skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like this in SE Asia as well. Socializing pretty much always implies drinking. It's a struggle for me because I've never really enjoyed drinking and I've found that as I get older it takes me longer to recover from it. Even a few drinks now and I have trouble sleeping well and I'm mentally fuzzy the next day. This is not conducive to writing code at all.

Hopefully one day Cannabis will mostly supplant alcohol as the social drug of choice.
> "I don't trust anyone who doesn't drink" is a politically incorrect but still a pretty common sentiment.

It's not "politically incorrect." It's just kinda dumb.
You are the next call to be answered.
The deleted comment with a lot of replies was:

> I go to IT/comp-sci conferences and often meet people who don't drink, ever. These people won't have a single glass of wine or beer. I had to ask myself why. If someone told me they used to be an alcoholic and completely quit alcohol, I'd have nothing but respect, but this is not what these people are about.

> They'll claim they don't like the effects of alcohol, but the truth is they think drinking is unprofessional. They're afraid of losing control, of looking foolish. To me, this symbolizes conservatism. These are people who are not adventurous. They won't try some unknown dish on the restaurant menu, they won't want to go to a restaurant from a culture they're unfamiliar with. They might think shellfish are disgusting and weird. They'll want to go to some chain restaurant and have a steak with fries.

> I don't like these people. Why? Because they're unadventurous people, who have most likely never tried pot even once in their life. They don't like new ideas. They're afraid that one drink will make their life deviate ever so slightly from the usual boring predictability they crave. If you present them with some new idea, they'll give you nothing but doubt, a long list of reasons why your idea is risky and might not work, and thus isn't worth trying. You shouldn't be developing your own programming language, Java does everything you need, it's Turing Complete. Fuck these people.
No, you developed it. Clever marketing though, it seems so far HN is buying into it.
Political correctness really has little bearing on how I evaluate a statement. PC doesn't mean it is right, non-PC doesn't mean it is wrong.
Cocaine and other opiates have been popular, only recently have they been sidelined.
Oh great, now my desire to not cause brain damage to myself makes people think I have something to hide.

wonderful.
That's indeed even closer. I had a 2600, too, but no racing game for it, as far as I remember.
This article represents all my feeligs when my boss says " just write a csv parser for this, its just csv . So aint that hard"
Alcohol is super simple to obtain. You just need some carbohydrate and time.
I'm confused. Muslims don't drink because it is banned. Some Muslims drinking doesn't distinguish from the fact that its banned, just like some Muslims who murder people doesn't mean Murder isn't banned.
Regarding the speed over time thing for climbs, here's a good example. This is a local 1.3 km climb at an average of 12%: http://www.strava.com/segments/872359?filter=overall

The equal KOM used a power meter to keep his power as flat as possible. You can see how his speed varied with variations in the gradiant more than the distance: http://www.strava.com/activities/114411950/analysis
I'd argue it can also be used as a social technology for testing people's tolerance of values different from their own. If I say I don't want to drink but someone keeps pushing me to anyway, I don't bother pursuing any kind of meaningful friendship with them, as why would I want to be friends with someone who wouldn't respect my values?
Even if that's true, you're talking like a dick.
Ah, quite right about the timing. I enjoyed Enterprise, but man, that theme song.
I was curious about the diagnostic code mentioned * # 0 * #

I tried it and the phone did seem to go into some diagnostic mode and showed "please wait" for about 5 seconds, then just stopped with "Unknown Error" Sad.
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I agree with you, if you read my original comment I support reducing sentences for all but the worst crimes (serial murder, mass murder, terrorism, genocide, slavery, violent rape).
"An excellent book could be written about this period, about how Dave changed the internet."

There may have been some interesting ideas coming out of his shop, but isn't this a little ridiculous? I don't think a single one of these products ever got any real traction, and, frankly, most of them were flops.

I was using Macs during this period. I tried the thing I think was called Radio: started it, it insisted on getting an email address, so I typed mine in. Not more than 10 minutes later I get a spam email from some clown who was handed my email address by Radio, which apparently broadcast it to other Radio users all over the world without asking permission. I deleted it from my machine and never looked at another piece of Winerware after that. But I kept up with comments about Userland stuff on the internet, and noticed a barrage of complaints about security, privacy, memory leaks, instability, and the infamous, irrational behavior of the CEO.
I don't think you understand what I'm saying. I was referring to the fact that in Saudi Arabia, it's not a super niche minority drinking alcohol. It's readily available, and everyone knows where it is.
Does mass incarceration mean "prisons"? What sets the line between having prisons and having "mass incarceration"?
Yahoo, still an awful company
Since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO, I thought Yahoo was heading in the right direction. Boy, I was wrong. Yahoo is as backwards as ever. No care in the world when it comes to customer support. They don't know how to run a business.

