skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, duh, but the whole thing about "invalidation" is there is a subtext here: that she wouldn't know that she had been misattributing sexism to someone.

If all your friends with Fords of various colors and models had problems -- you would rightfully have cause to focus in on Ford as the problem.

Do not pretend to be objective by discounting context, or acting like everyone else is an imbecile. I'm not saying that everything everyone says has to be taken as truth. But think about the context for a moment -- like why is she writing the article in the first place? It's no small thing to put your name out there on the internet WRT to this issue.

Think about how analytically you are viewing what she wrote about her experience vs. how uncritically you might view articles from PG (especially the earlier ones unassociated with YC).
As long as it's comfortable, why is it important for it to be soft? And how long is "long"? And you can always carry more chargers around with you. If you only need a few days of battery life there's no point weighing yourself down with more.
The Drug That Is Bankrupting America
> systemd have been self-inflicted wounds caused by a tiny group of inexperienced desktop developers

Oh, you mean like Red Hat (the largest enterprise and server open source company on the planet)?

What about SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu... the list goes on...
Is it just my MacBook Air + OS X, or is the Font (ironically) on that site painful to read?

Compare:
https://medium.com/@willgossin/the-uncanny-valley-race-merit...

To:

http://practicaltypography.com/billionaires-typewriter.html

[Edit: Also - no HTTPS? And No Favicon?]
Philosophy generally has its own language for talking about these kinds of problems, and generally its own starting points. Gilles Deleuze laid a lot of the groundwork for using ideas from chaos theory to work on philosophical problems during his life (starting with some of his work in the 1960-70s). Some links:

- http://www.protevi.com/john/DG/PDF/Remarks_on_Complexity_The...

- http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jipt.2010.0004

It could perhaps be useful to do similar work with computational complexity theory.
http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ ?
you seem fun at parties
The example was mostly a toy example. The power really comes when you get interactivity for small data and big data. Using this, you could scale up to TBs of data on a cluster and still get results relatively fast, which is not something you can do with R.

I don't expect at small scale to beat R yet. There are a few low-hanging fruits for single node performance. For example, even for single node data, we incur a "shuffle" to do data exchange in aggregations. This is done to ensure both single node program and distributed program go through the same code path, to catch bugs. If we want to optimize more for single node performance, we can get the optimizer to remove the shuffle operation in the middle, and just run the aggregations. Then this toy example will probably be done in the 100ms range.
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Help, after reading several posts it looks like there is nothing I can do? It's already been 17 hours, this is crazy!!!!!!! Google is disappointing me and I used to rave about them.
A Look at Sony Wiper in Action
Hey this is cool.

I run a cafe in Fitzroy, Melbourne, forked it and pointed it to 50 metres of our cafe:

https://fitzroygram.herokuapp.com

Bam! This is our cafe wall: https://fitzroygram.herokuapp.com/p/zLYDXuEU8R

Neat. :)
> That's funny, because the loudest voices all seem to be insisting that an unholy shitpile of init scripts a la SysV was the One True Unix Way and had been forever (which shows how young they are, but I digress).

The arguments I've seen are mostly that it's possible to write clean, composable, independent programs with solid, well-defined APIs between them, rather than the monstrosity that is the systemd project.

Want to replace journald with something else? The API for doing that is not stable, and I suspect the build system doesn't make it easy. Want to initialise kdbus under another init system? Even though it should have absolutely no dependency on systemd whatsoever, the component which does so is tied into systemd and can't be removed from it.

On the other hand, there's systems like nosh[0] which prove that you can build UNIX-y composable programs to solve many of the problems that systemd set out to solve. If you want to replace the logger, go ahead! If you want some component of it without using the whole init system, that's doable too. With only a little work, I'm sure it'd be possible to run much of nosh as non-PID-1.

