skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Damn I miss Julia G. You better find someone to spearhead your party that has balls at least as big as hers. I hope you, too don't become Gina & Murdock's partners.

How did this honestly happen? Was this poor marketing? A PR assassination? Is this even legal? The fact that every person I know is mortified with what happened in such a short time is mindbogglingly confusing. Nobody who cares about Australia (not their boss' pay check), who is informed, wants what is happening.

How are the government legally getting away with lying about the state our economy & butchering the most important parts of our gov expenditures. How in gods name are they getting away with bloody murder when it comes to disgracing nature's Sistine Chapel AKA the GB Reef. Pointlessly undoing the good preservation work defending linchpin predators in our environment.

What happened?

I feel like our voting system is completely flawed when such injustices can happen. Again, nobody I know voted (at least knowingly) for Tony Abbott or the Liberals. They sure didn't vote for this NBN VDSL deformed monster. When they don't even have to be accountable to their promises. There should be measures be put in place to prevent exploitation of not only politicians but citizens. Which are equally exploited through misinformation and overly emotional, sensational drivel.

Something like voting for national objectives instead of job hoppers working the revolving doors. Accountability would be central to national motives. Instead of registering for mandatory voting, there should be a knowledge and expertise tests that grants you a vote for certain objectives to assure educated outcomes through democracy instead of happy go lucky "democratic" republics. Not condemning republics, but we're in trouble when people are electing nothing but lawyers who find safe energy "offensive" and kids soccer coaches.
I just watched Norvig's 100K student talk. Quite impressive and mind blowing to think about.
Fact is that usagers are not customers: SNCF travels are paid by the taxpayer!
I'm pretty sure the worst case is purely size-dependent.

The write pattern in the HyperDex benchmark is pure random but it still obliterates HyperLevelDB (and don't even think of vanilla LevelDB there). Keep in mind that LMDB uses free pages in sorted order, so even for a random write workload, pages are allocated in ascending order, which generally translates to unidirectional seeks on an HDD. This is why even for a purely random write load, LMDB is still faster than all of the traditional update-in-place B-trees out there - they really have to do random seeks, LMDB doesn't. (And you pay the highest in seek time when the drive head has to reverse direction.)

That's why LMDB write performance remains uniform under load, while all LSMs suffer from GC/compaction pauses.

But ultimately, storage is moving to solid state, and seek time will be irrelevant.
The content these days doesn't look drastically superior to Reddit / Stack Overflow etc.

There is zero spam, zero meme threads, an engaged and involved membership and, perhaps a glaringly-missing signal on Google's part, consistency over a long time.

But even more than that, why would Ask Metafilter threads about e.g. renovating a kitchen rank lower than the 12 effectively-identical content-farm "howtos" from About, WikiHow, et al, that don't involve real people describing real experiences and knowledge? It's really a matter of prioritization, of what Google considers "superior," and I think there are some positive qualities that Google doesn't account for. Metafilter is certainly no worse for the Internet in general than Stack Exchange, doityourself.com, rottentomatoes, or other commonly high-ranked sites.
Not clear.

If he obtained South African citizenship, it's possible that he would have lost or renounced his US citizenship as a result -- it's not uncommon for a naturalization process to require renouncing the prior citizenship. US law is also a bit weird about allowing multiple citizenship.
Is GG the eyewear equivalent of an Apple Newton? If so, will Google learn enough from it to make the next go at it successful? More important, will Google's management team tolerate a second attempt if this one fails?
That's a big 'if.'
Likely, he was just trying to fill out 7,8,9, and 10 to make it a top ten list. The first six were at least informative for someone looking for drawbacks or specific questions. Some of those may be more obvious to the tech group but not to non-techies.
You are absolutely correct that poker results have high variance but you only need a sample of around 5000 matches or so before your results begin to closely depict your true winrate. I only showed an image of my $15 heads-up hyper-turbos on PokerStars. Below is a link to my graph for all heads-up hyper-turbos I've played over my life, 50k+. This graph shows my play from the $1.50 games all the way up to the $200 games. If you didn't trust in a 18k sample, maybe this 50k sample will help sway your opinion.

http://i.imgur.com/1uC5y0U.png

Note that I'm also only a mediocre regular in these games. There are MANY people who have far better results than I do. They average a 3-5% ROI which is much higher than mine.

Also note that the reason my graph dipped after the first 10k games or so was because I went from playing the $15s-$30s to playing the $100s/$200s for awhile. Due to the increased skill level I dropped back down. Here's another image showing my stats for each buy-in level.

http://i.imgur.com/D0lHx3H.png

If you still doubt how confident you can be in this sample, you might want to read the following article on confidence intervals on husng.com:

http://www.husng.com/content/given-my-results-what-should-my...

My 50k+ game sample means that there is a far lower than 0.1% chance that my results are due to the good end of variance.

