skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Schools don't give a shit about you. Whatever they do in these cases is driven by "What can we do to not lose money? What can we do to not get sued? What can we do to avoid a PR disaster?".

Keeping that student is perceived a liability for them. As they honestly put it they don't really think they will be safer at home, and it is obvious they don't care what happens. They just don't want to deal with it. They see this person as a risk not worth taking.

> If I were a liar, I would never have gotten myself into this mess. Fuck me for not being a liar.

You sometimes have to be a liar when dealing with large bureaucratic systems. A large school is certainly one such thing. They do not have your best interests in mind. Healing you is not on their priority list. Be honest with people you trust and love. Don't treat institutions as moral agents.

You'll even find sometimes your doctor's #1 priority might not be to heal you. Their goal could be to perform more surgeries. So all of the sudden you are told to get surgeries. Get second opinions. And so on.
Depending on regional dialect - it can also mean playing to capture pieces (i.e. like 'taking tricks' in card games) rather than with an overall strategy.
Property rights for everyone except software developers.
Thanks for the great tool! I think the GUI and REST API a pay-for service was a smart decision and will hopefully allow you guys to keep building out the project while also making a living.

Not sure where the confusion about Ansible being not fully opensource comes from. And it's not as though Salt doesn't have enterprise support and tool integration that you can pay for too.

As I noted earlier, conf management has so many facets and reasons for being implemented that no one tool will ever win a battle. Honestly I'm happy to have such a wide open space right now with so many great and open source projects in it. When I started developing web apps 10 years ago, there was nothing that begins to approach the robustness of all four big players in this arena right now.

Thank you to all the hardworking contributors, paid and unpaid, to Puppet, Chef, Salt and Ansible. Thank you!
I don't mean to use HN like SO but I keep getting the error:

"IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/private/tmp/pip-build-root/zinc/setup.py'"

Any idea why this might be? Looks awesome and wish I could try it!
Isn't a user who modifies and distributes software otherwise known as a developer?
It's faster and the ephemerality aspect doesn't exist on text or WhatsApp.
"Some" of any group are morons.

When I was coming out, uniformly the response from mature members of the LGBT community was that defining myself was not useful, and that it wasn't important to stress out over whether I self identified as straight, bisexual, gay, queer, or whatever. What's important is that you're happy, that you're not preventing yourself from forming romantic and sexual relationships with people you want to do so with, and that you're not facing discrimination for those relationships.

I've personally had probably a dozen friends who thought they might be bisexual later decide that they were straight (and many who decided they weren't). I applauded them for their open mindedness in seriously considering it, and experimenting to see the truth of the matter (we were all scientists and engineers, after all). After that process, I am certainly more confident that they are actually straight than if they'd just assumed it to be the case without evidence.

So yeah, in my experience people are "born gay" "born straight" or "born flexible". Some people "born straight" experiment with bisexuality, and end up the better for it. Some people "born gay" experiment with heterosexuality, and end up the better for it. And unlike some, I do believe in bisexuality, or being attracted to someone based on personality alone. It's much more rare than a fixed sexuality, but I've definitely met people who very legitimately are interested in both men and women.
It's not really a debate, the FSF, which was founded by Richard Stallman considers BSD (and a lot of other permissive licenses) to be Free Software. Only people who are even more of a zealot than Richard Stallman disagree.
Which version of pip are you using? It should work if you upgrade to 1.5.1.
Using a throwaway as I am not out yet and If I am out, I would be disowned at best or killed at worst.
Sexuality is fluid. That is 100% true. Though I'd never been attracted to women, sexually, I had fooled with a friend in Uni, who is bi. He says that he started liking guys only after he was 20. He never thought about having sex with guys before and asked why he wanted to have now, he said initially he was curious and now he likes it after trying for the first time.

The concept of sexuality being fluid can be a touchy topic to gay activists and also some gay people is because of the religious people. If everyone starts to think that sexuality can be changed, the bigots and crazy religious people will put more effort into the conversion therapy. In the current state of the world, that will do more harm than good.
It sounds like it wasn't MapReduce itself, but rather the specific MR user job that was being run.
These rideshare apps usually have you schedule for ASAP rather than for some future time, so chances are if you cancel it would be much sooner.

