skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention there seems to be this ridiculous misconception that if you didn't know you were assaulting someone it's not sexual assault.

That's so very, very wrong. Anyone who argues this in court has a bad lawyer, or isn't listening to their good lawyer. Sexual assault can occur even if you don't know you are doing it. It is your responsibility, as the initiator, to know whether consent has been given or not!

Groping someone in a drunken stupor is very likely to get you into a LOT of trouble. The sooner this misconception is cleared up, the better. Both for those poor unfortunates that encounter the one with the misconception, and for the person with the misconception themselves, otherwise they might find themselves in jail!
Yup, if every one of us had $500k, we wouldn't risk going to jail for a $10k job. Wouldn't that be cool, if we could negociate our salary in GTA?!
My character is already day-trading, anyway.
I agree with you -- one man's "defensive" lawsuit is another's overbroad patent trolling -- but I agree more with the EFF. If Google is going to go for this kind of patent, then it would be good to see a firmer (and much larger) commitment to something like their "Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge"[1].

I'd breathe easier about these crap patents if I knew they were functioning only as land mines for bad parties out there. Of course, they shouldn't exist in the first place and real patent trolls have nothing to worry about, since they produce nothing that you can countersue over in the first place...but the EFF is right that this is the right thing to do in this case. skore brings up a good point below[2] that it's not really about fairness. Google is a company that prides itself on being better than using "vague, overbroad" patents, so best to use that as leverage to make sure a big presence in the industry continues as a good(ish) actor and use that as a fixed point for continued change.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/google-adds-79-pa...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6539746
Wozniak on NSA and Snowden (video)
Steve Wozniak interview on Piers Morgan (CNN).
Your hypothesis in the first sentence is testable - would a Bangladeshi factory owner who chose to do as you say be more competitive than others, getting higher productivity while being able to sell for the same prices? Are the most successful manufacturers there doing it right now, and if not, why not?
but there's xubuntu, lubuntu, ubuntu studio, kubuntu ...
Same here: when I first launched Eclipse, it asked if I wanted to install JRE 6. Was kind of surprised it didn't ask if I wanted to install JRE 7, not sure why it's still set to 6.
Very useful to know.

It makes a lot of sense to use your savings to bootstrap your internet/tech startup in a place where living costs are much lower, but internet access is pretty much the same. The savings will last much longer, giving you more time to work.
Factual, are we 100% certain? If you are going to attached these type of title to this person, we had better be damn certain. This is why we have a legal system and not mob rule based on emotions. If he is guilty then so be it but until we know for sure, we should hold judgement. Also she mentions at the beginning that she is just writing this to get it out there, sounds rushed.
Okay, so whoever I replied to deleted their message. They are the ones who wrote "HALF A BILLION DOLLARS." Anyways...

> THREE AND A HALF YEARS

Seriously... I just did it to highlight the fact that's it stupid. Please tell me you're only doing it for the same reason? =)

But anyways, no, the site didn't take three and a half years to make, as is clear by anyone taking a few minutes to do a bit of research.

Anyways, getting to the heart of the matter:

> Is anyone claiming they didn't have enough money to the point it could have caused this level of failure?

I don't know and I don't care. I honestly think that question is irrelevant. Who cares if anyone is asking that?
My university used to have their CS lab machines named after breakfast cereals, soups, and pastas. Last year they switched to Unix commands, programming languages, and design patterns.
Commenting so I can have a later reference to this post. Thanks!
I agree. The whole thing now strikes me as extra phony and bizarre.
This is currently being shared on The Pirate Bay[1], for those of us not living in the UK, and too poor to pay for a viewing/DRM.

