skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, you can move at your own pace. I'm sure nobody would work at a company where some terrible nephew who didn't know anything about computing was hired, and where everyone is assigned a random bug report to fix each day, but nobody could leave until the nephew pushed to upstream. So you might finish your daily bug in an hour, but now have to sit around waiting (without Internet access or the ability to leave your cubicle or converse with anyone) until hes done.
You lost me at the emphasis on 1-2 hours of bible study.
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I am in the middle of constructing my own piMAME powered arcade cabinet. I've wanted one for years and building it has been one of the most fun things I've done.
"Putting on airs" is not bullying. Being smug is not bullying. Your Aunt mocking you could be a form of bullying, however, I strongly doubt that your Aunt is representative of the hipster movement.
Rather a moot point, as tablets are useless for typing anything of value. They're only meant for consumption of videos and other diversions.
When I was in High school (especially my senior year) I'd schedule study halls at the end of the day, and spend lunch in the study hall, to do homework on-site so I didn't have any at home.

Pretty much straight A's that year, and I took 4 AP courses I got a minimum of a 4 on.
What annoys me most is not the evident maneuver that benefited Microsoft alone. It's not that Elop will be rewarded for destroying a company. It's the many Nokia employees who lost their jobs thanks to what amounts to be facilitating an acquisition by screwing shareholders and employees.

Doesn't Finland have laws about this?
According to Wikipedia [0] it isn't all sorrows. There are other fuels available in large quantities at a low price, like Strontium-90 used in many Russian radioisotope thermoelectric generators. Other fuels like Americium-241 are also showing big promise, and are available commercially in large quantities. Americium-241 also has a much longer half-life, and can hypothetically power a device for centuries.

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Well the issue here is that he was guilty under the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 Section 11 (which re-criminalized male homosexuality in Great Britain — actual sodomy was a separate crime)
Active Directory itself, as you identity, isn't anything remarkable. However, it is valuable because it is deeply integrated into all of Microsoft's products and a huge range of products from 3rd party vendors.
I feel awkward now. Whoops.
D [0], according to the author and me. Maybe Rust at some point.

Go is not flexible enough: Required garbage collection, no type-safe generic programming (yet), opinionated concurrency model.

[0] http://dlang.org/
I became a member of that site when it started; "e-peen measuring contest" is an accurate way to describe it.
Why do patent trolls love East Texas and Delaware? They win more there.
Seems like you could make more than .60 a day doing Mechanical Turk jobs. It'd be a little less mind numbing than watching commercials every day.
Which H.264 encoder is that? Would it be a feasable project to port it to D? Or maybe to Rust?
> To not rant: the fact that someone criticizes you is not a sign of a quality that they hold of being a criticizer, When people criticize you, they are criticizing you, and if you feel that that makes them a criticizer, it's because you define other individuals in terms of yourself.

Well that makes no sense whatsoever. If you criticize someone, then in fact you exhibit the trait of criticizing. But you'll notice I didn't use the term "criticizer", so it's a moot point.

> What does fault even mean?

In the context of what I wrote, it was not the author who caused the nastiness. He went to a park with a typewriter. People made horrible comments about him. Many people said they hated him. To say you hate somewhat entails the act of hating, which would make you a hater. Not sure how to spell it out more clearly.

As someone else has already pointed out, your examples aren't relevant to this article. What this guy went through bares no resemblance to fox hunting (?!?!), or annoying others with bad singing.

> The victim of being upset that people on twitter and reddit didn't like him? Cry me a river

You are blaming the victim! Thankfully, there are more people in the world who call people out on blaming the victim than there are who actually blame the victim.
His style was never obsolete. Soon designers will reject all that flat fad because of what it really is , hyped non sense that goes against basic usability.Then all flat UIs will look obsolete.
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I'm the glaring absence of work/life balance in this post.
Team games like Dota or League of Legends add another problem:

I wouldn't worry that much if I get trashed individually, but when you're a part of a (randomly selected) team and you drag them down, I really get stressed. I worry to the point I haven't played a ranked game yet(I play LOL) , even though I reached Level 30 months ago.

I'm sure there are some groups of casual players that don't mind having a mediocre player (to play in matchmade groups), but I haven't found them yet.
there should be a service that combines amazon turk with bitcoins.
Agreed. Though I wasn't saying I cheated to get my grades or that they were artificially inflated, just that I avoided homework. In my school your homework grades never counted towards you actual grades, and if your homework wasn't going to teach you something, what is the point?
1) What does this have to do with knowing Paris is a capital?

2) What's the big deal? I'm sure most people don't know the capital of Mongolia or Canada or Switzerland or Slovenia or Croatia. And these aren't even African countries.

