skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man, even more zero sum thinking.

Outcasts making others outcasts, bullied becoming bullies. Nice.

The general point is this: rejection because of the way you dress (no matter how) or look (no matter how) is not cool. The direction doesn’t really matter. But this groupthink is pretty disgustingly exclusionary.
I'm reminded of the movie Velvet Goldmine. It's intended to be biographical (very easy to figure out of whom) but because they couldn't secure the rights they just switched a few facts here and there, changed names and voila - successful truth-based movie without any rights secured.
Thank you for your feedback - i fixed it ;)
I partially agree with most of your point -- at the same thime I like the idea of using some trusted hardware as the "heart" of my computing experience. I might store various encrypted data in the cloud, but my decryption keys and password need to stay on a device that is "mine". Maybe a laptop, maybe a smartphone. They both need some external input/output for some workloads - a 24"+ screen (or two) - a proper keyboard - maybe a proper mouse. And both needs charging.

While it is certainly is possible (easy even) to tap the i/o points (screens less so than a keyboard) -- rationaly or irrationaly -- I think dockingstations in some form wil serve a function for some time.

But yes, this is more of a "true roadwarrior" problem than a general problem. A business can probably afford to keep two pcs per employee - I can't. And I do occationally work on trains or airplanes.
The beauty of the internet is that you have unfettered access to mountains of information. When I was in my early teens it was this information and ease of access that allowed me to learn about computers and how they worked. I would spend hours reading reviews of hardware components and researching solutions to hardware and software problems.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are ways of protecting your kids while still giving them the access that can seed a lifetime of curiosity.
A lambda doesn't capture anything, it's just an anonymous function. A lambda can be a closure, but it doesn't have to be.

Closures come in two primary flavors, bind by value or bind by reference. Some languages implement only one of these, some implement both, some bind in completely different ways (e.g. lazy binding in Haskell).
In the case of sticky footers I'm all for the adage "if it's annoying to use, it should be annoying to style".
I have to be honest, setting "do not remember audio" sounds like a decent compromise between not getting anything that you want and getting exactly what you want. It is especially appealing since you get VLC and this compromise solution for free. However if you are still not satisfied:

$ git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git
$ cd vlc
$ ack-grep -r resetVolumeCheckbox ./
$ emacs modules/gui/qt4/components/simple_preferences.cpp
$ git format-patch -o patches origin
$ git send-email --to vlc-devel@videolan.org patches
My job is in the city, and I'd love to live within walking distance. The problem is I would have pay ~2x for a place to live, and still end up in a noisy high crime area.
GUI interface using visual basic to track the killers IP address CSI
Facebook Has A Huge Problem On Their Hands
I know that now, but there are still some .NET developers that I meet that think this is the way to go.

Another problem with .NET is that there is a lot to learn, then unlearn - language, api, frameworks, deployment-wise.

That by itself is not bad, if you are an active developer, but if you just given few times a year to fix this and that C# project, then it's a bit more painful.

For example I have to upgrade 32-bit app using Antlr3 and system.data.sqlite (matching 3.7.0.1) to 64-bit, antlr3 newer version and system.data.sqlite (matching 3.8.2) - and after the upgrade there is significant slowdown, and some things do not work (possibly sqlite, but who knows for sure).
Villain? Super-intelligent? While your strawman is interesting, and typical in a discourse that too often has to be extremely polarized opposites, it has zero relevance to my comment. Don't try to use me as a lever, thanks.
Deposing the chairman of the Technical Committee
For Many Older Americans, an Entrepreneurial Path
This is definitely great. The skeptic in me is wondering why this wouldn't be flooded with tech recruiters. Is there a vetting process for matches?
Have you considered that rather than this being a calculated attempt to affect mass opinion on something, this is in fact primarily a mother expressing her distress about what she perceives as an attack on her child?

I didn't read it as trying to make any point other than "this is awful and unfair and my daughter is innocent of wrongdoing."

I don't know that it's as calculated as it seems like you think it is.
And news.ycombinator.com runs on Cloudflare, with IPv6 disabled. I weep for the future.
I don't get it. The Shuttle project included a lot of things that had never been done before. So things didn't quite go to plan and some people died? But in the mean time, it performed useful tasks.

Predicting failure is easy, because something will always go wrong. There hasn't been a perfect anything built yet.

What is also surprising about these dredged up past articles, is that they all invariable criticize the engine (SSMB/SSME), even though the engine was never a major issue. Yes, the rebuilds between flights took longer than expected, but it was the first ever re-usable engine and is still an amazing achievement.
I love Flappy Bird. Period.
Professionals monitor the play of other players and identify statistically abnormalities. You would have to be clever and conservative enough to evade those types of checks which, while I am sure is possible, is not trivial.
That would happily accept and iterate over a string, which wouldn't be desirable.
Yes. For instance, this thread, unlike others, has not included anyone directly advocating violence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_infringement

Good luck!
High prices sending Bay Area renters and homebuyers to outlying communities
I took calculus my junior year in High School, nothing my senior year.

