skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't even know they still had these things. I figured they went away in the 1980's or 1990's.

Do the Chinese still perform full-term abortions to maintain the one-child policy? http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/NEWEVID.TXT ("[M]others arriving in labour at the hospital are asked for their child-bearing licences. Babies being delivered without a licence are given 'the poison shot.' A hypodermic syringe filled with iodine or formaldehyde is injected through a 5cm needle directly into the soft part of the baby's head as it crowns. The baby can take up to 48 hours to die.").

Apparently it still happens: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/06/chinas-barbaric... ("In 2007, I read of riots breaking out in Bobai County in China's south-western Guangxi province. Under pressure from higher authorities to meet birth targets, local officials had launched a vicious crackdown on family-planning violators. Squads had rounded up 17,000 women and subjected them to sterilisations and abortions and had extracted 7.8m yuan (£800,000) in fines for 'illegal births,' ransacking the homes of families who refused to pay.").

See also: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/opinion/chinas-brutal-one-... ("According to Chinese Health Ministry data released in March, 336 million abortions and 222 million sterilizations have been carried out since 1971.").

I suppose it is a testament to how much the business types at places like WSJ whitewash the fact that China is still the world's largest dictatorship, and quite a brutal one at that. All in the interest of making a quick buck overseas and prostrating themselves to Chinese investors, of course.
Nicely done. Now I have to find the secret key...
technically, the parent post Godwinned itself.
Show HN: MathHarbor's private beta, and our next iteration.
"Ride Hyperloop, the terrorist-safe speed train"
And your credit cards don't lock themselves once they are out of range.
I can't wait for the project to start! I've been trying to practice yoga at home and this is just what I need!
It's a great project and I'm sure it will as successful as it has been!
I really don't understand the problem some guys have with yoga. I love it!
I'm a bit confused myself, since I saw an article that said the PS4 was using DDR5 for its main memory.

[edit] found it "The PS4 has 8GB of memory distributed across 16 GDDR5 modules" so it is GDDR5 not DDR5 being used as main memory - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4
If you read the name as "zero message queue" is it surprising that it doesn't have persistence? There's no message queue.
You'll never find it, it's too well hidden! Muhaha!

P.S.: It isn't.
The Circular Estimation Conjecture
fixed your link: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/master/db/db_impl.c...

Take another look! There's a guard object used at the function scope to ensure the lock is released, and this block is bracketed to release and reacquire the lock, not acquire and release. There may be a case for a guard object that does the release/reacquire, but its definitely not a slam dunk like acquire/release
Thank you very much for you feedback.

As I see it; either we (the founders) could feel safe knowing that the source belong to us whatever happens. Or our customers could feel safe knowing that they can continue their operation without us. We've decided to go with the latter.

I guess time will tell... :)
yes - my immediate reaction after the first line was - HIPSTERS!
I got over my introversion in college (I was a "nontrad", i.e. a student over 24 years old per the state school definition, at least) - I just decided there's no way that anyone was paying attention to me anyways. So I might as well just say what I want, since it was almost the same as talking to myself. It worked really well in school. Once I got out and rejoined the working world, I had some fear regress because I realized I was around people that were listening again. But I had enough confidence from practicing at college that I could hurdle the second hump in basically the same manner.

It's like racing through the heliopause of the sun. You're Voyager 2, riding the solar waves. You know you're about to do your first presentation. It's going to be rough. And it is. But then you're through it, and you're in interstellar space from now on, there's no pressure.
... And go fellow Huskies!

Love the co-op that NEU is so well known for. Excellent way to earn a degree while gaining real-world experience on the job :-)
I'm guessing because unlike many other cities, the vast majority of restaurants in London have vegetarian options.
> I understand this is a fact, but how this can be used against Github as a resumé or against OSS on your free time, I have a hard time seeing that. It comes off as incredibly stupid.

