skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I mean, women are perfectly capable to understand that the one who wrote the above happened to be a straight male and so talked from HIS viewpoint.

I second this. I think this exaggerated gender neutrality bullshit is more sexist than using genders. It all goes under the assumption that someone somewhere with skewed perception will get offended and call you out for being sexist (or, as is the case here, someone will tell you off how your lack of gender neutrality was potentially careless and might cause someone offence), when in fact, only a few loud dim-witted balloon-heads will get offended if someone used "he" or "she" in their writing.

Furthermore, I doubt anyone would've given two fucks. Alas, I'm sure someone will get offended by me saying this and comment to this how I'm wrong, even though they probably wouldn't, they just think they would have (but that's another issue).

Anyway, to conclude: I don't believe there's anything sexist about using "he" or "she" (or whatever other form of gender) in communication the way the author (christoph) used it. In my opinion, sexism is about bigotry, or misbelief that one gender is superior to others.
Compared to Linux it boots much faster and is about as stable, too.
No, subsidized phones aren't the carrier's property while you're in contract. You're liable for an early termination fee if you break the contract (barring the case of "adverse changes" or the like), but you own the phone — or at least the atoms in it.

You still have a reduced "expectation of privacy" in your mobile communications, however, in that you're using your carrier as an intermediary to those communications. Consider pen registers, for example.
There's 300+ pages hating on unix in http://richard.esplins.org/static/downloads/unix-haters-hand... .
Surprised to see no comments about Delphi in this thread, as it's quite related to VB in terms of power, applicability, platform, etc.
> they could have certain got a warrant to do so had they just presented what they knew at that time about the enterprise. So why didn't they?

Perhaps they want to set a legal precedent which would require less checks & balances.
Hey guys, just thought I'd throw this out here. This is an ongoing weekend project that allows people to import/format their social media posts into WordPress.

I'd observed that many people were putting a lot of time into creating content on social media networks, leaving their blog to go without. This is a way to remedy that without changing existing habits.
It is that people in any kind of business pay much more than $10 for quite bad advice. $10 is quite a small investment.
Wells Fargo employee emails entire company asking for fair pay
> Thanks for this comment. It's filled with warmth and insight. "We praise capncrunch and damn this guy" is a great point

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> One group is rule-oriented and binary, quickly seizes on any violation of the (personal or social) code they believe in, and extends that into a personal judgment of the violator. Such people often express their judgments harshly. It's worth remembering that the same harshness inevitably applies to themselves; one doesn't get to handle that acid with gloves.

Captain Crunch, from what I've read, hacked the phone system to make free long distance calls, and used that ability to play around doing things like routing call loops around the world. He probably caused some monetary harm to the phone company, but did not interfere with the use of the system by ordinary users.

Exploiting dupe bugs in MMORPGs and trading game items for non-game currency does interfere with the ordinary players of the games. Most people want games they play to be fair. In an MMORPG, that means what my character achieves in the game world should be determined as much as possible by what I do in the game world. There should be as little spill-over from the real world to the game world.

The real world cannot be completely kept out, of course. Someone with more disposable income can buy better hardware to run the game on, which can give better frame rates and let them turn on more visual effects. This can let them play their character more effectively, and so give them an in-game advantage. Someone who can afford to take time off can do time consuming things in-game that those of who have to go to work cannot.

Still, for the most part it used to be that getting the good stuff in-game came from earning it in-game. The exploiters and the traders of items for dollars changed that. If's frustrating when you are struggling to complete a quest for some rare item, or work you way to some rare monster that drops powerful loot, and you are beaten out by some lower level party that has a huge advantage because they were decked out with rare powerful armor and weapons no one of their level should have been able to obtain but they bought for real-world money from some dupe bug exploiter.

So yes, I can praise (well...I wouldn't go that far..make it "not be bothered by") Captain Crunch but damn running an MMORPG dupe exploiting business.

> The other group, of course, identifies with the author's pluck and self-motivation and doesn't hold his dodgy beginnings against him.

I don't hold his dodgy beginnings against him either. My problem with him is that it sounds like he gave up the dodgy business only because he was down to one exploit and was getting a bit burned out. It sounds like whether is next business is good or is dodgy will likely be determined by whether he happens to come across a good opportunity first or a dodgy opportunity first. There's no sign of repentance for the dodgy business.
> "They get what they want in the end"

There is no "they". There are individuals who influence each other, each of whom may change their position depending on the position of others. History is replete with the consequences of changes inspired by advisers to advisers of leadership.

There is no guarantee that you can influence outcomes, but it is exceedingly likely that if you believe that you cannot influence outcomes, then you will not.
Agreed, the code could be made a bit more idiomatic.

