skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * There was almost zero bullshit reality TV manufactured drama

The bit in the article that astounded me was where he talked about sections of the contract everyone was expected to sign: "Another clause allowed for willful misrepresentation for the sake of drama..."
The fun thing is Rifkin has also sometimes been a doomsayer – especially with regard to genetic biotech or global energy. I think in his career he's aiming more for "say thought-provoking things" than "be substantially correct in retrospect". That can be OK!
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This reminds me of an interesting question posed on reddit in /r/programming a few years ago: if you were stuck in a room with a blank PC with only a floppy drive and disk, what's the bare minimum that would need to be on the disk for you to eventually write a full-fledged operating system[1]? The whole thread is a fascinating read, and features a cameo from lutusp.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9x15g/programmi...
Edit: this link works for everyone (it is provided in another submission): http://www.okcupid.com/home?mozilla_message=1

Edit 2: the Internet Exploder typo is theirs.

Here is the text (for those who don't use Firefox):

Hello there, Mozilla Firefox user. Pardon this interruption of your OkCupid experience.

Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples. We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access OkCupid.

Politics is normally not the business of a website, and we all know there’s a lot more wrong with the world than misguided CEOs. So you might wonder why we’re asserting ourselves today. This is why: we’ve devoted the last ten years to bringing people—all people—together. If individuals like Mr. Eich had their way, then roughly 8% of the relationships we’ve worked so hard to bring about would be illegal. Equality for gay relationships is personally important to many of us here at OkCupid. But it’s professionally important to the entire company. OkCupid is for creating love. Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure.

If you want to keep using Firefox, the link at the bottom will take you through to the site.

However, we urge you to consider different software for accessing OkCupid:

[3 buttons:] Google Chrome Internet Exploder Opera

Thank you,
OkCupid
Makes me wonder - would we ever get to a point where it's in Square/Stripe/Coinbase/et. al's interests to contribute mining power to help their own transactions along? Or is that pretty much taken care of by transaction fees?
Weakest (or strongest, depending on your goals and tastes) are comparative newness and divergence from MySQL 5.6. This is a nice short summary from the Percona dude:

http://www.percona.com/resources/technical-presentations/mee...
There are interesting points made here. Addiction can be (but is not always) a byproduct of ones dissatisfaction with life and is a very serious problem in every society.

That said, I think that this is just moral grandstanding. The author purports that alcohol and coffee (can't he just call them out rather than get cute about it?) are a means of escape and that escaping is a reflection of one's dissatisfaction with their current state. This is flawed logic. Why does the fact that I drink only mean that I am unhappy with my life in an unaltered state? There are so many other reasons that one might open a beer or brew a cup, there's no evidence at all (or at least none is presented) that it is simply a result of believing "there is something seriously wrong with what you would otherwise feel like?".

Substance abuse is serious and can happen very quickly, often as a result of personal issues. There's no doubt that you should always be wary of the reasons why you're drinking but you shouldn't feel guilty about escapism. Sports, music, art, literature, these are parts of our culture that many see as the great triumphs of our society and they are all forms of escape in themselves. I grant you that they do not have the same health effects and addictive properties that alcohol and caffeine do but that is not really a point that the author wanted to make in the first place. There's nothing wrong with wanting to step outside of yourself to enjoy the faculties that being human and alive allow us to enjoy. Go ahead man, this buds on me.
The reason modern cars are usually heavier then old cars is because they are safer -- for example, larger crumple zones, ABS, VSC, HSC, airbags, better windshields, safety cells, anti-intrusion bars, other barriers.

Are you less likely to survive an accident in a modern car? Yes, you are. Depending on who you ask airbags by themselves save 5,000-20,000 people per year.
Navel gazing is the best way to convince yourself that things are going great and to give you that boost to keep working on the project. At some point you will probably look back at this and think it was nothing to brag about, but it doesn't matter because you're having fun and enjoying the feedback loop between you and your users -- this is a good sign.
Past what Patrick says, I'm pretty sure you can't effectively deduct (personal) rent as a business expense. Several reasons I think this: (a) we pay relocation for new hires, and rent is one of the things you're specifically not allowed to claim as a relocation expense; (b) the IRS has a whole page on employee benefits that makes it clear that most of those benefits are taxable, so getting rent from your employer makes you liable for the tax on the rent; (c) the IRS page on business expenses specifically calls out living expenses as non-deductible.
Isn't "except in emergencies" just asking for a company to liberally define "emergency"?
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No clue. I'd personally stick with Maria or Percona if you're looking for serious improvements to MySQL by extremely talented engineers.
OpenStack kinda has a single repo - every commit to the core projects triggers a submodule update in https://github.com/openstack/openstack - and there are LOTS of projects which aren't included in this. For example CI and Developer tooling etc.

