skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you want to argue that gays are a special subset who (unlike all the other subsets) deserve not to have regulations go against their preferences, do it.

You don't get to state this as fact just because it helps your argument. I assume you're well aware people on the other side consider sexual orientation to be inherent, rather than a simple preference.
NAT mapppings will time out.
At the office, a few people might do gags, and maybe one is really good and sucks you in totally. That's funny. No, it's awesome to get punked to that degree even when you were looking out for it!

On the net it's (become) unbearable, because it's a solid wall. News, thoughtful articles, social media are so full of AFD stuff that the net is almost worthless[1]. I.e., it doesn't scale.

I don't mind being punked. I don't mind it a few times in the same day. When the whole day is a never ending stream of it, it becomes tiresome and irritating.

Footnote:

1. This is substantially different from, say, the Super Bowl. If I'm not interested in the Super Bowl I just skim past it. But AFD pranks are meant to look plausible. In an alternate universe "Facebook buys Oculus" is an AFD prank instead of real. So you can't skim over them.
Just had my two year old daughter beat me at this game. Thanks for destroying my self-esteem.
PRU-> programmable real time unit

BBB-> BeagleBone Black

The BBB has an extra dual core processor that runs at 200Mhz. It is interesting because it is like the processor they teach you about in your intro to computer architecture classes, every instruction is a single cycle instruction. Since it is a co-processor(not running an OS but controllable from the BBB's OS) and execution of instructions is deterministic, it is a good choice for running hard real time code.
It's amazing all the managers get offices but the ICs get productivity-enhancing cubes.
I have never used their service or even traded equities as an HFT, so I won't comment on their specific implementation/value add.

That said, A) I reject the entire premise that the current markets are tilted against large institutional investors. or B) that a large purchase order from such an investor shouldn't move the market price.

Large block transactions move the markets not because of nefarious poorly understood bogey man algorithms, but because of basic market forces. This has been the case long before HFT came on the seen. That an execution trader at a major financial institution getting paid a million dollars of client fee money didn't know this is pretty appalling.

I will say I think their marketing is brilliant. Most other dark pools get painted with the same murky brush as HFT. That a dark pool backed by billionaire investors and Goldman Sachs can position themselves as defenders of the little guy is really impressive. Their long fiber cable gimic is also really nice showmanship.
Today is my most productive day. Cause I just don't have the will to figure out if "news" stories are real or 4/1. So, I don't read HN or Reddit or anything. (I didn't realize it was april 1st until seeing this.)

Like the redis Hyperloglog? is it a joke, is it real? Fuck if I'm wasting my time to figure out. If it's real it will be still be talked about next week and I'll learn about then.

Until tomorrow, Norm out!
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It's irrelevant what's possible in 2/3 of the US. The California status quo until the court case, which Eich was implicitly trying to restore by supporting prop 8, was civil unions with identical treatment to marriage under state law except the name.

That's not Uganda style death penalty as some are equating it to.
Nice looking site :) But, doesn't Blockchain.info already offer a developer API?
New Facebook Predictions API
I always refer to Docker when telling people about Go. https://github.com/dotcloud/docker
That was my first thought. This feels off, I doubt Coinbase database was hacked and this is just using their API flaw and some previously leaked email database.
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And http://www.lessmilk.com/
So much of what makes the internet useful is the collaborative aspect. Having a copy of StackOverflow at a static point in time is better than nothing, but losing the ability to ask or answer new questions or stay up to date is a significant loss.

If you are a lone (or part of a small group) traveler, the thumb drive Hitchhiker's Guide is probably as good as it gets. If we had a colony on Mars (or more distant) a better solution would be to have a planetary WAN (the MWW?) Central servers could update news, movies, apps and other timely but read-only content over a wide-bandwidth, high latency channel to the WWW (Renamed in 2250 to the Earth Wide Web.) Community sites (like HN and SO) would have to be redesigned for multiple non-interactive WANs. Perhaps it would default to your home WAN for voting and commenting, but you could click a tab to view a read-only, slightly older version of different planets' contributions.
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> Even an end of world bug means that they can only ever lose a small portion of all stored user funds.

