skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One interesting part of history that I want to write a chapter about at some point is the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco from the early 1990s, including the relationship with DR-DOS.
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A $19B company created in 3 years without any revenue model from nothing by a college kid. This is bit shocking. This smells like a Ponzi scheme as the valuation keeps increasing over time even when there is no revenue generated. The losers in this scheme will be the last round of investor who will lose it all.
> brutal, protracted, expensive- yes, yes, yes ultimately didn't work- sure, but I would argue that was not a military failure and this discussion is about the military performance.

The generals are the link. They must translate political objectives into military action that delivers them. The US probably has the best fighting force, but it lacks leadership and focus. The whole Iraq and Afgani adventures look to me like the bridge in Apocalypse Now.
If it is not known what is in the p variable, then the variable is indeterminate; it has exactly the same status as a variable that has not been initialized. In this case, the behavior upon accessing the variable should be undefined.

I agree with making accesses of NaN-valued variables undefined behavior, so that not comparing equal is then a possible consequence of undefined behavior.

I don't agree with defining the unequal comparison as the required behavior. To define the behavior is tantamount to the recognition that a NaN is something: an object. A variable can have a defined value which is that something, and that value must obey the Law of Identity.
63 weeks is a little over a year. Considering the exponential population growth in the developing world, this number would be already smaller next year.

I am not particularly huge fan of military development, but it would at least advance mankind, just giving away free bread will only move it closer to the doom.

If you want to make youself really weep, have a look at this graph http://www.china-mike.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/world-p...

If it really did not do the job, have a look at this fine comic http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/st-matthew-island
I was surprised to learn that you can't man-in-the-middle an SSH connection if the client is using a key for authentication instead of a password:

http://www.gremwell.com/ssh-mitm-public-key-authentication

You'd still be able to impersonate the server, but that's less useful in the general case unless you can emulate the remote machine convincingly long enough to gather useful information.
As the title says he is aiming for List Comprehension, but in SQL form which is where you might be getting ORM from.
Sure it does, just let "bar" be a UTM.
I've worked many jobs in my life, many . . . people will ask you out everywhere you work. Go be a waitress and see how many co-workers, bosses, and customers try and pick you up.

> I’ve had middle­-aged coworkers (not at Facebook, another internship) literally GChat me pickup lines (that aren’t even clever) to the point I’d avoid certain portions of the office altogether
And the article goes on to add:

"Some state laws expressly carve out from their definitions of “employee” status a business entity where the hiring party does not exercise direction or control over the performance of the services and meets other requirements. Thus, companies that wish to minimize independent contractor misclassification liability wisely do not rely solely on the fact that the independent contractor is a business entity."

This is consistent with what I have detailed throughout the thread, i.e. it is a factor in some States with an emphasis in Florida where it is included in the statutory definition of Independent Contractor. I can not imagine any lawyer who would advise their Client to enter an Independent Contractor Agreement with an individual, even if it is not determinative of the classification, it is good business practice and there is nothing to be gained by entering the contract with an individual over a company.
IEEE floating point distinguishes infinities and NaNs.
I didn't miss it! The sentence is actually ambiguous :) I read ONLY as a change in sense!! The sentence reads "Redbeacon doesn't require a, only b, c, and d."

I actually read this as:

Redbeacon DOESN'T REQUIRE THAT the CONTRACTOR who I hire to paint a room SHOW UP in Redbeacon attire; ONLY (THAT THEY) DO WORK through Redbeacon[1], CHARGE what Redbeacon dictates[2], and FOLLOW Redbeacon's rules for how the work is done.[3]

It's clear that this isn't what you meant. But not so clear that I didn't misread it. Rules against disintermediation, arbitration of disputes, terms and conditions, are all things that make contractors seem more like employees...

[1] i.e. not disintermediate by connecting directly off-site and cutting out redbeacon

[2] i.e. what is advertised on Redbeacon's site

[3] i.e. terms and conditions
Conservation of energy insists that it's just a reallocation of resources.

Today's landfills (and bombing targets) are tomorrow's mines. It's only when we get into nuclear materials that those resources become inviable for rediscovery.
This is actually quite similar to using LXC containers to run GUI apps. Something like Wine would be a good candidate to run in a container, perhaps others too. And you can use both privileged and unprivileged containers for this.

