skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has happened to me at least twice (Cellbots, OpenROV).

Now I just tell people up front that I am a honest person and will keep my word to my death, but will respond to underhanded tactics with naked violence, and they can get me arrested and/or sue me iff they survive the beating (I don't much believe in weapons either, this sort of thing should be visceral and primitive).

It works surprisingly well, I suspect it's because most people who hear that think I'm kidding but have a nagging suspicion that I'm not (For the record, I am a pacifist: the last time I started a fight I was 9 years old; the last time I ended a fight was earlier this year)

I say this as someone who allowed two homeless people to move in with me and paid for their rehab, for the record - "nice" means "thinking the best of people", not "being a doormat".

Some times you have to act larger than life, good or bad, to be taken seriously.
No in this case the regex on the bottom only applies the . to the square in question while the \sSAI in question applies to the second square. It seems that it could be a I or a T.
The difference is that the 401k the matching contributions go into the employee's fund immediately. The pension is really just a promise of funds in the future. Historically pensions have been:

a) reneged on by the employer
b) underfunded by the employer

It is correct to say that there is no reason a reasonable pension couldn't be just as good as a 401k, but it hasn't played out. The money keeps getting spent twice. I personally think this is nothing short of criminal. Because of the way the 401k works, the money can't be double spent, and you didn't have this problem of the retirement funds 'disappearing'.
I haven't seen it used outside of Rails apps, but have you ever tried Slim? I understand there's a similar tool for Node.js called Jade.

http://slim-lang.com/

table
tr
th Col1 Header!
th Col2 Header!
tr
td Col1 Value...
td Col2 Value...

Renders to HTML.
Regulating drugs properly also, as well as treating addiction as a medical problem rather than a criminal problem.
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Thanks for clarifying your statement. Imho it's worth reading through both sides of the case with an open mind. I believe the only sensible conclusion is that at least one side is lying very unashamedly.

So on one side you have a multitude of people at Github, including presumably lawyers, HR people, founders, etc. On the other side, you have one person who has allegedly been wronged.

We can't know which side is lying, so I won't suggest which one is lying, though obviously I have my opinion on the matter. I will however state where that opinion comes from: I know from reading about Github's culture that it is a very open culture, which seems to show a deep respect for individuals. Creating this sort of culture doesn't happen by accident. It takes a lot of consistent work over a period of years (I know that because I'm trying to create that sort of culture in my company, and it's not easy at all - there are countless reasons to abort and build a standard, closed culture). To me, what is being alleged by the accusing party is not congruent with the kind of character that would build an open culture.

Obviously you're free to have the opposite opinion, and I respect your right to form your opinion on this matter based on your own beliefs, preconceptions, etc, just as I base my own opinions on my own beliefs and preconceptions.

I think it's important that this respect is mutual, though, and that we both realise we're talking about opinions here, not facts.
Misread as Tribalizer initially myself, was wondering why a name so strange...
"shitposts", "appaling dishonesty", "desire to see my own words", no "ability to sting words in a constructive manner", etc.

Those were aimed at me.

And these were aimed at at the parent:

"you don't actually know", "are just repeating the claims made by the authors", "do you know haskell?", "trolling", "you are doing something wrong".

Plus condescending responses like "if you want you code fixed" and "I'm not going to buy a book just so I can spend the time writing code for you to dismiss" -- when given a reference by the parent. I only intervened because I didn't like your constant condescending tone.

Are you actually here to discuss, or you just came to insult people? If it's the second, maybe try Reddit?
> It seems she couldn't pay it back, because later she says "my credit is wrecked".

Earlier in the article she says "I cashed in on my excellent credit, took out cards, and used them to pay rent and buy food because it would be six months before I could receive my first unemployment compensation check."
That’s not nearly as interesting a question as “Is it patented?”.
Sure, but once you've licensed the images under a certain CC license, you can't really go back. Yahoo will probably obey the user choice (as I think they should) but legally aren't under any obligation to do so.
I think each one has their own mileage - I was just refuting the parent's claim that you "should" do x or y - I think if you've considered it for a while and think you can stick through it - there's no harm in trying a 10 day retreat. Just as there's no harm in trying a marathon if you're generally fit. Worst case you drop out / slow down.
The funny thing about this is that there are plenty of people who would call PG mean. He's famous for having no filters on his opinions so he's at least rude and if he thinks an idea is dumb he doesn't just say so, he will usually have an apt analogy as to how dumb it is. He gets away with this by being right more often than not. In contrast Jessica is nice. In fact she's super nice. Her criticisms are no less insightful but they are presented with careful (seemingly effortless) social grace.

