skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fundamental if you ever finished a CS degree. Shamefully, the Wikipedia articles (German and English) aren't really good, and I dropped out of university before FFT was a topic.

Lots of HN readers are self-thaught hackers or come from non-theoretic backgrounds... so they likely won't have had a good explanation of it. (Speaking of which, the circle analogy is truly awesome - but how does it work in code?!)
Great point. My father identifies as "white" despite being clearly non-white, however because of an adoptive ancestry does not have a clear picture, thus he took the race of his adoptive parents.

I also select "white" on the form because I was brought up thinking that was correct. Only recently have I been selecting "Other" where available.
I would probably say either:

2) with a slightly darker clip-bar
or
3) with the squared-off corners of 4)
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If China is any indication, XP users will end up paying not for the OS (pirate!) but for continuing support.

I would laugh if some virus writers switched sides and start offering up patches for XP. They may know the core OS better than the developers still working in Redmond by now.
> Open FF in privacy mode without plugins enabled.

Then the internet is a much worse experience! I have those plugins installed for a reason; Flash, AdBlock+ and Reddit Enhancement Suite.
Thanks! It reminds me a bit of Dropwizard at first glance. Doing REST services in Java has been really easy and enjoyable lately. The Jersey, jackson, jetty, combo is great.
Sounds like the plot of a book... does it tell you to meet at a specific location in T'Rain?
Please tell me where in my comment I suggested that any artificial limits should be placed anywhere, because I assure you it was completely unintentional.
Well that they explained in the article.

"...Grounds cleaning/maintenance workers are 44 percent black, but groundskeepers are 90 percent white..."

So [I assume] they draw a distinction between the worker and the boss.

Also, the Groundskeepers MAY have specialized knowledge. Degrees in botany or business for instance. (Maybe even both???) Not saying they do... just pointing out that we don't know a lot about that profession and so there may be more going on than can be seen from the numbers.
Theoretically this works in small systems, but when you're talking about trying to manage nearly 400,000,000 records, it can quickly get out of hand and data will go bad fast. It's something that is easily implemented on a small(er) scale, but not really a national one. I've worked with systems that size and it's never as easy as you'd want it to be because of the sheer magnitude of the data and the number of people updating it on a regular basis.
I used Wireshark (http://www.wireshark.org/). I was actually diagnosing a different issue, until I noticed that my Win8 machine was especially chatty. When I looked more into it, I was horrified as to how much data was being uploaded to Microsoft. I used many different techniques, including Man in the Middle in order to see what info was actually being sent. It was especially creepy to see that the Win8 box took evasive actions as I tried to spy on its communications. I wonder exactly what Microsoft has to hide regarding this communication and has to encrypt it and be evasive.

I am not aware of any easy way of monitoring BIOS level communications. If you are afraid that the BIOS has been compromised by a virus then I would suggest that you update the BIOS with an update from the vendor's web site. Even if it the same version that's installed.

If you are worried that the machine's vendor has somehow added spying routines into the BIOS, then for safety's sake don't use the machine for work, or for any secure info. Use it only play.
One thing to keep in mind, is different cultures (especially immigrant cultures) have a different idea of what a 'good' job is. Most non-white people would say being a veterinarian is a waste of time, for instance.

Having once upon a time done a construction stint, I found it's overwhelmingly white not because it's racist, but because most immigrants don't want to do the job (they'd rather have a service job at the entry level, or an office/business related job at the higher level).

Most immigrants and non-whites are more 'aspirational' you could say, they want better, more prestigious jobs than trades. I've noticed going through business school, there's a disproportionate amount of Asians, Indians and Africans (compared to the overall population). Indeed, in Universities in general, you'll see more immigrants than are proportional to the population.

I wouldn't be so quick to say it's racism, rather different values. And notice that the 'whitest' jobs are not what society would call 'prestigious'...
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Don't understand why you list unthwarted attacks. The real question is how many attacks were thwarted. That is the point of disagreement.
The more than 40x price difference is not all about speed, insurance, and tracking. No private service would providing first class mail delivery without cutting off service to unprofitable rural areas or jacking up the price significantly. Or, more likely, both.
Well, we'll always have latitude and longitude.
Whatever, I used to try to come up with really new, original stuff visually until I realized it doesn't really matter.

Most people see trendy visual design as good visual design. And why shouldn't they? For me, the important part is what a service or company allows people to do. I'm not trying push some new trailblazing thing onto people in the visual department.

I would rather follow a formula that allows me to work quickly and gets people to say "ooh that's pretty", instead of putting a bunch of thought into visual design innovation, only to have people misunderstand it.

