skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you opted in to having advertising subsidize the experience, you are consenting, so no.

This is also not an entirely sensible question, as it works the other way around, too:
"Wouldn't unauthorized downloading of content, using your ISP, and then deliberately extracting certain parts of it, against the publishers wishes, and for your own benefit, be a federal crime?"

(Note: The question of whether this is copyright infringement, which is the common claim, is separate from the question of whether it may fall under some crime)
Or even better, an ORM can be layered on top of an SQL abstraction that maps directly to what the database understands: http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_1_0/core/tutorial.html

It then becomes easy to go one level below the ORM without giving up all the nice things.
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And I will be blocking you in my hosts file in 0.02 seconds.
And then never do business with the company that uses your tech ever again.

Bring it.
Postgres replication is probably not as easy to setup, but can be extremely powerful especially when use tools like WAL-E as well.

We have a setup where our WAL log is rotated every minute and backed up to S3. Replica databases can either load from S3 or connect to the master for streaming - so they will catch up using S3 and then connect, reducing load on the master.
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I think they are often also dehydrated, full of bug bites, uncomfortable, lacking sleep, and stressed out, so not sure how comparable it would be to fasting in the 1st world.
I don't find this at all surprising. Oral histories are, after all, just a multi-generational game of telephone and many must, necessarily, contain a kernel of truth.
It could be made worse by the anonymity that is common in our profession. There tend to be trolls in any online forum, regardless of interest, and much of the work in our profession is done via similar channels.

And let's be honest, many of us (myself included) grew up hacking on computers instead of developing typical social skills. Some people grow out of that, some people grow into jerks.

edit: one further thought, there are many cases where someone is a brilliant programmer precisely because they're borderline mentally ill, and that causes some social problems as well.
I'm amazed that an online group whose focus is to talk about a programming language thinks about adopting a code of conduct... I would have thought trying to keep the discussions about the programming language itself would be enough.

Is it some kind of american / californian extreme sensitivity to heated debates or has there been a recent invasion of trolls i'm unaware of ?
This is just my opinion, but If you're asking questions that can be found in "interview prep books" you're doing it wrong. Why not just ask questions that can be found by you know.. actually having experience developing software?
So you want people to have to manually enter a transaction each time it occurs? This means keeping receipts that can easily be lost along with actually making the effort to do so. I dont see that happening.

Make it. If this is something you want to pursue then do so. You have nothing to lose(I hope you don't at least).
I've been doing 5:2 style diet since March. I absolutely love it. Going through the day not eating is relatively easy for me, and for the rest of the week I don't have to care what, when or how much I eat. So far I lost about 5kg.
To be honest I am suspicious of fasting for health purposes, for example during Ramadan this is me :

- I can only sleep for a maximum of 4 hours each night
- During my waking hours I extremely energetic and focused
- I never nap, can't physically do it
- I lose my appetite when I break my fast, I have to force
myself to eat a reasonable amount, about 1 meal and water
- I lose alot of weight real fast, which I suspect includes
some muscle mass

My father is the same, but not the rest of my family. I would not continue this fast outside of Ramadan for too long for a few reasons :

- Sleeping 4hrs a night does not seem healthy, although I
feel fine I don't want to play games with my health
- I don't recommend fasting with no water, I don't know if
this has any real health benefits.

Of course this is an anecdote, and not scientific in anyway, but my feeling is that genetics and psychology influence the resulting effects of a fast on a person.
>"The publisher can also choose to circumvent the ad-blocking program and still present the ad."

That is not opting-in. That's the publisher forcing ads on the user without their permission.
One of the Daala developers here. The official reference Daala codebase is implemented in C89 - this is to ensure the widest possible compatibility with all sorts of weird platforms. In addition, the tooling for assembly and intrinsics are mature.

Of course, this is only the reference implementation - once the bitstream is stable, it'd be great to try writing a decoder in Rust.

An easier starting point might be audio or image codecs, where speed is not as critical and the formats are well defined. For example, here is a pure Rust image codec library: https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/image
Very valid point. My point was just to dispel the myth that "employees automatically make more".

I could get into things like (a) how most Uber drivers get to write off $0.575/mi as an expense when they actually only incur actual costs of $0.20/mi, (b) how contractors get to write off other things employees don't (like health insurance premiums), etc, but explaining those clearly in a single blog post is difficult.

Also, keep in mind this post completely ignores opportunity cost, which is arguably the most important aspect and one that is incredibly unique to each individual.
It's not really that counter-intuitive. Presuming humans evolved to cope in situations where food was sometimes very scarce, and had to be acquired through hunting and gathering, likely in competition with other individuals and groups, then being listless and incapable for months as our body's stores of fat and muscle drained away would not be helpful. Far better for the body to expend its store in a few weeks of energetic activity spent searching for replacement food supplies.

