skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny you should say that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium3D#LLVM_usage
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Elasticsearch is very component-based and can be deployed as a servlet if you really wish.

Just use a different transport implementation:

https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-transport-war...
As mentioned below, not if there's a camera involved. Then both parties are "actors", and the service is legal.
> The sharing economy isn’t about sharing. It’s about making as many quick bucks as possible.

isn't that just as true as the 'old economy'?

> And for too many people, renting out their assets is not about peer-to-peer community-building or something to do on a Friday night. It’s an act of necessity.

it's always been this way. at least now people have more flexibility in choosing to what to rent out, and when.
The first two graphics provide a great illustration of how misleading population statistics are once you reduce the fidelity to the state level.

"No Presence" cuts a huge swath through the believably near-unanimously Christian (and scant populated) middle.

That entire trend is conspicuously absent from the state map, which basically lacks the capacity to distinguish between urban and rural through most of the country, despite that being probably the most salient cultural divide.
This is somewhat similar to how the iterators are implemented in C#, the compiler generates a state machine for the iterator
We're only playing into their secret plan to not spy on us.
I didn't read the whole article, but from the introduction, it seemed she failed the test because she wasn't used to studying hard in high school. Richer students do have more resources but I can't figure why money was a relevant factor in this case.
You're missing the point. If the grounds are that ethically paying customers should have taxis licensed, why do those ethics not apply also to donated services, like car-pooling?
I'm sorry, I know there's a religion of disruption going on around these parts, and I know that there's disdain for established business, and regulations that seem to keep new players out of the market, and unnecessary bureaucracy and all of these things...

But sometimes, just sometimes some of the regulations and restrictions are legitimate consumer protection mechanisms that benefit all of us, and we should think before we throw them out in the name of progress.
I do understand this but feel that this also illustrates a point that the tech community should deal with psychologically anyway.

A social circle away from what we do isn't just a good thing for our own self-fulfilment, it's vital to our understanding of potential customers and users. We can't live in a vacuous bubble where we don't have a vibrant social scene away from tech and think that we can build startups for other people without being part of their lives. Finding that balance where we spend our social time with others is incredibly important and especially so for people who work from home alone.

The idea that every conversation should centre on the work that we do, whether it be our own work or our conversational partner's work is terrible, yet I see and meet people who spend their life working and going to tech events and never expanding outside of their immediate reach.

It may sound easy to say, but go and spend time with people entirely unrelated to what you do and love, it makes for a much more fulfilling time than concentrating on our own passions within tech.

I could rant on this for lines and lines, but it comes down to the simple idea of "go outside".
My mistake, your comment sounded like a direct rebuttal to what I was expressing, which was that it was unsurprising and still despicable, not unsurprising and thus defensible. It also seemed like you were just assuming that anyone unsurprised must be condoning it. That's my mistake, I misread the subtext of your comment.
In Taiwan it's "小老鼠", which means "little mouse".
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"None of the executives who signed the letter are scheduled to appear at today’s Senate hearing. Witnesses on the agenda include Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole, NSA Deputy Director Richard Ledgett and FBI Deputy Director Mark Giuliano."

The lineup they have is hilarious. It probably went something like:

- [senate] James, do you think we should end mass surveillance

- [Cole] No

- [senate] Dick, whaddya think?

- [Ledgett] Nope, it's allright

- [senate] Ok, Mark?

- [Giuliano] Meh, nah, I think we're fine

- [senate] Well then, after extensive consultation with all interested parties, blablabla

(I know, I know, it's way overboard, I don't believe it myself, but that's the first thing that came to mind when I read the quote, and I had a good laugh)
There are many different municipalities with many different qualities of taxi service.

And there are many different laws affecting who can operate taxi services in those areas.

I don't know how things were in Virginia, but in Chicago regular taxis are vastly better than uberx/lyft in every way except price. Also, taxi drivers are required to have a chauffeur's license that tests them for TB along with city knowledge.

Uber works well for you and many of us. But don't portray this as a hero's fight against a broken industry when in reality it's a nuanced decision and there are valid points of view on both sides of the argument.
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This can definitely go to far, especially if the company’s process itself involves too many steps. I don’t think that’s the case with us, which has been an advantage when competing against companies that take weeks to decide. For an engineer, assuming they’re available for interviews, we can make an offer in just a few days after they apply.

Sorry for not clarifying about verification versus speculation. I talked to the candidate on the phone at the end of the process. The candidate felt like we had moved too quickly and had remaining questions. The last interview would have answered those questions, but no doubt, that’s partially speculative.
I think this is how lyft started out.
Cross-platform support for their hardware is not something the typical user will take advantage of.

