skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was confining myself to CPython on the grounds that it is still what people complain about in terms of adding multicore to it. People don't complain about PyPy not having it since it's still developing, and it is not yet known whether PyPy will be fast enough to be worth worrying about multicore. To be honest I'm skeptical, but open to the possibility. But I rather suspect in the end that Python will forever be a slower language than the competition; all the dynamicness doesn't come for free.

Also the nicer primitives that IMHO the really-useful multicore languages are building on are either impossible (Haskell) or too late (Go/Erlang) for Python to deeply embrace due to massive legacy libraries and code. If you want to make threading "work" in Python, go nuts, it will bring much benefit, but Python will simply never be the first choice for tasks in which multicore performance and safety is the first or second priority, rather than the fifth or sixth. And that's fine. I'd really rather see Python become a better Python than see it become a crappy Go or something.
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Well you would not download a nuclear plant ...
I sent this link to my brother who is an lawyer / attorney in Germany for intelectual property and competition/ antitrust law. Apparently justfab.de operates under German law. He said if another shoe retailer would be his client, there might be good chances to give them a really good kicking. I jokingly said, he should ask Zalando. But he refused and said a lawyer is not allowed to ask people to be his client. So if you run a shoe e-commerce site under German law and want to see this scam go out of business, you should NOT ask http://rechtsanwalt-metzler.de/
What you say is right, but we also have advantages, like the quality of our engineers, etc. The point is, it might not be optimal but we can deal with it. This 60% exit tax, we won't be able to, and this is why I think it is significant.
false positives--retards!

system identification.

Reality is me, God and government agents/angels who stage my radio, internet and everything.

I've never had a shot at women or anything, for that matter, because my life has been fony. I said I shit myself. Y'all saw.

Fucken mob runs casinos. Fucken CIA jobs are torture. Fuck that--tired of this stupid game.

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In my reality, I know Bush and Obama and everything is centered on me. Kinda silly in a world of 7,000,000,000.

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I have FAT32 support in my OS -- why would I make FAT32 shit in my bootloader when I can just write the block number into it. It's trivial to get block num of my kernel.bin file when I recreate it and write it into my bootloader. My bootloader works for any filesystem.

Fucken arrogant clowns.
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Sorry, "won't know what to do" is an inaccurate simplification of the problem. A better way to say it is that they may be ignorant of what's possible/happening.

Take a site like the iOS App Store (yes I know it's technically not a webpage, but same concept)...I go there to search for apps I want. I will almost never scroll down to the bottom because my first instinct is to hit up the search box at the top. In the time that it takes me to type a search in, Apple could show me up to two, maybe 3 featured projects that I otherwise did not know I would be interested in.

Could Apple have trained me to, once I hit the ios App Store front page, to scroll down to check out the list of featured apps and then conduct a search? Sure, but I'm at a loss as to how they could do that without encumbering the user (i.e. putting the search box at the bottom of th epage)
Seriously. I was ~13 when I created my /. account, reading about Linux and running my first servers. Now I'm almost 30 and doing the same kind of stuff and loving it just as much.
Seems to work for me without sending any referrer.
I just realised the the proposed TLD for Scotland is .sco - that doesn't sound very good!
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(Your title is broken: I assumed "X" referred to the X Window System)
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Not fixing the deficit is surly a superior way to "volunteering to be poor".
Kids are more likely to draw an email than to type one. It sends an email when they hit send, and it receives emails from people the kids can view. Why exactly does this not qualify as an email app?
I think you're right. When I'm not working on a challenging/interesting enough project, I tend to spend most of my time on HN/Quora.
For the Frenchies reading this, if you feel like it would be a good thing for us to show our faces and that we're just regular people trying to build something, maybe we should just talk a few minutes on youtube and send it to people we know to raise awareness. Here's my attempt (in french, sorry): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvMxlTavMVU
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I'm sticking with Firefox because Mozilla respects the Linux community. And use Yandex from my Firefox? Why should I make a compromise when you don't take my platform seriously? Thanks, but no thanks.
I noticed that as well, though they no longer have the image of Bill Gates with fire (I think?) coming out the side of his face for all Microsoft related stories. E.g.
http://web.archive.org/web/19990209091342/http://www.slashdo...
With Android you have countless options to fix the orientation. Use the settings menu, use a one-click widget on your desktops, use a button in the notification pulldown menu, etc. You could even easily make it stop rotating if you use certain apps by using Llama or a similar tool. Same for making that by time of day or else.
And those of us who cba to leave our browsers will quickly spoof our user agent and get an invite anyway.
>No vacation policy

This seems like you'd want to explain it a little more, given plenty of other companies cover flights to conferences and while that's a nice perk nobody considers it to be a vacation.
We had no training in place. I was expected to catch up in my own time, which I did but it was hard. This was a NASDAQ/FTSE listed defence contractor.

