skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the visual way in which it's shown makes it easier to follow without knowing people by name, but also makes it take much longer to read it all. There are like 80 characters per message before you have to click continue or hit enter.

I'd say the discussion is a good/fun thing to present in this form, but abbreviated.
Am I missing something new? Hasn't this been in place for couple months?
The official site has chosen a similar plugin that has some additional options you can configure. They've also added good instructions on how to install it.
https://github.com/modemlooper/thedaywefightback.wp
I guess they're quitting the Internet... Cold Turkey!
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I think you're missing my point. I'm not saying I feel skimmed. I'm just stating what happened.

What I'm saying is that he skimmed from my last deposit. I'm hoping he did use it so others got their coin back.
Did Debian at any point consider launchd?
That's bad journalism, of course. If people are buying something in droves, and classical analysis suggests that that should be impossible, then there's something wrong with the analysis. A proper article would start with what we know -- "people love this game" -- and then try to figure out why.

You see the same backwards approach to journalism everywhere there's a scale in how much work things take to produce. Critics appreciate things with a complex process behind them. People, meanwhile, value mostly nostalgia and super-stimuli.

The wine most popular in blind taste-tests of people who haven't developed a "palate" for wine, is basically equivalent to grape juice with some vodka dumped into it. This isn't a bad thing! But critics hate it, because there's nothing to talk about there. It's grapey, and it's alcoholic, and that's all people really want. Until, that is, they're immersed into the whole culture of oaky this and tannins that, and start thinking about what went into the wine instead of just whether they want to drink a lot of it.

And because of this, critics generally don't serve the people. People want to find the best-tasting grapey alcohol. Critics, meanwhile, just want to talk about how long something aged in a barrel, and don't even have words to differentiate grapey alcohols.
There's a healthy balance between "OMG, I was dressed like a prostitute at a trashy bar in the bad part of town, what happened?" and "Welp, better dress in a niqab the rest of my life lest I attract any male sexual attention and and be responsible for it".

I don't think this article achieves that balance.
Among many other reasons: because the web interface is utterly incapable of sending and receiving unmangled patches, or more generally sending and receiving plain text without wrapping.

Also: because people might want security, such as GPG.
I work at an accelerator. My boss asked me to predict the year 2043
The tricky thing with all of these (pjax &c.) is that by loading with JavaScript, you lose progressive rendering, so while reducing latency you may actually lose perceived speed.
* Asimov - Spell My Name With An S - http://www.eco.uc3m.es/~pgomes/2-Personal/Asimov,%20Isaac%20...

* Clarke - The Nine Billion names of God - http://downlode.org/Etext/nine_billion_names_of_god.html
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What are the odds of being found liable in that case?

If the odds are comparable with odds of winning Powerball Jackpot then such disclaimers are simply way to expensive (extra cognitive load in emails, unneeded distraction for prospective clients).
wow ngpio, this list is great. you've probably come across this one before as well but it's definitely a good one: "I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility"
http://qntm.org/responsibility
What type of error are you seeing? I can successfully bring the page up and register my email. (It's just a basic landing page atm)
Desktop e-mail clients have more features than the web interface. Also, you get to keep a copy of your e-mails, so if Google removes your account (it may happen) you don't loose anything.
A good list, thank you!
I'm surprised that this didn't come about in the guise of "protecting intellectual property". That seems to be the usual beard when imposing internet censorship in western countries.
Wearable technology is going to mess with electronic legal discovery
I'd certainly leave immediately.
> I have no idea what his children are named. But does relativity make me (or the species) much fitter for survival?

Einstein also contributed to quantum theory and a number of other physical fields.

Does understanding reality have survival value? The computer you're sitting at requires an understanding of quantum theory. No understanding, no computer.

> The biggest practical application of relativity at this point (that I'm aware of) seems to be GPS.

No, relativity doesn't make GPS possible, science makes GPS possible. It happens that relativity theories must be taken into account for GPS to work as it should, but this doesn't mean GPS is about relativity.

> One can argue about whether GPS makes us better or worse as a species but it's not a huge deal wrt evolution.

Only if you discount the role of ideas in human survival. People have big brains to hold ideas, not sperm. Those ideas contribute to our fitness. They represent a factor in natural selection.

We aren't the dominant species because of our big muscles -- many animals are stronger. We're the dominant species because of ideas.

> If there's a better practical application of relativity I'd love to know.

It helps us understand reality. It provides the theoretical basis for nuclear power. It's also the theoretical basis for fusion power, a future development. It helps us to understand the universe.

