skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jesus, somebody really misread some "Internet of Things" Cisco marketing material. They want to sell more IPv6 ready routers, not bring about your favorite economic crank theory.
Which benchmarks would that be?

TimSort as implemented in Python goes through the Python machinery of object comparison and object management in general. Make sure you do an apples<->apples comparison when benchmarking.
Yes, thank you!

It seems like every time this sort of issue comes up, a large number of men both (a) take it as a personal attack, and (b) decide that the best way to handle this attack is to counter-attack someone's character with random accusations (like that they weren't a good enough engineer to talk about harassment in the workplace).

Really, really shameful to see it unfold every time.
I found it quite funny. Especially given as example of a slur instance of someone having in his code class paths that idicates that his username on his own computer actually is "Faggot".

The whole piece reads more like a revenge of someone with twitter audience, who lost at the game of office thrones.
The simplest way to show the essential physical error is via this picture, from the article: http://finbot.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/t9.png

This picture shows the event horizon as having constant position in a free-falling frame. But the event horizon accelerates in all nearby inertial frames, exactly like how the surface of the earth accelerates (towards you) in every inertial frame near the earth. So the line representing the event horizon cannot be straight: it must curve. It must be hyperbolic. That is the key feature that the article gets wrong.

> Then law J shows that a locally inertial frame relative to which the particle is at rest can’t even in principle extend below the horizon

The horizon forms a hyperbola in any such inertial frame. Because the horizon accelerates, whether a spatial point is below the horizon depends on time.

If you have a test particle moving with constant acceleration, can you reach it with a signal at some point after it leaves? In Newtonian physics you can: just send the signal fast enough. But in relativity, test particles moving with constant acceleration can be "uncatchable" even though they never reach c. See Rindler coordinates for more.

This illustrates why an outgoing test particle cannot cross the event horizon. Picture the event horizon as a hyperbola, and the test particle as an asymptote: it can never intersect it.

> a test of the laws of physics can distinguish X from an inertial frame in an idealized, gravity-free universe

Well duh. There are no inertial frames that cross the horizon. Technically any two separated points in our frame will be accelerating with respect to each other. We approximate this acceleration as zero, but this approximation can break down near the speed of light, as things tend to do.
Erm, no?

Do you mean classical physics and mechanics, quantum mechanics (and if so, what branch), particle physics, solid-state physics, what?

You have to be more specific unless you want to come off as just another -~= Science! =~- people getting off to things they don't actually understand.
Yep. I'm still locked out with noprocrast so while I can add comments, I can't edit. 5 more minutes...
Class warfare is engaged every day in capital hill. Look at the growing inequality. It is clear which class is winning.
Yeah, because saying "be careful disagreeing in that manner because people use that tactic against feminists all the time" is totally sticking up for the comment in question. I'm on board with that logic, 100%. All the way. Because it totally makes sense.

Normally I'd ignore it but you're trying to be an ally. Except, you're using one of the top tricks in the book that is used against your very allies to silence them, in order to silence a troll account that you disagree with. Pot, kettle, and so forth.
WOW! Last week I was on forums checking out about coverting a rubber dome keyboard to mechanical...

Now you got me thinking!!! :D
ok... how many years would it take to actually get the final number?
> The changed rule that allows spawning blocks at any time makes it easier indeed

Was this change intentional, or a side-effect of the simplified code?
I've managed to get a higher score by randomly pressing arrow keys than actually trying.
Former Employee Says She Was 'Harassed By Leadership' At GitHub For Two Years
I have successfully sold two of my side projects on this site. I couldn't recommend it more!
"conversely i get to research anything i want to" [that there is funding and no competition for].
HAHAH what? Challenge accepted
You're right, there is a preponderance of women complaining. We can only draw one conclusion: come on women, step it up!
You must not have met many feminists. They hate egalitarians much more than they hate misogynists, in my experience.
Ask HN: Best OSS Projects for Beginning Contributors
I am building a curriculum to teach people to code through meaningful, mentored open source contributions.

My first step is to find projects that would be a good fit. The students who are most interested are dev bootcamp grads who want to build portfolio pieces. They know the basics of (generally) Rails, Node and Git, but need experience in a bigger codebase than what you find in example bootcamp projects.

So what projects are appropriate? Is there a way to discover them algorithmically so that there is never a shortage of meaningful work for students?

I used the Github API to generate this list:
http://upward.io/help

These are projects that have no readme, but have decent ongoing commits. What are other ways to identify projects that have low-hanging fruit for would-be contributors?
An HN clone that intelligently taboos certain words in each thread would be interesting to see.

