skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first became a developer fourteen months ago...

I remember having the same ah-ha in my first year or 2 programming professionally ten years ago.

I started a wiki on a stick or something like that. Lasted all of 6 months.

The same problems don't recur because you get better at stopping them recurring. You become better at root cause, making sure that someone getting the project from version control doesn't have to remember to press button y slowly with their left forefinger, do a backwards roll, shout 'all hail torvalds' 3 times backwards before the build runs.

You also get better at debugging generally, so simply reading the stack trace/error message/error event lets you predict the cause without having to consult your list.
No.

I imagine google has a tight audit of who accessed emails, and when, and that those people need a good reason to do so. Poking around to see what emails a job seeker has sent or received is not one of those things.

I guess Google needs to work on their image if you seriously think there is any chance that Google is reading your private email because you applied for a job there.
I remember this being the reason:

http://techcrunch.com/2008/03/10/little-known-hacker-news-is...
How validating early rejuvinated my falling moral
2010:

> Schmidt: Our view of social is a little different than what everyone has been writing. we want our core products to get better from social information.
> We are trying to add a social component [to google's core products] to make them even better.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/16/details-on-the-google-socia...
For a step by step walk through to building an identical desk: http://nolanbrown.com/howto/2012/12/19/desk-build/
Has anyone seen this one?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2036834894/the-most-aff...

Looks like it's not out yet, but comparable.
No kidding, you can build that for a fraction of the price. Looks like those are just painted plumbing fittings + some polished wood.
> It must be hard for the bullying victim but it's something that has to be done.

That's another thing. I sometimes wonder if, with all these rules and regulations and protections in place, we're not taking away some of the development that kids have to do for themselves. Standing up to a bully is extremely hard, but it's something a lot of kids eventually just have to do. I honestly think it builds character to do so.
Is it an algorithm that randomly revert my choice to display my newsfeed in chronological order ?
So when they say "game", do they really mean "video game"?

This is a semantic shift that leaves me uncomfortable.
> Russians in Crimea were holding up signs praising Stalin a few weeks ago, madness.

I can't find any mention of this through a casual google search. If true, that's quite shocking.
Also note the Inverse Bus Factor: ”how many developers have to be hit by a bus before a project starts to proceed smoothly?”

https://twitter.com/voidspace/status/435449949342679040
Children don't need a reason to be absolute shitheads.
> As long as one of the bullies is sufficiently bloody, maimed, or dead, you'll have accomplished your purpose.

Unless it's you who ends up bloody, maimed, or dead, which I submit is the more likely outcome when faced with multiple bullies who are not all stupid and can lay ambushes for you as easily as you for them.

> I had [...], established a reputation that [..] if you crossed various lines there was absolutely no limit to what I'd do to retaliate (note, with a continuum of force, just no upper limit to it).

You got lucky that you never went up against someone with the same philosophy. A continuous escalation of violence is something you need to avoid at all costs.

Retalitate, sure, but not using violence, at least unless you have exhausted all other options. And kids suck at judging whether they have, because they misjudge risks and will e.g. consider reporting to the police and being judged a sissy a greater risk than entering a violent confrontation that could leave them permanently disabled.
Instagram's search-by-geo-coordinates endpoint is one feature that makes the API so valuable and interesting...Other services have it, of course, but Instagram's version has higher value because geolocation is turned on by default...I read somewhere that maybe 2-5% of Tweets have geodata, whereas Instagram content is at 30 to 50%.

The investigative newsroom ProPublica (disclosure: my former employer) had a fun use-case, in which they knew of a lobbyist-politician ski resort retreat, looked up the location of the resort, and then used Instagram's location/date filters to see who was on the trip (at least one lobbyist posted a photo from their own publicly identifiable account): http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/a-super-simple-tool-to-...
> This is where Google have gone wrong. I don't want my search results to be affected by signals from my friends. They don't search for the same things as me.

I get what you mean. But if I search for an solution for something StackOverflow-ish, it'd be be great to see JS results (98% of my coding friends) rather than, say .net results (only a handful of people).

A non-social search would merely show whatever answer had been around and popular enough to get the most pagerank.
Knowing who you are, knowing you you like to Follow, knowing who you like to share with, those are "table stakes," to use your term.

Google didn't know who you were, who you followed, who you shared with, and so Google+ looked a lot like a product to you.
This guy was the chairman of the board at the time. Does it seem like he wouldn't do best for his company and risk national disgrace, all for what must be pennies to him?

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

I believe he genuinely thought it was a good deal for Nokia and MS didn't really do anything but give better terms than Google was willing to give.
I was geek and nerd too. Some kids tried to bully me. My episode of bulling ended with me going berserk and one of the bullies skull cracked and the other with a broken rib.

