skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The person who wrote the second blog post you linked to here.

I think it's not quite fair to say CF is MITMing, but rather there is the possibility of MITM. Still, the biggest problem out there is the vast majority of sites that are still served over HTTP. Any easy and free solution to get more sites to move to HTTPS is well worth the MITM risk. CF is the best one now, and possibly Let's Encrypt when they launch. I would also place more trust in CF than unknown ISPs or people on unsecured networks.
That's true, but as slimsag pointed out below, long GC pauses (which are what we're trying to avoid) are caused by large numbers of heap-allocated objects, not by the size of the objects.
There's a very nice animation short on Vimeo about the story: https://vimeo.com/76647062
If your product benefits people at all, then making it better helps more people, but using marketing to sell faster also helps more people.

It's not a dichotomy. Products can be good or well-marketed or both or neither.
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Becoming versed in this kind of conversion magic doesn't mean not being 'concerned with building a product that legitimately benefits and gives back to both users and society as a whole'. In fact, using techniques that (admittedly superficially) increase traction for a product of legitimate merit it will significantly multiply the benefits of the product.
Oh right. I love those null/undefined checking chains, it really puts the Java in JavaScript.
> PF version runs on multiple cpus (OpenBSD's version is more advanced though)

What is "more advanced" about it?

> (yes, you can compile a FreeBSD kernel with ALTQ, but it's said to be buggy with SMP.)

not that we've seen in 300,000 installs.
The conclusion that a lower payout means more money for the lottery and less for the players is wrong. If a player receives a lower payout than expected either through bad luck or cheating on the part of the video machine they are more likely to stop playing. There is an online gambling company here in the UK who strive to maintain a 95% payout across all their games because it is deemed the most profitable long term strategy. The chances are that a higher payout for video poker will result in higher earnings for the lottery company which means there is a possibility that the auto hold behaviour is as a result of lazy programming rather than deliberate maliciousness.
I think we are going in the wrong direction once again, this won't solve the problem of death at all, instead it would merely prolong life, but all studies show that the leading cause of death is in fact life.

Trillions of dollars are already being spent worldwide each year with the supposed goal of eradicating life, but I think it's all just a conspiracy involving the military industrial complex.

I'm sure that if we really wanted to we could end all life and thus death once and for all today using the means we already have at our disposal and have had for over 5 decades now.
Any idea why React.addons.classSet is now deprecated?
It was really helpful.
> Brain Images from MRI or fMRI...

... were shown to boost the credibility of neuroscience-related articles[0], and nothing in the paper hints at reasons why it could be generalized to other topics.

It'll be fun to watch brain images pop up on the sites of people who will have taken that post at face value :-)

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0. http://www.antoniocasella.eu/dnlaw/McCabe_2008.pdf
It depends on where you're coming from, but for lots of people who want to make something, there's probably some kind of tutorial or library with examples that puts it in reach. Pair that with the fact that JavaScript as a language has a small number of fundamental concepts and a great free REPL and user interface environment (the DOM), and you get lots of people making lots of things that would otherwise be more expensive or less accessible.
The team that won the Collegiate Cyber Defense Nationals last year did so with a firewall based on freebsd (pfSense).

https://hackucf.org/blog/pfsense-at-hackucf/
Wow, I didn't even know they still sold that model.
> The prime directive of a business is to serve the interests of its owners. That usually requires making money at some level, but making money itself may not be the prime directive.

And this is certainly true of some businesses. A few businesses. And they're fantastic to work for. But they're very rare in my (admittedly) limited experience.
For general use, yeah.

For gaming, you can get less input lag with wireless mice with dedicated dongles if you're intent on going wireless.
> I think (hope?) I can see where each one of you is coming from and to me it doesn't look like your goals are that different

Sorry I disagree. I had already some issue with Matt's behavior, and Matt is not the project leader, yet in my talk I praised him two times, because this kind of things put the foundation to work together better.

Instead he provided a talk that goes exactly in the other direction. This human interaction issue made me reflecting about the other issues I had with Matt in the past months, for me it is GAME OVER. I'll continue to merge his PRs only after stringent reviews / testing, and that's it.
It's also an efficient crop as it uses the C4 pathway, and as you've said can be reprocessed infinite ways, even as gas as you see here. Great for an industrialized market economy.
Lot's of words, fancy images, tips and conclusions. But no actual data.

Citing research papers from 1979 to decide which photo converts better on a website? Dude, just show me the data of an a/b test.
Agreed. Also it should be generating queries based on foreign keys/indexes (including joins).