But this isn't about relativity, it's about the role of ideas in evolution. That's not remotely controversial, because (1) we have big brains and (2) nature doesn't waste anything.
As I mentioned below, my money is on http://dogepound.l8.lv (literally)
I see it multiple times every day...
Your method is probably healthier, too.
When it was first announced, it was available to everyone (I didn't have it). I think now it's open to everyone.
Management's main problem is that they believe the problem is one of people, and designing counter-productive incentive systems to try to get people to do better work, with raises and firings and carrot-and-stick motivation, and not, fundamentally, in designing systems for quality.

This may apply less to NASA, but it does apply to the business world, yet the result is the same. Failures and defects and poor quality are primarily the result of incomplete systematic control over the end product.

So in that sense, I saw this more as an astute diatribe on the management issues of 20th century America than an engineering piece. The engineering here is known quite well; any engineer can explain it thoroughly as Feynman has done.

The part that flies in the face of truth is how we manage people.

Start here for a paradigm shift: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
The interview is screamingly funny, more so if you're British or otherwise familiar with Jeremy Paxman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7x7GYItzS4
Presumably lots on the desktop, which is why they decided to stick the Google search box into Chrome's new tab page.
SFCave is all mined out. The next big thing is obviously Gorillas.
On that note, redshift or f.lux!
I am very sympathetic to the idea of training your programmers on the job. I don't know where I would be if my first employer hadn't invested significant time in training me. I came out of college knowing my algorithms, but I didn't know how to actually __make__ something. All I really had to do was shadow a senior programmer for a week, watch how he worked, and ask questions. Within a few weeks I was rolling along, writing production code. But if they just asked me to get started from day 1, I would have been useless to them.
This is an extremely simple game to clone, it's pretty interesting that the original creator had so much success
Of all the religious, non religious, philosophical, etc. texts I've ever read. This is the one I most hope is true.
I thought whatever comes to mind first and I think that suffices to get an overall picture. I wanted to keep it as simple as possible. Maybe I should have added a short explainatory text at the beginning? How would you exactly improve the design of the questionnaire?
When they announced it, it did not support Gmail. (Or many of the other Google services)
> What sort of legal action could Adobe start if gimp started mimmicking their flagship product UI?

Unlikely they'd start any: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Dev._Corp._v._Borland_In....
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That is glorious. And several of the characters match very well, particularly Russ as Phoenix and Bdale as the Judge.
Some kind of legal NSA, more honest than US way isn't it? But it's nonsense anyway!
It's nice to see others consider that option too :)
JavaScript is what makes me think that worse isn't better, it's just that worse is easier and immediate. "Worse" things happen sooner and with more frequency, so that means a greater chance that a worse thing will stumble upon what's actually most important.

Turns out that brain dead code distribution was the most important thing. Similarly, brain dead web app deployment is what makes PHP so popular. Seems that when the web was born, "is available in some browsers" was better than "soon to be available in some browsers" and so JavaScript took off like a rocket. JavaScript doesn't get code distribution anywhere close to "the right thing", but it does it and it's ubiquitous, which is what's important if you want to reach people. After that, it's just a virtuous/vicious cycle.
I'll have to dig them up, I was linked them a few years back (when I was on the other side of this argument, actually).

edit: This interesting part from the paper I was linked:

>While people perceive dress to have an impact on who is assaulted, studies of rapists suggest that victim attire is not a significant factor. Instead, rapists look for signs of passiveness and submissiveness, which, studies suggest, are more likely to coincide with more body-concealing clothing. (140) In a study to test whether males could determine whether women were high or low in passiveness and submissiveness, Richards and her colleagues found that men, using only nonverbal appearance cues, could accurately assess which women were passive and submissive versus those who were dominant and assertive. (141) Clothing was one of the key cues: "Those females high in passivity and submissiveness (i.e., those at greatest risk for victimization) wore noticeably more body-concealing clothing (i.e., high necklines, long pants and sleeves, multiple layers)." (142) This suggests that men equate body-concealing clothing with passive and submissive qualities, which are qualities that rapists look for in victims. Thus, those who wore provocative clothes would not be viewed as passive or submissive, and would be less likely to be victims of assault.

http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...
Just my two cents as I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread:

launchd is the init system used by Mac OSX and has been ported to FreeBSD a few years ago with a recent resurgent effort for improvements [1]. It has been suggested that launchd could one day be the new FreeBSD init system due to speed and feature improvements, but many FreeBSD users think that the init system is a non-issue and efforts could be better spent elsewhere. launchd has also been criticized as to have been developed for OSX and not BSD (e.g. it depends on CoreFoundation features).

