skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to say exactly that. My friends are not like me. Even the friends I have that are software developers are not interested in the same things. Heck, even the people I work directly with aren't interested in the same things.

> I want my search results to be ranked with signals from other relevant people... and I don't know who these people are.

This is were you're partially wrong. Personally I know many people that I'd like to be included in my search ranking as signals. The problem is - those people are only a subset of the people that I follow on Twitter or Google+.

The problem with "Follow" or "Add as Friend" or whatever these social networks are calling it - is that some people are more interesting than others. Some people I follow simply because they are my friends. While other people I follow because I'm interested in whatever they've got to say. And this is the problem that Google should solve.
you still very much need to understand SQL and the underlying structure of your data

That's good to hear! Though in my experience of interacting with people who have learned development in last 3-5 years, many of them are very oblivious to basic database concepts. They mostly think in terms of the object in the code, relying on the framework to take care of the database. It might even generate the sql that they just need to execute. But anyone who's worked with production database from before the advent of frameworks like Rails etc. knows that the only thing worse than messing up an sql statement is running auto generated sql.
FYI, she wants to block hackernews visitors (probably due to a hosting issue), so can someone throw up a mirror?
>Note the unspoken part of that definition. Eich took steps, actual steps, not even just speech, to limit the rights of other people. That's why it's not thought police.

The "actual steps" were his democratic rights as a citizen in a free country. It was a matter put to vote, and he backed a specific outcome of the vote. Neither the vote was illegal, not he acted on anything outside of that.

Just because you think other people should "obviously have that right" doesn't say anything. I think that people should have the right to consume whatever drug they want freely, and that they should have the right to not be executed by the state.

Are all persons who voted / backed laws against those things oppresive, or it's only your particular pet cause?
Both Go from TW and the other Go! Programming language[0] is older than the Go language from Google.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)
By making Sam Adams a national brand, he paved the way for every craft brewer in America. Hard to imagine that he's not an alcoholic.
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I think you have to judge each case on its merits.

The sure fire way to beat a bully though is to stand up to them and let them know that what ever they throw at you, you'll throw twice as much back. They will not win.

Some bullying stops if you just ignore it and make it "not fun anymore" for the bully. But it all depends on the individual circumstances.
The build pipeline view for Go is great, but it lacks in extensibility and a rich plugin community (unlike jenkins).

Hopefully this will all change with it now being open source...
Nokia was one of the smartphone pioneers with their 770 Internet Tablets. It's hard to understand why they embraced Microsoft when the last product from this line, the N9, was so widely acclaimed and IMHO doomed to succeed.
You can turn it off if you don't use it that way.
How is is related to the main point above? You seemed to imply, that only reducing regulation can solve problems, while adding it does not. That was the focus of the discussion. Adding regulations can be a necessity. Why for example such concept as "common carriers" even exist?
This is so low on detail as to be almost content-free, presumably in the spirit of the boondoggle "Flood hackathon" itself. If you're interested in a working application of sensor technology in this area, have a look at the Oxford Flood Network:

http://oxfloodnet.co.uk
http://odec.org.uk/occupy-whitespace-the-oxford-flood-networ...
It has to be a joke, right? The video on the subscription page sounds like a total parody of an elevator pitch: https://codebabes.com/user/register?destination=subscription .. "leveraging sexual desire" .. having a woman take off an item of clothing each time you pass a quiz? If this had come out April 1st, it would have easily passed as a creative April Fools joke.
One of the things that's well understood about SQL is that interop is terrible. No one expects to write anything substantial using Postgres and be able to port it over to MySQL or MSSQL without a serious amount of effort.

On the backend, that's more or less OK, although one of the value propositions of ORMs is that they make it somewhat easier to change databases later by reducing the amount of product-specific SQL that has to be rewritten. On the web, however, it's totally unacceptable. Sites are expected to keep working between multiple browsers and across multiple browser versions. To achieve that level of interop would have required someone to sit down and write a detailed specification of the dialect of SQL that should be supported on the web, and for browser vendors to take the time to implement it. In practice people weren't willing to spend the time doing either of those things; the level of buy-in was enough to fork sqlite but no higher.

Eventually the web might get something like WebSQL. But the way it will happen will be for people to implement SQL in js on top of IndexedDB. If that proves popular but has issues (e.g. with performance) then there will be renewed impetus to do a proper job of a WebSQL specification.
That number is inflated by adding YouTube users, which was a kind of social network with it's own kind of audience (notoriously trollish in some ways) before the shotgun wedding to G+.

