skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's implying that if you do date coworkers at the office it's unprofessional, not that people in a professional capacity don't make bad decisions and put their career at risk by dating coworkers.
This is exactly what I couldn't figure out how to say! Thank you.
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I'm also moving back to Postgres. Postgres was the first DB I used when I learned to code PHP. MySQL came later. Just recently, around a year or two ago, I got introduced to Mongo and all its surrounding hype. Mongo is good for small small apps that need no references and have a low requirement for speed and data integrity.
You easily could have this in SQL if you designed a poor schema or failed to migrate data from the previous field name.
For Google Chrome, there is Google Dictionary plugin that function along the same lines.
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Hey, that's great. You stay home. I'm going to keep going out and being involved. We'll see who gets more done.
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Code that glues together and orchestrate interactions between other code units etc. It's hard to test because of all the dependencies, but the actions it performs are not very complicated, so not worth the effort of unit testing.

For more, see: http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2009/11/04/selective-unit-te...
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well palantir, I guess someone's gotta con the Taxpayers out of their freedom AND money
poor put upon libertarian billionaires!!!

Not to say P Thiel is this way but come on bruh let's gain perspective
I feel like government-run ventures are obligated to not try to intentionally mislead me. If this is incompatible with gambling machines, then the entire venture seems unethical. Well, I won't beat around the bush, I already think government running gambling machines is incredibly unethical for a number of reasons, so the fact that they also have intentionally shitty defaults and misleading instructions is just more proof to me.
> I'm pretty sure there's no shortage of grass.

Then you should check your confidence level, because you're wrong. Most of the available USA grazing territory is already cow-burnt, and that's before you get things like the extreme droughts of recent years causing mass cattle slaughter and die-offs. And mind you all but a rounding error of these cattle are finished on grain feedlots.
>These first three examples are awful examples. A ton of people love all of those things.

So what? A ton of people loved smoking cigarettes, segregation, creationism, and tons of other BS stuff too.

The idea about culture is also making value judgements, not just bending over to whatever "people like" as if mere enjoyment is the be all end all of arguments.

Especially since what people "like" is not the objective, "own choice", we make it to be, but can be manipulated by advertising, conditioning, lack (or less coverage) of alternatives and finally lack of education.
@Adeptus - I like your statement on "Don't be loyal, just be professional in other words, and live for the time when you are not at work."

Very true :)
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The government is in a much better position to protect people from fraud if it isn't the one perpetrating the fraud in the first place.
Ireland just made ecstasy and other drugs legal 'by accident'
Very unlikely. The USA sugar policy is older than the corn policy, why would trade with Cuba change that just because it's one of their agricultural products?

Cuba is not even in the top ten cane producers, and more to the point, the USA alone produces over 15 times as much cane as Cuba. Brazil, which has bilateral free trade agreements with the USA, produces well over 400 times as much cane as Cuba.

What leads you to believe that lifting some sanctions against Cuba would do anything to change US sugar policy?
Perhaps an example would make it clearer: http://www.wikihow.com/Sample/High-School-Lesson-Plan
You are conflating a small "team room" with a 50+ person "open office"
Doesn't this hurt Google? Now there are fewer people seeing its ads.

Can the extra purchases on the Google Play really make up for it? I suspect not.
>Or, back to gambling, is it fair on the children of the father/mother who gamble away their pay check each month leaving the family destitute?

However bad it might be to prey on people by trying to trick them into gambling, it's a trillion times better than just taking their money (the other way of raising revenues).
"we aren't against diversity"..."they should make their bones, same as we did" sounds like it could come from any all white male institution. The problem is, we as humans prefer to surround ourselves with people just like us, sometimes that means same race, sometimes same religion, or gender, or political views, and often it happens subconsciously, choosing the person closer to our ideal without us even realizing we're penalising the "other" in ways that we don't penalise those like us. This is what diversity is (or should be) fighting against, it really is trying to make it merit based which goes against our survival instincts, even those of the "nerds".
Here's the original "About" box from MacPaint.[1]

There was a concept back then that programmers were authors, and should be credited as such.

Apple later issued guidelines to third-party developers suggesting that programs should not have developer names associated with them, because programming was a group effort.

[1] http://www.geekculture.com/images/MacPaint.gif
Equal height columns with Flexbox
It's sort of both.

Ethanol does absorb water from the air.

But that's how it works as a gas-line antifreeze: It absorbs undesired water from the fuel line and mixes with it so that you can burn it.
> There was a time when people didn't eat meat with every meal.

Yeah. There was also a time when 8-year-olds did a full day's work in the mines and malnourishment was the norm.

