skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it also could be your MP3 player, the game you are playing, or whatever.

Server OSes typically use different schedulers or scheduler settings than desktop ones; Windows is not different. This starts with using larger time quantums. http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/4/0/14045A9E-C978-4...:

"On client versions of Windows, threads run by default for 2 clock intervals; on server systems, by default, a thread runs for 12 clock intervals"

The windows scheduler also is aware of the GUI, and raises priority of threads handling the user interface. Some things the kernel and/or user mode code do:

"Threads that own windows receive an additional boost of 2 when they wake up because of windowing activity such as the arrival of window messages . The windowing system (Win32k .sys) applies this boost when it calls KeSetEvent to set an event used to wake up a GUI thread ."

"Client versions of Windows also include another pseudo-boosting mechanism that occurs during multimedia playback . Unlike the other priority boosts, which are applied directly by kernel code, multimedia playback boosts are actually managed by a user-mode service called the MultiMedia Class Scheduler Service (MMCSS), but they are not really boosts—the service merely sets new base priorities for the threads as needed"

(Much) more info in the above-mentioned PDF.
I'm not sure it's any more personal to have your card be handwritten by a stranger.

For friends and family, a card or a personal letter is really worth taking the time over. For bonus points, you could even make the card yourself.
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Li-Fi - Visible Light Wireless Broadband
This immediately makes me think of De Moivre's equation, which I just learned about from another front-paging HN article, "The Most Dangerous Equation" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4893258)
I think they missed a good one by Samuet Beckett:
Ever Tried.
Ever Failed.
No Matter.
Try Again.
Fail Again.
Fail Better.
People with Munchausen claim to be ill and manufacture fake symptoms when they are not. I was ill and am getting well, a claim most people will not accept as true.

What "real information" do you want? I linked to my website. You are the one focusing on dismissing me, personally, and have apparently not bothered to even check the website.

Here are the direct links if you need them again:

http://www.healthgazelle.com

http://www.healthgazelle.com/oldsite/archive.shtml
It is a game. Fun is the incentive.

Damn smart idea of Google to get infinite GPS track point data.
> There's no inherent reason that pregnancy should result in women spending less time at work than men, and Danish parental leave laws mean that it's possible for a father to spend more time on 100% paid leave than a mother. The risk to employers is a consequence of local laws and social norms, not an absolute.

It's not the time that matters, it's the timing. You can't legally (and you should not) force a pregnant woman to come to work.

> There's this horrible idea that sexism doesn't exist in enlightened liberal societies

Not all gender inequality is sexism. There are physical and psychological differences between our genders. Case in point: possibility of dichromacy among males versus potential tetrachromacy among females.
+1 for this. Go can hammer out requests spectacularly. We're using it to shift out static content (all from RAM).
thanks you've put that rather nicely. there is no bonafide way to start a cable company. nobody could tell you how to do that, not even their executives. the cable providers operate in a market that heavily favours monopolies (because the entry barriers are so ridiculously high). OP failed to realize this and that's just a very bad precedent for any further discussions.
Building on what you own
Many techies are declaring their wish to get wealthy while joining startup teams or even joining teams in big corporates with reasonable developer salaries. Well, is nearly impossible to get rich that way.
"I’ve playfully decided to apply this “EVERYTHING IS MY FAULT” rule to the rest of my life."

There is a name for this, which is "martyr complex": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyr_complex

I personally have a lot of guilt and beat myself quite a bit, but I also realize constantly being the martyr and assuming I have control means my ego is as big as it is when I always blame others.

While blame can be placed and responsibility can be taken, that is a trap. It happens to be a trap that most of the country is in. It is Bush's fault. It is Obama's fault. Sound familiar? Instead we should be saying "How can we work together to make things better?" Sometimes feelings run too deep to switch into a Kanban philosophy where life is a constant process of potential and realized amelioration. We don't have to be liberals, conservatives, or martyrs to do that.

That said, Derek, I think realizing the leader should take responsibility is a great lesson for all. It is a step towards enlightenment.
The source of claims he has been kept in solitary has been his mother Kristina Svartholm since the prison officials have refused comment regarding his care.

On the particular issue of whether or not solitary confinement is now used in Sweden, here is a newspaper in Sweden confirming they currently do use solitary confinement for some prisoners in Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/1927/20050822/

This article quotes Jerzy Sarnecki, a Swedish expert in criminology who teaches at Stockholm University. He states, "Solitary confinement worsens the quality of criminal care. Long term isolation is powerfully destructive. When you consider that many of those who are confined have psychological problems, the effects can be devastating."

The article also quotes Christer Karlsson, Swedish and chairman of the help organisation Criminals Return Into Society, saying solitary confinement "can break prisoners down, physically and psychologically".

