skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And as long as guys are still acting in ignorance of their privilege, I'll keep posting that and similar resources.

But as long as we're talking about it, you might benefit by reading his FAQ in response to the post: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/17/lowest-difficulty-sett...

He's mainly addressing the straight white males of the Internet who thought the piece was crap, so it's basically for you.
Perhaps, in a broader sense. One particular account I've read in a autobiographical book by a person who fought in a distant civil war and had been on both sides of the table, so to speak, recalls how he felt the same kind of bonding - "closeness" as he puts it - both with the people who tortured him and those who he, himself, tortured.
> I'm not going to bother answering this in detail. From the reactions I've seen, we're very happy with the upgrade.

Detail? This answer has cost you more words than the obvious two picks:
"We made a vote","I made a gamble"

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Microsoft Should Embrace Nokia's Android Project
For someone with almost five years of professional experience as a Web Developer I think I'm paid a low salary in the UK. I reckon I'm paid well at my company, but I believe I could get better elsewhere.

It would probably be 20-25% for me to quit right now and join in a month. However, a lot of this will depend on who is offering the money, and the quality of the job I'll be walking into.

Let's say Company X offer me a 20% increase on my salary, but developers at Company X are stressed out and work tons of extra hours, I'd flat out decline. If Company Y come along, offer me 5% more money than I am currently paid, but have a much more relaxed atmosphere then I would probably take it.

I've had a few offers from companies that would bump my salary up about 25%, but I know people that have worked for these companies, and they have awful reputations for treating their developers like shit.
Sure, but for most people "racist" or "sexist" aren't the first words that come to mind when they think of pg - that would be "investor" or "writer", for example. Bssed on his writing he seems like a reasonable, fair, and unbiased person. Misquoted out of context, you can make someone say whatever you want to further your agenda, of course.
That's because, most of the time, a keyboard/mouse will NEVER be cleaned (and desks themselves something like twice a year) while toilet seats will be cleaned quite often, even more than once per day in a big enough office.

I clean my keyboard and mouse regularly, as well as try to keep my hands clean while I'm working (if I eat a chocolate, I'll wash my hands afterwards, for example), but I know I'm the exception.
This is my problem.
Pixel density is great if you have 20/20 vision.

I'm really happy with 1080p on 27" IPS (LG).
People would probably think I'm mad.
Just as I would consider myself mad looking at a blueish display all day long.
Personally I think a great way to improve the ratio would be to get everybody off death row.
>Adam Curtis is a prime example of what he is complaining about.

Adam Curtis has produced some of the best documentaries I've ever seen.

It's like people in this thread can't appreciate art for what it is. Or that some of the topics here have been determined in absolute, and aren't open to interpretation, philosophizing or opinion.

Malcolm Gladwell? Junk. Adam Curtis? Junk. Is nothing worth reading or watching unless it's an unstylized list of facts?

I don't know about you, but all I ask from my personal entertainment are "things to think about".
XiaoMi Works On Smartphone That Will Cost Only $50
I don't really see your point, I search almost exclusively through DDG and almost always get good results, even with very specific subjects. Seldom does a query that yields no usable results on DDG has better outcome on Google (I'd say less than a dozen times in years)
Perhaps the issue is how you phrase your query. I tend to use only keywords which I find relevant. Also DDG does not remove the quotation marks from queries(which is a big plus in my opinion).

There is a specific syntax for news (sort:date, IIRC) albeit it has a smaller index.

I don't have the numbers, but I believe DDG indexes a sufficient portion of the internet to answer satisfactorily a great portion of my queries. Sites like StackOverflow must be as indexed as Google at about 100%. The differential must be on sites with a very low pagerank which are quite irrelevant for the great majority of queries. If your query returns more than half a dozen pages on google it's probable DDG would also yield usable results.

>>>EDIT: region:cn returns results from Chinese sites I prefer this to the alternative of the search engine guessing if I want information about Chinese people and culture, Chinese restaurants, or from China, but I guess Google adds value after you train it a bit and learns what do you usually mean in your queries, while on the other hand DDG requires that you learn how to use it effectively. This value added from Google comes at the price of privacy which is much more valuable for me.
The issue of getting out is a pointless term for most of the employees right now. They won't be fully vested for at least 6mos to a year.
With my WM, I can switch the workspace of each of my three monitors independently. If I only had a single monitor, such composition really wouldn't be possible (unless you specifically built a WM capable of doing so).
Orrick is a great firm but from my experience they are better for companies that are later stage. My sense is you have a greater chance of finding a great startup attorney at one of the other firms.
Note that "lock-free" doesn't mean "doesn't use mutexes"; it means "at least one consumer/producer will always make progress". (Any algorithm using locks fails this test, as one stubborn consumer/producer can hold up the entire system.) The article doesn't seem to really touch on this property at all (although at first glance the algorithm does appear to be lock-free).
I would expect that nearly any supporter of the GPL would also support a change to the law that eliminated copyright restrictions on the use of code.

