skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds about right. People are generally aware of how they look and act and what that communicates to others; it is always possible to adjust people's perceptions through words and actions, but the initial impression is, for most people, at least partly a calculated thing.

By all means, people should look however they prefer to, and ideally many knee-jerk reactions to things would be less so, but the world isn't ideal. I strongly prefer people who do reserve their judgement of someone until a more complete perception of them has been made, but I acknowledge that it isn't something I always do, by any means. If I see someone in a suit, my snap judgement thought is very unlikely to be 'hacker' unless they are discussing or engaged in something relevant (just as it's unlikely to be 'investment banker' for someone in a band tshirt and scruffy jeans). However, I don't discount the possibility by any means.

>If I saw you in public with nails painted I'd just think you are daring individual. It might be positive, it might be negative. I'd be more curious but also more cautioned if I ever were to enter verbal contact with you.

I'd be perfectly fine with this reaction.

I realise I've probably been stereotyped about it, but as far as I can see, it's never actually affected me directly.
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That's only because HN set a 10 year expiration header, as pointed out by the article.
And the tenure track Assistant Professor position gives you five years as an apprentice master.
Just tried out the app, other relevant questions I've seen:

- What kind of dog is this?

- What kind of plant is this?

- What do you think of this outfit?

- Where can I buy this lamp?
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Looks like a much needed service.
Server logs display requests that reach the server. This has the potential to become problematic if you have an intermediary proxy of some sort (CDN, cache, SaaS based proxy) which you may or may not get access logs from. GA, or any java-script based snippet, has the potential to be more accurate in that sense.
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Rust really doesn't target the same uses that Go targets. Go basically targets people who need a faster Python or a simpler Java. It doesn't have enough low-level control to be used for most of the things that C is still used for.

Rust targets the low-level uses where a high degree of control over memory management is necessary. One of it's main goals is to make it possible to statically reason about memory ownership.

You would never try to implement something like a modern browser or a production-quality language runtime in Go. On the other hand, Rust is targeted directly at that kind of thing, and the multiple pointer types are absolutely necessary for those use cases.
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more projects and a better understanding of the category they fall under
What kind of stuff is he/she selling?
Terms can be drawn up so that you 100% own the content, but you grant the site a license to display your content on their site alone (and possibly indicate it must be only shown in original context, their search results, etc)

This allows full intended use but not ability to sell your answers to marketers, repackage as a book, etc.

Or they could go entirely in the other direction, and make all content on their site Creative Commons.
Is this just animate.css (https://daneden.me/animate/) rebranded?
It's fairly straight-foward on the lastest versions of Android that allow you to freeze apps, rather than having to root and rename the apks.

Here's a list of the apps that are safe to remove, noting the Google ones:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2299805

If the phone has a Google account already configured, lock-out the phone by changing the account password on a PC. If its rooted, delete the accounts.db file.

Apps that I usually then install for the user:

- Osmand to replace Google Maps

- F-Droid and sometimes Amazon App Store

- K9 Mail ( you can even point this to G-Mail quite safely! )

- Firefox in place of the stock browser
What Ruby version/impl are you using? Native threads in a non-GIL implementation should use all available cores.
How many days a week do you work? How many hours a day?
Except this isn't a free speech issue. Just like Reddit disallowing the identifications of individuals in certain kinds of stories is not a free speech issue. There are no free speech issues when a company does not wish to be associated with certain kinds of discourse on their servers. DO may have policies against hosting sites with hate speech, or pornographic content - that's ok, even though neither is illegal. This guy clearly crossed a line with the content and tone of his blog post. I think DO is being reasonable.
It exists, but it’s hardly a reference for the current state of the specifications.
As opposed to saying "It's never the right thing to do, no matter how certain you are that this case is different".
When I was doing agency work the thing that disappointed me the most was that we had LARGE clients with BIG budgets who would have SERIOUS downtime for no particular reason. It was so frustrating. This service comes from that frustration.
Scientist. I went out and bought a numpad to attach to my laptop I missed it so much.
Oh we've got plenty of those too under the CFAA.
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If the government was scary powerful then, it is terrifying now.

If you've ever protested anything in the USA, regardless if on the left or right, you can almost certainly count on your name on some kind of tracking, and they've given themselves legal permission, because they don't have to look at the data in real-time anymore. They can just store it and look at it later on demand if they want with frictionless warrants from courts with no lawyer "for the people" present.

If the government feels you've become an annoyance they can just pop you on a no-fly list without court review and no-way to get off. And heaven help you if you go near a border if they've peaked their interest in you, all your data is theirs without any need for warrant or even a reason.

