skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This pretty much all seems to be a lot of fiddly work that tries to reduce writes to your SSD.

The page may look like there are many steps involved, but actually many do not apply to recent distributions. It's more or less a 4-5 steps for a recent distro. hardly what I would call "a lot of fiddly work".
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Note for those not living in Japan. It's not everywhere like that :)
When websites suck (for example, those horrible, horrible websites that break right click, scroll wheel or the back button), nobody hesitates to point it out.

Twitter is a pretty awful format to .. essentially write a whole article. Gotta agree with GP...
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I think the description is in fact automatically translated by google. I haven't really added any other country specific translation. If you can help me out with a proper translation of the headline for Hungarian I'd be happy to change it.

Thank you.
I don't think you can legally do that if you can't legally host in AirBnB. You may, but e.g. my lease (before I owned my apartment) specifically limited non-family[0] stays to no more than 1 week at a time, and no more than 4 weeks per year total. On one hand, it is non-trivially onerous. On the other hand, I really liked the apartment, and I understood the rationale.

[0] the "family" was very broadly defined - e.g it explicitly included unmarried S/O and their family, and implicitly close friends. but it wouldn't have included "someone I never met and who found me on couchsurfing.org".
I use a System76 Galago Ultra Pro. I wrote a detailed review on my blog [0].

[0]: https://captnemo.in/blog/2014/07/04/galago-ultra-pro-review/
It might get verbose, but that's not what strikes me when I look at:

http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dale/ada/aln/2_sample_programs...

Which I recently came across looking for some simple Ada examples. It's verbose in the sense that there are fewer shortcuts -- you can't just read bytes, assume they convert to integers, and be done with it -- but in production you don't really want that anyway. Of course, doing what you should, rather than doing what you can get away with, will mean that when an engineer says "one week", and you multiply with two, for actual time of "two weeks" -- you'll have to multiply that again, for actual-for-reals, interface-actually-covers-the-bare-bones-we-need, of "four weeks"...
100% agreed that research access should be expanded, especially in light of the fact that these sort of drugs are unpredictable in their contents when obtained illicitly. Moving MDMA from schedule I to schedule II in the US would be a huge help. Despite my anecdotal warnings, its not a substance that doesnt merit further research.
There's nothing decentralised about Gmail.
How recent is it? I see his BIOS screenshots are from a curved CRT.
That is hilarious. Source, or were you kidding? (I legitimately can't tell.)
It's true that there's resemblance, however the code is 100% proprietary.

The reason I made the app is an easier and more convenient alternative for Android users of my website that calculates the same thing.

The difference being that with the Android app, users can actually set an alarm, as opposed to just figuring out when they should sleep/wake up and have to manually set it.
Last semester I was assigned ECC as a project for my Computer Networks Lab, me and my friends wrote these codes in python.

https://github.com/iCHAIT/Elliptical-Curve-Cryptography

You maybe interested in having a look at them. It would be great to hear your feedback.
( Pardon us if our implementation of any algorithm was incorrect, we are still in our learning stages as far as cryptographic algorithms are concerned. )
For the female part of a couple stability is important, and owning your own house/apartment plays a big role there.

I've heard that getting into the house ownership market in Germany is extremely hard, with high requirements set on your own savings to be granted a loan, meaning most people don't until they are well into their 30s and maybe even their 40s.

To me that certainly also sound like a contributing factor. Any comments or perspective on that?
> a separate but related function of the hole: to release moisture from the air gap and stop (most) fog or frost from forming on the window.

You could get around that by having the panes airtight and produced in a moisture free environment, but that would be more complicated. Think about failure rates in double paned windows which don't have to undergo the stresses on an aircraft. I'd assume even the outer panes aren't completely airtight to keep things simple:

http://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/953
They didn't exactly have a legal option to get what they craved. As soon as you criminalize something you relegate all of the 'fringe' to dealing with organized crime.
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The first thing about social taboos is that they are culture specific. Sweden for example in the late 90s had a strong censorship regarding violence, while nudity was mostly ignored and quite common in movies made for kids and on family prime time on TV.

As two examples of this, Darkwing Duck was banned since people believed it would cause children to kill other children in the play ground. However during similar prime time hours on TV, a other show called "Bullen" (euphemism for female genitalia) was on, and was about teenage relationships with a large focus on sex education. They address topics like masturbation, homosexuality, and relationship advice in the form of viewer mails being illustrated by actors.

Now days, the Swedish taboo culture has changed to mimic the American one, but one notice remnants always pop up when people suddenly feels that Astrid Lindgren movie adaptations should suddenly be censored since they got naked scenes in them.
Aim/Reason: I don't really trust facebook/google, but more importantly, if he decides when he is 14-15 to put his photos online, it will be his decision. Also, growing up, baby/young pictures were usually something would use to make fun of each other.

