skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, I agree, but for every destroyer built, how many dock workers wound up being able to buy one of those houses with their salary? It offsets the problem, at least somewhat.
On the documentation section, (Ubuntu 14.10 / current Chrome release), the left hand menu covers ...well, everything almost http://i.imgur.com/p6mECEM.png
A perfect example of trickle down economics. Was that what somebody called reaganomics?
SO jumped the shark for me when its scope shifted hard from the original goals. I remember the original seedling goals that Spolsky posted; for example, a question is likely inappropriate for SO if its answer couldn't involve code. That got lost awful fast.

Oh, and remember how it was going to be all Wikipedia of programming, where really good answers would be zipped together so that SO became the defacto good-idea repository? And could evolve over time? Such a good idea. Never materialized.

Proper props for putting in the effort. Better than e-e. Usually, though definitely not always, better than isolated boards. But now we're in a good-enemy-of-best world where I still want some site or system addressing the original problems, but SO is so dominant I don't see how it could germinate.
> That old tutorial is scary :)

And funny!

Creating a new git archive couldn't be easier

O RLY!
I'm happy that she decided to share. It's easy to forget how real this issue can be. The shit show in the comments here when an article like this is new further demonstrates the fact that there's still more work to be done. I will say though I do like HN because it seems to pretty quickly approach reasonableness with the voting system.
I would caution you against falling into the intellectual trap of believing your interpretation to be objective, especially here. Why must sexism be purposeful? Is it not a more damning implication of the culture for non-purposeful sexism to exist?
The Vietnam War being lost is similar to proclaiming that Iraq was lost after the invasion (the occupation time frame). There was no victory basis in either case. Vietnam was a holding pattern, as the US chose not to march north with its full might.

Not to mention, the Vietnam War was a civil war. Would we declare that France lost the Revolutionary War, had the colonies been defeated by Britain? I'm skeptical.

Had the US abandoned South Korea like it did South Vietnam, people would proclaim the Korean War a failure as well. The primary difference between the two, is the US chose to protect South Korea perpetually. Had the US stayed and protected South Vietnam, I think it's very unlikely that war would be regarded as essentially a total failure. It's not very complicated, the US chose to leave because it was exhausted culturally, not because it was defeated militarily.
The only thing I'm arguing here is that dealing with crashes does not imply you can deal with severe crypto compromises. In short, that the above-quoted tweet is completely bogus. That's all.
hey sorry to butt in, but for those of you who like this, you might want to check out my site:

http://www.loqqus.com

Similar concept but I think our take is a bit more robust. ;) Cheers.
I just figured my browser wasn't configured properly...weird.
Isn't that just part-time employment, then?
I know guys make all kinds of jokes during work, some of them are not PC. If they do / do not make those jokes with a female coworker, which one is considered as sexism?
Then you'd grant access to ~/my-media-collection/ , or to each of the filetypes in your collection.
Call me ignorant, but what is the point of this thing? Couldn't you just learn to program on a normal PC like most people have instead of buying something smaller, or are the potential uses for this thing really as limitless as I'm lead to believe?
Ukraine is caught in the middle of the competition between Russia and the USA. For the US, it isn't about democracy, it is about bringing NATO to Russia's borders. Russia is terrified of NATO (the 2008 war in Georgia was basically the preview of Ukraine).
had a small drawing canvas on the left of the page with a picture grid to the right of it. Background of the page was a beige orange color. That's everything else I remember :/
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It’s funny you mentioned footnotes as being important to you. When my company was considering upgrading from Office 2003 to 2010, I pushed hard for LibreOffice. When we ran the shared drive folder though the batch converter, we found many more interoperability issue with LibreOffice than competing suites like WPS Office. Broken footnotes/endnotes was a major reoccurring issue. Four years later, and this basic word processing feature is still broken. [1] If they just focused on interoperability, they’d be much more competitive in the business world.

[1] https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58521
This is a fantasic point. My highest rated most viewed question was one that I thought was stupid when I asked it. 5 years later it has tons of votes answers and backlinks.
I agree that this is much worse than a crash if you care about your keys, and I'm not trying to suggest otherwise.

My point is that -CURRENT may be rather unstable at any given time, and is explicitly not supported. One should not be using it a production deployment where sensitive key material may exist.
Precisely. Thanks you.
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Descrambling parallel build logs
Disk space is cheap.

If it really is a problem for you then work around it. But for most of us installing dev files makes sense if we ever need to compile something against those .h files.
Ah, in that case I'm not sure, perhaps an aversion to MySQL? Either way Gorp gives some level of choice.
So, the downvote signifies that someone REALLY disagrees with me? Care to elaborate the downvote? I must say that if you aren't willing to enter into a dialog on an honestly written and non flaming post I'm disappointed in your integrity and maturity, whoever you are.

