skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is, you should not be unjust to others. And you should not be unjust to yourself. But you need not pretend to appease others just because they expect it. This messes up the whole communication. You are hiding your real feelings. They loose opportunity to learn and grow up. Infact this is more serious in case where the communication is across different cultures. People can't read the unsaid stuff.

As a scoiety, we should learn to not get offended easily, not depend on kindness from others, or beg for regard. That's the strong and ideal society. That makes it easy to achieve great things, because we are not burdened by the task of checking if it hurts anyone's feelings and to modify our work to make everyone happy.

BTW, whether somneone is being ass or not, also depends on your own expectations and pampering.

Think again, about the roots of necessity for pleasing everyone.
Can anyone comment on the details of the back-end hw/sw used to run HN? Also will be quite interesting to read a post on any issues/outages and how it was fixed... (though i cannot recall HN being down or slow for as long as i can remember)
Working at Facebook does not make you an authority on any of the things he's talking about...
The Pencil is more like a fat crayon, its latency is absurd, and its palm rejection only sometimes works. After having bought the Pencil and the Pogo, and hating both, I can say that technical drawing on the iPad is simply a poor experience. (Wacom is an example of how to do it well.)

For sketching charcoal/crayon-style they're probably fine, but that's not what's being shown in the video.

Edit: and calling either of these styluses "pressure sensitive" is to diminish the term to nothingness. Wacom is pressure sensitive, these are barely pressure aware. Erratic pressure response, just not very useful.
haha that's hilarious, I don't think I have enough rep to make my voting count, but I nevertheless upvoted you just in case.

And I should warn you! I WILL make a T-shirt and give you credit.
who is the competitor?
When I see the stereotypical sitcom dad, he keeps fucking up to telegraph to the audience that he's a fuckup, AKA Barney Fife, not to be a morality play "don't do this or this will happen." Barney can't not be a fuckup because that's his identity. Andy is a well-rounded character, he's not even perfect, sometimes he plays the fool and you learn the lesson, so it serves the morality play function. The dad on My Three Sons is near-perfect, he's the opposite of Barney Fife, his identity is that he's an inhuman archetypal father-figure. I Could see how this could be intimidating, but at least it's something to aspire to. From my perspective, the first two have mostly disappeared from television and most male characters that I would identify with are made to be Barney Fifes. There are also a lot of characters I don't identify with at all, I don't think anybody is supposed to identify with any character in Seinfeld, they are all supposed to be nigh-sociopathic. The audience is invited to laugh at all of them.
I'd like to know what this other app's name is, so I can absolutely never even consider using it.
Follow-on question: do the shareholders usually have the power to redraw the board? Say you own 60% of the company but only 1 of 3 board seats -- could you overrule the board members or fire them if you felt it necessary? Does the board ultimately answer to the shareholders?

I imagine that this equity and board seat distribution could easily happen with a solo founder.
The end game is that DRM companies aggressively lobby government to pass laws making it illegal to circumvent a digital lock. Then if you are found to have bypassed their trivial code they throw the book at you.

No technical solution required.
In recent years, it has become not having coworkers.

I'm a better coder than I used to be, so the software development itself is easier than it once was. But what was very hard was that after the dot-com crash, the clients always demanded fixed-cost contracts, they were never willing to pay hourly any more.

If I ran into an unexpected obstacle, I'd have to eat the cost of it. I always completed on my deliverables, as I regard that as the ethical thing to do. Even if I didn't, I had my reputation to consider.
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Loved the video. Really nice :)
Evidence only counts if you can't get the victim to plead guilty to a lesser charge. A bit of trial by media, career damage, pressure on the family, legal costs and who is going to contest a charge. Sadly society doesn't seem to care about the occasional Aaron Swartz getting caught in the machine.
It's the one that looks like Cushion. ;)

If the story's true the best retribution would be to not give the competitor any visits.
some web developers are more interested in slick effects than performance.

some direct their effort toward experimenting with new technology instead of fine-tuning existing technology.

some do not understand performance issues well enough to prevent them.

some have a boss or client who asked for a feature that degrades performance.

the union of those groups: almost all web developers.
Your talks always frighten me when it comes to VM's. I just want predictable performance- is that too much to ask? (Semi-serious question).

edit: to clarify. In C++ I write dumb but readable code knowing that the compiler will always perform specific optimizations. In JS it seems that there are many factors resulting in different optimization levels. How do I ensure that the VM does not execute my 'dumb but readable' code literally? Without that guarantee it seems that I have to frequently resort to optimized yet unreadable code.
They could potentially have sold BitTorent technology/software to companies that needs to move lots of data across multiple nodes. Instead most of them use libtorrent.
Most of the time, whenever somebody asks a question of the form "Something bad happened to me and it's not my fault. Advice?", the answer is usually "Talk to somebody who knows what they're doing (lawyer, accountant, etc)"

We have smart people on this site. This is not a difficult thing. Even if you could get free legal and tax advice on HN, do you really want to trust some random person on the internet with something important like that?
Thanks for the information on Grasshopper. I use other software for procedural graphic works, so I was wondering--does Grasshopper do any kind of structural engineering support work, or is it mainly for auditioning procedurally-generated shapes?

