skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit has pretty much always had a laissez-faire approach to administration of subreddits. As long as it was legal it was ok. I really don't want to touch the violentacrez case, but he was given that award in recognition for serving as a moderator of a boatload of subreddits. It's not like the admins said "nice CP, here's a pimp hat".

And once again you are simply ignoring the fact that Reddit is not one entity. There is no single "reddit culture".
Link-baity title is link-baity.
Perhaps the knowledge that someone with the means and motivation to perpetrate a $170K fraud like this also has the means and motivation to pay $15-20K to have you harmed or killed.

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

"Make it look like an accident."

Actually, that's a risk even if you plan to abide by the NDA.

For what it's worth, I think this offer is an entertaining troll and not actually real.
That ones gonna go over well.

"Honey, why is your browser on incognito mode?"
"Uh, yeah I was shopping for gifts. That's it. "
So, retargeting is the process of focusing all advertising efforts on selling you something that you've already bought?

Marketing people are like aliens.
I walked into work one day, and in my email was a remembrance note about a coworker who had just died. I did not know him, but in the email there was a picture of him fly fishing, and then another picture of him standing by his wife. He was an overweight, balding man in a Wal-mart jacket. Something about his "everyday, average guy" look scared me. I never knew him and if it weren't for the email, I'd never have known of him.

I grew angry, and could not figure out why. Was I sucked back into this reality that we all die when I had been working hard to deny it? Was it that someone could die, and some stranger like me had no interest or comprehension of his accomplishment? Was it that I only judged people by their accomplishment, when hypocritically, I had none of my own? Why did I suddenly hate this man, who I never knew existed, and only knew because of his death?

He was a father. He surely comforted his children on the first day of school. He went shopping for them on their birthdays. He had loved ones who grieved for him. Loved ones who had no talent to describe how great he was to them, but only knew he was great to them.

I still don't understand the oddness of my reaction, or why it still haunts me. We are all born in a blur of a gigantic population, and he was simply deleted from my inbox as my company insisted I delete my emails when it approached 150 mgb capacity.

I kept him new and unread as long as I could.
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A classmate fell to his death from his apartment's terrace in a skyscraper a few months ago. We were just coming back for our second year of Grad school. He was full of life, working on a startup for which he had won some funding via a competition, spending the summer at an Angel investor group, serving as a favorite TA for a top VC professor. He was a self-made immigrant and the best parts of life were right ahead of him. Nobody knew what happened, but it hit too close to home.

His parents requested that his name was not mentioned on social media until they had a chance to take him home to Europe and tell their family at home. We got together to honor him and express condolences to family and after a week or two, things went back to normal on the outside. On the inside questions still remained, not about what happened, but about the implications it had on us, his classmates, who are just like him in too many ways to count.
Reaching Enlightenment I.
Such a simple question, yet grants you profound introspection.
WOW! Totally native.
XMOS Startkit - embedded programming using CSPs
When I've worked at places that had poor source control and/or poor documentation, I've resorted to trying to push for it by walking around saying, "Suppose I (or fill-in-the-blank) get hit by a bus? You'll all be up a creek."
I don't have data but I have a feeling they made the mistake of acting like a corporation while they were a startup.

When you do that, you spend $100M.

Raising $100M is OK but you must save it and wait until you are sure the market is picking up.

You should act very nimble. Possibly a very thin management layer, %90 engineers. Near zero marketing and attendance to marketing events. Just silent focus on IP.

Like I said I have no data and probably some substantial amount had to be spent in HW manufacturing, but it feels like they overspent the money, and acted without being sure the time has come for the market.
It looks like Coinbase has a problem managing their float of Bitcoins and/or serious risk management problems.

There was a story yesterday about someone wiring over tens of thousands of dollars and not hearing back for 1-2 weeks.

My theory is that Coinbase are performing some kind of proprietary trading and have burnt themselves badly, and to recover losses, they are front-running customers and delaying trade settlement.
Right. What time of year was it in the first case? I would think it's easier to get over if it's the summer or around Christmas when people are going home for vacations.
"We might note that non-violence hasn't been very effective against the Chinese, (at least so far) and if that's all Orwell was getting at, fine."

That is a very strong component of what Orwell was getting at. What Orwell was further getting at is that the Germans had extermination on their mind, the English in India and even the Chinese in Tibet did not.

