skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May I ask, would you consider a waitress talented? Based on your value structure, I'm very curious to know how you'd feel about someone like a waitress or a cashier.

Assume that this is their full-time job, and that they have no ability to attend a university due to a series of unfortunate events which left them saddled with debts they cannot hope to overcome unless they focus full-time on overcoming them. So they take what jobs they can. Are they talented or excellent?

It would seem that if one takes your value structure to heart, then you'll end up rejecting anyone from your life who aren't among the lucky few -- as you were -- of having no unfortunate events in their life, and would deem those people not worth allowing into your life, as they certainly aren't excellent.

A friend of mine used to work in a coffee shop. They often told me about people who would come in and act as if the workers existed only to serve them. I found this hard to believe. I knew such people existed, but it seemed improbable that that they were so common. Yet they were.

Is there a chance that if your mentality is to surround yourself with excellence, then you'll end up forgetting how to respect those who aren't, through no fault of their own?
Pretty silly to take things way too seriously and hate on a decent hypothetical gaming opportunity, don't you think?

With perfect security hygiene, more things are attainable.

But an even more perfect crime is hedging both sides of an option with phony identities, with different amounts, different enough times, different brokerages, different IP addresses, etc.

Feel free to try it out and report back.
On the orientation of Roman towns in Italy (2007) [pdf]
I'm not quite sure what you're referring to. But at certain scales of data (petabytes, probably?) data corruption is inevitable. I do not know if they use ECC.
Quick Heal Total Security 2015 Crack Plus Serial Key Full
Can I play iTunes TV shows on my Vizio Smart TV?
I am going out on a limb and say for all things backend use C#. Mainly because in general the language, IDE, community support is by far the best. Yeah said it - and it's true so if you think Java or PHP or anything else is overall better your way wrong so fuck you. Oh and it's now open source and runs on Linux.

Unfortunately its not a as cool as ROR, LAMP etc. It's simply better, more mature more stable, quicker etc.

There is a major subtle war going on where asp.net mvc and c# are just not included in the start up tech stack discussions which is ridiculous. asp mvc has the best Web API infrastructure supporting RESTful / hypermedia API's. It has amazing WebSockets support. I could go on but who is even reading this far? Perhaps just me.
What you explain is amazingly similar to what happened in Europe 100 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
There's nothing inherently white about privilege. In fact, whites are under-represented at Stanford compared to the US population as a whole.
I am an EE who has previously tried to take this course and found it incredibly hard because of theory, formal proofs etc.. Can anyone recommend a book, lecture notes to accompany this course to make life easy?
> In short, the 1% are the 1% because they are better than the rest, and through hard work and good parenting the same is true of their children.
Yet somehow, the article makes these exact same claims in a manner that will probably avoid anger by left wing sorts. I'm impressed.

Why, no, actually we are impressed.

It takes extraordinary, breathtaking ignorance (or maybe just eternal self-serving bullshit) to overlook centuries of the discrimination and outright violence that the 1% have strangely required and thus perpetuated, when your smug little delusionary claim is that, shucks, it's all merit-based riches.
Meteor has been a disaster in production for a couple of projects I've seen, and for reasons that would apply to any meteor project.

Basically, atmosphere is pretty but the packages are outdated, broken, or both; the only solution to this is to roll your own packages for every library you use.

WRT NoSQL, very few people need the performance benefit(for specific types of applications, specifically ones with non-relational data) of a document or pure KV store; whereas many can benefit from good old tables and joins.
Though SQL as a language in my opinion is not pretty: the utility of SQL databases(my favourite being Postgres) is undeniable.

I've seen POs choose MongoDB because it's "webscale"(believe me when I say we don't need it), and often enough we end up with a situation where with joins our queries would be trivial, but with MongoDB, the queries are often only feasible at all with aggressive denormalization. Such denormalization is typically error prone, complex, and slow to insert.

Node itself is pretty spectacular, if for nothing but the ease with which you can take a synchronous single-node system, and factor it into a distributed system. In most environments this is infeasibly difficult, Rails seems to me like one such environment.

Clojure is an interesting and pragmatic language with a whole lot of cutting-edge work in datastructures having leading implementations there.
LISPs also have inherent magical powers which I'm sure you've heard explained ad nauseam by a little-known chap called Paul Graham or something, maybe his website Hacker News is written in one.
How can Gitlab afford to host unlimited private repos for free?
Automating Docker Logging: ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Logspout
Yeah, integrated graphics are still just pretty much good enough for those interested in playing some games once in a while; anyone expecting serious gaming performance even on the highest end chip is going to be disappointed. On the plus side, you can get a ton of firepower for $200 these days, which is pretty low given inflation and what GPUs cost in the 90s.
Space and Time Warps
Caps blow by thermal runaway when they get too old (far out of spec) or are run out of spec.