Not sure about this company, but for Uber the cancellation fee should only happen if you cancel after five minutes of scheduling a ride. I've seen Lyft and other rideshare companies have similar policies.

http://support.uber.com/entries/22326831-Ride-Cancellations
The install failed from PyPI using pip. Missing setup.py. Works fine from github though.
https://github.com/wangjohn/zinc_cli/archive/master.tar.gz
I live near Boulder, one of the "hot" cities to create a start-up. In December Inc. magazine named it the top city for start-ups in fact. [1]

Winters are only occasionally cold (it hit the 60s twice in the last week, and typically we get "warm" stretches throughout the winter, with only a couple of weeks of hard cold) and summers are dry.

And a friend of mine just bought a 3-bedroom house near here for ~$90k (about 30 minutes from downtown Boulder). My neighborhood (not in Boulder) goes for 3x that, and Boulder proper goes from twice that up to SF-level prices ($4.3M for a condo [2]), depending on the exact part of Boulder. There's a crazy steep price gradient.

On the other hand you can buy a 2 bedroom mobile home for less than $30k and live IN Boulder, if you want to really operate on a shoestring. [3] Depends on how you want to spend your money. :)

[1] http://www.inc.com/magazine/201312/boulder-colorado-fast-gro...

[2] http://is.gd/MPZl88 -- the most expensive condo in Boulder as of today, according to Zillow. You can get into the $10's of millions for a house. But you can also pay less than a half million for a house. Like I said above, crazy price gradient.

[3] http://boulder.craigslist.org/reo/4275249378.html
In the Toronto area this week, temperatures are about -20 degrees Celsius (-4 F) with 40-60 km/h (25-40 mph) wind. ;)
So was Rockefeller.
I've had it on for at least a year. 1 hour on, 2 hours off. It usefully slows me down when I get into a "someone is wrong on the Internet" mood.

I also highly recommend Leechblock [1] for Firefox. On my work machine, I have it set to give me an N second delay when visiting a long list of fun sites. As I watch the N seconds tick down, that's enough time for me to ask myself, "Do I really need to look at Facebook now?" Interestingly, N appears to be somewhat variable depending on circumstance. 10 seconds is enough normally, but when I'm not getting enough exercise or am dealing with work I don't want to do, N goes higher.

I also am currently loving Kanban Flow [2]. It's a Kanban board that has a built-in Pomodoro timer. (Briefly, the Pomodoro method involves working in 30-minute blocks with a mandatory 5-minute break. At the end it asks you if you've been focused; if you are, you get credit for the time.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock/ [2] http://kanbanflow.com/
For single-income household of two making $55k, the annual difference shakes out to about $500. Not an insignificant sum but also not a huge difference.

But your comparison is between Bakersfield, a medium-sized city whose largest employer is Kern County, and Houston, the world capital of energy and a major player in shipping, healthcare and aerospace.

Which city is more likely to actually pan out a $55k job for our hypothetical middle-class family? Houston (median income, $58k) or Bakersfield ($38k)? Where is that barely higher tax burden buying better schools? (I'll take any of Houston's suburbs on that count)

I grew up all over California but I've lived in Texas for the last nine years, I've seen the difference. Texas certainly isn't perfect but our cities are actually affordable.
After years of using relational databases, I've been learning MongoDB a bit recently, just out of curiosity. I can imagine the flexible structure being useful for quick prototyping, or for knowledge representation research, or other particular instances where you really don't know exactly what you're going to need to store, and you don't need much in the way of the "relational" properties of a relational database.

