skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're assuming that everything would continue to work as it does now. I'm proposing that if you can filter out the dickheads, you could end up with a site where it's no longer just men signing up. If you're the only site where women actually want to sign up, then you'll get all the men too, and you'll rake in the cash.

Also, you're assuming that the idiot men would even be able to tell. Women mostly ignore their nonsense now, right? So it wouldn't look much different.
You saw the end of the article, right?
We can subscribe to hashtags? I had no idea.
Why is this surprising? it was and for the most is the only Linux distro that provides actual LTS releases with 5 years support guaranteed for free.

Sure you can buy RHEL, SUSE and some other commercial releases but it costs money, other things like Debian Stable are very new initiatives and only provide support between stable releases 6-18 months.

Ubuntu guarantees security updates for the OS and common components like Apache other's don't.

If you are an organization that's very important especially if you need to comply with various regulations e.g. PCI-DSS.

Ubuntu is also one of only few distro's that is supported across all Cloud providers, it was the 1st distro to be supported on Azure and many of the smaller cloud providers start with Ubuntu or use Ubuntu as the core of their in-house linux guest.

Amazon's AMI might have been able to topple Ubuntu with their Amazon Linux but as it is not available for download and you cannot run it outside of AWS it will never reach any true leadership position, if you can't have it in house for development you will choose something else and the 1st rule of dev op's is deploy what you develop on....

In a few years CoreOS might get a big enough market share but currently CoreOS is too complicated and it locks you into using containers which is an overkill for most cloud deployments these days unless you are huge enterprise. If you are running a small web portal on a 1-5 servers Docker and other containers will just get in the way.
Run your stateful apps with Mesos and Docker
Some people want to be contacted. If I need something and you have it, I'd much rather you contacted me than I spend hours searching for it.

That's the point of targeted email/communications: don't waste time contacting people who don't want what you're selling.
But all three of those restaurants are chains all throughout Texas now. They all may have started there, but Austin is just flat out not weird anymore IMO.
Just be nice in general as a human.
Way to go to ignore most basic web standards, too (JS disabled): http://i.imgur.com/HE3uH4Y.png

Please don't participate in the "modern web", thanks.
This could be a good time to upgrade that responsive design http://i.imgur.com/2SHWxc9.png
It's not true. ImmutableJS is becoming very common, especially for React users: https://github.com/facebook/immutable-js/
Awesome. None have been publicly announced yet, but stayed tuned now that 1.0 is out
That is what I would expect to hear. I would be surprised to hear that the drivers were unhappy in the interim to have a job. Keep in mind this is a job with significant autonomy, i.e. variable/flexible schedule and little to no managerial supervision, and yet it does not require any rigorous training, previous work experience or advanced certification.

What percentage of current uber drivers do you think will stop being uber drivers because cars will drive themselves? How far out in the future do you think that is?
Read the article.
Has anyone used this extensively and could share some experiences building with it?
You know the whole 10,000 hours thing is made up bullshit right?
The job postings they have in Pittsburgh are particularly illuminating: https://www.uber.com/jobs/list?keywords=&location=Pittsburgh...
Lessig's proposal, per https://lessigforpresident.com/the-act/:

1. Make election day a national holiday

2. Implement ranked-choice voting[1], and draw districts for equal
representation[2]

3. Give voters campaign donation vouchers and limit lobbying, described as a
hybrid between the Government By the People Act[3] and the American
Anti-Corruption Act[4]

[1] http://www.fairvote.org/reforms/instant-runoff-voting/

[2] http://www.fairvote.org/reforms/fair-representation-voting/

[3] https://sarbanes.house.gov/bythepeople

[4] http://anticorruptionact.org
We deploy using Erlang "releases", which bundle the Erlang vm along with your application and it's dependencies into a tarball with a script to run the application. You don't need to install Erlang on the target system, just unpack and run.

We use "mix release" to build the tarball, scp to the server and unpack, then run using an upstart unit which runs
"exec su -s /bin/sh -c 'exec "$0" "$@"' myuser -- /path/to/deploy/directory/bin/myapp foreground"

It's pretty painless. We are automating with Fabric now, but will likely be switching to Ansible soon.
I hadn't actually put those thoughts together - which is funny considering I've been working a lot with embedded boards lately.

So.... how could you custom-build something akin to say, the Netgear Nighthawk (Netgear R8000)? I'm thinking multiple 802.11ac antennae with all that new multi-user beamforming stuff that's been released lately. Is there open firmware that supports that / do the commodity Linux drivers support controlling and fine-tuning that kind of function?

