skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The infuriating part is that the people that don't think the software is worth the value they would pay then also feel entitled enough to pay nothing and use it anyway. Don't want to use my software because you don't think it's worth the cost? That's fine, but you don't get to act high and mighty about using it without paying for it.
How is MDBM for concurrent access? How does it handle locking (i.e., one big lock that blocks everyone else, or key-level locking)?
That sounds about right, actually. In practice, this shouldn't be a big deal for people who live in a house where WiFi reaches the garage, but I can see it being a PITA for anyone who lives in an apartment.
In a similar vein, x86 assembly in coq:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/nick/coqasm.pd...
I drive a newish Golf and all the tech available with the car was vastly overpriced. You want MP3? 800 bucks please. I just swapped the head unit for an aftermarket with all the things I wanted (with was just a BT receiver).

Right now I could just get a DIN2 system with Arduino and plug an OBD-II to the car to get info from the central unit, but what I have works for me.
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Agreed and thanks for the positive vibes. My MVP for this system was actually a small moleskin notebook and a to-do list stamp with three tasks from Etsy.

I found that without a daily reminder email, I forgot to write out my tasks for the day, so I built out a light-weight web app to scratch my own itch and build the habit.

I've also tried variations around the number of tasks with one thing, five things, ten things, etc. Three primary things a day seems to be best amount for me to compete each day, but I'm sure the number of tasks probably depends on personal preference.
> So maybe you should consider respecting someone who thinks taking his life and innocent lives to make a point, or at least respect the point he is trying to make.

"Even today it takes only the crudity of a persecution to give an otherwise completely indifferent sectarianism an honorable name. How? Does it change the value of a thing if someone gives his life for it? An error that has become honorable is an error which is that much more seductive."

> you cannot possibly ignore the fact that Sunde went to prison on his own for what he believed was right

Yes, but I don't find that in itself worthy of respect. Martyring yourself is a dramatic pose, a type of moralism that appeals to emotion and not reason. What Sunde did with his own personal life has absolutely nothing to do with the rightness or wrongness of TPB (btw I am entirely in favor of that sort of filesharing).

But this childish fetish our society has with idolizing people who "feel strongly" and "sacrifice" does us no credit. It just muddies the already murky waters of whatever topic is under debate. The fact that someone makes a sacrifice in favor of some belief or conviction simply makes no difference whatsoever as to the rightness or wrongness of that belief. It is only a symptom of the type of person s/he is. And I see no reason to respect the willingness to sacrifice as a virtue in itself, since one could sacrifice for "evil" (bad/stupid/harmful) ends.
It is a tax because it is imposed by the Government. It doesn't benefit people but some lobbies. That is true with all taxes to some extent, since a good amount of the money collected goes to subsidies or bailouts.
I'd say this is more of an argument against manufacturer installed systems. I've had a number of aftermarket systems and they've all performed better (plus an aftermarket system is $500-700 and can be swapped out for a newer model relatively easily).
Did you find that work environment to have been positively affected by the owner's strict standards for IQ?

I ask because I tend to agree with the OP. IQ tests assign points based on specific types of questions, which I'd argue aren't valuable in all circumstances. I think the point Magnus was making is that he doesn't think IQ is directly relevant to Chess, despite any correlation between those with high IQs and those who have been successful at the game.

I have worked with plenty of people with high IQs in academics and I can't imagine trying to work with them in an office. If anything, the job to which you are referring would have me worried due to such such strict adherence to an objective score that can fluctuate over time. Isn't five points right around the normal confidence interval for IQ tests?
I don't see it called out in the app's marketing, but one of the neat possibilities of having a separate app on the home screen is that you should be able to launch a workflow through Siri. And I think that's very cool
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Have you checked out the monthly "Who is hiring?" threads here on HN? They're posted on the first of each month, and all sorts of companies post job offers. It's always a long read, but well worth it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
Peter Thiel speech halted by Berkeley protestors
extensive renaming system depended files in connection with new release of golang
anyone that spent anytime on IRC could tell you all the groups all talked to each other and spent significant amounts of time in various IRC chans with each other.

They might have ./smurf.c'd each other constantly but they all pretty much came out of the same environment.
I saw a similar computation expression implementation in F# (for MSIL):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14110532/extended-computa...

https://github.com/kbattocchi/ILBuilder
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I used this book for a Game AI class and the examples were easy to consume with a good focus on using the methods in real games: http://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Games-Ian-Mill...

A little pricey, but my favorite intro book for this subject.
mdbm uses a file-backed mmap region so you're implicitly saying you do want some sort of persistence. Also, mlock locks the heap in RAM to keep it from being swapped - mdbm's regions aren't heap space.

