skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Stop waiting to be invited to the party. Be the one who creates it (eg. invite people out to lunch and other activities).
2. Assume and act like everyone you meet is already your friend.

Friendship (and success with women for that matter) is largely a self-fulfilling prophecy.

3. Go out, talk to people, and force yourself out of your comfort zone

No amount of reading and theorizing will ever substitute for real-world experience.

You've got to learn how to create your own reality and not depend on others giving you permission. Surround yourself with other confident people and pay attention to what makes them different (hint: it's not their accent or physical appearance).
I meant to clarify: if you want bitter, as the choice of an educated palate, that's fine - and is usually a factor of certain quality beers. I was focusing on poor-quality mass-produced products that much of society assumes is representative and can't see past.
Pretty cool - I was happy to see it worked with HTML bulleted lists. Most managers I know don't use plain text emails.
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Also, IE, or rather Trident, is a core OS component. Applications rely on it for displaying web pages and HTML. Applications can also be written in HTML and JS, both HTML Applications (since... Windows 98, I think?) and WinRT applications (since Windows 8).
As a white American guy who has had similar experiences, I suspect your challenges are mostly independent of your being Asian. Your difficulties with English may play a part, although not knowing you it's hard to say how much this would be a factor.

In my experience, American society, and especially California, doesn't know what to do with introverts without much of a social network. It leaves them to the wayside to fend for themselves.
Google’s Balloon Internet Experiment, One Year Later
Inumbo.com 2.0 Released adds DMARC, cPanel and Plesk Integration
So am I. I'm not interested in the thoughts of celebrities. There are better ways of getting general news but I do want local information which is where twitter could do a lot better.
> The other problem with open source dev is dealing with the impossible egos. I want to write good code. I don't give a damn what anyone thinks of my language choice, code style or lack of dress sense.

It's funny -- in my (perhaps limited) experience, most of the 'impossible egos' I've seen in the FOSS community belong to people who have similar concerns. They have put a lot of effort into developing a project in a certain way, and are frustrated and annoyed when a Johnny-come-lately coder appears and demands they do something differently. The attitude comes from needing to protect a successful project from 'contributions' that, if unchecked, could ruin the code or the community.

It's true that running a successful FOSS project requires managing both your code and your community. You will never be able to just write good code if you want your project to thrive. Maybe you're not into that; that's fine. But, as you well know, that means you have to take on all of the tasks that a healthy FOSS community could otherwise help you out with, like testing, debugging, and writing documentation.

If you're eventually hoping to be compensated for doing all that work yourself by selling copies of your software, you're still going to have to do more than just write good code. You're going to have to market it. Personally, I'd rather help manage a healthy development community than try my hand at marketing. Again, maybe you feel differently, but the point is that there's more to do than just write the code, unless you only care about using it yourself. A FOSS community can help you with that; so to answer your original question, that's the benefit.
You got any suggestions for the "structured organization" besides the fraternity? I'm out of college now and I'm looking for a group.
Which cloud file sharing service is best?
In the original article, the author has a screenshot that has suggested followers. He apparently lives in NZ, and Kim DotCom (as well as other NZ handles) was recommended to him. Seems like there's some localization happening.
I assume that their blog app just compresses everything as a JPEG and nobody ever bothered to change it.
Not quite a fair comparison because you are showing the price of a 1GB volume. However, if you had a 50 GB volume, then you would be paying $16.25 (50 * 0.325) per month on GCP, and you would be paying $9.25 ((50 * 0.125 + (30 * 0.10)) on Amazon for 30 IOPS.

I hope I have my math right here. Let me know if I missed something. If it's correct, then it seems like the bigger the volume that you have, the more sense it would make to go with Amazon.

