skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The default is configured for magnetic disks, where random IO is brutally slow (on the order of 30-100 per second) and sequential reads are reasonably fast. But what if you're running it on a Micron P420m with 700,000 IOPS per second?
I'm just stunned their data is as good as it is. In high-school I never answered a single survey like that honestly. Nobody I knew did. The idea that adults would be shocked to learn that all teenagers had unprotected sex with hundreds of random partners a month was too amusing.

In retrospect, there may have been a reason we had to go to so many educational 'assemblies'...
It's not just about having a young daughter. People need to teach their sons that they shouldn't be putting their hands on women's waists and legs. That is the other reason to write blog posts on this--to make men aware that they shouldn't be doing things like this.
I wonder how this relates to meditation. Article suggests inactivity leads to a more sensitive nervous system. Perhaps meditation can't be accurately described as inactivity as such, but I am inclined to think there is more of a link between our bodies and our minds than we currently understand.
You're conflating "companies" and "creators of proprietary software". There is substantial overlap, but the "other" that RMS opposes is the latter.
You're reading too much into what I'm saying.

I didn't say that this is the woman's fault. I didn't say that the man is blameless. I said that if you cannot defend yourself, you are at the mercy of forces beyond your control. Period. This isn't a life philosophy or a political position, this is a fact of reality.

In an ideal world, she wouldn't have to worry about defending herself, but we aren't living in CandyLand. If you cannot rely on yourself, who can you rely on?
Why on earth are you taking this personally? All I'm saying is that I hold the community of tech professionals to a different standard than I do every random person running cgminer, and that "tech" shouldn't be judged by the actions of those people, which makes about as much sense as judging the community of professional artists by the actions of random anime fans.

>In this case, it's a distraction. The problem is the groping and the mentality that led to that guy touching her without her consent. Unless the crypto communities are fostering that, or something about the tech makes that prevalent, it just seems like a distraction. Right? Instead, now we're talking about Bitcoin... instead of a problem that spans ALL of tech, not just Bitcoin.

I think you're more interested in imagining my post as an attack on your identity, because you somehow missed that making the discussion about Bitcoin was the entire point: My parent comment asserted that this was an example of bad behavior in the general tech community, and I claimed that this is far worse than normal behavior that is probably isolated to the "community" of cryptocurrency speculators. You can disagree if you'd like, but I'm not "distracting" or "derailing" the conversation, I'm just... having a conversation?
> "Wow, that was fast," he said to Carlsen, whose rockstar appeal has won him the moniker the "Justin Bieber of chess."

"Justin Bieber of chess."

really?
Try Alt+D->gmail->control+enter next time.

Or even better - host your own email server.
Of course no analogy is perfect. The point of the analogy was to illustrate that even without someone actively trying to beat you up, acting normal can be difficult. That is the only aspect which I think those two situations share.
So you're going to go butt in on every couple there?
Fortunately this is a longitudinal study, so the effects can be seen over time with the same people.
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This is normal for any conversation.
No yet, we have only indexed text.
We will collect feedback to improve it, create_at will be part of the next update.
It's worth noting that SQL Server, presuming you've configured uniques and relationships correctly, actually runs exactly the same query plan for their first query and their last query.

I detailed this at http://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2014/01/24/your-query-plann...
Yeah actually I do. I have a huge problem with it. I have a huge problem with: some douchebag acted less than human towards me -> this is how it is like to be a woman in the tech industry.

Next time somebody gives me an off handed remark about something, I'm going to generalize as well and cry wolf online.

It's blowing up a problem that isn't a problem at all, way out of proportion.

I get groped at bars all the time by women, I don't make a whiny blog post about it. Kind of funny she made the post and claimed to "have a thick skin".

She clearly suffered a fair amount of emotional trauma from this rather mild leg grabbing. Did she do something about it? Of course she didn't.

Women in the tech industry is the next phase of Shakespearean drama.

Every time some retarded bullshit gender article meanders across my front page on HN, I'll shit post it. Why? Because HN is not your personal feminist platform. Flood twitter with your personal garbage.
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Nah...

It has long been in everyone's mind that China has to eventually unwind its currency from being pegged to T-bills.

It serves China's interest (as well as everyone else's) to do this extremely slowly (decades). Bumpiness will always be a factor though, and apparently someone, somewhere, knows something the rest of us don't.

When the Yen and Yuan correct by going up against the dollar, even slightly, it results in reduced quarterly earnings for most Western companies who have contracts spelled out in foreign currency but have to file their reports in dollars. Most solid businesses don't mind too much though, because it usually means increased earnings in a year.

