skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not attempting to "psychologize" the guy. He made a flat-out misogynistic comment. I don't know anything more about him than that (well, and the other comments which have been quoted on here). But it only takes a single comment of someone calling someone else a "nigger" in an attempt to demean and exclude them before you can call someone a racist. The same is true here; someone who claims that asking that people be a little more sensitive means that women want to make it all about their vagina is clearly lashing out in the same way.

The hidden (and incorrect) assumption here is that
this is unconnected to PC activism.

I'm not even sure what "PC activism" is supposed to mean any more, or why people consider a lot of things they accuse as being "PC activism" to be negative. Most of the times I've seen it thrown around recently were when people were just asking that other people act more nicely. Apparently asking people to act nice is now "PC activism".

I will welcome debate about how much needs to be codified; I hate policies that say "you can't use these X words" as the next guy. But a lot of what people rail about as being "PC activism" is just like this; asking that people be a little more considerate in naming package they're putting into a public repository.

So, what's an appropriate reaction to this post? Maybe to say "OK, listing 'hoe' in there is overkill, that's just being used as a pun on 'rake'." Or maybe saying "hmm, I'm not sure how useful it is to ask people to be nicer while calling them assholes."

What's not an appropriate reaction? Talking about vaginas and male spaces and banning someone who just made a request to be nicer and listed a few examples of the kind of behavior they were talking about.
Technically, commercial activities in a rented apartment ARE generally restricted, either by zoning ordinances or lease terms.

Residentially zoned areas generally do not allow 'business' to be conducted out of a home. Those ordinances are worded differently everywhere, so sometimes 'coding', where you don't have lots of foot traffic or visitors, is 'ok', and other times it's not allowed anyway.

Just because it's unenforceable doesn't mean it's not against the law...
I don't have any problem with an ISP saying "up to #Mbps" as that's what they allow each customer to get (though this is 2013 and I'm sure with the amount of metrics that CPE can gather, we could measure average thruput and advertise that too).

What I have a huge issue with is selling the services as unlimited and then smacking people down when they walk over some invisible line, or worse selling an "up to #Mbps" line when they know damn well based on basic math that nobody's ever going to get anywhere near that speed in that area.

It's absolutely ripe for abuse. You, as an ISP, can legally sell someone a 100 meg line you know in advance won't reach that speed.
Yeah. If you need to unlock doors, then you need keys. But you don't need a flashlight all the time unless you are a security guard or something.

We might as well be talking about purses.
That's not my case, it is a bit more complicated.)

When one asks yourself what other people in industry are doing, one would notice that, say, Facebook resorted to translate PHP into C++ and compile it into a static binary, that Google is making huge static binaries (who said Lisp images?!) from the very beginning, and other people are trying, for some not obvious reasons, make a huge blob inside a JVM.

There are a lot of reason and logic behind products like Varnish Cache, which is, basically, a thin layer on top of an OS, the way how such apps, perhaps, should be implemented.

Finally, very clever people at Google have noticed that there are much better ways to create huge static binaries than C++ and now we have Golang, which is, probably, the direction a sane person should look at for making yet another blog engine.)

My bet is that if I search github for a blog app written in go, each one of it will beat in terms of resource utilization and performance any Node-based app, for reasons that authors of nginx or Varnish Cache or Google/Facebook engineers took into account.

So, i
Newsflash: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, most business and also some particularly conversant users also doing the same thing.
I think for software development, the system can be simple such as "I'm going to get a lot done every day." And then for each day, figure out what "a lot" means. When you finish a small goal, immediately reorient yourself to figure out the next goal.
Makes things sound desolate and hopeless. But the residents of provincial cities like Kazan would tell a different story pointing to new subway lines, a new airport terminal, new rapid transit from the airport to the city center, new highways, new apartment buildings, etc.

A foreigner will say, but St. Petersburg is an important port city. How could the main road link between the port and the capital be in such a sorry state? The answer lies in the Russian way of doing things. Russia has an excellent train network, and goods mainly travel from the port to the capital by train. Roads serve those areas which are not important enough to have trains, so when you take a road trip in Russia, you are choosing to travel off the beaten track in the back of beyond. Charming and full of natural beauty, but also full of poverty just the same as you would see on an indian reserve in the USA. Only the natives live in such places in Russia, clinging to the traditional way of life of their ancestors. You look at these people and see white faces like those of you and your neighbors and you are confused because you are used to seeing brown faces on the aboriginals. But in Russia, the white faces ARE the aboriginals, living in this land since before the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago when all of Europe was under a thick sheet of ice.

