skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really disagree with the sentiments here. Like many of you, I'm on the internet quite literally 14-16
out of every 24 hours, actively using it for about 13 of those. I've had a smartphone continuously since the palm treo 600 in 2003.

But never once have I felt powerless against it. I have one simple rule: don't use it when I'm talking to people. (Unless we want to look something up on Wikipedia, in which case we do it together). This is enough. Maybe I just don't know what all you other people are doing with your phones that make them so irresistible, but I am able to move fluidly between online and offline action in the world with no second thought. If I get a notification, I take the phone out for a second to read it and put it right back away.

Many times, the phone could be anything: If I have a magazine nearby instead, I read that. Or subway map. Or shampoo bottle.

What's the real complaint here? I've seen articles like this 100 times and frankly none of them ever brings anything original to the table. I actually think this is because they derive their clickability through their vagueness. Everyone knows some jackass who brings his phone out during thanksgiving dinner with grandma, and everyone has almost run into someone who has been looking at their phone instead if the street. Is this really all you're complaining about? I'd call these minor inconveniences at best, rude behavior at worst.

Predictably, In an effort to fill the void left by actual specific examples and details, these arguments/videos take on some sort of mystical "not enjoying the world" vibe. How do they make this leap so readily? It's easy to do because everyone loves to think the rest of the world is made up of zombies. But does it even logically follow?!

That video he references has come up everywhere and seems to resonate with a lot of people. It seems to focus on the idea of savoring the moment, whatever that means. Our Galtian heroine can do it, no one else can.

I see this woman as desperately and reactionarily clinging to a past that never existed, or at best an artisan-crafted inconvenience-sporting charming paradise.

Let's get to specifics. Let's discuss specific times when we think it's not ok to talk on the phone -- at dinner, when walking on a crowded street, with grandma -- and let's give up on this high-blown pretentious rhetoric about connecting with the world and savoring the moment. It's frankly counterproductive--instead of discussing the new norms that always-connected technology dictates in specific detail, these articles have wandered into mystical, unrefutable territory that is usually the subject of religious belief, not pragmatic policy-setting.
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You don't get it.

First of all you don't NEED most of the stuff shown there. The boilerplate at the bottom is there to cover EVERY POSSIBLE THING anyone would possibly ever want to do with unicode in Perl and because tchrist thinks it's funny to do such things. If all you want is to read a unicode file, change its contents, then write it back to hdd without breaking encoding, you don't need more than:

use utf8;
use IO::All -utf8;

Secondly, all other languages do it worse than Perl 5.
Erm... JSLint is a JavaScript lint tool. RECESS is for CSS.
If you feel that way about investors, don't take outside investment. We didn't. Things worked out peachy.

It's a strange thing, to feel entitled to set the terms under which people give you their money. We didn't like the available terms. I don't have much nice to say about the venture capitalists I've known. But I don't have an elaborate worldview built around those impressions, and you do. You should try to shake it off.
>Do you want to just start over with this point maybe? Seems like you maybe didn't think at all before making it the first time

Thanks for being rude.

Your point, as I understand it, is that since there is one good use case for texting while eating, we should not discourage people from texting while eating in general. That is pretty clear from your post.

My counter point is that there are many things that have one good use, but are still bad overall. Following your logic, we should not discourage those things either, at least if we wanted to stay consistent in our application of logic. Considering that even most bad things have occasional positive side-effect, and following your logic we would end up not discouraging anything ever. Clearly that is not a desirable outcome, therefore I think your logic is flawed.
"... I never had a problem with our usage and only some old stranger did. This is a problem..."

This is a problem, sure. But it's not related to people themselves using their phones and being unhappy with their usage.

The comment was bad because it took a discussion around whether we are ourselves with our tech use and turned it into some kind of reminiscence about annoying mentally unhealthy people. That's a great story, but it has nothing at all to do with what this article is about.

If you and your wife are happy about your tech use, good for you. If there are rude people in the world, that's a shame. Okay. Got it. Now can we move on to the subject of the article, which is something along the lines of "are we really happy with our own tech use?"

Or we could continue talking about how rude the guy at the restaurant was, how rude I am, how people are always nosing into other people's business -- and a dozen other things not related to that. As long as you realize you're changing the topic, works for me.
Thank you folks. I'm still wondering though -- why don't we hear of this more often?
Wow.. the whole article seems so relevant to today
I see, I misunderstood what you were getting at. I thought you were looking down on those with no self control.
Maybe I didn't make it very clear but I was responding to daniel-cussen's sarcastic comments about "the progressive agenda".

