skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KlearGear.com Purchase Terms Include Non-Disparagement Clause
If you leave negative feedback anywhere regarding your purchase, Klear Gear reserves the right to charge you $3,500.00 USD.

See "Non-Disparagement" Section

http://www.kleargear.com/termsofuse1.html

KlearGear did this to somebody who ordered something, never received the order, then left negative feedback. The debt was sold to a collection agency, who then put the debt on their credit report. The couple sued KG for what they did, and won a $306k judgement in their favor.

http://consumerist.com/2014/06/26/kleargear-com-ordered-to-pay-306k-to-couple-who-wrote-negative-review/
"Biped" is only found in the context of science (evolutionary biology) or technology (robotics).
There's nothing stopping a competitor from starting a cab company that charges more and gives all their employees a difficult test. Of course, few would use it because few are willing to pay more money for having a knowledgeable taxi driver.
One step closer to Terminator days.
Maybe it's just that it's not really an issue where I live, but what problem is Uber trying to solve?

The main issue is getting a taxi in really small towns in the middle of nowhere, but it seems unlikely that Uber would have someone in these places, simply because there isn't really a demand.

I find it really hard to see Uber as anything but a taxi company that tries to underbid the competition by not following the same rules as everyone else.
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"These 24 words should suffice to find out whether a person you are interacting with in digital space is male or female."

Err, well that's just not true. Also, they'd have to actually use one of these words.
It's not a word people use in normal conversation, only really science or philosophy (Plato's "featherless biped"). Which are stereotypically masculine pursuits, I guess?
Not my app.
Thanks very much! We've been working hard planning this campaign for the past few months now, we took a lot from studying the FTL kickstarter amongst others.
PaulVPS deleted 40% of their user's servers–including mine
After thousands of error messages over an 18 hour, period I received this disappointing email from Head Leader of PaulVPS, Danny Alex:

"
It has been a really bad day for PaulVPS: One of the US located technian called Landon Crispin did damage to our billing system as well as SolusVM control panel by design, since he is on the night shift we didn't realize until we are into the day shift. Around 40% of the OpenVZ containers has been deleted and no luck to get restored, what's worse, Landon also did damage to our remote backup servers file system, we are forced to restore the backup in hand but that is on 11th, March -- around 100 days billing information lost.

... [following content omitted]
"

The end result for me was the deletion of my server, with no backup available, and no refund given. Luckily this server did not contain database data—had it then I would have been out of business.

I hope the revelation of my experience, not published on their website's frontend, serves as a warning for others considering using PaulVPS. I simply cannot buy that a professional hosting company could have a single point of such catastrophic failure.
You still haven't offered any examples.
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So to be clear, every commit in the ActiveMerchant history also points back at the initiating PR via the commit message including the PR number (which gets linked up). So there's no real loss of information in that sense

And I hear your RE adding another tool, as I'm very cautious about that myself. That said, `git am` is "git cannon", and all hub is really adding is the ability for it to slurp Github urls as well as Maildirs.

Neat, related trick: add ".patch" to the end of any PR url on Github and you'll see a formatted patch for the PR. All hub is really doing is slurping that and passing it to git as though it came from a mailing list.
Unconditional surrender is what terrorist organizations want, and they will wage war without end until they achieve it.

The problem with peace is that it is symmetrical. Everybody has to agree to peace before it will happen. War is asymmetrical. It takes only one entity (including, at the limit, one person) to make a war, even if everybody else wants peace.
That is an issue that should be mentioned, but I wouldn't quite characterize it that way.

> The United States concedes that the search incident to
arrest exception may not be stretched to cover a search of
files accessed remotely—that is, a search of files stored in
the cloud. See Brief for United States in No. 13–212, at
43–44. Such a search would be like finding a key in a
suspect’s pocket and arguing that it allowed law enforcement to unlock and search a house. But officers searching a phone’s data would not typically know whether the information they are viewing was stored locally at the
time of the arrest or has been pulled from the cloud.

Slip. Op. at 21.

There's two ways to read the first sentence.

1) We will assume for the sake of argument that documents in the cloud are protected, as the government says.

2) Even the government admits that documents in the cloud are protected.

Because the Court follows up with its own analogy ("like finding a key in a suspect's pocket"), I think reading (2) is more natural. The Court isn't just restating the Government's opinion, but acknowledging the shared premise, with the implication that the Government must share reasoning that logically flows from that premise.
If they can look things up on Google Maps, they can take the tube or the bus or even cycle, reduce congestion, and hopefully save that £2.94.
would you wait instead of entering captcha with hashcash.io widget? Widget like that - https://hashcash.io/auth (notice unlock switch)
The problem we have is that Labour have historically proven to be even more draconian and anti-libertarian than the Conservatives. The only realistic alternative the Conservative government is a Labour government.

