skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way he talks about office communication and missing out on things reminds me very much of being a remote worker, I don't think I can begin to imagine how frustrating it would be to be in the office and feel like you weren't there.

A few years ago there was a wonderful post on somethingawful.com from a deaf person who answered questions and talked about his life experiences, there was hours and hours of content to read and it was really informative and interesting, unfortunately it's hidden behind the archives pay wall now.
I've had a similar experience, in school I got hooked on chess. Having an unfortunate tendency to try to master anything I suck at that I find interesting I dedicated quite a lot of time to learning chess, playing in the swedish masterships and even attending a special high school with chess on the curriculum.

The thing is though with chess (as with anything I'd guess) the first 20% of skill can be really hard to acquire since you need to "get started". The next 60% is usually a challenge that's fun and stimulating. Going beyond that it gets rough (unless youre exceptionally talented). I think chess is especially bad from that aspect, at higher level the amount of pure database knowledge you have to memorize is tremendous and IMO takes some of the fun out the game. Fischer tried to solve this by inventing a version where you randomized the position of the pieces each time. Games like go also seems much better since it's more about skill and intuition than rote memorization.

A big part of becoming great at chess is actually retraining the part of the brain that remembers faces to absorb board positions. I'm not talking about absolute recall , but a grand master has seen so many games that he can "intuit" a board drawing from his experience.

"Good hobbies", IMO, form either new brain connections , improve body coordination or just generally improve mental or physical health. I'd be surprised if learning chess didn't change the brain pathways in some ways that are beneficial but it probably doesn't increase much after a certain skill level. Learning to play an instrument, juggling, snowboarding , meditating, jogging are probably all "better hobbies" quantiatively

Anyways, I realized that while playing at a top level was probably achievable, the effort wasn't worth it. Working with computers and playing chess is a little more sitting down than I'd like in my life and time was better spend moving around and enjoying the company of others :)

I wish I could spend chess "just for fun" but alas it's hard to do at that level. Better to play some of the more clever board games where memorization isn't such a large component and you actually socialize as well
Thanks, this means a lot. What you say is true. I've had a hard time separating work from personal life, since this is my first job (ever!). Going forward, I have a better idea of what to expect.

I also wanted to make it clear that I'm extremely thankful to my work for taking the chance to hire me. I love literally everyone here, even though, sometimes, I feel alone. Now, I'd consider all of them my friends. That's the basic sense I tried to get across with this post.
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I don't have a TV, and cannot stream it on whatever legit services because Virgin Media in our area is totally abysmal in evenings. Thus, if I have it grabbed overnight I can watch it the next day, and dodge spoilers on Monday.

It sucks, but TV is a fairly flawed model for content consumption.
Throughout this entire post, I kept coming back to one thought: when we build things, accessibility isn't just about adding ramps for wheelchairs.
The title is fine, I had no trouble understanding it. The ambiguity of "married" did not lead me to believe that Mark acted as officiant in a wedding ceremony, nor did the open-ended past tense of of the term lead me to believe that Mark was married 150 years ago. If you can't access the page that the link points to, and are really concerned about the truthiness of the title, then there's this website called google.com that makes finding answers fairly simple. If you think that this is celebrity gossip and that searching for the truth would be a waste of time, then don't...
get a good host that has some bandwidth overage contingency in place to keep your site from going down. unless of course you don't really want traffic on your site.
Is the X32 ABI meant so that one can run X32 programs on an x64 kernel as well, or does one have to decide to use X32 once and for all and then compile everything with this ABI?
You are trying to imagine something that normal humans can not easily. That is why you are probably very wrong. Do not assume your life would have been very similar if you were deaf. Remember each and every day of you life would pose more struggle, much more than you go through now.
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I can just say: bravo. The fact that you are not only putting up a fight, but also sharing this is a sign of novelty.

You are probably going to be a role model to others. Life throws challenges, those who fight, become heroes.

