skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact you merely once did tech support and then moved to PHP development explains why you hold ridiculous opinions on various things.

I'm sure Winsock reset _did_ solve a lot of problems, for you. But at the same time you probably just made other problems for the poor peoples affected by your tech support. Whilst Winsock reset may have removed the particular third-party component that was causing the issue (often shitty AV software), it will have removed any others that had valid reason to be there, such as VPN software. Do some reading about LSPs (layered service providers) in the context of Winsock and educate yourself.

"Crappy Win32 APIs"
Citation needed. (Figure of speech on HN, don't worry I'm not expecting you to actually try to find one)

"Somehow in your decades of using Windows you have never run into buggy, crash prone applications."
Don't put words in my mouth. Of course I've experienced buggy crash prone applications. Just as I've experienced such things on OSX and Linux. As long as such shitty apps don't bring down the OS or your Shell, all's fine really. Don't blame the OS for shitty third party crap.

"And it happens often enough that if you're in any sort of support role,"
Starting to see a pattern here. You misdiagnosed a lot of problems when you used to work in tech support, huh? Don't blame you, gets them off the phone doesn't it?

Nobody denies the Registry is stupid by design. But that doesn't make it buggy and broken like you claim. Microsoft acknowledges the Registry should never have happened and they do their best now to try to encourage better practices.

"I can't find any better sources for why I thought that the driver model itself was wrong,"
Because you won't find any but don't let me stop your desperate web searching to back up bullshit claims.

"but I do remember that a lot of Windows crashes happen because of crappy drivers"
Well thanks for that Mr Captain Obvious. Just like shitty drivers on ANY of the big 3 OSes can and do cause crashes? With the other big percentage of Windows crashes being faulty hardware. Fortunately Windows has advanced itself to such a point now where the vast majority of drivers, especially those most likely to be badly written (i.e. all things USB pretty much!) are held as user-mode processes that are unable to crash the system.

"I remember there was a specific reason for it, and it wasn't fixed in as late as Windows 7, and it's even considered a feature."
Nothing was "fixed" in Windows 7 concerning the fundamental stability of the driver model in Windows. They make subtle and often completely unnoticed resiliency improvements all the time. NT 6.0 (Vista to laymen) added the capability to automatically restart a kernel-mode graphics driver. Which happened to be quite a valuable feature at the time because Nvidia especially was really struggling to write stable LDDM (aka WDDM now, the L stood for Longhorn) graphics drivers at the time. It took them a good 6 months to sort those issues, during which time they were leaning on the inherent resiliency of the NT 6.0 kernel to keep customers sane.
Do I need to explain what's wrong with this idea? Imagine that I started a program called "Rails boys summer of code".

The alternative is obvious -- have qualified girls apply to an appropriately named rails summer of code, and if they're rejected based on their gender, take the responsible parties to court. This is how gender equality comes into being -- not by creating a set-aside program conspicuous only for its overt sexism.

The underlying message of this program is that as programmers, girls are different than boys. This is both false and absurd -- mathematics, logic and computer science have no gender.
Being entertained is not a right.
HTML Tables are Hard
I did not suggest that actually, but I do believe the EU has contributed towards cementing peace in Europe. Certainly the EU made prosperity easier by removing the need for borders.

If you think the EU is too bureaucratic and wasteful, you might be right. But just consider the alternative, if you wanted a free trade zone and international cooperations in all sorts of areas between 28 nations. You would have to negotiate bilateral treaties between 28 nations.

