skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see 2 issues here:

1. HR seems powerless and there seems to be a very immature culture, inapproriate non-employee influence, and communication at Github and given that it is mostly young-males, may have a (perhaps inadvertent) gender bias that they do not see motivated to fix. This is a big problem and I think there can be a balance between not being stuck up and removing the "fun," while also being decent, well-meaning human beings. I admit it's a very hard balance that I think everyone is still trying to figure out in this rebellious stage of the stodgy era.

2. While I believe Julie's basic observations are valid, I agree based solely on her account so far that she was being treated differently and that there were inappropriate behaviors going on, especially with the wife – I do get the sense that Julie was considering a lot of normal societal behavior with gender-specific contexts. "Oogling" people isn't good, but it's a fine line. People are going to find each other attractive. And I don't think it's wrong, either. As mentioned here, finding someone attractive doesn't mean you discard everything else about them as a person. These things can work both ways, she just may see it from a different perspective because she's outnumbered. But this supposedly was at a party and so I'd expect looser rules there as it's not in a professional setting. There's a difference between inappropriate and just being human.

All of this is a fine line and is why being human is hard and trying to manage people and create a positive, but also fun work environment is hard and we still have a lot to learn during these experimental phases. The issue really needs to be helping eliminate different treatment based on gender and sexuality rather than creating a specific type of culture. I do not necessarily believe we need to eliminate all sexuality or all fun or all emotions from a particular work environment. There can be different places and different people with different preferences can gravitate between them. I don't think going back to all stodgy, emotionless, and overtly-bureaucratic environments is a good thing.

Like everything in life it seems, there really is a balance.
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If you are the administrator of this website, then please read this web application's log file and/or the web server's log file to find out what went wrong."

startup failed
Don't you find exponent notation to be neater?

1E+03 = one thousand
1E+06 = one million
1E+09 = a thousand millions / an american billion
1E+12 = an american trillion / an european billion

.. and that's as far as you need; the GDP of most countries is on the order of 1E+12 or 1E+13
$27778.92 per annum before taxes and expenses. There are an awful lot of people getting paid an awful lot more to paste bad themes into their employer's Drupal config. So it goes.
If Tomnod updates to include the latest areas, couldn't Google just link to Tomnod on their home page? It doesn't make sense to duplicate the effort IMO.

Of course, they'd need to talk to Tomnod first to make sure they're ready for that kind of traffic, as it seems they've already had scaling issues, but hopefully this doesn't pose too many problems.
I would say that it's more likely that the team consistently monitors multiple factors and makes adjustments based on overall input.

Or, the complaints including yours probably did have -some- influence, but I think you're overestimating how much because to you, your comments were a heartfelt effort to make a point, whereas to pg they were 'add one to number of complaints of type X'. It's still important, given said number will have been factored into the decision making process, but probably not that important.
Completely offtopic, but (now) many years ago, Flight of the Conchords did an HBO comedy special, which fared so well that it ultimately led into their comedy series, "Flight of the Conchords". I immediately fell in love with their songs, their act, etc., and sought out as much of their material as I could... which, at the time, meant ordering the 1 album I could find, from New Zealand, and spending an arm and a leg getting it shipped to the United States.

Years later, they finally showed up on a blog, and their first post addressed the exact question that I had about them, "Why did it take us so long to get a website?". The answer, loosely paraphrased, is that they'd spent years arguing over how many Ws to put in front of the domain. Bret wanted 7 Ws, while Jemaine wanted 8. Ultimately, they realized that they could only have 3, and finally got over that hurdle, and the website came together in rapid fashion with that hurdle cleared.
Ask HN: How do/would you handle custom feature requests for a SAAS?
So let's say that you have a SAAS and you are just starting out. You are past a certain stage where you have something that already have a few paying customers. You reach out to more potential customers but suddenly, you have a lot of potential customers asking for feature add/updates. but you are a SAAS. You do not want to customize it too much for that specific client. How do you handle this ? If you tell the customer "sorry", then you might lose them. If you entertain their request, you are getting into the dangerous territory of too many custom versions of your app which might not be sustainable as you grow further.
Remember vintage Fortran.

So I made once had the displeasure of doubling the performance of a fission reactor safety simulator by disabling win32's swap... 30 years and 2e7 LoC codebase. >.<. The working set was nowhere near smart, but it did work faster than AIX, HP-UX, SCO & Solaris/SunOS ports.
Seems I have found it, at least for OSX:

https://github.com/pkamenarsky/atea

Not perfect, but as close as possible
Hijacking airplanes after 9/11 is much more risky. Until 9/11, there was never a plot that involved intentionally hijacking an airliner with the intent of using it as a weapon and killing everyone on board. The assumption was "Oh, if we just give them what they want they'll let us all live."

