skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you have picked a worse more disgusting name?

You want people to feel good when they think of your product, not repulsed.
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Hundredth monkey effect
Groupon bad. Airbnb good.
The Independent's petition to welcome refugees
Behavior is affected by advertising; otherwise, advertising wouldn't exist. The personal accountability argument rings hollow compared to the examples in the article of marketing directly towards people that can't afford lottery purchases as a simple "entertainment" choice.
Ah, I mistook your first post as saying you could jump to the front in a previous offering. It seems you were only saying that you might be able to purchase from the more expensive pool.

Please accept my apologies.
You're, of course, free to you're opinion.

I'm fixated on reducing traffic deaths to zero and eliminating fossil fuel use by any means necessary. If that means I'm obsessed, so be it.

Google, Tesla, whomever doesn't need to sell the cars. They just need to provide you the option of transportation through your smartphone. You don't own a 777, and yet, you can travel across the country for a few hundred dollars with a purchase on your smartphone.
I look forward to a Kyle Kingsbury (Aphyr) "Call me maybe" post. eg. https://aphyr.com/posts/324-call-me-maybe-aerospike
Why, because he's still alive? :)
Hi there - I'm a co-author of the post and put the site together. I'm sorry to hear that the scroll is acting up. I'd like to fix that. Can you (or anyone else seeing this issue) tell me if you see the same behavior on the other posts on the blog or just this one? Thanks.

EDIT: I disabled the 'smooth scrolling' option in my wordpress theme settings to try to fix this. Please let me know if that worked or if you're still seeing the issue. Thanks.
No need to apologize whatsoever! I apologize if my tone came off as abrasive or combative.
Thoughtbot offer a tool called HoundCI that does this for JS, ruby, coffeescript and SASS (SCSS). They charge $12/month for private repos and it's free for open source.

It's designed to check your github pull requests.
Haven't used it but looks pretty nice.
They provide style guides for each language that your free to customize.

https://houndci.com
John Markoff's book, *Machines of Loving Grace", is a must read for anyone interested in the future (and who isn't).
That's the purpose of this script (as I see it): Detect if an ad blocker is being used, and if so, display some custom message.
> As I said, I wish there was something that was actually vaguely what I wanted (a desktop processor that's <=4 cores, and focused on single-core CPU performance). The Xeon isn't it.

What do you think about i3-4370 ? It seems this processor has very good single-thread performance and is quite affordable as well.
Right. Looked at a different way, self-driving cars increase the utility provided by cars, so -- since people will only buy self-driving cars if the price premium over non-self-driving cars is less than the added utility -- can be expected, all other things being equal, to increase the number of cars sold and in use.

OTOH, because self-driving cars decrease the number of cars needed in society to deliver a given degree of utility, they could facilitate a reduction in the number of cars, but some other changes would need to occur to realize that reduction. Tax, regulatory, and/or urban design policies which disfavor individual ownership of vehicles in favor of centralized on-call services would have to reduce the number of cars on the road.
Which magical part of Europe do you live in? Since most people outside few major subway equipped cities do own at least one family car to go around.
Would it be possible to run a "redistributive" lottery with positive expected value below a certain tax bracket but negative expected value above that bracket? The idea would be to redistribute wealth from rich players to poor players.
Some psychologists consider burnout to be depression, not just depression-like. In my own experience, I'd have to agree. Luckily it's generally brought on by stress and most people recover within weeks or months if they are able to rest or be removed from the cause.
It is true that we (French) say "le burnout" but it does not mean we are not affected too, contrary to popular belief ;-)
A few years ago, it seems that workers of ex-publicly held companies (France Telecom for instance) were the most affected with a few suicide cases that made the news. Recent studies said 2 workers out of 10 felt affected.
IMHO, the white collars of big companies feel affected because they have to do more than before to stay in the international race in less time since they usually have 6-10 weeks of holidays per/year (no sick days).
Having so many holidays is really challenging for an organization, especially in the summer, period of the year when people are off for 2-4 weeks. It means also long work days for workers.
Personally i'd prefer to have less holidays and come back home earlier.

Having said that, on a yearly basis, white collars work much less than their American counterparts on average.
Very cool, love the mix of graphical and lexical modes.
LOL as if Google would last if they lost all their ad revenue.
It's lots better than driving, but far, far, far worse than it could be.

I understand that designing and running a public transit system isn't easy. Having said that, I wish that public transit was universally recognized as a very important public service and an excellent stimulator for a region's economic growth. As it stands now, it seems that shortsightness and greed seriously impede the development of an effective system in the region.

In re: rent control: Remember that -in SF- rent control is actually rent stabilization. When a unit is vacated (or the last tenant on the original lease moves out), the landlord is free to set the price of that unit however he wishes.

