skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Reasons" are merely statements of why something is as it is. Justification isn't used.

"Excuses" try to put an unjustifiably positive (or perhaps a less-negative) slant on the explanation of why something is as it is.

balladeer wrote things like, "So, there was no way I was going to pass my 10+2 (last school year) without cheating and I am lucky that I somehow managed to cheat." and, "I wish I could have cheated better so that the meagre Chemistry score couldn't bring my total % to around 75."

To me, those appear to try to make it sound like the cheating was somehow okay, or even a good thing, even though this cheating was apparently covering up a lack of ability. They aren't merely saying why cheating was used; they try to make it sound acceptable, when it clearly isn't.
Agree, I think it is easier if you do a slow approach to it. The original is more mashing and luck imo.
> But from even reading the title, I do know one thing - Julie is about to get a lot of negative attention directed at her personally

And this is why people who understand the political nature of jobs and who find themselves in a toxic culture just move on and leave the company to rot.

There is zero upside to what she just did both legally and professionally.

Next she will be complaining sexism in that nobody will hire her. Go figure--how many companies would hire a man who caused this kind of public stink? (see: Zed Shaw for the male example).
If you fill up the screen and make a move that does not make a new space for the next tile it is GG!
I'm just interested, why are you still on Windows XP?
Decomposition of plant matter in the Carboniferous period wasnt hindered by the lack of microbes of fungi, rather the plant matter was covered by shallow seas and swamps. It was the water that inhibited the breakdown. You can see the same process going on today in peat bogs.

I speak as an expert. I spent one summer between grade school and high school cutting peat in a peat bog. It wasnt wet like the Everglades, but you could squeeze a handful of peat and see the water drip out.
Yes, but there will be almost 1000 released "soon"
Is this a satirical post? I cannot imagine anyone writing this in 2014 and actually believing it.
According to social justice logic, if you claim you have a meritocracy and your demographic ratios aren't perfectly balanced, then you must not have a meritocracy. I.E. the perfect equality of all human groups is assumed.
> Still, you can not seriously ask of tech companies to hire the poor girl from the slum

True, but that doesn't make meritocracy an ideal. It's just how things are.

> As I said, I don't see why Meritocracy could not be part of the solution.

Again, how is meritocracy different from the status quo, then? But the reason your meritocracy is a problem more than a solution is twofold: first, it focuses effort on the wrong people (those who have success without merit) rather than those who need society's help. If your system is first let's wrestle power from those who have it without merit and only then turn our attention to the real problem, then your priorities are messed up. Second, it does all this by believing it somehow rewards merit while it really rewards privilege combined with some merit. A system not calling itself a meritocracy at least acknowledges its own unfairness.
Yup. I've gone to rent a movie twice in the past few weeks. Instinctively I checked Amazon first, but ended up getting it from Google Play since they actually support my devices.
You concluding that I was blaming the Internet in obliviousness to all the rest of the points you shared (which I already know but deemed out of scope for my specific complaint) is, in itself, a misinterpretation. That you then built upon that misinterpretation to call my position naive is a very interesting comment in light of what I'm saying.

Before computing, I was a journalist. Nothing you said is news to me, though you used some epistemological concepts to make a similar point to my own.
Work Like a German
I don't think this is GG: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/632568/Screen%20Shot%202...
The results are predictable. A marketer / evangelist on twitter that survives off validation exploits a loophole in USA's charitable, politically correct culture. She bites more than she can chew, she is copying what she sees in popular culture of an Erin Brokovich fighting her enemies.

She simply is mentally unable to admit personal fault. Why? Social media encouragement and well-meaning enablers.

The secret.ly screenshot says how she can't handle professional criticism - behaviorally reinforced by culture, twitter and social networking sites "+1" and "retweet" is more important that doing what her manager and the house wants her to do.
Miss a SXSW band? Lively has it, in HQ, for free
Which sadly isn't how the original works - The game is lost when there are no remaining valid moves, not when all 16 squares are filled.
Pop-Up House: The affordable passive house
You don't think it's censorship if at any time, for any reason, someone can induce them to take down any post by claiming libel? Well, I might agree with that, but it would also make every site useless.
Great, now all I have to do is convince every company in the world that uses C++ to paste a macro into each class and keep duplicates of all their variable declarations.

(Poe's law applies, sorry if you were attempting humor and I missed it.)
iPredator is indeed awesome, and surprisingly cheap for the value it provides as well.
Should have pressed down ;)
OSX seems to do a good job at rendering fonts.

EB Garamond, at 300KB, is the largest font in the catalogue right now, since its character set is huge (the other fonts are around 80-100KB).

And while Google does let you choose character sets, not all special glyphs are included (for example, ornaments).

