skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was under the impression that Jobs wasn't fired, but that it was his choice to leave Apple. I'm aware almost every source out there (including quotes from Jobs himself) will say that he was fired, but from what I recall from reading iWoz, this isn't true.
Wonderful. I want a πPhone!
Explain the GNAA then.
Reading about the peasants' life during the Cultural Revolution plays out a very similar narrative, down to Mao's very corny propaganda.
Ferrari’s unusual approach to F1′s new nose rules
"Settlement seems low."

> Apple, Google, Adobe and Intel in 2010 settled a U.S. Department of Justice probe by agreeing not to enter into such no-hire deals in the future. The four companies had since been fighting the civil antitrust class action.

This I think is actually the worst part, and all but guaranteed this settlement. "You guys were caught robbing banks. Don't do that again, 'K? Now get outta here."

Too bad a similar DOJ settlement wasn't available to Aaron Swartz. "Never make those documents publicly available again, K?"
I've used the SIM900 boards a few times for a few moments with Arduino project. They are good and simple, but as you say not 3G (only GSM).

I assume the 3G modules are different or not as in demand by Chinese manufacturers, which is why I haven't seen any on eBay when I go looking.

I'd love a simple, cheap 3G module. It'd make the coverage better for a start.
That good to hear that he's still been active, thanks.
Actually it does seem contradictory reading back on it. I meant it doesn't have a fixed, enforced schema like SQL databases and it is easy to add new data structures e.g. lists, maps, sets.
I can sympathise with the author. I didn't suffer to the degree that she did, but it was there none-the-less.

Sometimes bullies like this have no rhyme or reason other than they find some kind of self-worth in bullying. It's a difficult situation to be in, especially as a teenager where you feel like your only options are to either stay silent and suffer, or tell someone and commit social suicide.
Why is it a good idea to lump such technologies together, when many of them are fundamentally different? Do we call road vehicles that aren't cars NoCars?
It seems crazy there isn't more information about using yeast on the internet. Perhaps it's because most people drink to get drunk.

One question for chemists or biologists out there: If the byproduct of the yeast is acetaldehyde, wouldn't that cause the uncomfortable "Asian Flush"? (http://bsclarified.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/im-not-drunk-i-j...)
Bullying is mainly a way of gaining status and popularity for youth. They gain advantages for themselves by abusing those weaker than them. Think a bit about how offensive your question is, though. I am quite disgusted when people ask it from victims of bullying, it's not beneficial and shows a lack of empathy and understanding.

Imagine asking this about the Holocaust.

"I seriously cannot believe this if there is not a single reason WHY they did such horrible things"

Imagine asking this about slavery.

"I seriously cannot believe this if there is not a single reason WHY they did such horrible things"

Imagine asking that from a little girl who is tortured psychologically every day for years.
I'm guessing sarcasm.

No bad feelings intended, thorin.
The term is borderline moronic!

SQL is a QUERY language.
NoRDBMS would be slightly less moronic...

Thbbft!
True, major Microsoft shareholders were also major Nokia shareholders.

compare http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=MSFT and http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=NOK
What I find works well: blog-style posting. With tags.

In Reddit you can approximate this with post flair (tedious to set up, but doable). See http://reddit.com/r/AskScience or http://reddit.com/r/AskHistorians for good examples.

Alternatively: an RSS reader with categorized streams I can follow. Again, Reddit offers this:

http://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss

http://www.reddit.com/r/pathogendavid/comments/tv8m9/pathoge...
> not a single reason WHY they did such horrible things

There are reasons, but to a warped mind, cutting someone in a line is enough for death by hanging. I mean Ted Bundy probably had some reason for doing the things he did - maybe a girl dumped him so he decided to take revenge (on other girls).

It could have been nothing else than just wanting to rise up the ranks and enjoying the abuse way too much.
>DVLUP has joined Microsoft! We're serving virtual fruit punch and setting off celebratory pretend fireworks on the DVLUP Blog. Head on over to learn more and enjoy your extra-special Day One Badge. Things are about to get awesome.

