skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am going to have to agree with Steko here. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4389438)

That is not a justification of rape. You could argue that that it conveys some sort of implied approval (and I am likely to disagree there, unless you can come up with a better supporting argument than namecalling) but it is not a justification.

Now, before you decide to accuse me of justifying rape as well, allow me to state this explicitly: I do not approve of the actions as portrayed in that narrative.
That's a valid comparison - 2008 vs 2010 (versus the stupid VS6 comparison) - and one I agree with in many respects - especially UI responsiveness.

However, paging-in after idle-time is pretty similar, in my experience for both 2008 and 2010 (2008 fares worse for large solutions - especially if they have web projects in there). Build times are actually faster for VS 2010 (especially if you're on x64 - where it can use multiple cores). Symbol-loading when attaching to a process to debug is way faster for VS 2010 than in 2008. Detaching from a process also seems to have less negative consequences - VS 2008 just crashed in many cases.

However, VS 2010 is way too chatty in debug trace outputs. Also, slightly slower in parsing includes for IntelliSense after project load (not so during build though, funnily enough).
Doesn't it seem like Assange has introduced most of the weirdness himself? Lots of people run into legal trouble overseas. Most of them don't hide in the Ecuadorian embassy.
No-one wears helmets in Amsterdam, very few die (~5 p.a.) mostly due to others faults (trucks). Not sure whether helmets would help.

Helmets give you helmet hair.

Where do you put them when not using?
Regarding (6): Spot on. "The lower your product is on the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the crappier it can look." http://engineering.gomiso.com/2012/02/01/youre-overthinking-...
Really?

Just about every single claim provides a reference. For example, the sentence MySQL 5.1 natively supports 9 storage engines links directly to the MySQL documentation where they are listed.
If that is your criteria for using a tool, you're never going to move into anything new. For web development many are happy with Express. Sure they tend to use Mongo or some no-sql type storage, but that is due to novelty and the fact that the individuals writing the async drivers are into that right now. MySQL has support and it's increasing.

Node's an interesting idea and should be given some room to grow. When done correctly it seems to scale well, especially on one box.

To go back to the topic, look at Java. There are so many tools out there to do the same thing in the MVC space. Would you say that you won't use Java because people can figure out which tools to use? To me the benefit of Node and Java is that you are not tied to a particular engineering group's view of the world. You can plug in what you want. You can experiment and learn yourself. A monolithic stack might be good from the it just work's perspective (though I've never seen that to be true and I've programmed in C#), but it does tie you to a release schedule of the vendor.
Let's not jump to conclusions here. The US hasn't done anything to Assange.
How'd you cross the Darién Gap?
Its not that I do it often, its how long it takes. An alter on a 60 gig table takes hours, during which your table is locked which is totally unacceptable.
Might depend on the browser, but Webkit-based browsers, for example, use a 0xffffff mask on the resulting specificity. And so...

$ python
>>> MASK = 0xffffff
>>> MASK
16777215
>>> ID = 0x10000
>>> ID * 256
16777216
>>> ID * 256 & MASK
0
Being able to cluster similar faces together and ask me in a single question "We think this is Jon Smith. [Correct] [Incorrect]" so I can tag my entire album in one click, would be powerful and something I'd want, since my album of 100 photos probably only has 2 or 3 people in it anyway.
It's actually the opposite; GCC is being ported to C++ because there is actually so much interest in continuing to hack on it. The current codebase is being hobbled in various ways by being limited to pure C. GCC even has a (nasty) internal garbage collector, despite being a C program: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Memory_management

If GCC was dying as you said, nobody would be interested in such large refactors that have no point other than to make development easier.
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As a passenger, why would you have to authenticate? You don't have to do this for taxis. At the most, you'd just have to prove up-front you could pay, and/or put a deposit down against damage to the interior.

