skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I agree with your point.

When you're at an event with tens of people, you can look around and see who in attendance. All youngish tech guys? Great, let's push the boundary for stupid humor. That's an acceptable judgment, although I personally would still keep it professional. It's an understandable assessment.

If, though, there are hundreds (thousands?) in attendance then prudence would suggest that you raise the floor of acceptability. The lowest common denominating factor has gone way down -- that people here all breathe air and want to see hackathon projects is about all you can safely assume. To come out and jerk off with your phone on stage is very poor judgment and not at all calibrated with the audience.

Some things do not need to be explicitly spelled out, and it is not negligence on the part of the presenters to expect people getting up to speak publicly to exercise a basic level of judgment. The conclusion, "I can't safely assume that everyone here will find this funny, or at least tolerable," is not difficult to arrive at given the circumstances presented.
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In a MetaFilter thread, one of the commenters pointed out that the story being copied in the video is "Kiosk" by Bruce Sterling, a story about (among other things) the government trying to hold back a social revolution triggered by 3D printers:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080115084153/http://www.sfsite....
Nope, intent isn't magic. http://genderbitch.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/intent-its-fucki...

And puerile male humor is often intended to drive women away from the boys' club.
I am pretty sure I did say these things. But nevermind. More importantly I don't think I'm guilty of nearly the malice you ascribed to me, and a part of me is wondering where you are based on the off chance we can share a beverage of your choice and you can see I'm not a monster. Is it the thread from last week that has you angry at me?
The Compliant Personality
Ah, not Borlaug again.

You're doing him a disservice. He's a valuable reference both for what he's done to address a pressing problem, and for what the consequences of those actions have been.

Borlaug himself addressed the issue of population and the needs to control it ultimately, quoted directly in the Wikipedia article:

Besides increasing the worldwide food supply, early in his career Borlaug stated that taking steps to decrease the rate of population growth will also be necessary to prevent food shortages. In his Nobel Lecture of 1970, Borlaug stated, "Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the 'Population Monster' ... If it continues to increase at the estimated present rate of two percent a year, the world population will reach 6.5 billion by the year 2000. Currently, with each second, or tick of the clock, about 2.2 additional people are added to the world population. The rhythm of increase will accelerate to 2.7, 3.3, and 4.0 for each tick of the clock by 1980, 1990, and 2000, respectively, unless man becomes more realistic and preoccupied about this impending doom. The tick-tock of the clock will continually grow louder and more menacing each decade. Where will it all end?"

And yes, he later said he thought that 10 billion people could be fed (though that doesn't address other needs of those 10 billion and whether or not they can be adequately supported in other ways.

My own sense is that long-term sustainable population in a post-carbon world is likely on the order of 0.5 - 2 billion, though I'd allow for halving or doubling that depending on other factors.

Remember Eric Sevareid's Law: The chief source of problems is solutions.
Not sure if you guys have noticed this "In 2006, he forgot to pay a $134 tax bill, prompting the city to place a lien on the home and add $183 in interest and penalties. His son paid the $317 bill in 2009, records show, but that wasn’t enough." His son did pay the tax later. I don't know how penalties/government fees are made and justified.
Ask HN: Does Google plan to allow casting iOS/Android Chrome tab to Chromecast?
I'm an idiot. I bought a Chromecast thinking I could cast my iPad's Chrome tab to my HDTV, but you can only cast a PC/Mac Chrome tab.. not mobile.

Anyone know if Google plans to allow mobile tab casting?
Good old telegraph. They try hard to beat fox for the right wing crackpot crown. This article is for their readers not the general public.
The Break
> They can be turned over to reveal more, folded for a summary and expanded for more details, stacked to save space, sorted, grouped, and spread out to survey more than one.

> Content consumption on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Line, you name it, is all built on the card design metaphor.

I think this makes sense as a design metaphor. Just as "skeuomorphism" was able to help people develop familiarity with iOS by relating it to the real world, "cards" helps us think about how we organize information for faster consumption.
The six companies that dominate the auctions for those liens.

"When it was over, six companies had swept the bidding, snaring two-thirds of the liens, which totaled $5 million, on properties worth more than $666 million"
Not going to bother continuing a conversation with someone who gets as offended by tits as they do the word "nigger".
mu

https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse
When you tackle a new problem the hardest part is often just figuring out what you don't know, but need in order to solve the problem. You might find a paper or book that solves a very similar problem (if you're lucky) but find you just can't understand what you're reading. This is probably because the author assumed his audience would know things you've never even been exposed to. It would be rather hard to write much of anything if authors didn't do this! However, it makes life rather difficult for "foreigners" to the discipline who don't have a good idea of the discipline's city layout and what neighborhoods they need to hang out in to find help.