I've heard it said that what most people in the developed world describe as "hunger" is really just appetite. A different phenomenon, and an uncomfortable one, but separate from true hunger, which tends to set in after a few weeks, and is more like a psychological impulse to acquire food by any possible means, including violence.
Haven't read it fully, but the first thing that popped in my head - wouldn't Apple benefit from this? There was one very detailed article on how their object method lookup changed over the years, but can't find it right now (Objective C).
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That's not the scenario I was referring to. The second quote was just to show the hypocrisy (of the scenario in the first quote).

What you're describing is covered by contract law I guess. Contracts can also be trumped by law. E.g., if you reply to this comment and don't click this link for a free iPad, http://www.vanderbilt.edu/innervu/news/win-a-free-ipad , then you owe me $100.

If a site wants to detect an ad blocker and block their own page too, fine. But if they want to circumvent it and silently download whatever resources they want and thwart all countermeasures they encounter, then that's cyber crime IMO.
Many language REPLs don't exit on ctrl+c either, at least I know Ruby and Python don't. Node will, but it will make you do it twice.
Cool, but if that makes things so straightforward, where's your performant Common Lisp implementation? (Where's mine?)

I did watch the lecture, I do know how many libraries he used...
19th century long form fiction is TV show for the time. Weekly episodes in mainstream newspapers. Hugo, Flaubert, Dumas, Zola used the format for decades. People will find Game of Thrones "too little into a show" soon enough, too.
Besides the fact that I don't agree with his conclusion - he ignores any of the advantages of an implicit language and therefore the article suffers from the "everybody must be stupid" syndrome...

"Jorge Silva,
Dev Evangelist @ RethinkDB. Full-Stack JavaScript Developer."

That final sentence makes me cringe slightly.
No.

Multi-touch is in the system libraries, shadows and faux-3d layering and animations, too, the alarm system and every timezone imaginable is in the system, automatic home time is in the system.

The app uses 33MB of storage on disk. Only the app, none of the above mentioned libs.

The Facebook app is nowadays 159MB. That’s 120 floppies. For a single app.
The step after that is to create artificial humans that surf the web just like real ones, build up marketing profiles just like real ones, "view" ads just like real ones - but aren't actually people. And then computers can market things to other computers. We might even get a shadow economy where it's computers all the way down, sorta like how 75% of Twitter traffic is (used to be?) bots.

Skynet, here we come.
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Excuse me, I guess that post had no related github repo. I was probably recalling this repo: https://github.com/erikfrey/bashreduce
If you think there is no "abuse, harassment, and discrimination" in the medical, legal, accounting and non-IT engineering professions, you are not paying attention. These are global human problems not restricted to IT/CS.
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This could be related:

While playing games using 8 bit NES cards powered by a stabiliser; if you increase and decrease the voltage alternatively very fast it would give you 30 lives in Super Contra.
If you're not subject to it then you won't notice it.

I have noticed because I've had it reported to me directly. I wasn't aware of it before then.

Also it is not a "generalization". These are isolated incidents but they are harmful to the people involved.
Add a bit of salt/minerals to your water or you risk lack of electrolytes, but you probably know.

I feel a bit dizzy at around 20 hour mark, past this I feel absolutely fine, can do interval training like always and have no hunger at all. On 3rd day I can start noticing some physical limitations, like when I tested how many hills can I climb on a MTB until I hit the wall hard (shaking muscles, mild spasms etc.), and the time I can spend doing athletic level of activity decreases every day (like 6 hours in the beginning to 1 hour after two weeks).
I would love more work on utilizing hardware like that to give a distraction-free work environment.

In my head I imagine Snow Crash and terminals hovering everywhere; but I doubt that would be usable. I would love to use natural movement to glance at off-screen windows, for example for documentation. I hear that text and things like that are poorly suited for the current Oculus iterations, though.

I think it'd be tricky, but i'd love for an Oculus and a laptop on a beach to replace my desktop and 3 monitors.

riffty sorta comes close: https://github.com/hyperlogic/riftty
Nah. For a long time after AJAX was birthed as a concept, people actually believed in progressive enhancement.

It's only somewhere in the last 5 years the SPA trend seems to have reached critical mass and instead of starting from the idea of meeting user needs by serving reasonable media types from resource endpoints (and then building up interactivity on top of that), people want to treat browsers as just another cross-platform runtime (an inferior one, naturally) that happened to win out instead of Java or Flash or Silverlight.
I'm just guessing about how they work, but my guess is that they track the HTTP requests that should come from an article, if all the ads load correctly. If a critical percentage of requests never come through, they report back to the customer, who changes the article's text to encourage you to remove the AdBlock software. Your HOSTS file would look exactly like an ad-blocker to this software, and would get similar treatment.

