skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A child on a U.S. street with an actual handgun wouldn't surprise me one bit."

It probably should, since that is an exceedingly rare phenomenon. Furthermore, painting such a broad stroke of a nation with ~314 million people and thousands of political jurisdictions, with their own gun laws, is absurd.
Remember that Sun led by example.

com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonPainter, anyone?

http://javadoc.bugaco.com/com/sun/java/swing/plaf/nimbus/Int...
1) Has this ever actually happened to you? If not, like most fear of success, it's probably manageable to put it off until it actually happens.

2) Clients are buying your availability, they aren't buying bump-what-you're-doing-now. (That's a separate service, and ridiculously expensive.) If they find makework for you on the 29th, you tell them "Gotcha, I'll tell you when it is done and we'll count it against this month's allocation." If they balk at that, you can tell them that happily your email address works all 30 days of the month and that they can get in their requests quicker for faster turn-around.

Of course, the ultimate protection against clients being impossible to work with is not working with them, but -- again -- I'd wait until you actually had a problem before rejecting them for that.
You seem to be describing behavior that the article did not. Specifically, the retention of 'str' because of the 'logIt' function.

If you read more closely, you'll notice that logIt was not the cause of 'str's retention, but instead, the doSomethingWithStr function was.

When logIt is present by itself, str is not retained. Only when doSomethingWithStr is added alongside logIt is str retained.
Given my workflow, I could be using a machine of that kind 95% of the time, as long as Chromium or Iceweasel perform acceptably.

I'm on Vim and Screen, and compiling. More than anything I notice a fast storage device. Plug in an SSD and that's solved.

Lack of 3D acceleration is a pain if you use something that requires it.

I do some scientific computing with OpenCL, which I have a machine dedicated to. Other than that, it would be okay for me. If only the screen resolution was good, which doesn't seem to be the case. But it's still acceptable for some uses.

Only the abysmal battery life, noisy fan and poor screen seem a very strong sacrifice over what I use in one of my laptops (it does have decent 3D acceleration but I barely ever use it). As GPU acceleration gets more prevalent in general computing this is going to be a show-stopper too...

If only someone came with a fully FOSS system-on-a-chip at the level of the newer beagleboards, I'd be willing to pay a 100% premium, easily.
Yeah? Like what agencies? The only one I have heard of is 10X Management
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Intel has long since fixed the mistakes they made with the Pentium 4.
If anyone is looking to purchase one of these, I would like to point out that you can still get them straight from china by purchasing them from lemote directly, from their store at alibaba. I got mine from here last march, it was about $200.

EDIT: Unfortunately it seems like they are no longer selling lemotes at alibaba. I guess I'm glad I got mine when I did.
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I always thought it's rather self explanatory. Reading a text without distance between the words requires more effort. Capital letters don't help much for that. Underscore gives a space between the words, which allows more fluent reading.
The bit about exceptions, using a comma instead of as, should just be left out. I don't imagine anyone starting out today is using Python < 2.6, and having both in the document is confusing.
Generally processors started with short pipelines and only lengthened them after extensive analysis showing that the extra stages produce a net gain in performance. There was a period around 2002-2005 where that analysis was wrong because it was based on wrong assumptions, but now that we're past that I doubt there's much performance to be gained from shortening pipelines.
What taking notes does for me -- and I assume most other people -- is that it forces me to internalize what I just learned in a way that makes sense to my brain and fits within previous constructs I've already developed through n years of living.
He has mentioned in the past that most of his consulting includes non-disclosure agreements. WPEngine is one client that he is allowed to talk about. Also, he prefers not to mention rates because a) they've gone up over time, and b) he doesn't want to have to negotiate against his past self when pricing.
The best example of this I can think of is

.. something other than the topic at hand, where only the gullibe just take "retarded statements" on faith, even if only as much to further discuss them, while the super heroes of intellectual honesty dismiss them on the same basis and blame bad apples.

"Nothing to see here", in however many words it is said, is really just a meme as well.
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For that 1 in 30 stories.
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Easily solved with webrings and pages of links.
Spaces between words got added to Latin over a thousand years ago. I figure there must be a reason that change occurred.
If imagine if cars were more like software.

