skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy cow, that's some messed up shit. I've never heard of such a thing. And that they're getting slaps on the wrists if any punishment at all because cops are believing their insane stories.

What a cultural mess.
That's not really a problem I'll have.
As a man,

what?

I read the article a couple of days ago, but I don't recall anything here being particularly gender-specific.
I had similar issues, but this was a few years ago. It was not something I was comfortable deploying in any production environment because it fell apart so many times in dev. Luckily I caught these issues before it was used in production.
It wasn't a man that wrote the article?
I'm teaching an architecture course, and I would really appreciate it if you could share the link.
Funny how things are similar. I was in the USAF with a fellow who had served in Vietnam. While there, he had a side job of repairing the slot machines that were in the Officers and NCO clubs. Like the Soviet arcades, this was also a cash business, and the machines were also rigged. His share of the vig supplemented his military salary fairly well, he said.
I didn't miss the point - I totally get it.

My point was simply to remind people that over complicating your situation and going for a "big data" store is usually a mistake when there's something that will keep your data safe when it isn't as big as you assume it's going to be.
Yeah, though I have swung by coworkers homes when visiting a new area where we have no family...
Kera Yonker. Brian Rea did the illustration.

I will admit, though, I assumed it was a woman just from the male romantic interest, which is my bad.
Yep. For this reason, my usual response to "how are you" from somebody passing by is "hi".
Also, there is another point I want to make, lot of readers assume that they can only play it once. I dont think that is a constraint at all. If that is a constraint, problem is simplified. If you were to play only once you have less than 1/(amount) chance of seeing your investment or more.

If you invested 1024$ (10 successive head rolls), you have less than 1/1024 chance of seeing it back.

Of course, you start from 2$ and not 0$ (I have simplified a few things to drive the point).
You really think improvisational programming is equivalent to data entry? Have you ever done data entry?
Which site are you talking about?
Are you missing the point of the article? According to the author, Poles and Indians consider their co-workers their friends. Americans in general don't. His other point is that Americans used to think differently, so Americans working today would consider people from 30-40 years ago to be odd ones too.
Surprisingly, ctrl+f 'cubicle' gives no matches on NYT or here but it seems like an obvious reason. I can't speak for most of the rest of the world but today's Japanese office for rank and file still tends to look something like [1] - desks pointed inward, arranged so that workers are focused on common areas with low or no partitions. OTOH in the US the ubiquitous cubicles have high partitions and are often arranged around the walls of the space so people are pointed away from each other.

Whether this was done intentionally for some productivity benefits or because workers liked the additional privacy or is just some unintended side effect I have no idea.

[1] https://sociorocketnewsen.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/gj-3.j...
Thanks, I hadn't thought of it from that perspective :) I'm glad you found some friends.
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I know gasoline is extremely cheap in some Middle-Eastern countries, but is gasoline subsidized in the U.S.?
Since it's a LISP, does that mean it would be useful in Clojure as well? Any thoughts on this?
Thanks for your advice!
I will upload some demo videos to make this service more tangible!
I've spent a good chunk of my waking life studying programming the past several years, in an effort to get good at this stuff and really understand what I'm doing. I am incredibly jealous that people get to be professional "programmers" without really caring.
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If you evaporate half of seawater, you're still down at one quarter of salt's saturation level. That will form crystals even if you keep things mildly mixed?

Corrosion is a worry, but isn't that something you can fix with material choice?
Yeah, I'm thinking I may have misread this bit -- giving employees spaces and time to hang out is definitely different from (and better than) the "teambuilding" stuff that seems fake.
Totally awkward and forced, and I'm also totally appreciative of it. Meeting people can be hard, workplace or no. Some of us don't keep the same friends for our entire lives, for reasons that are unique to us and very reasonable.
The one linked at the top of the page, I presume.
The "How are you" or "How's it going?" thing took me a while to get used too. Now sometimes I say "Great" automatically even when somebody asks a real question or says "Hi".
The OP states that the cold water intake is a 5c. That would seem cool enough to either directly cool houses, or at least greatly increase the efficiency of their air conditioners. For the later you wouldn't need to evaporate anything. Just cooling the air conditioner with water rather than external air.
I don't know how effective Alcoholics Anonymous really is (not saying one way or the other), but having the accountability placed on you by friends is a helpful thing in many other tough situations in life. You can see it underlying many useful bits of advice ("Have a cofounder" always comes to mind -- someone to motivate you when you're unable to do so yourself, perhaps?)