> openstack$ git count -pm -n3

> 2014-03-01	2608

> 2014-02-01	2545

> 2014-01-01	2173

That looks OpenStack has 7326 commits in the previous 3 months.

> codecombat$ git count -pm -n3

> 2014-03-01	642

> 2014-02-01	426

> 2014-01-01	427

The same tool gives me 1495 commits in the previous 3 months for CodeCombat.

(The tool I used is https://github.com/moskytw/git-count )
Thanks.
I myself use Windows and lots of projects I worked on are running Debian in production. There were a few times you can see the bad side of it, but it always depends on your needs. A quick example would be with sqlite on windows and unix, but this is solved with pre-deploy preparation. Remember that we are talking about production and not development.
Yahoo Is in Talks to Buy Online-Video Service NDN for $300MM
I suspect they'd just strike deals with existing mining specialists, if and when necessary, perhaps even via out-of-band (non-Bitcoin-transaction) exchanges of considerations.
tl;dr It's a hugely oversupplied market and having good business skills to navigate such a scenario and write smart contracting agreements is important.
Just checked the docs - looks like you can do select, insert and update using CONNECT ODBC. Others are supported too via EXECSRC. Yeah that's quite cool.
You can't determine what the majority of the nodes thinks in this way because of Sybil attacks. Otherwise we wouldn't need proof of work as a consensus mechanism.

Mycelium's "transaction confidence" feature is well intentioned but it is a disaster waiting to happen.
Got it. So that makes sense. If I pay someone in 100 shares of Google vs $US for a service I no longer own the shares but have transferred them to someone else and would be on the hook for the gain or the loss.
Alright but if the definition of squatting doesn't help with the value judgement, ie some squatting is justified, then that's no great help towards deciding how to delineate allowable behaviour wrt domain holding, is it? I considered the purpose of the definition of squatting was to define behaviour which was considered unhelpful and was to be discouraged in some way.
I think you're vastly underestimating what it means to have (virtually) unlimited energy. Things that we are not doing now because it's not economically viable, become viable. Water filtration for drinkable water is huge and also happens to be one of the main problems in the world. That problem becomes more approachable when you have an excess of energy at your disposal.

Recycling materials is also heavily constrained by energy costs. With so much energy available you can employ recycling techniques that are not viable right now and/or do it at a larger scale.

There are also huge reductions possible when you have abundant energy. Take out costs associated with driving your car, or the cost of cleaning up ongoing pollution, or the costs of extracting energy from scarce resources. Those could all be dramatically reduced once abundant energy becomes a reality.

It will be impactful for people who are not rich (99% of the planet), not having to pay huge chunks of income for energy. After rent costs, the biggest part of my living costs come from energy production (elec, gas, water etc).

Abundant energy also makes a more distributed form of general production more viable. The more communities become self reliant, the less vulnerable the world becomes to localized disasters (political and environmental) and the stronger our ability to help out communities that are suffering. All the costs we are making (money & environmental) for the purpose of transporting goods and resources around the world can be scaled back.

Think about this for a minute, if you have access to cheap abundant energy, you have some source of water and the technology to filter it than you have all the basic necessities to supply basic survival needs to a community. That is huge.
To an extent, yes. I already looked at the source. But it just says to include evil.js on my site. How is that protecting my site from bandwidth thieves? Won't it also screw up my own site's functions?
You could also figure out a deterministic build and publish a checksum. That would assuage concerns about backdoors without forcing everybody to compile from source.
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Thank you, was trying to find where to redeem my pre-order and Paddle was non-responsive.
4chan usually does a better job than this.
This site is poorly designed; I didn't understand how the checkout form works. It appears at first that I'd have to enter a coupon code from somewhere to buy it; I thought maybe from the Mac App Store or something, but that wouldn't make sense. It was only after thinking for a while that I figured the coupon code wasn't necessary to click the Checkout button.
I think these comments are awesome, but I can't imagine having to write them regularly.

The "I'm burying the story" stuff is especially useful.
I bought some TSLA this morning.

Full Disclosure: every time I buy a stock, it subsequently takes a dive.
OkCupid suggests boycotting Mozilla
The problem is, whenever you have some link anywhere and it is assumed that it should be refreshed sometimes, how can you know that you shouldn't load the more current version? If you write something like a DLL or library why not leave it to the expert: let the IE try to fetch it, and if it already fetched, it will return it from its own cache! Brilliant, problem solved! Except when that happens from 144 instances all the time and IE needs some windows creations at the start which is what Bruce seems to manage to trigger.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/12/google_mariadb_mysql...