You have certainly inspired me.
Thanks
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Is athletics uninteresting because we have cars (or bicycles, or horses)?
The number includes cpan modules, not just the core language.
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And the value of the other Asian Yahoo properties that are fully owned by Yahoo. Yahoo! Taiwan is by far the most visited site in the country, for example. Well ahead of both Facebook and Google. Same goes for Hong Kong. Obviously smaller markets, but one has to wonder what Yahoo! Taiwan/Hong Kong would be worth as a standalone company. It seems to me that would easily be $2B for just that part. Add that to Yahoo! Japan and Yahoo US is valued at some large negative number.
My understanding is that the X32 ABI exists only in x86-64 kernels, and requires relevant X32 userspace libraries.

Basically you can choose if you want your program to have only 4 GB address space and thus only consume 4 bytes of memory per pointer. This is a per-process choice. (but obviously requires special binaries)
By the definition from Rich Hickey, lua seems to be optimized for simplicity while perl is for easiness.
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I am looking for entrepreneurs and engineers that are in the B2B space that want to build a fully automated sales system that scales and works very well. I have couple of ideas around it and some of it worked partially, I am just looking for someone who is passionate about sales to help me figure it out.
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"extremes are bad"

I disagree, a little. Extremes are good, because a bunch of worthwhile things get accomplished by people going to extremes.

As far as personal costs of going to such extremes go - they are difficult to judge objectively, from the outside. A study I recall claimed that elite athletes are "happiest", based on self-assessment, and it further speculates that one reason for this is because they have a clear goal and a clear way to advance it.
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The textbook method to disrupt a market is through disruptive innovation. This is serving the very low end of a market with a solution that is just good enough and then moving up market.

Sustaining innovation is when a company keeps improving a product and raising the prices. Stripe is more of a sustaining innovation than a disruptive one. Typically incumbents are the ones to improve their products while raising the price, but it is also possible for a new entrant to do the same. Providing a much better user experience could potentially lead to Stripe dominating the payments market but it is really just a less hassle version of what is in place today. Payments are a huge hassle to deal with as a merchant/developer so this is still an innovation but just not a disruptive one.

Dwolla is a better example of disruptive innovation in that they are circumventing the whole credit card system which could potentially save merchants and indirectly, consumers, large amounts of money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation
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I actually don't think my life would be seriously
negatively impacted by being deaf

I think you should reconsider your assumptions, because with any of the 5 senses gone, your life will be seriously impacted in a negative way, even more so for eye sight and hearing.

Some people can cope with such a disability, but only through tremendous effort. On deafness, that means you won't be able to participate in conversations the way normal people do, so you'll have to read lips and learn how to pronounce sounds by examining how other people move their mouth and tongue.

Many people with deafness since birth can't do that, preferring instead to stay close to other people that know sign language. Imagine how life is for them when they can't communicate with most people they meet.
Ten not memory intensive applications, combined, can easily be memory intensive.
This actually seems quite useful to me. You can curate your search result, and when you search you get search result others curated if that is available.
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Agreed. Internet Explorer with TPL support is a better proposition than Chrome. Firefox as well. Both browsers are putting the user first and not the vendor.

Chrome is simply not trustworthy. Why would you get a browser from an advertising company that uses people's data to make money?
"I wish I could short Facebook."

I bet he is loving that Facebook went public.
Their copywriters didn't allow then to write lolcats so they said cute cats instead?

I would cite the text, but it's not copy&paste-able because Microsoft: http://az94986.vo.msecnd.net/2.0/ftux/content/slide-1.png?_=...
As far as that is true, it's because all RTS or FPS games are essentially the same. I say this as a once avid chess player and gamer.
That red line at the bottom always saddens me. Why doesn't opera get the recognition it deserves?
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I observe trends and politely refuse them. I am proud of my integrity and honesty as a designer. I am an entrepreneur who creates products, not business plans."