I really don't think anyone is saying not to do OSS on your free time. That there is a greater lack of diversity in OSS than in software engineering as a profession suggests that whatever it is that keeps minorities out of software engineering might be amplified in the OSS community, but it is not proof of this.

As for being an argument against using GitHub for hiring decisions, I'd pose you a scenario...two recent college grads are looking for their first job. One had parents who could pay for college, so in between rounds of beer pong and slacking off from class, this student found time to write a handful of OSS libraries and posted them to GitHub. The other was raised by a single parent in poverty, and is now working two part time jobs to fund their education. Between work, this person studies hard, does well in class, but has no time left to work on any open source side projects.

Which of these two students will be the better asset for your startup? Which of these two students will reply to your job post that says "don't send us a resumé, just link us to your GitHub profile"? Statistically speaking, which of these two students is more likely to be a racial/ethnic minority?
Thanks for the "it worked for me," makes me more willing to give it a shot.
The point (imho) isn't that literally nothing on github can be a good hiring indicator. It's that people are treating github as if, by itself, it is an adequate way to assess candidates and decide who to interview. Maybe if you make a page like you're suggesting, then you can link to that page, but then github is more or less just a host.
Yes? Isn’t that an argument for my side of this debate, rather than yours? Please elaborate.
Even with the tight regulation(some of it surely needed and not just bureaucracy ), given more funding you'll see more profitable innovation.

But sure, legislation could help immensely.
This is a fantastic way to approach it, especially if:

- You are naturally curious

- The person you are meeting has a passion

Ask them a basic question about what they're passionate about, and just hold on for the ride. You'll learn a lot, and they'll love talking to you if you're an active listener.
>> My default option when there is nothing veggie specific is to eat some place Indian.

Be very careful with this - most Indian dishes are made with ghee (butter), yoghurt or cream, paneer (cheese), etc. Some aren't, but make sure you ask or the restaurant specifically says that it's vegan and not just vegetarian.
Anonymous comments (on your site) deserve moderation.
I'd be really amazed if this doesn't disrupt the environment - im just thinking of all those fish that will get affected - there's probably more effects in terms of how it affects currents and so on (if a large amount of these kites is put in a single area). Already you hear of wind turbines killing birds, affecting winds etc.
This is always what happens, and it's usually a good thing.

The people ahead of the curve have to be more motivated, but if we get more people sharing, more eyes to find and fix bugs, more people from other walks of life that understand a bit more of the hacker mentality, more acceptance of sharing code as a normal part of life, then the world is a better place.

Yes, it's a shame that not everyone who plays the piano has the dedication and vision of Rachmaninov, or that everyone who paints is Picasso, but I think the world is a better place for amateurs and dilettantes. Sure, we'd perhaps have better art if it were restricted to those who must, but we have a better society because those who are moderately interested can.
Seriously considering getting that Lenovo IdeaTab A1000L for $99. Has a front camera too (But no back camera).
If (masses of) women really had a need like that, they'd buy the current tech magazines - it wouldn't fit the niche perfectly, but it would at least partly fulfill that need.

They don't. Which is evidence that there is no such unfilled niche.
I know I shouldn't joke about this, but I'm currently imagining the headline: "Millionaire kills himself over not being rich enough."
I already discussed them to death here and in gonuts.
And I have no idea why only him should be a famous vegetarian, Gandhi doesn't count? Nietzsche, Kafka, Einstein? Leonardo da Vinci?
The time spent researching and building that cluster was time not spent building product. If you are low on capital then it was potentially a good tradeoff, but I'd much rather just scale up my read capacity by adding horsepower until they get around to adding read replicas. My goal is to spend as little time as possible administering my infrastructure, and running my own database cluster is the last thing on my mind.
Make a useful thing and don’t be a dick
The point is, the lack of diversity in the Open Source community is greater than the lack of diversity in CS education programs. You'd be less likely to hire a black female if you said "send us your GitHub profile" than if you said "show me your CS degree".
A Novel Generic Ball Recognition Algorithm Based on Omnidirectional Vision
To me, real story is, all 96 tablets less than $50 in China.
I graduated high school with a kid whose last name was Null. It would occasionally cause issues with the school's computers. He learned to use it to his advantage.
AutoValue: Immutable value-type code generation for Java 1.6+
Now make one for entomophagic food ..
Another Aussie here, and I could maybe be interested. I typically carry at least 3 cards on me: credit card, AmEx, separate bank keycard / debit card, plus coffee loyalty cards. I can't always remember if a store takes AmEx (high Frequent Flyer point earnings), or if they do take AmEx but impose a 3% surcharge (negates the FF points benefit). It would be nice to have just one card, that automatically knows the best card to use at each store.

