skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It freaks me out that anyone would believe that any amount of message board political bullshit could justify murder. But I bet you're right.
This is neat and all, but I personally don't think it's that impressive since it also has 120 lines of CSS and 57 lines of html.
No, because the FBI was on the other side of the ruse.
Thanks for the heads-up on Evo. I was a longtime user until switching to T-bird in the mid-00s because it was a lot more visually attractive to me and more configurable/extensible. I see what you mean, Evo seems to have made big strides since then, definitely worth a test-drive for a while.
Actually that's a pretty large misinterpretation of what I said. Conclusively:

People should still do this, but stop turning it into a cultural movement in which everything unremarkable is remarkable and knowledge is abstracted away into insignificance. The knowledge is infinitely more important than the abstraction as the abstractions come and go.

For an extreme example: When playing around with electricity that knowledge and those fundamentals can and do make the difference between life and death. Some maker contraptions that I've seen that flash lights connected to the mains are so dangerous it's unreal.
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Agreed. I am working in an open-plan area right now and it is deeply & subtly uncomfortable in all sorts of ways.
Groovy doesn't get enough love as a post java jvm language IMO.

I agree that grails is a bit heavyweight. The people at my former place did some work on using groovy with dropwizard: https://speakerdeck.com/kyleboon/webservices-with-dropwizard... which is seems to be more of a nice collection of libraries, rather than a box you in framework.
So I'm firmly in the camp of "miss the events and make money". Other will tell you differently. Not that kids whose parents aren't around don't whine or you won't find a kid who has a "rich" parent who says they would have rather spent more time with them. That's what they say. But the truth is that's short sighted.

Right on! When my father's job hook up in Dubai fell apart, he called my mom informing her that he can either return home to India to continue his struggling career or he can come to the US on a visit visa. My mom told him to take his chances and then spent hours tearing up, unclear how she was going to take care of four little kids.

It would take another seven years before my dad could get the rest of his family here. For all of that time, I barely knew my dad(there was no VoIP:). But the end result--or even the goal--made it all worth it.
If you're going to comment mentioning it, you should probably tell people what it is :)

For those who haven't seen it, Nightcode is a new, open-source Clojure and Java IDE written by the person I'm replying to. Has project templates, paredit mode, REPL and CLJS build integration. I only played around with it for 5 minutes and went back to Vim, so I can't really endorse it but it looks cool.

https://nightcode.info/
Not a whole lot, actually. I think by 25 most of the "core" of me was developed. The things after 24/25 came as a result of the experiences I had. That can't be taught. For example, I could tell you 1,000,000 things on how to be a father and you could totally buy into it. None of that is a substitute for learning how to deal with a brooding 8yo prodigy though. It might help, but it isn't a substitute for how that specific kid reacts to anything.
I read several comments in support of smiling as a universal form of politeness, which in itself is a sweeping generalisation that doesn't acknowledge cultural differences.

BTW, I'm not pissing on Americans, in my experience Americans are generally considerably more polite, friendly and open than most other Westerners. But the way that is expressed is not a universal language, which tends to lead to misunderstandings.
This is a very good point.

I've been in an open workspace that had three or four people to a desk and it was a nightmare. Now I work at an open workspace where everyone is spread out and it is much better. The closest person to me is ~2 meters away.
As someone with only naive, cosmetic knowledge in this area, humor me.. but could a lot of it be down to inherited attitudes? Somehow I made it through Anne Applebaum's 28 hour audiobook of Gulag and something that struck me was how the Russian population became trained to keep their heads down and not stand out for fear of being incriminated by others or randomly selected to be thrown into a gulag. And if you learn that demeanor, your kids will too, right? And so on and so forth, down the generations.
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his failures were due to career choice, bad mortgages

He didn't blame anyone did he? He basically said he made all of the decisions, one by one. The source of those decisions may or may not have been what you propose as the explanation. But I think the characterization 'this article may have been unfairly billed and titled' seems...off, regardless. But maybe I'm missing something.
The other thing to keep in mind is that YC has an upper bound on the number of companies they accept. Just because a team doesn't get in doesn't mean they're bad, it just means that YC partners saw other teams they felt were even better.

You can see the evidence of this by the fact that companies going through YC are getting better and better. They're better at the start of YC, and they're better at the end of YC (than previous batches).

Is this a good thing or bad thing? For YC - definitely a good thing.
CTO of Keen IO here.