There's a mmap flag on Linux called MAP_LOCKED but I'm not sure how it behaves with MAP_SHARED, which mdbm uses (the man page isn't clear).
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Nearly every phone I've seen in last few years has a WiFi access point feature. So shouldn't be a big issue even for apartment dwellers.
>Money represents work. When you do work, you get money.

Yet the people with the most money get that way by minimizing the amount of work they have to do?

Money _should_ represent the _value_ of decision-making exchanges. It represents whatever it takes to overcome barriers to cooperation and communication. You might call that 'work', but that's a very narrow view of the matter. Anytime someone overcomes a barrier to communication or cooperation, they are producing value.

_Most_ of this value is not captured by any monetary system, and in fact, most of our monetary systems capture biased and unrepresentative portions of that value, and thus can be manipulated far easier than desired.

It has nothing to do with 'work.' Manipulating measures of value doesn't overcome barriers, it reinforces them. Creating unnecessary obstacles for people is not valuable, even if people are payed to do it, despite the fact that it is work.
At the very least it clarifies with actual metrics how terrible the service is.
Actually they'll lose money if they keep running Google News Spain.
I really hope that's not true. This is not Slashdot.

Any reference for that?
So, when a movie has made $100 million and I buy a download for $5, how much of that goes to the ordinary workers (not rights holders, not first rank actors)? I'm going with none. Once the show breaks even the people who worked on it have been paid their wages. There's no argument of loss of income to make. Sure you can argue the rights holders deserve their extra millions (or cents) but your argument on loss of wages is void then.

So I torrent a movie, Avatar say, and now I should go to jail for several years and pay a fine that bankrupts me?

Whilst if I take a packet of cigarettes from a shop - about the same sales value - I get a fine of $20 and maybe if I'm really unlucky a night in a cell.

This is a complete disparity of punishment. The only reason for it to be like this is media interests owning the political process to such an extent that they can buy preferential treatment before the law.

And what's worse, is that the shop owner will get nothing, no police will help with their loss despite it being a physical good. Whilst for the movie rights holder, despite the actual loss being virtually zero (if not actually negative as sales can follow directly from the action) they get massive aid from the legal system and incomprehensibly large punishments on their behalf. Copyright infringement should by rights be a tort too.
Thats a lot for the excellent answer, Greg! Really appreciate it :)
Think the idea here is to highlight how punctual (or not) certain trains are over the last few weeks, and enable you to avoid those regularly delayed trains.

It's not meant too identify individual train journeys that were late; Having a filter suggested would only work for trains that were >30mins late / cancelled, which is going to be exceptional and therefore not very useful for the main purpose of the site.
Google News to close up shop in Spain
The whole thing reeks of NIH and some poor saps trying to save their butts by trying to be forcefully relevant.

Apple and Google already solved the UI problem - you don't need to have the damned ugly in-car UI anymore. Just stick decent hardware with Android Auto and CarPlay support and be done with it. Make decent looking apps for each platform to provide functionality outside of platform supported features.

I just don't understand why on earth would Ford need to have their own system with QNX, WiFi updates and Maps that are not free. What problem does it solve that is worth solving at the expense of reinventing the wheel and making users deal with yet another system?

Edit: One way Ford to justify it is to think of the non-SmartPhone, non-Apple, non-Google users. Though in terms of numbers, at least in the US this bunch is a tiny minority. Ford could give them a Moto G free with every Car for not having to pay for QNX licensing fees, maps and updates etc.! OR they could limit the QNX based independent system to lower end cars and make the higher end ones compatible with Android Auto and CarPlay.

There's also the question of longevity - what if in 2017 Apple and Google stop being compatible with the older version of Carplay/Auto compatible implementation Ford shipped in their 2014 car? What if users switched to non-Apple, non-Android phones? In that case it would make the in-car system useless for the user. So given people use cars for way longer than SmartPhones - I guess it makes some sense for Ford to have an independent system.

Regardless they should still rid themselves of the NIH and stick with Android based UI and not have their own based on QNX. That part hardly makes sense.
What's the over/under on when App Review yanks it from the store?
I have already admitted my obvious biases, but seriously - when you design such a trivially corruptible system, you can't call it a persistent database; it's at most a cache. It won't survive a system crash at all, it probably won't survive an application crash intact either. To call it persistent is laughable.
Interestingly, not a single mention of the word Blackberry in the entire article. Not that it's required, QNX is being pushed as a separate brand but still, makes me wonder if that is intentional. Scoring Ford for QNX is a pretty nice win for Blackberry.
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Your (5*) iOS app reviews[1] are obviously astroturfing and written in terrible marketing-speak. No one speaks like that. It leaves me with a bad impression of your company.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gridcraft-powerful-cloud-spr...
You _hate_ the Benchmarks Game because … ?
ADA at university - never touched it again. It was ADA 83, and the ADA 95 object extensions looked horrible.