I can smell the Pointy-Haired Boss from here.
Another guy interviewed him on reddit in 2011: http://www.reddit.com/r/beer/comments/m6kpl/so_i_went_out_an...

"To be honest, I think when we were talking to him, he was already few drinks in. But yes he is a very nice man, he was joking with us and stuff."
Did Nokia really move quickly? As I recall, it took them a year (from announcing they were going WP) before they released their first phone, the N9 running WP.
> This is the free market deciding that non-Linux unixes aren't worth anyone's time. If you believe in the free market, you should either stop complaining and get on the winning team, or hole up in BSD-land rewriting Linux software until you have a plurality market share.

If you believe that then why use Linux at all, when windows' market share is so much bigger? And I thought boycotts were supposed to be the free-market way of changing company policy.

> Demanding that open-source developers donate their time to support your particular OS is just leech behavior. Mandating "support equality" is a step in the wrong direction.

Not supporting *BSD themselves is one thing, but systemd explicitly refuses patches to make it more portable.
About 15 years ago I was part of a start-up and internally we kept on going over that story and trying to be those same tool-sellers. But there wasn't any real execution on that.
Heartbreaking story. As a father of an 8 month old girl this really tugs at me. Nobody should have to go through this.

On a positive note, Anna is a very talented designer. Hopefully the positive experiences doing meaningful work for appreciative clients will eclipse some of the pain in the past.
"In addition, much of the work on Cryptol has been funded by, and lots of design input was provided by the team at the NSA’s Trusted Systems Research Group, including Brad Martin, Frank Taylor and Sean Weaver."
The problem with telling someone is that they can't stop it completely! Author told the school and the bullies still continued.

Your point about self-worth is excellent. I've seen bullies being very happy/proud after teasing someone.

Sad thing is that all this changes you and hinders your progress a lot.
> May I publish an other one without annoying people that are following me for something else ?

Doesn't Google+ have "circles" which lets you decide who you want to share with? Couldn't that take care of the above issue?
> But I seriously cannot believe this if there is not a single reason WHY they did such horrible things.

ugh. just fucking ugh.

OK. I got the crap bullied out of me in school. You know why? Because I was nice. and because I was different.

When I was around 14 I had to move schools because I was too terrified to go in. I was a boy, but I liked having long hair, so of course that was a huge vector for bullying, amongst other things. One time I even got chased around a classroom by someone trying to cut my hair off with scissors.

Don't ever fucking try to fucking justify or contextualise bullying in a way that blames the victim.
First sentence of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLite#Features : "SQLite implements most of the SQL-92 standard for SQL but it lacks some features."
I'm sorry, but my first thought from the title was only drink water. Then you'd be very sober.
They don't just bully a random dude/gal. There must be a reason. But this could also be a fictive story, just to raise attention.

This has to rank as one of the most profoundly stupid things I've ever seen an HN user utter.

Maybe there was a 'reason'; maybe Anna was shy, or overweight, or interested in unusual things. Or maybe not; either way, it's totally irrelevant.
There is only one thing possible you can do that help in a situation like this. It is to fight back. Throw punches (literally), let them be suspended, arrested, do everything you can do to punish everyone who tries to mess with you that way. You will gain respect, because you have to, even if you sometimes lose a fight - legal or physically.

And I know how horribly hard that is while you are under constant attack. And how it feels how it will make only matters worse. One thinks "maybe it will stop if one just tries to fit in a bit more, or be a bit invisible" But it never does.

People behaving like this follow animalic instinct, not reason, so the only language they understand is on the same level. This doesn't necessarily mean you have to fight yourself - but hard responses are necessary, and a 2m police man talking angry to a teen is a hard response.

Edit: Tried to make it a bit clearer that it is not only about fighting physically.
Related: "No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany's Industrial Expansion?[1] ", by Frank Thadeusz at Der Spiegel.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/no-copyright-l...

