skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. Look at the behavior of the Tamil Tigers specifically, and generally the civil war in Sri Lanka.
Taking a taxi everywhere seems like it would be expensive: how much would taking an Uber/Lyft 30 minutes each way to and from work actually cost?

(For reference, my commute is 30 minutes in NYC and costs me $112/month pre-tax for an unlimited MetroCard, which I can also use for non-commuting trips too)
Burnout doesn't come from daily git commits, it comes from frustration and a desire to prove yourself.

It's not just in your head, and jogging isn't going to fix it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout_(psychology)
It probably wouldn't be as enlightening to most adults, but Problems in General Physics by Irodov kicked my ass in high school and taught me a lot
My belief is that, when something like this happens, we need a strong show of solidarity with the victim.

If you are (or know) a journalist, please consider publishing some of the Charlie Hebdo satirical cartoons, unredacted and uncensored, in your coverage of this story.

Terrorists may be able to kill some of us, but they can't kill all of us.
I'm going to argue that. Many of these services are targeting a more diverse crowd. If they were only targeting this kids demographic, they would be limiting their growth potential out the door. Especially given that the growing base of users of these tools are international users.

Also, I'm going to argue just against my experience with urban teens living in more diverse communities which doesn't really align with this kids experience.
I would think that most languages suffer from this at least as much as JavaScript. The solution is to have guidelines and enforce them through code reviews. Linters can also catch some of the rules.

I'd say that JavaScript's benefit is that it's so simple that there are not too many solutions to do the same thing, unlike massive enterprise languages like C# and Java.
I've followed Andy Bryce for years. You can interact with him quickly and directly at the old Joel BOS forum:

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz
2014 and 2015 I think?
Can you give me a link or two, I'd like to read more about it.
> I only know a handful of people (myself included) that believe Snapchat does delete your photos. Everyone else I know believes that Snapchat has some secret database somewhere with all of your photos on it.

It takes a special kind of stupid to even consider the idea that the photos are _really_ deleted.
My buddy excercising his golf kills gone wrong :D
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I think Whatsapp has emerged as the better group service that everyone is using. It's a little too easily brushed aside in this article.
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The idea of giving up is worse than of it killing me (2014)
I like that he's less concerned with a company storing his Social Security Number (or credit card, name, address... things governments/companies ALREADY HAVE) than the photos and thoughts he's choosing to share only with his closest friends.

Dunno how to quote:
I only know a handful of people (myself included) that believe Snapchat does delete your photos. Everyone else I know believes that Snapchat has some secret database somewhere with all of your photos on it. While I will save that debate for another day, it is safe to say that when photos are “leaked” or when there’s controversy about security on the app, we honestly do not really care. We aren't sending pictures of our Social Security Cards here, we're sending selfies and photos with us having 5 chins
I'm a bit of a Google fanboy however at work I haven't seriously considered moving to their cloud offering.
Upvoted, because you make a very important point: I think our best course of action is to accept that these things do happen occasionally.

It is very hard to stop all zealots, especially if they act on their own or in small groups. Trying to extend spying, restraining ourselves in our free speech, starting to hunt down people of a certain religion, etc. will only have the opposite effect: stifling democracy and free speech.

The best reaction is to stay calm and continue to be rational: terrorism exists to instill fear in people. However, looking objectively, the chance of being hurt in a terrorist act is fairly slim in most countries. Especially if the problem is treated well, besides smart intelligence, social improvement: ensuring that kids have a future, talk with them before they radicalize, etc.
'Boss Tweed': The Fellowship of the Ring (2005)
I believe a cleaner language will replace C and C++ for new projects some day

That language is C++14.
What about the 'most qualified' that don't happen to be the same race or gender as the interviewers, and are therefore discriminated against (even sub consciously), resulting in a less qualified but more 'culturally acceptable' candidate being chosen? The funding Intel is pushing includes training to prevent this.
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This never worked out – should I just dump the source on GitHub? What license?
What? I don't live there, I've never even been to USA so I know nearly nothing I can be spectacularly wrong. However, if even 1/10 of what I read about TSA, Patriot Act, NSA and so on (and on...) is true then I think there is at least some degree of control over Muslim citizens? Isn't it actually an official policy?
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It doesn't say 2013, it says 2015. See the original here: https://piper2.bluematrix.com/sellside/EmailDocViewer?encryp...
It's not that obscure. Anyone with an ounce of experience in PHP can start writing solid Hack on day one. And that would still be true even if Hack were never seen in the wild.

