skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what other conclusions I can get from people that are more of a type?
For example a Arcanist is probable to also be faithful and a Futurist a cheater.
I'm just giving examples, I don't really know anything, that's why I'm asking for someone that knows more than me. (:
I agree. FanSnap is by far the better sounding name.
My apologies, I wasn't trying to imply people are cowardly or I'm more enlightened, or anything like that.

The word I was looking for is taboo. I believe that the baby boomers find talking about money to be a social taboo, while younger generations do not.

It's not about any group or generation being better, I think it's just a change in what society finds acceptable.

(To be honest, I'm not sure Gen Y'ers find anything to be socially taboo. I wouldn't be surprised if that word stops having meaning)
Ok cool. Yep, not something I would do :)
Awesome Will. Perfect timing. Nicely done.
How can there be more online harassment against women when most hardcore gamers are men? You're full of shit.
Agreed. It sounds ridiculous, but I was honestly upset about that 5% minimum payout. Instead I funnel it back into projects that are hopefully useful to others.
It doesn't. People are so quick to point the finger at everyone but themselves.

No, it's not ME who should decide how I feel, it's YOU that should censor what YOU say, for ME!

Avoid, tell them to fuck off if need be, and continue. It's not a very difficult concept.
Colin’s boss is on vacation this week. He recorded a message by webcam.
He’s lying on his side on a hotel bed. He talks about the clarity of
Colin’s press releases as palm trees shudder in the wind behind him.

“I wish I had gotten to know him better,” he says. “He seemed nice.”

Reading this kind of made me rage...and sad.

Tragic, but the inequality, and the indifference free market creates, makes me steer clear away from corporate environments. I'd rather be a writer or an artist working on one's creation and dropping dead than die for someone's marginal materialistic desires.

I know this is just one way of looking at it, maybe the company was a great place to work at and the words alone do not carry justice.

Unsettling. Knowing that you can die at any moment, yet you work to fulfill the desires of those above you.

When I start a company, I don't want people below me or be insensitive. I'm gonna pay them well, make their work not overwhelming (by creating more software to automate and lighten their workload). Maybe I'm just young and naive. but I sure as shit not going to be an insensitive jerk to my partners in crime. Nobody is killing themselves or getting sick because of being overworked. Fuck that ferrari man, if someone kills themselves in the process of making money for you, I'd be devastated. I don't know how I'd feel when I turn old though, as your frontal cortex deteriorates, causing you to have less empathy and concern for your surrounding.
I'm really excited about this. Until now I've hated working with Javascript because of a combination of the language itself, and its primary domain (the DOM).

Seeing React.js at JSConf.asia last month got me excited that I don't have to touch the DOM anymore, but I still had to deal with Javascript the language itself.

And now this comes along. Now I don't have to deal with DOM (or at least it offers better abstractions for working with it) and I get to use the most pleasant language I've tried so far.

Christmas came early. :)
Better, probably, to learn programming through a drag-and-drop interface, then make a difficult transition to typing, than try to overcome both challenges at the same time and likely give up. Having done microcomputer BASIC programming as a primary-school child I can testify that syntax errors are just a horrible waste of time and enthusiasm at that level.
Bugs? There are no bugs. Just undocumented features. And solutions for things that I wasn't actually trying to solve.
> When a Human Robot is confronted about an issue with his or her work on the product, they will respond with the following sentence every time: “your requirement was not found in the specification for this project. We require additional pylons.”

> Human Robots often tend to be conference organizers (see PyCon 2013) and moderators on StackExchange.

That literally made my day.
We had a fellow in our QA department pass away suddenly. He died at home from "heart failure". I think everyone assumed it was a drug overdose, amid hushed rumors of rather strange behavior during a previous-job Vegas trip. It was sad, because he did good work. Like this fellow, a lot of people simply had superficial contact with him.

I wish I could say that his death motivated me to have more meaningful contact with everyone. But it didn't; it simply made me realize that you can't force that even if you want to. At least not for me. Some people seem to have meaningful exchanges easier than others, and I'm just not one of those people.
I've checked out the two BB10 Blackberry devices at various cellphone kiosks - the first two times I got lost not knowing the gestures, the 3rd time I knew from reading online. After three kiosks, I still have never seen the tutorial. Obviously I would see it if I bought one, but first I need to decide to buy one.

That can't be good for BB.
I have a feeling that this thread was started by (and is being steered by) a couple of social justice warriors, using a combination of their typical lies, guilt-tripping tactics, and anti-male sexism to socially engineer certain opinions.

