skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense, though I was looking more at the diagonal formation that starts at the bottom left, goes up and into the middle, and then down back into the right corner. It looks like a tree-lined boulevard with a bend in it. :)
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>> Hard-to-find, outdated, labyrinthine documentation

You should check the current documentation, up there since 2012: https://developer.paypal.com/
Yeah, it is just ui/ux ; the core search speed is awesome.
I used to play against a chess master, with 5 minutes on my clock and 30 seconds on his. He routinely crushed me.

I also used to play against some amateur chess players with 30 seconds on my clock and 5 minutes on theirs. I routinely crushed them.

Even with 30 seconds, a significantly better player will still almost always win.
In the context of compilers, the harm of non-free compilers are not just speculations. The EU came down with large fines against intel when they did anti-competitive behavior in their compiler. If the intel compiler had been provided with source and under a free license, this anti-competitive harm could not have happened.
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That is shocking
Gallup's daily tracking polls, which offer a +-4% margin of error, are based of 1000 data points (insert complaint about appeal to authority here). While 365 is significantly lower than that, there is nothing wrong with using the data to produce a value and a margin of error/confidence.
That list is well known, but I think it shows the opposite of what you claim - contrast the number of incidents to the number of tech events and people involved in tech. Apart from being merely anecdotal anyway.
But to execute this strategy well, Bill would have to be much better than he is. Carlsen will crush Bill every time, even if Bill knows ahead of time to play a passive, closed position.
If you care: Sometimes, just looking may help. Just don't turn a blind eye to it, which is what most men do in such situations.

If the woman feels she has a sympathetic supporter, it is easier to defend herself and if the jerk thinks there is an eyewitness to his assholish behavior, he may tone it down without you needing to say something. I think saying something may be counterproductive (because when accused people are quick to justify, and that makes them LESS likely to back off, not more) but just being aware can sometimes help.
It's funny because you know that in there somewhere Bill Gates must still have his former extremely competitive self, and getting beat so badly has got to be humbling. He's a great sport about it though.
While I too look forward to the impartial application of policy, employers have their own interpretation of who, in fact, is "done." I have bolted from less than mutually beneficial working arrangement, myself.
> My job involves creating non-free software.

> But it strikes me as ironic that RMS talks about "freedom" when really he's advocating restricting your freedom to use the software.

1. The GPL isn't restricting your freedom, your employer is. You are working under contract terms and policy selected by your employer. Your preferences aren't relevant.

2. The GPL isn't restricting your employer from using the software, just distributing proprietary add-ons or integrating parts of it in to their commercial products. They can still use it to compile and ship software, for free, giving nothing in return... that's still a pretty sweet deal when you go and look at the competition. Microsoft will charge you for the privilege of using their inferior compiler (full VS suite aside).

What kind of mindset says "Oh boy! B is giving me more stuff for free than A was, I'm going to go shit on A and make demands!"
To continue the metaphor, I believe both immune systems mentioned perform necessary functions. As a side note, the parts of said immune system responsible for investigating pollution and white collar crime could do with some strengthening.

However, states are better understood as highly symbiotic ecosystems. This is more pronounced in third world states, where the military , intelligence agencies and political leadership form distinct power blocks. In the US, some hypothetical power blocks are the military-industrial complex, the alliance of media companies pushing for maximal copyright combined with the regulatory apparatuses they've co-opted, and Fundamentalist Christians, and the various three letter agencies with their constellations of contractors.
I see. I guess what's obvious to me - that a grandmaster can crush a chump in 30 seconds - is not obvious to all. I'm glad that so many people find it interesting.
I'd wager that Azure is targeting a very different part of the market. There were some really handy things in Azure, and there's some really handy things about Digital Ocean. In the end, Azure is not chasing people who only want to pay $5/mo for a server.

I've had a few issues with Azure myself, but that never caused me to question the pricetag.

Will not treating DO as a serious threat come back to bite them? Quite possibly. Are they worried about it right now? Seems not.
Especially loved the comment:

As a European, I find the story highly amusing and fully share my fellow continental inhabitant's bemusement. The story has a nice build up in that you expect some amazing conclusion after his quest to get and ride a plain old bike, but there isn't any: you can bike around Las Vegas just fine, people just think you're weird for doing it.
He's just being a troll:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=IBM

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=IBM
Apparently a lot of people care. I also don't know why.
On the other hand women also receive special attention in tech circles. I'm not convinced that one is more overwhelming than the other. Maybe some men can't accept female techies, but they should be easy to avoid. Meanwhile the whole tech world is falling over themselves trying to entice women.