You should think about the complexity involved in eating a healthy vegetarian diet before you start being dismissive of it. Meat is easier in some significant ways.
So you prefer to shoot he breeze with 100 people at once (80 of whom are trying to work at that moment) than with one other person who wants a break?
'React doesn't solve any architectural problem other than the view'

Fair enough. But, when coupled with a flux implementation (like Reflux) and a router (like React Router), what do you find missing in the React toolkit?
Europe also seems to have less driving than California on account of actually having transit.
Do you want to sell gold watches for the rest of your life or...
Hacked feedback systems capture the sound of empty space
I would imagine that the antibiotics in cattle issue is far more closely related to factory farming in confined quarters than anything to do with what kind of food they are primarily eating.
whether it was a calculated decision or not, this choice certainly helped build steve jobs' brand at the expense of everyone else, to the point where he's still widely seen as solely responsible for apple's success.
Jeremy Clarkson 'punch': Top Gear episodes to be dropped
Yeah, that's SF. It's 80% posers, especially at meetups. The minority that are doing interesting things are, of course, not so easy to find. Work hard on your passions and eventually you'll meet likeminded people. (that's true no matter where you're located)

Just be glad you're there now, and not being forced by management to go to glitzy web parties in 1999. Those were insufferable.
Pardon the pun, but your complaints are incredibly rarified. No one's having a steak party, they're eating burgers and tacos in between their long shifts because of lack of fresh produce and time to cook it.
the website says it supports modules. Quasi literals also seem to be supported.
It's definitely not fake.
> I'm in SF now and have been for a while. Where are you guys?

At home, on Hacker News, rather than the bar and wishing for a gaming troupe? I don't do meetups. I am laying travel plans for DEFCON, though...
You sound like someone who's never seen anything outside of coastal New England, backwardness exists all over.

See how the folks in rural Maine feel about gay marriage - I'll point out that 47% of voters in 2012 were opposed which on the surface sure doesn't seem too different to me than the 46% of Ohioans apposed as of last polling in 2014.

I'd bet I'd find remarkably similar polling in Ohio, Maine, Vermont or New Hampshire about gun rights too.

When it comes down to it, the conservatives have lost the war they might not realize it yet, but history is on the side of those for equality and equitable treatment.

As for the culture comments? You're just a snob, but that very nearly goes without saying.
Meetups are not community events, they are recruiter events, full stop. Sorry :/
> "we aren't against diversity"..."they should make their bones, same as we did" sounds like it could come from any all white male institution.

It could... if you choose to cast it that way. It could also come from any self-selecting group where the selection process is part of the group identity.

Group identity isn't just a matter of waking up one day, declaring yourself a member of $GROUP, and $GROUP being obliged to accept you.
Thanks for the reply! I'll look out for it. Need it for the southeast datacenter (Singapore)
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Note that Schmidt and Rosenberg never worked in open offices -- they just decided they liked the idea after they bubbled off the top of the company and stopped doing any sort of desk job.
Oh god, this. Using Immutable (via Immstruct) has been glorious, but this has been a minor annoyance that I'll be glad to be rid of.

Now all I need to do is sort out some issues with dispatch and I'm good to go...
The notes aren't accessible on touch devices like iPad.
Interesting at their scale, they haven't needed to shard PostgreSQL. +1 for PostgreSQL.

Also, would be super curious to see and hear more about their patch to SSHD to allow it to read from a database instead of disk. This would be super useful for us as well (https://commando.io).

Lastly, it was really interesting that switching to bcrypt took their servers down, and they were forced to write a custom sha1 to bcrypt cache. One solution would be to not hash (bcrypt) API tokens, but instead just encrypt them and store in PostgreSQL. The side benefit of this, is users could view their API tokens again if needed.

Obviously it is less secure, but Stripe for example allows you to view your API tokens, and thus they are not hashing them.
Same here. I moved to the bay area when SF was starting to put on suits and ties, I guess. For what it's worth the north bay is nice. Go to Sausalito, look at the houseboat marina. Some of the people there are fascinating.

Like everywhere else, though, two thirds of the people here made money and moved somewhere interesting and made it less interesting.

I'm in San Rafael fwiw. Nice quiet neighborhood, peek into people's back yards and you'll see a lot of arts and crafts.
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For an interesting experiment, show this article to the sort of people it's about. Don't tell them the author is an autistic woman. Observe their reactions. Then provide them that background and repeat observations.
>I can't tell you how many meetings I've been in where the person on the other side of the table is regularly looking at my boobs. What am i supposed to do about that

This is just blatant non-sense. I am immigrant working in US. I can't tell you how many times women have brushed my arms or tried to grab my ass. I am male and have english accent.

What are people supposed to do when you are sitting at exact opposite side ? Close the eyes ? Even if you are directly looking into women's eyes she could be feel that you are looking at her boobs. Its just her own insecurities speaking out. I would not hire such flamboyant bitch.