This allows me to focus on the interaction and the content, which are the things that really matter.
This is the reason media tyoes and lack of out-of-band information is so important. Ideally, we can reduce duplication of effort as much as possible.
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I once came up with a similar idea, but probably more on the premium side: the micro movie theater. No need for showtimes, just make a reservation. Kind of like a private karaoke place. The perks are privacy, lack of annoying people, better viewing/listening experience than home theater, availability of new releases, etc.

I think the toughest thing would be getting the sound and viewing distances right, and what that would mean for how many people you can service per square foot. But in a modern cineplex-style building, you could stack all of these mini-theaters pretty high, I'm thinking.
I mean as an alternative to IE. FF with no plugins is better than IE.
I don't feel bad about not having invested in it at the time. The only way I would feel bad now is if I had invested, and then sold it before it reached the height of today.
No. It's only useful as savings if it can be reasonably expected to hold long-term value. But with a valuation based almost entirely on speculation there isn't really a rational reason to assume that (unlike, say, gold or silver which still have commercial use providing a price floor).
So, what's the problem with that, exactly?
If you're lazy and just want to give a try on Discourse, check out Bitnami's site for one-click package installation.
I think you mean 100% mixed-race.
Maybe they should try to make movies out of Katherine kerrs books they are both good reads and has varied genders (if I remember correctly).
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Have you tried doing push/pull with --debug flag?
Play Framework. A very promising framework on the JVM which could supplant Rails/Django at some point with far better performance and robust enterprise features.
You might be interested in Freicoin: http://freico.in/
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so if nothing work out. blog about it and submit it to HN about your failure and hurray you are a success :)
> All the wrecks they test are best case scenarios.

I didn't see a comprehensive list of scenarios. Are you referring to the 3-minute video? I don't think that was intended to show "all" the cases they tested.

I guess the thrust of your criticism is that it doesn't protect against all possible accidents. Surely you're aware that a helmet doesn't either. (A friend of mine died in a bike accident -- his helmet was insufficient. I don't know enough of the details of the accident to hazard a guess as to whether this device would have worked better.) Probably, there are some accidents where a helmet would work better, but I have no problem believing there are many where this device would perform better. (It's much larger, when inflated, giving it much better cushioning ability. Helmets, as noted elsewhere in this thread, aren't very good at preventing concussions -- I expect this device would be much better.)
Relevant:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/08/21/through-good...
I hope your book sold well.
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I still think SQL is a needlessly verbose mistake. The same people who can successfully write SQL for queries would have just as easily (or more easily) been able to use some algebraic notation. I am not advocating GUI query builders - I'm advocating a non-natural-language-looking (and hopefully better) language, along the lines of kdb+/q.

If you can properly do inner/outer/cross/asof joins to get to the data you want, the english-like syntax is just a burden - two queries that seem similar in their English more often than not produce completely different results because of SQL's 3-value logic, the way NULLs are joined, and various other things like that.
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Didn't notice it as a phenomenon early enough to start mining with desktop and laptop CPUs and GPUs. Can't afford mining ASICs. Would not buy as, not only can I not afford it, I also don't speculate on foreign currency (though I realize that virtual currencies are a special case). So until Bitcoin gains ubiquity I ain’t likely to come into ownership of any. So 0 now and into the foreseeable future.
Rest of languages here:
https://code.google.com/p/google-styleguide/source/browse/tr...
The Software was "StationRipper" (still IS StationRipper - first released in 2003. Holy crap, Dec 13 2003!?!?!!??!!? I'm glad I posted this, I had no idea it was almost the 10th anniversary!!!)
If you average everyone, then yes but that's a tautology, isn't it? In reality there are winners and there are suckers.
>No private service would providing first class mail delivery without cutting off service to unprofitable rural areas or jacking up the price significantly. Or, more likely, both.

I don't know how you can prove that, postal services worldwide have been a government run business until very recently, and are still kept as a monopoly even after being privatized. Fedex cannot ship your normal mail, they are not even allowed to do it.

As for your claim that private companies will not be going in unprofitable rural areas, well even the USPS does not go there anymore (or much less often) : http://m.wfpl.org/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com...
These rotating circles that are referenced by the article will forever remain a cautionary tale for me:
http://blog.matthen.com/post/42112703604/the-smooth-motion-o...

In pre-Copernican astronomy, where the Earth was considered the center of the cosmos, the erratic orbits of the other planets relative to us were explained away as epicycles within perfect circles. Later, closer examination of the orbits required modeling the orbits as epicycles within epicycles, exactly as depicted in the rotating circles above. In the end, it turned out that there aren't epicycles in the orbits, they were just creating a Fourier transform to explain the orbital paths. We now know that you can create a Fourier transform to generate any arbitrary path.

