skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that doesn't hold up under scrutiny:

reddit explicitly defined their language around harassment to mean:

> Systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone in a way that would make a reasonable person (1) conclude that reddit is not a safe platform to express their ideas or participate in the conversation, or (2) fear for their safety or the safety of those around them.

http://www.redditblog.com/2015/05/promote-ideas-protect-peop...

Key words to pay attention to here are: systematic, continued, fear. This isn't about being a jerk, or even being a jerk randomly. It's about being a jerk in a targeted way, a lot and over time, in a very intentional way to the degree that it causes fear to speak up or fear for one's self.

Look at the extent to which reddit admins allow hateful speech so long as they don't step outside their boundaries, and you'll understand that they're actually sticking to that definition.
Why is this interesting enough to be posted to Hacker News?
No I don't think all of us celebrate that kind of criminal or want the FBI to be a criminal organisation. At the point you're faking evidence to get convictions on an institutional basis, yeah, it's more than one person agreeing to commit a crime. When it's their policy to repeatedly do so and to abuse whistleblowers, it really is organised crime.

Beyond salvation? Clearly a large number of people at the FBI need to be in jail for breaking very serious laws.

Falsifying evidence "to get convinctions" of the innocent. Yeah. Anyone doing that need to defending their actions in court as the accused.
Well, Apple gave us CUPS. Plus, recently they announced Swift will be supported on Linux, too. Now I'd be really happy if they also ported iTunes to Linux (I'm currently forced to run the Windows version in VirtualBox) - or at least make their iOS devices more Linux-friendly. IMHO there is hope.
So, if it was AWS?
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At which point he could have disposed of evidence, refused to be interviewed, etc etc.

This is exactly how the legal system in the UK works - you arrest people at a relatively low burden of proof, and that gives you the power to detain them for a few hours while you question them, search for evidence, etc. You can't do any of that if you go over and "ask"
The other methods of running Debian on Android devices seem to suffer from one of these drawbacks:
- You're running Debian in a chroot jail, OR

- You can only use the method on a single model of devices, or a very restricted set of devices

This article describes a method which should work on any Android device, as long as you have a ROM image and a way to unlock the bootloader. At the base layer, it has Debian running the Android kernel. On top of that, it has an Android chroot, which interfaces with the kernel to do things like set up wifi.

This could enable some cool applications, e.g. a pocket 3G/wifi VPN router. Mobile phones can connect to VPNs, and they allow tethering. AFAIK no mobile phones support sharing the VPN connection to tethered devices. With Debian running on the device, this would be trivial.
It's a really great read and did a lot to inform my approach to writing all kinds of software. It's a shame that I cringe to recommend in now due to the politics of its author.
It was slow and newer Ember was slow assuming the commit [1] was in response to this [2].

1 - https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b1bc4741b1bb6d...
2 - https://meta.discourse.org/t/ember-performance-1-7-1-1-8-1/2...
Reminded me a lot of "for want of a nail..." (Look it up)
To me, this more looks like a Google's cloud IDE (targeted Java), for which it would of course make sense to have code-hosting there also. It makes sense for Google to have one, unlike just a GitHub competitor, imho.
> the team hopes to have an alpha release before the end of 2015. "I wouldn't recommend logging in to your bank with it," he said, "but it should be usable as a basic browser."

What? Was this meant as a joke in relation to something else? -- Why shouldn't you log into banking sites with it?
Is that what just changed? I swear it felt like I had to go searching for my repos yesterday when I was looking for something.
But... wait... Don't tell me they've never tested it! I mean with or near real explosives, etc.

Regardless... the responsible should be charged with murder.
Apple gave us CUPS.

CUPS was first released in 1999 and was adopted by most Linux distros soon after. Apple first adopted CUPS in 2003. It wasn't until 2007 before they bought the rights to the source code, hired the main developer and took over the development.
I would actually think otherwise -- with no formal documentation of poor performance, they'll have a much harder time justifying a layoff/firing if they are sued for discrimination or something.
I saw that they're opening new offices and was interested in applying there, would you say it's a good idea to work at Dropbox or would it be too unstable?
Exercise + side projects is apparently not enough, I've tried for about 4 months already. I have one VERY motivating side project, but somehow can't find the energy to do it. Maybe it's coffee+sugars that's keeping me down.
Don't discount cache conscious structures like HAT-trie's either. Very zippy.
> If you want to grow your beard out, take my advice and make your last shave with an electric razor, it's a lot more comfortable.

