skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it's likely the PvP rank. I could definitely see that taking a year or longer. Although plain old level 60 is still plausible - while it only took 11-15 days to level 60 if you knew what you were doing, a lot of us took longer than that because we took a roundabout route, whether out of fun or ignorance -- or leveled multiple characters before picking one, or maximized our tradeskills while leveling as seemed logical initially, etc.
> Because since the 5.1 update, every few minutes you get a nice message that says "Hangouts has stopped unexpectedly". You know, the app that you supposedly disabled because you have no use for. So you enable it again, and the message goes away, and the app just stands there, unused, taking up space and memory.

The only thing that makes Android usable in a sane way for me is custom ROMs and Titanium Backup's app freezing.

To continue the parent link's sentiments, it's like someone built an operating system at a company that employed such talented people that no one wanted to work on usability minutia. (Note: design is NOT usability)
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My first level 60 (in classic) took me about 20 days played (call it 500 hours). Other people were reporting that 16-17 days was typical and 12 days was about how long a concerted leveling effort would take.

If he really took a year off to play WoW I'd expect that he'd hit max level in the first 3 months (at 6 hours/day). So I assume that they're talking about raid progression or perhaps the original PVP battleground ranks.

My inclination is to believe that the story got somewhat mangled by the journalist who wasn't very familiar with gaming or at least not Blizzard's games.
Many people here have already echoed the overuse of Excel as a RDBMS - I have noticed this as well. The problem however (at least in my area - education) has come from the DB admins not wanting anyone to access "their" data due to security and speed concerns. Their solution - give someone CSV output from the table rather than allow then read only access to the data. Problem is you get CSV files saved to excel files and you end of with thousands of Excel files floating around between people all based off the same sets of data - that if given a better method of direct access could be more accurate and effective. The lack of a direct connection to the database of record is what I have seen causes much of the overuse of Excel and if more tools (i.e. Tableau) were implemented to make those connections I think (again in my area at least) the use of Excel would dramatically decrease.
It's meant to be cute, not useful.

Besides, it has a (broken) gameboy emulator!
Well one can void one's warranty root and install cyanogen mod...
I did a quick implementation of reflection today so arguments are not empty interfaces now and tasks are just simple functions with properly typed arguments. I will think more about simplifying it further.
I think you only captured half of the picture in this comment. Yes, there's ton of crap created because we screw up implementation. But then there's another ten tons of crap created on purpose.

Implementation rarely is hard. Some problems brought up in TFA were already solved years, if not decades ago. There's no reason we should have problem downloading photos from our phones and sending them to family. And it was easier in the pre-smartphone/early smartphone era than it is today.

I blame the same force that gave us our progress - capitalism, the market economy, and the mindset it promotes among management. In established markets, all the easy things have already been solved - you can't win any more customers by creating quality products. You have to squeeze money out of perfectly working things. This is where the engine of capitalism stops being aligned with humanity's needs.

There's a business term for all that crap - "value-added". When you see some "value-added" thing it means that the company is about to shit on you to get more money, either from you or someone else. We didn't have that much crapware on computers until vendors realized they could get paid by third parties by bundling their worthless (for end-user) crap. It's a gamble that worked well for the companies - people will deal with crap because they don't have any other choice, and vendors get more profit.

Then there's completely purposeful degradation. Some of the things we had much better 60 years ago than today: shoes, clothes, kettles, lightbulbs, utensils, kitchenware, various home appliances. Sure, they weren't that shiny and plastic, they didn't have an army of "designers" behind them, but they fucking worked and they still fucking work today. I still have a microwave bought ~20 years ago in Sweden, and it fucking works and never had a single glitch. My grandfathers have equipment bought when they were young, whereas my shoes and clothes degrade within half a year or less.

This is the problem. We know very well how to make good things. But making good things is not profitable compared to shitting on your customers.
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics The Average age of current Truck Drivers is 51. Where is a guy, 14 years away from retirement who probably doesn't have a college degree going to go? I suppose he COULD get a loan, and try to get a degree, then pay off that loan and earn a living for another 10 years.

Farmers transitioning is a bad analogy. People live longer, require more education, and have less control over their work life if they aren't tech-savy.

I see 4 possibilities. We have an aging work population 65 and older working entry level skilled jobs to pay off college loans they got later in life. Or we have a larger "welfare" state, we have a better "public higher education" program, or we have more millennials taking care of their boomer parents because their parents couldn't find work, and social security hasn't kicked in yet.
That's going to be retro-cool in about 5 years...
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There's a million links on that, this is one of the first with names and dates: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=A_Rich_Neighbor_N...
We don't know if it was just one incident, as there was never a thorough and open inquiry and nobody were indicted and no criminal case opened (EDIT: or at least noone were charged - there may have been a criminal investigation). What we do know is that years later Swedish military intelligence uncovered (as in: stopped in the act) that there were still illegal CIA rendition flights landing in Sweden.