As for the other people taking photos, sure, if he is in the background there is not much we can do, but other places (nursery or school or even playdates) can't by law do that and to be fair, those places we tend to hand pick them and they do share this with us.
> and most importantly Japanese society is (slowly) becoming more tolerant to mothers going back to work.

Yup, but that won't prevent Japan from going right into the demography wall within a decade or two (with serious consequences on its economy, since current workers have to pay for retired ones, in a growing deficit and a climate of increasing taxes).
Who’s content will go the most viral in 24 hours?
Accenture is on the much larger end. I'd probably suggest if you're interested in pursuing a career on your own that you find a smaller boutique consultancy. You'll be closer to deals and have more insight in to how business is generated.
Tyler Durden https://youtu.be/ru4glg0RJxA
"Subcultures were the main creative cultural force from roughly 1975 to 2000, when they stopped working. Why?"

His chart [1] indicates where the 1975 date came from. He distinguishes between 1960s "counterculture" and later "subcultures". That's somewhat artificial. The 1920s also had subcultures - the Jazz Age, flappers, etc. Prior to the 1920s, there wasn't enough mass disposable income for such frippery. The 1930s (depression) and 1940s (WWII) sucked so bad that there was no counterculture, subculture, or, indeed, much culture.

The more interesting question is "why did it stop"? Music stopped being an agent of rebellion around the time punk died. Now, it's just "content". When it became easy to distribute music, everybody started doing it. At peak, there were several million bands on Myspace. Subcultures became more fragmented and tinier. Once one could find kindred souls with similar narrow interests on line, the need to change to fit in was much reduced.

What the author calls "fluidity" is the endgame of that - subcultures have no lasting power in a world of tweets and Instagram.

Were any of these a creative force? Outside of music, the main legacy of the hippie movement is that everyone wears jeans. The values didn't stick. Much of the 1960s counterculture was just self-indulgence dressed up with pop philosophy. That's why hippies transitioned so smoothly to yuppies. The legacy of punk is industrial interior design, for which the endgame turned out to be open plan offices with exposed brick walls and ceilings with visible pipes and conduit.

[1] http://meaningness.com/modes-chart
> Currently it takes 1.2 earths' worth of resources to support

LOL, this kind of "x amount of Earths" to support ourselves always make me laugh, because it assumes energy cannot be produced and that productivity gains do not exist. 30 years ago we were supposed to reach the "Peak petrol" point very soon, yet we found new ways to extract fossil fuels and push back that peak time to a much later time, leaving us time to develop alternative energies as well.

And we are still just literally scratching the Earth's surface. The Earth is a ball and most of its resources are far below the ground.
From a 2-minute google search, it looks like both are ~10 psi pressure difference (psig). The numbers I found were 7-10 psig for a plane and an estimate of 17 psig for the soda can. So they're quite similar and it's not a stupid question.
My main guess (I'm not an expert) is that it's to ensure that the double-window system is fully redundant. Without the hole, in the event of an outer-window failure the inner window would already have gone through a variable and probably large number of hours of stress from differing air pressure. With the hole, the middle window is (hopefully) effectively factory-fresh with zero service hours at the moment it takes over. That would be especially good if the failure of the outer window had anything to do with a quality defect in that window (or mishandling of it) instead of being completely adventitious: in that case, maybe it's not the only window pane in the aircraft with a dodgy service-life rating? If the outer windows have to be replaced every n flying hours, then not stressing the middle windows would also make sure that they don't have to be replaced as often. (This seems a bit clearer from reading the io9 version http://io9.com/why-is-there-a-hole-in-airplane-windows-17036... , though I don't think it's stated explicitly there either.)
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> You haven't travelled to India, China or Bangladesh have you ?

Have you travelled to the US, Europe, Russia or Africa? In most parts of these continents there's nothing but nature for kilometres and kilometres with very low population density. Only large cities concentrate a lot of people, and there's still space for more if we really wanted to.
'Whose content ...'
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Petty much every documentary I have seen the last 5 years claims humans are increasingly ruining the planet at a non-sustainable rate. I expected this to be common knowledge by now.

If you prefer reading about it, Collapse by Jared Diamond[1] is an exceptional book on the subject, with facts and references for every claim and anecdote.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143117009/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...
Doing some googling, it appears independently in a number of places but generally apocryphally.

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?377387-The-Etiquette-of-...

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jsgeq/would_the_f...

http://techliberation.com/2006/11/07/nipple-indecency-is-com...

If someone could dig up a youtube, that would be great.
It refers to Linux Mint 17.1 so this is updated fairly recently.
Here the concern was that Lego would jeopardize it's brand, but they also wanted to leverage their brand to increase appeal. Were the issues you were dealing with similar, or of a different nature? Can you give any examples? I know little of the biotech buisiness, and I'm sure it'd be interesting.
I suspect how society reacts to it plays a big part. Kids exposed to genitalia might be sent to therapy sessions and only considered "cured" when they accept that they have been traumatized...
Few scenarios I've seen

* "uncool" work. Stuff noone internally wants to work on.