Of course if some women take it as an insult if men are enthusiastic about them being interested in tech, there is a problem. In my opinion that is a very stupid way to look at such situations (as the OP did). Just because it is rare to encounter a woman in tech and men therefore act surprised, it doesn't mean they think women are too stupid for it. It just means that it is rare, nothing else. I think usually they really mean it in a positive way if they express their surprise.

How many women do you personally know that you can have a conversation about Bitcoin with? So imagine you actually meet somebody like the OP who has thought about all sorts of aspects of Bitcoin. It is unusual, so personally I would be interested in how/why it happened. What is demeaning about that?
Nobody ought to ask you to do something you're uncomfortable with, and nobody ought to expect you to be the social enforcer or whatever. I empathize 100%.

But if a woman's body language seems particularly bad, or you know your friend/acquaintance only just met this person? That seems like a good opportunity to speak up without "interrogating" people, as you put it.

Truth be told, it's more about friends who enable their friends' asshole behavior by looking the other way. Assholes cannot be 100% friendless, nor only friends with other assholes.
"Then I showed a discourse by Luiz Mott (leading gay rights activist in Brazil), where he claims that he was hetero, and now is gay by his own choice, and that he was NOT born gay."

That is a truly remarkable claim that a person with one sexual orientation could choose to change it and become a different orientation.

However, when I examine the discourse in question, I find that the claim is false:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive//ldn/2010/may/10051...

"Although Mott attributed change to people who were "not 100% homosexual," he made it clear ... that he believes that "all human beings have, as Freud said it, a bisexual desire," and that sexual preference is something fluid and changeable."

The claim that people are by default bisexual and choose between two preferences is very much different from the claim that people with one well-defined sexual orientation may arbitrarily change it. The latter doesn't hold up.
Well, I'd say the group interested in and reposting/linking a story of "Addressing the problem directly works" would be very different in composition to the group that tends to repost/link a story of "Bad things happen" alone.

But I wouldn't be surprised if the size/scope/impact of the two groups was about the same.
I may be in the minority, but I rather like the rigidity of a fixed schema. Yes, it's a bit more "painful" for initial setup (you have to actually create the tables) and yes, it's a bit more work during migrations (you have to actually add the columns), but I don't see either of those as getting in the way enough to give it up. It's just too useful.

Data structures are meant to last much longer than application code. Anyone that has worked on a long running system can attest to that; well defined data structures and table layouts will outlive any application code.

When I'm designing a system, I think I spend orders of magnitude more time thinking about data structures then actually implementing the CREATE/ALTER TABLE code for them. Planned properly, you can even do the ALTERs/CREATEs necessary to add columns in advance of any actual app usage (ie. "two stage" app deployment).

There is a place for "flex fields" or storing generic "documents" but legit use cases are pretty rare. When they are necessary, a single JSON column is usually enough. The example I generally use is an audit trail: The who (FK to user), what (event enum), and when (timestamp) are all strongly typed but you may want a JSON field for event specific data.

Oh and if anybody has every tried to do a data migration with a schema-less database ... well have fun with that. Either you bite the bullet and convert everything or you end up with a lot if/then/else logic littered through your app that will bite you down the road.
Not to nitpick, but I'm sure you mean Scholar's Mate, where you attack the pawn in front of the king's bishop with two pieces (usually queen and bishop/knight) and win in 4 moves or so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholar%27s_mate

Many people erroneously call this fool's mate, but fool's mate is actually the shortest chess game possible (win in 2 moves), which is virtually impossible (you'd have to be playing against someone that really doesn't know what they're doing AND they'd have to move the two specific pawns to allow it). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool%27s_mate
+200 for additional bounty to have Gmail do customer support quickly too. (Oh remember the time when everyone had an adsense account? Boy that could take up to two months to get an initial reply.)
> The thing is, it's not her responsibility to fix it.

It is her responsibility to fix the things which immediately concern her. This guy's a creep; he was in her vicinity; it was her responsibility to fix the problem he presented.
I care now. Bringing up the hypothesis that "the entire community of tech meetups is hostile to women" is a red herring. Whether it's true or not, the response is the same: call out the bad behavior when it happens. The only interesting question to me is the tactical one of how to do it in a way that only embarasses the guilty party, instead of making an awkward situation worse.
> The guy who is misbehaving is probably physically bigger than her. She may feel fearful of speaking up.

She was there with a friend, and two have an advantage over one in a physical confrontation.
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If she doesn't say it's inappropriate, how are other people to know that it isn't? It would be really awkward to approach two people and tell them "hey what you are doing is inappropriate" if none of them has signaled anything wrong.
Sure, that's fine.