The ingest side isn't too crazy. We're doing between 50-100 insert-type requests per second per server (although we run multiple instances of Tornado per server so it's actually fewer per Tornado process). The stats on the read side are more impressive. :)
You are misunderstanding me, I am asserting that the data doesn't match the "smiling people live in nice places" theory. Alaskans smile, despite having a high suicide rate and living in a miserable climate. Nevadans aren't know for being particularly pleasant or cold (there isn't a stereotype about the attitudes of Nevadans one way or the other, as far as I can tell) live in a sunny climate and have a huge suicide rate. Coloradans live in an absolutely beautiful state, that doesn't have Alaska's brutally dark winters to boot, their suicide rate is relatively high, but they are neither known for being overly pleasant or particularly cold. Washington has "the Seattle freeze", but has a lower suicide rate than Oregon.

"Climate"<->"is superficially pleasant" is all over the board. Some examples seem to support the theory (allegedly Russia), but plenty of others seem to directly contradict it (Alaska, with a miserable climate, high suicide rate, and very outwardly pleasant people). The South has a miserable climate, have plenty to be miserable about (poverty, literacy, lingering racism, etc) yet are very 'warm' people, New York has a worse climate, yet a lower suicide rate, but yet again rather cold or distant people.

This "Russians don't smile because they are miserable. Americans smile because they are happy" stuff is just pop-psych nonsense. The real world is not that simple.

Why is it difficult to accept that different groups of people, with different heritages, cultures and traditions, might have ever so slightly different ways of presenting themselves to society and interacting with each other? It seems very implausible to me that this might not be the case.

Consider other sort of differences, besides just "smiles or doesn't". For example, consider that cultural differences with hugging, cheek kissing, hand holding, etc are all pretty non-controversial. Nobody is trying to explain that platonic friends in California don't hold hands because Californians don't make close friends like Saudi Arabians do. Anyone trying to say that would be laughed at.
>I'm just trying to help out in any way that I could possibly

I'd strongly advise you message the mods in /r/SuicideWatch. They can advise you on what to do, they're great people. If you don't, you could easily end up doing more harm than good.
Pretty accurate article. The main point is that smile is a base in USA, and neutral is base here in Russia. But personal conversations (especially with people you know) are full of smiling. And I don't think that's such a big deal, actually.

P.S.
I regularly see two people constantly smiling in the crowd. One is slightly crazy and another one has mimic muscles trauma.
How will those kids feel once they are older, though? The things I miss from living with my dad were the little things, like helping him with tech support, or eating steaks while talking about $whatever, or seeing a movie on Sunday afternoons with him.

Maybe it's that I have never had a rich parent to shower me with luxury, so it never seemed a reasonable thing to expect.
If you are suicidal and someone tells you that action 'X' will convince you to change your views and want to go on living, why would you 'take action X'?

The result 'want to go on living' is not a goal you want to reach.

(Where 'X' might be phoning a helpline, downloading an app, talking to a therapist, doing a thought experiment).

But that doesn't mean your desire to commit suicide is valid and coherent and respectable. We, the living, agree that living is better than non-living, that happiness is better than sadness, and that health is better than illness.

When someone is too ill to physically take care of themselves, we take over and act where possible "in their best interests" until they recover.

When someone is suicidal, they don't want to go on living, and offering help isn't enough because they won't reach out and take it. The only respectable act on our part is to consider them incapable and take over control of their life, assume their best interest is 'survival' and help them towards that.

anyone in this thread who supports your cause, a terrorist and/or sadist. I will accuse you of in fact not helping people, but misguidedly (due to complete and utter ignorance on your part) torturing people by encouraging them to experience more suffering.

Why would you assume that the goal would be to dump the person right into a life of suffering, instead of to help them out of the suffering as well? Current suicide prevention interventions don't always help as much as they could, but that's rather because they are implemented poorly than because they want people to suffer.
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here's a short video demoing coding in Groovy and other jvm languages:

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We use JSR-223 to support the various languages
> You can test the express application by curl as shown below.

I haven't seen one tutorial or piece of documentation that tells me how to access that app from my host machine.
There is a bit of buzz about Spring Boot in the Groovy space.

It's possible to wire up a micro webframework example with only a couple lines of code in Groovy.

Remember that Groovy, Grails, and Spring Boot are run by the same company, there might be some synergy between the latter two at some point.
Oh cool,I don't practice religion so I'm an amoral heathen.
I don't have much time to drill down right now, but a quick search of the responses for "Name one language feature you would like to see added to Clojure" reveals 8/563 respondents wrote "Clojure in clojure" verbatim (disclaimer: I was one of those 8). The good news here is that this effort (in the guise of tools.reader, tools.analyzer, and tools.emitter) is very active and looks like it will yield many positive results in the near future.

