skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>MongoDB? PostgreSQL? Why don't we mention Python too since not every Javascript programmer is using NodeJS, oh wait - maybe we should start mentioning Haskell to JS compilers too, yes, because those are Javascript tools and libraries.

I don't understand this slippery slope argument. One can mention tools relevant to JS developent that are not themselves written in JS, without going to the extreme of listing everything under the sun.

Even if it's a little fuzzy when you stop, MongoDB is known to be a great tool for NodeJS projects, whereas everybody understands that the linker and the compiler is not really relevant to the discussion.
Haha, well the instances of Bell's experiment that I've seen so far all refer to entanglement. It's pretty easy to think about some unknown quantity having a probability distribution on its states. If you have an electron, and you don't know the spin yet, you say that it can be either up or down. What's special about entanglement between 2 particles is that it says the distributions on the two are not independent. In the classic example, one can only be spin up if the other is spin down - so they have a statistical dependence on each other. Bell's experiment tells us that the strength of this statistical dependence depends on how you measure the particles, which isn't determined until measurement time, when the particles are far away. But that being said, you could imaging all other sorts of spooky action at a distance - like 2 particles that have never been local to one another having some sort of statistical dependence. But that would be really hard to show until you found what type of nonlocal statistical dependence to look for, so usually when we're trying to figure out a good model we end up thinking about entanglement.
Aristotle should not be your only point of reference here. Socrates had his life cut off early by an intellectually intolerant cabal, but we're certainly much better of for having had him around for a while, even if not as much as we might have hoped for.

It's also arguable that breakthroughs (philosophical, technological, or whatever) often take place in less-than-ideal contexts, because adversity is often synonymous with necessity. In a society where the majority of the population has it pretty good, there's opportunity for many flowers to flourish but it's hard to say whether any of them are very tenacious since the soil and growing conditions are ideal. If you're on the lookout for a rare flower, you're not likely to discover it in a greenhouse.
I don't use apps. Does that make me a grandpa? I'm under 30. Too much coffee for this guy.

The last paragraph is cool, and I can visualize a day when you just want to contact someone async... or not in any medium and not have to worry about the network. The rant was pointless though.
> With determinism free will is ruled out.

Not according to compatabilism.
I was under the impression that violation of Bell's Inequality generated a trilemma -- locality, realism, and counterfactual definiteness.
That's very elitist. Academic philosophers do not 'own' philosophy. What is the harm of us ordinary folk discussing it? (Also, if anything is inappropriate for HN, it's snarky one-liners. Please don't do that.)
Maybe the hold traditional toilets have on us is another example of the triumph of "worse is better."

Whatever else you want to say about them, they are closer to the UNIX tradition than Japanese toilets.
Any chance you are working on getting this upstream? I noticed Greg KH as one of the contributors
bigotry:
bigoted attitudes; intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself.

(source: Google definition box)
>I'm really struggling to decide where to come down on this issue. It absolutely is a bigoted opinion that he holds and essentially comes down to denying a group of people happiness for no good reason.

Still, it's his opinion. It's a bigoted opinion to think you can deny someone the right to have his bigoted opinion.

This is a serious matter. This opens the door to: You either think this exact same way and have these exact opinions, or you're a bad person and face the consequences.

It was a donation on his own name, not on Mozilla's behalf. It was a donation for lobbying against gay marriage. Pro-gay marriage people donated money too. They are even denying him to play by the rules they are playing by.

It's like playing basketball and you take off your hoop and demand the other team to play normally. It's not fair.
It isn't revenge, it's self defence, this guy still believes this, and is now making more money. It seems likely he'll do something similar again.
I think a reasonable question is why we consider /more/ transactions a good thing, if a large fraction of them are for holding periods in small number of seconds.

I think I am questioning the fifo paradigm, which creates these arbitrage opportunities, especially when there are multiple fifo queues representing multiple markets. It is not clear to me that batching things in 1 sec increments, and randomizing the our ordering would be bad or unfair.

I also don't see why a modest fee that would make short-hold transactions for tiny gains is a bad thing.

Structuring the system to reward HFT latency advantages seems opposed to stability, if one believes that the market is for actual investments.

HFT seems to be a second order phenomenon that games the system, and may have come to dwarf what could be called legitimate investment.

