skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, looking at your link and I find and interesting line. "42% of Americans still believe we found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq" is presented as 42% of Americans are stupid and uniformed. It would seem those "informed" people are not readers of the New York Times as they have an article[1] detailing the WMDs found and the effects on our soldiers. Perhaps these "correct" people don't have friends who served or never served themselves? I suppose they can go with the Mother Jones approach and say there was no "active WMD program". But, that probably wasn't the question asked and I sure families of those veterans would say some were found.

Seems if you only have 140 characters, a short conservation snippet, or a single data item then you might not get the whole story.

Summing up the article as "the end justifies the means" seems appropriate and, to me, is still the simplest definition of evil.

1) http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleea...

2) "In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act."
It also has a lot to do with population size.

We have never been more than some tens of millions until relatively now. So, there was more than plenty of food for all of us.

In fact, if there's one thing where we have had no time for any evolutive adaptation, is our current population size.
Take a look at the Stack class (an example of a free monad) and how it's used to compose clients:

https://github.com/twitter/finagle/blob/master/finagle-core/...

https://github.com/twitter/finagle/blob/master/finagle-core/...

http://twitter.github.io/finagle/guide/Clients.html

A client is a layer of various components like load balancers and stats recorders, but they're also all configurable. Only using the expressiveness of scala could such a data structure be created to compose all of these pieces, yet still keep them modifiable and type-safe.
Seems like good information, but pretty straight forward. On the other hand, I guess it's good to be reminded of that sort of thing.
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The employer-employee relationship in the US is generally "at-will", which means either side has the right to end the relationship for any time and for basically any reason.

But the actual reason why these people are getting fired is because employers are scared shitless of these digital lynch mobs. To them, _not_ immediately firing a person who makes an offensive joke means the employer tacitly approves of the employee's behavior and thus the _employer_ becomes a target.
it's hard to read the joke as having any purpose other than the same one as the famous-ish political cartoon about coverage of ebola victims: http://www.episcopalcafe.com/lead/Faye%20on%20media%20respon...

Is being cynical and self-deprecating really such an unacceptable packaging of the message that someone should be fired over it?
> The ex-Mozilla CEO knows this well. An online bullying campaign was launched against him and he was forced to quit.

It's kind of weird to think that Brendan Eich is still active in the web standards community, even though he's been forced to leave Mozilla. A man without a company.
There are some overlapping architectural ideas here, I find they build upwards like this:

CQRS: You have one "write" data-model which is specialized for transactions and applying business rules... and other "read" models that take care of things like dashboards, detailed information pages, searching, generating reports, etc.

Chronological events: A really handy way to propagate changes from the write-model into the various read-models.

Event-sourcing: This is "dogfooding" your own events. Instead of just emitting optional messages to other systems, you make them essential, and use them as the authoritative record for your own system's state. This adds certain kinds of flexibility that you may (or may not) need.
You'll have to forgive me, because even after you explained it, I still don't understand.

If someone has a link in their signature pointing to an unassigned user name, then grabbing that username could also be interpreted at plugging a security hole as a stop gap measure while the problem is being discussed.

I don't see how it's outrageous. I don't see how you overstepped your bounds.

It's not clear to me what happened here.
modeling complex interactive systems through their static state rather than modeling the interactions directly as the principal domain objects is invariably futile

Now that actually makes sense to someone not already familiar with the context.
Good catch. It does not seems like solitary confinement. I found this doc from Nevada:

http://www.doc.nv.gov/sites/doc/files/pdf/ar/AR734.PDF
Almost all the power connectors used inside a desktop PC have at least two voltages. For example, a hard drive will usually draw from only the 5V and 12V pins, but some SSDs are designed to use 3.3V.

The problem with these connectors is that they usually aren't designed for many plug/unplug cycles. The SATA power connector is also nearly unique in being designed for hotplugging by ensuring that the ground pins make contact first and disconnect last.
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One of the things I notice when looking at great founding teams is the ability for them to grow and learn quickly. I bet that's @natarius4k's point with flexibility. You can't possibly find someone with all these qualities but you can certainly compromise if you can attest your cofounder is learning and improving every day on the weaker soft skill(s).
I'm feeling this pretty strongly as a minimally part-time freelance developer; I can't afford new hardware, and am coding on a machine that was at best a mediocre performer seven years ago. Startup time for fairly trivial applications is significant running Lubuntu, and starting a Clojure app is painful; I just timed Clooj at 1:48.