"Mean" though is a very imprecise term. I would much rather he use the phrase 'malice.' Or even better 'malice' and 'schadenfreude.' PG is mean in the way that the weather is mean, it can hurt if you're not prepared but it's not out to get you. And it's likely people interacting with PG are careful not to demonstrate malice or schadenfreude because he is someone they wan't to have a good opinion of them.

Even given all that though, the basic thesis that successful people are somehow less likely to demonstrate fewer negative valence personality traits is born out by no research I know of. Here is some popular media coverage of the matter.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/drishtikone/2013/10/are-ceos-an...
I agree 100%. It almost seems like he is jealous of those that may travel and then post their experiences on their social media. Isn't the first thing we discuss with friends that have traveled what did they visit, what did they try and what did they bring back for us?

I'm not fortunate enough to be able to travel to exotic locations often (at all) but I have a friend that does and I thoroughly enjoy seeing the pictures and hearing about the experiences. It does also depend on the person doing the traveling as it is possible to come off as arrogant if your intentions are to rub it in everyone else' face.
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NS betting the farm on JavaScript Style Sheets and a strictly-hierarchical element access tree certainly didn't help matters (and the CSS-to-JSSS translation layer never really worked). Your CSS had to allow for every possible hierarchy in which the target element(s) could be found. Developing for it was largely a matter of figuring out why the hell that one paragraph/bullet point/header/table cell didn't look anything at all like the ones around it, and knowing you weren't going to like the answer when you found it. ("Oh, I see... changing the font colour here overrides the font size I set back there. Makes sense...???")
No.

I worked on web apps in the early and mid 2000s. What we could do was defined by the capabilities of ie 5-6. Everything else, with it's whopping up to 10% market share, was irrelevant.

Plus, innovation on its own is worthless. If I can't use feature X in the browser that the vast majority of my customers use, it may as well not exist.
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Narcissism has become like the word "offended." People become offended at the slightest thing and folks are accused of being narcissistic for saying the slightest thing that is going positive in their lives.
To me the true narcissism of travel is all the people who think because they have been somewhere that makes them superior and more evolved than those who have not.

I see this in the online dating world a lot where girls are all about the travel, and will write you off if you have not been to 20+ countries etc.
I'm not how viable this would be. There are hundreds of "legal highs" out there. To fully understand their safety you'd have to run clinical trials with hundreds of subjects for each drug. Not exactly a cheap proposition.
No, it's pretty accurate. When you gain a monopoly and people stop testing on other browsers, you create a big problem. I never stopped using Netscape/Mozilla. It doesn't matter if IE was better for a period of time. Once it became dominant and incompatible, all other browsers fought a huge uphill battle. IE is still the most widely used desktop browser.
My favorite is the OS/2 2.0 fiasco.
> If you can't pay your property taxes, you need to move.
I would argue you are talking in the wrong tense.

Detroit has suffered from resident and employer flight for 40 years. About A MILLION people took your advice before you gave it. It has caused a tremendous downward pressure on property values and gutted employee mobility.

Those people that are currently living in Detroit who can't or can just barely pay their property taxes are unlikely to be able to afford to leave and/or probably have too much hope / faith / pride (the regular irrational actors) to face the hard reality. I would bet that a lower intelligence and/or education level is likely to correlate highly with people who stick around despite the city crumbling around them.

Also, if residents can't afford to pay $500 to buy their own house at county auction, they also can't afford to move and start new somewhere else. Even if they could manage to leave before foreclosure, that does not absolve them of their obligation to pay property taxes on a property they still own and likely can't sell. People that can't afford property tax bills likely also have bad credit, which is another impediment to being able to afford a move, rent / buy a new place elsewhere, and even being able to apply for a new job.

I would argue that people who can't pay this month's bills don't worry about "long term". That's why there are more short term ("PayDay") loan centers than there are McDonald's restaurants nationwide.

Not trying to absolve them of their bad economic sense, just pointing out some likely reasons they haven't already moved elsewhere.
IE5 was significantly better than Navigator, and in particular crashed way, way less often.
Phaser is awesome. If your kid has an idea for a game, odds are there is already a decent example or tutorial out there to get you started. http://phaser.io
"How?" Are you saying that narcissism is a technique?
What on earth are you talking about.

I worked at a company that built a web app. We recorded 50+ separate crashers for various version of netscape 3-4. There was a running internal contest about the shortest html that could crash netscape. And the funniest. And the most interesting. It was utter shit software.
This is awesome. I am hoping to start teaching my kid programming at age 5. I've been working with him on his reading since he was around 2. He is 4 now. He reads pretty well, but amazingly well for a 4 year old. We are on level 2/3 books at the moment.

