skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
West-coast USian who visited India about 6 months ago; can confirm: I was very by how physically affectionate guys were with each other.

I feel like we're in a weird place in the US where there's no room in our culture for male physical closeness that isn't sexual. (And it's pretty common to hear people say that the bits that persist, like e.g. wrestling or butt-pats in football, are secretly gay/repressed.)

Optimistically, I'd say it's a side-effect of becoming more aware and accepting of homosexuality. It's still new and a bit of a battleground. As the newness fades away and it becomes simply normal and less polarized, more room will bloom again in the middle for an understanding of non-sexual forms of closeness.
I wonder how the blood brain barrier is affected by the recent discovery of the linkage of the lymphatic system and the brain?
Interesting, I had never heard of this. For those who are curious, wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
Isn't this basically the plot of Million Dollar Baby or Maximus's first fights in Gladiator? The fighter in both movies wins all their fights very quickly. The difference is that in Gladiator, he is told to slow down and give the crowd a spectacle. In Million Dollar Baby, nobody wants to fight her without extra participation money.

I wonder what kind of pressure is being applied to Rousey by her manager, agent and fight organizers?
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This is a game, albeit one that has endured in various forms for thousands of years.

The whole thing is basically like discussing horoscopes, except you have to do a bit more work than just telling your birthdate.

As a way to meet people, this game ranks along "What's your sign?", IMO.

(The stock photos in the article are incredibly cheesy! That makes the whole thing feel even more like astrology.)
Great fun -- but this version of the prank is probably only about 85% accurate. It's not clear the phantom book ever did make any best-seller lists, though it certainly did get talked about. Here's a 2013 telling from The Awl that's a little more careful with the details:
http://www.theawl.com/2013/02/the-man-behind-the-brilliant-m...

Either way, it's a wonderful story.
I think there's a pretty wide gulf between caring for people with a disability, and keeping your teeth toilet-bowl white after decades of drinking tea or coffee, or whatever.
>He has actually spent a lot of time reading about this and meeting people for quite many years already.

A lot of politicians have also have done the same, and their "solutions" are usually worse than the problems, not to mention their actions in the past created the problems we face today...
One aspect of Google+ that always grated on me was that the name was terrible branding. I don't know if I'm in the minority for feeling this way, but with with all their other services that one gets tied up with, you don't want a 'plus' you want to think about the social aspect as a compartmentalized, separate section. They'd have been much better off calling it something else, or at least trying to be a lot quieter about tying all of it together.

I am sure the social media trend numbers looked great on paper, but they severely underestimated how tired people would get with it. (I'd say only a small fraction of my facebook friends still are active there, for instance.)

Anyhow, my troubles with the G+ branding may sound like a nitpick, but I think it was a lot of the problem. People already had privacy concerns about Google, now they could have privacy concerns+.
Quit. No second chances, no trial periods to see if the person will change. I know it is hard, you have invested some good years already. But how many more years do you want to live like this?

If you do not want to burn the brigde, you can offer them to work for a fixed period of time (eg. 3 months) and with a lot less commitment (like 3-4 days a week) on making all the things ready for some replacement to take over.
I fully agree. You must be compensated. It does not have to be cash. Equity works, too. But he(?) needs to be sticking to whatever compensation agreement is in place. That is a deal-breaker.

Many of the other issues are going to be a case-by-case basis. Does he know he is being unreasonable? Can you call him on it, and will the behavior change? Does he apologize and correct himself when called on it, or does he defend his actions?

In some ways, there is an analogy between working with the CEO of a startup and a marriage. There will be problems. There will be bad times. The question is whether or not both sides are committed to the relationship, willing to hear the other's side, empathize with it, and make the changes necessary to improve it. In most cases, this is just a job, the answer will be "No" and you should quit.
There's no complexity to combining characters

Show me one fully compliant and correct implementation. Only one. I'm serious.
> they ate every day at the same table ... and at night their beds did not separate them

I'm guessing that Philip and Richard were sharing female sexual partners.
Vultr's website looks... interesting. And their control panel is also... interesting. BUT.

I've been very impressed by the performance of my nodes.

Tops DigitalOcean easily. I don't have any hard numbers (I can provide some if people would like) but with the performance and number of locations they provide it's hard to beat.

$50 credits for two months: http://vultr.com/freetrial

Vultr also offers a "dedicated cloud" which I think is just dedicated resources — similar to RunAbove (http://www.runabove.com)

Whenever I talk about hosting, I seem like I'm affiliated with the providers. I am not :) I am simply a vet, a student, and a product of the hosting space.