I sometimes wonder how many of our modern physics models, such as the standard model, differential geometry, and M-theory, are just highly sophisticated versions of the Fourier transform.
All of the factors you mentioned existed before Blockbuster went bankrupt.

I found nearly half of the good movies I ever watched simply by looking at DVD covers of older titles there. Yes, it had lots of filler. Netflix has even more filler percentage-vise.

The thing I disliked about Blockbuster was that renting new stuff there was a stressful experience where you felt ripped off at the end. It was too expensive and the time limits were way too short.
Why would an email client need an RDBMS backend in the first place other than the fact that, like WordPress, the devs did not value KIS? Squirrelmail does fine without a db, as do all of the command line clients.
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It's not a problem. The argument is that if they're part of the US government, they're required to release the information requested under the Freedom Of Information Act. USPS is trying to make the case that they're a private business not connected to the US government (and hence, aren't required to comply with the FOIA), which clearly is not true.
Its pretty interesting that how people come up with the rules/"myth busting" like its a Science. Every case is different and no one can teach you or tell you how its going to be unless you try.
It's not a display bug, it's a feature. It also has nothing to do with block chain accounting structures (which are never negative). It's the internal accounting system used by bitcoind/Bitcoin-Qt, exposed by a command line and JSON-RPC interface.
I've been steadily spending Bitcoins for a while. I sold bitcoins to pay my rent several months in a row.

People only "hoard" Bitcoin until the temptation to buy something awesome now is higher than the temptation to have more savings later. In my case having a longer runway to work on my own project is worth more to me than savings later in life.

There's nothing fundamentally inflationary about Bitcoin. In fact, because the supply is algorithmic, it's fundamentally not likely to either inflate or deflate. Prices are going up as financial markets and consumers wrestle with what it's worth, what it's good for, and how to use it. When that process levels off the price will stabilize, and it will be far more stable than any other currency.
beautiful wave~~~
http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/shell.xml?...

> It is not necessary to know what language a program is written in when executing it and shell doesn't require an extension so we prefer not to use one for executables.

I disagree with their recommendation against using file extensions for executables, and I'd love to have my mind changed about this.

Using an extension gives you automatic syntax highlighting. It also lets you quickly glean the type of a file when exploring a directory for the first time, which is more helpful than simply knowing whether the file can be executed.

Why does a lack of necessity override those two benefits?
So the removal of the Silk Road Bitcoins from circulation led to a predictable rise in deflation, with the associated decline in activity. I'd thought that Bitcoin economies might be fragile, but this is pretty surprising.
Such is life with most investing - I'm sure you could have said the same thing about all tech shares.
I don't think it was. IE pushed a lot of boundaries back in the day and it was up to others to innovate. Just look at how far we have come since Firefox was released.

I understand that MS using it's dominant position was bad, but it's exactly what Google does too. It's business and you take every advantage you have.
In my opinion they do not even populate the denominator, much less the numerator; but according to this test it gets a 0/1.

But then again, Moon does have two female characters so maybe it deserves a 1/3.
You need one more category "0 - carries a stigma (used by drug dealers, pornographers, etc.)"
That's not the point. If you really are a solipsist, why would jumping off a cliff have more probability of leading to death than not jumping (because the cliff doesn't really exist)?
I'm all for right-out-of-college HN readers disrupting schlerotic industries that actually matter rather than making photosharing apps, but careful, enterprise sales looks like enterprise sales for a reason. The reason is typically because enterprise sales is the key to enterprise purchasing departments' lock. You'd like to think that technological superiority and sincerity will let you steal Cheesy McClueless's ten quarterly sales, but sadly, product quality does not necessarily win out.
The test has had almost 30 years to develop

The general problem that I see in both the test and the problem it's designed to solve is this mental shortcut of an either/or grouping. Male/female, pass/fail.

But if it helps some people start dialogue then that's wonderful, at the same time I think the intersectionalist feminists deserve some positive attention for searching out new ways to get the conversations going.
I'm currently in between a programmer and a marketing guy in a specific niche. My interpretation is slightly different:

With software, you can find a way to get it to work. Given the right knowledge, you can accomplish your goal. (Assuming a goal that other people of similar skill have achieved it, and not proving P=NP type stuff.)

With marketing, even if you do everything "right", there's still a huge chance at failure. Being experienced, knowledgeable, and focused doesn't mean you'll accomplish what you set out to do.