The pro-nature side would simply contend that wealth correlates with more advantageous genetics

Seems like this is easily testable by looking at the distinction in, say, educational outcomes between "old" and "new" money. Are you aware of any citations supporting this hypothesis?
Sure thing, this is about the exploration stage when I am just wondering what workplaces are right for me.
> You can find e.g. that adopted children's income as adults is closely related to their biological parents' adult income, but unrelated to their adoptive parents' adult income.

I tried looking for a bit but couldn't find a citation for this. Can you help?
It's encouraging that all of the comments on the Github issue are supportive of the inclusive language. Sexism in tech is far from a solved problem, but it's nice that we're finally at a point where a large number of people are taking it seriously.
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I read at least one case where an exchange seized funds coming from hacking into a site.
It started before that. This has been a function of the NSA from it's beginning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SHAMROCK
moderns systems comes with TCP Multipath enabled.
I owe plenty of gratitude to you for both CoffeeScript and Docco. Both made building this a pleasure.

For those interested in going beyond what the docs cover, the annotated source page is a great place to understand the inner workings.
I've been travelling around Europe ever since I met my (now) wife and she taught me a great tip: the cheap postcard you can buy at the newsstand or souvenir kiosk in any scenic town will be light-years better than anything you could take. Instead of fretting about getting the perfect picture, why not just relax and enjoy the view?
So.. Anyone wants to do a PGP key signing party in San Francisco? I asked on HN before but no one seems to be interested back then. I hope some meetup organizer can pick this up.
I've been away from professional web-dev for a while (kids!). My only real experience of IE10 is that I just handled an "IE10 on Win8 only" bug on a friends site so tested with IE10 and IE11 in a virtualised environment. I only have XP installs left of MS Windows.

Of course now that IE is supposed to work they won't let you use the conditional comment targeting method so I must - it seems - break it for IE11 by instructing all IE above 9 to fallback to IE9 compatibility mode.

Nothing else seems to fail with it and applying the hack (IE9 compat mode in a meta-tag) is problematic too.

Has IE changed that much?

That said the site is an application generated mess, it's painful. So maybe IE have really come around.
The author of the article is supposing that those incessantly using their phone are brainless zombies, preferring their phone to the lives around them. They didn't miss the point of the article, but rather, provided a great counterpoint.
Reddit answers : What is the best website other than reddit?
I find the fact that people die of a treatable side-effect resulting from a voluntary medical treatment to be particularly terrible.

>It's precisely due such poor understanding of statistics is why there are large groups if people opposed to vaccination - they fixate on a smaller probability negative outcome in the immediate future and ignore large probability negative outcome three months down the road.

No, the probability of death or injury from all diseases (for people in the US) is small. It may be relatively large compared to the probability of death or injury from vaccination, but it is still small for each individual.
Why you should never have taken that prestigious internship
Where you hear "I'm too good to write it myself" I hear "I'm too bad to write it myself"

I mean, working on a whiteboard with no reference material and no test data I'd be glad if I had time in an interview to write a bug-free DOM parser that would work on a modern, standards-compliant web page - I wouldn't expect to even start on dealing with malformed inputs, javascript, images, nested documents...
If you think I was being rude and you were not, there is simply no helping you.

"Your point, as I understand it, is that since there is one good use case for texting while eating, we should not discourage people from texting while eating in general. That is pretty clear from your post."

Nope. My point is that when you see someone texting or on their cell. YOU DONT KNOW WHY THEY ARE DOING IT. Projecting a "they must be wasting their time, UGH I'm surrounded by brainless zombies" is utterly insane. My point is that instead of freaking out at people around you using their cellphones, maybe just don't freak out and project actions and emotions on people and mind your own business.

How you took this to mean "you think nothing is ever wrong" is well beyond any stupidity I am able to comprehend. Sorry if that was rude, but it is also true unfortunately.
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I haven't done exactly this but I have "cold" contacted people who I had some sort of connection with - same college, common friends, etc.

I usually mention this in my e-mail saying something like "I'm contacting you because we both did X so I thought it might be alright to bother you."
I would like to contribute money for Alejandro (as I do not have the hacking ability/skills to contribute anything meaningful for the tech). Is there a way to contribute money for Alejandro and his dad?
Not the best analogy with the tight deadline, but I understand your stance. If I was asked to bet my career that my code would not kill or disfigure someone, then I'd have to answer based on what I personally believe, and what I trust my code to do based on my education as a software engineer. I could say, "yes this website will not kill you, but this drone software might under extremely rare circumstances."
I think you prove my point perfectly. If you hadn't dulled your intellect by smoking so much weed, it might be obvious to you that your current state of health has no bearing on whether smoking marijuana causes lung cancer or other deleterious effects.

