skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She agreed to the body shot and nothing else. There's no consent for other things. Body shot is not a 'gateway drug' to sexual assaults.
You're right, it's not 3G:

Me: On a plan that says "First N GB at 4G speeds", what
speed do I get after I hit the cap?

Rep: Once the allotted high-speed data has been used
speeds will be throttled down to our 2G speeds.
This would be comparable to about twice the speed
of dial-up which translates to about 100 kbps.

Thanks for the correction!
> Here she implies that wearing a thong allows for ass grabbing? I am uncertain whether she is okay with it due the usage of the word "thus".

You are misreading this. It doesn't mean it makes acceptable ass grabbing. It was there to make the point that my putting his hand down her pants in that manner, he was touching skin. A thong does not offer an extra layer of protection.
It does the same way a git repository does, by accreting deltas with enough metadata to reconstruct the full data at any point in time.
I think there is a valuable lesson to be learned from this piece of spaghetti. I can't quite formulate it from the top of my head. But it's something like: if you wanna be rich, don't waste your time being pedant - your users couldn't care less.
A 100MB per request is going to seriously limit scalability (or inflate hardware costs at least)
Go by example
Following Korean spelling rules, yes, but when I was a kid I had a slightly adapted Hangul that I used for English all the time. It was a brilliant secret code and only took a couple of days to master it. All I did was add a couple of characters borrowed from Hiragana and put a floating bar above T and S to make TH and SH. I can still more or less remember it and read it 30 odd years later.
You can argue that the government shouldn't have the right to compel someone to hand over data or documents.[1] But the fact is that a broad subpoena power, enabling the government to do precisely that, has been part of American law since before there was a United States. So if you think the government shouldn't have this power, the real question is: how do you change this hundreds of years old practice?

[1] You can argue this, but it should be noted that nobody on HN seems to have a problem with the subpoena power when it's say used to subpoena documents from say Enron's accountants.
> Officials say that too many people tried to log on at once; within three days, 8.6m had visited healthcare.gov.

That is an order of magnitude less traffic than I expected. 33 visits per second isn't child's play, but my WordPress blog hosted on a 1GB Linode VPS has easily handled bursts of that kind of traffic in the past.

That's totally an apples and oranges comparison, of course, but it's more and more difficult to understand how this project has failed so miserably. I half bought the excuse that it was one of the highest traffic site launches in history, but apparently that was more speculation than truth.
I'd be interested to see if the legal aspect of model releases and using someone's image with their implied, not explicit, consent.
They are being held accountable. The press prints a story, you get all angry, hopefully you vote somebody into office, then they create new rules, and in ten or twenty years we can start making generalizations about how well those rules are working (or not).

How else would you do it? Public executions of any public-funded program that looks bad? We have an accountability system -- it just might not be designed to optimize the things we would like for it to optimize.
I think there is a great use case for this framework.

It seems like Scala is a platform that some Rails projects move towards. It would be nice to be able to do this transparently to existing customers.

Play is fun, but I'm not sure a Rails project can be 1-to-1 transformed to it. Would be nice to have an easier path forward.
In my experience code become unitelligable not because it's fine tuned and advanced but because it's messy and rushed.
> 'gay' and 'faggot' are still a word used by virtually everyone to put things down as 'unmanly' or generally 'shameworthy'

The fact you think "virtually everyone" does that certainly says a lot about you and the type of people you spend time with.
You are spot on on the paper that I referenced. As you can see in 4.3 which is in page 3, the paper mentioned two algorithms for sentence selection. These are Summation-Based Selection and Density-Based Selection. Which is SBS and DBS respectively.
The freedom he praises is the freedom of the very rich and well-connected to impose their success on the less fortunate

Yet despite this, the people who are not the very rich and well-connected are far more secure in the Anglophone world. I've lived in various places around the world and, whilst it's always possible for everything you have to be taken from you, this is far less likely in the UK, the US, Singapore etc than in Peru, Argentina, China, Russia and so on.

Whilst it's true that the law works better for the rich everywhere, it's less true in the US, the UK, Singapore etc etc.

It takes a special kind of myopia

Much like your myopia. The Anglophone world isn't perfect. It's a lot better than the vast majority of the rest of the world.

(With apologies to Western Europe, where things are also pretty good :p )
pearjuice, after reading your other comments in this thread and the justifications you're using for the sexual assault that occurred, I would be seriously concerned with those around you, should you ever partake in drinking with them.