If automated vehicles become common enough, the tracking issue might solve itself, as you'd be making micro-payments to a service, traveling anonymously, instead of owning your own vehicle.
Thank you! I will name my first child "wideroots" in your honor. :)
I think it's more that the live account creation is front and center during the install process. It's pretty integral to the functionality of Windows 8 as well. While my login is my domain login, I use my live account for much of the Win8 functionality.
I like this part about Instagram:

"Worth: Not known, but likely more than $20 million."
does anybody do all of the features of Facebook as well as Facebook does?
In context, the notion put forward is this: it's arguably not rape to have unprotected sex with someone who refuses consent to have unprotected sex with you, as long as you've already got them naked and in bed with you. I'm not sure you can classify that notion as a harmless technicality. And if you leave out the part about the woman refusing consent, then it's a non-sequitur anyway.
Currently I can build desktop apps without downloading VS at all. The compiler (csc.exe) and MSBuild come with the free Windows SDK. The libraries (System.Windows.Forms etc) come with .NET. How have they restricted this ability in 2012 express edition?
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Are you sure? Do we have evidence that the accounting end of the advertisement network, etc. is handled on MySQL? Or is it the backend for the public side only?

Let me give you an example. I have a customer that uses MySQL for some processing on their web site and all data gets batched up nightly and entered into the PostgreSQL-based accounting system. The MySQL db is accessed only by the app which does the processing and the connectors to the PostgreSQL db. The PostgreSQL db has a lot more logic in it and is a lot more complex.

In their case, their environment is not subject to any of the MySQL gotchas. They can make sure the credit card processing software runs in an acceptable SQL mode, and if something goes wrong between the PostgreSQL export of reports and the MySQL public side (which has happened for reasons other than MySQL's fault), they can track down and fix the problem. That's what loosely coupled systems are about.

IT in this case is about risk management. How can you guarantee that specific important data will not be lost. You can do this with MySQL for some set of environments (either because the data truncation isn't a big deal, regarding your tweets, or because it can be retrieved from another source, or because there is only one app accessing the database so you don't have to worry about apps turning off strict mode), but you can do it with PostgreSQL for a much larger set of environments and that's what the complaint is.
Here you go: http://5by5.tv/founderstalk/38
I have the $2.99 price available to me in New Zealand.

As I'm usually the one getting screwed by regional pricing (on steam), I'd be happy to help out.

Just drop me the funds via paypal and I'll gift to your email via amazon.

Email me: jconnop at google's glorious gmail.
The passwords should be salted and then hashed. The hash produces the same length output no matter how long the input. Consequently length limitations are either UI/protocol limitations, or because salting and hashing is extremely poorly done. My money is on the latter.
> They have had enough bad experiences with secret police forces, and that's why there are strict limits on data gathering and retention.

Ha ha. The successors to the Stasi are meant to ignore these laws. The purpose is to keep the technologies out of the hands of the Hans Q. Public.

Remember, the Stasi were first and foremost a populist movement, just like the Nazis before them. You don't get an informer in every family by tyrrany, you get it by willing collaboration, and the Germans have an authority worshipping streak a mile wide.
I'd be surprised if stalking laws don't require specific individual intent. Do you have a citation?
How to get gmail results in Google search now.
Looks like if I add "in email" to a search, it will show results from my gmail. Does this work for anyone else?
snapbook in Japan does basically that. You pay 100 yen and send them a book and they send you back a pdf. http://snapbook.jp/
> but the actual killing and torturing people is done by semi-popular govts.

Like the Mafia and Church of Scientology. And Blackwater. The East India Trading Company, or Coca Cola assassinating Labor Leaders in Columbia. IBM helped the Nazi's build the accounting machinery used by the concentration camps, requiring IBM to be well aware what was going on.