Today I had to speak to Yahoo Customer Support for my parents. They forgot their Yahoo mail password yet its saved on their iPad. Worst experience ever, with any customer support.

Firstly, I had to wait three hours to even speak to a rep. And the customer service line says 'your call may not be answered today.' Ridiculousness!

The rep wouldn't even give me her name or employee number to report her. She basically said if we don't know the answer to the secret questions, we can't get the account back. I told her that we would fax photo identification, social security card, etc if necessary to prove the ownership of the account. Additionally, I let her know that we still had access to the account via the iPad mail yet didn't know the password. She actually would not transfer me to a manager or even give a name. Her exact words were "I'm the only one here. Goodbye." and then hung up on me. For a company trying to beat Google, I cannot believe I had to put up with this shit. Seriously, Yahoo is an awful awful company.

I don't know what to do next. My parents run a business and the Yahoo email is necessary for their business. I cannot believe how unprofessional Yahoo is and furthermore uncaring.

Any ideas?
> We are drinking for the health of so and so

As if it were a way of praying or wishing!
Mt Gox is not the foundation of bitcoin. Bear-Stearns and Lehman Brothers are not the foundation of the dollar. Yet some bitcoiners seem quite happy to ignore the former, while insisting upon the inevitability of the latter. If the crime and corruption of regulated systems are a valid argument for cryptocurrencies, then surely Mt Gox is a valid argument against them.
Looking forward to trying out the app! Do you need beta testers?
>...this position is widespread in our countries because it is more convenient for the doctor.

Another reason is because they have received epidural anesthesia which stops them from being able to move around safely.

Even with the advent of lighter 'walking' epidurals, many hospitals (including the quite progressive one in SF where my daughter was born last year, with a doula in attendance) still insist on the mother staying in bed after receiving the epidural as a matter of policy (for liability reasons).

>Squatting on the other hand is one of the best positions, leading to less pain, much faster birth, less risks for both the baby and the mother…

Well, 'less pain' except for the epidural thing. I have nothing but respect for women who choose 'natural childbirth', but I think it's a hard sell to many moms.
There's an interesting example in one of the coursera courses (Neural Networks for Machine Learning) - you just need to watch through the intro video to see it in action.

https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets
Dog Walking Drone
Is he/she lazy? yes. Is he/she a genius? yes. Clearly robots will make us the overlords of time management.
I believe Gene Roddenberry was in the Navy. I'll probably be downvoted into oblivion if i'm wrong though. CBA to google it.
I don't think the bot is responsible for either bubble.

But, if it was, the bitcoin world owes everything to Mark Karpeles. Because of the price surges it got all the media attention, VC investments, hundreds of companies popping up, millions of users...
I'm a Chinese, and I can easily understand written kanji (one of the 3 Japanese writing systems) as it's essentially traditional Chinese characters, but the pronunciation is a whole different game altogether. From this I'm assuming that it's the same for Japanese speakers to recognise some Chinese characters, thus making it easier for them to learn.
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I'm positive third-party sources are findable to answer at a minimum "what is this supplement supposed to do and who is supposed to take it and why do people think it's useful". I'd expect to find that stuff best laid out in books like this:

http://www.amazon.com/NutriSearch-Comparative-Nutritional-Su...

Thanks for the link suggestion - I might go ahead and do that.
Yes, and that is the standard, default line you say when you drink "Na Zdorovie" == "For health!"
I mentioned it because I think there a lot of people who might agree with the statement but are self-aware enough to realize they shouldn't say it out loud.
Did you verify that the HN user is who they claim to be?
These are the kinds of headlines you find on reddit.
My point is: did criminal made a decision to commit a crime based on facts and rational tough or he made it based on other factors. Was he even capable of doing so(drunk driver, ideological driven crimes). Did he considered the length of sentence, when his goal is to not get caught and not minimising the time of incarceration?

Does in your example crimes with lower rate of catching criminals will end with a very high sentences and few caught will get an unreasonable jail times?
"You have pirated a song, an infinity in jail is Your sentence"

"Data-driven" is a reasonable approach, but what data should be allowed to drive? Choosing what kind of data to use and making relevant conclusions from it is the hard part.
I did a Skim Read. So what exactly is new? Because I thought this design document were a few years old already.

When is SQLite 4 expected?
> Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary
> to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're
> submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add
> initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and
> submit that instead.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do share with us why you believe that to be the case.
I came across this paper because I read the Journal of Universal Computer Science, of which he is the current editor: http://www.jucs.org/jucs

In particular, because quantum cryptology is an area I am reading in right now, I thought Keijo's breakdown was very understandable.
this isn't reddit, no one cares if it was your wife or girlfriend.
Everyone who wants to know where it is does. Alcohol in Saudi is like cocaine in America.
Journal of Universal Computer Science
Off topic, but why JSON over XML? What are the technical advantages for using JSON instead of XML (and don't say anything about "human readable"). If you're consuming the data with JavaScript, I'll grant you that JSON has quite an edge. But most every language has standard libs for XML. Both are easy to parse, but XML is easier to validate given a schema definition.
Tomatinho: pomodoro technique timer for Emacs
> why Alcohol was popular when cocaine and other opiates didn't carry negative associations

We've rewritten history to help ignore this, but they were quite popular.