(If you're curious why Clojure in clojure is important, in the recent Cognicast episode with Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant he give's a perfect example of how these tools make it possible to add a type system to Clojure.)
shitty analogy for developers:

Typeface : a standard.
Font : an implementation.
> but I think the real reason Russians don't smile is cultural. It's because they are genuinely more cynical miserable people

I'm not Russian and I don't know any Russian persons directly, I'm from just a little bit to the West, Romania, and wanted to say that we're like the people described in the article, too, i.e. we're only smiling if we really, really mean it.

I think it's a cultural thing, even though I'd have to agree we people in Eastern Europe tend to be more cynical compared to others (we have our good reasons, though). Whenever I go to my grand-parents' village close to the Carpathian Mountains I do have to say "good day" to each and every person I might meet in the street, even though I might not know them directly (I'm a city boy, after all). But were I to smile at the passers-by I'm pretty sure they'd get back to my grand-mother and inform her that the "city grandson" has a strange way of behaving. It's just how things are.
I would have to agree with you on that one. lol
I got about half way through the article before I realized they were talking about the story being killed, not the reporter.

The bit where they say he went up to HR's office and never returned was particularly worrying, until I realized they'd only fired him...
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Actually, in the circuit stickers case Bunnie is committed to shipping them (did you see the funding goal was $1 ?) This was more of a marketing move than a raise funds move.
Ignore the crazy motherfuckers in this thread, jesus. Like I said on reddit, use phonegap, angular and maybe a simple ruby on rails backend if you need something on the server. That'll be the easiest way to build the app, and you'll develop great marketable skills.
In Boston, the RedSox are only available on NESN, which required a $50-$60 cable package to get last time I checked. So from my view, the end of Free TV broadcasts is already here. Because cable tv isn't free.
Yeah, it's great for the person bugging everybody. That's the problem.
When we did the migration over to Storm & Cassandra, we did a 1 time ingestion of old events. This was very fast, peaking around 50k events/sec. Additional synthetic testing showed we could easily beat that. It was actually the old system that bottlenecked, and prevented us from turning the dial way up :)
My biggest complaint with Grails is its reliance on GORM - You can do sql, but it doesn't make it easy and the whole framework is really geared towards the ORM functionality and the opinionated view of the database and naming conventions. I need to be able to integrate with legacy data sets, and need more control over the database in general. Grails works well if your database is just a simple store for your application data.
> I think he's saying that falsely implanted self-esteen, a la "everyones a unique special winner!", is a problem.

I certainly hated that growing up. It was years before I could believe I had done anything right, because people would say the same things either way.

But I think tokenadult was actually proposing something else: not focusing on oneself so much. Much like CS Lewis's concept of humility: "could create the greatest cathedral in the world, know it is the best, and rejoice in the fact that it is the most wondrous of all cathedrals; without being any more or less glad that he created it than he would be if someone else had created the cathedral."

Or to take another CS Lewis quote: "And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind - is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself." Focusing on self-esteem instead of the goal or substance at hand is shutting a creature within the dungeon of its own mind. That really is a great phrase for it.
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...and then tell them you don't need them ... turn around and then hug your kids and tell them they'll never be your second priority.
That's somehow ironically funny. Someone outside of the US gets a better selection than someone inside the US, where the actual product "lives". Blackouts are messed up. And pretty easy to circumvent for online stuff like MLB.tv (if you have the knowledge and want to hassle with it).
I would use Kotlin for Android over Groovy, because it is

- Much more lightweight and faster than Groovy

- Statically typed

- Offers about the same level of expressivity as Groovy (closures, etc...)

- Much, much faster than Groovy

The only downside is that it's still in beta, but already working great and, obviously, with awesome IDEA support.
By the same utility argument there should be no nuclear weapons, an all out push for zero emissions energy, and world peace, but don't hold your breath. There are existing, very powerful stakeholders such as the governments and militaries of numerous world powers who would far prefer that financial transactions not be anonymous. Tech folk sometimes forget that their bodies live in meat space, not cyberspace, and whoever controls the guys with weapons (i.e., controls police and armies) controls meat space.
Er - you can condemn posts multiple, multiple times.
Depends, did you use unique font files to set your 12pt and 14pt type? Or did your computer scale them algorithmically from one file?
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Congrats on the team lead role!

