skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it fascinating that this new wave of post-modernist "equalism" demands segmenting and dissecting every group into ever smaller minorities. Black, Asian, Latino, Gay Asian, Lesbian Latino, Hetero Black Woman, etc.

Ignoring for a minute that post-modernism is an absurd philosophy based on the denial of empirical science, how is this in any way productive? Would it not make more sense to focus on an employee's skills and experience, rather than their genetic and ethnic backgrounds?

It is increasingly obvious due to the irrationality of these initiatives that this is indeed a form of political posturing, and nothing more.

Ironically, a community of entrepreneurs such as HN would pay the highest price for ignoring empirical evidence in favor of political posturing. Small companies can't trade political posturing for special treatment by the government. That practice is firmly reserved for established monopolies such as Amazon.
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Oh, the destructive move problem. I thought this was about "re-animation", the horror introduced with Microsoft Managed C++, where, if a GC-called destructor saves a pointer to the object being destroyed, the object has to be "re-animated".

No, this is just the destructive move problem for single ownership pointers.
It's an use case for "swap" as a language primitive.

The real problem is that you just can't make single-ownership pointers work right in C++ via the template mechanism. I tried a few times, over a decade ago. (http://animats.com/papers/languages/index.html) It takes a more global look than you have down inside a template. You need language-level support.

Rust does this. It's not inherently hard. It's just extremely hard to retrofit to the C++ model. Look at the history of auto_ptr, and now unique_ptr in C++. The pain. The anguish. The decades of headaches. The unnecessary complexity. The pain.
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I used this tool in a very large engineering org (100+ engineers on the same project), and it really held up for our C and C++. I highly recommend this tool for anyone considering what to do about builds with c/c++ and don't want to hassle with overwrought things like waf or scons.
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You pay a little, you get a little scaling.

You pay a lot, you get a lotta scaling.
[unsubstantiated armchair physics ahead]

One benefit of this approach I can see is that you don't, in theory, need transmitters and receivers to be in line of sight for a clear signal. If you are doing standard radio transmissions, it helps if there isn't a planet between you and the transmitter. With entanglement equipment on both ends, this is irrelevant.

You will also not be bothered by signal degradation. The real head-scratcher of quantum entanglement lies in that it works over any distance. The 'transfer' of state between particles is identical, whether the twin is sitting 1 meter or a million light years away.

But as the other commenters mentioned, you are still very much bound by the speed of light. So propagating state changes between entangled particles separated by 1 light year, will still take 1 year.
Sad day for space travel.

This happened between 10:07am and 10:13am

[0] https://twitter.com/AlteredDeal/status/528246983803564032

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/ctid/197

https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/528254343024111616/photo/1

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic
One of the big benefits to having a talent agent is that they negotiate your rate of pay, with an incentive to maximize it since they're paid a percentage.

It's a little different from consulting shops that might want to maximize the rate the customer pays, but often pockets any 'extra', with your rate staying the same.

Talent agents also know the market infinitely better than the talent does, since it's their day to day job to deal with the going rates.

Add in the benefit of them getting to play the 'bad guy' in negotiations if need be, so you can keep good personal relations with the client. Hell, a good agent is practically expected to be pushy.

For top talent doing short term freelance work, it would definitely have some benefits.
How about

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Nasaspaceflight.com has reports saying one pilot has been found alive and another didn't make it.

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=35117.270

What a terrible week. :(
Hi -- I checked out your other comments. I really like your perspective. If you would be willing to chat with me, I'm graduating in December and looking for the next opportunity. Email in profile, if you're interested/have time. Thanks.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/SS2?src=hash for reference
(Ozgun from Citus Data)

This benchmark confuses CitusDB with PostgreSQL + cstore_fdw extension. CitusDB scales out PostgreSQL to multiple machines, and cstore is a columnar store for PostgreSQL. The author has a clarification posted at the end.

For single node Postgres + cstore numbers on TPC-H, we found that a few simple changes notably help. 1/ Analyze on foreign tables + increasing work_mem helps join queries by 2-4x, and 2/ Using the double precision instead of the numeric type increases aggregate function performance by 6x.

