skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how rape victims would find Louis CK's example of rape humor acceptable. Rape victims probably dislike thinking about the subject at all. Is it that casting the victim in his joke as Hitler is somehow better than a nameless slave NPC in an MMO?

I think we are missing the elephant in the room in that a lot of people find rape jokes funny -- to the point of being profitable enough to sell merchandise. But there is a small minority that are incredibly offended when the topic of rape is even broached. Where do we strike balance in that spectrum you mentioned?
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This is the associated concurrency-interest thread:
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McDonalds charman, dude.

Russel Crowe, dude.

"The Google Guys", dude.

It's like, totally West Coast.
I read your comment and thought, It can't be that bad. I've seen some really terrible writing before, but something on hackernews can't be that bad.

It is. I struggled to make it through two paragraphs.
I'm a Wikipedian, and I'm fully with you in not taking Wikipedia as authoritative about much of anything, because I have seen how the sausage is made at Wikipedia. That said, after a Google search, I saw that the two articles I linked to showed that many medical syndromes are named without a possessive ending on the personal name associated with the syndrome, including Down syndrome, and that was the immediate point at issue.

By the way, I try to light a candle as well as curse the darkness at Wikipedia, by gathering lists of good sources for all the Wikipedians to use,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Intellig...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Anthropo...

and by updating articles that have long been tagged as needing improvement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification

I wish that Wikipedia were much better, but the current way to make it better is for people to roll up their sleeves and do something about making it better.
That's actually a very good point and a major downside to the open source tools. My whole work experience (and that of many sysadmins) is in primarily Windows shops. Since many of the OSS tools don't work or require hacks to make them work on Windows.

As far as what we do at Stack, a lot of our code gets released. Not the core q&a engine, but our logging framework (StackExchange.Exceptional), a profiler (MiniProfiler), and some other stuff. On the sysadmin side, we are active in developing Desired State Configuration modules and contribute those to the PowerShell.org DSC repo on GitHub. Part of the job description for our SRE developer includes the fact that much of what we develop in house will be targeted to be open sourced.
Our game RAD Soldiers is featured up on the games page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rad-soldiers/dkiah...

You can cross play with the iOS version, feel free to leave feedback :-)
On Anger
Whenever the word 'culture' enters into an argument like this I tune out.

The word is just not a useful label for anything anymore. It has been stretched far beyond any coherent idea it may have once described. It can be contorted to mean anything and often is, from argument to argument and even sentence to sentence.
I found that comic you posted to be funny. I am a father and I abhor violence against children. If the comic really happened, that would be outrageous.

But it isn't real, and it isn't trying to justify violence against children, nor is it making fun of victims of violence.

I suppose some will label me a sociopath for my opinion. Perhaps I am one and just do not realize it.
> In that same panel with Robert he asked us how we feel about being role models. We don’t aspire to be role models, just normal people, but we try to do what’s best with the platform we have.

I think that's part of the problem here. They may not aspire to be role models, but because of their success and public visibility they have become them.
Because PayPal's job is simply do deliver money from Party A to Party B.

The problem is that PayPal is not dealing with real money but with credit cards. AFAIK, companies like Western Union don't have such onerous restrictions because they accept cash or as-good-as-cash.

...ABSOLUTELY NO CHARGE BACKS WILL BE ALLOWED...

Credit cards fundamentally allow chargebacks; you can't turn them off. If you want to do business with no chargebacks you cannot accept credit cards either directly or indirectly.
Those are more subtle fuck ups that the company might not notice for a long time, usually when you're eclipsed by the competition and upper management has been replaced.

A better slogan might be "always make new mistakes".
This would work great if it offered schoolbooks. Rather than buying a very expensive book, I would not mind "renting" it on a month by month basis.
I can't say that I've ever had a problem with accidentally running commands in my top-level repo despite many years of running it under git and other VCS'es.

That said, using tools mentioned in this thread (esp. vcsh[1] and mr[2]) it's possible to have one's cake and eat it too w.r.t. using git for homedir version control without the worries of accidentally running VCS commands on your homedir. They also allow some real benefits, like the ability to use and deploy subsets of your rcfiles. For example, you could easily create profiles like: "server-side minimal core", "main personal system", "work box with employer-specific stuff".

