skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but it is very expensive.
>And Mozilla employees, contributors, and users have the same exact right as a private citizen to be upset about Eich's personal beliefs on the matter.

They should have the exact same right in the exaxt same way: as "private citizens".

That is, not as Mozilla employees trying to oppose a CEO placement.

That they don't like his personal beliefs should in no way get in the way of working with him -- unless he brings those to the way the company operates.
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The CEO of Mozilla is the leader of a project that draws on goodwill of people for evangelism and support. Furthermore the whole philosophy of Free Software is based on the golden rule and doing social good - that is why there are high demands for the behavior and philosophy of Brendan.

And I think his statement is appropriate and encouraging.
I honestly fail to see how the lottery improves things.

IMHO the best way is to just announce that there's no giveaway this year. Not the best promotion for the event though.
After making it all the way to the exoplanets and back to the higgs I nearly gave up before finally realizing I could scroll down.

I hate this trend in web design.
And the good thing is that you can generate very complex structured documents, not only lists like in cvs.

Of course xml and json do the same, but more verbose.

ASCII formats like EDI were invented when every byte in transmission counted.
Again (as I said in the last thread), this issue differs from others because it could potentially have affected personnel policies that would fall under his purview as CEO. I think this statement puts those concerns to rest, though.
At the bottom right-hand corner of the page when it loads it tells me:

"Explore technology and its impact from small to large through tapping, spinning and making sound.

It seems that making noise causes the animation to do things.
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1,107 new apps are published daily on Google play store (Infographic)
In case you needed another reason to not urinate in the pool.
How I'm reading this, both up-front reservation fees and the hourly rates are lower for a lot of instance types.

For example:

Now: m3.xlarge	$1266	$0.105 per Hour	$1922	$0.086 per Hour

April 1st: m3.xlarge	$886	$0.074 per Hour	$1345	$0.06 per Hour

It sounds weird if Amazon is actually going to keep charging the higher rate to existing customers, as they've already paid the higher reservation fee as well.
None of those takeaways seem to be it to me. I think it was just that the people saw the job as a means to an end and didn't particularly care about the management pivoting or bullshitting as long as they got paid and could support themselves and their families.
I'm glad I checked the comments here...
This design doesn't make sense.
Sounds right to me. For a nation with the rights of the individual as a core value, all this "insisting on ideological uniformity" [1] should sound the alarm that perhaps our cultural movements are trending off track. I find it disturbing that some of the most hysterical and demanding responses to the presence of "the other" are actually coming from within the gay community.

[1]: https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/community-and-diversity/
I wonder what they mean by "watched"...

My interpretation was that after IDS had identified a particular host, they had tailed syslog (or the equivalent) on that host. The observation that they would have missed it if they hadn't been watching seems to imply that normally their logs wouldn't have retained the level of detail needed to see either the event or the deletion of the logs of the event.
Maybe my math is off, but I calculated $35/mo for medium utilization m3.medium vs $32/mo for heavy utilization. In that case, I don't think a heavy utilization reservation makes sense but a medium utilization reservation still might (as you're saving ~$20/mo over on-demand).
Are you for real? It's like deja-vu. I guess I should know better by now. There's probably some guy in a lisp thread who has been on my end of this argument for the last 20 years or so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageism#Ageist_prejudice
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And thus the war on terror was born
It's not trivial to do performance comparisons correctly, you'd have to provide a lot more detail about the tests to get proper feedback on it. Ideally the test would be something that anybody can download and run locally themselves.

As far as the package repository for your distro not having the latest version of something, this is very very common. Your best bet is to build your own package from source, or find an alternate repository to use where somebody is building packages of the newer versions.
Ctrl-C stops the program because the TTY driver watches for it and sends an interrupt signal when it appears. It's a slightly different mechanism.

There are more details in "man 3 termios", but be warned, the TTY layer is not a pleasant subject for reading.
Hotmail seems like a reasonable first link in the chain to extract the information. I assume they would log in through Tor or another anonymous method before extracting it to its final location. They're not going to email it to joe.spy@nsa.gov directly.
I don't think they're trying to do that at all. In fact, with the activities overview, I think GNOME is the best out of any desktop at managing and manipulating windows. I use a tiling window manager myself, but I agree with (what I think is) GNOME's approach: minimize/restore is not a good way to manage windows.
Arguably, yes. We should demand "perfection" in our public figures, inasmuch as "perfection" means freedom from prejudice. In the case of BE its particularly relevant as the company he runs provides the lens through which a sizable population will see the world.
There most certainly are other cloud providers out there, but it would help if you defined what you are looking for instead of conflating issues.