Unless you think it's hard changing the open tag from <?php to <?hh :p
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Right. I've only really been into whiskey the last 3-4 years, so really just before the boom. Prices have gotten nuts and the availability is worse for all the age stated stuff, and especially the wheaters. 12 year and old antique Weller used to be reasonably priced high quality go-tos, now they're treated like gold and hoarded by shopkeeps and buyers as "basically pappy."

Looking forward to the general public moving on to whatevers next in the alcohol world. Fingers crossed it'll be tequila as that will never interfere with my tastes :)
Anyone find the links to the full images?
Could output midi events and defer the sound rendering to another process.
This is... this... wow, this guy has no idea what he's talking about.

"I don’t consider myself very devoted to my work, but I’ve been writing code every day for two years."

Yeah, come back when you've been doing it for a decade, kid. Come back when you've been doing it as part of a team, after you've spent days solving a bug that's been preventing your stuff from working, and came from someone else who was in the same hurry you are. Come back when...

I'm going to stop. This is a fluff opinion piece from someone with little experience and wrong facts (33h work-week? lol). I wish I could downvote it.
Right - What I'm saying is that the above former code does handle the error, in the exact same way as the latter code.

For clarification, the error is handled implicitly (but you'd know what kind of error it was due to the type signature), but you can always handle it in manner you choose to at any point.
> Ridiculing ideas is a victimless crime

Propaganda using cartoons has been used at all levels of oppression from small groups targeting Others to genocide.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that a cartoon is not an act of violence - because they can be.

(Just for clarity: this does not mean they should be banned)
Biased and poorly researched piece. Not sure why it was posted to HN.
I disagree, none of my friends use WhatsApp and I've never heard them mention it. It's all about group texts or FB chat groups. (I am 23)
Even more laughable that objective differences in skill could be determined during an interview process. Especially when, unless they are watching for it, most interviewers generally hire people who are like themselves.
> Charlie Hebdo has a long record of mocking, baiting and needling French Muslims. If the magazine stops just short of outright insults, it is nevertheless not the most convincing champion of the principle of freedom of speech

How is explicitly challenging those who oppose free speech not the best way to be a 'champion of the principle of free speech'?
Why we started from scratch again in the CAD business
You make an excellent point. I also want to mention that while it's awful that there are victims of pedophilia, there are hundreds of thousands of times more victims of spanking, which is child abuse just the same, but not a peep about it ever do I hear.

So this pedophilia scare is blown out of proportion just so that abusive parents can think "hey at least I'm not abusing my kids". Like people say "I was spanked and turned out fine!". I'm sure between the mindset change from "f%ck anyone" to "only f%ck 18+" there were lots of people saying "I was abused when I was 14 and I turned out fine!".

In other words, forget the 10 pedophiles in your area and focus on the 90% of families in your area that treat kids worse than animals. Most families are violently abusing children (making the criminals of tomorrow) and we need to deal with this now.

It's easy to be against pedophilia but we must be against all child abuse.
Yes, I don't know how it works with banks but here it's essential to loosely couple your services. The main app shouldn't controll the funds/transactions app
Amazing blend of painting and photography.
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I think if you use one, it is increasingly likely that you use multiple.
Unencrypted HTTP/2 is a fake concession that isn't usable in the real world.
Ok mods, I'm concerned that I have made some valid criticisms on this article as have others in their comments, yet mine is being down modded into negatives.

I'm left feeling this is immature and punitive for a joke I made on a prior news posting where I complained about the down modding.

Would someone like to explain just how my criticism is so much more severe as to warrant attack over the other criticisms?
> It doesn't.

If it doesn't, then why does the theory call for small crimes to be punished?
I'm not convinced CIOs are thinking about Reader or Wave. Before entering a big deal, it would make sense for people to read the deprecation policy. Unfortunately, the Cloud Platform deprecation policies are unclear.

The terms of service (https://cloud.google.com/terms/) point to the cloud platform deprecation policy (https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation). The Cloud Platform deprecation policy points to the product launch stage page (https://cloud.google.com/terms/launch-stages), which points back to the "deprecation policy" section of the terms of service!

As a CIO, I would be most concerned with the ecosystem and availability of talent. Google have done a good job trying to reuse some of the same tools and ideas like reuse boto, but writing scripts for their cloud platform vs. AWS is still as different as English and Dutch.
Seeing as I can't reply to the comment in question... the price hike article you mention is in 2011. The price hike was a change of system, and everything went up because most people were using Python 2.5 which had no threading support. Python 2.7 had proper threading support, and unsurprisingly when that was enabled, everyone's cost dropped by three-quarters. Google dropped support for 2.5 two years ago.

If were really worried about costs, you'd convert your App Engine app to Go.
The last two sentences are fairly profound. (I didn't quite understand what she was saying until I had read it a few times.)