Another option is a user script that would allow HN users to opt in to have certain words tabooed in their posts in the same manner.
> look

You look around the article, and see real news of someone quitting, and a few incensed tweets. Around these things lie a vast and billowing cloud of baseless speculation, which smells uncomfortably of sulfur and bile.

> examine speculation

The wispy and insubstantial cloud seems formless at first, but if you stare long enough, you can almost see the shapes of your foes. Or possibly bunny rabbits. None can say.

> take speculation

You try to grab the cloud of speculation, but it slips through your fingers. This is consistent with the behavior of most clouds.
The best idea is to try to convince someone to leak it. My guess is that if the NSA can't secure their computer networks, neither can the NYPD.
In a word "yes", in many words, not quite. Seattle has casions, top universities, a vibrant multi-cultural environment. Even affordable health care. While we don't have "gardens by the bay" we have plenty of parks in the city, mountains within a 30 minute drive and plenty of other recreational activities. And no we don't have some other business and locations specific to Singapore. But we do have our own businesses and locations that are specific to the Pacific Northwest.
> I have no idea who this person is it what the validity of her claims are. But posting a series of angry rants on the twitter is probably not the right answer.

She claims to be a victim of abuse. How else should she handle this, report it to their superiors who are her abusers? Not only that, but she feels she is responsible for painting the company in a good light all these years, when it wasn't true.

https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/444650888859099136

> I regret defending GitHub's culture to feminists for the last two years. I'm sorry to everyone I've hurt in doing so.
They offer a few words on earthquakes. Strong winds on the other hand - I'm guessing «Its lightness, lack of foundations…» is not going to help.

http://www.popup-house.com/useful-life/
Amazon bought all the competing sites I used to use:

Zappos has fantastic customer service, great selection of shoes, and good prices. They've been owned by Amazon since 2009.

AbeBooks is a fantastic used (or new) book marketplace. Amazon bought them in 2008.

Audible is the largest retailer of audiobooks. Amazon bought them in 2008. Try buying an audiobook anywhere else.

Amie Street provided independent music downloads will a revolutionary demand-based pricing system. Amazon bought them in 2010 to shut them down.

Woot was a pretty nifty daily deal site. They were bought by Amazon in 2010, and have really lost their original focus since.

If I want to buy just about anything online, I'm stuck buying it from Amazon. If it happens to be something that Walmart or Target stocks, I could order it from them instead. They charge $5+ for shipping even the smallest items though.
Long distance running is easy too, isn't it.
Here's the comparison for movies, using the IMDB top 250 and a couple of other lists to try to get a more comprehensive picture. It's from nine months ago, so things may have changed a little since then.

http://davidjohnstone.net/blog/2013/07/netflix-amazon-and-hu...
On firefox on linux, I see the opposite. The j's and t's in the title are too low, and there isn't enough space between the f and i.

http://imgur.com/a/5FTc8 (top is brick, sorry for the misalignment).
Yes, the delivery situation is much better here, so much so that I can get free 2-day shipping to a shop a few minutes walk away (which is better in some ways as it doesn't require you to be in) since they have introduced collect+, making prime almost completely unnecessary for those near a collect+ location.
Aaaargh.

Author bandies about the Internet of Things as though, somehow, magically, that's going to make production costs for everything zero. That's absurd.

Author goes on to talk about the magical collaboration instead of capitalistic nature of this--and omits that that same "collaboration" really can mean "gigantic panopticon of surveillance".

There's ways to make the post-scarcity argument---this isn't one of them. :(
good concept.
Lame cargo cultism. Find something different to do besides just increasing the array size.
I am not trying to be an ally. These HN threads are beyond rescuing. My problem is that HN's immune system doesn't appear to recognize commenters like the one above for what they are. It's the immune system that needs to improve, not the logic on these gangrenous threads.
the imgur html pages take several seconds to load for me. on both my mobile and my netbook they max out the CPU for many more second, leading to freezes and lag.
No heating? There are human bodies in there.

A passive house is a building whose energy consumption per square meter is very low. Heating requirements of < 15 kWh/m²/year.

That's about two human bodies.

15 kWh/m²/year * 150 m^2 / ~10,000 h/year ~= 200W
First, it would be libel. Second, truth is a defense to libel. Therefore, in order to say that the action was illegal you would have to prove it false. Hence the reason I call it censorship: because there is no proof (or even argument) as to whether or not it is true or false, just a person demanding that it be removed.
Well, what makes you think that's unreasonable?
No, yours is a defeatist attitude. The more people dare speak about workplace abuse the less downside there will be for future ones who do, legally and professionally. We're engineers, we shouldn't accept a rotten status quo and "move on", we should fix it. We should strive for a better society, even if it means some of us will be worse off for having done so. No pain, no gain.
We will NEVER win the FREE software war, no matter how many battles we have won or will win. It will all be irrelevant, as long as the current economic, Geo-political paradigms (central banking model) are in place, then Free/Open Software will never grew to its' maximum effectiveness.