The ideal solution is to get a local guide to help you, but a map of knowledge covering as much of the city as possible would be almost as helpful if it were any good. Unfortunately, mapping cities of knowledge is harder than mapping real cities!

It would be utterly fantastic if math (or physics, economics, etc.) books and publications came with associated meta-data that would tell you what dependencies are associated with what you're reading. Ideally, it should be possible to trace the map from string theory right back to counting. This map would be your guide to all the rabbit holes you dive into! It wouldn't perform magic and explain quantum physics to you in a paragraph, but it would give you an idea of how much you don't know and where you need to start.
Less than 1/10th of the way into the article, they make it clear that he has dementia
Sure, Intel's actions are more symbolic than anything else.

Ubuntu has received a lot of flack for their aggressively NIH attitude, but being able to point to support for their NIH-motivated products in other widely-used software would signify some amount of acceptance of their actions in the wider community.

I think their are many people who don't want to send that signal.
In some places they would garnish the debtors income.
戦士 - Senshi (an MMO Battle-Royale inspired HTML5 game)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea

intent isn't magical but it is legally meaningful. if our laws recognize that intent matters maybe you ought to also.
Oh, and meta note: that OSU page (apparently created using Adobe PageMill) uses graphics to generate bulleted lists.

fbog.
You are correct, they buy the lien and have to foreclose later.

I'm still curious what myname would propose as an alternative collection scheme. The article mentions that Michigan stopped doing tax lien sales, so I checked up on what they do now:
https://www.tax-sale.info/html/index/page/general

SPOILER: > The properties are then sold by deed at auction.

Not much of an improvement over the lien process; just a faster foreclosure.
Cisco firewalls, by default, perform a MITM protocol downgrade attack on the SMTP sessions they see. They modify the SMTP setup to prevent the endpoints from negotiating STARTTLS and cause them to fall back to cleartext communication. Has been true for years.

You can turn it off... but how many admins do? If you want an example of behavior which is completely plausibly-deniable, but which immensely reduces internet security, this is a good one.
Why don't we simply blacklist Softpedia and other bullshit sites from HN submissions.
We called these content/context boxes in 2007
Continuing in the face of a stream of "Your idea sucks" presents quite a challenge. You can tell yourself that the best ideas and most successful ventures had similar detractors, but it doesn't always help. You are aware of your own project more than the casual observer. The weaknesses and hurdles to pass are more apparent to you, and you can't help wondering if the comments are insightful and your project really does suck and you are just too invested in it to see the truth.

I have done a lot of things where upon presenting them to people, they would say "What's the point?", "That can't be done", or commonly "There's no point in an alternative to X. Even if it does work, people won't change from X". I have even had "that's the stupidest thing I have ever seen"

The chances of those things becoming enormous successes are tiny, and I'm aware of that. But the chances for those who _did_ become enormous successes were also tiny.

It's a hard road, but only people who walk the road have a chance. Please, rather than criticize the attempt, or the implementation, or the presentation, or their use of apostrophes. Try offering directions that could help them in the direction they want to be going. There's no point in saying "Turn back now." Even if you think they are going in the wrong direction, they have made their choice and the journey will be informative.
Wayland packages have been in Fedora since 18 (it's at 19 now and 20 is to drop in under 3 months time). You can already start testing your apps to see how they work in Wayland, and it's on the roadmap to being integrated as the default. Gentoo and Archlinux also appear to have experimental support and plans to switch.
most pictures don't have hard transitions between block areas, so once the fault area has been identified an algorithm could be made to look for the change that results in the image having the softest transition between neighboring blocks.
Lots of previous discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4812496
Reminds me of Code Ruler/Code Rally/Robocode. Really good ideas, especially for use in academic settings.
The point is that, you, the reader, obviously understand that a word, concept or type of behavior can offend others and would therefore abstain from employing it.

What this really means is that it's not you who should take responsibility for your emotions, it's everyone else that should watch out for you.

What exactly did you get offended by? If you claim that prank was sexist in any way, you clearly lack the ability to judge a situation and its context.
its ok to try to be funny and fail at it.
How is staring at breasts supposed to 'exploit' women? You have an extremely puritanical attitude when it comes to this. I wonder what you think of nude photo models.

Go back to the 17th century.
At the least, we buy more time to develop more sustainable technologies and/or implement humane population control to arrest and break world population growth, because:

- the possibility still exists that we can have these things and a soft landing,

- the alternative was millions of people starving to death in the short term - a natural course correction, but still a horrific one.

