skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there are people in the world with poor manners and still more people that have lapses in judgement, but neither is an excuse for dismissing civility altogether in a community that selects for it.

These people are trying to doxx a man using the excuse that he is a public figure, as if that strips him of his humanity. It's a positively shameful behavior, and should not be encouraged or allowed to continue.
Or they could just adopt rhetoric consistent with their behavior. There's some kind of strange and pervasive social fear of just being honest about ourselves that I find very troubling.

> There's this kind of sick expectation of consistency.

Is it sick to live in a constant state of dishonesty and conflict between your words, thoughts and actions or is it sick to try to live a life free of hypocrisy?

I don't think anybody would disagree that it's perfectly fine for people to have normative desires that aren't reflected in current reality. People who desire less or more taxes still pay the taxes at the current rate.

But it's an entirely different animal to rail against something that you are 100% participatory and complicit in.
I wouldn't necessarily be so quick to knee-jerk throw out that technique. Perhaps it's like BMI where it's an approach that's completely inappropriate for assessing an individual, but when applied to a population its shortcomings average out in a way that lets it serve as a valid statistical tool for certain purposes.

I think the real story here is illustrated in the contrast between that last section that you mention, and how many folks are reacting to this study: The actual science is full of nuances and caveats which experts in the field are expected to understand, and like literally any scientific paper its results should be considered tentative unless and until it's been corroborated by further research, including research that uses different protocols. The public reaction, on the other hand, treats this as if it should be a cut-and-dry statement on a black-and-white issue.
Junior engineers are more likely to be affected precisely because of this reason; they have far less bargaining power than a top engineer and are subject to the standard “This is the salary band based on our research on our competitors' salaries”
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Sounds like a pretty interesting course. Really I know about Kalman filters is the use case.
I might do something similar in the main.

Still, this doesn't inherently solve the problem. That is, you would still need to be aware of transaction isolation levels and ensure that you're locking rows properly as you conduct each transaction.
Your ego can be a distraction from sound business decisions.
But that way you are throwing away the only benefit - that it works without javascript. It's really expensive to draw graphs and it's better to be offloaded to clients.

I can't think of many reasons for building them serverwise.. except for when you don't have access to javascript or you are limited by the power as well.
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As per reports, India is going to have 185 million mobile internet users by June 2014.

Unlike US , Brazil and many other nations where ios has more market share, - India has 70% Android users. Apple folks !, are you listening - ios needs to work hard to overtake competition.

What would be the Apple strategy - more focused on innovative features or innovative ways to show Value to customer ?

No matter what I still love Apple products
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So it has to be between 1 and 2 btc?
If you ask any soldier who's been in Iraq or Afghanistan what their favorite sound is, everyone will answer that it's the Warthog providing air support. It's provided welcome relief the world over.

It's a shame that it's being mothballed. The Air Force has always hated the plane. It's a shame we can't just turn it over to the Army.
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Here's How to get people to respond to your emails
Do we have enough information to track the 10k bitcoins used to buy the first pizza?
always on the look out for a replacement for google image charts api..... which remains super useful as long they continue to support it past EOL hehe
Please.

Thalidomide is a good anti-nausea drug. Women who take thalidomide during pregnancy are at lower risk for nausea. Now, do you want to argue whether or not "light thalidomide" exposure during pregnancy is bad is an "open question"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide#Birth_defects_crisi...

Because that's what you're arguing with nicotine, along with cherry picking questionable studies, moving the goal posts, and even linking to organizations associated with tobacco manufacturing.

Opioids have beneficial uses. So do you want us to think that it's an "open question" about whether "light intravenous use of heroin" as practiced is a good thing?

Did you actually READ any of the articles you linked? In almost every case you cite, mention is made of the overall risks of smoking ANY amount. In some cases, the articles aren't even talking about smoking - they are merely talking about nicotine in a variety of forms.

“Any smoking, even social smoking, is dangerous,” says David Wetter, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Health Disparities Research at M. D. Anderson. “Cigarettes and cigars are the only legal products whose advertised and intended use -- smoking -- will cause cancer and kill the consumer.”

http://www.mdanderson.org/publications/focused-on-health/iss...

But let's play citation. Is second-hand smoke "light" enough exposure for you? Here are the health risks, which are not "open questions":

https://www.google.com/search?q=google+scholar+second+hand+s...

