skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would think that the only way to overcome a disregard issue would be to somehow increase your personal relationship. If he is acting from a position of "factual" strength then the only way to change his behavior would be to introduce emotion into the thought process.

These type of coworkers can be exceedingly difficult if not impossible. The above is only speculation, and has never actually worked for me in a total resolution, but it has made it slightly better overall.

TLDR Heartstring attack.
Indeed. I used it successfully with large tables (100GB+ of data) under heavy transactional load. It takes time and requires extra disk space since it creates a second copy of the table thus you need to plan accordingly. It also works great with Galera as long as you are not touching primary key.
Please tell me this was some kind of parody. A stage full of impossibly lame "bro-schtick" cartoon characters and a live-action anime-style interviewer complete with absurd hair. I wouldn't have trusted these clowns to heat up a can of beans let alone put them in charge of millions of dollars and then "value" their company at an amount of money that could build house and feed a medium sized city for a decade.

I guess that goes to show what I know since they've executed pretty well and can apparently evaluate literature.

Maybe I'm just getting old but man is it depressing.
boy I wish I had gotten to see all those "youngjeezyrules.com" articles on techcrunch
The book is good stuff
> 'Those include a disgusting, misogynistic guess from Moghadam that Rodger’s sister is “smokin hot” and compliments on the writing style of the killer.'

Complimenting someone's writing doesn't mean you endorse their actions, and the killer's sister being attractive is relevant when the killer was motivated by sexual frustration. Sometimes we need to talk about things, even though people might be offended, or, in Gawker's case, act offended for attention and/or page views, another way of exploiting tragedy.

Another example: http://history.genius.com/Kurt-cobain-kurt-cobains-suicide-n...
Analytics As A Science
Just about everything that works in San Francisco works elsewhere. I can't think of anything that only works in San Francisco. Can you? There are hundreds or thousands of cities with similar transportation needs, many with already substantial Uber usage.
Here is 10% for doing all the work
The protocol doesn't specify decorations. It is up to the compositor. The reference one, Weston, was using client side (I think Mutter is doing that too) while Kwin is using server side.

It is a personal choice. And Wayland the windowing system doesn't care what you do - its decoration agnostic.
People choose Gas grills over Charcoal, but the gap is closing
As a rule, NEVER EVER use CNAME's within AWS on Route53. You should always use their A Alias function. This provides near instant changes when you need to adjust a record. This only works on aws resources, but it is a great feature they built in.
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Yes, his name was an impediment to becoming a household name. It's not a complete prevention, however.
No disrespect meant; I don't know either one of you. But is it possible your work is in fact subpar? This has happened to me (I was the one who needed to improve). I urge you to look at your work in that light and see things from your coworker's perspective.
Glad to hear someone else has been thinking about this.

Interesting idea to use macros to implement the mapping from the Go syntax tree. Presumably, these macros would implement the same kind of logic that my codegen module implements (mapping from the Go syntax tree to Clojure text). https://github.com/eobrain/funcgo/blob/master/src/funcgo/cod...
The reason pot is still illegal is because public opinion just shifted in favor of legalization last year, and the attitude among likely voters (skew older than the general population), probably is still against. See: http://www.people-press.org/2013/04/04/majority-now-supports...

The real reason isn't lobbyists. The real reason is soccer moms and dads and baby boomers, who vote in droves, who are convinced that pot will make their kids sit around and mastrubate all day. The ones that hold monthly anti-drug assemblies in school where they shriek "just say no!" at the top of their lungs.
Exactly what I said. There hasn't been a stable release since 2010. And the next version has been in alpha for years. You linking to the current alpha build and alpha source on master doesn't refute that.
$100 absolutely happens especially at peak traffic times going to NJ to get a rental car, drop off for a car pool, etc. Airport is not the issue.

Why use uber if subway gets job done then? I presumably choose a line and route by my destination. Uber totally competes with rail as in subway, light rail, even shorter trips on commuter rail. Agree it does not compete with amtrak.
Your comment wasn't worth doing. Neither was mine.
I'm extremely skeptical of your claims. Citations?
I've been using Markdown + Pandoc for my resume for the last couple of years: https://github.com/calebmadrigal/Resume/blob/master/resume_c.... It's definitely nice to easily update it on Github.
Strictly speaking, size and distribution. You only mentioned DNS, but it's worth noting that CloudFlare isn't just a DNS provider; it's also basically a big CDN, or actually more like a great big proxy server.

