skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's less a: I owe you $20 (or some non-cash equivalent) so you keep me around. It's more: You've done something for me, where we've probably done something together, in the future we're more likely to associate.

There's always the guy that just keeps bumming rides, forgetting his wallet or whatever. That's an extreme and he's probably not well liked (if he has friends they likely pity him because they know how he ended up this way).

The other form is: I didn't have a car in college. I didn't set out to find someone with a car and befriend them, but someone I knew happened to have one. He'd drive the lot of us around, we'd occassionally buy his meal or fuel. We became good friends but the circumstance of our need and his ability to satisfy it certainly enabled or encouraged our social contact. The debt, then, can be a pretext of sorts. You want friends, you're not good at it. You can either provide a resource to others (running the risk of being the guy that gets used all the time) or seek resources from others, and repay them in some fashion. It's not the only way, but looking back on a number of my friendships, many (not deliberately) started off in this manner.

EDIT: Examples of debt-enabled friendships:

The car situation above with a couple friends in college.

The reverse, I was the top student in a few classes and ended up with a circle of friends that came out of people wanting to study with me.

I was in need of a job, someone helped me out and we became good friends. And the reverse again, I turned down a job offer but referred a peripheral friend (friends, but not close) and we became much better friends afterward.

I didn't have cable for a couple years, met a guy first week of grad school who was also a Stargate SG-1 fan and did have cable. Neither of us knew anyone there, we used this as an excuse to hang out with each other. I had extra furniture, so I loaned him a couple chairs. This is probably the best example, it was a minor debt (I loaned him a couple $40 chairs, he let me hang out in his apartment on Friday nights). Neither of us really owed the other anything in return for this, we both just wanted a friend in a place where we were otherwise alone.
Learn to ride a motorcycle. They are great for your area, awesome on gas, never worry about traffic, and park anywhere. But most importantly, anyone with a motorcycle will treat you like a best friend or even a brother just because you're riding a motorcycle. That's two problems solved at once.

Also, you're a techie so getting into a conversation at your local shop might be a bit of a drag. Get online, find your local Linux user group, programmer's meetings, hacker meetings, and similar events. Go there and start talking to people. "How did you end up here?" is a great way to break the ice.

Finally, if you want to meet people outside your field that are interested in the same things as you then try MeetUp.com for hobbies, OKCupid.com for dating, and Craigslist for performing satanic rituals in the woods. Okay, maybe I'm kidding about that one, but try it. Friday night you go on one of these pages and find a MeetUp event the next day and go to it. After seeing the same people a few times you can ask them for drinks or food after your meeting. If you're brave, ask them the first time. Should be easy.

Also, your written English is fine and because English is spoken by such a large number of non-native speakers you will find that most people will forgive small mistakes. And the ones that don't are usually not worth your friendship in the first place.
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Doesn't that make Youtube a perfect example? It existed before the DMCA. The safe harbor provision was written specifically to protect websites like it because the owners of such sites had an influence on how the laws were written.
> Second, the subtle one - the word "average." In the states it has no connotation. We typically use it in a very mathematical sense. If we call something "average" we mean it's close to the mean/median of our experience of that thing. Here it has a very negative connotation. It seems to mean "the absolute minimum necessary to be passable."

Oh yeah, and saying something is "all right" is high praise.
Its the week where I find out does my company live or die
So I guess I wanted somewhere to let it out and HN seemed like the kind of entrepreneur friendly place to do it.

This is the week where I find out if my company gets the investment to take off or probably dies. That's how clear cut it is. The investor has been having us tread water for a few months and is giving us the final answer this week. They are important, if they give the Yes then many others we have lined up will likely come on board, if they give a No then others probably won't fly with us either. We have been working on this project day and night for months and it has been in development for years.

Aside from the long days, lost weekends, maxed credit cards and emotional commitment for so long, there is also the genuine inner sadness if it doesn't get the funding. This isn't some gimmicky start-up trendy business, if we get the funding to make it happen it will likely save a lot of lives, if not then I doubt anyone will do anything like it within the next decade - so a lot of lives lost.
I don't particularly want to say much more about what we do but wanted somewhere to speak relatively anonymously with people who have been through it.

They say (and I know from previous businesses that failed/succeeded) that a start-up is an emotional roller-coaster but it dam well is at the moment. Hard to sleep, hard to focus on other business things (which most probably will be irrelevant) constantly checking the email to see what the decision is, not in the mood to talk about anything else with anyone, smoking, coffee etc...I doubt they teach this at overpriced MBA programs!

