skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I resigned in protest from AMCC for the specific reason that I was concerned that the RAID HBAs whose Mac OS X drivers I worked on were tested in a way that I felt would lead to end-user data loss.

This because I was not permitted to test my driver in the same configuration as used by our customers. OS X userspace supported 64-bit, but the kernel was 32-bit, with some magic employed to break up large I/O.

Our test tool - and we only had one - was 32-bit. Once I realized that I mailed the tool developer to request a 64-bit build. He had never worked on Macs, so I was walking through Xcode when my manager Mike Benz demanded that I stop spending time that could be employed to meet our quarterly revenue targets.

Just before that our CEO Kambiz Hooshmand gave a length talk on the vital importance of ethics at an all-hands meeting, so I had him dragged out of a board of directors meeting so he could tell Benz to let me help our tools coder build a tool that would enable me to prevent end-user data loss.

That didn't work out so well so I resigned. I don't recall everything I wrote; while I do still have the original document it's not readily available. But among other things:

"When I lay on my deathbed looking back on a life well-lived, I am not going to wish I had shipped more product."

Senior Human Resources Manager Sue Depositar knew that I would go to the press so she purchased my silence for thirty-five grand and change. Imagine my surprise when LSI acquired my division a few months later.

While I haven't had the headspace to deal with it yet I'll be sending some snail mail to LSI's board of directors, the attorneys general of california and the united states, and each securities and exchange commissioner.

I invite AMCC to sue me. I would like nothing more than to testify under oath.
Not going to lie, at first I thought "oh this is going to be a shitty reading experience because this is some meta statement about how awful EA is."

Not sure though.
Group A bought Dell stock with the intention of legally seeking a higher appraisal. But Delaware corporate law has a strange feature of saying appraisal seekers must own their shares continuously after demanding appraisal. But in this case, Group A's bank had changed ownership of the stock with another bank "behind the scenes", which caused a Delaware judge to reluctantly rule Group A's appraisal rights void.
What about search?!
I mean that's a quick glance at Google Analytics - I don't know if Google has algorithms that filter out bots or other non-human traffic.

I have thought about dumping google adsense and trying something else.
Interesting fact about the sigmoid function: If you scale it so its slope at the origin is the same as the cumulative error function, it differs from that function by at most 0.017.
(the "straight face test" I wonder to myself, the author claims some endorsement from t'Hooft, maybe some eccentricity can be tolerated...)

Just following the link is enough to tell that indeed, under any reasonable definition of "straight face test" that site would not pass as an academic affiliation. I suspect that the "endorsement" from t'Hoof was more of the "I don't care, send it to these guy" followed by a brisk walk in the opposite direction.

As to the issue at hand, I don't think anyone claims to have a complete string theory to begin with so it's not really an issue of proving anyone wrong.

The sad truth is rather that despite lots of work by many people, string theory and/or supersymmetry, these ideas from a past millennia, are basically the frameworks which produces most somewhat novel ideas today. And its not like people don't try other things, the criticism that string theory is a dead end is at least twenty years old by now, so it's not like there are no incentives to come up with new stuff.

It is true that for a while there was an awful lot of papers with strings or string like words going up on the archive, but looking at the actual production right now, hep-th seems to be into black hole information paradox. So maybe Smolin and Woit making all that fuss did have an effect. Or maybe the graduate students thinking of going into string theory found Luboš blog and decided that accounting was probably more fun anyway.
Every couple months it seems like I see another Facebook or Reddit post with the stat that 90% of the restaurants featured on kitchen nightmares go under within a year of their episode airing. As if a show that focuses on failing restaurants is somehow to blame when those restaurants fail.