Wall Street is a pricing machine for "right-at-this-moment" though, so they will recede whenever a round of Q-reports is set to be reduced. My suspicion is that even if there is relatively brutal correction this weekend that it won't result in anything other than a short term halabaloo about nothing. 2014 is set to be a great year economically, even Krugman thinks so. However, these things do have a history of getting ugly quick for no-good-reasons; if a big enough heavy-weight starts to panic it could get bad.

This is why Reserve Banks do these things on the weekend.
It is kind of interesting that Wikipedia articles on war crimes and atrocities seem to typically be rather tame, while I am hard-pressed to find an article about a disease does not have photographs that make me want to vomit in my mouth.
She speaks up and gets called a "prude"

I do wonder about this sometimes. Like, when have I ever cared what the guy who hit me with his car thinks of me? When have I ever cared what the guy who stole my MP3 player thought of me?

I know "stop caring" isn't useful advice, but I wonder sometimes why any woman would care what an assaulter has to say in the first place.
Especially if she makes it clear that it's making her uncomfortable.
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But... isn't Magnus Carlsen good at chess?
I don't understand...
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And therein lies the rub.

I'm also reminded of the studies that document that routinely exceeding a 40 hour week causes reduced productivity (IGDA "Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work"), and that 40 hours was based on assembly-line work and the corresponding number for creative work is probably 35 hours max leads me to think it's just not possible to have a side project without interfering with your main job to some degree.

So yes, I've gladly given up TV and movies and gaming, but that still doesn't seem to make a side project feasible, which is really sad.
And he misunderstands the "cowboy" reference in "cowboy programmers." The reference I believe is to lone operator who views himself as having superior skills and so does not integrate with the group, follow the coding rules and procedures, and generally makes work for others colleagues, often while ignoring their communications or responding to them with condescension.
I think the best way to do it is to ask organizers to set up codes of conduct for larger or regular events, and for smaller events to just outright be like "what do you think you're doing? that's not appropriate" if "fuck off" is too harsh. If a person is worried about how to confront someone at all, s/he could ask for help from others at any point (even the much-maligned Ada Initiative) and confront the person on terms s/he is comfortable with (like later in an email). I mean, even a little "excuse me" and taking their hands off you is something and hopefully everyone else understands what's going on and discourages any negative reactions to that. I'm just going all out because I used to grin and bear it when I was younger and now I know better, I'm tired of this bullshit, and I don't care about making someone a public example. And I speak as an introverted little aspie geek just like the stereotype. Fuck everyone that thinks that's a good excuse.

On a sidenote, I was much younger. I went to college and started to go to tech conferences and events at 15. You will not believe how many men, including married men and men old enough to be my father, would hit on me and worse. One of my pipe dreams is wishing I could tell them that they tried to grope a 15 year old. Alas it was almost a decade ago and I can't do anything about it now (except making sure that everyone has resources to discourage that behavior).
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I think it's absolutely disgusting that you criticize the victim for documenting what happened to her.

It's despicable and downright fucking evil that you basically accuse her of sharing her story solely because she wants attention.

The worst part of your god-awful post is that it's currently pinned to the top of this board.

The fact that your disgusting, insensitive post is at the top is why women don't work in tech. They don't want to have to deal with assholes like you who have nothing better to do than say "she should do X instead of sharing her story", or whatever else you want to do to silence her, and shame her for sharing her story.

She is brave for doing anything, because she knew the world is full of assholes like you: cowardly bigots who will criticize ANY action she takes.

I'm sorry she had a problem. And I'm more sorry that HN has degraded to the point where a cowardly attack from a piece of shit like you is pinned to the top.
If you have large housing needs (family/etc.) I can see that, but as a single person renting I didn't find the pricing difference large enough to be worth choosing Texas just for the housing savings. Paid about $700/mo to rent a 1-bd in Houston, vs $1100 to rent a nicer 1-bd in Santa Cruz, near the beach. Sure, that's almost $5k savings over a year in Houston, but you're not going to retire on an extra $5k. Well more like $4k savings overall once you take into account the extra electric bill I had in Houston, running the A/C for 7-8 months of the year.
I can definitely relate. Had been using Airbnb around the world a lot. This is why we put a strong emphasis towards quality of service. As a paid service we know that if we do badly you won't hire us again. We do our best as if it was our own listing. We give fast an accurate response, and we are always there for more clarifications. And our guests love us, so we must be doing it right. You can read in our website some of our testimonials.

Koby, co-founder of SuperHost
Is it easier to think about point masses held together by invisible springs? The point masses being atoms, and the springs being electric fields. Not a perfect analogy, but it should work to visualize a lot of the macroscopic effects of gravity.