My follower growth has slowed. The first product page I put on Google+ (a book about Android) got many followers quickly. Same with my personal page. The second time I put up a product page for a book, the response was much attenuated, and my follower growth has been slow and low quality. It wasn't great quality on Facebook either, but it was much faster. Maybe I need to see how well product pages would do on LinkedIn.
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Thank you! I had the exact same reaction when a coworker told me about this. There are millions of people who would take your old phone off your hands.
Do internet hugs work?

I was bullied from about 12 (right after moving to a new school, a VERY susceptible time, in hindsight) until at least 14.

I wouldn't call this justice but the main bullier ended up taking a shotgun to his own head just a few years ago. I have a feeling that bullying harms more than just the victims, it also harms the perpetrators...
Equating popularity with validity is a logical fallacy. Sticking my face in a steaming pile of human shit would be the most popular feature of forced captivity if my captors offered only one other option of molten lead.

Laws and regulations exist because there is an 'elite' who make them, they affect us because the elite have an army of muscle men called the police who threaten our liberty for non-compliance. This is easily, formally provable. The intentions of the elite are murky and decidedly unprovable - how many NSAs do we need to create before people get that?
If you get yeast in your intestines and you're taking antibiotics, you can get what's called Auto-Brewery Syndrome. The yeast in your intestines starts to ferment sugars and you get drunk all the time.
These Supercharger stations are generally already on someone else's property, like a hotel or mall near a highway.
You choose the instance type yourself when creating the Elastic Beanstalk app.
Ask HN: How do I figure out the JSON challenge?
Please help. I personally dont care about the job, this challenge is just bugging and I need help. Any hints or suggestion would be appreciated.

If you go to this site: https://www.rainforestqa.com/jobs/
And click apply it’s a Challenge...I don’t care about the job I just want to figure out the challenge loll it's been bugging me.

So far I believe it's some sort of JavaScript challenge which would then unlock into the application site....
This link might help understand also: http://www.jsontest.com/

Thank you
I would have said: that is going to be hard to search for...at least dart is a bit more searchable.
"As long as one of the bullies is sufficiently bloody, maimed, or dead, you'll have accomplished your purpose."

Life is not Ender's Game. If you kill another kid, you might get taken out of your current environment, but it will be to prison: full of many more aggressive people, callous power figures, and an inability to be safe even in the shower.

Actually, that sounds exactly like Ender's Game.
It's actually not that hard to believe that, out of tens of thousands of people (or more?) world-wide with the capability to build something like this, there's at least one person who actually would do it. That's the problem with trolling - one person can offend thousands of people at a time!
"Safari are finally adding IndexedDB, which means for the first time we have a unified storage interface across all the browsers."

localStorage has been well supported over all browers since IE8... It's interface IMO is a perfect fit in JavaScript... with the one exception of not being callback driven...
I don't know why some in tech community hate facebook (and thus automatically love Google+), but in my opinion Google+ had a terrible interface and nobody I know ever used it - I find Facebook much, much better (not to mention that everybody I care about is there).

Despite liking Google, I find Google+ a trainwreck - it was time for Google to either get out of this business of competing with Facebook or completely revamping Google+. It seems that they chose the former.
Primus: "(something really stupid you'd have to be an asshole to say)"

Secundus: "That was really stupid, and you're an asshole for saying it."

Primus: "LOL I TROLL U LE TROLLFACE.JPG LE MFW LELELELE"

Nowhere easier to win an argument than in your own mind, I suppose. Seriously, though, what are you doing on Hacker News? /b/ is thataway, just past the dumpsters; when you get to the open sewer, you're there, so jump right on in.
Are there any you would add/remove from this list?
This seems like the complete antithesis of how the "learn to code" movement has centered around bringing women into the field.

That said, though I may not be in direct support I can definitely see this getting more 12-13 year old boys to gain traction they may not have otherwise. Two edges to the sword, I guess.
Just because he drinks a lot (note that this is also part of his profession) doesn't make him an alcoholic.

People love to toss the term around lightly. If you've ever lived with a true alcoholic then you know it's not something to be joked about and it is a life threatening disease.

How would you feel if everyone in this thread was non-chalantly calling John Koch a junkie.
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Companies can be as powerful as states. Heck, some companies have budgets larger that many states. And historically they have been involved from getting laws passed to their favor, to actually putting their own people in power. Search "banana republic" in wikipedia for some of the most known examples of that.

