skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed that the divide in the "recline debate" seems to fall based on a person's leg length.

I try to avoid booking economy whenever possible (it isn't always possible) at great expense, and that's fine. But the few times I do have to sit in economy someone in front will recline onto my knees and then as the aircraft moves I have this person's body weight literally bouncing up and down on my knees for a 2-9 hr flight.

I literally have to take strong painkillers to sit in economy and even that doesn't really work. My knees feel like someone has stood on them for several days after also.

So for me what this "debate" becomes is: "one person's comfort Vs. another person's pain and potential long term health issues."

But ultimately I don't blame these "pro recline" people, I just think they're inconsiderate jerks, the people who I really blame for all of this is the airlines and the complete lack of rational legislation.

Once one airline reduces seat space (e.g. -1 inch) and gets an extra row of seats, now all of the other airlines have to follow suit or they'll be "charging more for the same service."

What we need is for government (e.g. EU, US, etc) to sit down and come up with rational minimums based on different flight durations. 2-3 hour flights can have X seat pitch, 3-5 have y, and 5+ need Z.

Alternatively just offer a new seat class for taller people. If you're over 6' then you can sit in an economy seat with 3" more pitch for $100 more. No extra "free" baggage, no better food, no express security line, just those 3" and nothing else.

On a related note: Aircraft seat design sucks. I read once that only a single company makes aircraft seats and that they basically haven't changed the design in 30 years (due to certification or some nonsense), this just boggles my mind and annoys me endlessly.
Can you point me to evidence that Lyft is also poaching drivers and/or cancelling rides? This is the first I've heard of it.
Never forget: the mass media you read every day also has sponsors. NPR has sponsors.
Damn! What's the vulnerability? Do they reuse IVs or something? No wonder I got stuck when designing my own encrypted filesystem, I didn't have this assumption. On the plus side, mine was safer. I'll have to revisit it.
I'd think it would be this part:

"As a member of the board I am completely aligned with that view."

If she were asked to stop at "the board believe X are a tremendous partner", then as a member of the board, she'd be implying the last sentence, but not actually saying it. (I couldn't comment on whether or not she'd be fine with the implication either.)
I think you're reaching a bit there. It sounds like this was a conflict with the board's practices more than anything, and this problem could have manifested itself in numerous ways other than sponsorship alignment..
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They can add a random seed to the hash to increase the search space. In fact it doesn't need to be a hash - they could just store a random string.
It's really cool that you can browse the entire collection and download the paintings: http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/search/collection
People really need to stop always quoting Joel - he is not a definitive go-to software spokesperson, and has some very strong (and often wrong) opinions about things -- shaped by years at Microsoft doing things only the Microsoft way.

~~

He is puffing his product in this blog post -- nothing more.
This was drilled into me back in the usenet days. If you see a cat command with a single argument it's almost always replaceable by a shell redirection, or in this case just by passing the filename as an argument to grep. If you're processing lots of data like in the article there's no point in passing it through a separate command and pipe first.
> 1PB of ZFS seems scary

Why so?
Ditto.

I would also happily give up my ability to recline if it meant the person in front of me couldn't either.

Maybe aircraft with three distinct blocks of seats should have 1/3 which just simply lack recline. You want recline? Book the other 2/3 of the aircraft, I'm going to be booking that 1/3.
I wouldn't fault anyone for being able to go into so much breadth and depth that we ran out of time. I would suggest they just dive into the part they think if most interesting, or the part most relevant to the position. When we're out of time, we're out of time, but the point is just to stimulate enough technical conversation for me to evaluate the candidates knowledge, passion, communication skills, strengths, interests, etc.

edit: For instance, I actually got this question asked to me in an interview and adopted the practice several years later. It was scheduled for an hour, they asked me this immediately, and I was talking for most of the hour. I got through the whole process but didn't go into as much detail as I could've along the way. Several times I was stopped and asked to clarify some details, some of which I didn't know. That was that, and the interviewer just said "very good" and left. Looking back, I think he was doing the exact same thing I do now - giving me the freedom to show off what I knew, seeing if I would be honest when I reached my limit, and probing a bit to see if I could communicate about interesting problems.
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You'd get a bunch of polygons and an Allen wrench :)
United will totally let you do this, actually. You simply look for the seats right behind the Economy Plus seats that don't recline, and buy them. I think they may cost more than other Economy Plus seats, actually. I presume other airlines are similar.
I've interviewed with dozens and dozens of startups in NYC. I'm an entry level Front-End Dev with passion for a lot of things I (in hindsight) probably should have gone to college for. For example, my current side-project is a completely client-side image metadata reader/writer that has forced me to learn new things like parsing Binary, Endianness, Meta and a lot of things about organizing JS because I've never built this large of a project completely by myself even though it is very, very small. A weekend project for most of you.