Main things for me were by the time I left, we were in FPGA and microcontroller territory and mixed mode simulation rather than basic SPICE models etc. You need to look out for major industry trends and get on a community like Element14 [1]. Things have changed since when I graduated with respect to what gaps there will be but there will be gaps.

Looking at some colleagues and their complaints about graduates recently, people seem to want analogue, microwave, transmission line and network experts. I wouldn't know one end of a waveguide from another (I did digital mainly) so I'm not the person to ask :)

[1] http://www.element14.com/
I live in London, UK. They are literally everywhere.

A tablet is not a universal computing device: it's a portal for consuming stuff from a content producer. If it stood alone, then it would be, but they don't - none of them!
That's your inference. Just because you make outlandish inferences, doesn't mean I get put on the dock and I have to justify them. :-)
Doesn't work for me even with a Google referrer. Paste into Google search, click first link, and I'm back at the Google homepage.

This seems to be the same article though: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/glass-slivers-t...
Surely the real win here is the massive reduction in password re-use on 'less secure' environments.

Obviously google/microsoft etc are not immune to screwing up and having their database hacked - but I'd rather put all my eggs in that basket than having a single egg in lots of baskets with differing levels of security that subsequently enable access to all of my eggs anyway and...

Yeah. So the eggs metaphor doesn't really work. Sorry.
First and foremost, thanks for this nice description of interfaces!

If you understand that an interface value is two words wide and it contains a pointer to the underlying data, that’s typically enough to avoid common pitfalls.

Except for one: namely, if a variable v that has an interface as its type and the value pointer is nil and the type pointer isn't, then v != nil. In other words, if an interface value is internally represented as:

{*Type, *Value}

Then:

{&DogType, nil} != nil
{nil, nil} == nil

This can lead to results that are initially surprising. For a description and an example:

http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#nil_error
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Number 10566 speakin' here.

/. to me is like a bad marriage. I can't stand it in general, constantly I complain about it, but for some reason I can't leave it.
Because with browserID your email acts like a public key, and presumably the third party does a better job at securing your private key (with 2 factor auth, biometrics etc) than most people do on their own (the current password theft onslaught proves that). If this gets traction i m sure many hacker groups will come up with independent, noncommercial and nongovernmental authenticators.
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I've been thinking about how you might go about designing an email account for non-readers.

The target audience, I guess, would be kids in the 2-5 range, but I guess more generally, it would be anybody who can understand a language but not read or write it.

Obviously, for kids, you would want more of a "pretend" email account than a real email account, but it would be cool if the basic functionality were there, so that a kid could send a cute little "Hi Mommy" or "Hi Daddy" message to a parent who's away at work or traveling.

I guess the best interface for it would be a touch-screen tablet, which is a little more intuitive than using a mouse to click.

Because the intended users wouldn't be able to read, they would have to be heavily guided by voice prompts.

Maybe it would go something like this:

(email app loads up)

Voiceover: If you would like to _send_ an email to someone, tap the picture of the disco-dancing pony. If you would like to view the emails you have _received_, tap the picture of the hula-hooping pterodactyl.

(kid taps the disco-dancing pony)

Voiceover: Here are pictures of some people you can email. Tap the picture of the person you want to email.

(kid taps the picture of his dad)

Voiceover: Now, it's time to record a video message for Dad. When the giant roller-skating ice cream cone appears on the screen, you can begin recording your message. When you're finished, tap the screen.

(kid records a short "Hi Dad!" video message)

Voiceover: If you want to replay the message you recorded, tap the picture of the elephant in the hot tub. If you want to re-record your video message, tap the picture of the bacon strip doing jumping jacks. If you're happy with your recording and want to email it to Dad, tap the picture of the unicycling weiner dog.