Introducing a Transducable module would also make sense in the OOP perspective. Replacing Transducer.transduce(transducer, ...) calls with transducer.transduce(...), same with Transducer.compose
The other thing that matters is when you got your degree. Graduating even 5 years ago means you've likely had to take on less debt than someone who graduated this year.

That's how fast tuition is rising.
Which is what I like about Dota, with LoL it's usually blatantly obvious who will win by the 10 minute mark but it's not so much so with Dota. Obviously stomps happen and the team that leads at 10 more often than not wins but it doesn't feel as loop sided as LoL does.
Just to be clear, it's not my version. I've always wished I could read Classical Greek.
Do you have kids? It is hard to explain exactly how it works but you have one or two, and they are so precious, that your imagination of the bad thing that could happen, and even worse how you would feel knowing that you enabled it, and it can be paralyzing. One of the things I was determined to do early one was teach my kids rational caution. It is hard, it requires enduring both the occasional injury and the scorn of your friends and neighbors, but for me it paid off with very capable daughters who can take on new tasks, asses the risks, and take appropriate measures to both mitigate the risk and prepare for the result in the event the mitigation was insufficient.
There was a pretty entertaining Ricky Gervais movie called The Invention of Lying in which everyone on earth is physically incapable of lying, save one. Before you ask for ubiquitous radical honesty, watch it :).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfmXodInxTU
This is a wonderful series that (rightfully) gets posted here a lot. I'd like to point out that the author's blog is also worth digging into for interesting and insightful posts about the modern pharmaceutical industry. For example: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/03/08/erooms_law.p... (how knowing more has actually made us worse at finding effective drugs).
The Fourth Amendment is part of a document legally defining and describing the rights in American legal tradition, in this case a right that you and I both find to be a core part of our humanity and social contract (which is why it is so important it is legally respected, although I personally find the principle worthy of extending much farther).

While we recognize in a moral and philosophical sense today that we should treat all people of the globe identically, that isn't the group of people the Fourth Amendment protects. In a general sense, people in other countries are not subject to American law (despite being part of the same humanity and, we can agree, deserving of being treated with respect). If people and objects in other countries were subject to American law, there is a deep sense in which there would only be one country (The United States) with charming colonies labelled things like "Iceland" on maps.
This ruling doesn't establish a precedent. If it's appealed and upheld, that would establish a precedent.

In the US, trial courts find rulings of fact, and appellate courts find rulings of law. Only the latter create precedents.
I urge you to consider uploading some music. Your project will then reach several orders of magnitude more people.

If you want to keep yourself honest (and not be accused of picking out the best ones), generate some (e.g. 10) without listening to them, and upload them directly.
Well, that depends on my goals for the specific feedback. If I want to know how to get a good reaction from people in bubble X, then asking someone in the bubble makes sense. Asking someone further is valuable for different reasons.
I've been watching the numbers ever since the first reports started coming out. The doubling time has been remarkably constant at about 3 weeks (about the same as the maximum incubation period). In other words, there has been little to no effect on the doubling time by all those policies and procedures we have used to combat Ebola so far.
Since we're talking about road space, check out the 20 lane highway in Burma. It has a lot of soaking up to do.

http://i.imgur.com/DKRsGZ4.png

It was on an episode of Top Gear. It's typically empty, and in the above image you have government officials going to work.
This is a really good idea for Yahoo. I hope that it succeeds so that YouTube isn't too powerful.
Good question - you can add in fine grained details as well. The macroscopic chunks are used to make quick calculations. Then on top of that, it sees whether or not the chunk contains microscopic changes, and if necessary recalculate a path or collision or whatever.

Erosion: doable, but not something I'm going to tackle right now. I originally built errosion in from the start to try and create realistic maps, but it turned out to be way simpler and faster to just pull in real world heightmaps and mix them together in patches, even if not realistic.

Marketing advice: taken. :) I'll be updating more frequently now, especially with the KS campaign going, which is pretty much a full time job right now.
Yet the Wikipedia article says they are cash equivalent - that a cash equivalent is one where the investment is quickly convertible to cash. Common stocks qualify, and are explicitly listed in the article as qualifying.

I find it extremely improbable that a sophisticated company like Apple would let $13 billion sit around in an unproductive investment. If you can quote an accounting rule that says "cash equivalents" cannot be common stock, I'd like to see it.
> I earned a perfect SAT score and am working as a valet, so I know how it is.

Whoah—that seems like a fascinating story. Have you shared it?

If you don't want to post a link on HN (this crowd can be pretty aggressive), my email is morgante@cafe.com
Key quote:

> If successful, the move would have likely made Ulbricht nearly impossible to convict on the central charges of narcotics and money-laundering conspiracy that he faces.

