skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a guy, I'd love to live in a 50:50 gender ratio house with smart, creative folks. Had that experience in college living in the student cooperatives; was a great time, with lots of creative energy and many lifelong friendships formed. Would be great to do it again as an adult. Living together in a cozy house with 10-40 other people sure beats lounging around in a dank apartment by your lonesome self.

I agree that the gender split is very important, as it fundamentally changes the feel of the environment. I wouldn't want to live in a house with mostly guys, I don't think.

It makes me happy that the other replies point to these kinds of houses existing, but I kind of feel like I'm not "hacker" enough to look for a place like this yet. (Only one tiny project finished & for sale, no startups or anything to my name. Also, I'm hella lazy with my projects! Not sure how much this matters to these hackerhouses, but, well, they have "hacker" in the name, so...)
> The authors found previously that GRBs are more frequent in low-mass galaxies such as the Small Magellanic Cloud with a small fraction of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. This reduces the GRB hazard in the Milky Way by a factor of 10 compared with the overall rate.

Smaller galaxies are deadlier, got it. Is this because GRBs tend to emanate from the galactic centre? And larger galaxies, having more stars further from the centre, have more "habitable" space? Or does it have to do with the higher frequency of heavy elements in large galaxies? If the latter, how do heavy element concentrations cause or moderate GRB activity?
This project has not been updated in almost two years.
Because Marriott's core business is not blocking wi-fi. It's renting rooms. The decision to block or not block is based on the marginal gain from that decision, not on their entire income. If an officer were to make that his or her quixotic personal vendetta by spending money on strongarming legislative bodies to permit wi-fi blocking on their part, that officer would be replaced very quickly indeed.
I don't want to give away all my secret spaces :). Feel free to email me (email's in profile).
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Maybe, but if/else is more approachable especially if you haven't seen that pattern before.
To run a "real" company, of let's say, 200 people or more, dealing with mildly sensitive data, you need Microsoft[1][2][3][4]. You need Microsoft because you need:

* Calendaring that Just Works, and a capable client for it. This involves an Exchange server and MS Office;

* You need mail that Just Works, and Just Works in conjunction with the above calendaring; this involves an Exchange server and MS Office;

* You need an easily controllable and relatively cheap OS that can run Word, Excel, and a web-browser for non-technical staff, and can be run on cheap-ass Dell boxes; currently this involves Windows and MS Office;

* You need a shared fileserver for people to upload company party photos to, storing improperly protected financial spreadsheets, and so on;

* You need a central identity system to tie the whole shebang together; this involves Active Directory

To summarise, you need:

* ActiveDirectory, for which there is now Amazon WorkMail

* Exchange, for which there is now Amazon WorkMail

* Windows File Sharing, for which there is now Amazon WorkDocs

* Windows desktops that can run MS Office ... for which there is sort of Amazon WorkSpaces

The question now becomes: can I get away with running a 200-person company with no relationship with MS by deploying cheap-cheap Linux machines with a VNC-client to Amazon WorkSpaces for non-technical staff? And the answer is ... perhaps, but I need my people to be able to work without an internet connection, so probably not.

But still, that's fucking huge.

The one piece missing in this lineup is capable local Office apps. You simply cannot get away with not having Excel, Word, and Outlook's Calendar functionality ... yet. Finance, Admin, Management, and non-dev IT will riot without Excel; Admin, Sales, and Management will riot without Word; Sales and Management will riot without Outlook, and blood will be spilled over the management of more than two meeting rooms. OpenOffice, LibreOffice, whatever, they don't cut it in the real world.

So while it doesn't sound like their game, if Amazon were to release a lock-down-able Linux and some high-quality Office apps, they can take SME IT away from Microsoft. That's is HUGE. Hell, if they can put together a package that can run Office under WINE reliably, and sort sensible licensing terms, it's just as huge, but I can't see MS allowing that licensing part to happen, because it would be suicide.

Interesting times!

[1] I don't care how Canonical or RedHat manage their internal IT

[2] Nor do I care about how your 11 person social media startup does it

[3] I too did all my best IT management before I became responsible for it

[4] Seriously.
This post was briefly flag-killed by users. (That's what "[flagkilled]" means on a post.) We've unkilled it, obviously.
How does the general performance of rethinkdb compare to http://www.tokutek.com/tokumx-for-mongodb/?
Just keep going business as usual. Given that we have plenty of trilobite fossils from the Cambrian, might even expect future paleontologists to find some fossilized skulls.

http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Paleobiology/CambrianFossils.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN_Courier
>some guys don't know how to act around women (I'm sorry but there are guys like that out there and many of them are hackers)

How is a guy supposed to act around women? And why would they need to act differently around women than around men?
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I'm actually shocked by seeing Telefonica being able to so obviously placing their brand inside Firefox. I think it will seriously undermine peoples' trust into what is supposed to be an "independent" browser. Yes, people on HN know that Mozilla is since many years dependent on the sponsorship of Google et al. but having such obvious advertising?? Come on, Mozilla!
To expand on this, if we had perpetual copyright, we wouldn't have culture.
The C code is literally the least interesting part of this essay. This bug, such as it is, does not matter. It is entirely and completely beside the point.
>Produced for CERN by IOP Publishing

>©COPYRIGHT CERN 2007 for the content of CERN Courier and images and logos identifying CERN.