BTW, it's not hard to convince yourself that masses and springs in a centrifuge behave exactly like those near a large body. (In Newtonian mechanics even.) How are you sure you know the difference?
I use roundcube to front-end mail for friends and family.

The problem is that you mention you run your own mail server and even plenty of tech-savvy folks will look at you like you're the Unibomber.
Congratulations! I know how difficult this kind of stuff can be - I tried something similar a few years back and ended up dropping the project before it got too far; although I learned a lot about object oriented programming. Great work!
Nothing wrong with a good fork!

The original post is sometimes just kindling for other discussions. What can you really say about gmail being down that is that interesting? (That is a question....)
I would like to participated in that :(.
meek people get walked on; that's simply how the world works

I agree, and so my personal advice to individuals is to not be meek.

But one of the points of civilized society is to defend the meek.

So, the two messages (stop being meek for your own sake; we need to defend the meek) are not incompatible.
When you see someone & think they need help, you can press help into their hand
I've had some experience with managing tech meetups, and the inevitable occurrence of creepers making the attending women uncomfortable. The correct solution is for the people running the event to be paying attention to the behavior of the attendees and kick people out who are being disrespectful. And to do it noisily. It needs to be made an example of.

Unfortunately, these guys creep out other guys, too, so it's often the case that you see nothing happen because nobody wants to deal with the 'tard.

But it's no excuse. Pull up your big boy pants and give the asshole the boot.
It's very amusing and ironic to me that you are completely projecting the air of "generalization". I didn't see the author anywhere saying "All bitcoin users are like this" and in fact, you'll find me chiding someone else, here, for saying that.

You just want to reduce this to something that you can dismiss and ignore, because it's complicated and you can't hold your own when it comes to the details. And, in this case, you're just putting words in the author's mouth in order to invent a way to demean and dismiss her. Classy.

>Did she do something about it? Of course she didn't.

I don't even know what "Of course" is supposed to mean there, but I'm pretty sure it says something not-so-great about your default position and open-mindedness on this issue.

edit: Can't keep up with your edits (it's okay, I do it too)

>Kind of funny she made the post and claimed to "have a thick skin".

And again, you'll note that this is very much a recount of what happened. In fact, she explicitly said she doesn't think she was violated (and I disagree with her, but that's her prerogative).
I want to say thank you for providing XAMPP!

I especially like the control panel windows app and the portable edition. Keep up the good work.
It has been there forever is the last "P" in "XAMPP".
"Our goal is to be fair and accurate. The more you share, obviously, the better."

We wouldn't want you guys to get hurt. And unless you do what we want, I'm afraid we can't guarantee your safety.
>It's just that the ideological differences are still huge and the Cold War

>propaganda in the West IS a form of reality through which, as if it was

>some sort of glasses, Western people view the stuff that was going on here

>in USSR. The Soviet lies died when the Union fell, but the Western ones

>are living and well. Haha, didn't mean to make a rhyme...

It's not that I consider myself or Russians or any other group of people to be in a position to think of everyone else as being in an ivory tower. But there are certainly some Cold-War era myths and concepts that are still alive and kicking. Maybe because today's Russia is culturally really not a very significant country and there is not much interest in what was going on here in XX century...

OK, I admit, this was off-topic...
In a situation like that, we're not talking about cold, rational threat assessment. You're dealing with instinctive assessments of, as another commenter said, power balance, from a part of your brain that's a) very concerned with physical survival and also b) attuned to the support of other people around. And if the guy got away with putting his hand on her leg in public, so reasons the lower brain, who knows what else he can get away with?

Disclaimer: I'm a man so I've never dealt with that exact situation, but I've observed the above thought processes in awkward situations, and I would assume it's amplified in the described situation.
Your Query Planner and You
Well I currently see both Sonic.net and Verizon blocking outbound tcp/25, which is the extent of my limited sample. According to RFC4409, mail submission is supposed to be done on tcp/587 these days. And no matter how effective at actually stopping spam in general, I suspect tcp/25 is blocked out of a desire to not end up on IP blacklists due to botnetted customers.
right, just using the method is not a problem. I'm saying it sucks if you have to write a whole bunch of methods like that because you are creating your own generators, etc...
Bill Gates also famously plays cards and other one-on-one games with Warren Buffet. I would love to have an insight into the conversations that take place during those games.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP1nAvi85g0
I must be terribly naive or hopelessly optimistic. The immediate reason I thought of that would explain why stories like this are upvoted is for a matter of visibility, and in a distant second place, to head off questions like "Is it broken for you, too?" Judging by a cursory review of the comment here, I suspect that reasoning is fairly common.