But I agree with you: choice is everything, and it's always better to have an alternative.
Yes, and it matters. It makes it easier.
I'd simply hesitate before basing your understanding of the English language on a song written to air dirty laundry.
Twitter + Coinbase = Bitfluence
There are costs and benefits to airing your laundry.

I have no idea who this person is it what the validity of her claims are. But posting a series of angry rants on the twitter is probably not the right answer.
Related question: can you use this for Prime video? I've never been able to get it to work, so I have a user agent switcher just so I can do Netflix and Prime w/ the same browser.
Can I use it as a substitute of psexec.exe executing my scripts on remote machine?
I started my own company as a freelancer. You earn twice as much, so you can either work less, if you want family time or if you want to spend time on your own research. My primary motivation was putting money aside for maternity leave and spending more time on learning projects to keep up with industry changes. (I'm a front end dev btw) You need to be good enough to get work, and have enough contacts in the industry. I find this is much easier now that I'm more senior.
Basically, what kevingadd said.

As a matter of fact, AMD GPUs are using the floating point ALUs to perform integer math (note: this might have changed with their GCN architecture). However, given that the mantissa of IEEE floats is just 24 bits long, the ALU also can just handle 24 bits, which is not sufficient for full 32 bit math. Hence, for "true" integer arithmetic, the ALUs need to be double-pumped or emulated via floats (i.e. the dirty tricks which we avoided need to be done in the driver instead - but at this stage it can actually be done reliably, even if it's still ugly).

I assume the situation is similar for Nvidia GPUs. Either way both vendors said their GPUs aren't designed for optimal integer performance - so that's why we expect the performance drawbacks of integer usage to become less and less of an issue in the future.
Perhaps your government felt that there would be non-financial benefits to supporting efforts to make affordable electric cars. Can you not think of any?
So these are slightly better versions of fonts already on https://www.google.com/fonts ? At first glance I thought you were offering new ones.
A really good technical summary can found found here:

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re...

I'll quote just a few lines of the summary here in case they move the location of the thread, and you need to search for it:

**** SUMMARY PROVIDED BY MEMBER: rcair1
(Post 77 from thread 23) ****

First - synopsis
- The ship took off normally and headed on course to Beijing

- The last ACARS transmission was about 01:07 local.
This does not mean ACARS was shut off - just that
was the last transmission of ACARS data (See ACARS below)

- The last comms were a normal hand-off from Malaysia
to Vietnam control at about 1:30 local

- It was a normal 'good night' on the Malaysian side,
but Vietnam was not contacted.

[rest of summary deleted]
Universities also privatize science through patents and IP. Research publications privatize research by bundling and charging exorbitant fees for journals and proceedings. Our generation doesn't have a NASA or Bell Labs. The closest thing to those outfits are vanity projects from billionaires... SpaceX, etc.
Why does it have be a war? Why is open source only considered a success if it drives proprietary software out of business?

Don't get me wrong. I love open-source. I've been using and contributing to it for 15 years. But to me, success is having a high-quality product, a vibrant ecosystem surrounding it and an active, engaged community using and contributing to it.

As long as all those things are true, who cares what everybody else does?
I don't really understand the motivation behind spamming twitter with vague messages. If you care about problematic treatment of women in tech, this seems completely counter-productive. Why not talk about what happened, how it could be avoided in the future? Inform people about the nature of the problem and it becomes possible to find solutions.

I do believe that sexism is a real problem in this industry. But this woman's behaviour is childish and a completely inappropriate response no matter what it is that happened.
Have you ever heard of gaslighting? I don't know what actually happened with this woman either, but it is unfair to say, "Tell us what exact event caused this."

Many people have developed PTSD from a traumatic childhood within which no one distinct event/spoken sentence can be pointed to-- just many, many hurtful episodes over days, weeks, months, and years.

There probably was an event that set her over the edge. I just wouldn't expect it to be some Disney movie scene in which a guy in a suit slams his fists down and shouts, "Women are the worst!" Real people are more crafty than that. Real-life abuse is more subtle.

Again-- I don't know what happened. Just can't help but point out the kind of faulty logic being used here, since it is so common.
From what I read on the incident, "volunteered" is not at all what happened.
Sigh. I guess that is conspiracy theory default now days for things you are unable to prove.
Where Is Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370?
I won't sit on a beach all day, but maybe I'll move to a beach house somewhere safe, and enjoy the hell out of my children growing up. And will read/learn/do interesting stuff. And I think I can get to be worth 1.5 mil someday.
Then all lawyers would be equally terrible. I would rather our laws weren't so complex. One start is to prove there is a victim for something to be considered a crime.
Why do we write/automate test?
Adjusted for inflation, isn't

$80 in 2005 = $100 in 2014

Pretty sure it's darn near if not right on the money.
Why Transparency Trumps Secrecy
Actually, the period between the development of woody plants and the development of wood-eating fungi was approximately 60 million years, and is known as the carboniferous because of all of the carbon that got sequestered.