Lastly, we agree that vectorized execution can result in notable performance wins! See https://github.com/citusdata/postgres_vectorization_test for some initial work. We hope to incorporate some of MonetDB's vectorized execution features in cstore_fdw in the future.
Yep. Long story short, if I could send information instantaneously, thanks to relativity, if we're moving away at a fast enough speed, you could send me a message and I could reply to you before you sent it. ;)
I have no idea how you guys are going to be able to pull this off, but I hope it works. I made a small contribution. Good luck!
This has less information than the numbers Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn released. There manager vs non manager breakdowns but what about tech vs not tech? I'm fairly disappointed to see so little information from Amazon.

http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html

http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/06/building-a-more-diverse-...

http://blog.linkedin.com/2014/06/12/linkedins-workforce-dive...
Harry Connick Jr's beat switcheroo is masterful.
Pingable Matter: This is a hammer
One thing is that there is still strong usage of terms like blood-line, half-blood and blue-blood in English within fantasy novels and period dramas, however the reason they are popular in those settings is precisely because they feel so archaic.
This is not a state proposition, it is a local city measure.
It also shows you how little someone might value their time. If I take a 20 minute walk or ride to get something which could be had 1 minute away, I better be able to save a whole lotta bills.
Only a few people can make remote work for them. Its hard, you have be very focused and well planned. And you have to find other social opportunities. I dont see a lot of companies, specially startups allowing it.
Quantum computers are devastating to a lot of encryption, maybe moreso than we can yet demonstrate. I think crypto will evolve, and what we consider secure today will be as compromised as WW2 crypto is today.
Poll: What type of smartphone and/or tablet do you use?
My objective for this poll is to figure out three metrics:

1. How many people here use each of the three main mobile OSes on their smartphones;

2. How many people here actively use tablets;

3. How many tablet users prefer each of the three main OSes.

If you have more than one device in the same category (say you have both an iPad and a Nexus 7) pick the one you use/love the most in your spare time.
iPhone, no tablet
Android phone, no tablet
Windows phone, no tablet
Other phone, no tablet
No phone, no tablet
iPhone, iPad
iPhone, Android tablet
iPhone, Windows tablet
iPhone, Other tablet
Android phone, iPad
Android phone, Android tablet
Android phone, Windows tablet
Android phone, Other tablet
Windows phone, iPad
Windows phone, Android tablet
Windows phone, Windows tablet
Windows phone, Other tablet
Other phone, iPad
Other phone, Android tablet
Other phone, Windows tablet
Other phone, Other tablet
No phone, iPad
No phone, Android tablet
No phone, Windows tablet
No phone, Other tablet
Can anyone vouch for those services? Are they worth it?
On top of what Art said, it's simply smart business for him to come out as gay in this manner. Look at all the talk it's generating for him and the company he works for.

And it has positive social consequences to boot.
And here's a link to a comment from a HNer claiming to have just got a certificate for the very same facebook's .onion address:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8539066
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Ignoring for a minute that you're the one that inexplicably brought post-modernism into the discussion (and even more inexplicably tie it to anti-empiricism)...

What empirically shows diversity is bad? Empirically speaking, certain groups are underrepresented in hard science. Empirically speaking, intelligence differences between those groups is somewhere between highly disputed and nonexistent. Therefore, a well-managed company would seek to exploit that arbitrage opportunity.

edit: Empirically, good working environments improve business results. Most decent people see the benefit in a diverse workforce in furthering that goal. And it would be beneficial if it just weeded out the types of personalities that are strongly averse to diversity.
Had my first acid trip a few weeks ago at a friend's place. I had brought my netbook to do some work on the train.

Midway through the trip I thought, "Wait a minute! My eyes are so open now. I can see patterns and bigger pictures like never before in my life. If I try doing some programming right now my abilities will be godlike."

I opened up my netbook, fired up Vim and was immediately distracted by the blinking cursor going up and down.
I've seen a lot of big-hearted attempts to bring Hypercard back. I haven't seen a convincing (to me) analysis of why it sputtered out in the first place. Without that knowledge, I don't think any resuscitations can succeed.
I actually missed it the first two times I read it. So yeah, I want one now. Thanks for pointing it out to me.

I guess this means I won't be switching back to Android for a while now, just to see how my WP8 and this work together.
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To me the antithesis to this line of thought is a scene from Star Trek Next Gen where Geordi is on the holodeck and instructs the computer to create a table, then goes thru a few iterations (4?) before he gets something similar to what he wanted. Did he say actually say "that'll do"? I don't recall. Makes me think there are unintended consequences here.
This person is claiming to report from the scene: https://twitter.com/spacecom
News reports cited that witnesses said they only saw a single chute. Very sad day indeed.
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My comment (also on Reddit).

The problem with our current crop of rightists and science and scholarship (sometimes perceived as "bias") is the "Fox News effect." Scientists and scholars wish to determine and understand reality---and reality has a well known Liberal bias. (Think climate change, evolution, etc., etc.)

I'm willing to listen to anyone, but I am going to judge them by the standards of science and scholarship. If they are not serious about those standards, they are only worth listening to in order to determine the latest right-wing myths.

