skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Another discrepancy: when Richard achieves a record-breaking "Weissman score", the entirety of TechCrunch disrupt is in awe. In the real Valley, 95% of them wouldn't know what a Weissman Score is. The technical literacy of the people in the show is actually much higher than in the real Silicon Valley.

I was also surprised by that when watching the show, but I believe it was Gavin Belson who hyped this metric while presenting Nucleus at Tech Crunch. Most non technical people would have understood the Weissman score as "something that measures how good a compression is, the higher the better, and since G.B says 2.98 [or something] is record breaking, it must be the case.", so when Richard achieved a Weissman score of 5+, the same non technical people concluded that an algorithm with a score of 5+ must be totally revolutionary.
I'm genuinely curious why you hold that opinion, especially in context of a thread that discusses a service that's available through the standard hbase api
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I remember a big issue with user-agent filtering when Google was still trying to make Google TV work. At the time, loads of TV networks had free, full streaming episodes of shows on their websites as a way to capture some ad revenue that would be lost if people were torrenting or whatever in order to see shows they missed. Google TV was attempting to list those episodes alongside whatever was currently live on TV via your cable/sat/antenna and stuff from other sites like Youtube.

The idea was that instead of having to go to all sorts of places to find content, it would show you what was available at a given time based on what you were looking for.

...and then all of the network sites and the free Hulu stuff got put behind a user agent filter and essentially wiped out a huge part of GTV's reason for existence. The goal was to bring all of the free content into one place but the networks didn't want you watching a free stream in lieu of a cable broadcast. They wanted you to watch cable on your living room TV and only use the free streaming episodes from the computer in your office as a backup.

Same goes for services where web viewing/listening is free but if you try to access it from a mobile web browser, you have to either fool the site or subscribe to some mobile version.
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I think the point is that the name is disadvantageous because it makes people think that he's black, and black people cannot stop being black. In other words, if you're actually black, then you can't escape racism just by changing your name.

I'm not sure what you mean by "political tastes". I'd have thought pretty much everyone was opposed to e.g. refusing to rent an apartment to someone because of their name, or because you think that they're black.
Unless Everyone Using Bitcoin Makes This Radical Change, the Currency Will Die
The second half of the parent comment states the problem is if you treat people differently based on those assumptions. Guessing that someone called Jamaal is probably black is like guessing that someone called Sue is probably female.
I can even use my speakers. THANKS GOD.
Much more succinct than how I said it.
It's also the primary host for dozens of package management systems anymore.

It's not hard to imagine a production system being unable to scale out because they didn't vendor and they can't fetch the repo for an essential library.
Wouldn't be interesting people with certain age have more meetings with people like them, to improve network, know each other, make projects together, etc?

What do you think?
Every single person I worked with in Rocky Mount had spoken with Black people and worked with Black people. They lived on the same streets and their kids went to the same schools. And many of those white people who interacted with Black people every day were stunningly racist (and I should say many weren't). Maybe they categorized "different types" of black people. But they could hold a civil conversation, then turn around and stereotype, or drop the n-word repeatedly.

Your vision of what people have been exposed to is a cartoon.
Survey is down, so I'll just post. I use curl primarily for testing web service apis. It's also pretty awesome that chrome and other devtools can 'copy request as curl'.
Java Mutation Testing
we are hosting our own nexus servers - but they tend to have issues of their own. Bugs, repositories get broken, storage full, machines down for maintenance and patching, yadda yadda. Githubs track record at being up is better than our nexus track record.
Hi! CTO of Nudge here! If anyone has any questions, comments, things we could be doing better - we'd love to hear it!
I think the difficulty would be finding enough safe deposit boxes. If I had $100M (let me dream, will you!) where could I store that physically? That much cash takes up a lot of space.

The Oatmeal had a post where he talked about how heavy his $200,000 withdrawal was (that was in 20's).

A little Google searching found:
http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/million/million_dollars.html

I think Adam Curry talked about buying actual gold bullion and storing that. Still takes a lot of space and a lot of cost in storage. $100M in gold is over 80,000 oz. Two tons of gold?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_bar#Standard_bar_weights
http://demonocracy.info/infographics/world/gold/gold.html

Me, personally, if I had $100M, I'd buy an island somewhere close to an internet backbone. Real estate is always a good investment!
John Carmack, CTO of Oculus, probably has a few responsibilities that could be viewed as "running the company", at least in part.
Let's try some litmus-test questions (don't downvote if you don't agree with them, not looking to argue about their validity, I'm just identifying the "are you a tea partier?" line).