The judge's instructions to his clerk was probably something like: We're going to deny the defendant's motion; find me the legal precedent to do so.
His name has just vanished from my head... but there's a famous chef whose secret trick for finding the best restaurants in a city he's visiting is to locate the most active community discussing food online, and post a comment saying how much he liked (random restaurant here) in that city.

Then just scan through the flood of indignant response/corrections.
strangely how the ruling goes against the logic. I mean the server either belongs to the guy and then the 4th applies ie. the evidence from the search of the server should be thrown out, or the server doesn't belong to the guy and thus the same evidence don't have a place here. Logically these are the only 2 options. Yet the ruling follows the 3rd way - the 4th doesn't apply and the evidence still can be admitted.
> Does the language this library is written in support that translation? Are there modules to do that? Is the license for those module(s) necessary compatible?

It's written in Python, which comes with support for pretty much every major encoding¹ out of the box, so yes.

¹: https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/cb94764bf8be/Lib/encoding...
I think Bebo found a nice middle ground. You could customise your profile with a 'theme'. These themes followed certain guidelines and the layout of elements on the page reminded the same. Of course there were bad themes that ruined readability of pages but nothing as horrible as MySpace. Personally Prefer the Facebook approach but I think there is a middle ground.
Except that isn't at all the case.

By botting a video game money isn't being created out of thin air like with counterfeiting. Resources are collected which are sold for gold pieces from other players.

The difference may not feel like much - but it's night and day in terms of the practical economic implications.
would be interesting to integrate it in a running app. the more quick the runner the higher the music tempo and vice versa.
I think you run some very good points. For me, I agree. I have very few people in my life, but the ones that are happen to be great at notifying me of the things that I do that aren't good.

I'd wager that there a lot of people out there that ultimately do not have such friendships. A lot of people have poor self-esteem and surround themselves with crappy, dishonest, alike people. The idea here is that some of those exact people will have just the amount self-actualization that you need to email this guy. Hopefully this guy is willing and ready to meet these people more than half way and do his best to empathize.

I realize that I just issued a lot of insults to a group of people I explicitly said I do not belong to. Self-acceptance is a great thing to encourage and facilitate though. I wonder if that's this guy's intention...
Of course it does and by doing so it allows users to focus on what really matter which is the content.

Could a more freely customized social network exist? Absolutely but it would still require some sort of ability to control the powers.
Is there something that replicates the VB experience for the web? Something really easy for a new developer to pick up and build a form based business application without worrying about HTML/CSS/Javascript, etc?
Minor point: as to

> China's 'reserve army of labor' hasn't necessarily been exhausted yet. Wages in the inland provinces still lag those found in the coastal provinces

Wages in the inland provinces will, most likely, always lag the coastal provinces, for the same reason that wages in the inland provinces of the US lag coastal wages. The ocean brings commerce; commerce is money.
The Silk Road TOS prohibited the sale of "anything who's purpose is to harm or defraud", neither credit cards or hit men were sold there.
Do you have a source for your factual statement about what happened when speed limits were increased? I ask, because you write, "My life is about science and data," and I would have liked to see some links to some science and data in your comment. I was just Googling around with searches on open-ended questions like "effect of speed limit changes," and I found some links to official reports and scientific studies

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2724439/

http://narc.org/uploads/File/Transportation/Library/NCHRP_Sp...

http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/speedmgt/ref_mats/fhwasa1304/reso...

that suggest that raising speed limits increases the rate of road fatalities, at least on highways that are not designed with the features of the Interstate Highway System highways. But perhaps you have found other studies whose methodology you would like to explain here that reach a different conclusion.
Fines against the police department are just fines against the taxpayers. Fines and jail time for individual officers are not possible because of qualified immunity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
The system has not performed "a lock on the target", at least not in the way that the language leads you to believe. The tool is making a prediction, that within a certain level of confidence, and given the present parameters, that firing the missile will result in the neutralization of the target.

There's growing number of ways, both active and passive, that targets can be tracked or future positions predicted. One of the answers on that page hints at this, the other answer is misleading and often not how it's done in many modern systems.

Source: engineered parts of these systems before.
Derek’s blog is one of the best blog’s I have read. If you want to learn about the pharmaceutical industry and how the process of drug discovery really works (or doesn’t work) then I recommend it highly.