> which is why both of the men involved have received financial reparations afterwards.

I know Sweden were ordered to pay, but last I heard they had still not gotten anything. I hope you're right and that they were finally paid.
> These are not interview questions

These should become interview questions when somebody declares himself/herself an expert in TCP/IP.
Because art is done for it's own sake, not to sell it. As a painter you don't get offers from third parties that are willing to pay you for including their logo on your work.
Without the information who financed these numerous research results, they are not worth the time to read them or to write about them, imho.
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It does have a gameboy emulator! It's Grant Galitz's GameBoy-Online.
Looks like you could get an EV cert, w/ Comodo as the CA, from NameCheap for only $145 per year.

https://www.namecheap.com/security/ssl-certificates/extended...

A quick Google search turns up a few more that look to be pretty close to the $100-200 per year price point. FWIW, I'm not affiliated w/ any of these CAs or resellers.
What's with the tarp on the Koalitsiya-SV ?
By the way, that runs best in Firefox, due to OdinMonkey providing ahead-of-time asm.js compilation. If you have issues with Chrome, try that.

(I should really add that to the site. Hmm.)
Ehhhhh. "Google, would you trade ad revenue for the same or larger subscription revenue?" I think the answer would be yes.
You obviously don't remember when search engines had a thousand options and buttons and links everywhere.
Sounds similar to the 'churnalism' concept.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churnalism
Except for "managers not elsewhere classified" and "salespersons not elsewhere classified".
It's. Lazy. Programming.
Can someone please do DeskMate?
This is what I was looking forward to but never saw a list of answers.
Probably not, because bundling crap is what allows vendors to reduce prices.
Can you articulate what the "problems that he is helping create" are?
I can see why you're annoyed and have every right to be at investor behaviour. Lack of investment though, could that be due to scalability of the product? Reading between the lines as you take on more users will you need more staff to be matchers? This seems to put off some investors looking for a unicorn. It's a shame their are not more female VCs around. Hope it all goes well
With the amount of frivolous cases brought under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (http://www.networkworld.com/article/2908555/opensource-subne...), it'd be nice to see some charges filed for this.
Endianness might be a bit older than editorness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#History
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> The math library, as mentioned above, is pretty darn iffy.

My biggest disappointments early on was not even having a Max/Min function for ints.
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Specifically what problems is he helping create? Why are these problems bad?
Has anyone noticed that it's on Github, and thus it wouldn't be too tough to submit an Issue or, even, a PR?
Because it's such a minor issue.
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> EDIT: omg, it's a unicorn of bad web design. The video loads on every page of this website.

I've explained time and time again why this is a bad idea, but some people really want their video on every page..
it is necessary to capitalism.

Capitalism drives the development of increased efficiency, you cannot have capitalism without that drive, as it creates competitive advantages.
cbloom is too legit to quit. He has a pretty impressive resume.
They appear to be talking about a device that has already reached the end of its usable life, and is then powered off and stored at a temperature so high as to be hazardous to humans. I have never heard of anyone relying on used-up SSDs as an archival medium (used-up SSDs rarely work at all in my experience; even the simplest recovery test will surely fail), and I have never heard of anyone storing archived data devices of any kind at 55C. That's just silly. It's worse than a worst-case scenario, in that it requires multiple fundamental flaws in the archival system design to be relevant. It's basically analogous to saying that information written to paper will be lost!* (*when the paper is stored in fire).

Filesystems are not magic data restoration fairies. Checksums just tell you when your data is gone; they don't bring it back. Always mirror or erasure-encode, and store mirrored pairs in separate locations.
That seems a general attitude from the Golang group. Same argument about generics, etc.

If I had a huge amount invested in Go I would consider forking it - it is one thing to have a benevolent dictator, but if he doesn't at least listen then there is no point at all.
Let me offer the perspective of a not so young, not so childless resident of the not so sunny eastern US: dense, walkable cities are awesome for people with young children.

Weekends in the city with our toddler are awesome. We have brunch at one of the dozen restaurants we can get to within a few blocks' walk. We can walk to the park, walk to the drugstore to get the diaper cream we forgot to buy. We can have impromptu, unscheduled social events just by running in to the 3-4 other couples with kids our age who live in our apartment building. And narrow little pedestrian-oriented streets, which we don't have where we live but would love to, are a whole lot more toddler friendly than ones primarily designed for cars.