Was repair attempted it or was it just thrown away? Things can look cooked, but they're often easily repairable. Far too often, most consumers are completely clueless, choosing instead to fix it by going to the store and filling the landfill needlessly because they don't care about wasting resources.
> 'We had several NoSQL technologies, all of which eventually broke catastrophically'
If the rewards for the people at the very top are disproportionate to the work and risk-taking that they've put in, that's a distortion which has negative effects on the whole system.

We're talking about the "New Aristocracy". In extremis that's where you're either in the elite, or barely subsisting. It doesn't matter how meritorious the admissions to the upper class are - it's an awful way to live for nearly everyone, and where it's been implemented it's been marked by abuse and stagnation.

From a motivational standpoint, of course the incentives of a great reward matter. But there has to be a reason for everyone from 2nd place downward to participate.
Bechdel Test Movie List
At some point you should consider paying for stuff.
If you don't "feel entitled to get paid," then what do you really
have to complain about when someone wants it for free?

I'm not complaining. I'm trying to understand a perspective that I'm having a hard time empathizing with.

And don't you think it's a little unfair that you'd attribute to
others a "sense of entitlement" and to you a "virtue of good fortune"
for participating in comparable behavior?

Not in the slightest, since as I said above I don't feel entitled to payment for it. But I'm certainly happy that I can support myself via the creation of non-physical works.

I recommend you stop using the phrase "sense of entitlement"

What would you prefer that I use? I'm not going to call it the "right" to the free, unfettered access to the non-physical creations of others, because I don't believe it is a right.

You are entitled to payment for your work. Others are entitled to
culture and attention management. You give some of yours, others give
some of theirs. And everybody argues that they are giving more than the
other, so as to get the best deal they can get for what they offer.

That seems like a good summary of the perspective. Thanks.
I don't think is fair to compare the working hours of the guy that goes to work in his BMW, sit in his office thinking strategy while his secretary serve him coffee and filter any interruption, with the guy that catch the bus to work 10 minimum wage hours.

With enough experts you can prove anything:

http://www.poverty.ac.uk/report-parenting-families-low-incom...

http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/stress-in-low-income-fam...
Code Guide by Mark Otto (mdo)
It actually turns out that Matt Might got tenure through the research lab model: he's got a group of post-docs that manage a group of graduate students that sometimes oversee undergraduates. When you have a team of 15 people publishing papers with your name on them, only managing the top 3-4, then you'll have the publication record and time to write grants to bring in money and thus make tenure.

This isn't even uncommon in today's academic environment: many of the most successful professors run these business-structured research labs, producing amazing results they oversaw the people overseeing. I think it's a lousy way to treat academia, but hey, it gets you tenure.
Google's Toughest Search Is for a Business Model (2002)
I created Cluckles. Should I move it to a Node-WebKit app?
Hey Reddit,

So I created [Cluckles](http://cluckles.com) a while back and am quite happy with it. I have a few improvements pending, but with personal life/work etc I have not finished for months.

Now with V4 of Bootstrap coming soon, I have been thinking, would people like to see Cluckles move to Node-WebKit as a desktop app instead?

At the moment Cluckles relies on using Less browser component, but bootstrap is moving to Sass.

So I'm thinking maybe I should re implement Cluckles to be a desktop app using Node-WebKit and ES6.

So far Cluckles has been a fun project for me, but redoing it all would require a lot of work, but could be even better than it is now. Would asking for a suggested donation of say £1 be unreasonable if someone would download the app?

Thought?
We've got them! See http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/components/forms/#custom-fo... :).
I was making a different point: that measures of equality are not equivalent to measures of 'goodness' or proportionality. The statistics you are using are biased against the USA because of the high rate of immigration to the USA; if you control for this, the non-immigrant US citizen PPP and per capita GDP are much closer to Norway's (though I'm not sure whether the US is higher or lower than Norway). I have lost the source for this, but can provide you with this citation that shows what a difference there is between the largely unskilled first generation immigrants (that make up a large portion of the US population), and later generations.[1]

disclosure: I am neither American or Norwegian by country of birth or residence

[1] http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/foreignborn...
Our docs are built on Jekyll, which takes either HTML or Markdown for page content. Markdown is so much faster to write in for docs, especially since we no longer have to escape inline HTML by hand haha.
We've been considering doing the whole AirBnB thing (also in Thailand), but the problem with all of these online services is that you just aren't in any control of your income.

I've kept only to business models where I bill directly. This rules out google adsense, Apple and Android paid apps, AirBnB etc. I won't even use anything like PayPal to collect money for me -- there's just far too much risk for capricious loss of the business through factors that you have absolutely no control over.