But without support for PayWave / PayPass / Chip & PIN, it's DOA in Australia. I want a card I can use when traveling to Europe as well (requires Chip & PIN). And Coin has a sleeker Uber-esque look to it as well - that rainbow on the Wallaby card doesn't exactly say "luxury" or "exclusive". (Not that it has to be, but it'd be nicer to drop a black / carbon card as an early adopter, not a plastic thingy called "wallaby" with a rainbow.)
(Edit: I initially thought this was _from_ GitHub. Apparently it's not, so please disregard the nagging below. It is a cool idea, but if GitHub did this, I'd have different expectations.)

I'd be all over this if it was an IRC server. Most big projects already have an IRC channel on FreeNode, so this'd be a natural fit: Provide an IRC server with a channel for each project, provide a free web client for this server with the GitHub-goodies.

But alas, apparently it's just another proprietary chat network.
What the hell is up with the end of the Phoenix New Times article? There's incomplete sentences and stuff copy-pasted from the beginning. It's like the writer forgot to finish it and the editor never looked at it.
What does it say? That it's probably not a good measure of skill in any sense worth measuring, unless you think that 98.5% of the programmers worth hiring are men.
The quality of their branches doesn’t seem to be consistent. For instance, they have a branch in Palo Alto that is a cafe where they reheat food prepared in advance. The food in this branch is kind of meh. I guess that is one of the reasons I didn’t fell compelled (yet) to go to any branch in London (where I leave now). There’s good (and cheap) vegetarian food everywhere in London!
In Johannesburg we have a whole lot of deep mine shafts that are no longer being used, and one of the main ideas for reusing them is to turn them into hydroelectric power stations. During the night when the electricity is cheaper, the water will be pumped up to the top, and during peak hours the water will be allowed to fall back down and provide power if necessary. It's a similar concept but on a much larger scale.
You guys should offer this for github enterprise. Any form of integration would also be nice (an IRC or XMPP bridge) because I don't want yet another chat client on my desktop, and alerts from web clients don't cut it...

...slightly offtopic, on the alerts: chrome's rich notifications pop under apple's desktop notifications, and neither let me capture the notification and have the system voice read it to me rather than flash up in a corner that I'm not looking at. But campfire's in-browser notifications are the worst of all, some random tab beeping when I have 100 open.
Could someone post a summary of how it works, for the benefit of those of us reading HN on our phones?

Edit: I'm not asking what it does, but how.
While execution may be tough depending on various factors - type of business, the way the software is structured, etc...I have to say the intent and concept are very admirable!! Certainly, a very forward-facing and humanistic organization who thinks that way!
Wow! I'm surprised to hear that their production servers output a full stack trace.
Well, I can certainly accept that it's possible to overweight github as a hiring indicator, however that's not been my experience from either side of the interview, so I strongly suspect that if there's an optimum amount of attention to pay to services like github, most recruitment programs are on the 'too little' side rather than the 'too much'.
http://www.barnivore.com is another great resource for checking on the vegan status of beer and liquor.
China reforms: One-child policy to be relaxed
Not released yet, but source available on Github: https://github.com/google/auto
This is so much faster, I had been using CheatEngine to modify the values, then play the entire level.
It's ridiculous to state "The importance of auto's, however, has generally remained unchanged." because car sales nearly halved between 2007 and 2009. New cars (and advertising of them) were objectively pretty much irrelevant during that time.

