skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back at the RHEL6 launch (working for Red Hat Support) scuttlebutt around Red Hat was that they weren't confident they had the resources to provide full support for all clients for XFS. At that time it was offered as an add-on for a substantial amount of money. Considering the kind of case work that was being dealt with I don't think this was unreasonable. There was at least 1 time I needed to pull the first few mb of the disk for investigate a corruption issue.

I believe the XFS devs (or at least the few I spoke to from the Australian team) all believed XFS was more then ready to replace EXT and should have replaced XFS. I suspect now that EXT4 is showing its age with massive filesystem sizes, that Red Hat is faced with 2 complex file systems. XFS is proven, and reliable. BtrFS is feature rich, evolving, but lacking a proven history with the diversity of systems that Red Hat need to support. Given that, I think going XFS was the expected move by Red Hat... conservative and incremental.
They only have those benefits because they collectively bargained for them. And yes, if the courts start gutting negotiated benefits, that does hurt unions.
What about all those calls to unwrap? Don't those sweep some of the bounds checking under the rug? It's okay in a proof of concept like this, but I wouldn't be comfortable running that code "for real".

Edit: to be more clear, I wouldn't expect it to have an impact on performance, but I'm not convinced this is a good example of expressiveness and safety in the same package.
Google and the Trolley Problem
How to utilize heatmaps to increase social sharing
If your intent is just to stop getting junk mail, this will do it: https://www.dmachoice.org/register.php
Wow, it seems I can no longer install Chromium extensions without logging in with Google. What a crappy decision! I just spent half an hour trying to do just that.
Ask HN: Engineer contractor rates in Spain, Catalonia (Barcelona)?
Any ideas about contractor hourly rates for experienced software engineers in Barcelona, Catalonia or Spain in general?
CoreOS has its own cluster scheduler called Fleet that seems to cover a similar ground. I'd love for someone familiar with both to do a writeup.
vitess was one of the first golang projects Google open sourced: https://github.com/youtube/vitess
The courts? Have a judge pick the textbook? I can't think of anything that could possibly go wrong.

School choice is the solution. Let parents hold the schools accountable, because they're the only ones (apparently) who put the kids' education ahead of political pet causes.
If anything, it's saving Fidelity the expense of buying, printing, and distributing envelopes.
I wonder when the Supreme Court will rule that life tenure for the Supreme Court justices deprives citizens of their right to justice under the Constitution of the United States of America.

Substantial evidence can be presented that make it clear that the life term of Justices disproportionately affects young, poor, minority, and / or technologically-minded citizens. The evidence is compelling. Indeed, it shocks the conscience.
Drawing Antialiased Lines with OpenGL
They might have been pointing out that 13-year-old you in the US may very well make more than an adult in India.
What iframes? First of all, most sites don't allow themselves to be embedded into iframes, either with X-Frame-Options or a framebuster (or anti anti framebuster) scripts. Why would the script load sites into iframes? Where does it say that the script does load sites into iframes? It just checks into it's history database and that takes times.
> There are a lot of self-serving actors, actresses, directors, etc.

Talking to people from NYC, I frequently hear comments about how nice people in LA are. I think the gist of it is that people in 'the industry' have a serious need to network in order to find new work, since projects come and go. So unlike in NYC, where random strangers have nothing to offer you, here every burned bridge is potentially a career-killing blunder down the road.
What lift do you expect to get out of it? What pain points does it solve? How would it make you more competitive with others?

I'd imagine most automated systems would try a number of alternative organizations and choose the best, which means instead of building one model you could be building 10 or 100 or a million models.
Teacher Tenure is important for similar reasons as lifetime appointments for judges, especially on the academic research side. It certainly has some trade offs, but it protects our freedoms of expression, speech, and thought in a very fundamental way.

Teachers and researchers need to be free from some influences to be able to teach and research unpopular subjects and views. Consider communist teachings during the "red scare" as a relatively recent example.

"Faculty Tenure in Academe: The Evolution, Benefits and
Implications of an Important Tradition"

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/media/users/lh62/Cameron...
Every example you've given is, at least in my view, a reason to support the parent's proposal. You're thinking somewhat further in the future than the state of the art, too. Why not follow a regulatory path broadly similar to horses->cars->self driving cars? Let the technology catch up, and legislation can follow as appropriate. The parent makes sense today, and will open up a legal framework for piloted drones which doesn't currently exist (crop dusting, aerial photography, news broadcasting, crowd control, traffic monitoring).
In California, teachers do a lot of under-handed lw brainwashing of their kids, at least at the high school I went to in the south bay in NorCal. We would always get told pro union agenda's and I to me as a kid(I am just 21 now), all that meant to me was "My nice teachers are getting hurt by X, X is evil!" or at least it seemed to me. I was never aware that some of it was sometimes underhanded union distortion.