(Note: I've never actually used CF, so this is all simply my understanding).
There's no government that would turn the US military against the US population. It just wouldn't happen. What is happening though is the militarisation of the police, and making it more and more 'normal' for the population to accept it. The idea of a national army being turned against it's own people is hopelessly outdated in the modern, western world. There are more efficient and more subtle ways to control the population.
thank goodness, how else would 4chan have been allowed to exist on teh interwebz?
I don't know about single-write chips of that nature, but are you thinking of CPLD/FPGA?
esrauch has it, but it's a point worth stressing: it gives many more people the opportunity to notice any discrepancy in common tool chains, as well as adding assurance for those who aren't building their own.
I almost can't wait for some copyrighted work to get posted and annotated and have "genius" get the pants sued off of them.

What is it with recent YC companies and law breaking?
The word "forum" is a Latin word, and I'm using it in its traditional meaning (ie: a "public venue"), not in the recent "internet message board thingy" meaning. And I think I'll just have to disagree with you as (1) I don't consider today's media as demonstrating exemplary values, and (2) it's not about whether or not a wealthy/public person needs protection; it's about whether a particular activity is right. Obviously my value system is different from yours in that regard.
Speaking of antimicrobial underwear — it's not every day I get to use that segue — The New Yorker just had a fascinating piece about the world of extreme cave divers. Apparently, specially engineered underwear is one of the secrets to making it through the world's deepest cave: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/04/21/140421fa_fact_...
If one of my coworkers was doing subpar work I'd still discuss it with them before rewriting it.
Even if the work is subpar this is no reason to not speak to the poster. This issue is really one of respect.

While we are going down the path of wild speculation in the absence of any evidence, I have found these types of "dissings" are a reflection of the dissee being more competent than the disser.
I would read a blog post about your experiences.
"But is it possible your work is in fact subpar?"

That might be the case, but throwing out large pieces of somebody else's code without talking to them about it is not a civilized way to behave.

If I saw a problem with somebody's code, I'd try to patiently explain to them what the problem was, and how it could be done better. If they ignored me, I'd make my case to our manager in a rational way and let them decide who was right.

If the manager thinks that just throwing out somebody's code is acceptable behavior, I'd agree with the people who advised looking for a job elsewhere.
FOSS project uses toy app as marketing experiment
I think this is an important point. Though it is worth considering where they get convinced of those things (and the answer to that is still more complex than "follow the money").
The thing is, he also explicitly states that they didn't have sex - consensual or otherwise. So I'm not sure how it's possible for a misunderstanding to exist where one person believes there was a rape, and the other believes there was no sex of any kind. It seems like one of the two parties must be lying. For the other, this must be a truly horrible situation.
Anyone know why Voltarin (Diclofenac) works for hangovers? It's an anti-inflammatory drug. I have a 25mg tablet before going to bed after a big night, even if I've not had water before bed, I've never have a hangover/bad stomach/queezy/headache after taking one of these the night before.
I've observed your pattern. Maybe you shouldn't keep it if you don't like it.

As for derogation--if you think your post wasn't derogatory, you should try getting outside your own head for a bit.
Apparently not, but I personally am a huge fan of Business @ The Speed Of Thought. Even though I'm not a huge Gates fan, and definitely not a Microsoft fan, there's no question that Gates hit on some good stuff in that book. And amazingly, as old as it is, I'd argue that most businesses (heck, most organizations period) to this day have still not achieved anything quite equal to his idea of a "Digital Nervous System" (and yes, I know term didn't originate with Gates, but he did a brilliant job of articulating and popularizing it).

I still keep that book near my bed and re-read sections of it from time to time. From even an avowed "Micro$oft" basher from back in the Slashdot days when the GatesBorg image was The Thing, I have to give the devil his due - B@TSOT is solid stuff.
It is indeed in the process of being refactored, to make it easier to adopt and use in parts.
Woah I'm taken aback at how hateful this comment is. What did these guys ever do to you? At the bare minimum, Rap Genius is a huuuge step up from all the other lyrics websites out there.
tldr: I think VR is bad news because it will become the ad-infested oppressive MMORPG version of the cyberpunk future written about in books like Snowcrash, and not the idealized romanticized version that you remember reading about in books like Snowcrash.
Many Americans do not consider alcohol or tobacco a "drug", while this is patently illogical, this may be more of a poor use of language than an outright fabrication.

As for opioids and their over prescription I ask you to look into the case of Florida and the "Pill Mills". You don't see drug companies lobbing to shut these down, nor do you see them refusing to sell their products to these obviously corrupt organizations.
That would make sense if all down voting did was show the net score, or the up/down breakdown.

However, when an article has a more down votes than up votes, it is also made harder to read, and the bigger the difference, the harder to read it becomes. That makes pg's remark make little sense, unless HN is supposed to be a place where disagreeing with the majority is discouraged, which is not very hackerish. Some clarification from pg would be helpful here.
There was an MIT startup, Permabit, that tried to make a cloud based storage system which backed your own local disk. One idea was that your local storage is faster so you should use it for local things, and offline computation, but that if a shadow copy was being backed to the cloud in encrypted fashion. If your local storage fails, you just replace it, and the data dribbles back in from the cloud to your new local device.