Another good point for the EU is that it demands democratic standards from all the members.
From the article: "I was able to significantly affect my microbiome with an FMT"

A huge pet peeve of mine is people claiming "significance" when they have no such thing. You have two data points and no controls. Even a simple control like another data point to see natural variation in your microbiome without an FMT is not present. Or sequencing a gut sample from your friend to show your sample moved in line with his (although in this case, since you moved toward the mean of the population, reversion to the mean is just as likely an explanation)

Catching up on the microbiome literature (I actually used to work on microbial communities, doing 16s rRNA sequencing on anaerobic digesters), it confirms my suspicion that your "significant" changes could easily be within the variation you would see naturally without an FMT.
Well if your grandparents hadn't worked their asses off, you would live in a very different world right now. It's easy to say now that you are in a comfortable place where you can afford everything for almost nothing, but it was a very different world back then. Let's not forget that. And even now, you can afford things because people in China and other countries are working their asses off to make cheap stuff for developed countries. You don't get a first world country economy without hard work somewhere by someone.
By the time it has reached the kind of altitude that skydivers would be operating it, a meteor would have lost most of its speed to atmospheric compression and friction. According to this faq [1] the terminal velocity for a small meteorite is 200-400 miles/hour, which is not far from your estimate.

[1] http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireballs/faqf/#12
A wingsuit has a forward speed of around 100mph and your arms are bound. It definitely didn't come from a friend. It looks like it has significant forward speed like the jumpers. Throw from the aircraft stops at around the 10 second mark into freefall on a wingsuit jump it's likely they were 2 minutes or more after exit making the forward speed of the rock likely to come from neither another jumper or the plane.
What? That's quite silly.

On the internet/TV for example, you are failing to take into account the spread of tech and efficiency. We can have factories produce TVs automatically, and internet infrastructure doesn't require a huge number of people to keep it running--and most of them, I wager, would be happy to keep doing what they're doing, because it's fun.

As for fancy restaurants or organic groceries...that's just a function of cooking something well and having something to cook. If you're not working all the time, you are more likely to be able to help in your community garden.

I'm sorry, but your assertion isn't borne out by thought.
How creepy would it be if everyone changed their social media avatars to be their eigenface ... I'mma do that for Halloween!
Current shares held (or shares already offered in a contract) are all subject to the same GOOG A -> GOOGL A+ GOOG C split.

New shares offered (to employees, aquisitions, public) are likely to be GOOG-C
as someone with plenty of gastrointestinal issues, probiotics are a godsend
Have you seen the improvements to garbage collection? A giant mechanical arm grabs a specially designed trash bin and tips it into the open top. The garbage man doesn't even need to get close to the bin. Hell, he barely has to get out of the heated truck (in northern Canada). The abundance of cheap labour just delays the implementation of "leisure-efficient" technology.

Here's a video of the truck in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GprMe6A5DR8
> such woof much foo bar bat

What next, the International Obfuscated DogeScript Contest?
Alamo Draft House has this exact policy and is thriving: https://drafthouse.com/
Congratulations! I've been toying with the idea of getting more serious about learning how to code, and this is great inspiration. Thanks for sharing!
http://www.localytics.com

Youtube App for PS3

there is a lot more, it's being used in a lot of startups and major companies throughout the world today, pretty sure the stats show it is far ahead of ember in real world adoption so far
Life is meaningless to you... That's a whole another can of worms but a very interesting one nevertheless.

While watching a documentary recently, I realized that my existential angst wasn't nearly as pronounced or debilitating when I was struggling to live day to day. Work sucked, really sucked, to the point that some days I'd almost wish I'd rather fallen gravely ill or died rather than go to work. But that was only some days. Harsh world, you do what you have to do mindset.

One of the hardest adjustments to not necessarily having to work has been having to figure out the "why" and other existential angst. Yes, religion is a quick fix, but given enough free time, even that luxury may go away as one gets disillusioned with all the BS that goes with organized religion.

The author of the article presents a very interesting conundrum indeed. As things get more efficient, there is more free time, more wealth to go around more "leisure" potential than ever before. But on a grander scale is that necessarily a good thing? Apparently some Chinese bureaucrat back in the old day actively decided against industrialization since people wouldn't have work to do. A modernist world clearly dehumanizes people, that's just an artifact of the system. Perhaps a world where labor is cheap and more and more people work helps maintain order and may somehow be more conducive to human happiness as opposed to lots of free time to realize that the system is crap and have war and chaos. (Yes, I know this is a bit hyperbolic).