My guess is there isn't an enforced MySQL version across all of Google.

"We asked Google for more information, and the company sent us a statement which said: "Google's MySQL team is in the process of moving internal users of MySQL at Google from MySQL 5.1 to MariaDB 10.0. Google's MySQL team and the SkySQL MariaDB team are looking forward to working together to advance the reliability and feature set of MariaDB."
502 Bad Gateway
nginx/1.4.4

... when trying to activate my email address. Great!
The text of the page for those who can't see it:

Hello there, Mozilla Firefox user. Pardon this interruption of your OkCupid experience.

Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples. We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access OkCupid.

Politics is normally not the business of a website, and we all know there’s a lot more wrong with the world than misguided CEOs. So you might wonder why we’re asserting ourselves today. This is why: we’ve devoted the last ten years to bringing people—all people—together. If individuals like Mr. Eich had their way, then roughly 8% of the relationships we’ve worked so hard to bring about would be illegal. Equality for gay relationships is personally important to many of us here at OkCupid. But it’s professionally important to the entire company. OkCupid is for creating love. Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure.

If you want to keep using Firefox, the link at the bottom will take you through to the site.

However, we urge you to consider different software for accessing OkCupid:

Thank you,
OkCupid
The funny thing is that the EDSAC, one of the first functioning computers (perhaps the first, depending on how you define "functioning" and "computer") had a boot loader (the "initial orders") which was capable of manipulating single-letter address labels in a manner at least reminiscent of HEX2. (Or perhaps the reverse?) And in fact, this "annotated machine code" was how programs were generally written for the machine.

There are a lot of fine paywalled descriptions of the system. One that's generally available is in the documentation for the EDSAC simulator here (Tutorial Guide, chapter 3):

http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/Software/EdsacTG.pdf
> Basically, be smart and only use it if/when necessary. Use it only as a tool and not the tool.

Absolutely. I was trying to get that across. I worry a bit that the regulation will make people think of cameras as all they need to look at.
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Thanks! This is super useful. I had a QFN solder failure on one of my last boards. I mistakenly tented the center vias on the bottom, forgot to clear them before reflow, and it seems hot gas escaped, popping the chip off! But it left perfectly tinned pads. I will try your method out.

You reflow the whole board with a hot air station? I've been using an oven. How big a board can you do that way?
I've been waiting for my license key - emailed them this morning... finally found where to download (before they sent the launch email) but still no idea how to activate my pre-order
I've been wracking my brain trying to understand the article. Yes, "just take the limit" was my initial reaction too. But I think (maybe) the author is further arguing that the race to the bottom will squeeze the bottom line, which will suffocate competition until only the strongest remains. At this point, the market is a monopoly (which we all know is the root of all evil).

Incidentally, diminoten points out that replication is free, rather than production. The industries undergoing the cost squeeze which the article specifically mentions (knowledge, news and entertainment) are in the replication business. Therefore, leveraging marginal costs is literally their business model. But I expect the cost of creation will remain more or less constant. In other businesses like manufacturing, this is equivalent to economies of scale, except manufacturing produces the first copy and replicates subsequent copies. So while music corporations might eventually go totally bankrupt, musicians will continue producing music while uploading for free, and I expect manufacturing will continue manufacturing widgets (even if it comes down to a monopoly).
Most larger companies have time tracking and pay extra hours in such cases. If that happens too often, controlling will definitely like to have a word with you.

I worked for multiple larger corps as a freelancer and they are very strict about "8 hours per day". They did the math and know that if I work 10, they pay 2 hours for the same price, but at less efficiency.
Actually, no, that's exactly what happens a lot of the time. One of my longest and most enjoyable work experiences resulted from a craigslist post. Good fit can be built, but also found. It's why "fire fast" is a thing. Chemistry, when apparent, is visible early on, I've found. If anything, it's as likely to flourish in the honeymoon period and die as it is to start small and build over time.
Aren't TN panels considered inferior to IPS and PVA?
>However, an even cooler move would be to make LLVM IR the official binary representation of OS X, and compile it as part of the install step of a new program.

So a user installing Firefox or Chrome or some other complex application would need to wait for tens of minutes before they can use their application? It's more likely they'll just re-use the existing dual arch architecture but instead of PPC/x86 it'll be x86/ARM…
In this case, I can tell from the call stack that it is calling http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms762722%28v=vs.85%2... with a res:// URL.

One solution would be to load the resource manually using Win32 APIs, convert to BSTR, and then calling http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms754585%28v=vs.85%2... instead. And yes don’t forget to disable loading of external entities too.
Are you fucking kidding me?

I'm sure there are respectable folks at OKC, but this is childish--decent attention grab, though.