3) What's the practical limitation here? Are you unable to travel to cities that you didn't know the names of 10 minutes before you found them on Google maps?
Which apparently has been flagged off of the front page.
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Massive diesel smoke out inside Thoroughbred Diesel Shop. This Dodge Cummins by Bean was rolling coal all over the shop during it's dyno run. Video was during the Thoroughbred Diesel 4th Annual Judgement Day in Winchester, KY.
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And Epic's demo was their previous gen engine, Unreal Engine 3, which targets mobile platforms: iOS, Android, PSP...
Meanwhile, the state of the art UE4 is only aimed at next gen consoles and native PCs games.
Actually, some insecure options came out, because the NSA was helping it in development...

That's how i got the first examples on the list... There are probably more options though.
His phrasing was confusing, but I think what tptacek said agrees with you.
No, not THAT kind of apple picking
I don't think he destroyed anything, just Nokia got caught off-guard by the iPhone and never recovered. As for choosing Windows Phone over Android, we'll never know and now it's easier to criticize but I would have done the same thing.

Sometimes it just doesn't work and companies need to reinvent or die.
People often assume that when someone is dressed unusually they are doing it for attention.

I don't know anyone who actually dresses for attention. I know plenty of people who dress unusually though, since I'm part of the rock/goth/alternative community in my city. Every one of them dresses according to their sense of aesthetics. They dress in a way that they think looks good.

I get the feeling that a lot of the people complaining about hipsters are like when you get regular people complaining about modern art or jazz music. Ignorant people making assumptions. I'm not saying I understand hipster fashion, but I at least know that I don't understand it. I find it hard to believe that many people dress in a way that they personally think looks bad in order to be fashionable.
I agree you can make more. But, one thing to consider is, you have to have a bank account to deposit turk money into or buy things from Amazon. Neither of those has the immediacy of Bitcoin.

Also, a lot of homeless have issues getting a bank account. We have millions of "unbanked" people in the US alone.
Experience, reading, knowing which projects got the coöperation with the NSA...
My monitor is way to crappy to take that test :)
I'm doing this at the moment. We have a gnarly ball of legacy code that is burning out devs. It actively resists any attempt to disentangle its parts and after years of attempts at refactoring it's gnarliness is barely reduced. I'm of the opinion that the actual problem it is solving is not nearly as complex as the code. We've extracted a smaller problem that contains all the hardest parts and are solving it with 2-3 different approaches. A completely naive implementation of the core functionality took only a few days and is already faster than the original.

The trouble at the moment is convincing the management that a) this is productive work and b) it really is time to (incrementally) rewrite this code - it's beyond saving. From their point of view it looks like we want to scrap something that sort-of works most of time and do all the work from scratch. It's difficult to convey just how much psychic damage the current code is causing to someone who isn't buried in it day-to-day.
I agree. Just a couple months ago I attempted to shift a lot of my programming work towards my tablet, just to try it out.

In short; it sucks. You need constant internet connection because you're always ssh'd in. The flow of productivity is interrupted every time you have to lift your hand to physically touch the screen, and even with a high-end keyboard the technology to quickly traverse a screen just isn't there yet.
Tablets and mobile devices are primarily consumption devices, and are ill-suited for creating anything. However, going by the 90/9/1 rule, there's a much bigger potential set of consumption consumers than creators.
Do you really need to teach your kid this stuff even? The smart and smart-enough-but-lazy ones seem to figure it out just well enough for themselves.
Exactly. A research group will build an experimental setup and then do several experiments with it. In each paper you need to describe the experimental setup, so it makes sense to write that description once and use it in several papers while only changing the parts of the setup that you changed for the new experiment. Another case in which this often occurs is in the introduction. Each paper has a one or two paragraph introduction to the field. For instance papers about breast cancer maybe have an introduction that goes "Breast cancer occurs in X% of women over N years old, etc etc". Since a researcher's papers are most times in the same field, it makes sense to reuse those paragraphs in several papers. They may call this "self-plagiarism" but in my opinion there is nothing unethical about this.
Sorry, I don't understand. Cringely's idea is not a brainless iPad, more like a brainless laptop/desktop

When laptops came out, many people docked them at home/work to a full keyboard and monitor. Why have two (or three) computers to maintain and worry about? Why go to the hassle of switching between them - your files, apps and customized environment?

To be fair, today is different, the cloud (dropbox etc) helps. But avoiding the problem in the first place has an appeal too; and dropbox doesn't solve apps. Though using webapps exclusively could solve that.

