skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be a reasonable argument if Mozilla wasn't still adding extensions to NPAPI, a far less webby technology that's a much worse design and outright dangerous for end-users. And yes, NaCl has its awkwardness, but it's far better than NPAPI, and if you look a bit you'll realize that NaCl's awkwardness is specifically because it can support things that asm.js can't. NaCl has real native threads, clean debugging, and a simpler legacy code path, but the cost is the complexity of the implementation.

The funny thing in all this is that I'm really not a proponent of NaCl. I find it technically very interesting, but I never considered architecture-specific NaCl viable for the Web, and there are still kinks to work out with PNaCl. I just find the attitude towards asm.js curious, because it carries so many of the past criticisms of NaCl (not human readable, initially developed in private, etc.).
I think a conference without penis jokes would be exclusive to some men and women (including to some extent me) but would also be more inclusive to others who find them culturally alienating. On balance I think a penis-joke-free conference might be preferable, although I also don't think anybody should lose their job over a harmless knob gag.
The thing with both GPL and CDDL is that they both put restrictions on how you are allowed to distribute the program/source. i.e. you can't legally distribute code that has both GPL and CDDL parts.

However, neither license puts restrictions on (end-user) use, which means that as long as you distribute the bits separately, running them together is perfectly fine. Which means (as their FAQ states) that while it can't ship as part of the kernel, there's no reason end-users wouldn't be allowed to load a separately distributed module into their kernel.
Given the way ZFS works, you'll have to elaborate on what an fsck would do that ZFS doesn't automatically do already.

What I find scary is silently corrupt data, something which is a problem for most other filesystems. I've seen ZFS catch and fix that error orders of magnitude more often than I've seen ZFS flake out. If we're talking risk analysis, I feel you're worried about a mouse in the corner, while a starved tiger is hungrily licking its chops while staring at you.
From Wikipedia:

"Multiple possible causes of CCD have been identified. In 2007, some authorities attributed the problem to biotic factors such as Varroa mites and insect diseases (i.e., pathogens[5] including Nosema apis and Israel acute paralysis virus).[6][7] Other proposed causes include environmental change-related stresses,[8] malnutrition, pesticides (e.g.. neonicotinoids such as clothianidin and imidacloprid[9][10][11]), and migratory beekeeping. other possibilities have included both cell phone radiation[12][13] and genetically modified (GM) crops with pest control characteristics although no evidence has been found to suggest this.[14][15]

Emphasis mine.

[14] http://www.sierraclub.org/biotech/whatsnew/whatsnew_2007-03-...

[15] http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/collapsing-colonie...

If someone has a greater understanding than the Wikipedia consensus and the sources to back it, please respond (or update Wikipedia!)
i.e. == that is. e.g. = example. RAID5 is not major functionality, it should no longer exist.
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that's really not so impressive. you're just dumping extents down on an empty filesystem and re-reading them. you're really just measuring the fact that the FS isn't particularly getting in the way of using your hardware.

Note also that rewriting drops to 108M/sec, which is pretty unimpressive.
try forcing python into 32-bit mode?
defaults write com.apple.versioner.python Prefer-32-Bit -bool yes
I use Pelican, but a lot of people like Jekyll, too. Pelican has good documentation, and I like that it uses a makefile because I was able to painlessly add in my own deployment command that pushes to S3 and an option for compressing CSS and JS.
The news was that they could detect stable electric fields, probably via electrostatic force on their hairs. That's very different from high frequency radio waves.

http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2013/9163.html
This is how Emacs is different from other editors. Like the blog posts show - you start with a need and try to find how the existing Emacs LISP code is written. Next, you try to customize it to your need. Finally, you assign it to a keyboard shortcut.

You adapt Emacs to your workflow, just like you adapt Lisp to your problem domain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Dunn,_Invisible_Boy
I code Common Lisp and Scheme in Emacs, Python in Vim.

I just want to try C programming, after I'm good at C, I may turn to Emacs.
So, while the EPA, USDA, European Food Safety Authority, and leagues of scientists have studied the issue and have not found a single obvious contributing factor -- and actually instead have found evidence to suggest that colony collapse may be caused by a conjunction of many different causes -- you are here announcing to all of us that Its not a mystery, its the pesticides?