[O]nly 1,000 new works appeared annually in England [during the Enlightenment] -- 10 times fewer than in Germany -- and this was not without consequences. Höffner believes it was the chronically weak book market that caused England, the colonial power, to fritter away its head start within the span of a century, while the underdeveloped agrarian state of Germany caught up rapidly, becoming an equally developed industrial nation by 1900.

Even more startling is the factor Höffner believes caused this development -- in his view, it was none other than copyright law, which was established early in Great Britain, in 1710, that crippled the world of knowledge in the United Kingdom.

Germany, on the other hand, didn't bother with the concept of copyright for a long time. Prussia, then by far Germany's biggest state, introduced a copyright law in 1837, but Germany's continued division into small states meant that it was hardly possible to enforce the law throughout the empire.

I've posted a few more thoughts (and more on copyright) here: http://redd.it/23xrkd
My NoSQL store of choices gives me document-level ACID semantics along with eventual consistency, MapReduce, and replication.

Here's an example that explains how to get transaction-like guarantees from this kind of NoSQL data-store:

http://guide.couchdb.org/editions/1/en/recipes.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigCouch
Google "Just World Fallacy".
He mentions he thinks a couple of hours on his blog post comments section.
"There is always a last time for everything."

- Arthur C. Clarke in "The Nine Billion Names of God"
Actually, there are a lot of movie-making hubs popping up around the US. Lots of cities (mine included) are trying to grow a film industry with incentives.

(I think it's a poor policy decision, since it's just another beggar-thy-neighbor system, but that's a separate issue.) If you are trying to get into film you don't have to go to Hollywood these days. Hollywood is still the plurality of US film-making, but I don't think it's the majority any more.)
That is really horrendous. Sent shivers down my spine just reading it :/
Our journey begins
It mentions no soldering is required, but there's bound to be some tricky bits involved.
Microsoft earnings beat Street expectations
I assume that for an embedded DB, MS would be using a variant of Microsft Sql CE, which is their counterpart to SqlLite. And it's terrible.
Are you referring to a modified version of ngx_http_auth_request by davidjb that permits 3xx responses, including cookie headers?

http://davidjb.com/blog/2013/04/integrating-nginx-and-a-shib...

For some reason, I thought this behaviour made it to the upstream, till I re-read the official ngx_http_auth_request documentation and realized it doesn't pass through 3xx or headers other than WWW-Authenticate:

The ngx_http_auth_request_module module (1.5.4+) implements
client authorization based on the result of a subrequest.
If the subrequest returns a 2xx response code, the access
is allowed. If it returns 401 or 403, the access is
denied with the corresponding error code. Any other
response code returned by the subrequest is considered
an error. For the 401 error, the client also receives
the “WWW-Authenticate” header from the subrequest response.
Foxconn Sells Communications Technology Patents to Google
Thank you very much for this book! As a beginning game developer this was just what I was looking for. After learning how to do rendering, physics, AI and so on I was missing how to put it all together in a proper way. This is a great resource! :)
Dude. Victim blaming. Not cool. Seriously not cool. As in, giving-a-ninety-year-old-Jew-a-shower-head-and-a-gas-bottle not cool.
1 thing you're allowed to do: Ignore google completely. Build your business in such a way that it works, with or without google sending you traffic. That way you don't need to lose sleep over your rankings and you don't need to panic every 6 months when google updates their algorithms in a major way.

Just treat them like you would treat the weather, enjoy it when it's nice but make sure your business runs even when it is raining. If you're dependent on Google for your traffic you are doing it wrong.
It gets much stronger

EDIT: Though the vitriol does go off the rails a bit toward the end...
This is an incredibly short-sighted piece for two reasons

1) the data challenges of yesterday's internet giants are the data problems for just about every 21st century enterprise tomorrow. We're at the start of / in the midst of an irreversible data explosion.