Were you born yesterday?

The steal-all-your-money rate of bitcoin businesses is running right around 100%, and you're going to lecture people that "they can only ever lose a small portion of all stored user funds"? Really?
It also discloses whether someone is a customer or not. Possibly en masse. Problems:

1) Aids phishing attacks against Coinbase and customers

2) Oftentimes harmless tidbits of information can be combined to form non-harmless information. In this case, disclosing email, name, and the fact of being a Coinbase customer, or not, seems minor on its own. However, combine it with some other dataset (let's say emails/passwords taken from an unrelated site), and now it would be easier to break into accounts without setting off warning bells, since you already know who is a user or not.

Dismissing the information disclosure strikes me as akin to the "it's only harmless metadata" argument of the NSA. As we have already seen in many reports, "metadata" can be surprisingly powerful.
A century ago, mathematicians were busy proving theorems (for instance, about calculus), and some of them were trying to figure out if we could start with a mathematical/logical statement and just calculate the answer, "this is true" or "this is false". They were not thinking about electronic computers, and they weren't concerned about how long it would take, they just wanted to know if you could calculate the answer at all, using an algorithm and pen an paper, and eventually finishing with an answer. For example, if you have just something like "10^23423 is bigger than 23454^10", there's no question about it, you can calculate the answer by using the definitions of integer numbers, product and exponentiation . But what about any mathematical or logical statement? That was the big question.

A re-statement of your example is that differential calculus gives you the definitions of limit and derivative, and it helps you with real world problems that are well modeled by differentiable functions. It also tells you that some functions are not differentiable.

Lambda calculus starts with a definition of what is calculating, and then it tells us that the answer to big question is "no", some functions cannot be calculated. But it also tells us that whatever can be calculated, can be done with a very, very simple programming language.
Yes, you just need to select a different field type ("text", instead of "html").
The easy way to see if anything is fake on April Fools Day is to determine if it follows Poe's law. Security breaches are always serious and never funny.

(Then again, r/games faked moderation corruption as their April Fool's joke. That did not go over well.)
I took the mouse leaving the slider bounds as a cancel. So you are saying that if you drag outside of the slider area, that the slide should still progress as long as the minimum swipe tolerance has been achieved?
Reading the arguments made in comments against open floor plans aren't inherently problems specific to open spaces, but rather, problems with ineffective management/leadership.

Writing software is a very mental intensive task, and interruptions and distractions cause major fracks in productivity. I take this is FACT.

Offices allow you to deal with some of these issues by closing the door. That isn't a guarantee that you won't be interrupted, but generally speaking a closed door is a universal sign to say "not right now, I'm busy."

Also office walls tend to be sound proof, so they can be much quieter, unless you share a wall with a team of sales staff :(

Offices solve two problems: a way to universally say "I'm busy" and keep things quiet.

I believe you can replicate those things in an open floor plan, but it's much harder to do without buyin from the team and good leadership/management to ensure that people are allowed to work without distractions and interruptions.
If this were true, then why don't managers and Chief Officer types have their workspaces in open plans? Just think of the productivity increases that could be gained!

No, open plans are almost always for two reasons, ignoring any harm or benefit:

1) To reduce costs.

2) Politics/motivation - you have to work hard or be important to get an office.

And I'll see your one study and raise you a "Peopleware" by DeMarco and Lister; IMHO it should be required reading for everyone (especially those who decide on space layouts for knowledge workers).
Just invest in a raspberry pi as an offline cold storage bitcoin machine. They're not expensive, and armory (or electrum) work fine on it. Make a paper backup and keep it in a safety deposit box if you have a large amount of bitcoins.
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There's lots wrong with anonymity. But those wrongs are the price we pay for the benefits of anonymity.

Thinking there's "nothing wrong with anonymity" is the kind of intellectual fallacy that makes it so hard to take 'net libertarians seriously.
It uses your address list to figure out if someone is allowed to wake you at night with a phone call: You set a time when you like to sleep, and if someone is 'stared' in your address list, it will ring. Otherwise their call will go to voice mail. There's a handy setting that will allow people who call twice in five minutes to ring you in your sleep.
Is this an April fool's joke? The discussion seems odd.

