skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why did quant.ly and badbanker.com did not work out?
Hello guys,

besides in the startup scene and the tech community in general, there are no real cool financial communities in hackernews style/format.

The two websites above tried the experiment and did not work out. Why?

Appreciate your replies!
This one, however, does seem to be relevant:

# assertTrue is retarded, use the normal assert statement
assert L

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/t...

Along with:

// TODO(darin): Fix this retardation!
return buf_->RemainingCapacity() <= (2 * net::kMaxBytesToSniff);

// HACK: I'm at a loss about how to get the syntax checker to get
// whether a template is externed or not. For the first pass here,
// just do retarded string comparisons.
if (TemplateDecl* decl = name.getAsTemplateDecl()) {
std::string base_name = decl->getNameAsString();
if (base_name == "basic_string")
whitelisted_template = true;
}

And a bunch of french language files
The worst that would happen is what's happening in GamerGate right now: a split along ideological lines. Those who want to judge the merit of a work based on its code and those who want to judge the merit of a work based on the political opinions of the author.
To add to that

5. Github as a commercial entity is pretty unlikely to abuse their (indeed worrying, but not scary yet) ability to censor unless some suits decide that they are big enough to not worry about the very community that made them big (IOW, I won't worry until they do a reddit).
Can I take a moment to just point out the silliness of worrying about the censoring or suppression of content in a distributed source control system?

The very nature of git means you can just clone the repo and do whatever you want to it.
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Extra points for original ideas, syntax or semantics.

Perfectly OK to argue for existing languages too. (Why not?)
I'm imagining a nightmare scenario where, by some vauge unwritten and immature consensus mechanism, we rationalize even a slight amount of censorship as being OK.
Except, of course, people literally have.
Just to nitpick... Battery is the physical act. Assault is telling someone that you're going to kick them, hard, and giving them the impression that you intend to actually do so. Both of these things are criminal, obviously.

But apparently saying $BAD_WORD is, too. /s
As someone of Irish-American descent... I'm offended by the use of the term "git" in "GitHub"... they should be banned..
It's kind of scary how many people here consider the word retard offensive.

I assume words like "fucker" or "dicks" would also trigger you?

I get that Github as a private corporation gets to decide what they want or don't want but that's driven on how many people genuinely get offended so I'm assuming a large portion of people genuinely got bothered by this compared to all the other shit happening in the world.
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It would also be ethical and legal to comb through their hosted content to remove any other words, but I'd argue it's a ret...er...wasteful use of their resources.

Also, I must have missed the memo when 'retarded' became "generally accepted as an offensive word". Are "stupid" "moronic" and "idiotic" also offensive? I guess I need to keep up with the times--as soon as I think I've figured out the list of everything that could possibly offend someone, we come up with something else.
Underwater RF is no trouble in this case. You have the signal backwards. As long as there is no problem, regularly transmit an identity beacon. Loss of signal is the alert.
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Yes! Habit.
Thanks; an RSS feed is super-convenient!

Was this podcast already posted on HN and I just missed it? The 10 episodes released over the past 2 months don't seem to be trying to hide too hard: https://soundcloud.com/akharris

Originally broadcast on Sirius XM's Business Radio powered by the Wharton school on Sirius 111.

It's the top-ranked item on the 'Shows' tab there (https://www.siriusxm.com/businessradio) - maybe this is just evidence of how unimportant satellite radio is? Production quality is top-notch.
> 'Retard' has no meaning or use?

Homonyms are not the same word, you ridiculous caricature.
I could not possibly disagree with you any more strongly. I'm far from alone in my opinion. I may even be on the majority side. That doesn't make me right of course. But it is worth your consideration.

I could defend my stance. I think you're probably smart and probably know almost everything I'd say. If that's the case then we're resigned to agree to disagree.
When are you referring to?

Do you use twitter at all? And nobody here jumps on me like jackals because they use downvotes to do that for them.

Hacker News is a device of exclusion. That's not a bad thing.

You can't claim to be for free and open source software for all humanity, except for those people. Those people aren't ideologically pure, they can't participate. That mindset is why GNU is a footnote in programming history, but everybody knows what linux is.

Code quality, not political ideology.
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> 1. Think of yourself as an investor who has put money into GitHub. Someone drawing a salary using your money is sending out a message telling a developer not to use a potty-mouth word on the Internet. Do you feel they are putting your investment to the best possible use?

Someone drawing a salary using my money is also: playing foosball in the office, buying a foosball table in the office, probably watching cats on Youtube. This is a silly line of reasoning.
I love it when the house gets woken up in the middle of the night because I scroll down on a page.
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It's possible this exists already, I haven't researched it that heavily, but..

