skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I read your comment as a joke, but it hints at a serious matter.

I meant that comment as "ha ha, only serious".

>I'm a TA at TAU EE, and my students really don't have enough time to sleep. Every deadline is a mix of mails begging for an extra day, and submissions at 5 AM. Talking with my students, it appears this is a faculty-wide problem - the coursework is simply too much (and this isn't simply students whining - in 4 years in CS/math I didn't hear of a single person cramming through the night for a deadline, something here is very different). I hear Technion is the same, for CS too.

Technion is very definitely the same, in both CS and EE. I have never seen such overconsumption of coffee and energy drinks in my life as I have seen here. Worst part is that the professors consider this a normal, positive component of university-level education: they seem to believe that sleep and sanity are for the weak.

When I did my undergrad at UMass Amherst, "all-nighters" (or "white nights" as we say here in Israel) were extremely rare. Only the most difficult courses and the heaviest courseloads actually imposed them on you. Here at Technion, they're a regular affair for anyone taking courses, and occasionally for grad-students and professors too.

>Now, you take young people, pressurize them to excel or it will have lasting effects on their career, and deprive them of sleep. No wonder people have mental difficulties

Bingo.

>it's actually a wonder this doesn't appear to happen here. Maybe it's a bit more maturity coming from the army service.

As far as I can tell, it's not exactly maturity from the army. I would just call it inhumanity from the army. Technion's culture was formed from former soldiers who, given a workload to do, simply sat for six hours and did it, without pausing to stand, walk around, go the bathroom, check the internet, eat, drink, any of it. You can call this "discipline", but to do so makes it sound like a good thing.

My other guess is simply that it does happen here. I was chatting with a couple of other grad-level students in Technion's on-campus pub here last night, and telling them how when I was young I was forbidden to apply to MIT by my parents because of the suicide rate. They told me that Technion is also known for its suicide rate.

If Technion, at least, has a suicide problem, then we can't claim the mental problems deriving from high-pressure overwork are not happening here.
Surprised that The Art of War and Heart of Darkness are missing.
"The root of _all_ problems" is an emotional exaggeration (often used by Russians themselves to assess other peoples' opinion). But when you try to fought this bias, it is still amusing _how many_ problems are caused by this so-close, restless, authoritarian and violent neighbor with ambitions of creating the Russian Civilization.

So, I disapprove that point of view, but I have to admit that such neighborhood is a burden for anyone and a source of permanent headache (Pridnestrovye cut off from Moldova, Southern Abhazia separated from Georgia with Russian help, escalation of Armenian-Azerbaijan conflicts, etc). Moreover, Russia in its current Putinist form is a burden for its own people.
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It's a fairly old convention for adding links or references in plaintext. Used on mailing lists also. The alternative is to move to hypertext (not supported in some contexts, not preferred in other contexts), or to add the link or other citation information inline in parentheses, which can make text look cluttered.
It looks like they are being used more against Berkut holding shields; once they break against those, the flaming contents then flow over the shields' owners.

Much like in this short video (you will have to excuse the gallows-humor soundtrack, it's not my intention to make light of the scenario): http://coub.com/view/hgsj
It also was broadcast in 1983, in twin Falls, Idaho and was broadcast a few times more after the 1984 Super Bowl (http://mentalfloss.com/article/29867/how-apples-1984-ad-was-..., http://mentalfloss.com/article/29911/true-story-apples-1984-...)
Actually, this just shows that believing you will perform better improves performance. They weren't just told they'd slept better, they were also told that sleeping better improves performance:

>The researchers then gave the participants a quick, five-minute lesson about sleep’s effect on cognitive function, telling them it was just background information for the study.
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The comments here are truly amazing!

People who never had to protect their constitutional freedoms or human rights against a real, brutal, force, who were simply lucky enough to be born in places with long and established traditions of democracy (something their ancestors actually did have to struggle for), smugly judging people who risk their lives standing up for their values in place where human rights meant nothing for centuries.
"OMG people are so easy to manipulate", "This smoke is damn unpleasant, is it really necessary?", "Can't they just talk to each other like normal people"...

Unbelievable.
The problem of course is that Ukraine has no economic sovereignty already.

It is utterly dependent on Russian gas for its energy needs. Even if Yanukovich steps down, next leader will have the exact same problem - where to get gas to power the country and you can bet your last grivna that the price of gas will go ballistic if Ukraine is to do something, anything to jeopardize the security of Russian borders. For example, align themselves with the EU. They are in a check-mate :-|
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yet another ignorant ubuntu user!
Speaking for myself; believing I slept too short/badly (like when I think I lay awake most of the night while my wife saw I slept solidly) impairs my performance worse than believing I slept well while I haven't improves it.
Keep in mind that it is a combination of the last few posts he's made in Russian, each one trying to deliver an impartial message of what is going on in Kiev.