(Note that I'm not suggesting anyone use nosh - the code is a tad weird and it's hard to find things, and the build system is extremely non-standard. However, it makes a useful proof of concept that the tightly-coupled systemd is not the only way to build something better than the SysV init system.)

[0] http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwar...
This post kinda collapses if you take out the assumption of Ev's moustache-twirling malice at its center.
Note that the money for those dock workers' salaries is coming from other people's taxes.
That is: MITM SSH connections to these devices without getting any warning.
Of course you first have to get in a position to MITM the person who connects to these devices.
> It can take years of immersion

With both Iraq and Afghanistan people were immersed for (too) long if you ask me.

By 2005 ... almost any unit should have been able to have at least a couple of persons that can speak native languages acceptably.
We are getting alot of new traffic right now, but are compensting...is it better now?
To be clear: your position is that SO needs moderators who don't downvote "cunt" because it's not offensive enough?

Anyway, doesn't matter--throwing insults, weak or strong, deserves downvotes. I don't understand why you're defending his right to be a complete asshat on a moderated forum. It's only just barely even related to the topic at hand, since he earned his downvotes.
Thank you! Something like this, exactly.

led me to google search by sketch.
Could you elaborate on why it's theft? Your comment didn't really explain it other than saying the Afghanistan war could have been cheaper.
My personal prejudice: I reject any calculator that does not compute the Gamma function (or factorial of non-integer arguments). Therefore, I reject this one.
I think the mandate is pretty clear: quality writing of the original question is a must. If you can't write in clear english, or you have a whiff of snark in your question, or your question falls below what many people think of as a valuable contribution, then your question probably deserves to be closed. Why is that not fair? I think it is fair! Be professional!

Sometimes you get very cool superusers like BalusC who will edit a sub-par question for clarity or formatting rather than delete it out of hand. Most of the time, I look at his edits and I like what he does with the question. Add value, add value, add value. BalusC makes JSF a joy to research on and work with.
FYI: CURRENT means master/head/pre-alpha or what you would call it.
You will be surprised how motivating to learn a language is the knowledge that your life literally depends on it.
Honestly, if you can use Word or LibreOffice, you can already use LyX. It's that easy. I have one short free work published, and a couple of unpublished works still in production, and I've also used it to generate documentation for some of my other works (though sadly, HTML output is pretty basic, nothing up to par with Matthew's Pollen or Racket Scribble). I think the aforementioned short work is probably a good enough sample of what you can get up to with the most minimal of effort or know-how in LyX: https://github.com/jarcane/bedroom-wall-press/blob/master/RO...

As for the LaTeX underneath, well, I've seldom needed to muck with it. LyX abstracts out a lot of the undercarriage and lets me get on with things in a more GUI-friendly way, though the fallback is always there if I need it (usually just a few extra tags here and there). If I were doing more custom template work though, I probably would need to dig more into LaTeX proper.
If you go into the event hoping to build something productive or that has longevity, it will likely feel like a waste. But that's really not the point of hackathons, and seems to be a major factor that people take issue with. Especially for students/new programmers, the goal is to tinker with technology, have fun, and discover like-minded collaborators in a risk-free environment.

You might be thinking - hey! a competition isn't risk-free - but really, compared to a work or academic environment there is far less risk involved with building something ambitious or using a technology you are completely unfamiliar with. The best hackathons don't focus on the competitive element, but instead create a system where people are rewarded for ambitious but not perfectly polished work. I wrote another blog post about that here: http://news.mlh.io/are-hackathon-prizes-the-worst-thing-sinc...
Too Much Cash Can Destroy Your Startup
So it was. Victor Tugelbend. My memory is not what it once was. Or I assume it isn't.
Northern half controlled by ISIS? What? ISIS hold a single city in the North: Mosul. They have operational zones in Baiji, Kirkuk, Tikrit and areas of Anbar. The South isn't decided by Sunnis vs Shiites because the South is overwhelmingly Shiite.