Laudanum used to be heavily used in the US, and even Sherlock Holmes was written to be a regular, casual user of cocaine (Dr. Watson viewed it as "his only vice", such as a smoker of tobacco pipes, but had no medical objection to it).
I develop web apps and have very little to no experience with mobile. Yes, her perspective on what I do changed dramatically. And that's just the beginning. Now she has to support it.
Many people who have successfully understood Maxwell's equations but were unable to grasp coding would beg to differ.

Over and over again on this board I see people underestimating how demonstrably difficult the concepts are for many people. As my evidence, I again cite the dropout rate of CS1 classes.
Mozilla holds its nose and supports DRM video in Firefox – CNET
The paradox of paywalls is that content you have to pay for is less valuable than content you get for free. The ability to link to and from a page is a tremendous value-add in the web; a paywall breaks the chain of links. If an article is behind a paywall, I can read it, but I can't Tweet it to all my followers and expect they can read it, I can't link to it from my blog and expect all my readers to get the context... sharing is a fundamental feature for the web and paywalls break it.

There IS a case where paywalls work and work well -- if some of the value in the information is information asymmetry. This is why the Wall Street Journal works better behind a paywall than the New York Times does -- the audience for the WSJ is a bunch of people who deal in investing, where the value sometimes isn't in merely being informed but being more informed than the others.
SQL like queries in MongoDB
It seems you remember the details a bit better than I do.

Still, the world you're describing sounds like a nightmare to me.
Show HN: Initialcons – Name based icons, similar to Gmail's in php
Drinking makes me suicidally depressed, so I stopped many years ago and have witnessed as a result this exact phenomenon. The new neighbor, coworker, potential partner or aquaintence are all super friendly and welcoming until the first time there's an opportunity to get drunk with them, and you don't (no matter how politely or subtly you demure). After that, the relationship fades. I've seen it time and again. It's annoying, but I've accepted it as reality now. I do get frustrated at how it inhibits my career - it's basically impossible to build a strong network without drinking (or at least is to me. Maybe you're some super gregarious teetotaler, but I'm not) and without a strong network you naturally lose opportunities both personally and professionally. If you can drink without issues, I'd highly recommend it - you'll have a happier, more successful life.
> More likely people don't tell as convincing lies when they're drunk.

This is literally in the first sentence.
Or unary coding...bringing register width into new dimensions.
Better still, if you want to execute a command and if you approximately know what it could be called as, you get list of potential commands in an alternative buffer, by Alt-x, and then start typing part of the command. This I feel is great to explore commands as you need them, before binding new keys to those commands.

Without getting into emacs vs vim war, the author would be impressed in a bigger way once the emacs documentation is explored!
Look, have you been in Saudi Arabia? If you know everything better than anyone else, then there's no point to comment on anything.
My first thought: Since you have access to the account, you should probably try forwarding all mail somewhere (or saving it if it can) in the mean time in case things go very bad.
Pretty much agree with all you have to say about Yahoo! but from what I've seen they're on a par with Google. I've seen many folks battling to even get hold of a human being at Google to have account issues rectified.

I'd approach this in the following way:

- Sign up for an account with a company that specializes in email. I use Fastmail myself, but there are (many!) others.

- Purchase a domain relevant to their business and set up an email on that. joe@momandpop.com, that sort of thing.

- Update whatever refers to the old address (websites, flyers, business cards etc.) so if this happens again, you can switch providers but keep the same email address.

- Get a decent password manager application, and teach your parents to use it. I just use Emacs + ccrypt to store my secrets; they'll probably need a simpler solution but there are many available.

- Continue working on Yahoo! to regain control of the Yahoo! email address, assuming that's still important (e.g. customers will try to contact them on it). Try calling back at different times, email / online chat (if available) or even send a solicitor's letter. Realistically, though, I think that email address is gone for good.

If there's one important lesson to learn from this, it's that important email addresses should be on a domain you control, not .yahoo.com, .google.com, etc. etc.
xobs and I have a game we like to play when we live in Shenzhen for extended periods -- it's called "let's buy a soldering iron at 2AM". We'll hack until some stupid late hour and then get hungry, and go out to find street food and "something else", e.g. soldering iron, spare parts, phones, power adapters, etc. in the street markets of Shenzhen. So far, we have not been disappointed. That city simply does not sleep.