At what point is there "enough" liquidity, and when is "too much"? I suspect the people who do HFT and other arb techniques think there is no such thing as too much, because they profit on the churn. Others see this as producing nothing of societal value, extracting real money from the system that could be used for other purposes.
Wow, you're so right! I never would have heard this classic song had it not been for that site:

https://archive.org/details/MaxGizmo512K
The reason you wash your hands is so that you don't spread pathogens to yourself and others. As far as I can tell, that's not the primary reason you wipe your behind.
Cloudera CDH5 (including YARN) is GA
We are not blaming the flaws of humanity, just its own flaws, but that is enough to get downvoted. So maybe maybe the vote ring is incidental or not, is still one.
I don't twitter but whenever I'm shown tweet I'm astounded at the amount of redirection involved in linking.
> the European sailors that shipwrecked in Japan sit around scratching their fleas and scoffing at the Japs' grotesque habit of bathing every day... gross

Well on a ship you certainly can't wash yourself every day. And even in Europe, there was a lack of running water to wash yourself as often as you wanted. Japan has tons of rivers everywhere and is one of the richest country in terms of river water - and you can add onsen (hot springs) on top of that which provides free warm water to those living nearby. It's easy to criticize people of old, but they lived in very different conditions than we do, and Japanese had as much water as they wanted hence they developed that everyday washing culture.

Yet, Japan is actually importing water from other countries because they can't even meet their needs anymore in water supply - so the Japan model is not sustainable if you think about it this way. The consumption of water is among the highest worldwide (not just for bathing, but also washing clothes etc...) so it you applied the same model everywhere else you'd run out of water very fast in most countries.
You're conflating freedom from government suppression and freedom from social consequences. Free speech refers to, and only to, the former.
I think it's a very responsible move. Learn from GM's mistake of not promptly recalling faulty products. Short term loss, but long term gain of consumers' trust.
> MS doesn't really make money off C# or .Net directly, they make money off the windows licenses you need to run the resulting code.

On this page: http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/02/microsoft-updates-visual-st...

There is this quote:

Microsoft also today announced that Visual Studio 2013 has sold over 3.7 million copies since its release less than five months ago. That makes it the fastest-selling release of Visual Studio to date.

Based on those numbers and the fact that Visual Studio prices range from about $1,000.00 for VS Professional up to $13,000.00 for VS Ultimate, I'd say they make quite a bit of money of C#, .Net (and of course C++ as well).
It sounds like both sides (the people involved with the show and the people involved with silicon valley) should both lighten up a little.

If the show is off-base they should accept the criticism and move the later episodes toward a more realistic satire.

If google has a 6 person circular bicycle they conduct meetings in, expect there to be a joke. Smart people are weird, own it.

But... Don't make up a strawman who is looking to get rich without actually building something amazing, while being a weirdo slob that is completely clueless. There are hundreds of start ups on AngelList that are making a difference in the world while being completely professional.

That being said, I'm assuming they only screened the first episode? I wouldn't rush to judgement.
Unfortunately it doesn't. It's "Copyright (c) Microsoft Open Technologies", a Microsoft subsidiary it set up precisely to avoid licensing their patents when releasing GPL or Apache code.
In India, you buy separate rubber slippers/American beach slippers (2$) for the washroom, and a separate one for the house. We don't really stress our feet with closed shoes inside the house. No one's watching you anyway.

Only winters, is the in-house rubber slippers (not the washroom ones) are changed with warm slippers.
>All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Proposition 8:
Section I. Title

This measure shall be known and may be cited as the "California Marriage Protection Act."

Section 2. Article I. Section 7.5 is added to the California Constitution, to read:

Sec. 7.5. Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

Which part of this denies equal protection to someone under the laws?
There are some practical approaches that could be used to do more than nudge when discussions turn toxic. Allowing fresh threads just leads to the inevitable if there isn't a solid solution to the toxic behavior in general.
The Gigafactory is designed to reduce cell costs much faster than the status quo and, by 2020, produce more lithium ion batteries annually than were produced worldwide in 2013.
It's expected to send the kilowatt-hour price of batteries down by 30% .
In fact, it promises some changes.
Point 2 is not actually the case, as long as your write does not partially fill a pagecache page (pagecache pages are the same size as the architecture's native page size - 4K on x86, x86-64 and arm).

You can demonstrate this with a program like the following:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int i;
char pattern[512*1024];
int fd;

for (i = 0; i < sizeof pattern; i++)
pattern[i] = 'X';

fd = open("testfile", O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0666);

if (fd < 0)
{
perror("open");
return 1;
}

while (1)
{
pwrite(fd, pattern, sizeof pattern, 0);
fdatasync(fd);
posix_fadvise(fd, 0, sizeof pattern, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED);
}

return 0;
}

...then watch vmstat or iostat while it's running. Plenty of writes, no reads.

On the other hand, if you subtract one from the size of 'pattern', you'll see that you also get reads (as partially writing the last page requires a read-modify-write cycle).
With printings from school, you often get short passages or short stories that are not in books or very difficult to find within books. But just being able to take a picture of it would make it so much easier.
The main thing is running (and debugging code running within) the application server... aka tomcat. Need the ultimate edition for that.
More like they're moving to a combination of Adobe's tooling + Amazon's AWS offerings... MS makes a fair amount of money from MSDN licenses, and if their tools can be used to build/deploy service oriented backends that happen to be easy to deploy on their Azure platform, they still make money when the clients are more Android and iOS based.

