skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I do hope that eventually, over a few hundred years, the human race has mixed enough so that we all sort of have the same skin color and appearance."

The original opinion piece paints too simplistic a picture of Britain - it's not quite as insular as it sounds. For example, the 2011 Census for England & Wales showed that there were 1.2 million Britons of mixed ethnicity (mixed race). It would be interesting to know if there are comparable figures for other European countries.

The countries from which most foreign-born residents come are (in order of population size in England and Wales): 1. India, 2. Poland, 3. Pakistan, 4. Republic of Ireland, 5. Germany, 6. Bangladesh
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If the browser vendors could remove a CA from the roots without causing said chaos and alarm, do you think they would be willing to remove CAs that issued delegated CA certificates that were used to MITM major websites?
Thank you so much for the feedback! We'll take all of it into account. Making some changes as I type.
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Yes, The Wire is basically flawless, in the way it is both a character drama and a social commentary. Commentary not being the best word here, as it feels that through his characters, he is proposing solutions to some of the social issues the show exposes.
Does this still work if the GC compacts memory? I don't know much about GCs, but it seems like once your GC is advanced enough with generational collecting, compacting, etc, then allowing raw pointers seems at odds with what the GC is trying todo. I'm sure it's possible, but it's probably a heck of a lot easier just to not allow pointers.
The previously posted comments are correct that the way to evaluate a translation is to find someone who knows the original language. I do read literary Chinese, although I have never tackled the full text of Sun Tzu's The Art of War. (I've mostly read the major philosophers like Confucius and Mencius.) There was a whole genre of Chinese literature at that time of guides to warfare, so 兵法 ("art of war") is a title of some other books from that era, which is why Sun Tzu's book is usually mentioned with his name.

Literary Chinese has quite intricate grammar, about which both Chinese and Western linguists debate in book-length works. Just as with any other language, a word-by-word approach to translation will not do. When I first saw this article submitted to Hacker News, I read it for a while, looking for clues that the blog post author actually knows Chinese. To me, too, the site looked a bit like a scam, trying to sell management advice based on an ancient holy text for rather too much money.

For me, the key take-away from translations of Sun Tzu's Art of War that I have read is to leave an enemy a way to flee. Don't force people to fight to the death by surrounding them entirely. That advice was followed when P.R.C. soldiers moved in on the peaceful Tiananmen Square protesters in 1989. One corner of the square was left open as an escape route so that people could simply run away.
I thought it was implied by
"[the challenge is] convincing someone to pay you commensurate with your age and experience over a 22 year old kid who needs one third the money and benefits ... notice how much convincing there is to do, despite the facts?"

That is, the facts implied that the poster was owed a salary that reflected both is age, experience, and his need for a greater salary.

Other people sometimes argue that employers don't like to employ older people because the demand more money. I always found this argument strange because that would still imply that given the same salary, the employer has no preference either way, and so the employer has no reason not to offer the lower salary to the older applicant.
He writes about that on his blog: http://www.ianwootten.co.uk/2013/10/27/setting-up-an-is-doma...
We sure seem to live in a fucking police state. I sure hope the judge doesn't get a secret visit in the middle of the night. Denying a US citizen to return to the US, or potentially stripping them of their citizenship despite being born on US soil (read the second part) should scare and/or piss everyone in the US off. If the government decides it has the power to cancel our citizenship at will and this is somehow upheld, we are all screwed.
As @espeed said, Gremlin will work (or just Groovy + the Java API). Cypher can handle this as of Neo4j 2.0 using the transactional endpoint. I'm not sure whether the old(er) batch HTTP endpoint kept the writes in one tx- I believe it did, though batching them in one HTTP call was frustrating.
For Firefox, Request Policy is more or less equivalent. HTTP Switchboard has a better interface, though. Request policy works on a global per domain basis (allow/forbid), this one has better granularity (you can specify the type of content for each (sub)domain).

https://www.requestpolicy.com/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy...
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by "somewhat negative", do you just mean that less information makes you less confident about a decision? Or do you mean that being quiet is bad?
What is good - short history of Apple 2002-2011?

There is a medium ground between good and bad - mediocrity.
You don't know much about it. You could start educating yourself here: http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?id=3430
Protecting against physical attack is difficult. Where will the laptop be, will it ever be unwatched in public? Consider a Kensington lock, though if someone is after your data then they won't mind breaking it off.

What type of media work is this? What rights are you afraid of losing, and who to? If you're worried about rights you can realistically lose (ie overreaching local police, NSA) they will take away your rights, then not be able to use that evidence in court. They still know everything they learnt.

General paranoid security applies here too - be wary what you open, where you go, what plugins you have. One idea for being absurdly paranoid is to have PXE internet boot that requires passwords at several stages, which could then allow you access to your own cloud service.
"that basically negates the value of using Amazon"

Then you don't have to go there, which has some costs.