If anyone has any questions, see my profile and reach out. I love to talk hosting :)
The uppercase G in getAwesomeNess() bothers me :( (in the title here)
That's my take on it as well. I guess it can make some sense to add skin color to emoji that represent people. But a lot of them represent emotions and mental states:

"I'm happy"

"I'm surprised"

"I'm listening"

Things that are universal to all humans. Will adding skin color to those emoji really enable better communication, or just create issues?
Wow, that's a really beautiful map. If possible, I'd love to purchase a hard copy as well! Not sure it's possible to PM on here, but if you email me at rgould@u2622.ca I can send my address.
It's a peek into the insider game of comedy. Every group has some gag, some saying that gets circulated that doesn't leave that group due to lack of context -- you had to be there type things -- or due to it being risque and taboo, like the Aristocrats. A similar thing for newspaper writers would be the Order of the Occult Hand [1], in which writers tried to slip that phrase into copy without the editors discovering it. These things are not cataloged because cataloging them would defeat the whole purpose. While the net has a lot of info, there's quite a bit of inside baseball that doesn't make it online.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Occult_Hand
It's painfully telling that we (or at least some of us) somehow consider the effort in keeping a person alive an "investment" that must be "earned back".
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That is certainly part of the inspiration and legacy behind serve2d.

This advantages of serve2 is that it is 100% go and can be integrated and used without any extra dependencies or multi-setup :)
"Top male fighters are wary of facing her."

First of all, that's false. Top male fighters, in an actual match, would injure her. It would not be entertaining, it would be almost disgustingly brutal. One need look no further than what Cristiane Justino - using performance enhancing drugs - did to her opponents, to understand. Pound for pound, top male fighters are going to be between 50% and 100% stronger than Ronda.

I'm curious when this fantasy is going to stop being promoted? It seems to commonly be in every thread about her, across every site.

Even more interesting, is to analyze the origins of it, why it exists, and why people feel the need to keep it going. I can't decide if it's mostly fetish (a male fantasy of being dominated physically), or something else entirely.
I don't have the slightest idea what you're saying.
> Everyone needs a prophet.

Nah.
Is the CEO working these same crazy hours? Does the CEO get paid properly and on time? Are you getting paid a reasonable amount, really? Where's the funding coming from and why don't they hire another engineer when they clearly seem to need to?

Are you giving the CEO realistic expectations of when things will get done, including time for prerequisite things?

At a bare minimum, I would keep my resume updated and see if you can find a better offer.
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I think what makes most religions so inflexible is having a canon which can be difficult to circumvent. If a secular order is based on the opinions of the founders who are treated as wise humans instead of divine, it becomes easier to accept that they could be wrong or just misinformed.
While that wasn't my point, it manifestly wasn't developed in the traditional Google style.

Here I'm just talking about Gundotra likely having the conceit from his time at Microsoft that he could make a Facebook replacement that wasn't 10x times better, but through tie-ins to other parts of the Google ecosystem would draw people in (vs. a lot of Microsoft's success in that period coming from other companies failing to execute, which Facebook did not).
A much more common theory is that Buchanan was gay.

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/14/our_real_first_gay_president...

Of course, given his weakly pro-slavery and otherwise terrible presidency, no one feels the need to devote a lot of publicity to this fact.
The CEO is less technical and more business. I run software engineering. First employee. Company is 4 years old, I have been working here for 4 years. Known CEO for about the same time. I don't think we are friends since I basically avoid talking unless needed for work.
Companies finances are okay. The product market fit is not all there yet. But there is a path to revenue. The Series A raised a few months ago is good enough to cover all costs and more for more than a year. There is no CFO, the CEO manages the finances.
I have build a lot of the processes and I'm well aware of how start-ups work. We (2 founders + me) started working out of a coffee shop and now have about 20-25 full time people.
Not open to negative feedback. Any conversation about this is going to blow up. Some people have tried and failed. Some have quit.
There are other like Secular Humanism and Ethical Culture. None of them really took off.
Sorry yea, I misremembered the title when I was commenting.
This is an interesting conversation. As an introvert myself I sometimes get really uncomfortable in social gatherings with lots of unfamiliar faces. But to your point about introversion having nothing to do with being social, I could not disagree more. It is very stressful for some introverts to conjure up a conversation with total strangers, event with people they know. Unlike extraverts, introverts are not often good starting simple conversation, and even when they do, they sometimes struggle internally thinking about what to say. Moreover, while an extravert will talk right of the top their mind, the introvert tend to think about what to say,and a host of other things depending on their assessment of the conversation. With that said, that sense of anxiety introvert feels in social settings often come with a great deal of analysis paralysis.

I think the trick for introverts going to networking events is to have a game plan about what they hope to accomplish from the event. The goal should be to try an make a least 2-3 meaningful connections. They should not feel burden with the need to be extroverted, or be something other than oneself.