We think of ourselves as controlling our behavior, willing our actions into being, but it's not that simple.

It's as if over time, we leave parts of ourselves all around us, which in turn, come to shape who we are.
Political Cartooning Is Almost Worth Dying For
* You post you getting ready for the party, going to the party, having fun at the party, the end of the party, and the morning after the party on Snapchat.

* On Facebook you post the cute, posed pictures you took with your friends at the party with a few candids (definitely no alcohol in these photos).

* On Instagram you pick the cutest one of the bunch to post to your network.

Oh my god, just kill them all before it spreads.
This…many of the major firms either moved to midtown, or to Jersey City.
How much would a newspaper that cost 2¢ then cost today?
Your use of metrics to track performance and ability/desire to experiment clearly had an impact as well. In these kinds of situations where you can get good quality metrics relatively easily, and experiment so quickly, it is still surprising to see folks not collecting those metrics.

Of course, it's not ALL about metrics, and in some ways I reject the line of thinking that you can't improve what you don't measure (qualitative research/understanding can go a long way). But with quantitative research/data so easily available... it only makes sense to make use of it.

Thanks for sharing your insight!
I would guess that this confusion is pretty common, too. Maybe it was a mistake to launch GAE before Compute. It'd be like AWS starting with Lambda for a few years, messing with pricing, then somewhat quietly launching a general-purpose compute PaaS.

Also, AWS has dozens of services. Does Google have the same building blocks? (Storage, caching, CDN, databases, load balancing, etc)
I have never felt so old reading a post :D

What I find interesting is the stark contrast to people's predictions from years ago. I can recall the speculation about how in a world of facebook our lives will be documented forever, and the problems that will cause. That very real concern seems to not only have been well received, but they seem to be taking precautions. Unexpected, but very encouraging!
Buddhists can be violent.

http://bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22356306
>but at least it forces the guest to do basically no useful caching of its file system, in order to remain coherent with the host fs.

Sure, but I assume the host/hypervisor is doing the caching on its side, so this may not be a huge loss for the gain.
Web scraping: Let's move on
I don't understand his argument. I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that burnout is a form of depression and thus burnout exists in the mind. I think the issue is that burnout is a form of depression that is caused by overwork. Overwork is not just about the number of hours worked. The causes of burnout vary drastically.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/adult-health/in-dep...
American patriotism is famously goofy that way. I'm convinced one of the major reasons the USA is such a cultural juggernaut is that it gleefully co-opts other cultures and absorbs them right up into the mishmash that is America. (American English is pretty extreme in this regard.)

But there's no point acting offended or put off about it. Americans certainly aren't the first or last to do it. But it's certainly done with gusto.
The people that died today were a warriors. In a war that I am not sure you even realize is waging. The war for the freedom of the human mind. Humor, satire, mockery - they all help society to see through haze.

Because nothing should be sacrosanct. The moment we say that even a single thing is ... then everything that suits the powers that be will be.
I am with you on this. Google needs to demonstrate enterprise awareness about needed guarantees.

However, the bigger issue is that AWS isn't "broken". There is no compelling reason to look at alternative solutions. In particular alternative solutions that have a learning curve.

If google implemented an Amazon API compatibility library that would help a lot. But right now for me to try out google cloud - I have to recode my app.

Not. going. to. happen.
Facebook is also great for events. You can invite people you know even if you don't have their other contact info.

I think you might struggle to 'bring everyone over' to a better group service. Part of the draw of facebook is that is everyone is already 'over'.
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The real threat from North Korea: not cyber attack, but nuclear bombs
And seriously? WTF!
I think the difference is that the Post and most right-wing media in the USA support not the libertarian notion of conservatism, but a more authoritarian version.
Author here.

As noted at the top of the README (and by others here), this is not an official Google product. It's an experimental project, mostly to play with some ideas (and Go).

I gave a talk at LinuxCon in August about novm. The slides may also be of interest, and are available here:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/...
I think a mobil solution to tipping is a great idea. I know I can speak for the majority of the younger population in regards to never having cash. There is no reason to have cash anymore. I can pay for everything with my card or through my phone.
> how mainstream newspapers in France are careful not to make the amalgam between these few barbarians and a whole religion

Although it would be nice, from a PR standpoint, if some French Muslim organizations could condemn those events, becuase I don't know what most Muslims think about Charlie Hebdo. Have they? I have searched Google News for that and didn't find links, so please post if there are some. Or they may just not be sufficiently organized for PR.
You're taking it a little too literally. The theory is that once a situation seems less maintained, people will normalize that state and allow it to decline further.

