skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If a Yellow Cab driver killed someone do you think they would deny, admit and then caveat with

Yes, if a yellow cab driver hit someone with his own car while he was not working (which is what happened here), yellow cab would very much deny any liability.
It is not really all that rational. "A few bad things happened, so obviously the world is crap" is an emotional response of the sort normally associated with adolescents. I have plenty of contrary anecdotes of my own, but they would also not prove a universal truth about the world.
Wow, saying that he "lacks tact" is a bit of an understatement.
Some people think that society has no obligation to the people in it and I understand that they are only refraining from killing and eating other people for fear of consequences. Personally I lean towards the idea that society owes all its members a minimum decent lifestyle and in return you try and be decent to other people.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it
Because people will buy them.
"And then my health began to improve, thanks to a pill that targets a specific genetic mutation tied to my cancer."

Isn't tailoring drugs to specific mutations the next big revolution in medicine that we've been waiting for? Steve Jobs had his DNA sequenced to help fight his cancer.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/21/steve_jobs_had_his...
And that's just the beginning. Now that this is on her permanent record, she gets to explain it to potential employers. Dealing with the American mental health system has a guaranteed cost, and uncertain benefits.
What happened to all those startups that "need to hire people to build (your) company", to quote the prior post and argument? I mean, you "have dozens of options on the same block." Just take a job with one of them.

EDIT: A bit more seriously, and to your argument in particular, that's where low cost of living comes in your favor. "Hmm, I could take $90k in Silicon Valley where I will have to be careful with my budget, or I could take $75k in St. Louis, where I will live comfortably"; why in the world would you accept a startup in the Valley (thus moving there) given that decision, all other factors being equal (they're not, but there are plenty in favor of St. Louis, as this article points out)?

You're showing yourself willing to move (a software dev willing to relocate will not be short of a job for long; heck, you could always later -look- to move to the Valley), and you'll be able to sock away funds for emergencies much more easily..
That's fast
I used to have a less than 5min commute and it was perfect for "resetting" my mind. I now have about an hour commute; most nights it doesn't matter how much energy I had when I walked out of the office, by the time I get in the house I barely have enough energy to put something in the microwave and eat before passing out.
Level 3 are now hijacking failed DNS requests for ad revenue on 4.2.2.x
Yeah that's something I wish they would separate out, on top of the combined score the average itself is not calculated in real time and discards outliers and I think only looks at your recent comments so it's not even a perfect measure, just a better one than submission karma.

I would like to see karma more focused on contribution - comments of course, but also finding quality stories that aren't on mainstream sites.
The $60k is for rendering an education, not providing psychiatric counseling and a safe environment for recovery.

You probably charge your employer $60k (+/- whatever) for rendering services; are you now obligated to help your boss (or CEO/whoever) through an episode of bipolar? Schizophrenia? I mean, they gave you $60k, right?
> emotionally broken at some point in his early development

Yeah, that was my first thought when I saw him interviewed. He had no empathy at all. He basically admitted he ran a shady business that monetises peoples' misfortunes, but, hey, if he didn't someone else would. As if that justifies it, somehow.
Thank you, yes, he moved a piece or two outside of the pattern, but everything else worked a treat: Queen and Bishop trapped his King, I think maybe 7 moves or so, including the stumbles.
User and feature requests with an associated tip, and a way to follow-up that tip or request later, by either the sender or receiver.

So a user tips a dev for a project, and leaves a comment and/or feature request. Weeks later, the dev can see who has left the most tips, and/or when a person tips they can select from a bunch of feature requests or make a comment.

So expanding on a comment I left in another part of this thread, the site would be called "follow up tip" and users connect their soundcloud, youtube, github and other accounts. They leave a tip url on tracks, videos or projects: http://followuptip.com/tipme/myusername

On that page, the site determines who the giver is (they're signed in,) what the tip is about (the site connects the referring url to an underlying project or media.. or the user will manually select it from those imported upon signup (and updated/synced regularly)) and an address is generated on-the-fly, which is tracked for some payment (and can be auto-forwarded.)

On the other hand, a person may not tip at all to that address (it's optional), but leave some message instead for a feature request or idea and then some bounty amount. The artist or developer then uses these requests to determine what to create/develop next, and they follow it up to all relevant tippers or requesters upon release/creation. "I've just released that feature" to which a tip can then be made against. Or, an artist (or video producer) can offer special release tracks first or the highest-quality downloads to their largest tippers who they message on a new track release. Or t-shirts or some exclusive merchandise can be provided for those who give over a certain amount.

