skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great comparison, really provides extra insight into the issue.
Hey, now they can add "Hacker News" to their "Buzz" page. Well done, everybody!
There is also Adblock Edge which is a fork of Adblock Plus without the "acceptable ads" feature:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
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For all the latin I learned at school I can barely understand a word...
I'm curious: how was it not obvious to those HR departments that you run a business?
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Heck, I myself would never hire someone who had been unemployed for a year and lacked the ability to either get a job or start their own thing.

Do you personally hire people?
Retailers on average increase prices to account for these fees.
I don't know. One HR person told me on the phone that I had been unemployed for too long. Any data I gave her fell on deaf ears. But, it was that that company's right to not hire me for any reason. No hard feelings.
What about cards against humanity? They seem to be well recieved in this community.
Very well said, thank you for posting this. It seems to me that humans in general have a hard realizing the powerful subtleties of the subconscious and how it can shape world views/thought patterns over time.
The photo is not from the movie but Spacex's facilities were used to shoot scenes from Ison Man 2 and Elon has a small cameo. And it's been reported that Tony Stark is loosely based on Elon.
Or the returned location could be user-specified. The UI for dropping a pin or entering a searchable location by name is well-understood by users.
I agree. It's a shame that instead of people creating something useful, everyone has to create an "environment that's inviting to womyn" and make sure all their work is "gender neutral and non-sexist."
In fact, I'd argue that some of the greatest rappers actually don't / didn't really feel the need to make light of rape.

For example, here's an example from 2pac (IMO one of the greatest rappers of all time): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXwmDGJAB8

I wonder why we take from our women
Why we rape our women, do we hate our women
I think it's time to kill for our women
Time to heal our women, be real to our women
"....And that figure is most likely just a fraction of the total since many victims don’t come forward out of embarrassment, inconvenience, or the sheer difficulty of figuring out who on a packed subway car touched them."

Would you go to the police to say that someone fondled your breast, but you don't know who, and the train has left now?

I've talked to Japanese women who say that groping is very much a thing on trains there.
The 1TB requirement is for the default install, if you use the custom Debian-based installer that isn't an issue.
Can you please elaborate on why you think this way?
I wonder if all things considered we somehow end up in a better place because assholes are constantly testing limits and we come up with social accommodations for that behavior.

I'm sure in certain cases this works out to be true, but taking this example, segregated traincars seems like a big-picture loss (groping assholes aside). While it makes sense given the circumstances, it's not the desirable option. Sub-optimal from a transport POV, and further isolates the genders.
The first sentence notes that women only-trains have existed in Japan for 100 years.

I find Hacker News has a recency bias. This is appropriate with tech stories, but often inapplicable in other areas where norms shift much more slowly. A two year old article can be quite reliable.
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You wouldn't be excited if someone wanted to make a video game about your job? That's like the 21st century's movie deal.
Conversely, I have a friend that used to play Godus every day before he moved to some other game.
I'm pretty sure it's possible to get the fee before running a charge. You definitely get it back in the response.
Poe's law is strongly in effect here.
How about because CoD is a two-dimensional game, and doesn't need to be anything more? People watch movies for plot. People don't play CoD for plot.
Very strange, since their employees vouched for you. That means the HR department basically judged "well, our employees say he is worth $X,000, but we suspect he is actually a hobo"

I've thought about this as a solo freelancer. Within my (small) niche, everyone knows who I am, and I can point to external signs. Outside my niche, people pretty much have to take what I say on faith when I describe what I do.
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Literary knowledge has little to do with measuring people's enjoyment of a book.

Mattress quality has a great deal to do with measuring their enjoyment of a mattress.
Use SteamMover to move the lesser used games off your ssd and put a junction point in their place.

http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover
and homophobic most of the time.
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Why not just use bcache?
It has happened to me. I purchased a game and the multiplayer was completely broken/bugged. Like most people, I thought Steam would refund me without much of a hassle. Turns out steam has a very strict NO REFUND policy. This came as a shock to me after hearing so many good stories about Steam. Note that this was a well documented bug in the steam forums for this game.

I used to feel very safe purchasing from steam, now I don't think it's very safe to purchase any sort of indie game.
You mean the same 2Pac who was sent to jail for sexual abuse?

Don't get me wrong because I love 2Pac, but 2Pac's lyrics and his actions didn't always match up.
Are there any studies on this? It's something I've wondered about.

In an efficient market, competition would force retailers to reduce prices. But efficient markets don't exist, especially not in the short term.

