skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you're aware that "managing director" is technically a member of the board of directors of the company (a director) who also manages the day-to-day operations of the company, unlike non-managing directors (e.g. investors).
It's not a high overhead. Your string method would have to do basically the same thing as the ipaddress initialization and method call. As a benefit, with ipaddress you don't have to re-parse the string every time you want to manipulate it as an address; and you get a bit of typechecking and documentation from using a specialized class.
One can only hope that the extent of litigation allowed against individual companies is appropriately limited and understood in the appropriate contexts. This certainly wasn't the case when the the ADA of 1990 was first passed. In those first years after the passage of the ADA we saw thousands of opportunistic lawsuits that made their filers instant millionaires.

Of course the Act has of course done immense public good. It was passed with the best of intentions, but I've known folks who gloat over the amount of money they made settling out of court simply over suing small businesses who have a single step to get in their door off of the street.
This might be the case sometimes; in this case the best-looking one isn't in the unattainably-beautiful class though. Her nose is kinda big.

In this case I think it just indicates that the initial judges did a poor job of judging who the most attractive one was. Or perhaps that the black and white picture used by the most attractive woman is a turn-off.

As for the "most attractive" man, he has a nice smile and nice eyes but his baldness and undefinable ethnicity might be a turnoff for the average woman.
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Define "reasonable".

Because anything less doesn't translate down into actionable items that you can hand to designers/developers/IT/monkeys/nephews. We're also going to need some way to test it that doesn't break the bank.

This is going to be a mess. There are no established standards that one can point to in a court of law and everyone has a different opinion about what constitutes reasonable effort.

The only people that will clean up here will be lawyers and so-called consultants.
EU General Court upholds Microsoft antitrust fine
Second iOS 6 beta given to developers
This is my twitter
https://twitter.com/#!/SimoneMasieroDv
with a grand total of 6 tweets this year.
I agree with you that this thread is suspicious due to the number of votes it receive, when i first commented it had 11 votes and no comments. But anyway i can grant you i have nothing to do with it. I have a personal website, but it's sadly unfinished, http://hackertyper.net/portfolio

I just like the idea of not having to register to a new service to make some posts.
This is a civil case, not a criminal case. The Fifth Amendment does not protect you in a civil case.
Absolute verification is impossible, but this doesn't mean more verification isn't helpful. NetTuts should publicly says what key derivation function they are using. Could they be lying? Maybe. Could they have other security vulnerabilities? Probably. Would I trust NetTuts with my credit card number? No.
Eek. It's supposed to be WebM-friendly. I'll see what I can do.

Meanwhile, I've posted a blurb.
To be honest, I never had any interest in trying AirBnB services. I never saw the allure of staying in someone else's rundown apartment or guest bedroom. I mean who wants to be that stranger in the other room? THAT SAID, this website did change my mind a little bit. I still don't think I'd like to stay in someone else's home but this website has demonstrated that there are some really amazing places you can stay in for very low costs. If I could get over my own hangups about being in other people's home, I'd definitely give AirBnB a shot after visiting this website.

It comes off as a luxury hotel website, or one of those 'ooh la la' HGTV tv shows where they show you cool, abstract homes you'll never live in. This is a good thing.

To the topic of site speed, is it really an issue to non-web-geeks? Do normal users of the web really know what a slow website is? Anyone know of studies or stats on what an average internet user considers is a slow page?

UPDATED

The website has done a good enough job of convincing me this is a legit service where it's customers are happy. I've decided to give AirBnB a shot. Going to plan a trip utilizing their services this evening. Wish me luck.
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I tend to agree about the lack of generics - the type of people who design and write standard libraries (e.g. Rob Pike and co.) may find it easy to put these things together, but they aren't representative of the general class of programmers, and there should be easy ways to make typesafe collections available to the average programmer (and making them write the same boilerplate around someone else's empty-interface using code may be mechanical, but it isn't low-effort enough to be "easy"). That said, I generally like the direction Go is taking as a language, and would like to see it succeed.
It's so much fun to explore why certain instances of undefined behavior do what they do. I never thought of this as being a possible effect of using uninitialized variables.

Logically, you're doing two things. You're negating the bool and then you're testing that negated value. This is what's expressed in the code generated from the non-optimized version. In the optimized version, the compiler has optimized this into a single jne instruction. I can understand why they wouldn't want to do it for non-optimized builds.

It sounds like gcc always uses xor for negating bools. If all you're doing is negating a bool, it's just a single instruction that involves no branching. It could be the fastest way.

