skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At that time she was complaining about a coworker making her work "more difficult" after their relationship ended. Do you believe this falls under sexual harassment?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_energy_balance
It's fake
For some reason every generation seems to rediscover the same things and think they've invented something new
You could use Teiid (https://github.com/teiid/teiid). The SQL dialect is similar to Postgres, and it has built-in translators to handle all of the popular relational databases (Postgres, Oracle, MySQL). Added bonus is that even some NoSQL databases are supported, and you can do things like join a table from a MySQL database against a collection in MongoDB. Full CRUD is supported for most translators.

If you're using Java (JDBC), there's an embedded kit so you don't have to run a standalone server. If you're not using Java, you can run the standalone server which also emulates the Postgres ODBC protocol so you can (for example) use `psql` to connect and run queries.
> Being data driven means chasing the biggest, loudest signal in your data set.

This reminds me of how one time, a professor of mine was discussing a pie-chart. He pointed towards the smallest sliver and said "Know what that is? That's opportunity!" He was most interested in the smallest signal because it represented untapped potential. (IIRC the topic was related to replacing oil with renewable energy.)
The VHDL HDL is based on Ada. Works ok. An FP HDL is an interesting concept.
Are you really on hackernews bragging about HTML skills?
Unfortunately, it seems that respecting other subcultures and believing you have the one true just culture are incompatible beliefs.
Ben Horowitz -> http://www.bhorowitz.com/
Seth Godin -> http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
Tim Ferriss -> http://fourhourworkweek.com/blog/
Neil Patel -> http://www.quicksprout.com/
Yours truly -> http://danielscocco.com
"Race gas" is commonly understood to refer to octane number. E85 is 94-96 octane, according to wikipedia, which enables you to run higher compression or higher boost.

The fact that it has lower energy density just means you burn more of it, so your tank runs out faster. It has nothing to do with the power you can get out of the engine.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format from 1987 ish worked this way. Or as another commenter mentioned SGML in it's more compact forms from the same time period and so therefore early HTMLs. Having a closing symbol at all is a pain and I have painful memories from trying to manually find a missing closing bracket in a book length Rtf document. HAML uses significant indention to accomplish the nesting which I find much much easier to read nowadays.
Not a fan of how this blog takes over the swipe from screen edge gesture so I can't go back in Safari easily.
This article directly contradicts my understanding of some key points. For example, does the production of corn ethanol really increase food prices? I was under the impression that the US overproduces so much corn that the farmers were specifically getting tax credits to produce less of it.

Also, is growing and harvesting this corn (taking out the final burning of ethanol out of it for a moment) a net positive or negative in terms of carbon emissions? Is the fact that the corn is growing and absorbing carbon dioxide enough to offset the planting, fertilization, and harvesting? What about all that + conversion to ethanol + disposal of the conversion byproducts?

The real question is this: what is greater?

(a) CO2 emissions from planting, harvesting, transporting, converting, disposing of corn + CO2 emissions from burning the ethanol + CO2 and other emissions from having to recycle/downcycle/dispose of engines that die earlier because ethanol is bad for them.

or (b) CO2 emissions from drilling/fracking for oil, transport, refining, disposal of byproducts + CO2 emissions from burning gasoline.

If I accounted for all the factors, the questions of whether a > b or b > a should determine the policy.

There is of course a (c) CO2 emissions from mining and transporting coal/oil/natural gas to the power plant * loss factor for transporting the electricity + losses in charging systems + CO2 and other emissions from mining and processing lithium and manufacturing, transport, and recycling of lithium ion batteries.
This is the list for which they are claiming patent rights (links are in the article):

•Atomic operations on data structures

•Dynamically variable idle time thread scheduling

•Method and apparatus using multiple sensors in a device with a display

•Combining multiple java class files into a run-time image

•Increasing the level of automation when establishing and managing network connections

•Supplying notifications related to supply and consumption of user context data

•Communicating multi-part messages between cellular devices using a standardized interface

Some of these don't really look worthy of patenting and have never been claimed before by MS.
That sounds like an argument for rolling back the farm subsidies, not adding more laws to balance them out.
The post makes negative implications on a company that will do whatever it wants with search results, just as it always has and just as we've trusted them to do for at least the last decade.

