skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first saw that picture, I thought that the guy had peed his pants in fear that he had offended the "Dear Great Leader"
Source/link?
Everything in this article is terrifying and, somehow, what scared me the most was how much Internet is actually the world for so many people born not that later than myself. It is incredible how fast this change happened.
Also, I know my role as a professional is doing nothing but making that a bigger issue.

As a side note: bullying (cyber or not) is not the same in all countries. In my hometown, when I was growing up and we were not that penetrated by american culture yet, nothing like this would happen. The worst thing possible was a light fist fight.
do the individual plaintiffs have any say, in aggregate? surely there has to be a better way to pursue a class action than this.
Social Computing Creates Maps for Everything
He's going to use the Hyperloop to accelerate a spacecraft and use that inertia to shoot the rocket out of the atmosphere.
Shuffling Zombie Juror: Latest linux kernel
Clausthaller (not the canned), Paulaner Helles and Hefe-Weiß, Erdinger Weiß, Lämmbrau, and Hacker Pschorr Helles are all very tasty tipples. Spaten Helles is wretched, and Löwenbrau Helles is surprisingly not too terrible, given the regular stuff is garbage.
I don't know it's a matter of men and women being "wired differently" or not, what I'm implying is that seriously, this site, while tasteless and of questionable educational quality, is really no more sexist than your average TV commercial, shopping mall or bar. Not everything with boobs is sexist, ffs.
I completely understand. I was set on fire by bullies in the elevator of my building when I was 13. I think that experience completely changed me from an outgoing person to someone weary of trusting people and who always looks for the downside in things. I am working on it, but that one little experience changed so much.
Netflix went around Cogent because Cogent couldn't get Comcast to bump up their peering capacity. Comcast wouldn't bump up their peering capacity because they're a monopoly in many places and have no incentive to improve.

In a reasonable free market, none of this discussion would matter. The agreements would all shake themselves out in the marketplace. But give a company a monopoly and suddenly they're not subject to the same forces. Between Netflix, Cogent, and Comcast, only one of them is a monopoly.
This is exciting. I've used Go-CI (that's what I'm calling it) before and it's a very cool product for pipelining. Kudos to TW for open-sourcing it. Time to get the plugins rolling!
This is an interesting piece. But I think a problem with it is that it assumes an initial unequal distribution of coins is untenable. Has it been a problem for gold that the initial distribution is heavily weighted towards gold miners and their investors?
You'd think that could be replaced with a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Tape Recorders, plus one good stenographer to listen to them later.
I guess I was fortunate that I was taught forgiveness without genuine repentance on the other side is pointless, and generally not something to do.

Catholic doctrine, if I remember correctly.
I think that was the author's point too. Payroll needs improvement. But ultimately money gets transferred from one bank account to another. The model is not going to change.
> I like the term flensing they're using

Indeed!
oh right, that makes more sense.
From "Trust Me I'm Lying":

"When you see "We're hearing reports" know that reports could mean anything from random mentions on Twitter to message board posts, or worse.

When you see "Sources tell us..." know that these sources are not vetted, they are rarely corroborated, and they are desperate for attention.

When you see "which means" or "meaning that" or "will result in" or any other kind of interpretation or analysis know that the blogger who did it likely has absolutely zero training or expertise in the field they are opining about. Nor did they have the time or motivation to learn. Nor do they mind being wildly, wildly off the mark, because there aren't any consequences."

That unattributed sources are cited no fewer than ten times in this post is laughable. Yet people still read TechCrunch because it's not exciting to admit that "we don't really have any clue what is going on because we don't work at Google and have to rely on some flimsy sources."
append ?share=1 to the URL and you can see everything unblurred
I'm really getting tired of the slaps on the wrist these giant corporations are getting for their bad behavior. A few years ago Verizon was fined something like $23 million for bilking their customers out of money. That is literally pocket change for a company that size. It didn't punish them one bit.

This is just continuing proof that there is no difference between corporations and the government. One writes the laws and the other passes them. Meanwhile We The People are getting fucked with our pants on.
First it was Bill Gates, then Steve Jobs, and now Elon Musk. Tech-world journalists need a protagonist.
A lot of people actually do enjoy the taste of beer, though I'm not among them.
I think what people are missing is it's the mindset of "willing to defend one's self, no matter the cost" that deters most people from messing with you. I was raised in the rural south and was brought up with the thought process "If they're bigger than you, get an equalizer." I was an openly nerdy loner, but I was not bullied, and only had to throw a couple of punches, generally to people outside my class who didn't know me and quickly backed off.

I find this mindset has served me well in adult life as well. Funny story, a few days ago I was at a dinner party and someone jokingly threatened me with a case knife. I immediately drew my knife and fork into "combat positions" without even thinking, which drew a "just kidding man" response and respect for the rest of the night.