[1] http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/9039415/Mediastan
If I may put forth a slice of my personal philosophy, it's that silly host names have ruled naming conventions long enough. I much prefer boring but logical descriptors that help my network self-document: whether simple codes useful in small environments (like "file01") or more complex schemes suitable for large-scale computing (e.g., "masip150ntvirt" or "cin-me-exch-01"). With the right scheme, 15 characters can tell you a lot about the location, ownership, configuration, and purpose of a particular computer. The cutesy naming conventions do nothing to help admins do their jobs or - in my opinion - actively get in the way.
Or simply have a naming convention for hosts. I realize that only makes sense for sufficiently large setups, but once your setup is large enough, it does make things easier.

At $work we maintain setups for customers, and our FQDNs are roughly <function><counter><environment>.<customer>.<ourdomain>.tld. So the second database server in the testing environment for customer "nasa" (hypothetical, of course) would be called db02t.nasa.<ourdomain>.<tld>.

It does make it pretty obvious from the FQDN what the used is being used for.
It used to be that I would look at something like this and pronounce judgment. As I get older, however, I've learned that trying things is always good. See what happens!

My question would simply be: how would this be any different than using a small contractor? Or having really great people in a small team do the same thing?

In other words, what does a new organization and standards bring to the table that's not already there? Simply a new name? What do they do that you currently cannot do separately if you wanted to? Are you really suggesting something new, or just adding a bunch of buzzwords together in an effort to try to make something sound good? Or, to be even more provocative, is the goal here to actually do something, or create something that sounds like it might do something? Because they're two different things. We've been down this road of "Ok, let's set aside this special group, with these special criteria, and a new name" a hundred times. Best case -- it works at a very small scale. Worst case, same old, same old, just with new titles over all the stuff.
I've not paid much attention to this, but your comment just hit me right in the face. We spent $650M on this thing—and the three-orders-of-magnitude-too-high price can only be explained by a nonsensical favoritism for firms that can navigate our minefield of regulations and the selection process... and we ended up selecting a Canadian firm?

I am not especially patriotic, though I also don't really think patriotism is a bad thing. Nevertheless, learning that the contract was awarded to a Canadian firm makes me reel. I mean no slight to Canadians, but if we are going to overspend by 100x, let's at least send the money to our cronies in the United States! Just for appearances.
I haven't run mine on battery much since upgrading; but as you might expect I feel like my fans run less, which is much appreciated. MacBook Air 11", Mid 2012.
None of that makes it any less dishonest.
We use Pokemon.

There's something super memorable about Blastoise, Slowbro, Squirtle, Ninetales, Jigglypuff...

I also color my tabs the color of the Pokemon for fast reference.
Lord of the Rings?
libertarians justify slavery or indentured servitude

libertarians first and foremost believe in non-aggression, voluntary trade. so slavery, in so far as it was forced upon someone via violence or the threat of violence would not be justified.

If you are coming from the point of view that there is no problem with sweatshops and things don't need to change

None of the video's I linked to, nor it is my position that things do not need to change, your emotional response is the problem, you lack the ability to react with logic, to understand how the world actually works, instead you lash out with emotion about how the world "should" work in your opinion

How long have China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Malaysia had sweatshops?

They are in reality, why do you think in recent year companies have been flocking back to the US, telecom and tech industries are the most widely known, but many business are coming back. It is the increased in wages in those nations brought about by economic development via sweatshops coupled with the reducing wages in the US brought about by the failed economic policies of the US government
Well, I'm sure reasonable people can disagree on this, but my opinions are:

* Cocotron and GNUStep are wonderful projects and the devs should be very proud of their accomplishments.

* But for real-world, shipping applications, the only cross-platform environment worth a damn is the Web.

* If you're not going to develop a webapp, then you should always develop apps with the native application toolkit for the target platform. To do otherwise leads to poor quality and major hurdles that are not worth the effort to overcome.

* So if I were going to develop a Windows app, I'd use the native Windows toolkit (whatever that is these days, I'd have to research).

* And besides, Schwartz takes advantage of several 10.8 Cocoa/AppKit APIs, and is of course completely entwined with my Xcode 5 project. I'd be surprised if Cocotron or GNUStep are that up-to-date. I suspect porting the project to Cocotron or GNUStep would be a major undertaking.

