skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I meant they are somewhat correct in their belief that bullying is a part of our social fabric.

I agree with this statement of yours from another comment, but I don't agree with the previous quote that I posted. My reasoning is that an old "friend" of mine, Adam Mohungoo - black, 5'9", born 26/09/1980, attended Sir Thomas Rich's School, Gloucester 1992 - 1999, is a FULLY FLEDGED SOCIOPATH. He would threaten to "kick your fucking head in" for such things as turning up at his house 3 minutes later than expected.

People like him do not facilitate the maintenance of the social structure, but unfortunately they are part of the social fabric.

> ... I'm not endorsing bullying, I'm explaining why many conservatives don't think it's a problem.

The recent tv campaign "This is ABUSE" highlights a shift in attitudes regarding very similar issues.

I see you mentioned that you were bullied, apologies if I sounded harsh.
For those of you who don't know what 9/8c means (I didn't), it's 21:00 Eastern Time or 20:00 Central Time.
I assumed that the article was going to talk about the antibiotics still being present in the meat of the farm animals that were given them, which would tie everything together. But if that was there I missed it.
I am guessing the NYC/DC train corridor is nicer than what we have on the west coast. I was looking into a holiday ride through silver country here, and the reviews unfortunately came back a big "heck no."
once i got cold called because of my SO profile.

definitely helped me in other interviews.
There's some conjecture — well-founded, I assume — that a trove of zero-day exploit have been saved up for years in anticipation of the day Microsoft retires XP. Considering its install base in government, military and business institutions, the day that XP gets retired there will be a flood of attacks using these exploits. So we'll either face a sustained onslaught of cyberterrorism and/or cyber-counterterrorism (the NSA's interest in zero-days is well-known) or Microsoft will have to reverse its policy. Should be interesting in either case.
> The 'Miracle Machine' takes only three days and just a couple of dollars to make wine that would normally cost at least USD 20, its makers claim.

That sounds completely preposterous to me, unless wine is much more expensive in the US than it is here in France. Assuming that we are talking about the price of a single bottle of wine (which seems about right judging by the size of the device) 20$ would get you very high end wine. You can get good wine for a quarter of this price easily.

Brewing stuff at home is fun but this seems closer to kool aid than oenology. I'm not sure you would learn a great deal about wine making by using it. I'm not sure I see the appeal, unless as they seem to boast the wine ends up very good and much cheaper than simply buying it in a store.
The inaugural residency ("beta test") happened in February, when an NYC writer, Jessica Gross, was given a free 39-hour ride between NYC and Chicago (and back) in a sleeper cabin. She wrote about it in The Paris Review:

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/02/19/writing-the-la...
well you also have a bigger problem than property rights in the US, we have politician's rights to deal with. The right they exercise in trying to dictate which stations open, stay open, and which routes trains will have.

There is already sufficient right of way in existing track to have high speed rail services but politicians are looking to grandstand which means primarily only new routes are proposed and conveniently in their areas regardless if service is warranted there, California's train to nowhere is a great example of this
I think ACAS is more targeted to group industrial disputes not individual personnel cases
That would find the hacks faster.
On an irrelevant note, I started research on "that thing people are talking about", scheme/gambit. Given the quote from scheme-faq-general:

>> Scheme is often used in computer science curricula and programming language research, due to its ability to represent many programming abstractions with its simple primitives. [..] There are few known uses of Scheme in "real-world" systems.

What's the motivation to start using it in production code? Besides smart people around you talking about it/using did you find that you benefited from the switch from C++ to Scheme?
Why there won’t be a Russian Spring any time soon
um, well... perhaps i was the one who was being unclear,
since tophwells seemed to have made the same assumption.

so, just to be more specific, even though we are well past
the unofficial expiration-date for interest on this thread,
yes, i absolutely want something that the end-user can grok
_immediately_, because that should really go without saying.

but just as much, i'm thinking of something that a person
-- even an average person, with no special "tech" skills,
but merely a willingness to actually edit .html source --
could quickly understand and adapt for their own purposes.

see more in the response i will write next for tophwells.

-bowerbird
Nope. The President is inherently political and this is politically calculated. Anyone who doesn't realize that is a fool.

That said, I'm not sure what the "institution" you are referring to is, that word could refer to several different things in this context.
I think you're getting at one of the major dilemmas of running a one-man lifestyle business, the need for self-self discipline and motivation. Once things are automated and profitable, it's hard to find the motivation to keep innovating and eventually even just updating the product. In my case, I started a niche website in 2008 that soon became profitable. I thereafter started working on other projects that we more successful and I abandoned new developments on my original site, which is still profitable and producing about the same revenue as 2008. It's just not a large enough revenue source to continue working on it over my other projects.
I run TSR Watermark Image software, a Windows Software (!) that people downloads and pay for once (!), it covers around 50% of my salary, the rest comes from consulting.