Also, the key chemical wasn't cellulose, but rather lignin. Lignin is an astoundingly complex polymer* that plants use as "concrete" to create their woody cells. As far as I know, white rot fungi is the only group that can break it down.

*seriously, look at that thing: http://cse.ksu.edu/REU/S11/emd4y8/breakdown.html. That's a big goddamn molecule.
The game is arbitrarily winnable now. Press down until you get rows of 2-4-8-16, then collapse all the way to the left. Repeat this procedure until you get to 256/512.
Google fonts look better to me (Chrome, Windows)
I can't think of any examples of vertically-integrated anything achieving a monopoly in our industry, at least not without going back to IBM in the '50s and '60s.

It seems like vertically-integrated products have the capacity to become strong competitors, since the reason for making such a thing is to deliver a very specific experience. However, by definition such products aren't going to cater to everyone, and thus are unable to take over the market completely, at least not for any length of time.

The iPod is a good counterexample, but it's a not a general-purpose type of product and had a short-lived reign as being the way most people listened to digital audio.
There was a post today about making your own keyboard on HN today; I think that qualifies? But otherwise I tend to agree with you, from what I've seen so far.
"True, but that doesn't make meritocracy an ideal. It's just how things are."

What principle should tech companies use for hiring? And other companies, too?

Even if you say they should hire less skilled people and try to train them, that demand sounds like a tax to me. So perhaps it would be better to simply use taxes to train people, rather than burdening companies with something they are not specialized on? To start a company to cure cancer, you would then not only have to be an expert in curing cancer, but also in teaching people skills. That would raise the bar for creating successful companies significantly.

"it focuses effort on the wrong people (those who have success without merit)"

Ah, now we arrive at a crucial point: the anti-meritocracy crowd seems to think privileged people can never have merit. So if a Harvard graduate cures cancer, it counts less than if a girl from the slums does it. In fact a Harvard graduate doesn't deserve any recognition at all, he/she should probably be ashamed for curing cancer, thereby robbing the slum girl of her chance to do so.

I don't think such a value system can ever provide good results. Why not simply stick to the facts "cancer was cured, how much is that worth to me", rather than making moral judgements on the people who cured it?

Also, how can you argue against meritocracy with the argument it "focuses on people who have success without merit", when Meritocracy demands exactly the opposite of that?
Sorry if the suggestion of naivety came across too harshly; didn't mean to imply you didn't know what you were talking about. I just find this topic really interesting (competing narratives, the Lippmann-Dewey debate, etc.), so I jumped at the opportunity to ramble about it.

Again, my apologies.
I continued playing after 2048, now I have two 2048's next to each other, they refuse to form a 4096, and the game doesn't respond to keystrokes anymore :(

The changed rule that allows spawning blocks at any time makes it easier indeed, but not that much easier, so nice modification.
I don't know why anyone takes the bait with your comments. You're an anonymous single-issue throwaway account; there are no comments in your whole history that aren't you taking a valiant stand against the evil forces of feminism.
Maybe there should be some standard rules for 2048, because I tried three games, the original, the Android one and this one, and everytime there are different rules:
- Is it a valid move to not make any tile move?
- What is the order of tiles merging (top-first? left-first?)
- Can we merge multiple tiles in the same row/column in one move?
- ...
No worries. I'm not offended, I just noticed the interesting irony.

I learned long ago to not be offended by things people say on the Internet, along with my ability to stomach images that would probably make anybody else pass out. I'm not convinced all of the Internet's effects on me as a human are good.
I may be wrong, but the way I understand it he couldn't do that even if he wanted to due to congress having ultimate authority to approve/disapprove spending?
I chose 10 of my favourite open source fonts; some are on Google Fonts, others (like Latin Modern) are not.
I beat it http://imgur.com/xa0sXjX . I think this game is significantly easier than original due to the alterations in logic:
- When you're unable to move (for instance when the top 2 rows are all filled with 8 blocks), you can still spawn a new block. Just lot less challenging than pressing down than up and dealing with 2/4 surrounded by high numbers.
- You only spawn two's no four's this allows for a much easier strategy.
I probably used the right and up key about 90% of the game, left 9%, and down <1%.

Great job though! loving all these clones.
A hash with a sufficiently long random string appended, then.
Awareness building is a waste of startup resources
Google and Motorola: A Match Made in Purgatory
This is exactly what I don't understand. If I was being harassed to the point that I was considering quitting my job, I would simply gather all the evidence I could (she mentions emails, I would also carry a voice recorder) and hire an attorney. I wouldn't tweet about it, I wouldn't write a blog post about it or give a talk about it. None of those things are going to fix the problem. File the lawsuit and let the facts speak for themselves.
To non-US people:

In USA, we have a special sub-type of "office lady", which is the "marketer / enthusiast" twitter troll.

