skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't their employee. Under Responsible Serving legislation in NSW, the conference venue must not allow patrons to get intoxicated [1] in licensed premises. [2]

It must have been clear that I was intoxicated, but the staff kept topping up my glass. I realise now what happened, and if I hadn't been distracted with all my interactions with those around me I would have refused the topups. But the law in NSW, Australia is very clear - this is strictly not allowed.

Before you go down some odd Libertarian path to say that we have a nanny state (or some such bullshit), the Australian Government realised some time ago that Australians drink far too heavily. We are world champions in abusive drinking. It it said that the Australian contingent of Oktoberfest is specifically kept away from all the other countries festivities because we are far too wild, and we get abusive and spoil everyone else's fun. Sad, but unfortunately true.

The Australian Medical Association agrees. In a 2009 information paper, they state that,

Many Australians drink alcohol at harmful levels. There are short-term risks of harm (associated with high levels of drinking on a single occasion) and long-term risks (associated with consistent high level consumption over a lengthy period of time.) In 2007, the majority of Australians (60.8%) over 14 years of age drank alcohol at levels that involved a low risk of harm. However, almost one in ten Australians over 14 years of age in 2007 drank at levels considered risky or high risk to health (ie, 7 or more standard drinks on any one day for males and 5 or more standard drinks on any one day for females). [3]

It's a serious issue in Australia, and the amount of societal harm alcohol causes us far outweighs just about every other social issue in the country. Hence the laws about responsible service of alcohol.

1. http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/la2007107/...

2. http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/la2007107/...

3. https://ama.com.au/alcohol-use-and-harms-australia-2009-info...
Wow, I do this all the time (and it really annoys me to no end when I notice). But I've never seen anyone else make the same mistake. I'm kind of happy to know I'm not the only one.
I'm not arguing for or against anything in particular, I'm just saying how humans mate away from their keyboards.

A process which has no relation whatsoever to that of borrowing a vehicle, I might add.

If you want to go reductio ad absurdum on me, you can twist what I said to imply that I'm suggesting it's fine to go around raping people first and asking questions later, but I trust that a rational reader won't have issues understanding what my actual message was (even if they disagree with it (wrongly)).
If you are her boss, you don't do those things at all.
exaggerated title IMO
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Oops sorry. Ok, we agree!
"Senator Whitehouse shed some optimism with the audience"
I've seen Google's search results and I think they are very relevant and are getting more relevant all the time. Frankly I think they do just enough to distinguish what are ads and what are search results. The reason most visitors can't tell the difference is because they don't care to learn the difference and they are accustomed to get what they want when they click on the first result. What do you reasonably expect them to do? Popup a message that says "this is an ad, are you sure you want to click on this link"?

>major penalties on websites to cut their unpaid traffic.

That is just a conspiracy theory on your part. Maybe you are butt-hurt that your site is not ranked how you would have liked. I worked in SEO for a few years and I've seen Google time and time again improve the results and weed out the scammy and "made for google" sites with real relevant content. How many sites are there that sell HD monitors? Thousands? Not all of them can be included in the top 10 results and I guarantee you that each one of them truly believes that their site deserves a spot on the top 10. Well guess what? Not all of them can be right.
Nice one, others did it, not Google.

Too bad this notice was published on 6 May 2013. Surely Google had time to stop whatever Motorola was doing until May 2013 but decided not to, even if Google had no hand in pushing Motorola to do this.
Idaho is the only solidly Red state that's doing its own.

A number of Blue or Purple states are also punting to the federal exchange, or doing a "partnership" where the federal exchange is doing the heavy lifting:

New Hampshire, New Mexico for the moment for individuals, Utah permanently for individuals, Arkansas, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois.

In many of these cases of partnership, whatever the governor of whatever party wanted, the legislature didn't buy off. New York is the only case I know of where the governor told the legislature to jump in a lake and set up one for the state through an executive order using the temporary money the Feds are donating early on.

And there's Missouri, who's people outlawed a state run exchange, and New Jersey's governor vetoed 2 bills to set up one.
> Though the award was just half of the $29 million in damages Microsoft had sought, the company hailed today’s ruling as a landmark victory “telling Google to stop abusing patents.” But the patent battle predates Google’s 2011 acquisition of Motorola Mobility. Microsoft first sued the phone maker in 2010 for overcharging on patent licensing.

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/04/motorola-versus-microsoft/

Please try to stop inventing facts. EFF does this thing for a living, I would think they would not miss something as obvious.
You might have some problems with that as a lot of UK-based engineers will have rooted devices! I'm excluded from this because your FAQs say I'm not allowed to install your app on my rooted Android phone.