Working on other windows software, and working towards starting a SaaS app, blogging about it all :)
A breach of integrity? What the F*$)?

It's just the president introducing the show, we don't know what he plans to say but until we do, we should not be holding any opinions nor should we bringing up the accusation that this is a politicization of science.

IMO, you have offended yourself as a scientist by being closed minded and accusing/assuming crap without analyzing the facts first.
Their phone support line is actually incredibly useful. I've had to buy a ticket after boarding a train before, and a nice gentleman (in America) was able to get me booked in under two minutes. It would have taken longer to enter my information onto their website.
CS Degree Won’t Make You A Great Engineer, Your First Job Will
Interesting idea. anyone tried this out? the website doesn't say much and looks a bit suspicious
If that's indeed how it happened, it should be a case study in "Social Media Marketing."
I will not blame MS from moving on. If people don't want to upgrade, that's their problem. I am a little concerned, however, that so many POS systems still use XP. I just saw one yesterday at the hardware store I went to. When will they upgrade?

I don't know how much this will hurt MS with its core users. XP is largely kept alive by users in the East, not the West, and by businesses. The businesses will either pay for additional security or upgrade, and many of the users in Eastern countries don't pay for XP as it is, so what exactly is MS risking here?

MS needs to move on. There is no money in continuing to support a 13-year-old OS. You could argue that MS should make available paid support and security updates, but even OSes like Redhat aren't kept going for 13 years. I just don't get the outrage here.
> So we'll either face a sustained onslaught of cyberterrorism or Microsoft will have to reverse its policy

... or the people who are still using XP could upgrade?

(Also I want a pony)
I agree that oversimplifying is a problem and the devil is in the details.

Having said that, I believe it's possible to present licenses in an easier-to-digest way by hilighting specifics and providing examples of real-world implications that different clauses carry with them, providing perspective from multiple different view points.

There are many ways to do this, but one method would be to present the visitor with questions about what he intends to do (or intends to let others do) with code covered by a given license, and proceed to point out the relevant restrictions and obligations in that case.

For example, do you intend to redistribute the work?

In case of the 2-clause BSD license, this should hilight the fact that for binary distribution, you are obliged to include the license in documentation and/or other materials; and perhaps give examples of cases where this might be a problematic requirement.

For GPLv2, it would have to go into detail about having to provide the source or a written offer (and then make sure you have the source around for three years!), etc.

None of this is substitute for actually reading the license texet, but this sort of a resource could really help people understand points they glossed over, forgot, or somehow misunderstood, or whose implications (negative or positive) they did not realize. Add cross-references and people could really check their undestanding of the license text they've read.

Actually, I was hoping this would be exactly that resource, and that is why I asked in another comment about whether there's any legal backing behind this project. Because if somebody is going to write an elaborate guide to some license, it'd better be good, and not based on common misconceptions.
> Cabal; easily fetch more packages from Hackage

Having spent the past two days trying to recover from Cabal Install's dependency hell (still ongoing), I must disagree on this. OSX seems to be particularly shonky (on mavericks), Windows has been relatively plain sailing.

http://ivanmiljenovic.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/repeat-after-...

Don't let that put you off though, Haskell really is a beautiful language, I quite often find myself just sitting back and looking at the code thinking "Damn that looks good".
I'm trying to do a business on the side (besides my full time job).

Currently i created a member management site on www.ledenboek.be/EN for sport clubs, i'm still improving this. But it's also a test for marketing and gaining clients.

Next up is Surveyor ( a email/sms marketing web application which i used myself (not public yet). I'm going to use it first for clients who ask me to create their website.

But the big one is a document management system, that is totally different from the existing onces. I already have interest have a company with +/- 100 users and we are setting up a small demo in April there (ps. This will hit Hackernews in about 2-3 months)
Whilst I do enjoy the idea that is a Markdown editor, I think one of the main feature missing from this and most(?) is the ability to continue bullets and code indentations. Shameless plug I know, but that is why I built and use the following when editing Markdown in a textarea:

https://github.com/jamiebicknell/Markdown-Helper
But it's so far from low level, that's the problem. Assembly language represents the raw fundaments of computing, as we have envisioned them. It maps directly to the actual capabilities of the hardware.

If compiling to Assembly is like working with basic molecules, compiling to JavaScript is like working with lincoln logs. And you can build some impressive things with lincoln logs (just like you can build a computer in Minecraft), but you'll always be restricted to things that look like lincoln logs.
If it were that simple, it would have happened already.

There are still a lot of businesses that, unfortunately, depend very heavily on Windows XP for their ongoing operation. The cost associated with switching may far, far exceed any benefit it could bring.