Do you have any scientific backing for your claims aside from... your step-dad "knowing" things?
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It's more likely you are underestimating your corruption because you are not monitoring it thoroughly. If you have thousands of machines, running for five years, you're gonna see corruption occasionally. No FS can truly protect you (but a well designed FS will reduce the probability that a corruption will become a user-visible event).
Two studies are referenced in this Reuters article:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/29/us-science-pestici...

Monsanto itself is actually purchasing companies that develop bee-safe pesticides, so obviously they believe it's a problem, too, even if you'll never hear them come out and say it in so many words:

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9Q1M0UO0.htm

Also, I have to take issue with the headline here, "No one knows why" doesn't appear to be true at all, even according to the NY Times article itself. Just a lot of hand-waving by those who profit from GMO/pesticides to throw off the trail while they figure out what to do behind the scenes, hoping it's not too late.
>>The article gives some examples of India failing to do exactly that.

No, it doesn't. It mentions DRDO being not very efficient but that's because politicians are more interested in buying than start manufacturing. Engineers are made to sit duck, do bullshit PPTs and just sign the papers, oversee tenders and purchases. And I don't know about tank story.
DRDO cannot start making copies of Ak47 and GE engines on a whim. State decides that.

>>Tejas

It's a pretty good fighter plane. You can see it in action on tube :-)

>>It'll be alright on the night

Atleast I never said that. Fine if you are making a general benevolent observation.

That article talks about a lot of things that stands good and there other (majority) which pure speculative bull.
In my opinion each of these factors are your very own choice.

I agree and disagree. If you want to follow that logic to its conclusion, everybody incurs costs from simply living. They choose to stay alive when suicide would simply free them from that burden.

Getting married, trying to improve oneself and not leading an itinerant life should be among the basic affordances society can guarantee to any person.

But I also will concede that I could have dropped out of school and lived a marginally better life in perpetuity until I was too old to continue to do heavy manual labor, then died in poverty.
No catch, I started the website as a free resource of LaTeX templates because one didn't exist and I intend to keep template downloads free. All current templates are licensed under creative commons. I do have a few plans for how I can capitalize on the website but templates will always be available for free download and I despise ad-ridden websites so that won't be happening either. If you have any ideas send me an email!

It is getting more and more popular and I am making a little bit of money from it, but it is primarily for the masses. If you like the work please consider donating through Flattr, or better yet, take out an advertisement ;)
“If you have one shot of whiskey on Thanksgiving and one on the Fourth of July, it’s not going to make any difference. But if you have whiskey every night, 365 days a year, your liver’s gone. It’s the same thing.”

Obviously this beekeeper is not from Tennessee.
I didn't say anything about GM plants. Monsanto is the world's largest producer of pesticides. But yes, humanity is doing so many things to bees that it's hard to really pin it down to one single thing that is killing them off.
TI finally launched a color version of the TI-84. It's called the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition; it comes out in Spring 2013[1].

EDIT: This does seem to be off topic. I posted before I read the article (a cardinal sin, I admit) because I could not connect to the site. A second attempt to load the page took about 5 full minutes.

[1]http://education.ti.com/calculators/products/US/ti-84c/
Monsanto Bee-Sure Pollinators (tm), coming to a farm near you. I wouldn't be surprised if that was going on and I also wouldn't be surprised if it was just because small creatures respond first to small, pervasive pollution. I thought there was something about mites, too.
I'm not sure what you're basing that on? While the author indicates that he meets a lot of men who view a lack of handyman skills as not masculine, I don't see any indication that "not masculine" = "effeminate".
What's new in Tornado 3.0
I want to ask several question:

1. How many threads does the .Net Runtime use?

I know little about .Net, but I know C# is like Java. The Jvm with servlet will use many threads to serve, so that many cpu cores will be involved.

However, this is not the case for node. One node process will use just one thread(thought it is not the exact fact).

So it's unfair int programming model.

2. What's the hardware you use, how many cores is there?
It is worth noting that the second paragraph says: But beekeepers and some researchers say there is growing evidence that a powerful new class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, incorporated into the plants themselves, could be an important factor.
You guys are talking about things that should be discovered during development, in which case, I'd rather have the exception thrown and showing in the console than to try to write a function to handle them.
> Cities will greatly expand, again: Faster and more efficient transportation will convert locations that are currently too remote for most users into feasible alternatives, abundant with space.