(BTW my CS advisor flipped his top every time he heard someone say they were studying CS to learn programming. I left CS after hearing that lecture a few times. :))
Look at some of the stories from the media. Some airlines will not allow males sit next to unaccompanied children. A theme park bans single males from bird watching, "in case they are predators". Female sexual assaults are disgusting while male sexual assaults are funny, to most people. If a little girl has a problem, it is immediately attended to, whereas if a little boy has a problem, he is told to "be a man and suck it up".
Feminism is cool whereas MRA is not. Oh, we also have some "interesting" people like this - http://www.vice.com/read/is-reducing-the-male-population-by-...

And so on.

I wish we look at problems without the gender/race/nationality etc lens and only purely based on their merit. This is 2015 and we still have gender stereotypes, whole lot of double standards (for both genders), laws favoring one gender or the other etc. All this noise is just tiring.
That's an interesting idea, but I would not call it easy.
Was there ever Japanese PAL? If so I cannot find any references to it.
The PAL games indeed look different from the NTSC because they are different games. Other than the obvious difference in the video configuration there are usually content differences due to local laws, different marketing policies and technical limitations (e.g. an NTSC games in general did not have to support as many languages as PAL ones).
This was maybe a useful message ten, twenty years ago.

The problem is that, honestly, a lot of these feelings are messy. They aren't expressions of weakness, they aren't some magical key used to unlock progress, they're not even something that's easily sympathized with.

They can be the white-hot anger of being pulled off a project or ignored for the nth time in class or being made fun of. They can be the bubbling cold black rage of being forced to work on something only to have it stunted at every turn by bad management or being shunned by members of the preferred gender for whatever reason. They can be the bright flash of joy and uncontainable exuberance of having pulled off the impossible on deadline or winning a hard contest.

The point is, in all those cases, boys and men who express their feelings honestly and openly are considered creeps, weirdos, crazy, or unprofessional.

So, no, the problem isn't that they keep these feelings bottled up--it's instead that, when they're honest and open in their passion, people become uncomfortable and afraid or inconvenienced. We celebrate the passionate man, in the abstract, but you bet your ass it's never made things better in the day-to-day.

In fact, we tend to double-down on this nonsense, and so punish the behaviors (sparring, yelling, cursing, whatever) that would formerly be used to defuse the feelings in young folks until they realize such things are counterproductive, and bait-n-switch them.
It is a myth though, regardless of whether you, personally, believe it to be or not. It's based almost entirely on a very old study, conducted in a very limited environment, cited by Fred Brooks in “The Mythical Man Month” and then taken further and further out of context. As Jacob points out in his talk, we don’t really have any compelling reason to believe we know how to measure programming productivity, so we don’t have good data. In the absence of good data, we have to assume that the null hypothesis is that programming is like literally every other skill out there. And, no, there are not ”10x atheletes”, we know what the skill distribution is for atheletes, there is a tremendous amount of publicly available statistical data available on athletes, and, again, as Jacob points out in his talk, their skills fall on a normal distribution just like every other kind of skill out there.

So, there are outliers, which is what I think you mean by "10x atheletes", but those outliers are just that: outliers. And we do not have good metrics for determining who they are in the software industry, currently.
These election engines have been around for a really long time, but the funny thing is that often no matter how you answer the topical questions, you'll very likely end up getting a few candidates from very surprising parties.

Unfortunately these election machines always tend to focus on individuals instead of parties. In the Finnish elections a vote to a candidate gives a vote for her party, and the popularity of the candidates within the party decides how the party votes are redistributed, which finally decides which candidates get seats from the district.

This means you always should pick the political party first, and only then look at candidates within the party. Too bad many folks don't realise this, vote for a populist party with candidates to cover even the most ridiculous viewpoints, and indirectly end up voting for candidates who they would never want to vote in.
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>> So why was I being sidelined? I demanded answers. Dustin did not disappoint.

Nice, you have some storytelling skills :) I'd bet those will come in handy once you learn to apply them for your human communication skills.
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google NOLS, outward bound, or "mountaineering course"
"What scares me is these consumer drones with inexperienced pilots/autonomous tech without proper failsafes."
For people who are into building and flying multirotors in a hobbyist capacity-- this is the nightmare we live everyday since DJI showed up.