When I convinced them that I was meaner and crazier than them I was left alone. It also helped that is was in era past so when all five of us were sent in front of the principle and he got all the facts his comment was - "It is wonder you haven't done that sooner."

Physical bulling is easier to deal with than with cyberbulling - what this girl was subject to is much hard to retaliate.
I run an online service that connects teens with experienced lawyers who advise them for free (it is a labour of love).

Obviously I am biased, but I think we need more services that can help kids deal with online realities. In our experience, kids who are being bullied have no idea how to get the help they need and burrow instead. We owe it to them to change that.

I am convinced that the tech community can play a big part in that, it certainly has for my organization.
That's the worst thing you can possibly do. Damn near any other course of action is better than just sitting there and taking it.

The first line of defense against bullying is to fight back. More often than not, this will suffice; even if you don't win the fights, most bullies will leave you alone once it's clear picking on you is more trouble than it's worth.

But if that's not viable - if the power imbalance is too extreme, or if the level of violence is life-threatening - then you need to either get backup (parents, teachers, senior management, police, as applicable) or leave the situation, permanently. Yes, that means dropping out of school or quitting your job is the right thing to do if no other countermeasure is available.
Google won't give you the exact links that hurt you. I think if they did, then people would just disavow those specific links and go on spamming (hoping some other links would stick). Not really a lesson to learn there.

They do give you increasingly more information in Webmaster Tools about "unnatural links to your website": https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2700611?hl=en They task you to read the guidelines on linking: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356 and to apply your new-found knowledge to clear any suspicious links from your incoming links list. Then to kindly ask those other webmasters to remove those links (instead of spamming them for link requests). It is like a spammer rehabilitation program :). The spammer mindset is pretty cruel, selfish and destructive. You can't be too nice. That forms a pretty complex game theory with difficult opponents. Yet Google is somehow changing their opponents to clear up the spam they've created and cower in fear every time they announce an algorithmic update.
I have 2 counter examples. My wife's step father would come home from his sales job and drink glass after glass of whiskey and coke. Each was about 15 ounces of whiskey with 1 ounce of coke to give it color (trying to hide how much he drinks). He's a good provider and only a little emotionally abusive to his family. The other example is the woman my wife works with. She is a contract-medical coder that is faster and better than anyone else in the company. She also drinks a bottle of wine with the meal she doesn't eat every night. She is the best employee my wife has as long as she's not in the hospital for electrolyte imbalance.
As noted at the end of the article- accuracy isn't a priority.
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I'm a man, but that's unimportant here. Yes, my kid would not tell me if she was a bully.

Any sort of meaningful conversation with my kid about it would likely devolve into a childish argument where the defense is "No, I'm not. It's the other kids."

You're faced with two choices here. On one side, you can back your kid. On the other, you can think that you're likely not getting the full story and that something really is going on.

My child, in particular, has a real problem with shifting blame. You need to have a read on your children so that you can properly judge for yourself what's going on. Bullying is not ok and your kids need to know that it's going to be no nonsense when it comes to bullying.
http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg15911.html

http://www.internap.com/2010/12/02/peering-disputes-comcast-...
If it's norm enforcement, then it reveals the disgusting inner nature of a lot of people: "these people are weak, so they should be harassed."

Can you sue a school/teachers for negligence here? Oftentimes demanding people to lawyer up seems to correct behavior remarkably quickly. Similarly, the threat of suing parents would probably also cause something to happen.
The term 'Early Access Program' does not warrant an acronym.
DHH does have a point, but he makes it in a manner that is hyperbolic, accusatory, narrow-minded, stubborn and often rude. I find him to be a negative voice in the community and a dangerous leader. I am happy to fight fire with fire where necessary, and agree with the tone of the article linked by the OP.
What CS blogs should everyone read?
As a black kid, punching some verbal abuser in the face is a good way to get caught in the system for the rest of your life.
What is end goal of "crushing them?" You want them to stop being weak? You want them to not be in your life anymore? Quit their job, or quit their school?

I also sense weakness, I was in the Marines, and my impulse is also to be tough with "weak" people, but in a avuncular helpful way, leading them to be stronger. You have to give them queues that you're on their side even as you're not putting up with the bullshit. In the civilian world you have less room to do it and you have less of a standing to involve yourself even if you think you ought to. If someone doesn't like my tougher approach, and it becomes a problem, I transform into being the polar opposite, overly nice, very careful with that person. I don't think this would help them, but I can at least build a personal relationship with them that works.