I'm surprised no prescription/OTC mobile drug store service exists. Seems an obvious "start up" delivery service.

Another obvious one is once you have kids, suddenly going to the store has all the behind the scenes effort and stage drama of a major theatrical production.

Bad weather.

Chronic illness / old age / extreme final days of pregnancy.

There is another problem with the walmart example; its extremely rural roots. I never set foot in one until the 00s or whatever when they started aggressively expanding into urban / suburban areas. I estimate that the majority of their stores are still in extremely low population density rural areas, even if the majority of American shoppers are vaguely urban-ish. So it would be easy to roll out a delivery service for the store (or pizza restaurant) in the loop of downtown Chicago, but not so easy in rural Louisiana.

There is also an interesting demographic issue where walmart shoppers have something of a financial reputation. I tend not to eat grains much but recently ordered a dominos pizza anyway, and was surprised its something like $20. Given the reputation of the walmart demographic I don't think they would get many sales at 150% of supermarket prices for ... anything.
>I personally think it's a bad idea to mix sport and politics.

So... you think the Olympics are a bad idea.
no judgment, I'm not a fan of nationalistic dick measuring and governments lighting money on fire either.

Also for that matter, what about the gay athletes how the hell are they supposed to not be involved in this type of stuff?
Very nice. I like the effort you've put into making it look great as well.
> And the Ford CEO, while being extremely good, seems similar to bringing in Pepsi CEO John Sculley at Apple back in the day, wrong domain.

A counter point to "domain" being critical is Louis Gerstner at IBM. He's widely credited with saving IBM and came from Nabisco.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner,_Jr.
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it's illegal to dereference a pointer past the end of an allocation.

Yes, but there's a legal way to do this.

reference the other two areas with offsets relative to the first area

If you cast the pointers to uintptr_t, and perform your arithmetic on uintptr_t and cast your final pointer back (void * ) before using it, what you've done is perfectly legal and safe (albeit weird) since uintptr_t is an unsigned integer type with all the flexibility of unsigned integers, and if x = (uintptr_t)p then it's guaranteed that p == (void * )x.

In other words:

char * x = malloc(100);
char * y = malloc(100);
ptrdiff_t yminusx = y - x;

x[yminusx] = '\0'

is undefined behaviour, but

char * x = malloc(100);
char * y = malloc(100);
uintptr_t yminusx = (uintptr_t)(y) - (uintptr_t)(x);

*(char *)(void *)((uintptr_t)(x) + yminusx) = '\0'

is valid C (and has the same meaning on a DWIM compiler).
Huge difficulty of Microsoft CEO search is explained by a huge diversity of Microsoft business and existing problems (everything is tied to Windows, Windows popularity is declining in post PC world, weak mobile story). All candidates seem to be experienced with only specific aspects of Microsoft business (enterprise - Nadella, mobile/office - Elop, Sinofski is gone). Steve Jobs once gave Larry Page advise to consolidate Google's product offerings because Google was all over the place, which Page is seemingly following. Microsoft needs to do the same, find a single vision (which is not Windows) and aim for that with their "One Microsoft" story. Likewise, they need to have a 'visionary' as their CEO, which is damn hard to find externally, and likely impossible internally.
Generally, improvements and occupation make it your home. Somebody coming in to take land containing a house you built, a barn you raised, cattle you bred on a crop you are growing, are taking what's yours.

Take this away and nobody would use land at all. Been done in history again and again; result always the same : collapse of farming, which means collapse of the govt.
Data models that use deep "JOIN"s are way faster on a graph database. You're right about branching factor- if you always traverse all relations, any database will be slow. In most cases, however, you don't.
http://www.nextmicrosoftceo.com/ presents some good candidates. However, I doubt that the first contender, Gabe Newell would leave Valve, and that the second-place contender, RMS, would be a good business decision.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6871663
Libertarians whine about arbitrary confiscation of wealth by the government, but they have no problem when competition drives the price of labor down to (or below!) the price of survivability

With unemployment low, people would switch to jobs with more favorable conditions. That's one of the reasons Ford paid (relatively) much more than other employers. In a world with high unemployment, the employers dictate the conditions.
As Russian I feel obligated to say that it is already mixed by Putin: Olympiad steamrolled human lives, destroyed infrastructure and environment and corrupted all related people and companies. And this is why many people in Russia will boycott it.
Bruce Schneier just died a little inside
Re 1860-1920, have you heard of the railroad land grants? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Railroad_Acts

These were tremendous gifts to private companies to induce investment in what was one of the high tech industries of the time.
Interesting. Now, what does SetUser(r, "dave") do?