Some people think they can act like we live in a totally "civil society" in some sort of "pretend you're in the world you dream of" practice, but it ignores the reality that there are bad actors in this world that will take advantage of that. Some times you just have to stand up for yourself, legally of course.
Flagged, there's no substance at all to the article and any discussion at this point is just speculation and detracts from the value of this site.
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> It's hard to believe that anyone in this industry - after everything that's gone down in recent years - would be ignorant enough to create this.

It's very easy to believe that someone with knowledge of this industry would believe that there is an audience for this, and its not surprising that someone in this industry would think that profiting from targeting such an audience is a good (for them) thing to do.

There's nothing about either the technical or business side of this industry that should give any reason to think that, whatever they might know factually, people in this industry in any capacity are somehow especially more socially responsible (as opposed to narrowly self-interested) than the rest of the population.

Even if you believe that people in our industry are unusually intelligent on average, there's no reason to think there's a particularly strong correlation between intelligence and any particular moral orientation (though, for some reason, people seem to want to believe that "intelligent" implies "shares my values".)
No, I want to have something that I will enjoy, that others can enjoy, too.

It's worth noting that the "appreciation" of fine beers, wines and spirits is often an excuse to inebriate while convincing oneself that it's actually a higher pursuit. The simple exercise of bifurcating products by price, and assuming that correlates with quality, is flawed.

Thinking through friends and peers, the ones who show the greatest specialization of their drink (only the finest vintages and best, small-brewer beers and long aged bourbon) are the ones who drink the most. But it is shrouded by a classy veneer.
side note: an interesting build tool that i've been using for past couple of years is Quickbuild - http://www.pmease.com/. take a look if you've got a lot of build configurations could be streamlined by using inheritance.
My relationship with Nokia started with 3310, long live Nokia as we know it.

Can you believe that the mighty was once reached the highest market value of any European company: 203 Billion Euros ($281 Billion as of today's exchange rate)?

I'm sure many have learned more than one lesson already.
Additional discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7636785
I don't see a problem with this. If Google can easily show you the answer to a problem, use it! The Evernote notebook is a good last-line-of-defense that captures things you really struggle with - or issues that require a solution with multiple parts.
As a former victim of bullying, my advice is that fighting is the wrong move. The only thing anyone will see is that you started a fight. You will be suspended or expelled, and the bullies will not be punished nearly as severely. Worse, other bullies will see how you reacted and try to provoke you into lashing out again.

It's not worth it.
Kill off competitive gut flora, making ecological room.
Simply because US ISPs have spent millions of $$ on lobbyists to avoid precisely this.
I beg to differ. I have no proof, but I suspect a large number of visitors to HN (technically inclined, perhaps not as socially developed as kids, most pretty darn smart) have some personal experience in the matter, which may explain the number of comments.

In terms of meaningful discussion, there are comments from those who were bullied and those who did (interesting perspective).
NIMBYs are killing the national economy
This is great. Well done Stripe.
Very good, clear thinking here. The point about being design-led is very important -- usability and user experience is paramount and is the main area where OSS has failed.

Still, I think you're going to need businesses around this. Many things are simply far too hard and resource-intensive for hobbyists and small indy projects, and not everything can be made completely distributed without sacrificing usability. (See: CAP theorem)

What we really need are a new breed of Internet businesses with business models that put the user first (again), businesses whose model is not surveillance or "eyeball farming" but delivering value to the primary customer. I also think that such businesses will need, to have such credibility, strong legal statements of privacy and user-control in their EULAs. Being open source is also a good thing, and is not mutually exclusive with having a business model.
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I realize you can't get rid of everything (and sometimes mobile sites cut too much), but there's very few sites which can't go on some diet.

I've written CSS rules to modify over 1000 sites in the past year, and while the modifications are often minor, the busier the site, the more likely I'll simply strip out elements -- asides, headers, and footers are very likely to get killed, leaving more space and prominence for primary content.

Yes, I could use Pocket or Readability, but they work an article at a time. This fixes the site for good.
Lots of people today have cameras recording what happens at their front door.
I don't think this analogy holds up to cursory scrutiny.

Tech is responsible for huge wealth creation. If the Forbes 400 was around in 1849, you wouldn't have seen any gold miners occupying the top spots.

Its as apt as saying people going to Wall Street to make money is like the gold rush. The only similarity is its the same physical location.
It is just to give the "leader" a sense of importance ....
Well, you can develop on your laptop in the same container and know you can upload/sync the same exact thing to production.

That basic essential feature is absolutely valuable to me.