It's sad that they thought it would work.
It's great to see other companies experimenting with openness in salaries. We've taken a different approach and pay all employees (including founders) the same salary which increases as the company grows. Our team is now 8-people strong and it's working great so far. As long as you contribute to the bottom line everyone's salary goes up automatically. It's totally transparent, no negotiations required, reviews, etc.
http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/09/12/146144481245... this too

"Findings indicate that, on average, the female voice received three times as many negative comments as the male voice or no voice. In addition, the female voice received more queries and more messages from other gamers than the male voice or no voice."
"Everyone I know over 40 wouldn't dare talk about their salary, or how much they paid for their house, etc. Everyone I know under 30 will happily talk about it to anyone and everyone"

That's because they (the <30's) grew up with FB and are used to sharing everything with the world.
Thanks, I emailed you!
That's what I was afraid of :(
I'm very surprised at that. I've heard the internet is basically horrible in New Zealand and they have horrible bandwidth limits there. Is this a very recent development?
Stop trying to derail. Stop lying. Stop using hate speech.
First Neurosurgery Performed on a Bear
I agree with the author. Terrorists rarely if ever achieve their stated goals, and just end up hurting innocents. But he is wrong that violence can't be used to prevent violence.

>The simple fact is that non-violent means do not work against Evil. Gandhi's non-violent resistance against the British occupiers had some effect because Britain was wrong, but not Evil. The same is true of the success of non-violent civil rights resistance against de jure racism. Most people, including those in power, knew that what was being done was wrong. But Evil is an entirely different beast. Gandhi would have gone to the ovens had he attempted non-violent resistance against the Nazis. When one encounters Evil, the only solution is violence, actual or threatened. That's all Evil understands.

-Robert Bruce Thompson
Mgrunin, don't take some of these comments too seriously. I know it's really frustrating to read comments that jump to absurd conclusions about yourself without having done any research. Especially when they're firing at someone they don't know. Not all of us on HN are like this though.

I think the comment by `seobeaver` on the other thread is what threw off a lot of people because it seemed like a needless hero-worship (of sorts). And you explained in the other thread that possibly that user came from one of the forums that you frequent that you posted a link to this discussion on.
That's a really interesting point. Thank you for the perspective.
No room in life for losers. Wake and realize we live in the best possible times. Go live in a small village where your primary objective is surviving, then come back to your real life, you will be very quickly humbled.

I really think people are just bored man. In an age where I can watch videos of the Earth set from the moon, what the hell is there really to get excited about?

It's depressing. My grandmothers entire goal in life was to dip her toes in the ocean, something that brought (I can't even imagine) an unreal amount of happiness to her, and she finally experienced this at the age of 70.

We have everything. If you want something, you have to keep your head down, put in the work, and you'll get it. That's it! We don't suffer from 99.99% of the problems that have plagued our species since it's dawn.

The entitlement to perfection is sickening.
This doesn't sound much more stable than Bitcoin. If demand increases, say, 10x in one year the money supply cannot increase correspondingly.
That is definitely the Sooner. I used one while working at an OHA partner company in 2007. It was just an HTC reflashed with Android.
They have meal replacement shakes out, and have for years. They have much more attractive sounding names.
This is an insult to the intelligence of the children. You're claiming that they are so poor at learning, and you are so superior at learning, that all of their learning combined is dwarfed by the learning of a single man--you.

Any teacher who learns more than his collective students is a failed teacher. Period. Such a teacher's life has been worthless--this is a mathematical fact.

Being proud of gaining more from your volunteer service than did the people you are supposed to be helping is not something to brag about. It is morally reprehensible and brings to mind all of the criticisms of poverty tourism that have so often been levied against your type of exploiter.

Usually, the money that wealthy poverty tourists spend on travel would be thousands of times more efficient had they just donated that money.

You are gleeful that you profited more from your volunteer work than the supposed recipients did. Your self-reported tale of exploitation is disgusting.
> I am homosexual. I really don't care if someone calls me a faggot.

Oh man, I wish the whole world was as easy-going in this as you were. Tires me out. People take offense to anything.

For this comment alone, I have a tremendous amount of respect for you.

Cheers for spreading the word.
It's not that bad anymore. When I arrived 5 years ago the data caps were still terrible with around 10GB. They still exist but are 10x-20x higher now (and there are some unlimited plans) and 100mbit down is not uncommon. There's 4G with decent speed too... I get 27mbit down on my iPhone 5s in Wellington—that's on 3.5G. Some rural areas are not as lucky of course.
Are you sure it's that consistent? I just feel like there's some function hiding somewhere that breaks this rule.
One thing that has always surprised me is just how small the entire music industry is.