It seemed like a good comparison for Greece and what they tried to do with the Olympics.
> I'm not sure why I want k-Dimensional Equidistribution

For the party tricks, of course! http://www.pcg-random.org/party-tricks.html
From the article:

They then tested these volunteers in a room infused with either rosemary essential oil, lavender essential oil or no aroma. Participants were told they were there to test a vitamin water drink. Any comments about the aromas were passed off as irrelevant and "left over from the previous group to use the room". ... The volunteers (and I [author]) then took a test which was designed to test their prospective memory. It's a clever test with many layers so you never quite know what's being tested.
Browser fingerprint requires at least Javascript, and to do it properly you need the ability to run Java/Flash too. These are HTTP requests, not HTML pages which are opened in the browser. Since its not using cookies, these requests only contain the user agent string, which is very far off from any useful kind of tracking-fingerprint.
When my boy was five we watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail together...many times since I bought the DVD. I wanted to make sure he could blame me if he turned out to be a messed up adult.

There are times when it is useful to apply the Turing tarpit, a database is still just bits in memory, there's no magic, just a well defined interface to which some particular combination of code and data structure conforms.

A key is a pointer and a pointer is an edge in a graph. How the value is interpreted determines is left to the implementor. If the value is interpreted as a tuple and has a predetermined form, then you can get to a relational (or SQL) database. If the value is interpreted as a pointer you can get to a graph database. If the value is interpreted as a document you get some other sort of database.

If you're really interested in databases, Database Systems: the Complete Book is an introductory text that I enjoyed last year. I picked up a used copy of an older edition for less than $10 online.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/dscb.html
If I were mayor, I would require new construction to have 1kw of grid intertied solar per unit.
I found that piracetam and oxiracetam did result in moderate improvements in cognition and ... blanking on the word... ... "verbal improvements". <= That type of stuff would happen less, in other words.

However, I discovered that their effectiveness would wear off over time, and worse, they'd cause me to be easily aggravated. I didn't realize how bad it actually was until I was making life really difficult for my partner and promised them I'd stop so that we could see if the agitation went away.

Well, it did, and I've chosen not to continue taking them. I've also found that this is a fairly common side effect among users, so watch out. (And yes, I was taking choline along with them.)
I like your journal idea.

It occurs to me that I just assumed you meant a physical journal, when that wasn't in the post. I feel like that would help me a fair bit compared to a digital one (I find physical books easier to focus on. Something to do with the spacial consistency, I think).
127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com

127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com

127.0.0.1 www.hosted-pixel.com # I Swear I'm Not Making This Up

On some but not all operating systems it's better to use 0.0.0.0.

It's better to block it with a firewall but your aged grandmother doesn't know how to configure them.

iOS and I expect Android have hosts files but you must jailbreak to edit them. On iOS you can do that with iFile from the Cydia store. iFile once cost money but it's free now.
I love Python 3, but the main reasons I haven't converted everything over is because half of the libraries I use only work with 2.

Creating an entire new version after lots of people already built their entire projects on the previous version, with no real backward compatibility, reminds me of the Visual Basic days of Microsoft.

How can you possibly expect acceptance after 5 years?
The huffington is HN related right? Maybe OP linked as a satirical commentary on their content policy?
I keep reading this as "Wargmans", like the war-mongering version of Wegmans or something.
People try some of these things based on studies with 12 people or just anecdotal evidence on forums. Then sometimes you're ordering research chemicals from the internet so who knows. We're not talking FDA stuff here.
#2 is really important. Avoiding the lethargy that comes with stuffing yourself goes a long way to making your day-to-day better.
It would be awesome if artificial structures are discovered on Pluto. What would be mankind's next step, if say life is discovered on Pluto?
Besides, in 100 years we will be fortunate if anyone will be alive, let alone doing theoretical physics.
Massless GR is sometimes called "pure gravity", and is something people are still interested in (or were, last time I was paying attention) [1]. Kind of remarkable that even the base-case has so many open issues. I should re-read that Torretti book, I remember liking his style but that some of the math was over my head at the time.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.3359
I'm too scared of what could interact with my SSRI.
Self-flagellation builds character, it absolves you of your sin!
> The moral is don't use Apple cloud services for anything you care about.