So I don't see anything better from the state bullying people to a private company doing the same. If anything it's worse, since the state has some democratic controls in place (at least in theory) and the majority elects their policies and representatives. A private company can be the rule and whimses of just one jerk.
It's kind of futile to expect to reach some equilibrium where all people who have title X are attracted to HN's community.
I think it's real: https://www.youtube.com/user/CodeBabes
Indeed, their cellphones were solid as rock, even the cheapest ones had a huge usability, I still miss my first Nokia 1112.
So, Wired has an "hn" query string qualifier? (See the OP URL.)
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> 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.

It pains me to report that this is the only thing that came close to completely stopping my bullying and I have the multiple suspensions to prove it. I have to say that I'd be much worse off today had I not decided to defend myself, sometimes physically.

In one instance, a larger tougher boy (I was a scrawny kid) kept messing with me in study hall, kept challenging me to fight after school. One day I finally got fed up and with a bit of grit in my teeth I stood up and said yes, fine, it's time to fight after school. Know what? He patted me on the shoulder and said "you're cool, man, you're cool." ?!?!?!
A difference between encryption keys and MACs is that MACs do not become weaker as the attacker gains more computing power, except by making bruteforcing the authentication key easier, which does not depend on the length of the tag. The attacker is limited by the amount of messages your system can process.

Another difference is that old communication is not at risk. As soon as the client and server is upgraded, they are secure, as opposed to encryption where attackers may still recover sensitive information from things that were encrypted years ago. So it doesn't need the same degree of future proofing.

So while a 80-bit encryption key is on the weak end of the spectrum, even 80 bits of security is pretty conservative for a MAC.
>Actions have consequences.

That's also what KKK said, when lynching someone.
Yeah, coming up with tricks to "not get drunk", or searching for cheap booze deals, or anything that is really just out of the way burdensome for the sake of nothing more than "more drink".

I don't buy cheap beer, ever. Not even if I'm asked to get a case for a party. If I'm going to drink, I want something I'll enjoy. Cheap beer is about getting a buzz or getting drunk. It always freaks people out, "you shouldn't have spent so much for a party". Why? I don't see it as a choice. Should I have only opened a can of kidney beans for the dish I brought, too? No, I want to have something that I will enjoy, that others can enjoy, too. It's not just about "filling ourselves to the gills on as little money as possible." But that is how people treat beer.

That's not to say I don't get drunk sometimes. The experience of sitting in an innertube on a lazy river is significantly enhanced by alcohol. A wedding party is significantly enhanced by copious alchol. But most days I want to be productive and make things. I can't code or write well--and certainly can't solder at all--when I'm drunk. I similarly don't watch a lot of television, or read a lot of books. I'd like to fill my time with more productive tasks than consumptive ones.
I don't care if it's true or not, I want to believe. No need to rain on my parade.

But most importantly, does the blog author work at Google, or has connections that are more reliable than the ones Techcrunch has? I feel like this is pretty important to know in regards to who I should believe.
That would fall under that option :

> publishing my french articles to a selected group of french people, hiding the content to anyone that might be interested and I don't know of

On google+, it's the publisher who decides which people are in which circle, not the reader who decides in which circle he wants to be (and circle names and person list are totally private).

So, if you publish to a circle rather than publicly, only people you added in circle will see your content. It's not guaranteed they actually care about it, and those who care about it and you don't know won't be able to see the content.

As others have mentioned, circles are meant for privacy (I want to publish this to my family, that to my close friends), not to separate content (I want to publicly talk about politics, I want to publicly talk about cats).
Is it possible that taking notes in North Korea are the equivalent of taking pictures of everything in the modern world?
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As a former bully, my advice to anyone being bullied is to fight back.

I wasn't someone who would physically attack people, but I would relentlessly verbally abuse them. I'm not sure about the legal consequences these days but I know that if the person I picked on punched me in the face, I'd probably back down. This is what I have told my kids if they ever find themselves bullied. I'm not sure about the circumstances of the OP but I do think if you allow the bullying to fester, then kids who normally wouldn't bully start looking at you as a target and join in. The key is to not make yourself a target and if they know every time they bully you, that you will fight back tooth and nail, eventually they will choose someone else. It's sad and unfair, but true. It's like Lord of the Flies.

The one thing that makes me glad that I'm not younger is the fact that I didn't have the internet when I was a kid. I know for a fact I would have engaged in cyberbullying so I'm glad I never had access to a tool like this when I was at my worst.
And porn degrades women right?

Why are you offended? Do you really think this is a serious website? maybe the next Codecademy.