I find that it affects my decision whether or not to optimize code; I feel it sooner than I remember doing when I was on a more powerful machine, and that makes me decide, "That inner loop has to go." It also affects my choice of language; I'm more likely to use Pascal or Nim than Python, because the result feels better when I run it.
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But the empty words now result in people being fired and blacklisted, with as little effort as writing a sentence or a retweet. The mob doesn't even have to be in the same ballpark as truth. The worse thing is these things are picked up by newspapers trying to tap into social and making them "the official record".
The article cites the destruction of self-respect as being in some ways worse than a punishment of death. I could argue that those that participate in this sort of public shaming have a lack of self-respect and seek the thrill of dragging everyone else down to their level.

Sadly, there will never be a lack of self-confidence, which means that there will never be a shortage of these sorts of things happening.

I wish humanity was better than this.
They don't have to be in a private prison to warrant private sector interests. I don't think we can afford to underestimate the economic impact on companies that provide food, security, building services, apparently social network investigation services, etc.. If non violent offenders were suddenly released tomorrow it would have a very negative effect on companies that have based their whole business model on catering to prisons, both public and private. Not to mention the impact on local jobs (e.g. guards, staff, administration) if we were suddenly able to close a significant number of prisons.

I really do believe that there is a political will in this country to not upset the economic status quo that having a large prison population has created, especially at the local and state level.
Not only is someone bound to end up dead, based on past human behaviour the majority of shamers will claim they deserved it, and feel no shame themselves for their part in the death of an innocent. Diffusion of responsibility is a terrible thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility
You're not counting transmission loss, something that distributed systems avoid.

Central systems are more efficient but also must lose efficiency to transmit the power over distance.
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That's a good question and something I would have elaborated on if it wasn't for the 2'000 characters limit. I find these companies either by visiting websites I've been a happy client of (and who are in a niche I'm probably interested in) or by searching for technological keywords (HTML5, PHP, web agency, etc.) on Google with results limited to my country. In my case the companies I click with tend to use the (mainstream) technologies I want to work with. I wouldn't know how to do if I were in a more abstract field such as the ones you mention, sorry.
I don't necessarily disagree, but there's a certain amount of due diligence that editors must do and, as I recall, this idea + rebuttal made a bit of a splash even on non-HN/Reddit media back when the original came out. Even if we ignore that, there's a massive a-priori improbability for the claimed result being true given the current state-of-the-art knowledge by experts in the field. Claiming to "solve" N=NP is definitely a red flag and anyone modestly acquainted with the field, as editors probably should be, would know to consult a larger group of people within the field before publishing this. Let's not forget Sagan's advice to require extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims.

Either way, I think the editors should at least publish a/the rebuttal at this point. (At the very least.)

EDIT: I should say: I know this isn't -- per se -- claiming that P=NP, but it's in the same league in terms of boldness since they're claiming that there's a physical machine that can solve NP problems in P, but there's, as yet, no plausible explanation for why no N-TM has yet been realized in physical reality. (Given current QC theory, at least.)
> Do you think people should get fired and ostracized for donating to Planned Parenthood?

Yes, I think people, in a position where PR is a part of their role such as CEO, that work toward things that cause substantial outcry that prevent him from doing his job, should probably not be in that position.

Or are you saying that you'd think someone working against the ideals of Planned Parenthood in their own time would be suited to lead it?

You might disagree with the reasons, but the reality is, he couldn't do his job because of the outcry. So, the fundamental question becomes: Do you think someone should get fired for not being able to do their job?
> To repeat: she did not deserve ANY bullying or harassment whatsoever.

That wasn't clear. You said the "outcome was fair" - the outcome was that her life was ruined.
Finding a good cofounder it's harder than finding a wife/husband.
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But it's not that over the top. There are A LOT of people that would say the "I'm white" comment and MEAN IT. It's not obviously over the top.

