skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suicide, ingestion of drugs (incl. alcohol), addiction, religious fervor - all of these can be thought of as ways to escape the weight of "the self". A more abstract theory than "neurotransmitters being out of balance", but more useful perhaps in understanding what compels a person to act in those ways. People who commit suicide out of the blue, surprising friends and family, probably felt they were living a lie in some way, and couldn't see any way to get out of that other than escaping it entirely. If someone says "but they seemed to have it all under control" then ... how does anyone know what goes on in the head of another person?

I'm surprised I see no mention of the poem "Richard Cory" whenever this topic arises

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/richard-cory/
Japan. Greenland. Netherlands.

1/3
And why are we paying tax dollars for this? Especially when some of these prisons are run by for-profit corporations?

If there's a single way to spur the economy it would be to close down many of these prisons, and reprogram the law enforcement goal of populating them.
Also not sure what the rationale is for not open sourcing. At the very least it gives former employees something to show around.
The National Socialist German Workers' Party would like to have a word with you.
Rolling Up Hills or Climbing Up Steps
Roberto Ierusalimschy

Waldemar Celes

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo

The folks behind Lua (programming language)
Would Satoshi count? (I'm not even a programmer!)
It's progress at least.

Maybe someday there will be a setting for 'sexless elder god' so Cthulhu and the rest of the gang don't feel left out.
Rasmus Ledorf is Greenlandic and moved to Canada in 1980. I'm pretty sure he knew English before he wrote PHP.
Not to disagree, but India and Pakistan are also great demonstrations that even if you can speak the words without cultural context you'll struggle. By far the most successful teams I've seen in India have been led by those that were educated in the west and went back to India (seemingly a growing trend), since they can effectively act as translators of intent.
There's also further insight in the comments: http://eamann.com/tech/is-your-tv-watching-you/#comment-2529
The reality is that biological sex isn't a simple binary flag, its a complex of different biological and physiological elements that usually align in one of two common configurations, but, nonetheless, there's very large number of individuals where the biological elements associated with sex don't line up in one of those two ways. Surprisingly enough, for a lot of transgender people, they are in the group where the external genitalia doesn't align in the usual way with other biological features the way that is typical of sex.

So, even from the "biology is the only real thing that legitimate justifies gender identity" perspective -- a perspective that I personally find ludicrous but which is nonetheless common among people who whine about a "transgender agenda" and assert that gender identity is somehow invalid when it doesn't line up with biology -- even from that narrow-minded perspective transgender people (or a very significant share of them, at any rate) have a legitimate claim to a distinct gender identity.

The illusions about sex and gender are yours, not theirs.
The trick is in the implementation...it's annoying to specify records of infinite length in a production system.

Practicality demands some level of quantization of gender--at some point, subtlety is lost.
I disagree, I'd much rather see it under a BSD-style license than GPL.
This is awesome!

Diaspora did this a few years ago too (more or less) http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2010/11/26/disalienation/
All you need to know about this idiocy is that it rates actual writer's work (including Hemingway) as bad:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10416

Don't use this. Just don't.
Quote "There seems to be a simple way to instantly increase a person’s level of general knowledge. Psychologists ..."

Psychologists? In a science journal? When will people learn? The claim ("a simple way to instantly increase a person’s level of general knowledge") is absurd, and the source is predictable.

I worry about Scientific American's future when they descend to printing absurd, contentless pop-psychology articles.
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So you basically have no actual point to make, no solution to propose; good, we're done, you're boring me.
instead of starting a brand new stack overflow in another language they should think of some way of letting people translate questions & answers and earn karma for that. this way, like wikipedia, you can always go from one language to another for the translation
More the latter, though the former holds true too. I'd rather people say things to my face before going behind my back. Organizations where there is more private than public communications tend to be very disfunctional.
When I tell someone I work at Stack Exchange, my absolute favorite response is:

“I basically learned to code from posts I found on Stack Overflow”

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While I've never had anyone tell me that, I don't think I'd be happy to hear that in an interview.
Any chance you can shoot me a screenshot or some debug info to support@brace.io?
This is one of the few situations where I side strongly with ESR: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#skills4
I'm as disgusted as you are.

"He definitely was not kept safe, " Flanary says. "And that's why it's not good to have innocent 18-year-old [guys] in jail with very, very dangerous people."

The implication being that it's okay for guilty people to be raped. Or older people. The state of our prisons is a class action civil rights case waiting to happen.
Apparently Editor is a 'middle skill' job :-)
Man uses first-class plane ticket to eat free for a year
That's in the 9 fortunes file is it not?
Then be accurate: describe biological sex and gender and orientation separately.