The government has also learned the secret that if they want to control the message, they just have to limit media exposure. Release news late on a Friday and it will be gone by Monday. Control court trials to the point where there is no audio or video and TV news will almost certainly not cover it. They are getting incredibly good at this.

The newest corruption since 9/11 is to insist they need super powers for anti-terrorism, then use them against average criminals. Even worse, if no real criminals can be found, manufacturer one by constantly harassing some dupe until they do something half-assed and then roll them out for the cameras to justify the insane budgets and overeaching powers.
Were you a member at computer-forums.net like 8 years ago? I know it's a long shot, but I remember someone with the same username as yours. I know it's not to the most unique username, but I thought I would give it a shot.
I have but a passing interest in cryptography, but without looking anything up:

AES-GCM That's AES (a block cypher) in Galois C? Mode (I think the C is counter, but in any event, I do recall that there are lots of ways to use block cyphers, and GCM is one of them; if the C is for counter, then I'm guessing it is a counter-mode and gaolois refers to how it achieves authentication, since in general counter-mods of block cyphers are non-authenticated)

nonce: Any value that should only be used once. Generally speaking if you use the same key and nonce twice, the security of your cryptosystem is in some way compromised. Using it as a counter would ensure that it is used only once, so long as a different key is used for each session. Some cryptographic primitives take relatively small nonces, which makes using a random nonce a Bad Idea due to

Birthday bound: If you take a large number of samples from a uniform random distribution, it takes a surprisingly small number of samples before you get the same value twice.

"...due to truncation in the standard" Since I don't know anything about the specifics of TLS, I'm just going to make some shitty wild-ass guesses here: I'm guessing that the truncation it refers to is truncation of the nonce (which would give you fewer nonces to work with) or in the cryptostream itself (which would require you to use more nonces) either of which hurts you when using random nonces. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's not referring to truncation of the standard itself, since that's stupid and there are lots of ways that the standard could require some form of truncation.

So that's me, who knows less about crypto then anybody on the mailing list; I can make some sense out of that jargon. Anybody who is actually professionally involved in cryptography likely has no problem understanding that.

Using jargon when talking to other people in your field is a necessity for not going crazy. My first internship was with a telecom company. I was given a specification that included a half-dozen acronyms I had never heard of before, along with a few terms that clearly had a specific meaning in the field. (I knew that ATM wasn't referring to bank machines, for example). But really, if someone had to explain what ATM was each time they used it, nothing would get done.
> But it is well known that the so-called 'Protestant work ethic' is a strong component of white American subculture, whereas it exists less strongly in the black subculture.

To the extent that this popular belief reflects reality (which is much less, I think, than you imply), I suspect it is not so much a durable, independent artifact of different culture so much as a difference in experienced utility of work that is reinforced through continuous experience in each generation.
The fine article states that the authors had a breakthrough in 2011 based on modelling the system as a network of electrical resistances and obtaining the simultaneous currents rather than loading one edge at a time.

This is roughly in line with your intuition.
> build an automatic object/scene recognizer

That's a really hard problem. Google has millions of labelled images and look how well Google Goggles is working...
It won 20 Emmy's and was pretty well-rated in its time.
Books can't scroll. Terminal windows can.

The question is how much text needs to be on your screen at once. Sometimes you need a lot but I find most of the time I don't need 1200 pixels of height worth of text on my screen at once.
She lived in Hong Kong and were selling small electronics (USB sticks/Gadgets/Key rings) Nothing major, just more for fun.

EDIT: *was
In a way, sure, but not entirely. Jelly offers a way to forward questions along to others in your network, so it helps extend peoples' networks beyond their first degree connections. It is also purpose driven, your inquiries aren't mixed up with selfies and game announcements or family drama, presumably.
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Empirical information is sorely missing from our discourse to the point that the general public doesn't question any more the pontifications of pundits. Case in point is the recent claim made by Stuart Varney on Fox that since two ships are stuck in sea ice in Antartic means there is no Global Warming. There is that another misnomer. I wish people start referring to GW as Climate change. Any way I am going off on a tangent here.
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> We end up choosing between two candidates who have few differences when it comes to how they'll handle civil liberties, elections, third parties, and such...

I keep hearing this sentiment, but I think it assumes a lot, so I can't agree with it. Here are some issues I have with this sentiment:

- There has been dramatic change at the national level, the ACA being an obvious example of that.

- To the extent that big changes don't happen, that's due to gridlock, not a lack of choice.