Webhostingtalk is a good resource for the curious.
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All he had to say for context was "My religious beliefs guide me to hold that marriage is between one man and one woman." A lot of decent people believe that. I disagree and believe gay people should be able to marry as well, but I wouldn't expect people in Eich's group to hold that against me. It's a free country with freedom of religion and belief.
Just be happy that you didn't get hell banned because someone didn't like your joke. HN is worse than reddit sometimes.
It was definitely depressing to not get tickets last year then see a group of 9 year olds with their parents throughout the auditorium just looking to soak up the free stuff. I wish they didn't do any free stuff to discourage non developers from going.
It doesn't matter whether his power comes from state government or private organization. Threats to human rights should be checked. Indifference is selfish.
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I think they were planning to announce a price drop anyway as they are doing their annual cloud shindig in SF today.
Nice! I spent a lot of free time in the late 1970s and early 1980s working on my Go playing program Honninbo Warrior (played poorly, but was the first commercial Go playing product).

The new Monte Carlo search technique (used by Crazy Stone) basically blows all previous approaches out of the water. I bought the "Championship Go" app for my android phone, it uses Monte Carlo, and plays well.
A straight apology now would have been nothing short of opportunistic and considered cheap.

Promising action to the contrary sounds a lot better.
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CSV is a solved problem - RFC 4180: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180#section-2

As used by Lotus 1-2-3 and undoubtedly others before there was an Excel.

Example record:

42,"Hello, world","""Quotes,"" he said.","new
line",x

Now go write a little state machine to parse it... (hint: track odd/even quotes, for starters)
Pretty awesome policy for a discussion board. I know I'm looking forward to the next 10,000 "citation needed" comments!
Thanks - This is fantastic news for us. A quick calculation says we'll save about 30% on our next bill. RDS makes up a big chunk of that.
Actually I just realized I could scroll with your comment!
I don't usually wave the flag, but no, they aren't. They might be comparable, but not better.
Sure, I just meant the idea being mainstream again.

I know a bit of the mainframe world. One of my tasks at my first job was to do OS/400 daily backups.
Are they ready to release that?

I was going to get the development version. Should I wait after June 25?
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The issues in my mind are the thought processes that lead him to hold his opinions. Those processes generated a prejudiced world view - one held strongly enough to affect behaviour to extend of spending money to bolster that prejudice.

Are those the thought processes you want in control of one of the world's most impactful technology companies?
Dear AWS, could we also get a price drop on Cloudfront bandwidth ?
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More than a pawn: I think "two bishops" was about right.

The value of each stone (as an ability to stake out territory -- sometimes called the "temperature of the board" in game theory) decreases as the game goes on. A stone in each corner is huge, probably worth about 80pts of potential territory. In the middle game, the temperature might drop from 20pts to 10pts per move. So your averaging method doesn't quite work. :)
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This almost brings it down to where I can start backing things up onto S3. Currently my home NAS houses just under 500 GB's of stuff. My requirements to back this up offsite would be (1) full encryption of each file and filename using a key only I hold and (2) reasonable per-month price to where I cannot justify just buying another box with a bunch of drives and sticking them at a friend's house.

I believe I can solve the former with S3, though I still don't know of a turnkey solution. The latter is not quite there but this update brings it a lot closer. At this point it would cost me $15/month or $180/year. That's not terrible, but for that price I can easily have two 2TB WD Red drives. The box to house them would cost just a bit more since I need no horsepower, but just enough to run ZFS.

Glacier is a more attractive option, but the fact that the price is so complex when transferring data out of it, I'd be looking at taking months to restore everything just to not pay to dollar for it.
B.O.O.
Parsing and outputting CSV can definitely be a pain, and there are a lot of corner cases. I think that this is certainly one of those times where rolling your own should be avoided if at all possible. I am a big fan of Text::CSV or the Python csv module, but even using Text::CSV have had different behavior from different versions.
Not promoting same sex marriage is not the same thing as promoting withdrawing it where it has been established. So, that's not an example of what was asked.
> > Romney wouldn't pick him to run as VP, because of concerns his staff had about the baggage he brought.

> I would like a citation on that

I'm not the guy you replied to, but I remember reading that too. It was in a really long post mortem of the Romney campaign published in one of the mainstream media outlets. I forget where exactly.
Keep pace with what? You can agree on some developments and disagree on others.
This door?

http://nextcity.org/images/made/images/daily/_resized/img_mo...