The problem with blockchain addresses is there is no identity or username attached, and that's one thing the reddit tipbot overcomes and has thus made it popular (it's also publically visible too); and there's no efficient way to do followup (which this idea aims to solve.) A tipper may be happy to tip again, as well as buy some product (ie become a customer,) or send some link to friends when released. (if these friends also make tips, then the send user can earn referral points)

Perhaps there could be a way to create a specific tip page with a certain yt, soundcloud, or github song/vid/project embedded that can be tweeted out or sent to people, and if a person wants to leave a tip, a blockchain address is generated on-the-fly for them. There could be browser plugin that generates a short-url for any page on aforementioned sites: a page with the song/vid/project already embedded for tipping.

Any tip received can have a commission taken by followuptip before depositing into site account or else forwarding.
Penn track star, 19, jumped to her death
Installing python libraries and programs through pip is pretty standard.
Investigation of password crackers busts site feds say hacked 6,000 accounts
Interesting! The last time i looked, almost 100% of all compiled software of the linux-franchise was gcc-compiled, even a large portion of iOS and android software is gcc-compiled, and it doesn't stop there!

Furthermore which compiler-suite served as so long so good in the "dark" pre-LLVM ages?

Biting the hand, which feeds you comes to mind...
First, an aside: the OP's comment "which has never been taken seriously" about this topic is also entirely mistaken. Heck, I've heard that issue come up in serious conversation within the past year.

I've got to concur with the other people you've heard from: simultaneity in classical (Galilean) physics is the same for every observer, simultaneity in Special Relativity is different for observers moving with different velocities, and simultaneity in General Relativity often isn't even globally well-defined for one observer at a time. That's not too surprising given other features of GR. You've no doubt heard about "gravitational lensing", where a large mass curves space so that "straight" light rays from the same distant object appear to come from two different directions. Now imagine the same thing happening to a "line of simultaneity", and you'll start to understand the issue.

I suspect that one concept that might satisfy a part of what you're looking for as a "generalization of simultaneity" is a Cauchy surface or Cauchy hypersurface: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_surface This idea, essentially, is an arbitrary (possibly curved but everywhere spacelike) plane that divides time into "future" and "past", and that can serve as an "initial value surface". Have a look at that article for more information, and see if it's something like what you're looking for.

[Also: I don't like the Copenhagen interpretation, either. I've become more of a "many worlds"/Everett person ever since a fantastic and highly mathematical quantum course in grad school, despite the somewhat uncomfortable philosophical issues with it.]
Well to be honest almost nobody on Android uses Bing.....

Google search is default, and for those looking for alternatives, there's also an excellent DuckDuckGo app.
It tries to be like english, but it is anything but. It has a complicated irregular grammar. It has an implicit structure that is hard to guess if you don't already know. People write huge bloated ORMs to try to run away from it. Your application needs to have code in it to do a bunch of string concatenation if you don't use one.

It is a bad language.

EDIT: It is completely preposterous that SQL injection is even a thing.
What about: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=Rust&sort... ?
This works only if the colors are reversed in subsequent boards. To avoid this trick, all traditional simuls (short for simultaneous play - where one chess master plays many people) have two simple rules:
1)The chess master has the same color in all the boards
2) The color of the chess master's pieces are usually white

Since white always makes the first move in a chess game, it is not possible to copy the game from board A and play it in board B with reverse colors.
"Why sell if you're eating everyone's lunch?"

Because $800M is success in anyone's book, and payments are hard.
Im sorry, my subtle way of apparently was too subtle. I was not comparing you to Hitler, but rather made an association fallacy in order to create an irrelevant association.

If there was any persuasion in it, it was to not use irrelevant association since it do not add anything beyond a appeal to emotion, spun around a fallacy. Hitler, like George Bush, creates a guilt by association while the association is irrelevant tied to the subject matter.

The result thus becomes a polite discussion around the more creative ways of eating meat.
On Children’s Website, NSA Puts a Furry, Smiley Face on Its Mission
I really don't understand the comments here. "Lie better"? Wtf?

The gal has obviously sick. Yes, Yale sent her away, but is there any actual psychiatrist here who would recommend keeping a suicidal/self-harming patient in any school/job situation?

If anything, Yale should get some credit for not black balling her; they, including this awful "won't see the students" Dr. Siggins, readmitted her when she was recovered.

Sounds like a horrible, unfortunate situation worked out as well as can be expected.
Yes it is: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/python-pip
Huh? What potential employer gets its candidates health records?
My understanding is that the "placebo effect" doesn't refer to biased numbers or reporting, but exists when everything is measured correctly. It is objectively there, not a screwy result.
And good for them. Well, not good for them, but it's certainly not their place to be surrogate parents.
Making her bi-sexual makes it too easy!

What about a post-top-op, no-bottom-op, FTM that is only into lesbians or bi-women?
Modern DevOps - the ability to deploy catastrophic mistakes globally and instantaneously!