Ultimately I think the problem is that most publications aren't worth reading anymore, and so "never do business with the company that uses your tech ever again" may be an appropriate solution.
tis true. I was aware that it's not so much as offensive to my humanity as it is offensive to something other than my male identity. But "offensive to me as a not-male" makes no sense. at that point if it cannot be clearly expressed it is, as you said, overly emotional. wisdom and rebuke (of sorts) welcomed.
I'd partially agree that PC hasn't, as such, "gone too far", as much as the loudest people pushing it have too much of a one-dimensional mindset. With topics like this, there's never just one issue in play - there's a whole group of similar issues, each of which is important in its own right, and I'm sure we've all been in arguments where we've felt "How dare the other person avoid the issue most important to me!"

duncan_bayne and JoshTriplett are right to point out that there's been a hell of a lot of sexism around, and I think we can all agree it's hugely important we fix that and move on as an industry. On the flipside, with any group arguing any issue, you always get this moderate-fanatic spectrum, and people pushing for political correctness aren't any different. It's not a PC thing, or a SJW thing, it's a human thing. Happens to everyone. And that's what anon3_, our OP, is talking about - the loudest people pushing this stuff tend to (1) have a brittle, one-dimensional view of their subject matter, and (2) outshout all the other people who are doing their damndest to combine staunch support with tact and diplomacy, and both together create this oppressive atmosphere that OP's talking about. Outrage culture. I don't mean to have a go at them, much of the time it's because they've been on the receiving end of some really traumatic prejudice, and anyone in their shoes would find themselves reacting the same way - but there's just no getting away from the fact that it damages their ability to communicate these issues with skill.

That's the thing - both issues, resolving topics as important as institutionalised sexism, and the counterproductiveness of those who shout about it the loudest - they're both true at once, and both important. I think the question here isn't so much "how much should we dumb down any complex/subtle opinions we might have so as not to inflame the SJWs?", but rather "How do we best reconcile these topics?" The Short Short Short answer is, probably, listen, and do your best to understand everyone, even if you disagree with them.
The real trouble comes when your carefully manually tuned version of the query which works optimally for the data and loading and database version you have on date X, is still running on date X + 5 years. When the DB engine has upgraded its optimizer, and the data patterns have changed, and the usage levels are very different. And the original, unoptimized, declarative query would now be able to run faster.
"There are two types of people in this world. Those who agree with me and those that are stupid."

Programming has a lot of areas where it is split down the middle into two camps (usually two, although occasionally more...)

Not equally, mind you, but two very strongly opinionated camps.

Semicolons come to mind.
You don't eat, so you don't stuff your cardiovascular system with fat, nothing new there (and if your problem is not genetic diabetes, then you are good to go against diabetes that way too). Also for the aging, digestion is a pretty intensive biochemical procedure, I am sure your tissues may like some rest from time to time, nothing new there either.

What is not mentioned is that other biochemical pathways are triggered by starving, for instance, you digest your own muscular tissues. This may or may not be what you want. So basically you are avoiding some biochemical machinery just to trigger another.. balacing it looks sort of difficult and for sure picking 5 days in a month looks pretty random, I will wait the try different timings at least;P
You're missing the point. Since 2009, people have been thinking about what blockchains are good for. The first answer was just money—Bitcoin itself. Today's answer is that we can use blockchains to mediate all economic activity in ways that eliminate economic transaction costs, obsolete most of the notion of economies of scale, and make individuals freer and wealthier.

Venture capital hasn't made people stop saying "Bitcoin." It just turned out that there's a lot more to talk about than Bitcoin.
Before you take any diet science story seriously, read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9714985 . It's sadly easy to generate 'significant' results and get them published if you want to.
I did something similar back in the DOS era for a serial port library: https://github.com/kstenerud/DOS-Serial-Library/blob/master/...
Keep in mind Uber has reported that 80% of their drivers don't do it full time (http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/22/uber-study/).

Also, as minimum wage increases, then those employee jobs become more appealing, so theoretically the market rate for contractors would also increase in order to keep it a viable option. Though don't forget other benefits; many drivers value the flexibility more than anything.
Harris actually makes two radios that do support a wide range of frequencies:

http://rf.harris.com/capabilities/tactical-radios-networking...
http://harrisradio.com/products/unity-xg-100p/

The tech is there. Also, as for front ends and PAs, you can make wideband transciever frontends, the PAs in JTRS appear to be specific to bands, so it does not appear that they are trying to do the impossible. Tho they do appear to be trying to make it compatable with every thing under the sun:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Tactical_Radio_System#Wa...
Stuff like this way more obvious if you start to think about it. Is putting your body in a safe bubble to live optimal? Does nurture always beat nature? Of course not. Some amount of stress and physical challenge MUST be optimal (defined as reduce aging). What USC just did here is pick a solid guess in the range of fairly optimal.