The moral is don't trust ANYONE for anything you care about [1]. Especially free services - the free service you use can go under or away in a matter of days. Example: google code.

I'm not saying don't use "cloud" services - but always think about what will happen if someone attempts to delete the wrong LUN on some random SAN.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-lost-data-2011-4
I think looking at bright red light, with a very low frequency, should temporarily render the red cones less sensitive. Then you'd only get green and blue sensations.
Gotcha. Good on you for getting out a simple version quickly, that's the way to do it.

Personally I prefer automatic notification, because the user may be impaired and can no longer perform the second step.

However, I would suggest you make this all user customizable. Length of time before automatic notification, automatic vs manual, etc.
I've heard of similar things happening with drugs like Adderall or Vyvanse. Is/was it from your tongue darting around your mouth a lot?
Personal experience. They used to be called Goldstar when I was a kid.

You can check out Consumer Reports but it has a paywall.
2013 version:

http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
Three Months, What Now?
Definitely mom and dad if they have kids who need Office to do their school work. Or if they want to be able to open .docx files at open.
This post just really kind of touched me and I am interested in seeing what the rest of HN has to say about it...
It's essentially the same, except for the API. However, you linked to the reference implementation. My implementation also contains a SIMD implementation, if your CPU supports it. I assume that libsodium has a similar implementation in its codebase somewhere too.

My SIMD implementation can be made to run a bit faster, but this would mean computing more blocks in parallel, and thus increase the state size of the RNG even more. I chose to only compute one block at a time. An optimized stream cipher implementation will have all the implementations with different parellel block sizes embedded, to achieve optimal speed for long messages.

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ChaCha20 is a stronger more modern variation on Salsa20. But the differences are minor.

But, to be precise, libsodium prefers XSalsa20 to ChaCha20. The core feature about XSalsa20 is that it supports a 192-bit nonce instead of the 64-bit nonce of ChaCha20. This means that it is safe to use a randomly generated nonce, while randomly generating a 64-bit nonce would result in collisions eventually. I believe this is the reason they chose XSalsa20.

XSalsa20 is a simple variation on Salsa20 that does a bit more initialization to turn the normal 64-bit nonce into 192-bit. I assume the same construction can be applied to ChaCha20, but since djb (the author of both Salsa, XSalsa and ChaCha) hasn't done it, I think that libsodium went with the safe approach and just used XSalsa20.
If you really love women, you'll love being friends with women just as much as you love being in romantic relationships with women. If you don't really love women, I'd likely suggest that you just don't date - loneliness or social proof of your value are shitty reasons to get into a relationship.
Slurs are generally less effective once they've become mainstream.

Go spend some time on 4chan, and this will become clear--'-fag' is used as a suffix/term-of-art, and basically doesn't even register on the radar anymore as being said with any seriousness.

"Goddamn" and "Christ" were once quite serious business as well.
I would pay to see Motl and Doron Zeilberger in a cage match about discrete math: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/
Isn't Krugman just being scientific here? ie, "We had this model for a long time, but the empirical data don't back it up anymore so it's pretty silly to stick with it, and we should find a better model."
I recently started taking L-Theanine and caffeine (mostly via coffee, but I occasionally use caffeine powder). It seems to give me some solid focus for a few hours, but to be honest I'm not sure if it's a placebo effect.
> writing directly to a low level 3D graphics API are long over, so this is mostly irrelevant.

Not really, and it depends on studios and developers. Firstly, engine developers can't avoid dealing with those APIs. And dealing with multiple increases their burden and is simply a pointless multiplication of effort which could be avoided. Secondly, some studios can afford developing their own engines, so it's not irrelevant even if we aren't talking about commonly licensed engines like Unreal, Cry or Unity.

> the funny thing is it's likely that once Vulkan ships, writing a Vulkan only Windows game will be viable as long as AMD, Nvidia and Intel have decent Vulkan drivers even without Microsoft support.