Edit: I might have done the math wrong, it looks like Google gives you 30 IOPS per every GB you pay for, so a 50GB volume on GCP would actually be 1500 IOPS. If that's the case, then it's a very good offering from Google since you don't pay for disk access too!
You can't undo a first impression online...
http://www.amazon.com/Browser-Hackers-Handbook-Wade-Alcorn/d...
A World Without Mainframe
I'm a writer and I have been working on a story and I thought you guys would be the best audience to answer this question. What would a world without the mainframe look like? What would be the first and worst thing that would happen to society at large? Let your imaginations run wild! I really appreciate your expertise!
Friend of mine just posted this to Facebook. It's sensationalist garbage with anti-British bigotry thrown in. Draws a false equivalence between Hitler (who deliberately exterminated millions) and Churchill (whose "policies" were supposedly unintentionally "responsible" for the famine). That's outrageous even if the history were true. In fact, it isn't. The article claims that "Churchill could easily have prevented the famine." This imbues Churchill with super-powers, and completely ignores the facts of the day: Bengal was a net importer of food and most of its food came from Burma, which had just been conquered by the Japanese. Shipping food from Australia or other places might have been a solution, but Allied merchant shipping was under attack all over the world from the Japanese and German navies. How would it have gotten there in time? And why would that have been the default solution, when neighboring provinces in India had food surpluses and should have been the natural place to expect aid from. The tehelka article also mendaciously suggests that "Myanmar" (a country which didn't exist until the 1990s) offered to help feed Bengal, but the offer was kept secret by cruel British "censors".

Any "help" from "Myanmar" would have come in the form of a conquering Japanese army. Would they have brought some truckloads of rice with them from Burma? Sure. Would they have shared it with the Indians? Probably not. And despite the "censors", I think the Japanese were pretty open about their willingness to conquer and enslave (er, "help") the suffering Indians. I would invite our Indian friends to ask the Chinese if that would have been a good deal.

The Wikipedia article on the 1943 famine is a much more serious read.
Why don't you want to be a full time employee?
Yeah you're probably right. They want the experience to be cohesive with the rest of Windows. Last time I looked Chrome still doesn't have a metro mode besides just opening up in full screen mode, so there's one reason to keep IE around
Right, I should be more specific but I was looking at party control / status / inventory management.
We check email headers and have a few other factors to determine if the sender is genuine or spoofed. You would be able to create a new task list with a spoofed address, but you can't spoof your address to add to someone else's list.
V8 performance resources
Here's a decent history on why the US liquor laws are the way they are: http://reason.com/archives/2014/06/04/how-not-to-legalize-a-...

These licensing schemes have become nothing more than rent-seeking by those established with existing licenses.
I remember trying to buy more than two 40oz bottles of malt liquor when I was in the USA. It made me laugh as it's only about as strong as Carlsberg Special Brew, and my Nan drinks that.
To say that this is "like receiving a Nobel Prize, or Medal of Honour(sic)" or the Victoria Cross is absurd. There are 1,946 MoH recipients (excluding civil war recipients when it was awarded under different conditions), 1,357 Victoria Cross recipients and 876 Nobel Laureates. In one year "more than a thousand people have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours."[1]

[^1]: With one thousand awardees this seems more like an Eagle Scout Badge or
As to why I submitted that way:

I couldn't recall the norms here. I figured a mod could always un-G-rate the title (as they did).

Plus, I felt a little uncomfortable because the title "Bullshit" could seem link-baity (although the content is worthwhile) so I felt better submitting it "toned down".

Those are my stated reasons. Of course you may call bullshit.
Brainfuck is Turing-complete too. That doesn't make it usable.
It's not the government's mandate nor responsibility to provide higher education in the United States. It infuriates me when citizens are so conceited they think the government should provide everything for them as if they have no agency themselves.
Facebook uses a RAID-like layout for data in HDFS
Watts Up with That is an instructive example, really.