The article also notes that Swedish prisons have more hardened criminals as prisoners than before. Thus perhaps one would argue that solitary confinement for non-violent prisoners protects them from being harmed by the hardened criminals. Perhaps the vast majority of prisoners in Sweden are dangerous violent serial killers and rapists and thus it is more economical to put the small number of harmless non-violent prisoners in solitary confinement to protect them rather than put the violent offenders in solitary to protect others from them. It has yet to be demonstrated that this is the case though, that the majority of prisoners are violent and can not be managed. In addition, it is known that solitary confinement is damaging and is a form of torture, thus to force torture upon someone in order to protect them seems counterproductive. Torture as therapy is not an established or recognized way of protecting people, and runs counter to what is known about torture.
It would be great if you could give us a share on twitter - This is an epic quest, the more the merrier :)
Unfortunately this theory falls under the category of 'Not even wrong.' Not because it is inaccurate, but because it proposes something which is untestable. Specifically the assertion that the future is unpredictable. The only way to falsify that statement is to make an accurate prediction about X time in the future. This is then very difficult to replicate because there is no clear transition from 'making a prediction' to making the specific prediction you care about.
Free software father declared Ubuntu Linux to contain spyware
>trampling on your rights to free speech at a private event?

Speech should be free in public AND in private events.

Else you get societies giving lip service to the idea of "free speech" in public, and then destroying the public spaces of discourse.

(How about Google censoring your email or blog? It's their private infrastructure after all).

>I guess harassment falls under free speech.

No, it's just that white Americans have no idea what harassment means. Some guy showing a slide with a bikini model at a Ruby conference was enough to cause a "moral outrage" a couple of years ago.

(And, no, it's not about the relevance of the slide, which meant as a joke: if he had shown something equally non relavant, like a Star Wars joke or a LoTR joke, everybody would have been fine with it).
I don't have anything to add, but thank you for the story.
I do imagine thats a huge part of it. Combine that with the fact that if you target Valve's hardware, you're also targeting a pretty decent sized cross section of Linux PC's as well, and you've got yourself a recipe for better than what the competition has (from a developers perspective)
My favourite is "The Transcension Hypothesis"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQOyJUDTKdM
Is it just me, or is Ingress a rip-off of the Finnish Shadow Cities iOS-only game http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/arts/video-games/shadow-ci...
The current smaller cable companies have strict agreements on what packages, what distribution channels and for what time they have licenced their channels.
If they have a licence to transmit HBO over their cable network, they most likely are not allowed to transmit HBO over public networks (i.e., Internet).
If they have a licence to include a sports channel in their basic package, they most likely are not allowed to take it out of the basic pack and offer it a-la-carte.

All the service terms are detailed before they get the channels, and if you convince them to really change their mind, then they can (try to) negotiate these new rights for their next content term, which comes up every two-three years.
it may turn out to be the biggest gamification success until now.
awesome. :)

what is the cheapest android device that will play this game?
> Specifically the assertion that the future is unpredictable. The only way to falsify that statement is to make an accurate prediction about X time in the future.

And even that wouldn't do as scientific evidence -- because one data point is insufficient for science, and also that a single chance guess might turn out to be right.

> Unfortunately this theory falls under the category of 'Not even wrong.'

Complete agreement.
I read this the other day and completely fell in love. What a fantastic thing to be doing - but, as jaysonelliot says, from the perspective of the person doing the scene-hacking. It's worth noting that by the end of the article, he's opening a real restaurant. This was his way in.

Do what you love.

I wonder, though, if it could be done with something more accessible - hacking not into high end dining, but changing the idea of what a restaurant is for the folks who like good food but wouldn't think of trying to get a top-tier table, or paying for one.

Meanwhile, if you're hungry for more food obsession (and entrepreneurial obsession, to a lesser degree), the movie Jiro Dreams of Sushi is worth a watch.
And in Denmark, you have no control over when a father might take paternity leave. This basic economic truth you're asserting is a product of society, not a product of biology.

>Not all gender inequality is sexism.

True, just the vast majority of it. But next time women complain that they're being underpaid, do remind them of the lucrative opportunities that await them in the growing field of "People better able to tell the difference between shades of green". I'm sure that'll make them feel better.
> Is this sort of thing (algorithmic detection of
> middlebrow dismissals) possible?

I'll give you a middlebrow dismissal: No. Definitely not at the current state of the art. In fact, not many people agree on whether a given comment qualifies as a "middlebrow" dismissal; personally, I consider many of the examples that pg has labeled as such pertinent points.

