skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bit of a stretch, no? I agree that any removal of privacy features isn't good, but what Zuckerberg did was stop someone else cashing in on his name/reputation.

Not entirely about privacy.
I think the author misses the point here. The cost of purchases in GTA Online adds up so quickly that $500,000 isn't actually that much in the greater scheme of things. It might get you an apartment or a cheap car, but once it's been spent, you need to earn more. Some of the cars in the game are over $500k as well. Seems like complaining for the sake of complaining without any real facts to back things up here.

Rockstar are doing it right in my opinion. It costs them nothing to give users fake $500,000 and it keeps the users happy and in the game, which means more users online which means the higher the chance of Rockstar making real money off of your presence.
Yes, good points. There is some missing context. We did contact them, but I failed to point out that the conversation developed over a number of pre-cursor setup calls. And that before there were substantive acquisition talks, there was discussion between the parties on the general areas where each of our businesses were claiming strategic importance along with tacit acknowledgment to generally vector away from those segments. In our case, we provided deeper insights around the specifics of how we intended to pursue our unique strategy after the initial discussion.

With any acquisition or potential partnership with a company that has the potential to compete, whether on the edges or directly, there are unique challenges to figuring out what information you should share and at what time.

But the take away for us was that we had a reasonable expectation that this particular vendor would not behave this way based upon our pre-cursor discussions.
Amen. It's something most of us here (to generalise) as straight middle class males will likely never experience. I struggled with how to help when my ex-girlfriend was assaulted. I still am unsure on the "right" thing to do, other than support and empathise.
And body shots? really?
I am not a lawyer, but even with censored credentials this seems like a bad idea. Especially since my profile is not exactly anonymous.

Any Facebook employees want to get me a green light? :)
On technical debt, complexity and opportunity cost
or just buy a power buffer. home depot has them for like $30 bucks. scrubbing the tub sucks, but it's awesome when you get it sparkling.
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Exactly what is the etiquette for filing bug reports? I think of bugs as something not working as intended. Pressing left from a selection taking the cursor one space to the left of its rightmost extent, instead of to the leftmost extent, is stupid, but presumably working as intended. Should I file a bug saying OOo doesn't do HTML syntax highlighting? A bug complaining that in all the years I've had it installed (pre-2009, even), it has never mined one bitcoin for me?
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I use Google Apps and the box is unchecked by default:

“Based on your domain's current settings, your name and profile picture will not appear in shared endorsements paired with ads. If your domain administrator changes this in the future, your choice here will be honored.”
So on top of a lack of reading comprehension, we have people blaming the victim? Is it any wonder women find it hard to exist in the tech world?
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Zappajs
*quickly

hey - you asked for it by claiming grammar stickler status :)
Well sure, if Excel did X then business wouldn't need another program to do X, and this is true for any value of X.

Your comment is a bit like saying "Most businesses wouldn't bother having a cafeteria if only Excel could cook meals."

Excel was never designed to replace a database and the fact that it can't isn't some evil plot by MS.
It's quite nice a 99 percent code coverage.
The Perils of Premature Deindustrialization
Thanks, I couldn't actually find a link to that page.
but what Zuckerberg did was stop someone else cashing in on his name/reputation.

That's the official line, it may not be entirely true. Although super rich, he still has the "I wear a hoodie" shtick so he might have felt his average guy rep going down if seen as buying 4-5 houses to build a bigger one.
I'm looking at their App Nap functionality and I am wondering how it will affect applications that do background work. It looks to be on by default unless expressly turned off by the app. Does it apply to all processes or what is their definition of an app? I wouldn't want just anything to be suspended when I don't have it on my screen (any work that I started and am expecting to continue in the background basically).
We should really stop calling it "war on drugs". It's really the "war on what people are allowed to consume, for their own sake" and so is on par with the "war on raw milk" and who knows maybe the "war on fat" or the "war on meat" in a few years. I'm not even a smoker but if somebody wants to consume/ingest all kinds of substances I don't lay any claims to his digestive track or blood stream and it's really his business to destroy himself if he so wishes, at any rate he pleases. In fact it might even be good "for the environment" since drug addicts are unlikely to have many kids and they usually have shorter life spans thus leaving a smaller carbon footprint on our precious Gaia. Clearly the society should not subsidize their medical treatment either and if they kill while hallucinating or steal to pay for their fix, being a drug-addict should not be treated as extenuating circumstances. Personal responsibility cuts both ways.
Fuzzy matching does wonders.
Since when do mathematicians ever use word for any reason? I believe you're more likely to see published math research written in Crayola markers than in Word.
Thank you so much, we have Adobe suite running on our machines and I was tempted to upgrade! Thanks so much :)
I agree, but a quick point about those statistics I see trotted out repeatedly: they include casual games. The people playing Bejeweled clones or hidden image games are not the same people playing Grand Theft Auto.
It's easy to be civil with those you agree with. A gentleman is a gentleman even in the gutter. It's when faced with those whose opinion is abhorrent to you that you get to show that you're civilised.
You might ship faster but this can easily lead to poorly written, hard to maintain and insecure spaghetti code. In fact, rushing to ship / meet deadlines is probably responsible for most of the vulnerabilities in software.
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I don't disagree, but it's hardly the point. It is far, far worse for an employer to do this sort of thing than it was for the employee to have done something inappropriate in front of her boss.