(what could possibly go wrong?)
> People are assuming a lot of things

> "Carlsen did what he wanted because the outcome didn't really matter to him."

Hmm.. didn't you just make an assumption too regarding Carlsen's state of mind and motives?

Honestly both you and the OP seem to be engaging in pure speculation.
You moved for a startup because it was a great fit for your skills, the startup failed...now what? If there are only a few other startups, what is to say one will be a good fit? Also, your network isn't fully developed yet, maybe you've only been in town for 6 months...getting the right job via word of mouth will be very difficult.

If you don't believe developers are basically exchangeable commodities, then it is easy to see that we need a very large pool of jobs + a decent support network to find those jobs.

SF having critical mass of startups and people you already know (they moved from where you were before) makes it very appealing. SLT has none of that.
How is that surprising? Tumblr uses tumblr to post announcement and Google owns Blogspot of course would use blogspot to make announcement.
No. I would only hit a block about once a week, maybe less now.
Over bitcoin maybe (along with some disadvantages). However,it doesn't have any technical merit over litecoin, or many of the other several dozen litecoin clones.
Glad to hear there are people who are productive with side projects even with family and kids.

One thing I've almost stopped doing is just watching TV. Actually TV completely. I do watch documentaries from netflix and youtube on tablet while exercise-biking, washing-dishes, folding laundry etc.
Personally, sure. Institutionally, not so much.

I'm sympathetic, I just don't see what place Yale has in this.
Just like normal karma, the only person you are competing with is yourself.
I enjoy it when I write a comment that others either appreciate or agree with and think is the "correct" sentiment, and find that downvotes are sometimes interesting as well as I find that I may be in the minority on a viewpoint.

The only thing I find sometimes irritating is that sometimes when I am flip I get more upvotes than when I am being serious, but maybe it's just HN telling me to speak my mind more.
> I believe when you said "votes" you meant to say "lobbies" because otherwise you're saying the real villain is democracy?

No, I really did mean it's the voters. In the case of SF (and Berkeley, and NYC), the problem is democracy. Voters are economically ignorant and tend to vote for laws which screw up the housing market, then they gripe about it having been screwed up. I'm not sure how to fix this, but more democracy certainly isn't the solution. The problem is that good government is in the economic sense a public good, so it gets undersupplied. People vote from their gut and do so to broadcast their affiliations - to show that they care - not so much to solve real problems in ways that might plausibly work.

I have occasionally thought about other systems that might work better. The fundamental problem is that we pass laws that sound like they might help solve a problem but we never actually go back to check if they did solve the problem, so over time the legal code becomes an impenetrable thicket of things people have tried that didn't work, but which inadvertently created a new constituency that doesn't want to get rid of them. I'd like to see us treat new laws the way we treat new drugs: Specify in advance what specific problem each law is trying to solve and how we'll know if the solution is helping - what metric will be measured. Then try the law out in some small region, see if it substantially helps, and only expand it further if it turns out it does. First, do no harm.
Their uptime is excellent.

It's taken google hpw many years to read bell level reliability?
This is where the rubber hits the road. Staff talent -- especially creative, tech, sales, marketing -- can be identified and managed as a distributed workforce. Most clients need face time. Most prospects need face time before they are clients. It's anachronistic, but mostly the way of the world. I'd love to hear differently.
If your freedom/rights takes the freedom/rights of others away, what may you argue about, if your freedom/rights is also taken away?

Because something might be inconvenient to you, it doesn't make it automatically wrong. There's a distinct line between free as in freedom and free as in arbitrariness. The former comes with responsibilities, the later without.
Defending PowerPoint Against Tufte
No. Users of GPL software are under the right to be left alone if they want to modify or share the program. The developer who want to add restrictions on the program is the one who infringe on the users right.
This is simply false. Many mining pools allow you to push to transaction to them. If your first spend has a 0.0001btc fee and the second has a 0.001btc fee, they will choose the 0.0099btc fee.

You cannot monitor transactions being sent to miners if they aren't propagated through the normal bitcoin network.

Along with that, there have been cases where mining pools have doublespent unconfirmed transactions and stolen lots of bitcoins. GHash stole 3000btc from betcoin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=327767.0
I usually sacrifice sleep. You can't do it too long or it can get to you, so I will do a week of little sleep and then one or two weeks of a good nights rest. In my mid 20's though, I sacrificed social interaction for my "side projects". To be frank, sometimes it's my work. (a whole other rant about lack of incentive)
Do you really think random rewards is a technical advantage? I can understand why you might (wrongly) think the other six are advantages, but ending on that note makes me think you're just trolling.
I consider myself as an experienced internet and computer user, but sometime I simply write "gmail" and then click on the first link instead of writing the ".com". Go figure.
You're correct. What saalweachter was describing are ways to minimize threats to reliability and validity.