Russia is a very big place, and the government cannot afford to spend its money everywhere and anywhere. In order to make Kazan and Sochi into modern cities that are productive and desirable places to live, they have to neglect some other places. In a vast territory that means that most of the villages are neglected. But there are lots of people who like it that way because they want to live in the forest, breathe fresh air, collect mushrooms and berries, etc. It is their traditional way of life since time immemorial.
"However, one optimization that can be made for some browsers is OCSP stapling: the server can include (staple) the OCSP response from the CA to its certificate chain, allowing the browser to skip the online check. Moving the OCSP fetch to the server allows the server to cache the signed OCSP response and save the extra request for many clients. However, there are also a few things to watch out for:

OCSP responses can vary from 400 to 4,000 bytes in size. Stapling this response to your certificate chain may once again overflow your TCP congestion window—pay close attention to the total size.

Only one OCSP response can be included, which may still mean that the browser will have to issue an OCSP request for other intermediate certificates, if it has not been cached already."

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/ch04.htm...
He's not the only one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter#Doe_v....

>In his ruling Judge Marrero wrote "All but the most mettlesome and undaunted NSL recipients would consider themselves effectively barred from consulting an attorney or anyone else who might advise them otherwise," and concluded, "as well as bound to absolute silence about the existence of the NSL...For the reasonable NSL recipient confronted with the NSL's mandatory language and the FBI's conduct related to the NSL, resistance is not a viable option."[22]

Frankly, your words seem more like propaganda than his.
There's a relative uncanny valley in everything. I love Starship Troopers... utterly insane in many details, but can have a hard time watching Avatar because of the plot and reality holes. Conquered intersteller space travel and the ability to remote control an organic being but still use helicopters and machine guns and can't figure out a way of mining responsibly? But Starship Troopers isn't concerned with making you believe anything... it's busy being totally ridiculous.

Probably a mediocre example of what I'm talking about (I have a good example of this that I can't remember), but I think you get the point.
I am not so sure.

I draw a joke distinction between a geek and a nerd like this. A geek is someone who loves technology and toys. A nerd is someone who gets utterly obsessed by a particular topic.

I usually bring this up when explaining to a fellow programmer that I'm a nerd but not a geek. Which fact I then demonstrate by pulling out my flip phone.

If they proceed to doubt that I am a nerd, I'll then offer to explain something esoteric. A good example is the differences between the Riemann integral, the Lebesgue integral, and the Generalized Riemann integral. And why if the last had been discovered earlier, we might not have needed to develop Lebesgue integration at all!
"What makes us human?" has nothing to do with science. It is a strictly philosophical question.
Just like New York city is a vacuum that sucks the life out of the rural regions of upstate New York.

Even the NYT covers this from time to time http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/nyregion/13census.html?pag...
The author asked:

"In what way is any of this fun? If I die in a horrific car crash as the thrilling end to a five star police chase, what’s the harm in respawning me for free in the hospital with my car shiny and new in the parking lot"

The author answered his own question without apparently realizing it:

"but in a game like GTA Online where the most fun you can have is behaving dangerously, I don’t think the same rules apply"

There is no behaving dangerously, if there are no consequences to behavior to make it "dangerous."
I see that NSA articles still have heavier weights attached to them.
Ask HN: .net vs .co, Which TLD would you choose?
Assuming .com is taken, which is usually the case. Which would you choose for your company/project/app/startup? .net or .co?
Not sure where you're getting your information..

http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/
I guess I should clarify that the bigger point here is that I largely disagree with much of what he said.

"But there’s also a “death tax” as it were, where whenever your player dies, you have to pay your hospital bills of about 5% of your total cash, banked or otherwise. In a game where the fun is about rampaging around, attracting police and killing other players, the game is offering you a disincentive to play this way for fear of death and subsequent monetary penalties."

These mechanisms are likely there to turn away griefers. Online play relies on people working together for a large portion of the missions.

"You have to buy insurance, you have to pay deductibles if your car is wrecked, you have to buy or steal it back from an impound lot if you leave it somewhere or die in a police chase. In what way is any of this fun? If I die in a horrific car crash as the thrilling end to a five star police chase, what’s the harm in respawning me for free in the hospital with my car shiny and new in the parking lot? Why make me lose money, file an auto insurance claim or drag my car’s mangled corpse out of the impound?"

My question would be what fun is that? Being given everything? No penalty? That's hardly a game. How do you lose?

"It’s a game where the hardest single player mission is not robbing the federal reserve in broad daylight, it’s using a crane to load boxes onto a truck for twenty minutes."

For anyone that has played the game you would probably immediately say he is wrong here because that mission took about 5 minutes. Yeah, it was boring but I'd rather have some mini-games thrown in than constantly hold the trigger down for the entire game.
Chicago!
To lose or maintain weight, the system is really simple, for me at least. Don't eat too many calories, and make sure you do something in the form of exercise each day.