The entire recorded music industry was $16.5 billion in 2012 (According to the IFPI). To put that in perspective...
- $364b: The TV industry (2009)
- $557b: Our spending on the war in Afghanistan
- $523b: The amount the world spends on beer each year (excluding other types of booze)

The point here is that the cultural value of recorded music is (I believe) not reflected in it's market footprint. For better or for worse (mostly for better I think) music is cheap.
You can't buy doge here, it's just a wallet. Doge are for sale on a couple of exchanges, for example

https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/132

https://coinedup.com/OrderBook?market=DOGE&base=BTC
For zippers, check out this library:

https://github.com/dyoo/js-tree-cursor
also, for comparison: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/billion...
I wish we could bottle perspective and force these social justice fucks to gulp it down. They need it badly.

Thanks for the contribution of common sense this thread sorely needed.
Ask HN: spamming from yahoo accounts not going through yahoo servers?
So my wife has had her yahoo account compromised, or apparently compromised a couple of times now. (Yes, I know, we are working at moving her off of there.)<p>That said, looking at the mail headers of the most recent spam I received, the emails are not going through yahoo. In the emails I received, they are going through an email server in Atlanta owned by earthlink. In the case of a friend, they were going through an email server of cox.net. There are no servers as part of yahoo.com in the full headers.<p>Any thoughts on how this is? Are the email servers being used allowing the construction of emails from an arbitrary address? Or is there possibly some sort of account validation happening which then allows the servers to send the email?<p>I'm not sure why Yahoo continues to be one of the worst publicly available email hosts when it comes to security. I do know the account was compromised since they are sending from compromised account to contacts of said account.<p>The routing through third party mail servers is...interesting.
Why must the entirety of society watch their tongues just to make sure poor little victim you doesn't get mildly offended?

Ignore it, tell them to fuck off, and move on. It's a fairly simple concept really. You are WEAK if some randoms comments in an online video game get you this rattled.
You will find the Buddhist roots of the idea I was trying to convey also believe that even moderation itself needs to be applied with moderation.
In the first case, everybody really took a day or two to come to terms that it had happened. Work really ground to a halt. People showed up to work, but took lots of time out of the office in coffee shops talking and processing the event. We named a room after him and had some ceremonies, everybody showed up to his funeral. It really took a few weeks for everything to get back to normal.

In the other two people really just carried on pretty normally by the next day or two.

In the last case, because of the way he went out, very violent and unpleasant, I think there was definitely an effort on the part of people to just...forget about him and pretend he had never existed. There was some occasional chatting about the event and how unexpected it was. But it was really detached like an event on the news involving a minor C-grade celebrity. But of course, we hadn't worked with him in a couple years at that point so his impact in our day-to-day was pretty minimal.

I think it really has to do with office popularity to be honest. If you're buried up in a corner someplace and don't interact with anybody...it's easier for people to get over it.
On some subreddits (including gamedev) your flair can say something personally identifying about you, like your Twitter handle. It's optional, but it's optional here too.
Alas, with the explosion in the number of statutory crimes on the books, intent is about the last thing that's necessary to end up a felon.
In the literal sense, currently nobody is turning millions of people into soap, and there is no evidence that this has ever happened. And to my knowledge, there are no boxcars full of humans speeding towards crematorium in the middle east right now.

I don't think that the foreign policy of the Five Eyes is really a relevant tangent at this point in the discussion, but suffice it to say that I am 'Not A Fan'(tm). If you're looking for someone to disagree with there, you'll have to find somebody else.
Multi-platform apps with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript(and Python, PHP, Ruby)
If you're looking for a service, Browser Stack (http://www.browserstack.com/) gets the job done.

Microsoft also offers free VMs for testing IE at modern.ie (http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools) for Virtualbox, Parallels, and VMWare. They have 9 or so images for testing IE, ranging from IE6 on Windows XP, to IE11 on Windows 8.1.
So the claim is that there have been at least 9 million hours played per day by an unknown number of "kids". That's... profoundly difficult to unpack from "more than a millennium per day". And I'm still not actually sure that's what they meant. Is this kind of construction common?

I understand "man-hours", but I've never heard words like "millennium" inserted like that.
> This is not a great mystery. The answer is yes. I am a customer and speak from experience. Your buy price is locked in, which can work for or against you.

That question was not directed at if the buy rate is locked in, that is well established and not in dispute. Rather the question was specifically for the cases where "there is a delay", i.e. an unreasonable one like with the OP of this post and the previous post[0].

The problem is not how they conduct their market making(or selling a product by definition the definition you presented).

An unreasonable delay adds added risk of financial loss which is akin to, while not quite as dire as; if it was possible for someone to buy a pace-maker of Amazon, to be delivered overnight (up to two days) and it was not known to the buyer could not survive past 4 days without it and for some technical reason Amazon was unable to ship it for 5 days, would the law hold Amazon responsible for not living up to their end of the commitment and unintentionally causing the buyers demise.

Though stepping away form my overly extreme and unrealistic example, as an after thought my original question may have been nonsensical. "If coinbase does buy the goods before the price is locked and BTC rises, regardless of the situation there is no risk for coinbase or the customer."