Note I have not implied pro/against for any issue. Just when I was made aware of this agenda which I thought was decentralized agony, it shocked me.
Contributions are welcome ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Daddy#Controversies
> Unpopular research often becomes groundbreaking research.

That sounds legit, but the best example I can think of is stem cell research. Can you help me out? I'm not an academic so I don't really know that world.
AR Gets Educational with the ARchive LAPL App Featured at AWE 2014
If you're treating abstractions as black boxes, I can see how you would have a problem. Otherwise, I don't see one.

When performance matters, specify/document the performance characteristics of your modules and their deployment proximity requirements. This is hardly unusual, I do it all the time.
You just contradicted yourself. You're saying here that tenure cannot enable teachers to defy the school board.
It seems that this is sort of a basic version of Omega (probably with Google-specific scheduling heuristics missing). I'd strongly recommend folks interested in this stuff to read the Omega paper [1] or to watch the Wilkes video [2].

[1]: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41684.html
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsXlm4wmB6o
Indeed, this is an old hack - when I was a kid, I asked my Mom if most of the family was Democrat or Republican. She told me that my grandfather, who was once an Indiana state senator, used to get fundraising letters from Republicans and would fill the business reply envelopes with gravel from the driveway before mailing them back :)

A related hack (and/or fraud?) - every month, the company that manages the apartment I rent sends me a bill in the mail. They send it to me in an envelope with a stamp, but they always place the stamp a couple inches below the top-right corner. This way, the cancellation machine misses the stamp, leaving it unmarked, allowing me to pry it off and use it to mail my rent check back to them! They must have gotten tired of the "I couldn't find a stamp!" excuse for late rent payments. Though perhaps if they took the time to invest in a modern e-payment system it wouldn't be an issue in the first place...
New service for parents of digitally savvy kids is looking for early adoptors
A service to help parents stay on top of all the apps their kids are using and give them rules and guidance to stay safe online - http://www.isthisappok.com
Doesn't work when you have persistent companies who won't take the hint and stop mailing you even after being on that list and even after calling them and even after replying to the twelfth or so missive saying you're not interested.

I had to take this tack with Good Sam (an RV "services" company, insurance and maintenance and such) who wouldn't get lost. Once after about 3 or 4 instances of being told to GTFO, they sent me this large manilla-envelope thing with a similarly sized reply envelope.

I shredded everything but the reply envelope into confetti, emptied my shredder (few days worth of stuff) into the envelope, threw a few pennies in there to increase the weight, and wrote on a sheet of paper "TAKE ME OFF YOUR LIST".

Haven't received anything since then. Perhaps coincidental, perhaps not, but so very satisfying.
Or, at least in CA, teachers leave because they grow up and need a real job; one that might pay them enough to afford to live in the communities they work in. If you'd like to live in the valley and teach, you better marry well. You can see some of the salaries here [1]; $71k for Belmont means give up any dream of owning a home.

[1] http://belmont-ca.patch.com/groups/schools/p/comparing-the-s...
No one is aiming for all Python libs, just the standard libs (datetime,regex, etc.)
Sorry Internet, A computer didn't actually "pass" the turing test
Doctoral students, interns, part-time employees, entrepreneurs, hobbyists (employed in other job), ...

There are many reasons for a salary that low.
The obvious solution there is to not provide administrators with tenure either.
It's been a while since high school for me, but when I was there parents could opt-out their kids from sex ed and they'd get study hall instead. There wasn't a lot of controversy. Is that different now?
he's so cool, clever and can do anything
This could easily get your friend in tax trouble. If you need to cash a check and you don't have a bank account you typically go to the bank that issued the check and cash it there.
Performance is always a hard topic to talk about. For almost any language you can optimize hotspots in the code to make it go super-fast. You can make any code run slow in any language if you are not familiar with how the language behaves.

Go has pprof which allows for profiling of your code to help find the hotspots. Without a specific case it's hard to say that Go is fast or slow compared to other languages.
And when BART workers went on strike it was a (brief) nightmare.
> The argument based on costs is that it costs a cableco, or e.g. satellite company, no additional incremental cost to serve you and the 12 hours a day customer, all bits for all channels are broadcast to all customers.

Doesn't matter. The person watching 12 hours a day is getting a far greater value from their subscription than I am, which is the same reason the (generally all-encompassing, as opposed to peak metering) caps are being argued as fair, because of the value received.

Now of course all the ISPs policies make sense when you assume their motives are to kneecap a competitor and not to fairly price their service.
Implementing High Availability with HSRP
Scalaz?
What does libswarm offer over unix sockets?