Added: Interesting.... There's an x86 port of DD-WRT:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/X86
Concepts lite has already passed the vote for for C++17.
That's as much because of the young age as anything else. When I was in my early 20's I still wanted an edge at literally everything. Conforming to that, of course you'll be championing your "career hacks" as hard as you can, because it's such a large element of pre-adult success culture. It just took another 5-10 years of living(I'm 30 now) to settle down and find an approach and goals that actually fit me.
Without javascript enabled this site is totally garbled. Since rendering is so dependent on javascript maybe a noscript will help
I really don't think so.

I will grant you that it looks like blah blah capitalist ideology versus blah blah socialist ideology with your usual helping of US backyard imperialism and Latin American defiance thrown into the mix.

I support wealth distribution in Venezuela. I feel for the people of Venezuela. At the same time I am forced to recognise that the ideals of the regime in Caracas are not translating into a robust economy even though I wish they were.

If the level and rate of increase of inflation is as bad as it is being claimed then I really feel for the average person in Venezuela. I have never lived through times of rampant inflation and I hope I never will.

I am not an economist but as far as I can tell the only way to generate inflation is buy cranking the printing presses. And I guess that is what is happening in Venezuela. Unless there is some kind of hidden outside pressure that would force the Central Bank to do this? Is that even possible? I thought it might be the case with Zimbabwe, an act of covert economic warfare by the West, but I know of no mechanism.
I actually find Unix and Windows to be very fundamentally different. Particularly where he talks about security. Unix security concepts are built into the system architecture whereas in Windows they are implemented as features on top of the OS. A perfect example that he calls out, ACL. Some does exist in the architecture of Windows, but it is only a half hearted implementation.

Modularity is another example of something that is fundamental both in the architecture AND the philosophy of Unix, but very far behind in Windows where many applications such as a browser exploit can tie into the kernel space.

The communities and philosophies are also something I breezed over, but I think they are a non-trivial part of an operating system.
"Every time I wrote that Chavez was in fact direly mismanaging the economy, diverting investment funds that were needed to maintain oil output into social spending, I knew that I could look forward to receiving angry e-mails and comments accusing me of trying to sabotage his achievements for the benefit of my corporatist paymaster. "

This says it all. I am from India and I believe its the governments job to help social security measures rather than helping corporate.
The 99% invisible podcast[1] actually went pretty deep into this topic in episodes 170 and 171, and they were excellent shows. I actually learned about the elevator showing off the safety of his elevators from another amazing podcast, Memory Palace.

1: http://99percentinvisible.org/
The word 'meme' was coined in "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins as an analog to the gene. A meme is an arbitrary unit of culture in the same way a gene is an arbitrary unit of genetic material. Both, the theory goes, are equal parts of the process of evolution. Memes are inherited and go through the same processes of evolution.

You're right, they aren't arbitrary or random, they're evolved. Much like many of our genetic features, the advent of modern society and technology has made much of our cultural inheritance obsolete, vestigial, no longer fit.
Because it was not network connected.
Compare to population density: https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=80f9b9...
Another way to generate inflation is by increasing the velocity of money in an economy-- i.e. people spending money faster by borrowing more and saving less. Doing so increases the amount of money in the economy, but instead of the source being a printing press it is a bank balance sheet.
Instincts are strange. I have been (happily) surprised by myself on multiple occasions by how I've reacted to near-impact situations. Do I think that means cars can't do it? Absolutely not. I do think that it will take a lot of learning to get the same out of them. On the other hand, do I also think that replacing every car on the road with a self-driving one right now would result in fewer accidents and fatalities? Yes. If it were illegal to drive and all vehicles were required to be autonomous, I 100% believe that would drop the danger of motor vehicles significantly. Where it gets weird is the concept of fault. Right now, because most motor vehicle accidents are driver error, humans screwing up almost serves as an insurance policy for manufacturers. If fewer people die, but more of them die as a result of manufacturers' software... Yeah I don't know. The future is going to be weird.
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How much driver runway does Uber have left at that churn rate?
Jimmy Carter trained on nuclear reactors in the Navy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_carter#Naval_career
Nice to see someone thinking for himself. These might still make things clearer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpsJKQR_ZE
http://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/Contents.pdf
I think it's great that Lessig is interested in running, but I think the intent of being a single-issue "referendum president" is, to be polite, misguided.

It's not actually the choice of the president whether a single issue is the only issue, regardless of how much he might want that to be the case. If elected, he would have to run the executive branch, which means he would need to select a cabinet, unless he is planning on just hanging on to the previous guy's choices until he has finished his quest. We're going to judge him on his perceived ability to do that, as well as everything else a president has to do.

Further, if he is perceived as competent enough to do all that, why would I vote to hire him as chief executive of the nation when he has stated he is going to quit soon after he is elected? His running mate will have be chosen far more carefully than normal. Also, why would I be willing to leave the decision about the replacement vice president to a bunch of people in Washington? By pledging to quit, he is effectively eliminating our direct voice on half of the ticket.