Or do you not want to be pressured into describing things accurately?
Python actually comes static shapes for objects with __slots__

class vertex(object):

__slots__ = ["x", "y", "z"]

I use __slots__ in most code after the first refactor for a very important reason - I'm a hyper-caffeinated code monkey.

I wasted an entire day because I set self.peices in one place and self.pieces in another & couldn't figure out the bug, until I used the "grep method".
Is Twitter not showing conversation history?
Anyone know what changed? Seems to be the web and phone clients not receiving "in reply to" data?
So then a competitor can get the Open Source GDrive app, modify it in whatever way they want and prevent Google from making any server side improvements because the OEM's version will become incompatible? Or worst case, the OEM might build their own compatible cloud with their own OEMDrive server that implements their own APIs and fully cuts out Google?

Remember Google isn't a charity - they are a business and they have to protect their business interests. Once you start under the incomplete premise of Google with their Open stuff and without their business interests - that's when you start demanding 100% open. IMHO they are as of today doing a fair job balancing both their interests and AOSP's openness. Conflate AOSP and GApps and that's when you get into silly land.
Careto – Called the "The Most Sophisticated Malware Ever" By Kaspersky.
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Our site, http://slant.co is for the subjective style questions that stack overflow closes. We're certainly not against fun content though :)

http://www.slant.co/topics/413/~funniest-programming-related...

http://www.slant.co/topics/670/~what-is-the-most-cringeworth...

http://www.slant.co/topics/1211/~who-was-is-the-best-doctor-...
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If you couldn't even define the question well enough it probably wasn't fit for SE anyway.
Ok, then forgive me if I don't join that form of intentional revolution.
Speak to an attorney. You may have signed something which waives all claims, but even if you don't have a prayer of winning in a court, at the very least an attorney is going to pester the heck out of Apple rather than waiting around by the phone for them to make it their problem.
It seems the world hunger issue was solved in some regions and nobody noticed the solution except this man.
While learning English will help immeasurably when you're learning to program, the languages themselves are often highly English-baed, trying to tackle programming and English at the same time makes for quite a barrier.

Since being able to ask difficult, technical questions in your native language would make it easier to learn, I don't see what's so bad about that. Yes, it fragments the community, but it also recognizes that the world is not English only. Right now there's large Chinese, Russian, Japanese, and French communities that are second-class citizens without a tool like Stack Overflow.
So, not to be mean, but can you name his FQJN (fully-qualified Japanese name) offhand?

The score of people here saying "Matz" somewhat underscores the issue.
Almost identical to iOS? Absolutely ridiculous analogy. ChromeOS doesn't compare to iOS at all and Chrome is far more open than Android in terms of development (All new Chromium development is done in the open and new releases happen nightly and every 6 weeks. Do you know what Android 4.5 will have in it yet?)

1. The majority of iOS apps can't be side loaded, are locked to the App Store. Vast majority of ChromeOS apps are not "Chrome Apps", it's a red herring. Plus, Chrome Apps can still be side loaded and are not locked to the Web Store. None of Google's major apps: GMail, Maps, Docs, YouTube, etc are actually "Chrome Apps" in this regard. Then will run on any ChromeOS fork. Chromium today supports side loading any app from the Extensions page without going through the Chrome Store.

Simply put, it is not possible to create the kinds of Google-service lock-in agreements for ChromeOS that have been created for Android, because ChromeOS is just a web browser.

2. ChromeOS doesn't need to add hooks for app delivery contrary to your claims. The Chrome equivalent of an APK is a CRX file and CRX files can be self hosted, see "Hosted Apps". In fact, they used to auto-install if you just clicked a link pointing at one, but phishers/hackers took advantage of this, so now you have to go through the Extensions page.

Any Web app you build for Chromium will work on any subsequent ChromeOS fork without needing to make any lower level changes, because Web apps don't have huge dependencies on local OS services. Many ChromeOS apps will even work on Firefox because again, the vast majority of Chrome apps don't really depend on local OS privileges like getting access to the USB port.

Implementing a different app distribution mechanism is trivial.

In practice, Android apps are far more likely to depend on non-AOSP services (like Google Play Services) than Web Apps are to depend on Chrome Web Store required services (of which there is only a tiny few, like push messaging). That's just the facts, so the practical reality is, forking AOSP creates more incompatibility than forking Chromium.
The only difficult difference here is Stack Overflow vs Programming, the others are pretty descriptive. The difference is not too hard to understand, but still not intuitive for a new user.

There is also some overlap, so if you have a question about Ubuntu you can also ask it on Unix&Linux.
New iOS API for nearby interactions using bluetooth LE: looking for testers
I'm co-founder of a start-up in SF, we're developing an API that enables you to :
- detect if two phones with the same app are nearby, EVEN IF THE APPS ARE IN THE BACKGROUND
- exchange data with people around you
- send push notifications to users nearby.