This mentality, which personifies American corporate culture, about extroversion being good and introversion being bad, started with Cale Carnegie in the early part of the nineteenth century.

I think what every introvert and business should understand is that introverts bring some of the best ideas to table. However, most often employers want that extroverted employee, who always seems happy and smiling and talks a lot. That might might be good for corporate image, but not always the bottom line.
hehe, damnit, you weren´t supposed to find me that fast. Keep the location to yourself ;) and sshhhh....I´m obviously trying to catch up on my tan there, can´t you see how pale we are up here in the arctic?
This is a great point, thanks for the screenshot, it's very illustrative.
Yeah, this is a huge red flag. Getting product-market fit shouldn't take years.

There are plenty of fun, non-abusive work situations out there. Find something that's already starting to grow and that has a happy vibe.
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This is pure awesomeness. I really enjoy all the Ruby projects. http://getawesomeness.com/get/ruby
We all have different tastes, I guess. Humarsúpa, kjötsúpa, and plokkfiskur are some of the most delicious things I've ever tasted.
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Totally agree on the "beginning of the end" of social networking. These days Facebook content quality is on par with TV and keeps going down.
There's also the possibility that those journalists had lunch with someone who convincingly claimed to be Frederick R. Ewig.
She routinely wins against male fighters in her training studio. Pound for pound, she wins regardless of her gender and perceived weakness.
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Hey this is pretty interesting. Thanks for taking the time to explain. My first reaction was that you have to know the hash function for this attack to work, but I guess the salt serves the same purpose as hiding the hash function, and is more practical since then you can use a generic hash. Presumably someone figured out a way to prevent timing attacks against your own account - what is it?

Sure, assume that the hash takes data-dependent time, but that's the only vulnerability. I can see that this might reveal password length, but not easily beyond that. How does it work? Does SHA256 with salt take constant time?

In general, what is the most secure password scheme if you're looking to prevent timing attacks? Do you need real-time guarantees? You have enough material for a nice "evolution of secure password authentication" article here, if you ever wanted to write it up.
There is a CTO, co-founder and I don't think he is that much better off then I am except for the fact the the risk/reward equation is a lot better for him.
While not a patent, I have always thought this schematic for the Appoe I, signed by Woz himself, would look great in the office.

http://signedbywoz.com/products-schematic.php
>you end up doing something different, and people only want repeats of your popular previous work, or imitations of others, anyway.

Well, perhaps the people know something that the creator doesn't.

If you go to a Sushi place you don't expect or want them to suddenly give you a Carribean menu.

I think it's similar with artists. They tend to think that people came to them for "them" intristically, and that they should relish whatever new thing they decide to throw their way, but that's not how it works.

People came to an artist X because he/she gave them that particular flavor that they liked. Not because they just like the person or the way he thinks in general and would follow him to every and any artistic path.
As someone who has trained in MMA extensively, "the greats" tend to be those who embody this for long whiles in their careers before eventually (and generally, inevitably) regressing to the mean.

Anderson Silva, Matt Hughes, BJ Penn are all common names to MMA devotees (or at least were as recently as a few years ago) , and each of them share the same trait -- they win when they aren't supposed to.

I've never been remotely as good as any of them (nor Ronda Rousey), but eventually, when you defy the statistics for long enough, you become looked at as a modern-day Superman. Anderson Silva, for example, ran a hugely long undefeated streak in which he not only bested his opponents, but often embarrassed them before suddenly falling off the mark twice, and to the same opponent.

As a result, he has fallen from grace as the once "best pound for pound fighter in the world" to almost average, depending on who you're talking to. Regardless, his fight record[1] tells the story of a man who simply knows how to win, except against Chris Weidman, and as such, is worth fearing, despite being older than average and much, much better than average.

The point that I appear to be dancing around though, is that a guy on a 10-fight win streak seems invincible, while a guy on a 2-fight losing streak seems positively wimpy by comparison. Looking at the fighter's record on the whole is probably the best gauge of their talent, but as your statistical record approaches the mean, so does the level of fear you might otherwise instill, commensurately.
What does the other founder do? Is [s]he aware that you're considering leaving?

Sounds like that person stands to lose a lot if you go. Maybe you should be talking with him or her.
This assumes your 50-100% estimate is correct. A figure which is the result of your bias that people are challenging.
I don't think TJ Dillawshaw (current Men's Bantamweight champ) vs Ronda Rousey would be a decisive victory for TJ.

That said, the comparison is made, simply because there aren't any Women to compare Rousey too. In our need to classify how good Ronda Rousey is, we want to now compare her globally.