You may have a point about the price difference though - is it really only $50 to buy a PC box these days? (i.e. excluding display, keyboard, mouse).
I have a little NES programming experience. The 6502 assembler I use is NESASM, which is also the one those tutorials recommend. There are others called Asm6 and CA65 that I haven't tried.

The syntax that each assembler recognizes is slightly different so source code that assembles properly in one assembler may not assemble properly in another. This is something to watch out for when looking at code examples on the nesdev.com forums.

HAVE FUN with NES programming! :) I've only ever made simple programs. However, the only limits are your imagination. The homebrew game "Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril" was created recently, which is one of the best NES games in my opinion.
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Any idea why it'd be flagged?
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I don't see them doing that against the chairman of the EU parlement ;).

Spying in secret, yeah, sure. But hitting with a wrench? :P
It seems evident that the plan all along was for Microsoft to acquire what's left of Nokia. This was probably blessed by the board of directors in strict secrecy. Of course I'm just guessing here, but the more details are surfacing the more it seems like that. Microsoft is paying 70% of the Mr. Elop's reward (source: Finnish news).

> Doesn't Finland have laws about this?

Finnish laws follow Nokia, not the other way around. See "lex Nokia":
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/06/finland_nokia_snoopi...
apple rolled her own OS, i dont think rolling your own OS is the problem ...
Ah, got it. I thought it was way more sinister than that.

On a side note, does any programming languages force you to use the return value of every function call?
Microsoft "partners" have a history of getting royally screwed. Android was the obvious choice, only a complete idiot (or in this case, a Microsoft mole) would choose otherwise.

Not every company needs to reinvent to survive, plenty of companies perform well sticking in a middle ground. As did all the phone manufacturers who used Android...
My younger brother who is now in his mid-twenties had to memorize state capitals, in elementary school. I had to memorize a map of Europe in 6th grade. It's somewhat meaningless.
The core criticism is always that hipsters are purposefully contrary as a method of attention seeking.

Also, being judgemental and having a superiority complex are very different to bullying. Thinking you are better than someone is very different to telling them they are worse than you.
> He doesn’t have to worry as much about getting robbed.

Er, laptop?
Works for the drug companies with soon-to-expire patents.
We have to keep in mind what the academic definition of plagiarism is, because it isn't the same as the lay person definition. Reusing the same fragment of as few as 3 or 4 words without direct attribution is plagiarism.

For fun, trying googling "It increases the amount of crap", and you will find that your very own post meets the academic definition of plagiarism. Both for containing a single plagiarised phrase and percentage wise (46% plagiarised!).

I've seen post grads spend weeks using software to look for identical phrases of 4 words in their final work and previous work and then slightly rephrasing a sentence to avoid duplication of a common phrase and the dreaded self-plagiarism. Then running the thing again and inevitably finding the new wording was a duplication as well. I couldn't see it as anything other than a colossal waste of time. If you are writing about the same topic it's inevitable that you will phrase things in the same way at times.

All of this does nothing to combat the CV padding you worry about because it only concerns reusing the same exact language, not talking about the same ideas over and over in different ways.

As an outsider it seems that academia has descended into a kind of madness about plagiarism and self plagiarism. I think this is largely thanks to software companies trying to sell their plagiarism detection systems.
A company I know of just went to unassigned cubes. Cubes are first come first serve each day, and as a result of that you can't store things overnight in the cube. Besides real estate savings for the company, I suppose it makes the firing process quicker.
It's kind of interesting.
I typically expected a shallow world to actually have a decent taste in beauty. But when I look at many celebrities, I find a serious lack of physical attraction to any of them.
Like sure there are actresses that I can respect and admire, but many of them lack any talent, or even modicum of depth.

And I always wonder, wherever I go I see young attractive women everywhere, and I go to a university where Liberal arts is the focus, so where are all the attractive actresses.
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Might as well be titled "25 things to do with a computer", since very few are anything to do with the Raspberry Pi itself.
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Which is insane. These are kids not professional football players. I like sports, but the entire culture of children and teenage sports in the US is totally whack.
I automatically read your name as 'TobbenFM' ^_^
The math doesn't add up.

At "0.000133 bitcoins a day" it would take 7518 days (more than 20 years) to make one bitcoin.

At "0.0004 bitcoins" per video it would take 2500 videos to watch to make one bitcoin.

The amount of wasted human capital is insane. Why don't these people get jobs? There are tons of posts on Craigslist for jobs that don't require any education - delivery, waiters, busboys, cleaning, etc.
watching commercials every day

I don't think the YouTube clips that he watches are commercials. From TFA:

thanks to a service, called BitcoinGet, that shamelessly drives artificial traffic to certain online clips

Seems more like aspiring YouTube stars paying for traffic to their videos so that they rank higher on YouTube's site.