Mr. Lessig, if you want a chance at my vote you have to run for real and commit to serving your full term to the best of your abilities. I hope you do—I think you are up to the task.
Very interesting background - thank you.

Are there any recorded deaths from self-driving cars at this time, I wonder?

Pre-empting other people's responses of 'not enough data yet', or similar - at the time Otis felt it was necessary to demonstrate in this way, there was a perception of insufficient data also - lack of data is a truism for all new technologies.
Investors and day traders are also huge on twitter - not sure how valuable it is to follow them though. :)
> Impulse you rather

Not sure I understand.

Anyways, I've been around engineering teams for a while now and here's what I mean: there's always some principal engineer or fellow (in the terms of a title) that is greatly esteemed and admired because of decades of progressively larger and larger feature creation and system architecture/leadership.

If all I ever do is fix bugs -- forever in my career -- it means I'm not going to build anything and I don't get to be on the team that gets the people to the stars because that team is reserved for aforementioned team of people who have built a lot.

I probably shouldn't be a programmer anymore since all I'm good for is fixing bugs.
> (It's sad that the Greek and Roman religions are extinct. There should be some group trying to get the Pantheon in Rome back from the clutches of the Catholic Church.)

This popular trend of bashing Catholics and their faith is really starting to grow tiresome. The "current" Pantheon was a Pagan Temple for ~483 years well over 1000 years ago. It has been a Catholic church for ~1406 years up until the present time. It's conversion to a church when Italy was converting from various forms of paganism is the only thing that saved it during the middle ages. It is located in a country where > %80 percent of the population describes themselves as Catholic(although far few say they are observant). I think you would have to have a very perverted sense of justice to think that it would be just to take ownership of the Pantheon away from that catholic church. Besides who would take control of it? The Italian government? If so, why make tax payers foot the bill for its preservation when the Catholic Church has been happy to do so for 1400 years and allows the public free access.
I've been around engineering teams for a while now and here's what I mean: there's always some principal engineer or fellow (in the terms of a title) that is greatly esteemed and admired because of decades of progressively larger and larger feature creation and system architecture/leadership.

If all I ever do is fix bugs -- forever in my career -- it means I'm not going to build anything and I don't get to be on the team that gets the people to the stars because that team is reserved for aforementioned team of people who have built a lot.

I probably shouldn't be a programmer any more since all I'm good for is fixing bugs.

In the end you're probably right: I'm too dumb to get any better and maybe I should have just joined the Navy.
What would the dump provide that is not already found in the dataset from NYC?
"The story a few days ago about a bicyclist doing a track stand confusing a google car, which in turn reverted to performing a sequence of seemingly excessively safe manoeuvres, generated some fascinating responses."

Yes, I saw that. I'd like to see a technical response from someone at Google. Their system recognizes bicycles, and treats them as vehicles likely to make unusual maneuvers. So a bicycle starting to move into an intersection, however slowly, is treated as a fence against movement by the car, and the fence length is quite long and angled to allow for sharp turns by the bicycle. You can see this in some of their videos. Someone balancing on a bicycle, with small back and forth movements, will trigger that fence response.

Google is being careful in their development, and conservative in their assumptions about other vehicle behavior. That's good at this stage. Their system would probably classify a child on a bike with training wheels or an old person on a big tricycle the same way as a standing balanced bicycle.

They could certainly program the system to resolve such deadlocks by inching forward and honking, and eventually they probably will. Just as elevators deal with people blocking the door by buzzing and slowly closing the doors at low power.

There's a paper on this: "Go Ahead, Make My Day: Robot conflict resolution by aggressive competition".[1] This has been a practical problem with robot carts which drive around hospital corridors carrying laundry and such. They need to be slightly pushy, or they get stalled trying to get through a busy corridor.

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.11.6...
I would have thought (correct me if I'm wrong) that it would be pretty straightforward to give the radio unit its own memory, and not give it access to the system memory bus at all. However I don't know if manufacturers will want to go to the trouble of segregating the radio.
it's ironic that both NT and UNIX have roots in the mid-1970s and that both were influenced by many identical theoretical OS concepts and principles

Although most UNIX variants today support either the POSIX or X/OPEN standard, every UNIX vendor has tried to differentiate its offering with a proprietary interface, applications, and architecture.

http://windowsitpro.com/systems-management/nt-vsunix-one-sub... [1998]

AmigaOs is underused solely because it's superior.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WimpIsBroken

My concrete proposal is to avoid using concrete.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10135626
Laying someone off is not throwing them in the garbage. It's saying, "We don't have work for you here now." It's painful, and it can be damaging to self-esteem, but at worst, it's throwing them in the recycling...
What? The "Guaranteed" ad was purchased by someone else?