In the context of the interview, I doubt Vulkan will be available on Xbox and MS mobile devices, unless MS will suddenly rethink their lock-in attitude. In the best case scenario someone will create a Vulkan → DX12 translation layer (similar to ANGLE), since actual APIs aren't that different functionally.
And it has a cool light speed mode in the bottom right which really drives home the fact that even traveling at light speed isn't enough to get humans very far.
Moto G (2015) Press Render Leaked: Flaunts Smartphone Design
Do Not Sit in the South Direction
Hi, while I got your point and mostly I agree with you, I just have a question.

Now when WebGL is widely adopted why you can create your games using that technology? Or even compile your C/C++ games with asm.js. I saw very nice demos in the past.

For simple 2D games (like most of the Flash games), I saw very nice Flash-friendly libraries like Phaser[0] (based on Pixi.js).

[0] - https://phaser.io/examples
Out of interest, what are you relying on that's not available?

There were various big missing pieces I remember (database drivers, then web frameworks, then scipy). The last big one remaining is twisted. (and fortunately there are not that many big twisted applications around) But otherwise, I haven't run into any py3 issues lately.
However, it's not quite true.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/pluto-2010...

Shows better the previous best.
I guess we can replace it with "prostitution-parade" to be more PC. Sorry about that.
I heard somewhere that Obama wanted to do an apology for Hiroshima, but the Japanese government advised him not to.
> This is exactly what they're doing.

I would agree to that when I'll see Vulkan on Xbox and Windows Phone.
The same is true in the U.S., but brokers can also lend out shares for shorting etc, or write derivatives such as options which are contracts that can be exercised to buy/sell a stock at X price. The same is true in Brazil, rest assured, and it gets even more complex than that when you start taking about ETFs, REITs, and more complex derivatives etc.
I wonder if these are even safe to take? Some people seem to write praises about it but it's not known if it really does make you smarter or not.

Well, nothing really beats smoking sativa and drinking coffee. Vastly improved concentration, uptake of information, problem solving, writing & speaking. Constant hunger and desire to eat enormous amount of food is the only real downside.
> Vulkan is due to be standardized later this year. Isn't competition here good?

Competition is good, when it exists. But I'm talking about bad cases, where competition is artificially prevented. I.e. sure, on Windows Vulkan and DX12 can compete. But on Xbox and Windows mobile - not really, since MS won't allow Vulkan there. They aren't even part of the Vulkan Khronos group as far as I know.
I used to have trouble reading the Perl5 code I would write a few weeks later. But these were small scripts I'd write and a month or two would go by before I'd right another one.

The issue was I didn't fully know the language. Having spent a few years in Perl 5 now, I no longer have this issue. But the Ruby 1.8 code I wrote 5 years ago I can no longer read, I seem to have forgotten it. I never have been able to read Python, I don't know it either (though I do from time to time dig through their std lib and port some stuff into my modules I author :).

The point is, you can't read a language that you don't know, this is such an old argument. And saying "you can read a language if you don't know it if it is easy enough/designed right", is just well... just keep me away from those languages... Reminds me of a 70 year old retired EE friend of mine. He still buys only chips that come with Basic onboard stating "its so simple, I could never learn any of this new languages", yet what takes him a page of basic, I can do in one line in any modern one... The point is simplicity is just one trait out of many, you can't hang everything on it.
Did you friend lay off a bunch of people making minimum wage while his luxury car was parked right in front of the workplace? If not, then it's not actually comparable.
For me it took minutes to load, then loaded some broken page with bright pink boxes over bright pink and I Camé here to sete if there was a transcription
Astro-noob here. Why can't we get better pictures from our telescopes, given that we can take what seems to be high quality pictures of things much further away? Is it because of how "small" pluto is, versus say a large galaxy or nebula.
I do sort of dislike that there's no good way to include commentary along with a link. But I don't think "Look at this piece of trash that HuffPo posted" would be particularly great HN content, either.
Right to be forgotten requests nearly all mundane
My Grandmother's a real ace when it comes to editing hosts.
AWS Security Best Practices: What Enterprises Need to Know About Open Source TLS
Downvotes? He's pretty accomplished in the psychedelic arts.
The original studio is now doping the wildly profitable skylanders franchise, falso the studio is owned 100% by Actvision, i doubt they will be doping anything that is nota skylanders unless they pull a Infinity Ward
> When you are legally mandated to do what is right for shareholders