I'm most interested in the long run effect. How would a shift in CC fees play out over the long term and through the whole supply chain.
Yep. Seeing a simple drama post on the frontpage of HN is disturbing. It'd be great if Hn kept being the contrary of the Sun.
So someone tweeted a "rape joke" from their account. The deleted the joke and apologized pretty much immediately. But now it's fair game to release their private emails and generally insult them all over the internet? What's wrong with you? For someone pretending to be a sensitive person you're sure lacking in empathy.

>There are certain things that a decent human being does not think to joke about, and rape is one of those things.

So, you don't know a single person in your life who is actually a very decent human being but made an "unacceptable" joke some time? You don't believe people can be just ignorant about a certain issue without being horrible people?
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I'm guessing because of the correlation between comedians/humourists and intelligence/accurate observation.

Plus generally just being open curious human beings.

I don't think we should generally take carte-blanch the advice of anyone.

There's even grounds for not listening to those who are rich/wealthy/successful businesses when trying to analyse their own condition. There's an ego element there which means they'll want to apportion success to themselves relative to luck/chance/birth/others, and they're hardly going to come out and say "you know what, it was all a fluke" or "I ripped off bob/society..go me!".

Most of us humans are all too good at ascribing to large amounts of randomness some element in an attempt to explain outcomes post-fact.

I'll listen to Mr Adams. He seems to nail a lot of other things on the head.
I think that hiring decisions that work against older workers are based on a lot of unsubstantiated presumptions.

There's no reason to resent someone being your boss if they happen to be younger. If they are a good leader, that has nothing to do with their age differential.

I do agree that VCs have a lot to do with youth bias in startup culture, and for the reasons mentioned. It is easier to get a younger person with no external obligations to work insane hours. Why else would Facebook and Google build campuses that employees never have to leave?

I don't believe in homogenization of demographics, age and experience over the long haul. It leads to stagnation of perspective and ideas, because the experiences of the teams are so similar.

I think that people can learn from each other, both directions, and that is good for a team that has the bravery to challenge the status quo.
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Maybe you can answer me a question I had after reading all of it; How are those micro hydro plants in the mountains protected from frost?
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@coldarchon,

Somehow, your posts are marked as [dead]. You may want to shoot a mail to pg.

Regarding the frost problem, sorry, I'm not sure how that's handled in cold regions. The ones I've seen are from south-west part of India, which has tropical climate[1].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Ghats#Climate
Selection effects, the bane of almost all dreamers.
overgard: there are two internally consistent ways to interpret the matter:

1) "they [only] pissed off a bunch of people actively looking to be pissed off" including this fellow who posted the email. If you truly believe that they only pissed off people actively looking to be pissed off, then only those people will be pissed off now. No one else. There would be no real change in RG's reputation, and all this post does is take up a spot on the front page.

2) they pissed off a lot of people, including those that aren't "actively looking to be pissed off". In that case, dredging up the past actually does affect them even more.

You can't have it both ways. You want to believe that only people actively looking to be offended would be bothered by the remark and that somehow discussing the past is actually hurting them more, but they are inconsistent beliefs.

> I choose to respect other people's freedom of expression

Right, which is why you should respect other people's rights to discuss the matter at hand. You shouldn't get upset because this conversation is happening.

> I don't have to throw a public temper tantrum if someone has wildly different values. (I view posting private correspondence publicly to try to shame someone as being equivalent to a temper tantrum)

RG's tweet was public and so is this discussion. The email reminded us of the original tweet. There was no rape joke in the email. I think you are missing that part -- the actual offense that we are talking about happened long before this email in a public forum (twitter).

RG apologized, true. But that doesn't magically mean that the internet forgets that the event happened. And it sounds like you wish for everyone to forget.

> The way I see it: they pissed off a bunch of people actively looking to be pissed off. My level of caring about that is pretty much zero.

But your level of caring about the fact that history is being rehashed is almost surely nonzero.
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People have a different perspective on life when they are 20 years old as opposed to 30, 40, or 50. Elance is definitely not a way to make a living or be taken seriously by a potential employer.
Then you have never tried to purchase linux games on Steam.

I have a modest library of games, and I have quite a few of these I bought for when I boot to Linux. Almost none of these games work.

:(

While I have not sought a refund, or anything from Steam - it can be common to buy a game on steam and not be able to run it.
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Nothing wrong with a shelter. However the the act of designating the presidential palace as a homeless shelter is meaningless because it a) doesn't actually fix anything (one shelter does not a social policy make and has no wider impact - and that's what national governments concern themselves with) b) there is no good reason to re-purpose that particular building, as opposed to another building or spending a few extra bucks and building another. I may be showing my cynical side, but it seems the only reason this was done was to score some cheap PR points with the voters.
I'm always amazed at how many people never heard or don't use Tree Style Tab. This is the only plugin that makes Firefox a must have.
We can think the state of the world is immutable. When the state changes, it's a different world.

