skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, even though I've very thick skin and it really doesn't worry me when I see negativity on the internet... I still find it astounding that people are so much harsher behind a keyboard than they ever are in real life.

I'm sure there are studies that explain it, etc. but I still find it interesting, and sometimes it's actually completely unproductive. Hell, adults goading teenagers to kill themselves -- that HAPPENS online. I still don't understand it.

I'm a bit of an asshole in real life. I'm a bit of one on the internet at times; being blunt is necessary at times. But people just seem to forget that there are people behind the screen-name, after all.

I disagree with your thesis here, just by the way. Plenty of sites have nothing to do with marketing, and yet it has remained. Usenet had no advertising either to begin with, but was even WORSE than the 'net at times. I think it's more primal than that, something to do with being "faceless in a crowd" -- the sort of things that cause mobs and riots. *shrugs
Strongly disagree with "acknowledging" which is really the same thing - automatic, implicit acceptance of whatever happens next.

A domain and an email address don't imply anything by itself and it's impossible to know without significant research whose and what policies are in effect. You could arguably require one or more lawyers just to decipher what exactly you're subject to when you factor in different countries, company locations, server locations etc.

Phones and web/desktop mail clients have made email addresses virtually invisible in lieu of our contacts' names, and the factors I mentioned in my other post make it impossible to ultimately know what inbox an email really ends up in anyway.

Are we agreeing, or acknowledging, a telco's terms and conditions when we dial a number?
Wow. This is pretty inspiring. We at https://erpnext.com have been looking to help govt agencies implement our Open Source ERP, but lack a forum where we can connect with such needs. Can you suggest us a way forward. I think our product can serve a great need for government organizations.
I saw you, thanks for trying it out!
I'm not sure how you can do this kind of social research and be absolutely sure about the results you'll find, apart from taking a sample, measuring and trying to concatenate one fact with the other.

What nobody knows is the exact weight of this factor in the unknown equation which governs human intelligence. Hence from a scientific point of view:

"Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations […] may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be." - Roger Cotes.

Excerpt from the preface to Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica, second edition, 1713.
This is the most amazing thing I have ever heard of. The creepy part lies in the fact the lake makes animals crash into its surface killing them and then preserving their bodies almost as if it is on purpose. The photos are extremely eerie and brilliant. I don't think I would want to go swimming in this lake, that's for sure.

I would however like to see the original colour photos the photographer took. Obviously they've been treated and edited a little, I would like to know how much they've been modified.
Nothing I work on is truly important. :)

And I actually mean that. Not yet. Soon, perhaps, but not now. And I said "pretty intelligent", not that I was up there with the greats. I find it interesting you took that from my post!
I'm also interested on this!
The opening statement is misrepresenting RMS; when he says "nonfree", he means Free. The article author seems to zero in and focus on the "open source" aspect of it all. Even if you have the unobfuscated Javascript source-code, you probably don't have the right to modify it.

Whatever you think on the matter, its best if articles explain RMS's stance accurately and with the right weight in the right place.
I vaguely recall that HIPAA means that only US citizens can work in jobs where medical data will be handled. Does that apply here?
That's easy.

You signed up for Gmail knowing how your email service is being paid for.

As for National Security, well, the hell with it! No role for a nation or security unless I get to define the parameters of my privacy!

Snowden 2020! (When he'll be over 35 ;)).
This is quite an amazing interface, very cool indeed!
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It is not disrespectful at all. Everybody heals in different ways. You do what you have to do to help yourself heal. I wish you and your family all the best and hope you find today easier than yesterday.
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Nice project, but the name is terrible IMO, in terms of being overly generic and possibly ungooglable - it's painful enough to sort out crap when looking for RAW image troubleshooting.
(Slightly OT)

You do not have Google. Google has Google, and currently allows you to use it, with certain conditions, caveats, and fine print.

Some people might not like the uncertainty and/or the tradeoffs required. Please do not act as if everyone should accept them as a fact of life.

Besides, it makes more sense for an application to implement its own search, since the application has both the domain knowledge and direct access to all its own data.
Did your parents know what the biological parents of your sibling were like ? I am playing the Pygmalion card.

Regarding your brother who has been in prison many times: adopted boys I know of are often in trouble. I think it's really hard to adopt and raise a child born from someone else. Some things don't seem to click.