The issue is, in other countries, office ladies are happy to just dress professionally and do their clerical work.

In USA, we have self-esteem bubbles, an education system, a political culture that create a factory of women like this. Basically, office ladies who act like bulls, get enabled by nice-meaning people, then bite off more than they can chew.

Also in USA, understand that our english isn't to be taken literally; it infers complicated politically-charged emotions. Americans react very harshly and nit-pick blunt truths, our public discourse is not one of reflection, clarification or debate, but projecting emotion at an idea we don't feel reaffirms our view of the world.

These people are a tiny sliver of our society, but since we in USA are good people, we tend to give them benefit of the doubt. Because of the abuse by this type of women in the workplace, some Americans are associating women in distress with people like this. The boy who cried wolf.

People like this can really hurt things for actual victims of discrimination who do their job.
Ha, I didn't read your name before I replied. You actually stopped when you reached your mark, and travelled the world on a boat. Awesome. I also read your 'Cottage Computer Programming' when I was a teen. Double awesome.
Shopping around, or going somewhere else is possible, but not that simple. Amazon created a pretty well-oiled system that makes competitor's lives very difficult. They usually offer the best price, a trustworthy service, they already store all your details, addresses, payment details etc. You know that if there's a problem, they'll sort it out.

To shop around means:

* figuring out if the site is trustworthy
* trying to work out how much delivery would cost
* registering for a new account
* adding payment info
* worrying about returns policy, lost deliveries and so on

That's a pretty big hurdle in most cases, if you end up saving only a couple of bucks. better prices, better service and inertia are pretty huge.

It feels a little like saying "there's nothing that makes people stick to Apple besides better UI, better software and the fact that all your digital media is already there" (ok, maybe it's not the perfect example, but pretty close).
Deploying a Java Tomcat Application via Chef
The Nexus 5 has 56% more screen area, but also a 56% larger battery. The Nexus 5's screen is bright, but the iPhone's is even brighter. Anandtech found the iPhone 5s got 8.57 hours of LTE web browsing, versus the Nexus 5's 6.9 hours: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7517/google-nexus-5-review/3 (all displays at 200 nits).

The iPhone/iOS just seems to have a better-optimized LTE stack. If you look at Anand's data, the iPhone drops less than 5% from WiFi to LTE, while the Nexus 5 drops 23%. iOS seems to also be much more aggressive about powering down the radio to avoid burning a bunch of battery life in bad signal conditions.
"Well, kids growing up in poverty without the right role models are pretty close to being "actively prevented from programming""

Not really - they can still get a computer for 300$, head to the nearest library and get started.

Yes, there are bad fates - perhaps they never learned to read and so on. It's really possible someone never gets the chance. But as I said, programming is then really the last skill that can be blamed for being unattainable, plenty of other professions that would be way more forbidding.

" If you believe people should always work to make the world better, than trying to maintain the status quo is pretty bad"

But wouldn't people be forced to try to have merit, so they would automatically work on improving the world?
I really like the design of this one more than that of the original.
You are more than a sexual fetish – but online dating sites might not think so
New JSR submitted: "Units of Measurement API"
The PS2 had an unseen graphics VRAM speed (48 GB/s), and that's why it's hard to emulate it on PS3, and maybe even PS4 (early PS3 simply included PS2 in there).
If I understand correctly, Google Fonts may be used in commercial websites. Does the license vary between different fonts in this case?
Thank you for the clarification and the advice. It's just not practical as a non-native speaker to always be sure about the exact meanings of the words you use.

Also, there are by now more non-native speakers of English than native speakers in the world, so perhaps giving some benefit of the doubt is always a good idea.
The DMCA is not the only way to have material removed from a website. Also, slander is spoken, libel is written.
DRM. Until HTML5 standardizes DRM across browsers, these sites relying on DRM won't be getting rid of Silverlight and Flash.

Incidentally, Netflix has started using HTML5 instead of Silverlight/Flash, but only on Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1, since HTML5 DRM extensions are available on that platform: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/159960-netflix-switches...
I highly doubt they are "branching out" from just HN. Obviously Algolia existed prior to replacing hnsearch (they were already in YC), but taking it over gives them more visibility within the startup community and also frees up responsibility for Octopart.
"KVO and Cocoa Bindings are not the same thing"

Yes. From the Fine Article:

"[..] bindings are one-way dataflow constraints, specifically with the equation limited to y = x1. More complex equations can be obtained by using NSValueTransformers. KVO is more of an implicit invocation mechanism that is used primarily to build ad-hoc dataflow constraints."

Bindings: simple one way dataflow constraints.

KVO: implicit invocation.

Not the same thing.