In some cases Corporations pay governments to do their dirty work. Sometimes the Government pays the corporation. Other times the corporation becomes the government. Sometimes the corporation just doesn't care. Regardless, can we please put aside this fiction that all the serious evils of the world are perpetrated by governments despite the best efforts of angelic businessmen? Pretending that as long as we keep the government in check all will be fine is idiocy and ignorance of the highest order. Excess power in any concentrated location is potentially problematic, regardless if it's held by 'private' or 'public' sectors. Those are labels for groups of people, nothing more.
Good point.

But Apple is a multibillion dollar international corporation (more billions than MS) and they still famously cut corner cases.

If you go into every corner case, you'll never ship and I don't really think it's that practical/easy to keep adding people to a project to fix every corner case.

There's been more than one situation in which they ignored more than just corner cases in backwards compatibility: Windows Mobile -> WP7 -> WP8 and Internet Explorer come to mind. I don't know many examples but that might be because the only MS product I've actually owned in recent times was an XBox 360 (which went RRoD 2 yrs ago).

Also strictly speaking this isn't about backward compatibility, from the comments I've read here, you can still have the same windows password you had before. The password restrictions only apply to their online service (Live account or whatever they are calling it).
I swear anymore he is more sung than many prototypical sung heros.

I mean, I've hardly heard anything about Martin Luther King Jr. in the last year, but I've probably seen something on Tesla (The Oppressed Forgotten Genius) every week.
No, they respond to the beck and call of GEMA.
Similar to athletes training in mountainous regions
yeh, they even named a car company after him.
The hops were on communities connected by water supplies, not social graphs. In the graph of communities connected by water supplies, 4 hops is relatively short. (See Figure 3b in http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.2534v1.pdf)

Unfortunately, I agree with you that it is difficult to judge the efficacy of "less than 4 hops" without providing some network metrics. By eye-balling figure 3b, it looks like the graph diameter is in the 30s, and the average degree of a community appears to be about three. Given an outbreak, less than 4 hops given (initially) limited surveillance could be important.
The point though is that you lose a set of guarantees with MySQL that you don't lose with PostgreSQL. Yeah, computers make it possible to make more mistakes faster than any invention since handguns and tequila but when you lose the ability to guarantee that your declarative constraints are actually followed, you lose the ability to prove that certain types of errors are not being made. That's a big deal.
Ask HN: Any volunteering opportunities in YC-backed startups?
Thanks to the H1B policy -- I have to wait another two months before working for a top tech company in the bay area...

Too bored...

Looking for a REAL volunteering opportunity in a tech startup in SF orthe bay area, YC-backed would be the best.

What I could bring you (for free for 2 months):

-- a smart, humble and super fast-learning mind and two quick hands

-- a full-stack engineer most proficient in C/C++ and Python

-- expert level experience with security in web/network and RFID/NFC systems

-- other tech skills such as SQL/NoSQL DBs, RESTful APIs, Javascript/AJAX....

What you could bring me:

-- some fun!

Any tips?
There is little doubt it was the Russians

There is a lot of doubt.

The most obvious suspect is oligarch Boris Berezovsky, a London refugee from Russia, accused of embezzlement at home, who is waging a fierce propaganda war with the current Russian government.

http://www.rt.com/news/berezovsky-litvinenko-murder-allegati...
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Bill Gates wants to reboot the toilet
Does this mean Microsoft stores the plain text of Live passwords instead of hashes?
Does anybody know how Postgres' fulltext search capabilities/performance compare to using something like ElasticSearch?
>I do agree the team responsible for the shell itself is probably not too big.

The shell team has 5 developers (6 now, as a new one started a few weeks ago). 5 QA members and 2 PMs (actually, I think 3 now, one just started in Haifa, I haven't met him yet and don't know too much of what he is working on).

What each team is specifically responsible for is hard to say as it can change when re-orgs happen. Though the shell team owns a lot of the core functionality of VS like the windowing system, the command system, and some common windows (like the solution explorer, the output window, the error list/task list, the toolbox, probably a slew of others I don't know about :))
Number 1 is that people who ride bikes don't rent them, they own them.