[1] https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh

[2] http://myrepos.branchable.com/
If you need to append, use a Vector instead.
Nash equilibrium certainly applies to No limit hold 'em. It's a zero-sum game with finite choices over finite time. Could you explain why you think otherwise? Are you just saying it's practically impossible to calculate?
psah, haven't lived unless you did it on the 1k.
Seems like this post is being either flagged or modded into oblivion. (As of writing, 1h old, 44 points, and already in page 2).
Most humor is in "poor-taste" to someone. IMO, when certain topics are taboo that just a bigger indicator of a cultural problem: "move along, nothing to see here".
You're right - I guess I'm thinking more of the Kindle business model (I was thrown off by all the Amazon references). With Audible, I believe you have to stream the books, but when I want to listen to an audio book, I usually don't have a reliable connection (e.g. road trips). It would be great if you could download the audio (even temporarily, much as I hate DRM) as part of the subscription. Since I'm now talking about a different model entirely, I'm afraid I'm well and truly off-topic. Sorry :)
The purpose of the fingerprint is basically to be an extra button the device. You could get 95% of the security benefit of this with a special new button on the iphone ("login") and a normal passcode. The value is having credentials stored in the secure element of the phone, or encrypted under keys in the secure element (which is a standard keystore API thing since ios5), with a set of APIs for apps to access them and present a UI action to the user.

It's no different from the windows SAK (ctrl-alt-del) or the Mac "administrative user" dialog box.
One thing that I think is really cool about Chrome Apps is that you can write USB drivers in Javascript that will run on any platform that runs Chrome or Chromium. This means that if you want to make a hardware device that syncs with the cloud, all you have to do is write what is essentially a web app, and anyone with Windows, OS X, Linux, or Chrome OS can use your thing.

I'm personally working on a Chrome SDR app for the Funcube Dongle, so you can just install an app from the Web Store, plug the thing in, and start listening to any radio transmission from .5MHz to 2GHz. (The only snag is that the HTML5 audio API doesn't give you 192kHz sound samples, so I think I'm going to have to read them directly via USB. Fun.)
It's perhaps part of the Australian culture to jovially dig at serious issues in life through stories and then cast them aside as incomplete potential tangents. You know, inflate the size of a crocodile over here, casually pull half a million a day back here, ethical about-turn over there. We call it "havin' a yarn". I'm not sure if the writer was Australian, but the style and the story sure are! So what makes you a literary critic anyway, mate? Get off ya high horse and crack a tinny will ya! Tell ya what, I've got an esky full of champpers back 'ere somewhere!
When Med Students Get Medical Students’ Disease
Your proof-reading example doesn't fit this case. When you write something, the people who read it rarely also talk to you about it.

In congress, most bills are "lobbied" for by the authors - they go around talking to other members of congress to try to sell them on voting for it. In such a situation it absolutely matters what the author thinks the bill says because, if nothing else, it will have a large effect on how the bill is perceived when it is later read. In the specific case of the patriot act most members of congress did not even read it before voting on it. The only thing they had to go on is how it was presented by the author.

http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2009/03/02/congress-had-n...
Tried Windows 7, Chrome/IE/Firefox - can't reproduce. If it affects IE and Chrome (which have almost no code in common), I'm guessing you are behind a proxy server of some sort, so I'm going to check my Caching / Vary headers. Thanks for the pointers!
The original joke didnt need an apology as it was clearly directed at the screwed up morality of games, ie rape only matters when it is part of a quest. Everything PA did after that was stupid and offensive.
Would adding up the number of rape threats directed against his critics count as a measurement?
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This is a tough sell. An iPhone screen is not great to read on and to get enough mileage out of this you'd have to read a couple of books a month on it. If I could get something like this on my Kindle which is actually good on your eyes I might consider it.
Created a small script to take care of this. Hopefully someone else finds it useful.

https://github.com/fijimunkii/CSS3.fadeIn.fadeOut.js
... says the guy who makes video games where you kill people.
GitHub link is a 404. It would be nice for an open source project to use a public repository, just my 2¢.
There is a third side to this: Increased self-awareness.
This treatment only caused the brain to develop normally, which would mean that in the case of humans with Downs the other downsides to the disease would remain (until another cure/treatment was found for those as well, of course.)

Would a person with DS who gains normal brain function really be better off afterwards? Would a large segment of the patients fall into depression?
I have a brain damaged uncle and know just how much verbal/passive abuse these groups get in their day-to-day life, luckily in his condition it doesn't really get to him like it does a normal person.
By the way:

idiomatic == I am doing what I am told to do without understanding why it sometimes makes sense, and sometimes doesn't, and sometimes just doesn't matter.
I don't know what you're talking about, most comments look very positive to me.
Expressway Approach into LGA
So the issue here is that Node needs backpressure on events as well as pipes, right?
Are these apps supposed to be written in pure JS or are they PNaCl (Portable Native Client -- basically LLVM bytecode)?
It's pretty ridiculous that IndieGogo allow PayPal for their campaigns when it's pretty much against the PayPal ToS.
The one source I know of [2] claims 216,000 victims of "sexual abuse", but doesn't say specifically is sexual abuse means "rape" or if those numbers are only for male prisoners.