Effectively what I want is a high-level scripting language with 'c-like' syntax, that can be compiled into a static binary, to allow easier distribution of (in particular) shell utilities.

I have a feeling Go may come close, but I have a vague feeling I wasn't crazy about the syntax of it.
You can always have Appveyor create a package for you. It looks like they currently are waiting to support Chocolatey, though that's kind of ridiculous. It seems like everything should work fine v1 bundled in a single zip until each component is split out.

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/15
I think the slippery slope argument is justified here. Things like "offensive" and "arbitrary calls" are fairly subjective. Of course GitHub can do what they want, but it is quite noteworthy to point out that they are policing offensive words now. They have a lot of work to do[0].

0 - https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=retard
Use VirtualBox as a virtual machine. Will make your live much easier.
"This isn't censorship of the type that is illegal or not allowed. It is a private company deciding a word was inappropriate."

As a Github user, that kind of thinking worries me. Google Code went away, and Sourceforge started packaging adware and spyware with other people's projects. They could do this because "they were a private company". Now Github's management is starting to throw their weight around. We now need to think about a backup plan in case Github management gets out of line. All their value, after all, is created by others.
Praytell, what here do you think is being used as a homonym?

Where exactly do you think the word 'retard' as a noun comes from?
A website that, at the moment, retains a significant percentage of the entire free and open source software ecosystem. No, it's not quite as bad as genocide, but we're not suggesting putting anybody to death as a result either.
that's pretty interesting – do you know if there's a more thorough writeup about that issue?
> GitHub made an effort to get in contact with the repo owner and warn them of their violation of the TOS before taking action.

This repository had been disabled for several days before this.
> 3. As for the larger context, the problem with the frequent use of slippery slope arguments and cries of "censorship" is that people are choosing to die on some pretty ridiculous hills.

> 4. If or when Github actually does something truly abusive of their power to censor, then I'll worry.

This is bizarre. Your thinking goes directly against our human nature: recognize future danger and try to avoid it.

The danger is that you seem to be choosing to not recognize the growing trend towards what are seen as appropriate responses to being offended: shaming, ostracizing, and the forced silence of the "offender".

(edit: formatting)
OP used the term "free speech" which is a legal term that in the US refers to 1st amendment protections around expression.

Well, free speech laws don't apply to me on your property. It is legal for you to tell me to shut up or get out.
Thank you, but the problem is the "player" from soundcloud; it requires
running thousands of lines of javascript and it's completely unnecessary
for delivering audio. It would be simple to use a HTML5 <audio> element
with the src attribute set to a media file for playback in HTML5 enabled
browsers, and for the non-HTML5 browsers, you can easily provide a link
to the audio file.
you summed up the reasons I use Heroku myself, gz.
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I have been looking for a decent source of data of the longtail of media consumption/purchase ordered by year of release. For example, how many Netflix movies are watched in 2014 that were originally released in 1975, or albums purchased in 2013 from iTunes that were originally released in 1963. I am trying to work out how rapidly the value of IP declines from the point of release, but I am not having much luck find this data.
Try tessel.io, although you're going to have to know some node.Js basics
Charlie Hebdo did.
Some ( many! ) years ago there was a popular how-to entitled something like 'Kerberos for Imbeciles' which I had to save to disk and edit to retitle before printing it in work.

It was a useful guide but several people were offended by the original title.
It would be nice to know from you which PFD you would recommend from say this list at amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_pn_1?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=i%...
My suggestion is to stop for a second thinking about the fact that you are broke. It's the easiest problem to solve (unless you need 2 billion dollars).

In my opinion the first thing you need is a clear understanding of what your goal is. Why do you want to be a linux admin? What do you like about it? What makes you say, "I want to spend my life configuring linux systems"?

If answering these questions requires more than 1 minute of your time, you are probably on the wrong direction.

Whatever you decide to do this is my advise. First, use internet. There are amazing tutorials out there for anything you want to learn. Find something that you enjoy and that makes you feel good. Experiment and "taste", the more you explore the easier will be for you to understand what you want.

Keep your job or find another job to cover your expenses. This means you have to work hard because probably you will have to study at night. I've been there, it's tough but at the same time you'll feel alive, I promise.

Learn and practice! This is specially important in computer science. Build something then try to find a way to break it. Once you broke it, build it again!

Go to meetups for people in the same field you choose. You'll learn a lot. You'll be able to start networking but mostly, you'll be able to measure your preparation and this will tell you when is time to start searching for a job.

