skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I worked on a Korean piece of code. All the variable names were in English but the comments were in Korean. Why, just why?

Variable names were probably in English because it enhanced readability of the code as the keywords, etc., of the language were probably also English-derived.

The comments were probably in Korean because they aren't part the code, they are side text that is intended to communicate clearly from the programmers to other people -- and the team writing them and the expected audience was Korean, and writing in English would have required translation both on read and write, greatly increasing the likelihood of miscommunication. Having an English speaker that didn't read Korean come into work on it later was probably not anticipated at the time it was written.
I never liked microsoft for no particular reason
Freefall app inspired by Kiwi's real plunge in China
Ethereum is a scam. Its author received millions of USD in funding, and after a year the only things he has delivered are blog posts that are mostly just PoS propaganda. PoS is a flawed concept, but its proponents dismiss all criticism by saying "we added all these patches and unnecessary complexity and fixed it! Look, no one has hacked it yet!".
Software might be about meritocracy but power is not.

It's not entitlement so much as ownership, they don't feel they are entitled to 5% of the company, they own 5% of the company.

Depending on how much equity they have collectively they might be able to fire the CEO if push comes to shove.
Love the concept. I would love for this to go big.

But I went to the site a couple of times and "I love turtles." was the most coherent message I received.

Take that as you will.
Winning the freelance gig by narrowing your pool of potential clients
The real Roberts has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.
Ive had an intern of another company (the one I worked for) and he got offered exactly that (and he got hired, the guy aint crazy - its an awesome first job offer)
This is what happens when one person stops communicating to another due to lack of awareness; the other assumes the worst, and stops reciprocating. They are the only one who knows what's going on, yet it almost always comes down to them saying "Why should I be the first to re-establish communication?". You should do it because you're an adult, and the other person isn't a mind-reader; if you don't, you don't deserve any sympathy when the shit hits the fan.
I do use the same charger.
The story and scam behind the “Grocery stores FEAR him” ads
Interesting I get downvoted for something which just happens to me and I can prove if you sit next to me. It's slower, much slower. With any charger including the original one which came with the phone. I create apps and have a ton of devices; it's not like i'm an Apple fanboy or whatever, it's just an observation.
I read those sentences as well, but as I recall (and this was a long time ago!) it was written in CROSS which ran on the PDP-10 and borrowed a lot of syntax from Macro 10 but Macro 10 wasn't actually used to run CROSS. But I accept that I might be confusing it with Altair BASIC which was the progenitor.
Isn't it a bit sandy of a foundation to base the whole thing on self-judgments? Is it surprising that self-judged personality tests is going to correlate well with self-picked likes?
Slightly off-topic, but your https is broken: you are including non-secure items. Namely, your logo is served over http.
Tracking down Gary Le, the Thiel Fellow who tried to impersonate me
What are you thinking? You can't just point out that decision-making in Silicon Valley lies with a clueless investor class.

You've got to keep the charade going: keep them writing checks and thinking their input is valuable.
Works just fine for me too.
>You can also create interesting motor vibration patterns

send a hug, picture, vibration pattern to your friends.
Add favorite pattern to FB or Tinder profile. I mean social features integration potential here is just amazing.

>So far we've had lots of fun connecting wii Nunchucks, heart-rate monitors

need to run to patent office with novel idea and apparatus - heart monitor connected as a feedback controller to a programmable sex toy with "Economy"/"Sport Enthusiast" presets

And one can imagine how the data can be stored/analyzed/compared onto the Cloud smart-fitness-band style.

Anyway, i'm much happier to see Arduino in the toys than Linux in the rifles (while it is a logical and unavoidable way of things it still feels like abomination).
Startup Stories: Minbox and Their 50K-View Product Teaser
Forecasting support response times with the Support Simulator 4000
> Make that actually work

You, uh, have seen he has a working app for this, right?
This has nothing to do with programming.
Cold Email Outreach Isn't SPAM, Here's Why
Show HN: eRegulations, open-source government software
Obama calls for end to 19 state laws that harm community broadband
I would, and do, take the further step and repartition & reformat in DOS to eliminate rootkits. Have seen them carryover through new installs before, even after reformatting; TDSS I believe it was, but not 100%.
> Googler #1 doesn’t do M&A for [Famous Named Googler].

Surprised it doesn't say on her LinkedIn profile what she does
As a founder I manage various teams full-time. I don't consider myself to be a manager because ultimately I don't report to anyone, but I disagree with most of what you're describing.

Skills - You may have only worked with bad managers because to be a good manager, much like anything else, requires certain abilities. While some have those it's practice and experience that make you really good.

> You can't wire up a house without the skills. You can't build a web app without knowing a whole lot of stuff, at least not within any time frame someone would pay you to make one in.