- http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/relandval.php

- http://www.mathcs.duq.edu/~packer/Courses/Psy624/Validity.ht...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_validity

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_validity
Glide - Smooth Scroll JS Library with Mousewheel
I love how this app is lay as a component base system, really great work. I think i will learn many thing through reading the source code.
The only Catalans I ever met were extremely open and welcoming. I knew them all for less than an hour, and they were all hugs and kisses, great company, and said their couch is always available if I'm in Barcelona and need a place to stay. You might be right, maybe they're generally more cold, but my experience was the opposite, so I had to add it for balance.
Bit confused as to how this can't happen on iOS "just because," as iOS apps could be targeted in a similar way. Really the message here should be that SSL with certificate-pinning is a must for apps that inherently run in untrusted environments with an inability to easily inspect the security of the network traffic without MITMing it yourself. Wish this was a security feature on the app store -- if, in automated testing or in device logs, an app was entirely secure or insecure with its communication, just as we've padlock icons in browsers today.
You have a point, but this is definitely not an example of it working out as well as can be expected...

> There I was taken to the locked ward of the ER — guarded by officers with guns — stripped of all my belongings, including my pants (they had a drawstring), and shunted into a cubicle containing nothing but a bed. I was here for my own good, they told me.

> Upon arrival, I was taken into a small room with two female staff members, forced to take off my underwear, spread my legs, then hop up and down to make sure nothing was hidden “up there.”
So, how does one poop?
I like this. Companies should use filenames containing banned words in protest.
Something like a bipolar disorder?
Man, I really hate article titles that are a question...
You don't get the point of this, do you?
Kicking laziness in the face
I'm afraid you may understand this science well, but not human nature. I'm not a climate scientist. 99% of the population are not climate scientists. So if the experts can't convince the population, they will never affect their behavior.

Precisely predict some measurable events in the future and people will start to believe you. Until then, it is a lost cause.

So again, I ask, if predicting the average temp in 2014 is too narrow of a window, what is a window of time you feel confident predicting?
I'd expect DigitalOcean's bandwidth is still at quite a bit of a profit.

I run a reliable Tor relay with a 12TB allocation for $7/mo, admittedly from a sketchy provider, of which I use almost the entire allocation. My main hosting provider (for my website, email, etc) sells shared gigabit bandwidth at $2.50/TB, half DO's price, which they apparently still make a profit on.

On top of that, DO is doing this on a much larger scale than many of these other companies, which should allow them to obtain better prices.
Mice are the most intelligent species on Earth. In fact, they are so smart that they are immune to placebo effects. However, they act like they aren't because our reactions provide them much entertainment - http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Mice

Edited to add:
On a more serious note, I don't know if mice are susceptible to a Hawthorne-like effect
http://psychology.about.com/od/hindex/g/def_hawthorn.htm Even physical science researchers have to deal with observer effects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_%28physics%29

Edited to clean up brain-drained errors.
I agree with you on Yale's actions and the suitability of those actions. That does not mean the lesson she drew from her experiences is incorrect; In the real world the only person who always has your back isyou. If you're fortunate one of friends or family will actually be there for you if you need them, if lucky both. Institutions are inhuman and they protect themselves Bureaucracies do not give a shit.
You would not want a Framework/ORM that abstracts alter statements from you when working with large tables in a relational db. Alter statements can have real performance interruption and is something that an engineer has to be aware of. It's a case where a framework might help 70% of the use cases but really hurt the other 30% with medium-larger sized tables.
I've been hosting on Airbnb for the last 8 months, and I've had plenty of guests while I was away/on vacation.

You really just need to screen your guests better.
Checkout an idea I made above. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7119770 I'd be interested to help.
> Personally, sure. Institutionally, not so much.

I don't even know what that is supposed to mean. I'm not institutionally a dick? Is that even a meaningful sentence?
"I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed both nothing and everything. Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when."

Within this passage lies the meaning of life.
As someone who grew up in roseville, I am really, really glad for your kids' sake that you bought a house in midtown.
It was simply a matter of joining the project after the decision had been made, unfortunately.
That's not really true. Property taxes are usually assessed based on the value of the property and that rises with the housing market. People are sometimes priced out of areas even when they own their home.
Deciding How Much Employees and Owners Should Make
Apparently it's an Apple II game, not a CGA game. I was fooled too though.
The map is not the destination.
I think they had issues with early death from vibration, and they don't perform well in anything like demanding performance situations.

Though that may just be my faulty memory of he
The original piece.