If the user has an iPhone they can buy the Lightning version, and if they use an Android phone, they can buy the micro USB version.

But chances are the user won't be switching the card reader from one device to another all the time.
Just as curiosity, what tool will you use? Rails?
That cluster chart is extremely bad data presentation: you can't just draw a box to abritrarily identify clusters, especially if they aren't easily visually distinguishable.

This article has more upsell than genuine information.
This is interesting because it shows a specific mechanism by which smart kids of non-college-educated parents drop out. She failed a test in her first month in college, and her mother told her maybe she wasn't meant to be there. I vaguely remember failing a test early in college too, but it never would have occurred to my (intelligentsia-class) parents that I wasn't meant to be educated. I can only imagine how discouraging that feels.
Is there no way to edit source?

That's a must-have feature in my book.
Can you find ANY evidence of this loophole holding up in court? You seem really sure but a quick google suggests that it's just as unrealistic and urban legendy as it sounds.
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Can you imagine someone saying "I want to give you this gift but only if you focus on thing X (which I care about) and not on things Y and Z (which you care about)"?

Yes. One the one side you have a group called 'employers'. On the other side you have a group called 'contractors'. Contractors are free to work on whatever they feel like, but if they also want money, they should probably do some work for employers from time to time.

It's hardly rude to say "I value this, here is some money to help this along". If the devs see that plenty of people are giving money to 'this', then if they don't work on it, that channel will dry up. Donations aren't a gift like a christmas present, which you get to use on whatever you want. Donations are an enabling device usually intended for a particular cause. They don't mean you get to dictate the actions of the staff, but at the same time, the staff shouldn't be taking donations for work they don't care to do.
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Agreed about logstash being too heavy for your app servers. It would be nice to have the functionality in a trim, native binary.

As things are, one can always direct an app sever's syslog to a logging fleet running logstash (or elasticsearch running embedded logstash): http://cookbook.logstash.net/recipes/rsyslog-agent/
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Well, in the article, it does say that after the mind-set intervention was applied to all the student (minus the control group), the gap between the at risk group and the affluent group cut in half, as the affluent group's drop out rate was not really affected by it.

And again, as they say, it was only 45 minutes, and it didn't "do" a lot. It did however, change how the students interpreted bad events in the future, and reduced the chance of the student feeling that, say, because they failed a test, they don't belong in college at all.
The point isn't that she didn't learn to study. If you had read just a little bit farther, you would have seen the real reason: at the first minor setback she met, she began to question whether she really belonged at a prestigious four-year school. That's a pretty understandable reaction given the culture shock she experienced in going to UT. Rich people with educated parents get to feel like they belong at colleges; poor and working class people don't.
"Unfortunately the label Atheist, has some pretty negative connotations to some people in the US."

I live in a secularized country, where identifying as an Atheist is fairly common. I am curious regarding the "negative connotations" you mentioned. Which are they, and should I avoid revealing that I identify as Atheist when I travel to the US?
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Many phone vendors before HTC have used proprietary headphone connectors.

But Apple is not most phone vendors.
As someone not from the US, it's always interesting to see the focus on US rights with the rest of the world almost an afterthought. In my mind it seems a lot less altruistic viewed under that lens.
With NSLs, your Android phone is one legal step away from Google being coerced into pushing an NSA-laden update to you.
I'm working solo right now and I have to say, I absolutely love it. Prior to my project I was in firmware at a large corp and after years we got moved into a shared lab and I could not stand it. Working from home (and solo) gives me a nice, quiet, and productive place to get things done. I like that it's rekindled my joy of programming, before it was a job/career. It definitely can get lonely if you let it, but it's just a decision you have to make for yourself in the end. I always have IRC open and my phone is near by, so I still have ways to interact with people throughout the day, except now I'm not being interrupted nearly as much ... so my interactions with people are much more positive.
The larger difference is what happens after a test is failed and a student is feeling down. It seems that the more affluent group has more "identity formation" in that they know that they belong at college, whereas the more at risk groups (like students with parents that aren't college educated) sometimes panic, and feel like they don't belong at college, after a mistake of similar size. And that feeling is what causes them to drop out, more than X number of failed tests.
http://funki.com.ua/ru/portfolio/lab/world-religions-tree/

religion is complicated...
As best as I can tell, here is the actual announcement, along with information on where to actually send the comments:

http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/ascap-bmi-decree-review.htm...
Uh oh..