Additionally Orwell is pointing out that non-violent resistance is made effective by the existence of free societies anywhere in the world that they might have influence. The Tibetans benefit from this, as you can infer from how much time the Dalai Lama spends courting the international community. Gandhi's suggestion to the British would have led to the eradication of free societies.
I should point out - using an old legacy technology is not the same thing as being an Arcanist. These archetypes all have one thing in common: taking a normal, routine thing that programmers encounter in their careers and take it to an extreme.
You chose a really nice place to move to. I'm jealous. Be sure to visit Abel Tasman national park.
Laravel is technically at 100%, however the unit tests are throwing a lot of warnings.

compare:

php 5.5: https://travis-ci.org/laravel/framework/jobs/15683979

hhvm: https://travis-ci.org/laravel/framework/jobs/15683980
Wow... so the publicly-advertised use of Incognito Mode of shopping for Christmas presents...

...turns out to be true. It's not just for porn after all.
he missed the "righteous thou", ie. ones who are able to ignore their own shortcomings.

By the way, "Software is a team sport and does not suffer those who do not play by its rules." I hope his team/company isn't an English speaking one.
IMO, the island archetype is probably the most productive. At least in my experience, IM/Outlook/Thunderbird really kills what I can get done. And the corporate emails...
Enlightened programmer is the first stage, then you move onto all the others, then you realise you are all of these at the same time.
Unless the religious person is genuinely interested (rear) in why I don't share their belief, my preference generally is to avoid religious discussions altogether.
Can you share a link to the forum post? I think this is a really interesting idea, and I'd like to see what you proposed and bounce some ideas around, as well as see the altcoin community's objections.

I wonder if there is another community that would be more interested in such a currency's adoption.
“That’s Colin,” says Bill. Dead people don’t get salaries, so Colin’s appears as a surplus.

Cold.
I'm not aware of any alternatives where I can get USD out. I suppose coinbase maybe, but bitstamp was recommended by someone here.
"Why am I here?"

"Because my daughter loves it here."

Seems to fit in with what he was saying to me.
Go to French Pass on the northern tip of the south island. It's a beautiful and remote spot.
I would really like it if you could read this as I think you will see this checklist is bunk.

1. My odds of being hired for a job, when competing against female applicants, are probably skewed in my favor. The more prestigious the job, the larger the odds are skewed.

False, I work in IT, it is incredibly easy to get a job for a female, every place I worked for is desperate to hire women and say so.

... see more

http://pastebin.com/zu16rEdU
It's not the rate I'm questioning, it's asking for it up front.
I was thinking the same thing except more generally just being reasonably close to my family. It's kinda crazy when I was younger I would have thought nothing about just packing up and going anywhere. But you get older, you really start to feel like your family are the most important thing on this earth.

I probably would only move at this point if I felt like it was essential in order to seize a really important opportunity. I'm not really tied to my current location for any sentimental reason, but it would just be inconvenient to be too far from family.
> I see this openness at buffer essentially being a tool for management to deny raise requests, etc... with... If we do it for you, we have to do it for everybody... which is a just a BS excuse to not face the reality that every persons value and work situation is different, and should be treated differently.

Their salary formula accounts for experience, company performance, and role. Having the openness and formula makes it easy to say no to arbitrary salary-increase requests and also makes it easy to have a fair raise in place "automatically". Sure, the formula is not perfect, but as the zen of python goes, explicit is better than implicit. Changing the formula or the parameters to it may be a wise thing for the company to do at some point, but it will likely be clear what the change is and why is it beneficial to the company. That sounds a lot better than the way that salaries are typically negotiated.
Of course in some cases it ends up like that, but as someone who sees stats for a very big company in the IT world, re-targeting does work. I see a large number of metrics including ROAS (return on ad spend), and the false negatives are more than made up for by successful sale conversions.
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It may not be a good system for long term repeated application, but for an organization that has a lot of incompetent members that need culling like US public education, it could help a lot.
In Japan it happens so often they have their own word for it: karoshi.

Sararimen fall over dead at their desks, and others simply avert their eyes and focus on their work while a manager urgently calls for white-gloved personnel to spirit the corpse away to the undertaker.

Nobody even misses a beat. The work must go on.
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At one company where I worked, I resented the fact that the executive assistant to the CEO made more than I; after all, she was non-technical and "simply a secretary". Then she had a heart attack at her desk and died instantly. I felt guilty for my thoughts and resolved to find out exactly what her job entailed.

About 2 years later, her replacement was struck by an aneurysm at her desk and died several weeks later. I had been interacting her a lot for work-related projects and had had learned how stressful, difficult and important that job was and did not begrudge her her salary at all.
OrientDB: The problem with joins, direct links as primary keys
Usually I don't give a crap about scalability, but that trust post got me to. (Edit: sticking to facts ;)
Yeah, but I like the idea of being out of immediate reach if possible. Not a bad idea, I've thought of renting a cabin or house somewhere a few hours away.
If you read it in context, following the debate question "are men obsolete", followed by her paragraph where she says feminists have been tearing men down, then in context what you quote is not a woman defining herself in terms of a man W=f(M) so much as what is the relationship of the women and the man cothreads? Producer and Consumer? Master / Slaves?