Shouldn't make too much of a difference after a few days, should it?
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van Emde Boas trees need quite a few tricks in order for an implementation to be truly competitive, but then they can be really quick: "Engineering a Sorted List Data Structure for 32 Bit Keys", Roman Dementiev, Lutz Kettner, Jens Mehnert, Peter Sanders. http://algo2.iti.kit.edu/dementiev/files/veb.pdf - code: http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~kettner/proj/veb/
In my experience Stash is not much better. It has simple commenting on diffs, but we had to have a plugin to automatically "unapprove" everyone once a new commit was added to a PR. It's social aspects are no better than GitHub code comments either.

I always found Crucible much nicer and it integrates w/ Stash decently, but I worry it and Fisheye are on the backburner at Atlassian.
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Likewise, I'm now torn between Rust and Haskell as my "safe" language of choice. ("safe" as in - if it compiles, it runs correctly.)

Rust's lifetimes are a bit annoying, its async IO story is woeful, but it does allow safe mutation.

Haskell's more mature, IO is great, and it looks like cabal-hell may be ending, but it is a garbage-collected language.
Ok, but in this case they chose to put in a 30FPS cap. Ignoring that performance is well below even that, they should have known it was unacceptable.
Is it just me, or is there an enforced newsletter sign-up modal when you land on that page?
Butterflies just seek shelter.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-do-butterflie...
> Co2 emissions are currently not priced in making energy severely underpriced, so cost is not a good signal.

That makes no difference because cost is a relative measure, not an absolute one. If you priced in CO2 then everything would be more expensive, but the relative difference between items would be unchanged. (And that money would go back to the citizens giving them more money to buy stuff, so effectively you did nothing at all. It would only work if there were low CO2 alternatives, but there are not any. All the renewable energy sources have decade long payouts, so at least initially emit lots of CO2, which you would have to pay tax on, so the tax makes renewable energy more expensive too.)

Because ultimately everything requires energy to make cost is an excellent proxy for energy, and in a world where most energy is from hydrocarbons, cost is a proxy for CO2.
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A commenter on the site says that some type of mosquitoes (Texas) are used in oil drilling. I tried googling "texas mosquitoes oil drilling" and variants, but didn't find anything.

>"Why, one species even secretes an enzyme to dissolve the organic matter in blood leaving only the iron in haemoglobin. Then another enzyme causes the iron atoms to join to form biological drill pipe! These structures are known to be as much as 6 inches in diameter and to extend a mile deep."

Is there something to it or he just went to on the internet to tell lies?
Sorry I wasn't explicit enough. I also have 1 hour lunch, and some discussions with colleagues(although I don't think they cumulate to 2h).
Didn't Valve pull Brink shortly after release?
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Here in lies the problem. People who don't understand proper testing protocols won't blind their testing. And they'll subconsciously influence it to work. And if it doesn't work, they'll let someone else who is more "experienced" try it.
When should you refactor
I think they added it in response to increasingly bad PR about their atrocious customer support.
Which they eventually fixed, only to then say 'no more patches. We're moving on to DLC'
1. Requires credit card number for free trial

2. No built in issue tracker or wiki (?)
Beautiful effort, nice work!

If you're going to continue doing this, you might want to take a look at the message you're sending (or have someone else do that for you). Remember that a large segment of your recipients are probably not the most tech-savvy (or brightest). Do not overestimate random users reading comprehension. Without clear explanation where these passwords came from the natural assumption is that you did it, and you're warning them as a threat. No that doesn't make sense but remember who you're talking to.

One more thing:

> the person indicated that they use the same password for everything and wanted to know which account had been compromised.

If you answered that, you may just have got social engineered.
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In my opinion, there are three major problems: overzealous sharpening, different light ratios and the frame rate dependent flickering.

I consider first two absolutely unacceptable and I've seen enough "restorations" for which I wondered if anybody actually looked at the results or just passed the thing through the machines. But I prefer the stable picture even when the result appears less "magical."
Just went on Github and I can't believe they remove that button. Doesn't seem like anything is gained from it and I'm sure I'm not the only one who uses it daily. I really hope they reverse that change.
40% off at GMG is one reason.

Limited editions are another. AKA, I WANT MY PIP BOY.
Dropbox entered the market first and thus had a first-mover advantage.

Dropbox wasn't first. There where and handful of other companies doing more or less the same thing at the time. Dropbox just offered a much better product and showed everybody how it was supposed to be done.
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Were you told that by someone who was laid off?
The problem was that until recently googles crawler didn't execute JS at all, it only looked at the markup received directly from the server. That meant that, to google, your SPA looked like an empty page since it's rendered on the client. That's why being able to render your SPA on the server so you can send the markup with your first request was necessary for SEO.