Thanks for listening, it really helps to write it down in a place where I know people understand. Follow this thread throughout the week as I try to catalogue the range of emotions and the final result.
Star Maker is great. Available online here: <http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/stapledon/olaf/star/chapter1...
It never occurred to you that you simply cannot afford such a lifestyle? It seems you guys delude yourself into thinking it would be reasonable to fight their business practices with piracy while you are actually providing them with a target by breaking the law.
Exactly. For me, "going in to town" means going in to Croydon - a city centre with it's own large high street and multiple shopping centres at the outskirts of London. Croydon town centre again is at the centre of a collection of smaller villages within the borough, each with their own high streets.

I work near Waterloo, so I commute in to the centre, but outside of work I rarely see central London - it's pretty much a different city from my perspective.

I also found the mention of City curious. City is also pretty much a thing by itself. I guess it differs by what skillsets you put on your CV, but I've never worked with someone who has worked in City. I've only known one person who did. I don't come across recruiters trying to get me to take bank jobs very often. London is not defined by City any more than San Francisco is defined by its financial district.
Micro Benchmarks versus Macro Optimizations in Clojure
It might be a starting point but it doesn't provide the fundamentals to get you where you want to go.

This reminds me of what pickup artists teach. They teach tactics for how to get in the door, and forget about the fundamentals of actually building a real relationship.
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Sorry if that's not the right place, but I have a similar problem.

I am a 1st year CS student and I can't find a coding buddy. By that I mean someone to study new technologies with, to work on learning-focused projects together and exchange ideas. Most of my schoolmates are overwhelmed with classes and don't have time or desire for partnering up.

So, HN, if you are up for some node.js/javascript or C++ learning, it would be awesome to get in touch. I've even posted a thread[1] on reddit, but so far no luck.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingBuddies/comments/27zn0i/n...
Extrovert networker/sales guy here.

My advice is to focus on the things that really interest you. If you are passionate about something, you'll get good at it and with skill you will gain a quiet confidence.

Join a club (non tech/engineering related), if you suck at whatever it is, people will be there to help you and teach you, you'll make friends!! And as you get better, you can then help the other newbies that join up.

Quiet confidence is the critical success factor in the lady front. If you are focusing on you and doing things that interest you, you will meet the right kind of woman. If she's put off the fact you don't have a car - she's the wrong woman for you anyway.

As previously said, 'How to Win Friends and Influence People is a must read'... a must!

Once you have read it, THEN talk to a stranger everyday. Treat it as an iterative process, split test approaches, track responses etc. You will learn through failing forward, it's the only way.

Best of luck!
London is in one of the drier, sunnier and warmest parts of the UK:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/averages/ukmapavge.ht...
Not quite as easy, but kind of similar in function to what you are looking for is a program called headphones[0]. It is a usenet based auto-downloader akin to sickbeard[1] or couchpotato[2]. Point it at your collection and it will automatically search out new releases at timed intervals.

[0] https://github.com/rembo10/headphones
[1] http://sickbeard.com/
[2] https://couchpota.to/
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I honestly have no idea what I am supposed to do on this page
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something "average" being mediocre is also a British English thing.

I refer you to the viral image that was going around on facebook etc entitled "what British people say, versus what they mean":

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/what-british-people-say-ve...
Wait until you end up someplace that actually has bad weather. London is considered pretty mild by most standards.
What can this be used for? I'd love to display my GPG key there instead but I guess that's not possible.
I think you can also draw a lot of parallels between weather and emotion also.

It'd be amazingly unhealthy to be in a permanent state of "contentedness" for the rest of your life like some drugged up zombie. We need the bad days, the sadness, the anger, the whole range of emotions, so that we appreciate the other emotions, and feel truly alive.

There's definitely an unhealthy obsession for some with nulling out variable weather and replacing it with whatever they deem as "good weather". Exactly as a mentally ill person might go to their doctor and say "I don't want to feel any emotions any more".
> The web servers also needed some more RAM for using composer.

I've run into this issue when provisioning within Vagrant with my project Vaprobash - I fixed it by setting up some swap, which Trusty64 doesn't seem to have enabled by default.
https://github.com/fideloper/Vaprobash/blob/master/scripts/b...
Xmonad is a way to optimize on 2D spatial scarcity. I don't think Xmonad will exist in any similar implementation in 3D viewing space. It might end up being similar, but I think that depth, being what humans with camera vision are used to, will become a much more dominating organizational pattern.
Yes it takes about an hour from Oxford to London. But worse, a one-way ticket bought on the day costs something like 23 quid (US $39)! Trains in the UK are lovely, but the average price for a year of rail commuting to London is 3400 pounds (US $5770), which is absurd.
How to recruit the best technical talent as a business founder?
How a lot of good/bad/ugly stories begin...I recently left a pretty secure job in banking (in London) to work with startups just a few months ago. Having chosen a role with an accelerator to accelerate my own networking and understanding of the London tech scene, I now find myself with my own daily drip of good/bad/ugly ideas.