@frostmathew - isn't downvoting supposed to be used to drop conversations that are trolling in nature? Not simply because you disagree with someone? Isn't this a place for constructive conversation and discourse? That is certainly why I value it so much and come here often to see what intelligent minds have to say about lots of issues. I don't like complaining about it, it just felt like I got trolled via the downvote and while I agree my complaining clutters the conversation, I have no idea who moderates such things.
Yeah, I think we are both thinking the same thing. I put the links, and version numbers, in support of tptacek's thought that they were not using -CURRENT.
The diamond indicates a link. It's a great convention once you understand it, but it's not at all obvious.
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But those terrorists they are afraid of became terrorist because of our meddling in their affairs.

Ok, I know it's to "protect and defend out interests", but those interests are in somebody else's backyard and bedroom
I think the part where she pointed out that not every sexist thing is overtly sexist really resonated with me. Not everything is so blatant that you can report it. If I confronted people every time something subtly sexist happened to me, people would think I was an oversensitive bitch. But at the same time, those little things add up.
> While its fair to say the U.S. lost Vietnam, I think its fair to say the U.S. won in Iraq and Afghanistan as their are now governed by friendly democracies...

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. Afghanistan is also sectarian. Neither are anything we'd recognize as free and stable democracies. In a lot of ways, ordinary citizens in both places are worse off than before the wars.

Our wars there were brutal, protracted, expensive, and ultimately didn't work.
Are there any equivalences you'd like to highlight, involving other tried/proven terms everybody is likely to have heard of?
If you really want to blow your mind/weep uncontrollably a little bit of math is just the ticket.

The F-22 costs $150,000,000 per plane [1]. The price of a bushel of wheat is $6.52 [2]. This means that a single F-22 costs ~23,006,134 bushels of wheat.

A bushel of wheat can produce ~100 loaves of bread weighing 1.5lbs each [3], meaning that each F-22 costs ~2,300,613,496 loaves of bread.

The US military has built 187 F-22 planes [1], meaning that it has exchanged the ability to create 430,214,723,926 loaves of bread for a warp speed death machine. Put another way, the US military could provide a loaf of bread to every man, woman, and child on this planet(!) once per week for 62 weeks for the same price as its fleet of F-22s.

The next time someone talks about world hunger as some sort of intractable problem, just remember that we are actively choosing to allow people to starve and die in order to build ever more efficient death machines.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor

[2] - http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=wheat

[3] - http://www.answers.com/Q/How_much_bread_can_be_made_from_a_b...
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But they are already at Russia's borders. Since 1999!
1. Basically, larger companies don't like to have you as a direct consultant/contractor. In other words, these companies do business with a set of staffing companies (called primary vendors), or through a contingent workforce management solution (a super vendor, who sources contractors/consultants through other staffing companies).

2. Yes, you are the only employee for your LLC. But you are contracting with a primary vendor, who will place you at the end client (a fortune 500 company, for instance).

3. Contracting rates are not that great, esp if you are shooting for a longer contract. In other words, working for google/apple/fb as full time is better than a string of shorter contracts. There is an inverse relationship between the contract rate and the contract length. Even large companies have restrictions of having the same contractor for more than two years.
I don't understand this, Martini has an awesome middleware that supports Google, Github, Facebook and LinkedIn out of the box:

https://github.com/martini-contrib/oauth2

with easy ways to check to see if a user is authenticated.

Gorm is an awesome choice, but this code just looks messy to me
In my opinion this is a great thing to expose people to the freebsd development process! It's a big enough deal to get people to understand just what -CURRENT is, and hopefully it makes people want to build it and start fixing bugs!
I do sometimes wonder what's added by focusing on sexism in tech, in particular, and suggesting it's uniquely a problem with tech. I can believe it's worse here on average than some other comfortable professional jobs, but seriously, sexism is everywhere and if we want to reduce it, it makes more sense to me to focus on the problem itself in full generality rather than an environment it's found in.

Unless you want to invoke an explanation that involves some combination of classism and good old-fashioned picking on (relatively) low-status nerds because it's easier and feels more natural. Then there wouldn't be much left to wonder.