Addiction is no joke and anything that can provide relief or help to those who have found themselves caught up in it would be a huge thing. I always think back to a former friend of mine who battled with opiates. She lost her family and children -- well after she had completed a recovery program and been sober for a year. When she started with pills there was a very good reason -- several surgeries and a lot of pain management. When the pain was well and gone, she was left with a strong addiction. The woman she was before she started popping pills regularly and the woman she is now (completely sober) are different people. She told me that long term opiate addiction changes your brain chemistry in such a way that depression becomes a way of life -- I'm not sure if that's true, but it looks like it is with her. The worst part is that her marriage problems started well after she had cleaned up. Her husband, still a friend, said he couldn't stand the woman she'd become and confessed to me that he sometimes wished she'd never stopped. Before the judgement starts, he's a solid guy and I stand by his decision to fight for full custody of his children (you'd have to understand the whole story which I can't do justice to here).

Her description of addiction still haunts me, though. She said "you need it like you need food after having not eaten for a week". She's done a week long fast (as have I). She'd know. That description is the only thing I've heard that adequately explains why addicts will put their children in harms way if it means getting their next fix (ever wonder why cigarette prices can go up 600% in two years and people still smoke?). I watched her become completely broke buying pills from scary people in scary places. I've heard from others some of the things she was willing to do to get enough pills to get her through a day; it's way beyond what you already couldn't imagine a suburban mother of 4 doing.
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That would be great. I want to monitor server resources, services status and functionality.
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Relationship of stock option strike price vs. share value
I recently got an offer from a company that is presumably somewhat close to an IPO. However, they refuse to share the total shares outstanding because apparently they don't disclose that information.

My question is since the SEC has rules on evaluating the strike price of stock options in place, could those be used to estimate what the shares might be worth?

I remember reading before that it used to be that stock options were priced around 10% of what investors paid for shares. However, it seems that now stock options are supposed to be priced at what they should be worth the moment you get them. That being the case, how are they preferable at all to RSUs? After all, now you're just getting to buy shares; you aren't even getting them at a discount if I understand correctly.
Whereas a design studio with sufficient resources should fare better with a data-driven approach, a sole designer or small team with time and feedback constraints will probably do better with traditional methodology. Traditional methodologies might have certain quack dogmatic rules and processes, but it offers a battle-tested baseline.
I will admit, though, I assumed it was a woman just from the male romantic interest, which is my bad.

What? There's something to be said for not being hostile to those with different proclivities, however, there is certainly no reason to apologize for assuming something that is true in the vast majority of cases.

It's also not at all unlikely that you would consciously or unconsciously pick up on things in writing that would allow you to make a better than random guess about the sex of the author.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0503/writing_styles.asp

http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php
I agree. It depends a lot on the industry and size of the company I think, but in some places it is brutally political. I personally don't even mind a critical and self-promotional environment, it's the quiet, behind the scenes long game politics that bother me. I think it's especially depressing because if everyone stopped undermining each other and worked collaboratively, the shared fruits of your labor would probably make most everyone better off. Except then likely 30% of the staff would be cut because high productivity leads to redundancy.
Unintended consequences of deep sea ocean warming.
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Pre-NT? Are you sure? My understanding of history is that the PE file format was part of NT 3. I would have thought that earlier systems kept as much paged as possible, but maybe that's wrong.

Maybe it's not worth it any more. My phone has 8GB of memory. I do remember a time when you could boot Windows XP on a system with 64MB of RAM when you needed special configuration / custom kernels to boot Linux on such a system. You would think that this was because of the pile of small choices made to relieve memory pressure...
I clearly have some kind of vice related to caffeine...

In the hardest periods of my life I managed to guzzle 6 liters of coca-cola every day, plus eating lots of chocolate, and drinking lots of coffee and tea, of course this also ruined my overall health.

I recently managed to "get clean", but I also stopped working, then I gave up, decided to buy 1 liter of red-bull style energy drink (not redbull itself because I can't afford it), drink it all in one go...

then I could work, and I felt MUCH better... but I am also drinking lots of coca-cola and eating lots of chocolate again.

I am seeing a psychiatrist, and seemly I have ADHD, and caffeine (and other stimulants) are a common way to self-medicate, and many ADHD sufferers, specially those not on legal meds, end having some strong vices (not only stopping at caffeine... cocaine, meth, and other strongly stimulant drugs abuse is also common).