You mention "why" a lot in some of your posts. "Why did she not get off that bar?", "Why did she even get on that bar?". Let us be clear about one thing. Justine suffered a sexual assault. Asking victim-centric questions about the assault is blaming the victim. What followed the encounter from her HR department is disgraceful and unnerving, but not surprising considering your attitude toward the whole thing...
Modern Vietnamese is written in romanised characters though, and Chu Nom is archaic and pretty much dead.
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What makes Joe a piece of shit is that he hasn't even apologized to her. When you fucked up this badly, the least you can do is to apologize to your victim.
It doesn't say it's 100MB per request, just that it's raised for safety in the rare case where it's actually needed. Would you prefer serving a 500 to that user instead?
It would seem that Facebook has been able to scale. Perhaps this line of code worked for them in 2007, and they changed it only when it started to be a problem.
Wow, do I disagree. I use version control (hg) for solo writing, and I'd love to use it for collaboration if I didn't think it would be an uphill slog to convince my coauthors to learn it too.
Something that is true of a group he is a part of isn't necessarily true of him. However, if he did want to change parties over this he'd have to drop out of mainstream politics entirely.
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Co-founder here. We're really keen to get UK-based engineers on the beta, so please get in touch if you're interested.
Static content served via CDN with a simple layout (read: many nerd blogs) is page loading nirvana. :)
It's more of statistical NLP and a bit of machine learning. The algorithm can be found here: https://github.com/MojoJolo/textteaser/blob/master/src/main/...
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Jesus christ.

Lying down on bar - doing body shot != permission to sexually assault.
... unless your users actually care about messages being delivered, whatever being reported as saved being truly saved, et cetera...

There is a whole world out there where people want to rely on software to do what it says it does. I know Facebook can live in its own bubble and get away with every possible stupid bug a messy PHP spaghetti causes.
> the races were exciting tactical battles from start to finish.

The 2013 cup races were closer and more tactically focused than the majority of the mid century cups.

> Those boats are amazing feats of engineering, no doubt, but after you've watched them for 5 minutes, there's really nothing left to see.

Anyone with that mentality would have assumed NZ would inevitably win. Obviously that wasn't the case, so it's not quite as simple as saying that you've seen it all after 5 minutes. One point where I would agree with you is that there weren't enough opportunities to make a mistake that results in a lead change.

> The costs are so high that there are now only two competitors

There were 12 originally submitted competitors in this years cup, and 3 that were funded and developed to the point of competing in the challenger selection series (LV cup). South Korea came close to contesting in the LV cup but dropped out after disappointing results in the preliminary AC World Series races the year prior. Notably this year saw higher interest and involvement from countries that have not had a strong presence in sailing races in the past, such as SK.

> and the event may die entirely next go round, as there may be only one (Ellison) willing to pony up so much money.

A team from Australia filed to be the next challenger of record literally moments after the conclusion of the 2013 cup. NZ, Italy, Sweeden and SK are highly motivated to repeat their interest. The event is most emphatically nowhere even close to dying.

Cost control is a concern, but steps are being taken to address it. In the 2013 cup the NZ and Italy teams shared development costs as a partnership. It's highly likely that competitors in the next cup will purchase a design kit from the NZ team as a significant cost and time saving measure.

> Viewership has plummeted as a result.

Viewership and interest in the AC has absolutely exploded as a result of this years cup. Just compare it to the San Diego races. This is the first cup in ages to recruit a sizable new audience of people without a prior strong interest in sailboat racing.

There's a fair bit of misinformation running around about this year's AC that largely comes from two camps: people who like to bash on anything Ellison touches (understandable, he doesn't come across as a very likable guy), and nostalgia from folks that fetishise more classic looking boats. But it's just daft to think that returning to the 12m or J-boats has a brighter future than foiling multi-hulls. The AC will either continue on its current course, or if someone wins it away from Larry and reforms it in a reactionary way, it's likely that something based on the MOD70 boats will become the new king of sailboat racing. Stuff like the Volvo will continue largely unaffected because they have a very different spectating profile.
> the fact that some people are liars does not mean that truth-tellers should keep their mouths shut.

He's not saying that. He's lamenting the fact that in the mind of those like him that have been abused, the idea of posting stuff to a blog rather than going through official channels to get results is disturbing.

If anything, he's saying "truth-tellers" shouldn't have to resort to feelings as if blogs are their only realistic option. That if that does become the accepted venue, everyone suffers.
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Words to the effect of "she was asking for it" are uncivilised and to my mind an uncivil response is at that point not just acceptable but important.

I had two points there - the first was that pearjuice was plain wrong. The second was that pearjuice's attitude does not belong in civilised society and that anybody holding such an attitude should be defenestrated with extreme prejudice.

