skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, not just HN but i get the point.

That does raise a lot of interesting questions. How did they get into the trade ? - This is usually where the primary exploitation happens. After that, it is not uncommon for women to stay within the industry by choice, (because they don't know how to do anything else, they have debts to pay, shame/stigma and trouble reintegrating with society and family after being outcast). Who are the fathers of the children - Are they from an actual relationship or are they consequences of the trade? Of course, all my statements are primarily from media coverage or anecdotal in nature. I don't know how things are in the Phillipines. Could you share a link to the paper? Might be a good counter-point on the matter which people can cite.

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Linked lists aren't fast in general but there are workloads on which they outperform vectors -- which is why it is important to understand the advantages and disadvantages of each data structure.

Most lower-level memory allocators e.g. tend to use linked-lists afaik because you end up removing and inserting slabs a lot, the Linux kernel also makes wide use of linked lists as well. If there were substantial performance gains to be made without other large tradeoffs it would have been done.

EDIT: Some additional info: http://www.jikos.cz/jikos/Kmalloc_Internals.html
Ha, that's great! Shocking whoever came up with that ad idea didn't consider the possibility.
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The scenario you give with the iPhone may have been planned marketing as well. It's not that hard to conclude that a $600 dollar cell phone would not sell very well when the iPhone debuted. But releasing it at that price made it "exclusive", creating a lot of consumer desire for the device, then they dropped the price to where people could afford it. So they cashed in on that seed they planted and received a lot of additional news coverage from the price drop.

Apple has teams of people working through this stuff. So while you may be right that it was just a prepared backup plan, it also could've been the plan to begin with.
Moving Haskell processes between nodes
So you're saying it's even worse than them being clueless?
SSDs need to be powered up fairly often to maintain data integrity. So, they're great for the drives in computers, but for external or backup drives--which might only be powered up occasionally, spinning magnetic disks will still be a better choice for a while, it seems.

edit: maybe not. Bringing this article up from samcheng's post below:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-...
Does OCaml generate code that makes use of SIMD?
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/613034680779051008
The article predicts that SSD prices will fall from 30c/GB to under 5c/GB in 18 months. This seems like a case of citation needed.
And yet it was the norm only a few decades ago. What's new is the emphasis on speed and flexibility. If you're starting a new initiative, it's better to hire skilled people now than to start a training program and get them 2 years from now. And if the new initiative fails, laying off people you've trained is throwing away the money you spent on their training.
You're getting a specific subset of people who are willing to do Pornography, most notably people who are desperate, potentially addicted/suicidal young women.

A common trope, but highly dubious. The majority of women who enter pornography come from relatively stable or average backgrounds, and go in there through their own volition. Quite ironically, the more underground subcultures like S/M are disproportionate examples of this. Regular women who have taken up modeling and promote themselves in the scene, accepting it as their lifestyle.

It should be noted that "porn stars" and plain old "models" intersect a lot. Many of the former also belong to the latter, and vice versa.
... or to decry gag orders from what was promised to be "the most transparent administration in history".
GoFundMe’s Valuation Rises to Around $600M-$650M in Latest Funding Round
Assuming you aren't actually pushing them in far enough to press against your eardrums, you're fine.

The physical feeling you get is just pressure on your outer ear canal - it might be uncomfortable (though it shouldn't be, try a different size plug) but it won't lead to hearing loss.

The kind of hearing loss that article is talking about is only caused by exposure to loud noise, and you're only going to be better off wearing earplugs for that.
Yes please. I was also intrigued by this statement. I was under the impression that Amazon never told what the "secret sauce" was behind Glacier. Looking at Wikipedia now, it seems there are still multiple contending theories.

Also, is it true that the service is not very popular? Are people here using it or similar?
The Hit n Run commenters had a fun reaction to the whole thing involving changing their handles to variations on the word "woodchipper."
Docker plugins
The utility of recycling depends a whole lot on the material.

(1) Is the material common?

(2) Is recycling it less energy intensive than mining/refining it?

(3) Is it nasty in a landfill? Does it leak, pollute groundwater, etc.?

Aluminum, batteries, electronics, significant amounts of steel, etc. make a lot of sense to recycle. In some cases it's quite profitable without any subsidy. Glass and paper on the other hand, not so much. Paper is an agricultural product, and glass is mostly SiO2 which is an absurdly common material (sand).