I think it's related to the fact that you control software when you write code. Marketing has so much outside of your control that even doing everything right still only results in a < 100% success rate.
I know you're just trolling, but I think "normal" people visit google quite often, and that's an example of modern web design.
Stupid that there is no "0 - but I have none of the simplistic opinions the poll writer provided"
Your benefits are so to people who are going to be editing these files. They are not benefits to people who are going to be using these files (i.e. running the script). Most people are not going to be editing the script, they are going to be using it. Thus, it makes sense to cater to them, and to not have them have to know things they don't care about, like what language the tool they are using was programmed in.
0- but thinking of mining
that stats counter graph looks pretty flawed
Marketing is about matching up the right message to the right market through the right media...

Sales is a marketing tactic. The salesman is the media, the sales pitch is the message, and the prospect is the market...

The pitch and process might be different, but thats because its a different form of marketing than print or tv or internet,etc...

But... your sales team should be under the umbrella of your marketing department... otherwise you will have the classic conflict of bad leads vs. bad salesman, a classic environment where people can easily shirk responsibility and shift blame instead of recognizing that they are all part of the same process.
Really?! $300 billion worth of drugs is moved each year using "traditional currency". Oh and also, silk road was shut down, and the price doubled. Judge the tech on its features and potential, not who uses it.
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That is about the worst possible measure for the utility of a payment currency. Unless perhaps you mean price stability.
I really like the online catalogue of ideas that people could try building. Trumps the way 25ish years ago I would follow text instructions and use wires to play with my Electronic Project Kit: http://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/image_cache/httpimg3.etsys...
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Any serious editor will read the #! line for syntax highlighting, which has the benefit of being much more likely to be correct than the user visible and modifiable file name.
Best read today.
>> ...One example of this is Solaris SVR4 packages...

I wonder what Google are using Solaris for, and if it's just legacy stuff.
Facebook uses TAO for graphs: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/tao-the-...

MySQL is used for storing textual user content like comments, etc. See https://www.facebook.com/MySQLatFacebook

Photos are stored using specialized systems: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=76191543919 http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs240/readings/haystack.pdf

And you can see some pictures of our new data center used for cold storage of older photos: http://readwrite.com/2013/10/16/facebook-prineville-cold-sto...
half the time i load gdocs in firefox, gdocs tells me firefox is not a supported browser and that i should download chrome right away.

Of course i can ignore the warning, but its pretty clear and if you're a random user you'll be like "oh crap ive to upgrade or gdocs will break".

so yeah, its close enough.
Author of the blog post here. I completely agree with you; this is my best estimate of the situation as well.
This is going to sound sanctimonious, but I'm vegetarian and to me bacon smells like rotting corpse (because that's what it is).
Or if there was a system that gave all users 1 free cryptocurrency unit every day. Effectively basic income within a cryptocurrency system. But then you get inflation.
> did a lot of new people in China just now discover Bitcoin?

Pretty much. It's taking off like gangbusters as a popular investment vehicle there.
Buy high, sell low. Right?
Coincidentally just the other week I got stuck using Jira and it's abysmally slow/buggy interface.

FWIW I was very excited to see Bee but haven't done the work to setup a password for my account on our Jira ondemand instance.

I wonder if some of the slower adoption for you has been people like me using a google account to log into Jira and simply not having a real Jira credentials.

I'll get around to it but I suspect I'm not the only one that didn't feel like mucking around in the Jira account settings to setup credentials for Bee to connect with.

I assume there's no way to access the Jira API otherwise?
big interest, no money.
1.7 It is not hard to keep up with changes. And it is easier to do them incrementally than have big jump which you never find time to do and end up lagging versions and huge technical debt.

Once your project is deployed then think about sticking with specific version. Development should be on the bleeding edge!
actually while the comment author is pushing right now his scenario could very well happen in the medium/long term future..
They may count hispanics as white.
The extension is unnecessary for syntax highlighting. Shebang lines are supposed to be used for detecting the file type.

As for knowing the file type at a glance, I'm not sure how often I need this. I'm normally looking for the file by name anyway. If I needed to determine the file-type, I'd write a script to parse the shebang lines of executable files in the current directory and generate a list of the files with their hypothetical extensions (based on a hash/dictionary/whatever). I don't need that very often, so, for me, the trade is worth it.
Waiting for a relatively large drop.. I have about $0.25 in my wallet at the moment! :)
"Indent 2 spaces. No tabs."
Well fuck it.

Thats the only coding style that remotely makes sense to me:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle

While I'm at it, half the justifications Google gives for the shell guide are inaccurate. Looks like a "overall people are used to this style so we're using it and we'll try to justify it without knowing why"

This is a much better guide:

http://devmanual.gentoo.org/tools-reference/bash/

Example: Gentoo's [[ ]] explanation actually makes sense.
The statistics done wrong bit is where they don't control for socioeconomic status.
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I'm new to shell scripting and I'm clearly missing something basic. Why can't you use file extensions? This is saying not to use .sh for bash scripts and .rb for ruby scripts, etc?