I started taking Ritalin (Adderall is illegal here) this week, for now only half a pill per day, because my psychiatrist is inexperienced and probably wants to be safe, let's see if with it (and an increased dosage later) I will be able to stop abusing caffeine, my kidneys (that had stones) and my liver (that is covered in fat to the point of failing to work properly) will thank me. (I am also going to a psychologist...)
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When a pedestrian or cyclist is killed by a car in the US, so long as the driver is not drunk and does not leave the scene, the driver will almost never face criminal penalties.

What we call car accidents are considered an unavoidable part of life to be resolved by civil courts and insurance payouts.

I'd say say the US has a cultural mess regarding cars too.
I think SQL Azure that uses SQL Server underneath would pass his tests. But then again it's not hot valley stuff put out by engineers who discovered distributed systems 2 years ago.
Not every dungeon is built for logistics. Think of temples, tombs, or traps for invaders.
There is no scientific process. If you spend some time looking at the posts you'll see that the reason for the retraction there has to do with skewing results to match the views of the those funding research and/or to sway opinion in a direction.
Kopek for plain soda, 3 for soda with syrup was the longtime standard. Kvas, usually by some kvas-delivery vehicle, sold by a person. That seems to be still going strong:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass#/media/File:Kwass_kyjiw....
This doesn't make sense in a world where Raspberry Pis cost $35
Max Levchin and many of the other members of the Mafia (Luke Nosek, Jeremy Stoppelman, etc.) are mentioned in the post.

They are also not forgotten on campus. Max was on campus last year and there was a ton of excitement in the college of engineering among students.
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The school actually does highlight John Bardeen and Nick Holonyak a ton! John Bardeen was the first person mentioned on my tour of the college of engineering and Nick Holonyak gave the keynote at my ECE orientation.

My posts were meant to highlight entrepreneurship which is why I didn't mention them (they'd be in a class of amazing innovators who studied/worked at UIUC). There's also a ton of awesome alumni that have gone on to be C level execs at big companies, but again they were omitted because these posts were specifically targeted at entrepreneurial alumni.
I learned that she really _got_ the potential of computing and what it was going to be. In 1843. Crazy.
Your own link explains why it's not 'pointless':

There is no data on maintenance costs, possible environmental impacts on the marine environment or potential engineering problems that could arise with a full-scale model — not an enticing combination for private investment. ... The pilot is needed to produce the information necessary to attract investment for a large-scale model ...
Its crazy to me that California requires so little coverage, on the order of 30k. If you wipe out the sole bread winner of a household, they can expect to make something like 1yr or less of replaced income.

In other countries, say canada, insurance minimum can be 1M .
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As a Chinese immigrant I am always baffled when Americans visit third world countries.
No, it's taxed pretty heavily (well, not by European standards): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_State...
I've heard the phrase "just-before-time" (or JBT) for this, i.e. compiling on the target machine.
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In userland, the DISCARDABLE and MOVABLE flags date back at least to Windows 3. Not sure about the kernel.
According to this[1] paper the fact, that you effectively double your data cache with 32bit pointers leads to a performance increase of up to 30% in real world applications. I don't believe the comparatively rare context switches caused by TLB management interrupts cause a speed penalty that high. Hence I still don't understand why people want desperately go to 64bit. Just because some kernel programmers find it too stressful to bother with some minor memory management details?

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050913...
This is most definitely true. It's because a lifetime of compensation is most of the time more money than a single flat payment for causing death. I know of one foreigner who upon accidentally injuring a pedestrian, non too seriously, was advised by his expat friends to get on the first available flight out on the double. Staying would have involved a victim exaggerating injuries and extorting a foreigner for life. So he went to the bank got some money and beelined it to the airport. Not even going back to his flat to pick up things, except for a friend picking up his passport.

Sad perverse incentives.

Of course he can never go there again as he's officially a fugitive.
You're confusing "China" with "all third world countries"
> Participation in AA is associated with substantially increased rates of continuous abstinence at the 1, 3 and 5 year marks after quitting

It's been shown, as much as is possible, that that's all selection bias. People rarely fall off the wagon and then keep going to meetings.

AA's rules around anonymity and consent make it conveniently impossible to run good studies, so they are able to (rightly, for the most part) write off any study that runs against them, but are also unable to show any positive findings that don't fall prey to very obvious problems.
Yet it is terrible. Almost as bad as driving without a license plate so you hit and kill somebody you can flee the scene and nobody would be able to identify you. But that does not happen, right?