For the fasting parameter, (of many to choose from that cause stress or physical challenge) again with heuristics, we can first drill down to a sub-parameter of "being fairly hungry". Given the previous logic, this variable must be a component of slowing aging.

Now if you had to guess from 1 day to 50 days or even 250 days, what would you guess is the optimal time of "being fairly hungry" to reduce aging? Mostly people would probably guess 2-10 days using the heuristics of "one day is just too little to have an effect" and "15+ days just cant be safe for you body."

I'm surprised I hadn't heard about a study like this before. What I am not surprised by is that the optimal range is right in the middle of the optimal range from simple heuristics.

The next heuristic you can tack on is timing between fasts. Using the same logic you will get very close to the timing between fasts USC is suggests.
Huh? The horn is a three-dimensional object; the square exists in 2-space. You can't make the horn from pieces of the square even if you allow deformation.
The spacecraft itself isn't a particularly big deal on these missions. They will usually use an existing bus or put together existing subsystems. So basically they already do as you suggest. Cassini, currently around Saturn, is directly descended from the Mariner/Voyager/Viking line, as were Galileo and Magellan. MAVEN, MRO, and Mars Odyssey are all basically the same type. Mars Observer was a comsat, and most Earth observers use a commercial sat bus. Historically the Explorer, Mariner/Voyager/Viking, Pioneer, Ranger, Venera, Zond, and other families shared quite a lot.

Most of the effort goes into novel and usually hand-made sensors to deal with specific scientific questions. There's not particularly a point in sending the same instruments to the same places again, and the accessible parts of the solar system are fairly well studied from a generic standpoint. If you're going through the (fairly expensive) effort at all, you want better or different instruments, and that's what takes so long. There's a reason all these programs are led by a "principal investigator" and not a "head engineer".

I do think a common design with fairly generic instruments would be useful for a pair of ice-giants orbiters. Uranus and Neptune are basically unstudied up close, compared to all the other planets. But two does not mass production make.
You'd hope so, but people are pretty bad at being civil on the Internet, in general.
Reciprocated playful office banter is fine. It's childish but it's okay to be childish with someone who wants to be childish also. Unreciprocated playful office banter should not exist.

Teasing friends is fine and good, all fun and games, but I think it builds deeper and more meaningful relationships to build people up rather than tear them down (even in jest). I don't make friends with people who tease routinely (all in good fun), but that's my choice. I tolerate it from family, because, family.

By the way, most school bullying starts as unreciprocated teasing. Yeah, teasing is childish and I too think friendships are better without it. Maybe it means I take myself too seriously, but I prefer to compensate for others' weaknesses (especially colleagues and spouse) rather than point it out to have a good laugh about it.

And if you're a kid, you're not going to be the one who complains about it. You don't know words like introverted or strategies like "haha that's funny, let's change the subject", you're just going to grin and bear it. And then the teaser (in total innocence, not maliciously) is going to be like, "well he always grins when I do that"...
You are not alone in your fears. Others have been ringing the alarm for some time. Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence is a good reference.
Having spent several years living with a self-confessed homophobic person, I saw their attitude turn around (70%) when they met my gay friends. Maybe the people on the github discussion should try to "educate" the transphobic maintainer instead of hammering away at them.
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this. Seems like it's all just script kiddies and social engineering. If you want to watch juicy hacking go for Geohot for instance. He does some crazy screencasts
Do most Uber drivers know that they should be doing these things / have an accountant that knows these things?
I once tried to cheat sleep, and for a year I succeeded
You even see this with Google.

A typical Google search from 2009:

"Meaning of Life: Approximately 72,000,000 Results (0,00000042 Seconds)"

A typical Google search today:

"Meaning of Life: Approximately 364,000,000 Results (0,62 Seconds)"
Since the CoCs started to be a thing I always though that they were unnecessary because I growth with the mantra: "do unto others as you would have them do unto you".

Said that, sadly, this doesn't seem to be a true statement in tech and a CoC doesn't hurt. I am ok with Go getting one if it's going to make people feel more welcomed on the community.
Definitely a way to go. Some browsers already have the "reading mode" feature which accurately distills useful content for display while the page is rendered in background. But it would be really nice if advertisers considered making ads more tolerable.