2) Established players not taking new technologies and upstarts seriously is never evidence of the threat not being real. We know that on the contrary our industry is characterized by constant disruption where established players for whatever reason do not consistently stay at the front line of innovation and tend to get leapfrogged. (as an analogy Google+'s lurch into social may be akin to Oracle's lurch into nosql. Does that mean social was not real?)

Bottom line: It all depends on what you're doing. But more and more of us will be dealing with more and more complex data in the years to come. Of that, I'm certain.
Linked article said the victim declined to press charges. Possibly the DA felt it couldn't make a solid case without her cooperation, so they just got him to plead to the misdemeanors.
i understand the rationale behind "fight back" and in many instances it is probably the right solution.

but if 15 people are bullying you and sending you death threats, punching one sounds like the dumbest god damned idea.
it means a typo in release-15 auto-creates a whole new database without anyone noticing and you sit around and wonder where all of the data went yesterday.
First thing I see when hitting that link ... yep loading indicator.
This works with income sources too. There was a time when 90% of my recurring income depended on one guy. I used to worry about the bus factor.

Now that I diversified, I don't need to worry.

I'm meanwhile trying to reduce the bus factor in my own business, which is just me + outsourcers. I'm documenting what I do and creating processes, and am going to see a lawyer to make a will.

I'm only 28, but if anything happened where either I died or couldn't work, I'd want to be able to hand things off without it being an unusable mess.

(reducing my own bus factor also makes it easier to outsource)
I don't see a chip on that card, move along.
If you get death threats, it is a case for the police anyway, before any cyber bullying laws. And severe enough, like described in the article, for them to act.
You can see blackhat tactics everywhere. Please take a look at the "Reddit Bans The Atlantic, Businessweek In Anti-Spam Crusade": http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/06/13/reddit-...

I love The Atlantic but they were engaged in these blackhat tactics.
What an excellent way to ignore valuable input.

If your employees would rather have your competitors product then you need to get to work rather than to forbid them to use it you need to make it so they would prefer to use their own.
I don't think the term "cyber bullying" really conveys how serious it can be. I have no idea how anyone could endure this. It's inhuman.
Microsoft Completes Nokia Phone-Unit Deal in Push to Mobile
>Comcast is selling access to the Internet are they not?

There's the rub. As a cable company, Comcast are not just selling internet access, they're also selling access to TV and Movies, infact historically this is all they sold and they're still stuck in this mindset. Netflix threaten to disrupt this lucrative business.

Everyone knows cable make money from bundling a whole bunch of rubbish channels together with a handful of high quality channels and charging a lot for it. As soon as someone (Netflix) offers to let you just watch the good stuff, for less dollar, Comcast's profit line is going to take a hit. It's no coincidence that it's Netflix who has to pay extra whilst the non-threatening Google/YouTube/Facebook/Porn get past without hassle.
It's stupid if you don't realize it stands for "Not only SQL".
ADH is unstable and not active at the low pH values (1-2) in the stomach, this explanation is highly unlikely.
I've seen this happen too and despite the apprehension of causing a "fuss" the only proper response is to fight back through proper channels and use the laws in place designed to protect you and potential future victims - in the UK there is harassment law, the malicious communications act and court injunctions you can take out. The police tend to take quite a hard line too so don't suffer in silence.
Sierra Wireless have 3G modules, although they're not particularly simple or cheap.
Dress to Profess: What Should Scientists Wear?
Given that Broadcom originally designed the BCM2835 for smartphones, this could be said to be an actual "intended application" of the SoC. :)

$15 for a 2.5Ah battery is rather overpriced, however - as are the rest of the components like the screen and DC-DC. I found the SIM900 on eBay for $15, the DC-DC for $1.50, and ~ $5 for a battery of similar capacity. He could've put the whole thing together for <$100. Having done some electronics sourcing in China really changes your perspective on cost... amusingly enough, there was actually an iPhone 3G clone a few years ago called the PiPhone.

It's an interesting project but practically speaking $100 (no contract) can already buy a pretty good smartphone these days... and one with a more "unofficially open" SoC too.