Mr. Watts really tipped his hand a few years back. He had been banging the drums on insisting that the measured increase in low atmospheric temperatures had been an artifact of the heat island effect. He insisted that if we take a closer look into the techniques climate scientists use to correct for the heat island effect, we would find that mean surface temperatures had been drastically overestimated. He worked together with some folks to come up with a plan of attack to do just that, and off to the races we went.

So what did he do when the numbers came back and it turned out that climatologists had actually been overcorrecting for the heat island effect, with the result being that the study supported the exact opposite of his hypothesis? He moved the goalpost, and carried on.

The whole episode really wasn't much different from what we see with other junk scientists who've proven similarly capable of supporting an untenable position in the face of overwhelming evidence on the subject of the supposed vaccine-autism link, or whether or not dogs have ESP. Any of these propositions may be true; in principle any scientific consensus can be overturned (and it has happened in the past). But anyone who wishes to do so needs to be extremely scrupulous in how they assemble and present their arguments. Folks like Lindzen, Watts, and Rutan simply haven't proven themselves to be up to the task. Those who would like to challenge the scientific consensus on scientific grounds rather than the court of public opinion (which is influenced by the Dunning-Kruger effect more than evidence) would do well to try and find more capable spokespeople.
Meltdown is a strawman. It is no longer an issue in newer nuclear reactor designs.
The Google knows where you can download it.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1964

Don't forget Carter's deregulation of the brewing industry.
Designing a warp drive space ship for NASA
I think we need more information to make a suggestion. What do you mean by less social?

For me, I either post to Facebook if the photo is one that I wouldn't mind being completely public and I think is generally interesting to my friends.

I use messaging services for 1:1 or group sharing for "boring to most" photos or ones I would like to be less public. I print out books to share sometimes.

The people I want to share with are not tech savvy.
I think the point is that once a religion stops being bullshit, it becomes a science.
I would love to know how Facebook could possibly die and what might replace it. Google+? Unlikely. It feels like it's somewhat unreachable. I'm sure that perhaps in 25 years time, something else will have replaced it but what and how, I would love to know.
Completely agree with this, especially asking people questions. A few other points on that:

-The questions should be genuine, so that you deliver correctly and learn something

-The questions should mostly not be yes/no answers so the conversation doesn't die

-Make a game of it after you ask a question to see if you can keep it going for another 30 seconds. Example: you ask the grocery store clerk how to find a good cantaloupe, he/she shows them to you and shows you how to tell, you say "the last few times I picked terrible ones", then you ask when they're in season...etc

Other ideas:

-Older people tend to be nicer and more accommodating and less rushed. It could be worth trying to talk to older people who are less intimidating if they're not in your peer group, and working your way down in age as you build confidence

-Do you even remotely like any sports? Can you handle a beer or two? Find a classy bar that's not too crowded that plays sports games. Sit at the bar and watch and slowly drink your beers. Ideally not many people are there and you can comment on the game with the bartender or another person sitting next to you. Can be any sport tennis, golf, soccer, whatever
Toughest bug found and fixed (2008)
Your friends don't care what brands you like! I promise you.
I know how you feel. I would recommend taking advantage of meetup.com. You can connect with people using the knowledge and skills you have acquired as an engineer. The rest should grow from there. Most important is that you don't give up on trying. The burden of loneliness can drive you to give in rather than strive on. You have to win that battle.
The long sea voyages could have been done better. But the game felt and played fantastic. I had more fun with it than with the next one. When Twilight Princess came out, I felt "omg finally, no more cell shading" but later on I realized that the gameplay was a step backwards from Wind Waker. Except for the incredibly long traveling times of WW.
Interesting app. I actually like it because I use a paper planner that is laid out in columns like the app. (like this: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UQkLuS4qZtA/UTyyzpS9suI/AAAAAAAAAH...)
I don't think that's the crutch of his problem though...
Important kitty litter questions answered
Evernote's Support Hacked [Screen Cap]
You're wrong, I know for a fact that you can (and should) register your product (including the name) in Europe. I guess what you're saying only applies to US but the author is European, hence my advice.