{sniggers}
The Alibaba site itself is basically a B2B supply portal (or "eBay for businesses/traders", if you prefer). Retails consumers have no need for it, but it's huge for businesses. And I think startups will find Alibaba's hold on such a lucrative market very hard to dislodge, even the ones that are Chinese born-and-bred.
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That hasn't been the case in my experience.
I have recently added thenextweb.com to my blacklist domain to make sure that I accidentally don't send them any page views. I'm indifferent about any downvotes that i'll receive as a result of this comment, but for those of you who have realised how "deserving" Zee thinks he is to plagiarise articles, here is an alternate you can read.

http://memeburn.com/2012/05/its-official-chrome-is-the-webs-...

(I'm referring to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972651 incase you missed out on how TNW's Zee just totally does not get it).

(Edit: I'm sure this article here isn't plagiarised. That's not why I provided a link. It's hardly an imaginative story so I'm sure TNW pulled it together themselves. However, when you try and pass yourself off as a legitamate hard working publication, and fail to give credit to someone who essentially wrote and researched your article, there is something intrinsically wrong with your ethics. As a person, I'm not even particularly opinionated, lots can pass me by without me caring: but Zee's attitude disgusted me).
Europe does use the metric system, it's presumably the developer that doesn't (in terms of countries, just the US and sometimes the UK?). Really, supporting metric and imperial should be trivial — minutes rather than hours.

The issue I see is that you aren't going to get publicity like this twice. "We now support metric" isn't news that will show up on my radar in the same way that this announcement did; how many will bookmark this and check back later, if it doesn't work for them now?
That's your opinion about how HN should look like, mine is different, more like that:

1) This kind of puritanism you express is not part of the hacking culture at all.

2) To compare two database systems that are the hard work of a lot of people, without a solid understanding, is the real problem here, because it means to spread shit to one or the other, and also to have an effect into potential users trying to understand what to use.

So I think that the only that should be worrying about their behavior is people posting incorrect stuff.

But because I trust in freedom I don't want to prevent them from posting with some kind of pre-post filter. Nor you should try to prevent me to say this kind of blog posts are often garbage.
Investing in domain names also makes you a horrible person who is helping to ruin the internet. Then again, the same could be said for those investing in Facebook stock.
There is: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4806448/how-do-i-install-...
Unfortunate name at the moment as it is overshadowed on Google by the Greek exit from the Euro zone worries, or Grexit. "Better" communication paradigm? I don't know about that. I personally have always felt "email" in and of itself would be replaced by a "better" communication paradigm, rather than re-invented. Social media is pulling us aware from such archaic models, after all...
Still thinking about how best to explain determinism vs. non-determinism

Yep, that's a tough one. But before you think of how to explain it please consider how you're going to use that knowledge to explain that in a non-deterministic you can solve an NP problem in polynomial time. That's IMO the hard bit.
Oh well, Statcounter (and only Statcounter) again. Compared to other sources, Statcounter has a track record of valuing Chrome's market share higher.

Also, the curve in the article is pretty steady/linear. Where comes "leapfrogging"?
i m sure that making a claim as big as possible has no real drawbacks.

There should be some sort of penaty for a civil suit, where if you didn't win, you'd get penalized the same as the loser would've gotten penalized. This woould prevent more frivilous lawsuits imho.
I could try to find a deaf girl. However, I don’t want my kids to have an increased chance of deafness.

This sounds like a classic case of premature optimisation. Cross that bridge when you get there. Thousands of other deaf parents have done so. Their kids were fine.

Even if they come out hearing, we’d need to make sure they’re raised right — who will teach them how to talk?

Let me respectfully suggest that this is just untrue, a persistent myth about language learning. Hearing kids learn spoken language just fine, even if their parents don't use it. (Parents have a natural tendency to overemphasise the percentage of the time that their kids spend listening only to them. ;) But kids listen to everyone.)