Post-9/11, if anyone tries to hijack an airplane they're going to have every able-bodied male between the ages of 18 and 40 come at them with the expectation that they're fighting for their life. I know I personally would take my chances that they don't have a bomb: if I do nothing, I would assume I am definitely going to die. If I do something, the passengers collectively could overpower them and hope were bluffing about the bomb. If they weren't, it's the same outcome as doing nothing.
One of the first things that went through my head when I heard this update.
Follow the money. There's no money in drawing conclusions about and publishing on basic physics. Does the Microwave Background Radiation show that the Universe is open or closed? It's really just an academic discussion that has no financial winners or losers either way besides a Nobel prize at some point, so the science tends to be fairly unbiased.

On the other hand, there's a great deal of money in science that affects the human body, like cancer research, drug research, as well as the social sciences. When there's a lot of money and hype around a field of science, we should keep our bs detectors on high alert.
I've thought of this a million times over but really can't think of something that would be worthwhile to my readers that they can't get elsewhere. Of course I could do the normal swag, tshirts, etc. , but that's pretty boring and doesn't add to the user experience.
If I read this article properly, there's nothing yet standardized, but there's a possibility of future development: http://lukasz.langa.pl/8/single-dispatch-generic-functions/.
My current day job is a mobile frontend developer. I'm not thinking up intense algorithms, doing crazy math, calculations, or whatnot. The hardest thing I do is performance optimization, and since the apps we develop right now are incredibly simple, it's by and large cookie cutter work.

It's not mentally exhausting because of my perspective on my job: I'm basically a construction worker, but in a virtual domain. So I'm doing construction, minus the intense physical work, with barely any mental workload as well. My day job just takes time. Dragging pixels. Uploading pixels. Shifting pixels. Zooming in on pixels. Deleting pixels. Asking for input on combinations of pixels. It's all pixels.

My day job is rarely mentally intensive, nor is my post-day job. Drafting contracts? Sending emails? Talking on the phone? I can't really remember the last task I had to do that wasn't purely just DOING. I can't remember the last time I had to bust some pen and paper out and seriously think about some sort of methodology.

So no, I don't find it tiring. I find it rewarding, especially since my hobby just so happened to turn into my career. I did UI/design on my spare time just for fun, then someone hired me, now I do it full time, and started my own company.

Yeah I use drugs. I use adderall (only used it twice in the past half year) if the previous night consisted of less than 6 hours of sleep (I always make sure to get 8 hours a night no matter what, doesn't matter how much work I have) and I smoke pot a few times a day, as well as a lot of coffee (2 strong in the morning - decaf throughout the day). It's not too bad right? I think my only "problem" is weed, and even then, I don't think it's a problem. I smoke because it's like relaxing WHILE working. I can smoke a bit, get this nice mild head rush for a few hours, and keep working, all the while enjoying the sun more, enjoying the tunes more, and generally being happier. Kills two birds with one stone.
It's also reasonable to downvote someone who's being an asshole. Please stop it.
Clearly you did not.

> If hula hooping women make you uncomfortable

It wasn't women hula hooping made someone feel uncomfortable.

It was men "gawking" at the women hula hooping, that made Julie Horvath feel uncomfortable.

I hope you understand the difference.

> If hula hooping women make you uncomfortable, that's unfortunate, but also totally your problem. Ditto breastfeeding and suchlike.

Tangentially related--another key point you're missing, this is an office.

No one should have to feel uncomfortable at the workplace, because the office is for people to work and be productive, not hula hoop.

Things like hula hooping (I'm guessing), yoga, tai chi, Zumba, etc, are there to improve worker productivity. If these programs run counter to that and actually hinder productivity by making some employees feel uncomfortable, then those programs may not be the right fit for the workplace.
If the structure is airtight the damp won't really be getting at the wood. There's people talking about "the best wood houses lasting 100 years" somewhere in this thread, but I've seen lots of 50 year old wooden houses where the structure hasn't really started to age (but I've not spent much time in termite country). Even the cheap fast growing pine used for dimensional lumber these days is a pretty impressive material.
Yeah, I knew I wasn't going to be staying there long. I'd just moved country and needed the job to have a job so I could apply for jobs.

They didn't seem to mind, like I said they seemed happy with the high turnover, so it worked out all round shrug
I'm working on this. As this is my side project it takes a bit of time for me to get around to fixing things. But, it will be fixed.
I think the big problem is that MS has a lot of catch-up to do in terms of growing a nice open-source community around the language. .NET suffers from too much "Cathedral" and not enough "Bazaar" so too many developers suffer Microsoft's bloated and broken enterprise tools instead of sensible, rapidly-released libs.