I was hoping to have taught him basic math skills by now. But unfortunately I have not had any success with that. He doesn't understand subtraction yet, and his addition still consists mostly of counting.

I didn't want to push him to hard, because it is more important for me to instill in him a love of learning rather than teach him specifically how to read, or his multiplication tables. As a result we haven't progressed as quickly as I had hoped, but I couldn't be more proud of him.

The trick I use to get him to read is "no video games until reading is done". There are plenty of days where he opts to not read and not play video games. And there are plenty of days where he reminds me he can't play until he reads.
> that site is already serving Facebook content

$ ping facebook.com
connect: Invalid argument

Not so much, no.
This is unfortunately starting to happen once again with Chrome.
Microsoft had no problem with progressing the Internet. They made billions in investments from 1996 to 2002 trying to do just that. They were a big spur in pushing broadband forward at that time, putting large sums of money into numerous access providers; Gates & Co. did a lot of speeches and articles touting how important broadband was. This was at a time when dial-up was overwhelmingly dominant.

What they wanted, was to prevent the Web from eating Windows. That's a very different context than what you're painting, by claiming they were trying to prevent progress on the Internet.
I've never been out of the country. Will I one day? Sure, but it's not like I have a burning desire to leave tomorrow and spend significant amounts of time and money at some tourist destination on the other side of the earth.

I don't really participate much in social media, I have my own interests and like to just do my own thing. I have friends who share similar interests and sometimes we'll do those things together.

I don't have to share with random facebook friends (whom are really just acquaintances -- who really has 200+ real friends?) how many countries I've been to, how many miles I ran this morning, the wonderful healthy breakfast I ate, the celebrity I met on the street, or how amazing my volunteer experience was, how wonderful my bf/gf/husband/wife is, how crazy it was at the night club, etc etc etc.

I have great memories of lots of things I've done, and I share those memories with the people I experienced them with, and sometimes I'll tell those experiences to close friends or family members, or share them at relevant moments in social situations like a related conversation taking place where I can actually add value (as opposed to just hearing myself talk and looking for more validation from the others around you).

I do what I do and I'm perfectly content. Social media as a whole is an opportunity for people to sideline brag and make them feel part of "the club." They achieve their validation by how many people "like" their photo or post.

Volunteering and traveling are two things that some (keyword some) people use as a vehicle to make themselves seem more important or esteemed than others. If you haven't traveled, surely you're a naive American who doesn't know anything about the world outside of your own bubble -- BUT on the otherhand, if you see the eiffel tower in person you somehow become wise and cultured by that experience. If you haven't volunteered recently, you certainly must be a selfish prick. And of course these people don't say these things directly to you, instead they have become an expert at implying them passively.

Meh.

There was recently a thread on front page of HN about which social networks middle school and high school kids are using. It's mainly instagram, and it's used as a vehicle to allow some kids to attain status as "popular". Everyone "follows" the popular kids, etc. I think the article of this thread highlights how that same popularity contest exists for older people too. Except it's on facebook, and you become popular by posting travel photos, volunteer photos, your color run photos, etc.
The paper is https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotcloud12/ho....
Up until IE5 I remember being a bit of leapfrogging from both sides. I'd use IE version X, then Netscape version X+1, then IE etc etc. So Netscape definitely faced situations previously where they were no longer the best browser. As you note, what really started killing them was IE finding its way automatically into nearly every single home computer on the market, and the fact that for many people "the internet" and "the blue E" were synonymous (Stories were legion of people who thought their internet was broken because the IE shortcut was removed from their screen).

As someone who hasn't used Windows since right around that time (I was Linux/FreeBSD only for several years until transitioning to OSX) that ushered in a dark area - there were many websites that I simply couldn't use. Their loss, not mine.
I know for a fact I'm a different person when I'm with my mom, standing alone at a bar, with my friends. Friends is a big thing, often when I travel I notice that amoung groups of friends, especially ones straight out of high school, there is a clear social hierarchy. You can't help but think that the follower type should have gone alone and learned to talk to strangers better.

Travelling and meeting a wide assortment of people really does grow your own personality in interesting ways, it's human nature. You get to test out different traits that people who know you would raise an eyebrow at. I bet it gets quite complicated and involves how trust is formed and how people who act sporadically are less trustworthy. That trust game just isn't in play with strangers you'll never see again.