And here's a graph of ALL my poker tournaments. This includes 9-handed multi-table tournaments, 6-handed SNGs, heads-up shootouts, everything.

http://i.imgur.com/6jyCXn0.png

Poker is 100% a game of skill but it really depends on how you approach it. Professional players or serious amateurs such as myself make money at the game simply because people approach it as if it's bingo.

If every recreational player was putting in time studying poker theory and reviewing their play, it would become much, much harder to make money playing. As such, I really don't mind if people want to continue thinking it's a luck based thing. It just means more profit for me since that perspective, oddly enough, doesn't stop people from dropping $$$ in the game, it merely stops them from thinking they can gain an edge by putting in time and effort. Recreational players wouldn't play if there wasn't a certain amount of luck...

EDIT:
Also, it's important to note that every poker player has to pay for their education. Look at my last graph. I was an unprofitable player for the first 10-20 thousand games or so. That was when I was just playing micro/low stakes on PokerStars recreationally. Once I gained some knowledge, and decided to take it much more seriously, my profits skyrocketed.

It's far better to learn how to play poker at micro/low stakes online, where you will pay less for your poker education, than it is to start with mid/high stakes online or in your local casino. Either way, you'll be a losing player to start. Choose the more inexpensive option.
> there must be something really wrong with US

He's talking about declining math levels in schools, right?
Every article I found is quoting this: http://togetherboston.com/news-mos-def-cancels-upcoming-us-t...

I don't understand how there isn't any update, considering it's been 9 days.
Yes, this idea has been explored. See the paper FlexSC: Flexible System Call Scheduling with Exception-Less System Calls (Soares & Stumm 2010), https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers.... In addition to having async system calls, they dedicate an entire core for processing system calls to the kernel, in order to minimize CPU cache thrashing. They've implemented this idea on Linux and sped up Apache by 116% (so 216% the original performance), MySQL by 140%. Unfortunately it hasn't caught on in production anywhere.
I hope everybody who comments on this story reads the complaint. There's some really damning stuff in there...

Naturally a complaint will be written to portray the defendant in as unfavorable a light as possible. As with federal indictments, I wouldn't want to see people form their opinions of a company based on the content of a one-sided complaint against them (not a lawyer, not legal advice).

I was fairly vocally opposed to the Facebook acquisition of Oculus, but still, let's wait for the Oculus response and subsequent settlement or trial.
I believe the initial attack was coordinated via social engineering.
Windows's messaging API is indeed asynchronous, but they're high-level APIs built on top of synchronous system calls, and therefore do not improve performance as much as they could. For real asynchronous system calls, see the FlexSC paper I linked in my other comment.
I think the question really is, if the inbuilt mechanisms are working efficiently, why should there be a difference between 46 year old vs 26 year old. I the replenishment of the cells go intact why should it matter how old one is, unless there is something inhering in the genetic material itself that is time bound.
nothing's un-hackable.
Target had payment info. That trumps this easily.
"Searching for “most amazing woman ever” on Bing will give you MetaFilter’s helpful “Who is the most amazing woman who ever lived” as the third result. (Answers, by the way, included British spy and French Resistance leader Nancy Wake, world’s first programmer Ada Lovelace, slave rescuer and activist Harriet Tubman, and Chinese pirate Ching Shih.) Google puts it at the bottom of the second page of results, in 19th place. Google’s top result? A list of “the 100 most beautiful women ever.” "

That made me wonder whether Google has shifted its products from being the kind of thing that their own employee corps would enjoy to things for the general public. I personally f.i. enjoyed the from: to: keywords in Google Maps search. That feature disappeared and probably the majority of users wouldn't use those anyway.
Personally I scorn at a search result of the '100 most beautiful women'. But in the large population it will probably lead to a much higher click through.
So I wonder if Google Search was oriented towards the smart crowd niche and that they changed focus towards the common and the populous.
To put it differently: a shift from an emphasis in information as high value search result towards including entertainment, gossip etc. High brow to low brow.
VMS had really great support for async I/O. POSIX aio is pretty anemic in comparison.
It shows that the original code was Foxit's so would that mean that Foxit released the code or did Google purchase code rights and then decided to open source? Anyways, why would they host it on Google code?
Anyone else having problems with streaming? It's unwatchable for me (Comcast cable).
Cut everything that requires direct human interaction, because synchronous human interaction does not scale. Getting 4 people meet at a time convenient to each is hard enough in one office. Try doing that when people are in Moscow, Tokyo, and LA respectively: there's no convenient time at all. (I'm speaking from personal experience.)

If your problem is best solved with a direct talk, using the full bandwidth of a face-to-face interaction, go on and hold a proper meeting. But such problems are relatively few.

And yes, one should not waste time communicating with other human beings, both oneself's time and others' time. If something can be done without breaking the flow of your fellow developers, it should be done so.