Personally, I'm really happy to not have to work crazy hours to be able to eat. I appreciate it. But I do see a lot of friends trying to come to terms with finding meaning in their lives, and not always with great results (had the unfortunate task to having to prepare a funeral for one in January). A very thought provoking article and certainly an insightful comment (though I am bit of wary of outright declarations of life's meaning or lack thereof)
That's the reason why countries like Russia and China make it so hard for NGOs to work within their borders.

I can't blame them for that, why should they allow foreign governments to stir up protests in their countries?

Is anyone better off in Libya, Syria or Egypt after the so called "Arab Spring" destabilized these countries?
My hypothesis is that the current system is most profitable for the people running it.

Using continuous trades, the difference between the price someone would accept/pay is usually very close to the price they do accept/pay. That's because arbitrageurs are continuously taking tiny little bites from the theoretical benefit of trade to the buyers and sellers until everyone is almost indifferent to trade, regardless of the actual price they had in mind. The trades are spread out by time, such that each one can be attacked separately (by a sufficiently fast attacker).

The system is set up to consume the big triangular areas on the supply vs demand chart that do not actually impact whether a trade takes place.

If you settle multiple trades at once rather than a continual series of individual transactions, there are fewer opportunities to take a bite out of other people's trades by being a very fast middleman.

Also, the only way to test your hypothesis is by comparing it against every other possible trading system. So I'd probably start off with a less ambitious claim, like "the current system is more fair than what Log from Blammo proposed." That way, it could be tested just by setting up the competing system and watching what happens.
Please say it's better than Betas. I only lasted 10 minutes into that one.
> Would have been a bigger fan of a more serious take on the subject matter.

But...it's a comedy. Isn't the point of a comedy to take a not serious approach to things?
I assert that open source databases don't do it because it's a bad idea. It's the kind of you do when you have a lot of spare engineering resources and not many innovative ideas.

Not only is the initial devepment expensive, so is the maintenance burden. It makes every new idea cost more to implement.

Postgres has been extraordinarily innovative; offering things like transactional DDL, advanced indexing, first-class extensibility, serializable snapshot isolation, per-transaction durability, sophisticated constraints (e.g. non-overlapping ranges), etc. These features are possible because postgres didn't get bogged down reimplementing and maintaining a filesystem.

And what would all of that work gain, anyway? +25% single-node performance? Not a very strategic direction to go for databases. Better to improve JavaScript/json support and get a good logical replication solution in place.

That being said, there are some low level features that are really worth doing. Robert Haas (the author) did some great work with lockless algorithms, which has achieved great concurrency with a manageable maintenance burden.
Well, since it seems I'm in a minority here I'll accept that I might be misjudging the odds on this one, especially since I know nothing about skydiving.

I guess it goes to prove that since nowadays we're almost all carrying video recorders with us at all times the probability of catching the most elusive events on video gets increasingly large. I expect to see a video of someone standing at the foot of a rainbow any day now.
I'm in a similar boat. Used Eclipse forever. Even tried IntelliJ for a bit years ago and hated it. Tried it again recently after Eclipse crashed and trashed its workspace. Now I can't see ever going back to anything else.

The killer feature for me oddly enough is: fuzzy search for a file
I'm a fan of Judge's so I've been watching the hbo previews and In a couple of the making of's type previews they really stress the number of consultants and research they have done to get it right. I hope they do because if not that will kill it for me.
1. GOOG's stock structure specifically guarantees equitable dividens and even share price parity.