That being said, realistic (technical, political, etc) proposals for humanely arresting population growth are few and far between. China is pilloried for its (often monstrous) population control policy, but the Chinese population has stabilized. What sort of policy are we proposing for the countries with the greatest population growth, those with few economic resources, rather weak governments, and reluctant, justifiably suspicious populations? Look at global warming - how effective has the "you'll have to suffer slower economic growth, but it's for the sake of the entire world" argument been in the eyes of developing countries? Why would it be any different here?
Such a noble stand!

You're not stupid, you get the point no matter how obtuse you're pretending to be. You know that I'm not saying that "tits == N-word" and you know that such an equivalency is not central to or required for my example.

You simply don't want to admit that the only explanation of your position is to say "well black people have a right to get offended by the N-word, but women aren't allowed to object to breasts being objectified."
There is also https://mobile.twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT. One out of ten posts contains actual actionable real world advise.
"Snow HN: ..."

I hate it when people try to pull one over on me, but thanks for at least being honest. I have to admit that you're shooting high since the population of bright individuals is pretty high here.
why not? The porn industry has been responsible for a lot of technological innovation on the internet. They were pioneers for electronic billing, for streaming video, for high scalability websites, and for user-uploaded content.

Should we exclude all content with a sexual nature, even if there is good technology behind it?
This guy doesn't know shit about music.
- A music teacher.
> For example, it should be possible to describe how compound interest works without falling into an obscure technical explanation

I personally find these obscure technical (and highly abstract) explanations often far more easy to understand. I often found "easy" explanations highly illogical - not before I got the rather abstract explanations I found these explanations acceptable (and even this was not always the case - almost always the explanation for this phenomenon was that the definitions given in foundation courses could be abstracted a lot).

How can this be explained? The reason is simple: in highly abstract definitions anything that is not necessary is omitted - so there is less to think about. Additionally in this kind of definitions there is a lot more "internal logic". What does this mean? This is a little bit difficult to explain for non-mathematicians, but you can be sure that anything in the definition has a deep meaning. If this meaning seems strange to you, you can be sure that what remains to be understood often carries a deep meaning. On the other hand: when using "simple" definitions, you always have to worry whether, if something sounds strange, it is because you haven't understood it or if the "simple" explanation was simply bad.

Disclaimer: I'm a mathematician (as may be imagined). But I'm a computer scientist, too. :-)
Who's saying Canonical hasn't considered this? If this truly reflects the community attitude towards a new open source project than that is an awful thing.

No one is saying it, but Wayland is just a display server, and worse, it's just a display server that's been developed on by just one guy in what is clearly his spare time. For years, and it's still not something we can readily use.

If instead of Canonical this was just a random dude with a kickstarter project, promising that if he built this something new he would get NVidia and AMD in on it we'd all be cheering them on.

We want a replacement for X. Wether it's Wayland or Mir, the community shouldn't care. If both of them grow up to be great display servers, then the projects can have their choice. Why make that choice now, when Mir isn't anything yet, and Wayland looks like an infinite road to nowhere?

So there you have it, a bad comment about Wayland. Why? Because I'm frustrated. X has been a pain in our collective asses for so many years, and the project that was going to change that receives almost no support. It's just this one guy going at it. No vendor support, no distro support. No one wants to touch it, so it takes 5 years to get to this point where it seems like it's almost ready for adoption, but still no one builds a desktop environment for it or any vendor interest.

Then a company just goes for it, allocates significant resources to it, and even uses its connections and leverage to get vendors in on it, and makes sure there's going to be a desktop environment for it. And the whole community just goes 'boo!'? what is that about?

What's the community got to lose? Why is it hurt? What has it invested in wayland?

I'll say it. Nothing. Just some code some dude made that's possibly going to be obsolete if Canonical succeeds. And if not, then Canonical made some obsolete code, which is their business risk, not ours to judge over.

If you ask me, the community should be positive. What have we got to gain? A possible X successor that's got multi-vendor support and a desktop environment that works. It's going to have a nice interface, takes up a lot of design clues from wayland and generally is going to kick ass if it works out.
It's shit like this that makes molotov cocktails seem like rational behavior.
In clinical medicine, "we cannot measure pain" is true, or at least "at [this institution], we cannot measure pain" is true, where [this institution] is every institution I've ever seen.

What's happening in the research world takes time to translate into practice, especially if it's not been validated in a large multi-center trial.
I was actually thinking something just a little more technical aimed at coders only. But maybe that's the real reason it doesn't exist: no one can agree on what it is. :)
That's not how foreclosures work. In most states, foreclosure is a judicially supervised sale in which the lien holder does not take title, but instead is entitled to part of the proceeds of the sale. Multiple lien holders may collect in case of say home equity loans, but at the end the original owner is entitled to whatever is left after satisfying the liens.