Others should not be allowed in an interactive app anyway: developer should be warned/prevented using a "batch" query by accident.
The corn ethanol rip off is kind of ridiculous. I still have hopes though that algae produced ethanol may be cost effective. There's a company called Algenol that's been trying for a while with genetically modified algae and projecting cheaper than oil ethanol next year for quite a few years now but you never know - they may get there one day.

( http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2015/01/26/worlds-larg... for example of their stuff)
I can't tell if your last line is flagged with /s but all I will say that it perfectly illustrate the lack of tolerance that drives nerds away. I'm going to generalize here. The description of nerd withdrawal that you give actively implies that the nerd has aggressively attacked someone by TRYING NOT TO BE SEEN. The nerd is trying to avoid conflict because it is a giant waste of time and frankly is pretty depressing. This behavior is the interpreted exactly as your last line reads as "hateful" and "weird." This interpretation leads to a personal attack from the afflicted whereas the nerd was simply trying to avoid any of this. It is like saying that nerds should know better when the stereotype that is forced upon them (often correctly) is that they are often utterly unaware of their affect on other people. That the afflicted does not have the empathy to recognize the crippling social ineptness (in the eyes of appropriate society) of the nerd leads to directed attacks (often call bullying in the rest of the world). When a nerd withdraws it is directed at no one. I am NOT giving the nerd an out for bad behavior. I am saying that nerds often speak their minds without stopping to check who is listening because they don't do the primate thing of checking to see who is going to beat their ass every time they speak and they intentionally formed their own society so they didn't have to. Most nerds will apologize if someone reminds them that other people near by might not feel comfortable hearing certain discussions, but don't be surprised if some of them ask why that someone was listening in the first place.

tl;dr Generalization: Nerd withdrawal is rarely directed at anyone, it is a defence mechanism. Responses to nerd withdrawal or nerds expressing themselves (in their blithely unaware way) are often direct attacks on the nerd. This asymmetry is what drives me nuts.
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I don't see anything what you describe as inherent and necessary to nerd culture.

What you want is an abrasive culture and I oppose that.

I certainly never "left the world" and certainly not because I found all those things useless or oppressive.

I can still nerd out on a multitude of subjects from music to board games to digital culture and I do prefer to do it with people that don't use this culture as a reason to be terrible to other people.

I run 3 meetups (one of them now the biggest NoSQL UG for one technology in Berlin), organised 8 very well-received conferences and moderated multiple bulletin boards. All are nerdy to the core - and are successful because you can expect not to be met with aggressiveness. Our credo is that the baseline to attend is interest in the subject. Anything else is hindering.

Your nerdiness is definitely not mine.
Net neutrality is very important, but it occurs to me that when we finally figure out that we don't need separate telephone lines, cable tv, etc - i.e. when we realise it's all just data and one-pipe-fits-all - then it seems fairly obvious that your neighbours 999/911 VoIP call should perhaps not be drowned out by 4K Netflix. And neither should your burglar alarm. Or panic button. Or self-driving car. Or robotic doctor.

It's an issue in its infancy now, sure, but it will become a problem.
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I got the following assessment:

The short version is that you can start working in the U.S. within 6 weeks, and stay for at least 2 years with:
- a 82% chance of success
- $2,183.13/year cost to sponsor you

I suspect this is wrong.

Previously I was also told that the waiting period could easily be up to 9 months.
It reads like NLP bullshit through and through. I flagged.
> Whatever your thoughts are on Java the language - would it not make sense to focus efforts on the OpenJVM project and all the languages it can support?

Putting Go on the JVM would be taking a language that only has a few "great" features (fast compile/startup time, decent memory efficiency, simple static binary output) and neutering it to the point of irrelevance.
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So are the ingredients, the recipe, and the individual elements of the cooking. I also personally rate restaurants on the comfort and style of the furnishing, the "ambience", the location, and events, if any (a Lebanese restaurant I like occasionally has a belly dancer).

None of these are separately itemized on my bill, nor would I expect them to be.
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Me too. This is what made me flag it:

"I’m always flabbergasted how small—seemingly irrelevant—changes can make a big impact

If that was true, the author would have told us about those big impacts he witnessed. I think it's all made out of thin air.

If he just said "here is a couple of research papers that might be relevant to photos on websites" I would have no problem with the article. But they way it is presented, it's not HN worthy.

This is a topic I am very interested in. I studied many a/b tests on the impact of photos and other elements on conversion rations. The impact is usually surprisingly small.
Actually someone else forked the code, and openbsd forked that because they wanted to rush out a release.

http://www.openssh.com/history.html
Wow, I work in O&G here and knew nothing about this.

