skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "community" has no obligation to keep people in, it is the individual's choice what to do and how to deal with anything resulting from that choice.

As for women vs men, we all take our daily abuse, and in an anonymous online community the level of abuse is just that much higher. We learn to deal with the adolescent abuse because that's the only remedy.

Bullies will be bullies, they hone in on (perceived) weaknesses, when a woman feels harassed in an online community, it's not the fault of the community at large, it's just a fact of the world we live in.

I no longer play games, but I used to play a lot online, the abuse was daily. I and men I know receive non-violent abuse daily in real life well, not to mention the physical threats flying around; know that as a man anyone anywhere has the "right" to threaten you just for being a man. (Check your female privilege.)

Female harassment is a sham, it's just general harassment. Difference is women are allowed to complain and make a fuzz. Ideally we'd all be allowed to do so.
I like how MongoDB has become the go-to joke for using the wrong tool.
It's interesting the number of employees that chose the "+$10K more salary instead of more options" option. What does this tell you?
I believe the Awami League government just undid this? In any case, they don't have anything as bad as the Objectives Resolution.
Yes, a service like BitPay will allow you to think entirely in USD; a BTC price determined dynamically for the customer and an exchange price locked in for your bank account.
Hell what about the firmware in the hard drive controller.
"It looks like you've fallen into the trap of seeing "the Nazis" as the ultimate, perfect and monolithic evil."

No, I don't think that.

What I think is that are a fine example of people who could not be stopped with anything but violence. Killing or letting them have their way were the only options.

They likely could not have run the country without the support of the German people (I'd like to point out that it is not clear that they could have run the country _even with_ the support of the German people; they were still on a self-destructive trajectory even if they had not been at war with the Allied forces...) but they could have kept the slaughter going. While having an industrialized society does make genocide more efficient, it is by no means a prerequisite for genocide.

The Nazis required propaganda not because they were afraid of what would happen if the German public became peacefully non-cooperative. They needed propaganda to 1) prevent a violent rebellion in Germany and 2) remain strong in the face of violent opposition from the Allied forces.

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Succinctly put:

I do not believe that the Germans were pure monolithic ultimate evil.

I do not believe that this would have been a winning strategy:

"You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions. Let them take possession of your beautiful island, with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these, but neither your souls, nor your minds. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them."

Against the Nazis, I believe that is the strategy of a fool.
I was intentionally vague on that point to avoid controversy distracting from my point, but if you're curious, I found faith in Jesus Christ (I became Catholic) and I fully believe that it was by the grace of God that I was brought out of my downward spiral and restored to peace and happiness.
Something to keep in mind is that you can likely do this at any time. Hopping a bus to another place you've never been and working from there for a couple days can likely have similar results.
....Yeah, I can't do that. I like long-term friendship.
It wasn't a failed a transaction. They never said the transaction failed. I got a confirmation that the sale was completed.
Not really. I've used Python extensively, it's just an overbearing tendency I've subjectively noticed amongst certain recent programmers.
Why's that? The iOS Dev probably does more actual, real work.
It's failed if Coinbase suspected fraud and it's reversed.
I've been through this four times. Three died at home; one at work. These were all at small companies, so we all knew each other--many for decades, and over different jobs.

The last two passed away about eleven and twelve years ago.

One may think it's haunting to still see e-mails from them in my archives. But the really haunting thing is listening to them speak in the voice mails our phone system e-mailed back then. Voices from beyond.
I worked in the lunch line in high school in exchange for my meals. It wasn't a humiliating experience that I remember. I could see how it would be for young children though.
History is also great for providing intellectual perspective. A lot of people take as universal ideas that are actually peculiar to our own era; since no era gets everything right, the ideas and attitudes of the past can help you evaluate those you took for granted.

Of course, studying the future would probably work just as well, if that were possible.
Fatness is the one I can't stand people getting upset about (as in, upset when people make fun of it). I'm fat, if anyone wants to take the piss then I'm fine with it.

Sure, there can be situations out of your control - I, for example, do believe that my genes aren't helpful to my weight based on family members and anecdotal evidence, but at the end of the day if I really cared I'm perfectly aware that I could be skinny, I just happen to chose to eat great food, and too much of it, and do far too little exercise.

If you mock me for being gay I might be offended, but for being fat.. that's my own damn fault, I know how to stop being fat but I don't care enough to do it, currently. If anyone wants to laugh at that, give a shit,
From their Terms of Service:

> 3.5 When buying or selling bitcoin, you are buying or selling from Coinbase directly. Coinbase does not act as an intermediary or marketplace between other buyers and sellers of bitcoin.
It is not certain that is a lie, though there is certainly more than a little evidence that it is.