This is in part because the EU and US is awake during Shenzhen's nighttime, and if people waited until the morning to fill all the orders coming their way, they'd have to spend all day catching up.
JustMail: Secured Distributed Storage Email
I wonder what sort of reaction cultures like this would have to the invention of an alcohol-neutralizing prophylactic. Put yourself in the mind of the people-who-want-other-people-to-get-drunk, and picture someone who can drink like a fish but won't actually get even slightly inebriated--and who purposefully put themselves in this state, instead of "just being that way." How do you feel about that person?
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ah, got it. yes, what they'll actually do is another matter entirely. :)
Perhaps at current AWS prices your self-hosting is 3x cheaper.

But thinking about fundamentals, a few years out, why do you think self-hosting will still be cheaper? What is it in self-hosting that economies of scale of AWS/GCE can't crush?
Interesting. Incidentally, it looks like the author, Nicholas Stroustrup, is the son of Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++.[0]

[0]https://parasol.tamu.edu/bjarnefest/ "A son, Nicholas, was born in Meyersville."
I don't think you can necessarily say Yahoo is a bad company just because you had a bad experience with one of the customer service representatives.
This assumes that there is only one variable, the length of prison time, and that the response to that variable is fixed. Both these assumptions are completely wrong.

In Saudi Arabia they will cut your arm off if you're caught stealing. That's a pretty severe punishment. Do you think there's no theft? In Iran you may get executed.

What is most likely going to happen is that this knee will continuously move away from you as you try to pursue it. More punishment isn't going to reduce crime. People's response to punishment will change with that curve and you will get all sorts of unintended consequences. The US system is a living proof of this.

What you need to do is address the social causes of crime. Punishment should be the last resort, minimal and should be as humane as possible. Fines/damages/community service should be strongly preferred to prison terms.
Alcohol (in the form of beer) was - for some periods in history - more safe than drinking water. The beer making process (boiling water as well as the alcohol in it) was good at killing bacteria[1]. Bacteria in water was a pretty significant problem for towns without a proper sewage system.

(Note that you'll find some internet sites claiming this is a myth. I don't find their arguments compelling at all: most seem to argue that water was drunk as well - which is no doubt true.)

[1] http://www.westsussextoday.co.uk/news/county-news/latest-new...
I enjoy the irony of this site's users taking time out from showing each other javascript pdf renderers, javascript x86 emulators, and css animations to hate on <blink>. I enjoy it very much.
Steve Jobs Sent This Inspiring Email To A Startup
Also, shared embarrassment and nostalgia.

When you go drinking with someone and both make fools of yourselves, you now have a mutual trust built on knowing things that most people don't know. That's also the purpose of hazing rituals in fraternities: you've seen each other do disgusting things, so you trust each other.

Then, there's the nostalgia factor. Being drunk is moderately interesting but it seems to have a high rate at which it produces nostalgia. Even though the after-effects are (for me, anyway) sufficiently bad to counteract any pluses of drunkenness, the sort of nostalgia on which business connections seem to be build is enhanced with alcohol.

I don't know why this is, but if I had to guess, I think that Timothy Leary's "8 circuits of consciousness" theory is, at least to this, relevant. Alcohol causes regression into a childish, emotionally volatile state. It's a time-travel mechanism. It allows people to instill in themselves an illusion that a connection goes back farther in time (and is therefore deeper) than it actually does.
Not just SE Asia, Japan, Korea, pretty much as well.

> Hopefully one day Cannabis will mostly supplant alcohol as the social drug of choice.

No thank you. I don't like smoke. I'd prefer tea or coffee.
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I recall that one of the Russian emperors or Soviet leaders had a cup which was deliberately padded to be wormhole-shaped on the inside; the reason is that he and whoever he was speaking to could have 5-10 glasses of vodka and after that the other person would be completely inebriated but he would remain almost sober.
You don't have the password, can't answer the secret questions, and want access to the account? Anybody can forge photo ID sent via fax, I'm glad Yahoo's doing a good job of protecting user accounts.
... and hundreds of thousands of people losing everything they had in Mt. Gox (at best) and straight into Karpeles' pocket (at worst).

Are you sure we owe him?
I do not agree with the statement and I am curious what your point was when you added "I maintain a lot of people feel this way"? Racism is politically incorrect and also a common sentiment.
I was discussing just this with my friend yesterday. AWS remains many multiples more expensive than managing their own hardware; additionally their main office's internet connection remains less than perfect (which is a whole other wildcard.)

The question is, what happens when the cloud is cheaper than doing it yourself?
I would say that there is no incarceration if there is no prisoners (it doesn't matter how many prisons)....
Unfortunately the access is only on the iPad mail. I cannot change any of the forwarding settings :-(
There are ways to extract passwords from iOS backups, that might be a way to go? I believe the entire keychain could be accessed.
Well yeah I used to live there. I'm just sharing opinions and ideas thats all. I'm not intending to offend.