I remember seeing PL/SQL circa Oracle 8i and it looking a lot like ADA.
I work a bit out of town, in Walton-on-Thames, and need to make a connection in Woking each evening. Four minutes late adds thirty minutes to my journey, and seeing which trains are routinely late, day after day after fucking day, despite the fact that there are effectively no trains on the track ahead of it (this section of track has four lines, two fast and two slow, so the slow train pretty much has the line to itself) is massively valuable.
> Surely it is only respectable if the content of the conviction is also respectable.

Point in case: Would we be having this discussion if Sunde went to jail for a strong conviction in believing that a given race is inherently and naturally inferior to his own? I would submit a vote of "not likely", because I doubt very many people would find themselves respecting his conviction, if that were the case.
Haskell is similar in this sense. And Golang (IIRC, only coded a few hundred lines in it two years ago). Example from a Haskell REPL, where Haskell won't even upcast an Int (machine int) to an Integer (unbounded int, python style):

Prelude> let a = 1 :: Int
Prelude> let b = 2 :: Integer
Prelude> a+b

<interactive>:4:3:
Couldn't match expected type `Int' with actual type `Integer'
In the second argument of `(+)', namely `b'
In the expression: a + b
In an equation for `it': it = a + b
$700??

I bought a great Sony double-DIN head unit for like $250 and installed it myself. Now I have bluetooth handsfree + audio streaming and it make the stock speakers in my car sound amazing.

Best car upgrade ever.
Considering every sysadmin spent yesterday uninstalling rollup 8 for Exchange 2010 and KB3004394, I'm very worried that MS, as an organization, has fallen from grace on a level never before seen. On top of a million other issues like the failure of Office 2013 and Windows 8 in general.

I imagine the politics at Microsoft still remain at, "Catch up to Apple, make our own iPad, iPhone, etc" instead of delivering a good product in the dozen other realms they compete in. Of course the automakers were going to ditch the MS product. Its substandard.

I really wish MS would find a way to up their game. Nadella's tenure isn't looking so bright 8 months in. Not sure if MS is salvageable, to be honest. I sometimes think how much better the products would be if Clinton actually tried to split up the enterprise stuff from the home stuff during the anti-trust settlement, instead of allowing MS to continue as-is and continue to force IE6 on the web for 4 or 5 more years than it deserved to.
Very interesting. I always wanted a solution to asynchronously replicate 100's of GBs over long distances.

I've longingly looked at Intermezzo/Coda a long time ago but it never went anywhere; played with block level replication (lvmsync), but it doesn't allow concurrent use; in the end, the only solution I had to fall back on was rsync (which needs to iterate over the entire directory structure, crazy expensive) and git and/or unison (both of which can't cope with many GBs).

I'm going to give orifs a try.
Rain got heavy about an hour ago in Los Altos and the water started rising pretty quickly. I'd keep an eye on this one today.
Was this built in Swift or Obj-C?
I think, perhaps, the reason its not "as bad" is precisely because of the preparations and warnings.
Maybe this is Blackberry's chance to pivot to a different market?
Bummed that these icons don't show emacs being corrupted from within by the seductive allure of vim.
Car companies probably don't want a vendor lock-in. Android Auto and CarPlay may be two options but what if one goes away or becomes unattractive in the future?
> Anyone else do something similar? How did you recover?

Very human situation -- turns out that interviews and auditioning aren't always the ideal environment to evaluate talent. There's still time to salvage the situation.

Send the hiring executive a note today-- be candid "I totally choked, would you be amenable to a do-over? I'd like to show you that I really know my stuff."

Personal disclosure, learning, and good humor are desirable team member qualities. The worst they can do is say no.
The big problem with this article is that it is going about things all wrong. $10 in 1964 goes a hell of a lot further than $10 today.

The author makes the point that cars were worse, TVs sucked, and basically that consumer goods were worse. I posit that that is not a reasonable metric. Consider this statement:

I say I prefer $100k today to $100k in 1964, that being a nominal rather than a real comparison. If you are not convinced, try comparing $1 million or $1 billion (nominal) today to 1964. For some income level, we have seen net deflation.

If that preference is made, the author is thinking like a consumer. How much real-estate could you buy for 100K in 1964? How much investing could you do? How much long-term security do you think you could accrue?

The problem is very much that, on the lower end ($10), today is worse than 1964. On the middle end, or even the upper-middle class end, investing and long-term positions are harder to maintain as profitably as they once were.