Note there are certainly people on the left who are not members of the reality based community, but at this moment those on the right are the biggest threat to science and scholarship (I omit political topics) and, in the case of climate change, our lives
> nothing more than what clever and dedicated people could do

_All_ patents are "nothing more than what clever and dedicated people could do".

I'm not defending this particular patent, I just wanted to refute that part of your argument.
Every tax will do two things: raise revenue and modify behavior. Usually, the purpose of the tax is the former, but you need to remember that the latter will still happen.

In the case of income tax, you raise revenue but you change behavior in a negative way (discouraging work). If you instead tax vices and consumption, you can raise money while not causing negative behavior changes (and maybe instead causing good behavior changes).

However, as the parent comment pointed out, you have to really look deeply at a tax to figure out how it will affect behavior. It won't always be in the desired way.
Yeah, I'd be interested in an invite if at all possible. I'll be the first to admit, though, that I tend to lurk and read more than actively comment.
As the saying goes, the art of taxation is to pluck as many feathers from the goose with it flocking away.

So in practice, governments will try to tax anything that's "easy" to tax -- i.e. generate revenue while not making people protest, flee, or hide it in the black market. So you see a lot of taxes on heavily monitored, hard-to-hide, hard-to-do-without stuff, like fuel, real estate, cars, and income.[1]

There isn't much logic to it beyond, "hey this is an easy way to get revenue". And in this case, it got unusual blowback.

With that said, the political support for a tax is indeed governed by considerations of justice or "who should pay", and in this case, the answer came in the negative.

[1] Not everyone owns cars or real estate, but they use them in some way.
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I don't see how this would work with an oculus. This gives a 360 view looking outward, but walking around something needs 360 looking inward. That said, an oculus could be a great "monitor" to sit and look around while this video is playing "around" you! You just can't move :)
Honestly, there is now way on earth I'd allow my company to use Slack given their Termination clause. It's a nice idea, but total loss of control of your data is just not worth it.

<snip>
We also reserve the right to terminate your account (or the access privileges of any end user) and this TOS at any time for any reason, or no reason, with or without notice. Upon termination of your account, we will have no obligation to maintain or provide Your Data, and will delete or destroy all copies of Your Data in our possession or control, in a reasonably expedient way, unless legally prohibited.
</snip>
A YouTube link to the Taj Mahal concert mentioned:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HQOJQHJ8Sg
While I can't imagine how tragic this must be for the families of the pilots, I just want to say that one of the pilots has given his everything for this cause: that one day we will not be a one-planet species.

For that alone, all involved are heroes.
Anything Less Than Superintelligence
From https://twitter.com/virgingalactic

> Virgin Galactic's partner Scaled Composites conducted a powered test flight of #SpaceShipTwo earlier today.

> During the test, the vehicle suffered a serious anomaly resulting in the loss of SpaceShipTwo. WK2 landed safely.

> Our first concern is the status of the pilots, which is unknown at this time.

> We will work closely with relevant authorities to determine the cause of this accident and provide updates ASAP.
Condolences to the friends and family of anyone who may have perished in this event.

While this is a major set-back and bummer, at the same time it is far better that something like this happen during a test than during a commercial flight. Whatever the design, manufacturing, or process issues are, they will now be sussed out reducing the chance of a failure later on.

I sincerely hope this is not such a huge set-back that it totally derails Virgin/Scaled's approach as I love the fact that we have competing commercial concepts working at the same time.
I used to have an agent. We tried really hard but companies pretty much refused to work with us or worked very reluctantly. I thought the deal was really good, I do my awesome work and my agent gets me in front of best places I could do that work, but unfortunately we couldn't make it work.

When I say hard, mostly we tried for few months and it didn't work.

P.S. To clarify, I would happily pay a cut from my rate to my agent, that was the deal. I wouldn't mind upfronting as well, but we both knew each other well.
The public key which is obviously brute-forceable…
UUIDv1 is in fact: server MAC Address+timestamp.
UUIDv2 is instead: UID+MAC Address+timestamp

The debate regarding the length is the same though.
> There's also the growth of institutional power that characterizes much of Fascism; that's usually associated with the Left

No, growth in institutional power is not "usually associated with the Left". Left and Right differ on who holds power and how it is used, authoritarian vs. libertarian split on the degree of institutional power.

In a sense, libertarian and left are both different generalizations of classical liberalism to a new environment -- in the environment in which classical liberalism arose, political and economic power were conjoined and distributing political power was equivalent to distributing economic power. Libertarianism (in ideal -- practical effects may differ) focusses on continuing distribution of formal political power by limiting the power of central political institutions even as economic power has become increasingly divorced from the central institutions, Leftism (again, in ideal) focusses on continuing distribution of economic power among individuals irrespective of whether its present locus in central political institutions or not.

