skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't a "nerd" issue. And it is a fallacy to believe nerds should act better because we are nerds and live in a vacuum of only dealing with other nerds. The idea should be that we are the only ones acting this way (and no one else does), or that we are better than everyone else.

The negative behavior is actually TAUGHT, and taught early on. This is how everyone in the western world is taught to debate opinions. Look at any high school debate club, political debates, and any other televised debate. The behavior starts there. As a society, people are not taught to be civil when dealing with disagreements. There is just an inherent "You are completely with me and my friend, or we are enemies".
When the thing bursts and sends liquid splattering all about... would you prefer it to be water with dry ice? or Drano? I know dry ice has some safety concerns but I can't imagine it is worse than getting sprayed with Drano. But I could be wrong about just how dangerous dry ice is.
Ops engineers for 70k? Wow, that's a joke
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In America, such a person would probably be called "retired", no different from someone who worked for 40 years in a factory before retiring to live on social security (= small government-provided pension). Being educated at a fancy school doesn't matter unless you're looking for a job in particular industries. A military career can earn some respect, but definitely not prestige.
So in addition to agreeing with jackrabbit --

Other non-connected applications can use OCR. Maybe you can make a case for Evernote's specialty recognition of cursive or handwriting, but, in the end, it boils down to text. they sure aren't doing picture-searching

It's not that personal notes are not private, it's more that anything that is put on the internet's privacy is questionable. Whether it SHOULD be that way or not is up for debate, but if you upload something somewhere, unless that somewhere is a black hole, someone might be able to retrieve it, through legitimate or illegitimate means.

The thing is, Gmail is something I can't do myself. It facilitates exchange at a level reasonable for use (like, I can't duplicate the USPS, and I can't duplicate Gmail) -- of course, I could just send email from my own IP, but they offer something special, verification of my identity, and make it easier to send messages... Where is that special functionality from Evernote?

As far as using the cloud to store personal data -- It might be hard, but it's easier to avoid actively pursuing new ways to put personal data on the internet
This would work very well for the central heating systems (mostly coal or gas based) of northern China. We also have plenty of garbage to burn. But I wouldn't trust the government to implement it with the correct environmental safeguards.
Yeah, the internet isn't the end-all, be-all. We're trading one mode for another, and at least for the moment, people who are connected have some material advantages.

Probably the big thing is learning how to be with just you yourself. To be fair, this wasn't any more popular in the pre-Internet days.
Exercise; spend time with friends and family; attend service at your chosen place of worship; join a new group on meetup.com.
I like people in Wisconsin, can't really relate to people in Chengdu

The people in Wisconsin will be better off if they produce something at which their comparative advantage is the highest. You'd harm them, as well yourself and the Chinese people, by shifting the allocation of resources slightly away from optimal for all these parties.
So you eat all that twice a day, plus breakfast, plus sometimes seconds of the main? As a Canadian that looks like WAY too much food. Here it would be more common to eat one serving of what you call the main course (where veggies may be replaced by the salad), plus maybe an appetizer/fruit/bread. Desserts usually only special occasions or when you go out to a restaurant.

I wouldn't say that France has a reputation for eating healthy (and no wonder, sheesh), more a reputation for "gourmet" food. Personally I found that the site gave a fairly sane meal plan for a sane calorie range. Whether the site generated it for you or not, surely you realized 3500 kcal is not a sustainable amount for a sedentary person to eat?
I feel the same way. You can infer quality by the packaging (and country of manufacture) in some cases, but other times it's a tossup between Chinese, Indian, U.S. or wherever else. The safest bet it is to limit purchases by reputation for that particular type of item depending on cost and lifetime.
Weeeellllll, maybe they established a track record of excellent security practice in a related field and are just getting into providing VPSs?

But yes, really, somewhat redundant...
Same here.
Google has to do something with all these memory leaks.
The heat is not useful for generating electricity, it could be used to heat buildings, but I bet that is hardly a concern in Mumbai.
Or it means you didn't bother to delete the public key (since, hey, free backup at the cost of not typing rm) when you generated the keypair.
Where is SF do you live? Everyone I know in the Mission speaks of rampant car break-ins and there are broken car windows all over the place. People literally shit on the streets.
Ah yes. A list of less than ten things that must always apply to everyone by which we can measure things x and y and prevent things z and mu.

If you can't do #1, you can do #2 and #3 and feel fulfilled! That's how people work -- all people -- so take my advice! If any part of this happens to work for you, by the way, it's because I am completely right, and not due to the fact that I'm wrapping obvious things in swaths of bullshit to sell or gain subscriptions so I can get more popular and sell more speaking engagements.