Here's my alternative idea: cities will contract because you won't need to ever have your own car anymore (with all the required space that entails), city centers will keep making driving your own car more of a pain (as is already happening in european cities) and as gas prices keep increasing the incentive of owning and using your own car will drop, just as the cost of using self-driving electric cars on short in-city commuting will do.
I'm familiar with the meme. The humor isn't in the meme, but in the usage by a professional journalism establishment that is unrelated to the title of the piece.
So... 19TiB and you're only using iSCSI instead of NFS and you're complaining about volume size restrictions?
The developed world has an exponentially higher cost of living than sub-Saharan Africa or rural India. Don't pretend that someone living on $8,000 a year in Chicago has it any better than someone in a third world country.

The urban poor are in a far more desperate position than the rural poor, regardless of their country's development. Compare Depression-era Kansans to the inner-city poor of today and you'll see a large disparity in just about every metric. The one that jumps out at me the most would be nutrition. It's a lot easier to eat well with no money on a farm than it is with no money surrounded by convenience stores and Taco Bells.
we say grouping students by "ability" but don't we just wind up grouping students by correlated variables like gender, race, socioeconomic status, geographic location ?

the equality of education and allocation of other resources is not homogenous and it would be wrong to assume it was.

in these hard times, we notice more the disconnect between the topics we are learning in school and the jobs/careers they are supposed to prepare for.
I'm an ardent supporter of women's rights, but I'm also a supporter of the men's rights movement.

The (valid part of the) men's right movement is mostly concerned with men who:

* have been raped or faced domestic abuse, but are met with ridicule when filing charges

* have lost custody of their children to unstable / irresponsible mothers

I fully agree that women's rights is several orders of magnitude more important / severe, but that doesn't make these men's plight inconsequential either. This is not an either-or situation.

What is a problem though, and what was raised in the article, is the large mass of mysoginists that are essentially hiding behind that same men's right banner.
Oh wow, that's horrific...and here I was trying to be positive for once about the acquisition being a goodwill (well, as goodwill as you can get for those guys) effort to start developing bee-safe pesticides/crops. :/
nice try Microsoft!
There is a lot to like about the article and it makes some great points, but it also does a lot of 'wild leaps' when they favor the argument the article is making.

In short, it requires geeks to re-examine their own revenge fantasies of being outsiders who now rule the world and admit that they might, themselves, be actively excluding others.

Right, sure.. there couldn't be any other reason than some type of strange 'revenge'. And I'm sure feminists are all about just getting 'revenge' for when some guy dumped them.

This is why seemingly tiny, individual acts of sexism — like innocent dongle jokes – matter. Such “microaggressions” combine to reinforce structural sexism.

There is probably sexism in the tech industry (and in every other industry too), but making a dongle or fork joke is in no way sexist. It is immature, but there is definitely nothing sexist about it. It's akin to Shakespeare having his characters make a joke or two about needles. Or is Shakespeare now sexist too? (Let me guess, he is?)

I think it's important to realize that there is nothing unique here about the tech industry. The same types of jokes are made every day in schools across the world - and the most sexist areas I have ever been in have been the mining and physical labour industries in Africa. The pre-school industry is most developed countries is equally sexist, with every male teacher viewed as a sexual predator. The tech industry is amazingly non-sexist compared to that.

If you want to convince people with your points (I was fairly convinced up till around half way through your article) - you need to stick more to actionable reality.
Agreed, it's a hobby. Even if I screw it up I learned something. What I find funny is when I talk to people who say "I rebuilt the engine last year", or "I just painted my car a deep metal-flake blue." I say "That's awesome, I totally want to learn how to do that! What was it like?" just to find out that by "I did" they mean "I paid someone to do". Meh.
I also came to post a link to that book. I thought it was along the same lines as the OA, but at times I found Crawford bordering on being a Luddite (the remark about bathroom sink sensors IIRC). How'd you feel about it?
I don't know what you're talking about regarding the European Food Safety Authority -- everything I read seems to suggest they've pretty much concluded that it's the pesticides.
All good except the adjustable wrench. These are really awful tools prone to rounding off nuts and slipping off whatever you are working on you will be much better served by real wrenches!
The general practice I've seen is that the builder has a couple of low-wage teams to come in and throw it together. And then 1 or 2 guys who come behind them and fix their screw-ups, if the homeowner even notices.
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I think you're entirely correct -- in the US we still have a national mythos of "rugged individualism" and self-reliance.