I'd argue that Iraq's democracy, where power is strictly divided and minorities have guaranteed representatives - including a minimum quota system for women in parliament - is more democratic than the two-party "Supreme Leader" system the U.S has going on. But that's a different story.
Direct quote from Common Lisp HyperSpec, under Function EQ:

"An implementation is permitted to make ``copies'' of characters and numbers at any time. The effect is that Common Lisp makes no guarantee that eq is true even when both its arguments are ``the same thing'' if that thing is a character or number. "
Ageism and the Academy (2012)
Fails to explain what "opengenera" is and why I would want to run it.
The US isn't at Russia's borders — Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and all the rest are. Their freely elected democratic goverments decided that aliging with the US was a good idea.
The funny thing is that the fanboys fight back against this tactic by putting in hundreds of citations to "legitmize" articles about video games. Browse through some of them and you'll often see more citations than most of the math and science articles. Meanwhile, worthwhile articles that don't have rabid fans get deleted due to lack of "noteworthiness" (by someone's arbitrary standard of the day) or citations.
This is an interesting article, and is a good supplement to the recent New Yorker article about Neanderthal hominins.[1] I think the best point made in the article comes part way down with the expert quotation, "'It’s a great time to be researching Neanderthals because we’re learning so quickly,' said Steven Churchill, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University. 'But it’s a horrible time to write a book,' he added with a laugh. New information is arriving at such a fast pace that it’s difficult for even scholars to keep up." That's about right. The article kindly submitted here does a good job of reviewing some of the back-and-forth about how Homo sapiens has thought about Neanderthal fossils and what archaeology suggests about our near cousins over the years, with a variety of different ideas about Neanderthals coming and going. The latest word is that Neanderthals were smarter than we used to think.[2]

Of course the article mentions that there are traces of gene assemblages that were first found in ancient Neanderthal DNA that are actually fairly commonplace in living human beings (which is the main point of the New Yorker article). So in that sense, the Neanderthals are not so much "lost cousins" as common ancestors among other ancestors of our brothers and sisters. Neanderthal genes live on in you and me, more than likely.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/neanderthals

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/resear...
I've been successfully using Spark in production since 0.7, across three or four significantly different projects.

I don't think I could bring myself to ever write another Hadoop job.
This all the way. I tend to do that myself.

Going with OP's examples, I would have said the same thing as the guy said concerning her even if it was a male.
He's saying that niche marketing is dependent on good content marketing, which is a fancy way of saying releasing free information to attract an audience.
>No. Iraq is fractured into halves. The northern half is controlled by ISIS, the southern by a dysfunction democracy where the elections are not about ideas and policies, but rather about Sunnis vs Shiites.

All true, but the discussion here is around the effectiveness of the U.S. military and you are referring to the political failure to build a strong enough post-US occupation Iraq.

> Afghanistan is also sectarian. Neither are anything we'd recognize as free and stable democracies.

I don't think the expectation of western-style democracies coming into existence is reasonable in that part of the world. We can all wish for it... But that doesn't mean the U.S. military (pre-whithdrawl) wasn't effective in effecting regime change and maintaining control.

>Our wars there were brutal, protracted, expensive, and ultimately didn't work.

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.

A better article would have been "The US sucks at post-WWII nation building"...
I've waxed and waned about using f.lux (actually http://jonls.dk/redshift/ because f.lux+linux=painful.) I think my biggest problem with it is my office's fluorescent lighting isn't within my control to turn-off/change, so the stark contrast between a screen-gone-red and the screaming white light causes my screen to feel silly.

If I had the luxury of working exclusively in a officespace without fluorescent lighting, I think I could be 100% on f.lux
The author's Pollen[1] software uses the diamond (lozenge glyph) to mark commands[2] within the source file of the book you're writing.

[1] http://pollenpub.com/

[2] http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/pollen/reader.html
The values of two expressions that evaluate the same variable are not "multiple things".
I'd expect it's worse in tech than some other professions on average because tech is mostly male, which I think is mostly due to gendered expectations originating from parenting and early education.