I think Paglia is suggesting a co-equal but different Producer / Consumer relationship is better but what we are getting is perhaps closer to Master / Slaves, a relationship that distorts each individual thread.
coinbase has been overwhelmed with increased volume and rapid fluctuation in the last two weeks. As staunch has said, to have only lost time in the transaction process and missed chances to get in or out at a particular price was an inherent risk in placing the transaction in the first place.

I have also been held up by coinbase delays in transactions over the last few days (though nothing was reversed), so I empathize with the pain. If you know of a more reliable and more quickly servicing online bitcoin exchange, I know many who would be happy to hear about it.
That's exactly what we encourage :) composition of higher level components that render down to other high level components that eventually render to (virtual) DOM.
This is a study about sexism not harassment.
People can do a lot of mental gymnastics to justify exactly that sort of nonsense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born-again_virgin ;)

I guess the take-away here is that people can certainly claim these sorts of things about themselves, evidence to the contrary, but we shouldn't necessarily take them seriously.
I'd add the Doomsayer: The programmer who is constantly pointing out the ways in which any design could fail, no matter how likely or relevant to the task at hand such failure scenarios might be.

Healthy skepticism is beneficial, but I've seen teams paralyzed because one member has perfected the technique of raising unanswerable or irrelevant objections, often seemingly to present the appearance of being the smartest guy in the room.
What did the study find when male voices where played in female dominated online communities? To draw a conclusion dont you need to contrast it with that?
Monolithic NodeJS
Retargeting works, but it requires optimizing. Often this is not set up well, because it works so well without optimizing it.

It requires a high level of technical chops to see this and set up. Most traditional marketers just don't have the skills to set it up or the correct access to make the right changes.
A few of the folks that I know who are approaching 50 have started checking the obits in the paper frequently, so that they won't have an awkward encounter when they run into an acquaintance at the store, on the street, etc. and ask "How's so-and-so/our mutual acquaintance/your spouse?"
These guys drive me nuts, but they are sometimes useful for identifying worst case scenarios that no one in their right mind would think of, but sometimes should.
BB10 has a similar tutorial. As I said, it's never turned on in store demo units.
"But what if a meteor shower hits both of our US datacenters simultaneously?!"
I think you have valuable and interesting things to say. I was actually in a band when you first started CD Baby and we emailed a few times until we ultimately signed with a label. It's fantastic to see the success that came about doing something that was really a great service with favorable terms for musicians. Congrats and maybe I'll see you around!
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I've noticed this, sometimes grieving must be brought to a close by an external event, otherwise everyone forgets why their there.
Seeing an ad for something doesn't make me assume someone else bought one for me.
Well, "attract more contributors if it is written in Go" I think that it isn't the point really. In fact, I think it's more easier if you're using C than or even C++. The question about C it's much error-prone language which would make development slow than using a more modern language with the C string and malloc()s pain. Not mentioned that it's cool a Go compiler written in Go and C# compiler written in C# :)
No - it focuses advertising efforts on people who have visited your website. So, you look at a jacket, but then aren't sure you want to buy it, retargeting makes you see that jacket again and again until you change your mind. Then you keep seeing it anyway.
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I was laughing until I got the one that could apply to me.
> Someone is still putting flowers there.

Some day soon, leave a flower yourself with a note — just what you said here, ‘nice guy, got shit done’. Let them know that someone else remembers him.
I purchased one of these machines running Trisquel. With an SSD it is quite snappy and the IBM keyboard is fantastic. It was a pleasure to purchase from Gluglug, although at the time I was restricted to paying via Paypal.
You can usually turn these people into productive versions of themselves:

First, teach them how to do informed estimates for the probabilities of these negative factors coming into play.

Then, ask them to point out the probability-estimate below which they won't even bother to bring something up.

Finally, explain that your bar for this is higher than theirs, and request that they only bring things up if they meet your higher bar; for things that meet their bar but not yours, you'll just be discarding what they say anyway, so they'll just be wasting their breath.
This is sad news and frankly quite surprising. I have been looking forward to cheap low-power Ceph nodes: http://www.inktank.com/calxeda/

With ARM supporting virtualization these days, what's keeping them from becoming a large datacenter actor? Except for the obvious lack of funds.
Dunno, don't care. You're so all over the place that you've long ago exhausted my interest. But you might notice I never really made any statement about the GOP at all. You may also recall that your comment which I originally replied to didn't mention parties at all, just Congress and the President.