You sure can wire up a house without skills. The house will probably end up burning down due to the many mistakes you'll make but it doesn't mean it won't work. On the same token you can manage without skills, but those you manage will burn out, produce less, be unhappy, and pray that you'll disappear one day (or get fired).

Delegation isn't as simple as just telling others what to do, that's a gross misconception.

> You can have responsibilities, in which case you can justify doing anything so long as it fits into the responsibility and you can make your bosses believe that.

Really? Don't you feel behaving in such a way won't help the company you're helping build?

I do agree that finding things to do and potentially developing something that may not get the attention it needs is a good idea, but that's good for any stage of the business.
Maybe you're experiencing small signs of burning out. Have you thought about taking some time off to think what makes you tick (or even changing a job)?
"Just because you don't have the training doesn't mean you won't be an awesome manager."

While this is true, it's worth remembering that management isn't a promotion, it's a career change: http://fractio.nl/2014/09/19/not-a-promotion-a-career-change...
My lab partner back at university once got a very nasty liquid nitrogen burn. Couldn't use his hand for a few weeks. We even executed emergency procedures swiftly and correctly.

It was a freak accident, but since then I always cringe when I see articles like this that have little mention of the dangers involved and appropriate safety measures.
I've posted my resume on dice.com and LinkedIn. I still get phone calls and emails from recruiters regarding a resume I submitted several years ago, even today. I should mention that none of positions I got offered were for remote work, which is something I make sure to ask.

FYI you may want to redact the names of the companies you depicted in your original post.
This attitude isn't even really a problem (why hire anyone who can't run a surplus in their personal life, if you want them to run a surplus for your business?), the problem is, "let's try to trick this person down a garden path of making money for us" and "I get to decide who this person is, and if I say they're an engineer, that's their identity", both of which are absurd and essentially doomed to be wastes of time for everyone involved.
I think you can specify index documents in your S3 bucket config and Cloudfront will use them. A good write up: http://www.michaelgallego.fr/blog/2013/08/27/static-website-...

I am unsure about end-to-end encryption for transfer to the edge nodes or encryption at rest. Maybe someone with a better understanding of Cloudfront and IAM can help out.
Or, as the author is, in the UK where defamation litigation is seen as a potent weapon: http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2012/feb/22/simon-si...
> Mulhern had taken guitar lessons from Martino and often, to Martino’s aggravation, had played a major seventh chord when Martino wanted a minor ninth.

This is an instance of the Picardy Third, a trick that sounds really hilarious when you insert it into a piece where it doesn't belong.
See Paul Graham's recent article about how even talking to someone about an acquisition can be a huge distraction for someone running a small business.
It feels like the classic "but, officer: it was only a joke!"
and in that case the higher the barriers that are placed between them and the user, the better. vive le ad blockers.
We've successfully dealt with this issue in the past.

"Ironically, it was only when Henry Ford took the wildly controversial step of shuttering his automobile manufacturing factories on Saturday and cutting daily work hours from the then-standard 12 to 8 that workers began not only enjoying leisure time at home, but became more efficient and productive at work."

If Google and other big corps shorten work hours, then other companies might follow just like they did when Ford changed. Eventually it'll trickle up to legislation.
I get what you were trying to say, for sure, but the fact of the matter is that you weren't actually familiar with the history, as you now admit, and ignored the entirety of the Wikipedia article except for a single sentence in order to draw support for the conclusion you wanted validated. Now you're falling back on pure conjecture to support your conclusion. The Wikipedia article does contradict the original statement, if you still don't see how then I can't really help you except to suggest you perhaps review in detail.
Study reveals how Amazon fools consumers by constantly changing prices
Analyzing a Fake BBC News Site
It is a fake quote:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1251690...

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/lincoln.asp
Keep things simple. Just note the amount he puts in as a simple loan to the company. Once you're up and running and profitable have the company write a check to him to repay him what he fronted to launch the company.

Good luck in 2015.
Awesome (well, awesome you called Ballmer direct back in the day, not so much the loss of college dreams...)

My dad had one of those OSI machines. Just a few years ago he found it again in the basement and booted it up, and we were greeted w/ the message saying something like 'OSI Basic, (c) Microsoft 1979'

There was also a pretty cool hack he did - where the OSI supported 40 columns of text, and connected to B&W TV screen. Somehow my dad hacked the motherboard to show 80 columns of text, which worked perfectly on the TV screen, fully readable with characters at half width. Not sure how he added the extra memory for the text, but it worked super well. He even mounted a small switch on the motherboard to flip between 40/80 mode. (EDIT - it may have really been a doubler from 24 columns to 48, as I'm reading up on old OSI specs right now)

I think that's the machine I learned to code on, when I was 6 years old. My dad showed me how to write a BASIC program to count, and I was hooked ever since. (Though I shortly migrated to a TRS-80 for my main childhood hacking).
Are you an early adopter?
Guys:

I do marketing and growth for a b2b SaaS company in the travel space. We're launching this really sweet concept that uses Big Data(in the form of millions of uncategorized traveler reviews) to match users to hotels...without them needing to search and sift through reviews themselves...launching soon and I'd love for HN dudes to be give me snarky beta tester feedback.