I'd be proud of someone, whether I had anything to do with it or not, if a weak person stood up for themselves. I think bullying just makes weak people even less self confident and even weaker.
> when comparing bus factor of projects of different sizes [] it makes sense to normalize by dividing by the size of the team

Consider two projects, a one-man project with a bus factor of, obviously, 1, and a 100-man project with so much redundancy within the group that the bus factor is an impressively robust 50. The standard bus factor immediately tells us that the big project is much much less fragile.

The "normalized bus factor" you describe (1 for the solo project, 1/2 for the huge project) perversely tells us that the big project is much more fragile, in that it will be disabled by the loss of 50% of the team, while the solo project will only go down after a full 100% of the team is eliminated.

Why does it make more sense to count redundancy by "percentage of the team, whatever size the team might be" rather than by "number of setbacks before project failure"? In general, the bigger team really does make the project more robust, not less robust.
That's funny, I stopped in to say the same thing. At an "extreme" (high gravity) beer festival in Boston a few years ago he was more intoxicated than my wife and I, and yet managed to make perfect sense. (Maybe I was just too drunk to tell the difference?)
Sorry, but you are wrong, the author wants the thread off hacker news, so she doesn't want to spread awareness. Read her other tweets and you'll see that she doesn't want any kind of negative criticism, she is interested only in positive comments. If you are only interested in reassuring comments, that's called sympathy.
Could one solder this 3G module on the board from the article?

http://www.micro4you.com/store/sim900-gprs/gsm-module.html
(just removing the GPRS module and soldering the 3G?)
I think Windows rot stopped being a thing since XP. Windows 7 and Windows 8 installations rarely slow down over time, unless you're installing toobars and adware.
Personally I interact only on web sites where I can register with my email address. The sites you listed are those that I avoid more, I don't like knowing my comments are tight to my personal identity on a service that does also manage content. ie. I would be ok using an OpenID from a company that does only OpenId. FB/Google/etc. authentication platform is just a way to build up their userbase to make money out of user profiles (which is not necessarily bad, but I don't want to be a product just because I need to post in a forum).
My first impression on reading this article is that the sites he names (techcrunch, careerrookie, etc.) have hundreds of thousands of indexed pages of actual content. They may be being practicing black hat seo (or just wasting marketing dollars), but their content is actually relevant, and their referral traffic from these links probably outweighs any SEO penalties they are receiving for these practices.

It should be pretty obvious that you can't spend a weekend creating an SEO link farm and expect to get to the front page of Google... Try bankrolling a professional editorial staff for a year and generate actual content in whatever niche you want and then run your anchor text experiment. Post a link to HN with those results!
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And even in South Africa : http://mg.co.za/article/2014-03-13-soap-box-how-malema-becam...
Created an issue for that: https://github.com/gocd/gocd/issues/131
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I think author is just in wrong community. Some modern strongly typed language would suit him better. Hell even Python would do.
We need to develop a social norm that sharing something is not necessarily permission to publicize it. There's lots of contexts where it is probably fine, but I think there are also quite some contexts where it isn't so fine.

I'm not trying to get up on a high horse and preach, it's just kind of gross to completely change the sort of attention that is being directed at something that someone shared.

I know that some of the response to this will be to not post it publicly if you don't want people to see it, but that's exactly the thought I want to push back against, just because something is available at a public url doesn't mean it is a cool thing to point reddit at it.
The date at the bottom of the post is: "June 18, 2012".
In Tokyo it's just pictures of food.

I wonder if there was a way to detect pictures of food automatically so it could be filtered out.
You and onli are talking about different situations.

At the low end of the spectrum, onli's advice is correct. At that end, trying to call in authorities is useless and fighting back is highly effective; even if you lose the fight, it'll probably convince the bully that picking on you is more trouble than it's worth.

Further up the spectrum where the power disparity is too extreme or the level of violence is life-threatening, yes, fighting back becomes less of a good strategy - it's still better than just sitting there and taking it, but better still is, as you say, seeking backup - and if that fails, leave the situation permanently.
Did you write some code that makes a get request to that url? I think a simple page with a jquery get or xmlhttprequest etc should get you started.
> The main bit of evidence, the surveillance tape, was thrown out because they seized it without warrant (out of concern it'd be destroyed while waiting for one).

I also think that is the main point in this story, along with the sentence in the article that follows shortly after:

"It is also reported that Kakish declined to press charges."

A quote from the article in the first link states:

> "But perhaps the biggest blow came when Judge Brendan Conroy ruled that surveillance video from Chahal's bedroom - which reportedly captured the 1 1/2-hour attack - had been seized unlawfully by police. The cops claim they took the video without waiting for a warrant because they feared it might get erased, but the judge didn't buy it."

The linked article also suggests that Julia Kakish might have been paid off, neither Chahal's or Kakish's lawyers are saying anything regarding this issue.