This is super cool/useful. I say celebrate small wins, man!
It almost feels like North Korea is a big-deal TV/movie adaptation of a book series, and the Kims are the authors of the books. If you've ever seen how e.g. Stan Lee is treated on the set of a Marvel movie, it's quite similar. Everyone wants to make sure that, however good an idea they might think they have, it doesn't go against the author's vision for the "spirit of the story", especially where it concerns books-not-yet-written.
If "not the whole internet" then why does Comcast provide any bandwidth outside of their own network?

I accept that they can't guarantee bandwidth once traffic gets out of their network, but as long as both sides and everything in between has adequate bandwidth, shouldn't I be able to use it?
Designer's seat at the table
I'd love to put my own little cell phone together, but in my area the only reliable provider is Verizon, and I haven't been able to find a CDMA module for Pi or Arduino or otherwise.

Anybody got a tip on this?
http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases/dp...
I don't think we know. They should be audited. Eventually, when the general ad fraud scandal [1][2] starts to really harm a lot of companies, there will be pressure to audit usage metrics more stringently.

Supposedly though FB has held itself (and FBX, which is overall a great product, in particular) as 'fraud-free.'[3] Dunno about that, especially since faking likes is trivial. Anyone who knows how to operate a search engine can do it in less than five minutes.

[1]http://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2014/03/23/online-advertisings-cris...
[2]http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2329878/Facebook-Ad-Fra...
[3]http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-26/how-facebook...
Some of the answers in the quizzes are deliberately wrong... interesting, purposely making it frustrating so people subscribe to skip.
PyCon Notes: PostgreSQL Proficiency for Python People
I think the first step should be reasonable discourse with the bullies parents, not threatening them. But I also think that threatening people can be a good solution. In the past I was involved in a situation where the law just couldn't really do anything until it was probably too late. A simple quick threat later, and the problem went away. I'm not saying I'm proud of it, or that I prefer it as a solution, but we're still animals, and we respond to threats.
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Treat yourself to some healthy desserts using protein powder.
This comment is exemplary. If we could all land on our feet like this after getting hammered by criticism (and downvotes), HN would be much better.
And it sounded so promising.
A new redirection service – choose your short url
This has to be a joke...

If not, its completely disgusting
Oracle RAC does scale horizontally. Sort of: it requires putting your data in a SAN, but that is mostly horizontally-scalable as well.
FabFriday Means New Infographics
It's not really beggar-thy-neighbour if we just end up with more entertainment. If there were more good shows, I'd watch more tv. (not sure I want that outcome!)
I'm working on 3 side projects that I hope will all work together. Most folks will tell you to focus on one, but in my case I felt I had to build the smaller ideas first to validate the main project idea.
Probably not. But only because they probably don't have to actually read your mail to know everything they want to about you.

source: baseless paranoia and cynicism.
Management by absence
again, I probably wouldn't take my tech game plan from what worked for gold mining in 1849.

And we know who's getting really, really rich ... and its not 'people selling tools'. Its Google, Apple, Facebook, AirBnB, Dropbox, Stripe, MongoHQ, Heroku, Parse ... i.e. successful tech companies. Its not an unknown.
> Somehow, the vast majority of our children manage to come out of them more or less intact.

I tend to agree. In retrospection, adolescent social environments rank among the most unpleasant experiences I've had in my life.

Not only unpleasant, but IMHO unproductively so. While I acknowledge it's difficult to objectively assess oneself, I genuinely can't help but view the worst adolescent trauma I experienced as anything more than a waste of time.

We often forgive a lot of abuse effected by children and towards children as a "natural" part of development. I don't hold that view. If I can spare my kids similar experiences, I certainly will. Life is preciously short, and we owe it to ourselves not to waste energy on the absolute wheel-spinning nonsense that kids all too often inflict on each other.
Really? When I researched this last, even the worst power source charging a Tesla outpaced internal combustion pollution (at the point of power generation only, not counting the cost of making the batteries).
The thought is nice.

I mostly share the story because the idea that you, alone, can stand up to these sorts of situations doesn't seem right to me.
I would love to build someone here a desk! Use thanksHN for $50 off.
I've been looking for an application like this for a while now. I had toyed with a few that simply didn't fit. Now I have an application that will help me plan kayaking trips, vacations, events, etc. Great work!
He should be removed as well, immediately. Yes, the tape might have been seized illegally [hence reduced charges, which is fair..the system needs to make it clear you have to play by the rules on both sides].

But ya, the lack of fallout is infuriating...if I was using RadiumOne, I'd boycott until he was gone.
All of bad, big sites spent tons of cash of Adwords.