On topic I wouldn’t want to work with peroxide peroxides either :) Derek often has write up about what some of the really crazy organic chemists who work on unstable compounds do - truly eye opening for someone with a biology background like me.
Looking at a different pivot to the question, Allen Downey gives a good theoretical reason for the decline in times and projects 2041 as the year for the 2-hr marathon. Also, his original projection was made in 2011, so there are three years of data to compare against, which is interesting. http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2014/09/two-hour-marathon-in...
.NET is my hot-button. I don't actually know why...but when someone I otherwise like/respect tells me they're a .NET developer I just can't ever look at them the same way again.

It's like saying "I eat spiders"... it doesn't offend me, per se... it just grosses me out.
Something's always going to be the leading killer. If gang warfare picked up, would traffic suddenly be safer?
Yes, and you can also see the same thing in North Korea. But in North America, much less so...
I don't see anything 'chilling' about that trailer. I hope they do a great job of telling the story, but this doesn't really stand out for any reason.
I'm still yet to find an actual use for the thing, regardless of constraints/limitations. The fact is, until we have a use of the hardware which allows average-person to gain some advantage, we have little progress.

Can I check for Ebola with the thing?
Don't you know how to code?

(I'm not in the video game or affiliate marketing scene, but I'd assume hacking games & building websites requires some technical ability.)

If you can code, it should be trivial to find a job of some sort regardless of your education.
Individual responsibility cuts both ways. You are responsible for picking up your friend. Your friend is responsible for assessing your reliability.

I would argue that most people who think they're talking about morality are actually talking about risk.
Corticosteroids are used to improve recovery time and to help reduce pain and inflammation. They are routinely abused by cyclists, who are also endurance athletes who seek to minimize body mass.
Get out of Montana. Seems you already feel you should. Top people in top cities will laugh at the idea of a degree being everything as much as you do, probably more.

I can't believe this has been up for 4 hours and I'm the first person to suggest this.
Try adding "?share=1" to the URL, that should do the trick.
How about a link to the new service? Show us what you're doing, and congrats on the pivot.
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Stupidity rules for ever.. ..the people who do it, and the people who buy it..

Please, send your valuable money to the people suffering real poverty, you might save some children from sexual abuse and raise your soul.
As the father of a three year old and an English BA holder in his second year professionally programming, I can relate.

As someone who inputs on hiring, I would recommend that you become a serial project completer rather than just a starter. I don't get the impression of follow through, which is unfortunately what the unfinished degree also communicates. The only way to combat this is to choose smaller chunks (don't start with solving energy) and see them through to decisive conclusion.

What is something you can build in six months that does not require government funding and also teaches you something for that bigger project?
I get all my brutal & honest feedback from IRC channels... for free.
You probably won't get hard design issues there.
Good point about iteration. Outside of using a 3D printer have you found any tools that increase iteration speed, even if that increases cost?

I understand you can have a PCB fab house build a 4-layer board and have it to you in a couple of days for a large price, but I'm wondering if there are other alternatives.
No, that evidence would still be inadmissible. They could use "parallel construction" to obtain new and admissible evidence to implicate C in the crime, and could use the inadmissible information to launch an investigation they might otherwise not have. But the standing issue in this case is that Ulbricht cannot argue that his fourth amendment rights were violated by search and seizure of a third party's property.

39 U.S.C. § 4057 specifically requires a warrant for certain classes of mail and parcels, and therefore any evidence obtained in a warrantless search would be inadmissible.
> There was an article about people's tendency to soak up additional road space posted on HN fairly recently

Article provides very little useful information. Again, it's obvious that if you expand one road in a congested city then it will get full of cars again, because it takes the overflow from all of the other congested roads. And if you reduce congestion in general then people might choose to drive more often.

But this does not persist as a 1:1 relationship. China has proved as much by building a bunch of empty highways and cities, as is also demonstrated by urban highways carrying more traffic than rural highways with the same number of lanes. The "problem" is that if you have a lot of congested highways then you need to add a lot of lanes before you'll hit saturation, but that hardly proves that it can't be done. The observed 1:1 relationship in some locations is easily explained as a result of widespread insufficient infrastructure investment, resulting in roads with insufficient capacity even after the expansion.
>>>Mercedes, BMW, Cadillac, Volkswagen, Ford, etc. already have that.

So? None of these manufacturers have a carbon-friendly drive train. The fact that Tesla added a software feature "late in the game" is no 'bonus' to the already-contenders. Actually, lets see Mercedes' obstacle-avoidance compete with the SpaceX/Tesla crowd. I'm willing to suffer the down-votes until such a point is reached that we all, conscientiously, acknowledge the docking maneuvers allowed by a SpaceX/Tesla co-operation. In the meantime I'd like to point out to you: software features as an "also-ran" is not really a dilemma.
Learning About Digital Forensics: Google-ei'd?
What's up Hong Kong?