You need to be incredibly self conscious of approximately how many calories you're ingesting throughout the day (no, you don't have to weigh your food. Just a rough estimate). And you have to maintain this system forever, basically.

How you actually implement the system, such as specifics of what foods to eat, what form of exercise, etc., can wildly vary, but you need to always remember the fundamentals.
> You shouldn't consider founding a company if you don't have the ability to survive for a few weeks or months while looking for a replacement employee.

If the job is that essential, the founders should be able to do it themselves. If not, then yeah, it can wait.
No way. I live in Manhattan and SF sounds like a nightmare. I have so many options in terms of other boroughs (subway), nice, pre-war suburbs with walkable areas (LIRR & metro north commuter rail), or even another state (PATH train, NJ transit). SF's transit is a joke, even within the city itself (getting from west to east), which is the real problem here.

And there's a greater diversity of opportunity here if you're not just in the tech startup scene. I have a feeling SF will bust when the VC spigot dries up.
Yes, I'm familiar with basic anatomy.

Dismissing someone by comparing a man who is asking for there to be less sexualized and derogatory language in a community to "women who want to make it all about their vagina" is nonsense on several axes. For one, the person he was attacking is a man. For another, the whole point of the argument is for it to be less about vaginas, or other sexual differences. Bringing up sex (and especially in violent and derogatory terms, like rape-me and recursive_pimp_slap) can make an environment uncomfortable for people who already feel marginalized in a community.
What is ironic is the coincidence of "look at shitty Russia with 14 year old brides" when a) US government is shutdown b) Snowden documents keep revealing NSA's dirt form under the carpet.
Other than looking around for others (country TLDs like .io) which might fit your market or product I would personally go with the .net. Depending upon your market I would imagine you'd see a lot of traffic intended for your site to go to the .com simply due to confusion.
Are these UAVs from flirtey completely autonomous ? I could see a ton of use case for moving medicines in third world countries where roads are poor, assuming they have a long range.
Asperger's? The protagonist of this new novel is an aspie.
USA WINS!
Seems like irrelevant categorizing that doesn’t make much sense and isn’t very useful. Who cares what you are in terms of dumb categories like that?
Silk Road 2.0 could use this. I wonder how long it will take to make the first pirate drone.
"As a CEO it's really hard to understand why an employee doesn't have the same commitment."

Seriously? Let me spell it out:

The CEO has a significant amount of stock, unlike most employees, so the success of the company makes a big difference to the CEO. To the employees, it might translate into less money than they can get by changing jobs.

And to the employees, it feels like they have more commitment than the CEO. As jwz pointed out[1], the employees sleep under their desks but the CEO goes home at night.

[1] http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-se...
My "everyday carry" is the remote fob for my car, my phone, my license and two credit cards. I have no need for anything Jeff considers essential, including keys -- HomeLink in my car opens the garage door to get in and out.

Some day my phone will be able to pay for my purchases (not everywhere has NFC terminals yet) and start my car. The only thing that doesn't seem to be on the horizon is ID. I suppose I would leave the license in my car, but I'd worry about being hassled by police, who don't like to hear you have no ID when they ask for some.
That's one of the large reasons I went with TinyTiny-RSS. It's got support in Liferea, and a decent android app to do reading with. Let's me keep everything in sync for read/unread across devices, just like i was using google reader for.
Would be interesting talking about your previous experiences. Right now i have ideas but those ideas need to be discussed. If you are interested too we can meet.
it was good on my laptop too, but annoying. some things can be too fancy
Let's audit Truecrypt
Not to mention the age of consent in some states in the US is as low as 14 (if one partner is younger than 18)...
>I'm not attempting to "psychologize" the guy.

Yes, you speculated on his mental state quite extensively. Quoting you: "He was just lashing out at something he's afraid of and frustrated by."

>He made a flat-out misogynistic comment.

Sorry, he did nothing of the sort. He made the astute point that women tend to co-opt spaces established by men using activism. Do you deny this?

>Apparently asking people to act nice is now "PC activism".

Nope. Again, it's not just "asking people to be nice", it's a concerted, long-term effort to insert PC memes under the guide of being a nice person.

>But it only takes a single comment of someone calling someone else a "nigger" in an attempt to demean and exclude them before you can call someone a racist.

Nope. People say all sorts of things in anger, and this kind of thinking is exactly the kind of PC stupidity that is becoming a concern.

>Talking about vaginas and male spaces and banning someone who just made a request to be nicer and listed a few examples of the kind of behavior they were talking about.

What's your point here, exactly? That his ban was too harsh? Got anything to say about PC activism (you know, the thing that we were talking about)?

>So, what's an appropriate reaction to this post?