1. http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate
Just use a different finger.

You get ten revocations before you have to take off your shoe.
To be blunt, it's better than crushing their skulls and ripping them apart limb from limb, which is the preferred approach to dealing with people with Down's Syndrome in many countries at present, including the US.
There seems to be a lot of focus on replacement of keylock. The wonderful thing about the fingerprint reader is that it effectively enables both the username and password and makes for a much simpler path to supporting multiple users in future iOS releases/devices.
Firefox OS is working on the same feature (google 'WebUSB')
Hands on with Galaxy Gear smartwatch - Engadget
That's an interesting position, but do any credit card companies agree with it?
I would mind waiting 30 minutes on my own and with children in the car doubly so. Yes.
This must be great for those companies who 1. Have time to hand screen every customer 2. Don't care about their few customers enough to "white glove" them.
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As US strike looms, al-Qaida-linked rebels attack regime-held Christian village
Twitter's Streaming Map-Reduce with Scalding and Storm
If someone's "fucking up" repeatedly, either constructively work to remediate them or replace them. But simply being a jerk does not prove or disprove that you "give a shit". It just means you're not very good at articulating what's actually bothering you or separating the actual problem from your frustration.
Nope. And, as a bonus, you're deliberately misinterpreting what I'm saying. Cool.

Good humor punches up. Making a shirt that makes rape victims uncomfortable is punching down. Easy, right?
Doh! Sorry about that... Fixed!
No, I pay $23 a month for two books, which I own, but there is no 'all you can eat' deal.
To be fair this is a standard feature of Linux Control Groups that's existed for years now. For more info on how that works, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
I'll have to look at the overlap between Puppet's Windows tools and DSC.

These are definitely distinct from monitoring, but monitoring configuration should be populated from the same configuration store as Puppet. (Sometimes Puppet is the configuration store.)

I've never evaluated Orion in particular, but it's slightly puzzling if you're creating a lot of custom monitoring scripts. In the low-touch Nagios deployments I've seen, this is often because someone didn't understand good places to use macros, and centralize more of the parameters.
Agreed, giving a discount or other reward for recovering an abandoned cart is a VERY dangerous road to go down IMO.
Instant Heart Rate by Azumio:

http://www.azumio.com/apps/heart-rate/index.html
But but iPhone is not he only device I access many sites from. What if I need to sign into the website from my PC and need to use firefox or IE for that?
> Also note that there is a HUGE performance difference between appending and prepeding to a list. :-)

If you're going to do a lot of appending, might I suggest a ListBuffer or a Vector?
That's possible today - there are apps, that are basically web apps. But they usually offer inferior user experience. It's cheaper, but for the price of being worse than a native app.

It's possible they will add support for other languages besides Java. Android is stuck with Java 6, which sucks...
TEN years of bootstrapping. This just got removed from the title for some reason. Good thing Gabriel García Márquez didn't have the same editor.

Wow. This is interesting on its own, as others mentioned, but it's really interesting to me personally, as the co-founder of a bootstrapped local real estate referral company.

One thing I didn't see mentioned much was the 2008 housing crisis, which was disastrous for us. We were in acquisition talks in late 2007 which were suddenly canceled, seemingly in anticipation of the horrors to come. Our revenues were devastated and I went back to consulting for several years. Basically, our site was on autopilot until January of this year, when the real estate market showed signs of long-term strength and we started our current development drive.

We're still bootstrapping off consulting revenue, so it hasn't exactly been fast-paced, sadly. Let me say, still running a business you started after Startup School 2005 gives you a much different perspective than the usual startup narrative. When you bootstrap, you can press pause instead of eject. You're not on fire, so you don't turn to ashes the instant you run out of fuel, but you sure do have to keep smoldering.

For those who aren't familiar, I would describe real estate startups as being similar to a closed game of chess. Lots of long-term possibilities and plans, but not a lot of good moves available. The market is sharded, guarded, scattered and smothered.

We haven't explored (or had an opportunity for) an agency conversion, so it's really interesting to read this account, thanks. Instead, we are trying to rework our regional site into a niche national site. I'll share how it goes, hopefully before our company's own tenth anniversary. Congratulations and thanks again for writing this history.
I did the Audible free trial for a month and you can download through the app instead of streaming. It's worth a try if you're looking for something like that.
It's a 'rape' joke only insomuch as the word rape was used in the text. The comic doesn't encourage, make light of or invoke imagery of violence against women, so I humbly disagree that this is a reasonable example of sexism. If the word "sodomized" was used in place of the word "rape", the outrage would likely be non-existent.