We aren't talking about a couple of Ruby on Rails developers sitting in a cafe using MacBooks. We're talking about global organizations with tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of computers. We're talking about applications that will only run properly on Windows XP. We're talking about astronomical costs that will bring only comparatively minor gain. That's the kind of situation that does not lead to change.
The brilliant thing is not the nature of the program, but the timing. Americans are driving less and less, for a lot of reasons, but in my opinion the desire to use mobile devices in idle time is paramount.
Let's build a HTML5-VM that run assembly instructions; and have a C compiler/assembler that compiles into it. I can put then HTML5-C and HTML5-asm into my LinkedIn and other social media profiles to really rub it into these youn'g faces.
No, it isn't, I haven't seen it. Can you tell me how you got a preview of the show and decided that it was political?

President Obama is a human being who happens to like science. He also was involved in an episode of Mythbusters about a myth he'd like the guys to test and I thought it was awesome. Jamie actually was honored to do it and you could see it in his face.
I think it's very important to make people comfortable with the idea that they often make mistakes and their thinking is not up to par.

I don't think "comfortable" is the right word here. People who feel comfortable with failure will continue to fail. It's important for people to understand that they will make mistakes, yes, and that they should not be stopped by it--they should try to do better next time. But to me that's the exact opposite of feeling "comfortable" with making mistakes; making mistakes should make you feel uncomfortable until you've figured out how to not make those mistakes again.

Her way is to inflict guilt

I don't think "guilt" is the right word here either. She is expressing disappointment, but it's disappointment with what the person did, not with who the person is. "Guilt" implies that she is saying they're a bad person, and she's not; she's saying they could have done better.

Why not just focus on the thought process and try to detach emotions from it

Because the emotions are what motivate a person to do better.

At one time this someone won't be there

True; and what happens then will depend on how well the person has internalized the emotional drive to do better. That won't happen if the only coaching they've gotten is dispassionate commentary on their thought processes. If nobody expresses disappointment when they make mistakes, they won't learn to be disappointed with themselves when they make mistakes, so they won't care about doing better.

If you act like the woman from the article people will avoid you

But that doesn't seem to be happening; the woman's students don't seem to be avoiding her, they seem to be taking her criticisms seriously and improving their game.
I've done cross-country Amtrak travel multiple times and enjoyed it every time. You just have to be prepared for potential delays and willing to take it easy and roll with it. If you aren't in a hurry and see the trip as part of your vacation, then it's great.
My home made one that I got working in 1981. A friend had built a machine around a 6800 and I had used the 6800 during a vacation job at Ferranti. The single index register of the 6800 was a pain. One was always swapping indexes between X and RAM. Should I build a 6800 machine and suffer? The 68000 was being talked about and was going to be a lovely machine for assembler programmers, somewhat like the IBM360. But that could be a long wait for a processor which might be beyond my budget at first.

So I went with the 6809. It was enough of an improvement over the 6800 to be bearable and available and reasonably priced.

(The 6502 had two index registers, which was nice, but they were 8 bit, and I had ambitions to write a Lisp for my machine and would certainly want 16 address registers.)
Strange Tributes to Steve Jobs
>That sounds completely preposterous to me, unless wine is much more expensive in the US than it is here in France.

It is. I'm used to similar pricing as you are being in Portugal, but in California 15-20$ is usually entry level pricing for good wine.
Congratulations and Parabens!
Nice complaint-brag
Heh, 1 min after posting this I fixed my dependency hell! Finally. Clearly I just needed a bit of HN distraction :)
> we should not be holding any opinions nor should we bringing up the accusation that this is a politicization of science.

How many years of this president would it take before you accumulated enough evidence to reach a conclusion about him?

To give him the benefit of the doubt after this many years is simply willful ignorance.
So, umm, bring a bicycle? Maybe there are some for rent? Austin isn't particularly hilly, is it?
I maybe mistaken it might be a 286 or 386. But it's a special radiation hardened chip by Honeywell. They were originally designed for Space Station Alpha and were a carry over to the ISS.
> I just saw one yesterday at the hardware store I went to. When will they upgrade?

When the cost of staying is greater than the cost of moving. For many embedded scenarios, the cost of staying is generally small (just occasional maintenance) and the cost of moving is huge (probably a whole new set of hardware).
I've taken the Coast Starlight trip 2 times and would do it again in a heartbeat (had a sleeper room both times) - there's some awesome scenery in southern Oregon and through northern California as it travels along the coast:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Starlight

I find train travel to be super relaxing - check it out sometime if you get a chance.
I don't mean to belittle Python here, I think its a great language and I find its unpacking useful. I'm only trying to demonstrate that the concept can be (and is in some other languages, like Clojure) taken further to make it more useful still.