"But here’s the key — none of them know that they’re in the bottom quartile.” The first rule of the Dashboard, in other words, is that you never talk about the Dashboard."
Folks at Uber, how best should I protest this?
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I've used both Uber and the local taxi service in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Columbus, OH. I can tell you that Uber is vastly superior in every way. The cars are cleaner and newer, the drivers are friendlier, the service is cheaper, getting a ride is easier, and with Uber I don't need to deal with the inevitable argument about why I'm trying to pay with a credit card instead of cash.
Sometimes, but not this time
Agreed. There is a nuance to this that is frequently forgotten in tech circles, where the government is pure evil and unrestricted free enterprise is the definition of what is right and good.

That said, it's too bad that the two sides represent the extremes and there is no entity representing the sane middle ground. On the one hand you have an entrenched industry resistant to any form of change (and not willing to abuse politics to do this), on the other hand you have companies that laugh in the face of decades of learned consumer experience and have a history of abusing the market to push out competitors (see: Uber and the call-and-cancel-against-competitors debacle).

I'm for more taxis on roads. I'm for more technology in taxis. I'm for transparent payments and real enforcement against bad drivers (and bad passengers!). I'm also for proper licensing, proper insurance, consumer protections (e.g., being kicked out of a cab for a surge pricing fare), and trustworthy metering.

I suspect most people are in this middle ground, but no one represents us. I don't want Uber to the arbiter what goes forward, and I don't want the taxi lobby either. Both scenarios are distinctly dystopian.
I assumed it was asymmetric like pgp, but you're right they dont mention it anywhere. That is rather puzzling. wtf.
I wonder what the data says for people with "Tiger moms", even if they are first generation college students. Is that level of encouragement helpful, in comparison?
I don't get people's sentiment. We should either follow laws or change them. Simply deciding we don't enforce certain laws or reinterpreting according to various interests leads to worse situations. If Uber and Lyft want to break the law, ok, but how can you blame the DMV for enforcing it?
Her mom's doubt certainly makes things worse, but I think the mechanism in motion in this case is best described by Eric Raymond's "Curse of the Gifted" [0]. She's smart, intuitive, and hadn't had any trouble in academia before. When things get really complicated in college, everything collapses, and it takes a lot of effort and support to get back on your feet. Having college educated parents helps with the support part, but it doesn't prevent you from collapsing in the first place.

[0] http://www.vanadac.com/~dajhorn/novelties/ESR%20-%20Curse%20...
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I'm sceptical. How do they know they spooked him? There are no details lost on that. Did they just jump at him with a number? Or did they clarify they thought he was a great candidate, making them willing to skip some steps?

All good companies i've ever worked at had a fairly fast hiring process as they knew what they wanted and did research on their own on me, while the ones that stuck to the numbers ended up being full of incompetent or outright inhuman people.
NSA-grade?

Which of the two alternatives does this mean? One, proof against all foreign intercepts, 'coz it uses NSA-strong safeguards, or two, all your comms are automagically pwned, 'coz it uses NSA-approved addons?

I could go with either, I just want to know what I'm buyin'.
I don't think that's a coincidence -- they didn't want to participate, and now that it's out there, it's hurting their bottom line.
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>why does Verizon have to subsidize their costs of business?

Verizon isn't some kind of customer owned co-op. It is a profitable for-profit business that has (over)sold a service. They need to deliver that service, not complain when people use it.
I don't get it. Progressive JPEGs have no redundant information - I verified that - and are usually a bit smaller than sequential ones because of a more favorable arrangement of different components for entropy coding. And producing initially blurry images of text is not the fault of progressive JPEGs but at most a bad technology choice for a given use case. The image will get fully loaded in the same time no matter if it is sequentially or progressively encode so at best a sequential JPEG containing text can claim that the first lines get readable earlier.
The biggest concern I have with this is that, should it ever become viable, many energy storage devices have a failure mode where they release all their stored energy very quickly in a rather exciting way.
Please read the whole thread.
Once they can reason at multiple levels of abstraction, they (we, presumably) are geeks. All that's left is learning when not to do that out loud.

It's ai'ight. It might be like unto a superpower.
Your taxi drivers are tested for tuberculosis?

In SF bay the traditional taxi drivers are great at just not bothering to come, and the dispatchers will yell at you and make you call back if you happen to call the wrong city's number for the same company. Then they practically threaten you if you try to pay with a card.
Maybe they can finally write some docs
While a bit brusque, this comment does illustrate that we're all compartmentalizing to some extent. Even pdeuchler, who suggests that same's lack of ability to compartmentalize may even be a character flaw...