The time freed by the improved efficiency can then be spent enjoying interaction with others.
Like panarky, I wouldn't take that on face value.
I'm going to guess that a significant number of people use the same password for Ebay as for Paypal. Someone's got a lot of incentive to generate some hashes tonight..
Yep. My ebay account can go to its final resting place, next to my linkedin account and my yahoo account.
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I sifted through a lot of traffic data, and it must be noted that I saw zero evidence of El Goog manually weighting any results. Everything was 100% above board - they might donkey-punch you, but it was algorithmic and not manual.

I bet MeFi could be fixed in a few months if they hired a real SEO expert, ie someone who understands the underlying ranking algos and not just the usual voodoo bullcrap. The site is probably just tripping a few red flags, it could be something as stupid as an accidental link loop in their dynamic content.

I'll give it to Google, once you find your sin and fix it, your traffic will come back, maybe not 100% but a significant recovery. (Unless you have done something really dumb/blackhat like paid links.)
A lot of open source looks like that.

I would add "docracy" - the person who is doing the work by default is making the calls.
Some of the work we did at Danger
> You can't adopt any reforms unless those reforms fit into the narrowly-tailored practices of Scrum.

I don't think Scrum is nearly that dogmatic in its posture or that inflexible in its prescriptions, but even if I'm wrong, maybe you should consider adopting Scrum-but-without-the-rigidity-you-think-it-has. Of course you can do as you please; you don't need a new capitalized term to make that true.
iOS client app would be great.
Don't you think that your points 2-5 contradict the 1)?
>There is zero spam, zero meme threads, an engaged and involved membership and, perhaps a glaringly-missing signal on Google's part, consistency over a long time.

I don't think this is drastically different from any of their competitors except the Reddit defaults, which are pretty much irrelevant for these purposes anyways (excluding consistency, which I don't really think is relevant when you're searching for something on Google).

>But even more than that, why would Ask Metafilter threads about e.g. renovating a kitchen rank lower than the 12 effectively-identical content-farm "howtos" from About, WikiHow, et al, that don't involve real people describing real experiences and knowledge?

I think About and WikiHow could lack the depth that Metafilter has, but they're going to win out on accessibility. I think a dedicated subreddit would win out on both fronts. If Google finds that people prefer accessibility, then that's what Google will deliver. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Excellent work, but as others have said you're launching too early without an API, batch upload or other features everyone on Hacker News would consider "core".
The most important: does Google Glass indeed solve some problem many have? I can see it's appeal in some limited use cases, but not as a mass product.
I too was in GATE, and I think it's still around. However, where I live now, there actually is a program for the top 1% and they have their own dedicated school. It may not be common, but this focus on the very top is happening in some places at least.
A high bounce rate is unlikely to produce the massive dropoff shelf in their traffic profile. They have likely tripped some flags and are getting a site penalty.
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It's true that they had much less restrictions on hardware since they were developing for only one type of model, but still it's impressive.
A flag on dummy record requests? You mean have records that don't correspond to real accounts, and audit access to them? How would you censor them from legitimate full traversals of the user database? How would you tar-pit attackers without throttling such legitimate processes?
In case someone didn't bother to read the whole thing: "India-niggers are retards -- set them to work and you'll soon have Linux."

And if you google "India-niggers":

http://bbs.progrider.org/prog/read/1378346945

https://twitter.com/TempleOS/status/337550571248689152

http://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/?task=search2&search_u...

From youtube (https://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=EtZv9aC2dKw&threaded=...): "India niggers are dumb as a stump and somehow still arrogant. "nomad" means you can move from any computer to any other computer. Computers were probably clusterfucked by the time the india niggers arrived and they're all confused. Everybody knoew what a directory was--you just copied files around."

india-niggers moved into programming like a neighborhood gets less white. There were no india niggers in the 1980's--they were all in calcutta. There's a whole generation of C64 and Apple II programmers who existed before india-niggers. the India niggers are all clueless
Say hello to Ringo
Think mobile.
>>externally-imposed standards

That is the crux of it. I've also seen teams build a complete stack - OS to App - in short order in similar fashion in the industrial embedded computing world .. it seems to be that a tight, motivated team, really can pull of extreme wonders when it works right for the specific, internally-agreed-/co-created feature set. The scale aspect is actually arbitrary; but if you have a group of people who are willing to complete the stack, full-system wise, the scale is a human factor, observed after application; i.e. its not inherent to the subject of software development that there is some dividing line between the 'difficulties' of the whole system development ethos, but rather a function of the differences, and/or similarities, of the people involved, doing something with 'the' technology .. which is after all little more than a social imposition in the first place.
This isn't magic, it's just optipng. I did this locally and got the same file (literally, with the same md5sum):

optipng -o 3 foobar.png

Also, MediaCrush does the same thing transparently+losslessly when you upload a number of files, and it's open source. https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush
This is by far the best reason I've heard for the decline in quality of Google search results. There's no doubt that when I first started using Google it was for technical things, and I feel like most of the people online during their first few years of life were doing the same. I'm guessing we're no longer their target market, although I wouldn't be surprised if an algorithm made that decision instead of a person.