The best we can hope for (IMHO) is another coalition government - this time with Labour and the LibDems, such that we reverse some of the recent nonsense, but it doesn't escalate due to the semi-moderating liberal presence.
The one I was puzzled by was golem.
Cheers, lots of people at the shows where we have taken the TerraTech have compared it to Spore. Yes, we hope we can sidestep some of the issues that Spore had and Multiplayer is a big part of our plans.
Sam Baldwin: What is "tiramisu"?

Jay: You'll find out.

Sam Baldwin: Well, what is it?

Jay: You'll see!

Sam Baldwin: Some woman is gonna want me to do it to her and I'm not gonna know what it is!
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I can start.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.po...

To wit: men and women vary wildly in their personalities, and it is very likely this is due far more to different (genetic) sexual selection pressures than it is to socialization and acculturation.

But here's the problem with attempting an "in-depth discussion" on this topic: anyone who attempts to bring facts to a feels fight will always lose. Even on supposedly "rational" HN.

So, good luck with that.
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It'd be interesting to have this broken down by age. While biology and medicine have historically been mostly men, in many places they're about 50-50 in the last couple of decades.
Just to be clear, you're offended at a computer picking a word (presumably at random) out of a dictionary.
An incredibly interesting read, thanks!
Not all the libraries ignore step charts! http://dimplejs.org/examples_viewer.html?id=steps_horizontal
Is there any work on having something like HTML5 lite with a lighter browser implementation?Because things like these call for more devices(sockets) to used , which takes more resourceful computers to accomplish.Is there any work on actually reducing the browser foot-print , right from spec level?
This article seems to have been automatically generated by a computer -- it makes no sense. Almost all paragraphs are one sentence, at most two.
Two Deaf men are signing to each other.

The first man asks, "What did your wife say when you got home late last night?

The second man replies, "She swore a blue streak"

And the first man asks, "What did you do then?"

And the second man replies, "I turned out the light."
A good time to listen to or reread Eisenhower's 1961 speech warning of the Military-Industrial Complex.

"Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of ploughshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions."

Nice intro with video of Eisenhowr giving the speech: http://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132942244/ikes-warning-of-mili...

Full text of speech: http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html
Yes! Captain Forever was a key inspiration for us. We played loads of it a few years ago, a very simple but compelling game! We also spent lots of time playing with Fantastic contraption, another great flash game that people should checkout if they haven't already http://fantasticcontraption.com/
How does this site break the "back" button in my browser?
It's...something you eat, right?
Yes. I'm not fluent in sign language myself so I can't explain them very well, but we got several examples of them in my linguistics classes in college.

The most memorable one was a story in which a giant is talking to a small person sitting on his hand and the narrator acts it out. The final word of the joke is a pun... it makes sense in the story, but the sign for it is to clap the hands together (thus, in the story, squishing the small person).
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"The reason Uber could be expensive is because you're not just paying for the car — you're paying for the other dude in the car," Kalanick said. "When there's no other dude in the car, the cost of taking an Uber anywhere becomes cheaper than owning a vehicle. So the magic there is, you basically bring the cost below the cost of ownership for everybody, and then car ownership goes away."
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Googling is not an option when I'm on the street and I need a cab (I don't have mobile Internet access, nor can I justify the cost), which is most of the times when I actually take one.
Agreed, editing contributions does add a bit of extra work for contributors post-inclusion, especially if they've been using their own branch in production. That said, since this is a PR flow, the contributor will get an email from Github that their PR has been closed, and they can track directly from that PR to the closing commit.

While I've often wished that Github had a proper mailing list per repository that could be used to discuss changes, I have to say that one awesome thing about PR's is how nice they make reviewing a patch. The diff view is just awesome, so now that I have a `git am` style flow with them it would be hard for me to switch to just passing patches around on a mailing list. That said, a mailing list would still be a welcome adjunct to the PR flow if done right.
It's more about "semantic editing" than memorizing arcane keybinds. With Vim, you describe what you want to do with actions and motions. Motions move the cursor from a starting point to an end point and then actions do something with everything between the start and the end.