One thing that does happen is that hearing kids of deaf parents become fluent in both ASL and a spoken language. Which is not a problem. It is in fact kind of awesome.
So the question becomes, why people keep posting plagiarized stories (complete with link tracking query strings) by TNW on HN?
pg has said before that he only likes taking dropouts into the program if they've gone to college long enough to know what they are missing.
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Kudos for the effort. I'm always impressed by how much time some developers invest in these CSS3-only experiments.
I was similarly angered by the conflation of `education` and `college education`
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I for one found it very difficult to get into the habit of typing "ipython" instead of "python", which seems silly but really did stop me using it.
address space randomization

(i can dig out a post of (afair) solar designer that goes into more detail, but i think this should be clear as is)
What a mess the government has caused. They refuse to allow Carpathia to delete the data, but refuse to compensate them for holding on to junk data. It's outrageous.
The two are not the same. People enjoy looking at cute cats that are not always lolcats.
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Being a web dev, I tend to keep a collection of browsers open all the time - Chrome for email, twitter, calendar, bug tracker etc. Firefox for development (Firebug FTW). Midori for state-less browsing (it empties caches and data when restarted, so I use that when I need a clean session). And Opera for social, personal, fun, feeds and reading etc.

They all have their strengths, but I'm still amazed Opera doesn't have a higher share.
It was a rhetorical question, basically. Almost nobody knows whether or not their commodity web host can stand up to an HN-like traffic surge until they actually get an HN-like traffic surge.

The alternative is to pay what might seem like a ton of money for something that they aren't going to need 364 days out of the year.
there is progress on this. the bulk of this bug (these bugs) should have been fixed one or three releases ago. there was a lwn article about it.
It's possible they're not talking about lolcats but instead about the Reddit habit of up-voting pictures of cute cats (and other animals), calling them "karma magnets", and so on... see for example http://www.reddit.com/r/aww
That is an excellent point you bring up there: remote workers are very close to being deaf. There are so many things you feel like expressing - small things not worthy of a call or an even an email - a chat works but still not the same effect.

Being a remote worker is like being both deaf and dumb.

I hope one day we would have the Cisco tele presence affordable in small offices too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQpBPUbNJcM&feature=fvwre...
Here are my numbers

Chrome - 63.1%

Firefox - 21.1%

IE - 7.1%

These are heavily biased towards young (13-25) Windows users who play games.

I've noticed the massive dominance of Chrome for some time, but the numbers are not clear enough to show a rise or fall in its use over time.
Found this article citing Peter on NUMA scheduling in March:

Toward better NUMA scheduling
http://lwn.net/Articles/486858/

Peter's cited email:
http://lwn.net/Articles/486850/

Actually, in reviewing the data, it seems this issue has been around for a long time, and could be the root of Linus's irritation in the first place. Perhaps he feels no headway is being made for such a long time, even the smallest perceived misstep sets him off.

If nothing else, I would love to actually see some technically detailed papers come out of this that get to the root of the problem, propose solutions to it, and identify what of those solutions are being tested and when they are expected to be implemented. Nothing like a good argument between engineers to get a root cause rooted out and a solution in place.
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> This sounds like a classic case of premature optimisation.

My thoughts exactly. Before I was forced to admit that I cuold use less technical terms when describing social or psychological phenomena ;)
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So what we have to do is always find the original sources of thenextweb articles and post those instead.

There is certainly no loss in skipping over thenextweb.

This is just my opinion.

But in my experience they have proven themselves to be all but worthless time and again. It's not just plagiarism. They do not research their stories. They appear to lack any measurable insight into the subject matter. As such, they make a lousy source of news.
James Altucher's: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/

He's awesome, insightful, and weird in an interesting way. A cross between "I messed up, so you don't have to", and "there are other ways to do things better than what most people think". Not saying that I agree with everything he says, nevertheless he keeps surprising me.
I realize it's a different language, but how about Ruby-Processing? It's a wrapper of Processing's methods but in Ruby. Here's the link https://github.com/jashkenas/ruby-processing. It's much less verbose than Java and also has a very handy watch mode which reloads your sketch every time you make a change.