A source for illustration: http://www.macrotrends.net/1372/auto-and-light-truck-sales-h...
All I'm saying is I disabled ghostery, refreshed, and the site worked fine for me. YMMV.
The nice thing about programming: You don't have to perform in the 99.9 percentile (like Picasso) to make something people want.
I have some really bad experiences with cheap tablets. They often have their own custom power plug (rather than using micro-USB like everybody else), and it's invariably the first thing that breaks.
There are 250+ vegetarian restaurants and stores in London:

http://www.happycow.net/disp_results_address.php?distance=15...

EDIT: London also has a vibrant vegetarian culture with many veggie groups. For instance, there's a very nice meetup group with almost 2000 people that convene regularly: http://www.meetup.com/vegetarian-419/

And a vegan meetup group: http://www.meetup.com/londonvegan/
While it is the moral thing to do, it doesn't bode well for their already horrible pollution problems.
Has anyone worked out how much energy this could actually theoretically store given the number of weights as n, the mass of each weight as m, and the height of each well as h?

My physics is a little rusty, and I'm sure someone will come up with an answer before I figure it out.

EDIT:

If my math is right (using this [1] as reference),

E = m * g * h (J)

gives the energy E in joules. 1 watt hour is 3600 joules, so:

E = m * g * h / 3600 (Wh)

So, if this system were made up of 4 x 200kg weights suspended over a 50m well, it would hold

E = 4 * 200 * 9.81 * 50 / 3600 = 109 Wh

109 Wh. That's hardly enough to run a few high-efficiency light-bulbs for an hour. I don't mean to be a naysayer, but this doesn't seem very efficient at small scales.

[1]: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/39281/needed-ener...
So excited for the MyYogaPro project! Everything Yoga and more whenever you want it, I can't imagine anyting better! myyogapro.com/00362
I think this is cool, but just >90% of merchants? What happens when I finish a meal at a restaurant and left all my credit cards at home and have to pay for it, only to find that loop doesn't work with their POS system? I'd imagine I'd be boned.
That link should be:

https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/master/db/db_impl.c...

(not db_impl.c but .cc) I was wondering for a while if it was possible to do RAII in idiomatic c99 -- and it appears it isn't (or doesn't make as much sense, anyway).
Something I, and other people I have spoken to in various circles, have observed:

If one woman in a group of women has a nicer job, handbag, husband, x than the other women in the group, their stance will to the lines of "that fucking bitch! She doesn't deserve such a nice car".

If one man in a group of men has a nicer job, watch, wife, whatever than the other men in the group, their general stance will be "damn! I also want to be _as good as him_".

Women pull down, men work up.

Same shit at places of work: women will fuck shit up for other women with talk behind their backs and what not, no matter how competent or efficient the target his. I haven't yet heard anyone air the observation that men do this also. At most it might sound like "god what an asshole, but he sure gets shit done fast".
What if the person you are dating works for the airlines and can fly you in for free?
Using potential energy to store electricity is nothing new. Many hydroelectric damns pump water to a high reservoir when there is excess electricity generated to store it, and let it fall to a low reservoir when more is needed.

EDIT: See wikipedia link explaining it, with examples. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectric_energy_storage
OSS/GitHub is what let me crack into the industry without having a CS degree or particularly good contacts. I started learning to code a year or two ago, then started contributing to open source and now I have a pretty solid track record on interesting projects that's helped me get some interest and interviews. Not sure how I could have done that otherwise...
Empty set / dot matrix zero, as others point out. Plus there is near reflectional symmetry across the midline of the M given the morphology of the Ø and the Q.
Isnt echoing errors like that a security issue? Im not implying it necessarly is, because it's obviously conveniently useful for debugging.
"And it's known"...
Similar concept is already in use with hydroelectric power generation. It's called pumped-storage hydroelectricity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
I created keyword research tool to find profitable niches in Google
Asking if the Chinese still perform full-term abortions a very loaded question. Do you still beat your wife?