Just don't let them search you out on facebook, the personality trait status quo enforcer.
Yeah, the alignment of columns is a big issue. If you have 100 rows, and add another with a cell that is longer than any other cell in that column, you've got to either edit 100 rows or live with a much harder to read table.
Didn't work until I reenabled Hardware Acceleration in Chrome settings. Doh!
I liked this puzzle too and I also made a web based version: http://stardrifter.org/regexp/ . Yours looks nicer but I do miss one feature from my version which is the ability to click a clue to rotate it into view.
I think OP might have only remembered Gecko based Netscape. As a side note, I wonder how many of the crashes would be considered exploitable nowadays.
I'm not sure. The user owns the content. If they decide to change the license then Yahoo has to pull those photos from the pool.
I wish this was true. I think what PG really means is "unpleasant people fail (more often than not)". Not being mean is generally construed to indicate you're kind. But PG didn't title this essay "kind people succeed".

I understand the sentiment behind the essay, which is that the ones that succeed in the log term in tech are those that operate in mutually beneficial ways and encourage positive feedback loops. But I think conflating this with lack of meanness is a red herring.

Edit: I should add that with "what PG really means" I don't intend to put words in his mouth. It is my potentially incorrect interpretation of his intent.
This article is great. I really never understood the preference of Markdown over rST.
Also, little do people know that github supports rst https://github.com/github/markup

But looks like Creole as well, which i didn't know :)
I don't understand the CC options offered by Flickr. I personally don't see any Commercial options. Here are the options I see:

- None (All rights reserved)

- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons (my default option)

- Attribution-NonCommercial Creative Commons

- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons

- Attribution Creative Commons

- Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons

- Attribution-NoDerivs Creative Commons

- Attribution-NonCommercial Creative Commons

Which one is the commercial one?

BTW: You can reset the license on your entire photostream by doing a batch reset: https://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/license/batch/
I do remember hearing that the IE for Mac was actually much better than the Windows version. Not being a Mac user back then though, I have no idea if that was really true or just the sort of smug superiority that Mac users always took to their variants of Windows software back then (e.g. Marathon vs. Doom/Quake).
And thus my points aren't worth considering? Lame. :P
I come back to this a day later, after anyone is likely to read it, because this response continues to bother me. Your response isn't false, but I feel it really mischaracterizes the issue. These are not trolls in a newsgroup simply trying to get a rise out of people. They may be wrong, the current optimization approach may be the best choice available, and GCC may have made all the correct choices to fulfill its mission as it defines it, but summarizing as ~"once there bugs and then they were fixed" misses the point.

These are multiple well-respected CS researchers and extremely experienced C programmers saying they can no longer use C (not just GCC) in the manner they once did because they believe it's no longer a possible to make the language work the way they want it to. You appear to be an expert C programmer as well, and don't agree. Disagreement is fine, but I think you would be wrong to completely discount what they are saying.

I think it's a matter of what level of optimization you are aiming for. I'm mostly working on integer compression, and find that I am no longer able to use C to generate code that maximizes the performance of modern processors. Ertl's work on threaded dispatch has led to large improvement in the implementation of modern interpreters (http://bugs.python.org/issue4753). As a tool, C is stronger if it can take advantage of techniques such as this, and there don't appear to be any other languages higher than assembly where tip-top performance is possible. I may be just a cranky anonymous troll, but Ertl should be considered a canary telling us that we are in danger of losing the ability to make similar optimizations.
"The vast majority of people I know..."

Said the venture capitalist... "Are not black."

You're attitude is the type of informal bias that tends to limit the advancemnet of blacks, women, and other minorities.

Priveledge and narcissim tend to go hand in hand.
Ask HN: How to make the most of a slow job?
Hi HN,

I'm in my late 20s and I've been doing web development, back end mostly, for a couple of years.

I just moved back home to Virginia, where I've just started a new job at a university. I'm worried because it seems like a little bit of a backwater.

For example, there's no version control, and no bug tracking system (all requests made via email). I was told this was because it's such a small operation -- only two of us writing code. My boss doesn't seem to be resistant to those practices, but they're not implemented yet. The applications being built typically have very few users (maybe only a hundred or so). It's all ColdFusion, which I don't know much about. The pay isn't great but it's enough to live on and save a little.

There are some upsides. One is that I think I'll have a lot of free time and choice in how I spend it.

Later, I might be able to take advantage of steeply discounted tuition at the university. I don't have a CS degree and this one would be pretty cheap as they go.

How can I make the most out of a situation like this? Should I be looking for a more sophisticated workplace now, rather than sink time into this one? Should I hang on for the sake of the tuition? Or just loaf around drinking coffee and reading HN?

Also please let me know if I've left things out, I've tried to be brief.

Thanks!