His previous post was even entitled, "Maidan through the eyes of the police and Berkut" so he is trying to be as impartial as he can: http://zyalt.livejournal.com/984379.html
Updated. I'm not 100% sure now if what I read was in The Guardian or another British paper; I tend to confuse them sometimes. I stand by the rest of my comment though.
'Does what it says on the tin' is a common phrase in English, usually applied to mean a product is simple and effective. I guess it's meant to contrast against the marketing hyperbole that you often read on tin labels.
Russians moving into the country during Soviet rule and moving out after it seem to explain the graph pretty well

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_Russians :

The number of Russians in Latvia increased significantly during the Soviet occupation of Latvia when the size of the community grew from 10.5% of the total population in 1935 (206,499) to 34.0% in 1989 (905,515). It started to decrease in size again after Latvia re-gained independence in 1991 falling to 26.9% (557,119) in 2011.
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Actually, there are solutions to store the keys in CPU privileged registers (eg: hw debug registers), and when combined with AES-NI don't even cause much overhead:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRESOR

Not sure why these techniques aren't mainstream yet.
Hy has macros, and they work fairly well. I'm using plenty of macros in Adderall, would not be possible without them. There are a few rough edges with Hy macros, mostly due to the underlying Python, but I at least, can live with that, and they don't hinder my work.
>The risk isn't that someone gets all huffy and makes a big deal about being offended. It's that people who you would want to participate silently think to themselves "I don't want to deal with this" and then go away. It's explicitly not the oversensitive feminists I care about here; it's the reasonable, intelligent women and men who have a number of options on where to spend their time and choose not to spend it in communities where they feel unwelcome.

This is exactly how I feel each time this gender crap gets posted to HN. I used to come to this site several times a day, especially for the brilliant comments but those comments and tech discussions have been pushed away by people like you who want to talk about gender and social justice.

Can't we have a site just about tech? With brilliant people who share their knowledge? The one place where we only care what is inside peoples heads and not their feelings?

I guess not. Was nice while it lasted though.
There is some other research that suggests that placebo works even when you know it's placebo.
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iftop is also a very good one, gives nice graphs of the network utilisation sorted by host or port— http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/iftop/
I think the conversation went fine.
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That's what safe boot is for. You can't do this on a chrome book or a windows 8 laptop which is safe boot locked.
More information here http://mobile.news.com.au/world/what-you-need-to-know-about-...
USSR times factories were ineffective as hell. They went under simply because they couldn't stay afloat. Outdated technologies, R&D focused on specific parts of weapons, ineffective management, shitty environmental policies... USSR times factories were a complete disaster. All of that closed years before EU. And thanks god they closed. Now I can swim in a lake next to my hometown without worrying about allergies. You know how we could tell what colour carpets the factory is making that day? By looking at a lake next to it :)
> a solid majority of Ukrainians actually want it
- you're right, it's a tough question. European integration support is at least 50% of the population; just before Yanukovych decided not to sign the association agreement it was more than 70% according to polls. People also pay attention to the EU position: if it is welcoming and constructive, EU gains ~20% popularity. The decision of Yanukovych was a shock to a large part of the country.

Also I have to admit that for many people Europe is a symbol of lawful and wealthy life among rich and friendly cultures. But symbols often fail when confronted with harsh reality. At the same time there's a considerable (more well-to-do) part of population who actually saw Europe and know what they want.

But Maidan is now not just about EU, though EU support is relatively high (100 000 people was at the only true _Euro_maidan in Kiev on November 24). Our burning need is to get rid of the current regime. Four years of Yanukovych's rule have been time of creeping, steady and all-embracing corruption: economic, business, political, juridical, legislative, social. Nobody thought that this would go so far, even people who voted for Yanukovych.
My personal list of tools that I use all the time:

iftop
nload
htop
goaccess
...I'll add more as I remember them, currently gotta sleep.
If you have multiple nodes, I recommend new relic. It's a bit pricey, but if an issue arises in your stack, new relic can help you immediately pinpoint where and what the issue is.

ps. I can view new relic on my phone, so if I get a pagerduty, I can still see what's up if I'm at the beach.
> * It doesn't appear that the wiki even references their use against individuals so much as against vehicles.*

No need for wiki citations when you can see it clearly being used against police forces here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuO53xeZkm8
Looks very promising, a bit complex maybe. It is much more than a LMS,it is a student information system, the two cannot be compared.
Locking manhole covers (or welding them shut) prevents assassins from easily placing bombs under them, and makes it harder for people to enter the sewers.
Also, manhole covers may be used as weapons or shields.
An ncurses disk usage analyzer: http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
I find this an extremely handy alternative to du, it's somewhat similar to TreeView on Windows.
I would call that borderline, the original phrase was still clear and wasn't hard to read. Also, as verbal empire English, it's fine.