I wonder what the statistics are telling about adopted children's success in life and how it is linked to biological parents and the adopting family education.
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Our CRM is built in Ruby on Rails and we have some ambitious ideas to take it to the next level. We run hundreds of real estate websites running a CMS built in Python+Django with a MySQL datastore.
* Real estate data is all stored in MongoDB, served up over an HTTP API written in Python/Tornado
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We are also a bit of a polyglot shop with code written in Go, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript all running in production.

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Not to mention the hated non-resizable, piece-of-shit bookmarks dialog that hasn't been fixed year after year after year: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418864
My issue is the lack of a properly support x64 build of Firefox.

I hit the 3GB limit pretty much daily, FF crashes, I start it up again, back come my 200 tabs, thankfully not all loaded at once!

I'll admit I know the cause of the problem, Reddit Enhancement Suite, but I'd rather have FF crash daily than go without RES.
Not the guy you're asking but I have something to tell you.

I've never heard of Beacon, so I went to your site. The site does not immediately and clearly tell me what Beacon does. That sucks.

No, I don't want to watch a video to find out.

Only at this point do I know what it does:

"When you fund a writer on Beacon, you also get access to every story from every other writer. New writers are added each month so your subscription becomes more valuable over time."

Weird that I "also" get access, as you didn't actually tell me that you get access to a particular writer if and only if you fund them.

It seems like your product is niche journalism. What you are apparently currently triyng to sell is "Pay a journalist." That is not a product and it is not a value to anyone except the journalist.

An alternative sales pitch would be: "We're building a grassroots journalism network. For $5 a month, you can sponsor a writer whose work interests you to get access to their work, and as a bonus, we'll give you access to the entire network."

It's realize highly presumptious of me to say all this. I would expect that you already know it. Plus, maybe your model for generating new subscribers does not include "they go to the website never having heard of what it is before." So, sorry if I'm wasting your time.
actually this is a question that I had - could mediums like television, or a tablet app make up for the parents not talking ?

Or does it need for the child to speak back ?
"im"?

And what happened to your Shift keys?
First, to be pedantic, we aren't descended from apes, just very closely related to them with a common ancestor.

Second, is there any evidence that the evolutionary history of intelligence was linear? How do we know that there wasn't a binary-like change where one generation didn't have our level of intelligence and the next did, and all humans today are descended from that single change, as opposed to it happening gradually?
When you say consulting, what do you mean?

To me, consulting is 'providing outside expertise and advice, to teach a client what to do and how'. For instance, you might have a sales consultant teach you how to build a better sales pipeline. A software consultant would show you how to commission outsource work, or design a service architecture, but not actually implement them.

I get the feeling that on HN it means something else?

Often, people here transition very easily into consulting, and treat it as a worst case fallback job, which is crazy because I figured the kind of consulting mentioned above is engaging, well paid, really hard to get started in, and a business in itself.
You are right. On an iPhone, I will not use a SQL database.

Dealing with performance, ChocoDB is currently fast enough for me (2x times slower that classic SQLite ; my first version was 8x slower!)
Will Google Put Rivals' Logos In Search Results?
Goedkope citytrips: Budapest, een stad van tradities
The lamp is irrelevant. Look at the cars.
There are 4 "officially supported" devices being Canonical's priority and then a whole list of other devices that can use the Ubuntu Touch OS: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices

To check on the progress of the 4 priority devices, see: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArLs7UPtu-hJdDZ...

Conclusion:

1. You can use Ubuntu Touch on a Galaxy Nexus already today, for the most important features.

2. The Ubuntu Touch launch date was set for the end of this month (october 2013).
Reading this gave me goose bumps since you managed to describe and explain something I've been thinking about for a long time.
> because it can be lower-level a little moot if the core is still C just like in Singularity.

Not exactly, as it's more likely they didn't want to roll their own kernel when there's a perfectly good open source one. Microsoft and Windows didn't really have that luxury and based on the project's likely goals with its commericial leaning successor, Midori, they wouldn't want to use something under the GPL either. I'm not a hard core kernel developer, but I'd wager one could be written in Vala if one was so inclined.
Do you accept E3 visa applicants?
You say fortunate, I say foresighted. In any event. I imagine that he started building it to meet his own needs and the growth of revenue now is a happy side-effect.
Same here, in the German version of XP:

Der Prozedureinsprungpunkt "GetSystemDefaultLocaleName"
wurde in der DLL "KERNEL32.dll" nicht gefunden.
You admit that your experience is an outlier ("and I'm definitely the only one like this from my family, a clear outlier"), yet you appear to be trying to use your experience to disprove the effect of environment on intelligence.
Makes me think of breaking bad outside of US: Sir you have cancer. Oh no I have to cook meth and sell it. But no Sir health care will pay for your treatment. The end.

http://christopherkeelty.com/pop-culture/breaking-bad-outsid...
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I don't know such a source but you may be able to find some after some research. Like Spree is an open source product but the company behind it employs developers to work on the product.
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Hey Guys, I am currently developing a new chat application made for group chating and easy switch between conversations. The app is named ChatStrum (http://www.chatstrum.com) and I have been presenting it in different events in the bay area, however I want to make a stronger team. What I need the most is a business developer with experience in pitches and raising money. Our first goal would be get angel capital and be accelerated by YC.

If you are interested in the startup please email me to javier@chatstrum.com. I also invite you to see a demo of the app: https://vimeo.com/75747076

Any feedback is welcome.

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AAD22L: Automatic Acronym Detection in 22 Languages
I think a lot of people use it interchangeably with "contracting". i.e. working as an expert temporary employee on a specific product/problem usually at a higher wage than the "permanent" employees.
Conversation needs to be interactive and needs to respond to what the child is saying.

You need to repeat what the infant is saying. This is to let the infant know that you've heard them, and understood what they said. It's also to model correct pronunciation without criticising. And you then spin off the conversation to thinking and imagination and play.

"Look! A fire emiGGen!!"

"Yes! It's a fire engine! What do you think they're doing?"

(The 'sing song' voice we use to speak to young children feels silly. But apparently it's important.)

Television and tablets have their place, I guess. Some of the CBeebies content (Children's tv from the BBC) is good. And children need some empty relaxing time.
> go back to cash

What do you mean, go back to cash?

Not everybody was OK with their transactions being stored and monitored.
I've written just as complicated joins with MySQL as I have Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server etc etc all with very similar performance.

Can you provide/email me with some examples of what you are finding a "disaster" and I'll help find the flaws in the SQL or Schema, whichever it may be.
Yahoo discourages Security Researchers with just $12.50 bug bounty
I would also recommend you to watch Triumph of the Nerds.
I'd want to save the name "WTF-8" for that case where someone takes some text encoded as UTF-8, decodes it as if it's in a single-byte encoding, and then encodes the resulting mojibake as UTF-8 again.

Double UTF-8. WTF-8.
Still does, but it's only over the bridge. The approaches have fixed bandwidth and can back up.
I think we need to ignore titles.

HN doesn't allow changes to the title. People writing articles will chose a click-baity title.

All titles suck.
Thanks for your thoughts. Really appreciate hearing them. For what its worth, we just launched 2 weeks ago so I would be surprised if you had heard of it.

I'm well aware of the lack of mass consumer appeal right this instant, and you're quite right that niche journalism is exactly what we are going after right now. The pitch will become much more consumer oriented in a few more months when our offering becomes more appealing to "random visitors."

For what it's worth, we think we are building a wedge that ties nicely into this http://ycombinator.com/rfs1.html
> A San Francisco judge awarded Pinterest $7.2 million in damages and legal fees ... against Qian Jin, a Chinese cybersquatter

Uhm... so that's a US judge awarding damages against a Chinese person. What does this translates to practically speaking? This guy won't be able to enter the US. What else? Will it be up to the domain registrar to comply with the US court decision? What if the registrar is not US-based?
Not at all. It was the technical underpinnings of the iPhone that made the aesthetic and ease of use disruptions possible. If what you are saying were true, all Microsoft had to do was re skin the old Windows Mobile with a fresh user interface and all will be well. They tried that of course and it totally failed.

The old windows mobile was a complete dog. Let's take just one example, individual processes could only be allocated up to 32 megabytes of RAM. Really. That's one reason why it could never have run a decent browser, or really a decent anything else. That alone rendered it fundamentally crippled compared to iOS full 32 bit preemptive multitasking kernel. Yes iOS is fully multitasking, only user apps are restricted in their multitasking privileges by the sand boxing system, but background services have none if those limitations.

It was limitations like this that meant projects like Courier would never have been able to compete with iOS. It's why Microsoft had no choice but to develop an entirely new OS core for their mobile platform, losing crucial years of competitiveness.