Sorry, this just smells like crap.
So its more or less like C: everyone wants to program on higher level languages, but everyone prefers that the libraries are written in ANSI C, so that every language can use them :)
China is a debunking of the idea that you need either free markets or political freedom to have an effective economy. It's still a tightly planned economy where the state either has a heavy involvement with or outright owns key industries. And politically, it's not a "democracy" in any sense of the word.
TOTP works fine with physical tokens. e.g. http://onlinenoram.gemalto.com/

All they need to do is let users locally generate (i.e. in the token) seeds and then enter those into the web portal, vs. generating seeds internal to the portal, displaying them, and having the user enter them into the authenticator app or token (because the tokens don't allow you to enter a seed).
There was a post last month where the comments went into how the wealthy don't consider themselves "upper class". One fellow said he had $8M in investments but did not feel "upper class" due to lack of influence/respect.

Completely oblivious to the fact that he could cash out the investments, never work again and still be in the top 20% income bracket.

Here is how to become middle class. Go to school, get good grades, get a job.

Here is how to become "upper class". Get a pile of money. Stop working. Start accumulating influence and respect.

The $8M dollar working man is like a grad student who never leaves school. He keeps accumulating little bits of paper that say how awesome he is, but are worthless in the larger game. He never moves onto the next step.

Oh, and if you can't figure out how to gain influence/respect, get out of the Valley. You are a medium-sized fish in a giant pond. Find a smaller pond. Throw a dart at a US map, move to that town. Buy every piece of land that goes up for sale. Get involved in local politics, the Zoning Board will probably have the best results. Hire people and build your dream.
There was a cell phone which couldn't focus its camera for two weeks at a time, then could again, and so on. It had something to do with the time stamps of samples it read from its sensor and a sign extension gone wrong.

I never imagined the internal clock could affect camera focus, but it did.
I don't see either of your hypotheticals as "insane". Of course you call a rich guy "upper class", no matter how he acts, and a poor guy not, no matter how refined his background.
Cloud mostly means "you don't pay your sysadmin; the colo does."
Because obviously nothing ever improves.
>one insititutional problem on HN is that males outnumber females greatly //

How do you know?

It certainly seems likely there's a large imbalance, but you know. You even claim to know the sex of specific commenters. Maybe you do, but why does the sex of the commenters matter, surely it's the substance of the comments that are important?
As an added bonus, Volunteering makes you feel a lot better :)

http://www.livescience.com/4443-study-good-feel-good.html

(first link I found, plenty of other studies)
"Was she being bullied and was going to do this to someone else?"

Do what to someone else, hurt their ears? Have you ever actually seen a works bomb go off?
from the same website as the article:
94% of Americans Cannot Name One Chinese Brand.
https://www.hdtradeservices.com/blog/Ninety+Four+Percent+of+...

So apparently, there aren't any Chinese companies making a point of telling people they are Chinese, and US consumers don't care enough to look for the "Made in ..." notice.
I sense an axe grinding...
Brain Scans Can Predict Which Alcoholics Are Most Likely to Relapse
Gotta love online learning...no more waiting for information to be available in a text book and to enroll in classes to get educated.
My first question is how this works when you have more than one server.

It's not mentioned in the article, but this implementation uses the standard Rails Cache:

https://github.com/kickstarter/rack-attack/blob/master/lib/r...

There are particular hooks in there for Redis. So if you've got "n" servers, it seems the preferred approach is to use a central Redis store.
What part of "any sane jurisdiction" wasn't clear?
One day at home we played a game where we all reached for some random thing within arms reach and I think it was 8 out of 10 had 'Made in China' on them somewhere.
> You seem to be claiming that all technological change is capital-augmenting.

No, I'm discussing the effect of capital-augmenting technological change, and specifically why I would expect depressed wages rather than long-lasting unemployment to be the principal durable effect of such change.

I'm not making any claim about the distribution of technological change among labour-augmenting, capital-augmenting, and labor-neutral categories.
SSE4 added FRNDINT (x87) and ROUNDSS/SD (xmm) to do this task purely on hardware.

Further, if one is seriously determined, there are ways to perform bitwise on floating-point registers directly. On XMM, it's trivial: just take advantage of the integer (and non-integer, e.g. XORAPS) instruction available.

On x87, one can take advantage of the direct mapping between MMX and x87 registers to manipulate them using MMX's integer instructions. This has problems, but as I said -- seriously determined.
This is not a question plagued by the LMGTFY problem, where people are told to use a search engine, but they only find other people asking the question and being told to use a search engine.

What it is, is a question burdened with too many assumptions to be answered easily. The next time you see it, try identifying some of those assumptions and challenging them, rather than getting all pissed off. You might be pleased with the results.

For example:

"Is interest in the field important, anyway? Would lack of interest actually explain the lack of participation? It doesn't have to, it's possible to pursue a career despite not having much interest, especially initially."