Throughout all of my interviews I've noticed one common trait.

Either I do exceptionally well on the personal questions during the interview, or I do really well on the technical questions. There is no in-between.

Most of my interviews could be broken up into 2 sections. The first section is usually where they open up and try to make things more comfortable. Asking me where I'm from, how long I've been writing code, what kind of side-projects I'm working on, etc...

The second part of the interview is when they try to figure out how much I know. Usually we start off by just talking about technology and this is where they try to figure out if I'm BS'ing my way through things. If you can maintain a fluent conversation about technology; you're good-to-go. After that they will generally try to slip in a few questions, usually about event delegation in Javascript.

The problem for me comes from when we switch from personal questions to technical ones, or vice-versa. I will pass either one with flying colors but I will rarely, if ever, pass both. If that particular day I can't sell my personal story very well, I do very well on the technical questions. If I do well on the personal questions, I do terrible on the technical questions. I believe there is a vast cognitive gap when you go from an emotional conversation talking about significant things in your past (like side-projects, old employers, hometown, etc..) and then jump to such rigid topics like code where there is no emotion, it's purely analytical thinking.

What I would prefer is for a company to pay me $100 to come into the office and work a half day. If I can keep up, I get the job.
Testing 4=='4' is far from pointless. For better or worse, programming as the majority of us practice it is no longer about flipping bits or moving bytes or red-black trees or building common collections data structures. It's now about a language plus an api or apis, and the language of front end web development is javascript. So checking if front end or fullstack dev candidates have a basic understanding of types in javascript is perfectly reasonable.
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>Alternatively just offer a new seat class for taller people. If you're over 6' then you can sit in an economy seat with 3" more pitch for $100 more. No extra "free" baggage, no better food, no express security line, just those 3" and nothing else.

Aren't you describing United's Economy Plus seats, and other airlines' equivalents?
We believe we have a lot better customer service because I personally care a lot about our customers. That's actually the main reason we have decided to be more transparent with our pricing but from an investor point of view it's not something that we can prove or measure, am I right?
How much for the armrest?
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Is there any plan to write a javascript engine in Rust as part of the servo project?
Yeah, but not knowing the mod operator would get you dinged.
Not adding much to the conversation, but good on you, Linda. Money isn't the only thing that matters.
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Almost as awesome as portrait mode is the price of these monitor stands from monoprice:

http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=108&cp_id=10828&cs_id=...
That's a good point. That said, I still take objection to the tone of the article. The author didn't motivate his solution in the way you just did; it was more of a "this is the obvious solution, and I don't really care about what other people say" approach. I'm fine considering this as a starting-off point, as long as everyone recognizes that having on-board reclining rights negotiations isn't really a long-term solution.
I feel like I missed out on something major reading these comments.

What have I missed in the last 6 months concerning db and Condoleezza Rice?
If someone asks for silence (and it is not clear that Google has; it could just as well be an overzealous board, so I'm not (yet) blaming Google), then I'd be inclined to grit my teeth and say I don't want their money.

Yes, it may be "for the good of the organisation" in the short term. But if you allow the organisation to be corrupted by bending to the will of corporate sponsors that are treating it as a means of buying goodwill, it is not clear the organization will deserve to survive in the long term.

I must say that if Google asked for this, then I don't think they are a suitable sponsor. It sends all the wrong signals to me for an educational charity to sell the silence of it's board members.

In any case, this has already damaged my opinion of the Code Club board, regardless whether they made this decision unilaterally or under pressure. I hope it does not damage my opinion of Google too.
What is actually bad about Google's "corporate mass surveillance"?

It sure sounds scary, but when I actually try to think about what it is actually bad about it, I can't really think of any.

Every single user Google got, they signed up voluntarily. Google never forced anyone to sign up for their services.