I think "just don't be sexist please" makes more sense than "don't be sexist at work if you belong to this profession". Like I desperately clarified in my edit which you may not have seen, I'm not saying it shouldn't be pointed out in tech, I'm saying it's suspicious that the cultural narrative focuses so much on tech in particular.
> So, if you get injured in a car accident you are covered by your or the other driver's insurance.

Not necessarily. Most car insurance companies won't cover you if you're using your vehicle commercially unless you get a commercial policy. You could be put into the position of having nobody to foot the bill in the case of an accident. The market will eventually adjust to these new kinds of insurance customers, but if the insurance companies start catering to Uber drivers, that could cause problems for them seeing as how ride-sharing is illegal in many if not most places.

So the insurance companies could be exposed to legal risk for facilitating illegal businesses, just as banks would be exposing themselves to criminal liabilities if they start catering to the marijuana industry. So they have to be careful. All increasing the risk of you getting into an accident and having no one but yourself to pay the hospital bills and getting sued by the other party or your customer for failing to carry proper insurance. The ride-sharing companies offer to shoulder the risk themselves by carrying policies, but it's unclear as to whether this is really enough.
Hence the part of the TPM and other DRM-capable technologies (Secure Boot, I think). You can sign and seal the boot code, so just owning the firmware doesn't get you there. (Of course the NSA might also compromise the Windows boot keys, but then that's a detectable, major incident.)
Please see my response to dcposch below, it would be about the same.
Another way of parsing the sentence in question.

Redbeacon requires none of the following things of its contractors:
1) that they show up in Redbeacon attire.
2) work solely through Redbeacon.
3) charge what Redbeacon dictates.
4) follow Redbeacon's rules for how the work is done.

>If, in the case of outfits like Redbeacon, the site is collecting leads and distributing them while letting the two parties work out the arrangement for themselves, the site is a referrer and the contractor is a contractor. Redbeacon doesn't require that the contractor who I hire to paint a room show up in Redbeacon attire, ONLY do work through Redbeacon, charge what Redbeacon dictates, and follow Redbeacon's rules for how the work is done.

What probably confused your reading is that the word "only", coming at the end of clause, seems like it changed the sense of the rest of the sentence, whereas I believe the author meant it to apply to the phrase "do work in Redbeacon clothing".
Coming Soon in HHVM
With GameMaker under new ownership, some devs have long-term concern
On the same topic, what are the other pitfalls of re-using OS images?

I can think of:

- Hostname conflicts

- SSH key duplication

- Driver issues if the hardware is not the same

Are there more?

This seems like a compelling argument for bootstrapping new instances with configuration management, rather than trying to re-use OS images.
> Sex is legal. Forming a contract involving sex is not.

Well, unless it's a marriage contract, but that's another beast altogether.
Thanks for this, I will make sure to fix the styles on this asap!
> , I think its fair to say the U.S. won in Iraq and Afghanistan as they are now governed by friendly democracies...

With wins like these, who needs loses. The US army and state department failed to deliver tangible political product. End of story. Both places are a total mess and the world is more dangerous because of that.

You can lose a war, without losing a single combat, if you fail to deliver on your objectives.
Just to add an anecdotal datapoint: my wife needed to make a presentation to her faculty and I suggested she use the LibreOffice presentation software since Office wasn't installed on her laptop. She finished all of her slides, went to review them and found LO had deleted all of her images.

I was swiftly kicked off my laptop while she recreated her entire presentation in PowerPoint.
Oh wow, that thing is comically enormous.

> However you look at it, the Neptune Pine makes a bold statement.

Understatement of the century right here!
I think the confusion here is who is doing the classifying for what purpose. In the case of the IRS, they have rules to classify a person as an employee for tax purposes, and the state will have rules to classify an employee for benefits and awards purposes. They can, and sometimes will, be totally different in different states.