And c'mon, really? Really? You cite a damned mouse study on carbon monoxide as that you think might be evidence that smoking might somehow, some way, be helpful...for...wait for it....heart attack and stroke? You cite a cell study that shows elevated levels of glutathione in smokers lungs and you want us to therefore magically jump to the laughable belief that smoking is therefore somehow good for your lungs? You cite a study that claims that rare thyroid cancer is reduced among smokers, when the likeliest explanation is that thyroid cancer is so rare that smokers die of other more common cancers and little things like strokes and heart attacks long before they can ever develop thyroid cancer.

Many of the other bullshit claims you cite above have been thoroughly debunked:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3637838/

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/news/long-term-smoking-increase...

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/58649.php
I knew a guy who used to work for a city govt and he was pretty open about his anti-tax. He complained how he saw so much waste in the govt.

And guess what? He was also working hard to switch his job into a department that had more pay/benefit to increase his pay.
It's not a propaganda, mind you. All the Putin's myths and FUD are being very well debunked in this article. I live in Ukraine and see what happens here with my own eyes. Trust me, whatever Putin and his state-funded media (RT, ITAR-TASS and others) say is bullshit.
You missed an opportunity to suggest that full screen video ads would play before the device would allow you to send a text or place a phone call.
> Some snarky comment about how this is why bloggers aren't journalists because a "real" news organization has ethics or something.

Honestly, I always thought it was the other way around. This situation only confirms that.
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This definitely makes sense, as you can't open up the execution environment of native programs and execute code there. Though it is disappointing.
So since we need to be explicit, it should be:

if var in (None, 0, "", [], {}, ...):
pass

something like that?

In general, most of those false-y values make sense. Midnight being a false-y value does not make sense. This seems to be a case of "we represent midnight as zero internally, and zero is false-y, so midnight should be false-y." This logic does not make sense to me. If they represented noon as 0 instead, should that evaluate to false, just because?
One of the things I find curious is the dichotomy between rhetoric and intent.

"We need to shrink the government!"

Sequestration happens

"Well not those specific things I like!"

Doesn't that imply then that those bits that shouldn't have been shrunk are therefore not part of what they think is "the government"?

Considering that the list of things that usually people who want to shrink the government think should be exempted usually includes the military, I find that particularly troublesome.
No wonder Satoshi wanted to be anonymous. People are already tracing the transaction and the BitCoin.

Though it might just be a lesson in how "anonymous" bitcoin transactions actually are.
I agree. There is no point in adding coupling for it's own sake by asserting that trivial methods are called.

Verification testing does however have it's uses in terms of verifying that key interactions have happened in the way you expect.

In the most part it's used correctly, assertions are much more widely used than verification testing.
If you can scale your system using only 0.5 GB per node, you get more cpu per dollar since the 5$ and 10$ levels both have 1 cpu. Higher levels seem to be multiples of the 10$ level. Does anyone have experience with this in a production system with a lot of users? Are there horizontally scalable database systems that work well on many nodes with only 512MB each?
Agreed... though I guess I gotta ask, what did I write that made you believe that I think writing code before tests is TDD?
Can't you both be right? Another facet: unit tests are the living, useful documentation of the code. Starting on a team with a large legacy code base, unit tests are the tutorial on the best practices of the API. This magnified if the "unit" tests include full functional test with an embeddable container (eg. OpenEJB).

(apologies for parroting the gp)
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I don't know if that's your case, but I can't help finding it hilarious to see so many anarcho-capitalists here criticizing Newsweek for following their own interest...
Well, I think the parent was saying that you shouldn't have a balance that is actually relied upon for record-keeping or transactional purposes.

If you want to keep one for optimization purposes (i.e. you are reading more than writing and don't want to constantly sum the ledger table), then that's probably outside the scope of the parent's point.
>Invents a currency that allows all your received and paid values to be tracked by the entire world.

>Says it's anonymous.

Good luck with that.
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I disagree, as even if you did use Javascript the service is still far more accessible to a novice developer than something like the d3.js library (which I love, but has a rather steep learning curve).