I have a guide on running accelerated GUI apps in both privileged and unprivileged containers:
http://www.flockport.com/run-gui-apps-in-lxc-containers
and here's one more by Stephane Graber, lead developer of LXC using only unprivileged containers:
https://www.stgraber.org/2014/02/09/lxc-1-0-gui-in-container...
Another anecdotal: That type of thing usually happens when you are trying to save as a microsoft format. I've personally not had any of issues when using the open document formats.
If the article was a male student, complaining about a 'jugfest' on his nursing degree, would it arouse the same sympathy as her 'sausagefest' epithet on a computing degree?
Abiword's last release was Dec. 2014. Not sure about Gnumeric as I don't use it.
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Blob url's set for @font-face src! What a neat hack.
> I do sometimes wonder what's added by focusing on sexism in tech, in particular, and suggesting it's uniquely a problem with tech.

Same here, especially when I think back on _years_ of solving computer problems where it was just me and some computer that was _incapable_ of caring about my gender or ethnicity. I would say that tech should be more insulated from sexism and racism than most professions, because the compiler simply does not care. Somehow there's _more_ sexism in tech than in jobs that involve talking all day?
Both of them - the Egyptians and the Basrawis - are able to communicate without issue using Modern Standard Arabic, and worse comes to worse, the Basrawis wouldn't have much problem to emulate the Egyptian accent (almost all of the TV dramas, films, actors and music is in a Lebanese and Egyptian accent, so pretty much every Iraqi living in Iraq would have no issue with it). It would never reach a point where they can't communicate with each other.

The paragraph itself seems slightly misleading or enhanced for dramatic effect. If this situation did actually take place as claimed, it's likely that the locals were intentionally trying to confuse the interpreter.
The -CURRENT is absolute bleeding edge, it is what FreeBSD 11 is going to be in about two years. Are you sure you're not mistaking it with -STABLE which is the bleeding edge of 10.x?

I'm more inclined to believe that there major companies are running on -STABLE which is still somewhat risky, but at least typically everything that is there was somewhat tested.
Once I saw a clique of mathematica.SE guys doing vote ring on reddit/r/programming and other places to promote their site. Some of them looked like working for Wolfram itself, based on simple online searches for other forums. It's possible they were just Wolfram fanatics, maybe.

They crafted a particular question/answer and submitted and vote brigaded it everywhere. They were quite obvious and denied everything when confronted. After pointing out the obvious ring (same people pushing the same link with similar comments on all sites) they ganged up on me and sent me horrible private messages.

This pissed me off and I overreacted, exactly what they wanted... After cooling down, I went to their chat rooms to apologize for my angry replies language and removed comments on reddit. But they never, ever accepted they did any wrongdoing and pat themselves in the back. Oh, and never apologized for their harassment that triggered me in the first place.

This is why SO, reddit, HN are slowly getting long time users disenchanted. If you are not part of some virtual gang you are just meat, like a ghetto.
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yes, this is what confused me. I made this clear in my second reply. Note that the first clause "only do work through Redbeacon" makes sense because it sounds like you're prohibiting disintermediation - i.e. swapping phone numbers through their site and then cutting Redbeacon out of the transaction.
Attempting to use sarcasm as an ad hominem attack on the author doesn't add to this conversation at all. Attending Stanford doesn't change the fact that she went through a certain set of negative experiences she feels compelled to write about. Given Stanford's proximity and close interconnection to the tech scene in the United States, and it's general reputation as a forward thinking university, it should concern us deeply as members of the tech community that sexist attitudes are still being perpetuated in places we generally assume to be safe spaces.

As for your three questions:

1) How is this relevant? This is a conversation about sexism in tech not an attempt to discredit the author's opinion by claiming she's been brainwashed by the media

2) Probably, although nobody here can really give an answer except her so you should ask her in the article comments

3) Sounds like she has some legitimate complaints so no I don't think this has anything to do with your implication that she is somehow fishing for attention.
As far as I'm concerned, Evans, and Fowler (who he references in the DDD book), are the creators of the established terms. Feel free to demonstrate otherwise.
Your == expression has distinct operands which are the results of different evaluations.

The problem is that a NaN is not equal to itself:

double nan = /* NaN-producing expression */

if (nan == nan) {
/* dead code */
}
Having read a lot of the "are you sure she didn't misinterpret that" or "it's not like women can't apply to these jobs" comments, I'd like to help people overcome their knee-jerk reflex and really think about this instead of throwing their hands up.

For those who are questioning her experience, let's consider a piece of satire about bias at Hogwarts (and mentally substituting gender or other demographic of choice for religion here):

"These facts will likely surprise Hogwarts students today, especially those acquainted with the broader history of Judaism at their school... and though Spinoza’s invitation to deliver a series of lectures, in 1652, was met with protests, organizers were careful to note that it was the philosopher’s virulent anti-wizarding stance that they objected to, not his Jewish extraction.