Building a business is hard, it seems utter folly to give another entity this sort of control over what you're doing.
Is this just the top law schools?
That doesn't look so bad? From what I can see, it's probably just feature branches all coming from a single point (e.g. previous release) being merged one after the other. Any active project with a team upwards of a dozen people will look the same and possibly way worse.
My favorite variation:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use multithreading". Nothhw tpe yawrve o oblems.
I understand why so many people hate the animations and general visual presentation.

But I kinda like them. They're so over-the-top goofy that I thought they were funny, in a "Reefer Madness" kind of way.

I'll send the article to my psychiatrist mom, anesthesiologist brother, and veterinarian sister, and I expect they'll get a good laugh out of it.
Perhaps they fuss because it's idiotic to tie it to race when it doesn't need to be. Just call it 'socioeconomic privilege'. It's completely unacceptable to call someone who is poor/uneducated "black disadvantaged", why would you think the inverse is okay? Stanford is rife with asian students from well-off families, illustrating that it has very little to do with race.
I recommend taking a look at CodePicnic, which gives him a fully-functional Linux image front-ended by a JavaScript UI which you can embed anywhere. I have successfully used it from e.g. iPhone Safari.
I have looked at npyscreen too. Both are lower level to my knowledge.
In extremis that's where you're either in the elite, or barely subsisting.

You are conflating inequality with poverty. To recognize that they aren't the same thing, come visit the highly equal society of India or Bangladesh.

Also, the more you make a curve convex (and increasing), the more incentives it creates for everyone. Proof: convexity = u''(x). Increasing u''(x) increases u'(x)=int u''(x) dx. Since u'(x) is incentive, the proof is complete.
This is narrowly true, but broadly false. The concept of 'white privledge' relates to the concept of 'white man's burden', which is european in origin. Nobody debates that indians, japanese, and other asian societies aren't highly adept at elitism.
There's a beautiful exhibit of one of these in the Computer History Museum. Just saw it last weekend.

http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/punched-cards/2/2
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> We just might have seen the first public hack that will cause people to die or be physically hurt.

When Wikileaks put out the US state dept cables, there were plenty of names of intelligence sources within Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc that weren't redacted. Many of these people were discovered and killed immediately.

Alluded to here: http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/07/28/murphy-rides-...

... and here: http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/08/03/just-us/
The warrior caste probably were better warriors. The only question remaining is "is it just to reward people proportionally to warrior skills?"

Similarly, for the modern day US, "is it just to reward people proportionally to hard work, intelligence and the ability to produce things that people want?"
Airbnb is a short-term rental company, not a f*ing nation state.

It amuses/disgusts me when the default position of companies like this is to treat their security policies as some sort of state secret, leading to these Kafka-esque scenarios.

Sadly, I don't really know what the person here can do except write articles like these. Probably doesn't have much of a legal leg to stand on.
Every god is a true god.

Every ideology is not an ideology.

Every elite is a God-blessed meritocracy.
Wow, this is an amazing intro to neural networks, thanks!
That's from the git repo https://github.com/git/git
Hard working = spends many hours engaged in work for pay.

By "life of leisure", I mean a life in which one does not need to work at all in order to have the necessities of life provided. This is the traditional definition of the phrase, no?
While I agree, but Ycombinator among others says they are looking for disruptive (one way or another) startups.
Programming in D
Thanks, you are right. I thought I understood confidence intervals, but apparently I did not.
This was mostly about weakly hashed, or not hashed passwords. I realize that it may not apply to this particular dataset.
Often in these articles, you read through to some sort of detail hidden at the end which reveals why the company actually did cut ties, and the aggrieved party is blind to it or trying to talk around it. In this case, there's nothing.

My guesses were assault, theft or maybe some effort to actively sabotage Airbnb by promoting a competitor. But if any of those things happened, they're not detailed or hinted at all.

I imagine Airbnb are vague for legal reasons. But it must feel hugely unfair to be in the position of the author and lose a significant portion of your life and livelihood.
Copyright infringement is copyright infringement not theft. Two different crimes. Copyright infringement is already a crime. Ordinary people already laugh at the attempts to redefine it as theft -- if you want people to respect intellectual property rights you need to be accurate.

You are the one that has repeatedly sworn at me on this page by the way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic_imprinting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_methylation

That's about as much as I know. Genomic imprinting is specifically to do with DNA that behaves differently depending on whether it's paternal or maternal. The most famous example of this "in real life" is Prader-Willi syndrome (mentioned in the imprinting article), in which the same genetic defect causes one of two radically different pathologies, depending on whether it came from the mother or father.

I think it's worth noting here that plant genetics is vastly more complex in basically every way than animal genetics.
As anishathalye said you probably don't want to keep your git working directory on Dropbox. If you want to share a git working directory between machines, you can use a shared filesystem such as our ObjectiveFS (https://objectivefs.com). Note that if you use git with an OSXFUSE filesystem you currently need to add the "--quiet" option to work around an issue with signals (https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/213).
Google "amazon seller account suspension" or "amazon shut down my seller account" if you want to read some horror stories.