If anything, the advantages of city living are magnified for people with kids. When I was single, I thought nothing of driving 15-20 minutes on a weeknight to meet some friends for dinner. That's a non-starter with kids. These days, 70-80% of our social interaction is hanging out with people from our building.
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I need to have a valid SSL certificate, by valid I mean not self signed.
Any opinions?
I have to save this for my wife, and my coworkers, so they know I'm not the only one.
Ok, a little self experiment for the unbelievers.

Take your food out of the fridge.
Heat it up, it will kill of any bacteria.

Now instead of eating it, put it back in the fridge.

Repeat for a week. You won't get ill, because the bacteria won't evolve to a heat resistant strain. Right....?
I am not really convinced. Fragments are not very helpful indeed but all the Android engineers I work with know their lifecycle pretty well and I don't even remember the last time I have seen a prod bug coming from them.
He's probably one of the world's leading experts on practical compression.
That's relevant when discussing how to travel between cities, but really doesn't seem to have much to do with the tendency towards suburban sprawl. I believe the structure of modern American cities has largely be determined by policies, not geography.
This thread is yet more evidence of the Bikeshed Phenomenon.
One shouldn't have to void the warranty of one's device to be rid of malicious software.
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Ah... this bring back memories! When I was doing dev ops I had to know a lot more about the nitty gritty details of networking. Still know a few of these, but most have been forgotten.
Er, $1000 for ten people - although this isn't still a small amount it is close to an average mid-range home audio setup. The $10K you mention would be for 100 people, and then you would be looking at audio equipment for small performances and clubs, which can easily cost that much or more.

So, interestingly, the 100 x N formula for cost of audio equipment for N people to listen to, seems to hold. I am curious about N=1000 and above, certainly stadium systems cost over $100K and for 10K listeners I guess $1M is pretty small. Maybe there should be a scaling factor in there, or it might be better modeled by a power-law relationship?
Anecdotally, I would agree with you for some, but for others not so much. I get a short boost followed by a long crash when drinking coffee. It's also like an unfocused focus - like as long as what I want to focus on is nearby, I will do that. But if I have to figure out what I want to focus on, that feels like frustration and hypertension.

I prefer tea. I get up at 4:50 am 5 days a week, and I rarely sleep past 7-8 on weekends. I just make sure I'm asleep by 10:00 pm before work nights, and weeknights I stay up til 11:00 max.

I really like thinking that I think slowly, and that I can control my thinking direction using another level of meta-thinking. It's one of my most favorite and dramatic life shifts as an adult, that I have made. Pretending that my mind is a machine that needs to be turned on is a one way ticket to crazy town, and it's pretty hard to leave crazy town.

But otherwise, I don't understand how loneliness has to do with any of this. I'm lonely regardless of whether I drink tea or coffee.
Yeah, although it feels good in the moment to let loose whatever salty vocabulary you have, it definitely distracts from the substance of your point in most instances.
Pierre P. Grasse did believe in evolution, just not the real kind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Paul_Grass%C3%A9#Neo-Lam...

that's according to wikipedia... i suppose satan could have edited it to trick us all though.
I agree on the point of always be converting, but I'll settle with UTC. IMHO if you have a non-utc time one if two things should happen:

A.) Convert it to Utc.

B.) Show it to someone.

Got some 'splain'n to do if I catch non-utc manipulation or comparison going on in my code bases. And heaven help you should you stick a non-utc time into the database.
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Every single member of the CloudFlare team is part of our marketing effort.
This is a good parallel to "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" by Ben Horowitz. Covers a lot of the same material but gives more background on Marc.
You should improve your vocabulary sagargv. Seriously.
> and a storage temperature of 30c (which is pretty much the upper maximum of storage temperatures under residential conditions)

That might be a normal storage temperature, but it certainly doesn't seem like a maximum. For instance, during the summer, an attic or similar unconditioned enclosed storage area can easily exceed 40C during the day.

> your drive will retain data for at least 52 weeks.

That seems far too short. I'd like to see similar data for mechanical drives and USB disks, but given the way flash storage works, I'm surprised that the powered-off lifetime is that short; I'd have expected decades. I'm curious what the actual failure mode is; what physically happens to the drive to make it lose data?

I also find the charts in that presentation interesting: data retention really increases when storing data at a higher temperature? So for data retention, it's better for the drive to run hot?
I agree the not-yet-abandoned Google apps can be quite superb.

Provided you run them using the proprietary {AOL,Prodigy,CompuServe,MSN} client app.

a.k.a. Chrome.
The one thing I hate most is setting up my Google or Apple account on a new iOS/Android device.

I use a very long generated password with all kinds of special characters so what does Google do after you successfully entered the username/password on the device during the native setup flow? It opens a WebView where you have to enter it AGAIN!

