skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another data point from Germany: I remember being taught (sometime during the 1990s) about atrocities committed by the Japanese during WW2 in history lessons in school. (Obviously, there was a lot more about the atrocities by the Germans)
//Somewhat off topic

Using any kind of AWS account (in a personal capacity) is a serious risk in my eyes.

Its much like I'm happy to take the risk of buying shares, but don't like leveraged derivatives.

I don't want to deal with something that is not my area of expertise and has very real potential to blow up in my face.

I wish Amazon allowed me to cap spending to say 200USD...that I can plan for much easier than X thousands.
i don't understand the argument you are trying to make.

you cut off the the "more" to make it sound like my statement meant we are equal instead of relatively better than we once were in comparison to the upper class.

then proceeded to provide examples of your toddler being able to retain information and yourself retaining information. both are about memory and ability to recall those memories with accuracy.
Why would Apple acquiring them incite an uptick in subscribers?
> On the other hand, once you do convince the compiler, you have an excellent chance that the code actually is correct, and you'll spend far less time chasing down crazy runtime bugs.

That's what I love about Haskell as well. Know of any other languages like this?
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The Fed never touched the pedal. See also "Interest on reserves".

Land rents ( which are not the same as "rack rent", what you pay the landlord, but can be related by land prices going up speculatively ) drive out wage rises.

Scott Sumner says we should have Nominal GDP Targeting; if Real GDP is < say, 4%, the rest is made up with inflation.
One of my scrapers just alerted me to my link being posted here :). Glad to hear you're still finding it useful, I'll probably update it in the near future too; got a list of things I want to add to it.
Sounds a little like the community here
There is an incentive to restrict housing due to pre-existing owners not wanting their investments in properties to plummet in value.
Github has a lot of social features, but as a git hosting service, Bitbucket is as good as Github. And Bitbucket has free private repos.
Yeah, in retrospect that reads way more derpy than I expected. Ben's a great guy. :)
Or: someone is trying to make money from bootcamps while claiming there are shortcuts to a high salary.
This is a narrow view. As go the honey bees, so go the indigenous pollinators.
I don't want to get into a discussion about ad-based business models and the moral discussion. For me, the trade off definitely favours security. I also just can't concentrate when the page is littered with flashing ads. Thus for me, alternative to adblockers is not seeing ads, it's not visiting the sites because I'm not willing to put up with that for content that very like isn't worth the ad bombardment.
They could identify users by their auth and store that data with the commits instead of relying on the user email. You either have to provide username/password, API token, or ssh key to push to a github repo. All of these identify you as you.

Edit: It is important to note that this would not replace git authorship info as it is very possible that you pushed something that someone else committed. It would allow you to have a UI trail to who pushed it which could help if you theorize that someone is impersonating someone else.
Almost all sectors of the economy have delivered much improved value since 1950. In many cases at reduced cost.

Real estate, education and medical care are subsidized. When you subsidize something, they cost more and you get more of it. So we constrain residential real estate development by regulation - zoning, permitting.
TL;DR

We vote and so politicians listen to our desires. Falling house prices would be a boon for renters and first-time buyers (and probably for society at large), but their political clout is less than that of middle-aged, middle-class property owners.

Link baity article with no real "answer". Rents and house prices follow simple supply and demand over long term. Cities are either already saturated or don't allow new constructions limiting the supply however people never stop flocking to them year over year. Even the medium size cities see net inflow of 50K-100K people every year - which means you need that many more new housing units each year. So ultimately only a few % of people gets to live in city and everyone else are forced to suffer commute. This % keeps declining because population total keeps growing and so the rent keeps rising.

Rent control etc can distort the economics for a while but not over long run. They are just "pain killers" when what you need is real medicine. The real medicine is simply policies that diversifies the areas. For example, encourage businesses to move in surrounding towns by offering tax benefits, build solid transportation network, open new public schools, encourage more constructions outside popular area, build communities with attractive facilities, build venues for cultural and sports events outside of cities and so on.
Of course, that's only nominal house prices that shouldn't fall. If inflation-adjusted real house prices fall, not really a problem. Perhaps a little more inflation than we currently have would be a good idea (4-5%).
Just for your information, we had a 'one-click' import from Gitorious to GitLab.com. It will come online again after the internet archive work is done.
An additional buyer shouldn't have the effect of lowering the rate of return on an asset.
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About 400,000 US citizens were killed in WW2, or about .0003% of the entire US population in 1945 (140M).