Google attempts to learn about its users just like every other companies. It's just that Google does it so much better than others. Do you get the label "corporate mass surveillance", when the company becomes so good learning about its users?
> regulations exist because society has decided its interests are better served by making folks play by a certain set of rules than by hitting peak market efficiency or whatever

But society (and times) change. If there was a regulation that said 'the rightmost lane must always be reserved for horse-drawn carriages', we'd all be laughing about it.
The author forgot to point out that every comment you add has a cost. And there was not enough emphasis that the code can go on without comments if you make the code itself clear.

Rather being nonsense, the article meant to be statement against nonsense.
I disagree.

Spoiled children say things without thinking (or accepting the consequences), which sounds like the director, not Google.

"Because they are sponsoring the project in order to accomplish the goals the project works toward - not because they are buying friends."

Yes, but the director is running that project and represents the company. I'm still curious as to why they even accepted the money in the first place if they think Google is so "evil".

"If they insist on also getting people to censor themselves and lie, then they're just being spoiled children."

Private companies aren't the government. If you continue to make a company look bad, they will not want to do business with you (and have no obligation to do so). It's just common sense.
What it would mean to confirm the universe was in fact a hologram, what implications would this have for our physical understanding of the universe, are they any existential implications, like is our existence is actually an illusionary side-effect of some other more <complicated|simple> process?
I was lucky to have studied in a british curriculum high school The books I used were these:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edexcel-Level-Modular-Mathematics-St...
These books were amazing. they were about 100 pages with lots of color and worked example.
They go from S1-S6. What I find amazing is I have seen some insane greek syndrome books explaining the same topics as these ""kiddee" colored books. However My statistics education stopped after college ( exception being khan academy videos ), I have replaced all my stats modules with CS modules in university, I have hacked the stats modules I was forced to do by mugging up formulas and memorizing exam techniques :( so you can see why this stats prof complaining ticked me off as he thinks students haven't tried and are acting in ignorance.
I meant in one filesystem. No obvious way to construct a single zpool anywhere near that big.

And if not one filesystem, curious how it would work in practice.
History lesson:

The earliest "Operating Systems" as we call them today were developed at General Motors. The system was a standard stack of punch cards that would be executed with every program to take are of environmental tasks, provide a standard library, and standard I/O functionality.

This system was built for the IBM701 in '56, but was used on all 40 IBM704's that were sold. It influence the development of a lot of early 50's and 60's OS's nobody ever heard of now-a-days. Namely the Michigan Terminal System, which was very big and never spoken of.

This was still a batch processing operating system. But it was a far cry from the automatic tape switching Univac had only 2 years earlier!

Literally a rump kernel.

:.:.:

The ultimate problem with rump kernels is looking into the future, we arrive back at Unix. Follow the thought experiment.

1) We reach a standard rump kernel for virtualization, that support most users needs.

2) Its declared an industry success and sees wide deployment.

3) In order to speed up its functionality hypermanagers are ran on native rump kernels.

4) In order to speed up its functionality hypermanagers have rump features built in.

5) Duplicate rump features exist in the hypermanager, and its (the hyper-manager's) own rump kernel.

6) rump kerenels and hypermanagers are re-merged to multi-process OS's to remove duplicate code and offer speed ups.

What we need is a more multi-process OS, not a multi-user + multi-processing OS.

TL;DR we are back pedaling.
Not right now. It's a huge amount of work to create something competitive, and as soon as you add a JIT you lose most of the safety benefits that Rust provides. There is js.rs (https://github.com/TomBebbington/js.rs) that already exists, however.
Drivers don't see you when they take the ride so there is no racial bias. When they refuse to take you across abridge, they leave a digital trail so you can contact Uber about the specific person that refused the ride.
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As a driver, I'm sure you make more money delivering passengers than burgers. Which would you rather pick: taking a ride across town and making $25, or delivering a $8 sandwich the same distance and making $5, tops?
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> job interviews are among the most hostile experiences professionals endure in our industry

I don't find being questioned during an interview hostile, although I do feel I need to be prepared to be tested.

The most bothersome part for me is companies asking for me to list several references, often specifically asking for previous managers. I am usually given a standard application form to write their names, phone numbers, e-mails etc. before I've even talked to anyone about the position.