I own several bicycles, but if I don't ride one to work, I can't ride one home. Due to my schedule, I often don't ride to work in the morning, but I would gladly ride home. A bike sharing program solves that problem. $20 a month? Well worth it.
Yes, Apple Is In Talks With Cable Operators, And Everyone's Known For Months
Better. Taking the advice. Thanks.
Twitter and One Time Pad Encrypted Messages
And everybody knows that ++C is often more efficient than C++
Did they mean to fall through to case Class in line 73?
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I am Greg's cousin. He was not a smoker. In good shape and eat well. This was a huge shock to his entire family. He was an amazing man.
I still have to use it regularly (with service pack 6), and it isn't that bad. Of course any modern IDE is far superior, but it hasn't crashed on me, there's a mouse scroll add-in, and it doesn't get in the way.
Good for MA - it's a fine thing to see some rational people in government rather than the bureaucratic drones that they are so often (and often unfairly) stereotyped as.

As a Cambridge resident, I use Uber often and I think it's a valuable service. It would be a loss to the Boston area to have Uber shut down.
New live feed from Ecuador embassy (Wikileaks)
Statement on UK threat to storm Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian Assange
It's possible to refuse to serve and end up in prison rather than dead, you know.
what're your thoughts on HTML5 games? Since you're so invested in so many apps across multiple platforms, there has to be some thought on a cross-platform strategy. Any way I can reach you directly?
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$4.99 in South Africa. I also spotted the referral code, which I didn't think anyone would try on HN. Oh well, bought.
Hackpad is an excellent collaboration tool, if you don't use it, you should.
Interesting. Can't tell form that page what exactly is going on, but it reminds me of something I did with del.icio.us some years ago with a project called De.linque.nt

http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=123&thread=1...
The vast majority of this weirdness preceded his decision to hide in the Ecuadorian embassy. In fact, the vast majority of it took place even before the arrest warrant was issued, and by the time of the initial extradition decision the prosecutor had continued to make it worse by refusing even more offers of interviewing Assange while making excuses for why she can't that are directly contradicted by Swedish authorities behaviour in other recent cases.
Yay Opera!

Also, if you're really using >= 256 classes in your CSS you may have more systemic problems than just cross-brwoser compatibility.
I'm in the same boat as nchuhoai, but I now have over 500GB of photos and videos to worry about (get a DSLR and some photogenic kids, and you'll see how quickly the GBs add up, even after heavy editing/deletion).

With DSLRs becoming more popular, and HD-quality video becoming more mainstream, I suspect that storing, sharing, and backing up these memories will become a much bigger concern for many people. Snapjoy's pricing page currently maxes out at 155GB @ $15/month, so that's clearly not going to cut it.

I use Picasa to manage all the photos/videos, and used to actually pay Google $100/year for 400GB of storage, until they increased it to $19.99/mo (2.4x more) and started to creepily over-share private photos on Google+. I also used to pay Mozy to back everything up, until they removed their unlimited plan and asked me to pay over $70/month for the data I already had there. If I choose to go with iCloud keep all my HD originals, I'll be paying at least $1200 per year.

I still haven't been able to find just one service to fit my needs. I've been using Facebook to share low-res photos, KickSend to send hi-res originals to specific people, and CrashPlan to back everything up both offline (to an ioSafe drive) and to their cloud (which still has an unlimited option).

Really hoping someone really cracks this nut and offers a compelling service where "overage" charges are in the TB range. Though I would bet that Apple, Microsoft, etc are hoping that folks get used to these storage prices to the point where people are as used to paying them as their cable TV bill.
But Apple makes it clear that it's an exception. Last year we got our first expedite request approved but our second one denied because we had already used up our first. Both were for critical bugs.
He elided some lines, there is a break.
This could be problematic as I think California has some law about volunteer work can not be tied to profit related work within a company. Might recall this incorrectly but double check
And neither is Assange, on both counts.
The reality of HTML5 is that it is extremely processor intensive, radically different from mobile browser to mobile browser, and simply not supported at all on 4 of the 8 platforms I create for.