Glad to hear about "Onyx" though. Very cool that someone did an independent implementation of Quartz. If I were to do a Windows version, I'd probably combine Onyx with a native Windows app. But I don't have the time or expertise to make that feasible.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6526761
Cute server naming schemes are one of my pet peeves. In my experience the only two logical choices are: sequential numbers (e.g. foo1, ..., foo100, ... if your company name is Foo Corp.), or hashes / uuids (like amazon instance IDs, e.g. i-977a24e3). If you want to give a server a memorable or cute name, use DNS or some kind of alias.
My old university used birds (Round Robin access via the "aviary"), noble gasses, music genres.

Myself, I use types of alcohol.
If I had a choice personally, I'd go for Japan. For culture/food.

Isn't that too expensive? I have no first hand knowledge, just what I read sometimes about it
I've enjoyed the post.
I don't like drawing circuits in LaTeX. Here, a simple circuit example:

\item
\begin{circuitikz}[american voltages]
\draw
(0,0) to[battery, l=12V](0,3)
to[R, l=$150\Omega$ ](3,3)
to[D,l=$D_1$](3,0)
to[short](0,0)
;
\end{circuitikz}

It makes perfectly nice looking circuits, so it passes a definition of "works" but it is an archaic way of describing circuits. if I had to do serious electronics work in that manner, I might not bother. Yes, I can include drawings created by other software, and do so for more complex circuits.
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Stealing is stealing despite your best attempt to rationalize it. If you don't like their offerings, don't shop there. THAT would be integrity.
What is the nature of the EFF's power? Can they harm Google calling them a hypocrite[1][2] if only via reputation or public shaming? Will programmers on certain forums, for example, be less likely to accept a Google position because of Google's patent policies, especially ones that are highlighted by the EFF?

Then I think: apart from fearing the mighty EFF's vast and influential power (ha), what other concerns might motivate the patent decision maker at google (whoever that is) to take action in this case? Perhaps they are motivated by the respect of their colleagues. Perhaps they have something I read about in college, called a "conscience", which I was led to believe was a powerful influencer of individual behaviors. Wouldn't that be amazing, if the decision-maker at Google actually told the world that their conscience wouldn't let them take a certain action they believed to be wrong? That would be a massive win, in so many ways, and for so many people.

And I, for one, might call back that Google recruiter.

[1] http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2013/02/lets-defend-i...

[2]http://www.geekwire.com/2013/joke-google-seeks-patent-splitt...
I agree with this. Call servers after their purpose. I don't grow attached to servers anymore — especially in the cloud.
He has a point, though. Between you, sneak, and wilkie, I can see why people are hesitant to discuss this topic openly. It's almost like the three of you are looking for a fight on this topic and ready for all comers. Like if it weren't for you three, we would all be woefully misinformed about sexual assault. There are opinions on this topic that differ from yours and in almost every one, I can find two or more of you going to the mat on how wrong it is.

At multiple points while reading this thread, I've come across your/their username again and said to myself, Jesus, take a break, let other people speak. I really rolled my eyes when you brought up the woman whose feelings you hurt on Twitter and subsequent witch hunt, as well. Trust me, the "witch hunt" you experienced after that suffocates in comparison to what Joe has in store.

To your credit, you are at least the most civil and coherent of the three. As a victim of false accusation, it was really swell to be dismissed out of hand by sneak.
I've read posts from folks who started at 10.1 and upgraded all the way to 10.8 without any issues.
Thanks for the leads. I've read up a bunch on hackathons. I'm not sure what my role would be at one to be honest... I don't have a team, I'm not an Engineer and it seems like there are two groups who benefit: coders hoping to win a beauty contest in front of investors and investors who see it as a cheap way to find creative labor. Am I wrong? What would I do if I just showed up at one of these? The Launch Festival looks quite interesting though... It's not till Feb, but I'll buy a ticket for sure.