As usual the truth here is a lot more complex than the sound bites.
Well, they're pretty sold into their idea (which doesn't interest me) and they have one or two other people involved (so I'd be coming in as an outsider anyway). I've met their developer once and he seemed like a nice guy, though very inexperienced (not to speak ill, he's just young). So basically, they have a team together and I don't want to break them up, before their time, if that time should ever come.

Some of it is selfishness on my part, too. I want as much ownership and control as I can keep, and I want it to be on my ideas. I've tried working on other people's ideas before and it just doesn't move me. I have a pretty clear vision of where I want to go, both tech and business. I guess I'd rather keep going slow right now than get side-tracked working on someone else's ideas.

If their current project ever tanks, they might be interested in coming on board with me. I think we're both just trying to see where everything we're currently working on is going.
It looks to me like this reasoning is laughable. It looks like the same reasoning as when the major are counting every single pirated song as a "missing sale". Like if it would have translated in a sale otherwise...

The three months free period is intended to make the amount of paid customer bigger after the three months, so you have to account for that (and you don't).
I don't know what is the predicted impact of the three months on the subscription numbers, but let's imagine you would have a two times faster market penetration. After a year you would have 3 months free and then 9 months with double amount royalties, compared to 12 months single royalties.
Why do you presume Asians are any more nerdy than others? It's one thing to be in favor of diversity of experience (it's great that you met such interesting people) and quite another thing to assume that Asian ethnicities are less likely to contribute such experiences to the university.

That second thing is called racism. (not saying you are racist, but your argument certainly justifies racism)
Great question. We have more information we'll be adding to the site. We recognize that the site needs to be a bit more context about how and what data will be collected. The short answer to this is that Brightwork simply acts as a middle man to pass the data you have with your existing providers. For exmaple, if you have a Lytics account, we'll simply pass that data between the Brightwork dashboard and the Lytics account. Same thing for all the other providers Developers use. The goal here is to just use one API, get the same data you already get, and put it in an easy-to-use dashboard so that you need only one resource to find all the data you want to collect about your application.

We're still working on a lot of the functionality but it would be great to get more people to sign up for the beta so we can battle test this. We have all the nodes built and the simple functionality is there. However, we admittedly have some more heavy lifting to do. Thanks for the questions. I can also be reached at josh@plunkus.com if you have other questions. :)
Totally agree on variable/function names, but for some reason I love complicated one liners. I know its wrong, but its my way of measuring how smart I really am(even though its not).
No. Start here:

http://popehat.com/2013/10/07/meant-to-be-threatening-or-rea...

The exception to free speech for threats is "true threats". To prosecute a "true threat", the state must establish one or both of:

* The subjective test, of whether it was the speaker's intent to convince the object of the threat that they were in danger

* The objective test, of whether a reasonable disinterested observer would conclude that the speaker's language telegraphed an intent to actually commit harm.

Threatening to stuff a judge in a wood chipper on an Internet message board clears neither of these two hurdles. It's facially not a true threat. An attempt to investigate it as such is an abuse of prosecutorial power. Hence the uproar.
Judging Software Innovation
Is keeping a SSD powered on enough to prevent bit rot?
WhatsApp for Desktop
They already seem so clunky and primitive!
It was never confirmed, but I recall this[1] article making a pretty persuasive case Glacier was using optical disks.

[1]https://storagemojo.com/2014/04/25/amazons-glacier-secret-bd...
If the fix is implemented, wait a reasonable amount of time, then post the vulnerability to the Full Disclosure mailing list.

If they feel that they don't have to advertise the security fix, it becomes your privilege to decide how it gets advertised.
Time to join the ranks of his FDD and CD-ROM buddies
Yes, that would be the Deutsches Technikmuseum: the German Museum of Technology.

http://www.sdtb.de/Englisch.55.0.html

A word of warning: you could easily spend days exploring that museum. Fortunately, the computers are close to the entrance, so you probably won't make the mistake of discovering them at the last minute.
And then -- and this is important -- actually follow through on allowing and encouraging refactoring, as indicated in the interviews, instead of insisting on "features first, features fast" in practice.
I suspect this has something to do with gender roles, where a man who is forced by poverty to unwanted work is a hero while a woman doing the same is a victim.

We lionize coal miners somewhat because they literally power our world at great risk to themselves. It was built upon their backs.

