skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those not paying attention, this panel was the culmination of the Sarah Sharp/Linus Torvalds "abusive language" thread on the kernel developer mailing list. [1] The thread, or any abusive langauge situations, were not discussed in the panel.

Fun info nugget: Sarah was supposed to bring (THC-laced) brownies to this panel, with Linus' approval.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6069952
"Though maybe the OP mentioned that and I missed it."

He did, right after the diagram:

"Unfortunately, rearranging all the driveways in San Francisco probably isn’t feasible…"
Would taking antibiotics again, clear it out?
”San Luis Obispo is an extremely desirable place to live and there are only a handful of tech jobs in the area.”

This is definitely not true anymore (the handful of jobs part).

Shameless plug: I work in SLO for Mindbody and we're hiring.
https://www.mindbodyonline.com/company/careers
Err... catalyzing a paradigm change makes perfect sense to me. I think Thomas Kuhn might have used that in his book, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".

A lit class isn't going to make any comment on a phrase like that, or management speak in general. Management speak is just a jargon.
Which Pilot pens would you recommend? I find the gel pens bleed across the paper unless I blow on my writing for a few minutes on Moleskin paper.
They wrote the code, run the servers, pay for the storage, pay the telcos, pay the employees, have investors who want a return on their money, etc., etc.. In other words, they have actual costs associated with providing a needed service to those of us who don't want to implement it ourselves.
My default personality is very risk averse. I do lots of things that look crazy to other people. Different knowledge base, different goals, basically.

I agree with the first point of setting a clear goal so you know what you are actually trying to accomplish.

Also, learn about statistics. Most folks make logical errors when they "bet." Flipping a coin, the odds are always about 50/50, no matter what the last flip or last ten flips were. But people tend to think "The last three were heads, so we are overdue for tails." Nope. It is still about 50/50 (with, I think, a slight skew towards heads).

Get the facts or hard data. Be very skeptical about data that comes from iffy sources or processes. Trying to decide on hazy info sucks so bad. Good info leads to better decisions. "Garbage in, garbage out."

Get a sounding board, preferably one who has different strengths and weaknesses from you, not a "yes man" and not someone biased in the same way you are. My oldest son is very opposite me in some important ways. When we both vome yo the,same conclusion from very different directions it tends to be a very sound decision.

Anyway, real work calls or I could possibly drone on.
This wolf's been cried about many times, but I do think there is a hole in the market right now: Right now Microsoft is the only option for affordable really high-end desktop/laptop computers.

Contrary to the current hype, mobile is not going to replace the desktop/laptop except at the low end. If you want to do anything compute-intensive you need a "real computer."

You have Apple of course, but Apple gets unreasonably expensive for many applications. The Mac Pro is not cost-effective for power users. Their laptops are a tad better but not great.
4.2 was released in November, so it hasn't been a year yet (though I doubt the situation will be much better at that time).
I mostly take notes during meetings, which tend to happen in a chronological order.

When I was in school, subject-wise yes I used looseleaf paper. Man it's sad when you lose a sheet...
It indeed does. While not always perfect, are pretty useful. I account their lack of usefulness to deficits in how JS handles errors rather than the source map itself.
>"has seen Chromebooks race to a quarter of all computer sales and one fifth of all new PC school deployments."

Are there any hard numbers on Chromebook sales apart from nebuluous things like "being on top of Amazon" etc.?

I find it really hard to believe that quarter of all computer sales are Chromebooks. Does anyone have a source? One would expect Google to announce real shipments if they were that good.

Web usage metrics from a few months ago showed that Chromebooks are used even less than Windows RT.

http://www.zdnet.com/first-real-world-usage-figures-suggest-...

Also, I find it strange that SJVN likes to promote Chromebooks, which are even less "Free" and open compared to Windows machines and force the user to upload everything to Google's cloud.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/why-th...

One of the SJVN's articles reads like PR straight from CDW and Google.

http://www.zdnet.com/cdw-to-offer-enterprise-chromebook-supp...

Not sure why that is posted in the "Linux and Open Source" ZDNet blog when it is all about taking even more control away from the user.

>Outside of the community, most people don't see Linux's impact. Linux is usually invisible. When you go to any large Web site--Google, Facebook, Twitter--you're using Linux."

>It's not just that even the most die-hard Windows users are invisibly using Linux every day

Does that mean that programmers who claim to have gotten rid of Microsoft/Windows products are really using Windows without knowing it whenever they click on a Stack Overflow link? :)
> There's no evidence that this is how reality works,

Agree, to the extent we're talking rather direct evidence. It's like trying to distinguish between "poof magic" and "God did it". Quite impossible.

> and there's no particular reason to think that it should work this way.

Disagree. It's the simplest hypothesis to date that I know of. Therefore, I assign at least a non trivial probability to it.