If space-time is discontinuous, then we can think any change of state, like motion, as a set of discrete changes. If we think the motion of a particle from one energy bin to another is immediate (meaning the particle cannot be found on the border between the bins, or one moment the particle is in Bin A, next it is in Bin B) then we can think the particle was destroyed in Bin A and another one was created at Bin B. And this is what we call motion from A -> B.
If you are concerned about google tracking you then the links in search results are the least of your worries when using chrome.
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pretty much the same.
Are you really offended "as a comedian"?

Let's be real, if you are offended by a joke, it almost certainly has something to do with the content of the joke. Poor joke delivery, or just unfunny jokes, are not in and of themselves offensive, nobody is "offended" by "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

Bad jokes aren't offensive, bad jokes that are also tackless may be however.
I think this depends where you live and your consumer protection laws. While I've never requested a refund I know several people in Europe who have had successful refunds.
I find at age 39 I cannot work my previous 12-16 hour days of the past, due to my sedentary lifestyle. However I make up for it by sticking to what I know will work rather then doing as much experimentation that I used to do. I get months worth of work done in weeks.
As a customer the initial reaction was "oh shit" since we had just made a big switch to Trigger a few months ago.

However, having met Amir recently, I'm fully confident that he's made the right choices here, and that he has left the development of the company in good hands.

They've built a solid product, and my gut feeling is that things will only get better.
There was a time when I believed that art was a reflection of the real world (i.e. art imitating life). But, more lately, I am beginning to wonder about that assumption.

For one, the "real world" itself is becoming increasingly virtual, with people now spending hours each day "interacting" with others via technology. Are the lines between reality and the virtual world blurring?

And, it's an age-old question as to whether the consumption of violent entertainment begets real violence. The debate started with film, then moved to video games. I believe there is a distinction betwen the formats, in that film is merely viewed passively, while FPS-style games involve the active engagement of the consumer in simulated violent acts. It is hard to imagine that hours of this type of activity has no effect on the human mind.

So, while it has been argued that violent entertainment does not lead to a more violent society, I find it increasingly difficult to reconcile the notion of a complete disconnect between mass shootings and other forms of dramatic violence, with the proliferation of realistic FPS games. This is especially so, given that tactics used in the former frequently seem to mimic those of the latter.
I'm so disappointed right now. I've really wanted to read this book for wuite a while, and it had to be available for free on finals week...really good book though, I guess it'll be worth saving up for considering how much more than a book it is.
How does sharing digital content with people you know qualify as 'little utility'?
Unfortunately there is no way to determine if the actual is 110 or 1100 so you can only base off reported incidents
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Dungeon Defenders is fairly unplayable on desktop Linux due to this bug: https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5831

This bug is easy to reproduce and they even know the issue (lack of physx support on the linux drivers) and even though there's a workaround (Android version doesn't have this issue) the devs still haven't fixed it. They could at the very least stop selling new copies to Linux users on Steam until this is fixed.
It's way more than that. I don't listen to rap, but I found The Great Gatsby--in its entirety--annotated with each paragraph and phrase explained in great detail. There's much more to it than rap; I encourage you to take a deeper look.
Here's a little usability feedback on your site:

I decided that I wanted to buy the bed but I couldn't immediately figure out how. I was looking for a link in the main menu like "Products" or "Beds" and didn't think to click the large "Buy Now" button. I thought it was just me and didn't think much more about it.

Later, I told my wife about the bed and she wanted to check out the website. She had a similar experience. She was wanting to cut to the chase and see a list of products with prices and couldn't figure out how to get there. She didn't think to click the Buy Now button either, because she assumed it was what you clicked when you had things in your cart and were ready to check out. She said if I hadn't been standing there and told her how to click the Buy Now button, she would have just headed to Amazon instead and searched for the bed.

Also, you don't ship to Alaska? I just tried to buy one but I can't.
You didn't buy Age of Empires II HD, obviously.
hmm, I'm in the same boat and just finished my compsci degree. Any advice would be awesome!
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> The deleted the joke and apologized pretty much immediately. But now it's fair game to release their private emails and generally insult them all over the internet?

Given that there is no confidentiality notice in the email, I don't see how either party could expect that the conversation was private.

More generally, if they didn't think it was offensive in the first place, why did they delete the joke? Why not stand behind it? Own up to it?