I also guess he's quite right that in many cases you are better of skipping school though of course it helps a lot more that you come from a smart wealthy family.
Someone you have worked with for > 1 year and do not have doubts about.
I meant the size of the header in the event page, not in the planning / calendar views (where the length of the event drives the size).
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Just in case GP cares: To me it did not sound like this at all. I think making prototypes and starting to build the thing is the key to getting to a good architecture.
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Students and teachers are the target audience. Salespeople are. Business people are. These people all have serious computing needs that are better met by an ultraportable device with long battery life than by anything that has more horsepower or more ports.

Casual Facebook users are not a target audience for anything, because almost everybody is a casual facebook user, including people who do 3D animation or need to compile huge codebases.
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Any news on this? It's still broken...
> "Tipping looks like an anachronistic hangover from a time when restaurant staff were the lowest of the low"
> This is unfortunately still the case in America.

Which is enabled by tipping.
Have you tried going to one of the many meetups for people interested in games, instead of going to meetups for people interested in startups?

http://www.meetup.com/find/?allMeetups=false&keywords=games&...

Beyond that, I don't know what to tell you, because I know plenty of people who play games in SF. They're all over -- seemingly every tech company out here has a game night. And I'm not someone who likes to play, so I have no particular reason to seek them out.

Make sure you're not falling into the comfortable, easy trap of Reverse Nerd Discrimination: these people don't fit comfortably within my own self-image as an outsider, so they must not be like me. There are a lot of True Nerds here who have outgrown the stereotypical image of what a nerd is supposed to look like.
Really bad article. Goes to great lengths to glamorize that Curzi person, yet does not provide some of the most crucial information on the subject. For example - does oregon law require that the machines have certain winning percentage? And secondly did the state of oregon make a representation to gamblers that this machine had certain winning percentage?

And finding documents marked "confidential" that say the machine has a certain winning percentage means nothing. You cannot say that a confidential document that was unknown to gamblers before Cruzi obtained it from a public records request mislead anyone. If people do not know about a document there is no way it can mislead them.

Since the article is quiet on the two questions listed above it seems very likely that their answer is "no". In that case that Cruzi person, as glamorous as the article makes him, probably has no case. If the machine is not required by law or by previous advertisement to give out a certain percentage, I do not see how the fact that the advice it gives results in a lesser percentage than other possible advice is at all relevant.
> The person I replied to was stating that 10-20 channels are "worth".

Worth what?

> The rest of your comment is just "I don't want to be wrong" nonsense.

Silly me.

I have two offers for you:

1. I have a pack of 10 different coins. I will sell them for $5.

2. I have a pack of 5 coins, and am willing to sell them for $3.

Which do you want to buy?
He's out consuming Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
I once worked for a company that never used stock photographs; all the website images were of staff, taken and used with their permission on work premises.

Not only did it give a sense of pride and ownership of the site, internally, but we could also add captions like "John S, St Louis Office" and had feedback that visitors appreciated the personal touch.

Other benefits included absence of licensing fees and ability to take custom photos with staff showing the products.
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Well, I would say that first, the threat feminists are often fighting against is the threat of bodily harm and behavior that leads to bodily harm (1 out of 6 women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape¹). Compare this to the threat that nerds are fighting against today, the threat of having to accept those that they deem unworthy.

Secondly, I'm not arguing nerds shouldn't have a safe space. But that safe space shouldn't be at the expense of diversity in the workplace (hired on merit) or online public spaces (where everyone should be treated with respect regardless of the merit metric). That safe space doesn't preclude nerds from learning basic social skills in order not to harass members of the opposite sex while at work (or really anywhere). Just like nerds shouldn't be harassed at school or work, they shouldn't harass people then hide behind the excuse that they are allowed because they're socially awkward nerds who don't know any better. And I say this as a socially awkward nerd.

¹https://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/sexual-assa...
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That resonated with me for completely different reasons. Most of the "extremely weird nerds" from my high school were people with pretty serious functional problems who never did make it anywhere. They are pretty much the forgotten ones.

The successful "nerds" were always at least introspective or 'ironic' and could function somewhat normally in social situations including attempting to play whatever status games that entails. Most of the programmers I've worked with are at best superficially-nerdy relative to how far some people can go.

A lot of this analysis suffers from pretty severe high-school politics category error. That guy from high school who had nothing going except being "good with computers" is probably not at all the same person who is 'brogramming' for a startup, for example. But no matter how much it is reframed, the social stigma of the lost ones is unescapable.
I have explicitly stated that "beautiful" is not at all a goal. Clarity is.
Not sure but it's very easy to implement it yourself... Check this https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/2aeb8a2a6beb00617a421...