Living in china, I'm asked to correct a lot of grammars.
Some things you can do with manhole covers include: Stealing the covers or contents for metal scrap, smashing up whatever is inside to inconvenience people, attaching taps to telephone lines, putting remote control bombs beneath them to blow up the president's motorcade.
It is popular, ubiquitous, easy to learn, feature-rich, stable and fast. By ubiquitous you may infer easy to find developers and server hosts for.
Its a bad name because it draws attention away from the actual content and towards meaningless debate that we all love so much. I prefer the github style naming that just describes what something is.
Your complete lack of any historical perspective is deeply disturbing.

The EU’s achievements when it comes to prosperity and peace are mind-boggling.
I follow Varlamov's elucidation of the events and I must say that his blog is very influential in Russian segment of the internet and it deserves this. So he published the translation after multiple requests.
This whole HN thread has been a huge volley of victim blaming. It's quite disappointing but not at all surprising.

Last year, I was on a train back to visit my parents place—a little village in quiet commuter-land suburbia. It was late. I had drunk a small amount before getting on the train but wasn't drunk.

A tall drunk man started shouting at me about how he wanted me to suck his dick. I obviously didn't do a good enough impression of a disgusted homophobe by shouting "eww, no". He twigged that I was actually gay and started shouting abuse at me.

He was there with a friend who was leering and laughing along. There were no third parties in the nearby vicinity. So, what did I do? I let the abuse continue and didn't put up a fight. I was surprised this was happening - these were grown men, this was a train line going mostly out to quiet middle-class suburbia. There were two of them and one of me—they were bigger and stronger while I have the body of a lifelong sedentary computer programmer; if there were a physical altercation, I'd come out worse for it. I don't want to end up in the emergency room.

Should I have stood up to them and told them to stop? To give as good as I get? Yes. It might stop them next time. I certainly want to make the situation better. But in the moment when you are being picked on and attacked, the calculation you make isn't the same calculation you'd make after the event. The flipside is I have seen other examples of homophobic abuse of others and been ready and prepared to step in (hasn't been needed).

There's a sort of frozen moment of panic when you are abused. I've had friends who have had very bad sexist abuse who have said the same thing. I have one friend who is trans and a sexual abuse survivior who goes through far more abuse and manage to stand up to it and live their life. I have great admiration for them, but I don't think it is anyone's job to go around policing the reactions of victims when faced with discrimination and abuse.
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I know both kinds. What would you personally choose: a corrupt government or a revolt that was designed by someone outside of your country with their own agenda?
> I'm not saying you're an asshole, I don't know enough about you to make that call,

Thank you for not making it.

> but comments like this really make you sound like one. You're basically saying, "I refuse to even try to live harmoniously with others because they're just going to keep demanding shit from me."

That's not what I meant, though it might have sounded like this. Please, consider it in the broader context of this thread.

I'm not refusing to "even try to live harmoniously with others"; if you knew me, you'd probably find I'm a very tolerant and cooperative person. The thing I refuse to is to live in a world where I have to weight every single word I utter, lest someone, somewhere, will feel offended because of ever-growing list of reasons.

Feeling offended is first and foremost the decision of a person which feels offended. There are things that are meant to be insulting, and it is good the society combats them, but then there are things that are just plain neutral until someone decides to pick a fight over them. I strongly believe this is the case here. What I refuse is to be a part of culture that is mostly defined by things you can't say.

People here talk about inclusive culture. Unleashing a gender shitstorm over a program name is not a sign of inclusive culture, it's a sign of culture that tries to weed out all diversity instead of celebrating it.

As for Kipling reference, it was literally one of the first things that popped into my mind when reading comment threads here - that we allow people to be offended over little, meaningless things, and therefore they'll find more things to be offended about - for karma, feeling of self-importance, mistaken belief that it matters, or whatever reason they're doing it for.
1) Agreed.
2) Citation? PHP is extremely popular so it has more insecure code in comparison to Ruby. Also Rails isn't above multiple security vulnerabilities per year so I don't see how Wordpress (which incidentally is an extremely old application) could be.
3) Testing is extremely popular these days. It's 2014, not 1999.
4) Agreed. PHP finally got shut of PEAR and Composer has had an unbelievable impact on PHP.
5) PHP 5 was released 10 years ago. Give it up already about procedural code.
6) Agreed.
7) Not my experience.
8) PHP has a massive community. Ergo, it has a long tail of frameworks. I seem to remember that Ruby has had more than one.
On the other hand, there are things like this: (warning, NSFW)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0zD3pOG-Tk

This is also "lovely", police taking a protester from a hospital: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eqi6anWpqc now that, my friend, are injuries.