Also, mind you with diversity comes time to adjust. You can't mix people from all over the world ( India, China, UK,Australia, Mexicans ) and expect them to follow your culture right away. People from India and China ( including Taiwan ) are very hardcore. Many times I have seen they refuse to mix and adjust according to US culture. When I was working in boston for big software company , which also had Indian and Chinese folks, these people would get coffee within their own group and refuse to invite/mix with others. Many of my friends experienced similar thing.

I believe parent commenter is just non-sense believing everything said to him. I would certainly steer away from such person being my manager. One of the managers responsibility is to listen to everything and make good judgement call which he clearly fails to demonstrate.
are you stupid or just spamming ?
Do something like a board game meetup, comics store events, play MTG at channel fireball, try to make friends at burning man. Or art things in oakland. There is also the SF Bay Area Reddit group too. Weird nerds don't necessarily code.
Ask HN: Do all VC firms make out pretty well?
I don't know the actual numbers, but it seems like the return on investments by VCs is pretty damn good. I'm curious if any VC firms actually _don't_ do well.
there was no connotation of girls hating or loving insects. Just a sound.

There was, however, the connotation that girls are prissy and easily scared.
Now, I rarely hear anything about bootstrapping, as if getting funding won the day, and now bootstrapping is laughed at.

This is a filter-bubble sort of problem. If you get your news from TechCrunch/etc, yes, that makes a lot of sense; TechCrunch long-ago decided that bootstrapped businesses do not maximize page views. If you hang out in the bootstrapping world, it is a very exciting time to be alive.
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

Steve Jobs would disagree there!
Does Immstruct use Immutable's cursors? If so, you'll still need to use .toArray() when dealing with a cursor to an array. React doesn't like what you get after mapping over an IndexedCursor.
Business may proceed as usual: fearful managers might use data to make their jobs more secure, savvy managers might use data to move fast and break things.
No, they just moved in.
Ask HN: Is choosing a right stack for startup really important decision?
When I have an product idea to develop, I generally mold my ideas which fits best with certain type of stack (LAMP, MEAN, Djano etc). I feel that certain things are best when its done using certain stacks.

Like for example if we are looking into real time chat application its best to use MEAN stack, but seeing "Slack" which is completely built on PHP and MySQL makes me think that choosing the right stack does not matter because at the end anything can be scaled

I reside in Dubai and the developers and startups do not have a clear understanding of my question and I don't know whom to ask..

Is it really important spending lot of time in learning the MEAN stack if say I want to develop a realtime sharing/messaging application instead in PHP and MySQL?
India Launches Indigenous Rotavirus Vaccine. At $1 It Is Cheapest in the World
> then we don't know you've opted-out and we don't know your history either so we show you even worse/generic ads

But that's what people want - generic ads. Instead of spying on user the ad networks should spy on content (crawl the web pages were the ad is on).

It's very easy, the first time an ad is served from a specific page it's new for your network and you show a generic ad related to the topic of the website. Then you crawl the new page. For every new visit of that page you now have some information and can show a related ad to that page!

Hint: That's how Google Ads work. There is no need to spy on visitors.
The data used there is cached. We were basically building around having a daughter card handle decoding the video and handling the communication with Netflix servers since there just isn't the memory (and probably not the real time horsepower) to do everything on main CPU. The idea was that an rpi could prime the nametables and communicate via MMC3 style interrupts with the main board, but we wanted to make sure we resisted the temptation of other hacks and simply punch the HDMI jack out of the back of the device and run everything through a primed emulator. We set the rules at "real hardware" and trying to keep true to what you could ship in a cart (though possibly a big one) that a user could put in and play.

Sadly, we had to cut the rpi this time due to time constraints. So we set the data up as if that was doing its job and focused on the current rendering issues and understanding the NES side of things. Hardware interfaces aside (I'm no wiz there), the rpi parts and encoding magic should have been fairly trivial. In the end, we had plenty of CPU cycles left during playback which leave me pretty confident on the rest.

That's not to say we wouldn't have run into some sort of problems with keeping the PPU primed, but we can save that for another (hack?) day.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3029144
8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Part 1

http://trixter.oldskool.org/2014/06/19/8088-domination-post-...
If you agree at all on having a government, then it needs some funding. And now, why should the government touch and move around more flows of money than are strictly necessary to fund it?

More money touched and redirected just leads to more corruption and rent-seeking.