Since you're passing in 'r', it must keep a map of all requests and their data, i.e. map[*http.Request]string ("dave" being the string in this case).

This map should be protected by a mutex because it could be written from multiple go-routines.

Is this the case? If so, how do we avoid contention on this mutex?
Only if you can get another job easily. And I don't think this scheme is meant for those people, those people may very well be excluded from the scheme altogether.
Minor correction, aligned to mainstream opinions for all time. Imagine how weird it must be for some old people to have to go from public hatred of minority group X to public idolization of the same group. And vice versa of course.
You can have a GC without compaction.

Go has a GC and pointers, including internal pointers (e.g. to a field of a struct). Its GC started out fully conservative, then precise for the heap and conservative for the stack, and future versions will be fully precise.
I don't quite see why they want to make this.

Remote controllable power outlets have existed for a very long time. At this point, you have dozens of options, and several home automation industry standards that allow all these options to interconnect with each other. You can combine plugs, light switches, motion sensors, keypads, door openers, thermostats and virtually everything else in your house with any brand's Zigbee or Z-wave hub, or directly from a PC/app over wifi.

Z-wave/Zigbee are already low-power mesh networks. I don't think there's any advantage to re-implementing that over Bluetooth with a different protocol, while the disadvantages if you ever want to do more cool home automation stuff than just power plugs are many.

If for some reason this all sounds scary and you'd prefer just plugging something into the wall and using an app, that's been on the market for years too. The easiest way to get started is to walk into your nearest Best Buy or Home Depot and pick up a Belkin Wemo switch. It plugs into any outlet just like this Kickstarter but connects to your wifi network instead of BT. There's an Android app to control the plugs (from inside the house or over the internet), but they also speak UPnP so are easy to integrate into your own software.
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"You have been found guilty of not liking tea."
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They are absolutely the same as the phone hacking papers.

No, they are not.

Here's why:

Voicemail hacking - journalists directly hired and instructed investigators to hack voicemail of celebrities and murder victims in order to print salacious stories and earn money, they also paid off police and other public servants to obtain information. They did this to sell newspapers (and for that reason alone) - no other defence could be given for their actions.

Snowden's disclosures - journalists received a story and documents to back it up from Snowden, they did not solicit and pay for the information, and published only those stories which they felt were in the public interest. They informed the public of a major scandal, and potentially illegal actions on the part of the authorities (actions which the spies tried to have legalised retrospectively).

That's the job of the fourth estate - holding the government accountable, keeping them honest, and informing the public. That's why we have a public interest defence (at least in the UK), or a 1st amendment (in the US).

Now you might argue that Snowden broke the law, I'd absolutely agree he did, but some laws are bad laws, and sometimes to fight an unjust system you must break the law - examples from history are legion of people fighting unjust laws who in retrospect are seen as heroes - I suspect Snowden will be amongst them, but arguing over the legality of his actions is a distraction from the to me more important questions of a free press and how we can restrain a government which aspires to know everything about every one of us.
It more like 32 for BJP. There party is a close ally with Shiromani Akali Dal (which got 1 Rajouri seat). So close that two of Shiromani Akali Dal candidates contested with BJP's symbol.
Maybe a signup via email as an alternative to those of us that don't like to use our various google, twitter, facebook, github accounts for signing up?
We created a custom implementation of an io.ReadCloser that allowed us to wrap the http.Handler's io.ReadCloser and attach context to the request:
https://github.com/bradrydzewski/routes/blob/master/exp/cont...

It avoids the global lock and we haven't found any compatibility issues.
As you can see from my username here on HN and everywhere else, I have decided to go with full disclosure. I think there are a lot of pros, and a few cons, some of them very annoying.
They did, but that presumes they knew all that was going on. I suspect that very few people did.

I agree, but doesnt't that just imply that the "compartmentalization" system can be used for more than limiting damage due to disclosure? A compartmentalized organization can be led down the proverbial primrose path, responsibility is so diffuse that accountability and even ethical behavior is impossible.

I think it also implies an ethical duty not to work in a compartmentalized organization. You can't know if you're doing ethical work if you can't know all that's going on, even theortically.
What do they plan on doing for the Dubai World Cup built on the back of actual slaves.
Well, note who is explicitly excluded from the buyout:

"People working in the Software Group will not be allowed to join VSP, neither will folk with vice president in their title, nor exec/ distinguished directors in engineering or employees in India or Singapore."

I don't know who's included in the Software Group, but it probably includes a lot of people like those who read HN.

I once worked for a company where buyouts were offered - we had seen the handwriting on the wall for quite a while. Engineers were excluded and I was an engineer. They came nowhere near their target buyout numbers and finally, grudgingly, offered buyouts to engineers. I took the buyout.
Why should he? He actually recommends to write passwords down on paper.