What's your management style like? What do you like and not like about your previous bosses?

Here's a few questions to consider:

How proactive are your reports? You might notice individuals on your team fall into two camps. One group will keep you updated at all times. That's good. The other won't say anything unless asked. They only do what they're told and stay under the radar. You'll have to figure out what works best for you to have an idea what everyone is up to.

How do you listen to them? Not all my teammates speak English as their first language so initially I had a lot of trouble. I learned over time to just shut up and let them work out their thoughts.

How do you grow your team? I encourage them to explore side projects and I ask what they want out of their careers. Not everyone is the same - some want to eventually run their own companies, others want to stay purely technical. Some just want to tag along. Doesn't matter if they're being 100% honest or not. Just go the distance and help them grow, whatever resources they need. I've always been pleasantly surprised when I genuinely invest in someone.

How do you win over your team? I have never, ever been able to successfully drive an agenda long-term by twisting someone's arm. It's far easier for me to take the time and persuade rather than bark orders.

For reading - Effective Executive and How to Win Friends and Influence People are two books that come to mind. One of my management mentors also recommended reading fiction as a way to understand motivations. Here's an article on this: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/10/04/229190837/want-to...

I've only been managing for a few years. Maybe everything's still rosy. I see management as achieving results, not controlling people. Management is a way to multiply my effectiveness and accomplish more than a group of individuals.

Let me know if you want to discuss anything else.
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As a European I find it interesting how Americans have started to completely misusing the term 'socialism' especially over the last couple of years. Even those who don't fit the die-hard right-wing profile seem to have started calling any kind of social welfare 'socialsm' without realising what actual socialism looks like.
Its fun to search for the word college

"Yes, I, David Raether, the smart and funny guy who graduated with honors from college"

"I ... helped high school seniors write college essays"

"The other children have finished college or are nearing completion."

And his story about his college buddy who couldn't write a magazine.

Yup kids graduating with honors made me what I am today, a dude living in a '97 minivan... while the dropouts are startup billionaires and bartenders for famous people make $600K/yr, however temporarily.

I just thought the fixation on college was humorously extremely accurate and highly subversive.
you could write the same article for french people , it wouldnt make a difference, We french wont fake smile like americans do,even in shops or cafés , where waiters dont expect you to tip them anyway. It's just the french way, and customers are used to it , as long as you are not "too" rude...
The whole "8 kids" thing is off-putting for a lot of people. It's certainly not a great idea, but I feel that, even for people with few or no children, catastrophic failure is still lurking in the shadows, ready to reach out and drag them into the abyss.

The best thing you can do is acknowledge its presence and build your defenses by prudently saving and spending.
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You could try Cursive (http://www.cursiveclojure.com). It's pretty new but it's based on IntelliJ so we get a lot of features for free. We don't have a lot of inspections yet but they're coming soon (including kibit-in-the-editor type inspections).
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Open spaces are interesting.

Some problems get solved really quickly because of them. The number of times the person who knows the solution overhears others having a problem is astounding.

But then there are problems that just cannot be solved due to the level of noise. Especially some collaborative problems, where a problem requires two people to focus on it really carefully. Distractions just from hearing others talking can interrupt lines of thought and beyond a certain point limit mental ability.
>Would suggesting a call to a suicide hotline be as insulting?

That depends a lot on context. In some cases, yes.

>What if the app carries out similar functions as a hotline?

Who would you talk to? A volunteer? What happens when 4chan gets their hands on this app?

>Unless suicide is a case where you're likely to do more harm than good

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6757098

As for displaying a hotline number, you can find that information on Google. Literally search "suicide" and the first thing listed is a phone number you can call for help. If the app is just a number of a suicide hotline, then it's a pretty pointless app.

What may be more useful is a collection of services and communities (ie. suicide hotlines by state/country, communities like /r/SuicideWatch, general information). However, that sounds a lot like a website and not an app.
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It works for you but you were most likely interrupting the people around you.

I really hate it when I'm deep into coding up something and someone just starts throwing questions at me.

I much would rather prefer an IM if someone wants to bounce ideas. If needed, putting down something on my calendar for a quick meeting works too.
maybe he dropped his guitar a minute before
I'm an avid FF user, and also a (relatively) proficient programmer, with skills in python c++ and a little javascript, but I'm terrified of getting involved with something this size. I have no idea where to even begin trying to help!
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