Do you agree:

the government may not operate beyond what the Constitution clearly grants & empowers?
short of actual declared war, government should spend no more than tax revenue?
currency should be commodity-backed (gold preferably)?
direct federal taxation of citizens should be repealed?
human life, including right of continued existence, begins at conception; the "choice" is to create human life, not end it?
short of adjudicated felons & mental defect, ownership of weapons in defense of self/family/state shall not be restricted?
short of conspiracy to commit non-victimless crime, contracts are binding and upheld, if needed, by the state?
capitalism is, on the whole, superior to all other socioeconomic systems?
insofar as capitalism isn't perfect, government should only interfere (minimally at that) to resolve chronic systemic problems?
voter identification is a valid administrative process (ensuring only you vote as you, and you are entitled to)?
financial "entitlements" are unconstitutional/inappropriate and should be ended (society has better solutions to the issues addressed)?
government exists to protect & facilitate rights, not limit/suppress them? freedom *of* religion != freedom *from* religion?

That's a start at trying to hit key points.
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> But I'm confident that 99% of white Americans have spoken to a black person.

I'm no more confident of that than in the 90% haven't made up statistic that this was offered in response to.

The truth is probably somewhere in between (and may be closer to the 90% haven't side, especially if, as suggested in another comment, one excludes the minimal interactions around things like retail commercial transactions and the like, and only includes substantive conversations.)

> Except for a few states like Vermont, most states and most cities have significant black populations.

That doesn't mean that the black population interacts with the White population all that much.
Interesting, dystopian, review of the Apple iWatch
Creative (err crappy) app ideas fight to be built
Also worth checking: https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

I would be interested in its renewal frequency.
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EU court rules “Skype” is too similar to “Sky,” blocks trademark application
It isn't that vague, P&G isn't buying Tide, no questions asked, from anyone who wants to sell it to them.
Missing an alternative option: migrate to, perhaps even become citizen in, a country with a half decent social welfare system.

> Lesson: Unless you are confident that your skills are very far above average, don’t take a career path that subjects you to the employment market once you’re over 50 (and/or make sure that by age 50 you’ve saved enough for a retirement that begins at age 50 or 55
Sorry - I meant that in devops roles, those bidding wars exist too and I don't use Java. (Scala for web stuff, Ruby for plumbing.) Everyone needs devops, especially the people who don't know what it is. =)
Couldn't agree more, I came to say something similar -- there is no time dimension here. There is no understanding that cooperation now yields cooperation in dis-advantageous situations in the future.
Well, ideally you can observe behavior for a large group of people and tie that back to observable characteristics (i.e. "black", "poor", "urban"). Then you can project characteristics from a new population onto unobservable behaviors (i.e. support a candidate).

Pretty simple. Pretty effective.

EDIT: I've actually seen "race-from-name" models. Jamaal would totally be black. Despite a lone white Jamaal, I'd still use that model.
Can't you just run your tests locally?
The Google machine disagrees

https://journalxtra.com/linux/bash-linuxsanity/bash-filling-...

TL;DR

cURL can fill out forms using the "-d" option.

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#-d
More evidence you're confused about the US. In the United States, white people don't consider Italians a different race. They're white.

You're right about the precise claim of what I said. But people who've never talked to a black person are disproportionately likely to have not talked to an Asian, Arab, etc. States that have high proportions of non-Black racial minorities tend to have higher proportions of Blacks.
"In a high school soccer game I was called 'a white man with a [horrific racial expletive deleted] name.'"

Horrific racial expletive. That seems a bit... excessive? Let's elevate the horrificness of this word to the point where if someone utters it they get fined or jailed. That should teach 'em.

People are so ultra-politically correct these days I'm too scared to open my mouth for fear of offending someone, saying something sexist, racist, "white male privileged", not fat-accepting enough, etc. It's becoming insufferable.
I don't believe you need to manage anything with BigTable.. "instances" is a concept to describe iterations of scale only
second this. I've using duckduckgo for about two years so far, both in dekstop and mobile. This is a really google replacement, and we can search other sites directly with the shortcuts ..

github? !gh

wikipedia? !w

youtube? !yt

google? !g

images? !i

and there are tons of them!!
That's a really interesting idea, but I'm having trouble visualizing it. Have an example in action?
All of them.

This has to be a troll.
Crescent Bay was, for me, a revelation. I don't know if I'm a born again true believer now, but I will say that a lot of skepticism washed away with that demo. It really was a very startling this-is-no-gimmick-anymore kind of moment for me personally.
> repetition takes the fun out of anything.