In this case, it is all about benefits and awards. That is why they are talking about California law.
Also if the underlying cryptography isn't forward-secure, anyone with the private key can go back and read your recorded SSH sessions, including any kind of secrets that you typed into them (or files that you downloaded with scp or rsync). I don't know under what conditions SSH uses or doesn't use forward-secure key exchange methods.
■ 10 نصائح من اينشتاين – The Beehive – Egypt
This also applies to those of you building "template" VMs in VMWare or Xen -- before you save that template please delete the SSH keys in /etc/sshd/ so they are generated on first boot of the deployed template!
That link seems to encourage raising the latency, which suggests the needs of people like musicians are not being considered at all. Your use-cases are not the only use cases that exist.

The entire world of music production uses JACK, which got the design right well before PulseAudio even existed. It can provide synchronous operation to prevent drifting between audio tools. I include mplayer2 as one of those tools for s few things. More importantly, JACK guarantees a reliable very, very low latency audio path.

How "low latency" do I mean? Consider that in printed music, while somewhat uncommon, quite a few pieces have been written that use 128th notes. That would be anywhere from ~80ms to ~10ms note lengths, depending on the tempo. Larger latencies mean notes being heard as a different note from what was played, and I keep JACK down to about 5ms latency, and would set it lower if I could afford new hardware. Notes are not the only feature of musinc, and some headroom is needed. Any latencies higher than about 10ms-20ms I would consider broken and unusable.

(Incidentally - I cannot play GuitarHero/RockBand on most TVs either because of horrible latench. A (60Hz) video, a two frame delay is a "miss" on the harder songs. those 16.6ms latencies are nasty regardless which direction the latency is being added)

Beyond that, JACK is a great API. It makes it trivial to do a LOT of the common needs (i.e. "Just give me the audio samples..." or "just let me write new audio data and not have to worry about anything else... such as timing")
More fun than I am on HN, at least. :)
No, you're right. The site has always looked poor to me across platforms.
Another new poster

That is an ad-hominem attack - are we better than this on HN? What does his account age matter if the point is valid?
I like Redis as an example in this category.

I also think this ties in with the law of leaky abstractions, in that a good understanding of that law will make ui designers choose lesser/thinner abstractions over bigger/leaky ones.
> The conceptual model matches the implementation

I depends where on the conceptual stack you think you lie. I use fossil[1] because I don't have detached heads, need to understand the backing-store to reason about "where am I?" and have "porcelain" that seems to leave every single operational aspect laid out for me, instead of abstracting it away. When I work w/ version control, I work with files, and putting them away. Detached heads shouldn't be my concern, nor the conflicting ways describing how to sync[2], etc., etc., etc.

[1] http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15316601/in-what-cases-co...

EDIT: spell 'porcelain' correctly.
How mixtapes are the gateway to the next stage in social media
Speaking of hostname conflicts: an ISP in Vietnam has configured all their devices to have a reverse DNS name of "localhost"

https://www.shodan.io/search?query=hostname%3Alocalhost
Nexhop
How cold emails can land you new business relationships and fundings
You can approximate this from public data: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252756/are-high-repu...

As noted in the comments there, this tends to be slightly inaccurate, as it ignores changes in reputation over time. But it's close enough to see the general trend; I left a comment with a more accurate picture of the usual trend and the more recent drop-off.
MAC Address duplication on virtual interfaces for VMs started from a template.
I actually looked that up while I was writing my reply. Civil marriage law in England and Wales still has a consummation requirement, but AFAIK nowhere in the US was it ever required.
Having grown up w/ git (svn was on the way out when I started programming) and then having had to use svn at a previous employer (I migrated it to git, eventually), I can't fathom a reason to prefer svn or to "hate" git other than ignorance.

You can spot an ex-svn user from a mile away by their commit history. We need rehabilitation clinics.