They're looking longer term in the face of declining Windows/PC sales, and stagnant phone/tablet sales. It makes a lot of sense to improve/expand the platforms that their tools can target. They do have some really nice tooling, and imho Azure is a bit easier to use for a lot of things compared to alternatives.

It's not perfect, but they definitely have a strategy in place with the future in mind.
If some line drawn in the sand preventing you from getting the app to talk to your friend... Well, maybe you do not really want to talk to him all that much. I personally could live without skype, google talk, and imessage. However, because I got friends and family I do want to talk to, I just bite the bullet and use them.
By the way "bidet" is a french word in the first place and it has nothing to do with washing your arse :) Bidets are small bathtubs-shaped vessels where you actually wash your feet. The reason they existed is because in the past people didn't wash their whole body every single day, and instead they cleaned at least the most dirty / odorant parts of their bodies this way, more often.
> many users have hundreds of archives adding up to several terabytes, but pay less than $10/month.

$0.25 / GB-month x 1000gb = $250 / 1TB-month
Not really a mobile developer myself, but Im guessing it would require parsing the text from a book with something like OpenCV, and then passing it through Summly's or clipped.me's API.
Nobody has suppressed Eich's freedom of speech.
I think it's fitting. The Chief Technology Officer for many years at Mozilla, once promoted to CEO, suffers great pushback and voluntarily steps down as a result.

For Mozilla, technology in this case was not more important than community values. Postgres and Linux have technological improvements, but I'm eager to see the tech industry be far more self-aware in trying to progress in its social issues, rather than just progress with features.

Plus, this was a struggle and many on these forums were affected. The underlying causes won't go away after one day, and more worryingly, perhaps not for years to come.
I'm confused. How the heck did I violate Brendan Eichs human rights? My comment about privileges pertains to the benefits granted to married couples, straight or gay. Marriage rights don't exist, married couples aren't entitled to tax breaks, spousal benefits, etc. those are all privileges that can be repealed by the stroke of a pen and therefore are not rights.
And then they can get your Android phone to overheat and start a fire! Or slow down your car remotely when the police are chasing you!

Yup, that's the 21st century for you. Most of the cool things we have today are here thanks to being able to be controlled remotely over the Internet. I wouldn't be surprised if the next product Nest comes out with is a security system. ADT has had its run of shitty and insecure systems for too long. It is time for someone to create a better version where you can monitor everything remotely. This will have all the same ramifications: the manufacturer can lock you inside your own home.
It's not like they're defective.

Under certain conditions (like the unit being mounted low on the wall) and with multiple people running by the sensor, it might register it as a wave and silence that unit.

I've used the devices for a while and the convenience of not having the 3am chirp is worth the risk of the alarm being silenced by me running out of the room.
Using O_DIRECT well requires taking on a surprising amount of additional resource management responsibility. Also, the implementation is not portable and, combined with the additional responsibility previously mentioned, adds a ton of conditional compilation. The alignment requirements are not an issue at all; anyone using O_DIRECT is also going to be used properly aligned I/O buffers in any case.

O_DIRECT can have a lot of benefits. However, while O_DIRECT may be simple to use by itself, the other design and implementation requirements that are indirectly dragged along are not trivial by any means. Consequently, you should not be using O_DIRECT unless you can manage the substantial indirect overhead in implementation. It turns off a lot of OS features most developers take for granted.
> I just wanted to know why a company that says it's pro-equality hired as CEO someone who donated to an anti-equality campaign.

Clearly because it hadn't affected his work or the way he treated any of his colleagues over the many years he worked there, and because he was extremely well qualified for the job?
Install-less, hosted-private-key-less Github, Twitter and Web site verifications are now live on keybase.io. Enjoy!
Its a bit depressing being in a downtown area with absolutely nobody to chat too.

Feels like being alone in a crowd sorta. >.<
I'm not sure what the moral of you story is?

Is it not possible that you can spend all your money/time/effort chasing a lotto ticket and never have the winning numbers or even numbers that can support you when you get a curveball in life? Is it not possible that your opinions or your life circumstances could change enough that you need something more than a lotto ticket?
I would be upset if I used an analogy on HN and the first reply didn't include some form of 'your analogy is wrong' ;).

That's a reasonable argument except that gay civil unions were (are?) illegal in California so it is actively denying rights to people.