Your car would get 1,000 miles per gallon but crash every two weeks.

shudders
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> The problem was that the formula for deciding who required preclearance is a static rule that does not allow for the evaluation of any events after 1972. Therefore, regardless of how much a state or other jurisdiction changes, they could not change their status under this law. If they were originally on the preclearance list, never had another voting anomaly, elected minorities to every position in the state, and had 100% minority turnout, for decades on end, they would remain on the preclearance list, because of what happened 40 years ago.

That's simply not true. You can seek exemption from section 5. It's called "bailing out". A county or state on the preclearance list that has not been discriminatory for 10 years (see [1] for criteria) may sue to be exempt from Section 5. Many counties have done this successfully; the state of New Hampshire successfully bailed out as recently as this March.

States or counties that were found to be discriminatory could also be "bailed in." Arkansas and New Mexico, LA County in California, as well as several other counties were bailed in.

In other words, the Voting Rights Act was built with a mechanism to self-destruct when it was no longer necessary. Congress overwhelmingly approved an extension of the VRA in 2006 after extensive research and testimony. If a state or county was still covered in 2013, then it had a problem with discrimination within the past ten years, which is the minority thought the opinion that "things have changed" was foolish.

http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/misc/sec_4.php
It might be self-explanatory, but there's a vast gulf between self-explanatory and correct.
I added that after the fact because someone did try to run the thing on python 2.4, got an error and was confused about it
Maybe... personally I find most of the carping about Java class names to be hyperbole. This is one of the more extreme examples you'll find (especially in common use) and, again, if you look at what it actually does, the name is descriptive and reasonable.

As to whether or not the whole persistence mechanism is "over-engineered", well... that's a separate question. I can see some of the arguments for it, but when I look at how much easier my life is with JPQL and Spring Data and the auto-generated JPA classes, versus hand-coding raw JDBC calls and raw SQL, I'll take the former every time. And I, for one, like transactions, and the way Spring lets me annotate my Service Facade classes to manage transactions for me.
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That has to have been automatically generated, no?
Not misleading at all. Just a lame excuse he used.

What's incredible is that people will take the excuse at face value --or even believe he really was on "unpaid leave" and still allowed to be there.
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Its even worse! They call it a "Constitution-free" zone as if it has any connection with other rights.
There are some advantages to a static-file CMS, that would make someone chose them over a regular CMS.

I'm not invalidating your criticisms, but search, multi-user support, and localization aren't important to everybody.

Also the sentence "there are plenty of CMSes" is also possibly the most true statement ever made in the history of software.
That's what you're saying, but you've got a selection bias.
It's an amusing story and a good cautionary tale, no doubt. But not all complex designs are over-engineering. Some problems are complex and require complex solutions. And sometimes complexity in one place is just a way of moving it from somewhere else, because somebody thought that tradeoff made their life better.

See what I said below about how much I prefer JPQL and Spring Data... Personally, I really do not have a problem with this.
It's an internal, automatically generated class. No programmer is ever going to use it.
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I've managed many non-trivial MySQL installations that didn't set file_per_table. I agree it is a step towards fixing the problem but can create potentially other issues.

Current shop is not running file_per_table, and has little reason to do so at ~30GB database file size. Still, dropping the table and not reclaiming any space was a rude awakening. Combine that the fact that storage was an AWS EBS sized pretty close to its limit (50GB). I could not perform two iterations of a test import without first rm'img the file. Lame.
Spending a gaming week or two deep diving into this is a worthwhile pursuit (I agree about the O'Reilly book as well). In the end, I came to the conclusion that the ASCII graphics were, in fact, incredibly good and info-dense, but the UI wrapped around the whole game was just infuriatingly bad. I'll look again in 2-3 years.
Wow! I thought that might be an April fools -- but that is a legit O'Reilly Dwarf Fortress book...
I think tau is really just motivated by people who like things to be "clean". You see them in all walks, wishing programming language syntax, math notation, spelling, grammar, etc, had been chosen to be cleaner or make more sense from the beginning.

I don't have a strong opinion, but from what I've seen I think tau makes the most sense. These things are fun to think about, because it requires that you think about how pi is used in mathematics and contemplate how we organize and use the concepts related to pi. It's a good brain exercise.

But it's hardly worth getting into a fight over.
Oh, the names are always descriptive and can be justified. You don't see things like "VeryNiceClassLoaderClassThatIMadeInJuly", it is only ever things that are justifiable.