> All current evidence is that it's a fantasy

You mean, current evidence speaks again the level IV multiverse hypothesis? Or something else? Anyway, please name three.

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> [The idea of a timeless universe is] a little different from the idea that reality is an incarnation of pure mathematics.

As far as I know, we try to express the laws of physics with pure mathematics since Newton, if not earlier. I think it at least indicates a hope that reality may be accurately described by pure math. Provided we can, good luck trying distinguishing that, and "being an incarnation of math. No way we can test it from within.

> In case, the fact that ideas have been around for some time has little bearing on their validity.

Of course. I was merely pointing out that this idea was more ordinary that you made it out to be. To me, it is not sensationalist at all. It's something I more or less independently thought about in my teen years.

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I maintain that Occam's Razor always suggest that the true explanation is simpler than the one we currently have. We're not logically omniscient. For any sufficiently complex explanation, there is always this nagging doubt that we missed something. Since by Occam's razor, the simpler explanation is the best explanation, the mere possibility of the existence of a simpler explanation is enough to suggest we're not there yet.

But it's no more than that, a suggestion. With enough double and triple checking, computer-verified proofs… we can be rather sure we did find the simplest explanation.

In the case of our current understanding of physics, we quite know for sure that we are missing something. In my opinion, that makes Occam's Razor's suggestion all the stronger.

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> By your premise, actual simplification would not be surprising, but claims have no necessary correlation to actual simplifications.

I was just saying that when I hear someone claiming something that I don't find very surprising, I generally take that as serious evidence that the claim is true. I may not believe them, but they would at least get my attention.

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> There are certainly cases where basic mathematical principles are expressed in a very direct way in the universe. Probability in quantum mechanics is one example,

Nope, not this one. :-) Quantum mechanics has to do with complex amplitudes, whose square determine the Born statistics. Plus, the wave function as we know it is deterministic. The relation to probability theory is tenuous at best. It serves more at hand-waving your way to the Copenhagen Interpretation, instead of biting the bullet and posit a collapse theory.
Could anyone shed some light on the meaning of "protected speech?" There was some hubbub concerning people being targeted by law enforcement for statements made on Facebook and Google searches. Would an expansion of the definition of protected speech curb these sorts of police actions?
I think this refers to death as distinct from the process of dying.
While I'd love to live a thousand years (as long as it's in decent health), the big danger to society is obviously that it'll be the very rich that will live that long, and they'll hold on to their power that much longer. It creates an even bigger division between rich and poor.

Imagine what the world would look like if the medieval elite were still alive today. It's good that the people in power die every once in a while.
The chapter on LLVM is excellent as well. Really explains the architecture and the choices made.
Facebook’s New Mobile Test Framework Births Bottom Tab Bar Navigation Redesign
As someone who went through a job hunt without a "Dribbblized" portfolio a couple years ago: Go with the Dribbble approach. At least if you're looking for anything resembling a design job.

That final layer of polish and execution is what gets you hired. If you don't have that, you get eliminated immediately. Nobody will ask about your process or your wireframes if your resume gets tossed in the trash bin. You'll never have a conversation about the organizational mission and how it relates to the product if you never get called back for an interview.

If you go in with Paul's first three steps (like I did) and you're lucky enough to talk to someone who doesn't eliminate based on that all-important fourth step of visual design, you'll find yourself in disagreement. There's 8,000 ways to build a product, and chances are your method simply won't line up with theirs.

Meanwhile, there's also 8,000 ways to make something look good, but all of those ways end up beautiful. It's hard to argue about solid visual design, even if it doesn't fit your particular style or tastes.

You can get away with subpar visual design skills at your own startup, like I did, but don't ever expect to get hired without developing those skills. They're more important than the other three combined.
"A couple of final notes: The panelists were asked if they've been approached by the US government to insert a back door into the Linux kernel. Torvalds said no while nodding his head, drawing a laugh."

...No he didn't...

Edit: Not clearly at least
If no one dies, what do we do with all those replacement people we keep making at the rate of about 300K per day?

We can stack them like cordwood for a while, but that gets messy, inconvenient and after a while, a bit smelly.
The two don't quite compare on an even plane anymore -- Android has Google Play Services, and has unbundled its apps from the core OS, and that makes a huge difference. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/balky-carriers-and-sl...
What wins: Freedom of religion or copyright?
While feeling patriotic this afternoon, the song "God Bless America" popped into my head. As I didn't remember all the lyrics, I did a search and the first set of lyrics I came upon:

http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/godblessamerica.html

had a rather explicit copyright notice at the top. It struck me as I thought about posting it to a page, whether or not I could quote the song without permission from the copyright holder.

The thing of it is, the song explicitly states that it is a prayer, and then directs that prayer to God. So it seems that using it should be a right afforded to us under the free exercise of religion clause of the first amendment.