But for most real-world work... I find it hard to imagine preferring a document database.
Exactly! Especially for programming tools like GCC or Clang, the end user is by definition a developer.
I was getting the same error on 1.0, looks like I need to upgrade.
Thanks! Toss thoughts my way anytime. tyler@stayinyourprime.com

A bit more feedback: you might get more traffic for your Show HN (and probably your site too) if you shift the tagline/value prop away from a technically-oriented explanation of the product ("Simple HIPAA Compliant Video Communication for Healthcare Providers") to a benefits-oriented one (e.g., "See More Patients in Less Time — Televisits That Work with Any EMR" or something).

Cf. http://www.useronboard.com/features-vs-benefits/
What 'users' of clang and gcc are not developers?
Yep. If something has a "one in a million" chance of occurring, you'll run into it 17 times per hour (based on Comscore's Sept 2013 estimates of Google search volume)
For a more modern entrant in the genre of games that are secretly programming, I can't recommend Spacechem enough:

http://www.spacechemthegame.com/

Surely a bit less difficult than Robot Odyssey, but immensely enjoyable nonetheless. I finally forced myself to uninstall it after spending waaaay too much time hyperoptimizing my solutions against the online leaderboard... it was rather addicting. :)
Make sure to use pip 1.5.1 and it should work.
Google has published an outage report: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/todays-outage-for-sev...
We have highly relational data

How did your project end up selecting MongoDB? That seems like exactly the sort of thing that it's not good for.

(I'm not just being rhetorical; were there other attributes of MongoDB that made it seem preferable to a relational database earlier in the project?)
Honestly I think there's actually so little real strategy in the game that it doesn't even matter. 95% of the time a freckle crossed with a striped lolly will win the level for you, so most of the game is just spent looking for 5-in-a-rows.

Because of that I never felt rewarded when beating a level (though I did play the game a fair bit so there is something there).
That article was just like reading the Backblaze post, if the Backblaze post had been split into three pages and covered in ads.
That's true :) but I have to say that I follow HN all day (read only mode) until today.
That's the game: identify a population of suckers with spare cash, appeal to them with imaginary stuff marketed as "currency," and fleece them for all you can. Techno-libertarians and Russian mobsters? Bitcoin. People with free time to look for lulz on the net? Dogecoin. People stuck in a 60s science-fiction novel? Marscoin.

Is there a -coin yet aimed at replacing multi-thousand-dollar fashion accessories as a way for rich men to get laid?
The end users of gcc and clang are programmers.
In Russia, Couriers Halt Parcel Delivery
Oh, really? I'm living in Scandinavia and looking to move elsewhere. Midwest was one of my options, and I had never thought winters were so bad over there!
I find it particularly galling that "Everybody knows temperature is important" is the rebuttal to a bunch of data saying "we didn't see an effect".

If you've got data, post it. If not, it starts to sound like astroturf.

Fwiw, with my small sample size, I agree with backblaze. Seagates appear to be failing more, and avoid wdc greens.
This article is astonishing. I try hard to give the benefit of the doubt to authors (as opposed to salespeople, speechwriters, and advertisers), and assume that they have good intentions and believe what they are saying. But I can't find any explanation for this article other than paid hit-piece or personal vendetta.

Here's the article's conclusion:

The data from Backblaze should not influence a purchasing decision by any consumer, regardless of what type of drive they are purchasing. The innumerable variables, and lack of documentation, ensures the results are unreliable. Even for the winners, the results aren't good; the failure rates are exponentially higher than those observed in the real-world. One should question whether these companies could survive financially with the massive warranty return rates in real-world scenarios.

And here is some of the logic:

It is the release of the data, in handy charts and graphs that encourage misrepresentation, which brings out the data-storage stickler in me. HDD manufacturers spend billions of dollars in R&D, and their labs are designed to characterize and measure the reliability and endurance of their storage solutions.

This last line converted from to "undecided" to "paid propaganda", as I doubt that vendettas come with such clearly presented "suggested talking points". It's worth reading if just to see such a stunning example of the art form.
Ask HN: Why is Karma so unfair on HackerNews?
I've been a HN member for a few months and I notice Karma is not very fair. For example the "Google was down" Story earned the HN member d1egoaz many Karma points with over 791 upvotes and 405 comments. Karma seems like a luck function more than actual Karma. Why is Karma so unfair on HN?
I don't buy it.