On a lighter note, its really funny how you think "women must find it" offensive, but not for a single second you even thought that same statement is really really sexist.

ps: About the website, on my scale between love it and hate it, its in the "who gives a f*?" category. Daytime television if full of this cheesy type of stuff.
Thanks for being understanding. I'm going to have to reign in that impulse to shoot the messenger.
While that's probably true and I think people should be happy with whatever makes them happy, it doesn't mean these engineers couldn't be much better off.

That being said, as an employee, I'm so afraid of unions screwing up that I can't make my mind between having an union vs. these periodic lawsuits/settlements in order to keep the balance. It seems every example of a union being a good thing (like the Norway example mentioned here) feels like a bug in the matrix.
Makes you wonder when Docker will go 1.0 and be officially "ready for production".
Show HN: Spotsy – iPhone app to discover the world through Instagram
This has to be a joke site satirically poking fun at all the "learn to code" sites that seem to be popping up every day.
The big difference is this isn't programming-themed porn, but porn-themed programming education. The context within which someone wants to watch porn of any variety is rather different to that in which someone wants to learn how to program and stumbles across stuff like this.
No, I'm not one of those people. And I agree with basically everything you've said here (except for the part about the possibilities of AI and the limitations of mystery - but we've covered that!). I find the closed-mindedness of many people so disappointing. I think asking these questions is so important. I also find others' experiences with religion fascinating. Thank you for sharing. My experience was extremely different - and the community I was (and am) part of doesn't strike me as closed-minded. As you note, there are many religious people who don't see a conflict between science and religion. I count myself as one of them.
Well they also make about 10 variants on IPAs.

I'd say the "hip trend" is (and has been) toward lactics/sours/reds and I don't think Sam Adams has anything invested in that yet.
Ask HN: Should employers provide computers for developers?
Anyone have any good insights into the BYOD (bring your own device) debate? We are a small start up (20 employees) and until now everyone has been forced to provide their own hardware, but that might need to change soon.

Any insights into policies that have worked for others in a similar position would be helpful. Thanks!
That's the thing: the people on G+ seem to use it more as a professional networking tool (like LinkedIn without recruiter spam and more flexibility on what you post). I don't have any friends on G+, but I also don't WANT or NEED them on it. I use it to keep up on some tech stuff and look at photos.

Facebook and G+, while both being "social networks," function totally differently. Whether google wanted it to be a direct competitor or not, it's just filling a different niche.
Why the downvotes? cpeterso's comment (a Mozilla employee) seems to agree with this.
Alternate one drink with one glass of water. It's self-pacing and keeps you hydrated. Works for me.
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I fail to see how that's any different than the current case with JS and how we use shims to normalize the usage to a sane, concise API until it stabilizes (if it ever does). Do we really expect there won't be umpteen shims for WebSQL to normalize any syntax and feature inconsistencies?
Aren't april fools normally restricted to the first? Though, hopeful as I am that this is a joke, it really looks like they've run with the concept (videos and everything seem to be evident).

Marking down as "Hopefully a troll".
I should have qualified my statement.
Its a submission test. Its just like people taking random notes they will never look at when someone 2-3 levels on the hierarchy talks to them in a corporation.
It's definitely tasteless, but for once, despite the theme, it has little to do with our industry, and actually very little with sexism unless you take the radical view that women should never be portrait in such a way.

There's a fundamental difference between exploiting one aspect of women and bringing that exploitation where it doesn't belong or basing your entire attitude towards women on that one aspect.

This is just soft porn under a domain name that ends with "babes.com". Most of us are okay with the existence of such things (and that's an understatement), and somebody was bound to exploit this predominantly mail target audience.

It's just too bad it's now being associated with our industry when we really don't need that shit.

But please don't make this part of the narrative around the very real problem of sexism in our industry. This is just a red herring, and maybe just a troll.
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Yeah, that's odd. You could move those five stations from I-90 to I-80 and the trip would be a bit shorter.

Maybe South Dakota is cheaper than Nebraska. Or they wanted to show that you could go to the National Parks.
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The 'LOLITROLLU' response? At least put some effort into your trolling.

Elsewhere in this thread we have people talking about the problem of putting a lot of emotionally immature people with limited ability to emphasise together in schools, and how inevitable bullying and so on are in that environment. Your posts are providing a nice example of a further point: some people never achieve emotional maturity or the ability to empathise with others. Which is one of the reasons bullying isn't a problem limited to the classroom.

I shouldn't need to point this out to an adult but it seems like it needs to be said: ignoring the emotions of others is not a sign of emotional maturity.
I don't understand your expression but I was just quoting a news source without any interpretation implied. I can imagine how such a scenario would hamper the prosecution moreso than someone just not keen on pressing charges.
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