Additionally, you would be surprised at how much could be accomplished in that department with just CSS.
Who said everything is outrageous? That X is not uncommon doesn't mean everything is X.
He's already been doxxed by Newsweek. They even published a picture of his house with the street address clearly visible.
Wello: An iPhone cover that takes your key vitals.
Ask HN: Are SEO tools worth it?
Is it valuable to use (and pay for) SEO tools like MajesticSEO and SEM Rush. Are there free/better tools that provide the same information?
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Topical tweet from 2 months ago?

https://twitter.com/ryanckulp/status/421006978148614144
I would still bet that its life will get extended. Every time that the AF has actually moved to get rid of them the Army jumps up and says, "yes! we'll take them off your hands," and suddenly the AF grudgingly extends the service life because they don't want the Army to get back into the business of having fixed wing aircraft...
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Why would it?

edit:

To expand on that a bit, I was under the impression that the Android app ecosystem was far more ad-driven than the iOS app ecosystem. At least it seems as if iOS usually offers a ad-supported free version and an ad-free paid version, where as Android seems to mostly just have the ad-supported free version.

Even if that is not true, there are already ways to get full screen video ads on iOS (I believe Flurry is one), the app developer just has to want to do it. Apple adding this to iAds seems to be irrelevant to the status quo except to make iAds more appealing to users of other ad services.
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That's no excuse and you know it.
Sure!

The biggest difference I see is that one is attempting to provide a full-featured solution and one is just a web font (albeit a really great one!).

The colors thing is...whatever. The thing that gets me excited about a solution like Iconic is that it seems like they're trying to target the web component/polymer cats (whether or not they succeed is just anecdotal from me - check it out for yourself!).

By this what I mean is they've rolled in literal states to many of the glyph collections. I think the login/logout icons are a really nice example of this (https://useiconic.com/icons/account/). Many of the people complaining that there is a reliance on JS I think don't really understand what's happening here. They're pre-packaging baked-in methods (in this case, setState) that you can roll into your login/logout functions. They're even (kind of, sort of), in-lining ARIA states to make these "buttons" (spans, really) readily accessible. Personally I would have taken it a step further and implemented proper ARIA button roles, but hey, it's still new!

The important take away for me is that, while I will never use this, I'm excited that we're starting to see packages that are more than just a collection of icon sets. Web components is still very "I can't wait!" to front-end, and this seems to bring it closer to reality.

Or maybe I just like the name.
How would you go ahead mounting this, though? SSHFS?
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I hope Spotify acquire last.fm at some point.
A few of the sites I'm involved with have very high trust requirements (think childcare) and low average sophistication users. My core user concern is: users losing trust in my site when they see their credit card info pre-filled but they haven't given it to me. Or, another site having cc info pre-filled when they only ever gave me their CC.

My users shouldn't have to understand the stripe network model to not lose trust in my website. A site knowing, or claiming to know more than it reasonably should is a sign of fraud. In a high trust industry, you need to be very, very careful at the signals you're sending your users. Some of my users will get confused if they click "remember me" and think I stole their credit cards and sold it to other sites.

From a developer perspective, what really concerns me is that this decision was and is clearly being made as "we'll do what's right for stripe and the stripe network in aggregate" not "we'll do right by each merchant." Given that you forced this into the product and then didn't even give an opt out, how can I trust that you're not going to make other changes? E.G. my users now have to create a stripe.com account to use the service in the future? Or, start heavily pushing users to pay by ACH (also something paypal has done)? I don't use paypal checkout because I don't want to force my users to have paypal accounts and I don't trust paypal because they have a long history of these kinds of decisions.

That people are saying "that's the way paypal would add features to the product" should set off red flags and alarm bells in your CEO suite. Right now people are suggesting stripe with the same fervor they're telling their friends to never use paypal. That kind of fanaticism is hard to buy, and if you lose it, impossible to get back. Since you added this "feature," I've stopped suggesting stripe emphatically and without reservation. I just don't know if I'm willing to put my reputation next to your future decisions anymore.

This hurts, emotionally, because I trusted you guys. And moreover, I was excited that there was finally a payments company that didn't suck. Now, I don't know if I was a rube for trusting and promoting you. The emotional process of going from excited evangelist to caution is worse than never being excited about something to begin with.

As a payments provider you act as our agent in the cc world. This "new feature turned on network wide (1) by default (2) without a way to turn it off (3), because we want to test it (4)" makes me trust you less as an agent in 4 separate ways.

I didn't opt into this, it just showed up one day with no explanation.
Not necessarily. If I worked for the TSA or something, because that was the best paying job that was available, I wouldn't see it as remotely hypocritical to be concerned with politicians, who swore an oath to the Constitution, specifically passing bills to line their pockets.

It's easy to say that a truly just person would not work in an industry that benefitted from tax dollars they would rather not have paid, but considering that the government tends to overpay, it is often the best position for one to be in.
It's a convenient way to answer the common question of, "if I change ____, what else will break?"