If in doubt, I prefer a good middlebrow dismissal to the shallow cheering of the overly excitable.
Not everyone wants or has kids. Makes more time for things like this. Like you said, it depends on your priorities...
It's up :) Also at blog.fsck.com
The fact that they all live longer, healthier lives than Americans might suggest that they don't actually have a bigger alcohol "problem"

That said, UK drinking culture is abysmal
or the fact that there are no drinking laws in most of Europe (or hardly enforced). As a 16 year old, no one will deny you a beer in Germany or France, but good luck getting a drop in the US in most places.
I am a woman and I am sympathetic, but it sounded hostile to me. You are now dismissing that and blaming me instead of simply trying to clarify when I am the only person here taking you at all seriously. And given that I am having my head handed to me elsewhere on hn, I am not in a good frame of mind to bend over backwards to give you a receptive audience. If you would like to try again, I would be happy to give you a do-over. But, no, I am not going to make a serious attempt to engage this reply.

Again, best of luck with whatever is on your mind.
I have a web start up that enables people to send handwritten greeting cards without an address. We have made it as cheap and easy as possible to help people send hand written cards to each other - It's a fun and meaningful way to connect with people. Everyone loves christmas cards right?
Ask HN: What Usenet search do you use?
Newzbin2 closed its doors last week, followed by Nzbmatrix. How are you all getting your NZBs these days?
Building a Keyboard: Part 2
Ask HN: Looking for a Static wiki generator
I am looking for a simple static wiki (not blog) generator. All I really need is the static generation of markdown files to be presented in a parent child fashion. Does anything like this exist?

The reason being the host system is not powerful enough to run a wiki engine like dokuwiki
> And in Denmark, you have no control over when a father might take paternity leave. This basic economic truth you're asserting is a product of society, not a product of biology.

And even in Denmark there are days where the mother is not allowed to work for the benefit of the child. And that is a product of biology.
Hi Ben, We are not trying to be insincere, we want to do something fun for everyone :)
It is only the 9th. Look at the marks of this year against prior years:

December 09, 2012: $260k ($500k goal)

December 14, 2011: $210k ($400k goal)

December 16, 2010: $210k ($350k goal)

Early Dec, 2010: $195k ($350k goal)

December 26, 2009: $250k ($300k goal)

It looks like the last weeks of December are a big time for donations, and they're seeing an early surge relative to prior years. It surprises me that FreeBSD is even this well-funded. Who still uses it?
I interpreted this as the country self-reporting, not the individuals.
Well, if George Carlin was a python developer, I for one, would have loved to see him speak.

And I have no problem with how Linus talks, without concern for self-censorship.

Funny how we owe a large of the success of open source (and most of Linux) to a "knuckle-dragging troglodyte"...
University of Chicago researchers discover empathy in rats
If I ever found a company, the only posters on the office walls will have a white background and black letters, for example the word "OBEY".

The dresscode will be sunglasses.
I believe it's also harder on you if you're mentally ill, and so because the torture is likely to provoke or worsen mental illness, it becomes worse torture the longer it continues. To be fair, most if not all tortures have this quality.

The Ashley Smith case up in Canada is also terrible - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Smith_inquest - the girl killed herself in solitary while guards watched as they were instructed not to intervene. It would be nice if there were a point where prisoners were guaranteed transfer to a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane.
I believe the OP was referring to the cable company idea that started this whole discussion.
The point is the body will try to repair itself if it can. A car will not.

For very deadly conditions like I have, nuking the body is the standard practice. They do the same thing with cancer. That is a statement of fact. It shouldn't be used as a flimsy excuse to call me a quack.
Six Good Habits I Learned from Being Bullied as a Geeky Kid
> Yes, because making such a promise constitutes fraud unless the active agent is the cause leading to the effect.

Ok ok, you win. I can't argue against that =)

(My background is in biology and my girlfriend is in the medical profession, so I'm 100% on board with homeopathy being silly. I just thought it was an interesting line of conversation about the efficacy of a placebo, and ramification of selling it.)
Guys, just because you do Rails doesn't mean you can't get to know other frameworks too.

I came to Rails from Symfony and there are definitely things I miss. Rails is way better overall, but there are loads of little things that were fantastically useful.
You realize that crazy coincidences happen all the time? A disease that's 99.999% fatal will routinely have survivors if the disease is common enough. A single data point doesn't mean a whole lot.
I played Ingress for a bit. Love the concept - seems to be the Pong of AR games (not a dig, just the first of its kind that I've played and the potential for future games in this genre is exciting). After a few days I quit playing because IMO it seems better suited for concentrated urban cities. My city is a sprawl and I don't have the time to drive all day looking for the different components/interactions of the game.