Also, just a little thing that bothered me: the pins on the map you have on your website don't display the location's details when they're clicked on. It'd be nice to see at a glance the kind of merchants I could use this at.
Her post is light on details, so it's hard to decipher how Joe perceived the situation.

> But when you kiss someone, and they fail to reciprocate...

It's likely that he didn't notice her not reciprocating the kiss. He might also have though she was just a bit shy or simply a bad kisser.

> In my mind, there's absolutely no room for grey area in this from the point she said "stop".

Agreed, no doubt about it. However, this is what she wrote:

"I told Joe to stop and reminded him he had a wife and children. He said, “Don’t’ worry about it we have an agreement”"

There's a massive difference between "Stop, I don't want this" and "Stop, we shouldn't do this because you have a wife and kids". It seems to me like Joe though she meant it the second way.

This whole story seems like a tragic case of serious miscommunication between two intoxicated people, not a vile act of evil.
The reality is that Word is really-really good. That's why it's a monopoly. Just like Apple products.
Let's also not forget about abuse of power. That was her boss, two levels up in the hierarchy of the company. She was shocked, and I'm sure most people can understand how awkward it is for her to have had to demand her boss stop groping her.
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Well he did famously say that users (are) “dumb f*#ks” for trusting him with their data.
Zuckerberg Seeks Personal Privacy, Then Removes Online Privacy Feature

Zuckerberg Pays $30 Million For Personal Privacy, Then Removes Online Privacy Feature.

The evil twins, Google and FB, got almost nothing on me because I rarely post and use them from a separate browser.
Hey! We say 'not allowed' to protect ourselves. A rooted device (thinking iOS here) may have less protection against malware installation and could be a MITM attack vector. It still works, we're just saying it might not be a good idea.

You're right about the map pins. Hooking our public site up to the merchant data API is in the to-do list, we'll get to it. :)
Then use that argument in the first place. Changing the argument to something else when the obvious flaws are pointed out is rather weak.
Give inkscape a try. You might be surprised.
Which is the fault of the users, not the applications. Microsoft Office offers much better ways to do that sort of thing.
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I don't know if it's related to their improvements on battery life but when my Mac mini goes to sleep it breaks my ssh sessions in my iTerm2 terminal it's annoying. I'm wondering if there is a way to maintain my connections alive?
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I notice people using "loose" when they mean "lose" probably twice a day on average, but I get unusually distracted by spelling mistakes. I don't think I've ever seen the reverse mistake.
The best code, is often the easiest code to understand.
Oddly enough, I was just reading a similar article from last year about Linux 3.5 bringing massive improvements to Radeon. It would be interesting to see something older like 3.2 compared to 3.12.
I wrote a simulation software to test a product in my previous job which used akka mostly but also used AHC which is a plain java http client library without problems. Size-wise the code would periodically get more features but by refactoring often it never got beyond 2500~3000 LOCs. Readability was never harmed; Scala - contrary to what some people think - allows for very clear code. People that inherited the code is working on adding features. Obfuscated code can be written in PHP if you want (or are unable to do otherwise). Another piece of scala software was an internal web service written using unfiltered on jetty. It's so stable sometimes I just forget it's there.
you could use http://mosh.mit.edu/
Any suggestions on papers for Luhn's abstract algorithm? I hadn't heard of it before.
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So does Gandi.net
Motorola already started that battle before Google bought them In fact, there were some theories that Google bought Motorola because they were about to attack other Android OEM's, too. I'm sure that's not the only reason, but it probably played a role. I know just weeks before the acquisition was announced, Motorola's CEO implied his intention of going after other Android OEM's.
It's a high bar to clear in today's media, but I think this might be the dumbest article I have ever read.

I guess the original headline "Rich guy in big house doesn't want close neighbors" didn't generate enough Internet Outrage (tm).
You're right, it's bullshit. Apart from anything else, Word saves in a ton of formats. I use Word all the time but I very rarely use doc/docx. I use rtf instead.
How about Microsoft and Apple? Do they get a free pass from this, because they're less likely to do it, so why even bother asking them?

I'm not defending Google, and I support EFF's request. I'm just saying this seems to happen quite often. For example, even though Apple was trying to make things better for Foxconn employees, they were actually the ones being targeted and criticized "for not doing enough", a lot more than the other Foxconn customers were.
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It is easy to create a json-schema by conversion in current json. How about { scheme: {}, instance: {} } ?
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> rspeer 42 minutes ago
I'm not missing the point of pearjuice' argument. In each of his/her posts, he shifts the blame from the perpetrator (Joe) to the victim (Justine) and follows up by taking it to some weird extremes "So what women need to start doing is carrying guns? If a man starts touching you without your consent you shoot them, simple, right?" and using Wikipedia to define body shots and erogenous zones.