Sure, the bars are gilded better than they used to be, but there are more of them and on a smaller cage.

(Also, let's set aside issues of gender/race/etc. for this, because that's a whole 'nother discussion in itself. There, at least, we've made some progress. I think.)
Great to hear that ;)
+1; car companies write awful software, and trying to keep up with mobile dev is a losing proposition. CarPlay and Android's equivalent are the right moves IMO. I just want my car to tell me the speed and RPM, let me shift the transmission by hand, and maybe have a big dumb screen to show things from my phone on. L

If I were an auto mfg, I'd make a car with an iPad in the dash in a modular mount. If you wanted to replace it or whatever down the line, get the new mount for the newest whatever tablet. They'd save so much on software, since their car control stuff could just be an app (or just actual buttons), and owners would be happier because an iPad or Nexus tablet is lightyears ahead of the junk they currently put in cars.
I'm not sure if its different, but when you call `git pull` with no extra arguments (i.e. you don't specify the remote or the branch) then it behaves differently depending which branch you're on, and what your local Git config is. So, personally, I prefer to always be fully explicit in my Git commands.

And does calling `git pull --rebase` just rebase your current branch against its remote equivalent? But usually I find myself working on a feature branch that is often rebased against a parent branch, `develop` (for example).
Yeah, that which does not kill you beats the crap out of you. :)

Actually I think the situation is more complex. I do entertain the notion of hormesis to some extent-- it makes biological sense (I studied bio) and I can see examples of it subjectively.

Hardship seems to do both harm and good. The good it does is in the realm of toughness-- it builds up your immune system so to speak.

I once lost about four years of work and almost $100k to a con man type, and I am now positively allergic to those character traits. (Glib, superficially charming, fast talker, seems to be able to "accelerate" things...) I can smell them a thousand miles away. Yet immunity can overreact, and heuristics are not perfect. It's taken me years to perfect that heuristic so as not to yield a lot of false positives.

Yet this immunity came at a cost. Immediately after this event I'd switched from being someone who admires others' achievement to someone who resents it, and it's taken me years to work my way to back to being a positive-sum thinker again.

It made me tougher, but it also made me more cynical and less open to new ideas. It makes you "wise," and after becoming wise I decided to set about trying to un-wisen myself so that I can dream again. Naivete is under-rated, wisdom over, and the ideal would be to try to take the good things from both sides of the divide.

So yeah, like most things in biology it is not simple. Biology is not a field of study for people who like absolutisms and totalistic models of things. It will disabuse you of those notions real fast if you study it with open eyes. Complex dynamical systems just don't work that way.
How do you use this if you don't want to use Node or Ruby? Just HTML/CSS?
When I go on Pirate Bay and type "Metallica", I get a bunch of songs and downloading and playing them is illegal (in some countries).

When I go on YouTube and type "Metallica", I get the same thing on completely unofficial channels and it's so legal that I can relink it to you here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqtaKkvCFaQ

The end result is the exact same thing: A non-paying user listened to an unofficial source for a song. Don't even try to argue that it's harmful because it's not. Don't even try to argue that one warrants jail time while the other does not... because you will be wrong, and this is not a subjective issue anymore.

YouTube has allowed for content producers to leverage those eyeballs and get people paid for their work. What actually needs to be talked about is solutions like YouTube and Spotify for content producers.

And all of this is irrelevant to the point I was trying to make... it's still not about the "right to download". It's about the right of the corporations to abuse and corrupt the system the way they do.
No I didn't think someone can just change the contract after a few months. That's exactly what happened here. Another company acquired and then changes the contracts to all the employees as it wishes.

I was supposed to get all the stocks in 3.5 years now I'm going to need to wait 4 years again.
You've been using your monitor wrong this whole time
Study of massive preprint archive hints at the geography of plagiarism
Message to QNX people; would it be possible to re-instigate the tradition from the late 90s where QNX was released as demo version for enthusiasts to play around with? The sheer stability and performance of that 1.3mb-floppy-ready OS still amazes me to this day (came with full gui, 3d models, editor and web browser..!).
Residuals (ongoing income from films/tv) go to much of the crew. Above the line people get residuals in the form of direct payments. Below the line people get them in the form of payments to their unions to sustain benefits, such as insurance and retirement funds.

So there's a real loss even in that case.

*Above the line defined here- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Above_the_line_(filmmaking)
I'd agree with you if data didn't show that people pirating media buy more than anyone else.

What really hurts margins? Apple, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon.
You do because you won't be able to read any news from Spanish newspapers. news.google.es will be down, and other Google News sites in Spanish (like the ones from Latin America) won't link to any media from Spain.
Where do people in the bay area generally get their news?