I think that Python's unpacking allows most, if not all, of Clojures sequence destructuring for tuples and lists. Clojure takes it a bit further, however, by applying it to all sequences. For example, you could do this:

a,b,c = "XYZ"

because strings are also sequences. You can also do something like this (excuse the awkward syntax as I try to express it in pseudo-Python):

a,b : c as d = [1,2,3,4,5]
# a = 1
# b = 2
# c = [3, 4, 5]
# d = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

This might not be so useful in python, since the list already is d and c is simply slicing the end from the list, but Clojure allows you to destructure function arguments: (defn foo [[a, b & c :as d]] ...) when passed the above list (foo [1 2 3 4 5]) would bind the variables as shown in the above comments.

Where destructuring really shines, though, is that you can destructure maps (dictionaries in Python) and vectors can also be treated as maps (their keys are the indices), so you can do stuff like this:

a, {[b {:keys [c, d]} :foo}, e = [1, {foo: [2, {c: 3, d: 4}, bar: 9}, 5]
# a = 1
# b = 2
# c = 3
# d = 4
# e = 5

http://clojure.org/special_forms#binding-forms
You could shorten that tl;dr by removing mention of the Apache license. Which is much longer and more complicated than the MIT license, and incompatible with GPLv2 (at least according to the FSF).
noooooooooooooooooice! something i've wanted for a long time, and it seems only iMessage has perfected.
I did not have it anywhere near as bad as the poster, but had some incidents which, even to me at 6/7 years old, immediately made me start to question authority and become cynical.

A few random anecdotes:

2nd grade - kids kept talking in class, so the teacher declared "no talking - the next person to talk has to go stand in the corner" (which, even then, had me wonder - does that mean that there's no punishment for everyone after the first person?) Everyone was silently working for ... 10 minutes? The kid behind me starts kicking my chair. Tapping. Then hard kicking, as in, my desk/chair combo was moving (and making a sound, supposedly the thing the teacher was after). After 10+ kicks I turned around and said "stop kicking my chair". BOOM - instant punishment - go stand in the corner at the front of the room, and everyone laughed (again... WTF? wasn't silence the goal? and the other 20+ kids are not punished for making noise?).

"No tolerance" attitudes are just crap.

3rd grade - I typically went home for lunch, but ended up staying for lunch in school, and my routine had been messed up. After lunch, one of the kids was late back to room because he'd been to the bathroom, and the teacher declared "no more using the bathroom for the rest of the day", and she meant for anyone. I asked to go, and was told no. So.. again - someone else makes a mistake - intentional or not - and the rest of us have to pay for it? I kept worrying, and then after a bit I wasn't worried. I then realized I'd wet myself in class. Bad. Ugh... Got to go home early that day I think. But... WTF. I wouldn't go so far as to call these teachers 'bullies', but... stupid? Trying to treat 7 year olds as rational adults? It doesn't work.

I was bullied later on when I moved schools - I was a year younger than everyone else, and physically much smaller than all my classmates, and... there were a number of times in middle school and a couple times in high school I was physically intimidated/threatened. Rarely did anything actually happen, but the fear was enough to really stay with me for years. Reporting to teachers did nothing beyond an initial couple minutes of feeling safe, which quickly evaporated when I left the room.

It just led me to distrust authority and be cynical from an early age.
The obvious conclusion of this is that this implies you should have no goals for the future, you should work towards nothing, and just take life as it comes.

I feel that to be a little rediculous.

You can't control the future, but I feel that intelligent planning is important.
What World Of Warcraft Can Tell Us About Race In Real Life
"Anyone who doesn't realize that is a fool." I really like your approach to science :D
Anybody know of a good app review grabber?
Been looking to access historic app reviews on an app beyond 'Most Recents' in app store. Closest thing found it this…

http://www.massycat.co.uk/iphonedev/AppReviewsFinder/index.html

But on Mac it doesn't seem to get any reviews from the app (possibly old or unsupported)

Anybody know anyway or service that allows you to grab all app reviews an app has ever received? Actual commented reviews not star ratings.
I wonder how much this is the impact of uber/lyft/sidecar etc though. Like many things posted on hn, this is highly anecdotal, but when I first moved to SF almost four years ago it was difficult to find an available cab. I often waited 20 minutes or more on nights when I went out.

Now I have a similar experience to you as open cabs seem more available, but I wonder how much of this is the ridesharing services siphoning off demand.
Things like POS terminals and ATMs usually use Windows XP Embedded (if they're on XP at all). XP Embedded is still under support until July 12, 2016.

However, even if these systems are, for whatever reason, running a consumer version of XP which is slated to end extended support on April 8, 2014, they are most likely not connected to the internet and therefore safe from external threats.

That's just the best case scenario anyway. As we saw with the Target breach, they obviously did not have the required network segmentation in place. Any PCI compliant company is going to have their POS terminals running on an isolated network. This is hardly a reason to justify not upgrading though.