Their is a power imbalance in the employee/employer relationship, and it is almost always skewed to the employer. That's why there are unions, and workplace relations laws.
Can anyone with an iMac (and not a notebook) comment on how Mavericks performs there?

I've got a 2008 iMac 2.8 dual-core that I thought was getting pretty long in the tooth, but I'm thinking it's just the 4GB ram that's holding it back now. I can't add any more RAM and Mountain Lion just draaaggggss on it.
The style reminds me to some of H. Bosch's paintings, which also give you vibes of symbolism and complexity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights

http://imgur.com/FaYLjTm,CFxmjNN,flVaZbz#0
You exaggerated with 1. 2 was explicitly stated. For 3, fingering does not imply penetration. What was that again about reading comprehension?

Are you implying that I blamed the victim? What was that again about reading comprehension?
Let's assume JSON supports comments, and `foo` is a JSON document with comments, what should happen here?

JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(foo))

Presumably you'd say that it should return a plain JSON object without comments, right? However, with the current implementation this will return a JSON document that is identical to the input, modulo whitespace. This makes it easy to write tools that can, for example, increment the version number in a nodejs package.json file programatically. Doing this in a world where comments exist becomes extremely awkward or at the very least annoying, because either you have to write your own JSON parser that preserves comments, or you have to simply discard the comments when you're writing the file.

If you go with the first option, you'll inevitably run into a scenario where you have a document like this contrived example:

{
// this is the first ever version!
"version": "1.0.0"
}

And your tool goes off and increments the version number, so you end up with:

{
// this is the first ever version!
"version": "2.0.0"
}

and now your comment is a lie.

If you go with the second option, you destroy all comments whenever you write data back to the file, so they can be deemed temporary at best.

What benefit do you actually get from having comments in either scenario?
If they work so hard, how do they not burn out?
An alternative would be for you to blow that $500k on some expensive cars, and then drive them all into the ocean.
This cycle usually ends too early though, sometimes at the first iteration, and the code will be pushed to production. Usually the spec is lacking and the customer (internal or external) doesn't really know what he wants. After that, feature requests and bug fix hacks will deteriorate the condition of the code base to the point where things break if you look at it. Rewriting will be difficult because instead of formalising the requirements in a specification, with all the hacks and features added the existing code base is the spec. So you end up with something very fragile and not so agile. At the bottom lies a first iteration model which the original developer (who left the company a couple of years ago), have been given some time to reflect on things, now knows to be a model which can't possibly scale.

Sometimes (not always), it's best to release when ready. Shipping is important for a company, but for a dev team/individual it should be further down on the list and more importantly, development is not done after the first release and features don't maintain themselves.

I don't like the whole 'ship as soon as possible'-thing.
> still be safe

Less safer than you earlier were. I think the whole point is that security is not a binary variable but a matter of degree.
I don't know. I can program in PHP. Does that make me a PHP programmer?
> There is no way Heroin or Meth can be "used recreationally" without causing self-destructive harm and affecting all of society.

You'd be surprised.

I am an ex-heroin addict, and I will say that I certainly DON'T fit into the "doesn't cause harm" basket. I fucked things up well and truly.

But for every addict, there are a surprising amount of "weekend warriors" who dabble here and there and never get drawn in (for a variety of reasons).

Unfortunately, I was not one of them, even though at the time I thought I was. That is the danger.
That's very disingenuous. The libreoffice code base is big and complex and hard enough to ramp up on that fixing your personal problems with it would quickly become a full time job, even if you already know all there is to know about programming enterprise software in c++
There are not conflicting versions.

You had to read Twitter to see the deluge of requests from Rubyists wanting gory details.

Making it public helps keep others safe by allowing them to know to be very careful around someone while he is drinking.
In the same spirit, I'd like to suggest that anyone trying this use some sort of jig to hold the disc against the belt rather then try to hold it in place against lateral force with your bare fingers.

Source: long-ago experience. Ouch.
The evidence in this article is:

1. Jason Lahoz couldn't sign up.
2. @Ginnyproffitt was frustrated.

I tried signing up a couple of days ago. The site loaded quickly and worked fine. The only quirk I noticed was that I received two registration confirmation emails instead of one.

