skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should ask on the fsharp-opensource[1] mailing list; a large portion (maybe even a majority) of the posters on there are using Mac/Linux/BSD for their F# development/deployment.

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fsharp-opensource
If they are discharged, yes.
I occasionally see the rise of the single-breadwinner family where a woman has a job celebrated as forward progress for gender equality or something, but that's misguided. Frankly, a lot of men are just unable to work and then their families are forced to subsist on the woman's job, which still pays, on average, less. Newspapers talk a lot about high-powered female executives with stay-at-home husbands and so on, but that's a small sliver, not somehow representative of the trend.
The situation about gays in Russia, i.e. "being a homosexual will land you in jail" is a meme that Western Corporate Media wants you to believe. Read the facts: http://gallery.mailchimp.com/d0e55f3197099944345708652/files...
you guys rock. simple pricing, great UI, quick console access in the browser and my resizes take seconds instead of minutes.

keep up the good work.
Parallel programming is a waste of time, obviously.
One entire million injured? Something must be off there, otherwise the injury rate would be ludicrously high relative to the small number of troops we had in the wars.
Regarding the first problem, as someone else said, 'Remember how awesome PulseAudio was? Imagine that for PID 1!'
Wow, this really looks like it's going to be a farce trial. I wonder in how many other cases "the accused is dangerous - better keep witnesses secret" rhetoric will be used to pervert justice. Especially if the "murder" accusations can simply be made up!
This is good, no ads. Anyone can share files but if you don't have ads you can't scale and if you are making money by having ads you become a target.
I would go as far as to say that governmental European leaders are anti-Europe.

If they wanted to make Europeans sick of EU they wouldn't do a better job.
I don't think the majority of the long-term unemployed are unemployed because they're working on tech startups.
Exactly. Recurring support commitment = recurring payment. And it should be highly profitable for you.
It is better than nothing I suppose.
I suppose what you are saying is that prosecuting someone for a trial by a jury of their peers (with access to the best defense you can imagine) is much worse than poisoning people with radioactive materials??

At the end of the day, Snowden was a member of the U.S. Intelligence community and entrusted with classified information and, for better or worse, he willfully broke the law. What do you expect, that he would not be prosecuted? Do you think if that happened in Russia, Putin would have any reservation from assassinating him before he managed to flee to his biggest foe and reveal who-knows-what to earn his welcome?
Every time a lookup is performed, isn't it linearly looking through the table to find that key... That doesn't sound like a hash! Maybe am missing something here.
Do you think he was entrapped or do you think the government manufactured evidence of attempted assassinations out of whole cloth?
‘The Circle’ written by David Eggers and published this year, is a modern day twist on 1984 but it seemed so real and so close to where we are heading as a digital society. I recommend it, especially for those in the tech space. It was a fun fictional page turner and I couldn’t put it down for the week.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Circle-Dave-Eggers/dp/0345807294
> but new verbs formed in English are never formed as irregular verbs

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/twote#English

Granted, it's definitely not winning out over "tweeted".
The whole foundation of capitalism is growth so if we're embracing zero-growth we have to radically change things. (in short, yes, companies hiring and spending is an unalloyed good on the macroeconomic level)
> People in the military, prison and institutions are excluded from these figures.

One of these is not like the other…

Everyone in the military (at least, who's not also imprisoned) should count as fully-employed.
For context, this is https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=3354

JSPerf test case has misleading name: it has nothing to do with inline caching, but it is indeed related to inlining heuristics. V8 uses source size in heuristics for historical reasons and source size includes comments (see the issue above for more info).

Saying that comments slow down your code by 70% is an exaggeration: if you remove all comments from your code it is unlikely that you will get 70% speedup across the board on V8, though potentially you might get some. Test case is really written in a way that highlights the issue, because loop itself is tight, it's doing nothing but a monomorphic function call and target function also is doing mostly nothing - this makes inlining of the callee essential for peak performance here. It is unlikely however that your code contains a lot of loops like this.
This quickly becomes cumbersome when you have dozens or hundreds of tags, and doesn't address tag values.
Well, it seems like Google salaries are very capable of sustaining a familly in Zurich: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Salaries-E9079.htm

And that's US salaries (the website only offers a free preview.. yada yada).