It strikes me as awfully pessimistic to immediately assume someone's clicking their mouse thinking "Haha, Gmail is down! Take THAT Google! >upvote<" when the result is very real service disruption for a lot of people.
I don't think that really answers the question. There will evidently be questions that require the owner's actual interaction. (Eg. Q: which light switch controls the outdoor lights; how much water do I give your plant?). The only thing I can think of is getting some information beforehand from the owner (which at that point may as well be given to the renter).

This solution is great for general area questions, but guests will likely still have specific questions about the actual building they are in (how do I turn on the hot water, etc). How will you deal with that?

Edit: Koby's response just popped up as I was composing this; I like the idea of learning from previous responses!
assume I'm a frigid bitch anyway instead of recognizing that they're the ones making a big mistake

I know I already replied to you, but I had one more thought- your frustration is not with assholes & sexual assaulters, your frustration here is really with humans in general :) This is a classic, classic human trait that shows up in just about every type interaction.
She can go around slapping people who are groping her. Absolutely she can.

What, you're worried about him escalating from there? In a roomful of almost entirely guys? He won't make it very far with that...
Do you actually go back and relive those moments? Do you ever go back and look over the moment when you talked about your mother's accident?

Chat history is useful for me if I was talking to a friend about a technical problem and want to review the conclusion or possible link. I've never personally delved into chat history for any other reason (perhaps a funny photo link). I've had some hilariously fun conversations on chat, but never felt the desire to relive them. I guess I'm saying if you don't actually revisit your chat history, there's really no need to feel so attached.
That depends on the situation. There are certainly some pieces of software for which I feel that it is more important that it merely functions well at some task, and closed-source software is acceptable for that purpose. There are other situations where closed-source software makes me uncomfortable because I do not have certain guarantees about its security, reliability, or flexibility. I would say that the majority of situations are better served by open-source software, but not everybody feels that way.
I am really sorry about your experience.

Last year my girlfriend wanted to go to a Bitcoin Meetup in Buenos Aires. Nothing like that happened in that occasion, but it was really boring imo... though it was interesting to see how many "bitcoiners" are mostly clueless about how Bitcoin actually works

btw I would change the title to "This is What it’s Like to Be a Woman."
Why is Bill Gates a genious?
Depressed? Soon your computer could know before your therapist
"What does it say about us that our first response is to rush over to HN?"

Would have to have some statistics to back up that "about us" though, right?

Although I have some gmail accounts for various purposes main mail is actually non gmail. I just happened to browse by and see the link. The question is why did I care to click through? I guess because I was curious what others would say about this or what they knew about it. Not that it mattered to me since as I said it's not my main email source. So what we have is really the same curiosity of when there is a car crash and you end up with a "gaper" delay.
Well, fish are pretty much stupid.
Looks like its not just design that Google needs to get better at.
If you've got some ideas a ticket at bugs.jquery.com would be a great place to start, with whatever analysis you have.

Remember, however, that many of your "comparable" test cases are making assumptions that jQuery can't make. For example, .show() sets the display property back to what it was before a previous .hide(), to do that it has to query the display property when hiding. If you try some ideas for fixes, the unit tests should indicate whether you've run afoul of such problems.

Is the performance of .show()/.hide() causing issues? Under what conditions?
I kinda hate to trot out this cliche, but the plural of anecdote is not data. No number of posts should convince anyone without additional evidence that they represent a large fraction of women's experiences.
It does nothing of the sort. You are under no obligation to pay them for extra shots, and this thread is filled with people who haven't.
I got this error while trying to do a manual backup of a company mailbox :)

One day I'll have the time to write that script manually
It's unlikely that any gmail outage would go unnoticed, considering how much activity it gets 24/7.

Also, these guys are in engineering. They are very likely not even directly involved when there are outages. They build the systems and protocols to avoid and recover from outages, but don't actually perform the work themselves. It's developers vs. IT.
That's what happens when you allocate 20 days a week toward bootstrapping.
Straight out of the /Onion/.
Strange Gmail bug remains unresolved
I'm all for super AI, as long as it isn't:

sociopathic, aggressive, manipulative, intimidating, two-faced, pathologically dishonest, ...

We already have too many humans displaying those traits.
All I can think of in response to this diatribe is a line from The Big Lebowski:

"You're not wrong, Walter. You're just an asshole."

Seriously, dude; chill. You can communicate your (not incorrect) point so very much more effectively without ragefacing all over the person you're replying to. It gets in the way of successful communication, and probably does horrible things for your blood pressure to boot.
You disapproved of someone's response to a situation you have never yourself experienced and stopped reading but you had to come here and post an insulting comment?

Are you OK?
I think I have a workable understanding of the context.

If the comment was meant to say that "free software is more important than good software", then it would be great to get a bit of elaboration and qualification for such a contentious statement.