We should not be so quick to jump on the government without evidence that there is a problem, especially when you can just go look at the site yourself and see if it works.
Microsoft: You'll be hearing from our lawyers.
Have I ever lived with someone who had unwelcome sexual advances made to her at a party? Yep. In fact I myself have been the victim of "sexual assault", to use your rather inclusive definition. I would imagine a large proportion of the population have.

I was not there, but taking the post at face value, it was right for Joe to be dismissed. His behaviour was inappropriate and unprofessional. The company's whitewashing was also regrettable. But I have difficulty dismissing the notion that the rather extreme reaction from Justine is indicative of some underlying issues she might have. I concur with the top-voted comment that she may benefit from therapy.

What Joe did was wrong, yes. But there is no line that connects that dot with Justine's boyfriend tying his fucking ankles together while sleeping on a couch. That is something else entirely, and I stand by what I said.
Why use the word "should"? Nobody is entitled to anything in our world. Working hard is not valuable in itself. The only reason it is encouraged is that it has the potential to bring about positive results.
A world where people are rewarded based on how much they "tried" or worked would be highly dysfunctional. There is no moral basis on which to justify rewards without results.
I see examples, time and time again, of companies (especially Microsoft) twisting facts to make sound-byte-style comments that make Google look bad.

However, I cannot think of a single example where Google has done that about any company.

Can someone prove me wrong?
Mavericks adds ram compression. I don't know if it will turn out to be just a gimmick. I have been testing on a 2009 iMac with only 2GB ram w/ Intel SSD and it does just fine. Compressing 200-300MB when I check Activity Monitor.
> There is no way Heroin or Meth can be "used recreationally" without causing self-destructive harm and affecting all of society.

Please read up on diacetylmorphine maintenance programs. There is copious literature on this.

Laudanum was used safely for the better part of the late 19th century. The word "heroin" is actually a trademark of Bayer (yes, the same folks who also gave us "aspirin")[0]. It was sold successfully and without any large-scale devastating effects for several years; the reason it was eventually outlawed had nothing to do with any negative repercussions of the drug on a large scale.

As for methamphetamine, according to the MTF and NSDUH studies, the majority of people who have used methamphetamine in the last 30 days do not meet DSM criteria for substance dependence[1]. That's not looking at everyone who's ever used methamphetamine; that's looking at people who have used it within the last month. Clearly it can be used "without affecting all of society"[2].

This is, of course, ignoring the fact that methamphetamine is Schedule II and can be obtained legally (albeit in rare cases) with a prescription (under the brand name Desoxyn).

[0] Both trademarks are now generic; Bayer eventually lost these trademark protections. This is why your local drugstore is allowed to sell acetylsalicylic acid under the name "aspirin" (with a lowercase "a").

[1] Most also wouldn't meet the DSM criteria for substance abuse either, except for a technicality in the criteria that references the legal status of the drug, which is naturally self-fulfilling.

[2] Unless you are looking at the economic impacts (ie, Nicaragua 30 years ago, North Korea and Afghanistan today, in which case you have a point, but that only serves to emphasize the need to short-circuit these black markets with legal ones).
Have you thought about adding an SSD?
2009, 13" MBP. Went from ~2.5 hours up to ~4hours
13" MacBook Pro retina.

Probably get a solid and consistent extra hour. From 6 solid hours to 7. I can push to 9 now if I lower the brightness and don't browse the web.
This just goes to show you the shabby general state of word processing software. I've been looking for something better than OO/Libre/MSWord/etc for years and avoided using LaTeX because the workflow is _so_ 80's. However, having recently decided to give up, and switched to using LaTeX, my worksheets, course notes, exams, and presentations have never looked better, and take about the same time, or less to create. I'll also be able to do things like randomize the order of exam questions and create individual grading keys in a way that makes sense to me.

To be fair, I would advise almost no one to do the same. Something better is needed[1], but I think that most potential competitors know better than to attempt to challenge MS Word.

[1] And, indeed Google Docs is usually passable and offers some advantages.
Not but there are many people who take a laid back approach to the game, not unlike how one could play a game or two of bejeweled then get on with their day.
My intention was society-blaming, not victim-blaming. See elsewhere in this thread for my response to that point.

Bringing up that men can also be raped and will feel 'the exact same way' is a good point, but I believe a red herring. A central point of my argument is that all people do not feel 'the same way'. It's exactly the fact that some people feel differently that makes clear that the consequences for Justine's life could have been far less if she had had different beliefs. And I bring this up because I believe it can reduce the consequences for future Justines and perhaps is useful to future Justine.
I keep coming back to the fact that the one doing the groping was the boss.

Let's be very clear here - if you have anyone who you are managing, then you need to take care not to get drunk and horny around them, you must certainly never initiate a sexual relationship of any sort with them unless you first take steps to ensure that any power imbalance is removed (this is almost impossible), and you should take care never to allow alcohol to impair your judgement whilst at work-related events.