You do it in your post with, "why didn't she remove herself from the situation". Neither one of you question Joe's behavior...just Justine's. If you can't see that as victim blaming, then I'm not sure what else to say.
Dan, thank you for making this. You did a good job of summarizing and relating the three concepts.

I think there were two things that got left out, but the 20 minute time was perfect anyway. First, an emphasis on just how minor a distraction can be to interrupt flow or annoy (some) introverts -- a leaf blower, a ringing phone, staring off into space and having someone else look at you and then try to figure out what you're looking at -- and second, that introverts are more likely to have some understanding of introversion v. extroversion and their needs, while many extroverts are oblivious to the differences.

I've been living in a sort of introvert's hell for a few years now, it's really starting to get to me. I live and work in the same house, along with my girlfriend and another person. I don't have a space that's distinctly mine, and the other person and I run a business together.

I supervise his work on and off throughout the day, juggle email and the occasional phone call and a variety of other distractions, but I also need to be doing work that requires focus -- coding on big projects, or, to use yesterday's example, redesigning our business cards. While trying to do that, a visitor dropped by and discussed Airsoft at length two feet from my right shoulder, another person came and went, we were expecting another visitor (who didn't show until hours later), and my girlfriend needed right at that moment to take pictures of the cat and send them to her friend.

I gave up, ran a few errands, went to bed at 7, got up at midnight, just after everyone else had gone to bed, and got the card design knocked out and a few other things taken care of.

My sleep schedule is all over the place. Half the time I'm getting up late and staying up late -- and tolerating the occasional comment about sleeping in so late -- and the other half I'm going to bed early and getting up early and struggling to get through the day. If I try to code when I'm up late, I'm often already exhausted, and focusing for very long is extremely difficult.

It's rough on my personal life, too; my girlfriend is frustrated that I don't want to go out and do things with her and her friends very often, but the thing is, without any downtime of my own, I'm already in a constant state of social exhaustion. The very last thing I want to do after juggling distractions all day is go out and be social. For her, it would be like having to be cooped up inside, by herself, for a few days, with no outside contact, and then having me come in and suggest a nice quiet evening at home.

So, lately this has turned into this overwhelming desire to just leave and go somewhere -- anywhere -- alone, for a week or more, just so I can get some work done.

All of which is to say that, left untreated, introversion can lead to insanity. :-)
> Apparently I've reached the maximum thread depth and don't have a "reply" option to your post.

There is a built-in time limit to prevent rapid replies when threads get deep.

You can either wait a few minutes, or work out how to get the reply box.
"But as Facebook makes it more difficult for users to maintain privacy, its co-founder is taking drastic measures to protect his own. Ironic timing, isn't it?"

Doesn't it seem like we're conflating 2 really different definitions of privacy here? One being online, on facebook, and the other offline, at home. This doesn't seem ironic at all, we're talking about one person's decision to do something that he thinks will make his life better vs. a corporation's decision to try and make more money.

(I'm in no way defending Facebook here, just seems silly to think these 2 things are at all really related. It's like saying Ronald McDonald at a vegetable and it's ironic McDonalds just introduced a triple giant bacon burger or something)
Why all Americans as opposed to all people in the world?
Everybody knows the "war on drugs" is nonsense. It's finding someone who has both the ability and the courage to change it that's proving difficult.
I have a copy of C.G. Jung's The Red Book, which is also pretty strange:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(Jung)

I haven't bothered to try to read most of it, but it makes for a good conversation piece, at least. It's very big and, well, red. Jung's drawings are quite beautiful, his medieval-style handwriting is strangely intricate, and of course everybody knows Jung by name, so it has that aura of celebrity genius.
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Are you a PHP programmer?
> Did you read where he jammed his tongue down her throat?

No.

> Did you read where he groped her ass?

Yes.

> Did you read the part about penetrating her with his finger?

No.

Quit trying to sensationalize the story.
Politics isn't just about "business models". The war on drugs is certainly bad. But I still believe there are drugs that should be prohibited. Especially Heroin and Methamphetamine, and underage consumption of many others should be severely regulated.

There is no way Heroin or Meth can be "used recreationally" without causing self-destructive harm and affecting all of society.
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No man has ever touched the rear of any female by first asking bluntly, "Is it alright if I touch your butt?". No woman has ever told a man, "I would now like you to touch my butt."

While I agree with you that this is less common than communicating through body language, it sounds like a great exaggeration to say "No man" or "No woman".
Those all existed in her account.
Usual caveats apply about making sure the software you depend on is compatible before updating. Notably, Adobe products are having a lot of issues (Photoshop: Save As is broken, keyboard shortcuts break if you have a non-US keyboard, and I've heard the Creative Cloud installer doesn't work at all).
Yeah, "amazing" is not really the word I was thinking of. There's a lot that is strange about this story, and that detail about the boyfriend tying his legs together with a belt is just the icing on the cake.