Is the idea for the project to be a rallying point to normalize protocols for different services that already talk over unix sockets?
I understand that this is MVP, but the langing page should have more information.
One Token to Rule Them All – The Tale of the Leaked Gmail Addresses
"100 million email addresses leaked in a Google data breach",a possible headline if an attacker exploited the vulnerability. Fortunately, Google and the Google security fixed this issue and rewarded me with a nice bounty.
The blog was written with a lot of fun and love. Comments are welcome!
Token-based Auth for Git Servers
School choice may not be a viable option for lower income families, especially in non-urban settings.
Thanks. What specific info would you find useful/compelling?
Ah, I see. Personally I think that isn't a strong enough justification, since this choice introduces possible 32/64 bit portability issues and prevents optimizations in scenarios like this. Arrays with >4 billion elements are rare and it would be a shame to compromise the language design for them.
I think it's the school administration's job to protect teachers from casual termination... not a contract that makes it impossible to get rid of the worst teachers.
Add "remote" as a location and your signups will probably increase by double or more.
If you have 2 salaries of 71k, you've got 142 which should allow you to buy a home priced at around 600k, more if you've saved for a bit. So that dream is still alive.
So it's "only" required by their primary language standard, as well as used in some very popular software...

If that's barely enough to move Sutter into action, I wonder what would be an actually compelling case to him. The heavens open and a booming voice commands him to implement features X, Y and Z?
Agreed. Glad I didn't get an education there.
Yawn! How useless and contrived is the statement, "You're x% Inventive"?

This trivializes introspection. People are really deriving insight from this?
Agree with 300. First impressions count. I could barely see the link for past issues and the homepage doesn't get me excited. If you want it to take off, I'd do a little more leg work first.
> IBM does have Cognos (which is actually a suite of products) lots of data scientists (not just in Research but also in SWG) and most of the other bits they need.

Disagree. I've worked with swaths of consultants from the big IT consultancies and I can assure that not only are data scientists few and far between, that anyone with those skillsets usually gets frustrated and leaves when security restrictions bog down their ability to perform.

> – Supply chain is a long term, continuous improvement effort. IBM’s business model is sell, do something, get paid, leave. Under the context of “do something” IBM will stick to requirements that may or may not produce the desired results.

– If IBM’s supply chain expertise is so good — why does IBM have so many slow and inefficient internal processes?

This is absolutely spot on. The second point is a bit of a curse of "the carpenter's children have no shoes", but an important point that companies like SAP have counteracted lately (SAP does lots of dogfooding and has very good analytics people internally)

> Believe it or not … Most companies are still in their analytics infancy. Yes, there are pockets of excellence and some companies (Intel comes to mind, as do a few CPG companies like P&G and PepsiCo) are really, really, good at it.

This is very true. Most people would be surprised (appalled?) at how many large businesses still rely on Excel. Worse, the amount of manual work required to get data clean, formatted, etc. is absolutely incredible...especially given how much money they spend to deliver an analytics solution.
I hang out with the Scalazzi and authors of FP in Scala on IRC. Most of them, including the original creator, would rather write Haskell and some are doing just that.
Firebug is still the best tool set on any browser. I still recall the times where you had to debug IE using alert() statements without any sort of debugger.
This is how you get lots of low-hanging fruit pickers, rather than programmers who would rather solve hard problems for more significant, but less visible, business needs.

Examples: Refactoring is effective in the long-term but doesn't look as good in the short term. Exploratory work often takes time but doesn't show any specific productivity. Teaching and helping others is incredibly value, but increases their productivity rather than your own.

Evaluating programmers by their business output leads to low-quality code run by a team that doesn't talk to each other and loves self-aggrandizing. Also when something big finally does slip through the cracks, everything will fall apart.

And if you want to find outliers with it, good luck - they'll make mountains out of their molehill of work.

Honestly, it's not very easy to get good metrics for programmers - for the same reason it's not very easy to increase programmer productivity on a project. It's not easily divisible work and involves a lot of teamwork.

I've heard 360 reviews work pretty well though.
Data Analyst now, Firefighter in the future? I'll eventually look into volunteer efforts though...
I believe his point was "only if they can stop traveling at FTL".
Enterprise?
Which "third-world" country are you in?

If it is that bad, like civil-war-bad, then you could possibly try applying for refugee status (although that may restrict you as well).
> are people writing less Python / Java in there these days?

I don't know about "less Python/Java", but Go has been on the rise at Google internally, and has been used in public-facing services for a while.

dl.google.com (which powers Chrome downloads) and the MySQL database management layer for Youtube[0] have both been written in Go for a while now.

[0] https://github.com/youtube/vitess
Java uses type erasure purely as a strategy for implementing generics. Combining type erasure and dispatch-on-type definitely produces some odd edges.
I didn't actually.

Tenure doesn't give them immunity to the school board and/or other administrators.

It does last long enough that abuses of the system and/or unofficial pressure to be resolved before the teacher actually loses their job.

Firing a teacher with tenure can take 12+ months.