I think Google generally thinks the cost of a talented enigineer is justified, and switching locations will of course represent a cost, but probably not such a big one in the great scheme of things.
Shortly before meeting m'lady, I'd nearly paid off the house and otherwise driven my expenses to near zero. The prospect of withdrawing from the system ("going Galt") was becoming a realistic option; grow much/most of my food (as my folks had growing up), find a mundane job in walking/biking distance (notable as I lived in the country), and spend my time writing what software I wanted and puttering in a back-to-basics life. We live in a culture of cheap abundance, and if un-hitched and rent/mortgage-free then very little work effort is needed to get by in a comfortable, if humble, lifestyle. (Then I met m'lady, and life got very expensive very fast.)
And there goes the whole entertainment industry + advertisement industry debate. Channels do not put adverts to sustain their content, they put content to sustain their adverts.
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> The real question is WHY is Putin cracking down on threat to his power?

Sounds like a rhetorical question but I don't guess the answer. Do you mean Putin is doing it because of the civilian unrest?

> Demonizing Putin is what your government wants you to do to avoid seeing the bigger picture.

No-one is demonizing Putin, they're telling facts. The bigger picture is, censorship is bad, and if US defends the freedom of opinion in Russia, it's good because we can turn those arguments back to the US gov.
>>toothless

Don't know who you are but I'll happy if citizens of the West will be under an impression that nuclear weapons will never be used. For many reasons.
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It's not as though if everyone were a Harvard-educated brainiac it would suddenly be possible for everyone to have high-paying jobs.
Not more than a week, e.g. a broadcast recording of Pokemon S17E46 (broadcast Dec 6) is present.
This is exactly what the whole row over the Chinese government "banning puns" was about. The Daily Show did a pretty funny segment on it[1] but they sort of missed the point because something was lost in translation. The ban on puns is a ban on using puns / homophones to dodge keyword censorship in the media and online.

[1]http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/g4fquh/a-measured-discussi...
Powered by Isohunt? Now that's interesting!

Have to agree about the old database, and the search ain't all that accurate. But still, nice finding.
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Is this common practice for other organized crime trials? When a Mafia don or drug kingpin get prosecuted, do the witnesses remain secret?
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The broadest factor is US food politics. And that's far easier to fix than trying to cure cancer - end market manipulation that keep the costs of some goods artificially high and the others artificially low.

Somehow instead we've created a food economy where the absolute worst food for you, even though it's not very economical to grow, is far cheaper because of the disincentive to produce things like cheese and non-bovine livestock and the incentive to grow corn.
I don't agree that TPB created this Internet, it was existing before.

Internet, de facto (kill 1 server and the network still works), and web sites, social network, and people using them are a lean mean copying machine, everything is build around that very same principle: how to distribute (and share) data fast and efficiently to the biggest number.

Before TPB, you had ppl cracking software, other ppl organising "copy party", then burning CDs, FTP, IRC, binary usenet, etc.

After TPB, a lot of "mini" pirate bay all over the place by the thousands.

And even more ways to copy and share files on the Internet.

To me, it's Napster happening again.
I don't agree that TPB created this Internet, it was existing before.

Internet, de facto (kill 1 server and the network still works), and web sites, social network, and people using them are a lean mean copying machine, everything is build around that very same principle: how to distribute (and share) data fast and efficiently to the biggest number.

Before TPB, you had ppl cracking software, other ppl organising "copy party", then burning CDs, FTP, IRC, binary usenet, etc.

After TPB

I don;t know there is probably 1000 and 1 ways to copy and share files i

No, what is sad is that the same thing happened in 2001 with Napster and it is just happening again with The Pirate Bay, even a decade does not change some corporation mentality.

Provided that TPB is really shut down for good, what is that same thing that will happen ?

A lot of "mini" pirate bay all over the place by the thousands, simply put: unstoppable.

You can not approach this problem by shutting down web sites or blocking them or the people using them, hoping you will punish them enough so they will change their habits.

People are social (FB, twitter, g+, etc.), they do like to share stuff and it will never stop, ever.
Ideas come from somewhere, not sure from where it is. I do believe that everything you read, watch or listen is somehow "stored" and influences how you think and the ideas you have. Once I have an idea, I try to share it with friends and/or colleagues to see if they approach the problem/idea as I did and how differently they look at it. I usually write it down so that I can go back months later and think about it again. Sometimes they seem ridiculous, other times they seem just different.

Keep reading, watching, listening and sharing your knowledge and ideas. Keep your eyes and your mind open and try to understand how other people think and how they see the world (traveling and getting to know different cultures might help a lot on that).
to add to what others have said, what they censored was 八九 (eight-nine) and not 八十九 (eighty nine), and 六四 (six-four) not 六十四 (sixty four).