The risks on these transactions would only occur in case of BTC dropping.

> You don't have any experience with Coinbase, but you're making these declarations about what they may or may not do, and acting as if we need you to dig into this great mystery to determine what's really going on.

You're right I have no experience with an unreasonable delay that could cause financial loss. But "any experience", how did you deduct that?

> It never ceases to amaze me how many universal experts hang out on this one lil' old site.

Right back at you :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6929705
The actual IE for Mac has died long ago and was barely related to IE for Windows anyway. If you mean current versions, try something like Saucelabs interactive sessions. They offer many different OS/browser combinations in VMs and even their free offering is plenty for light use. https://www.saucelabs.com/ for more...

In more limited form, Microsoft have their own freely downloadable VMs for certain versions of IE, though there are some tricky licensing issues, the VMs expire, and it's all quite cumbersome. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=...

For really basic tests, there's also the IE net renderer at http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/
Open source Linux core where installed software may or may not be open source, with an increasing reliance on closed-source cloud applications? Closed source graphics drivers, network firmware, etc? I don't have any statistics obviously, but I would be willing to wager at least 50% of Linux desktops have some closed source installed or some reliance on a cloud provider. Even if it's Flash for watching YouTube videos.
That's the first thing I noticed too. Senior iOS Dev making 1k more than a CHO? Only their employees know the culture and value everyone provides but that sort of thing would make me uncomfortable.
My Talk at Google – Why Rejection Is Awesome [video]
Couldn't agree more. To get coverage one needs to...

1) Add value
2) Be honest and transparent
3) Build relationships over time
Sorry to get your hopes up! I'll try to remember to make it a bit more obvious next time.
Sure, other options are out there, but why should I? I like Reddit. I was challenging the statement that it's impossible to derive value from Reddit. I do.
Wow - I'm each one of them - on different days, teams, jobs, etc.
Well written and it hits close to home for me.

Honestly, I've had a fear of being 'Colin' for years.. that if I were to be gone one day, all people I come in contact with, besides family and friends, would remember are the inconsequential things about me. Its an ego thing I'm sure -- that I feel I should be remembered.

I make an effort to have some real impact on as many people as I can. Something they would remember. I have no idea if I've been successful. All anyone really wants is to do something meaningful.

I hope that Colin had a great group of people outside work that could memorialize him properly.
Yeah, but Facebook is just a collection of Wordpress plugins.

See: http://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook/

;)
When this happens to people in their 20s, it's notable.

Sadly, as I approach 50, it happens in my workplace, in my private life, and in my family pretty much every other year.
If you're looking for a reason to learn OCaml, Xen recently announced the 1.0 release of the MirageOS unikernel[1]. Basically you write your application in OCaml and it's compiled directly into the kernel, with the goal of eliminating a lot of the overhead from using a general purpose OS by doing only what your application needs.

It's a very cool concept which I think has been a long time coming. The best part is that you can easily run the compiled unikernels on EC2 (and any other cloud provider which allows you to run a custom kernel).

http://www.openmirage.org/
I'd love to discuss this more offline. Email me joel at pressfriendly dot com.
I love the idea of getting out of your normal habitat to focus. I went down to central america a month ago to spend a few days, got so much more work done in 3 days than I do in 2 weeks at home. I didn't have constant distractions or people pulling for my attention all the time. Am planning to do something like this quarterly in 2014.
It does, in fact, have to do with your claim that harassment happens to women more often. That can't be the case if men outnumber women by a large factor, which is the case in hardcore gaming.
Crunching the DEA's drug loss data
The only ways to get n-key rollover over USB are through dirty hacks (like USB hub emulation) or through non-standard drivers. It is an issue.
To clarify, I've been many of these simultaneously, and I'm not sure that it's changed much; different circumstances bring out different aspects.

Apparently, I'm a melting pot of neuroses.
"The full text of this article is available to Discover Magazine subscribers only."

I'll just close the tab, then.
I adopted this in my C days. Sure some compilers catch accidental assignment but not all and it could be disabled. As a defensive programming style I personally think the readability concerns were outweighed by the safety benefits. Not everyone agrees and I adapt my style to the project I'm working on.
"And then they will leave."

Surely that's a risk that a company takes knowingly and can adjust if they wish?
IPhone app adds COD features to Paintball & Airsoft
They probably reversed it because they (wrongly) suspected fraud. I'm sure it's well within their Terms of Service.

You're the one gambling money on an unproven digital currency, created by an anonymous person on the internet, via an unproven and completely overwhelmed little startup. If you can't handle losing money on a failed transaction then don't play the game.
The Cost of Speeding: Save a Little Time, Spend a Lot of Money