The Lean Startup is a good book -- I read it last night to re-familiarize myself with the ideas. MVP, "getting outside the building", innovation accounting and Measure-Learn-Build are extremely useful concepts. As you suggested, some of my thoughts revolve around the ideal order of the steps. But beyond that, I believe there's more accurately a crucial missing step up front. I have no doubt that he wants you to measure stuff, refine and then re-measure to see if there's better alignment, until you've developed a solid 'customer archetype'. But it seems that you're sort of tainting the initial conversation with prospects by forcing it down the path of discussing what's right and wrong with your MVP. How likely are you to throw it all out and start from scratch if your MVP just isn't cutting it? You have to have serious fortitude to do that, especially if your MVP took many weeks or months to develop. And aren't most prospects just going to think 'inside the box' once you've placed a potential solution in front of them?

So I suspect that what often happens when employing the Build-Measure-Learn paradigm is that either you end up with incremental improvements to existing solutions or eventual success ends up depending on how good you were at really nailing that initial MVP... and that could require Steve Jobs-like intuition or plain luck.

What if you could put a reliable methodology around those crucial, very early conversations with prospects that would lead you to build an MVP that meets their basic needs up front without any kind of super-human foresight or luck and without having to pivot over and over (which I contend is mentally a very hard thing for most people to do)?

To go with the Lean Startup nomenclature, my idea could sort of be summed up as Discover-Build-Measure-Learn, at which point you'd cycle through Build-Measure-Learn after the first iteration.
I hadn't noticed the "compressed" field in Activity Monitor, thanks for pointing that out. On my 8 GB Mac running quite a few things (Eclipse, Xcode, tons of Safari tabs, all the "standard" built-in apps open), mine's showing "Compressed: 3.21 GB" right now.
It doesn't matter to them that they think it might fail. The only reason that SpaceX exists is to colonize Mars, and the only way to do that is with reusable spaceships. The reason they're willing to try it is the same reason they were willing to build non-reusable rockets to start: it's the only way forward.
Ask HN: Turn $2,000 Google Cloud Platform credit into cash?
I received $1,000 for App Engine, and $1,000 for Google Compute Engine, valid for six months.
At some point, if the economy continues to grow, poor working conditions and child labor will start catch up with the country and they will be forced to curb them in order to get to the next level of growth. Hopefully corruption will not get in the way of that (something China seems to be dealing with now).
Totally agree that word's review functions are really simple. Which is why even all legal/contract documents are exchanged back and forth between companies in Word today. The hassle is that its done over email - sending versions of attachments back and forth. Nice naming convention helps, but there are definitely better solutions to do the same online today.
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A first, rather easy solution would be to pay decently. What? Capitalists can't do this? Because other capitalists will drive them out of business? My my, isn't the system really fucked! Time for some radical architectural changes.
Yes, she is just a mother. Which is sort of like looking at the sky and saying, "hey, it’s just the sun."

I'm a guy and I like this guy
Great write up! I'm thinking of doing the exact same thing. A couple of questions -

Why the limitation to being able to only do 6 months? Do they stop renewing your visa after that?

Have you looked at other neighbouring countries like Laos, Burma and Cambodia for a similar arrangement?
This is already a huge issue, where the working class don't have time to attend govt meeting to discuss issues like his route planning.
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Yeah, our creative writing tool (backspacr.com) uses versioning at the scene/subchapter level, and it's definitely nontrivial to present diff and merge tools to end users. We're working through customer stories right now to try and do discovery on just this issue.
> Drug use isn't just high functioning professional recreational users.

But then why have the same restrictions for those cases where it really is? Why just ban them categorically rather than have a system for ensuring that people who can enjoy it safely can also do it legally?

I know, you can find flaws with any such proposal. But There are about a zillion middle grounds that make more sense than full prohibition (or full legalization).
There's also the aspect of giving contributors their due credit and thanks. As time and furloughs allow, to be sure, but I'm only talking about two paragraphs' worth of giving people who've poured hours into the project an explanation of what's gone on.