I agree, it's outrageous that a door that opens onto the embarcadero be locked when the room is unoccupied, or that the building has a security camera near that door, which happens to be the corner of the building facing the street! Do they expect everyone to go to the main entrance to talk to someone or something?
Reminds me of this:
http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/apis
I have played (in the 1970s) both the Women's World Champion and the National champion of South Korea - I am not going to admit how many stones they gave me and they still won :-)

Four stones is sort of like giving a child a knight off the board starting advantage in chess.

BTW, my older brother taught me Go when I was eight. We played fairly equally for many years, then suddenly within a one year period I was able to give him nine stones, a handicap I have now been giving him for decades. Not saying I am good, just that my brother is a bad Go player :-)
I believe the thinking is that the previous setup meant that most people there were the kind that would obsessively refresh windows in order to secure places. The lottery means there's no benefit to those possibly excessively enthused about the idea, and so the tone of the whole thing could be more balanced and professional.

They're going to have to be careful about hotel bookings though, since the announcement of winners will cause a surge.
Actually, I think the "scaling" is the money to hire the staff they'll need to improve their technology, in this time before they have a chance at a sufficient revenue stream to bootstrap.

Facebook-type users are a decade or more away from VR. They don't "do" fiddly interfaces and rough edges. Even if the hardware was there, the usability isn't.
bestdayever

You're currently hellbanned, looks like because of this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7273699
You seem to be into your planes, have you heard of the Avro Arrow?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow

There is also a pretty good film about it's development starring Dan Ackroyd.

I don't know much about planes, but I remember in High School (90s) when we learned about the Arrow, it was reported that no fighter jet had yet to match her specs. Looks like the F-18 comes close to the Avro top speed.
I hope he keeps getting held accountable for participating in the oppression of a minority group until he takes substantive steps to make public amends.

Didn't he just do that, by promising contrary action rather than a cheap apology?
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Currently i'm a full time nodejs/frontend js developer at a company, while studying part time for my computer science degree. Juggling these two along side with side projects, social life and everything else has made me extremely exhausted

I have 2+ years to study until i get my degree, if I study part time. I don't think I can cope with this amount of stress for 2 years. What should I do?
If anyone would like more background, I have a previous blog post -- "Computers are very good at the game of Go":

http://blog.printf.net/articles/2012/02/23/computers-are-ver...
They didn't happen, although perhaps they are what is needed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7475834
You're right, you haven't tried REQL =]. As a developer of a RethinkDB driver and a fairly active user of the database, and also a previous fan of Mongo, I can tell you that REQL kicks the shit out of MongoDB's querying.

SQL really is well-geared towards relational, flat database systems. Mongo's querying is an obtuse command-based language that always felt like it was adding hacks on hacks to get the data you wanted.

REQL is almost like having your data in-memory, and you're running programmatic expressions on it that seamlessly melt into your native language. The lack of a query optimizer almost makes it better because you have to think about your query plans and indexes instead of just firing it off at the server and crossing your fingers. You're not running commands, you're processing data.

I don't have a lot of experience scaling Rethink, but I do know from reading the docs and architecture that it scales out better than most SQL servers will and certainly scale up better than Mongo. I've tried to scale both MySQL and Mongo. Both are difficult and painful.

You can't conclude that because of Mongo's failures, SQL beats Rethink. Rethink is light years ahead of Mongo.
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Check out git-annex (and the corresponding assistant). I haven't used it yet, but it supposedly supports S3 and glacier, and hard drives and will tell you where each file is backed up.
> You can't with data on random laptops...

Well, yes you can, you just document the procedure.

I really can't understand the disconnect between setting a policy that you can't have company data on company owned/controlled desktops but can have all that data sitting in a 3rd party system.
> App-based task management is "Metro".

App-based task management is also pre-CS5 Photoshop on OSX. Programs which have multiple windows per document need those windows brought to the front together.
Oh geez. I didn't even know you could scroll down. I played around for a bit, thought "ok what's the point of this?" and just moved on.
I hear people say stuff like this a lot. I've been using WordPress for years and find it really, really good -- not hard to get into, infinitely customisable, well supported, always improving, well-written plugins for every function that a reasonable number of people requires etc etc.

People use Wordpress because by now there's a plug-in for everything; I contribute to a smallish blog about grant writing (http://blog.seliger.com) and do simple maintenance, and I use it because everyone else does and practically everything I've ever wanted to do has had a plug-in already written.