If I see something that seems off, I might try to enter the conversation. If I see something that really seems off, I might ask if both of them are okay. If it is more extreme than that, I am open to taking more extreme action.

What I'm not going to do is orbit the room interrogating people about their relationships without seeing any warning signals.
"You do realize that ideology is not cleanly divided between two political parties, and that neither party has a consistent ideology over time or at any given time?"

Yes, I do.

"neither is right or wrong about anything."

Actually, it's quite common for both to be right (robbery should be a crime), for either one to be right and the other wrong (starting a war with Iran would be bad no matter what Republicans think; trade protectionism is not good for our economy no matter what Democrats think), and for both to be wrong (infinite copyright is not good for creativity).

"That is further true with Supreme Court justices, who have no reason to have any party affiliation, generally have none, and are far more nuanced, consistent, and reasonable than any political party."

That is what I'd like to see, but recent history proves the exact opposite. Supreme Court justices align themselves with a party and pretty much follow it slavishly even contrary to their own declared ideology and rational conclusions. Maybe Justice Thomas is less partisan than most, but they're all far more partisan than ideological or rational.

That's why I explicitly said Republican and Democrat and not left and right or conservative and reactionary.

Lucky for us, most cases are still technical and detail rich rather than battles over federalism, abortion, and other hot button partisan issues. Our only remaining shred of non-partisanship on the court is that many issues don't yet have a partisan aspect.

"It's sad to see the sort of Fox News / MSNBC style partisanship you represent on Hacker News, where what you disagree with is called "Democratic" and what you agree with is called "Republican.""

It's the only realistic view of the present court and its appointment process, no matter how sad it is for the country.

Also, what I disagree with is seldom called 'Democratic'; I'm a registered Democrat. It just so happens that partisan Republican motivated reasoning was better and more valid on the single case under discussion. Since I'm not trying to get appointed to the Supreme Court, I can afford to admit that.
it has all the benefits of social media (instant, low-friction communication) and none of the privacy concerns of faceboob, g+, etc.

unless of course we discover one day that snapchat messages all live on in some secret db ...
> In other words: It is just speculation.

No, in other words, I'm not the person that made the "wildfire" claim, just someone who clarified someone else's presentation of it, and I'm not even trying to support it, though I do think the recommendation made in the post in which it is presented is good for other reasons besides how the recommended action would (or would not) accelerate the spread of the story.
So how did living in the woods compare to being hugged by a stranger of the opposite sex?
Thank you so much for your info. This is something I'm looking for from the beginning of the discussion.

http://www.algolist.net/Algorithms/Binary_search

This is my original answer! I should not sort the input list though since it's not necessary.

But is string.indexOf() will be even faster?
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Azure doesn't seem to be at all competitive with Amazon either. Azure A1 (1 "Core", ~2GB RAM)'s 1.5x more expensive than Amazon's similar offering. Is that difference due to Windows licensing?
> There's an astrological phenomenon that occurs when large masses collapse

Astronomical. Astrological would suggest it depends which star sign the masses are in.
I know that, without reservation, my fiance would respond to such a situation with a "dude, what the fuck?! Get off me!" rather than demurely accepting the situation and biting her tongue until she could get home and blog about it.

Don't characterize my statement to be blaming the person who was "victim" here. I'm just reiterating that the original poster is not being unreasonable to suggest such a response might have been appropriate and even expected. Given the circumstances, I'm actually somewhat baffled as to why it did not happen. The person was at local meeting with other people and her male friend. She wasn't some lone girl on a subway train packed to the gills where some vile beast was surreptitiously pawing at her.

She certainly isn't obligated to say or do anything, but suggesting she or questioning why she didn't is an entirely rational way to follow up to hearing a story like this.
I must thank you, I'm kind of flattered you think I'm that charismatic.

Sorry about the charismatic way I presented my views, perhaps I should have mentioned my penchant for eating the raw uncooked flesh of freshly slain animals to make it more clear as to whether I was intending to advocate views similar to Hitler.

You may want to look into these links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modes_of_persuasion
All she had to do is say aloud that she was unconfortable and why did he had his hand there... Surprisingly most american girls just don't know how to interact with that kind of people, seems to me for the ammount of similar posts out there, I know some girls that would have just make the guy blush and just have a nice time there.
> But if a woman's body language seems particularly bad, or you know your friend/acquaintance only just met this person? That seems like a good opportunity to speak up without "interrogating" people, as you put it.