For the record, I do believe sexism is a serious problem in our society, particularly in tech, but I disagree that the comic and the defense of it by its authors is sexist.
How many of you read the whole thing? I dropped after
" the kind often found in sinewy men of a certain age and outlook." It does not hold your interest.
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> In order to have performance, you need type hinting (a lot of it).

No, not really. That has only been my experience when interoperating with Java libraries. Protocol dispatch has inline call caches, which are almost as fast as normal java interface dispatch.

> that is the problem with a language feature which is not a compiler feature as well

You could also say "that is the problem with type system features which are not virtual machine features as well". There is lots of erased information in the Scala type system that could be used for optimizations, but the VM can't make much use of that.

Scala's type system does 3 things:

1) Enable type-related optimizations

2) Ensure internal consistency (ie prevent errors)

3) Enhance expressivity through logic solver search

Clojure's type hints provide just enough type system to trigger host optimizations, where as core.typed is for finding and preventing bugs. I consider the implicitness of #3 to be an anti-feature.
I'm working on http://thejobist.com , a dead simple list of of websites where you can look for a job.

Backstory: I found a bunch of sites a few years ago while looking for a new job, and wanted to share my 'job search sites' bookmark folder. Also, google does not seem to be a good starting point.

If you know of sites I'm missing, be sure to tell me.
Perl 5 Internals: Part Two
Okay.

But men don't exist in a culture that tells them to fear being raped, or that their physical appearance is what matters most about them, or that they should be demure and not like sex.

In no way was I saying "men didn't receive threats". But don't act like threats of rape to men and women are received the same way. They're not.
Thanks for the writeup. I live in the area you serve and grew up at a family resort, so I saw your marketing efforts play out first hand over the past decade. Very interesting and insightful to hear the back story of your company.

I happen to work just up the road from your Crosslake office in the Liss building. Stop in if you're ever passing though.
In fact, some public libraries lend e-books too. And there's OpenLibrary.org, which also lends e-books for free.
If you're offended by words then you are taking life way too seriously. Especially when they're words in an internet comic, intended to be a joke.

The person that objects to the freedom to say whatever you want is the one being an asshole. The world isn't all sunshine and rainbows and no amount of denial or cognitive dissonance will change that.

Sticks and stones...
This is a very good idea. And the reason I say that is because in our code base we have developed something similar, feeling the need for it :-). Our stuff is half-baked, though and I never got around to releasing it.

What I'd like to see is something similar to what we did — checking more than just types. Here's an example from our code:

(conforms example-object [map :from string? :to [map :required-keys {"products" [seq string?] "type" [seq #{"type1" "type2"}]}]])

This describes a map containing mappings from strings to maps of a certain kind (where "products" and "type" are required, "products" must map to a sequence of strings and "type" must map to a sequence of strings from a specific set).

From our "conforms" docstring:

Returns true if value conforms to typespec.
typespec can be either:
- a string, which value must match literally;
- a predicate, which value must satisfy;
- [seq sub-typespec], which means that value must be a
collection of elements, each of which must conform to
sub-typespec;
- [map specifiers...], where optional specifiers may include:
:from sub-typespec -- keys in the map must match sub-typespec;
:to sub-typespec -- likewise for values;
:required-keys [key1 typespec1 key2 typespec2...] -- map must
include the required keys and their values must match the
typespecs.

We don't use that for function contracts and it might be overkill for that, but I'm pretty certain I'd like to be able to specify more than just types for map keys. A list of possible values would be tremendously useful.

This could provide you with some ideas. I can of course contribute the "conforms" function (although it isn't that difficult to write).
The more layers of security, the better. A while back, I expressed delight at the potential scenario of using NFC as a layer of security using proximity as a parameter.

I'm sure Apple are aware that storing the "plaintext" equivalent of a finger print would defeat the entire purpose.
The fingerprint sensor auth will just fill in the form fields with your username and password. You can sync these over to your desktop machine and use them like you usually would there.
On a broad level, "bootstrapping" simply means building and growing a business without significant external investment. In other words, the business is entirely self-sustaining and self-growing.

Bootstrapping doesn't mean getting by on ramen and futons, per se, although that's strongly implied in the early stages. Fiscal self-discipline is a nice-to-have in any startup, but it's the difference between life or death at a bootstrapped startup.

Achieving a certain level of profitability, and reinvesting those profits in the business, is still bootstrapping. Walmart, for instance, was bootstrapped until the day it listed on the NYSE.