I get where you're coming from, but this statement is easily disproven with any example of anybody who enjoys any repetitive task.

I think the difference between painful and tolerable (or even fun!) repetition is context and measurement. You need to know why you're doing what you're doing, how it matters, how it helps.

I remember reading in 'Made To Stick' about this famous cookhouse in Iraq, where the chef felt that him and his crew weren't merely responsible for providing rations, but for the morale of the troops. To them, their repetitive work had meaning.

Repetition can also be fun when you get better at what you're doing. Look up videos on YouTube of folks in India making prata– they add all sorts of styles and flourish to their mundane tasks, and they clearly take a lot of pride in being so good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egltg4kW06Q
I don't think strict mode affects == vs. === Best bet is to use a linter to catch that.
All of them. Seriously, where do you live?
At a guess, 80% of the white people I know. I live in Washington, DC, where you would have to go out of your way not to have black co-workers. Yet I had black teachers and classmates in high school in Denver long ago.
"In fact, PRRI's data show that a full 75 percent of whites have "entirely white social networks without any minority presence." The same holds true for slightly less than two-thirds of black Americans." Now isolate the 14% black population from all minorities, take into account how minorities cluster and the 75% number is for black friendship is probably even higher than 90%
Same here! I never had issues with it being slow, however. Maybe I just haven't tried to vimcat a file that was large enough to matter.
Using name is a reasonable way to optimize figuring out someone's race. The question is: why are we trying to figure out someone's race? If you're talking about reducing effort, isn't the easiest thing to just not ponder the question of someone's race? People wouldn't bother to try and answer that question if they didn't care about what the answer was.

Now, the fact that people care is not in and of itself evidence of racism. To some extent, people just want to put a face and a narrative to a name. The question is, what's in that narrative?
>utility is an ordinal quantity, not a cardinal one.

Rational choice theory assumes only complete partial ordering, transitivity and that irrelevant alternatives are independent. If preferences have continuous representation, utility function can be continuous, otherwise they are not (but can sometimes be modeled as continuous),

>It assumes utility exists and humans behave accordingly.

I think you are implicitly adding too much meaning into economic definitions of preference and utility. Economic definition of utility and preference assume very little. As long as people are forced to make decisions where they select one option over other you can infer underlying utilities.
One of the interesting anomalies of this view is that things that received a lot of votes but were then flagged/downmodded into oblivion on the day of their popularity will still show up in this view...presumably because this view ranks solely based on raw upvotes.
Everyone I know has a gaming rig of some type, but not anything that can do 1080p per eye at 60fps per eye, which is where this stuff actually starts to work correctly and what Oculus is designed to use (less motion sickness, better 3D illusion, etc).

I don't think a lot of people interested in this technology realize how much hardware they will need to buy to make this work. You're looking, at minimum, a $400-500 graphic card. Assuming you have the CPU heft to handle everything else. If not then there's another $400-500 for the chasis, mb, high-end cpu, high-watt ps, fast 8-16gb of RAM, etc. And that's for a fairly mid to low-end VR box. That could be $1000 out of pocket right there on top of whatever the Oculus costs.
It is a direct rival to Splunk :) They do very similar things however IMHO Splunk is the better solution right now. There are LaaS companies that use ELK if you need a cloud solution - Loggly is the first one that springs to mind and I think another is LogSene.
Their re-design was in the works for awhile, I believe the preview was available at least 4 months ago.
> On average, are two white people more employable than two black people?

Instead of above, the question you need to ask is "On average, are two white people who are applying to your job more employable than two black people who are applying to your job ? I don't believe the answer is yes. A person who has overcome the statistics you quote has the same ability and employability regardless of race.
http://curl.haxx.se/donation.html might not be a bad place to visit
SpaceX Successfully Tested Its Astronaut Ejection System
Just want to put a link on here to a guy I've seen on HN a bunch of times whose name I recognized:

http://markwatson.com/

Point being that it's obvious he's over 50 and also obvious he's a coding badass.
> "We can’t make this deal public because if the American people saw what was in it, they would be opposed to it."

This is comically absurd. I know it's cliched and gets tossed around a lot lately, but this absolutely sounds like a line straight out of 1984.
I don't agree with the premise that structural editing is for developers that are (necessarily) subpar to begin with (see my other comment).
As a serious (though former) Common Lisper, I recommend you take a look at Clojure. Rich Hickey's presentations are a great starting point.

I did, and I haven't looked back — things that I thought would be complete road-blockers turned out not to be a problem at all (no CLOS, no conditions&restarts, Lisp-1, empty list not the same as nil, JVM). And there were things that made life soooo much better (concurrency primitives, STM data structures, ClojureScript, and, yes, JVM (it's better than you think)).