Simple examples :
- create a leaderboard based on the people you came across
- whenever you make your high score, people around you that have the game get a notification with your high score.
- exchange virtual currency

We believe a lot can come from this, and we're looking for beta testers !
That's actually a great idea...
> I don't want to be pressured into referring to a male as female if he really is a male. Part of the transgender agenda is forcing others to accept such "gender identities". I don't want to endorse other people's illusions.

Sex is biological, gender is a label people choose to identify with. How could it be an illusion? Would you prefer to inspect their genitalia before using pronouns? Men could always label themselves as female if they want anyway, now they simply have more options.
I used to be on the other end of the remote working, meaning I was often the guy that had to go to make sure projector/phone was working etc. Since I was IT, it was part of my job. But it get pretty annoying. I can't imagine how annoying it would be for non-IT guy who keeps getting called in to do it.

So if you are a remote worker and you end up using someone else's body often for remote meeting set up, please don't forget to send a little thank you gift, like $10 amazon card every once in a while. Don't forget, everyone else is already jealous/upset that YOU get to work from home and enjoy all the benefits while someone else is stuck in office and on top of that has to act as your virtual hands/feet.
Ghostery does it well too.
The problem is rarely at installation time. The problem is three years later, when you know that you've got rsync because it's so useful, but you don't remember that you left rsyncd running.

Internal and external nmap sweeps: always a good idea*

*If you don't own the network, get permission first.
Shouldn't people be allowed to choose? As a student, maybe you would demand $40/hour from a web dev chop shop, but offer to intern for Andy Rubin for free? I understand the need to weed out scam artists and prevent exploitation, but don't kill the entire concept at the same time. Most students and newly minted developers I know should be way more focused on experience, mentors, and quality of environment, than the absolute amount they are paid in the short-term.
Did they also kill fewer people? Please shut the fuck up and stop cherry-picking comments to support your bullshit.

>Over all, there are now more people under 'correctional supervision' in America--more than 6 million--than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height

Oh wow, really? Maybe the USSR never surpassed it because people kept fucking dying in the Gulag.
it's an ugly pattern when you're inlining function strings as HTML attributes.

if you can reference functions directly as attributes of your views it actually makes perfect sense.

mixing your templates and your code sucks when you're working in 2 languages across 2 files and you have to glue everything together. as soon as you're writing them both to the same target it makes perfect sense. especially since react still uses the DOM event model behind the curtains.
Now it's even easier to mine graphs for deviancy and persecution!
What's the difference between The Dating Ring and Grouper?
The article suggests a more "personalized" match making, but it seems to me that both use a combination of human input & some algorithms.
How can I follow the progress?
> The beautiful thing about ctypes is that you don't have to declare all the function prototypes and type declarations when you use a shared library. You simply make sure to feed the functions the properly typed variables, and store the returned value properly, and it just works.

It just works... until the argument that you passed as int but is actually size_t makes the program crash on 64-bit. Or you have to use an API which includes a giant structure which you then must transcribe manually into Python. Or you need to use a system library located at different paths on different platforms.

In my opinion, ctypes isn't the worst, but a sane C FFI should allow you to specify some #includes and -ls and automatically extract the proper declarations and linkage. cffi only partially satisfies this, since you have to add declarations manually and then have cffi "verify" them using a C compiler, but it's still better than ctypes.
It is physically possible to turn that camera on without turning the light on but it requires a firmware update. If your computer is compromised or has a backdoor there is no telling what happens there.
A coworker made something similar that we all appreciated using: https://github.com/nanotone/js-templates
This is How You Should Be Fishing
This is exactly what I was hoping would happen. The thing is, the problem they were trying to solve is a big one for organizations where a lot of writing gets done. But for whatever reason, the product was focused on individual writers.
I know bringing things from the real world into the digital realm often results in badly overstretched metaphors. Allow me this one; are your belongings really yours if you forget to lock the door?
Skip the OS and Get 40 million Requests Per Second in Lua
I wanted to put "Meat Popsicle" but they have pre-defined "custom" tags
Why "Satisfying Foods" Are Important For Basic Health
TokuMX 1.4: Major improvements to MongoDB sharding and replication
Here's one:

Because any language other than English is brainfucked in string support.

There, I said it.
To some degree, it's still true for Microsoft and Office.
I do not think our views on the issue contradict at all.

Maths may not relate on how you structure code, but (as I see it) an early start with a little dose of maths on understanding algorithms, may make your brain understand the elementary stuff easily, and make you think like a programmer. Are there any other introductory ways to get there? Sure, why not.