Leftists will generally argue that distributing economic power is the best way of distributing political power, while Libertarians will argue the reverse.
Its very sad but inevitable. At this cutting edge of technology and human endeavour, accidents are bound to happen.
Seemed relevant given the hubbub about Facebook's Tor vanity address. I hold the record for longest "real word, proper case" prefix. This was done by loading an entire dictionary into oclvanitygen.

Unlike Tor addresses, you can actually do bespoke generation for other people without being able to get the private key. There are a few vanity pools that facilitate this, but unfortunately they don't reward partial work and aren't very popular.

I actually came up with a way to make a vanity address pool that would reward partial work, and got fairly fare along implementing it before I realized that the market for it is probably too small to be worth the trouble.
Actually, to me the first thought after seeing the URL was totally: "wow, I wonder what backronym they invented for the ugly wwwi suffix." And the others posts in this thread seem to confirm that this was the case, and that this prettification mechanism is actually quite common on Tor already.

Now, the other, more important for me observation is, that reportedly the TLS certificate is actually worth close to nothing, and giving false security, as a HNer claims to have got a valid cert issued for this very same facebook's .onion address already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8539066 -- if I understand correctly, cert issuers seem to happily accept any .onion URLs in "alternative addresses" in SSL certs without any verification. Anybody else could confirm/deny?
S/W Engineer. That pay scale is current trend in most good IT companies. Most of my friends in similar experience/field getting this, and I asked for that range too based on current trend.
Rest assured that you will be banned eventually if you continue like that, but the proper first step is to tell someone what they are doing wrong, rather than ban them outright.
Don't read the comments... Don't read the comments... Don't read the - aw shit. Scroll scroll scroll away as fast as possible.
Totall agree. These people are the modern day seafarers. Heading out into unknown waters.
Operator Blew Up Antares Rocket Deliberately
The license absolutely doesn't encourage you to share. The technical complexity of managing a project might, but the license is purposely designed so anyone can take without giving.
Looks like that thread has moved out of the general discussion thread:

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=35974.60
The ship came down in pieces and there's debris littering the ground. It's not sounding like they all made it.

https://twitter.com/spacecom

This is awful. I hope that problems like this don't result in more regulations and barriers to private spaceflight. It's about as dangerous of a job as they come and we have to expect companies will lose men. Every astronaut is a hero for humanity and progress.
Url changed from http://www.kerngoldenempire.com/news/local/story/d/story/spa... because this one seems to have more information. If there's a better url, we can change it again.
I wish this were open-source. Citus could certainly still make money hosting or supporting the code.

But lack of sharing is what we get when major open-source projects do not choose the GPL.
"How about three-fiddy?"
It's not inevitable, as evidenced by all the other accidents that have been... evited. You just don't hear about those. (Yes, evited is a word, it's just weird.)
How much Java is Android, really? Knowledge of Java gets you nowhere if you want to develop apps for Android.

It may be very close to Java the syntax but it's very far from Java the language or Java the runtime. And the syntax is not really the appealing part of Java.
It takes a kilowatt laser to lift a gram. A megawatt laser to lift a kilogram. A gigawatt laser to lift a metric ton.

Biggest chemical laser so far is about a megawatt. The laser diode people are making real progress, into the kilowatt range (http://teradiode.com/technology/) but gigawatt laser array are still a ways off.

A Saturn V at launch was 190 gigawatts.
Does it deploy Redmine/rails apps to Google cloud??

On another note.. Is it only me who finds Google cloud Eco system confusing? Compared to AWS of course.
GlassDoor and PayScale are great for general statistical research and "ballpark" analysis of offer information. But they're way less valid for the startup world, since equity grants are so wonky depending on stage, etc. Even within big companies, there is a ton of variance in terms of which orgs may be more or less generous, etc.

tl;dr they are no good at saying what you should earn.

Also, there is definitely a ton of salary and negotiation "advice" out there. But many of the people we work with, already tried reading it or talking to friends, etc. There is an enormous amount of stress and pressure at the last-mile, and a few essays in no way compare to someone with institutionalized knowledge actively working with you over Skype, coffee, or on the phone.

One of the first ideas I had in the space was a better Glassdoor of sorts. I discarded it quickly. http://offerletter.io is, fundamentally, very different.
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What's the stance on clearly hateful comments like these, are we removing them from HN yet or are we going to continue to embarrass ourselves?
Here's some background after reading a little bit of Wikipedia...

- Virgin Galactic has ordered a total of 5 SpaceShipTwos from the aptly named "The Spaceship Company".

- There are 2 built, the VSS (Virgin Space Ship) Enterprise and VSS Voyager.

- Only the VSS Enterprise has been flown, so I assume that is the ship which crashed today.

This is a sad day, indeed.