So I wonder, what takes precedence? A person's legitimate claim to ownership of their creative work, or another person's free exercise of religion?
In most instances, the infections occurred after a person took antibiotics — which can wipe out the bacteria in the gut, making room for fungi like yeast to flourish ...

While the above is very plausible, it is rather unbelievable that a person could have enough Brewer's Yeast and fermentable material in their gut (or intestinal tract) to produce a significant amount of ethanol.

As a reference, packages of fresh beer yeast contain about one billion cells, which is enough to inoculate five gallons of wort.[1] (Wort is pre-fermented beer.)

1. http://www.wyeastlab.com/hb_productdetail.cfm?ProductID=16
I don't understand what getting paid for answers is for? They volunteer to help answer questions, most do this because they get that warm fuzzy feeling inside from doing a good deed and helping someone out, the rest for the free access to the site.

No one at SO gets paid to post. so why should EE pay them to post?
That whole article is incredibly creepy -- 'War on Aging' -- do we really need more 'War on X' rhetoric? Regarding the fact that we know that we eventually die, he states

> So soul-destroying has this knowledge been, for almost everyone, that we have constructed our entire society and world view around ways to put it out of our minds'.

Absolutely ridiculous. Besides the fact that I think a 'soul' is a poorly-defined construct and thus hard to crush, I really don't see a problem with death; to me it's just as necessary as birth. Sure, it's sad when someone dies, and death can be a traumatic experience, but it's also simply part of being a biological organism. I suppose I find some agreement with de Grey in that large portions of societies fear death and try not to think about it. However, perpetual avoidance through the declaration of war on Death seems practically infantile in view.
People said the same thing 6 years ago, but then it wasn't hipsters.
The pendulum is swinging back already. I think this article is a few years behind the trend. Also, the idea that US schools are just about testing, testing, testing is a bunch of Quatsch.
Yes, I thought so too when I first was looking into AngularFire. However, the point of OPs article seems to be that it's great for prototyping, not production, and that was an 'aha!' for me as to its usefulness.
Windows 8 is a paid update. Comparing the two is ludicrous.
Completely anecdotal, but their rental prices for Redwood City are in line with what I pay. The median prices they list for other cities seem to be in line with what I'm seeing looking at different places to live as well.
Definitely, but they usually won't have a problem with you working on an open source project. Just don't work on a startup, obviously don't want ownership concerns there.
Yes, thanks. The problem is certain operations work differently depending on the mode, and you end up having to do debugging/source code digging to really understand it, which is a frustrating waste of time.
Pretty disingenuous comparison. One is a smartphone OS, the other is a desktop OS which makes up the majority of enterprise systems.
Realism looks like such a misnomer. Or does it mean something deeper than the existence of a hidden variable?
This is the third or so time this blog has been posted to HN and every time people ask where they got their data and every time there is no response. This time, some of their data doesn't look so good, at least with the boundaries on the map being all messed up. Also it's not clear if they adjust for inflation.
Free accounts can access I believe 1 answer a month.

Not hard to remove a site from search results, Wasting 5 seconds of doing that seems like alot of waste for you to write a 2 minute post on this..
(Without any real evidence) I think this usually happens intentionally in new construction. It's actually to the homeowner's advantage to place their driveway such that cars can't park next to it:

In SF, having a driveway with a bit of unusable space on one side gives you an extra parking space -- on the street. Blocking your own driveway there is legal. Even if you have room for your car(s) in a garage, I'd imagine an extra space is frequently useful in a city with such limited parking.

A bit of dead space also provides a buffer to turn into and out of the driveway that might sometimes be necessary (your turning radius isn't zero and some streets are narrow).

(Background: I lived in SF for 12 years but never owned a car or driveway there.)
I was thinking the same thing. I don't use paper for note/task taking (more for journalling). I use org-mode for that stuff.

Would be interesting if there was a nice script to capture a BulletJournal spread and translate it to an org-mode entry...
This is exactly what I logged in to write. For a website called statwing.com there is a lack of statistics in this article.

At the top is the disclaimer: "this is not a scientific study". Then they present their data and bring up some new questions based on their findings and link to their stats tool.

The problem is: their are no conclusions to be drawn from this, no new questions that arise, no discussion we can have- its the back of a cereal box.

If they do a little more work and show that they have found something meaningful- then we'll talk.
look it's simple - there is a combination of fairly simple factors:

l - parental distance (length)
t - parental distance (time)
F - Lord Of the Flies coefficient
d - diversity of other children within reach

TotalPositivePlay = (l x t )
-------- raised to power of d
F

in short, if a group of parents take their children to a park and can see them a hundred yards off for an hour,
only have to intervene once to stop them bullying the snivelly kid, and almost every race, creed and class are represented in the kids - it will be a great day out.