That is bizarre, almost disturbing behaviour. I am not going to comment on the case at all but for me several details from this article cast a very strange light on the whole scene, and that one just takes the cake.
its/it's for some reason seems the most annoying to me.
So how does this work? Someone must be paying for it somehow right?
Because people have wildly ideas of fun than you do.

While many hardcore gamers might like the idea of complete wipe every three months (and is has been successfully done before, see ladder in Diablo 2), the hard truth they need to face is that 'hardcore' crowd is not a majority of the market, and hasn't been for a long, long time.

People like to think that average gamer is 20-something college guy, right? That's cute image, but completely wrong.
Average gamer 30 years old. People who buy most games are 35. 45 percent of gamers are woman. There are more woman >18 playing games, than boys <17. [1]

Frankly, even though I'm only 20 years old, I'm increasingly identifying with casual market than with hardcore-tru-gamerzzzz.

I find it hard these days to spend >10 hours on a single game.

I think most games have really ridiculously tuned difficulty curves with crazy spikes in places where it makes absolutely no sense.

I can think of three, maybe four games that I spent over 15 hours in last few years. That would be Diablo III, GTA V, Cookie Clicker (does that count?) and Super Hexagon.

And frankly, if Rockstar wiped Online servers after I (and many, many, many) more people put ~20 hours into it, as much as I love that game, I would quit and never look back. I just don't have patience to grind all day long anymore.

You also have to remember that you can purchase in-game-currency with micro transactions - paying fifteen bucks for GTA$ and then seeing it vanish next day because ladder season ended would be... frustrating, to say the least.

/I'm sorry if my rant is a little bit incoherent, but video-games and hardcore gamers demanding developers to cater to them are my pet-peeves./

[1]: http://www.theesa.com/facts/
Awesome!

Psst, this would be ideal for taxis! ;-)
The argument is not: "These drugs are safe, therefore they should be legal."

The argument is: "These drugs are unsafe, therefore they should be legal because making them illegal makes things even worse."
I think at least some non-fiction authors have to supply a "camera-ready" manuscript, which is basically typeset and laid out by them and not the publishing house and so doesn't have to go through the Word-based workflow fiction publishers like Stross' use.
I haven't looked into it but I don't think so. Additionally, you should be accessing it via Tor which wipes its memory of what you type in any fields anyway so no autocomplete! You weren't searching for things you shouldn't be, were you? ;-)
* This is a situation that calls for empathy and support, and the interchange of ideas that won't put other people off of listening to each other in an open way.*

... and HN is the place for that to happen! ;)
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Here is a great Planet Money podcast about just that:

> Why does it take so long to send money from one bank account to another?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episode-...
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If you are an employee, you don't do those things near your boss.
Author of the paste (and post) here:

Wow, didn't expect this to reach the top of HN! To answer some points raised:

Maybe I am taking a game a bit too seriously, but my friends and I have put a lot of time into GTA online, and had a load of fun. I just don't want RS to do something that could ruin that.

I agree that in the GTA world $500k isn't really 'rich', maybe the title was a little link baity, but my point remains, I truly believe that $500k would have a detrimental effect on the game.

If this never reaches rockstar, or they ignore it, I will simply have to exercise some self control and keep my bank balance > $500k at all times.

I too wouldn't actually be that averse to Rockstar wiping the servers clean, as long as I didn't have to play through the tutorial again :)

And finally - loose / lose - damn it, and I'm usually a stickler for grammar, my only excuse is that I wrote this pretty quick.

Thanks for all the feedback, and if any one on HN is from Rockstar or knows someone, I'd love to hear what they think about it.
The sort of victim blaming attitude shown by their comments helps to perpetuate social constructs that enable a substantial amount of physical harm.

Additionally, "they hadn't said no" is not a justification for putting your hand inside somebody's trousers.

Trying to paint an obvious failure of basic consent as ambiguous is, to my mind, at the very least "maybe she was asking for it", which I find no less unpleasant.

As such, I think perhaps our definitions of "civilised" differ.
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A black market around heroin and meth will be really small as soon as better and less harmful drugs are cheaper.

Society can hardly intervene in every individual's self destruction. But it cannot allow drugs which are not useful for anything BUT self destruction.
Have you ever lived with, much less been in love with a victim of sexual assault? This is hardly bizarre, almost disturbing behavior, given the circumstances. I can imagine Justine lashing out at her boyfriend because she may not have properly addressed what happened to her.
I know Coinbase is trying to make transactions as easy as possible for its customers, and in order to do that they've started to "abstract Bitcoins away", but they may be going too far, to the point where it's pointless to even own Bitcoin on Coinbase. Maybe that will end up working for them. I don't know. But I don't think I like it - at least not as a Bitcoin service.