skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's well-intentioned bashing if you want to slap a label on it. I am one of the few that still use Firefox, I've used it since the beginning more or less and the memory leaks issue you attempt to downplay was a very real issue that plagued the browser for so long when Chrome came along and sanboxed everything, separate process and was super fast people jumped ship faster than the Titanic.

The argument of turning around someone's opinion and asking how they would fix and maintain the problem is an exhausted counterargument that has no validity. It wasn't the Mozilla team didn't have the smarts to fix the memory leaks, it's the fact they denied there was even a problem for so long. It's all about prioritising what you work on. So if I had any involvement in Mozilla and Firefox's development, I would be prioritising what's important and what isn't.

This place has really changed. You can't give your opinion on something without being down-voted into oblivion, even if your opinion is well-intentioned and constructive. My comment wasn't negative, it was my opinion. I didn't bash anyone, I'm sick of this place misconstruing other peoples comments (a frequent occurrence from what I've noticed).
Here's the whole collection.
http://imgur.com/a/oZHt1

I met George(Stratfor founder) in the greenroom at BloombergTV, I told him how much I enjoyed his reports on Armenia while I was living there for three months and he invited me to their offices in Austin. Keep in mind this was all before the wikileaks revelation -- at the time I was just so thrilled SOMEONE in the world was writing about economic + political news in the Caucasus in a smart timely manner.

As I've said elsewhere throughout the day, I did not do any business with stratfor whatsoever.
You can't expect anyone to take this seriously. The hiptop was nothing like the iPhone.

And in 2007 before the iPhone was released Android looked like a blackberry clone: http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/2012/05/2007s-pre-m3-ve...
I believe the highest spec'd FirefoxOS phone so far (pre-orderable) is the 150€ Peak+ from Geeksphone: http://shop.geeksphone.com/en/phones/8-peak.html
>> Does anyone know what has been PG's ROI on his investments is, for all we know it could be below industry standard.

Hell no. Just do the math:

http://ycombinator.com/nums.html

The total value of YC companies is more like $12B today. That makes their average 6% stake worth around $700m or so. Around 600 companies total, at around $20k each - a total investment of just $12m or so by my calculations.

$12m to $700m in <10 years is about as good as it gets in investing.
undeclared variabels aren't legal, they cause errors. if your php is configured to ignore those errors thats on you.

of course it could be a security issue without undefined variables coercing to an empty string in string context - it could allow request parameters to override defined variables.
How competitive are app store categories? An analysis
I disagree that it wasn't a language fault; it provided very little benefit and directly caused hard-to-diagnose bugs. Being told where the mines are doesn't make walking across a minefield any more palatable. If it were a good idea it wouldn't still be around.

Undeclared variables in PHP produce an E_NOTICE, right? Better than Perl 4, at least. :)
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They had no problems with breaking the compatibility when being developed and they were better designed to start with. PHP started as a quick and dirty alternative, therefore gained respectable traction, became worse by trying to answer all needs, now it tries to be like others. Why? I don't hate PHP. I love it for what it helped create (most of the popular websites is a start). It's just isn't the best at anything anymore.
Haskell's tools for modularity cut in a dimension you're not used to, and if you're not experienced with it, won't see. Percentage-wise in the last 15 years I haven't spent that much time in Haskell, but it's Haskell's tools I'm missing more often in imperative languages than the other way around. (And note the "more often"; it's not that I never miss more conventional tools in Haskell, it's just that I spend more time missing Haskell tools in other languages.)
Changing language because your toolset is poor? no thanks.
The reason might be not cluelessness, bad attitude, rigid thinking or bad marketing, but the hidden costs of your suggestions. Many migrants tend to spend an inordinate amount of time, during the first months, thinking about how they might be perceived, often playing pointless guessing games. For example: having two different names is an additional source of confusion, and a constant reminder of "otherness". These costs have to be balanced against the perceived benefits. Sometimes they are worth it, often times not.

Focusing on improving communication skills is different because the cost is time, effort and perhaps money, but there are no negative side effects.
That statistic is meaningless. As pg said explicitly, the problem is not being foreign. The problem is having an accent so thick no one understands you when you speak.
I wonder how Obama would have been classified in his "Community Organizer" days.

if job == 'Lawyer':
score + 100
if poor_people_friends > 150:
score - 100
Try to schedule your tests to run over lunch, or during meetings, or kick them off at the end of a work day.
Thank you.

I wish OP would have done the same with a comment. In fact, this should probably be standard procedure when submitting a link to a compromised site if it's not to a blog/news post about it.
The seats in the back of the 911 won't even hold an adult.
You know when I found that out?
When I went to pick it up on delivery.