In my mind, this isn't news.
Are there more poor people in the world who are farmers who benefit from this, or are there more poor people who purchase food who will suffer or starve?
That's pretty cool. I didn't know Postgres actually did this, though I figured it was at least possible.
Yeah, Robin Whittle probably knows more about the 303 than anyone outside of Roland Japan, and he's very generous with his knowledge too. You should be proud, you did an excellent job.
The "uses more fuel than it produces" argument is a bit of a red herring. Gasoline also "uses more fuel than it produces", because it takes a substantial amount of fuel to bring one gallon of gas out of the ground, refine it, and truck it out to the pump.
She also has an electrical engineering degree from Princeton.
Triumph has had the same problem with their plastic tanks and have somehow managed to avoid a recall like Ducati did. It doesn't help that European vehicles aren't designed to account for an alien fuel.
It's not just an eloquent defense of hacker culture. It's a pointed assertion that there is such a thing as hacker culture. Both groups the piece concerns itself with don't seem to really be aware that they're invading someone else's cultural safe space.
Vaguely unrelated, but petroleum politics, especially between the US And Europe are weird. I've got a diesel VW, I get roughly 40MPG, and my car has 3 catalytic converters in it. I live in California.

Last year, my wife and I rented a diesel 7 series while in Europe (a minor upgrade to the car we had reserved). 70% of our driving was non-Autobahn, but still a lot in the 120kph range, with some traffic. 30% Autobahn, having fun. A larger car, a larger engine, comparable mix of driving to what I do at home, yet still roughly got 37MPH. Smaller diesel cars, we've started way north of what I get in my Jetta for even faster driving.

Europe seems to have cleaner diesel (and air) yet fewer contraptions in their cars (compared to CA) and comparable or even larger cars there meet or exceed lesser cars here.
I think no. Video games traditionally give tips - these are designed to help out players who aren't sure what to do. They are not designed to be the best possible move.

If the game autoplayed the best possible moves, what would be the point of learning poker? Where would skill come into the mix?

This lawsuit seems frivolous to me. I would never expect a game to give me the most optimal hint - only a hint for how to get closer to winning.
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> This married dude just harassing co-workers left and right. How gross.

then dating the guy after he claims his marriage fell apart.... how dumb is that?

i'm not going to defend his behaviour or any of the other clearly bullshit sexism here, but in the case of this guy misbehaving it is in a very large part enabled by women in a combination of not standing up for themselves and sleeping with a jerk.

you can't just ask everyone around you to stop this stuff if you are actively encouraging it yourself. it has to work both ways.

if he had no success he would learn from the constant rejection. a big problem is that for men, acceptance is so rare that one instance of sex is enough to validate the entire path that lead to it. so they will continue the same behaviour if it leads to any success whatsoever...
Yes, it's easier to start a company and take risks when the only person you have to worry about is yourself. This is the case in anything you do whether it's starting a company, traveling, trying to become a professional basketball player, etc. Are you suggesting YC help someone take care of their kids?
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Nature is complicated. Not everything needs to have an adaptionist explanation.
Shows? That's even sillier. You'd be paying 10x for a fraction of the content. TV would never work if stations had such a hard time getting folks to sample.

Just pretend you're only paying for your shows and everything else is free. You would not be paying less money a la carte.
See: https://github.com/dominictarr/hyperscript
I'm hopeful that normalized relations with Cuba will be the end of our crazy corn subsidies. If you want to make ethanol, sugarcane is 7x more energy efficient in producing ethanol compared to corn, and you can produce twice as much ethanol from an acre of sugarcane as an acre of corn[1]. And if you want to sweeten food and beverages, the same energy efficiency applies to cane sugar harvesting: you can get more sugar with less harvesting energy per acre of sugarcane than corn. (Although there's little science supporting cane sugar being healthier than high-fructose corn syrup.)

It seems like the Cuba detente has broken a constituent stalemate in Congress: a small group of Florida sugarcane farmers corner the market on US cane sugar and no one has wanted to normalize relations and import sugarcane from Cuba because of those farmers' political clout, even though our countries' comparative advantage should dictate growing sugarcane in poor, developing Cuba and exporting it for food and ethanol use in the US.[2] There's been a gentlemen's agreement among senators that props up these farm subsidies because no one wants to rock the boat and jeopardize their own state's subsidies, but California is pushing back as our farmers get hammered by drought and Florida now has little to lose for opposing Midwestern farmers' lucrative corn subsidies.

[1] https://biowesleyan.wordpress.com/first-generation-biofuels/...