See the future of travel before anyone else: www.hotelmatch.me
> I could easily argue that spying on your email in order to gain advantages in acquisitions or hiring could be justified for "improving [their] Services" or "to develop new ones".

You would lose in front of virtually any judge if you argued that.
New Sony Walkman runs Android 4.2, costs 1.1 kilobucks
What do insanely wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about
Perhaps it is semantic. But, when you mention "acceptance" it actually seems odder still. It underscores that acceptance is something that one group (presumably the majority) confers upon another (presumably some minority).

And, I think, "why does this have to be conferred vs. being the default state"? It brings to mind the difference between granting certain rights vs. recognizing that they are truly inalienable and exist naturally.

With that in mind, I can't think of a case wherein acceptance is not "warranted", unless it involves harm to others or infringement on their rights. So, I'm not sure that acceptance is the right term, though, to your point, there may yet be one better than "true tolerance".

Of course, everyone is free to not accept or be tolerant or whatever we want to call it. I'm just arguing that is healthier to truly coexist and that there are implications to our choices that, at least in part, serve to define the world in which we live.
Small correction: "Gandhi".

[The fact that you included Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah in your list suggests to me you quite possibly are South Asian and thus perhaps are already aware of this and simply made a typo; however, as this mistake (or, rather, its variant "Ghandi") is so common (I see the misspelt version far more frequently in Internet discussions than the correctly spelt one), and is related to frequent misspelling of my own name, I use any opportunity I can to bring attention to the correct spelling]
Bring global trade into the modern world at Flexport
This $50 device could change bike planning forever
I read your petition. I don't think there's anything perjurious about taking advantage of the regulatory framework you're stuck with while arguing that it's a bad regulatory framework and shouldn't be expanded.

> One day you should actually read what I wrote. Starting in the 1990’s, Verizon got regulators to change the laws to charge customers to fund fiber optic deployments – and instead now-Verizon pocketed the money and didn’t build the networks.

I've almost certainly read more of your organization's publications than 99% of the people on HN reflexively upvoting this story because it fits with their biases and worldview.

I'll concede that you may be right about some of the stuff you bury "below the fold" (e.g. accelerated depreciation), only because I don't have the energy to really dig into those numbers. But the headline numbers, based on the premise that regulators should be setting rates in the first place, that's nonsense. The government shouldn't be in the business telling private companies what prices they can charge.
Most 3d printers which also use gcode, have an sdcard slot. Load your gcode file onto the sdcard, plug it into the printer and print from there. You dont need a computer connected at all, so nothing to go to sleep.
I absolutely acknowledge that bad regulation is a problem, and wish more liberal minded folk would as well. But the problem is again not a binary one: the 'free' market also favors monopolies and incumbents and without a system of punishment and enforcement it is fact (historical and current) that companies will do everything in their power to externalize costs, fix their own success and seek rent.

So it's more a matter of creating 'good' regulation and designing markets (think cap-and-trade) that meet all criteria. It's not easy and you are right to be skeptical of industry's current role in designing its own regulation.
"the police found about a tenth of an ounce of marijuana"

Wow, I'm so glad they're protecting us from these dangerous drug lords.
Don't use it Google is known for not having great customer support. They like to build big and make you support it. Just like the Google Play store. Notice there is no phone number on the site? Not good if you are doing real business and need to get something fixed ASAP.
In support of the grandparent comment, one does suppose Ford was motivated to his actions not purely of his own accord, but, rather, was also influenced by the ambient environment of a thriving and contentious labor movement, which in its agitations was not afraid to employ strikes, etc.
I agree with you that it's a misuse of the word, but for some reason a bunch of javascript developers have adopted it in the sense of having a webapp suite that spans both a node.js server-side environment and a browser client-side environment, and being able to migrate code between the two parts of the app. Go figure.

http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3009
if nothing else, the charger looks quite cool.
https://waytools.com/store/showroom/info/nanocharger/tablet
It isn't just disinformation it is click fraud and a way to earn money via advertising by pretending to be the BBC site.

They fooled Reddit and Facebook users into spreading the link.
“It’s like Disneyland,” he said. “Every time I meet a Windows Phone developer, I want to take a picture and thank him.”