"Intimidation-by-men vs. lack-of-interest is a false dichotomy. It doesn't have to be one or the other, it could be both or neither."
What dog do you have in this particular fight?
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I wouldn't say the site isn't basically functional. It seems like it's improved a lot since I first tried it out (it recommended I eat olive oil, and just olive oil, for lunch). Now it comes up with some interesting meal ideas I wouldn't have thought of myself.
Right, and lighting a cigarette with a $1 convenience store butane lighter can be described innocuously as:

Intentional ignition of an incendiary device via the combustion
of highly compressed explosive gas using a manually triggered
high voltage electrical discharge.

Edit: while you're technically correct that if what was made was designed to explode then it is an IED, you could also say that blowing air into a Ziploc bag, sealing it, and then stomping on it is also an IED. Are Ziploc bags designed for this use? No, thus it was improvised. Did it explode? Yes. Was it a device? Yes. The problem is that IED is such a loaded term and its use in this case can be quite misleading.
I'm assuming you aren't an American because I have never heard the term "works bomb" before. It's also funny because on the first link from google[1] (below the youtube video) it clear states:

Warning! The Works bomb is illegal to make! Don’t do it! The information below is purely for educational purposes (such as research papers) and may leave ... crucial steps.

If you think IED has no emotional baggage, try the word "bomb". When I was in college I had the misfortune of being in a bathroom when a pipe burst in the ceiling. Just 1 idiot speculating and saying the words "cherry bomb" cost me 3 hours of questioning by police.

[1] http://chemistrytwig.com/2009/08/21/the-works-bomb/
These days of zero-tolerance (that is, most days on the planet except mid-twentieth century) it is too easy to just go with the flow and convict of whatever is brought to the eyes of justice. You need luck, good lawyer or both to get fair treatment, especially if the public thinks you're guilty of "something".
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Prego. It’s available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/gomorrah/id373145855

Also on Netflix: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Gomorrah/70100401?locale=e...

Highly recommended viewing. Officially, it’s fiction, but Italian friends have told me that it’s an accurate portrayal of what goes on in Italy.
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Wow - that is so totally different to how we look at class in the UK. I think what I'm thinking of the class divide, you might call the old-money, new-money divide.
Not really: I said "maps", which means that it's the same page, there is no duplication. But the mere presence of tmpfs as yet another moving part adds overhead and memory consumption.

The OP did mention the security angle, i.e. the database is never written to a disk, so perhaps there's some convenience there.
Dry ice bombs can actually be pretty darned hazardous. A friend spent some time in the hospital after making one.
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Show HN: Simple way to visualize Conway's Game of Life on an html Canvas
Hey Mike - can you give me some details on the examples you're playing with? If I get around to it, I was going to see about including some canned examples to maybe show/disprove how things like that work (at least with this version particular of the algorithm). The inclusion of the dangling nodes matrix and that extra all-ones one can make it trickier to predict what will happen.
Related: the latest (1.7.x) OpenAFS for Windows is a native Windows file system.

http://www.openafs.org/windows.html

That's pretty cool I think. I don't use it now, but I'm tempted to use it to share between Windows and Linux instead of say Samba.
I wouldn't want to be sprayed by drano, but I wouldn't want to be next to either anyway. I have never heard of anyone actually being hurt by these things. Considering how popular they are, if they presented any appreciable danger you would think lots of people would be getting hurt by them.
Do I really need to explain it? According to this attorney, accidentally setting off a small explosion that results in no physical harm being done warrants a felony while murder doesn't even warrant a slap on the wrist.

It* baffles me.
Huh; it's probably a bad sign that I see a little too much of my own startup's pitch in that description.

(Then again, I usually describe my startup as "a group chat/collaboration tool that has learned from the reasons people prefer MMOs to IRC." Framed that way, it doesn't sound nearly so priggish--but I don't decide how it's framed, the public does. Sort of makes me worry.)
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> Why, still, do you exclusively penalise the other party for unfamiliarity, which is a bilateral function?

Because social relations aren't symmetric. Successful societies are built on: families, local communities, and national unity (in that order). This is nearly universal. Certainly, someone in Chengdu cares far more about his neighbors than he cares about me!

> Why are intranational and international wealth inequality seen as diametrically opposed subjects?

I view things that way because poor people in America are part of the same body politic as myself, while poor people in China are not. The well-being of people on the south side of Chicago or in the Bronx affects me directly. The well-being of people in China does not.

The ironic thing is that the Chinese wouldn't find my viewpoint curious. Of course your own community is more important than other peoples' communities, and your nation more important than other peoples' nations. It's a self-evident truth in Asian culture.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2708033/technically-why-i...

No concrete benchmarks but everything I can find makes the same claim. A context switch in erlang is approx 20 ns, and a OS level context switch is between 1000 and 2000 ns. Mostly because it can make more assumptions about state, less processor state flushing etc.
Is this an iDevice limitation? The android version doesn't connect to Google's servers at all, so there would be no way for them to know you've setup multiple copies.
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Amazing.
It never ceases to amaze me at the amount of hate people can feel for someone they've never met...
I sort of avoid food from China. Oddly, chemicals from China are ok, but I rationalize because they're in milligram quantities, so impurities are also relatively small, and they get GC/MS'd.