I wonder what the fastest way to negate (boolean-wise) a value other than a bool would be. Maybe you just do a test and then set the value based on a xor of the zero flag.
The only thing that is clear is that we are 10 years closer to any given nirvanic innovation than we were ten years ago. :-)

The biggest thing happening how much easier and faster it is to share information. The full impact of that is probably not yet apparent.
Look at the Microsoft Surface, it doesn't look like the iPad, it's not marketed to look like the iPad. It doesn't line up icons and UI to look like iOS.

Samsung's phones were designed to look as much like the iPhone and iPad as possible. They didn't have to do this, but they did it as a way to get sales by being "good enough" for people who couldn't get the iPhone on their network when it was AT&T only.

Now that the Galaxy phones are popular enough, they are working a little harder to look and feel different, which is to say, they no longer need to copy Apple to be successful. Hopefully soon they do the same with their tablets.
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Feels like I'm watching a short film :) Thanks!
Geeks use mysql from the command line
As an 8 year art major who wandered across the campus to the keypunch room (run by the business school as at that time there was no computer department) I sat down, learned to program and discovered that there was (at an abstract level at least) no difference between say sculpting and programming. Design is design. More importantly I got just as much of a ‘creative fix’ from the one activity as the other. Now more than 35 years later, I have found nothing to change my mind. The creative element is truly why I keep programming (I’ll also admit to a slight addiction to learning new languages ) Nice article—just thought I’d explain why I’m still at it almost 4 decades in!
Servo, an experimental Gecko alternative
don't normally like linking to reddit, but thought this was awesome.

also, felt i had to give different title as original not informative.
There is no guilt or innocence in a civil case. Instead there is a finding for one of the parties involved. In this case one party said, "You used to do this and you said you wouldn't anymore. Do you still do it?" and he answered "I'm not going to tell you." Of course the finding is going to go against him.
Interestingly, . . . it's a pointless exercise delving into ASM to "see what happens" when you have undefined behaviour in C code.
A slight flag change and the only code produced could equally well just be a single NOP.
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Because netflix is the biggest and may slowly become the place to watch movies. It also sets a precedent because more online content is being consumed as video rather than straight text.

The problem with free-marketism in cases like this is that we are talking specifically about quite small minorities (less than 1% of the population are deaf) therefor it's quite likely that most business can ignore them without noticing a difference in their bottom line therefor the problem would never be fixed.
Am I the only one who read the headline as "...Microsoft Geek Headquarters?"
> There's not much extra effort that goes into these items.

Special parking spots easily cost 1% more than regular parking spots because of the markings on ground and the metal signage. That fits into the excessive cost range that the original parent post was against.

I do like your analogy of braille on every item. I think make something accessible should mean accessible not perfectly suited in the best environment. That is, you should make your site/app accessible to e-readers, not be required to make a whole another custom UI just for e-readers.
The standard for physical buildings falling under ADA Title III is 20%. In addition, ADA title III requires owners and tenants to remove existing barriers on an ongoing basis as resources are available even absent other construction.

In the case of Title III, architects and other people involved in the design are individually liable should they fail to design in accordance with the technical standards.

ADA is civil rights law, and ROI doesn't enter into Title III, only "technical infeasibility." To put it another way, "I make more money by discriminating against the disabled" isn't any more a valid argument than if one substituted "women," "Latinos" or "Coloreds."
I was going to leave a comment that this guy obviously doesn't read the blog. Then I noticed that the Trends blog (blog.okcupid.com) hasn't been updated in well over a year. What happened? It was an incredibly fascinating read.
You could just use thinkery.me and make your stream public for that.
Hate it. It looks like some kind of interior design site than a site that allows me find places to stay... or list my place. I scrolled down and down hoping to find some meat, but no - just more glossy nonsense.

More importantly, I was about to list my place on the site. It's a nice looking house in London, but no - it dose NOT look like something from an interior design mag. Clearly my house does not meet the required standard. Better not list it.
I think this is pretty cool, if for no other reason that it's a next step (not "the") in the evolution of the platforms.

It used to be you wrote a blog. Then you started using Twitter as a toy. Then you linked to blog posts on Twitter. Then you got lazy about updating your blog (i.e. Robert Scoble). Then you used only Twitter. Then you realized occasionally you want to say more than you can Tweet. Then.. Voila!
That's a shame, because this writer is far better than most science journalists.

If you're out there, anonymous writer, nice work!
How about releasing some data? Do some feature generation and come up with features, along with the desired action (the best possible action, given that you know how things are going to go in the future). Then us clueless types can see what all the hubbub is all about :-)
Type [100:0] then submit, in any textbox in Facebook
My housemate showed me the trick, I wonder what it means (and I can't google it either).

