "retrieving stolen property" argument is merely the parallel construction of the actual motivation: to intimidate journalism. They know perfectly well that the probability of Miranda carrying anything actionable on him is minimal. But that's not the point. That's the pretext. The point was to pressure cook him for nine hours in order to glean from him any useful tidbit of intel, with the understanding that even if nothing comes of it, they've sent a clear message to The Guardian that they're taking the fight to them personally.
You can regulate things around bitcoin (ie exchanges), but you have no direct control of whether or not a wallet is able make transactions. You can't freeze a bitcoin address and associating an address to a real-world identity would be easily circumvented.
Not everybody thinks Objective-C is torture. Some people might even say that HTML/CSS/Javascript is more torturous. And I am sure that there are people who are more productive in Objective-C than you are in HTML/CSS/Javascript on the iOS platform. Especially when they are implmenting features that are impossible to implement without using Objective-C.
I wonder if it was just an idea grab - hopefully not.
We are Belgian and happily use http://adyen.com for 3 years now.
Receiving payments from about 60 different countries without any problem.

The implementation was easy. And on the rare occasions we needed support, they were very quick to respond.

I didn't do a price review recently, but at that time they were the most interesting for us to start.
Very much so... I don't think I can describe in words just how horrifying it was to read this. This is a country that my ancestors were from. It's hard to imagine it being so patriarchal and sexist as is described here.

But, as we see from the news, it is. It's hell.

And it's not going to change.
The inability of human beings to agree on the causes of brain states, does not mean that there are not causes, or that they are unknowable.
Or, perhaps he just wants to derail the high-speed rail proposal.
I agree with you and will be rectifying it soon.
> You can regulate things around bitcoin (ie exchanges), but you have no direct control of whether or not a wallet is able make transactions.

In this respect, this is no different than most things government regulates, including money-in-the-form-of-coins-and-scraps-of-paper.
It was handed out as support material in a course. I can't for the life of me find it online. Anyhow, the transform hinges on two insights: you can use a point rotating in a circle as a basic building block and you can look at any signal as a sequence of spikes. This article looks like it follows the same approach: http://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-...
Getting a software developer job
(This isn't meant to be attacking towards you, I use "you" generally here)

Partner is the only gender neutral way of expressing this thought. (Yes, it matters. Ask me "Do you have a wife?" and "Do you have a partner?" and see which one makes me [and others] uncomfortable). *

Every time you make gender assumptions, you're forcing someone to have to out themselves. It's why it's polite to strive for gender neutrality.

* is certainly a personal problem, but it's one that I have to deal with weekly and it's extremely uncomfortable. My coworker stood in my office and told me about how she doesn't like American TV and went on and on about Glee because it had "homos" in it. Imagine how I felt the next day when she was making small talk and asked if I had a girl friend. "Um, no, I'm not dating anyone now" [followed by 4 hours of shame, great]
Not removing it but are needing to replace it with an open-source + free-software version of the code so repo maintainers won't reject the software.
Practical Data Security for Travelers (to/via the UK)
Introducing Docker Brew
what if this puts something in your history that is illegal?
Right and the important point being that this isn't just about sniffing his network, it is the most invasive surveillance possible that would make his whole business a lie. The point of the article was to go through the logic to show that this would have been the only possibility for what they requested him to do.
Startups That Matter to Job Creation
In Red's case I don't think it's quite that simple. One of the foundations of Red has always been that the founders interact with the customers continuously through social media; that's how Red built their fanboy army. But that kind of aggressive social media presence always creates an equal and opposite backlash, and it's pretty much impossible to expose yourself only to one side.
One of my favorite points from Ira Glass's lecture: Ideas come from other ideas. There is no such thing as creativity in a vacuum. Your output of ideas is related to the quantity and quality of information you take in.

HN is a good bit better for that than reality TV, but not all resource consumption is bad. This endeavor in particular smells of a fairly cheesy "waste of time" low-budget, low-brow television show.
Again, Stephan has created and maintained multiple (46 in fact, [1]) treatments on what he has learned about v8. He even separated and a special wiki category, called "BitchAndMoan" [2], just so people wouldn't be confused about what were personal critiques and what were technical critiques. This isn't an "HN echo chamber" or a "woe is me circle jerk". This is a critique of Google's technical handling, feeding and nurturing of a (non-)product. I've embedded JavaScript for almost 15 years, since Mozilla's SpiderMonkey was ported to DOS/DJGPP[3][4]. There's dozens and dozens of successful embedders of various size and purpose [5][6] supported by Mozilla via SpiderMonkey and/or Rhino. While in college, I added LAM/MPI hooks and developed multi-monitor applications years before multi-monitor graphics cards were commercially available. Stephan is a former SpiderMonkey embedder[7]. I'm former colleagues with Shanti Rao of JSDB (SpiderMonkey) while at NASA/JPL [8]. There is a huge difference in support in what Mozilla provides [9] vs. what Google provides [10]. Stephan's critique is, without a doubt, a fair critique.

[1]http://code.google.com/p/v8-juice/w/list
[2]http://code.google.com/p/v8-juice/wiki/CommentaryOnV8
[3]http://marc.info/?l=freedos-dev&m=94670703232745
[4]http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://dominic.liquid3.com.au/j...
[5]https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript
[6]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Uses_outside_web_pag...
[7]http://spiderape.sourceforge.net/
[8]http://www.jsdb.org/
[9]https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/SpiderMonkey
[10]http://code.google.com/p/v8/w/list
Spring Framework can’t decide how it wants to be configured
> I'm not seeing how engineering doesn't need sales just as much.

Sales is hard if you don't have innate talent or a decent amount of experience.

Design, development, implementation and testing of modern technology is pretty much impossible without engineering education and experience.

Independent consulting engineers may find they don't make as much money as they could with a little more salesmanship.

A salesman, however, with nothing to sell, goes broke.

The relationship is not symmetric.
Congress tells Mozilla that blocking 3rd party cookies endangers children
> Debian is kind of right in their assessment

There really isn't a 'kind of right' here, it is either Free (which Debian clearly defines) or it is not. It is not, so it has got to go.

Debian doesn't care about 'people being pissed off' because they are a non-commercial distro that is committed to staying 'Free'. Principles are what the whole project is about.

This is the type of thing that happens when you try to be cute with something that has a legal meaning.
"Why not try to generate a bubble,"

Missing the part from the paragraph about having no idea how to generate that condition, although if it existed in the past it would presumably be "sorta stable" in fact it would never be able to shut off as presently understood.

A good analogy would be trying to talk to the original Lada Ada about silicon based computers without the folks of that era knowing enough solid state physics to contemplate whats going on in a simple transistor. "So if you could magically understand how to create a transistor, which won't happen for a century, then logically it follows that such and such array of those magic devices would make a great full adder circuit to add binary numbers"
Could you trust any that remain operating, after the Lavabit fiasco?
I keep getting a database Error; Here is the cached version.

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