(kid taps the weiner dog)

Voiceover: Great! Your video message has been emailed to Dad. Hey! You just received a new email from Grandma. If you're ready to view it, tap the picture of the monkey modeling ladies' hosiery.

(kid taps the monkey)

Voiceover: Here is the text of Grandma's message. If you'd like me to read the words for you, tap the picture of the transcendentalist turtle.
There's a huge gulf between the sort of mild sense of superiority a lot of hobbies confer on those who partake, and saying that you couldn't trust anybody who hasn't tried your hobby.
Interesting to me that people here and in the post are expressing a desire for a tablet/mobile device that transforms into a desktop/workstation when brought near a keyboard. Probably more a reflection of this audience, but I just hadn't heard a lot of people express this desire.

Interestingly, to me, that's the problem that Window 8 seems to be trying to solve - I didn't know many people had it! And, of course, a few Android tablets that become laptops, etc.
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Aaaargh, that page is impossible to read. I would recommend using width:600px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; for the div#base and definitely kill that center text-align with a huge cannon.

Took me a while to understand that this is a Linux library to "talk to iOS stuff"
>Currently the size of the data that can be stored isn't known

Yes it is: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/glass-slivers-t...

The density is 40MB/in².
Both my Android tablet (Nexus 7) and phone (Galaxy S2) have a software rotation-lock button.
"Partner" with the hotels to offer them a higher ranking in terms of where they are displayed and the font size of their data.
How can you compare reading Slashdot at +5 to reading the mostly unfiltered comments here? I think it's also telling that you only feel the desire to participate in discussion (post) here.

While I'd agree that some of the /. +5 comments can be worth reading, the populism, trolling, and general lack of real-world experience of other posters made participating in the discussions pointless and even counter-productive.
"We own it. We manage it. We upgrade it. You only pay for what you use"

That might actually be a pretty good model for organisations who have a limited requirement to run the Oracle DB internally (for Oracle applications) without investing in specialized support teams just for that one technology.
CAs would not be required at all for a simple certificate-signing scheme that could be implemented in a similarly user-friendly way.
Heard for osx is last.fm minus the internet
Really well done, great job and best of luck.
I didn't realize this had been updated recently. I gave up on my wife's 4S some time ago when it appeared that support for recent iOS devices on Linux had been mostly abandone by the community.
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The banner that pops up as you near the end of the article? Yeah, on my phone that was impossible to close in landscape and I had to "chase it" in portrait. Instead, I just closed the article.
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You do realize that there will always be an initial conflict when introducing a new system. I am fairly fresh out of college, and where I went to school (now over 20,000 students) all of what used to be streets in the middle of campus are for pedestrian traffic only. We all got along just fine with bikes being everywhere. Look at Stanford and Boulder, two very bike friendly places.

As far as helmets are concerned, I rode for my college road team, and I wore a helmet every time I touched the pedals for training and racing. We went very fast, and the competitions justified it. When I rode my beater bike to class I never wore a helmet. I was just fine.

A major reason people don't want to ride bikes to work when a helmet is required is really cosmetic, because they don't want to screw up their hair! Have you met a girl who wakes up and gets ready for work then says, "oh yeah let me mess up my hair on the way to work"? I am a dude, and If I had the option to ride A bike to work, I might not just because I need to look professional.
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How would it work on other people's computers?
> I don't know why you consider this "DIY" or "alternative tablets". Most tablets on the market has these capabilities.

Sure, but I think this space will be constrained by market forces for the next couple of years until we see movements towards these devices actually trying to be desktop replacements. Right now the focus is for these things to be phones and media consumption devices with a long battery life (which is what the masses want.) I'm waiting for the market to settle down enough so that Dell can jump in and make these things boring. Give me a tablet which is power hungry, gives me only 4 - 6 hours of battery but delivers everything I want to make these things true desktop replacements.I don't want sexy, I just want to throw the thing on my desk, plug all my crap into it and get to work. Maybe sometimes I might even take it with me. I do all my work from home though, and when I leave my home I don't want to take my work with me, so my mobiles don't get much mobile action.
I know that. It is merely a filter to get the right people, not a wall.