EDIT: If anything, Prop 8 would've helped them. Their core business is dating, right? If you can't marry, you date more. So, wherefore the problem?
We've had this same problem at Blogvio. Users asked us why we need access to their entire Dropbox. And indeed we didn't need - but we didn't know better either.

After a bit of research we found out we can have a specific folder set to Blogvio that would sync with the system. And that, combined with something like Zapier is a much better solution that we envisioned first. Learning by mistakes! :-)
OkCupid recommending not using Mozilla Firefox over new CEO
Consider that even with zero confirmations, with enough clients validating and relying the transaction, it's pretty hard for an attacker to propagate a double-spend for that transaction. This is where the big mining pools are actually a good thing.

In a zero confirmation scenario you could send the transaction to all the big mining pools and wait till they see and validate it which could take just a few seconds. This way it becomes incredibly hard, even with zero confirmations, for an attacker to get her double-spend mined because the big pools saw your tnx first.

For large sums of money of course it's safer to wait for many confirmations, but for $30-40, the risk is relative.
From the FAQ on that page:

"Q: Why didn't you base this on MariaDB, Percona Server, Drizzle, etc....

A: We reached a consensus that MySQL-5.6 was the right choice for this, as it has the production-ready features we need to operate at scale, and the features planned for MySQL-5.7 seem like a fitting path forward for us. We will continue to revisit this decision as the ecosystem evolves."

MariaDB 10 just hit after the launch, much less conception, of Webscale, and still doesn't have all of the features from MySQL 5.6 in it.
So a diet of mostly wild caught raw meat. Sounds totally doable.
Agreed, this is a very fragile heuristic. The blockchain exists for a reason folks.
That's the most inspiring rejection letter I've ever seen.
There are plenty of jobs where you're technically always on call. Firefighters, paramedics, doctors, soldiers, etc. What stops employers from simply informing their employees that, from now on, they are all on call 24 hours a day?
Replying to my own comment feels odd.. whatever ;)

If you're interested in numbers[1] shows the commits currently running through the OpenStack CI system at this very moment in time.. I'm counting 125 when I look at the page.

In the last 24 hours, OpenStack's CI system has peaked at just under 1000 jobs ran in an hour, an eyeballed average looks like to be 450 jobs every hour for the last 24 hours.

For build slaves over the same period, It looks like about 750 Jenkins slaves.

Oh and - OpenStack has a strict 1 change == 1 commit policy. So "Fix typo in previous commit" never happens .. The actually reduces the overall number of commits ;)

[1]: http://status.openstack.org/zuul/
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To the first question: yes, and after a bit more thought, I realize that this assembly must be designed to use a single lens, as the sensor arrays are close together, which would make it difficult to have any other optical arrangement. The pictured assembly would form the back of the camera, where the rectangular CCD array (or film) goes in a conventional camera.

The picture shows that the red sensor is further from the green one than the blue is, simply because it is on a separate sub-assembly. If the infra-red image showed on the pictures, it would be as far from the red one as the green one is from the blue. Given the order of the arrays on the camera, the IR image of the plane would be ahead of the red image, meaning that the IR is the last of the four images taken.

Incidentally, the pictures show the aircraft are experiencing considerable wind drift, especially in the case of the top-left picture, where you can see the contrail. This indicates strong winds, and probably also a relatively low airspeed for the aircraft. The orientation of the waves suggests a head- or tail-wind, but to get that drift, it must be different at the airplane's altitude (which probably is not high if it is searching.)
The Slate Political podcast last week (which included guest panelist Megan McArdle, who is no fan of the ACA) went into decent detail on the meaning of the signup statistics we have for ACA right now, including percentages of young signups and the "conversion" of site viewers to paying customers, and my understanding is that you've drastically oversimplified the situation w/r/t "official enrollment figures".

There will be attrition over the next several months, but I don't think it's accurate to say the official figures refer simply to people who "put a plan in their cart".
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Which materials in particular are being referred to? Teslas don't use any rare-earth metals in their motors or batteries, and we're not exactly short on steel and aluminum.
This is awesome and solves a huge problem.

Every startup constantly gets told to A/B test everything, but nobody ever tells them that startups rarely have enough initial traffic to do any meaningful testing. As a result you end up spending a lot of work on what is effectively a random landing page or email template that might actually be worse than what you started with.
Why they named factory what they did is rather puzzling.
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Provided link doesn't work for me. Use just https://www.okcupid.com/, and it must be visited in Firefox.
Thank-you for sharing this.

Can you recommend a resource that explains the Math for people who slept through statistics class?

I actually need to brush up on this topic for a new project so anything you can recommend would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
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