Once I saw a T-Shirt in tshirthell.com that said something like "arrest black babies before they become criminals". I don't remember the exact words. THAT is obviously and ridiculously over the top.
Another good place is at edges of systems, particularly where they rub each other in fraught ways. What's the rule that says that computer systems invariably take on the architecture of the organizations that make them? You can predict Terrible Code Exists Here by getting a list of team names from the target (trivial -- use LinkedIn or ask anyone who works there) and then figuring out where those teams have shipped half-assed worked-on-my-machine glue code to tie their systems together.

A common example: any handoff between a marketing site (or email) and a SaaS app more complicated than "Clicking this unchanging link takes you to a login form" almost certainly involves two teams and was somebody's perceived least important thing to do that day.
I think the idea is use these only for low wattage applications, way below 2400 Watts. 48V at, say, 10A is plenty of power for many uses. Also the transmission distances should be relatively short if coming from a battery in the home.
I'll let another comedian, George Carlin, explain:

There is absolutely nothing wrong with any of those words in and of themselves. They’re only words. It’s the context that counts. It’s the user. It’s the intention behind the words that makes them good or bad. The words are completely neutral. The words are innocent. I get tired of people talking about bad words and bad language.

Bullshit! It’s the context that makes them good or bad. The context. That makes them good or bad. For instance, you take the word “Nigger.” There is absolutely nothing wrong with the word “Nigger” in and of itself. It’s the racist asshole who’s using it that you ought to be concerned about. We don’t care when Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy say it.

Why? Because we know they’re not racist. They’re Niggers! Context. Context.

We don’t mind their context because we know they’re black.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pksx_IAHDE

In this case, people know the context of Daniel Tosh's words, therefore they don't mind. They minded here, because a Tweet has no context.
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Very nice! I actually used the featured example from Mark Richardson's class notes on Principal Component Analysis (http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/richardsonm/SignalProcPCA.pdf) in teaching. It was astounding how clear it was to some people and how unclear to others.

I did a singular value decomposition on a data set similar to the one Richardson used (except with international data). The original post here looks at the projection to country-coordinates, looking at what axes describe primary differences between countries. My students had no problem with that -- Wales and North Ireland are most different, in your example, and 'give' the first principal axis. But then I continued to do it with the foods, as Richardson did (look at Figure 4 in the linked file). Students concluded in large numbers that people just don't like fresh fruit and do like fresh potatoes. Hm. They didn't conclude that people don't like Wales and do like North Ireland; they accurately saw it as an axis. But once we were talking about food instead of countries, students saw projection to the eigenspace as being indicative of some percentage of approval.

How could we visually display both parts of this principal component analysis to combat this prejudice that sometimes leads us to read left to right as worse to better?
[McMurphy:] "Is this the usual pro-cedure for these Group Ther'py shindigs? Bunch of chickens at a peckin' party?"

[…]

[Harding:]"A 'pecking party'? I fear your quaint down-home speech is wasted on me, my friend. I have not the slightest inclination what you're talking about."

"Why then, I'll just explain it to you." McMurphy raises his voice; though he doesn't look at the other Acutes listening behind him, it's them he's talking to. "The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin' at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. But usually a couple of the flock gets spotted in the fracas, then it's their turn. And a few more gets spots and gets pecked to death, and more and more. Oh, a peckin' party can wipe out the whole flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it. A mighty awesome sight. The only way to prevent it-with chickens-is to clip blinders on them. So's they can't see."
Another feature request... if a tile is already illegal (too many committed blue in line of sight, or no way to commit more blue to satisfy requirement), flag it already. I think the biggest pain is the counting. Otherwise, a nice game!
It's certainly DRM and thus broken.

The question is how broken relative to other DRM.
L-theanine has been on my list for a while. I agree that random RCs from Chinese factoring labs are likely to lead to people getting hurt, but right now, that's part of the game that people are willing to play to get an edge when stuff like Adderall (the layman's view of a nootropic holy grail) is illegal without a scrip. Legal and safe nootropics are a good goal to work for, but frankly I wouldn't expect any kind of legislative proactiveness on it-- wait until kids are dying or getting maimed by mystery RCs, because that is when their backlash against nootropics will come.