It's of course possible to do this by looking through systables/information_schema/etc (I'm sure this is how you're doing it) but I always forget how. :)
If explicit is always better than implicit, why is Python dynamically typed?
Seems like an oversight not to include XML support
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> Changing the boolean evaluation in this case is actually making the mess even worse.

I don't see how that's possible. Assuming that using "if x:" is wrong (for some value of wrong) here, this issue only affects people who are using it wrong anyway. So all fixing it does is make the consequences of doing bad stuff less painful. I can't see how that would hurt things. Even if you think "if x:" should never be used on non-booleans, leaving land mines in there to hurt newbie (or lazy) developers is not a good way to enforce that convention. It just creates pain.

Or more simply: whether having boolean coercion for conditionals is a good idea is orthogonal to how such a coercion should work. It sounds like Python should deprecate truthiness altogether. But it hasn't, so in the meantime truthiness should work in a reasonable way, and falsy midnights are not reasonable.

Pointing out that it's documented is unhelpful (the documentation is just the wrongness restated in a different language), as is "That test does not mean what you are intending it to mean" (Tautological. The OP was suggesting changing what the test means).
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It depends on what x is and what do_something() does.

Most often than not in my code that wouldn't break functionality. In the case of dates it is broken, so same code pattern there would be broken.

At this point a lot more functionality would break if 0 become non-False or threw a TypeError exception.
Well they don't issue GRSecurity kernels.

To be fair I'd just use FreeBSD which has a little better kernel architecture with respect to security.
No, performing actions that are different than your beliefs is literally the definition of hypocrisy. The fact that somebody else might take the actions anyways is irrelevant.
Ok, but seriously, no jokes: What is it? I'm utterly lost and feel like a gringo in Colombia with no way to communicate.
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I'm personally of the opinion that verify is harmful, because it does tie your test to your implementation. Unless that's absolutely needed (it probably isn't), it's a bad idea.

I use mocks more-or-less as advanced stubs, because when something has 600 methods in it (legacy code base fun) and I need one of them I don't particularly feel like generating that entire stub.
This bit of the article also confused me. Who doesn't double-space after periods? I recognize the historical origin (typewriters), but I was taught this way and I'm "only" 24.
Eventually the government is going to come after him. If you just happen to be sitting on 400 million without paying taxes the government is going to be interested.
the title is now my twitter tag line, thanks for that. People often accuse me of being introvert, while I am shy of telling them the truth ;)
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I am not going to reveal any more information that I already have. I respect his will to stay anonymous.
It was just an emotional post without a thought of provoking a witch-hunt.
Satoshi has been an inspiration to me, I apologize for any inconvenience I might cause.
Seriously. Isn't this the reason why we pay many billions of dollars each year for the rule of law? If you're an exceptional case that needs extra security, get extra security.
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Their DMCA / Copyright / bad content process is horribly, horribly broken, and they will generally (where I think generally is the most polite way to put it) take the side of the accuser, even if that accuser is anonymous, or random, or fraudulently making the accusation.
Has anyone looked at SVG frameworks like snapsvg[0]? After using d3.js for awhile, I like the idea of doing something more low level in terms of rendering and interacting with svgs.

0: http://snapsvg.io/
I've definitely implemented patterns like this with akka futures. Fundamentally concurrency and figuring out when to send test-requests at the resource was the hard part, not java or scala.

In fact, unnatural as they are, I often had to use Java-style patterns to break through Akka patterns. Like it or not, the "Java-style patterns" are a lot closer to the metal than futures or actors are.
hard to say but I'm pretty sure the parent was dripping with sarcasm.
If you need to use a test like that, you've already gone too far down the road of lazy "falsey" value usage, and whoever wrote it didn't bother with the idea of sensible defaults or consistent typing/initialization.

I agree that midnight evaluating to false is ridiculous (I wasn't aware of this, thankfully I've never run into it). I'm not sure where you got the idea that I support this, but I don't.
The article appears to have many "from then on he stopped responding to emails" and "he then dropped off the map" phrases in it. He might not be replying to emails?

The article is cleverly written to make these perfectly ordinary (in)actions sound suspicious. People could write the same about me if I didn't reply to emails or phone calls for a while.
One of the reasons is that the last time we tried this, the TFX, we ended up with one useful airplane type and mission, the F-111, and after a long pause went back to specialized types like the F-14, F-15, F-16 and the A-10.

Hope we don't declare victory with the F-35, field it, and then suffer in our next serious war....