I respect your opinion that my chosen means of attempting to make the second point were suboptimal, but I am happy to stand by my words with the possible exception of 'moronic', which might have been better replaced by 'abhorrent'.
That's because agile provides hype to everyone in the company, not just developers. Every single agile consultant I've met was a mediocre programmer at best.

What rich says, on the other hand, is pure gold as you said. But it needs to be understood before its value is seen.

It's hard to sell to the manager who has no clue what all of this means, even harder to compare the tradeoffs with their current approach.
> but I'm really struggling to see why this is something bad.

Partly it's the backlash against all the privacy invasions recently.

People realised that all the minor privacy creeping leads to a situation where you can't do anything without it being very public.

They should have been making a fuss when the systems were being set up, but they dismissed the privacy-advocates as tin foil hatters and conspiracy nuts.

Some people are saying they are opting out and never plus one anything. That's fine. I'm going to do the opposite and plus one everything. I might even find a Firefox plugin to do it for me. Every page I'm on, click +one for everything. Spider pages linking to those pages ad plus one those too. Spider pages from popular news sites and plus one those as well.
Now this is some first-class victim blaming. :(
Hehe, these lines made me chuckle.

// Holy shit, is this the cleanest fucking frontend file you've ever seen?!
ubersearch($_GET, $embedded = false, $template = true);

In all seriousness though, I wonder how much of this was written by Mark Zuckerberg?
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So what women need to start doing is carrying guns? If a man starts touching you without your consent you shoot them, simple, right?

At any point she could have screamed, said "No" or simply stand up. Being tipsy doesn't paralyze your muscles. You can still speak and resist. If was she actively resisting anyone would have gotten between her and him much earlier and the police report would be in her favor immediately.

It is not until she feels penetrating contact, she begs him to think about his wife. In no instance before that (ass grabbing, facial kissing, tongue-to-tongue contact) she even pointed out possible resistance. How is it not her responsibility to not climb on that bar when her boss is around? To not lift her shirt in front of her boss?
No extra, I only offer one rate that includes full source code and copyright transfer.

Some clients have been surprised by developers asking a lot of money for copyright once they want to update the app, sell licenses or raise funding - for those, including copyright transfer is a selling point for hiring me.
If client's don't ask for IP rights, I bring it up myself and explain why they will need it.

I don't think having separate rates for full source code & copyright makes sense. Most of the code is not re-usable between projects, and I don't get any value from keeping it to myself. The only use of charging extra would be if I could then offer cheaper rates to people who don't want IP rights, and raise the rates for those who do: but I'm still doing just as much work for the first group.
This piece of code is doing something very simple and sequential in nature: putting together the (then) Facebook front page. I'm not sure I agree it's spaghetti. Are there any complex relationships that become hard to follow because of an inadequate level of abstraction? It doesn't look that way to me.

Many programming methodologies are proposed these days, but the entire "field" smells of pseudo-science. Unless studies are done that can show statistically significant differences in relevant metrics (defect density, time required to add a feature, etc.), it's just a matter of opinion.
There are many reports showing that false rape accusations to the police are no more common than false accusations of any other kind of crime. She didn't go to the police. There could be a vast number of accusations of rape like hers that are, in fact, totally made up and they wouldn't count as accusations for the purposes of those reports.

Which still wouldn't be worth worrying about, especially compared to all the actual rape that is happening, except there's a lot of pressure from certain groups to shun any man who's accused of rape regardless of the merits of the accusation. There's a very vocal school of thought that says if you employ or are friends with one of those men you're a rape apologist.

Though in this case it does sound very much like she was raped and can prove it.
> A situation like this doesn't call for debates or intellectual analysis.

I would wholeheartedly agree with you, except that with the way attention is focused on the web and on the news in general I feel like there is no other time this topic is debated except after such personal tragedy. So when is the time for intellectual analysis?
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So any contact by a man on woman which has not explicitly said "Yes, I am okay with this" is sexual assault? Rape? Shouldn't the victim have responsibilities? Know what is at stake?
My thoughts were similar. I only +1 or Like things I am genuinely endorsing, and it's cool with me if the company gets good publicity in consequence. That's kind of the point. I wouldn't +1 something I did not want to give good publicity. So I almost left it on. Then I realized that I had no control over the content of the ad and there was no guarantee that what the ad said had anything to do with my reasons for +1'ing. Nor am I likely to go back and retract my +1 (can one do such a thing?) later if the company goes to the dark side.

So I opted out.
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> That's asking for shit, throwing professionality out the window.

Professionals can enjoy a party and not have shit happen.