For example, if you want to delete 3 words, there is an action to delete (d) and a motion to move forward one word (w): 3dw (read (3) times, (d)elete (w)ord)

If you want to delete everything up to a closing bracket, there's a motion to move to the next occurrence of a character (t): dt)
(read (d)elete (t)o ')')

It becomes much more productive when you're thinking in terms of composing actions and motions to achieve a goal rather than memorizing situational key combos. The hardest part is getting over the hump of memorising the actions and motions.

Relative line numbers aren't even too important, given that there is a motion to jump to a line number. If you have a function that you can see starts at line 6 and ends at line 14 and I want to move it to the top of the file. You want to go to line 6 (6G), delete (d), go to line 14 (14G - thus applying the delete action to the motion of moving from line 6 to line 14) then go to line 1 (1G) and paste (P).
While Google is worried by the false negative, we as users measure frustration with the false positive (failures to identify an actual human) rate. Ideally they would find a system where both rates are independent or where false positive are rare.
1. blink easter egg
2. the Terminator blinks (or doesn't, I forgot)
3. GOOGLE IS SKYNET
So what you have is a fork, with a fully implemented feature, that didn't make it back upstream.

This happens all the time, and is the nature of open source. No project is obligated to take your contribution, and that happens for a myriad of reasons that you are not obligated to understand.

It's fundamentally a human problem, not a software one. There's nothing wrong with the software here—it does everything required and more to be able to manage the codebase.

Take your fork, explain the situation in the README and let it be. It'll be in the fork graph and the list on Github. People can find it. If they like your feature, maybe they'll use yours instead. If enough people get behind it and ask for it, or say "hey this was in a PR, why wasn't it merged?", the pressure could be enough for the original author to just accept the PR.

In any case, this is not a problem with the pull request feature. It's a simple collaboration problem, and a PR is only one method of communication you can use to solve it. If you give up after throwing a PR into the void (not that I'm saying you did), you shouldn't expect instant success.
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I'm familiar with this characterization. I just don't think it's representative of realistic spreadsheet programming (edit: or many existing implementations).

Here's an excellent quote from the conclusion of a paper on the topic stating exactly this viewpoint (and they aren't even referring to macros afaict) [1]:

Current spreadsheet implementations do not strictly follow any of the established
conceptual models. They rather follow a teleological approach of “what the user probably
intends to do”. But phrases containing the word “probably” are problematic as they do not
hold for all situations. This poses a challenge for education. If limits and “critical
factors” remain unnoticed or misconceived, spreadsheet quality is seriously impacted.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/0801.4274.pdf
Very simply, involuntarily appropriated the results of someone's labor is a form of slavery. In this case, one is being caused to labor for the benefit of the state.

Pointing out the essence of the practice isn't extreme.
And just because it is customary doesn't change the essence.

I don't think this is a productive nor a just, way to fund society. The government doesn't (or shouldn't) own us. So I disagree very strongly that this is a "reasonable" basis for taxation just as I disagree keeping some people as property is "reasonable" because it is maybe customary.

These "reasonable" and "extremist" type arguments are simply support of custom and status quo and could have just as easily been leveled at abolitionists 200 years ago (and almost certainly were).

But thanks for your feedback. I appreciate it. This topic is actually very important to me and I feel quite strongly about it and intend to write more in detail about it, so hearing people's perception helps. And for the record I am not opposed to taxation. I am opposed to taxation specifically on labor and innovation. I don't think the government (or society) has any moral claim on those. I think they have a very strong moral claim on resources and these should be the basis for taxation.
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I normally don't either, but in this case the value is that ORG gets more political clout as a membership organisation than it would as a pure donation funded one. They get to say, 'we represent X000 members, of whom x00 vote in your constituency'.

As you note, this does mean you have to check whether what they are saying continues to represent you ,and resign if not. But this hassle does buy you something.

Perhaps the web site should make that pitch rather than making the donate option more obscure, though.
what are you using? I'm looking at this now for my personal website. MDWiki looks interesting: http://dynalon.github.io/mdwiki/#!index.md
actually "we" called those attacking the coalition and Iraqi military "insurgents".

Plenty of actual, Iraqi civilian targets were killed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq and other terrorists with car bombs, suicide bombers, hostage takings etc.

The distinction is pretty clear between the two, I think if you are accusing media of whitewashing all Iraqi insurgents under the banner of terrorism you should back it up.
Oh man... https://www.google.com/search?q=tilt#q=ling+rush&safe=off
You dot know before you're getting in how good their knowledge is

Why not? Grant a certification with the test, allow cab owners/companies to put a mark on the car/site/etc, sue people using the mark without authorization. Cabs around here already have big ads on their doors, I don't see why couldn't they have a logo advertising their knowledge.
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Hmm, I know all male words but only four of the female ones: guess I'm the exception that confirms the rule :/
Their test just asks users if they know the word as opposed to actually testing if they do. So it's percentages are inflated, which may mess up the proportions as well.
just add an extra node to their cluster
This one is trippy as hell.
If you use any credit card, points or frequent shoppers card or participate in loyalty program, you are being tracked. If you use a e-coupon, you are being tracked. They are not colluding -- they collect this information and had it to the data mining companies.