It didn't have a huge downward impact on real estate prices.
Democracy is the insurance premium the rich pay against the threat of pitchforks and guillotines.
It used to be a salted MD5 hash, but it may have changed.
Thanks for posting the link to the Gamergate conversation, I understand where you are coming from now.
That's not nice. It's also plainly false. Lots of people love Project Euler.
The Berkeley site is neat, but it's got a picture of the european honey bee right at the top and no mention of it being non-native.
That is also false. Please don't use me as a coat rack for arguments you want to make that are unrelated to mine.
You must lose a fair amount of water when you're greeted with a surprise bill of $11k.
> One little quibble in an excellent talk: 80 cols exists for a reason.

Ayup. That reason is teletypewriters (aka ttys).

The biggest problem I have with most programmers is naming things well. 80 columns is anathema to good naming. People start using mbl instead of maxExchangeBufferLengthBytes.

No, I'm not a Java guy. I spend a LOT of time chewing through embedded C code. I don't even have good autocomplete in most embedded IDE's, and I STILL prefer maxExchangeBufferLengthBytes. Here's why--that name tells me many things at a glance:

max--limit of some form, probably should be positive

ExchangeBuffer--a buffer and it's functional purpose

LengthBytes--a length (so likely unsigned and if I see differently I should pause) in bytes (not items). You would be amazed at the number of bugs this circumvents.

That's a huge amount of information conveyed in 30 bytes. But that's almost half of 80 columns. Add in something like 8 column indents and you can't even name things well.

And, that still probably doesn't give me enough information. I need to look at that to see if that is constant, and I probably need to see if I can touch that without concurrency considerations.

I read code far more often than I type it. I read code after I have forgotten about it far more often than when it is fresh.

Naming things to enable me to come back to my code 6 years later, refresh my memory, and not screw up while doing it is the single most important task in my programming.

80 columns is simply not conducive to that.
So you stand by your decision to remove a repo for political reasons?
Why do you assume I said that?
> Amazon ended up waving the nearly $3k in EC2 charges I incurred, thankfully

For what it's worth, the word is "waived". :-)

I'm glad Amazon dealt with you well!
> I am always confused when someone says about learning or teaching coding. What is meant by coding here? Writing fizzbuzz? Or writing enterprise software with so many levels in between and around as well.

Isn't that like asking, "What is meant by 'learning to write'? Subject-verb sentences? Or the next Great American Novel?" It's possible to learn programming without getting into software engineering.
I'm waiting for an article about "How I Failed, Failed, and Am Still Failing" to provide the flip side in contrast to these success stories we are so biased towards
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Another risk consideration is that anyone getting unauthorized access to your AWS account can delete all your resources and all your backups (snapshots, etc), effectively putting you out of business. [1]

One solution is to backup to a separate backup-only AWS account, with super-serious access controls (MFA and password physically locked away somewhere). Set up a "write-only" link, such that backups can be added, but never removed. This way, in the worst case, your runtime infrastructure can be decimated, but your data backups would be safe.

1 - http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/aws-console-breach-l...
There are plenty of those. Also from The Atlantic: "Should Journalism Schools Require Reporters to 'Learn Code'? No"

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/10/should-...
I used to know a lot of this stuff. With Puppet, Chef, and then Ansible, I've found myself needing to know less and less of it.
I prefer not to talk about GamerGate anymore. I've made many public comments about this and have nothing more to add.
There's really not much rational for capping passwords at anything beneath 256 characters.

256 characters makes for a fairly sizable passphrase, and doesn't represent a substantial hit on storage space. In reality, even if they were stored as encrypted binary/base64 in a nosql file system of structured data files, 4096 is pretty much the de-facto floor for disk space occupied by non-zero-byte individual files on most modern file systems.

...variable data size being a concern in cases where the transformed value is encrypted rather than hashed.
Please don't post backhanded swipes like this, or outright insults like "This guy is a moron." [1] The idea on HN is to comment civilly and substantively [2], or not at all.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10023513

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why would you do that to yourself? If you think the prices are ridiculous, then don't move here. If you think they're worth paying, then you can't really complain, can you?

I'm saying this not to troll (I wouldn't move here today!), but to point out that until people come to their senses and say enough is enough, this insanity won't end.
That person has a lot of very strong opinions about opensource for someone who has never made a single commit to any public repository.
Neat, but can I add few methods to my Entry touple?

Can it inherit from something else?

Can something else inherit from Entry?

Won't named touple have some of its own methods that my methods could have collided with?
> I believe it's an open question whether we would be able to feed the world population without using pesticides.

I would counter that it is a closed question whether we can feed the world population with pesticides, and the answer is "no."

The industrial food system is not a viable replacement for itself. People tend to forget that that's all "unsustainable" means.

>If you have to choose between adverse affects on soil quality and potentially having people starve

False choice. That's like asking someone to choose between inhaling and exhaling.