In some rare cases, with underwater mortgages, the lender may be allowed to take title.
I bet you go from 0 to Hitler in under 6 seconds.
Totally agree dude. That's my stand when I drop racial slurs ("slurs" am I right?)

It's not my job to know which words are going to upset another person's emotional state! I'm not a mind reader! My responsibility is only to say what I want.

Seriously though -- it's absolutely-fucking-hilarious that you think I'm the one lacking situational awareness. The guys who got up and made boob jokes? Total awareness, perhaps even masters of humor.

People who are offended, or can see why it would be particularly offensive to some women -- no awareness. Amazing.
Oh yeah, all of those Wayland developers:

https://github.com/nobled/wayland/graphs/contributors

I'm not equating Canonical with open source, I'm equating what they're making with open source. Because it is. What are you even talking about?
I agree with the main point of the article but there are parser generators like OMeta http://tinlizzie.org/ometa/ that help (more than ANTLR/Lex/Yacc) to think in the grammar from a higher level point of view without paying a lot of attention about ambiguities and grammar restrictions. Sure, OMeta is slow but it offers some solutions to the problems presented in the article.
Instagram Pictures Itself Making Money
The prank wasn't brought to light with the intention of offending women. It's a play on an activity with men, we look at boobs. Not everything involving sex is made with the objective of targeting someone, it's just a joke. If you fail to see it as such, that's your problem.
Musical Identity - How Music Taste Predicts Movie Taste
True.

I suppose I was mostly nit picking on the portrayal of "oh, hey, we had a good business, but, meh, so what."

When, for a lot of people, myself included, that sounds pretty nice. E.g. (from another reply) 2-3% monthly growth is meh? I suppose...

But, yes, as you said, different goals and circumstances (I of course know nothing about the company/VCs/etc.).

So, yeah, akharris, sorry for being an ass--shutting down a company definitely sucks, and you have to do it in front of your friends/hecklers on HN. Good luck on the next thing.
I wouldn't hold my breath on anything official but it's a pretty natural feature to expect and it would give them a $65-cheaper feature on par with something Apple TVs do.
I'm already seeing that trend. How many blogs have you seen thus far that have abandoned the side widget or even the footer?

Every post is just title, main content in a giant font and a back button. It seems some content creators are tired of shiny doodads.
It stands up well for in-memory tasks where doing the simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work is too slow.

The union of those two things is probably not a big component of most people's daily work though. Computers are fast now, you can get away with a lot of naive code.
Get to the point and state exactly why you got offended.
Ah, but convincing folks to run SSL inside the corporate firewall leads me to believe that Google may have treated the fiber between datacenters as not actually leaving the property.

(Yes, it is a tough sell to get folks to run SSL inside.)
5 lessons you can learn from fantasy football about building startup teams
Yah, hadn't noticed the typo until a while after I had posted it. Would love if a moderator would change the title.
It won't help much. Judge elections and appointments will then just be the focus of lobby groups. Watch the movie Hot Coffee to see how state supreme court judge elections are manipulated by business interests to install "friendly" judges.

Why not just make a law to cap the profits. Home must be sold at fair market price and the rest must be given to the owner.
> Given the demographics of the industry, I don't think it was an accident that it was "TitStare" rather than "DongStare" or "CockStare".

Translation from roundaboutspeak -> English: Yes, it was an app marketed at men (though remember that there are lesbians and bisexual men and women as well that like tits) that sexually objectified women.

If sexual objectification was the sole reason that made women leave an industry, there should be no women working for Playboy or the porn industry.

Last I checked, there were plenty of women working willingly in both.
Ok, thanks it's working now. What I was expecting was that it would be more automatic, in terms of automatically checking .cc, .co, ly, and various other common variations.
> HS math and calc a is some math, definitely not all, but a good chunk of what I would call "applied math"---the math that links directly to the real-world, meaning the concepts can be understood intuitively, e.g., the connections to physics.

IMHO there's little mathematics that can't be applied to the real world rather directly. I even heard mathematicians say that the distinction between pure and applied mathematics is mostly for historical reasons. Especially if you consider connections to physics as intuitive understandability - for example in string theory or quantum field theory you'll find lots of highly complicated mathematics.
Central to your comment is that you are comparing my post to a Hitler/holocaust argument. Ironically then, you have invoked Godwin's Law.
I would like to see the opinion of someone who actually brought their young child to the event... or even, ideally, from a child in attendance.

When parents bring a child to an event that's traditionally ~99% adults, I'm not sure that what they want is for the event to down-shift to be more 'family friendly'. They may be trying to show their child more of the authentic grown-up world.

I think that's what my parents were after when they brought me to R-Rated movies at the age of 9. (Or perhaps, they were just too cheap to hire a babysitter.)
In general, sex workers choose their profession out of desperation.