My third paragraph was referring to what I have seen on the people that do not think as programmers. Not as a matter on how they got there, but as how they never got there.
I can guess at several reasons, but hopefully somebody with more direct knowledge can answer. However, I have definitely talked with people who identify as, e.g., a transman, and you can see people identifying publicly that way:

http://transguys.com/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/04/mr-transman-2013_n_...

Living in San Francisco, I've met many people who just don't feel particularly obliged to fit into the classic gender binary.
So why start a duplicate place for knowledge? Seems much simpler to integrate a translation system into the canonical English database. Existing entries can be translated into other languages and then improved upon. Hell, you could automate the entire first step and then crowd source the improvements.
But it's not. JSON doesn't have closing tags, which makes it more difficult to read. JSON is for machines.
Well, for some, trans* is their preferred gender. That is, the experience of transition forms part of their identity.

Compare, say, people who self-identify as "German-American" instead of simply "American".
A really bad idea. Now a really good answer or tip that would otherwise be on the 'regular' stackoverflow (albeit in broken English) will remain, unknown, on a 'pt.overflow.' That is one drawback. Another drawback, an English only stackoverflow helps a Portuguese speaking person to learn another language that is, now, more universal. Yet another, it fractures an otherwise more unified community.

My mother tongue is Spanish, yet I have no issues with an English only stackoverflow, at all.
Banking system? How is the banking system in those states different than the one in the others?
Why should we have regulations against dumping nuclear waste into the public water supply? Shouldn't people be allowed to choose?
Really bummed to see Editorially go. We tried a lot of different writing tools at Zapier and it was definitely the best for handling the editorial process.

Some potential replacements for those looking are Google Docs, Draft, Penflip, or Quip. Here's a big write up on the differences between those tools:

https://zapier.com/blog/collaborative-writing-tools-editoria...
A simple form builder application written with AngularJS
I like it. I wish there was a reference to Orkut worked in there. That social network thrived for a long time purely because a couple Brazilian open source celebs latched on to it.
Congratulations, you are a bigot.
Thanks for the interesting reply.
>>The employer derives no immediate advantage from the intern;

If the intern is doing work for free that the employer would have to have a paid employee perform, they are gaining an advantage and therefore are violating the law.

Can you honestly give an example of an unpaid internship where the employer is not gaining an advantage? If so, then it is fine to not pay them. But those are very, very rare. My opinion, obviously, but I can't think of a non-contrived example.
Ok, got it - makes sense. Thanks for the input staunch, much appreciated.
If you're working for free, then you're being exploited. Period.

I'll tell you what. If you don't think that unpaid internships are that bad, then why don't you give up your salary and work for nothing?
Because excess income inequality is a symptom of larger societal problems. Much of the debate over inequality serves as a proxy for other issues such as classism, government/corporate relations, civic responsibility, and the future of the economy.
Tell me, if the aristocracy and monied interests (directly enabled by vast income inequality) hadn't existed, would WW1 have happened?

If the economic suppression of Germany by the rest of Europe and the Great Depression hadn't happened (global income inequality, after a fashion), would WW2 have happened?
A decade ago I was trained on pbx system in the office and one thing the trainer mentioned that I remember is that this extension forwarding should be avoided. Reason? A rogue employee can set it up to forward to a foreign country and make expensive calls on company dime. So we just turned it off.
Please tell me where I can go to a hackathon and deal with romantic advances
Definitely something we would love to solve as well. We're starting with furniture first.
Not enough time for a pivot. Does this mean folks aren't starting with enough cash to get through the initial hurdles?
Biological sex is very complex but can appear simple with limited information because (1) many of the features are not superficially evident in gross anatomy, and (2) the majority of the time, most of the features line up in one of two main ways, making it seem like a simple binary thing.

And, in fact, there's research showing connections between transgender identity (where socially constructed gender -- usually based on the more obvious indicia of biological sex -- doesn't line up with gender identity) and instances where the various indicia of biological sex aren't aligned in the usual way. Its not, as I understand, apparently the only factor in transgender identity, but it seems to be a significant correlate.

The idea that gender ought to be simple seems largely supported by the illusion that sex is simple.
We now have support for numbered an bulleted lists ;)
The importance of being updated: The inside story behind the new Motorola Moto G
Giant Robot Software is closing its doors
The Lua developers are Brazilians, hence also not from Japan, China, or Russia (as the original article asks for).
Diminishing returns.

The amount of resources it takes to make someone happier is non linear, so maximizing total wealth is a poor way to measure the health of a society. Realistically Log(income) is probably a much better measure.

Granted, the economy is not a zero sum game. However, at a practical level simply accumulating wealth is often a zero or even negative sum game. EX: Spam, Pollution, etc.