skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, that's really helpful :) Only last week I was sketching the database design (in MySQL) for a SaaS app, thinking how messy it was to add a tenant_id column and parameter onto every query...
I saw a poster like this yesterday: "Change it, Avoid it, Accept it. Complaining is just victimizing yourself."
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The operative word here is less "legal process" and more "removing rights". Prop 8 was not about opposing a motion to make marriage available to homosexual couples but to remove the right to marriage they'd got.

And since prop 8 was struck down as unconstitutional, its enactment was quite clearly an illegal act.
I didn't know there were such opportunities to study there! I'll be looking some more into that!
That was a bit of a troll, yes; I'm just about old enough to remember six week lead times for phone lines, slam-door trains, but not quite the three-day week.

My argument is that state services don't have to be awful, as a lot of people seem to think. It depends on local political culture. British culture has American pro-privatisation far more than the German/Nordic tradition of efficient services.

Estonia is doing rather well at state-supported internet.
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Famous guy: '99% of Everything is crap'. So jokes are included in that I guess.
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I see your point. In my environment communication makes only so much of a day's time and depending on how high this share is, an open office can boost or kill productive work. There's this concept of time slots which is completely failing in an open office environment - you can't honestly dedicate say 4 hours time at once for doing a certain task. Point is, an open office gives on one side (communication) while taking on another side (productivity time) and a certain company's mileage will vary way too wildly between these extremes. One compares always these schemes in terms of individual productivity vs. team productivity, but honestly said, all arguments seem to me completely random. There are no "standard" humans and when one will suffer from too much disturbance, its team will suffer too. And when one project will suffer from too little communication, the team will suffer too. What's the middle ground then? I strongly believe the "team room" is the sole setup which can be justified realistically.
> unless it's obvious you're just reading an article or something.

Generally agree with you, although just because I'm reading an article doesn't mean it's a good time to ask me a question. Right now, my brain is working on a weird problem while my tests run and I browse HN. I look like I'm goofing off, but I still wouldn't appreciate a context switch to another problem.

The polite question if you must interrupt a programmer is “Would now be a good time for a context switch?”
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He didn't mention the term head-of-line blocking, but the issue was apparent to me as I read it. Perhaps because I have a bit of previous experience with tcp vs udp, but still.
know thyself. If proximity distractions are too much, go somewhere else where you can have privacy if you need heightened focus for some block of time - a couch, stay at home, the library, a conf room, etc.
> It's okay to be silly sometimes, it's actually important.

I agree with this entirely, but I think the argument here is that none of these corporate April Fool's jokes are silly, or funny, or clever, or interesting. They're the minimum effort to justify being a "gag" in order to farm page hits. Honestly, when was the last April Fool's prank that "got you" or made you laugh?
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Actually, his statement was just as loaded with emotion. It was just a different emotion. Instead of "think of the children", it was the typical nerd emotional appeal of "the problem is that people are idiots and if they would just stop being idiots then we wouldn't have to deal with people being idiots."

Regarding your "absolutely nothing backing this" statement, did you read through their documentation before saying this, or did you just assume? It's pretty extensive.

http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/rulemaking/pdf/FMVSS-111_Re...
It would be nice if we could take this one action and examine it in a vacuum to determine the character of the person in question. Unfortunately we cannot. Few things are black and white issues, this certainly is not one of them, and to attempt to treat it as such is a foolish proposition.

I am very much in favor of gay marriage and I think that denying anyones right under any circumstance is absolutely wrong. However we cannot simply look at issues from an ivory tower and attempt to gain any meaningful resolution.
If they had evidence of that, why wouldn't they have pasted it as well? I'm assuming it's baseless speculation.

Btw, has anyone actually confirmed any of these emails / names are real? I have a coinbase account and am not mentioned in the leak.
I left college, the opportunity cost is too high for me, I can't live the luxury of buying a software book for around $200 just to write pseudo code, hopefully the trillion dollar school loan debt bubble will pop and there will be more changes to the system, I have open source projects and closed source projects. I live in Boston, Massachusetts so I know when I apply for a job I am likely going against people with degrees, maybe even some from colleges like MIT and Harvard. That hasn't stopped me from applying and has not stopped employers from setting up interviews.

Of course especially in a college-filled place like Boston there are employers that will not even look at you without a degree. So having a degree will widen your opportunities and strengthen your job security but at the cost of going to college and time you could be doing other things.

My advice is to work on a project that generates some sort of revenue. I think the ability to show that you can make software that creates profit is very valuable. I would hire Jane that drop out of college and earned $10,000 from a SaaS application than Joe who earned a Computer Science degree by googling solutions to his Java homework problems.