An interview is just something I'm involved in. Since I have to hand over contact details of several former managers/coworkers before I even talk to anyone, I have to call up and ask a number of people for the favor of giving me a reference before applying for a job.

Due to this, I almost never apply for one job in a one-off sense. I usually work a few years, then decide I definitely am going to get a new job. I line up my references then apply to jobs until I get one. Then I'm completely off the market for another few years.

I could just not hand over the references until later in the interview process, even though they're requesting them from me before I meet anyone, but that starts things off on the wrong foot. As if I had something to hide.

Of course, there may be legal reasons for companies to ask for everything up front. Asking for references too early is the biggest thing that puts me off from looking around. I'm not going to ask several former managers/co-workers for a favor unless I am seriously looking.
Implementing a "sketch" style of rendering in webGL
or a Symbolics Lisp Machine
Url changed from http://www.businessinsider.com/square-is-raising-200-million..., which points to this.
Then you can make plots by piping to https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot
"Investing $4000/month (which is what I do on a salary barely over $100k while living by myself in a 1 bedroom in the East Village, NYC and going out for every meal) at 3% will get you $1 million in 17 years."

Might want to consider that inflation averages about 2.5-3% annually... So effectively you're treading water there in terms of investment (though saving is good).
I paid cash to have my gall bladder removed. It as 1500 Euros. I really don't know why the same procedure would cost 10x as much where you live (assuming a simplistic conversion rate, which is not correct, so maybe 8x) compared to where I live. And nowadays that's not even an option any more because we all have mandatory health insurance with deductibles that are mostly designed to keep you paying for everything unless something major happens.
I've been using Dropbox with EncFS, and I feel foolish about not thinking of the fact that Dropbox has ongoing access to the encrypted files.

Would you recommend something other than Dropbox + EncFS as the best compromise for a file-sync solution that has reasonable security, a non-buggy client, supports block-level sync, is reasonably priced and "just works"? BitTorrent Sync + EncFS?
They have neither the obligation nor the right to demand anybody in the organization, Linda or whomever, to behave in any manner when not "on the clock."

Of course they do. A company (that board ultimately represents) is not a human being and it can't have opinions on certain things, but it can has something resembling ethos, enforced by the employees. Anyone joining a company does so voluntarily, and can expect consequences when they do something that is not aligned with that ethos.

Mozilla, for example, ousted Eich because of him doing something anti-LGBT "off the clock". As a company, Mozilla has an "ethos" that is all about diversity and their board is absolutely free to act accordingly.

Also wanted to add that there's also no "imbalance of power" here (i.e. no need to paint it all black). Certain highly valuable CEOs stay in their positions even when they say and do nasty things, so a situation when Linda would be more valuable to Code Club than Google sponsorship is entirely possible.
I find it hard to believe anyone has spent a bunch of time writing js and never been bitten by a type conversion. Am I wildly off base?

I do data science, but everyone who writes R has been bitten by it's scoping rules, which are definitely not mainstream. Everyone I know who writes java or python has been bitten at least once by the pass object references by value (is there a better name for this?) function argument semantics. Everyone who writes java has accidentally written == when they meant .equals and stared at the code for far too long. etc etc etc You just can't claim you can competently use a language without understanding some basics, like how functions work, how arguments are passed, and how equality is decided.
LogParser is one of the few things I really miss from windows. I think there are unix equivalents, but I haven't had the time to invest in learning them. Pretty much every example in this article boiled down to 'Take this CSV and run a simple SQL query on it'. Yes you can do that by piping through various unix utilities or you could just use a tool mean specifically for the task. I'd like to see the article explore some more advanced cases, like rolling up a column. I actually had to do this yesterday and ended up opening my data in open office and using a pivot table.
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How would this protect against a rootkit?
Informed Consent.

When I started using Google services many years ago, it definitely didn't occur to me they could basically track you across half the web. And you don't really get much of a choice in the matter. You can actively try to avoid Google sites and they're probably not missing out on a ton.

But more importantly, my grandmother certainly doesn't have any idea what they're doing.

And to be honest, I'm not much better off. So hard to consent to something if I'm not even sure what all they're gathering, and what they're doing with it.
Or you'd think they could give them away for free. It would be free product placement in 1000's of games and movies, no?
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