What is clear is that the German people knew something was afoot. Perhaps they did not know that there were camps build for the express purpose of extermination, but the sure as hell knew there were mass deportations, families being disappeared, and concentration camps (a concept that is distinct from death/extermination camps).
What Does a UX Designer Actually Do?
The article was about the personal impact of a person's death on their coworkers, nothing to do with the bus factor.
"Geek" doesn't belong in mass market product name, IMO. And FanSnap is a plain ole decent name.
What Would Steve Jobs Do? Innovation in Residential
A naive question: if multiplexing of SPDY is so important to load speed, why not promote SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) instead of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)?

EDIT: It was reported that SPDY over SCTP was faster than SPDY over TCP.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2012AprJun/...
Eh? I'm not sure where your antipathy is coming from. I'm just here because I tend to enjoy communities that afford a basic level of courtesy to most folks, and have guidelines and moderation that support that context. Like HN's own http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The facet of gamer culture described in the parent article just kinda bums me out, and I don't think we'd particularly lose much by trying to promote greater civility. Maybe other people feel the same? Regardless, cultural norms don't shift unless people respectfully speak up when things aren't working for them.

That's all I'm here for. And I largely agree with rfnslyr ("WHY ARE WE YELLING?" "I DON'T KNOW.") in terms of developing a thick skin and owning your own reactions being an extremely powerful tool. But maybe we could also try to be nicer to one another, sometimes?

With that, I'll respectfully bow out of the conversation.
More reason to justify the use of the AdBlock browser extension.
Your karma score is irrelevant in a hugely biased community like HN, what matters are your arguments' validity, so far those are zero.

Everyone who has lurked and/or participated for a while here knows what kind of comments get praise and what kind incurs the wrath of the gods. Your viewpoints happen to resonate with many, without incurring the wrath of the demi-mods.
I had something like this happen at a small software company I worked about 15 years ago. Our owner had written a specialized program for his wife to sell on the side, but under the company's name. One weekend, after a very big fight, she ended up committing suicide after he'd left the house. The next week, they had me going through her email to get a list of customers she had been working with. I can't begin to tell you the amount of discomfort you feel going through a recently deceased person's email - especially when it was mixed with personal messages. I got in, found all the work related messages, forwarded them to my manager and got out - I couldn't bear to be in there any longer than I had to. No one at the company was very close with her, but it was still a complete shock.
Pressure isn't like mmHg or N/m^2, but a feeling tied to how your mind is wired.

"it's not the words that are said, it's the words you hear".
No, you're not a data scientist
Hehe, no worries. It probably is somewhat due to our generations, but it may also be that as you age your salaries naturally will begin to diverge. And with a certain amount of success it's not exactly smart to go around broadcasting your wealth. I personally am self conscious about coming off as a rich jackass when I go to my hometown and visit my high school friends who are working for minimum wage.

For a venture funded start-up, over-sharing finances seems somewhat ill-advised to me. I guess maybe I am old and I just don't get it!? According to their blog they have a payroll burn rate approaching $2 million per year. Maybe they are grizzled veterans who have been in startups that run low on money and they have tricks up their sleeve. Maybe not - maybe they're just a bunch of kids who have never done this before and think that the money will keep flowing no matter what happens. Maybe their over-sharing will not put them at a serious disadvantage when negotiating because everybody will know their level of desperation for cash. Maybe their employees will not become very nervous and start leaving when the funding situation becomes scary? I only just took a really quick look that them and I don't know the answer to these things, but it doesn't seem like it really benefits them that much to share their corporate finances.
It really ought to be an ethics violation investigateable by a state bar association if a prosecutor pulls a stunt like using absurdly trumped up charges. AFAICT, at the end of the day, state bar associations have the power to reign in prosecutorial abuses like this one. Prosecutors like this are actively harming the pursuit of justice, and I can't see how any group of peers (i.e. lawyers who vary in area of specialization) would not look at this behavior as a gross disservice to the profession, and that such gross disservice warrants being disbarred.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong about state bar associations being able to control this misconduct.
Also from their Terms of Service:

> Coinbase may cancel or reverse potentially high-risk buys or sells of bitcoin, including those made using reversible payment methods.

Could very easily be that your transaction was flagged and then reversed. Your BTC was returned in full. If the price had gone in the other direction I doubt you would be offering to compensate Coinbase for the difference.
Why did you use Bitstamp when you were not in Europe? For me, in Europe, transferring money to Bitstamp was free. It took a couple of days, but that's fine. I'm assuming there are exchanges in your region that are cheaper to transfer to than a European exchange.
You cannot reverse bitcoin transaction. It either happened or not, determined by the broadcasted block chain.
OK, so when did the GOP "block" Obama from closing the camp? No time restriction, though of course the easiest time to close the camp would have been when he had large majorities in both Houses of Congress, don't you think?