Optical flow can hold position pretty well-- but will they be able to figure out how to navigate by it!?
Here's an article on one of the Gehry's buildings designed from the crumpling paper technique as described: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/preview-of-gehry-opening-a-young-a...

It's 50m from my office and every time I walk past it I worry the metal frame of the glass windows is about to fall - in fact one corner is already damaged with a glass panel broken from what appears to have been a truck crashing into the bit of it that hung over the road.
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You can argue that treatment, etc, is a better response than criminalization. I agree. But that's a different argument. Arguing that drug use has no victims is an attack on the legitimacy of any response to drug use, and ignores the huge numbers of people hurt by other peoples' drug addictions.
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Hi Sahilwasan

If you want to learn I found it is best to get your hands dirty and code rather than just watch videos from MOOCs. I didn't know how to do any of this stuff a few months ago.

I recommend Karpathy's Hacker's Guide to Neural Networks if you like JS

http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/

Most of my intro to neural nets is just by going thru programming examples in this stanford tutorial on deep learning:

http://deeplearning.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/UFLDL_Tutori...
More details at http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-presses-for-more-pay-fo... but WSJ is login gated.
Even if it's theoretically capable of doing that, I think the average cd player produces a better frequency range than the average record player. In any case, I thought the parent was talking about dynamic range, not frequency range.
It is called "abusing a privilege" , and most elementary school children are taught not to take all the cookies from the jar just because they are invited to take one.
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Yeah programmers can be delicate. Maybe they used up all the sturdy folks they could find. "Dammit Boz that's the third dev you've broken this week! This time it's coming out of your salary!"
consider me forewarned. if in twenty years I'm retired living on a golden yacht sailing the icy seas of Europa I hope a non-trivial portion of my income is coming from the royalties on the sales of that T-shirt.

and/or from the earnings on my book series The Dread Space Pirate Richard. (srsly)

or... savings from my day job. a good strategy has several fallbacks. :-P
Why a Yale grad gave up a $95k salary to move to the Caribbean and scoop ice cream
There's a few reasons why I love analog hardware synths:

- Hackability: Hardware is the "open-source" of the music world. If I have the hardware, there's nothing anyone can do to stop me from tweaking it in some way. I can open up any of my synths and solder components to cables in order to patch in CV to various parts of the synth that the manufacturers never intended. Additionally, modular synths are totally DIY and you build each component, then route them in various ways. In fact, much of the allure of hardware synths comes from the ability to run patch cables between components...changing the routing could mean changing the entire sound.

- Personality: Hardware analog synths, especially vintage hardware, have their own personality due to the erosion of their components. Typically, the older a piece of hardware gets, the more interesting and complex its sounds become. The tuning and accuracy of each VCO and VCF are affected over time and this becomes apparent when you leave the synth running for a while (letting it "warm up"). It takes a while, but I've made some pretty amazing sounds using my college's Moog Modular and ARP 2600 (when I still went there). Digital hardware and software synths will always sound the same no matter what year you turn them on. This is great for performers, but it makes old digital gear disposable while old analog gear is valuable.

- Tactile control: You just can't beat the feeling of twisting knobs and hitting pads. It's so god damn fun. Plus, I'm a performer at heart...it's more entertaining to look at someone banging on hardware than it is to see them staring at a computer screen. In fact, myself and several of my peers have been working on a "no-computers" live set in which the entire set is made up of analog synths and no computers are used on stage, to avoid a central point of failure should anything bad happen.

All that being said, I still don't own an 808 and I still wouldn't. Why? Because the 808, while it is analog machinery, is quite limited in its abilities to tweak each sound. You can't just synthesize a drum sound from scratch with the 808, you have to use the 808 kick no matter what. So in my opinion, there's not really a reason to own those old drum machines these days. If you want the tactile control, get a TR-8...the samples in it sound great! If you just want to play with 808 samples, download them from that sample thread on /r/electronicmusic or something. Sounds pretty much the same at the end of the day.

I do own a TB-303 though. There's just nothing else like that original acid sound. The x0xb0x, however, is much more stable and I use that while playing out...keeping the 303 in the studio for when I produce. I'd rather not risk that getting broken because it has a lot of sentimental value to me. Much of my favorite electronic music uses the 303 somewhere in its production.
Whether dose increase happens during long term pain treatment with opioids depends on the opioid.

The common mechanism for dose increase with morphine and similar opioids that act on mu-opiod receptors is their upregulation of NMDA receptors. NMDA upregulation increases pain sensitivity. Wash, rinse, repeat - the patient is on the dose escalation escalator.