They also had some hack whereby large common files (like app executables) where compressed using their hash code or something, but that is not the important idea in my opinion.

I think having that transparent local/cloud duality is one piece of the puzzle for a service which is both fast and local and also cloud based. You shouldn't have to care where your data lives. The other pieces of the puzzle are how to grant fine grained shared access without confusing users and introducing security holes.
Sorry to hear that; that's terrible :-(

I'm from Brisbane, but am currently overseas (I'm going home soon!). My only contact who could (maybe) hire someone has just left the country for a few weeks.

What experience do they have? What are their doctorates in? Where in Brisbane are they?

Edit: you could try asking on /r/brisbane too: https://pay.reddit.com/r/brisbane
I think there's a good discussion to be had about what the future of VR means to advertising-based social networks, even if I don't share the authors cynicism.

I think their argument about the technology is batty though. It's the same argument that gets made every time a new creative medium is created. People making early motion pictures were basically filming plays, it took a while before the specific affordances of the medium become realized.

I fully expect that there will initially be a lot of shitty VR games. First there'll be existing games "re-skinned" to have VR support, and they'll mostly be terrible. Then there will start to be games that are designed specifically for VR. And most of those will be terrible too. But eventually game designers will discover what makes VR attractive as a platform, and generations of game developers will be born into a world where VR is actual practical tech; and they will make wonderful things.

The first generations of "tablet-optimized" games are awful too. Developers spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to superimpose a control pad on a touch screen that doesn't have any feedback (and obscures the screen when you use it). There will eventually be games for tablets that make use of the benefits of tablets (I think there's actually already a few of those).

I don't know what is so special about VR tech that would preclude that same thing from happening.
"This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters."
Thanks for the advice. I guess I just don't want to think about quitting. First, I really do enjoy my work except for these conflicts, for example when he's working on something separate from me. Second, I worry about quitting so soon because I was at my previous job for only two years and this one for six months. I don't want to be seen as a "job hopper."
Wait, Bitcoin is something to be hated?
Funny, I'm of the complete opposite view. I cannot wait for the day when that ultimate VR MMORPG comes. Sure, some of them may be owned by unscrupulous companies, and some may be intrusive or filled with ads, but eventually there will be a good VR MMO game by a good company, and it will be enormously successful and entertaining.
This is fair enough. I feel that like everyone I do make mistakes and I try to own them. I've agreed somewhat with some of the changes he's made, just not the way he's doing it unannounced and without input from anyone else.
And simultaneously one of the main reasons you want to hear this person's opinions.

You need someone outside of the echo chamber. They're deeply involved with the same technology but with a different end goal.

The folks who dreamed this stuff up 20 and 30 years ago saw the clear negative aspects of this future as well, but typically with the easy-to-relate-to fear of things like addiction.

I don't know, maybe some of us aren't excited about the prospects of VR games where everyone's avatar is Strippy McBigtits or Giant Dong Man. The "be anything you want to be" idea is hopelessly intertwined with online VR worlds too.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/24/overheard-gdc09-ttp-time-t... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TTP
The decoder wheels were never fun. They weren't supposed to be fun. They were copy protection.

Some games liked to dress them up with thematically-appropriate text and images, which was nice, but it was still just a tiresome chore you had to deal with before playing the game.
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"Magnification" isn't quite the word you want. The small telescopes are quite capable of measuring the changing brightness of bright variable stars, moving objects (asteroids and comets), and supernovae and other explosions.

Here's a movie taken with a lens of this size at a site in the high Arctic (hence the circumpolar rotation): http://user.physics.unc.edu/~nmlaw/arctic_cameras/arctic_cam...
Also, Elysium, kind of.
Marijuana is the easiest drug to test for. The metabolites (READ: the byproduct of use, not the active chemical that gets you high) can stay in your system for up to 90 days in chronic use cases. While heroin is out in 4. Alcohol is out in 2. So if anything, Marijuana is the easiest drug to enforce.

That said, I don't want to continue feeding the troll, or the chronically misinformed.

http://www.passyourdrugtest.com/timetable.htm
Commute Pal app helps daily commuters to avoid traffic
Voters don't decide anything. They don't vote for laws, they vote for politcians which after being elected have very little incentive to serve the voters and all the incentives in the world to serve the corporations. It's almost unseen for a politician to lose his job, and it's easier and more profitable for him to lie throughout his term than to do good for his voters.

However you wanted it to be otherwise, politics still obeys economic laws, and the incentive for a politician will always be in the wrong place.
This is right. The other science topics mentioned have longer timescales (hours or days), so surveys with smaller fields of view but bigger light collecting power are better at finding these events.