There is growing concern that applications will become more reliant on systemd and therefore Linux-only features [2], reducing or eliminating portability to the BSDs. Unfortunately, most conversations about init systems and FreeBSD degenerate into flame wars [3].

[1]: https://github.com/rtyler/openlaunchd

[2]: http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg//2013/07/13/systemd-not...

[3]: http://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=35770
I disagree with "liberally", as there's a cost associated with commenting (they have to be maintained and people have to spend time to read them), but I'm certainly of the opinion that judiciously commenting is very useful.
Answered: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4353219?start=0&tstart=...
Pretty good article but had to laugh when I read this:

> Common practice dictates that passwords have at least six characters and are changed frequently.
No. Science requires evidence; broscience includes everything else. (Unless you think broscience requires surpassing a popularity threshold; you can see this hits that by googling it.)

Edit: The burden of proof is in the original claim, rather than calling it broscience. They even crossed off the claim in the article.
Sounds like it could be some kind of retaliation from vindictive people in the government against human rights groups and the like?
That model seems ineffective. While it operates in parallel, spawns a plethora of threads and does, I imagine, aim to end in eventual consistency, it also seems to lack any form of shared state. If I was me I would make sure I overlap myself on each new instance and not deal with that restart time. I'd also suggest picking a different tool rather than the current one... I think I might be using LISP (Lost In Self Protocol).
Yes, in fact, as IMAP/POP3 access where you could download everything to your computer. I don't see why all the excitement.
Ah, the poor people and their quest for affordable protein. Even in 2043, it should now dawn on people that the witholding of basic building blocs of life is the most efficient way to subjugate the lowered classes. In the meanwhile, there is a colony on the moon. TLDR: not much will change.
When I wrote "replacement", I didn't mean that all sysv scripts must be replaced. Postfix sysv script works fine with upstart, doesn't it?
I'm genuinely curious -- what is the thinking behind "too long to be put as code comment"? I've never heard that before.

It's not like we're conserving paper. And syntax highlighters helpfully give comments different colors so you can skip over them while reading.

Personally, I've never once wished that a particular piece of code were less commented, but there are hundreds if not thousands of times I've wished that there was more explanation, or any at all.
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I wonder if there is any chance that Vic Gundotra can be fired.
LOL, do you like dystopian cyberpunk?
I wouldnt disagree with anything but the GPG, a dishearteningly small number of users use such features.
I think whatever comes to your mind first. What are you most passionate about?
ran across this link, which might be helpful for people familiar sysvinit but not systemd

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-3.html

tl;dc: systemd replaces the bash scripts you're used to grepping through with unix .conf files that fit on the screen.
I think you are missing the point entirely. There is a reason why she brought up the Rosa Parks example. You should study the reasons why the African American civil rights movement chose to focus on Rosa Parks rather than Claudette Colvin.

This has nothing to do with statistics and correlations for sexual assault and everything to do with the fact that the people who judge you, despite the fact they are well meaning, may have subconscious prejudices based on the way you act or dress. Fact of the matter is, gender equality won't come in a single sweeping wave, and you will have to deal with people who are well intentioned but "don't get it".

Looking at the Claudette Colvin example, it would have been easy for 1950's America to dismiss the whole case just because she was pregnant teenager - despite the fact there is no correlation between pregnancy/relationship status and where you can sit on a bus. You don't want to give your opponents the chance to dissuade people who can ultimately help you just because of your outfit choice.

At the end of the day humans aren't machines. Despite the fact there airplane travel is far safer than car travel more people are still afraid of air travel. Despite what our "correlations" tell us, we are still, and will continue to be superstitious creatures. It would be wise for those us trying to change things to not play into those superstitions.
Something this article does not cover [1]:

"The law requires service providers to take down objectionable content within four hours and any page found in violation by the country's telecom authority or face fines up to $44,500."

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2014/02/06/turket-interne...
There are at least 30 million users on Flappy Bird (users that have played at least once and have a gamecenter account.
Humans are probably more difficult to hack (I hope) and more resistant to noise (I hope).

A weak ago, there was a discussion about the “Letters of last resort” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7165048 (56 points, 6 days ago, 50 comments). They are secret instructions for nuclear submarine commanders in case of something killed the whole UK government.

From Wikipedia:

> According to Peter Hennessy's book The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War, 1945 to 1970, the process by which a Trident submarine commander would determine if the British government continues to function includes, amongst other checks, establishing whether BBC Radio 4 continues broadcasting.