Officially, it's always been illegal, though some officials have performed late term abortions as a result of pressure coming from above.

I believe the different regional bureaucracies and officials implement the rule differently. The one child policy has mostly been relaxed in the rural provinces, though these were also the places with the most horrific atrocities happening in them. Possibly, in some remote parts, late term abortions continue.
Weirdly, I'm getting about double the framerate on the second, more complex demo (with volumetric light beams).
The concept/clause is something that we will refine to make it as "perfect" as possible.

Appreciate your kind comments :)

http://images.wikia.com/horadeaventura/es/images/3/30/919px-...
Awesome! I once wrote a boggle solver to beat my friends at Bogglific on Facebook. It was loads of fun until I was banned from the game.

http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2007/11/07/banished-from-bog...
How long will it take to be a usable product? I might be interested and need to know if I should keep looking around or just wait a bit.
If you want famous vegetarians:

http://vegan.wikia.com/wiki/Famous_Vegans_and_Vegetarians

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vegetarians

EDIT: Wow, even Bill Clinton is vegan now: http://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-08-2013/bill-...
You're calling that a company now? Where the fuck are my options?
Response to Feedback on Selfish Mining
The UK and Ireland would be so pissed if we killed that current...so pissed...and so, so cold...
This.

While I understand that many people enjoy writing code and do so for fun, there are a large number of fantastic engineers that don't (myself included). Just as I wouldn't give someone preference for a robust profile, I'm not going to penalize someone for lack thereof. There is only so much time in the day and if they can do ten hours worth of work in eight hours and choose to spend their off time with their family, friends, or hobbies, good for them. Knowing how to decompress and enjoy both work and life is just as valuable to me as crafting solutions to engineering problems.
it is crazy that a game that makes multi million dollars every day has no server side validation at all and just trust the client. crazy
It might also be a Pink Floyd reference ("you can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat")
ZeroMQ markets itself as sockets on steroids, and this hypothetical exchange is to clear up any (hypothetical?) confusion stemming from their own messaging?
I'm not sure. Perhaps more articles written from a female user perspective?

I really don't know if it is a good idea. I wouldn't personally invest in it, but maybe I'm off base.
Moving corporate income tax to individual income tax would allow to postpone paying any such tax forever, allowing company-owners to skip paying the tax, but allowing them to use the (yet untaxed) funds to purchase/invest whatever they want.
A club good is simply an excludable non-rivalrous good. In this Internet age it is increasingly hard to maintain the illusion of the excludability of bits.
Why not ? Didn't GPU's eaten from intel and amd's market share ? To such a point that AMD purchased ATI ?
> I feel less incentive to be rude when my name is next to the comment.

Are you one of those people who used to post rude comments on YouTube? No? Then nobody fucking cares about you.
> There isn't a single communist country, and I don't think there has ever been any.

The Animal Farm problem I guess, maybe AI can help some day.
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> I would never pass the bar at a startup that's looking for the typical startup stereotype developer.

I'm not seeing a problem with this. Not because you are a bad developer, but that you don't match the type of person they want to hire at that time.

> I'm 100% certain that I make more business sense to hire than all of your average workoholic startup developer, but I would never be considered.

What's your experience as a "startup developer" that you feel justified in making that claim?

> In short there is soooo much that you need to consider when hiring.

Of course. But I don't see Github being the only thing to consider, nor do I see it as being something that should be ignored. It's a piece of the puzzle.

You're a programmer. A good one at that. But have you ever stopped to consider they need someone more than that for where they are at? Someone who can be more than a programmer?
It's just mass * gravity * height.

So, for instance, 1000 kg with a working height differential of 1000 meters can store a theoretical maximum of 2.72 kilowatt hours (9.8 million joules).