I think 'culture' was, at one point, a convenient label, a shorthand, for very complex phenomena. A label that only had significant meaning at a macro level where individual variables are smoothed out and even then should be suspect as a concept sturdy enough to build other ideas.

It is as if we conveniently labelled something 'x' and then ended up talking about how the angle of the two lines crossing affected the underlying idea we're actually referring to.

A word that can mean anything has no meaning.
I moved from St. Louis to Atlanta and I kind of miss having a cold winter with snow (though Atlanta's gotten pretty frickin cold this winter)

Humidity sucks though, heh.

I actually really miss St. Louis
That has been happening to me more and more recently. It's amazingly obnoxious.
Capitalism hates competition. I think Adam Smith said that.
The world's fastest typist, Sean Wrona, would abhor that - he uses capslock instead of shift(!) He can go 200WPM+ so, clearly he's doing something right...
SF is all about making money fast for yourself.
Indeed. In fact those changes are known to decrease security. Those aspects of bitcoin where chosen on purpose and for good reason.

People seem to make it out as though the bitcoin developers didn't know how to make faster confirmations or quicker difficulty adjustments, and that the dogecoin devs discovered how to do it better. The truth is that the dogecoin devs decided to lessen the security in order to make the currency more attractive on the surface, even thought it undermines the stability of the coin in the long run.
Hacker News UI Tweak
Could a lot of that activity just be bots?
Bitcoin Billboards Campaign
Another example is a cafe.

Get a bunch of people to repeatedly queue up but when they get to the counter decide they don't want to order anything.

Just the sight of a long queue outside the door is going to put off legit customers

Clearly Uber are engaging in activities to disrupt and cause harm to the business of their competitor.
The Weird, Hyper-Incentivized World Of "Bug Bounties"
I think that's true, particularly if you are well-versed in chess. The outcome that Carlsen would win is obvious to everyone, but the details – the actual minutia of the game – are not.

For example (and I'm not a chess player), if you told me that Carlsen and Gates played and asked me to guess how many moves it would take for Carlsen to win, I would've put it in the 15-20 range. Nine was a genuine surprise. Even more enlightening, though obvious in retrospect, was how quickly and seemingly without thought Carlsen was able to play each move, almost as if he knew what move Gates would make before he made it. It makes perfect sense, but it was fascinating to watch and it made me appreciate how much of a second-nature chess truly is to Carlsen.
I wouldn't comment on their AntiVirus stuff but I think the vulnerability in the Bing App is real.
More similar, yes, but maybe not similar enough. I wonder if it's the pathological vibration killing the Seagates. If so, you don't want to use Seagates in a file server sitting on top of your washing machine, but maybe they're fine for your living room media box.

Edit: Unlike Backblaze, I have no hard numbers, and can only pull suppositions out of my ass.
I helpfully told them that I used theobromine weekly (in the form of chocolate).
There are some people who actually google... Google.
kinky pre-op MTF bisexual?

yay for stringing adjectives!
It's not even clear to me that Backblaze is accessing the drives that much. I would imagine most of their data is written once and never read or deleted.
Better idea would be to do a Media/Advertising/Entertainment focused start-up in West Hollywood in Los Angeles.
uh.... "all hard drive articles are lies".... "here is my new hard drive article"

ignorant hypocrites are ignorant hypocrites.

#OFFTOBUYANOTHERWESTERNDIGITAL
Honestly? It's unclear. The rules here are soooo murky, and so very dependent on so many things that there's really no telling. Some girls are simply okay with it -- hell, they even like it when some guys do this. Note, that's some girls. It all depends on things like context, culture (of the place, company, country, etc.), situation, history, the persons involved, the social standing of the persons involved, the physical appearances of the person involved, etc. etc.