Do you expect some sort of mental erasure where everyone magically forgets that this happened in the first place?

> What's wrong with you? For someone pretending to be a sensitive person you're sure lacking in empathy.

Please tell me where Kyle signed a confidentiality agreement with Tom. If you point it out, I would agree that releasing the email is inappropriate.

> So, you don't know a single person in your life who is actually a very decent human being but made an "unacceptable" joke some time? You don't believe people can be just ignorant about a certain issue without being horrible people?

I fail to see how you can be ignorant about rape in the same way that I fail to see how you can be ignorant about murder or genocide. BTW: Note that I didn't use the word "unacceptable" in any of my responses here.

You are touching upon a key point, namely the long-term memory of the Internet. That's a much longer discussion, and I intentionally avoided judgment statements regarding the nature of the memory, but it would be to your benefit to act as if statements made on the Internet are in the public record
Nah, nobody pays attention to warnings attached to Gmail messages after having seen so many of them.

A particular example of crying wolf that comes to mind is the yellow box that says, "HEY! THIS SENDER ISN'T WHO THEY SAY THEY ARE!", which usually means that someone just forwards their .edu address to Gmail.
The man spent two years in solitary confinement at the bottom of a well. He has a much greater appreciation for simple living than the typical head of state and how even small gestures can mean a lot to people. Using the palace for himself and his family provides far less marginal utility than using it to house many homeless people.
This isn't true at all. For example, here in the US we keep statistics on reported crimes, but we also have the National Crime Victimization Survey.
I think the problem is that Ars Technica was the first big site to cover it and they did a pretty poor job. The headline was "Gmail blows up e-mail marketing...", which is pure hyperbole and confused a lot of people (myself included) about what was going on.

Here's a nice technical blog post from someone who actually knows what they're talking about: emailexpert.org/gmail-breaks-email-marketing-again/
This is actually totally possible with qr codes.

(1) Print 100 qr code stickers that go to unique urls on a web service
(2) web service serves "upload form" on first render (or enter url form, whatever the user wants to "save").
(3) web service redirects to file download (or url) on all subsequent visits, no longer allowing upload.

Sticky data you can put inside a book and retrieve later by scanning (or typing in the url, which was also printed on the sticker cause no one will actually use QR codes).
That.. that is a US case.* I asked about places where there are stricter rules than the US, because I'm used to the US being the one pushing stronger copyright.

*And it was argued that the same result would have held in the UK.
No. Mattresses breath mainly from the bed frame area. On humid areas for example a foam-only mattress is a not a good choice if you have a bed frame with no ventilation at all, like a storage bed frame for example as you will have to air the mattress way more frequently if you really want it to last.
I actually built a business trying to sell these --- but couldn't explain the concept to anyone ... and slowly realized that not being able to explain a concept means it might not be such a hot concept.
Let me clarify. I am not a feminist but I do consider women to be people. I was making a reference to the common claim that being a feminist is equivalent to considering women to be people.
There's a nice technical explanation of what's going on here: http://emailexpert.org/gmail-breaks-email-marketing-again/
One could argue the same thing abut pejoratives and ethnic slurs on the Internet. None of people posting youtube comments ever think about the issue of using ethnic slurs, nor what they actually mean. If a person did think of what such words mean, they are surely smart enough to conclude in not using them.

Yet... I think it is good that people do point out the inappropriateness in using pejoratives and ethnic slurs. It marks a social standpoint, which instructs people in what is acceptable and not acceptable. Same goes for propaganda messages in games.
What fucking baby?

Everything intellectual property does is bad. It's a monopoly on an idea. It's insane.
That is ... not quite true. The Three Musketeers is mostly about friendship (there is little violence in the book except in one chapter and the bodycount for the whole book is low) and the Illiad is about the tragedy and inevitability of being a hero - and he does not glorify - he shows the war.
Copyright is necessary for open source?

That's a complete non-sequitur.

If there are no intellectual property laws, nothing will change, except peoples ability to sue each other.

How does the ability to sue help open source?
Less money isn't always less money. I've taken less money for positions at what I thought were worthy organizations, and was rewarded by being treated like shit into the bargain.
"It isn't feasible to go away from it."

Perhaps you could ask one of around 6 billion people in the world how they survive without this essential utility.
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Yes, I'm going to be making all that stuff easier, more approchable, etc. Glad you liked it!

Check back in the future for a greatly-expanded site.
The HN patriarchy killed the links off pretty quickly

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6903584

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6899946
Yes, I'm sure it goes exactly like that. Because lord knows CoD software developers aren't actually people, but a bunch of gore-thirsty carrion vultures.
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