The video evidence was thrown out because the judge said it was obtained unlawfully, but does this question the video's authenticity? I don't think it does.
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Agreed. It's a shame, though, that so many of us are expressing admiration for Putin.
You can just say it's offensive. Qualifying it with your gender is the opposite of what you want to do.
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Depends on what functions your app is performing. We develop web based apps and would only need a native version to access a users contact list (Maybe there is a way to do this already?). Otherwise we're pretty content without having to deal with the app stores.
Anything can be taken to an extreme, but there's a lot of room in the middle for exactly what he's saying.

I rarely drink more than one beer in a sitting. But if the only thing being offered is Budweiser or similar, it'll be zero. I don't take it to an extreme, and am perfectly happy with a Sam Adams or similar decent big names, but I'm not going to waste the calories on something awful.

It's not a matter of "a higher pursuit", just a matter of taste, no different from preferring to drink nothing than, say, Mountain Dew.
Perhaps once, but for such a long period of time? I don't believe it.
Please add a [2012] to the title. Some stuff has happened since then :)
The name gocd has been getting quite a bit of traction on twitter and such, and that's the name of the GitHub repo. Searching for that might be more effective.
The Nokia story will always remind us of how quickly even large companies can die in today's world. They didn't even see it coming.
I've enjoyed doing short game dev competitions many times before but I've never done LD. I'm planning on live streaming it this time if anyone's interested: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2014/04/25/im-in-with-a-live-...
> but a justice system screw-up has let him largely off the hook

As I understand the article, it's also that she didn't press charges.
I suppose it might give one a leg up if they were applying for a job as webmaster for a porn site.
Are you in the Seattle area? Please be in the Seattle area (Comcast is the only viable thing we have in most areas).
> 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.

I come from a place where people will polish a 24 in a night. I have an appreciation for fine spirits, but I don't think that I "drink the most," and additionally, when I drink, it's more to enjoy the liquor, then get hammered (though, I do that, too). My appreciation comes from drinking a varied variety of beer, rather than just the same thing ad infinitum.
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> What would be an improved way to say it?

Not say it. Don't just assume you know the experience of the Other because you read some Tumblr blogs.
apparently Thoughtworks has been building the Go continuous delivery tool as a custom product from even before Google made Go! I think the word "GO" hasn't been trademarked yet.
>or the G-sensor detects the accident and reacts automatically

Just don't ever drop your phone.
The one I saw had women holding the signs but I can't find it but I did find this one:

http://www.thestar.com.my/~/media/Images/TSOL/Photos-Gallery...

Edit: Here it is
https://www.google.com/search?q=pro-russians+in+crimea+stali...
I don't have an iphone and can't try the app.

Is it similar to http://smwh.re and http://www.travyde.com/explore ?
Well, as I understand it, you can sue over any tort if you feel so justified, and the rest is up to a judge. I'm not a lawyer, though, so I'm not even sure about that much, to say nothing of being able to predict the likely outcome of such a case in a given jurisdiction.
> unregulated markets tend to degrade into monopolies.

That's right. They can degrade into monopolies when competition is low. It's the whole basis of the antitrust laws for example. Or you think such regulation is not needed?

> Because some people think that regulations are necessary.

They are necessary, especially when greed and lack of competition turns into anti-consumer attitude. No regulations means "let's trust these companies, they won't turn into thugs" and "invisible hand of the market will correct things". It doesn't work that way in practice.
I would definitely advice getting help in case of violence. And the bully must be dealt with real consequences which punishes them in harshly, in order to mend their ways.

>>Damn near any other course of action is better than just sitting there and taking it.

I am saying the same. Don't take it. Don't take it at all.

Just like the best way to stop trolls is to 'not feed the trolls'. Just don't take them seriously at all. At workplaces I've used this technique and found bullies to grind their teeth in frustration.
Most significantly: "Your data isn't even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it." - Pretty sure Facebook are interested in it.
Is WhatsApp's 'No Ads' Policy Already Starting to Loosen?
I agree. I thought there was some change in the policy given the recent event.
Sooner or later the ads will come. Even if FB hadn't bought them, that is usually the painful transition most social sites need to go through.
Ender: "Knocking him down was the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too."
As of last year, it only showed surveys to users from US/UK/Canada. Not sure how much things have changed by now, but it's definitely not global yet. I also heard that it didn't work in Safari, but I'm not sure if that was just a temporary thing.
I can't find the story either, but that sounds like an excellent start to me.
I think TDD is good when writing something you've done a few times before ("I know exactly how to write this app"). I tend to get projects that require exploration. I refuse to write a bunch of test code for each new class knowing that I might delete the class later.