Nations are built, both literally and figuratively, on their soil. Nations that forget this perish.
across ALL repos or just a central repo and its branches?
> I couldn't agree more. I'm young and capital-poor, so this fact is a huge problem for me. I don't see a solution.

Vote for politicians not obsessed with propping up the business and real-estate portfolios of wealthy middle-aged people? (assuming you can find such politicians)
It's a great question. I wish the article had answered it.

> If they wanted to drive down rents, government could fund the construction of public housing, as they did during the Golden Age.

In housing, government is very clearly the problem, not the solution. It's government zoning regulations which keep demand far below supply: if we'd just lift the ridiculous restrictions, supply would rapidly rise to meet demand. Similarly with the rent control: all it does is impose higher rents on newcomers and the young while providing a great entitlement to the middle-aged and aging.

> you and I could quite easily have gone to the ATM, slipped in our card, and been told the money we thought was safe in our accounts was gone.

It's almost like he's never heard of the FDIC.
U.S. Watch Sales

...including the Apple Watch?
Why not use neocites?:

https://neocities.org/

Not only do they provide all the good stuff from geocites, but they're a radically open company (not just in the open source sense, but that too):

https://blog.neocities.org/open-company-progress-report-2014...
I used to feel more strongly that way about Haskell. I still do about most types of errors, but I spent a long time debugging serious performance issues caused by unbounded laziness and insufficient strictness.

In general, I'm a big fan of static typing. I don't know any other language that manages to provide as much static memory safety as Rust, though; that's the main innovation in Rust.
I too would appreciate this (but don't have any suggestions).
Sorry, that's just wrong.

Answer this question: How much should an employee make a company in order to be able to justufy HIRING her and paying her $100K per year. Remember hiring cost money beyond the obvious, there's everything from opportunity cost to up to $25K headhunter fees. Same for wages, it doesn't stop at $100K.

Feel free to take 90 day, 6 month, 12 month and 5 year views.

If you can't answer this question with a simple mental calculation and need to do a bunch of research and calculations you really don't understand business.

Oh, yes, you should immediately ask a few questions: Type of business? Number of employees? Business phase/stage? Average profit margin? Country, city, state/province? Average overhead? Capex? And more?

Feel free to answer these and other questions to create a business profile and then answer the question about hiring a $100K employee.
If you'd like to talk about the glaring hole I pointed out in your argument instead of clutching your pearls, I'd be happy to change topic! :)
>One little quibble in an excellent talk: 80 cols exists for a reason. It means people don't have to lay out their editor and shell to match your code. Your editor can be set to 80 col, your shell can too, and then you can leave it and it should work across languages, code-bases, and libraries.

Yeah, that was nice for 80 line terminals in 1986.

This is 2015. We have 27" screens. Two of them for most of us.

And on our lowly laptops, we have hi-dpi fonts (which makes smaller fonts sizes read great) and widescreens.
Or maybe the developer could just hire union labor to build the apartment block.
Right, I have a pair of 1920s portrait so I can have more drops on my desktop, but on my 17inch MBP, more than 3 drops is too small for my middle-aged eyes.

As the commenter above stated, he found considerably less than 1% of his lines required > 80 cols, so rather than go 96 cols and have 17% of my screen real estate wasted, I'll have the extra column of code or documentation or tests, or output, and have to toggle less.
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Not certain about your point... but if you meant SELinux should be turned off, then you got it wrong, I think. SELinux is more like your Firewall. You don't turn your firewall off because some software you are trying to use does not work!
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Last paragraph is nice:

> I sit down to practice the fullness of my doubts and desire, my fantasies and flaws. Each day I follow them as far as I can bear it, for now. This is what teaches me my limits; this is what enables me to improve. I think it is the same with anything you seriously practice, anything you deeply love.

More than work, with time you see it as a journey. You try something and you see how it goes. Experience just slowly builds a map of that weird space we call art.
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If I see a "\" I close the editor and delete the source file.
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The oil crisis and recession of the 70's happened before Reagan was even on the ballots.
But Google is not just returning links: they are positioning text prominently above the link results that answers the query directly. In that way they are a search engine for facts, and they do decide what information we read.

Google for "calories in an ear of corn". It will answer directly: 606 calories, which is wrong. There's no popular vote or underlying conflict, just a falsehood that Google presents as the truth, endowed with their authority. Are you OK with that? What if the question were "how much tylenol is safe?" Getting this stuff wrong has actual consequences.
This is a gray area. If we allowed a large automaker to go bankrupt, we probably would have lost the supply chain and many supporting industries which would be gone (from the US) forever. Same with banks. As much as we detest bailing out bankers, allowing the US to economy to be cut off from credit would create lasting collateral damage.
Right, and that means we can have more code on screen, and docs and tests, and shell. Where is the rule that you have to have one window open at a time? That's the real throwback to terminal interfaces.