Google have started executing JS now though, so it's able to crawl your SPA site even if they're not server-rendered. However if you want a good ranking on other search engines other than google you still need server-side rendering.
I find a lot of similarities between Java and C++. Java is basically a subset of C++ with some sugar around. When I was learning Java, I just made a link between Java constructs and C++ constructs and that allowed me to learn Java in one day and start getting things done. Of course I took few years more to master Java, but that's another matter.

So Java "reference" is C++ pointer without asterisks and ->. All java methods are virtual. Java interface is full-abstract class without fields (in Java 8 even not so full-abstract). Multiple inheritance only with interfaces. No generics (I learned Java 1.4), one common ancestor Object, friendly GC releasing you from the pain of memory management.

Basically the only new concept is package. Otherwise it's stripped C++ with different runtime library.
When I go to princing and quota I get:

> This Beta release of Cloud Source Repositories is free and can be used to store up to 500 MB of source files.

No thanks! I still remember what happened with AppEngine.
Here's the thing, motion smoothing fakery is for sports. 24 fps is what we have mentally trained ourselves for our movie-going experience. Change that and even the casual viewer who has no idea what motion interpolation is will feel "something just doesn't feel right".
> So perhaps the solution is something akin to the Alaska Permanent Fund fund; however, instead of being funded by mineral wealth, gets funded by wealth generated through (hw) automation and efficiencies brought on by software. This fund then gets redistributed based on a combination of need as well as a per-capita flat rate.

As a reasonable proxy for that kind of wealth generation, you can just tax income.
I can see the same thing and there is no button to close it.

https://i.imgur.com/PjBQCfm.png
You do know that in the UK you get a massive boost via tax relief to your contributions for pension contributions
sadly, not just for you
The US system seems much more concerned with finding people to punish than with helping people become honest and productive members of society. In fact, the system doesn't seem to care at all about a healthy society, just about punishment and revenge.
Took me a while to understand "Ask Me Anything", I thought it was AMA from author.
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> If you add enough oxygen, and keep adding oxygen, then eventually you'd get enough to breathe?

If you add enough oxygen and keep adding oxygen, eventually everything is on fire.

> If you add enough oxygen, and keep adding oxygen, then eventually you'd get enough to breathe?

Nope. As the sibling comment noted, around 1% CO2 will start making people uncomfortable and stuffy (the human body is not sensitive to lack of oxygen so much as excess of CO2, that's why e.g. nitrogen suicide is almost painless), and concentrations above 7% CO2 start being lethal regardless of oxygen presence.

But CO2 has significant effects long before that, studies have shown decreased cognitive abilities starting at ~0.1% CO2.
An alpha release of a new browser engine is likely to have quite a few security bugs. Don't risk your bank account details for the sake of testing a new browser engine.
I doubt it. A clean-room implementation is intended to demonstrate to a court that no knowledge of the copyrighted material was available to the implementers during the creation of the work. Any similarities to the "original" work must then be caused by functional constraints resulting from compatibility requirements, thus free from creative elements (not protected by copyright).

If the internal documentation include any creative elements which are reflected by the git implementation, then the clean-room would be contaminated.
Not at first though.

They had to patch to get it into a good state.

I had one game breaking bug with origins, but I found a workaround on youtube. I think origins get too much crap personally, I had fun.

This port is one of the worst in a long time. This isn't bethesda where it is just bugs on bugs, they capped the FPS.
So this seems to be an Ember.js problem on Android, not necessarily an Android problem - difficult to say. There are several layers at play here (discourse, Ember.js, handlebars, and then the browser and js engines, DOM, etc, going down to Dalvic), so who knows where the real problem is.

It could be an Android problem if it is from browser down, or a framework / library problem if it is from handlebars up.
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I haven't tried every other news service/app, but other than summarising news, being able to track the development of specific news items was also great. The content quality definitely beats many other aggregators.

I hope they make it through this.
> If someone had just sent me an email letting me know that my email and password are out there in the wild, "fuck off" would not be my first reaction. That's just rude.

Really? This guy emailed 97,000 people and you're just going to assume they're all just like you? :)

In this list, with near certainty there will be all of the following: children, teenagers, people having a really really shitty day, dogs, criminals, mentally ill, and possibly indeed also a few who are "just rude" ...

Frankly it surprises me he only got one "fuck off" reply.
how is it not? you get options that you can exercise at some point in the future - you have to pay to exercise options in the USA.