I'm in some kind of prison.

God says...
smart recipe meh how_do_I_put_this hit that's_for_me_to_know
honesty well_I_never chump_change Greek_to_me ipod let's_roll
place I_quit soap_opera what's_it_to_you Venus you're_wonderful
Launchd works on Linux (and xBSD) -- in the sense, that it can be ported without much effort. Systemd in contrast only works on Linux because it relies heavily on kernel features like cgroups.
I could just use the command line, but let's face it a black screen and some text doesn't make for very good TV.

I think I would use something with better OpenGL support so I could do something more like the Jurassic park "this is unix" interface for tracking the killer.
> Only if the clipping reduces the peak value...

I don't know of any widely used definition of "clipping", nor any definition that fits the context of this discussion, that allows for a signal's peak value not to be reduced. It's called clipping because the extreme values look to have been clipped away, as if by scissors. The parts that have been clipped away contain energy, don't they? So won't the clipped signal will carry less energy than the original?

When you take a sine wave of peak value 1 and clip it, what you get is not a square wave with a peak value of 1. Rather, you get a peak-truncated sine wave in which values in excess of the clipping threshold V are replaced with the clipping threshold. There's less power in this clipped sine wave than in the original because min(V, |sin t|) <= |sin t| for all t.
By the same token your comment would suggest a binary choice between having a narrow worldview and not acknowledging very real trends (that hackers care less about dress and appearance than other professionals). That's an uncharitable interpretation.
Whoops, I didn't mean to give the impression that C++ guys weren't real programmers. Of course they are. I literally meant "real programmers" as in, anybody who had more experience than I did. I was completely self-taught.

I will probably never touch C++ again. I solve all my problems with Ruby and if I ever need to go lower-level, I'll break out C and maybe Lua.
Startup Weekend Chicago: Demo Teams
Movie studios pulling a stunt to try and destroy fair use.

Their FAQ even conflates trademark and copyright.
Be fair, those caps are easily two or three times that much.
How so? Was it made clear that the authentication page was for the documents he subsequently downloaded?
nice name, pretty babes = good combination :)
That seems mostly like a class issue (which is also pretty awful, no doubt, though not something everyone faces). Also: As I said, I know hackers tend to have hobbies. And not cheap ones.

Also, computers have dropped massively in price during the last twenty years. I don’t think becoming a hacker was ever super-expensive compared to many other activities, at least not during the last two decades, but now it’s quite affordable. Always depending on what you want to do, but – just as a point of comparison – I think being serious about PC gaming would likely be much more costly (well, I guess equally as costly if you are really into game development or something of that nature).

Luckily computing has never been as affordable and accessible as today.
Except I found the documents on Google. It's the equivalent to advertising a yard sale but not realising what you were selling / showing the public.
There is a manual approval process, but its to weed out spam and make sure you are being paired up with a real human.

I intend to build this up to make the matching more intelligent so that you get matched with people you'd find interesting.
I disagree. As a high schooler, I know many intelligent and creative young women who don't want to do robotics or programming because of the people in those fields.

High school boys in tech are much more likely to be misogynistic and socially inept than other high schoolers are. They make girls uncomfortable (they make me uncomfortable too, and I'm not event the subject of their creepiness), and this discourages girls from trying to program or build things.

There are women who can handle this quite well (the author of the piece is an example), but there are also many women who don't deal with this so easily. Those who can deal with the male-dominated environment will always be free to join mixed-gender events and groups, but girls' robotics classes target those who could gain a lot from having friends of the same gender who share similar interests.

Women aren't self-selecting themselves into tech, but there's no reason they couldn't. Women-in-tech events aren't fighting sexism with sexism, they're providing counterexamples to the misconception that programming is only for men.
I'd like to know who the backers of it are. If I was some big corporation that wanted to get rid of the parody exception, this is exactly what I'd do...
The idea was floated around to boost shuttle's ET into orbit, and collect them. Flush out the noxious bits, add atmosphere and: living room. Modular sections for a rocket ship. Storage.

NASA never went for it.
This is not the bro culture then. The article confabulates that Silicon Valley culture is "bro culture" and the errors multiply from there. They never establish that bro culture is rooted in Silicon Valley; that is an 'axiom' I haven't heard until this point, but I'm sure if you're from CA, everything comes from CA.

I mean you first heard about this culture in SV right? and most people first heard about it in SV too right? So it came from SV? Wait?

Oh wait, bro culture is just SV culture with frats? Are you sure you're not talking about frat cultures in SV and calling it bro culture?