Only if distributing software without its source was also made illegal.
No.

I pay taxes for services I will never use (therefore I paid for "nothing) (and often could not use e.g. I don't have children and don't plan to have any either but my taxes subsidise state education (which is fantastic)).

I donate money to open source projects who release their projects and code to people who have never paid (which is a tiny fraction of what the people who write open source code and then give it away give).

The buddhists (I'm an atheist but there is much to admire in some religions) have a concept called pāramitā "the perfection of giving" which (horribly and likely inaccurately described) is the idea of giving without attachment expecting no return.

Also in this case the person who paid for X got X, that others also got X has no effect on the person who paid.
It wouldn't (probably) render the algorithms who rest upon the assumption that P!=NP useless. You still have to find a fast algorithm for the problem. Just because it is in P doesn't mean there exists a (practical) fast algorithm to break the crypto.
> The alternative is "everything is public domain!" in which case, no GPL.

There are many, myself included, who would be happy with this endgame. As long as no one can ever be prosecuted for creating a work, I am happy.

The GPL is needed because of the effects of copyright, not vice versa.
While the article uses only 64 KB/MB files for the analysis, the full Excel workbook contains data that had up to 512 MB files. The VMs only had 256 MB of RAM, so I did indeed test the RAM-spillover cases. The results were very similar, though unsurprisingly the VMs didn't perform quite as well (though they did still beat over native).

I never tested going over the native's RAM.
Valve plays the long game again
Am I the only one that can't read Wired articles on an iOS device (g4 iPod) anymore? Why the heck is this page constantly rerendering?
A Simple Static Page
Hackers Steal Card Data from Neiman Marcus
People keep saying this, and I can see how it's easily true if we're talking about EC2 or one of Amazon's database services. But what's the hardware equivalent of S3 (the majority of the costs in this case) that's cheaper and "not much harder to manage" than S3? I feel like once you want to get past a couple TB of (redundant!) storage in colo/dedicated you're back to the land of sysops, no? I mean, I am decently comfortable in my ability to keep a server running, but I've never maintained a SAN (is that what I would need to replace S3?) and wouldn't trust myself to provide the level of resilience that Amazon is able to provide.
> Without IP, what stops people incorporating GPL code in their closed source proprietary products?

Without IP, there can neither be GPL (which licenses IP rights) nor close source proprietary (which is another model of licensing IP rights).
You can move to some non-urbanized area, and just cut communications with anybody else. (Yes, you can not completely cut away because of taxes, but you can to a huge degree.)

Almost nobody likes that option.
Agreed. Every now and then I think about making an in-browser port.
I'm registering these domains as quickly as I can.

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TransgenderThaisCode
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You seem to be suggesting that 2000sf is small, but to me that seems huge. I live in a 1200sf house in Minneapolis with my wife. When we move, we'll probably be looking at houses slightly larger (so we can fit a grand piano), but we definitely don't need 2000sf, much less 4000!
>Actually MLK acted perfectly

Q: How many times was Dr. King arrested?
A: He was arrested 30 times.

(From http://www.thekingcenter.org/faqs)

Or go read Letter From a Birmingham Jail: http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.h...

It was a letter rooted in anger: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/16/us/king-birmingham-jail-letter...

In it, he writes: "Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word 'tension.' I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth."

And of course part of what helped MLK's public standing was that there were much more radical people than him. Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam shifted the Overton Window enough that MLK could look reasonable.

My point here is that social change is never comfortable, never easy, and certainly never welcomed by the bulk of the privileged group. Asking activists to be quieter and nicer is pointless; they already know what that gets them, which is being ignored. Which they've already had a bellyful of, or they wouldn't be activists.

People forced Paul Graham to confront the issue. And as he's a visible leader of the startup community, they're forcing everybody to confront it. Will that alienate some number of people? Sure. Would they have been advocates for change anyhow? Nope.

Ask yourself: what did those "more and more resentful" people look like in the civil rights era? Now ask yourself: is that the group you'd like to be remembered as being a part of?
Spying is as good a "threat of blackmail" as one can get.
When Anonymous Isn’t Really Anonymous
I can't believe I'm reading a comment that brushes off "hard facts" like some kind of nuisance.
What's wrong with Adults?
(Sorry, accidental downvote while attempting to select text)

> Not that it changes your overall point, but note that California no longer has a majority population along racial lines.