Fortune favors the prepared mind. So pick up good programming books from the bay and try to read some chapters. It is normal for companies in an interview to test how well you know different data structures and algorithms so if you can't learn that type of material on your own, you might need to go to college and let it be forced upon you.

Whatever software technologies you are passionate about learn it well and I truly believe in the long run the trendy new popular technology you bet your career on will pay off, you might be 22 before it happens though.

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It is not only about features. There are several issues with the Azure platform. You can read more about it in the comments posted here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wats/archive/2013/09/24/windows-azur...
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> neither my name or Coinbase-only email address was in this list

That doesn't really mean anything, since it clearly says at the top:

"Here is a partial list of Coinbase user emails and their full names. Full list much bigger."

Which could be bullshit and scaremongering. But it certainly could be true that they have a large number of Coinbase user's emails.
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> Proposition 8 was in its entirety about removing the existing right of certain persons to marry, and seeking to deny that right for the future

That's a bit misleading. At the time Proposition 8 was filed, gay marriage was not legal in California.
That would be weird if so, because the rule doesn't require adding it to existing vehicles, and nobody else is talking about upgrading existing vehicles. The important question regarding this rule is how much it costs to add a backup camera to a vehicle design for production of new units.
We hope to roll out 2FA shortly. If enabled, you'll need to present a token before retrieving your encrypted private key from the server. Though of course it won't help if our server is hacked or subpoenaed.

We haven't tried cracking uploaded keys. It's a good idea, but expensive, we could be using those cycles to mine litecoins instead!

Thanks for your feedback, we appreciate it.
Suppose I took the view that slavery should be legalized and donated money to support that cause. Would you say that's a legal opinion that I shouldn't have to apologize for?
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So I think this is roughly what antirez is talking about with 'registers' for a counter.

From the article:

The standard error of HyperLogLog is 1.04/sqrt(m), where “m” is the number of registers used.
Redis uses 16384 registers, so the standard error is 0.81%.

My understanding is that the error is very small because you're averaging over 16,000 registers.

Edit: also, I think you want the mean because it'll give you back a precise/fractional power of 2 that is pretty close to the actual count.
The median would give you the nearest integer power of two, which is probably not a good estimate of the real count.

Double edit: looks like there's some research around improving averaging by throwing away outliers: http://blog.notdot.net/2012/09/Dam-Cool-Algorithms-Cardinali...
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> This CEO doesn't hate gay people. He's not homophobic. He simply is against gay marriage

This CEO doesn't hate black people. He's not racist. He simply is against miscegenation.

Yeah, that doesn't work either.

> a view shared both culturally and legally by much of the USA.

Which isn't exactly relevant, the enlightenment of the majority is usually debatable and "much of the USA" isn't CEO of a company whose mission statement is "to promote openness, innovation & opportunity on the Web".

> It seems that those against this CEO consider gay marriage a civil right's issue.

How is it anything but a civil rights issue?

> But much of the USA doesn't agree, neither culturally nor legally.

I don't think so. They don't think the right should be provided, just as they did last time around, that didn't make civil rights issues "not civil rights".
Is it so difficult for you to spend one day in a year away from the Internet to avoid the "lameness" that irritates you?
The only decent thing on the internet I've seen on April 1 was when Slashdot went OMGPONIES! That was just silly funny.

Then they ruined it with their stream of fake shitty joke news.

I think next year I'm going to take the advice posted by someone else here and just take April 1 off. I'll just spend the day playing games or something else away from anything other people are doing.
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Rent the Runway is hiring all sorts of engineers (Java, Data, iOS, full stack) in the NYC area.

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All of Netflix, in HD, on 24TB.

The thought of putting most movies in my pocket for a few hundred bucks is ... stunning.

Netflix could solve the bandwidth problem by just mailing the whole library to customers. "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes."
Awesome, looking forward to that day :). Keep up the great work.
My Dad, when he was young, worked at the Institute for Advanced Study while von Neumann and Einstein were there. AFAIR, my Dad said that von Neumann tended to work late at night (I am visiting him this weekend and I'll ask about this).
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The author already claims that this is only a partial list and that he didn't disclose everything he has access to.
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Maybe I'm misreading, but that sounds like a questionable response to someone critiquing managerial blindspots. Shows blindness to corporate power structure. Also perhaps lack of understanding why people really take jobs. (One of the things bosses accept is that their subordinates lie to them. For instance, this is a driving force behind bad estimates.)

(I don't have a firm opinion on open vs. private offices, except I'd prefer to choose depending on what's best for the day).
Congrats. Even though many of these services started in "1st World" it seems like much of the growth is in taxi heavy 2nd and 3rd world countries.