[2] http://fcir.org/2012/09/09/in-sugar-price-supports-sour-tast...
This is good for hand-written html but annoying for machine-written html.
Maybe we're still experiences the growing pains of having a corporate culture with a lot of both women and men?

It seems odd though if that's still the case, after all these years.
Thanks. That's sort of the thing I've been leaning more towards after getting the feedback on here and elsewhere.
Dynamic prepared(NO ADHOC, THIS IS CRAP) TSQL is a common occurrence for me in production, it is often a better choice that writing a bunch of conditional logic in SQL (to get sargeable queries) or a bunch of really unperformant case statements in where clauses.

I have written TSQL that changes the entire query (which was on the order of 80 joins) dynamically based on about ~20 different parameters, only a few actually passed into the stored procedure, the rest based on settings and configuration. It took a few hours to grok how everything came together at first, but a few tricks that the optimizer will remove means you can add arbitrary conditionals in whatever order you please.

The example you give is VERY trivial for dynamic SQL.
postgres - http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/ecpg-dynamic.html
mssql - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188001.aspx
USB Typewriter predates Hemingwrite.com by a few years. Source: I know Jack Zylkin personally, sitting next to him at the same hackerspace while he built several of these for clients.
One mystery to me is that I'm sure KPC has a general counsel, so I don't know why their on-staff lawyers weren't sounding the alarm bell about the lack of a competent HR department.
What a shame that the mentioned lyrics sites like these are going to lose traffic:

* http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/ledzeppelin/stairwaytoheaven....

* http://www.songlyrics.com/led-zeppelin/stairway-to-heaven-ly...

Slow loading and each sporting giant ads that pop from the side of the screen and cover up the lyrics.

Compare to Google's fast, minimal version: https://play.google.com/music/preview/Thhet5jtvzdxkti7vc62o2...

Good job Google.
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I struggle to call Buzzfeed "data-driven journalism." It's certainly SEO-driven, but I don't think I would call it journalism, first off.
I'm not a car expert but I remember hearing somewhere that it depends on how the engine is manufactured. Here in Brazil the car engines are engineered to withstand high alcohol contents and there are even cars with "flex-fuel" technology that can handle any mixture from 100% gasoline to 100% ethanol.
why not?

i wish facebook had a 'dislike' button too, and twitter a public ignore count with how many people chose to ignore a stream...

you can't learn with only positive feedback (assuming your brain is mostly neural network) we need the negative too. its a shame our current society is so stuck on protecting people from criticism...
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I don't think most hackers believe they have the one true culture. I think it's more like, this is the culture we chose. Other cultures are great. They aren't for me, but more power to them. Just please don't come and try and change hacker culture just because we're popular now.
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Yay! Cmon y'all.. I can't be the only one excited about this!? Where are all the fellow HN'ers who actively practice programming challenges and such? Woot!
They are obligated to display the odds on each machine, so people have at least a fair chance of evaluating their changes (even if they odds are always in the house's favor). In this case, the odds they posted didn't take into account the poor suggestions given by the autoplay feature.

So the question is, does the fact that the player has a choice that would allow them to improve their odds to what was posted mean that they met their obligation in posting the odds, or does an autoplay feature that most users choose, because it speeds up the game and requires less thought, determine the odds that they are statutorily required to post.

The rules (http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/pages/rules/oars_100/oar_177/1...) state: "A close approximation of the odds of winning some prize for each game must be displayed on a Video LotterySM game terminal screen or a help screen. Each game also must display the amount wagered and the amount awarded for each possible winning occurrence based on the number of credits wagered on a game play." So this will likely depend on whether this is determined to be a close enough approximation, and whether autoplay suggesting a sub-optimal play that reduces your odds is considered to be a problem, if you do have a choice that would let you avoid that.
Bragging? I don't think s/he is bragging, but just saying that html can be done wrong.
The guy's in software but then he acts dumbstruck that the machine wouldn't tell him the optimal move? Wouldn't you be happy if there was at least some player skill involved which would contribute over time help you lose less.
Since this is offered without comment, the following is an article about this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/03/...

Essentially, this is documenting artwork that has been blurred in Google's Art Project because of copyright problems.
(I've edited my post for clarity, sorry if my "TLDR" implied I was trying to summarize the whole article rather than just my own rambling.)

I agree with respect to the overall piece, what I meant was that the "code is no respecter of persons" section is mainly reacting to "nerds in their boys-only treehouse"-type accusations.