The main differences are that for approved schemes HMRC doesn't screw you like the IRS does and if you leave early you can exercise your options and the is far less chance of being diluted.
I hope, it will be released to YouTube afterwards sounds like an interesting Session
As someone new to this I have to say the first paragraph doesn't do a good job at introducing the concepts. I was completely lost in how to read this. Isn't + == "or" and x == "and" like in boolean algebra? What does 'either' even mean here, if not 'or'? So then why is the Bool type 1 + 1 == 2? Shouldn't it be 1 + 0 == 1 if you want to map the possible states? Same question for "maybe" that seems to work like in Rust or Swift - shouldn't it be a + 0? If not, what does "a or unit" mean? So many questions...
Iceworld is brilliant design relative to what it set out to do - strip away the context and provide an arena to practice your aim. The only thing it doesn't do is provide elevation (other than if you or someone else jumps on a center wall, but that's asking for trouble), but other than that you've pretty much got everything else.
The point about grain resonated (heh) with the article from last week about Stochastic Resonance ( https://medium.com/the-craftsman/the-curious-phenomenon-of-s... )

Anyone who retouches photos knows that a touch of grain can hide a multitude of sins. I used to keep a high-res scan of film grain around for just this purpose.

This isn't a problem with technology - it's a problem with taste. The people overseeing the digital transfer either don't share the taste of the author, myself and many others, or arguably, simply lack taste.
my fatigue improved greatly once I improved my diet.
Eat less sugar, get some fresh fruit and veg, take a probiotic of some kind. Nothing too drastic, but it makes a big difference
Ulikelieness is hard to reason about though. Suppose we were to list all the different metrics that describe our world and solar system. How long would the list be? Then think of all the possible synchronicities there might be between all those attributes. There might be many millions or billions of possible 'magic' ratios and equivalences. So if the chance of any particular synchronicity randomly occuring is one in a million, you'd expect to see many synchronicities in the data set, just by random chance.

It's one reason I'm skeptical of probabilistic evidence in court cases. Suppose the chance that soem particular piece of evidence linking a suspect to a crime has a 'one in a million chance' that it would be randomly associated with someone other than the perpetrator. Sounds convincing, looks like this person probably did it. Well, there are 60 million people in the UK. Does that mean we would expect about 60 of them to be incorrectly incriminated by this evidence? Suddenly it doesn't sound so convincing.

It's also a problem in 'big data' analysis. If you have many thousands of items of data about people, if you try to find correlations in that data with some characetristic of interest, such as tendency to some medical condition or insurance risk, as the number of factors expands the chance that you'll find completely spurious correlations also goes up until it becomes near-certain.
Pricing seems a little unrealistic(low) or is it just me?
No, I got it.

and they have no qualms about publishing the fact that they just want to skim right off the top.
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Someone who is really bad is fairly easy to spot and deal with you don't need to stack rank everyone to do that.
Not really. Everything out there is ancient and uses techniques from the 80s/90s.

It's pretty sad considering that OCR is basically a solved problem. We have neural nets that are capable of extracting entities in images and bigdata systems that can play jeopardy. But no one has used that tech for OCR and put it out there.
Except when behind closed doors they fiddle the figures
I stopped taking options given away by startups seriously on November 10, 2011 [1]. Maybe stock is not "free", but employees should discount the nominal value a lot more than they seem to. What's a good ratio, as a rule of thumb? 1:10? 1:100?

At any rate, employees should not take them seriously in comp negotiations until they are well into FU money territory, should they ever pay out at a reasonable valuation after accounting for underhanded shit like excessive dilution and claw-backs.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3218774
Exactly this, it always sucks and it changes too often in completely random ways.

Github's issue tracker is also very half baked, every real project has to has a Trac instance or so somewhere else.

But _it has critical mass_, and pull requests and the way commenting them and testing them etc works is really awesome, and it'll be hard for a new competitor to get people to move.
I see the GNOME logo with "something" sticking out.
From the blog post it looks like alot of good work is being done here. I think most apps out there probably don't reach the level of complexity that would require a rethinking of MVC, but I have seen it and agree that some web applications have reached the need to think beyond what MVC can provide.

If I had to guess, I think some of the first web-related work (on what post-MVC web will look like) began several years ago when 'reactive' programming started becoming a hot topic.

Since it seems a new JS framework comes out pretty much every week, and some people express frustration in trying to filter through the noise, I would say to them that this one is definitely one to keep an eye on.
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> But because our mosquito is oh-so-light, the raindrop moves on, unimpeded, and hardly any force is transferred.

So if the mosquito's weight is insignificant compared to that of the heavier and denser water drop and that's what keeps it from having the force transferred, would this equally apply to hailstorms? (Where our mosquitoes are pelted by small hail balls the size of raindrops)
Indeed. Here in Thailand we also have brilliant generals who spent millions on these things, sold as model "GT200" here. Even after it was exposed as a fraud and the fraudsters jailed the Thai generals insisted they worked, and kept getting young army men killed using them in the south where there has been a insurgency for decades.
Finereader engine Abbyy for Linux looks fine, but I can't find price data, is it <10k/year? One time license?