I checked out your indiegogo campaign and noticed the following:

"Geoff and I have been friends since going to college at Stanford, where we both studied Computer Science. We've scored 99th %ile on the big 4 tests: ACT, SAT, GRE, and GMAT. We know how to work and excel in some of the most challenging, demanding, and exciting academic environments in the world."

Do either of you have any kind of experience in neurobiology, biochemistry, or physiology? I understand that your product is basically a repackaging of confirmed-safe chemicals, but without some actual background knowledge your chemical ratios as well as pathway optimization will be mostly guesswork...
So your go to alternative is bullying. Well I would prefer to effect no change than to have to force it through with threats and intimidation.

SJW is more of a pejorative term these days, I don't know anyone who uses it in a positive way and you are perhaps the first person I have seen that indicates they themselves are an SJW. My experience of those who the term applies to is generally negative and I cannot think of one positive action that has come from these SJW's.

I won't even wish you luck as I think it is a retarded idea that they preach. Yes I disagree with sexism, racism, homophones etc, I consider myself a bleeding heart liberal but there seems to be no redeeming qualities to the SJW movement it is juts bullying, hatred and damaging their own agenda (on the rare occasions when that agenda can be loosely agreed upon).
Go on a date, help a Bay Area non-profit
Because they have good PR departments. A good PR department makes you forget that there ever was an issue, or if you remember the issue, you forget that the company was ever involved.

PR is an interesting job function in that if they do their job correctly, you forget that they exist. It's much like security in that regard. If you have a bad PR department, you'll know, because you'll be constantly under-siege in the media. (Uber comes to mind.)
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I still don't know "why" even after reading this. The highlighted block of C doesn't tell me anything and neither does the comment on it. As far as I can tell, this is just a benchmark with no explanation.
Not sure I agree. A document from Washington outlines Disciplinary segregation which very much sounds like solitary. Granted disciplinary segregation and disciplinary detention might not be the same.

http://www.washlaw.org/pdf/Guide_to_Segregation_in_Federal_P...
Just wondering, is the owner related to the manager of the server software behind it? https://github.com/solusipse/fiche

Is there a size limit of pastes? I actually prefer hard limits for some web services since it shows that the project is sustainable in the long term.

I also like the trend of using low level TCP tools like netcat to interact with web services, since it forces them to use the "trivial protocol" over TCP and avoids installing random API-specific software on your machine.
I would like to play without the hints when the board is full.
This is Nevada, though; I can't find similar documentation for South Carolina.
if the joke had come out of Louis CK's mouth, its intention would have been obvious.

^Agreed but Louis CK is a world famous comedian. When he speaks I know to take most of what he says in jest. Theres a context I can apply when he speaks.

A counterpoint to this would be that she had a small following on Twitter, most of whom she may know in real life, who likely know that she was joking. They can apply a similar context because of their relationship with her.

However, I would expect her to know that people will be able to read a tweet without that context - thus taking it out of context - and reacting accordingly.

I literally cannot read the tweet as bigoted or racist

^And that's okay. I see it differently. We all take different understandings of things. The tweeter should have considered this when posting the tweet.
This is a fun little game. Starts out hard, until you start learning some of the rules. 1's are your friend, as well as large numbers. It'll get easier as you learn more patterns, but there are some that are a good challenge.
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There's probably a whole loop of transfers with one or more Double Irish arrangements, some Dutch sandwich and in the end all the money finds its way to the Cayman Islands or Swiss banks.
Any idea what material it could be made of? I can't think of any that wouldn't make this design insufferable to wear. Or is it just a concept for 2050 when we have flying cars too?
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Especially now that screen sizes are in the same ballpark, the iPhone and its interface don't look markedly different from competing Samsung/HTC/Nexus phones. People like how iPhones work.
Like Minesweeper crossed with Sudoku (and with perhaps a dash of Reversi/Othello for good measure). Clever.