The problem is that when you read modern code in other modern languages everything tends to be shorter, still descriptive, and still justifiable. It is something that you can't help but notice if you regularly use multiple languages.
I posted the following comment in another thread[0], but it is even more relevant here:

The other thing that is so worrying about the US having
the communications of people around the world
indiscriminately is that it basically means that the NSA
is in a position to blackmail any citizen of any country
that enters into a position of power in that country.

Forget installing a shah of Iran or propping some dictator
in a South American country. They can now do the same at
an arms length. Just collect dirt on all foreigners, wait
until they get into power, then use whatever dirt you
collected over many years to blackmail that person to do
things that are in the self interest of the people at the
NSA instead of the self interest of the people that duly
elected that representative.

This whole situation is a legitimate threat to democracy
in this country, but Congress may try to put checks and
balances in place to slow the rate at which it erodes
democracy at home. However, of more immediate importance
is how this is a legitimate threat to democracy everywhere
outside the US.

Many Americans may hear the NSA say things like "We don't
do anything illegal and coercive with this information at
home" and may believe them. But do most Americans think it
is reasonable to coerce elected officials or other
countries using any information gathered by the NSA?
Should we not be asking the NSA if they actually do that?

This is one of the questions I most want to see asked:

"General Keith B. Alexander, has the NSA ever wittingly
used collected information on any foreigner elected to
office by his or her citizens to coerce or blackmail that
duly elected official to pursue policies that may not be
in the interest of the citizens that elected them?"

IMHO any type of coercion or blackmail of any leader of any country is tantamout to an act of war against the citizens of that country. However these acts would often never be known by the citizens of those countries. Instead, if they are unhappy with coerced actions, they can only blame the politician being coerced instead of being able to blame the people pulling the strings.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5959271
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Nothing should exist anywhere in any discipline, medium, or realm that requires that many words to name.

Also, we all have this conversation periodically about the sadness of Spring complexity. They always go the same way - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550374
Hence the slow process, this is the problem with currency and money in general, by design it can store debt indefinitely allowing profits which is incentive to create scarcity.
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In this case it's not only correct, it's easy to test.
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Except that debt exists without currency, so removing currency won't solve the issue.
Yep, I've been hit by that bug numerous times over the years. Sed works fine for editing the dumps. Happy Birthday!
What is up with this pseudo-MIPS ISA? My coworker had quite a few issues with the "MIPS" support of a Loongson development board. I'm looking into using a spare Asus router with a Broadcom MIPS chip as an alternative dev board.
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The more I learn about USA the stranger it seems. Guns are legal cause freedom, even at cost of lives, and secrecy of correspondence is just nice-to-have? Why do you need the guns, if you don't use them to defend your privacy?

Bear a few things in mind... most Americans don't own a gun, and most who do don't have them to rise up against the government, and quite a few don't fit into the stereotype of 'gun loving American' at all. After the Newtown shooting (I believe it was) there was widespread support for gun control legislation (close to 90% IIRC) but it was summarily killed because of the power of lobbyists.

America is bigger and more complicated than perhaps it seems from the outside. Also, gun ownership is a constitutional issue... IANACS* but the purpose of that is to allow the people to rise up against the tyranny of either an oppressive government or an outside enemy (as there was no assumption at the time that a standing national army would be a thing, or that Britain was going to leave us alone.) So that's been something we've been arguing over since the beginning.

Meanwhile, a lot of Americans just aren't as politically charged about privacy as they are about gun rights. There's no privacy lobby which is as powerful as the NRA, an you can't win midterms by scaring your constituents about how the other party is coming to take your private keys away. There might be outrage about this eventually, but you've got to give it time to bubble up. All many Americans even know about Edward Snowden is some vague notion that he 'stole secrets' and 'gave them to China.' Meanwhile all you see on the news now is the George Zimmerman trial.

* I am not a constitutional scholar
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Intriguing that YQL is surviving. Anyone here using it for anything interesting?
The problem for me with this is that SCOTUS is defining "current," and additionally defining it in a nebulous way.