(Edit: NOT saying we shouldn't point out sexism in tech, but expressing skepticism at the broader cultural narrative around how software people are uniquely ignorant and sexist relative to other professions. Ask ten women who've worked somewhere besides tech for a few years for some stories of sexism, you'll hear plenty.)
The US did not attempt to invade and seize Canada and fail at it. The War of 1812 wasn't much more than a short-duration skirmish between Britain and the US, with both still bitter about the Revolutionary War and the various dealings and arrangements that came out of it.
> It's never used here

It's not? I know of many men and women who use it. I've also heard some twisted logic how the use of it is "empowering" or some other nonsense.
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Microservices, SOA, and EITA: Where to Draw the Line? Why to Draw the Line?
Thanks for the feedback (and the Watts' reference). Building a plugin is definitely an interesting idea; I hadn't thought of that before. I guess the problems would be three-fold. First, I don't know how to do that :-). Second, there are probably a bunch of ethical concerns/IRB issues that would stand in the way of academic publishing (but thats not huge). Third, and the only fundamental issue, is that the self-selection into using that plug-in would bias the estimates of intrinsic quality. Still its a pretty good idea but I'm currently trying to get access to more fine-grained data in other ways, so we'll see.

In terms of creating your own site, a few researchers [1,2] have already done this and have some interesting work. But even with that, you still have the problem of accounting for position bias within the site (like HN doesn't really know if you skimmed the title of an article and decided to ignore it, or never read the title at all). But the experimental power you get with that is pretty cool.

And I have totally read that Facebook cascades paper and have more than a few thoughts about it. In fact, I have adapted their prediction-style results to the MusicLab data and you get really strong predictive accuracy (like 90-95% in terms of predicting whether a song will eventually be above the median popularity). However the accuracy you would achieve on Reddit or Hacker News data is considerably lower. I didn't really include those results in my paper because I'm not sure how they fit yet.

If I had one critique (which is not really a critique but a comment) is that the Facebook study doesn't really contradict Watts' point that popularity is hard to predict. The Facebook study shows that if you can observe the "initial conditions", then you can predict eventual outcomes pretty well but that's directly in line with the rich-get-richer effect that Watts et el demonstrate. To put it pithily, its easy to predict who gets richer if you observe who is rich.

Anyway, I could geek out about this for a long time but feel free to drop me an email at stoddardg [at] gmail.com if you're interested in chatting some more.

[1]: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.6744.pdf
[2]: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
I was serious, but unfortunately a fresh account triggers too many warning flags for me. Good luck in your studies.
That doesn't change the calculus because the offset applies equally to both sides. Suppose you had paid the workers the same amount to build schools instead. They would still be able to buy houses with their salaries, but now there would also be a bunch of nice new schools.
Side note: My relative who works in HR has told me time and again, the appropriate way to say "you look nice" to a co-worker in a professional setting is to not say it. In that setting, beyond grossly inappropriate work attire (at which point all comments should go directly to HR and not the employee), there is no need to make a subjective-comment on someone's appearance, you're there to work.

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Have there been any changes to the in-memory columnar caching used by SchemaRDDs in 1.2? I noticed some problems with that, for example if a SchemaRDD with cols [1,2,3] on parquet files [X,Y,Z] is cached, and then I create a new one with a subset of the cols say [1,2] on the same files [X,Y,Z], the new SchemaRDDs physical plan would refer to the files on disk instead of an in memory columnar scan. I'm wondering if DataFrames handle this differently and implications for caching.

For some context - In our case, loading a reasonable set of data from HDFS can take upto 10-30 mins so keeping a cached copy of the most recent data with certain columns projected is important.
To some extent, they already are. IMO, one of the most unfortunate side effects of today's tech is the proliferation of incompatible battery packs as a vendor lock-in tactic. Even when the cells inside are a standard design like the ubiquitous 18650, they're almost always in a proprietary pack. Forget about using a Canon battery pack in a Nikon camera, or a Makita pack in a Black & Decker drill.

Don't get me started on the whole "design a non-replaceable battery into that expensive device so we can make it 0.5 mm thinner" nonsense.

Unfortunately, I think the problem is only going to get worse as time goes on.
I don't really read it as "invalidating" so much as pointing out the possibility of misattribution.

A concrete example: my car broke down. It's a Ford, that's blue, and is a two door, and is rear wheel drive. Is the right conclusion that it broke because it's a Ford and all Fords are pieces of crap?

Are there possible causes? Missed maintenance, a lemon, driving it too hard, etc. I realize that it's crazy to suggest that it broke down because it's blue or because it's a two-door because we happen to know the underlying mechanics here. But if the car was a black-box, those could potentially be causes too.

Just because a woman thinks that she's been discriminated against for being a woman doesn't make it so. That doesn't mean that her experiences are wrong, nor does it make whatever she endured somehow pleasant. And I'm sure that there's plenty of sexism out there too, I'm not trying to suggest that everything is great and there are no problems.

Sexism is an easy explanation in many cases, but that doesn't NECESSARILY mean it's the correct one. It's kind-of like the old XKCD comic: http://xkcd.com/552/
If that is all it takes to piss off a mod, they need to be demodded immediately. That really the weakest insult you can throw. [The insults are more annoying than offensive]
I stopped using StackOverflow a year or so ago, when I was astonished to discover that people can edit your questions.