Why do you think the buzz around big data exists ? Its not just for curing cancer ; its mostly to track and model individual consumer behavior.
At least part of the problem is that we, as a society, have no idea how to fund the development of creative / digital works. We can't find good business models for this in general.

I agree that ad-supported is terrible. But how else? I'm hopeful for donation-crowdfunding and simple, liquid micropayment options online. But I don't know that that could significantly displace ads.
Thanks, I didn't realize you could do this. I've already updated via tarball but maybe will try this next time.

By the way this is documented in the FAQ: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse%3F
People will probably still be using mice for input. It won't be all swiping by 2014. The nice thing about a mouse is that it requires very little effort. It takes a lot more muscle movement to perform a swipe.
The last third is based on my extensive opinion having worked on open source software for my entire career, including being the ext4 subsystem maintainer and the e2fsprogs author and maintainer.
Using git remotes and distinct branches per contribution is totally legit, and I still do it sometimes. But, I'm often/usually dealing with contributions that have already been reviewed and don't need a whole feature branch/review within the root repository before inclusion. And for that setup - where it's almost ready - it's so much easier to just `git am` it into master, make necessary tweaks, and push.

In general I'd just encourage maintainers to try the `git am` flow, especially on small to medium complexity contributions where it looks mostly ready to go and you don't want to do another week of ping-pong with the contributor just to get a variable renamed or some whitespace fixed.

As I tell my kids, "Just try one bite of <food I find delicious>. If you don't like it, that's cool, then it's more for me!" :-)
Great bit of research but what are the criteria for knowing the word? I doubt many western men actually know what a bolshevik is. Is this selfcertified or multiple choice?
You're so afraid of the word "darkie" that you refuse to acknowledge (to an anonymous computer algorithm) that you recognize the word and close the window, yet you come to HN and tell the story using your real name?
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"I've solved a lot of captcha's in my time, and really have never experienced the trouble the author is detailing."

That might be the problem right here. Try browsing with Tor or passing through an anonymizing proxy. The more you solve correctly, the easier they get. The more unknown you are, the harder.
lots of clever and funny ideas on the homepage. I particularly liked the humurous competition-bashing, but other bits were just as entertaining. Well done.

Unfortunately, I still couldn't work out what the things actually does...
Now all webpages appear tilted to me. I'm disoriented.
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Since Apple only allow browsers use built-in webkit engine in iOS. The turbo mode is use Opera's proxy to compress data, and render them by webkit. Therefore the user agent says they are AppleWebKit:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) OPiOS/8.0.0.78865 Mobile/11D201 Safari/9537.53

But for "Opera Mini" mode, it will render the page at their server, then send to iOS device. so they can bypass the limit from Apple and save many bandwidth. Therefore the user agent is complete different:

Opera/9.80 (iPhone; Opera Mini/8.0.0/35.3088; U; zh) Presto/2.8.119 Version/11.10
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Personally I just estimate and correct. Usually I use numbers that are easy to type with the left hand so I can keep my right on the home row. If the place I'm moving to is 17 lines up, I'll likely get there with 15jjj. Even with relative line numbers turned on, that feels faster for me than stopping to look at the number. (Haven't timed it, but feeling fast keeps me in flow so that's my metric.)

Various semantic movements help a lot, too. But I never stress on hitting the target exactly, I'd rather get nearby without thinking than stop and think to get there in one command.
Cool, I'll have to try that! Does it also pull PR's that live on feature branches in forks of the root repo?
I spent a week in Paris.

I felt cheated _every time_ I took a regular cab. The meter could be set to various modes (L1- Day in City, L2- Evening in City / Suburb, L3 - Late nights, etc.) and I was never sure if it was on the correct mode. Also, the drivers were rude and acted as if they were doing me a favor.

Uber although slightly more expensive, was dramatically better. The drivers were polite, helpful and I never got scammed on the charge. Moreover, I didn't have to deal with foreign currency coins and notes.
I'm not sure how I feel about someone writing something and making me the author. I guess attribution makes sense in the form of paraphrasing. But I tend to think of commits as literal quotations.