If you want the government to have less money, let's just reduce eg the `sin tax on honest work' aka the income tax.
You're putting words in his mouth. He never said to not eat meat. He said not to eat it at every meal. You don't need to eat sausage and bacon at breakfast, a rack of ribs and half a chicken at lunch, and a 1/2 lb steak at supper to get your daily intake of meat-provided nutrients. The sad truth is that far too many people eat meat at every single meal, and it's just not natural for us. Balance.
There are other ways to license lyrics:

http://www.lyricfind.com/services/lyrics-for-free/
It's less "we aren't against diversity" and more "diversity is orthogonal to what we care about", I think.
This is fantastic. I found myself wanting to scream Byakugan! while watching the demo... :p
It depends. Sure you can preload all your world props and level entities, but what about things like projectiles being fired, travelling, and then being de-allocated?

A good strategy for handling this in a GC'd language is using the factory / pool patterns, so during level loading you instantiate 100 "empty" projectile entities that you can re-use. When a projectile is "fired" you request a Projectile from the ProjectilePool, add its initial position/speed/whatever, then add it to the world. It goes through its trajectory, maybe hits a wall, and then you release it back to the ProjectilePool where it is cleared and can be re-used later.

But what if you need 101 projectiles...?
sucks because of "engineering reasons" - wow, thanks for the comment

Corn-fed beef is not high-quality protein, it is usually feed lot beef laced with antibiotics, andreline and cortisol.
Has the same problem, we can't support the syntax:

let integer: i32 = some_integer_array.at(i);
let reference: &i32 = &some_integer_array.at(i);

with the desired semantics, without introducing new language concepts.

In any case, we did use methods for indexing vectors for a while and it was quite annoying; the shorter syntax is nice.
This oversimplifies AI. The human brain is based on simple principles as well. The mechanisms of cells and neurons and neurotransmitters are not hard to understand in isolation. There is no principle difference between an AI that functions on top of millions of silicon circuits and the human brain which functions on top of millions of biological circuits.

While machines are presently lacking in certain capabilities such as empathy and conceptualization, they are still very useful as tools and extensions of the human brain as long as the limitations and pitfalls are understood.
I realized she was a woman from this line:

>There are progressive, libertarian, anarchist, moderate, communist, conservative, liberal, and reactionary hackers, just the same as can be said for women, bisexuals, Texans, or engineers who aren’t hackers.

The sentence only really makes sense if the final 4 traits are describing the author.
> You apparently don't actually know any little boys and girls because their screams sound nothing alike. Boys do manage a nice scream, but it doesn't sound the same, especially past the age of 3.

I worked as a neurology technician for four years, doing tests on a patient load that was half paediatric, plenty of whom had an induced drowsy state to bring out epileptic activity. Drowsy kid, strange environment, strange person touching their head, and sometimes autistic. For four years, I spent half the day in the presence of children's screams. I promise you that they don't sound different, and certainly not to the qualitative level you're trying to shoehorn in here.

And seriously, it's not like the statement was a neutral explanation. It's a trope - no-one says "run away screaming like a little boy". Trying to defend it as a serious qualitative explanation of the actual sound made is nonsense.

> A desire for equality will not be achieved by erasing all differences, but by celebrating all differences, and recognizing each is valuable in its own way.

I wholeheartedly agree - we need to recognise people as individuals and individual differences. Hence why we need to drop generalising tropes like "run away screaming like a little girl", because they are about stereotypes, not individuality. There are plenty of girls out there who don't do that - my mother's earliest memory is of patting a hairy spider, for example. No 'running away screaming' for that individual.

How on earth you defend "like a [demographic]" as some sort of comment in support of recognising individuality is beyond me.
This is really disturbing. For all of the sleaziness of Vegas, any time I've asked a dealer or pit boss about the house advantage in a particular game, or the correct play for a particular hand, they've told me cheerfully and correctly. They sell strategy cards in all of the gift shops -- and you can have them on the table with you while you are playing. There's no need for them to lie -- they already have the advantage, all they need to do is get you to play long enough to let the odds do their thing.
It does, but you can just .deref()
None of those are really comparable in effort, cost, or effectiveness compared to just calling my credit card and having the charge reversed and the threat that I have the option to do that if they don't deal with my orders or issues appropriately.
Definitely the case over here.
> Watching you "manual memory all the way" dudes struggle with simple concurrency as much as you do, I'd hate to throw away a GC just for that extra teeny bit of performance.
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I think you may have missed the part where I mentioned RAII. It's a lovely scheme in C++ and a handful of other languages. You can get away from manually managing memory entirely in C++14.
Meredith is a hacker under any definition. So that trait definitely is not descriptive of her.
Source says Snapchat is asking its next round of investors to buy common stock
Congress only passes about 200 bills per year and declining.

This kickback is never going to end and if it got close, someone would just put an anonymous hold on the bill until it died.

But if you want to waste taxpayer money by renaming post offices after dead presidents, they are all for that.
If someone you worked with were intentionally deceptive about the status of their romantic relationships how long would it take you to find out?

Most people keep their work and personal lives somewhat separate for a reason.
Reminds me of http://genopharmix.com/TuataraSum