I accept that this sometimes may be necessary, but I asked a question which was then edited to be a different question, so that the answers I got were entirely useless.

I understand the need for moderation but surely they should not be able to change the meaning of what you posted.
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> The same resources could have been used to further spaceflight, AI, public health, peace, or the environment in or outside of public spending. Warfare is a hellish waste.

It's by no means perfect, but military spending has greatly benefited spaceflight, AI, public health (aid after disasters, advanced prosthetics), etc.
You could, but a normal PC would run you more than $50, and would require driver overhead, bios setup, etc. and would probably be overkill for small projects.

The purpose of the Pi was to make an small, inexpensive educational board that "just works". The hardware standard makes it easy to flash other instances onto the Pi, and the form factor makes it easier to use with something you couldn't put a PC box next to.
Something verifyable definitely would help, like with a checksum. But then, how do make sure that what you are verifying is actually what is running?
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A lot of it comes back to the broken education system in the US. The military and prison system absorb some of the least employable and underprivileged young men and women. In the case of the military it gives them a sense of purpose and pride. In the best case they either learn a trade or can go to college afterwards. And as a sibling comment points out, military spending has for the longest time been used for high technology research (Bell labs, MIT etc.).
There has to be enough people in our ranks with enough intelligence to learn these languages. You don't have to be the best linguist, just a capable one that is willing to work hard. Not to mention that every combat troop should probably be getting at least cursory training in the local language as part of their on going training when not out in the field engaged in combat.

Our soldiers are not stupid, and if we treat them like the intelligent and invaluable human beings that they are then I think we might see far more success that we can even imagine. Imagine if you could understand the locals even 20% of the time vs our current nearly 0% for most units. How much more effective would we be in not only our intelligence in the field, but being able to convey our support for them and helping to relate to the local population.
What forum is that? SO doesn't have forums AFAIK, only questions and answers.
That discussion has been deleted.
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The conceptual model matches the implementation - this is what Don Norman's "Design of Everyday Things" says is good design. When this is the case, a user can interact with the object's interface using logic and intuition and get predictable results.

I agree, git really embodies this.
So a seriously limiting concept from mobile/web world is making it into Linux as well? Soon we won't be able to do anything with our computers, but we will be "perfectly safe". Everything I dislike about iOS is now becoming mainstream. Disclaimer - I wrote a book about cryptology including TPM, secure boot loaders, PKI, etc. another one about 3D graphics and am very aware of the issues and trade offs. But sandboxing is a charming but ultimately silly solution that ultimately removes any capability from the hands of users and slows everything down - it already negatively affects graphics performance of browsers (tainted canvas anyone? how long would WebGL shader hack to bypass this work until we are forced to accept 100 pixels/second performance with sandboxing?). There are even rumors that Skylake is going to be slower and more power hungry than Broadwell due to SGX (we will see soon I guess). Is it really worth it?
>I think its fair to say the U.S. won in Iraq and Afghanistan as they are now governed by friendly democracies...

I dispute that Iraq is governed by a friendly democracy. Iraq, presently is largely split between the Islamic State and the post-Saddam regime currently headed by Haider El-Abadi. Neither is especially friendly towards the US at this point. Islamic State is... well, Islamic State. The Abadi administration, on the other hand, has largely fallen into the orbit of Iran, owing to their shared Shia Islam heritage.

The outcome of the Iraq War reminds me of the old joke about the French and Indian War. "Who won the French and Indian war? It was the British." Likewise, "Who won the America/Iraq war? The Iranians."
> I actually don't want all desktop apps to be able to access all my data all the time. E.g. why should LibreOffice be able to access my browsing history, or Gimp be able to read the contacts in my address book, or VLC be able to read my e-mails? I don't see the difference between desktop and mobile/web apps in this respect.

You do want LibreOffice, Gimp, VLC, and your webbrowser to be able to save and open their respective media files in your home folder, right? And you want might want them to be able to actually work together, right? Such as opening a file you downloaded in the browser. Whether the file chooser is inside your application or outside your application doesn't make it any safer, it's the fact that the application has the ability to open and read/write the files.

What you seem disturbed by is that one application can access configuration and state data belonging to another application. Because they are just files, belonging to the same user. Well, I suppose if such a policy made you feel better, you could always change the AppArmor profiles to only allow an application to modify its own dotfiles, dotdirectory, e.g., fooapp can't touch ~/.* except ~/.fooapp. That's not a terrible idea, although if you are so distrustful of it to begin with and still want to run it you should probably sandbox it in its own filesystem altogether. And this will break some interoperability.