In this specific instance (a meetup event, about a tech-related subject) one would certainly think that the guy was in the wrong. But yet I've been to enough business parties that would even put this to question -- I've seen girls react positively to behavior I would describe as groping like "that guy should be arrested" groping (I've inquired girls who were recipients of this treatment, they seemed genuinely fine with it -- that it was just "playful fun", and "not a big deal"). So, I really think that grand-parent post has the best answer: if you feel you're not being treated right, just say it then and there, tell them "hey, you're not being cool right now", "hey, you're making me feel uncomfortable, please stop with this, and don't do it again", whatever, just say it. That's the only surefire way to put a stop to getting harassed.
> and housing costs would come down

I'm unaware of even a single case that shows shows evidence that a buildout alone has reduced housing costs. Every case I'm aware of where housing costs have fallen is at least partially due to falling demand, usually because of a recession.
You would never be able to install an app without user click "install" etc.

This one uses Javascript Bridge vulnerability to execute high privilege code in your Android. The attack code is javascript to be interpreted to Java calls in Android.

You wouldn't be able to do that in iPhone though.
Ok. I am a big, intimidating looking guy (or so I've been told). Next time I see you, how about I just go ahead and put my hand on your waist, lead you to a chair, sit you down next to me than put my hand on your leg while saying shitty things about whatever group you might identify.

Then we'll see how you feel about the situation.

Could you even imagine such a thing?
I must say, I don't see the potential for confusion in "have you ever had a romantic attraction to a man/woman?". I mean, there is definitely a difference between romance and sex, but the question still seems pretty clear in what it asks. Maybe they should have asked about both.
Except Bitcoin is way more secure than Dogecoin, while I don't see any difference between GBP and USD.
As someone who uses hnsearch literally every day, this makes me a little concerned.

I'm active in the Rust community, and my usecase involves searching for the keyword "Rust" and sorting by date in order to figure out where the current discussions are happening. Without the capability to quickly zero-in on recent comments (especially given the lack of any automatic notification of comment replies), HN will be much diminished for me.

Are there plans to both begin indexing comments and to add a sort-by-date feature?
It's only necessarily infinitely dense from an outside reference frame. Inside you could have anything you'd want according to GR.

One certainty is that the space inside a black hole is bigger than the size of the black hole observed from outside of it. So it's entirely possible that you could have a solar system or even an entire universe on the inside. According to GR the space inside a black hole should pretty much behave like the rest of the universe, as long as the black hole is growing. As for "not getting out", well it's impossible to approach the edge of the universe too, despite that border having a physical location. But it's expanding at light speed, so ... no way to get there.

So density of a black hole is an entirely different concept from the outside and the inside. Seen from the outside it is infinite. Seen from the inside it is probably not infinite.
Good idea of what it looks like in St Louis:

http://weatherspark.com/averages/31697/St-Louis-Missouri-Uni...

Humidity was always the killer for me. I remember flying from San Diego to St. Louis. It was 75 degrees and dry in San Diego, and 102 degrees with 94% humidity in St. Louis. I wanted to die, heh

That said, I always liked the variety.

It means that I have pretty strong, nostalgic feelings associated with the seasons changing.
I need something that works in Australia.
I hate it when blogs don't have links to the main site. Am visiting your site in an in-app browser. There is no url bar where I can change the url nor is there any link on your blog. Please add!
Or it could become the next Detroit when the tech industry decides that it doesn't "need" to be in the Bay Area.

I doubt that there'll be that dramatic a change because there are too many actors, Detroit was more vulnerable because it depended on such a small number of anchor employers
It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
I'm hoping this is the case in a year or so, when I plan on moving back to Stl from Atlanta. I know a few guys doing C# and f# work in stl. They seem to think prospects are pretty good.
Cliff notes: google's configuration service broke itself then fixed itself today. Engineers were alerted. Skynet is self-aware.
Of course it isn't a large scale scientific experiment with controls in place for all the variables they are running a business and the data is a by-product (albeit one which they can use to optimise their own business).

But it is the largest scale testing I'm aware of that publishes the manufacturer names. For that alone it is valuable. I also like the fact it is harsher than normal environment, I don't want the most reliable disk if it never gets touched or used or to have to baby it.