I'm done here, but in the future, it'd be really nice if you'd decide what you're arguing about before you start.
Heck I'd be thrilled to have a smart identifier/type renamer. Maybe it's just me but I like things to be named properly but I tend to be very bad at it until its 3rd or 4th use. I also like short(ish) names, so many variables tend to have the similar names across scopes which makes it impossible to do a quick replace-all.

You should be able to specify a type name, identifier, or module and its' replacement (optionally file & line to be specific) via CLI. It should do the replacement automatically, and fail if it at all changes the semantics (e.g. clash or variable shadowing) and give an overridable warning on a non-semantics-changing possible problem (like an unused shadowed variable).

Sure, this is a normal feature for an IDE, but I feel like it should be simpler (and I don't like IDE bloat anyways). Maybe the tools you mentioned can already do this.
I'm in the same boat as you. Need to learn these kind of things to complement my skills as a tech founder.

Thanks for the article.
One of my close relatives passed away this year. She was the partner in a professional services firm, and well like by her staff. The entire company had a day off on the day of her funeral, and many of them were distressed by it. It was not a shock as she had been ill for quite some time, but it does entail an adjustment.

This is going to become more of a common occurence as the baby boom generation start moving towards an era of high mortality and are in senior positions. There are actually companies around which can help with transitioning through a period like this, including grief counselling for staff, strategies, etc. I worked with someone on a project once who worked for one of these firms. Up until that point, I had never even considered that they would exist.
It feels weird to get political advice from a Markov chain generator.
Then you've found your reason to be "here."
Shoot, too bad non-gendered pronouns in English can be awkward. At about the 5th example, when imagining the roles, I was wishing for some women! Some variety would be appreciated probably :)
Developers, you need to be more predictable
The book is using Python 2.7. Do you know if the examples convert and work well with Python 3+?
Arnie-kill-stats
Any suggestions on gift ideas related to this?
OK,

This is a fine discussion.

I would add that I think that, a favorite of this board, the mythical "(top) 10% or (top) 1% programmer" is not so much a real thing as just an average programmer who happens to avoid each of these (and related) pitfalls in the particular job he or she is working on - well, and stays reasonably education in current tech and intermediate to advanced math and cs.

And the nice, the reasonable thing, about these description is that they make it clear these people are the product of particular environments.
Time to stop these posts. This isn't coinbase support and it isn't a forum to air your problems.
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I have personally experienced this on five occasions in the work place. I can say that only once did no one have any idea that there was an issue. I have seen CO's, junior enlisted, and the inbetween. The powers of self loathing are in my experience not the driver, the most dangerous force is self confirmed failure. The type or scale of the failure does not matter, only the persons value of that failure matter.

That being said.

Go in to work tomorrow and make a forceful effort to engage with anyone that you think may have any issue with failure overwhelming them. The only weapon that can help is others.
The execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu stabilized Romania. Despite calls for more executions, after they were killed execution was abolished in Romania, and there have been no executions in the country since.

If you are not interested in being convinced, I am certain this example will not convince you, but I believe that the subsequent abolition of capital punishment in Romania makes it an excellent example of moderated violence ending a cycle of violence.

Much like careful amputation can save lives, the appropriate application of violence can end conflicts.
Seemed to work out alright for geeksquad.
I see Edward Hieatt's point. A significant part of this, I think, is getting the entire team to scope work in ways that can be estimated in a more predictable fashion. Sometimes this means the dev team has to clarify and split apart stories sooner rather than later.
For anyone who's about to reply to this without having an exact grasp of what they mean:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/mm/the_fallacy_of_gray/
Maybe I'm misinterpreting your tone, but you sound overly defensive of CoinBase and dismissive of the OP. He's not crying over his losses, but warning others about the terrible customer service he has received. And I for one appreciate these warnings.

You're right that the people gambling on BTC are playing a risky game, and maybe they should expect events like this. Likewise, however, a startup flush with tons of capital that can't be bothered to even reply to its customers' support tickets shouldn't complain when people warn others away from them. (Although r/bitcoin is probably a better forum than Hacker News).

Regardless of their TOS, they know full-well that customers use their platform to speculate. If they can't handle high-value financial transactions properly, or at least respond to their customers when things go wrong, then they shouldn't play the game either.
I rarely read comment threads here. I'm almost as edified by the stories people are sharing as I was with the original post. Thanks to all.