Had you never even seen a picture of a 911 before dropping eighty grand on one?
Last time I went to Germany was...2009? I grabbed something to go at the airport and hit the road for my destination in central Bavaria. After I checked into my hotel, I hit six entire towns where everything was closed. It was around 6-7pm on a Sunday. Which is a hugely popular eating out time for families in the States. I finally found a Kebab place that was open and stuffed myself to the gills I was so starved. The rest of the week was perfectly fine. The next Sunday? Same thing, only I made sure to have a couple pre-made sandwiches in my hotel room and some breakfast meats I stored in the fridge from breakfast the previous day.

As a traveler, Germany on Sundays simply sucks.
I totally understand. In fact, Kitten has named variables for that reason. You can write code that looks imperative, expressiony, or dataflowy, according to taste. Here’s a silly example:

// Implicitly thread state between functions.
def promptInt:
": " cat prompt
readInt
fromSome

// Write stacky code if you want.
def squareDiff:
- dup *

// Use locals as much as you need to.
"x0" promptInt ->x0
"y0" promptInt ->y0
"x" promptInt ->x
"y" promptInt ->y

x0 x squareDiff ->a
y0 y squareDiff ->b

a b + sayInt
Chrome on my Nexus 7 was a little bit sluggish but basically fine. I was mostly too busy going "ooh, pretty" to mind, anyway :)
Grindr is looking for a Devops engineer
Dev Ops Engineer @ Grindr - http://grindr.com

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- Grindr is among the highest grossing apps in the iOS app store and boasts some of the most engaged users across all social networking apps.
- Grindr has all the benefits of a mobile startup, but with a user base approaching 6 million.
- We are looking for DevOps engineer who can help build out the future of the Grindr system while maintaining the existing infrastructure.
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Responsibilities & Tasks
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- Help improve ops automation and monitoring throughout the system.

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- Strong general programming skills, especially Java and Ruby
- Strong scripting skills
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- Strong hands-on experience with JVM, Rails, MySQL, and NoSQL technologies
- Experience using AWS technologies such as EC2,RDS, Cloudwatch, and Elastic Beanstalk
- Passionate about technology and enjoys challenges.
- Able to contribute and work independently on a small team.

Bonus
- Knowledge of Erlang, XMPP, eJabberd
- Experience with mobile platforms and technologies.
yes reading from undeclared php variables causes an error, assuming you haven't silenced using @ or set php to ignore notices.
Physical page frame allocation with bitmap algorithms
How to fix your PC really easy
A good repair course that will show you how you can repair your computer at home!
The facts are striking, and surprisingly unknown[1]. For example, just 1% of the US population commits 27% of the murder. Can you guess which demographic group that is?

Can you imagine a politician giving a speech about that?

[1] http://takimag.com/article/guns_and_race_steve_sailer/print
True, there is a downside for people who are at higher risk of not paying back the loan. But that's the entire purpose. If everyone has to pay the same interest rate, less people can afford loans and those that do have to pay to make up for all the others that don't pay their loans back. The economy can suffer indirectly as well, so it does affect everyone.
And here you are, pretending not to have been proven wrong about Samsung's profit share, elsewhere in the same thread.

The linked article is not claiming apple is morally superior. It is claiming that Apple is strategically different, and highlighting Ballmers's focus on short term profitability as a mistake.

Amazon is another example of the same thing.

You seem to be obsessed with bashing Apple and some putative 'apple crowd'. If you calm down and read what has been written you'll see that nobody else here is bashing anyone or making derisive assertions about other groups of people.

Why are you doing this?
The Middle of Bavaria. Of course the airport had food. But I was 2 and a half hours away from an airport by autobahn. Every restaurant for dozens of kilometers around was closed.

I asked my hotelier about it and he just shrugged and told me where to get some kebab three towns over.
Can anyone here share their experience on how they get rid of their accent? As a non-native speaker, there are some phonemes that are just straight up unrecognisable for me : "h" - "x", "war" - "wall", "word" - "world" to name a few. I recognized the problem about a year ago and has been trying to figure it out since then, albeit without much success.
I'd agree to disagree at this point.
I never mentioned compatibility. someone said it's old, and i refuted that point, as its the same age or younger as three of the languages most often compared to it
> Obstetricians often pay $85,000 to as much as $200,000 for malpractice insurance.

[Citation needed]
Thats mostly a PDF/viewer problem. PDF is not really meant for C&P.

Concerning quality of the PDF document, LaTeX very good in relation to other creators.
I work. Don't let tests dictate your workflow, start them and move onto something else. The results will wait until you have time to focus on them again.
Right - just google for a different app every time you want to get something done.