So build for open or natural spaces, with good lines of sight and minimal killers like cars, allow parents the time to relax and realise its ok for Jimmy to run off for an hour because the shopping can wait, and then let them teach kids not to follow their instincts but actually respect others smaller and weaker then them, we might get over our fears.

yes we lean too much to DVDs and so on. but two weeks ago my kids and I painted cardboard dragons, picked blue series from a bush, ran off and hid in the woods, fell off swings and slides, made two meals and fought with foam swords. oh and I felt I just put them in front of the TV all the time.

lighten up FFS. Cars, commuting and the easy lure of the TV has hurt how we bring up children - but they also don't feel isolated, bored, or unprepared for a rapidly changing new world.

but yes, lets cut back on the organised activites and just to to the park more often.
It's briefly touched from the article that doing this is probably not feasible, but something to keep in mind when new building get started.
It would seem like there would be some kind of middle ground where adjuncts should be paid a little more and get health care, and students pay less in tuition. $3,500 to teach 50 students? Where does all the tuition go? That's enormous overhead for buildings and administration, especially in a low cost area. Even you turn the $3,500 to $10,000 with a raise and health care baked in, it's only $200 per student. (I'm making assumptions on class size)
> most of the fun groups like you mention had were actually at the expense of the kids like me.

I'm sorry for your experience, but that's absolutely not what I meant, nor what happened. "Fighting" as I said there was actually things like snowball fights in the winter or paper-cone-in-tube or soft/rotten-fruit-in-sligshot fights in the summer, and always in a group-vs-group setting. I am in fact your fairly typical shy introverted bookish geek and the reason I think so highly of this type of play is precisely because it allowed me to overcome these tendencies and be a normal kid.

My real worry here isn't that kids today aren't doing the exact same things I did. It's that they don't have the option to do certain things anymore - things which may in fact be extremely valuable. What I described in my OP wasn't false, but it wasn't complete - I also spent much time playing Legos, reading books, "technical activities" with my dad's tools. Better or worse, one thing I can definitely say is my nephew has far fewer options and choices than I did at his age.
LinkedIn Fights In Court For Surveillance Transparency on Multiple Fronts
We actually recently made a similar map for a number of metros, normalized by square footage to control for different unit sizes. It's interesting to note the differences in the map between the two metrics (total rent and per sqft):

https://kwelia.com/maps/choropleth?metro_group=SF+Bay+Area
Alternative theory: Easier parking -> less driving around looking of parking spots -> less traffic.

I rarely drive in SF but when I do I often find that when I go to find a parking space there a many other people also driving around looking for parking spaces. I wonder what percentage of driving in SF is spent looking for parking.
I disagree with this thinking, because it assumes no innovation, an assumption that is provably wrong, when it comes to humanity.
Ever hear of a spam filter, Mine works extermely effective..
Most of my happiest moments as a child were while playing organized sports. I'm not sure where you're getting your idea that dis-organized sports are "actually fun" with the implication that playing on a team isn't, but you might want to reconsider.
Intel has been paying lip service to Linux for years but most of their desktop/mobile Linux initiatives have failed. If nothing else, it's a great bargaining tactic to keep Microsoft in check.
Web scraping gone terribly wrong. Dead bullied teen appears in online dating ad.
Intel has been vocally supporting Linux for years, including contributing OS code, drivers, software dev tools, and even rewrites of the OS for platforms (see Tizen). They were doing this long before MS's decline.
A world in which anti-aging technology exists is strictly superior to a world in which anti-aging technology does not exist, regardless of who has access to it.

Of course, universal access is far better, and we should keep that in mind, but if it takes profit-motivated corporations to bring the technology into existence in the first place, then so be it.
Not so much "taking over" as "being given in exchange for eternal life". They know how to make any deal attractive.
which is because the carriers were not making the updates available in a timely fashion, correct?
Okay, let's attach numbers to the scenario. Assume there are 1 million people in Group A and 990 million people in Group B.

By voting no, you just condemned 900,000 people in Group A to eventually die, simply because you wanted to prevent them from becoming the ruling elite.

Stated differently, you had the power to prevent 900,000 deaths (and in fact many more than that, moving forward), and you chose not to because of ideology.

Surely it is better for people to not die - to not cease to exist - even if that means they rise to the top of the social hierarchy?
Here is the original story:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/18/4742828/cyanogen-raises-7-...

Please don't post blog-spam. Whoever guru8 is, the least they could do is make the source attribution a link to the original article, or maybe spell-check a bit:

"I must way installing Cyanogen Mod softwares on your android phones isn’t the easiest to install, however the benefits are worth the risk, because your phone gets additional features, some ROMs are said to be faster and better looking."
If it was a huge deal, wouldn't epidemiologists be slobbering over the statistical power they would get from using it?

That is, if they can control for it, they can make assertions about smaller effects.