In smaller countries like Scandinavia centralization works VERY well. That is due to their homogeneous nature. In US, we may require something decentralized and more resilient model to have the Free/Open Source software movement. Something where people have incentive to work on good software without wanting to get bought out by the next google or facebook.
Reddit Enhancement Suite supports most Imgur albums quite nicely without having to load the full site, or see their gross ads.
Can someone familiar with both explain how this is different than bup[1]? The descriptions seem similar enough.

[1] https://github.com/bup/bup
27133559.5 years if you do 10 presses per second.
Thera-LINK Launches HIPAA Compliant Video Platform for Mental Health
With a solid emphasis on security, the professional-client confidentiality factor is a prime component to allow mental health professionals a platform over which to extend their services by conducting therapy sessions remotely.
Horses went to pasture after cars. Who are you in the future?
I guess I should be more specific and say statistical mechanics. As a science expert, I have to say the rest is truly boring.
Non-profits are not public entities, and most universities are "billionaires" and "not public".

Other than that, I have no concerns.
The thing that surprises me is you're a CEO of security company - you don't even go into the subject of my thread. This doesn't befit you.

It's true, in USA, we respond to things emotionally, even the best of us sometimes.

Imagine, if you as a CEO of a security company acts like this, imagine what a marketer with no talent or skill does when she doesn't get what she wants? She can't lean on ability... nor reason, She leans on the, you've guessed it, the crowd.

I bet you, 9/10 times, you have better things to do than pick a fight or be on twitter because you have skills. Even if people hate you, you still can be a productive member of society. Other people only have a self-esteem boost of retweets to rely on, and they misinterpret that as career value.
Why does FLOSS need to be centralized?
The progressive media? Really? If anything, they're reporting on the class warfare, sure, but hardly "drumming" it up, conservatives and capitalists have been doing that all by themselves, both intentionally and unintentionally.
Having a speaker series featuring women in tech is not "anti-male discrimination". Maybe it would be if there weren't 1000+ other tech conferences where the majority of speakers are men. How someone can say stuff like this in 2014 honestly baffles me.
Ah,the "progressive media"! Bloooooody Communists hey? More like a few private corporations that are so big they are now the government itself. It doesnt have anything to do with your false progressive/conservative dichotomy, which is a mirage. Do you really think FoxNews speak the truth better than MSNBC? Do you really think there is a difference between democrates and republicans beyond wedge issues?

they serve the same masters.
The question isn't can we build (and maintain) very safe Nuclear reactors, the question is, will we?

The answer to that is no. When people believe something to be safe, they cut corners. This continues until it is demonstrated to not be safe by disaster.

A disaster then causes people to be safety conscious until they forget.
Manual verification like that could very well make you lose your safe harbor protections under the DMCA and Section 230.
Many times on amazon i have found the same products from their marketplace vendors that cost the same with shipping as the prime product with "free shipping". With the exception of books which nobody can compete with on price, and large expensive to ship items, prime isnt a veey good deal.
I think I won't play that any more.
http://ptb2.me/flexgrid/
Yup, new technologies not providing value to the existing ecosystem is the primary issue when it comes to adoption. There's another comment below by pshin45 that discusses how hackers have become more business savvy.

I recently read the book The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation by Ron Adner that I think is the logical synthesis of these two lines of thought. It totally blew me away because it explains a shit-ton of real world technology adoption success and failures, particularly how innovations interact with their wider ecosystems. Further, it actually provides some examples of how to solve roadblocks by redistributing value among the various players in the ecosystem.

http://amzn.com/B00AKQD5M4
Is there something missing from this post, like what the German guy is earning? You seem to be making a comparison without one of the comparators.
People march for peace in Russia
Can we apply the same AI to this and make an screen saver out of this?
I prefer to call this 'Star Trek socialism' and while I support it I think we are kidding ourselves if capitalists will go out peacefully.

Even if creation of a device or food is nearly 0 cost in the future they will stop this through IP law.

And the mention of non-profits is out of place. Hell, the NFL is non-profit.

I think the real issue with advancing technology isn't that products and services will be available for nearly nothing but that doing so destroys jobs. As variable capital (labor) is continually replaced by constant capital (means of production) labor battles will have to intensify.

Capitalism must end but it won't come from what this article talks about but workers organizing to create an efficient democratic economy.
Agree. The headline is clear as "muck"...

seems par for the course, given the URL.