Ronda has said herself she does not want to fight men. I concur with her, it's bad for the sport, and she has nothing to gain from it.
Facebook actually solves that quite well - that is my primary use of Facebook: to schedule and Rsvp events with friends. One of the key reasons it works so well for that is that it's ubiquitous (something that meetup is not)
Other founder is the CTO. I hope to do this sometime. Not so good at talking.
Potential solution - Quit. But this would burn a lot of fingers/relationships and put the company in a spot since I'm pretty sure most things will break if I leave. There are no processes in place for anything. I manage a lot of things and am overworked with little time for anything else.

First of all, people tend to over-estimate the uniqueness of their knowledge / expertise. The company can recover from losing a key employee, if they have any chance at all of succeeding.

Second, your contributions may have emotional value to you, but no real economic value, if the CEO is an insurmountable obstacle to the success of the business. So you're not really depriving them of anything if you walk.
Your personal life and your peace of mind is as important(or even more important) as your willingness to solve interesting problems.
Quit.
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My recommendation is to stay away. There is massive short interest in SCTY -- 39% of the float. What do you know that the professionals don't?
The article said: top male fighters.

She does not routinely win against top male fighters.

And if you watch the YouTube videos of what you're talking about, her training sessions against men, they are not going full-steam against her, and they almost always have very sizable weight advantages - which is rule #1 of what you never do in fighting (and why Ronda hasn't yet fought Cyborg). In the case of Ronda vs Cyborg, you're talking a few pounds of difference, and she refuses to fight due to that gap - so you're trying to tell me she's having no problem against guys 30 and 40 pounds heavier in training (fails the logic test right off).

Pound for pound she does not win regardless.
This is crazy as I was just thinking about uncountable infinity when I was on the bus this week, having no idea this was part of such a paradox.

The things you consider when you're not distracted by a cell phone...
Maybe it helped that my friend is a chef there and took us to the best restaurants, but I had the most amazing food in Iceland back in 2011.

http://fiskmarkadurinn.is/ completely changed my mind about eating Fish and is still the best salmon I've had in my life.

Also probably the best Thai restaurant I've ever been to was in Reykjavik and I live in New York in a neighborhood famous for its Thai restaurants...
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Top male fighters are likely, actually wary of facing her for the same reason as they would be wary of facing a Royce Gracie. Much of her style negates much of their advantage, and despite everybody knowing full well that she's probably going to win with an armbar, it seems that nobody's yet figured out a way of preventing her from landing the armbar that they all know to look out for.

That most of her wins are obvious, and still unpreventable is what makes her scary, and there are indeed plenty of guys she could beat in the octagon.

On the whole, I definitely agree that many of those guys are probably paying her lip service, and that the level of challenge goes up incredibly when facing guys, especially those above Featherweight, but to be fair to her, I actually like her chances against much of the field in fly and bantamweights, minus those at the very top, perhaps.
So here's what hopefully won't be considered a trolling question: I have seen a lot of "100% Go" projects over the past several years and that's usually presented as a big feature. Some pretty trivial things have been redone as brand new in Go, and then suddenly gain lots of attention. What is so magical about a project written in Go vs C, Python, Ruby, Rust, JS, etc.? As a user of the software I won't care what it's written in, if it's done well. If it's done poorly, I am much more likely to look for better alternatives than to fix it (if only I had about 240 hours in a day...), so what's the advantage?

To me, an advantage in usability is having a PPA with properly built .deb packages. If I have to use a language-specific package manager that I don't already use regularly, you've likely lost me, unless I really need this functionality. If it doesn't come with a proper daemon mode (correct forking, PID file support, proper file or syslog logging), sample config file, man page, or an init file, that's even worse. I am much less likely to use this in any type of "production" environment if I have to maintain those pieces myself. Running things in a screen session is so "I'm running a Minecraft server".

That is not to criticize your work. You've done a great job! serve2d looks very interesting and I might actually have to give it a try sometime.
”This advantages of serve2 is that it is 100% go and can be integrated and used without any extra dependencies or multi-setup :)”

Great! This seems to be a very good Selling Point for go!
> I've read that in India, it's still absolutely unremarkable for two men to walk down the streets holding hands, even though homosexuality is vastly less accepted than in the US.

Not sure about India, but I've heard that in the Arab world, and seen in Ethiopia, that men holding hands doesn't imply homosexuality. Different cultures have different rules.

A man kissing a man on the cheek in France doesn't mean they are gay.
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There's no Google+ landing page.

If you want to participate and create a g+-account you'll automatically sign up for google search, gmail, google drive, youtube, google maps, play store, google maps with no option to opt out.

Now who thought this was a good idea?

But even if someone wanted all that, if you signed up for your business to have a youtube channel and a g+ page, you don't get your custom vanity URLs with the chosen account-name. That's remarkably bad UX.
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