It's essentially a slippery slope argument, though I do think there's a little bit of psychological truth to the argument. But I also think there's a really high cost for trying to keep things perfect.
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That literally kills me.
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Why hold yourself to a much higher standard than your customers do? Even though OpenSSL is shitty, everyone still uses it.
Thank you, I was going to point it out myself. Early HTTP was literally just this:

GET /somepath

That's it. Nothing more (well, that and a CRLF), nothing less. The response was equally barren: just pure HTML. Existent page? HTML. Non-existent page? HTML error message. Plaintext file? HTML. (The text is wrapped in a <plaintext> tag.) Anything else? Probably HTML, though you could also deliver binary files this way (good luck reliably distinguishing HTML and binary without a MIME type)!

I actually like HTTP/0.9. If you're stuck in some weird programming language without an HTTP/1.1 client (HTTP/1.0 is useless because it lacks Host:, while HTTP/0.9 actually does support shared hosts, just use a fully-qualified URI) you can just open a TCP port to a web server and send a GET request the old fashioned way.
The content on Instagram is usually a higher quality. People take time to edit their photos with filters, different brightness/contrast settings, etc. ... This means the content on Instagram is normally “better” (photo-wise)

That's the OP's personal experience of course, mine is sort of the opposite: facebook has all sorts of crappy pictures, instagram has those as well but made even worse by having applied all kinds of filters most of which appeal ugly to me. Tumblr on the other hand I consider as a source for decent/pro material (as in, actually beautiful pictures taken with proper cameras). Maybe all this is because of who I'm following though.
I sometimes take Uber/Lyft or UberPool/LyftLine to and from work, which costs me ~$4-7 without surge pricing. Most of the time I walk. I probably spend ~$40/month on commute to work via Uber/Lyft, walking the rest.

That said, I'm not suggesting that as a commute option. I'm suggesting it as an option when you have to get to and from meetings at various startup offices / cafes. For commuting, most people have a good option that's cheaper than that. If you live on the other side of the city, driving or riding a scooter is not a bad option. If you live a little closer, which is likely, many people bike. There are also quite a few bus lines. There are also privately run commuter busses that connect the Marina / North Beach with downtown.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/04/us-usa-police-idUS...

Here is one.
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This was fascinating. One of the interesting challenges with feedback that I have observed is that often separating feedback on the comment/post/idea vs feedback on the author is hard to distinguish.

I have this thought that instead of 'up' or 'down' a less directed 'agree or disagree' might be less painful on the poster.
yeah, sure burnout is in your mind. but so is depression and other mental illnesses. Doesn't make it any less real.
Of course not. What makes you think it is?
Impressive! Have you thought about charging for this as a service?
Do you see any trend where companies want their data more structured from the beginning?
I love this quote... "Now that means we have to figure out how to solve a problem that we didn’t create."

But they did create the problem via excessive blind collection of data, illegal warrantless searches. Falsified investigation trails and a number of other issues not-withstanding...

It'd be like telling safe manufacturers that they have to design in a trivial bypass for their safes so that law enforcement can get in easier... it wouldn't fly.
Link to proof for Surrey crime stats/Seattle crime stats?
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Fwiw, most debuggers will let you step through execution and look at variables and the stack frames.
I'm older than you and I definitely don't want a one stop shop.

Currently I use Facebook to see photos of my extended family, LinkedIn for work & sales, Instagram to keep up with my cooler friends, Twitter to see trending news, StockTwits to see investing ideas...

To me this is the future of social networking: many networks, each with a specialized purpose.
You know the part where he thinks libertarianism means complete lawlessness.
many have nailed this on the head. It’s dead to us.

The next few paragraphs then go on to describe Facebook as essential social plumbing. I think an FB product manager would be delighted to hear that Facebook is "dead" in this way.

This is precisely why the most successful social network of its generation was built, first and foremost, to be a platform rather than a cocktail party.
Yes, pinning the cert, (i.e. TOFU - Trust On First Use) is exactly the right way to treat self signed certificates and under that model they offer real security. The idea that you can't do anything with self signed certs and nothing makes them okay is a much more troublesome untruth, IMO.

Rejecting self-signed certs and only allowing users to use the broken CA PKI model is the wrong choice. Browsers didn't get it right. The CA model is broken, is actually being used to decrypt people's traffic and though your browser might pin a couple big sites, won't protect the rest very well by default. It's a bad hack and we should fix the underlying issue with the PKI. I believe moxie was right, a combination of perspectives + TOFU is the way to do this.

Things that also work like this that we all rely on and generally seems more secure than most other things we use: SSH.
Diebold was an actual knowing misrepresentation.
(They also only paid 125k in damages)

IE Diebold knew they were doing it.
There is no real caselaw (that i'm aware of) around "not investigating" or "willful blindness".