But you raise an important and non-trivial point.
The "low" seems to be a Firefox thing; the f and i are supposed to be like that; it's a ligature (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature)!
I think you are jumping to conclusions. The situation could have changed during the time she was there. It's also quite likely that she put a positive spin on things when describing GitHub publicly because it was part of her job, and she wasn't willing to go public with her accusations until it reached a certain level.
I think you are looking at the past with a very large set of rose-tinted glasses.

"Those days are over."

Like the idealized 50s household of Leave it to Beaver, those days never existed in the first place.

Ask 4 people the truth of what happened at any single event (let alone a long series of events) and you're likely to get 4 different accounts with at the very least very different points of view based on pre-existing bias and in many cases you will get fundamentally contradictory reports on basic facts. And all 4 people may even be absolutely sure of their own recollection and answering you as truthfully as they can. I'm not even getting into people being purposefully deceptive yet, you don't have to go nearly that far to slip off from the "truth" of things.

This was true well before the Internet existed. I would argue strongly that if anything the Internet has made sussing out the truth easier than it has ever been because you can use the massive amount of data on it to build consensus which on matters such as these is the best indicator we have as to how actually true any single person's report of events is.

Of course, this forces us to disregard outlier reports on both the positive and negative and only make conclusions when a consensus comes through, but it is fairly easy to do that (unless you are specifically emotionally attached to whatever it is the issue is).

Was Julie Ann Horvath harassed? I have no idea. But if 5 more people pop up and say they either witnessed or experienced the conditions she reported, I will certainly start to think she was. Is github a place where such harassment occurs? Again, I have no idea, certainly I can't make a decision one way or another based on how I feel about their products because there is no relation between the two things.

No matter what happened, if she was harassed I feel pretty comfortable with her "airing her dirty laundry" because of the specific context wherein she either purposefully or accidentally became somewhat of a public face regarding github being a good place for women engineers to work.
Think about what these uber-rich entrepreneurs would find sexy. Curing cancer, a condom people actually want to use, extending human life, saving the world from meteor impacts, bringing mammoths back, flying to space... It's all near-future, commercializable stuff. Next, go read some article titles/abstracts under quant-ph on arxiv and think about how many would of those would really grab these rich dudes by their eyeballs and make them drop a few million.

A huge portion of physics is driven by basic curiosity, has no commercial applications in the near future, and is so esoteric that even other physicists have to work very hard just to understand what's going on. Much of this stuff will wind up being dead-ends, but some of it is the foundation the future will be built on top of. No trained physicist currently alive can predict what will change the world and what won't. Why should we let people whose only qualification is money try to decide what's important?
Watch and wait :)

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There are no facts available. This is sensationalist piece, move along.
That isn't how 2048 works.
gotta write some js to setInterval to do 1000 presses every 1 ms . Then it will only take 270 yrs :P
Timsort is in JDK7, btw.

http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/j...
That meshes with the interview process my SO went through, at Google, for an SRE role. Similarly, they said he could code in any language (his preference is C) but the interviewer preferred python. 45 min to whiteboard in C, you better have a backup set of markers.

His feedback after all was said and done was "brush up on your scripting languages."
The point of this game is to lose in the fewest number of steps.
Cute girl photo
A cute picture of a lovely little girl.
Trackpads have a major issue. They are not accurate. If you heighten the sensitivity, they have severe z-axis problems (worse than any mouse) and decreasing the sensitivity makes motions slower and less responsive. Because of the size of the target (the human finger) there is no definitive "this is where I am".

Several other of their ideas are in error. Larger trackballs are not needed (logitech and kesington both make popular trackballs with small radii that perform well. The weight of the ball is also a red herring as it is possible to make lighter balls if needed.

The "issue" of cleaning is minimal and a non-issue overall (ask any trackball user). The idea that circuit space is constrained is also a non-issue. Modern trackballs use a laser to read the ball (a feature of trackballs is no z-axis movement) The circuitry to deal with this is small as is the circuitry for much of the rest of the device.

The real argument is that the material cost is higher, so they'd rather use inferior design and bump up profit margins. Most gamers will pay over $50 for a mouse (with some of us giving over $100 for our mice or trackballs). I'd rather have a quality device and pay a little more.
Large amount of stars/following with a handful (or less) of contributors?

Rebuilding dead projects from other languages into modern languages?

I was working on something similar and would like to restart my effort to get folks building up real projects. Perhaps we could work together if interested (unless you're driven by profit, which I am not).
That's why the most common financial board game is called "Monopoly"
"This has not been a popular decision, to put it lightly"

From all the forum comments/responses I've seen, Prime customers seem just fine with it. Maybe we read different news websites?
If you're using Chrome, this should save you some time:

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