I honestly don't care one iota about the concept of being entitled to the FOSS source code; I'm just slightly miffed about the seeming lack of thanks for the people who chipped in. If you will, it's about what's owed to contributors, not tax-payers.

It's a small thing that means a great deal.
Can you point me to this please. I would like to read their corroboration of this event. It would help my opinion much more. This situation is so grey area that another perspective would help. Please link, thank you so much.
Agreed. Shop/move elsewhere, especially if you are not a fan of capitalism. I, too, am not a fan of capitalism so it is my plan to remove myself from its constraints. But I don't steal and then try to justify the action because I'm against what they stand for.
We used to use Marvel characters until our setup got too big. Now it's (datacenter)-(type (web, proxy, db, etc))(number). So, sfo-proxy1, for example.
I use characters from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Roland, Eddie, Jake, Oy, Susannah, Cuthbert, Alain, etc.
Where is this, I would like to read the other two accounts.
Anyone know what models and price ranges can get to altitudes like that? And how are these controlled - if manually in real-time what kind of connection is needed?
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I remember recognizing at CMU that the many of the computers were named after Phish songs. Always enjoyed working at 'weekapaug'
that's a dumb thing to say. It's reasonably frequent that the best tool for a job is one that scales from the smallest possible use case (individual) to the largest, smoothly and without hassle. Git fits this criterion. SVN is a real pain by comparison.
I was using an i7-3770k with an HD4000. It doesn't get any more generic than that. I'm not going to go out of my way to check if hardware is "Ubuntu cerftified", unless I'm going to lose my mind someday. There simply is no benefit in doing so, as long as other distros such as Mint (at least for me, I've heard of people having lots of issued with Mint too) or Windows work pretty much flawlessly
Weird. I haven't had any issues with iOS 7 and it is hardly been a complete and utter embarrassment.

The more likely explanation is that there are issues with the 64-bit transition e.g. drivers or kernel bugs.
They're not similar at all. FoCS is mostly about introductory programming and data structures (with a tiny bit about automata). Sipser's book is about computation and complexity - it's comparable to Hopcroft and Ullman's Intro to automata theory, languages, and computation, for which Ullman recommends FoCS or equivalent as a prerequisite.
To expand the canvas, you just drag the window to the desired size. There's a save option but it seems to be linked through facebook unfortunately
It's probably because the OP had a double entry tourist visa.

You can renew easily -- or at least could, a few years ago. I lived in Thailand for two years, entirely on tourist visas.

Let me just add there's a marked difference between how OP describes his Thailand experience, and living outside of start-up/expat communities.
Read the aforementioned RFC - with sequential numbers you are not naming them.
I can imagine how thrilled your colleagues are if they have to ssh into i-977 what was the rest of it?
I've been using elements myself for my home network.

(With one pseudo-exception: my first laptop was protium, my previous deuterium, my current tritium. Next one will probably be hydrogen.)
None of these proposals are catchy (or funny) enough to establish themselves, except:

- Plauschplage

- Dornhöschenschlaf

I really might accept "Plauschplage" into my vocabulary.
Ask HN: Ryan Dahl and Node Bot
Guys, have you seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4abYtdopuVE&feature=player_detailpage#t=1783

Do you know which tool is being use to build Node.js and create this cool benchmarks?
Famous cyclists names here! Gilbert, ulrich, and armstrong (we replaced armstrong recently)
Cool effect! Combine it with D3 for some bad ass visualisations!

PS: Why do designers think that native scrolling is bad? Thanks, Apple...
There's a big difference from western history - in western history, the machines were right next to them; however, if for example a Bangladesh worker is replaced by a sewing robot located in Taiwan, then there's nothing the working class can do about that, and there's no chance that any benefits will trickle down to them as the new profits and rich class are located elsewhere and won't even hire them as servants.

The future will not be evenly distributed, that's for sure.