Building a XML-based object architecture and then interpreting it into ObjC and Java, then standardizing the data structure it accesses ends up being far better than hacking together a series of poorly performing HTML-based apps.

In short -- native is still best, by far. Put of the contents of an app itself in a standard database that all the native apps can access, to minimize your native code dev time.

Or just use Unity.
Burglar who swiped Steve Jobs' wallet, computers quickly traced
Anyone else having problems with the live stream? I can't get sound to work.
Sounds like you didn't even bother reading my comment. I am well aware Disqus can allow anonymous commenting as an option. But that doesn't clearly address what I stated.
UK threatens to raid Ecuadorian Embassy against Vienna Conventions
Here are the salaries for American Eagle Pilots:

http://www.aviationinterviews.com/pilot/payrates/American-Ea...

Notice how the FO (first officer) also called copilot starts at $21,669?

Here is the shocking thing, if that same guy got a job as a store manager at American Eagle Outfitters, he would make almost 50% more: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/American-Eagle-Outfitters-Sa...

And, before you say you should compare captains wages with manager wages, remember, the guy flying the plane is way better qualified to run an American Eagle Outfitters than the manager.

But, what is the upper limit at American Eagle??? Well after you put in 20 years of service and you fly their absolute biggest jet you can expect to make just under $85k per year:
Here is what you fly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_ERJ_145_family

I'm not saying piloting is a bad job, I'm just saying that there are a lot of low paying jobs out there in Aviation and I think it is funny how little information people have on the topic. In short, it isn't "total" bullshit.
It does work, but has its drawbacks, for one it's communication requiring extra skill (and effort) when people don't see each other frequently. Seems that way to me (I currently operate in an environment similar to yours).
Maybe "justify" is too strong a word. The central principle is that having sex with someone who does not consent is rape. It doesn't matter if their clothes are on or if you're in bed with them. It doesn't matter if they consented to protected sex, but you chose to have unprotected sex with them instead even though they didn't consent to it. It's still rape.

To say that it isn't technically rape could mean a few things. It could mean that it's worse than rape or at least equivalent to rape, or it could mean that it's not as bad as rape. But if it's just as bad as rape or even worse, there would be no point to the remark at all, especially in a series of comments meant to defend Assange. Obviously, the intention was to say that this action is something less than rape.

To say that this particular type of rape is something less than rape might not justify it, but it does minimize it in such a way that denies the basic agency, dignity, and human rights of the victim. It's a hideous, misogynistic notion. (That's not a supporting argument, by the way, it's a conclusion.)
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"It's not that they "should react the same", it's that - ideally - they shouldn't have to act differently to be treated equally."

Totally. Putting your hands over your ears and eyes isn't going to get us to that point.
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That's not what I was implying. The argument is that he fears they will do something to him. And whether that fear is based in reality.

The response of the grandparent was 'no' because US legal system can't technically touch him. My response to that was that I am not exactly sure if the world should trust US in light of its actions in the last 10 years.
How could you even suggest that rot13 is similar to one time pad encryption? They could not be more different. One is kindergarten crypto, while the other is mathematically proven to be unbreakable.
If you want to download it, here's the download page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/jj554510.aspx

Note that you have to have a Windows Live account.
So I voted you down because you're wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zofzid6xIZ4#t=04m10s

Click on that link and listen to Mark Callaghan, an engineer at Facebook, talk about their query workload. From a slide:

The Workload

- OLTP
- Fast Queries
- Simple Joins
- Fast Transactions
- Secondary indexes critical to performance
- Some rows very hot
The Obama admin has an active global program of executing US citizens that are labeled 'enemy combatants' or providing aid to E.C., with no judicial review.

Execution without judicial review.
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