Oh, piss off you moist wanker. Did you stop to think that maybe it's not your job to tell other people how to communicate with others?
Keeping people from getting the whole experience on something like Pocket or Flipboard. Not that I blame them; it's a good idea.
That's the thing, I'm a subscriber to the NYT and I like a lot of their coverage, especially their in depth pieces and interesting multimedia heavy articles like this one.

But if they're providing me biased info about a topic I know a lot about, how can I trust them on the topics I know little about?
Man, I could use some actionable advice about how to improve my lot right now, but I can never seem to find it in such articles!

Scott Adams is also an edge case, in that he is a world class cartoonist. Without that level of talent, I don't think his "systems" would work.
From my current boss, and sadly repeated by a significant number of coworkers, "Because our competition is working more than we are. If we don't work these crazy hours they win."

To add insult to injury, this particular employer is the least efficient place I've ever worked. I'd estimate the average employee works 70-80 hours a week, but 1/2 to 2/3 of that is simply working around poor management or fixing mistakes that could have been avoided.

So, when I seek to get my fellow employees to consider the possibility of working toward a 30 hour workweek, I get the "our competition" argument. When I try to introduce efficiencies, I get the "we don't have time to learn/employment/etc." arguments.

Sadly, because of the economy and commitments I have, I haven't been able to find another job that I think is enough of a good bet. As soon as I do, I'm outa here!
Unfortunately no one can own that :) Google doesn't allow email id with less than 5 chars (to mitigate random spamming)
I would put it simpler. Open world games are fun because the mechanics they expose let players create and experience their own stories. GTA is fun because the mechanics they expose let you easily create action movie scenes. Lack of consequences leads to less interesting stories.
The internet is pretty much ruined in many ways now. Apart from the snooping, public opinion has become an open battlefield. Comments for any political article on any popular site are now full to the brim with obvious shills of all stripes.
sorry, probably the same word means different things in my language, i meant how the app can grow fast.
So, the economy is growing, with the same number of bitcoins chasing more goods (or actually, fewer and fewer bitcoins chasing more goods, as some get lost or destroyed) and (as you pointed out) people deal with this in part by splitting the bitcoins smaller in terms of what they actually spend. That obviously leads to the currency becoming more valuable as you can exchange the same amount of currency for more other stuff, right?

It's worse than that, because expectation of deflation means people hoard rather than spending, which means still fewer coins actually in circulation.
I really miss carrying a knife, but since 9/11 it has been almost impossible to actually, you know, go anywhere. I have had multiple times when I simply forgot to ditch it before going out and wasn't able to get into places, particularly museums. Having one attached to my keychain? I'd never remember to take it off.

Plus, carrying that thing around in your jeans pocket looks uncomfortable, I can barely manage a wad of keys.
I find this article very interesting. I'm writing a compiler for my own programming language, so I'm thinking a lot about various interesting compile-time analysis that can be done to produce more efficient code...
To Paoli (25 miles) they have twice-hourly coverage during commute times. Stretch it out to Exton (30-something miles) and you're down to hourly coverage peak.
None of these questions rank anywhere near the top10, at least not in the exact sciences.

Actual top10 problems:

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

(they require knowing more than a little bit of science to even understand the question)
If you guys have any questions on Meteor for startups, don't hesitate to ask.
I don't think this technology will be very useful for illicit purposes until there are enough drones in the sky to get lost in the crowd. They're not particularily inconspicuous when they're buzzing around.
> Who cares what you are in terms of dumb categories like that?

Certain kinds of nerds do (though usually not geeks).

Seems like pretty handy categorising - it's come in handy already! :P
We also didn't used to have the government telling us to increase our consumption of grains and carbs and decrease our consumption of saturated fat. HFCS also didn't used to be in every piece of packaged food in the grocery store. I used to be able to buy pizza sauce without having to painstakingly search for one without soy in it.

You're right, there are many weird ideas around obesity. They start with many weird ideas about food in general.
In Georgia (the US state, not the formerly Soviet country), the age of marriage and sexual consent is 13.

source: Wikipedia [http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_sexual_consent_in_th...]
I questioned your premise that cities were "designed" to be expensive, whereas I believe they merely "become" expensive through basic laws of supply and demand.

Capital cities are a "premium" product, and they are designed to be so. People pay the premium, because they are effective in the task for which they are designed. Where do you think the "demand" comes from? The demand is for the productivity improvements that can accrue to those who control assets that are highly productive. But note the two words: (1) control; and (2) productive. To extract maximum rents, the product must be under control (so expect a class of laws designed to g;tee this). And secondly, expect a design which caters to high-end productivity (ie, networking, and its corralry...social exclusivity).
It is just me or does this seem like a cheap way to "buy" a drone? I assume they have done something to discourage people walking off with their hardware?