EDIT: Prepend [100:0] with at (@).
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I really like the idea, but the info isn't readily present. Can't say I'm a fan of the giant pictures with no context.
While I'm not saying I agree or disagree with the judge in the article, your comment almost makes the case for legislating. The disabled are a disadvantaged minority, that by definition don't provide much of a profit motive for developers. Even when you consider the relatives of disabled people, there's still going to be a lot of devs who just don't think it's worth the money.
> I mean who wants to be that stranger in the other room?

It feels just like a hotel. You usually get towels and your own separate room.

Usually you're travelling so you don't really spend much time there unless you're sleeping.

I stayed in the lower east side for only $50/night, so its definitely worth it.
Does Facebook falls into one of these places? How about CVS website?
Encryption so cunning that you can't actually tell that stuff has been encrypted!
[IANAL] But I deal with ADA Title III all the time.

A Barnes and Noble book store is a place of public accommodation and is required to be accessible. Why shouldn't their website be held to the same standard when they conduct substantially the same business transactions with the general public?

Keeping in mind that ADA is civil rights law designed to prevent discrimination on the basis of disability , the question may be put another way - why should Barnes and Noble be allowed to create physical barriers to the disabled on their website in a way that is illegal in their store?
More awesome from Vooza: Randimparency
So give them the weekend to do the code test.
> Since when was enlightenment equal to having perfect phenomenal knowledge?

Yes, one of the abilities of someone who attains Enlightenment is that they become able to perceive things in the world exactly as they are, and can inform them to people exactly.

> You seem to be equating enlightenment with omniscience. Are you not?

Not exactly, but it's like that. I can say that their vision is greatly widened because they see from a much higher level. There are some things they can see which are very distant, and sometimes they can help people who are also very distant, using their power of consciousness. However, I've heard Tathagata say he doesn't use his mind very much, and that he simply sees everything that is inside an object when it is in front of him.

There are many people who claim the ability to see through walls and tell where other people are (mediums). They do that by letting their consciousness contact and receive information latent inside energy that's in the air. They call that wandering energy by terms like spirits, ghosts, dead souls, etc. However, besides the fact that it can be very unreliable and dangerous to do so, a living Buddha never keeps company with the dead, and only informs people of what he saw with his own eyes.

> Please tell us what questions you are asking as a qualifier on whether or not someone is enlightened.

Answered this in a sibling question, let me know if you're left with any unanswered questions
Yay! Google Cloud Storage support for Go: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkForGoReleas...
Seriously, amazing video!
According to other news reports, this is just the latest in a string of attacks on American companies in Greece. McDonalds, Citibank, and Starbucks were hit in Athens. If this continues, you might see multinationals scale down operations or even close up shop in Greece, adding to the unemployment ranks - just what the Greek economy does not need.
Stable marriage problem doesn't say anything about how receiving more message is actually a bad thing and hurts the chance. Or you'd have to show me how receiving 20 messages is same as receiving 1 message.
and why I read this shit.
Heh, interesting. So I guess it's also possible that "b && !b" evaluates to true... which is probably more ammo for C detractors.
Java APIs rarely change.
> I wonder what the fastest way to negate (boolean-wise) a value other than a bool would be. Maybe you just do a test and then set the value based on a xor of the zero flag.

Probably "NOT reg". Exists in most CPU architectures, and is generally smaller (in variable-size instruction sets) than "XOR reg, immed".
Designers should indeed consider the insecurities of their audience.
If they use a well-maintained standard library which uses a modern cryptographic hashing function, then I think they earn that trust.

There is no real disadvantage to saying which one and a lot of trust to regain.
You don't think the Internet has become the new public square?
There's not much to say... This is pretty damm awesome =)
To see where this might lead, consider the UK, where this is already the case. The Equality Act 2012 [1] (which itself is a replacement for the Disabilities Discrimination Act which also applied to websites) requires:

A person (a “service-provider”) concerned with the provision of a service to the public or a section of the public (for payment or not) must not discriminate against a person requiring the service by not providing the person with the service.

It applies to websites (Airline BMI Baby was sued by the National Institute for the Blind for failure to meet the as-then Disabilities Discrimination Act).

The typical paraphrasing I hear from developers is that it requires an organisation (but not necessarily the developer) to make "every reasonable effort to comply", for which there is a baseline of appropriate colour contrast and reviewing WCAG validation.

It does mean that developers for UK-based services are less disposed to Javascript-heavy applications/components and video content (because of the requirement for ARIA and transcripts/CC respectively).

[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/part/3/crosshead...
Agreed. This article, and those like it, essentially support their thesis with a bunch of examples, which doesn't really measure or prove anything.