It isn't, you're doing it already. Living and working here, paying taxes, it all supports the state to some extent.

You can't escape these dilemmas and still interact with the world in basically any way. Take any product. Money that buys avocados will inevitably support Mexican cartels. Widespread guac boycotts would just starve the farmers trying to claw towards legitimacy through economic growth.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230327770...

We're all hypocrites given enough scrutiny.

And there are some reasonable defenses for it.

Jeremy Lott wrote a whole book on that topic, "In Defense of Hypocrisy," http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1595550526/kevinholts...

Other arguments offered in this review: http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2006_11_010195.php

(This is, of course, assuming this is hypocritical, as not everyone finds the spying out of bounds, difficult as that may be to conceive. Entirely separate discussion there though, one that's been trod to death on these boards.)
I'm curious: how would the achievement gap change if all or most post-secondary education was delivered online instead of at physical colleges/universities?
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For everyone who can't be bothered to read the article:

'The second trend is that whether a student graduates or not seems to depend today almost entirely on just one factor — how much money his or her parents make. To put it in blunt terms: Rich kids graduate; poor and working-class kids don’t.'

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'But the disadvantaged students who had experienced the belonging and mind-set messages did significantly better: 86 percent of them had completed 12 credits or more by Christmas. They had cut the gap between themselves and the advantaged students in half.'

Basically, straightforward encouragement and promotion of a sense of belonging has a significant effect toward equalizing the health, academic performance and graduation rates of economically disadvantaged kids of the same aptitude as wealthier peers.
If your point is going to be valid (that sometimes regulations are legitimate protections) you must come with facts. Specifically:

1. What are the protections that the regulations give?
2. Are the actually successful? At uber and lyft's scale, we should be able to see how not having these regulations fail the consumer. Are there more accidents? No seatbelts? Longer drives? Overcharging? Kidnappings/rapes/murders (this is not said in jest, I believe it is sometimes listed as a reason for needing regulation)?
My suggestion would be that keys were exchanged by physically bumping two devices together. In this way the authenticity relies on people looking each other in the eyes which through millennia has been a quite successful method for identifying one another.
My guess is that this wasn't the only thing that spooked the candidate. To be brutally honest, anyone talented enough to merit an expedited decision like that would probably be awfully bored working at a company in the online faxing space. More importantly, they probably already had a competitive offer from a company in a more interesting space.

The only thing I can think of that would be more boring than working at an online fax company would be working at one with a series of meticulous HR processes.
Your argument is invalid, because Verizon holds monopoly in many areas for high-speed broadband.

I would entertain your argument only if there was consumer choice. In such case we could perhaps experiment with different business models where content provider subsidizes last mile. Without it, consumers are essentially hostage to a monopoly, which is unacceptable.
It's not about disruption so much as it is about choice.

Taxis should not be some ultra-regulated industry, and if it is, it shouldn't be near IMPOSSIBLE (read: ultra-expensive) to be part of that regulated sector.

Nowadays, it's a service as basic as being a barista or a dog walker, the dangers imposed on society by having Uber/Lyft drivers pick up willing, paying customers are microscope to naught. (State/County/City) Sanctioned Taxi drivers aren't some elite demographic for honesty and morals.

If it's an insurance thing, (reasonably) legislate it, but until then, don't stop consumers from using a service that they are clearly overwhelmingly pleased with .
The article does a fine demonstration. It points out that people are currently asking about some more esoteric features about win7. BUT they are asking about some fairly common features for win8. Features that should be EASY to figure out. Since people are asking about these features, then the UI sucks.
This really isn't a comparison of Win7 vs Win8, and yeah the article could have shown a few more examples.

But seriously if you have to go to Google to look up how to close an App, there is something wrong with the UI. I understand Microsoft was trying to make it so that you don't need to shutdown or close apps, and that is why they are difficult to do. But sometimes you need to shutdown or close an app...
Atheism is the lack of a belief in a god. You can categorise it into a subset of people who believe there is no god (positive atheism) and people who simply have no belief (negative atheism) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism#Implicit_vs._explicit
I agree, but I don't see that being the case as often with anti-rideshare efforts as I do with anti-Airbnb efforts. Perhaps my own biases are at play. Where do you see the need for regulations and restrictions of rideshare services that benefit the consumer? In Seattle they made it sound like it was about consumer protectionism, but it ended up looking a lot more like the city protecting a business model while paying lip-service to safety.

I want to regulate on safety and general welfare, not on choice.