For exoplanet transits, though, you're interested in frequent time sampling to catch and model the passage of the planet in front of the star, so sampling all the bright stars in the sky every few minutes is a great way to do this. It also explains the high Arctic observing site (lots of stars that never set and can be observed for months at a time).
It's right there

> Ben: It's about three percent better to go first over second.

The 51% was mentioned is in a previous Blizzcon QA
I dispute the author's point that the end goal of VR for most developers is the "optimal MMORPG" or whatever you want to call it. I think most VR developers and users are actually more focused on immersive experiences that weren't possible without a headset.

AR (including wearables that are not connected directly to vision) is almost surely a better medium for non-entertainment experiences, with the possible exception of teleprescence, such as computer applications or operating systems. And as the author implied, AR doesn't necessitate a complete withdrawal from the outside world for use. So I think games are the main context that people will use VR in.

I also think the race condition between AI good enough to make VR more compelling than the real world in any case and VR good enough to become mainstream is heavily weighted towards VR: we will be seeing commercial VR headsets in the homes of non-early adopters within 3 years. My guess is any kind of life-replacing game would have to involve incredibly advanced conversational AI and/or human interaction at a fidelity orders of magnitude better than we have available right now in the context of games. And even genuine human social interaction would have to somehow be way more interesting normal, real life conversations.

I think by the time VR content compelling enough to replace a user's real life rolls around, we will have developed social structures to deal with the implications of VR. That's why I'm optimistic about things like the Oculus, from the perspective of a potential user and developer of VR games that are more focused on personal narratives than an expansive, life-encompassing MMORPG.
Thanks! Next major update coming this month (hopefully!) :)
That's not necessarily true. If your toolkit and compositor don't agree on whether you're using client-side or server-side decorations, then you're going to see either double decorations or no decorations.

Most of the core Wayland team believes that client-side decorations is the technically superior approach for efficiency and accuracy reasons, and we're disappointed KDE is still pushing for server-side decorations.

There is currently no protocol to negotiate between the toolkit and compositor whether to use client-side or server-side decorations. And I can't see one being added in the near future, either.
I'd be careful with NSAIDs such as Diclofenac after drinking alcohol. It may cause stomach bleeding.
Mturk is heavily used internally and in academia for a crazy variety of stuff. It's not S3, but it's hugely important for the people it serves; it would be incredibly foolish to shut it down.
Why Chocolope? To sell marijuana, you need a clever name
Didn't you know? It's a thing on HN.
Strange thought that needs some discussion:

What are the psychological and legal implications of virtual sexual assault in a VR environment? Halo-esque "teabagging" counts here too.

Is the standard corporate/game disclaimer enough to protect a company from suit if I end up with PTSD because someone facerapes my avatar? When presenting evidence, will a judge/jury be forced to have the same experience with the headset on before giving a verdict?

Let's look at this a different way. Online games have typically been an easy place to commit bad/anti-social behavior because it's "not real" and has no consequences. There's a lot of reports from people who played the VR demo of Alien Isolation of it being seriously terrifying and taking the headset off and screaming/leaving the room. Is an online MMORPG really going to be a positive experience when matched with these headsets given the way people behave in these games now?
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fancy words but a thin skin.
Regardless, that's what rappers/hip hop artists do, so it was important for the founders to channel that attitude when they were getting started, in order to demonstrate their cultural authenticity.
You reiterate the point. It stays in the system longer.

Also, length of time and ease of test is not the same. Breathalyzer's are under $5 to produce and use just breath. No test for THC exists that doesn't require a more substantial "contribution" to the test. (hair, urine, blood)
I was actually thinking something like this for dropbox would be a no brainer.. like a cloudmail client for all your accounts, or an igoogle/ireader service that's hosted and uses your dropbox for its' data.
The marijuana situation is a great example of precisely why that assertion is wrong. Public opinion shifts, and within a couple of years, places all over the country are decriminalizing. You think the corporations have let up in the last couple of years? What's the more rational explanation of the data?
Take a http://www.lunatus-me.com/about-us/our-brands/pharmaceutical... pill before consuming alcohol
We are all our best when we are a _little_ hungry.
This is as much of an old wives' tale as I've ever seen.

Pray tell, if citric acid from oranges and lemons neutralizes alcohol, why doesn't the hydrochloric acid in my stomach do the same?

You're stating things as fact, and they're far from it. Please stop.
Hey, thank you so much for commenting.

My father has a PhD and my mother's doctorate is in educational management. My mother's experience includes office manager, finance officer, operations / communication officer and site manager. My father has done... everything - lecturer, social worker, program coordinator, truck driver (in his younger years).

I do want to emphasise that they would be happy to do anything that is not labour-intensive (both are in their 50s), and would certainly not consider any work "beneath them."

They are currently based near Ipswich but would not be averse to a long commute.

Thanks again!