2. Directly voting seizing the economic value of minority shareholders is about the easiest deleliction-of-fiduciary-duty case to win.
Then why not pin those to the start screen, as well, and have an even larger mouse target for getting started that isn't at the bottom of your screen? (Unless you're using Win+1-9, in which case, ignore me)
An actual independent judiciary actually doing its job! I am tentatively excited.
Are those types of constructive comments typical on HN? I ask because I'm fairly new here, and I haven't really noticed many (there are a few) constructive criticisms for any of the projects I've seen posted around these parts.
Show HN: SaaS for MySQL Performance Management
So to protect my privacy, I should create a algorithmic representation of my face, allowing it to be identified in other people's pictures? And my phone/wearable should broadcast this via bluetooth to every camera in my proximity.

I'm sorry, but this sounds like a huge opportunity for exploitation.
Self experimentation doesn't make you nutters, its performing invasive medical procedures that involves the transfer of biologic waste from one person to another with no clinical supervision that makes you nutters
Quality. It's often "sketchy at best".

As for design, there's "Expand All" up the top right of the comments. But yes, the "hidden by default" arrangement is a bit nuts.
They did! Class B is 10:1. Google has grown beyond their original wildest 10x dreams. It took 15 years.
I'm going to create a Kickstarter to sell shit.

Pledge $5 or more:
FMT Hall of Fame Receive a used wipe, suitable for bragging or framing (plus S&H).

Pledge $100 or more:
[EARLY BIRD] DIY kit: You'll get everything needed for a basic FMT, PLUS a single type 1 Bristol stool from one of our lead engineers.(plus S&H)

Pledge $500 or more:
FMT Classroom Educational Package
Join us for a PRIVATE squatting ceremony at a local nature reserve. You'll receive a fresh, hand wrapped type 3 or 4 Bristol stool from one of our members, plus a DIY implantation kit and hands on training.

Pledge $5000 or more:
FMT Founders Club
We'll fly you out to receive an entire Type 4 Bristol stool (smooth log) in person, along with a basic FMT course and PRIVATE implantation procedure. PLUS, we'll offer you the chance to donate your own stool samples to the FMT Master Catalog, for others to choose from. This is a two day event. (US & CAD only)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Stool_Scale
The Apollo 11 UI module, code named DSKY/PINBALL, was meant as a demonstration unit and never meant to be the actual operating interface for the mission.

"As time passed, and more and more people became familiar with the demo, nobody got around to inventing an improvement for the user interface, so the coders simply built it into the flight software without any specific requirements to do so"

The future will always be duct tape and bubble gum.

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/ForDummies.html
No, this completely not about the presence or lack of a 'www'.

I'm saying it's pointless to even ramble on about CNAMEs when the conditions necessary for this to /even work/ mean it would be just as easy to return an abstracted A record that points to the right/active resource in the first place... Like GTMs generally do /already/. When the query comes into the GTM for loadbalancedsite.com, the response isn't fixed--the GTM has already been keeping track of which nodes are up and/or potentially closest to the requestor and it simply hands back an A record with a reasonably short TTL without anyone having to pat themselves on the back for being 'clever'.
Why not? To them, you're just some person in a foreign country.
Some people have proposed the round-trip time from New York to Tokyo at the speed of light as a "speed limit" for trading. That works out to something on the order of 70 ms.

At the very least, it would eliminate the advantage gained from collocating your hardware next to the exchanges' servers.
...and Windows 8.1 phone.
Knowing the donor, calling them your close friend, is not the same thing as medically screening both of you and the poo before the transfer.
I don't really understand what you mean. You can never divide by zero. You can't treat the functions as the same because they are not the same function. It's not a fundamental premise of algebra that you should be able to.

The corner cases aren't nasty, you have to take care of them every time. Like with your example, the solution is f(x)=x+2, except where x=-2 where f(-2) can be any number. There are a continuum of solutions to the equation each with a different value of f at x=-2.
That's a nice theory, but the real data doesn't back it up.

In reality, it's a delusion to believe that ethnicities and cultures can be divided by national borders. This hasn't ever worked except maybe on some islands. And not even in Great Britain, which consists of islands.