When you register you specify your work, the name and the sector it belongs to (films, novel, web sites, etc.) and you get a document that testifies your rights over it. I know this because I used my filing to have Google remove a clone of my app from the store. It was a lengthy process, but with the registration you can have leverage.

"In general, registration can serve as prima facie evidence in a court of law with reference to disputes relating to copyright."

http://www.eucopyright.com/en/do-you-need-to-register-to-be-...
Becoming Sweetie, The Computer-Generated Girl Who Took On Child Predators
Getting a Good Table by Flicking an App, Not Greasing a Palm
Having done a bit, honestly, you really can't drink anything that you wouldn't get if you were making beer or wine, and most folks don't like drinking formaldehyde or acetone by themselves, so the foreshots get pulled off... so there really is no risk in going blind or something.

The idea that you can go blind off this stuff has more to do with propaganda and poisoning folks:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...
The piece provides several examples of regulatory capture [1], where concentrated efforts by private interests overcome diffuse interests of the public for their own profit.

The problem is that while a private interest group can focus all their efforts on one issue, the public has many diverse interests and has to be on guard against all the possible private interest groups at all times.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Do you perhaps live somewhere fairly arid? Even so, I think it's still all about location.

25C is regarded as very pleasant weather here in the southeast US - a nice early spring or late autumn day. :) Humidity is generally in the 80%-90% range when the weather is warm, and from mid spring to mid fall the temperature is generally ranges from 30-35C and sometimes gets up to even 40C.

In that kind of weather even a brisk walk will leave you drenched in sweat and you wear out very quickly because your body can't cool down, since evaporative cooling doesn't work. The temperature alone isn't bad at all - I've spent time in SoCal when it was ~100F - it's the humidity that gets you. Nobody bikes to work here - you'll sometimes see bicyclists on the road but for recreational purposes. I think it would be a fine thing in winter, but my commute is 35 miles of open highway.

So I end up going to the gym and doing a lot of yardwork. I'd like to include something like biking to work in my routine, but it's just not practical for me right now.
it's pretty easy to change linode plans. click on the instance in the manager (https://manager.linode.com/) and then on "resize." Linode 1024 is the new one. The whole process takes about 15 minutes.
That strikes me as illegal age discrimination...
This code works:

let d = [1: 1, 2: 2, 3: 3]
let intToInt = d.map { $0 + 1 }
var IntToString = d.map { String($0) }
You don't get methanol from distilling. Methanol is found in denatured alcohol. Methanol poisoning comes from drinking denatured alcohol. Kind of like how they put acetaminophen in some narcotic painkillers. Really, the people who designed such ghoulish "deterrents" should be held accountable for the deaths they contributed to.
I lived in a 100% dry county when I went to college. It was about 22 miles to reach the nearest liquor store.

Which of course had unintended consequences. We drank. Fraternities turned into de-facto bars. We would pool our money on a Thursday and make the 35 minute drive to the liquor store. We'd typically spend $1500-$2000 on booze and truck it back to campus. The idea was the buy the booze we'd need for the weekend. We'd typically be completely out by sometime on Friday.

At that point some drunk college kid would decide to drive 22 miles to buy more booze. My university had multiple drunk driving fatalities every year because of this.

It's better now (restaurants can serve booze finally), but I'll never understand why that law existed in the first place.
Hi there, I wrote this a while back. It may help.
http://mrcwinn.svbtle.com/being-shy

The short version would be: know your strengths as well as your weaknesses (seems like you do). Give yourself time and find things that work for you. I've never been a talk-to-random-strangers-at-the-bar type of person. It's just not who I am. One idea is to find people with similar interests AND geography online, and then force those online relationships into the offline world.