You seriously think that byproducts of incomplete combustion are harmless? Even wood smoke is terrible for your health. So is tobacco smoke and marijuana smoke and just about anything else that you can burn.
Beyond just political correctness, there are practical reasons to use it/they/them instead of him/her/he/she. As a native English speaker, using gendered pronouns to talk about the code is confusing. If I were just scanning a commment, I'd assume those gendered pronouns were referring to an author of the code or some other individual being cited.

Anthropomorphizing your code in comments is a bad idea in general.
The amount of time a doctor takes in a patient consultation has zero effect on the probability of vaccine injury (also, vaccinations are typically administered by nurses).
So why do you believe a company which manages the road is a monopolist? Where did you get this? Why is it impossible to build another road? Or go by train? Or by air? By no means road companies would be monopolies.

A government, on the other hand, is a monopoly. Furthermore, if for some reason I dislike the quality of the services that are provided or I dislike the way they are provided (for example, I ride a motorcycle and government requires me to wear a helmet, even though it is only my life I risk by not wearing it) then I still have to pay. If I don't pay, I get fined and may go to jail. It's not just a monopoly, it's extortion.

Imagine your ISP knocks on your door and says: "Hello sir. You are going to pay us this amount a month, we will provide you with internet access. The quality is going to be completely up to us, you can't unsubscribe and if you stop paying, you'll be fined and may go to jail. Oh, and there are practically no competitors, only very expensive ones. And if you use them, you would still have to pay us." How would you like that? Why roads are different? Nearly everyone uses Internet these days, just like they use roads.

Finally, you made this point "Typically governments even subsidize the unit cost of using the road". Actually, taxpayers subsidize it, not government. Government doesn't have any money.
Ah, so they had a huge lead and they are losing it, I see.

Oh wait:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/oct13/10-24fy...

REDMOND, Wash. — October 24, 2013 — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $18.53 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2013. Gross margin, operating income, net income, and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $13.42 billion, $6.33 billion, $5.24 billion, and $0.62 per share.

I chuckle at how a lot of anti-MS zealots are absolutely mystified at how non-anti-MS simply can possibly be so delusional.
Sure. But writing a reliable bug-free DOM parser isn't the point of the question.
If they have an iPhone in their pocket, maybe they'll use that as the tool of their rudeness.

Huh. Good to know that those who carry non-iPhones are inherently more polite.
I bet it's not the "Atmospheric" power but comes from RF. Same principle of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio
No better way than to do it yourself! Create the meet up and submit it here. I'd be up for it.
I got 0/6; glad I read this.
As a big OCaml fan, this is pretty cool. The speeds aren't that bad either. I hope OCaml gets more competitive in terms of running time in the future.
Labour unions are a lot like everything else that works in our society. (Hold your vituperation!)

Labour unions, like democracy and capitalism, are the worst things we've ever tried, except for everything else that failed. We simply don't have a better way to appoint leaders except democracy. It's obviously broken in many ways, but the alternatives are worse. Economically, capitalism is deeply broken, but everything else we've tried is worse.

And labour unions as we see them today are just plain wrong.But less wrong than unfettered capitalism. You either need labour unions or you need overregulation, with inspectors everywhere in a business.

Just My Two Cents, of course.
Thanks, helpful reference!

It do feel like getting information on the construction method of the whips which will be used on your back sometime in the future. :-) :-(
I think the gist of the problem is that when Google acquires a company the way they handle the non-technical staff can be a bit off-putting. Instead of working hard to find them a place within Google during the acquisition process, or just laying them off with some kind of severance, they put the burden on the individual. You have a year to find a place? Basically that just means, you have a year to find a new place to work.
Looks awesome, but it seems like all the examples on the page incorporate a weird "wiggling" effect in addition to the folding. Is it possible to turn this off?
That small probability is largely because of vaccination. But there's a huge herd effect, so your analysis is correct for the individual, while still badly wrong for society as a whole.
Thanks, that makes sense. But if you don't know anyone, why not find some developer and their email address (a bit of Google-Fu will do it) and contact them?

To me, it seems polite enough.

Wouldn't _you_ answer such an email if it was polite and seemed to come from a serious developer?
It's great to hear your friends are happy with your purchase.
Given the amount of great, free, and online programming guides, I find it hard to justify ever purchasing this.
The last moments of Lac-Mégantic
> With the above in mind, I'll bet you $large_amount_of_cash this is never corrected.