The 2011 NDAA passed by a vote in the House of 341-48 and 93-7 in the Senate. It was then signed by the President. That doesn't look like the GOP blocking anything to me.
> The facet of gamer culture described in the parent article just kinda bums me out, and I don't think we'd particularly lose much by trying to promote greater civility.

Why waste your time trying to culture someone who isn't? A switch won't magically flip in their minds?

Why even waste time on random nerds you don't even know? Just play your game, mute them, and have fun.

Hell yeah I'm all for being nice to everyone.
This was the one that made me uncomfortable too -- I tend to think reading code is just generally hard, but it occurs to me that if I am The Illiterate, that's exactly what I'd think.
The Arrogance of Atheism?
Reddit is useful to me because I read subreddits that are interesting. Stuff like /r/offmychest /r/confession can provide a unique perspective on life.

For discussing TV shows (which I have to admit, I enjoy), it's also quite good. And if you are an artist making music, I honestly think Reddit would be one of the best ways to succeed if you carefully researched the right subreddits.

So it's not all bad. The default pages are generally quite brain-dead, particularly "adviceanimals."
It's a Coinbase transaction and not a Bitcoin transaction that's at issue.
Cyanogen raises another $23 million to become the next big version of Android
Two Paths - Official Trailer #1 
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FYI Still seeing the 404 now.
My God that is brilliantly written. Parts of it sting, but I feel better if I focus on the parts that don't apply to me.
This is really cool, and I am one of those people who rolls their eyes whenever there is another article about some newfangled way to build Javascript apps on HN.

One logical step from here is instead of having a one-to-one correspondence between the "virtual" DOM and the browser DOM is to introduce a higher level meta representation based upon the context. This seems like a logical path towards a generative, projectional approach to controlling UI and browser document rendering in general. It's been tried before in several contexts and the hacks I've tried myself have always been to hard to get my head around since it's a complex problem, but this seems like it could be a really decent foothold to build a projectional, transform-based paradigm. For example, having a meta-DOM that encodes mathematical notation (probably inspired by LaTeX), which gets transformed into the current virtual DOM, which is used to update the real DOM. User manipulates a integral on screen, and the downstream transformations are performed lazily and efficiently all the way to the screen. This type of lazy evaluation from document to screen is essentially the core challenge (from a engineering standpoint) in building a usable real-time projectional editor like that demonstrated by intentional software back in 2010 [1].

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Intentional-Software-at-W...
If it failed then why did they take 7 days to return my BTC? That's the benefit of BTC that things can be verified in a matter of minutes.
The proof isn't to give coins value, it's to secure the ledger so people can't double-spend their coins.
Sounds like a documentary that needs to be made. Take every single protest issue that has broad public support and document the abuses perpetuated against protestors. Ideally the protestors in the film should represent the entire range of the political spectrum (right wing to left wing. gun rights to animal rights. pro-life to pro-choice. etc). The highlight needs to be on the forcefully violent oppression of peaceful dissent.
I enjoyed the post, but I find it to be such a vast departure from the way I think and feel, mostly because I have a family.

Sure, I would love to sit on a balcony in New Zealand, coding and listening to the birds, but I couldn't possibly rip my daughter away from her friends and the school she loves.

Again, I appreciate the spirit of the post, but reality for most of us precludes this level of whimsy, and I don't necessarily think that's bad.
When it comes to this one I don't find it so much hard as time consuming.

I think regardless of our ability to do so, often times figuring out someone else's code feels like a horrible pit of unproductivity.
> Not with the sentence lengths and recidivism rates of our justice system.

There's very many more ex-prisoners in the US than prisoners, so that's manifestly false. (As of 2008, about 1.5 million prisoners and 5.5 million ex-prisoners [1].)

[1] http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/ex-offenders-2010...
Wow, and your wife was cool with that :)?

Couldn't even imagine being able to move around with my family like that. I've lived in the same area basically my whole life and it's quite boring. A change would be nice. Always wanted to try out Montana.
I am always fond of Derek Sivers' insights, but I would personally have a hard time getting much done on the South Island. So much natural beauty to explore. I'd be on a perpetual kayaking/tramping/skiing trip!
Small private subs still are good. They're honestly the only ones that are, because a ban there actually means something.
The National Security Agency’s oversharing problem
I'm an ownCloud [1] user. It's free, open source, and pretty easy to set up.