>©COPYRIGHT IOP 2007 for the design, format and typography of the CERN Courier Web Pages, ...

The author appears to be an astrophysicist, and you may know CERN from such products as the Large Hadron Collider and the World Wide Web.
Racker here responsible for our mail services. Thanks for the positive feedback and for being a customer. Curious why you say this would make our offering irrelevant?
What if the company was Enron 2.0 and was keeping their tax records and other incriminating emails on a server in another country that was under the control of an American company? Should the US justice system just accept it is outside of their control, or pursue the American company to turn over material in their control for the case?
In many cases the problem is that the guy acts _too_ differently towards women than men.
"extradite" as in to wrench out a server rack, bundle it into a helicopter in a blaze of sparks, and fly the server to the US in a helicopter under the depth of night? Unlikely.

Require US companies to follow US law and regulations, across global legal entities, even when the local law of locally incorporated entities is incompatible with US law, absolutely yes, that is required.
This is a clever architecture; I never thought about using VPC direct connect to get out to the Internet.
I'm not angry about it, but I like to minimise waste. Visa wants to, and is better if it it can, minimise its computational overhead. Bitcoin is dependent on computational overhead. Seems like a very different situation.

I'm no expert--maybe it is necessary that the computation have no benefit other than being costly--but I don't understand why. If it does, I would welcome an explanation, though I recognize it's not your responsibility to educate me on the finer details of Bitcoin. :-)
If the data were worthless it would also make the promise not to sell pointless, paralleling my original point.

But I actually think there's plenty there, even if you just include the posts. What turns out to be valuable can be surprising. I remember when "interests" was a plain text input field on Facebook where people put a comma delimited list. And I loved it; I even put little jokes in there (e.g. coffee, chocolate, and mint, concurrent or consecutive). Then one day, they turned every one of those list items in the text field into, essentially, a fucking ad.
It is open source, but there are different models of project development. In particular, there is a lot of nuance in your term "once they are finished".

If a company periodically dumps a large project tree online but continues the development and management behind closed doors, it makes it very difficult anyone else to make use of or build upon the source without forking it completely (and forking has its own risks).

This is why windlep is pointing out that Mozilla "develops in the open", as opposed to being merely open source.
> Going back a few decades in the UK, a manual labourer could afford to buy a home, own a car, provide for the family, etcetera. Nowadays that is falling fast.

You could now say the same for college grads in many countries as well, and not just the peasants with arts degrees - the housing bubble is such that unless your parents can help you out in a very big way, owning a house is simply not realistic for even the very well paid, unless you want to spend 75%+ of your income on a mortgage.
>I think the only concrete difference between "seemingly intelligent" and "intelligent" is wether an entity evolves over time and gets smarter.

Even a naive chess engine being fed games can do that. That's not exactly intelligence.
Why would a software design firm create a video game?
I know what you mean by 'that font', you must be using chrome on windows.

Apparently it's a 'bug' in their CSS, they are aware of the issue but haven't fixed it yet,
http://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/2l2ijj/the_brookhav...
> Why doesn't <istream> include <iterator> instead?

Users must be able to include <iterator> by itself, and get istream_iterator.

We do break things up into internal headers, we just haven't done that as much as possible. Come to think of it, equal() is defined in one of our central headers, so we should probably take advantage of that in <array>.
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Is the connection peer to peer once established?

Btw, I tried hello a couple of weeks ago and it felt like voice/video over the net 5 or 6 years ago, no proper echo cancelation, similar to the old video plugin in pidgin. Also, there is no text IM.
My first response was "this is nothing like Homeland" :)
Yes, yes -- start with The Royal Road. It's a fantastic place to start. Graduate to Card College if you can afford it; otherwise, Paul le Paul, and then dive in deep with Buckley's Card Control. If you're still hungry after that, you and Erdnase deserve each other.
Also, they must be a lottery, in that it's lots of "easy" problems that have a small chance. Otherwise it weakens the "50% attack" by meaning that someone with the most computing power can efficiently "hard" problem much more reliably, rather than the their percentage of the total computing power.
In addition to all the Boinc work Gridcoin does, there is a real opportunity for commercial/custom Boinc projects like 3D rendering, stock options analysis and almost any kind of simulation you can think of. The potential here is endless. It is true that Boinc kinda makes Gridcoin a little bit centralized, but the benefits that are yielded are worth it I think.
4500 journalists with a deadline and too little to write about is hardly a clamor.
First of all, the number of transactions Bitcoin can make per unit of time is not set in stone, it depends on certain variables that will be adjusted over time. And it is a distributed system anyway, what did you expect? You can't have both the resilience of a distributed system, and the efficiency of a centralized one.