And you would be correct. It won't get corrected because no one cares, and no one cares because it is inconsequential.
Your clients can innovate faster than you can, so why not pay them to do it?
Why linear regression isn't a line, even though it says so
Yes, I would definitely be interested
Yeap. Being on the employed side of things now, I've had acquaintances reach out to me with questions about the company/work/culture and ask me to pass their resume along. It's only a few minutes of my time and people are quite appreciative of it, so I'm always happy to help out.
Apple Doesn’t Want to Pay the Feds’ E-Book Lawyer $70,000 a Week
Just thought I would point out that gender-related socioeconomic phenomena usually have a more complex explanation than "it's absurd". This is also true in the West, with all of our weird dating customs. But it's harder to see the absurdities you are taught from birth. For example, why is it traditionally (and most commonly even today) the guy's responsibility to take the initiative in the courtship process? This article provides a stark alternative which is a very efficient counter-example to the evo-psych explanations a lot of people come up with.

I'm not advocating cultural relativism; the reality described in this article sounds really shitty, but it is usually instructive to go deeper and ask why things are this way among poor people in India. With sexual attraction being one of the most powerful drives and varying socioeconomic conditions in the world, it stands to reason that different places will have wildly differing customs. These change over generations, as the conditions that formed them change. For instance, an undersupply of men in the wake of a deadly war could be one force which vastly increases the sexual market value of men, and causes customs like the ones described in this article.

Look at China if you want to see a third way this can play out, where the roles are reversed.
could be something that haproxy is causing - when switching masters... maybe I need a script that handles switching the vip when sentinel detects failure in master instead of haproxy with a backup... btw - thank you for redis.
You have a different idea of "freedom" than we do

The problem is not bundling in closed-source applications... the problem is removing (and thus stopping development) of the previously-default open source applications

Are Nova, Apex and Smart OSS? I looked at their web pages, but I don't see any link to the sources

basically: you still have freedom 0 (and possibly freedom 2, if you're willing to go against the EULA)... but, concerning freedom 1 and freedom 3, Android (as in AOSP) is stuck to something like version "4.*"
Not irrelevant. Those who use phones while driving put this person's life at risk. Same thing with motorcycles, to lesser degree; pedestrians, to a larger degree. A person is allowed to express the risks they face by riding a bicycle without having to worry that they should have suppressed that fact for fear of sounding too hipster.

To say that driving while texting is bad without including the personal relevance is a hand-wavy general comment.
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There's going to be a very big adverse selection effect on the comments to this story anyway, because anyone who has a healthy relationship to technology is going to think "Eh, it's not worth my time to participate in the debate and get worked up over something generally inconsequential to my life."

I thought about reading through the comments here and participating, but I'm going out for a walk with my family instead.
Yes. That wiggling is the "ripple" mode I added recently which adds a cascading delay. It's disabled by default when creating new OriDomi instances, but I enabled it for the demos on this page. You can also programmatically turn it on and off:

http://oridomi.com/#ripple
"Your point, as I understand it, is that since there is one good use case for texting while eating, we should not discourage people from texting while eating in general. That is pretty clear from your post."

I don't think you should discourage anyone from doing this because you don't know what you're talking about.

"The comment was bad because it took a discussion around whether we are ourselves with our tech use and turned it into some kind of reminiscence about annoying mentally unhealthy people. That's a great story, but it has nothing at all to do with what this article is about."

No actually the story pretty much reads like a "I'm sick of these damned kids doing this thing I don't like! I don't understand it and therefore it is evil!" story and assumes that every single time someone uses their phone at dinner they are terribly unhappy and socially unhealthy. My point was simply that he is wrong. There are many completely acceptable uses and sitting there watching someone do something productive or useful on their phone and thinking "this is upsetting! I need to stop this!" really reverses the role of who actually has the problem with unhappiness here.

"If you and your wife are happy about your tech use, good for you. If there are rude people in the world, that's a shame. Okay. Got it. Now can we move on to the subject of the article, which is something along the lines of "are we really happy with our own tech use?""

Um, yeah, my answer was simply. We are happy with our tech use but multiple people want to push a belief on us that we are not happy for no reason. This again seems much less mentally healthy to me.

"Or we could continue talking about how rude the guy at the restaurant was, how rude I am, how people are always nosing into other people's business -- and a dozen other things not related to that. As long as you realize you're changing the topic, works for me."

Whereas you being rude while being 100% disconnected from the topic in any way while twisting my words to the point they couldn't be recognized. Finally the messiah has come to save us all from our own stupidity right?
I will not reply to you or if I do my response will be neutral.
An employee can get in trouble if he is critical of his current employer.
Even though you got no monetary value out of it, just remember how valuable the experience and the lessons learned were.