It's not a defense of the behavior, of course, but a defense of the culture occurs in: "Yes, people do bad things, but it's despite the unifying cultural ideals, not because of them."

Even if a bad actor finds rationalizations or excuses for a common-behavior, on the whole you have the option of making an appeal to the common-ideals.
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> There is no way in hell a 1.79Mhz 6502 can play streaming video.

It could play streaming video at a sufficiently small resolution, just not HD or SD.
But the algae didn't intend to alter it. That's the difference. We don't respond to environmental pressure, we just apply equal and opposite pressure (for the most part, obviously everything has a cost). It's like a psychology experiment. If one of the subjects figures out the parameters of the experiment the experiment is ruined because that individual will likely mess up the whole system by acting intelligently instead of naturally.

We are the only ones that significantly alter our environment. If there was a continuum of intelligence, with a fairly smooth and not-to-concave curve, I would be inclined to agree with you. But there isn't, it's a bunch of animals that have no appreciable ability to alter their environments purposefully, and then us. Therefore anything we do falls in the "contaminated experiment" category.
If I am an employer with 100 male employees, how do I ensure that none of those 100 guys is a dickhead once? Plus, there is always a risk that a woman will simply lie about some kind of harassment.

Much better to just not hire any females, or to have an all-female company and not hire any males.
I wasn't referring to hackers as believing we have the one true just culture.
You trade your present time for future return while working on side projects. You might have different outcomes, your side project would have got traction, you can move on with idea to startup. Or it may help you to find early invester or co-founder through that.

If everything else failed, side-project definitely helps to find a suitable technical job that fits your resume, because you spend a lot of hours on working on technology you liked. When you are not succeeding, don't forget to open source your work. That add credit, too.
Plus, ethanol is bad in cold weather climates. As I understand it, it can phase separate and put a bunch of water in your tank (basically).
Political asylum is pretty profitable as well. In US attorneys ask around $7000 for the process (usually pursued by people who came to US on a visa and want to legally reside forever, but don't have any real reasons for asylum).
Sounds like the perfect tax: driving is discouraged, cash flows to production instead of the government and it's (slightly) environmentally-friendly.

And if we're getting into the details, how do we allocate the trillions of dollars spent on the Middle East?
Another good article on this subject is https://www.mapbox.com/blog/drawing-antialiased-lines/
What is "knowing what you're doing?" I'm honestly curious, because I handwrote most of the HTML on my website and I don't know how to have it cleaner than something like this:

</div> <!-- footer -->
</footer>
</div> <!-- row -->
</div> <!-- container -->

(If you actually look at the website, it will be pretty obvious that I'm no skilled web dev)
That is utopianist thinking. There are always going to be personal vendettas between people. There is no amout of education or cultural change that will alter that fact. That is why we need courts, laws, rules, etc.
To an extent, candidates are actually giving companies an employer-challenge every time they read the firm's job description. This is the mirror of asking a candidate, "So why should we hire you over other candidates?".
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The opposite: ethanol serves as a gas-line antifreeze.
The way to give helpful tips, as opposed to best possible moves, is to be more vague, not to recommend a specific less-than-optimal move. Imprecise help like "hold onto your high cards" or "don't gamble on drawing one particular rank" could work, but if the Auto-Hold feature is advertised as a faster way to hold onto an optimal set of cards, then that's what it should be.
People love candy and ice cream, but that's not a good reason to stop eating vegetables. You're overlooking the fact that it's quite easy to condition people's wants, and there's a compelling economic incentive to feed people the cultural equivalent of refined sugar regardless of how it affects their long-term health.

I don't think all this sort of stuff is bad. I'm looking forward to the next Avengers movie, in fact I love a good superhero yarn. At the same time, it's a sad fact that big-budget sequels crowd out investment in small ($10 million or less) indie movies, and there's general downward pressure on budgets at the low end of the market.
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I have a friend who is a first-line tech support for a local cell-phone carrier (Rogers Wireless in Canada). He once lost his cell phone on a camping trip. He just logged on to his system and checked for a "ping" from his cell phone and triangulated the exact location.

My point is...this guy is just a front-line tech support and he has access to find the exact location of any given cell phone. So when they say "he makes calls from this tower so he must be home"...they actually have a lot more information available than just which tower was used.
Jails provide some protection to the base OS even if the network exposed service running in the jail is compromised. It for much more than local exploits.