* time critical - hiring takes time.

* lack of domain expertise - development isn't all equal. Ideally you want people who understand the problem domain.

* quick hit stuff - want something knocked up that'll take 3 to 6 months. Not worth the effort of resource planning internally.

* budgetary - typically contractors in most bigco's (that I know of) don't come from standard headcount budget. Headcount numbers are typically one of the kpi's used to measure growth.

Often times one or more of these reasons conspire together to make a compelling case to go externally.
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I am trying to think of an age where kids would not be exposed to genitalia. When they are little, we let them run around naked anyway. When they are older, they might take up some sports and be exposed in the changing room. What I mean is: I doubt there is a legal responsibility to prevent kids from seeing genitalia.

Porn is something different.
its actually simpler than that. my understanding is that the more dangerous stuff burns down by then. if something has a half life long enough to still be around thousands of years from now its decaying too slowly to be really dangerous. also, new nuclear tech is under development that is supposed to burn waste as fuel. the likelyhood this is even going to be an issue in twenty years is pretty small.

so its really just an interesting problem. something for the philosophers and psychologists to mull over.
No offence. I don't even no where to start in responding to you.

In reverse order. Welfare: a single anecdote is no rebuttal, how could it ever be? I've lived in Finland, I've _experienced_ the Scandinavian model first hand and I keep up-to-date on global stats. Granted, they are not perfect places but in terms of inequality (hint: this metric _really_ matters), social inclusion, access and quality of healthcare, education, public services and so on the countries of Scandinavia frequently come out on top _globally_. That is uncontested. Yay for your Thai friend. Maybe they would have made €700 (going rate) a week as a waiter in a hotel in Scandinavia?

Politics: I _said_ re-make the UN _security council_. Not dismember the UN! I can't take you seriously if you don't give an honest reading of what I said. But yes, I am advocating disengaging gradually from NATO, it is a source of tension in the world _and_ importantly for Europeans it makes Europe subservient to US foreign policy. The rest of what you say there I cannot understand.

Science: Eh hello? All our eggs in one basket? We need to become multi-planetary ASAP. The tech discovered in attempting to do so will actually help improve life on earth. Not a zero-sum game, sorry!

Tobin tax: You may not have noticed the recent implosion of the world economy a.k.a. The Great Recession. And the subsequent bailing out of the financial industry. Inequality growing to levels not seen since the Gilded Age. Most people know that the one way to make the financial sector subservient to the rest of the economy and not the other way around is to implement some form of Tobin tax. The UK is quaking in its boots in the EU because it recognises that France, Germany and others want this.

Without context your numbers are meaningless. With all respect, you need to realise that anecdotal unreferenced data-points are not a rebuttal to statements of general opinion. For instance you need to assert what you think is wrong with the Scandinavian model, wrong with the idea of a Tobin tax, and so on.

Tax havens: You're happy with people scamming the system. I'm not. This process is already well under way by the way.
Traveling back into the past to trade for present gain
Is it possible to make this available via Add-Ons or is the only way to copy paste all the files into the script editor?

(Really neat idea by the way -- looking forward to hopefully bring some of my SQL skills to bear on my accounts.)
I was rather interested in OrientDB but the lack of any quality ruby drivers was a roadblock.

I have just checked again - There are currently 3, which is much better than I remember.

* One uses the Java driver via JRuby only.

* One hasn't been updated since 2012

* One is HTTP which isn't the end of the world but it is not an official driver which doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.
I've lived for > 1 year at the time in quite a few countries of Europe. Europe is not a single entity and never will be. The language is a part of this, but the mentality from country to country is a far larger component.

Within Europe you have cultures and mentalities as diverse as you can imagine. Language is the least of the problem.

This is also why many well-meaning individuals, NGO's, governments and other institutions that try to apply knowledge about something that 'worked' in one EU country to another invariably fail.

Comparing Greece to Sweden, The UK to Romania, Serbia to Portugal, Italy to Scotland, Poland to France and Spain to Germany can shed some light on what makes - and keeps - Europe as fragmented as it is.

The Euro, with all its faults, has done more for European unification than any other measure, Schengen being a close second.

Now we're looking at a slow but sure decline in that feeling. Most people have an identity rooted in some rough geographical location, I've yet to hear someone call themselves a European first.
Worth a read for the 30ies slang alone:

> Armstrong said: “This dick confidentially told me, he said ‘When that cat called us and stool-pigeoned on you, they sent me and my partner to come up for the assignment…when we found out that you was the one that we must nab, it broke our hearts. You must understand, we can get you six months for a roach’.
I'm not sure why you'd think it's a stupid question (what is a stupid question?) -- but according to the Internetz[1,2], I think the answer is no.