And for most attack scenarios for the private user, "a logbook on the desk next to the computer" isn't a big difference to "little bits of paper in the wallet".
Anybody can write that they're a genius with "insert buzzword" but google for their name and the topic and a result of nothing is confusing.
True, true. I had a job where I essentially did nothing but customer support. It was actually pretty fun doing "field" support, and I like doing high-level support (remote, even; pre-sales is more interesting, but "fix this actual bug no one understands" is cool too), but doing first line phone support was hell. It was funny that the company was paying me $absurd but viewed it as "sunk cost" so something a $50-100k/yr person could have easily done became also my job description at times.

Working for Zappos, at least based on their offices and culture, also appears to be a unique form of hell, but those attracted to the company probably would like it.
"Also, I think it's inadvisable to name real people in hypothetical scenarios without their permission"
Why? Grellas is a public commenter here (whose identity is well known) on quite a large scale.

Because you are inserting them in a hypothetical scenario.

Imagine the case where an investor Googles their name, finds your discussion of the supposed weakness in their business model and refuses to invest because of how weak their business model is.

Or - perhaps even more likely - imagine software that runs sentiment analysis on people's usernames. Suddenly you have associated them with negative sentiment...
I won't enumerate all the details why having one person have at least 51% voting power is valuable, because the writeups about stock shares does it better justice, but I will say that I think it's naive to think "we're best friends, that will never happen to us".

At least one of the parties needs to be a big enough person to quickly recognize and change a relationship that is going downhill, because if the relationship is important, the current bad situation will lead to that resentment buildup, often times completely destroying any hope for a reconciliation.

"We can't live together, so we don't" is a more useful state to be in than "We're friends, we should be able to live together."
I didn't say I have Celiac disease. I said, since I quit wheat, I never get food comas. I used to get them routinely.

I don't know WHY I don't get them. Celiac is not the only issue wheat can cause.

I feel fairly confident in these results. I tested wheat in isolation, repeatedly. I've tested other variables: carbs, sugar, dairy. None of them ever gave me a food coma, in the absence of wheat.

It seems completely reasonable for me to avoid wheat, given the results of my experiments. Why are you so certain I must wrong?
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We consider that field PII (personally identifiable information) and don't share it. You'd have to set your display name to your real name to show it: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/67331/why-does-the-r...
http://persona.org maybe?
I don't quite understand your question. ygra asserted that the Windows network stack was taken from BSD. This was never true and was kind of a pernicious rumor for a long time. I just assume Greg Lehey's word on it is enough for most people.

There were a few little odds and ends that popped up with BSD license notifications over the years, like the ftp client IIRC. As you say, little utilities that don't amount to much. What is YOUR point?
Some languages in the Wirth family have pointers and GC, e.g. Modula-3. It has a module-level notion of safety, so that modules using potentially unsafe pointer manipulation are marked as unsafe and break runtime safety guarantees. It also doesn't guarantee that all pointers will be roots for GC.
I understand the author is interested in military drones. But that doesn't mean that Amazon's annoucement has anything at all to do with the story he is trying to write.
I would hate to be an athlete who's trained their entire life for this event, only to have it so tainted by russia's appalling actions. As a fan, I'm still looking for an appropriate reaction
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Because it's a layoff. Even when done right, when the company lays off people in the bottom 25%, there's still just as much work and fewer hands to do it; If you aren't cut in the first round of layoffs, you will end up working much harder than you were working before the layoffs.

Usually, layoffs also imply that the company is in poor financial health. Companies in poor financial health tend to be stingy with raises and bonuses.

I would argue that because they are doing layoffs wrong, they are very likely going to endure even worse times; It implies they have unskilled management, and they've got to get along now without the employees who had other options who were encouraged (!) to jump ship before things got really bad.

Few things are quite as frustrating as putting in heroic hours only to watch that work be wasted because your management isn't very good.

If you thought you had to work more after the first round of layoffs, boy howdy; after round two, you might as well park your cot in the office. Worse, in round 2 and 3 the severance packages get smaller and smaller.
what about the gay athletes who wish to compete? It makes it a little tough to not be involved in this type of stuff.
I'm assuming that the point your trying to make is that if AAP were to contest nationwide, they may not get the same response.

Actually, I think the other way round. Take a look at the constituencies they won from. Many of them are constituencies which largely include lower incomes groups.
>Couldn't I fairly easily replace "military" with "profession"?

No, no you could not, least of why being improper grammar.
I start digging in "your" backyard, and you shoot me. Who "initiated" "force"?
People go to prison for tax evasion pretty regularly. This guy seems to be deliberately evading the NYC hotel tax on many transactions per year.