Just one guy's opinion.
> There is a risk the suspect destroys evidence or in other ways affect the investigation. There is risk that the person might flee or avoid a future trial.

I understand your points, however I am having really hard time imagining any single case where those two points do not hold up.

Example: a simple fender-bender. Why shouldnt we keep the one who caused it in solitary because a) he could destroy evidence (for example try to break into traffic control and delete all tapes that are related to this accident, or he could talk with bystanders and offer them cash for telling something else that what they seen, etc etc.), and b) perhaps with psychological problems he could ran away and flee to avoid prosecution even if its such a simple case.

Therefore, every single case falls under the points you made. No?
How does that matter to an employer? The father can take exactly the same time off. Employing a man with a pregnant partner could be exactly as inconvenient as employing a pregnant woman.
You confuse "exists" with "matters to more than a thousand people".
Given how large Google is I'm certain they use FreeBSD in some form somewhere. Still it's kind of fun seeing Google who is predominantly Linux-based as a major sponsor and not Apple which likely ship code from the FreeBSD project in every device they sell. Also nice seeing Juniper contributing back but I can't see anything from Cisco...
I've been developing on Linux since I started. If someone makes a gem that you can't install because you're using Linux, you probably don't need that gem :).
https://fastmail.fm does a good job and charges vary little, based on what you need.
Floppy drives not CD Roms...
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The strength of this system is that map is type checked to be provably side-effect free. The mapping function is free to internally allocate and mutate objects to get its job done, e.g. a RegexMatcher, but it may not mutate existing (non-isolated) state. This composes transitively, so even wrapping side-effects in abstractions and closures is insufficient to hide them.
"fuckin' a"
- "Statistics" by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves: http://www.amazon.com/Statistics-4th-David-Freedman/dp/03939... (but an old edition would be fine)

- Any of Wainer's books (the author of the original pdf)

(Added later): books that explain the history of statistical thought are surprisingly good, because they explain the context and the problems the statistics were originally meant to solve. I really enjoyed "the lady tasting tea" and I think I learned from it.
Conspicuous non-consumption: writing blog posts about how you live so minimally, throwing everything out and buying new things when you move. Just a Macbook ($2000) and an Apple display ($1000) and an Aeron chair ($800) and the "perfect" desk ($1000, sit-stand), plus a mattress tossed in the corner... in your $2000/month downtown S.F. apartment.
I'm sure people will chime in with more information here, but you might be interested in previous discussions of this and similar questions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4860457

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4858436

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857473
That certainly does happen - indeed our tag line is "making data science a sport"... Like in all sports, there can be a stochastic element to who ends up winning!

However, in private competitions (which is where the money is!) everyone selected to participate wins something. It's more like golf - make the cut, and you'll definitely make a few dollars, but the winner will take home the biggest prize.
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> I would love to see or find a group of people who are just interested in getting together and banging heads together and see what comes out.

Great idea! Something similar has actually happened, not with the HN community, but just a handpicked group of highly intelligent people put into a room together with the mission of coming up with innovative new ideas. It is described in this article.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_...
As I said elsewhere: I am not a single data point.

Further, I did not merely live. The hole in my lung closed and I have gradually but steadily reversed my symptoms over the course of more than a decade. Would you like to actually discuss it? I am pretty tired of being dismissed by people who assume I am not thorough but themselves fail to be thorough enough to read all existing remarks in the discussion before jumping up with the same tired criticisms I have heard before and addressed previously in this very discussion.
Nothing is as black and white as being one's fault or not.

Sun Tzu figured out the sphere of influence over 2,000 years ago - you don't control the weather, but you can take an umbrella.

Interestingly enough, the things OP cites are indeed things he had at least a degree of control over before they came to the results he mentions.

I found the post refreshingly insightful.
> I have made good faith efforts for many years which ascribed to the rules you are trying to dictate, to no avail.

Look, no offense, but you're obviously not going to win over intelligent readers with your diligent avoidance of anything substantive. You are quite obviously trying for sympathy but without providing anything concrete or testable. It's a symptom of Munchausen Syndrome.

> You are only the latest in a very long string of people to dismiss me, then justify that dismissal as somehow my fault.

It's not "somehow" your fault. It is your fault. You want sympathy but without earning it. This is why you have to keep changing forums -- people catch on too quickly.

You're a textbook case of Munchausen Syndrome -- imaginary ailments, ailment you go to great lengths to (a) complain about but (b) conceal, a marked persecution complex, the usual accompanying histrionic syndrome ("It's dangerous to try to describe my condition"), and a general inability to picture yourself realistically.

Get professional help.
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> Who still uses it?

I dunno, everyone in the world running Mac OS X?