Joel Spolsky's "Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html is relevant here:

A lot of software developers are seduced by the old "80/20" rule. It seems to make a lot of sense: 80% of the people use 20% of the features. So you convince yourself that you only need to implement 20% of the features, and you can still sell 80% as many copies.

Unfortunately, it's never the same 20%. Everybody uses a different set of features. In the last 10 years I have probably heard of dozens of companies who, determined not to learn from each other, tried to release "lite" word processors that only implement 20% of the features. This story is as old as the PC. Most of the time, what happens is that they give their program to a journalist to review, and the journalist reviews it by writing their review using the new word processor, and then the journalist tries to find the "word count" feature which they need because most journalists have precise word count requirements, and it's not there, because it's in the "80% that nobody uses," and the journalist ends up writing a story that attempts to claim simultaneously that lite programs are good, bloat is bad, and I can't use this damn thing 'cause it won't count my words. If I had a dollar for every time this has happened I would be very happy.

Replace "word processors" with "blogging platforms" and the same basic thing is true today of Wordpress.
when running a command that's reading what you're typing to stdin, you press Ctrl-D to tell it that you're done. Because, as your "man ascii" trick shows, this generates the "end of transmission" character.

This is slightly different than being able to actually generate those characters as input. If you put a control-d in a file, nothing will stop reading the file when it sees the control-d, it's just another byte. readline knows how to interpret a bunch of control characters. There's also the terminal driver that has interpretations, which you can see with `stty -a`. When the tty layer sees a control-d or a control-c, it closes stdin or generates SIGINT, respectively. But even this can be dependent on if you're on a pty or attached directly to a serial line. There's nothing special about the mapping of control-d to end-of-transmission character, that's just how the layer that sees it is interpreting it. You can, for example, change how control-c is interpreted by `stty intr ^B`, which will make control-b generate SIGINT. And there's a way to put the terminal driver in complete transparent/passthru mode.
You are wrong.

There's personal beliefs and then there's giving financial support to crush someone else's. That puts things on a different scale. Abortion in the examples would probably be the closest, but the most 'understandable' part of that is at least it involves termination of life, which is by itself controversial. Prop 8 was about materially preventing families from officially forming. That puts it in a different league of just hatred/bigotry.

A CEO IS the public face of an organization. And that organization, Mozilla, is one whose principal aim is to create an open and transparent substrate for the exchange of ideas and services. That is at odds with his own past actions.

The products and services a company creates is reflective of the people inside of it. His actions have made it difficult for LGBT members to join his organization (and possibly anyone else who is sensitive to such issues). This is ESPECIALLY true for anyone who will routinely be interacting with him. The lack of minorities in tech is already a big problem, and reducing that likelihood at one of the few principal stalwarts of the Internet is a missed opportunity.
> Precisely what makes them valuable is their difficulty to type or display.

Exactly. A naive[1] character-delimited format is only robust when its delimiter isn't on the keyboard. Which means it's practical to read and write only in specialized applications, not in a text editor. Which sort of defeats the point of a character-delimited format anyway. If your use cases are constrained to specialized applications, you may as well just use JSON or something similar, instead of a character-delimited format. (I'm imagining a world where we get to pick our ideal formats, not one where Excel happens to have an almost-working CSV implementation.)

[1] By "naive" I mean one where the format specification describes record and line characters only. Thus the format has no escaping system.
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The biography is an excellent read: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38840.Boyd
Even without attending it, I am looking forward to see if there are presentations about ART and improving the state of Java on Android.

Now with Java 8 out, it is pretty lame that one still needs to use a Java 6 fork to target the majority of Android devices.
I dont understand why this level of access (if it is accurately described in the article) would only be of use to American intelligence, and "would['t] interest other intelligence services -- except to pass it on to the Americans."

It seems like something that powerful would be of interest to any intelligence service (or group of any sort), anywhere.
It's implemented, but off by default: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7475834
It's about not blaming bad code/product on developer incompetence though.

It's a leftover from a time when I unfairly criticised a number of programmers who were actually heroically fighting to deliver a quality product under bad management.
You asked for Android, and this is Apple, but it's one of the best mobile go apps I'm aware of:

http://www.smartgo.com/kifu.html
Yes repeatedly crashes FireFox.
Living in the US, I've never heard of an AltGr key until this discussion.
And I believe you too! I do think there is some schmoe at google who can read my email. I don't think they do because what business does a schmoe have reading another schmoe's mail? My point was that it can be done, and it has been done, in a documented way, not that google is malicious.