A turning point in the story of anti-Semitism at Hogwarts came in 1920, when Jewish enrollment, buoyed by excellent Wizarding Admissions Test scores, peaked at thirty per cent. Complaints began to circulate that the “character of the place” was changing. These were vague comments, but no one mistook their meaning. The conservative Board of Governors (which, for the record, did not admit a Jew until Robert Rubin joined, in 1995) exerted enormous pressure on Headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black to “do something about it,” and the Class of 1926 was the first to be subject to the notorious Jewish quotas that would stand for almost fifty years. There were no hard numbers, of course—only a directive to the admissions committee to begin placing less weight on test scores and more on certain vaguely defined categories such as “character,” “fitness,” and “spell diction.” But it was enough.

Of course, the situation at Hogwarts had never been anywhere near as bad as at the universities in Eastern and Central Europe, where Jewish wizards as eminent as Freud and Einstein, unable to secure teaching appointments, were forced to use their magic in the service of formulating bizarre Muggle theories. Nor was Hogwarts ever the site of anti-Semitic violence, seen at too many of the Hungarian and Austrian wizarding schools during the tumultuous years after the First World War. There, student “demonstrations” often included the use of the so-called Jewish spells, cruel incantations that caused the peyes (side curls) to become scalding hot, the phylacteries to tighten around the wearer’s head—and, of course, the notorious ­“kipa spinner.”

No, Hogwarts was never the setting for any bigotry as brutal as that, and if I persist in recalling the minor injustices it is for the sake of guarding against future anti-Semitism in its most subtle forms." [1]

1. http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/true-history-jew...
You're right it should have an introduction where it does mention what it is. This project might be in need of some love.

Open Genera is the Genera OS[1][2] which used to be run on Symbolics Machine.
Open Genera[3] is the Genera OS running in a virtual machine.

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GeneraOs

[2] http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/symbolics/ (mentioned on the wiki)

[3] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenGenera
Ditto, I would love a well-designed alternative to Mail or Airmail.
Related: if you don't have enough entropy when creating keys, your public keys might not be identical, but they can share primes. Sharing primes allows this cool factoring attack by DJB and others.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=92037504584829650...

This paper explains how an attacker can efficiently factor 184 distinct RSA keys out of more than two million 1024-bit RSA keys downloaded from Taiwan's national "Citizen Digital Certificate" database.

These keys were generated by government-issued smart cards that have built-in hardware random-number generators and that are advertised as having passed FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certification. These 184 keys include 103 keys that share primes and that are efficiently factored by a batch-GCD computation. This is the same type of computation that was used last year by two independent teams (USENIX Security 2012: Heninger, Durumeric, Wustrow, Halderman; Crypto 2012:
Lenstra, Hughes, Augier, Bos, Kleinjung, Wachter) to factor tens of thousands of cryptographic keys on the Internet.
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I'm pretty sure DRI doesn't do anything special to the OpenGL calls, so they just get punted into the scary binary client library from your GPU vendor.
There's actually two different kinds of laws at play, of which those restricting freedom of contract is only one. The other kind has to do with when a company can be held liable for the conduct of its employees. Companies generally cannot be held liable for the conduct of their contractors, because they don't control that conduct, while they can be held liable for the conduct of their employees.

It's uncontroversial, even among most libertarians, that people should be held liable for the hazards created by their profit-making activities. If your business is shuttling people around in 3,000 pound metal death machines, you should be on the hook when one inevitably hits someone. Not just out of concerns of fairness, but because the contrary rule eliminates any incentive on the part of the business to minimize hazards incident to their profit-generating activity.
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Nope, no conversion to MS formats were involved. I recall googling it and it is/was a known issue.
> we start wars who's sole purpose is justification to steal public money for private gains.

I think OPs argument is that this whole thing is a sleight of hand.
Meet the 100 people hoping to live and die on Mars
It's a bit terrifying.

There are enough real companies with real revenue outside of marketing that we can probably safely say this isn't complete repeat of the Dot Com Bubble.

But damn does it rhyme in some parts. Damn does it rhyme.
That's a shame. Abiword was, for years, my favorite word processor. Simple enough to be instantly useable, but powerful enough to get the jobs I needed to do done. And, its PDF export was among the best and most fool-proof available (aside from using Adobe Acrobat tools on Windows on Mac) for quite a while.