Even after the crash, Europe (and each and every of its members) is immensely more wealthy than after WWII, and still more wealthy than ever before.

Fascists did seize control of Greece several times, never under EU membership though. The EU did force Greece to get its affairs in order. But it sure wasn't pretty to watch...
The real question is the first question: What is the point of obscuring? I probably should have skipped the bit about the effectiveness.
There’s an ‘Expand all comments’ link. Personally I find the community there to be a nice complement to HN. Less serious, less important issues, more usable when tired.
The way to do "Uber for household services" in India...
you are begging the question of who the target audience is.
That would be under an assumption that the distribution of planes around the globe is even. Given most jetliners are flying in corridors, I would say the actual probability is much much lower. The same can be probably said about meteorites - I guess their geographic distribution is uneven as well.
Ram pressure, not friction
If the has were really looked up by value, like in the example SQL:

SELECT pk, hash, file_path FROM image_hashes
WHERE hash = '4c8e3366c275650f';

This is screaming to be stored in a bloom filter.
The HFT guys aren't buying 90,000 shares on the other exchanges. They're just updating their ASK price on those exchanges to slightly raise the price to reflect the new information that just hit the market. If someone wants to buy 100,000 shares RIGHT NOW it's a good sign that the price should be going up. Katsuyama/RBC were used to their proprietary information staying a secret that only they knew for longer before the HFTs jumped in and made the market respond faster.

That might be a bummer for Katsuyama/RBC but it's great for everyone else on the market who now benefit from a price that updates faster.
Kies het juiste materiaal voor je tuinbestrating of je tuinverharding
I noticed this phenomenon alot when I used to work at Intrade.
Intellectual Ventures spins off new 'Coffee Flour' startup
What I mean to say is that if the need to produce material things vanishes, people don't replace that need by producing art and culture and placing increased emphasis on family, friends and community. By "flourishing," I don't refer to material production, but social prosperity.

Having seen both, a ghetto in a U.S. inner city is objectively much more materially prosperous, partly thanks to government support, than a village in Bangladesh, yet if you look at crime, social cohesion, family cohesion, etc, the latter is more socially prosperous.

What makes a third world village different from a first-world ghetto? It's not resources, the village has less of those. It's not education, the village has less of that. What I see is that the village has social structure. Work creates roles for people, it creates hierarchies of authority, and it binds families and the community together into a common purpose.

I don't work is the only way to create social roles, hierarchy of authority, and common purpose, but I think most proponents of basic income err critically in assuming that those things are unimportant. It's so ingrained in first world culture that all people need are resources and education that people assume that if you give those things to people you will get prosperity.
Regarding the lottery, I wonder if you can enter once for every developer team you're on, or just once per individual regardless of teams.
You want to talk about the days of erasing EPROMS in a UV oven and waiting 15 minutes for a 27C512 to burn? =) Because that sucked.
Canonical closes down Ubuntu One cloud file services
Officially we were using jshint.

Misspelled magic strings, which were replaced with enumerations.

We also had a number of bugs with unexpected type use - like a function which expected a boolean but was given a string, or even more common number/string failures.
Microsoft-Sponsored Study: Windows Software Issues Cost Businesses $500 Billion
you are begging the question of who the target audience is.

hint: it's not you.
FYI, I created an infographic recently that teaches people all the details they need to know about basic income: http://i.imgur.com/eRuO1ix.png
The comments in this thread are the exact reason why this show will be hilarious.
The local trash company (Winder, Georgia) switched to these recently. As much as I like new tech, I wonder about the two guys who used to run off to each side of the road to grab cans. Did they find new jobs?
Non-voting shares weren't generally accepted 15 years ago. Page+Brin were able to secure 10%-voting shares for the IPO and employee RSUs. Now they have stopped the creation/distribution of new tradable voting shares.
They're doing 16S sequencing, so short reads are fine and still diagnostic