>As an aside, I think the proper way to handle the marriage debate would have been to remove any and all rights associated with the word, and force all couples to get a civil union. Tax that instead. Churches are welcome to marry people all they desire (on both sides, gay or straight as they please according to their beliefs)

That could work. I don't see why churches need to have any bearing over the specific term 'marriage' though. Sure it has a religious basis but so do a huge number of things which have been appropriated for the current time. Let them call it a 'Christian marriage' if they want. I don't know, Australia is much less religious than the US so perhaps I lack some perspective.
Yes, that's a good point. Although gists too is a flat list I think. But at least with gists and repos we have two flat lists.
I've used a Japanese toilet and for me the hand washing facility attached to it is meaningless as I do not understand why would anyone ever wash their hands with cold water. Especially I do not understand people who simply wash their hands by dipping them into cold water for a second.

But maybe the culture of washing hands with warm water and soap is merely in North Europe. And maybe I am illusioned by the effectiveness of warm water.

edit:// English correction
Speaking as a user, when someone sends me a reply, I expect to see it in seconds via the streaming API so I can have a short IM-style conversation, and I consider this a nice benefit to using Twitter (rather than, say, email), if not totally essential. Hundreds of seconds sounds bad, but if that were the norm, it would be a serious problem.
The donation wasn't for a public information campaign to encourage gay people not to marry. If was for a law to force them not to. That's the difference.
A significant subset of .NET had to exist anyway for Silverlight to run on the Mac.

I'm sure the codebase is factored internally to have some sort of platform abstraction.
They are watermarking scans of items that are not in copyright since they predate the copyright system. What kind of bullshit is this?

These should all be public domain. Is there anyone besides Google and the Vatican that watermark public domain works?
Hiring the best and brightest presumes that you, the employer are the best and most successful.

On both sides of the table, society constantly pushes us to think we're number 1 when we're really not. Non-top-tier companies and top-tier companies shouldn't have the same hiring practices. Nor should non-top-tier applicants and top-tier applicants have the same recruiting strategies.

Can we all stop pretending to be something we're not? The world operates on a normal curve and not everyone can be the 1%.

That said, if you are the top employer, I think a great metric is simply to gauge the time an audition takes. A technical problem for the best and brightest might take a couple of hours, whereas for someone less qualified it takes much longer. And this exercise should come with suggested timing to weed out people who know they're not able to crack it in the allotted period.

I think this could be a way to not have long term auditions, because what you've done is focused on creating a quality-assessment (difficulty of problem) as opposed to a quantity-assessment (length of time).

I disagree with what other commenters have said; having anything but long term auditions will not sufficiently gauge fit with corporate culture. But hey if you're going around the world to hire remote workers, culture is probably not your top priority anyways.
I've had a doctor specifically recommend one (or cheap bidet setup) for hemorrhoids.

That's not TMI. That's important information. Why do they recommend it?
I'm an Asian woman and I've definitely experienced more sexism than racism.

That said, if it bothers you that there aren't more "Asians in Tech" programs, why don't you start one? No one is stopping you, except maybe the people who would complain about it being unfair to THEIR underserved minority groups.
Is there anything short of resignation that Eich could have said or done that would have satisfied people participating in the protests against his appointment? If not, then the lessons learned here (either by Eich or by the people who called for his removal) are bad ones.

Eich was in a tough spot here. He holds beliefs (and contributed to causes in favour of those beliefs) that may be in opposition to Mozilla’s HR policies. It is absolutely important to know that he would ensure that those policies would be enforced fairly.

I’m not sure there are any good resolutions to this sort of problem.
No sir, is closer than that: http://listverse.com/2011/06/08/top-10-shameful-moments-in-c...

And this are the know ones, if you don't think there is a single one outside those, you sir, are delusional (or just biased).
Also interesting is the fact that the results are in the range that would be expected by the placebo effect.
Sorry to sound 'negative', but...

I don't know if this is the way the future is going to pan out - water is an increasingly scarce resource and, as it is, we waste a gallon or so of water to lift one's leavings up and over the u-bend.

Of all people Bill Gates is probably the expert on what toilets will really be like in the future, allegedly water, toilets, sanitation and health is something he is most interested in.

Personally, although I am not into 'standing desks' I am into 'standing toilets', as in the humble urinal. One's aim is easier and there is no seat to remember to put down for the next user. Less water is wasted. I would want one at home so as to avoid 'female complaints' regarding the state of things. Ideally the outflow from the adjacent sink would keep it clean so water wastage really would be minimal. It would be in a room of its own, a very small room with no need for anyone female to ever enter it.

I recently replaced an extractor fan in a bathroom. I thought that a quiet fan would be preferable and I was disappointed with the noise made. However, then I realised the real purpose of the fan, it is to make noise to disguise the sound of one leaving one's leavings. I believe that the Japanese toilets have some of this functionality too. Can anyone confirm that?