Frankly, I can't believe I even have to say this. This should be obvious, and if not then it should be made clear to anyone in management that there are certain boundaries you must not cross. There is a very valid reason why managers are normally somewhat aloof from their staff - it is wise to remember the maxim that it is often lonely at the top.
I quite often see words (or nearly-words) in protein sequences.

The best I've seen are (when reading DNA translated in all frames):

EVQLVE

LAMARCK

ELVISISGAY

SALTYSATAN
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Apple increased the available video memory on the retina machines from 768MB to 1GB. The difference is profound. I was concerned about being stuck with nothing but an HD4000 but I'm very content with everything now.
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A public expression of liking something does not typically give the company permission to use your endorsement as part of a commercial presentation.
"I still believe there are drugs that should be prohibited. Especially...Methamphetamine,"

Methamphetamine is legal by prescription. This is the war on drugs in its truest form: giving well-connected businesses (like big pharma) special advantages at everyone's expense.
I'm not experiencing any real change in battery life on my specced out 15" retina. Got ~5 hours before 10.9, get ~5 hours on 10.9. Makes me kind of wish I'd gone for the base CPU and saved money and battery life.
poverty is bad, poverty breeds poverty ,

the kid must be in school, I get it

Kid is working reason would be either she needs to contribute for the family to make ends meet or schooling is not accessible

lets assume she is taken out of her work by this undercover sting operation, who would take care of her

just pointing out the problem is not enough, giving a sustainable solution and follow through to get it implemented is needed as well
Why did they ask her to do a bodyshot? They didn't ask any of the guys to do it. She clearly points out the desire to be accepted by a male-dominated group, and she did what they asked because of that.

Now. I can't speak to that. As a white male I've never been in a situation like that in my life. And I'd bet a lot of money that you haven't, either. So you know what? We should probably both avoid talking as if we know what it feels like.
And this is why basic income is such a bad idea.
This is like comparing apples to oranges here. Two completely different forms of privacy, it was a nice attempt, but this just came across as a desperate attempt to try and write an article that didn't really make an impact.
I see what you're getting at, and I kind of agree, but the comparison isn't altogether wrong, it's just a little stretched.

Anyway, we should really make something out of the frustration we feel over getting our privacy rights trampled upon by the likes of Facebook. What can we do to bring it down? Make privacy-oriented alternative networking sites? Maybe ones that operate on a pay-model, so there isn't a grotesque incentive to violate basic rights? Or maybe tell Facebook to buckle down and change direction in favor of the common user's interests?
As always, things are more nuanced than "it started before the acquisition". (A previous comment of mine has a bit more detail:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6332432)

Basically, Google had more than a year after the acquisition to settle rather than, not only losing the patent lawsuit, but being convicted for pursuing it in bad faith. I mean, that makes them look pretty darn bad, and I was surprised Google let it happen. But given that tech forums and media has decided not to care about it, I guess it was the right choice for them.

> Please try to stop inventing facts. EFF does this thing for a living, I would think they would not miss something as obvious.

Non sequitur. I have seen the EFF use embellishment when it suits their agenda.
A lot of people are quite clueless about it being nonsense, enough to make taking a stance against it unpalatable for politicians.
That doesn't strike me as particularly strange. It just maintains a separate stack per function, then unwinds it at the end.
I'm disappointed to see that MS Word has become the default for publishers. Back in 1999 I authored a web programming book for O'Reilly. At the time, their technical folks would begrudgingly accept Word files, but they strongly preferred FrameMaker.[1] Some of that probably had to do with the propensity for large Word files to become corrupted, but it's also because FrameMaker helped authors generate documents with much cleaner styling than Word. It's a shame that Adobe let FrameMaker languish.

FrameMaker allowed you to do ad hoc formatting, but it was designed for a stylesheet approach. The difference is analogous to creating a web page and declaring styles inline (how most folks use Word) vs. using a stylesheet (how most folks used FrameMaker). It is possible to pop open a style inspector in Word and use that instead, but it feels like an afterthought.

Pages also has a style inspector, which is my favorite feature (despite the old-school NeXT-style drawer). For a reason that I can't easily articulate, using styles in Pages feels cleaner than Word and more like using FrameMaker. So if I have to create a large Word document I will typically do so in Pages, then export to Word.

[1] I believe O'Reilly also accepted alternative open source formats such as DocBook and LaTeX. And though these might be great formats, I could never find an editor that I could stand using for more than a few minutes -- let alone the months needed to write a book.
In 2007 The Believer ran what I think is the definitive account of the Codex Seraphinianus: http://www.believermag.com/issues/200705/?read=article_taylo...

The Codex was likely inspired by the Borges story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" which involves encyclopedia articles about an imagined world: http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/0066/borges.pdf