Yeah everytime I meet one.. wait, no, Haven't met one yet. Have you ?
Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Maybe they just need to convince the jury he didn't act alone? There is probably a decent amount of evidence to show he had help and maybe wasn't running the whole operation, but this seems like a defense approach that will make the jury very suspicious from the onset.
congratulations, this looks very nice!
some wishes after playing with it a little:
- keyboard control over the interface!
- an option to mark an info as learned
- import option
> The most common symptoms reported after 28 subjects received a placebo were, in order of decreasing frequency: moist palms, headache, fatigue, drowsiness, anxiety, illness, dream-like feeling, increased appetite, unsteadiness, hotness, weakness, and heavy feeling in the hands and feet.

When I read the title I was hoping it would be like the old joke of people getting "totally wasted" off non-alcoholic beer, like maybe they reported a sudden influx of spiders or dragons or something. But that list of things might be natural responses to spending a morning in a strange place while being asked strange questions, half of them correlate with with just being hungry.
Getting tenure is almost like winning the lottery, except more folks have PhDs than buy tickets it seems. (Double-edged sword of university pension commitment cheapness and oversupply of labor to grind out papers.)
An acquaintance of mine (she used to be a den herself) wrote here about why engineers today don't have agents.

http://blog.alinelerner.com/why-talent-agents-for-engineers-...
The patterns definition file, listing the things that this tool detects as potentially sensitive, is worth a look: https://github.com/michenriksen/gitrob/blob/master/patterns....

Special award for most meta pattern:

"part": "filename",
"type": "regex",
"pattern": "\\A\\.?gitrobrc\\z",
"caption": "Well, this is awkward... Gitrob configuration file",
It's not a compiler bug, it's unfortunately what the C standard requires. That being said, every compiler I know of will issue a warning for this construct.
Leave. That's what I did when I got to the same point as you. Much happier now as technical co-founder of a startup.
Bou Bou was sleeping in a portable playpen at the foot of his parents’ bed when the Habersham County Special Response Team broke down the door to the room and threw a flashbang. The grenade landed on a pillow next to Bou Bou’s face. The blast blew a hole in his chest, severed his nose, and tore apart his lips and mouth.

That's horrifying. I can't believe that these things are allowed to be used with so little oversight.

In October, a Habersham County grand jury declined to indict the officers involved. “Some of what contributed to this tragedy can be attributed to well-intentioned people getting in too big a hurry,” the grand jury wrote in its findings.

What they call "too big a hurry" I call reckless endangerment.
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One would think surveillance audio/video should be sufficiently high resolution to remove reasonable doubt as to identity and circumstances. Then again, it might be that surveillance systems are considered a "bothersome cost of doing business" so the cheapest system that checks boxes is used and rarely, if ever, upgraded... Until there is an incident.
Californian here. Yes, we are. It's the nice weather.
This is the right move. If they say no, or don't come back with a compelling alternative this means that you don't have a strong enough relationship to be recognized for your potential future contributions. It is important that you are likely to only be recognized for your potential, not your past contributions.
> except that the serotonin model of depression has been disproven without a shadow of a doubt

I'd hesitate to say that. First, treatment and cause are obviously not the same thing: increasing serotonin levels in a person and that making their depression 'go away' does not mean that low serotonin levels was the original cause for the depression. So in that sense, there isn't really a "serotonin model of depression"--we're talking about treatments and if they're effective. It's also true that for a lot of mild/moderate depression (which can still be serious in terms of suicide risk) SSRIs do not do hugely better than placebo, although they do perform on average better than placebo (~20%). However, for the more severe cases of unipolar major depressive disorder, SSRIs (and other antidepressants, for that matter) are significantly more effective than placebo.

It's also reasonable to point out that the serotonin system likely has an effect on bipolar depression, given the pretty convincing evidence that SSRIs can induce full blown mania in bipolar patients--even those who have not had a full manic episode before (only hypomanic ones).

Basically: it's complex. There are other confounding factors, too, such as lower serotonin levels being linked with aggression and impulsivity (and suicide) even in patients who don't report or show any depressive symptoms. So there might also be non-'it cures depression' arguments for SSRIs as preventatives, although there isn't a lot of research that I've read into that in particular.

This isn't an argument for this device in particular, though--my bullshit detector is being set off pretty rapidly by the site and claims.

Edit: some clarifications, rewordings.
It's not self-judgements, it's people expressing a like for something completely unrelated. Nobody "Like"d Nikki Minaj because they were hoping to show themselves as Outgoing and Active.
Hey jedc - Tamar from Namecheap here. Can you provide insights into the Namecheap experience? I hear the GD side. Would like to know what you mean from ours.

As far as our dashboard, we're building a better user experience, so that's nothing to fret about. I bet you'd agree when it's live that the experience is far more stellar than anything you'd find anywhere else.
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