California still has a very substantial White racial majority (74.0% as of the 2010 census), it just doesn't appear to when people of Hispanic ethnicity are counted as a separate group from their race (non-Hispanic Whites were only 39.7% in the same census), as is frequently done in the US.
whatever be the technology, it really was surprising that it just worked when I double clicked on the binary just after extracting! That is some user experience not quite associated with games on Linux based distros
Why do these B&M retailers even need to store credit card data? Ecommerce merchants (trustworthy ones anyway) don't store it unless customers opt in...
Indonesia is the 16th highest GDP in the world. 4th most populous. If they can take and hold Indonesia, they might be able to continue into Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Owning that much of the growing 3rd world in Asia in 10 years of compounded growth in those countries is worth a lot of money to a lot of really big tech companies. It's an easy thesis when Google and Facebook are willing to pay up for social networks.
Yeah, I'd love to have such a big, high resolution display, but it has to meet some basic standards. I agree with the article that it's a waste to market that kind of resolution as a TV (why would a TV ever need that kind of resolution?), whereas a cheap, good quality high-res monitor could sell very well.
since I don't see this listed, I cannot recommend "Enemies of the people"[0] enough.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemies_of_the_People_(film)
If I don't hear back within 3 days, I just move on. In fact, I move on anyway. Not being a super-star, I need to spread the net pretty wide.
Java code for Permutation using Steinhaus–Johnson–Trotter algorithm
The hack seems a bit vanilla. Good message nonetheless but DOJs main page would have been a good addition.
I have interviewed with a lot big tech companies(Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle etc). I interviewed with Microsoft in Dec 2013, and I found their process was the best and really well planned.

First I was brought into a giant conference room with 12 other candidates and the recuirter gave us the overview of the company and gave us the itinerary for the day.

Then we had our interviewers come into the conference room and call out people's names to take them to indivisual rooms for interviews. After each interview we were brought back to the conference room and given a 10ish mins break to have snacks etc.

After the 3rd interview the recuirter took all 12 candidates to a very informal lunch, which basically acted like a sale pitch for the job.

Every single interview I had, had been working for the company for 10+ years and was extremely humble about their work. I especially liked the fact that they openly accepted their past mistakes and told me how they were fixing them.

After the final interview the recuirter passed around a sheet where we filled out our available times in the next 2 days to talk to the recuirter about our results.

I interviewed on a Friday and I got a call from the recuirter on the next monday with an offer.
I can vouch for this with Rackspace as well. Our account is nowhere near $30k per month, but we do pay the $100/month managed service fee. I've had multiple conversations in regards to new services and infrastructure changes that might save us money.

It's always good to approach any of your business-critical vendors and service providers to discuss pricing. You might find that they are more than willing to negotiate.
Same as they gave Google?
Really? Are you saying my 2012 Mackbook Pro could use 16 GB? Do you have any source for that?
I have been really enjoying this tutorial. If you wanted to be super timely you could add instructions for doing it in Light Table.
HP is set to launch its smartphone as soon as next week
BBC Four does exactly what you suggest re:exploring a topic through past Horizon episodes.
Downloads are super slow (THANKS, HN), anyone know if there are any mirrors up?
Very funny, gdb. Ve-ery funny
Unless all the automation is owned by a monopoly.
Proving Time Travel Exists
The Bakrie group also owns a wireless telecommunication company in Indonesia [1]. Apparently this is a strategic move to increase wireless data usage and number of subscribers [2].

[1] http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/s...
[2] http://www.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&...
Reminds me of Heroes of Newerth back in closed beta and early launch. The game would run on any platform - Linux, Windows or Mac. Everything worked out of the box 100% properly.

It's a shame that the game lost the MoBA wars since their client was and still is the best one out there.
Your 'potential threat' level with the NSA has risen from 10 to 9.
The software testing course in Udacity is an excellent introduction to the fuzzy testing techniques that the article talks about. Here is the link: https://www.udacity.com/course/cs258
Offer HN: Web developer looking to volunteer for non-profits
I am a full-stack web developer / designer looking to help non-profits with basically anything web or mobile related. I've been doing web stuff for over 8 years now (full-stack: I write beautiful back and front-end code), and I work full-time as a front-end developer / UI designer right now.

Areas that I can help:

* Custom apps and tools needed for your daily work (PHP, Ruby) (preferred)
* Blog setup, customisation, theming (Wordpress)
* iOS or Android apps

This is something I wanted to do for a long time and I finally feel I'm in the position to devote a part of my free time to. I can probably devote up to 20hrs/week to this cause.