Next thing I'll hear is how hipsters are all the same and unions are self interested organizations that don't serve their members. Then a tribe will tell me about how evil tribalism is, so I should align my behavior with your tribe's bureaucracy.
I dunno, having a yard sale is 'opt-in', since you're putting up the signs etc, showing up on Google is more 'opt-out'.
Ubuntu considered using launchd.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReplacementInit?action=show&redirect...
Seems like a prank that will be relatively short-lived.
Learn how humans react to space and how to build working environments to people in space.
What about all those cheesy parody t-shirts people sell for profit?

E.g.: http://i.imgur.com/AtIbWVe.jpg

Aren't those legal parodies of protected trademarks?
That's not how big O notation works. You need to eliminate constant multipliers because you can't make any assumptions about the amount of work each iteration involves. It certainly doesn't correlate directly to machine instructions.
Using percent of GDP as an answer to the question of "How much would that be today?" is absurd, because our economy today is not only larger but more efficient at converting raw materials and manpower into working spacecraft. The question it really answers is something like "How daunting of an investment was that, in terms of today's economy?", though even that doesn't properly convey that such an investment made today would accomplish far more.
what is to be done

All the items you give are good ones; I would add a few more:

* Be skeptical. Much of what passes for "common knowledge" because it is promulgated by the government or the mainstream media is false. Use your own independent judgment.

* Be knowledgeable. You can't use your own independent judgment if you don't understand how things work. Yes, that means you have to spend time and effort learning about things like science or economics on your own, rather than just accepting that whatever you were taught in school is true. (For why you can't just accept that, see "be skeptical" above.)

* When people who are in power make mistakes, particularly large and egregious mistakes, don't let them off the hook. People in power love to make excuses when they screw up. Don't let them. They also like to say that they didn't mean to do anything wrong, but they're human so they make mistakes. Don't let them get away with that either; if you're in a position of power, you should be held to a higher standard than an ordinary person, because your decisions have broader consequences. For an ordinary person, making a bad decision means you learn to do better next time. For a person in power, making a bad decision should very often mean they're no longer in power.

Most of all:

* Don't look at politics as a way of imposing your view of what is right on others. Look at politics as a last resort for people with fundamentally different values to use to figure out how to peacefully coexist without either side imposing its views on the other.
You should fork it, and contribute this back as an adjustable setting!
Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Look Back Movie
Did you read the article? They say explicitly that they are using the Starbucks name and logo for "marketing purposes", and that they don't even think Starbucks is dumb.

Saying something you don't even believe just to get a reaction is classic trolling. And it's "successful trolling" because they definitely got a reaction.

They don't even assert a fair-use motivation. Their motivation is marketing a business; they explicitly admit that the fair-use stuff is a fig leaf.
Functions don't see arrays, functions see pointers, even if you passed an array. The sizeof a passed array is the sizeof a pointer. So they're not first class.
While I agree you are likely correct, I would add that this can be used to augment your language learning. If you take learning a language as a holistic experience, then there is definitely a place for memorization of vocabulary.

Anecdotally, I'm working on Spanish right now as my girlfriend speaks native Spanish. The immersion that gives me is great, but I also just need to memorize the words for "wallet" and "scissors".
Technological access used to mean just that technological access not chat access to potential predators.

I had a Z80 based ZX Spectrum (Sinclair) clone growing up. I had books on Z80 assembly, BASIC, tapes full of compilers (forth, C and pascal) but also tons of games.

The worst I could do in my room was catch the house on fire ;-) but anyway, does it makes sense to have a laptop today and be cut-off from the internet? Is it realistic? I don't know. I would certainly be "going out of your way" from the default setup most people assume today.
always a winner indeed! :)
Just from this comment, it seems like you guys have a pretty interesting problem domain. I'm going to take a look at the VLC repo and see if there's anything I can contribute, thanks for getting me interested!
And how would a "reasonable person" decide that? That is kind of like say "if there is a lock on the door, you should know that it was meant to be locked. Yeah 7/11, open 24 hours, has a lock on the door.
Which feminist told you to dress or look a certain way? No doubt, there are feminists in the margins who think that way, but the vast majority of feminists I’ve ever met or talked to would be absolutely abhorred and disgusted by someone telling you how to dress or look. That’s certainly what I think. Gender policing is disgusting.

I’ve real trouble integrating what you are saying with what I’ve heard feminists say about the issues you are talking about.
Related post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7196820
Silent Nagasaki
Criminalizing journalism? CNN interviews Glenn Greenwald [video]
A question regarding the HEU and MAUs -- how do you know when to balance reducing churn of those MAUs (getting them to come back after 72 hours) and focusing on the HEU?
Same here. I got a 64MB errors.html file. No actual data.

Hopefully some human is checking the logs and will be fixing this.
Rural America. Conservative religious family.