- This gridlock is due to a very divided electorate. No political camp can really claim a supermajority (greater than 65%) of the hearts and minds of the voters. The U.S. government is set up to move slowly when there isn't something nearing consensus.

Also, on another point, the typical citizen is not happy with the government, just tired, apathetic, and fatalist. Happy electorates do not create Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.
Of course it is required (within the computational limits of your computer, of course)

If p(x) means 'x is an integer', you could use the regex /^1$/ since it matches integers only (in particular, the integer 1). That's not sufficient, you need to match all integers.

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I bought a netbook last year for the express purposes of being a low-powered ssh etc. server for the house. Works good for that.
I give it 8 seconds before it's all penises and people saying various things are dicks.
My remark was certainly flippant. It was a gut reaction to statements he's made about a Linux machine as the best bet (see his interview with VICE), but yet he still primarily uses Windows.

I think there's a lot to be said for those who practice what they preach rather than sticking with a lesser option out of convenience.
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Academia is designed on the guild model, though the original correspondences are more: undergraduate students = apprentices, graduate students = journeymen, graduate degree holders = masters
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Yes. For me the tests are actually part of the class, which is one of the reasons I implemented my own test framework (https://github.com/mpw/MPWTest). The other reason is that at the time I started, there was no other test framework for Objective-C...

I recently saw a new language that actually makes tests part of the class definition, so maybe that idea is gaining some traction. TDD also meshes well with "hexagonal architecture".
Try copyright.js if you are updating the year for copyright as 2014 begins?
And so Facebook encroaches upon the physical world to anchor itself -- storefront businesses will come to rely on Facebook to sell personalized ads. I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook gets to access data about who purchases what and when.

If you don't think Google will be doing the same thing with LTE-enabled cars, think again. Their partnership with automakers is no small challenge, and the data gathering opportunity is massive.

Google can know that most Honda Civic drivers in Chicago (for example) park next to McDonald's, and that their phones traveled inside the restaurant -- Facebook will know only that people checked into the restaurant. It stands to reason that Honda could use this information and market the Civic as "the best" car for eating at McDonald's. Maybe Honda Civic drivers get a special McDonald's discount?

Facebook pretty much beat Foursquare to the punch on this one, but (most interestingly) Foursquare relies on OpenStreetMaps -- what does Facebook use? Is it proprietary? What is "Places Nearby"?
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On a long-running job, I can see that being an issue.

However, what was your concurrency level set at? I know when I've set it to one, I've had good success with the most demanding tasks. You essentially lose the threaded benefit, but keep the other benefits.
When you give advice in person, do you establish a contract with the person you're talking to that establishes control over the information you just shared?

I'm being a bit facetious but unless the things you are answering are things that only you know the answer to, it's a bit silly to demand some sort of ownership over what usually amounts to basic knowledge.

Clearly, an aversion to mining in general is a fair argument against, but even if it were open source, third parties would mine it and use it for their own purposes, at least when you go directly with a company like this, they are beholden to their terms of service, and privacy policies, which I am sure is no consolation :)
We all have witnessed how effective torture was in Guantanamo, with so many prisoners being tortured and released after they have been found not guilty.
Are you required to give project time estimates to clients before you start? What's the best way to set expectations? Things always seem to take longer than planned. One could add a bit of padding for tasks but sometimes you don't need it.
Well that's an interesting one, dangling free wifi in exchange for joining/staying on Facebook. Personally, I'd just create a throwaway Facebook account to use for these.
Ask HN: Is it better to post at low or high traffic times?
At first glance, it would seem posting at high traffic times is best, because the most people are here to see your article. But that means everyone else is posting, too. Does your article get pushed off of the "new" page too quickly for enough people to see-and-upvote it?

I guess it comes down to whether or not (high traffic post rate / low traffic post rate) > (high traffic view rate / low traffic view rate). If it is true, then it's better to post at low traffic time.
Neat! 20 items/wk is impressive. Would love to hear more. (link? :) Are they explicitly running a store? (Rather than posting items from their personal account.)
Casual, unthinking propaganda. And worse, unthinking rationalization for real-world torture.

So often you see the "good guys" being badasses by using torture, brutality, or simply ignoring the rights of suspects. And frequently they are rewarded for it, lauded for it, and there aren't any downsides. The good guys never screw up, the suspected bad guys turn out to be the real bad guys, and so on. All of this has become cliche as storytelling elements in police procedurals, but they give people a very dangerous idea about the value of torture and the non-value of the rights of the accused.