The difference of pressure between an soda-can and air (at ground level) would appear to be between to and three atmospheres worth (or like sea-level and a depth of 20-30m/~60-90', if the rule-of-thumb I've learned is about correct; see also: Why is parachuting into water OK, while diving and then flying a bad idea?).

It would appear the interior and exterior and an air-plane typically differ at about half an atmosphere (5m/15' water).

[1] http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/SeemaMeraj.shtml

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_pressurization
Should've declared themselves a couch religion. 501c3 granted no questions asked.
One of us appear to be wrong :-)

I was just coming back to edit my reply to say that the difference appear to be 0.5:2, or the soda can holds roughly 4x the difference.

Ah, but I'm tired, maybe I read/thought wrong.
Title should be "Microsoft x86 Calling Conventions". The whole article is based on Microsoft-specific conventions and tools.

When I saw the following, I stopped reading:

MultiplyEaxByTwo:
shl eax,2
ret

"shl eax, 2" means bit shift left eax by two, or "eax << 2". Also, while the end result is same as with "shl" [1], "sal" [2] should be used for idiomatic [3] assembler:

Fixed:

CorrectMultiplyEaxByTwo:
sal eax, 1
ret

[1]: "shl", shift logical left

[2]: "sal", shift arithmetic left

[3]: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Assembly/Shift_and_Rotate#A...
Because it 'protects' against a company raising say 1m on notes, and growing to a 30m valuation series A. You also get the debt preference in case of acquihires and early exits.

For institutional investors, all they now only make the discount return on the note, while for an angel, well all you get is to participate at the series A.

Bad for the company, great for investors.
> If you shrank a 777 to the size of a soda can, its skin would be about four times thinner than the average can's.

My take..
The difference between inside and outside of soda can is approx 175 (kPa).
The difference between inside and outside of aircraft cabin at the cruising altitude is 56.6 (kPa).
So Soda can bears differential of approx 3 times than the pressure differential that aircraft cabin structure supports, with material 4 times thinner.

Aircraft is 12 times more safer than a soda can (!)

Interesting.. aircraft safety engineers at work.

Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_pressurization

http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/air-altitude-pressure-d_46...
I wouldn't bother with any of this. The effects on the SSD are too low to be worth it and there is no discussion on the tradeoffs that are being taken. Disabling hibernation is really a shame for one. Trim is done excessively and the benefit is not that big. The weekly trim should suffice and no need to do it on boot.

I also doubt the disk scheduler is of any importance, as long as there are enough IOs in the queue in the disk it will be fast, otherwise it will not. All schedulers will allow multiple IOs in the queue for all I know.

I do the noatime for any system without regard if it is an SSD or HDD. I just don't use atime at all to bother about the extra work needed to maintain it.
Most people rent, home ownership is 43%, so no I dont think people consider they need to own a home before having children. There is a stable long term rental market.
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There's a short whitepaper published by HGST (now part of Western Digital) which discusses the history and benefits of the ramp load-unload mechanism [1].

[1] http://www.hgst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/9076679E3EE400...
I don't think owning a house/apartment in Germany is important for most couple (to decide to have a baby).

It is normal here (for my parents/grandparents/friends) to live in a rented flat and perhaps move sometime on to a own house/apartment.
These devices do not expose their inner SSD and only utilize it as a cache.

You are probably better off with an SSD standalone or with a full blown SSD as a block cache to the HDD in part and as a direct drive in the other part.
It was used quite successfully recently (which is how I learnt about it), but I can't for the life of me find the link. A technically brain dead patient was bought back to life with little brain damage.
tutorial video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-off4Vznjs
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I think the parasite problem is/was not that bad outside of tourist hotspots. In fact, one couple that hosted me in Eastern Russia is frustrated that there are not enough visitors anymore, probably both because of CouchSurfing's decline and the Ukraine crisis. I've hosted a dozen people or so in an obscure Asian city, and none of them were parasites either.
The browser cache is about caching network resources and not about ram, pages you visited yesterday are cached there and will have no place in ram.
A few years back, someone (I can't recall the source) was prophesying Apple making a "laptop" that behaves like this, leveraging your iPhone's CPU. Basically a MacBook Air without the "computer".
I agree. It's a constant real risk. Most people are reflexively and unthinkingly tribal and parochial. Europe needs to celebrate its multi-cultural diversity. Homogeneity is boring. Ok, there is a need for harmonisation of standards and markets and laws, but at the same time cultural diversity is healthy.

I think student Erasmus schemes are great, allows young to people to experience how brilliant and non-threatening the variations within Europe are.

The EU really needs to step up on the propaganda :)

I would like to be an optimist on this one.