The other app he uses - Bitcoin Tapper - does seem like straight up being paid to click on ads though.
In the UK there are some prosecutions and investigations taking place related to allegations of child abuse going back to the 1970's which have only recently been reported. I don't think there is any general statute of limitations here for criminal prosecution.
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Interestingly, this has not been reported in the UK.
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Why don't these people get jobs?

You're asking a rational question of irrational people. When someone has a fundamental problem - depression, addiction, anxiety, etc. they often don't make rational decisions.
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The Pledge of Allegiance is recited every morning at almost every school in the United States. It is taught to children much too young to understand what it means. Here are the current words:

"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

It is said facing the flag, with your right hand over your heart. Originally it was said while saluting the flag, however, it was replaced with the hand over heart gesture during WWII, as it was similar to the Nazi salute.

Congressional sessions also open with the recital of the Pledge of Allegiance.

By the way, the words "under God" where only added on June 14, 1954.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance
I like this but I don't like that it's branded as a Medium clone. Be that as it may, I wish it would stand on its own as a unique solution despite the apparent similarities.
Some of the comments on that article are surprisingly nasty
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blah the HN app I was using gave me no notification that a comment was posted. I wasn't trying to spam.
error-prone is a Google project to catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors.

Here is the announcement by the lead developer:
https://plus.google.com/105376746420084065162/posts/g3q53jRK...
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Oh my, this is like an OCD sufferer's dream :)
My result is 32 (0 is perfect, 99 is low). But the best and highest scores for my demographic look wrong, -160 and 444445389. Is that a bug or am I misunderstanding something?

A few observations. I think it's easier if you don't group the hues roughly immediately. I did that and it made it harder to discern the hues later when I was doing fine adjustments. Also, I'm a bit worried about my monitor not accurately displaying all the colours, possibly making them look the same.
How are the acquired shareholders getting screwed? Was Nokia worth more than $5B at the time of acquisition?
It seems to me that it is not a property of bitcoin or cryptocurrency itself that is allowing these folks to supplement their income with "manual" labor. Instead it feels like the fact that it's a new, relatively unexploited market that is enabling these ventures to scrape together the people and resources necessary by using extremely thin margins. I can't imagine this will be viable for long as more people get into it.

Sure, you can provide clicks in exchange for bitcoin, and that might help some homeless people right now. But what happens when that becomes over-saturated and/or youtube et. al. get better at preventing that? Amazon Turk + BTC could be viable.

> This is the only property for which Dale is currently accepting digital currency, but so far, he says, “it’s been a good experience because bitcoins have gone up in value, so it’s more than I would have gotten in regular dollars.”

I bet he won't be so happy when the price swings in the other direction. Therein lies the eternal problem with BTC for trade on a scale even beginning to approach that of what goes on in the world today.
Being in an extremely economically depressed area of the country doesn't help either.
Pardoning Alan Turing is not a good idea in my opinion. This sends the message that what he did was wrong, and only because he happens to be a war hero he gets pardoned. This makes it seem like the other homosexuals who got the same treatment as Turing do not deserve a pardon. Just because Turing was a genius does not make his treatment any more unjust than the treatment of those other people. Therefore either all homosexuals who were prosecuted should be pardoned, or nobody should be.
There are many, many people with limited programming skills who routinely do business analysis with SQL, and a whole suite of tools from e.g. Oracle to cater to exactly that audience. So while it's not really "human readable", in a sense it has achieved its goal of letting not-so-technical people do things that used to be reserved to computer scientists.
your computer at home has everything waiting for you just the way it was at work.

Though not your phone (if you need to work at other times/places).

Historically, we've cycled between distributed and centralized computing. I'm not convinced the cloud is the one true way (though certainly we'll keep the option of being connected). Factors include: price of computing power; how much is actually needed; network bandwidth/latency.

Personally, the latency of webapps drives me up the wall. Makes me wonder if a resurgence in apps is coming. Native apps seem more popular on phones...
Exactly. Especially given Microsofts $250 million prepayment to Nokia.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/26/microsoft-paid-nokia-250-...
Why is it necessary? He's dead, and likely so are those who prosecuted him. The whole push seems pointless to me. I don't dispute the injustice of what happened to him, but I don't see how a pardon makes it better in any way.
Gabest's FLV Splitter is a FLV decoder. Personally I do not think 2 codecs are commonly understood as a codec pack but HN strongly disagrees.

The funny thing is that when people complain about codec packs in general it's that they bloat your system with tons of codecs you do not need, not that you get one codec for nearly everything and one for FLV.
> The math doesn't add up.

I would imagine they pay less (in bitcoins) now than they did, say, a year ago.