I mean, C# is a fantastic language, but a lot of the libs MS has bundled into it are absolutely horrible and people use them anyways because they're the blessed first-party product. And rather than fixing the problems, Microsoft simply creates a new replacement lib with a new approach. I mean, how many kicks at the can did they get with remoting? DB access? Serialization?

Microsoft has gotten a lot better recently, taking an open-source-style development approach to Entity Framework and MVC, but they're very late to this particular party.
I've heard arguments from private pilots that say exactly the opposite: The experienced pilots have so much "Nintendo time" flying just on autopilot that they are more likely to commit such gross flying mistakes. Newer pilots still have aviation basics in fresh memory because they have recently flown many hours in small planes with only manual controls.
When microbenchmarking Java it is a good idea to use a framework to make sure you get an accurate result despite the compiler trying to eliminate your code. In their case it looks like they are getting real numbers since Java and C are the same order of magnitude, but blog posts like this are where people learn benchmark hygiene.

I recommend JMH which I believe is what was developed @ Oracle to handle this task.

I used it to microbenchmark various Java maps for small map sizes and showed some of the results. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mechanical-sympathy/...

I also found the discussion of various map implementation tradeoffs and caveats useful. That Google group is a great resource.

One thing you have to keep in mind when benchmarking maps is locality and cache affinity and how things will work outside the benchmark when things don't fit in cache or have been evicted by your application.

In my case map lookups showed up in profiles relating to various lookup tables that define logic and policy. There can be a surprising number spread out as well as some hit hard in tight loops.
because I've had worse experiences with my ISPs
I am finding that it's better to just leave the stupid computer off when I get home. It gives me more time with my wife and daughter, and I feel more rested and ready for the next day. For example, last Saturday was filled with bike rides, walks, and playing outside. That's it. Yes, I have a list of about 10,000 different things I'm interesting in learning and doing, and another list that size of things that actually need to get done, but none of that will ever relax me or come close to the quality time I spend decompressing with my family and friends.
I'll wager that you haven't written much Erlang, Go, Haskell, or any other language with transparently asynchronous I/O but blocking semantics. If you have, I don't understand how you can believe my cynicism is misplaced.

Despite what you seem to imply in your comment, I/O does not block an entire thread in any of these languages, however the control flow in a single thread does block, i.e. err = fireTheRockets() does block until fireTheRockets completes, but performance-wise it is equivalent to fireTheRockets(function(err) { ... }). Only now you're saved the callback spaghetti.

Node.js advocates are literally peddling callback spaghetti as an advantage because "it lets you write much faster applications with ease", yet Haskell's threads and blocking semantics blow any Node.js out of the water by an order of magnitude. (Check out Mighttp/Warp or Go's net/http vs. Node.js.) I come across as cynical because that is sad. It feels like we're travelling back in time, not forward.

The only thing that makes node.js "good" when it comes to threading and async is that it doesn't require synchronization as there is no concurrency. (Same thing for Python with Twisted.) Neverminding that that opens up its own can of worms (I hope you don't do any actual computation in your program, as that's going to block everything): Pretending that it's anything more than that comes across as incredibly ignorant of contemporary language design.
I think most people are even ashamed/afraid to admit they put in too many hours. The stigma of being exposed as against the norm scares people.

Their employer may find out; that's where the shame stems from. I think a lot of us feel working too many hours is bad. Except for critical times, like 1-5% of the time at most, but most of us will never admit to it because of that stigma.

I was offered a great role recently but turned it down because the employer explained that most guys here bring their laptops home and work weekends and the actual work hours are 8 - 6:30 pm. The role had full paid benefits and an awesome salary.

I am not lazy by any means in fact I am extremely self motivated but there is a threshold and like most people are saying on here the quality begins to dip beyond that threshold and your health starts to get affected.
I had a job doing c# development in campus when I was in college, but now I'm working for a software company doing a lot of java, so that's why I would like to broaden my understanding of the language, JVM, performance, etc.

I should also note that I have done a lot of ruby development, so I'm not a one trick pony or anything, but working for a company that primarily uses java I would like to have a deep understanding of it.
I Was a Mac Guy, and Then I Bought a Surface Pro
Merely saying something "better" is hardly a well formed argument, now is it?

If it is indeed better, which would be counter-intuitive, you should probably not have any problem digging up evidence that it is so? And by evidence, I mean metrics, measurements and stuff like that. You know, scientific standard and all.

If I have DNS server 10ms away, you can bet your ass (and house) I can expect a smaller latency than from one hosted 6000 kilometres away across an Atlantic ocean and then some.

And for me lower latency means faster, and faster means better. And being on the same network as me, I can expect much higher reliability than something halfway across the internet, no matter who hosts it. To me higher reliability is also better.

What definition are you using, and where is your data to prove it?