If you know a non-profit that could use help, please forward them my email.

Contact me at: epicawsm@gmail.com
That's because you clearly are unable to read at all.
Handled with class by Chris. No drama, no fanfare. Good job.
Would you rather see more of 'why I dont eat lunch at my desk' stories?
just a validation, was Aaron Swartz - Co-Founder of Reddit as mentioned in the article.. I cant seem to find any link to the same on the article..
And why would those only be a concern if you are eating at your desk, not whe you are working on it and (gasp!) touching you phone, tablet, mouse, keyboard, etc?

Whenever I read an unqualified claim "there are more bacteria on your keyboard than on a toilet seat", I think "hm, most people must be spending way more time than necessary cleaning their toilets". But of course, the scientist in me also thinks the kinds of bacteria present will make an impact. The bacteria on a toilet seat might be similar to the zillions of bacteria in my stomach, or they might be E. Coli, salmonella, tetanus, syphilis, etc.
RH OpenShift will let you host Ghost for free.

https://www.openshift.com/quickstarts/ghost-with-mysql-on-op...
This is the same LinkedIn that was hacking people's email accounts to siphon contact lists?
My First and Last Tweet of 2014
with class or out of fear because of the insane bullying that went on in https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015 ?
That's an interesting piece of information! Thank you for sharing it.
\textwidth is much to wide.
Here's the report: https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013
I feel like the title is a little bit misleading.

It should be noted that this is related to protect your privacy from government attempts to to access such data.

Given LinkedIn's MD5 password leak, the LinkedIn Intro "MITM", and the fact that LinkedIn asks users for their e-mail and e-mail password, when I read the title I assumed it would be related to security issues and not legal issues.
Why don't you ask them directly? The email address listed in their github profile is: feministsoftwarefoundation@loves.dicksinmyan.us
What's interesting to me is the argument that feminists have "too much time on their hands" if they are concerning themselves with submitting real gender neutral patches that make sense (ie. not this). Compare that to the creation of "languages", fake patches, and troll accounts in order to attempt to discredit actual points made by feminists.

I find the second immensely more of a "waste of time".
I generally approve of gender-neutral language, but there are two big problems with this pull request:

1: "They's" is wrong. Don't do this with a blind global replace, but read what you're modifying.

2: Some of the changes are a quote from a song. No idea what that quote is doing in the code, but misquoting is not an improvement.

It doesn't help that the person proposing the change is behaving like a troll. But if someone wants to do this change correctly, I'm all for it.
what a link-bait title.
Meanwhile, many great writers — Byron, Austen, Thackeray, Eliot, Dickens, Trollope and more — continued to use they and company as singulars, never mind the grammarians. In fact, so many people now use they in the old singular way that dictionaries and usage guides are taking a critical look at the prohibition against it. R. W. Burchfield, editor of The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage, has written that it’s only a matter of time before this practice becomes standard English: “The process now seems irreversible.” Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) already finds the singular they acceptable “even in literary and formal contexts,” but the Usage Panel of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.) isn’t there yet.

—nytimes.com, 2009
It does, but you need to do it correctly. "They's" is stupid and wrong. Had it been changed to "they're", it'd be fine.
"One billion" sounds impressive but it should be compared to over two thousand billion searches made on Google Search over the same period:
http://www.statisticbrain.com/google-searches/
ok.

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changes committed. http://i.imgur.com/YDG5Hoh.png
Winter League roundup: Aybar, Bonifacio lead Licey
Exactly. Being underwater on a house means not being able to pull up sticks and just move. Strategic default might get you clear of the house, but your credit rating (and therefore your ability to rent) will be trashed.
I had a similar experience at TomTom. I applied for a position, got a positive reply, tried to schedule for an interview. After that I did not hear anything for quite a while, so I e-mailed again and, in case they had e-mail problems, called the recruiter. He promised to call me back, which he obviously did not. Later I learned (also from LinkedIn) that the recruiter had moved to another company around that time.

Funny enough, until this day (months later) the position is still open and it gets reposted every now and then.
Ask HN: Do any of you use a personal medical CMS and database?
I have had my fair share of medical issue - none life-threatening - of which some still endure, and my experience with doctors is that they sometimes fail to send and share my medical data between them.

Because if this in part, I have found it necessary to create back-ups of my medical history, which involves scanning paper documents most of the time. I just have a folder with a set of subfolders now, but I wonder if someone has found a way of managing their information conveniently? Preferably locally or self-hosted without relying on anything external.

(For what it's worth, I do not live in the U.S.)