The antenna sticking out of it is the best part.
Not only that, but ingesting large amounts of live yeast can (does)cause explosive gastrointestinal results. A problem familiar to any home brewer that has consumed especially yeasty young beer.
This is very dangerous advice. You will most likely lose that fight, badly, because you are in the minority. YOU will most likely end up being suspended and arrested, because the bullies have friends who will testify against you, and they're the popular, trustworthy ones.

And escalating violence can quickly get to a point where consequences are completely out of proportion especially when you're up against people who "follow animalic instinct" - anything you do that makes them look bad compels them to retalitate in kind.

What you need is allies and/or support from authorities.
larry?
So what is that, like $2k per employee per year of the conspiracy? Sounds like they've learned their lesson, and the lesson is "go ahead and do it again, nobody will stop you."
Croatian 26-year old poised to raise funding for his electric supercar startup
I've said this in the corresponding reddit threads in /r/beer and /r/homebrewing, but I've met Jim Koch on multiple occasions in multiple settings, and I've never seen him not hammered. He's a functioning alcoholic, not a magician.

He is, however, brilliant. He gets beer and marketing beer better than anybody else I've ever met.
Those touch screen TFTs look awesome, and incredibly cheap considering how much more you can do with a PI with one of them attached.
Alicia Rose Flowers( original song) folk
i didn't downvote you but i admit i was probably too dismissive of your post.

i see now you were suggesting that punching/suspension/arrest are all different methods for fighting back (some more suitable than others depending on the circumstances).
This advice is likely to remedy a bullying-situation somewhat, but it's often the most difficult and harrowing response for a victim to fathom. It often doesn't stack the odds in your favour an awful lot in terms of when an authority begins to intervene.

I was the subject of, what I consider, mild bullying at points during my schooling, and I really could never bring myself to physically fight back:
a. because the bullies are almost always multiple in number and rather daunting
b. I didn't want to hurt anyone, per se

Eventually, as with most bullying, it became more and more infrequent simply because I refused to retaliate or show any kind of response. It's the hardest pill to swallow, as a victim, but often the easiest and more fruitful of the alternatives.

Giving bullies attention of any kind for their behaviour is a rewarding mechanism that only serves to attract more atrocious individuals and increase its frequency and intensity. I respect your advice to 'fight back', but I honestly think a policy of ignorance (where the victim is not seriously endangered and has a support network) is the much more practical way to go about things.
"Upcoming mass resignations"? This story has been in the news for nearly four years now. Anyone who sees it as a compelling reason to not work for Google or Apple is long gone.
There's some explanation in there somewhere:

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/idukg/valve_vs_most_...
Ironically, we kind of do, at least in the US. We call the trucks. SUVs are a bit of an anomaly, but I've heard plenty of people colloquially call our explorer a truck.
> YOUR code is hard to test BECAUSE you don’t TDD.

TDD isn't dead, but it also isn't a silver bullet.
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The whole interview is great, but the last few paragraphs on advice to young musicians are brilliantly helpful.

“Be voracious when it comes to uncovering the secrets of the music business and how people outside the music business behave as entrepreneurs.”

And I wish more of my fine art friends would embrace this mentality (primarily so they can keep making art):

“[Art and business] seem diametrically opposed, but I don't think you can survive being just an artist or just a businessperson. If you're only business, you will lack the flair that attracts an audience. If you're only flair, you'll be taken advantage of.”
If a team has n people, the loss of any of whom would halt the project, does that mean that the bus factor is 1/n?
I find it easy to believe him. He posts using his real name. If he is lying then ....well Google has an army of lawyers. He is almost certainly telling what he believes is the truth.

In contrast all the active Google employees who follow him around are anon posters. Anon posters who never worked with Michael and are only repeating office gossip or pointing out differences in perspective.

Edit: Anon people sign up to hn simply to try and discredit MichaelOChurch by attacking his (admittedly a little rough around the edges) reputation. See shanterer's post below for evidence in this thread.