Marketing says guaranteed. Tiny print says "oh, heh, no guarantees". It has all of the elements of fraud.

Additionally, no where in what you posted does it say that their employees or bots will be interacting with you as if they were a user, member, or subscriber.
You would be surprised how much you can fit in when you want to, but most of the time you would use it to advertise a post on SO, your blog, or whatever if you couldnt fit the needed information.

Screenshots help a lot in this scenario, and the reality is that you are not asking super in-depth questions like "How do I take this proprietary database design and refactor it to do such and such" (generally, due to the volume issues with twitter) but more related to ops issues, performance, or other weirdness.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10103815
Simple Python File Server with Browse, Upload, and Authentication
They created a ton. Transistors, solar cells, lasers, satellites, cell phones, LEDs, UNIX and C all came out of that monopoly. That's an unparalleled track record of technical innovation.
There was a good article recently about Uber commandeering pretty much the entire robotics department at CMU;

http://www.theverge.com/transportation/2015/5/19/8622831/ube...
It really isn't. I've wandered onto random IRC channels and found myself bathed in realms of technical knowledge that simply don't come up here, and made more genuine connections.

No one community is at the center of things. Ever. It's not how the world works. The best you can get, as leading edges go, is little glimpses of a new idea in a limited space, before it's had any chance to diffuse. Media aggregators come much, much later in the lifecycle. For a certain slice of tech, HN may be professionally necessary - but otherwise it's not that advantageous.
"There are three types of symbolic links .. Object Manager Symbolic Links, Registry Key Symbolic Links and NTFS Mount Points .. a fourth type, NTFS Symbolic Links"

How did Unix ever manage with only the one type of symbolic link
>TempleOS?

I dunno, meddling in the affairs of the One True God seems like the sin of pride to me. I shudder to think of the implications of serving porn on a TempleOS server; that's asking for an IRL segmentation fault.
False dichotomy. The pilots like yourself are more of a risk to everyone on the plane than the probability of one of these causing a crash. Was it a WiFi router than made a Malaysian airline fly over an active war zone? Was it a WiFi router that causes the air France pilots to forget how to fly and stall the Airbus into the ocean?
In the UK the pecking order is:

PhD Student

Postdoc

Lecturer

Reader

Professor

There are various higher positions like head of department/faculty and prestigious professorships, e.g. the Lucasian Chair in Cambridge.

Lecturer is normally the first 'tenure track' job people get after being a postdoc for a few years. It's the first of the permanent placements you can get. That said, postdoc is a catch-all and doesn't necessarily mean fresh grad. There are postdocs in my group who are nearing retirement and have stable jobs.
Curious why we have home devices run on the same band as airport radar systems and what-not.

Seems here the original regulation was the problem, not people modding their home routers.
That's right. Because Elixir is 10x faster than Rails, we don't need to worry about caching so much. And because it supports cheap concurrency, we don't need to offload long running tasks to a background task. So the overall structure is simpler.

And this works across the whole architecture. One of our projects right now is a mobile medical application for medical where caregivers communicate in real time with a number of patients. We have the mobile app talking to the server using a REST API and real time messaging for chat. The caregivers can communicate with the server using a web application with integrated web chat or via an XMPP client. And we have the normal public web and admin CRUD. All via a single server process in a single language. This is what Elixir/Phoenix was made for, it enables a new generation of modern apps.
> ... start something yourself. Or contribute to an open source project. Or write a book. Do something that will have your name put on it.

You say this like I've not thought about it or tried it myself. :)

It's difficult since I don't know what I don't know. I stumble around trying to figure out what I need to figure out and come to realize that I don't know what goes where.

It's also difficult because of sheer time. I spend 13-14 hours going to work, being at work, or coming home from work. Whatever suggestion you have I've probably thought about or tried, so do be considerate if you decide to reply. ;)
Yes, it's almost definitely not showing off - though it may appear that way to outsiders.

My understanding is that, as you observe, with labour being so cheap and a culture that values inclusiveness, this is the obvious course of action. In lots of non-western societies westerners will see inefficiencies and opportunities to replace human labour with fewer and better trained staff, or automated / mechanised systems. But this is to miss the point.

The way I interpret it is a form of UBI - everyone(ish) has an opportunity for a modicum of income, with an underlying tacit agreement.
After double checking, this is not a native twitter feature (why not?) but something tweetdeck (the desktop client I use for twitter) offers.

I honestly dont even have twitter on my phone or home computer, though I have signed into their web interface occasionally, I almost exclusively use it at work.