No one at google is going to penalize the "giving hand"
At $500 a pop, it's a lovely desk with an elegant design. But it isn't what most people would call "affordable".
All of those things were purchased.
I take notes I will never read because it staves off the boredom and helps me concentrate and process the information. It's slightly more socially acceptable than rephrasing aloud.
Frankly...

I preferred the "balkanization"

I don't necessarily want people figured that my account X on Youtube is ran by the same person as my account Y on Blogger or account Z on G-mail or account W on whatever...

G+ is a big no-no in terms of privacy, also its usability, even if it was a clone of Disqus, is terrible, as a user I see no reason for G+ to exist at all, much less to be forced down on user throats on all google products.
LessWrong: "we're running on defective hardware."

The argument from nature is completely ghastly from a moral perspective. I have never seen a solid argument that uses it. It's usually the domain of pseudo-intellectuals who are grasping at Internet points instead of actually thinking through the implications of what they're saying. It implicitly condones a huge swath of anti-social behavior in the pursuit of the all-important fitness. It inspires no hope, and it demands that you take an extremely unhealthy interest in your own self.
Wasn't expecting this in the comments, but super appreciated. The hops arms race must end. I hope we will all go back to drinking delicious, sessionable lagers soon and realize the IPA/microbrew snobbery mindset so prevalent today is a big mistake, both socially (alienating to the uninitiated and highfalutin) and for the beer drinker's palette (overwhelming, masking flavors).
If metered billing wasn't simply an excuse to gouge me for money then I might be interested. As it is now, we're seeing metered usage tacked on to plans that were sold under the title of "unlimited". In that situation, it feels like the ISP is trying to work around increasing capacity by discouraging usage.
is this why I have worse hangovers than everyone else?
Off topic, but I think it is a good opportunity to spread the world about it: PiPhone is also an open source tool build by La Quadrature du Net in order to allow citizens to call their representatives (in France and the European Parliament).

https://github.com/LaQuadratureDuNet/piphone

http://piphone.lqdn.fr/
As if Google's Go programming language was not already named poorly enough, now somebody creates a CD service called Go. Very confusing!
Ask HN:  right way to spin-off from startup
I am the first employee at a now very successful startup. I have been here for a number of years and am a senior engineer in a hands-on 'team lead' role. I have some equity (around 0.2% by my reckoning), am well respected, and on excellent terms with management, investors and rank-and-file.

For the past year or so, my team has been working exclusively on an open-source project that addresses a critical business need, but is also gaining traction outside the company.

I believe the tech is disruptive in it's niche, as do others. I have talked to potential investors, engineers and leaders in the field and have tentative investment, co-founders and influential board member(s) for a new company based on this project.

I would like to offer the CEO of my company a board/advisor role, as well as retain him as a customer. Ideally I would take one or two engineers with me, though I would understand if this is impossible.

Any ideas on how to approach this?
Why we don't sell ads (2012)
This is true. There was a link though the other day to an affordable standing desk that was $1,500 a pop with unknown shipping, so with that in mind and the other alternatives, I feel like it is a fair statement.
Well I still want to work at Google, but that's not for the money, it's for world domination.
In Search, I see results I personally +1d. I also see blog posts from friends in my Circles.

In Maps, I see reviews of places written by my friends.

I rarely share YouTube videos publicly. Most of my videos are shared privately with Circles.

Google Play shows me reviews for Aps from people I've Circled. That affects my Android use.
>It's the pervasive attitude that violent misogyny is tolerable.

What the hell are you talking about? Literally no one here is saying "Well, I don't really care about women being beaten." There is obviously a huge negative reaction to this, and in case you didn't notice, if there hadn't been serious police misconduct, this guy probably would have been slapped down with forty-five felony charges.
name one thing you've done in the past year that hundreds of others haven't.
I've heard that Google Fiber has inspired other ISPs in its service areas to initiate high-speed service. I wanted to see this contention though so I clicked around in speedtest.net a bit. Can you point out some contention, because I didn't actually find it [http://www.speedtest.net/local/kansas-city-mo].
I see what you're saying with the construction and dental analogies.

We want to make it convenient for employees to have access to what they want, when they need it. We want employees to be able to have access to all the work files/tools they would need whenever they are near a computer. We don't want to have an emergency come up on a weekend and cause it to force someone to come into the office, or to be able to say "I'm out of town, sorry."

We also want employees to feel safe using the computer for personal things. We've considered something like offering a stipend that covers new hardware and the employee gets to keep us assuming they continue to be employed for X amount of time.
I'd love to turn this around and ask - what would you feel is a good experience integrating the two?

I spend a ton of time thinking about / talking about this; your insight is valuable.
Out of curiosity, how do you live comfortably on $25K a year in SF when the rent for a studio apartment alone costs more than that?
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