It's the same as "Nine Eleven" having a completely different meaning from "Nine One One" or "Ninety One".
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One tactic has been increasing product placements in the shows themselves. For example when the iPad was released, Modern Family on ABC did an entire show about how badly one of the characters wanted to get one. It was basically an entertaining 30 minute ad for the iPad.

The push in NBC for this sort of paid placement was so strong that the show 30 Rock mocked it repeatedly in their storylines.
They're not going to add it, because they want to always increase, not decrease, the number of people addicted to their ecosystem.
Speaking in favor of gay rights is considered propaganda and was made illegal last year.
OS X tagging is sometimes handy for tasks over a short time frame. Picking out photos to upload to FB? Scan through them all and hit cmd-6 on the ones you want, maybe cmd-7 on the ones you need to crop. Sure you could use Bridge, Aperture, etc. but having it built in to the OS is nice.
The case you mention is clearly exceptional. It does not explain the huge rise in obesity over the last few decades.

To clarify: when I say "obesity is a moral disease" I'm talking about obesity as a social trend, not a specific overweight person - those can have very good explanations... but the majority don't, imho.
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> I don't feel the industry really needs that many programmers.

That's definitely false, at least in the US.
> If your future economic prospects require ever increasing consumption then surely there's a problem; resources are finite.

Yeah, that's the inherent contradiction of capitalism. But unless someone comes along with a different system we're probably stuck with that for a while.
> Speaking in favor of gay rights is considered propaganda and was made illegal last year.

That's false.

EDIT: Again, the statement above is false. It is legal to speak in favor of gay rights. It is illegal for adults to speak in favor of gay rights TO MINORS. Much like it is legal to have sex. And illegal for adults to have sex with minors.
This article is terribly written. It reads like a fluff piece written by a lazy junior high school student. Which it very well may be for all I can tell.

To start, it quotes "a blog posted to HN" as a source, and then links to the HN thread, not the blog post itself. That's like quoting a wikipedia article as a primary document. At least link to the actual blog article.

Following that, the author attempts to debunk concerns about Uber's data collection purely by quoting Uber's own PR. He/she wraps up by using some unintroduced 3rd party app to show that your data is secure from mtm attacks. Ugh.

The worst part is, the post that this is attempting to debunk is problematic and greatly flawed. Any time there's one of these freak-outs about what permissions a popular app is granted on people's phones, its almost always way overblown or taken completely out of context. It should be shooting fish in a barrel, but the author completely missed anyway.
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There's really no need for the comparisons. Both versions are terrible, who cares which is worse. How we go about fixing it should be the topic of discussion.
They're based on OpenStack where DO rolled out their own system, I believe. On the upside, you can use all the CLI tools (nova, etc) that come with OpenStack, existing software should be compatible, and you get some of the additional cloud features (object storage, security groups). On the downside, the panel isn't as nice. The "expert mode" is just OpenStack's Horizon.

But the servers, the instances themselves, are not really any different. I benchmarked the cheapest one for ServerBear[1] a few days ago.

The one thing I miss is IPv6. DO is ahead here.

Would it be OK if I plugged my referral link[2]? With it, you get $10 to test things out.

[1] http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2014/12/09/ZyiLDuXgJGD577Eo

[2] http://runabove.me/QEME
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More cores => smoother web browsing experience.

When going from 1->4 cores, agreed. When going from 4->16->64 cores I'm not convinced. Especially if those 64 cores are slower and have less cache.
This site also seems to work: http://thepiratebay.cr/
We hear a lot about Russian dissidents leaving Russia because they have their freedom limited. Snowden and Julian Assange have had their freedom limited to much more so than any of the Putin dissidents. (With the exception of the possibility that a couple of them have been assassinated)

Assange has a TV show on Russian state television, and Snowden is a guy who fled to Russia with literally thousands of stolen NSA documents and now does TV propaganda with Vladimir Putin. Those are not dissidents. Those are Russian agents, whether they realize it or not.
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I've begun to like having '+' and '+.' operators in OCaml. Not that I'm never tripped up, I often am, but I can never hide implicit conversions.

Another thing to consider is how you would implement having '+' for both integers and floats. In a language like C, '+' is designed for its numerical types, but what if you want to use it for big ints? Or for vectors? In a language like C++ you can overload operators, in Haskell or Rust operators are part of a typeclass or trait respectively; you need to add extra features to the language and the code generated by '+' is no longer a simple iadd or dadd instruction.