And second, you are comparing apples to oranges. Try comparing VISA (built on top closed networks and decades of bureaucracy) to services like Coinbase/Bitpay (built on top of Bitcoin) and we'll see who's more efficient.
I see that as a good thing, it's an argument for ISPs to finally invest in upgrading their networks, though if Google Fiber wasn't already enough of a reason I doubt this would make a dent.
I got the last "cheap" one, at $3.94.
CS 101 and 102 are this. After that I found CS to be 90% math, algorithms, and a sampling of some foundational topics such as operating system, graphics, and network programming.

Computer science is not vocational training and not training to be a good programmer. I've found many CS professors suck at programming anyhow, and people who never do much outside the curriculum aren't qualified to be programmers.

Btw, at my school, we had a co-op program. The undergrad program was 5 years long and you took three 6-month co-ops. This is a great way to get practical skills without changing the character of a CS curriculum.

edit: I have to add, plenty of web developers use Java, they just don't hang around HN.
That was the best plot twist I've read in a long time.
Traditionally, structs paid a large codegen penalty, as a lot of optimizations and stuff were turned off. It also seemed like the codegen wasn't super smart about passing them around. Maybe that's all changed.

I meant the verbosity of having to create a custom type for each kind of restriction, versus some inline "int n [n > 5]" notation.
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When is anyone going to make a pure WebRTC service for calling phone lines that would work in the browser? All existing ones require some native code plugins. Not sure why no one made such service yet.
> Business dealings aside, he just isn't smart.

This is a gratuitous personal slam and therefore not appropriate in an HN comment.
Except there's already foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, thud.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/foo.html
iCE reunion in this thread!

Most of my work was loaders (i.e., code, like http://artpacks.org/1995/ice-9506.zip/BZ-COLRS.EXE) and sadly, artpacks.org can't display those (yet) ...
but with the recent major advances in emulating DOS in Javascript, I'm sure it's only a matter of time.

The one mentioned above had bouncing squares that distorted the pixels underneath in a way that eventually yielded a psychedelic 320x200 pattern. Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/VG5ziRP.png
And the fact that they just got funding means that they don't have too much of a head start on you. If you already have an MVP, you should be able to catch up fairly quickly, as fundraising should hopefully be much more productive now that the space has been validated.

Just a side note though: you might want to consider slipping something extra into your slide deck/whatever to mention the competition in the space and how you plan on adding value over your competitor's product. Good luck!
> I've never seen a law in our country that could criminalize the entire population depending on how you interpret it.

Where the hell do you live and how can I get there?
It's about profit, not a pathological desire to prevent you from using WiFi. So, only if the cost of installing a Faraday cage outweighs the loss of revenue to people who opt for cellular data.

Also, most of this is done at the behest of an IT contractor, who probably has very little if any influence over construction projects.
There's also quite a few european countries with free college/university education. To name the main ones: Sweden, Norway, and Switzerland

AFAIK, Norway offers this privilege even to international students, while Sweden gives it to any EU citizen
The entire api for the IO module is actually being overhauled right now (see https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/efb783a79c9987e678ed8...). I'm sure this stabilization is priority for the team before actual optimizations can be done.
There is not "also Proof of Stake", because it's a flawed concept. What's at stake? Nothing. You can sell your coins before starting an attack, so you wouldn't be attacking yourself like you would with Bitcoin and proper mining. Might as well just use the USD or bottle caps as currency.
Agreed. Like others have said, "0% unemployment is easy when there's a draft."

But WW2 put the US at a distinct advantage since the rest of the industrialized world was decimated.
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You're right, I am just whining.

But more to the point, I am pointing out that Microsoft is not treating F# like C#, not giving it the same resources. No one says C# users are just whining when they wanted, say, edit and continue.

Has any community, ever, stepped up and offered an experience as good as Visual Studio's? I mean, that's sort of a major reason Microsoft makes and sells that product.