[1] http://owncloud.org/
Some things you just don't share with anyone. That's one of the reasons we still wear clothes.
Not me - I am the one enlightened programmer (so we all think :-)
"Python is it's easier to write readable code.", the holy grail of a programming language.
Another hypothetical attack: the AES instructions could be modified to store plain text and/or keys in cache, with a specific set of innocuous opcodes and register values triggering a readout of the data. This would allow one VM on a physical server to steal keys or data from another VM on the same server.

It seems unlikely, though, due to the probability that an adversary that controls both CPU microcode and VM placement probably has access to the hypervisor.
Alas, I am not a cryptographer and not even a member of the Telegram team. I'm just a guy who backs Telegram financially and proposed to start their contest. I described my motives behind it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6938622

As for your contest, I will make sure the Telegram team will have a look at it once they are awake. As far as I understand, you designed it to be similar to Telegram's contest. How do you send messages that affect traffic in real-time? How large is the prize? Is there a deadline?
Isn't gift shopping one of the first reasons given for the use of incognito mode?
Adding to your point, here is another example: Would you assert that the people on United Airlines Flight 93 should have practiced non-violent resistance when the intent of their hijackers became clear?

Their use of violence against the hijackers was not pacifist, and because they were not pacifists many lives, arguably countless lives, were spared.
Yes, that's slow, but they gave you back all your Bitcoins. I get that you're disappointed about losing money trying to trade Bitcoins, but if this is how you react to this relatively minor problem you should not be trading Bitcoins yet. Problems like this are the norm right now.
I worked with someone who joined our development team as a junior. He was a bit aloof, and slightly arrogant. I moved on soon after he started, he IMed me for the contact details of a contractor we worked with, and that was the last I heard from him. I was not surprised to hear, a few months later, that the guy had been fired, because of his attitude.

Fast forward another few years, and I was Googling (or was it Facebook searching?) ex-colleagues who I'd lost touch with. My search led to news articles that referred to his death. He was killed in a bizarre road-rage incident, where he was clearly the aggressor.

His family had created a memorial page on Facebook, but hadn't reported him deceased. I reported his FB profile as deceased, it was memorialized and I moved on.

I spoke to the ex-coworker about what happened (the same one who told me about him being fired a few years earlier), and he pointed out how kind the eulogies were- not really describing the arrogant prick we worked with.
> you work to fulfill the desires of those above you.

If this is your attitude towards work for hire, then almost anything you do will be unfulfilling. Work to fulfill your own desires. For some, work is a means to an end. To others, the product of their work fulfills them. If you work to earn enough money to see your family thrive, then your work should be fulfilling because your family is provided for. If you work to enrich the lives of the markets you serve, your work should be fulfilling because you know that you are making the lives of others better in some marginal way.

Don't work for your boss. Work for your mission.
They were too early, and with that didn't target a viable niche before going for the big things when 64 bit came along. Something like a 32-bit ARM tied to hardware that accelerates running memcached could have been viable for quite some time, for example. nVidia probably have a long term vision not dissimilar to that, with the ARM being a mere general purpose front end for an attached GPU, and looking at the new game consoles that appears to be the way many things are headed there too.

This will predictably cause the Intel brigade to cheer up, but it will be temporary. In the time since Calxeda started ARM has just consolidated and grown, especially into home routers where MIPS is looking increasingly like it's gone for good. Ultimately when ARM do finally crack the data centre the impact is going to be profit margins for almost all chip players going down very fast. Going into this market without a USP that isn't simply cheap general purpose SoC is destined to end in trouble. If you look at the players that survived on mobile they aren't just integration outfits for ARM/Imagination, but actually add value through other custom pieces too, either GPUs (say nVidia) or re-implementing the core themselves, like Qualcomm.

This is at the point where I really hope Imagination do something good with MIPS and it isn't consigned to history as ARM being too dominant could prove to be a real mess.
An Exec I worked for died. I was fairly new and didn't really know him, so I just kept working. Others were a lot more affected. I remember there being group meetings to talk about his life etc. After about a week, someone said in one of the meetings, "That's enough crying, back to work." Seemed harsh at the time, but everybody went back to work. A room was named in his honor. Life goes on.
I can't wait for the day Firefox bakes it into the browser.
Exactly - a great programmer would put his/her ego aside and become any one of these stereotypes if the situation demanded it.

Sometimes it may be prudent to keep some old tech running. Other times it may be better to push the boundaries of new tech. A strict methodology might work great in one situation, whereas a lone wolf might be better in another.

Really the only that that is consistently bad is if you just don't care or you don't put in the effort.
That's exactly why I love this TED talk about the history of the universe in 18 minutes:

http://youtu.be/yqc9zX04DXs

Understanding where we fit on the timeline of the universe is quite amazing.
I meant it's discoverable in Jolla. They offer a tutorial. There should be a way to view it again probably, in case you aren't using a completely new installation.