At the same time, they are trying to do targeted search and I feel like that should be able to help far more than it is.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=kowloon#!/story/forever/0/kowloon
API ?
One problem with "read everything on the socket until it's empty" is an issue of fairness. A particularly greedy client could keep its connection filled with requests, and this approach would monopolize a server thread, potentially starving other clients/sockets.
> Pray god that I never have to wipe my hard drive though.

You will have to, and sooner than you think. Hard drives do not last forever.

That's why instead of hoping to never reinstall an OS again, i decided to embrace OS installation and do it often, from scratch. This means:

- Reducing tweaks to the only necessary ones.
- Keeping a "how to install" text file in bitbucket.
- Having my home folder under git.

To be honest, everytime I install a new Ubuntu a cry a little, because they are going the wrong way. But I still reinstall regularly (every 6 months) and keep my "how to install" file up to date, so I only have to copy paste some commands and follow some step mechanically.
a link loop is a red flag?
I guess I am misunderstanding, as that would mean I can't have a "artticles like this <link> <link>" block in my blog, which seems very weird.
You mean like when Oracle claimed that its servers were "unbreakable"?

It's a ridiculous claim for anyone to make.
The newest ways of thinking about schools as learning communities have moved from the "pyramid of intervention" or how to save failing students, to a more holistic "diamond" that covers both ends of the spectrum.

While not super common AFAIK, it is moving.
That is not my observation. It is also not clear what you mean with "get upgraded to Hangouts". I use Hangouts extensively, but I use also Gajim as client for my Google account and still I'm able to add XMPP contacts from non Google XMPP servers to my Google roster.

So I basically can confirm that Google did not turn off XMPP federation for their XMPP service. It appears that there is simply no UI to add users from federated servers over hangouts, but it works with standard XMPP clients. So you could say that "Google dropped support for XMPP in their UIs". But you can still use your Google account as plain XMPP service (which doesn't mean that I would encourage it or think that it's a good idea).

But I can't rule out that e.g. some servers can't federate with Google, for example because of policy restrictions.
Not everything should move to GitHub (although i prefer GitHub also)
TIL: Computerworld is still a thing.
2-5 explains why it's still "potential", and the hurdles it should cover for turning "actual".
He's clearly conscious when he's making these remarks. See my comment below.
Just changed it.

I don't understand why eBay (and others) don't offer two-factor authentication. Of course this wouldn't have prevented the data theft but at least one can have a reasonable degree of certainty that your individual account will not be compromised with a simple password.

I also strongly suggest that you change the answer to the one-and-only secret question to something completely unrelated. For example, if the question is "What's the name of your high school?" the answer could be "violet and purple are similar". In other words, make it impossible to socially engineer the answer to such questions. I wonder if these answers were also stolen.
What about this one ?

https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+/master/core/src/fxg...

"/\
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* Copyright (c) 1998-2000, Microsoft Corp. All Rights Reserved.
*
* Module Name:
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* Gdiplus.h
*
* Abstract:
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* GDI+ Native C++ public header file
*
\/
"
Well if I were in the market for a new smoke alarm, nest wave was a feature that would steer me towards nest.

While i'm sure it's still a decent alarm, this is a pretty big feature to recall.
You're asking a question that requires a book to answer. Such books are plentiful, for example http://www.nolo.com/products/form-your-own-limited-liability...

The same goes for patents, for example http://www.nolo.com/products/patent-it-yourself-pat.html (although the very fact that you think about patents to "secure intellectual property" betrays a naïveté about how those things work in real life. If you don't have tens of thousands of dollars (at a minimum) to spare for a patent lawsuit, then obtaining a patent is pointless).
We lost the war. Welcome to the world of tomorrow (2006)
I swear I have read a very similar article elsewhere that talked more about WHY the project got cancelled, but this line in the linked article stood out to me as a hint:
"Size in RAM was about twice the size of the C++ version".

This is back when memory was actually expensive, so yeah that is pretty big.
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Chrome Version 35.0.1916.114
OSX 10.9

I get an error then a blank modal. On both buttons. Nothing in the console to tell me more or anything like that.
Seriously, releasing on Google Code Project Hosting instead of GitHub? Even CodePlex is better than that.
I find it interesting how many people here discount the risks of laser pointers, and trivialize the stories of pilots. The very same people probably encounter the same attitude from customers and others in their work in the IT industry, for instance with regards to security measures ("why can't we just run our customer database on a publically reachable IP, it saves so much trouble, and I know a guy that has done it for years and never had a problem!").