I'm sure one could argue prostitution serves a role in society, but coal and coal miners played a tremendous role in building the modern world as you know it. It's not just "heroism of taking unwanted work".
those are only the OpenBSD videos.
The rest are here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWW0CjV-TafY0NqFDvD4k...
And we just got 10TB spinning disks on the market! Can't wait for the price to fall down for big SSD storage!
Developing Precise Lock-Free Rolling Metrics for the JVM
I'm probably explaining something most everyone here already knows, but:

I don't know what Glacier uses, but the "offline" storage is much the same how mainframes use tape - disk based files (datasets in mainframe speak) are migrated to tape after a given amount of time to decrease storage costs. These datasets needs to be recalled back to disk to be used again. This is nearly identical to how Glacier operates with S3 as explained by Amazon.

The reason tape isn't available immediately is because the tape drive, unlike a traditional harddrive, doesn't contain a reader. So multiple tapes typically sit in machines with only only a few readers that move back and forth based on requests made to read the tapes. If there are many requests, the amount of time to recall a dataset increases.

Glacier may or may not be using tape, but the behavior is nearly identical to how tape has been used in past systems.
I never saw a bulk request. Usually they were just asking for email address and IP address/access times. The types of issues were usually people who had "admitted" to a crime, and sometimes threats against the President.
He wasn't saying it wouldn't be. He was saying that even in an abusive fishing expedition in which prosecutors believed that the evidence generated would be excluded by a semi-competent defense attorney, the prosecution still profits by generating information that helps the rest of the investigation.

It was a point about game theory, not about law.
"Be suspicious of baroque patch submissions"

"baroque" strikes me as a bad metaphor.
I would not call this underused. Every Python tutorial I've ever read teaches this as the proper way to handle file IO, and explains what context managers are.
>> How to build a structure that is easy to change and extend.

This is a very good book on subject, very clear:

http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Object-Oriented-Design-Ruby-...
Everyone knows it is not very popular - the limitations are extreme so you have to have a very specific use case for it.
The third-party doctrine "proper" is about third parties voluntarily giving information to the government, which the government would otherwise have needed a warrant to get. For example, the government could effectively conduct dragnet surveillance of cell-phone records without a warrant if a mobile-phone company chooses to enter into a commercial data-selling agreement with the government: for $x/record, we'll send you all the call data. This has historically been held to just be a voluntary transaction between parties, so doesn't implicate the 4th amendment.

The hotel case you mentioned doesn't seem to involve that; in this case, the hotel is opposing the request, so there's an adversarial posture between the third-party data holder and the government over handing over the data.
I still don't understand what you mean. You seem to assume that all the evil acts in the world are motivated by poverty and injustice; that if ISIS only had enough money, they'd stop kidnapping and torturing and killing and destroying.

But ISIS is actually well-funded--that's part of the reason they are able to do the things they are doing. They don't need money; they have plenty. They are motivated by evil, not by poverty.

Also, are you comparing ISIS to mere criminal organizations, like organized crime? If you are, I think that's ridiculous. These are two different kinds of problems. ISIS is not committing identity theft and credit card fraud.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but you seem to think that erasing borders would result in peace and prosperity. Again, not sure that's what you mean, but I think that doing so would have the opposite effect. Borders and separation help prevent tyranny from spreading. They do also permit evil to take root here and there--but evil is never going to go away for good. Just like it's never going to stop raining on this planet, so putting us all in one giant bathtub would only ensure that we all drown when it floods.

What do you mean by "replacing one of the military planes"? If you mean taking the money it costs to build one and giving it to refugees: well, sure, money helps, but many charities are already doing that. And the U.S. military itself spends a lot of time and money helping people. In fact, American soldiers have died recently on pure aid missions in remote places. You don't see the Chinese or Russian military (or ISIS) flying food to starving people free of charge and giving their lives in the process.

So please be careful not to simply vilify the U.S. and its military. There are serious problems in the U.S. government right now, but don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. That's trying to take the easy way out, and it's based on half-truths at best.
Exactly. Self-driving farm equipment is more in the category of the Roomba than it is in the category of self-driving cars.
Yes, and you could have suggested this without wishing any ill on him/her. Give being nice a try my friend, specially when you have the upper hand.

By the way I did not downvote you.
> The trick is to relabel it as education, then complain that your prospective employees aren’t getting the right kind.