Searching for a job won't be easy with no academic preparation. Start from the bottom and don't think about salary. For you is much more important to get hired than a good salary. Remember, you need to get hired once to be in the game!

I hired a PHP developer with a similar story as yours few years ago. I took extra steps to understand his preparation but at the end I couldn't ignore the effort and the commitment that this guy put into his preparation. Today he is a valuable component of my team and he makes me very proud of what he has accomplished.

Hope this will help!
Without fully knowing what a person is thinking (and I'm talking in whole here), and the context they are thinking it in, it is impossible to always determine if what someone said is "idiotic" or not, much less be capable of determining if they themselves are an idiot. Given this provable fact, that means there exists a possibility someone ends up calling a savant an idiot for saying something that is viewed by them, or a group as a whole, as "idiotic".
> We now need to think about a backup plan in case Github management gets out of line.

This is a distributed source control system. Keep a clone of the repo somewhere. Your source code is now no longer bound to Github.
I have found the #1 source of architecture/reality mismatches over time being that "business" has deliberately kept developers only partially informed on a "need to know" basis.

To be clear, there was nothing malicious about it, it's just that many stakeholders only give their short term needs as input, not the long term strategy that's discussed behind closed doors in the board room. The big problem here is that non-engineers don't get that some strategies don't simply add to the problem space, but fundamentally change it.

"Why the fuck didn't you tell us sooner?" is one of the most common phrases in software development.
"There is only one party in US - business party" - Noam Chomsky (inventor of lex and yacc)
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Or what about if your comment were mass-downvoted on HN? Would you be happy?

The censorship card ultimately falls into a relativistic trap - it's always okay to broadcast hate if it's the speech of you or your friends, because you and I can protest ignorance, humor, or lack of wrongdoing, and your more overtly bigoted friends "are good guys when you get to know them." Criticism of such speech, on the other hand, is never okay, and is "the real censorship". You don't even have to invoke a specific ideological dialogue - it is an everyday occurrence in your homes, schools, and bars.

Now, you can go out there and fight and "win" by making your preferred flavor of speech dominant in your spaces, but that just exposes a different facet of this "gem of truthiness" - it doesn't reveal the whole thing, because you still get the same problem, no matter which side you take.

The typical modern response to this is nihilistic or fanatical, but if you really feel challenged by a hostile environment, why not follow the path of the ancients and turn your speech into a puzzle or parable that hides its true intention? If your ideas are good, they will survive the transition and reach the readers who put in the effort to care and figure it out. OTOH if the whole premise is to police the surface aspects of the dialogue and Be Right, then you're speaking politically, not intellectually, and political speech comes with Consequences regardless of the legal environment.
What the...? What the.. what... I ... WHAT? You.. I can't even.

What?
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Cheers, I'll read this on the next time around then.
So... just a thought as a non-pilot. It's 2015 - we have collision camera's on cars. Given you need to be looking literally every direction to see if something is going to hit you, why aren't planes equipped with similar technology. I feel like at cruising altitude, there aren't really enough false-positives out there that the system would be unusable.

Not necessarily expecting you personally to know. But I feel like the incremental cost to the price of a plane should make this a no-brainer. Did I just come up with a ycombinator 2016 idea?
Controllers don't always simulcast on the military and civilian frequencies. Sometimes they do, because its convenient, just like they sometimes simulcast on Ground and Tower or on Ground and Clearance, but often they only transmit on the frequency used by the people they're talking to.
All four of those have been making smartphones for many years now. Smartphones are still fragile, crashy little devices with miserable battery life and short lives.
I'm not making any slippery slope argument. I'm saying that if it's hard to predict what minor infractions might result in 24-hour ultimatums, then that's going to make users uncomfortable, and that a lot of users wouldn't have predicted that this particular case would lead to a 24-hour ultimatum.

If the ultimatum were, say, 30 days, then I think it's in the realm that I consider sensible. That's long enough to get back from vacation without finding all your stuff is gone. The file had been there over a year, so surely it wasn't that urgent.

Maybe they could have sent an auto-generated pull request to make things easier.
Felt the same about Go syntax. For scripting in C I've had some fun with tcc: "C script supported : just add '#!/usr/local/bin/tcc -run' at the first line of your C source, and execute it directly from the command line."[0]

[0] http://bellard.org/tcc/
Those examples you have picked fit the same problem as the initial argument, yes. "retard" in French means "slow" or "late".
If you want your contract to be updateable, you can have the contract store an address of a contract which is the part you might want to change. Then, to update the contract, you upload the new version of the contract ( or contract component) , and make the address that the first contract stores point to the new one.

Uh...

Users interact directly with contract A.