OCaml's choice may not be the best one or the most popular one, but I think it works fine.
They've been around a lot longer and have a lot of expertise. I think you'll find that they'll perform better during benchmarking of hardware and have superior network performance and uptime (I've personally experienced times where the entire DO network dropped offline for minute(s)). Their support is great too. I recommend reading up on a few comparison blogs if you wish; just make sure they were written recently and are comparing apples with apples.

But I think the general consensus amongst a lot of people is that DO are better suited to devs wanting to play around and Linode are better for when you want something more than that or want to push something to prod.

edit: now that I think of it, DO developed a reputation for terminating VMs with no notice if you violate their terms or do other things. I personally had my VMs terminated because I signed up for 2 accounts with the same IP. Imagine if I was hosting production content on there....
No, thanks. Hackers themselves should better know the right meaning of the word. Going with the flow? What was that about, this site has Hacker in the name if you didn't notice ;)
Given the huge ambitions of the project maintainers and how everyone's rushing to adopt it even amidst sloppy integration work, yes, the criticism is worth it.

"The alternatives are certainly not perfect" is no consolation. At all. Especially considering the vast majority were never fairly considered to begin with.
Yes, wonderful. The wretched of the earth are a huge untapped market with tons of disposable income.
As of 2011, there were 3.5M disabled veterans, of which 800K were receiving significant disability benefits.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_...
Graphite is awesome:
We graph lots and lots of things. we have two datastore servers, and each of them has a static write load of about 60 megs a second (bear in mind that each update is less than 100bytes) we have many thousands of updates a second.

But why is it awesome? because it almost eliminates the need for log shipping. 90% of the time we can diagnose most problems with just graphs. Something is running slow? well we can see which server it is by looking at load, response time and queue size.

Because we are not doing silly things like parsing logs to gain metrics, we don't need a hadoop system. We plumb metrics collection directly into Cgroups (the primitive that docker uses) so we can get per process metrics (disk, memory, cpu etc)

The only time we need logs are when we are really stuck, or diagnosing a specific issue like "why" it went wrong, not what has gone wrong.
> just "these guys"? everyone will be screwed.

Why? I'm pretty sure I'll be totally fine in retirement (predicted savings of $5M+).
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It's apparently this story:

http://www.ibtimes.com/va-stops-releasing-data-injured-vets-...

Which I think uses these numbers:

http://www.publichealth.va.gov/epidemiology/reports/oefoifon...

Which are the numbers of veterans that accessed VA facilities for health care, not the numbers of veterans that were injured (disabling injuries are one of the major eligibility factors for the VA, but there are other veterans that would also be eligible for VA services).
It's not similar. BlinkDB builds upon the work on sampling-driven approximate SQL query processing (an early project in that space was AQUA@Bell Labs), and extends it to cloud/HDFS setting.

Although some terms come up in both places (e.g., confidence bounds, noise, etc), BlinkDB and probabilistic databases are fundamentally different from each other (I have worked on both topics).
I had the same sort of annoyances, but instead of whining, I simply ditched it for now. I don't see why people have such a problem doing this.
They are western dissidents, whether or not they are also Russian agents.

Its not uncommon for dissidents forced to resort to exile to be leveraged for propaganda purposes by regimes opposed to the ones with regard to which they are dissidents, but that doesn't make them any less dissidents.

Why do people want to make things exclusive that are not?
Some anti-fragility on the part of both Fedora and systemd would help here. Maybe a statically compiled init would be a start?
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It's because of the laws. Privacy laws, secrecy laws, tax laws, etc.
We do have such a tool. It's called make.
Maybe with that much experience they don't think they can afford him?
You have to be kidding. The Indians are poor because their degenerate culture causes them to be totally cool with poverty?
SOPA 2.0? I don't see how the linked language has anything to do with what SOPA was - this has to do with retention policies for incidentally acquired communications during intelligence gathering activities - specifically putting limits on how long such communications may be retained.
I think the reason they excluded those in the military is to allow an apples-to-apples comparison through time. It could be argued that the large number of draftees through the early 1970's forced some otherwise nonemployed into employment.
This site is a clone of kickass.so, the search results, seeders, and leechers are identical.
if you like systemd, use it, if you don't like it, don't.

That is so naive. No one chooses to use systemd. People choose a distro. It's being forced on long time users of distros without any of the users having a say.

Yeah, I can switch from one distro to another. That's a choice I have. But it's not so simple as you make it sound.