Well, I guess if already-educated workers are the norm in your industry, companies are going to change their hiring practices accordingly. It's okay not to like it, but arguing against it on the basis that 'it didn't used to be like this' just makes you look entitled and whiny.

> Bemoaning the unpreparedness of undergraduates isn’t new. Today, however, those complaints are getting a more sympathetic hearing from the policy makers who govern public higher education.

Yeah, well, when policy makers are responsible for all the cheap money flowing into the system (without which the system would probably collapse at this point), I guess that'll happen.
Oracle's version isn't much better.
You know a recruiter is a fresher when they say that they need to fill this job real fast because the last guy burned out.
A record literal is an expression that creates a value. A class would then be a function, as chriswarbo suggests.
Probable cause and a warrant is required when there is a 4th amendment right. The anonymous poster does not have a 4th amendment right over information about his posts in the hands of a third party (in this case, Reason). Reason, of course, does have a 4th amendment right over that information. But a warrant with probable cause is not required for a grand jury subpoena, because the recipient has the opportunity to challenge the contents: http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v24/24HarvJLTech543...
CLKTextProvider – Formatting and Fitting Text in WatchOS
Report: Vulnerability Risk Correlates to Exposure on Social Media
> the reality is that at small startups they simply cannot afford that kind of office space

It's funny startups would feel that way yet also believe they must be located in/around San Francisco. If cost was really that big of a concern maybe they should choose to setup shop in a more affordable city (they'd also save money on salaries).

But even in San Francisco the additional costs wouldn't be that much. There was a blog post[1] last year that did the math and companies save about 10% with an open office - the hit to productivity caused by an open office environment is most likely costing them more.

[1] http://nathanmarz.com/blog/the-inexplicable-rise-of-open-flo...
It should have no impact. It really is about write capacity. The little cells can only handle being changed so many times before they wear out. The wearing is a chemical/semi-conductor type problem.

It's not like DRAM where keeping power applied keeps the cells "fresh" (and in DRAM it's done literally be refreshing each cell at a certain frequency.)

The simple equation is the more times a cell is erased the sooner it fails. Write leveling and other software efforts work to spread around or eliminate unnecessary writes.

But over the practical life of a drive (5-10 years?) being powered off will not cause them to lose data.

Edit: I've been following FLASH technology since before the terms "FLASH" was coined, back when it was called EEPROM -- Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory, an evolution of PROMs (write once) and ERPOMS (erasable with UV light). If there's a myth out there that flash drives just forget things, I'd like to point out that I've had flash drives (low quality at that) from the 1990s that were left for 20 years and then read successfully! Show some citations of real evidence before you down vote me.
This is really good news. Competition is good but competition within compatible standards is much better for everyone, specially for us the user.
https://blog.korelogic.com/blog/2015/03/24
I'm using it for incremental backups of my photo collection. If I ever need to restore my entire collection, its available on S3/Glacier.
Bartosz Milewski is writing a category theory tutorial, which is in progress:

http://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-pr...
"if a business invests $20k in training and $80k in salary, there is nothing stopping another employer from offering $90k in salary after training is complete"

Doesn't this assume a lifestyle from several generations ago where you get "the training" then you're set for the rest of your working life? I don't think the real world has worked like that since at least the 70s.

If I took that $90K job I'd be OK while I'm there... thats what, on average just a couple years? Then I'd be dead in the water and have some explaining to do at the interview for the next $80K job that provides the entry level training I'd need. Why would any employer hire an untrained employee if there's a perfectly well trained employee from the $80K job? Meanwhile the guy who stayed at the $80K job likely got a promotion to $100K and here I am trying to get in at the ground floor yet again.

How this fits in with stereotypical OTJ training is a mystery. Most formal training is a way to shovel money to middlemen who provide it in an accelerated format for an extremely large fee. Most real world training is "here's a PC with a web browser and your bosses bosses boss declared the due date for the project is next month, now figure it out yourself".

Think of the last time you worked a project with a junk spec that has no relationship with reality. Those people who can't spec a fizzbuzz if their life depended on it are the ones specifying the required training. I wonder if that training spec will be worth the paper its printed on?
I think you just refuted the article.

> Offloading the constant checking of that consistency, in any amount, to a computer, is a huge win that compounds quickly over time.

True. And therefore offloading a less amount to the computer (by being mostly but not totally functional) is less of a win, but still a win.