I don't know of any CEO (successfully) legally persecuted for 'not maximizing shareholder value', or having a more 'long term strategy'. The most that can happen afaik is getting fired, which is scary enough.

In the end what I got from the article is that the initial vision of EA largely succeeded: to replicate the music industry and Hollywood with a steady big budget revenue stream. The only problem is the glaring misnomer: the correct term would be the unsavory 'Electronic Mass Media' instead of 'Electronic Arts'.

The sad fact about the shareholder revenue maximization in this industry is that people are happy to be fed dog food, and producers are happy to make tons of money off of it. They shrug off the moral dilemma and say "we're just making what people want!". This situation is reproduced verbatim across mass media -- the largest revenue share is absorbed by content that is simply not good at all. If you look at music, I would say at least 80% of the top revenue generators out there produce music that is objectively worse than centuries old music. Take this for example: [1], how can one not say it is altogether a better, more energetic, more expressive, more moving piece of art than the vast majority of what is produced? Yet people seldom listen to it. Who makes money off of copyright-free Mozart works? Of course, there are exceptions, but the situation overall is an unhappy conjunction of the vast majority of people being satisfied with repetitive industrialized hits, lame jokes with explosions, and the sports game or first person shooter of the year -- while the industry is satisfied with flooding the market and the media with this rehash-able mass produced content. With no good consumer content discovery and reviewing tools, I believe that's a stable status quo for the majority of the population.

That's the role platforms like Steam with indie games (or Spotify with indie music, or Netflix with original productions) can perform: the consumers can seek directly quality, and marketers don't have the ability to distort this too much. With good discovery consumers should be able seek more engrossing experiences and share opinions directly, hopefully without bias towards what's brand new (although I confess that one is hard to get rid of). In this kind of marketplace producers can also target more specific markets, making what they enjoy and find beautiful (and still able to make good revenue off that niche) instead of aiming for generic mass market titles.

Of course, it could simply be that a large fraction of the population irremediably wants to just shut off their brains outside their jobs, but I don't want to believe that, at least not without unmistakable evidence.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISBNqJZVrXM
You sure those are images? All we know for certain is that those are GET requests.
Tech's hottest lunch spot: a strip club
Google transparency reports back-modified modified by Google
Le Crazy Tour Nickelodeon fait rêver les enfants  encore une fois
Oh, I know. But a fan-made one would be possible - some people already tried SBC failed, but with Kickstarter backing.. well, you never know.
Yeah, I take l-thenaine + caffeine in the morning. I can't drink coffee since it seems to give me acid indigestion in the morning but caffeine pills are the perfect substitute for me.

Keeps me alert and awake in the morning, which is when I tend to have the least motivation.
yeah except in this case I'm hoping it actually ends up matching what I'm holding in my hand. 500+ fountain pens inks. Anything that actually works (because colour calibration between my cameras and monitors sure doesn't), I'll take. (that tool was written, as far as I understood from the author, to actually get things to look they way they look. Not "the way we were used to". I haven't used film in over a decade. I just want realistic colours.
IMF attacks EU over bailout terms
STL Fixes in VS 2015, Part 2
I would say indie developers upload their partially developed playable demos for real-time feedback, instead of having the game developed fully and then re-think.
It seems like this is an area where Statistical Process Control would shine. Did you consider using that?
Who? The question is who?