The opioid methadone is an NMDA antagonist (along with ketamine, memantine, and dextromethorphan, for example), making it much less likely to induce dose escalation when prescribed for otherwise intractable chronic pain.

Methadone has a bad reputation because of 1) its association with treatment of heroin addiction and 2) its pharmacokinetics. The latter means that its blood concentration increase (and decrease, on cessation of the drug) changes slowly (think a week or so). When it's prescribed, it takes awhile to titrate for effect. If the process is rushed, it's possible to get lethal levels following several days after dose increase. It's basically a PID controller problem with a long phase lag between control input and effect.

In a clinical setting that doesn't involve the difficulties of multiple drug abuse, it's a very useful medication for otherwise intractable chronic pain.

Long way of saying that the opiate dose escalation issue is complicated.
Hi deepnet

Do you mind helping me truncate the length of the message above with the number array? It's causing issues on browser sessions not word wrapping messages

Thanks vm
I don't know you, but damn do I admire the way you responded.

Total class act, told your perspective with passion, and took the total right positioning for a new platform looking to side with freelancers (people so often taken advantage of in the startup eco-system).

Well done, and best of luck.
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He may be no expert, but his novels come from thorough amateur research, like Neal Stephenson.
Using @zpao's example, most Python developers use CPython and either don't know about PyPy or have never used it. As such, I'd expect most of the long-tail of Python libraries to have been written and tested against CPython.

That hasn't prevented PyPy, IronPython, JPython, etc. from existing/thriving.
This wasn't directed at me and I'm not the crypto expert Mr. Ptacek is, but DNScrypt and DNSSEC really aren't related as they serve different functions. DNScrypt encrypts you the user, and your lookups. DNSSEC is meant to protect site owners by authenticated the answers given to resolvers.
Of course, this is unlawful, but that doesn't really seem to stop the government these days.
We use GH (Grasshopper) to generate fully attributed and restrained models for FEA packages and then pipe them over real time to visualize (in the FEA pacakage) and run solvers. It allows us to create complex and very large FEA models quickly and iteratively to solve some tricky engineering problems.

There are structural solutions on top of GH like Karamba [0] and interesting physics engines like Kangaroo [1].

[0]: http://www.karamba3d.com/
[1]: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/kangaroo
Stop on by #ipfs on freenode irc, would love to chat :)
This is close to how the food industry operates. It intentionally builds products get superficially resemble known good food, but without expensive nutritional qualities or sustainable or ethical production practices , and then says that it's OK because non-expert consumers don't directly observe any problems..
Neat! We may use it for our bootcamp (http://interviewkickstart.com).
music just got a whole lot less interesting to me.
Just like that movie 'The Purge'.
That's horrible and possibly a deciding factor. I guess it had to be done in order to make it waterproof.
Proccess as files (old news – but learning this makes you better at debugging)
Beautiful Idea!

So, when I load the page how is it decided that which client should serve me the content?
The important bit:

> he may have been singled out for a search because he was the only black person on that part of the train.
There should be a word for pop science that teaches people to think rationally and run good experiments in their own lives, separate from the junk Psychology Today or Gladwell vomit out.
Really enjoyed that LXJS 2013 video the first time I saw it highlighted on Dave Methvin's blog ("Please Stop the jsPerf.com Abuse!"). Hilarious and very informative - thanks!
If your goal is to have a glorifying career and make lots of money, you should have focused on sales skills.
I wonder how one's refusal to speak with police, combined with the mounting judicial pressure against suspicionless searches would interact with cash seizure operations.

After all: '"We don’t have to prove that the person is guilty," an Albuquerque DEA agent told the Journal. "It’s that the money is presumed to be guilty."'

Would/do Federal rules governing asset forfeiture operations permit agents to use a search refusal as PC for a search of a person and their effects?

I understand that this discussion is largely an academic one. Realistically, if the officer really wanted to search and was otherwise barred from executing a search, he would make a "My knowledge and training told me that he acted like a terrorist." claim in order to provide PC for the search.
I'm sure that this is a valued asset in the fight against crime ...

... but as this story illustrates, it's so shockingly immoral as to constitute robbery.

Shut it down.
Civil forfeiture rules are disgusting. Sadly there are plenty of stories out there like this, people have lost their homes, cars and livelihoods because of these draconian laws around asset forfeiture.

The circumstances under which your property can be taken are incredibly overreaching and unfair. There have been situations where people have had their homes taken away for ridiculous situations like this one: http://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/08/26/p...

We need to get rid of these laws entirely or at the very least, make it a more fair playing field. The authorities should be expected to bring some evidence to the table, not assume guilty until proven innocence.