Also, storing all your data on someone else's server is obviously the best thing yet for privacy and freedom.
And they commit only a fraction of the amount of crime of their black counter-parts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6279991
"I'm rude because I've had a shitty day" isn't a good excuse.

I think Jason made the mistake of not clarifying in his comment that he only does this to agents who are rude to him first. Now his comment has turned into a new story by itself with a lot of angry comments.

I feel sorry for Jason because he seems like a nice guy who just didn't properly proofread his comment before posting and he's now getting a huge ass kicking as a result.
I dunno -- there's a lot of talk of self-segregation in the last decade or two. I think that gets lumped in with general segregation in this day and age (certainly it didn't 50 years ago), and I don't think that form of segregation implies any malicious intent.
There was a recent attack against TorBrowser that utilized a vulnerability in older versions of the Firefox Javascript engine. These sorts of vulnerabilities are not uncommon, so turning off JS significantly decreases the attack surface.
I agree. There is no proof that MySQL cannot do the job when configured correctly. Furthermore, another issue is with coding. Sometimes unnecessary nested "if" statements can cause huge problems no matter what type of database you use.
I think delay slots and similar tricks have been abandoned not because they failed to enable high performance, but for pragmatic and business reasons: the details end up changing every 2-3 years, so you need to re-compile all your code, and it takes 2-3 years for the compiler to get good and stable.
300 Days with the iPad Mini
I don't see anything very distinctive. Aside from the usual colorful doors == sf startup, the place (from that photograph) looks just like any other startup space (except darker, but that's likely because it would have made taking that photo difficult if the background were bright)
The problems I've had at CDG were in entry control. 4 or 5 jumbo jets disgorging in-bound passengers at the same time all to be routed through a single immigration officer. Sure there's a ton of booths, but only one officer. I think they've both been mid-afternoon Saturday arrivals.

One time I think I timed it at around 2 and a half hours to get processed. No particular questions, just the usual look at the passport, look at you, stamp off you go. But there were probably a thousand people passing through the control point.
It wouldn't be practical.

For example, consider what happens if, as is very likely, you change your mind. The doctor says, "It's cancer, but it's treatable." You say, "Oh, I didn't think this through, please save me."

Very few doctors could say, "Tough, here's some aspirin, GTFO." If they could, they wouldn't have chosen to become doctors.

Or consider the case where you're unconscious and dying. Do they save you, or not? They can't really know what it will ultimately cost, and the certainly can't know how much money you could raise.
Can't speak about Russia, but other countries are much better off. Poland and Estonia come to mind right now.
Also, I haven't heard any contradicting anecdotes from other parts of the Communist bloc. Life seems to have been mostly the same everywhere.
> But even if those things were at the heart of your decision, so long as you don't say it, is that even illegal?

Yes, absolutely.

If you want the right to set up a business to serve the people of the nation, the people have decided that you can do so, so long as you serve them without regard to color, gender, etc.

Our forefathers made these laws because they saw that given the opportunity, entities with a profit motive will pursue profit over all else, to the detriment of society as a whole.

It was seen that when discrimination occurs, society as a whole suffers.

I don't want my neighbor to go broke and let his house fall apart because he married a black woman from a hellhole in detroit.
Cool, this January I've created http://snapkite.com - it allows you to search for mobile photos posted on Twitter + live stream of mobile photos. It does filtering as much as it's feasible. What do you think?
I wouldn't equate not giving someone a loan because they are at high risk as "punishment". But anyways it's just a data point. Why does it matter what the data point is, if it helps make more accurate predictions?

No it's not socially acceptable to use certain data points to make decisions, but this has good justification behind it. People will irrationally weigh stuff like race or gender to make decisions even when it doesn't matter. But this is being done by a completely unbiased computer program. And they wouldn't use it if it made their predictions worse. So that reasoning of the predictor being irrational doesn't apply in this case.
Mayor Bloomberg claims that stop and frisk under-targets blacks and hispanics, given the percentage of crime committed[1]. It will be interesting to see if NY becomes Detroit in its absence. NYC is notable for having a lower level of crime than you would expect given its ethnic makeup.

[1] http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/whites_subjected_to_too_m...
Given it's google you're talking about, I wouldn't take

> would like to

to mean

> we definitely will

This is the same company that publicly defended net neutrality until it happened to be in the position of providing network access to customers.
Qt 4.7 ported to AmigaOS 4
My brother has had some accommodations, such as being allowed to type answers on a computer, or being able to take the SAT over multiple days, that I think should just be available to everybody. These exams are supposed to test knowledge, not handwriting/the ability to write for long periods of time without getting achy, or the ability to stay focused on a boring test for over 4 hours; nor do those seem all that onerous on schools. Test time falls more into "onerous", and being able to solve math problems or write quickly can be important, but if a student does significantly better in general without a time limit due to stress, it seems somewhat unfortunate to me that they need to go to a doctor to be accommodated, something which largely depends on their parents and has something of a stigma...
I've actually asked some American (one of them being my boss) on whether I should be using an American name to make it easier for everyone at work.