And here you can see Berkut beating a man to death about whom they later claimed he jumped off the roof to escape arrest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaC_9ImEGfQ

Then there are these laws: http://craphound.com/images/dictatorship-en.jpg

If you're worried about fascists, you should also be worried about those in power in that country, and the fact that you're peddling their propaganda.
Questions that the audience asked:

- Is there a version of BASIC?

- Is there a version of SmallTalk?

- After you become an expert, would the mouse became a feature or a handicap.

I really take the ability to write in almost any mainstream programming language on my Mac for granted.
Immediately grabbing the keys for your car out of your pocket and going for a drive is a valid showing of interest in borrowing your car.

It's your responsibility to tell me that I'm not allowed to joyride your car.
Two things that especially amaze about the actual 'street part' of Ukrainian revolution are complete absence of plundering or looting of local shops and that no firearms have been used by protesters.
No, it doesn't fully explain changes. Numbers don't match.

Take a look at another statistics - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Latvia#Vital_st...

Number of births per 1000 had fallen right after end of "Russian occupation" and never ever regained 14.2 right before Latvian independence.
It's only for ARM devices that come bundled with Windows RT. On the other hand, like mentioned in the article, we are sadly used to locked ARM devices.
Agreed. Mein Kampf, Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead and Strike towards freedom deserve mentions too. Also the list shows a striking lack of science fiction. Neuromancer, Do androids dream of electric sheep, Lovecraft, Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Dune, Foundation series by Asimov, Jules Vern's works, Time machine by H.G. Wells are some very influential titles.

Shakespeare's work is missing also.
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Thus proving that this whole discussion is about the new fashion of aggressive gender-neutrality.
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Civil rights cases are federal since in the past states wouldn't prosecute them. If he was a protected minority class (black, native american, woman) he'd have a federal case.
I have no idea what my entire connection is supposed to be, but my cable connection here in Aus pulls down 75Mb/s at peak times. I pay $90/m for that and home phone. The more I research what everyone else has, the more I realise how lucky I am to live where I do :/
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Everyone who deals with *nix in any way has known of all these applications by default.

Couldn't come up with anything else to promote your useless blog?
Or selling as scrap metal.
Also overlooked is the guy we assume to have been trying to commit suicide. He is still a fellow human being, but what possible words do we have for him? Seemingly none on this thread.

Things might be bad for the Caltrain engineer, but he still has his job. However, for Mr Failed Suicide, he has the following to look forward to: the problems that existed before the attempt, those will not have gone away. The physical agony of injury due to being hit by a train. A hospital bill. The fact that he is not going to be Mr Popular for indirectly causing someone else to die. Hence, with hindsight, his original depression will look like happy times.

In London (and probably every major city) commuters are regularly affected by those trying to commit suicide by being hit by a train. Recently we had one woman on the tracks first thing in the morning. She did get hit, but not fatally. This required a suspension of service. Eventually the authorities caught her and, after being admitted to 'A+E' (Accident and Emergency), they took her to the mental health ward. After lunch she was able to discharge herself and make it down to the train station where she was able to do the deed just in time for rush hour.

Because the trains ended up out of sequence due to her morning capers and because the tracks had to be handed over to the police for them to do their work for afternoon/evening, it meant that she had managed to effectively close the track for the entire day. You can imagine how best pleased the tens of thousands of commuters on that line were.

I would not be the least bit surprised if the guy that tried to suicide himself in this story tries to kill himself as soon as he is able to, as per aforementioned London lady. There is a big difference between 'cry for help' suicide attempts and being on the tracks. There is also a difference between someone standing on a tall building preparing to jump and someone on the tracks. Effectively, with that train coming along it is equivalent to the jumper being in freefall, the point of no return has been passed. I don't think that our hero in this story had time to realise that.
That first one does not deserve to be there. As a book it didn't represent any original theory or 'higher' thought. Just the ramblings of a prisoner with too much time on his hands.
Right, but you need to squeeze it smaller than "a few miles".
I also find this very useful :) It shows you where your space has got to in a simple and easy to use manner.
This is very, very interesting.

The first 15min more or less are what (most of us) know. Skip that

After that, they will show the real stuff. The manufacture of the Macintosh, and a lot of other things.

The deeper stuff. The laughable (now) things. A successful company yes, but still very vulnerable. A less experienced Steve Jobs.
I didn't mean to poke at your country, but at the other one.
FYI: If you don't do flash youtube-dl (in homebrew) will get this video without problems.
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The graph on the same page shows that there is no collapse in the amount of ethnic Latvians in Latvia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ethnic_groups_in_Latvia.pn...