Plenty of people like you, whether or not you realize it. Don't sweat it.
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People have agency. They just don't have money.
"Everyone is busy" and "Too much distractions (low signal to noise ratio)" were the two main reasons I've moved away from London (and the UK) having spent 8 years there to a place where people can still enjoy slower pace, appreciate those "little things in life" and do not make the Saturday party over with the last tube train (departing slightly after midnight). (Yeah, I heard the tube will be running until 4am on weekends - it's just a shame many friends grown their families and had to relocate further with rail links. It's easier to have more quality time with them now going together on holidays rather than living in the same city).
I live in a 1st world country (northern-europe) and nobody i know owns a credit card.

Everybody considers them expensive, unsafe and just plain evil. You pay with money you have and you pay a fixed price per month for the service -- no transaction costs.

If you want to sell stuff to the world, please support payment gateways that are not evil and as insecure as, well .. a credit card, would actually be the example.

Companies smart enough to allow people in nothern-europe to actually pay: Valve, Apple. Companies dumb enough not to: EA, Google. Who is selling online and who is not?

Newsflash: If your sales numbers are less in Northern-Europe than they are in the US, it's because you are either actively blocking those customers (region-locks or refusal to ship) or you are not accepting n-european payment gateways.

Credit cards are the equivelant of saying 'i only want american customers and everybody else can go to hell'. Let's just hope your bussiness is viable enough in just the US to be this ignorant.
We have a public bike network here in Barcelona (I think it was one of the first).

Sure public bikes will do, but for me its kind of like the difference between my car and a bus. You have to wait for stations to become free a lot (usually commuting from my house to my work involved getting up half an hour before the crowds took the bikes). The bikes often have slight problems (loose breaks, squeaking, won't go into gear). Most people don't seem too bothered, but as somewhat of a bike enthusiast, I find it frustrating to know that its like just a spanner turn or two (end the bolts are usually non standard to prevent theft).

Its a great idea, but not without problems.
It isn't unreasonable to be afraid of something becoming easy to the point of negligible, correlation of personal data across multiple databases as a result of mass data collection comes to mind.
I felt like I was being punished for not being a church goer

That's exactly it, but it's a little odd the stores were open to tell you to come back in an hour.
Those are accurate numbers.

https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=10960#p63254
> ...at one point, it was the federal government's mandate and responsibility to provide exactly this for its citizenship.

The US federal government? When was that?
When the author of a bestseller looks forward to reading your book, that's validation.
Yup - I was always afraid to talk unless I said the right thing, but you gotta just comment on something in the conversations every few minutes. Saying something stupid is often better than saying nothing in my opinion.
The U.S. Government Is Investigating Why Your Netflix Is So Slow
It's much less expensive, for one thing.
In Chrome, the font is rather difficult to read. For example, l and t look very similar.

Great idea - it looks very promising :D
The True Cost of Hidden Money
This could be something I am interested in testing. I just migrated to DO, however I kept a small credit on Linode hoping they introduced cheaper plans.
At some point you will just have to realize that this illusion of privacy you have is just that... an illusion.

Privacy exists in small pockets, and only in places that you control access to. Aside from that, you might as well consider it public.
Why Web Developers Shouldn’t Learn Swift
Suggesting anything "critical of Apple's product" automatically gets voted down just makes me roll my eyes.
I'm a fairly new addition to the world of software contracting and I often have trouble trying to express my feelings about full-time work and the justification of the amount I charge (which so far has been below normal contractor rates). Thank you for explaining your point view in an eloquent way, it's helpful :)
Why Instacart over Amazon Fresh or Google Shopping Express?

I saw their product when it first launched but I didn't see a distinct advantage.
http://tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=1597

US spending on science, space, and technology has a 0.992 correlation with suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation
I'm a Total Loser – Two Bottle Choice
Bloggers, engage your readers and build a brand
So the compiler and toolchain in javascript then? News to me.
Unfortunately, they only take credit cards, and not only that - I need to type in my non-existant card details in order to try out their free $10/month.