I can think of a number of circumstantial arguments that would indicate technological progress is growing. For example, that world population is at an all-time high, and therefore most likely more people are working on research than ever before. However this doesn't actually prove anything either.
JavaScript - NaN and typeof
Petition Canonical Ltd to make their Ubuntu repositories available over IPv6
Releasing it would allow others to run "appengines" so you could move from one provider to another as you can with "traditional" hosting. Appengine pretty much locks you in. I'm interested to see where OpenShift will lead though. https://openshift.redhat.com/
Well that's even worse, as the whole cost is pinned not just on landlords but on a single generation of landlords. Bam, I just took away hundreds of thousands of dollars of your money with a stroke of a pen, how do you feel about that?

Much better overall if the increased cost merely gets reflected in a rise in wages for unskilled labour in the city. If indeed it ever is an actual problem which I don't believe it is.
This doesn't make sense to me. Surely Netflix is, basically, a shop that sells access to other peoples content (ignoring the hosting, etc...) In that case, requiring them to close caption all of their content would be like requiring Amazon to close caption all of the DVD's they sell.

Also, they can't possibly have the right (as was alluded to in the article) to modify these films without permission.

Finally, can you imagine the resources required to do this. I do not know how many films and tv shows Netflix hosts, but surely it is in the thousands, or even tens of thousands. (More?)
I think one advantage of his test is that it's (apparently) independent of an entity with a stake in the outcome.

Based on everything I've seen about OkCupid, there's no shortage of integrity, but independent verification is still valuable.

Also, I'm curious: I've read a couple of articles online proposing different methods for OkCupid handling Mandatory answers to questions. One in particular involves treating Mandatory answers as only negative, so that agreeing with someone about the size of the sun (for example) doesn't mean you're a better match, it just means you're a worse match if you disagree. What are your thoughts on that? (Not the company's thoughts, of course.)
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Thank you.

Flowplayer is really good by the way, check out http://j.mp/NBFTze if you're interested.
Anything cool? Do you aim for it to become a business?
Every TV show in the US is required to have closed captioning (in English & Spanish, and no matter whether it comes via cable/satellite, broadcast, or web).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_captioning#Legislative_d....

I'm not sure this ruling is as wide as the article makes it out to be. Books aren't required to be printed in braille or published in audiobook form.

There will have to be a second ruling that puts 'video content on the internet' into the same category as television shows in order for this to apply.
In short: in order to write the fast interpreter for the bytecode of JavaScript in WebKit JS's JavaScriptCore, the author developed a custom variant of an assembly language, wrote the interpreter in it and wrote in Ruby the translator from his custom assembly to the native assembly (allowing him to target different processor architectures like x32 x64 and ARM, at least that's how I understood it from the description).

He explains how with C++ he could not get the speed gains he achieved with assembly. One real life example where writing exact assembly code still matters.

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This reminds me of kids buying surrogate books with short description of "Peace and War" and other lengthy literature pieces because they don't want or don't have time to read the original.

I personally think the first and the only mandatory thing one should read about Unicode is the Standard itself.

Don't read "UTF-8 is cool!!!" blog posts.

Don't read RFC 3629.

Read original.

http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/UnicodeStandard...

It is nicely written, it has normative definitions (code points, glyphs et al).

It describes BOM (which Joel On Software apparently has failed to understand).

It describes UTF-8 error handling and normalization and many necessarily non-trivial things.
"Even though that single aspect of the product " - not to defend the more blatant patent abuses, but during the trial, the Samsung attorney, Kathleen Sullivan was unable to identify which was the iPad and which was the Galaxy Tab.

I don't know if an injunction should have been granted, but it would be nice if Samsung could design their product so I could distinguish it from an iPad at a glance.

To be fair - I'm happy to rip on Apple when they clone the industrial design of other companies products as well - I just don't have any examples that come to mind immediately.
> As I explained, for me that day will only come when I switch out a ton of libraries whose bugs and warts I had to painfully work around, as the maintainers have either left or explicitly replaced with different libraries. I question whether this effort is worth it.

I can't see myself dropping 2.x support anytime soon.
Congrats on your success! How did you get funding for your first company?
Google Nexus 7-inch tablet is a prime opportunity to beat Apple & Microsoft
It loaded for me in ~30 seconds on a 2011 Macbook Pro. I don't see what your loading experience has to do with anything. Different people have different connection speeds in different parts of the world (my connection speed varies within the same building depending on congestion, etc).

That said, all the fancy pictures do look very nice, and certainly draw you in like no other travel site that I've come across (when it eventually loads).