I received two "It's weird" answers, and haven't asked the third person yet.

Considering that my name is relative short (the first 4 letter of my username, Americans tend to remember the "h" and "a"'s position swapped though), would you consider it a difficult name to remember or not?
Absolutely true; fortunately the article already provides one.
I'd also add that you want to encrypt the metadata of the message. As we've seen, the from/to address metadata is often as revealing as the content.

How can you build a messaging system where the delivery service doesn't know where to deliver something?
Then shame on the developer for releasing an app for mass consumption based on private and non finalized APIs, and then blaming Google when things break. I understand that ragging on corporations is fun, but c'mon. Perspective , please.
The gifts sucked, that was the main problem. Pretty simple really. Also, they were absurdly expensive. The fact that 80% of people went for gift cards says little about the "physical" aspect and everything about the price point and what you could actually buy. People in real life buy physical gifts all the time, obviously.

Facebook should try again and partner with a site like Etsy (disclaimer: I used to work there) to provide users with an inventory of actually meaningful and cool items customized for the person they're sending to, not mass produced garbage or fatty junk food like cookies and candy that will just sit for a while and get tossed. Receiving a Facebook Gift should feel warm and fuzzy, not like a robot delivered you a souped-up McDonald's Happy Meal. To address the price problem, they should make it straightforward and easy for multiple friends to throw in $10 each for a nice, meaningful gift together. They'd make a fortune.
> I wish people would stop pretending that Google is somehow more "open" or different from other companies that restrict the functionality of their devices in similar ways.

This is the first device Google has done this with though, isn't it?
LOL.
I dont think is such a mystery.
Civilizations dont need money.
Although it may seem like an aberration nowadays, it is quite logic to think money isnt necessary.
If governments were able to provide jobs in exchange for food, housing, medication, etc... then governments would solve all of their problems from hunger, poverty, and even crime or inequality... but hey, nobody in this world wants to be equal to another person. We always want to have more and more power over others.
I was just looking for a good list like this. Thanks.
Mayor Bloomberg claims that stop and frisk is biased against white people[1], compared to the percent of crime they commit.

The black criminal subculture is unique in America. There is no equivalence in other groups. Black males between the age of 14 and 24 make up 1% of the population and commit 27% of all murders. It's shocking and astonishing, and well above what you would predict would be the effect of poverty alone[2].

1 in 3 black American males will serve a jail sentence.

[1] http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/whites_subjected_to_too_m...

[2] http://takimag.com/article/guns_and_race_steve_sailer/print
If that's true, then that's astounding. Why isn't some huge wall street fund swooping in to this? Do people not know. The White House should be calling in PG for advice.
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It's not always under an individuals control. Things happen outside their control so they can't pay back their loan. In insurance, getting into an accident isn't always the persons fault and we still use it to determine their rates.

Why should some predictors should be considered "sacred"? The point is to make the best predictions possible. It doesn't really matter what information is used to determine that.
I think that Russia today is closer in terms of crazy laws they put in place to the US than to Poland.
Reminds me of a plot point in deus ex.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-bijO3uEw
Wealthy people can be quite interesting and surprising. A very different perspective on problem solving seen here.
> If you need to handle 240 logins per second (which presumably means many many more requests per second, as there are usually many requests per login), 30 MB of RAM is the least of your worries.

Well, if you have a large system of nodes, and until now you arranged things as an SOA where there's one node-cluster in particular that serves as an authentication service, doing all the hashing and table-lookup and comparison, and handing out session tokens for your other services to use--then with scrypt, that auth service will now be have the combined "memory hard"ness of every user's login requests on it for your entire system.

With bcrypt, that level of CPU+memory load isn't so bad--but with scrypt, I think I'd think about pushing the hashing step into the client library part of that service's API, before the RPC call, so that the load gets distributed throughout the system back to where it's being "spent."
I for one am looking forward to seeing how this project progresses. Maybe it can become another alternative within web hosting panels?
Each cycle, a modern x86:

- Fetches 16-32 bytes

- Finds instruction boundaries (because of variable-length encoding)

- Branch predicts any branches in the fetch group

- Decodes 3-4 instructions in the fetch group

- Issues 3-4 decoded operations to the rest of the pipeline

This whole process has to happen every cycle (though it's pipelined over 3-5 cycles in the front end), and the performance of this process gates the rest of the pipeline. As a result, many of the micro-architectural "gotchas" in modern x86 processors tends to be in the fetch/decode phase.