I also avoid software/security products from China and Chinese-controlled entities. To some extent, I'd like to include hardware, but that's essentially impossible. I avoid Huawei and ZTE at least, but I still buy Apple, Lenovo, etc.

I would probably not trust security software written by a Chinese citizen in the US who had extensive ongoing personal/family connections to China. I would use a game, and probably general purpose stuff. It makes me sad that this position is justified by the threat environment. I tend to feel the same way about most of Eastern Europe/Russia, too, although perhaps less acutely.

The horrible thing about all of this is that Chinese and fUSSR developers are some of the smartest/best in the world.
I've seen one on Youtube and they are all fine and dandy when everyone is aware what is going to happen and moves away. Frankly, I wouldn't want to be anywhere next to one when they went off and possibly get Drano or toilet cleaner in my eyes.
I couldn't find reliable figures for China, India, Brazil or other countries, but I'm very certain I'd rather be in the top 10% of those countries than the bottom 10% of America.

You'd be right about Brazil.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/the-haves-and-t...
Pretty cool! Thanks Valve!
Good question. In general the non-preemptive green-thread/fiber/lightweight-thread is a pretty well understood notion. Some OS support it, e.g. Windows supports manually scheduled fiber. However, OS support is not universal. It will take time, just like the transition from process to thread. Most supports come in the form of user-mode library since it doesn't need kernel-mode support.

Native thread needs stack which can be substantial, usually ~1M. Lightweight thread just needs a data structure to hold its data, usually hundreds of bytes to a few K. It's a factor of 1000X to 10000X.

Besides the memory advantage, lightweight threads can have performance advantage over native threads since the switching of lightweight threads on the same CPU doesn't need to do a context-switch, which can have substantial performance penalty as the L1/L2 cache and all the registers of the CPU need to be flushed and reloaded. On a multi-cpu system, memory barriers need to be crossed, cache needed to be sync'ed across CPU, and the TLB might be flushed as well, depending on how the OS implements the memory model of a thread.

Lightweight thread does require more attention from app developers since they need to worry about manually yielding now.

Java has great support on NIO which when used with lightweight threads can provide amazing scalability and performance boosts. See Netty and its friends.
I've done the first, and get good results with aluminum, brass, and both mild and stainless steel (although stainless is probably pushing the limit here). Your anecdote + my anecdote don't equal data, but your use of absolutes -- specifically "the only way" is incorrect. It can be done, and many have done exactly that.

Also, your magic $10k price-point mill doesn't include the cost of tooling, or workholding, or CAD/CAM software, etc. So now you're just reaching for anything to inflate the cost back up to your number.
I would like to believe that, but I really don't. I'm not convinced that people in Wisconsin are better off in the long run if we trade with China rather than bomb it (to set up two extremes). That is to say, I'm not convinced free trade is Pareto efficient.
What would the statistics tell you?

How do you quantify interest?

Decisions are easier to quantify, but still can be difficult to measure.

What influences the decisions?
Well, the strategy would be to take on as much debt as possible with a low interest rate, then put it in savings accounts as interest rates rise (so the interest from the savings account will be > interest on the debt).
I used fail2ban to block abusive ips (based on string matching of specific errors in our logs). This seems like an interesting alternative though to keep things under one roof.
Other than the discourse that is usually followed on HN, comments typically need to be relevant to the conversation. An accidental shooting (with no link to any source BTW) is completely irrelevant to a bomb going off at school. The accidental shooting wouldn't even be relevant to a school shooting. The only link to either is a prosecutor that is deciding on the charges, which is again irrelevant.
So, is every post from this site going to be submitted to HN?

Hopefully. :)
The jackpot is hand paid, so I think its defrauding the casino staff that verifies the payout?
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Hold on, Symphony2 is that bad?? I use Drupal, which will use Symphony2, this sucks!
"This browser is not supported."

Welcome to the '90s.
Well, the answer to zero tolerance is not "ALL tolerance". If those are my only choices and I am absolutely forced to pick one of those two sides, then I'm going to go with the side that doesn't foster an environment of "do as you please... we'll tolerate anything". That is a pretty slippery slope to get on. We have to have some amount of rules and punishment.
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tmpfs will use the swap area in low memory situations, it doesn't 'map' to it.

I'm a little confused about how you are wasting RAM. tmpfs lives entirely in the page cache and mmaped files are always page cache resident as well so they always map to the same page cache. It is possible that file system overhead will be less as tmpfs is simpler but maybe you should simply change the mongodb source code to mmap the database anonymously without a file backing in the first place.
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