This type of behavior on the part of internet giants is absolutely wrong.
As has already been established repeatedly on this thread quite possibly no one should pay. If I send you an invoice for $30000 it does not mean that you owe it to me merely that I am demanding it.
Reading that article makes me furious -- of course, there are many things we don't know, and this person may be full of it, and she may have crossed a line (knowingly... or unknowingly), etc.

But, even if that's true, not giving reasons why you're kicking users out is infuriating.

No due process, no appeal, just a big "fuck you" with no explanation whatsoever. These companies apparently think it's a normal way of dealing with users -- and something they can do with total impunity once they have acquired near-monopoly status.

Let's hope for a big backlash some day soon.
Apple Music Festival Brings Live Performances to Fans Worldwide
When you need someone from Canada to calibrate your robot in New Zealand
Thanks for the book rec.
"I really cannot understand why I am being kicked out of a community I loved, promoted and cared for so passionately."

It's not a community - it's people meeting on a commercial platform who's in for the big money.

Still, as a previous host and renter, I am disgusted.
Further to this. Theft has a clear legal meaning. For example in the UK stealing a car is technically difficult to prove since proving intent to permanently deprive is not very easy. This does not stop a law against taking a car without the owners consent which is then punished appropriately.
Maybe (s)he is trying to get kicked out of HN too?
Mania is not something you want to experience daily, or on a routine basis. It is not fun. It is _powerful_. It is being absolutely certain of everything you are, everything you think, everything you know. It is knowing that everything you do is right, and everyone else is wrong. It's having a sex drive turned to a thousand. It's feeling paranoid eventually.

Yes, there is increased productivity, but the cost is a lot higher than you expect. The messed up thing is you crave it when you lose it - because the certainty is really super addictive.

What I think you're actually referring to is not mania or hypomania - it's called hyperthymia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymic_temperament

It's similar in some ways to hypomania, but different in others.

For one last point of reference, here's a hypomanic episode for me:

Everything in the world is great.
Everything in the world is really great.
Productivity for a day or two
Holy shit, I'm so smart, everyone else is less smart than me!
Productivity that is more random
Oh my god, I can't believe how smart I am and how pathetic the rest of these people are.
Productivity is super random, starting to be unproductive
The most logical conclusion is that I'm probably god, like, I really do believe that, that seems very logical right now.
Productivity goes away.
Indeed, Stripe for example built its entire business on people's frustration with similar behavior by Paypal.
There is this cool related work [0] that I wanted to talk about, but couldn't get to show an improvement on my laptop, which uses software write combining to mitigate cache limitations. In particular, they are worried about the fact that 8-way associative L1 doesn't like to hold 256 specific cache lines, so they manually buffer writes into 16k (= 256 cache lines) contiguous bytes, using a non-temporal write when a cache line is full. They report hitting 88% of their system's peak memory bandwidth.

You could do the same thing (I think) to avoid TLB limitations, manually staging everything in a contiguous 2MB of memory (backed by one large page, say), in order to keep the radix high and do fewer full scans. If you are hitting memory bandwidth, your performance should be determined by the number of scans you end up doing.

All of this is "caveat: I just read other people's work and haven't done this myself, because I haven't figured out inline asm in Rust yet". If you have more details on engineering radix sort, I'd love to read up! :D

[0]: http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.2849
I rent a room for 620 CHF, I pay 220 CHF for the obligatory insurance, 200 CHF for food (if I am socially forced to eat out I tell that I had food before and get a beer) and around 90 CHF for transportation. That amounts to more or less 1100 CHF.

200 CHF for food might sound little but I actually eat way healthier than most of my colleagues. (The last thing you can afford in Switzerland is getting sick.)
I'm all for better education - but this compulsion for everyone to excel is a problem. Not everyone wants to excel academically - and they shouldn't need to. I think the problem is that we have set up an economic system with winners & losers - and where the cost of losing is high. In the USA the top 1% has about 90% of the wealth - and those who don't win can face real poverty and real hardship. Really, we live in an era when everyone can have a good life - if we can fix our economic system.
Hindsight – it's not just for past events
I am not sure what the course is like, so I am not sure if this would help, but Stephen Wolfram's book about automata is pretty good.
No mention of whether the Paris talk invitation by AirBNB was cancelled. That would be an entertaining forum to raise this topic in.
Personal experience. In the physical sciences this really doesn't need a citation.
Perhaps you should write a textbook like the author has. http://www.amazon.com/Astrophysics-Through-Computation-Mathe...

I didn't find the writing misleading at all. It didn't overstate the likelihood that there is actually new physics to be found in these anomalies and gave a specific example where an anomaly was explained by known physics that was merely unaccounted for.
Here's the book, I think: https://archive.org/details/fourthdimensio00hint