Yes WebSharper is pretty awesome. But I still don't see why we shouldn't criticize MS for not doing something like that directly. After all, MS got flack over ASP.NET Web Forms then went and put resources into MVC.
I was about to ask whether you and I were on the same forum, but then I realized that there's maybe five people who even bother signing into mine once a week these days :)
Those keyword quotes are amazing. I'm in stitches.
No, his argument is that "major art" is widely consumed by people who do not practice it. He uses poetry -- consumed by a small audience of people who almost entirely consider themselves poets -- as an example of "craft." I disagree with his definitions here. They aren't meaningful.
So it's a service where someone tells you what to read to be socially accepted. If I were running an app like this, I would totally seed it with fake users "thising" paid-for content behind the scenes, I would artificially introduce invite scarcity so people don't collectively figure out what I'm doing, and I would plant PR articles like this to generate hype and muddy the waters -- if you've been in this industry for long enough you'll know "clamoring for an invite" is code for "this article indirectly paid for by This".

Christ, it's like these businesses are moving to a braindead consumer singularity where you pay to have someone tell you the optimal thing to buy to increase today's thumbsups. Perhaps the premium version can be they take your credit card and buy it for you while you sit on your couch and watch the number go up.
Surely that would affect mobile phone reception. I can't imagine anyone being happy about that.
Also, the type is simpler to represent. Instead of Tuple<int, string> you just have something like (Int, String).
Causation is dead simple---if you can directly manipulate the putative causal variable. Otherwise, you're left with the old saw about correlation, and while you might be able to tell a story about why there should be causation, the best you can do in that case is eliminate other potential confounds.
The article doesn't assume that all life depends on a protective ozone layer. The article states several times that life like that on earth depends on a protective ozone layer.
The law is very clear, blocking peoples' communications is intolerable. The reason for the blocking doesn't matter. If you operate a device it must not interfere with others' devices. Whether or not Marriott was blocking or wants to continue blocking communications for marginal gain is irrelevant. Its duty is to operate its devices without disrupting everyone else, not to pursue marginal gains.

Marriott's core business has no bearing on whether it is allowed to cause interference, nor is it anyone's responsibility to determine or consider what the entity's core business is.

Also, Marriott (and subsidiaries, associates, industry partners, and more) did attempt to permit interference[1][2][3].

[1] http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/proceeding/view?name=RM-11737
[2] http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=60001011981
[3] http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=60001005951
>It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that a front line, if not the trench of the global gender war, is in Silicon Valley. In that sense, Silicon Valley culture echoes the Wolf of Wall Street culture in the ’80s and ’90s.

Signal the right politics and even this nonsense gets upvoted. Scott Alexander wrote about why differences in outcome in highly technical fields might not imply a vast economically-counterproductive misogynistic conspiracy here:http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/24/perceptions-of-required...

Reality is under no obligation to live up to our ideals.
Rethink's performance is about what you'd get with InnoDB (sometimes faster on some workloads, occasionally slightly slower). I haven't done comparisons with tokumx, but my guess would be that Rethink is significantly slower on high insert/update workloads for huge amounts of data (which is what toku accels at). On other workloads, it's probably fairly similar.
Nitpick: I don't think there's anything wrong with a closed development model and open sourcing the result, but IMO it's not open source until the code is available. If you're starting a project with this intention, I don't think it's really Open Source until your first code dump is publicly accessible - at which point, go nuts with branding it Open Source.

I also don't think it's unfair to do code dumps, if the code is available then job done. Other projects provide additional hand holding, but in my opinion that's a feature that the original authors have the freedom to choose to not implement.

I'm really pleased that Mozilla have chosen an open development model.
> It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that a front line, if not the trench of the global gender war, is in Silicon Valley.

I agree that parts of the tech world are really horrible, and I think we need to be doing everything we can to make women feel more welcome in our industry (not just for them, but for us), but isn't it at least a little exaggeration to say that Silicon Valley is the main "trench of the global gender war"?

I'd think we'd be ranked after at least a couple of these:

* The construction industry

* The Bible Belt

* The restaurant industry

* West Africa

* The movie industry

* The Vatican

* The sportswriting industry

* The people who make Superbowl ads

* Japan

* The adult entertainment industry

* The Middle East

* Wall Street

* Nepal

* The upper echelons of American politics
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> All of the 'fundamentals' courses - graph theory / data structures & algorithms, compilers / parsers / language processing, number theory, artificial intelligence / machine learning, networking, computer architecture, operating systems, graphics, databases, ... are taught using a programming language

You must have been lucky, if you got to write code when you were learning those things. My experience was proofs, proofs, and more proofs. I took an algorithms/data structures course that had no programming assignments whatsoever.
How do they compare in practice might be too broad a question, I'm willing to bet you'd get more responses if you asked for comparisons in certain use cases.
the premise has merit ... but i already get it from Dave Pell at http://nextdraft.com/
It's pretty obvious why it was flag-killed, and not entirely unfair. But the reason I submitted this is that if you can get beyond the sensationsalist clickbaity sections then there are actually some good insights, and I think there is value in knowing how people who consider themselves to be outsiders perceive the world in general.
Okay I will buy a Mac...just so I can develop for both Android and iOS using Javascript.