Google was lucky. Although Android was never originally intended to use multitouch gestures or an accelerated UI layer, at least it was based on a Linux core so had the fundamental technical underpinnings to support competitive application level services. This gave Android a few years head start on Microsoft, even though they were a few years behind Apple, just enough for them to occupy the low end of the market and eventually mount a credible challenge in the mid and high end.
is it me or the link is broken?
Summary of http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929360.100-deadly-la...
Nope. Threads can use multiple cores as well. No need to launch separate process for it.
Bank site? Mine doesn't have apps as far as I'm aware for any platform (HSBC). They require two factor auth which makes the app idea pretty pointless as you have to carry two things around with you.

I travel without a smartphone. It's not hard and at least if you lose it (which has happened to me), you're not totally fucked. I really couldn't possibly depend on something like that for anything critical. So many horror stories from colleagues on that front as well. I carry a USB stick with truecrypt encrypted documents on it only.

As for conversion, it's not hard. Any old calculator app (even the s40 calculator) is usable for this. Even a pencil and paper is good enough. The base rate+commission is easy to calculate and is always available on hand. You don't need an app for that. Plus if you want to argue with them and barter which you can do in some places, it works better without a smartphone. In fact its fucking rude to whip one out on half of the planet.

It just sounds like you're justifying the use of a smartphone for these functions rather than specifying a platform advantage when the greatest advantage is gained from not using one.
Who will be the next king of web frameworks?
Ruby on Rails was the way to go few years ago. What do you think will be the way to go in next few years? I'm on the crossroads trying to decide in which one to invest my time?
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May be you should go for speed dial extension. It lets you set bookmarks in a newly opened tab. Just open new tab and click on the required bookmark.
There are many more environmental factors than that, differences in behaviour between classmates, different friends, even the number of siblings are all environmental factors that I think make a difference.

You can all go to the same school with the same teachers but if one of you have a teacher on a Monday morning and the other has the same teacher Friday afternoon after teaching a stressful ill-disciplined class, then the second child may have a different view of that subject forever.
Ruby on Rails was the way to go few years ago. What do you think will be the way to go in next few years? I'm on the crossroads trying to decide in which one to invest my time?
lutusp has strong anti-psychology sentiments. Conversations about it tend to be, uh, unproductive.

EDIT: It's a shame, because a lot of what he says about psychology and the flaws in the science is useful and interesting. Psychology has a lousy history of weak science. And any modern researcher could be making mistakes while striving for good science. So it's nice to hear from someone who does understand the importance of rigour.
CERN lanches an html5 retro browser - do it like its '92?
You have not offended me - don't worry :)

What I'm saying is that the web transcends all platforms so writing an app isn't necessary. Microsoft actually do get this hence the focus on IE and Windows Azure recently. They probably have the best web offering on the cloudy space as well.

Microsoft do everything literally.

as for embrace, extend, extinguish, what you say is true but they got stuffed by the EU so had to start making open specification documents which are now available on MSDN so they have been defanged there.
TouchDB is interesting but not immediately accessible for my node.js projects. And CouchDB is to heavy for my needs.

ChocoDB wants to (re)experiment new ways of dealing with database. It want to keep it simple and accessible.
Saying that you are intelligent is just so cringe-worthy. If you want to make a point about yourself give two small examples of what you've achieved and let the reader form an opinion.
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Do you feel the same way about segregating individual classes by age? Having an advanced vocabulary is much less of an impediment if you're in a heterogenous and diverse environment which includes a diversity of ages.
Lessons learned from a flat-rate service-charge, no-tip restaurant
Better title:
"Anything that falls into it and dies becomes calcified"

Also note:
"I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life’, as it were"
The domains were impersonating pinterest. Perhaps the damages factored in lost traffic and damage to the brand.
What took your daughter so long?

Quite a few pets sit by their kitchen feeding bowls when they get hungry. They learn to do this within a lot less time than 15 months.
Cool. It would be even cooler, and more useful, if someone builds a Lego robot that reads a Google calendar and then updates the Lego version on the wall...
You don't seem to do any custom development / extensions, which according to our experience¹ implementing OpenERP solutions, it's pretty much mandatory for any large company or governmental agency.

¹ http://www.thinkopensolutions.com/SoluçõesOpenERP/CasosdeSuc... (Portuguese)
I'm sure you've heard the BMW analogy before...
Did you mean:
> Should I learn d3 or three.js or raw canvas first?