I LOLed
> By saying that they offer healthcare equally to gay employees[0], Mozilla seem to be doing what would here be considered a minimum.

That's not what they are saying. Offering healthcare equally to gay employees is, of course, done by virtually every company. Offering healthcare to those employees' domestic partners, rather than just their legally married spouses, is somewhat common, but far from standard.
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I'm not deaf, and I have virtually no experience building things specifically for those that are, but this seems like a great idea. Nice work!
>The primary task of a programmer is writing code, which involves sitting at a desk and thinking and typing

This is most definitely is not the case for most development positions.

Oh yes, there's plenty of code to write if your a developer. But there's communicating with management/qa/business dev/other developers/support as to what to work on, progress on tasks, clarification of requirements, bugs discovered, issues raised, tests to run, ways to program, etc. Open spaces will encourage these conversations to happen more organically instead of scheduled strictly around meetings.

At the end of the day, companies wants developers to crank out code as much as possible, but what they need is development to communicate effectively - among themselves and across teams. Hence, open floor plans, even if it reduces the quality of code.
A large portion of the information is relatively objective (knowing where the hotels are and their quoted room rates is a big step up from 0, even if it doesn't reveal the bad places).

Here's a guide I saw on /r/openstreetmap:

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Prop 8 was entirely a terminology war. Prop 8 is not magically the entire concept of gay rights. It only addressed the issue of whether California would have same sex marriage or civil unions with identical treatment.
I disagree with you, but I upvoted you because I assume you're being downvoted because people disagree with you rather than because you're not contributing to the conversation.

You're failing to see a distinction that the rest of us are making. Most of us agree that, in general, a CEO (or any other person) shouldn't be asked to resign by the public based on his ethical and political viewpoints which have nothing to do with his job. We value diversity. Many of us don't agree, however, that a choice to actively contribute to a campaign to rob a whole class of persons of a right enjoyed by others is on par with a choice of political party, religion, ethical framework, etc. This person has actively worked against diversity and for exclusion, and we think that excludes a person from being welcomed in the name of diversity.

You may disagree, but at least try to understand the nuance. Surely your call for diversity has some limit. There must be some line that a person can cross that disqualifies the person from the right to be welcomed. Maybe we just have different lines.
You're probably right, and maybe smartphones are unique in that case.

I wonder what will happen if amazon would decide to strongly promote online-only (or even amazon only) products, offered at a lower price ?
Ask HN: What does April 1 cost the tech industry?
Between the amount of time people spend online talking about it, and interacting with the "jokes", and the development time (hello Google), is there any way we can put an estimate on the cost to the industry?

I know that even when I was at reddit April 1 took at least a few days of planning and coding, and now they start planning well in advance.
Coinbase isn't some random website made in a basement. It's a well funded, YC backed, known-founder company that complies with relevant banking law. There's absolutely nothing to suggest that they hold a partial reserve or have any ill intention whatsoever.
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Well, despite the initial "haha" reaction, I feel bad for the Subversion project team for all of the attention/politics they're going to get from this.

As you can see on the ticket, they'll already getting the usual Apache internal politics of "that's not how we did it in the 90s!" reaction to any infrastructure/tool changes.

And, with showing up on HN, they'll likely have everyone snickering at how Subversion is so obviously inferior to git that even their own dev team doesn't use it anymore.

When really they're just trying to do their job, with the tools that work best for their situation. (I assume, I have no internal knowledge of their decision, I'm just assuming good intentions.)
I am curious why their contact form isn't posting over SSL http://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/emails/new

While I want to contact support for help, I am hesitant to fully disclose my issue in their contact form.
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Simple - stop giving them your attention. If no one paid attention to it, it wouldn't work. If it didn't work, no rational management would foot the bill for it.
I'd rather them make jokes and try to make me laugh to "farm" page hits rather than publish click-bait headlines that lead to idiotic articles. At least we're all in on the joke on April Fools.