Even if you don't start using it, it's worth taking a look.
Retail Will Play a Big Part in the Oculus Rift Launch
C/C++ is the language you write the library in, so that it's callable from every other language. Hopefully Rust, Nim (and Golang one day) will be able to produce C-API compatible replacements. API can also be something better than what .so and .dlls provide, as long as everyone is on board.

I guess Rust and Nim are the real contenders, as only a language with "zero runtime" is going to cut it.
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Your stats are wrong, read below and thats covering all minority groups. now isolate the 14% black group from those minorities. White ppl just don't have black friends, deal with it.

""In fact, PRRI's data show that a full 75 percent of whites have "entirely white social networks without any minority presence." The same holds true for slightly less than two-thirds of black Americans.""
Okay, then we need to remove all stereotypes: republicans are rich old men that want to hurt the poor people, religious people don't like gays, anyone that didn't vote for the current president MUST be racist, if something it's written in PHP..it must be terrible because the language is terrible, the police are all racist and want to kill unarmed black men. I could go on.

There are plenty of stereotypes and generalizations that continue to go on even here on HN..without anybody seeming to care.

"Many snap judgments based on race lead to the death of unarmed black men and women"

A small percentage of this is going to happen no matter what, and it needs to be prevented. The problem I have is that society is not allowed to use statistics or facts any longer because it's not politically correct.

If I'm a police officer going into a neighborhood that has had multiple crimes, shootings, and deaths, and the perpetrators were black, I'm going to be extra careful if I see someone that is black doing anything suspicious. This is just being smart.

"Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal?"

The resumes they used were nowhere to be found on the site, so I don't even know if I can believe this study.

"Norton Pscyhology: Devah Pager and Dalton Conley discuss racism and the stigma of criminal record"

Of course there is a stigma of a criminal record. There should be, because it's not a good thing. If there are two applicants, 1 with a criminal record and one with slightly worse experience and no criminal record..I'm going to chose the latter every time. Sorry, but if you don't want to be judged on your criminal record, don't commit crimes.
Ok, quick: see me as an individual. You have 5 seconds.

Note: Don't draw any conclusions about me that are based only on what little you know about me. You cannot, eg, draw conclusions upon that fact that I have an account on Hacker News. You must see me as an individual.
Although I am personally a fan of Warren, this link... it's purely politics. Not sure if it fits in the HN guidelines for content.
Carly Fiorina Says She Would ‘Roll Back’ Net Neutrality Rules
Eh, OP made a damn extreme claim. If you exclude extremely glancing interactions, I'd walk back the claim about 99%.

But I will say that any place I've ever lived or visited, the majority of White people would have had conversations with Black people. I just can't imagine someone in Pittsburgh, New York City or Raleigh not having done that.
Please, tell us that his last name was "Bolton"... please!
You can't read the text of the deal because the deal hasn't been negotiated yet.
Hey, their first loophole lasted for over seven years.
At this point, p makes no attempt to manage pip versions. I have added this feature to the TODO and it will be implemented sometime in the future.

Thanks for the suggestion! :)
Killing zombies is always its own reward. :-) I guess they represent the perfect "Other", you can completely hate them and enjoy killing them without feeling any remorse or doubt.
I was under the impression that the details would have to be made public in order to debate the bill for passage in Congress.
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Yeah, I've been practicing with a little $50 Syma quad I ordered on Amazon. Very basic and I had to extend the antenna on the radio transmitter because the integrated one was only a few cm long. Still, I want to get good enough with the thing and develop the instincts/muscle memory to control a quad manually and without any sort of GPS or path planning.

I figure by the time I source all of the parts to start building the little 250mm I'm planning, I'll be less likely to crash it or lose it. Might mess with something bigger and more autonomous later on but for now I'm starting small and then DIY-ing a little bigger.
And what "pre-court maneuverings" would that be?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Boy#Reception
I worked up until last year, when at age 62 I decided to retire -- mostly because I could! A good portion of my career was in traditional, more hierarchical industries such as rail and steel, where a sizable number of older employees were often the norm. I also tended to specialize in legacy applications that other (mostly younger) staff didn't really want to touch -- products like PowerBuilder or IBM (Lotus) Notes. Yeah, I also did work with newer technology, but I never really let go of the older stuff because 1) it was the core of my earlier experience and I didn't mind working with it, and 2) there always seemed to be a need for someone to do maintenance, updates, or conversions.