If they were originally on the preclearance list, never had another voting anomaly, elected minorities to every position in the state, and had 100% minority turnout, for decades on end, they could introduce a bill in Congress to end preclearance in their specific case. Of course, the current data from those jurisdictions is probably nearly as dismal as it was in 1972, so this wouldn't happen. Instead, the requirement for preclearance has been removed by dictate, with no evidence that the situation has significantly changed.
The real MIPS IV architecture is covered by some patents. Probably the real MIPS SIMD stuff is covered, too.
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>* if the USG employed 1/4th the number of people it does now, that'd still be over a million people, and no group of one million people can possibly avoid a couple crazy people.*

Also known as "the lone wolf" - "bad apple" explanation / defence.

It's not about what he said (which sounds like a BS excuse in the first place) -- or even if he "had no limits" or not. Of course he had limits. He couldn't open fire in 5th Avenue and expect it to be OK.

The issue is what he was doing there and in what authority. Also, does anybody really believes they respect the limitation of operations inside US, because "it's the law"?

The unrelated case of the "100 mile from the border Constitution-free zone" is also not about the legal basis. Dismissing the legend part of it doesn't change the reality of border patrol more often than not taking the law into their hands and doing whatever the fuck they like with little repercussions.
Responded in the ticket, but yeah, totally your call (obviously :D)
"still people on HN who crave discussions about technical issues" -- There are actually a lot of highly informed comments. On just about every comments page I click on, there are comments from subject experts.
Is alta vista anything more than a frontend to yahoo search, which is just a frontend to Bing?

I'd love to hear from a person that still uses AltaVista as their main search engine. I can't imagine what their reasoning would be.
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That was then; this is now. I would be very surprised, almost astonished, if they let the OP continue to use the domain, even if he argued that it didn't infringe.

I looked up Instagram in an online dictionary. The word was created by the company. No way are they going to let others use it. Remember, these are lawyers we are talking about.
I believe it's an excellent investment of your time and glad you're doing it. Derek Sivers also wrote about publishing a few weeks ago: http://sivers.org/local it's very high impact stuff, we often forget that.
I disagree and don't bother downvoting, someone else downvotes me for that and doesn't even attempt to argue? To each their own...
The branches selector is something that is not very useful on github itself for most applications. The network graph on the other hand, is very useful.
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I've been dwelling on the idea of how cool it'd be to resurrect gopher as sort of an "underground web" for a few years now. Might be perfect for your "SubWeb" ^_^
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mindcrime has been a victim of a ... Stockholm syndrome.
I don't know if you saw in other posts of mine, but I am very much against current US government behavior, I am outspoken about it, and I support non-terrorist organizations related to that subject.

I am very sure I don't need to do anything "wrong" to attract negative attention of US government, even if I live in the middle of nowhere...
The next step would be to test if lowering your price has any positive effect.

Also, instead of raising your price, create add-ons that people have to pay for. It worked great for our software product.
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Time travelers from the year 1997. Not a big demo.
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YES. 1000+ commits is so useless. Also I wanted to look at the commit history and it was entirely unobvious that you can click "1000+ commits".
Author here.

I didn't want to overload the reader. Perhaps a more in-depth guide is required.
I was just reading this article; you might be interested:

http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else
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Cool and works well -- one comment: while the spacebar functions properly as play/pause, in the legend at the bottom left it's perpetually showing the "pause" icon where I'd expect it to update based on whether you're playing or paused.

Chrome/Windows
I've always maintained that java itself is not so bad. It's the things people have done with it that make angels cry. People are the problem, not java. Leave java alone.
I'm not against being open to things like ancient aliens, but I think the fact that squarerootofpi references that and astrology, etc puts it on completely different footing from tau, which the post we are discussing right now mentions being included in programming languages and scientific papers. [edit: obviously this says nothing about square root of half tau and its uses!]

I put tau into my math-related code last year, and I have enjoyed the results (which are much the same as before, of course).
I'm sure a lawyer could say more.

My understanding is that US law does not have any specific constitutional courts. Indeed, I think one could argue that US law is not necessarily "based on the constitution" but based on English Common Law since even the constitution is interpreted in light of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_law
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Here I was, hoping this would be a discussion about the algorithmic improvements that are possible with sorted arrays...
"This time, it was called Slaves to Armok: God of Blood, named after Armok, the god from dragslay. Armok himself was named after "arm_ok", a variable that counts the number of arms you have left, for inventory purposes."

Um, sold.

[edit] (I can't get over how fun that is to think about. Now I really want someone to take this recursive idea to the absurdly extreme and build a game whose design is almost completely inspired by it's own source code.)
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