Contract A stores a address which currently points to contract B, and uses whatever contract it currently points to to accomplish whatever it needs to do for users.

To update the part of Contract A, upload an updated contract C, and send A a message to tell it to change the address it stores to point to contract C instead.

Contract A only changes where the address points if whatever conditions it was designed to use for that are met.

And, of course, you don't have to use this "point to another contract" thing.

That's just if you need part of the contract to be updateable under some conditions, which you might not need.
We're not discussing about private conversation between two friends. I would be offended if a stranger said that to me. Wouldn't you?

Of course, I can see that this is done for laughs, but not everyone sees that.
Is there a code hosting solution that a) lets me self host code b) has identity system (common to all self hosted instances) c) has pull requests whose origin can be verified with the identity system?
Unlike your ISP, GitHub is not a common carrier.
Not sure why you are downvoted, but I thought it's relevant.
"I believe that some day a great part of the world will be Eurasian."

Considering this was 1890, and that she was experiencing all these prejudices, a remarkable prediction on her part. We're still a ways away, but in 2010, 15% of new marriages in the U.S. were interracial. [1]

[1] http://mic.com/articles/87359/national-geographic-determined...
How real-time are the analytics with these implementations? When I think ETL I think daily chronjobs. Have there been advances in this space which would let me instantaneously see a lead created in Salesforce in these new reports?
Yeah, I do. Simply say what you find inaccurate about what they said and let everyone else come to their own conclusions. Saying "stop spreading misinformation" is basically speaking for others. Maybe we want to hear the misinformation because it's interesting or maybe you are wrong about it being informational or not. Either way, it's my choice to listen to him/her or not.
I disagree with this in principle, however as a private company Github has the right to do as they please. Just make the rules clear and apply them fairly and consistently and you'll hear no complaints from me.
Daisy wheel typewriters were the first consumer product with many moving parts in which all the coordination and control was entirely electronic. The electronics behind getting the print wheel into position that fast are very clever. The coarse positioning uses a stepping motor, but the fine positioning and and braking involve an analog servo loop.
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Exponent FM is great. Not by a founder, but about strategy in tech
Here is a link of Walter Palmer's other Trophies and more on the story.
*It also has a video on how to kill a LION! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianoce...
Also good to remember that PCs (desktops) and laptops are really good enough already. Nobody wants to replace them if they don't really need to.
My work laptop is 5 years old and still functions perfectly, and is about as powerful as new laptops. And I actually use the thing 8hrs a day so if there was something "better" I'd switch immediately.

So who really cares if kids need a new shiny phone every christmas to be hip? It's just a "gadget" for now.
> rotating between the lifeguard chairs at fifteen-minute intervals

My local pool removed the high chairs because of injuries sustained when the guards were scrambling down to perform a rescue; a chair six feet above a wet deck is quite dangerous.

Now the lifeguards stand on poolside and can dive-in immediately.
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Would the increasing use of SSL mostly solve this problem as a side-effect?

How likely is it that a secure connection will be corrupted without being noticed?
Thanks for the chocolate again! :)
Plenty of projects like that if you want to a) make the world
a better place and b) seek adventure

Do you have any specific recommendations or suggestions on places to start, for helping existing projects?

Lately I've been considering finding something that combines both A and B...
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Most of Dijkstra's writing is overly melodramatic and this is no exception. Now that computing is even more ubiquitous his elitist attitude about programmers is even less relevant. Driving a car does not require a degree in mechanical engineering and thermodynamics and similarly writing programs should not require a degree in mathematics and logic. Also, reasoning by analogy and intuition is one of the better ways to solve problems. If it is good enough for people like Einstein and Feynman then it is good enough for me and Dijkstra in this case is just plain wrong.
Windows 10 released
> Summing up these 45 pages, one can say that Microsoft basically grants itself very broad rights to collect everything you do, say and write with and on your devices in order to sell more targeted advertising or to sell your data to third parties. The company appears to be granting itself the right to share your data either with your consent “or as necessary”.

And this differs from Google's and Facebook's usage policies how?

Throwing out a red flag at this point for a corporation stating that people^H^H^H^H^H^H^H users are their product is the quintessential example of "closing the barn door after the horse is out."
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I'm very familiar with PPK. I lifted my first 'getElementsByClassName' function directly from his site well over a decade ago. That doesn't mean that he hasn't descended into troll-level talking head status, generating controversy to drum up speaking appearances. Plus, we have MDN and caniuse.com now - he's irrelevant.
I find it crazy that one small aircraft could collide with another small aircraft, with such a vast amount of space to avoid each other. How is a collision possible? What am I missing?
You can now upgrade to Windows 10