Clearer?
Netflix paid Verizon to upgrade their network, but Verizon hasn't finished the upgrades because it takes them months to order and install routers. Netflix knows that these upgrades are coming but is still publicly shaming Verizon, perhaps trying to encourage them to work faster. Presumably Verizon would prefer Netflix to be patient.
Three miles from the beach? According to Google Maps the western edge is still 10 miles from any beach, and a long drive to downtown, Santa Monica, Culver City etc. Doesn't sound like gentrification criteria to me, then again I don't live in LA. Could you explain the reasoning?
I tried to buy the video, and got this error message from Amazon: "We could not process your order because of geographical restrictions on the product which you were attempting to purchase. Please refer to the terms of use for this product to determine the geographical restrictions."

Where can I buy this in Europe? In today's globalized world, online videos should be available everywhere at once.
Teachers who lose enthusiasm don't lose it because one day they wake up and think, "Man, I'm tenured now; fk all y'all I got mine." They lose it because of the vicious, dysfunctional attitudes taken toward teachers. That attitude being the one in which "we" expect teachers to be babysitters, guardians, mentors, and a variety of other things while at the same time facing a relentless assault on their competence, integrity, and wallets (lower pay, less support for classroom materials, etc.).

I put "we" in quotes because, clearly, I don't consider myself part of that group. Teachers, tenured or not, are as much victims as the students in this mess. They're all victims of--and this isn't going to be a popular opinion here, I bet--the very real, very destructive, anti-intellectual, anti-government, and anti-education strains of conservative politics that have increased sway in matters of the governance of education. This isn't a Democrat vs. Republican thing, either; as far as I'm concerned party affiliation is irrelevant (or, if you like, "both sides do it"). It is ideology that matters here. The destructive ideology I just described is the one most responsible for the problems we see in public schools, and that ideology is deeply entrenched in one party and becoming increasingly more entrenched in the other, to the point where the lines blur.
> "I think the courts are a better solution for that problem."

So who sues? The students who are under-served by a public education system that doesn't teach evolution? Let's suppose they find a jury of their peers that agrees, what does the court decision look like?

A mandate for the hiring or retention of at least one teacher who will teach evolution? (Likely with redundancies. People retire, change jobs, get sick, etc.)

And to ensure the ruling is respected one would imagine the district would have to go to further lengths to prove cause, if they ever want to remove that teacher, right?

So all we'll have done is move the tenure track to the court docket, but only for those students/concerns that can shoulder the legal costs to pursue their rights, inevitably providing poorer service to poorer students and those seeking protections for minority concerns (which are disproportionately less likely to win a court case).
I had been waiting to see this movie forever and finally did right when it came out, and I can tell you it is awesome. [...] So the awesome thing about Tim's Vermeer is he shows that if someone's using enough technology to make art then they become just a mechanical photo printer. Might as well be a photographer.

Those filthy fakers! You've certainly caught them in the act - hopefully all right-thinking people will discount their output appropriately in the light of this wicked artifice.

Seriously, you seem to have some sort of pent-up resentment towards people who paint, to the point that your obvious glee in deconstructing their technique has eclipsed your ability to enjoy the paintings as images.
Pull systems are THE WORST because you're putting 100% trust in the party you've given your account number to. I have multiple friends who have had various parties withdraw payments for loans in excess of what they were supposed to withdraw which put them in a serious financial predicament.

One in particular set all his bills up on auto-pay such that he didn't have to pay terribly close attention. His government-backed student loan payment took out something like 5x what it was supposed to and as a result he missed two months worth of payments (again because he didn't check regularly) and got quite a few other companies rather pissed off. And he had no recourse with the student loan folks.

After hearing about that kind of bullshit (I too am mostly setup for auto-pay) I got a second account with a totally separate bank which I occasionally deposit a few grand in for the companies that won't accept credit card payment for their services. This way even if one of them goes rogue and siphons the account dry they can't take me for more much more than is in the account. It doesn't protect me against someone going after my other accounts using judicial means, but it does provide a substantially higher barrier and gives me some peace of mind.
That's not even in the possible range of solutions. Remember that lawmakers and law enforcers in red states are actively hostile towards teaching science, never mind teaching anything at all about the body, such as sex education.

It's not going to be made illegal, and such laws will not and would not be enforced in the areas in which this is a problem to begin with, i.e., Republican areas.
Something tells me that would qualify as wrongful termination.
"84.4% of mothers are the custodial parents"

The vast majority of custodial arrangements are not decided by the courts, but between the parents, so I'm not sure how you can blame this ratio on our legal system.

Only 4% of fathers seek custody of their children through the courts, but when they do, they win the majority of the time. Men who actually bother to fight for custody usually win. So how is this a civil rights issue?
Is it a commentary on the state of affairs that I was more impressed to see this written by a Female Lebanese web developer than I was at the content?