There is a nice mix of potentially world-changing, bank-rolling and utterly significant ideas in there.

However, to get to a point where I can really distinguish which is which, these things need building. As the title suggests, this won't and can't really be done by me. I'm a business guy. Full of ideas but not technically capable of executing them to the level where they can really gain meaningful traction. I need to hire a developer but want to know if they look upon a business founder with great ideas as fresh meat to pounce on or someone to harness their ability with a commercial edge.

The long and short of it is this, how does a developer need incentivising to really want to grow a potentially world-changing business with a guy that has a non-technical background.

Appreciate the help :)
Non-English speaker here, not sure if I can express it correctly and accurately, but I'll try:

Do NOT make friends just for making friends, but start doing something (sports for example) you are interested in and join the group of people with the same interest, everything else will follow.

And you seem to think too much even before you start interacting with other people - yes, introvert people often act like this, but, try to enjoy the moment. Try read The Power Of Now.
"Now does that really seem like an unreasonable number of children for a couple to have? I mean if 1 or 2 children are too much for the average family, do you suggest that only the extremely wealthy should reproduce?"
I think you're over exaggerating here. I'm not saying the wealthy should only be allowed to have kids. Nor am I prescribing the "amount" of children anyone should have. I'm simply stating/complaining about people that have kids that they can't afford to take care of. I think that's horrible.

And let's be honest, most poor people do not have the resources, or healthy social support structures from family to raise a healthy adult through childhood. I'm all for communities taking care of those in need, and those who end up having kids they can't take care of. But we all need to understand that it is reckless behavior on the part of those that create those children knowing full well that they can not take care of them like they deserve.
Basically, you need to treat London as a large region. "Moving to London" is too imprecise. It's like moving "to the North". Move to the "wrong" part of London vs your friends, and you might as well have moved to a different country. If you want to live near your friends, you need to move to the same borough, or at least along the same public transit corridors, and forget about the idea that London is one city.
It's not about the recognition or awards. It's about a modern society that is still using caste system in the 21st century.
I have lived in London for six years. The tech scene is very vibrant, but I struggle with the 'big city' aspect. Strangers are generally ruder in public than elsewhere in the UK (not a reflection on them, more a side-effect of nobody ever having personal space). The commute is miserable, and nights out in Zone 1 & 2 tend to be overly commercialised, tacky and unfriendly, with the exception of a few hidden gems.

It's not somewhere you can clear your head by going for a walk, even the numerous and beautiful parks are crowded with young families on a sunny day. Quaint, village-type areas are well known and swarming with tourists. "Going for a walk" means something totally different in London- you're not going to escape the bustle, and will probably end up spending money.

If you are somebody who can deal with a complete absence of personal space while outside, don't mind being herded around like cattle, and the constant drone of traffic/sirens, London otherwise has a lot to offer (good restaurants, museums and art galleries, lots of tech Meetups).
as an alternative to ssh-copy-id ?
Your opening paragraph starts with four assumptions, none of which are backed up by any evidence. Why do you "assume" that Comcast are trying to "find out" who/what is near those access points? What cause have you to "assume" that they are "maybe seeing what they are doing"?

What is the basis of your claim that they are using this as a way to 'scan mobile devices .. and gather information which they are profiting from'? What information? Profiting how?

Without facts, what you're saying is indistinguishable from any other conspiracy theory.

You say 'operating an internet service to anybody in your area' and in the main it's not "anybody" - it's Comcast customers. Of which you, if you are so affected, are likely to be one. Comcast using their equipment, their facilities, their network and their backhaul to operate an internet facility to THEIR customers.

The long and the short of services like this is that people - where they have a choice - are more likely to choose, or stay with, or be happier paying for, an Internet Service Provider if they get more value from it. If your Comcast internet service suddenly comes with the ability to access that service from wifi hotspots throughout the town or city where you live [and there's a great chance of there being a significant number of such hotspots available in a locale served by a dominant cable operator] then you, as a Comcast customer, are likely to get a good value from that.

Good value equals more and happier customers willing to keep paying the same or more. Simple business. No covert data-gathering and "seeing what people are doing" conspiracies required.
Find some meetup groups/hobby groups in your area, and go a little outside your comfort zone (don't go for a tech group!) but something you are actually interested in (art perhaps?)

Secondly, if finances allow, moving into a house share is a good idea. The more people the better I think!