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-laz-rear-license-plate...
Even though C# is in many ways like Java, it allows (via unsafe blocks and pointers) to better perform memory management. Not sure how widely it is used in practice.
Even if this is true - and I'd suggest it could use some support - it's a bit different than realizing post-accident that the victim is still alive and then intentionally murdering them.
Looks pretty good. Shall try it out for a few days. I'm a big fan of pastel shades and most color schemes don't get it right. Solarized with dark background is pretty good but I honestly prefer the light background. Been looking for a decent dark background based color scheme and settled on molokai. Even then I'm not a fan of the fancy highlights no matter how tastefully done. Anderson looks like what I've been looking for. I especially need it since I wake up at 5am to study/work on side projects and work with the lights switched off to avoid waking up the wife/anyone else in the house. Light/Bright backgrounds are a disaster then. So thank you :)

I'm sad to say though that the colors of the wes anderson films reference has flown far over my head :D
Fuel costs for an airline operating a regular schedule are much higher than their aircraft's capital cost, so changes to airlines' fleet plans induced by unexpected breaks in rising fuel price trends only really happen at the margin.

Where an airline chooses less-efficient designs it's usually because it's realising [partially] compensating efficiency savings by sharing pilots/engineers/equipment with similar aircraft it's already operating rather than simply because they cost less to buy.

Given the variety of specific notionally pro-environment levies on airlines and their passengers as well as on the fuel, figuring out how much per seat mile airlines actually pay is nearly as complex as guesstimating how much that aircraft's externality might be....
Which is meaningless due to how easily screenshots could be doctored. It's no better than "this is what they said".

http://i.imgur.com/jcnkw71.png

Having multiple screenshots from multiple sources increases the likelihood of legitimacy - but doesn't guarantee it. 20 people can easily get together and doctor the same statement.
Your "quote" is not what I wrote, I include other support groups in my statement. I have no interest in arguing with obvious axe-grinding.

> People rarely fall off the wagon and then keep going to meetings.

I have a significant number of acquaintances who did exactly that, myself included, but I am not going to make the claim that my personal experience means anything statistically.

> It's been shown, as much as is possible, that that's all selection bias.

If that is the case, feel free to provide some sort of citation to back up your claim.
This is terrible trope that keeps coming up. When something bad happens in a country, just because you claim the US has the same problem does not at all ever make it acceptable. It's a total non sequitur.

And that's without even mentioning the fact that 1) the people in the article actually fled the scene, 2) many of them got out of the car and ran over the person again, 3) in the US you will in fact face penalties if you are deemed to be negligent in some way (you were speeding, didn't have a license, etc.)
This is a very good example of the law of unintended consequences.
I've heard of a similar story, but in a different context. One of the asian airlines (I don't remember whether it was Taiwan, South Korean, etc.) had problems and lots of crashes. Turns out, people were not accustomed of questioning their bosses, and if this boss was your other co-pilot you would've never even try to correct them. I can't find the article, but it went something like "a western professor" goes to the troubled company and fixes the problem "overnight" by simply retraining the employees that they should be able to judge their superiours.

I'm sorry for missing the critical part here - the actual article, but such cultural traits can definitely surprise people from other countries (like it did me with this one).
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These are really not comparable situations at all. If you ever lived there you'd know you're comparing two very different attitudes. If you were in an unfortunate accident where you're involved with hitting a cyclist or pedestrian, there are certain rules and expectations, right of way, deference to smaller modes of transportation, etc.

There the bigger the vehicle the bigger the deference by smaller vehicles by tradition and necessity, it's completely opposite. In addition, you would know that sidewalk and street are one and the same in most places.

And the occurrence of backing up to purposely e sure terminal injury is not uncommon in the least. It's in the news, it's quite ordinary.
What makes you think we are near the limit? There are two major north-south trails in the U.S. and the PCT is not crowded. It seems totally reasonable to increase the number of such routes by 10x or 100x. There is a lot of open space, and backcountry trails and camps are not particularly disruptive.
Also, China was a Second World country (at least, back when the distinction still made sense).

Of course, at some point, "Third World" became synonymous with "poor", and was euphemised to "developing".
Yep. Freenet is inefficient, though, because it has a bunch of indirection in order to obscure the originator of the inserted documents. You could remove that indirection if you just cared about the content, not about anonymity.
I do not understand the downvoting of this post.

It is messed up. Completely messed up. Downvote if you disagree.

But please do 'fess up to the fact that you downvoting because you think it is OK to transform an accident into homicide.
The spending on sports, whether crooked or not, should be equally matched with spending on the arts and music.
That would have been a different file format though, right?