And why do I have to enter my Apple ID password after every single OS update again? I can't imagine what security concern prompted them to do this to us.
My intent was to poke fun at the current state of things. Not to give actual advice. :)
You should hate your vocab too @sagargv. Seriously.
.. reinstall any computer you get from scratch; Firmware Bios spying is of course much harder to get rid from.
The number of over thinkers who have been trained to never press a crosswalk button, and don't think to press it when they are waiting a long time, is vanishingly small and not worth he investment in maintaining signage to report the current programming of the button.
Actually I (as a Dane) feel that we are all fortunate because the US is in multiple timezones. Had one of the small single-timezone countries headed the IT revolution, we would surely have much greater problems, similar to the way ascii still lives on in systems where it clearly shouldn't.
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Maybe he should have said the design is done for go1.

Regardless, issues are still filed under the tag of `go2`, even by Rob Pike. There's no reason to believe that go2 won't eventually happen.
django-after-response looks fantastic, it'll make 50% of my apps much easier. Does anyone know what the lifecycle of the spawned threads is like? I'm guessing it depends on the server, but it looks like request + tasks need to take less than 30 seconds total in order to not time out.
I don't think it's practical to read a technical book from cover to cover. There's just too much to learn and it's too easy to forget everything you've read if you don't immediately apply it right away.

I tend to read to find what I want to know. When something I tried in the real world breaks, I come back. If my concoction continues to not work, I come back. Eventually the book gets finished.

I do the same thing for math books. You have to play with the concepts for them to stick. In college, it was always hard to play with things because of time constraints and having to get to the next exam. Outside of college, if you're not time constrained, there's no reason you shouldn't be screwing around with every concept that's shown on the page.
and then have it freeze and restart every day -__- (I guess is just my particular experience and might not apply to everyone)
That was one of the selling points to me for the Nexus line; not perfect, but Google's vision of Android without any of the manufacturer's extras
I have been Lenovo faithful for many years, although I mainly run Linux and keep a small Windows partition. I strongly recommend you reinstall Windows. Thankfully the regular Windows 7 (and presumably later) disks/USB images from Microsoft work.

The software you will want from Lenovo is their System Updater which can be installed on a fresh (non-Lenovo) Windows install, and will let you install drivers and similar software (nothing is forced, all up to you).

The one thing you won't be able to install the various pieces of crapware, but that is a benefit.
I would also like to point out that several old scientists not believing in evolution has no bearing on the trueness of evolution.
Hygeine businesses (i.e., salons) should be required by statue to publicly furnish state-provided informational pamphlets in a variety of languages that specify how to report human trafficking and wage theft. See also:

http://www.wgbh.org/articles/Human-Trafficking-Nail-Salons-3...
I'm willing to bet on the opposite. I think it's engineers who understand how the product should work to be useful, but it's the sales and design people which screw this up because "hey, it's cooler / more shiny / will attract new people".
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Hmmm... seems like I see a new story about the purported health benefits of red wine every few months or so.
Russia is ready to win the next WWII. It is just so happens that WWII is already in the past, and the next wars will be won by drones and other high-tech weapon systems which Russia isn't capable to produce. The drones they flt in Ukraine war are foreign (bought from Israel).
We used to build steel mills near cheap power, now that's where we put servers
Agreed, coffee for me is basically a burst of energy/focus followed by a longer period of worse energy/focus than when I began, so really not worth it for me. I like Yerba Mate for this reason - no real crash, but a strong but steady warm buzz, much less peaky than coffee.
To be fair. I didn't do this I'm running what came on it and mine freezes and restarts several times a day anyway...
Dihydrogen monoxide, for one. :-)
i suppose satan could have edited it

Is that another pseudonym of Grant Shapps?
Greasemonkey script to restore direct links:
https://gist.github.com/astanin/3782408

It was worth it to me to install Greasemonkey for this script alone.
The people I see benefiting more from walkable and narrow streets are not the young and fit, but the elderly, who often can no longer drive but still maintain their independence by walking to the grocery shop, to the park, etc.
I always hated that "cup" measure in the US... Anywho, I don't think the volume of coffee one drinks in a day is relevant without stating how concentrated it is. I'm assuming 6 oz of americano coffee doesn't have quite the same effect as a 6 oz cup of esspresso (oh Lord.)

I know that, technically, a glass of beer should contain the same amount of alcohol as a shot of vodka or a glass of wine in a bar. Of course in practice it's probably not exactly the case, but when someone tells me "drinking 2 glasses before driving isn't such a good idea," I'm supposed to be able to tell how much 2 glasses is regadless of the alcohol consumed.

Isn't it the same in the article ? Shouldn't a cup of esspresso contain the same amount of coffee as a (medium ?) americano ? If not, how do these 2 coffee dilutions compare ?
You can't just "build up" in SF. The city prohibits it through a variety of means.