But I also miss it, yeah, very useful addon.
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I think 100TB deployments is a very high bar you've set for postgres. I think the one place NoSQL databases continue to serve (and where My/Postgresql don't) are highly available, sharded deployments - and people are running into the issue at the 10s of TBs (I can't imagine you'd want 5TB+ of data served from a single node - AWS largest SSD instance would be 6.4TB in RAID0, and serving your database off a single large RAID0 already sounds like a bad idea).

Not to say people aren't running these types of Postgres clusters, but its something not easily done.

I think the anti-SQL sentiment is a very MongoDB-esque thing, in that MongoDB tried to replace everything. Most of the other popular NoSQL solutions have very clear and cut use cases, and are pretty upfront about selecting the right database.
My only point was that blackmail is not rape in Illinois. Interpret that as you wish.
There should be a round in Code Jam which asks people to write the slowest possible (and correct) solution for a problem. Would be interesting to see people coming up with algos that have ridiculously large complexity classes like O(n!), O(n!!) etc.,
The government cannot subsidize fresh produce instead of the beef industry?
I've just added in some keyboard shortcuts to mute/unmute and randomize the instruments. Working on the save and share function today, it would be great to be able to hear what people have made.
What are WebComponents and why are they important?
I don't want to get into the nerd vs geek debate here but my interpretation of TFA was that it was specifically talking about the types of people that simply didn't want to play the social hierarchy game. Just being interested in and doing nerdy/geeky things does not place you in that group (unfortunately the terminology we have does a poor job of distinguishing this).

I also don't think there is any implication that I want an abrasive culture. I do not think that early google style corporate culture is a good thing. I think we need to dissociate nerds behaving badly from simply not picking up on social signals or not caring about them. The reason I say this is because when you treat someone as a villain who is simply thinking out loud you basically stop any potential for real dialogue in its tracks.
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:o

Now I want Pannini Projection converter for my gopro :)
We actually have a couple of white noise generators, but for some reason my wife prefers the phone at work...
That is then not a problem of the SQL-Language, it is more a problem of the database design.

When you need really complex queries, you should think about a new db structure.
This article references a number of different studies, but I really wanted to see some hard numbers with these concepts being used.

Show me that someone pointing at that newsletter button is 25% more effective than a photo of someone with their arms crossed. Or, show me that smiling asian male in a suit will out perform an attractive business woman in casual clothes.

Take some photos of the same person, in the same clothes, one with them pointing at the call to action, another with them looking at the call to action, another with them standing in a neutral pose, and another with arms crossed. Show me those numbers, and which increases sales.

Otherwise, I'm full of doubt.

http://www.nickkolenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/pointi...

That image freaks me out, it looks like an overly confident guy that is pretending he's well off, and it looks like he's about to give me some awful speech about the 10 secrets to success. I wouldn't want to donate to a kickstarter with that image, because I don't want that guy to get my money (even though it's a stock photo, I associate him with the project).

Then, I look at another example...

http://www.nickkolenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/stock-...

The article says the asian male is probably best, because he's asian, and smiling more. I'd disagree again, I prefer A, the guy looks more down to earth in the casual clothes, and as a late twenties male, he looks very relatable. That's the kind of person I'd want to donate money towards.

This is all speculation though, we need real world numbers, otherwise this article is pointless.
> I've yet to see the research which indicates that we should see an even mix of men and women at the top of social structures

The reason that we want to see this is that we have thousands of years of evidence that when group A has more power than group B it tends to end really badly for group B. See: slavery, capitalism, the patriarchy, colonialism... etc.

> admit a difference in terms of both physical ability (eg, why we separate sports)

That's spurious. Physical ability is not at all important for competency in most of the high paying and powerful roles of society. If physical ability were important then the CEOs, bankers and politicians of the world would be young men rather than old white men.

> and behaviors (eg, men tend to be more risk taking)

It's very hard to prove that different behaviours between the genders are a result of biochemistry (that we can't control) as opposed to social conditioning (that we can control). Most of the behaviours that people think of as "feminine" or "masculine" are learned rather than innate. One example (competitiveness) is outlined in this Freakonomics podcast: http://freakonomics.com/2013/10/09/what-can-a-ball-and-a-buc...
The problem with the data-driven approach is you might be optimising towards a local maximum.
I'm waiting for "quick pick" lotto draws to be reviled as not actually random but the machine picks numbers least likely to win because they recently won.
The dongle thing didn't take place at a "nerd community" event, but at a professional conference. The problem, as it where, is that computers and programming is no longer the exclusive domain of the so called "nerd" and I don't think we should make joining a subculture a prerequisite for joining a career path.