Unless your ISP's DNS server is a 486 collecting dust next to the janitors toilet, chances are you better served with that than doing continental-hopping network-traffic for every domain you need resolved.
Yeah, it doesn't work for me, so it must not work for everyone.
Sorry, had to up my pool up from 25 concurrents.
I trust that the researchers of this study are too distrusting of all evidence to the contrary.
I think the level of sophistication required increasingly points to a much simpler explanation than terrorism.
In most countries in Europe, people have a "right of reply," which is the right to respond to printed allegations in the same publication that they were made (and with the same prominence, i.e. on the same page). Does anyone know of similar laws in the US?
> 1. Is unlikely as door is very secure now. Passengers can't get in.

The passengers and aircrew would have had seven solid hours to try to break through that door, though, unless the plane landed somewhere first. Alternatively, hijackers (if hijackers there were) might have damaged the door or disabled its locking mechanism on their own way into the cockpit. Some desperate passengers might even deliberately start a fire in the fuselage, I suppose, as dangerous as that would be.

One big problem with 4 is that to believe this you probably have to discount the primary radar reports of the airplane heading west over Malaysia/Thailand and then north up the Malacca Strait and Andaman Sea. It's hard to imagine the plane getting feet-dry on that northern SATCOM arc, at about the end of its fuel endurance, and then then heading far out to sea again. (Unless it landed and refuelled somewhere...)

(EDIT: On second thoughts, I suppose you could turn east after the last radar contact and then go south, past the west of Indonesia, to the southern arc.)

But even if you do that, where would you be headed if you were on that southern Indian Ocean arc after 7 hours in flight? It's not exactly an efficient route to Australia or Indonesia, and everywhere else is either hopelessly far or in the wrong direction.
I like to view software developers as artists. Artists that are inspired, happy, and well-rested produce wonderful works of art.

Software development has been dehumanized for so long. It's time for a positive change.

I believe that when man and technology is in harmony great things will happen.
Perhaps they're more confident that if they're betrayed by another party, they'll find a way to reverse or compensate for the consequences of whatever the other party did?
It's hard to believe unless you see it with your own eyes. I have. They literally make stuff up.
“announce a major discovery.”
> For the past year I've been trying to optimize my life as best I could. This meant cutting out time for food ... [now] I cook all 7 days worth of food on Sunday nights ... it's working great.

Have you considered intermittent fasting? I typically only eat 5 or 6 days out the week. Aside from the health benefits, IF lends itself to productivity; I love having days where I don't need to worry about food or cooking at all.

There are various IF approaches, and it does take some getting used to, but I've found it worth it.
yea no argument there i just only have 1 or 2 clients a year who do closed-source git so $100 seems like a lot given that i am usually the sole dev
> But the point is that hula-hooping, or shirtless weight-lifting, shouldn't be prohibited just because some people gawk and others are made uncomfortable.

You believe it's okay for people to be at the office without their shirts on?

Where do you draw the line-- what behaviors should be prohibited at the office, simply because they might make others uncomfortable?
At the time of my reply your comment is 10 minutes old.

That means you've been able to read the exact same posts as I have been reading in this comment section. Comments from experienced pilots, one of whom explicitly states it's impossible for everything we know to have happened to just "happen by accident".

It's reasonable to downvote your crusade, you're hogging a whole page with it.[1]

[1]http://i.imgur.com/lswNgAI.png (@125% zoom)
10 minutes isn't nearly enough. Remember you're talking about something moving at 8-10 miles per minute, 10 minutes, so worse case your solution will give a range about the size of Iowa.
Tesla is working its way from the top of the market because battery packs are very expensive right now and because general uncertainty (and particularly range anxiety) when it comes to electric cars makes owning a Tesla as your only vehicle an unpalatable proposition for the majority of people. It has absolutely nothing to do with design.
But you'd have to know that cargo was going to be on board beforehand. From the sounds of it, the pilots were well prepared to execute this plan. Assuming of course this is even remotely what really happened.

Passenger lists would be known in advance. My guess is if they wanted some piece of material/cargo enough to pull off an operation like this, they would have just taken the cargo itself. It would presumably be something so valuable/unique that the owner wasn't going to just file a "missing baggage" claim. If it was about cargo, it would also seem that it would be more efficient to steal the cargo, and then blow up the plane. That would make the original owner of the item believe it was permanently lost/destroyed vs. being in this unknown state, and possibly giving the owner time to react or inform other governments.

Provided that the plane was deliberately flown in-tact to an unknown location, my personal guess would be that this was about 1 or more individuals on the plane specifically.

I also doubt it's about the plane itself. This specific plane is now a highly visible piece of equipment, and it would be fairly easy to obtain planes with similar load-bearing capacity in less obvious means.
One piece of feedback unrelated to the content, visually red text on a white background is very difficult for some people to read..