> This gives me an air of professionality

Do you understand the distinction of having an air of professionalism and actually being professional?

And that's fine. If you can't handle a party without asking for shit, it's good that you know the limits of yourself and your coworkers. However, don't presume that others lack these same abilities.
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But laws, while necessary, are very inefficient at avoiding bad behaviors. If I don't steal my neighbors or assault girls, it is not chiefly because it is forbidden by laws, it is because I would feel ashamed of myself.

Edit: what I mean is that using the self esteem, sense of honor, education, all these old things might prove more efficient than laws, and maybe especially in problems related to disrespect of women.
I work with a lot of technology teams, in a lot of different situations. I'm also a programmer.

I think the tendency in these Monday-morning quarterback sessions is to blame the people or the tech. If they only used X,Y, and Z! people will say, or Why can't they find qualified people who can do this, it's not that hard!

When that fails, we start blaming groups of people. Those damn contractors. Always screwing us over! or Dang government bureaucrats! Lazy bums!

These patterns of analysis are almost always mistaken. You don't drop a billion bucks and get screwed because you hired dumb people, because you're lazy, or because they decided to use WhizBang 1.0 instead of 2.0 You get screwed because you have smart, motivated people working inside of a system of delivery which is hosed. Incentives are wrong, feedback loops are loose (or non-existent), and so on.

So while this is a nice political topic, and sure to get everyone's emotions roiling, be aware that we see this same stuff all of the time. (I would make the case that government is far worse, for exactly the reasons I mentioned above, but I won't because it's only going to push many of your buttons).

It's not the simple stuff that kills projects. It's certainly not tech. It's particular configurations of people that choose bad tech, or that refuse to change bad tech once it's identified. Most all of technology development problems boil down to social problems, not the other stuff. If you've got a good social structure with ten qualified people, you can rule the world. If you have a bad one with a thousand geniuses, you'll be lucky to get your shoes tied in the morning.
> People realised that all the minor privacy creeping leads to a situation where you can't do anything without it being very public.

Okay, this is an argument that could resonate with me, and an angle I hadn't thought about. However, I still struggle to see how a public expression of liking something (a +1 is just that, as are reviews) is a bad thing. It's only shared with people you permit too.

It's well known that these are not private notes to oneself and I really can't see how this could be inch-by-inched to something egregious.
Okay, so it's a database with version control. I was actually looking for a feature like this a while back in normal databases.
Even they don't get lower rates than interchange, because issuing banks get that no matter what. But they can get a very low margin above that.
Consent is almost always just implied, not explicit.

I'm in no way defending him or his actions, but it's understandable how an intoxicated guy (therefore less able to read subtle body language signals) could think an act of foreplay like licking alcohol from her body was a way of consenting to further sexual advances.
Good examples. I pretty much agree with all you say, but didn´t have live experience to support my ideas. I would also say that where you are located or the group you are talking to, is important.
I live in Spain and I pretty much could give away hundred of copies of our business plan, and no competitors are going to rise from that.
I think that even in SV I could pretty much give the general idea and I´ll bet that no competitors would rise either. At least not in the same form, execution surely would be different. Not because is a new idea, but because it´s not something you can hack in a month with some ruby gems, it needs some investment in coding, and even more effort on market development.
Execution and product vision is everything in startups, unless you are talking of a new feature in an established industry, AND talking to people related to the industry. That´s probably the place for an NDA.
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My mantra:

Shipped code > Well architected incomplete features.

Your user does not care in the slightest if you're using a design pattern, or if you are using dependancy injection, or if there is 100% code coverage. Just make it work! Then make it faster! Then make it more readable! In that order.
Agreed, I only mean that 'yeah but how do you define sexual assault?' has a clear answer.
Which, under the normal definitions in standard English, is “seeing the bits”.
I'll just leave this here

http://consentsus.org/groan-zone

which is an accessible little zine looking at consent as a complicated and beautiful process, considerably more complicated than just "no means no" /or/ "yes means yes". It is negotiated on on an unequal playing field within already existing power structures, relies on verbal and nonverbal communication, can shift over the course of an evening or a relationship, etc etc
I remember listening to an interview with Markus from Plenty of Fish, where he essentially said that he didn't worry too much about site errors because most unsophisticated users would attribute them to things like their ISP, browser (if they knew what that was), or their own error more often than to the site itself.

Personally, I can't bring myself to not care like that, but it seems to have worked pretty well in the early days of many now-popular sites. Especially in 2007, when Facebook was still in real competition with MySpace, moving as quickly as possible was probably much more important than a few messages dropping through the cracks.