But, I haven't installed it or needed a local word processor in years. I use Google Docs for everything, because I don't have to keep up with where stuff is. I just login and there it is, no matter what device I'm on (though I should redo my Google Drive and Gmail backup setup...I used to have it automated, but haven't done a backup in years now; the cloud makes me lazy and too trusting).
There are more VCSes in the world than just those two. Many people seem to credit git with all the virtues of distributed version control in general, without noticing that its interface is terrible and that the same ideas have been implemented in a much more friendly fashion by other tools. Git is popular because it is the official vcs of the Linux kernel, and the network effect did the rest.
Especially from vocal, influential people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Dotzler

I understand people can have wildly outlandish beliefs, ideas, etc. But to outright dismiss discussion this way is a recipe for group-think and, ironically, discrimination.
I wound up reading the piece in Instapaper. To say this undermined the author's point would be an understatement...
Were does the US military budget money get spent? A small portion goes on wages, but every soldier needs equipment, food, and requires infrastructure. This is mostly provided by private companies. "Defence" companies are in the top lobbyists by expenditure, at about $200M each per year. They lobby hard to get the lucrative contracts to provide all the above and more (e.g. the F-35 program).

Who pays for all this? The government of course. And where does the government get its money? The tax payers. I.e. the public.

So the reasoning goes that the industrial military complex exists to transfer money from the public, via the government, to private companies.
I can't edit my other reply so just going to do a new one.

One of the biggest eye openers I had as a developer and how I was being 'exploited' was when doing work for a consulting firm, the ceo of the company asked me to pick a open source app, change the logo and a few other things (2 days work), and the next day he presented the app as one of his 'business solutions' to some big shots (talking airports and big media companies) and was able with that to sell around 1.2 million euros in consulting services by demoing the open-source app and claiming a lot of the credit for that app. This is something as a developer I still cringe and would probably feel like I would need a bleach bath to clean myself but seems to be day-to-day from people that have MBA's or business/finance education.
Can't speak to your specific experiences, but it's worth noting that this can also be a downside of the Eternal September crowd: even reasonable questions get lost in the noise.

The Soup Nazi wanted to feed people and lost the opportunity to do so when he became obsessed with loiterers clogging the queue. Fictional exaggerations not withstanding, scaling is a hard problem to solve in many different systems - especially when some users/customers/tasks can easily require 100x the average processing time.
Yes, if you take the false result to be the indication that you have a NaN. Either polarity comparison will work, if you correctly interpret its result.
I don't think there is an overall sector-wide bubble today, but there may very well be isolated pockets and individual companies with bubbly Ponzi-like characteristics.

The late 90s was just insane. Basically you had hundreds of companies much airier than Snapchat, some without even a product. Some of them even went IPO like this. It was crazy. Today looks nothing like that.

If Snapchat is well run, it will use its current ability to raise capital to build or buy other assets that can generate revenue. For a mature company version of this, look at present-day Yahoo-- its core brand is almost dead but it owns a lot of other stuff. If it's not well run (or if the founders don't care) it'll eventually deflate and the latest stage investors will lose big.
No revenue model? No revenue perhaps, but they do have a revenue model through Discover and sponsored Our Stories
Apollo program did cost 110 billion when adjusted to the inflation.

With this amount of money, and math above, you could feed every person on Earth about 3 and half years.
For context, that's a fleet of five space shuttles when adjusted for inflation. Somehow I have some doubts that a photosharing application with no revenue is actually worth five space shuttles.

Sure, they may have a lot of users, but so does the company that makes the paper I wipe my ass with.
Let's posit "middle-aged" means "in their 40s". She's a junior in college, so let's say 20 or so.

So you're suggesting that objecting to getting pickup lines from people literally old enough to be her father is "age-biased", and not, you know, "creepy"? Hmm.
> Shitty init scripts and the path to systemd have been self-inflicted wounds caused by a tiny group of inexperienced desktop developers.

It's hard to take you seriously when you're not even wrong.
Sorry about ruining the joke, but "the French and Indian War" is simply the name Americans gave to their part in the Seven Years War, a worldwide war between France (and allies) and Britain (and allies).

Britain did win.
Ask HN: What are your predictions re effects of recent Net Neutrality actions?
I'd like people to put themselves on the line and predict what will happen now that their favored (or hated) policies are being enacted.
Even if it's not exactly to one's liking, please make a prediction based on the actual rules.

Thanks
I don't think this will help you. It sounds more like you need something like buildroot or 0install.
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Man, and I thought the scalability of software led to bullshit profit margins. Folks, we're in the wrong business.