As far as that sort of situation goes, my particular situation was not even particularly extreme. At least they did not make an attempt to censor what books I could read.
Selling a t-shirt with a parody logo of a company isn't the same as a company presenting itself with a parody logo of an another company in the same space.
Read New York Times, I will not.
So, if you need outside financing, record companies benefit you? Most companies were created to benefit themselves. That is sort of the whole point of for profit organizations, to make a profit. As you pointed out, record companies do provide a benefit, financing and marketing.
Pretty useless until Maître Éolas won't correct the few important mistakes he made in his blog post.
Olivier pointed them out in his tweets.
If you can read french you shouldn't be reading Maître Éolas (although he's usually great) but Bluetouff's own blog posts:

http://bluetouff.com/2013/04/25/la-non-affaire-bluetouff-vs-...
http://bluetouff.com/2014/01/10/cher-contribuable-je-te-dema...
Al Jazeera isn't implying it they are stating facts directly from the FBI OIG's own report. Check out Chapter 4 page 128 it says that one of the examiners didn't follow proper procedure, there was intense pressure because of the magnitude of the case and the two others who reviewed the initial finding had knowledge of the initial conclusion so there was pressure on them to agree with it.

http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/s0601/Chapter4.pdf
Researchers Creating an Alternative to Bitcoin – Zerocoin
I wish more would have been written about that aspect too. If "sample trolls" are as big a nuisance as the article made them out to be it would have made sense for the labels to bring out the big legal guns.
This is more or less what happened to some kids applying to Harvard Business School about seven years ago:
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/harvard-business-s...

Their penalty was a denial of admissions, but their hack of using a specially-crafted URL was about the same.
The only problem here was that a for/in loop was being used. Iterating the array, rather than its properties, was clearly what was actually wanted. However, the author uses the opportunity to take a strong stance in favour of always using strict equals, even though it was never a bug here anyway. As far as I can see, the only argument this article produces against double equals is that overzealous developers might accidentally break your code trying to be proactive.

Strict equals is something I only use when necessary in javascript. Despite the "taboo" surrounding double equals, I rarely face situations where its use adds brittleness to the code. Is there some horrible danger that I am just not seeing?
> Girls getting barbies
thrown at them when they are 12

As I understand it, Goldie Blox was founded precisely to provide an alternative to that. They already have a product out. I wonder how well they'll do.
I don't understand why he's getting fine for that. Those were publicly accessible documents, even though they were intended not to be, as indicated by the login form that Bluetouff admitted to know about.

If that's the law, then it needs to change.
You can't just discourage the use of cars, without providing an alternative.
Eh, if the starbucks spokesperson is quoted as saying "Its obviously not a Starbucks," they ~obviously~ don't have a case with regards to trademark infringement, since ~obviously~ consumers aren't being misled or whatever.
After trying it with my daughter:

- Some words are way too difficult for several reasons, from knowledge of the world (what's a typewriter?) to word length (in the "pictures to written words" game, "debajo de" was difficult to read, "mil" wasn't).. It would be cool if, when you add a difficulty grading, you have a separate path for children.

- In the "written and spoken word to four pictures" game, we clicked on the word expecting to hear it repeated, but the interface assumed it was a click in one of the four quadrants (so we randomly lost about 75% of the times we clicked). The expectation was there after playing with the "spoken word to pictures" game, where the center icon is a "play" icon that repeats the word.

- For children starting to read, and possibly for people whose native language doesn't use the target language's writing system, it would be cool if the interface repeated out loud the reading of the word in some of the games. Again, as an example, the "written and spoken word to four pictures" game where, currently, the word is read only once at the beginning.

Again, good job. My daughter told me she was tired of playing and went away, only to come back 15 minutes later asking for more.
I suspect it's that last one. I mostly use netflix in streaming mode. The pool of available content netflix is allowed to stream at any given time is pathetic - most of the best matches they could make are films they don't have so they have to settle for suggesting something half-assed that they do have.

As a result, I find myself gradually tending more and more to use various other streaming services first, and only settle for Netflix if I can't find it somewhere else first. (I should just cancel Netflix entirely but haven't gotten around to it yet.)

Their suggestions seemed better when they were a mail-only service and hence not subject to the same limited pool. (A separate factor: when I initially got Netflix there was a HUGE list of movies I wanted to see and hadn't yet; over time that pool also has substantially diminished. So there might be fewer good matches to find even if Netflix had unlimited scope to provide the good matches.)
If java was taking things out as it added new things in, then we'd have a good debate on our hands. Alas, they don't seem to be taking this stance, and instead are adding in more and more (just slowly) without removing any of the cruft.

Despite reading your many "scala" rants on HN, I still don't know which features you think are 'terrible', just that you think there are some that confuse you and/or are allow you to something multiple ways (abstract classes vs. interfaces with concrete implementations say what???).

Care to actually articulate the 'terrible' features this time?