It's so bad that the vast majority of people doing it don't even realize what they're doing, don't realize how much they are propagandizing torture and police brutality.
For a while I had terrible (in the 800msec - 4000msec range) RTT pinging an AP right next to me, running:

sudo iw dev wlan0 set power_save off

did the trick for me (issued after every boot or through an UDev rule such as https://raw.github.com/lvillani/ansible-playbooks/9dc40c75cf...)
Depends. Early on i was putting in 50s. During the summer it was closer to 20 ;) now I'm between 30-40. Family time is super important to me so I make sure to be off by 5 (I'll still take calls and address issues at any hour when/if needed)
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One question for other Adwords users - have you noticed a penalty for putting the campaign in pause mode?

Years ago (3+) we used to pause our campaigns during known holiday times - we sell to mostly business-minded users and found that, on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, we were getting clicks that would never, ever convert (3+ years of data). So we started pausing campaigns during those times. We found that when we re-enabled those campaigns we would get much worse results for as much as two weeks after we re-enabled them.

Being that this is HN, I realize that 100 people can't want to argue/disprove/etc (or be "captiuous") but I'm telling you now that we knew that it was due to pausing rather than "external factors". I'd just like to hear from anyone else to see if they had the same experiences.
People get carried away with the idea of handing "free money" out to poor people, without realizing that there is no such thing. All money has to come from somewhere.

If a government is handing out money, there are three options:

1) Money has been confiscated from other people.
2) Money has been printed.
3) Money has been borrowed.

That's it. Money always has to come from somewhere, and governments simply don't acquire any without some consequences.
> Or is it just possible that some people can do things that other people can't!?

You are talking about degrees of mastery, the parent was talking about doing it in any capacity. It is quite possibly true that only some can become the best chess players in the world, but is there anything stopping the vast majority of the population from playing chess? The latter is the attitude many hold, which he found disconcerting.

> I find this as a mostly insulting term

That may be a fair, but it was clearly added to defend against nit-picking comments like "my aunt is in a coma" or "my friend has no legs".
>I think you are the Googler who was harassed

I have no connection to this Googler, to author, to Google or to DO. Believe it or not.

>they took unilateral action based on a complaint from some googler transmitted to a highly placed Digital Ocean executive who the googler knew personally.

They took unilateral action because they own the service, and maybe they took this action because it's quite evident what happened just by reading his post.

And all they did was ask him to remove identifying information, that's it. That's a very prudent and reasonable request. Reddit, for example, had major issues with vigilante groups forming after some inflammatory posting which also named some private individuals. More often than not, it led to innocent people being harassed. I've just re-read the original post, and it's a total personal attack against a private individual for no good reason. This bully went so far as to find out where the Googler lives.

The entire conspiracy theory around the fact that some DO executive may or may not know the Googler personally and that's why all this happened, is just some hand-waving speculation. I don't know anyone at DO and I don't know this Googler, and yet, I think this was the right move.
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The real issue here is battery life. Only 6 hours? The new X1 carbon from Lenovo can get 9, the T440s can get up to 17 (with extended battery), and the MBA can get 12 right out of the box.
I'm very curious to hear more. Contrary to this article, I don't see any evidence of "pro-torture propaganda", because everyone in this thread and almost every source I find is anti-torture.

The only interesting source arguing for the effectiveness of torture was this: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Torture%2C_interrogation_and_intel...

It seems like torture would work, not in a "ticking time-bomb: scenario, but in a situation where you had a long time to corroborate intelligence gathered from torture with other sources. Interrogate the captive on stuff you already know about, and if they lie, punish them with worse forms of torture. And if people are prone to losing their minds under torture - you can merely submit them to one session of brutal torture, then leave them for a few weeks or months before resuming normal interrogation - with the threat of more torture if they don't comply.
It depends on the project. I seldom do fixed bid projects as I'm a big fan of agile. I'll give a rough estimate but bill on time and materials.
Ah, do you remember the old good times when Terry Gilliam's Brazil came out, and the idea of a SWAT team destroying your house, imprisoning and killing your husband, all due to a bureaucratic mistake, was a bizarre fantasy of a dystopian and dictatorial future?
This is evil on so many levels
Do you also have a regular Facebook account?

Because it sounds like this could be tied to your mobile device, which means it uses the account you've conveniently provided in your OS profile, which would make this difficult...
Torture is pointless since the counter-interrogation method while being tortured is to never admit to anything. Giving any information just invites more torture because if there is a bit of info then there must be more and they will keep torturing you, at least according to the IRA green book. The French wrote about how useless torture is for intel as well when they decided to use it wholesale in the Algerian war. It produced nothing, yet in 2014 this fallacy is still around and we are still doing it.