As others have pointed out in the thread, there really is a feeling of accomplishment that comes from doing something yourself, but we seem to have conflated that to mean you should do everything yourself.
The Internet Is Making Us Poor
216M/sec - rewrite is suffering from a striding mismatch there with the COW, bs is 32k while stripe is 128k. Consumer uses 1M.

I'm wondering which volume manager and fs under linux you'd expect better performance from in this configuration?
I've seen your website before. I like it. But: Have you ever considered moving all this (in addition) to github? With every template in a subdirectory. Could make collaborating and bringing other folks in easier.
Btw, thanks for not making everything with a colored background in the poster. I always feel like that's a huge waste of ink
The trouble is that if she had shamed someone over a different kind of joke the backlash she would have gotten would probably been much less and of a radically different type.

Women feel threatened because there is this wellspring of misogyny that gets drawn on regardless of whether what they say is right or wrong if they call someone/something out on it. It would be a lot different if the reaction to Richard's was less extreme and less misogynous in character.
Plenty of people know why. They're researchers. They've published why. The end of the NYT article blandly states in one sentence:

"Some researchers have concluded that neonicotinoids caused extensive die-offs in Germany and France." I don't know how one could still tell the truth without minimizing this any further.

This is a great lesson in the Emperor Wearing No Clothes.
First Jason Blair, then Tesla Motors, now this: Can we finally deliver the coup de grace to that lumbering, obsolete giant the New York Times? What else do they have to do before people recognize them as the drag on progress that they are?
Looks nice, I'll definitely check it out when it releases, but it seems like whoever succeeds at text editing on touch screen devices will have to come up with some genius new way of typing code.

I can only contemplate serious typing on Android with my tablets keyboard dock, but even then I've found the experience lacking. I hope this makes it less painful!
How would you have a "simple sequential control flow" with asynchronous operations?
See https://github.com/ptaoussanis/clojure-web-server-benchmarks
Of course there's problems with the disks -- corrupt sectors, phantom writes, misdirected reads, etc. The point is that ZFS handles those problems for us.

I won't discuss the nature of the business, but it's unlikely that actual corruption that isn't automatically repaired would go undetected for any amount of time.
We want you to Ship
Agreed, equating the entire internet with the "tech community" is more than a little bit sensational. There certainly are misogynists in the tech community, but I doubt they were responsible for all of the overall backlash.
Jump speed is too fast... if you slow it it works better and is more like minecraft IMHO

elif symbol == key.SPACE:
if self.dy == 0:
self.dy = 0.500 # jump speed
Not responding for me.
The Constitution is a living document that provides the legal framework for testing the constitutionality of laws and a method for its amendment. It explicitly grants society, via representative government, the right to interpret, change and extend the Government's power.

To reject the power of society to, by following constitutionally-specified methods, give government this power is to reject self-government.
I think it's because American/Australian cities are sprawlier, so using metro area makes them sound bigger.

At 1.75 million, Hamburg would be solidly the 5th largest city in the U.S. However at 5 million it would only be the 10th largest metro area.
Not to mention the (admittedly off-topic) fact that a shot of whiskey every night is not actually unhealthy.
Either way, in many places (like San Francisco) the constraint isn't places that are too far away, it's places which have too much traffic between here and there. If you could replace a freeway full of human-directed cars with a freeway full of robot-directed cars, this would let you put more people not just further into rural areas, but around existing neighbor cities too. (One of the reasons the SF peninsula is interested in new "transit-oriented developments" near Caltrain instead of other developments: highway capacity on US-101 and 280.)
Programming in the Real World
These are the types of thesis statements I prefer to completely undercut. How about instead of "us" doing things to students, we roll-back the state control of the education system and let people that want to learn, learn what they want.
It's inevitable that some enterprising beekeeping conglomerate will eventually produce a pesticide/neonic resistant bee. This will be great, until the entire US is covered in one giant honeycomb.

http://www.fastcompany.com/1766379/super-bees-could-save-us-...