This kind of safeguards is easier to implement in humans than in automatic systems. How do you distinguish from the submarine the lack of communication caused by a nuclear attack from a problem caused by a massive electricity outage and a big fire in the BBC building? Maybe you can listen to some Canada and Australia signals to hear if there is a problem.
While I'd be interested in a physical magazine, or an PDF/Mobi, I've no interest in an app. I hope they reconsider their distribution model.
FYI: It's being A/B tested so you might not get the new version.
i have a system that's much more developed than this one.

it's also simpler, more powerful, and actually _working._

meanwhile, posts like this seem to get lots of attention.

even though the person just created an account to post.

i don't get it. can someone give me a pointer or two?

-bowerbird
I know plenty of people that use it via IMAP exclusively, myself included. OS X & iOS Mail.app works just fine, I enjoy the spam filtering and automatic filtering.
Moreover, if you regularly use GPG, the GMail web interface would be nearly unusable, no? So it seems you'd be much better off with nearly any other email provider.
Wow what an insightful comment I'm glad you made your way to this thread.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Or perhaps bureaucracy.
Do you think it justifies for a separate category? Wikipedia says "It is often considered to be a sub-field of mathematics.", but I know that Wikipedia is not always correct and that I have some other small categories already at choice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

The greater fool theory says there are fools who know their purchase is either worthless or overpriced but purchase it anyway in order to sell it to greater fools at a profit.
I don't think the parent post was arguing about that, I think he was arguing that if these are important features to you, why choose gmail in the first place?
If I were you at this point (actually a 2-3 years ago) I would already starting going back to using Java for Android, too. iOS will be on a billion devices in 3 years, but Android will be on 3 billion, so the impact is much greater, and probably the revenues, too.
See the pages for each init system linked to from https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem
It has; grabbed mine last week.
"disabling IMAP would drive away huge numbers of users" -- Why? Ask 10 random people on the street in any large American city if they've ever heard of Gmail, and then if they have ever heard of IMAP. Fair chance the numbers will be something like 8 and (maybe) 1 on average.

On the other hand, disabling IMAP will make sure that people have to look at the webapp, and tie into the Google ecosystem to read their mail. Looking forward five more years, you might even have to have a Google+ account to read your email.
She's not talking about women being raped. She's talking about behavior ranging from creepy pickups to groping, and was very careful not to say anything that actually justifies it. Furthermore, she's not talking about what the ideal world is like, she's talking about what women can do today, where they are, to make their life better. If, as you say, a woman is going to be assaulted anyway, isn't it strictly better to have public support after the fact, no matter how small the advantage? Callous, perhaps, but unavoidably true, and ignoring uncomfortable trade-offs doesn't make them go away.
Police deal with vulnerable people on a regular basis. Putting everything they do on public record would cause a lot of harm.

Not that I'm saying there shouldn't, ideally, be some definitive record of events - and technology seems to be getting there. But the conflicting demands for accountability and privacy can be pretty complex.

If you're dealing with a kid who's been cautioned for drug possession, who gets to look at those records? If someone reports a rape?
If you think desktop clients have more features than Gmail's web interface, you either haven't explored the features Gmail offers, or the set of features you care about is specialized.
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This is a great comment and so true, I switch career after a couple of years on the of market and became a software engineer around 33 yrs old. For my first gig, I add to settle for a job similar to what I did before my master's degree because everyone was asking 5 yrs of experience for almost every technology in there job description which i did not have obviously since I just graduated.
I discovered the hard way that not a lot of employers are ready to let you learn on the job.
Before my SE master's, I always coded with VBA and microsoft related technologies. I was always trying to automate my business processes to be more efficient and free my time to do the real job of a business analyst analyse. When I graduated and wanted to make the leap to SE. I discovered that I was treated like if I was a junior even though I ahd been on the job market for 10 yrs. The interesting part is that most of the time I would get the interview because HR was impressed with my resume and all my business experience but when I would talk to the engineers even though I always had a big disclaimer that most of my experience coding was from school but that I was bringing other very good qualities that would help me thrive in a technology environment. The interviewers were looking down on me like I was an idiot. Makes the whole process tedious and idiotic.

The good news is I finally have an employer who did not treat me like a junior and allowed me to grow in to my current role. This employer always finds people to come to work for there organisation. I have noticed that most of the recent hire did not meet all the technology requirements but they all had a passion for technology and getting the job done with whatever they were bringing in there tool box. If more employers would recruit like that, we would not always hear them complained that they can never find good candidates.

I agree, corporate recruitment is broken and I hate when I feel I need to beg for a job in an interview. Hopefully, in the future companies who make it are the ones who finally figured out that they are the one needing resources not the way around.
Is the moderator really snickering about the uselessness of programming at the very end? Does he live in the 1950's?