That seems reasonable to me. You make a good point about friends enabling assholes too.
Not sure what your career path is, but I'm going to make the assumption that you're a software developer. SF and NYC are silly expensive (I live in Silicon Valley, south of the city, and it's also very expensive). You don't list these places, but I'd take a look at Boulder and Denver. Both have thriving startup communities, and both are reasonable in terms of price of living. If you like big city, go Denver, looking for a more tight-knit community, check out Boulder.
The argument there looks wrong to me; in particular combining the equivalence principle with the proposition called (K) there seems wrong. EP in the form given there says that no test within the small region in question can distinguish it from a similar small region in a gravitation-free universe, but "seeing whether the small region can be extended to a larger region" is not a test you can perform within the small region and it isn't an EP violation if you can do the extension in the gravityless universe but not in the with-gravity one.

Other articles on that blog claim to solve other major problems in physics, in every case giving an answer that disagrees with (what I understand to be) the consensus of working physicists.

So I could trust the author of the blog, Just Because (which doesn't sound like a great strategy). Or I could trust my own opinion (which is that on the one point I looked at it looks as if there's a substantial conceptual mistake). Or I could trust the current mainstream consensus.

I'm having trouble seeing reasons why I should believe what the author of that blog says. Do you happen to know of any?
Most people are mostly products of their culture. It's very possible to rise above it, but it takes work, and you first have to figure out which of the values and attitudes you've already absorbed, from culture and other sources, need to be changed.

This doesn't compel anyone to do anything, but if culture makes a certain behavior the low-energy path, that's worth some blame. Individual responsibility to get out of the low-energy path is a separate concern.
No. Because Google didn't spam him. His publicly posted email address was listed in error in the a site link of the search result of gmail. Google didn't sent him emails, other people did: http://searchengineland.com/google-search-error-gmail-mistak...
So you'd worry about hurting the feelings of somebody who just overstepped into your private space? Doesn't make sense. Why not just say "hands off" or whatever, no need to back it up with an elaborate theory.
What is the point of self-hosting if you send all your email through a 3rd party?
I'm still not sure if there's a way to justify the lofty valuations for Snapchat that were discussed recently. Can anyone actually explain that well?
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Simple solution: get an Outlook.com account and get it to collect all your Gmail. Use Gmail forwarding to forward all incoming emails to your Outlook.com account, and bcc copies of outgoing mail. You now have an off-site backup.

Install a desktop client and download all your Gmail using IMAP. You now have an on-site backup, and you can use your client to send emails via Outlook.com.

It's not hard. Anybody could do this.
You're no fun sir.
I made the decision not to get married or have children so that I would have time for side projects.

Same here.

Unfortunately, single people are often expected to stay later to enable those with family obligations to leave earlier.

I just don't do that shit... to hell with expectations. You only get one life, and I don't know about you, but I have my own dreams I'm chasing.
Nice ad hominem.

I suppose you endured a lot of hardship which entitles you to look down on people who have it "easy" in life.
But people can (and many do) engage in socially unacceptable behavior more, or exclusively, in contexts in which their friends (or people that know them more generally) aren't around to recognize them and observe it.
Peroxide: A simple proxy server that hits a chain of sources before failing
Quit. Find another job. Your time is too valuable.
Well, the author was apparently there with her when this occurred. Doesn't sound like he spoke up about it. Frankly, that seems weird to me. If this happened to a friend I was out with, I would be expected to say something. Unless he was oblivious to this occurring, I don't understand how someone would just let a stranger grab their friend without stepping in.

As to stepping in and "adding yourself to the situation" with a stranger? I don't know about that, so much. I've had my fair share of trying to be the considerate stranger stepping in to help out, only to be screeched at by the person I was speaking up for. It often doesn't pay to try and help people out. (Not saying you shouldn't do it, anyway, just on principle).
On the 'everyone else in the room', you're effectively blaming some people for not responding to something they were unaware of, is my point.

In any case, look at what happened. There was the initial hug, and a subtle signal 'no' was sent'. There was the hand on the leg and a clearer 'no' was sent, at which point it stopped. What is there to intrude upon? As an observer, at want point do you launch into the defense? Stop your conversation because two people over there have initiated flirting, and you have no idea one way or the other that one of them isn't into it?

Breaking into the start of other people's nascent flirting makes you an arsehole. And "I thought you were one of those guys" isn't going to help the mood - it's basically saying to the other party "hey, I thought this guy was a creep". Wait until you have more information that one party isn't interested.

Similarly, with the encounter in the article, jumping in at a point before she was able to resolve it in the article is also robbing her of her own power. She resolved it pretty quickly and moved on to other things. Stepping in with an "is this guy bothering you" before she's even had time to send a clearer nonverbal 'no'? Someone has to be pretty helpless before you jump the gun that quickly.