Don't despair, loneliness when everyone around you appears fulfilled is a pretty horrible feeling, but the reality is actually far different to how you perceive it.
My 2 cents: cannot filter by number of columns or left/right sidebar, and results are wayyy to slow to check out (it would be better to be shown small screenshots and decide which theme you actually want to try live)
I you feel like OOP and template metaprogramming are being publicly derided, then you're welcome to use plain C. It's still going strong after 40 years and will probably still be around in another 40. I'm joking a little, maybe, but the point is that languages don't need to change in a hurry. People still start new projects in Fortran and Lisp; there are natural islands in the North Sea newer than these languages.

I think it's easy to feel like C++ is due for replacement when it isn't really. Yes, it's easy to be jealous about all the new things going on in other languages but that's in languages that sacrifice performance. If you're using C++ correctly, you're in a performance critical environment (either low memory, fast speed or steady speed). Or you have a lot of integration with C/C++. From this position, the only place you can currently go is from C++ down to C.

Honestly, there just isn't an apples-for-apples replacement for C++ at the moment. Rust is the only serious effort out there at minimum/zero overhead programming but it's 6 months away from 1.0, longer still before people get used to large scale design patterns that work well in the language and type system and much longer before it approaches the level of third-party library support that C++ has.

Yes, Boost needs a lot more work. C++ has traditionally had a woefully inadequate platform independent standard library, relying too heavily on Win32 or Qt or Carbon for things that should have been platform independent.

But frankly, C++ is doing okay. It has never been the easiest of languages to use but it hasn't gotten any worse. It's actually gotten better with C++11 and C++14 and with clang on the scene and libc++ providing a libstdc++ alternative and Microsoft finally trying to reach standards compliance.
I use it to set user access to my company's servers with ansible automatically. I just have to set a list of github usernames and it generates a list of users with their ssh key access setup !
Journalism thinks it forms a cornerstone of our democracies. But then it also seems to believe that we have democracy, which we plainly don't.

I like the article. It has weaknesses, but it makes some good points.

The bigger issue - to what extent should the media be about political empowerment - is another question.

I'd suggest current branding/advertising strategies are entirely about disempowerment, because they train consumers to think and act passively.

When you believe that politics is about voting for Product A vs Product B, which is almost like a Facebook like only it lasts a little longer, then you've already lost all your political power.

Traditional journalism was sometimes able to hold power to account. We're not going to that from clickbait intent/interest marketing. Can anyone imagine Buzzfeed breaking the next Pentagon Papers?

So who's going to hold power to account now? And how?
I'm from Norway, but have lived in London for 14 years. I actually prefer the cold and snow to London weather. The problem with London in the winter is that it is grey and wet and dreary. Snow and a clear sky, even with the sun up for fewer hours, still feels far more cheerful to me - the snow reflects whatever light there is.
> Accepting OBE, on the other hand, is equal to becoming a member of a caste system.

No, it's like receiving a Nobel Prize, or a Medal of Honour (or any medal, really).

An organisation awarding a prize to someone who has done something remarkable for his fellow men.
> a smaller car

For reference, this is a Citroën C1 or Peugeot 107 (same car as Toyota Aygo, albeit with a slightly different design)

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_C1
London doesn't get awesome thunderstorms. I used to joke about the annual thunderclap. This year we've surprisingly had a few already. Neighbourly camaraderie? Open fire? Walking in the rain? Walking in puddles of engine oil? You're describing the weather experience of living in the countryside of a tropics country, not London.
"Learn to ride a motorcycle.", or start riding a bicycle, there's usually a couple of cycle clubs in most areas and most are pretty open and welcoming. Get the bonus of getting fit at the same time.
I moved to London a year ago and only knew about 3 people here at the time. One of things that threw me initially the most (having moved from Lincoln) was that everyone here seems to plan everything way in advance, I missed the spontaneity of my former social life.

Anyway to make some friends I went to a few different meetup nights for technologies I was interested in. I joined an online dating site to try and make some friends; I had mixed results with this but it has resulted in some great friendships. I also made friends through colleagues and friends of friends.

A year later I have about 10 close friends who I see regularly, plus colleagues and other people who I see semi-regularly and I do feel like I've gone a lot social spontaneity in my life again.

All in all it was a bit lonely at first but I'm loving living here and really can't imagine wanting to leave any time soon.
I hear they all drink at pub in the East End called The True Scotsman.
If you can change your caste, then it can't be a caste system, can it?
Likely because it follows the highly organized release cycle Firefox has adopted a couple of years ago. If the new pdf.js is included right now in Nightly, which is necessary in order to verify its integration in the browser, its interaction with other elements and to ensure a long enough test phase on rendering before it lands on release channel… well, if it is right now in Nightly, let us do the math:

* Firefox (release channel) is now 30
* Beta is 31
* Aurora is 32
* Nightly is 33

That's why.
My good friends Usability and User-Friendliness just fall dead ...