The number of programmers I see manically toggling through their code in one window is crazy. I think this is part of the legacy of some high-profile IDEs that gave you one window at a time.

What proportion of your code lines are > 80 cols? Multiply that by the amount of extra width to get the wasted screen estate. I'll take that and put more code/docs/tests/output on my screen at the same time and have to toggle less.

The idea that this is about teletype is very amusing, but rather naive.
>So set up at 120, and then look at someone's code that's used 128 consistently. And then reformat for those few lines that went that long. See the point?

No.

>You can't standardise based on what you are fond of.

Sure you can. That's why company and team-wide standards are for.

Nobody has to be forced to use some BS 70's throwback rules just because they are in PEP8.
Which has pretty much leveled out since the end of the 1970s according to those charts?
Super low rates are bad all the time. They allow many things to exist that shouldn't, while the viable businesses have to pay higher prices for all their inputs.

When you have cheap money, more people think marginal investments now make a lot of sense. But if you create too many online dog food companies, eventually most of them have to be shut down.

It would have been better to allow an organic recovery.

And remove the impediments to hiring. We seem to ignore the law of supply and demand in the labor markets and then scratch our heads when there is a lot of unemployment.
I think that's really a matter of what level of mastery you are looking to achieve, and how broadly you intend to achieve it. If you're looking to be the best of the best in one single, narrow subject, you might quickly run out of <50% shit resources and need to dig into some really bad stuff to find little, rare bits of good knowledge.
Hmmm it seems better than T-mobile's $30/month "unlimited" data(LTE for first 5gig and super slow after that), unlimited texts, and 100 mins of talk, yay competition!
Wasn't one of the Lone Gunmen from The X-Files an FTC agent?
>If I already own a perfectly good ICE car, as most people do, it's much less wasteful to start feeding it synthetic gasoline than replacing the whole car with an EV

Actually this is incorrect. 75% of the energy used by a gasoline car is in the fuel it takes to drive it, and only 25% in manufacturing and disposal.

It's the same situation with incandescent lights. It's mathematically more efficient to throw out a perfectly good one and replace it with something more efficient.

>Synthetic kerosene could be used to run 747's; battery technology can't do that.

http://www.aviation.com/general-aviation/elon-musk-toying-de...
I had to go looking for that 'more'. I guess I cut it off (didn't notice it to begin with) because it's a meaningless modifier when attached to an absolute-sounding phrase like "equal footing". I don't know the name of this writing style pitfall, but here is another example: "The boot hardly annihilated the flower." ...That's a terrible example?

Oh, in the first post, my examples are about "ability to gain information [learn]" but you were talking about "ability to gain information [access]". Okay, yes the internet and the public library system are truly wonderful. I do presume that the ruling class (and/or the rich) have some information that is not publicly available, and it's probably very important information, but yes, a poor man can walk into a library today and find treasure laying around. That has improved our footing. :)
Was easy as a kid - effortless even. If your day job doesn't involve coding then it fades fast though.

The mindset / thinking style thankfully doesn't seem to fade though. Thats why I'm all for making kids learn to code. Yes they'll suck & no they won't become real programmers but it leaves a permanent imprint on the minds of those that take it seriously.
That does not in fact appear to be the case.
So if I'm understanding this correctly, it is a way to cleverly package 6 books as one unit so that there are six different ways to open the package, each way giving you access to a different one of the six books.

Is there any advantage in this method for the reader over the usual method of simply printing all 6 books in one normal volume, with something between each adjacent pair so you can quickly open it to the book you are interested in? Or is this just one of those "do it because it is cool" things?
Democracy only works if you have leaders. The non-rich no longer have leaders. We do at least have better bread and circus than the past.
Can you give an actual example of some well-written Python code that you can't fit maxExchangeBufferLengthBytes in?

It's a bit handwavey otherwise. I'm also a long-names fan, sometimes I go overboard, but in 20 years I've not been able to logically break my line in an obvious place only once or twice.
If we build upon your assertion ("to have an effective meritocracy you have to have universal education"), if some of those in power define universal education differently (which would seem to make any concept of universality in education void of such in practice), then it wouldn't be surprising to see a decline in the effectiveness of an economic system, which is what I would suggest is what we are seeing today.
If you want to be the best of the best in one single, narrow subject, then listening to what other people think is useless. Rely on direct experience instead; perform your own experiments, test out your own ideas. That's what it means to be the "best of the best": you're the one injecting new data into the ecosystem.
Genius insight that could be applied to not just AWS but Parse, etc.
I am convinced you don't understand my argument and have substituted for it the most immediately available outrageous argument. Please don't do that.
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