Rent control was instituted in a time when rents were spiralling out of control. [0] AIUI, one of the reasons Prop 13 passed was that landlords made the claim that a dramatic cap in property tax increases would allow them to stop dramatically increasing rents; that the primary reason for the rent increases was property tax increases. Prop 13 passed, rents continued to spiral out of control, [1] and about a year later rent control was instituted. [2]

If it was the city's policy to construct enough new housing to meet demand, I would agree that rent control had no place in the market. However, in the past five years, for every five people added to the city's population, one new housing unit has been added. Even during the real estate boom from 2000 to 2008, the human population grew by ~2,700 units more than the housing population. [3][4]

[0] Much like now, heh.

[1] Surprise, surprise.

[2] For information on what cost increases landlords can recover from tenants in rent controlled units, see these comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10150827 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10153973 For a big apartment construction project that managed to create a bunch of "market rate" units without removing rent controlled units, see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10150724 (Frankly, the city should be trumpeting this deal every chance it gets. This sort of thing is what's going to solve the rent crisis.)

[3] This is a HORRIBLE way to phrase this, but I can't word right now. If it doesn't make sense, I'm happy to clarify.

[4] Citation for these numbers is the Paragon Real Estate graphs found in this article: http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2015/02/04/sfs_population_is_g...
Robert Krulwich has such an amazing way of explaining things. It takes almost no time to recognize his writing.
> I can't remember the last time I saw an ad for the lottery on TV, let alone something as ridiculous as the one from Illinois they show in the article. I wonder how much of the problem would be fixed by fixing this, rather than doing away with state lotteries altogether?

Here in Germany (and Europe I think) they have to be super honest about it. The ads actually do say the chances are something in the ballpark of 1 in 100 million. Smallprint of course.
I believe they still make lots of cash.

A few lines down OP says:

> For example, in Ohio’s marketing plans for its SuperLotto game, it stated that advertisements should coincide with the receipt of “Government benefits, payroll and Social Security payments.”

This is what freaks me out the most.
Actually if you read the comments from the developers in that thread they won't support it until there is documentation on the firmware "blobs" you need to have in order to even boot.

I agree it is a fuzzy line but one which I happen to agree with.

There is a probably a thesis to be had for the first person to build a provably trusted system using untrusted base hardware. I am not even sure how you would start such a project.
Bruce Eckel announces he's going to write Atomic Python
That is indeed the modern behaviour of chroot. It is not clear that the "original implementation" shown in the article shares that property, though.

EDIT: That's not to say it doesn't prevent that behaviour. If the usual code to prevent you ..ing above the root checks against u.u_rdir instead of /, it might well work as modern implementations do.
Wasn't there an issue with a couple of companies filing IPR's with royalties that cover parts of Opus?
Yes, it shows a "save to pocket" link, for instance.
Consider someone with passable internet skills searching for Winzip and ending up at:
http://download.cnet.com/WinZip/3000-2250_4-10003164.html

Which button are they are most likely to click and do you think that is what they are after?
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Ask HN: Do any HN readers know if the cyberghost vpn free service is online?
The cyberghost free servers all appear to be down and I can't find anything revealing why this might be the case? Is it an error? Are the company ending their free service?
Nuke works in scanlines like this, and can process a whole tree of operations only loading the input lines necessary for the current output row. The SDK docs explain the architecture somewhat: https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke/developers/90/ndk...
I second this, although I don't have the discipline to do it everyday. When I feel really crappy, I do it and always feel much better for a whole day afterwards. It's also an exercise that is stress-free, easy, and can be done everywhere. I'm not sure about the teacher part though -- I'm not into the mystical mumbo-jumbo (even though I'm Chinese). Something about the movements is just good for relieving stress and I'm not sure they need to be done in exactly the right way -- sort of like how sham acupuncture helps people.
The worst thing is IMHO (when what was stated is true) that the state uses lottery spending on education to withdraw tax money from education.

Education is (or should be) one of the major duties of the state. When this is more and more committed to charity, than we are about to loose one of the main pillars of modern society. Already, education of the masses is getting weaker and weaker in many countries, so that the better of people send their children to private schools ... and that is a growing trend.

But of course, when taxes have to go down and down (this is a political manifesto today in some countries), schools and people will loose.
I don't think either CockroachDB or Percolator is claiming any novelty for this basic approach. The Percolator article cites another paper from 1981 that discusses essentially the same idea. (I think it's the same, at least -- the writing is pretty terse, and I've only skimmed it so far.)

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/concurrency-distrib...

Many of the general principles for this kind of distributed database have been known for decades; the key to making it practical is in the details.
This is incorrect. When you buy a ticket, a portion of the price goes to the government. This portion is not optional. Therefore it is compulsory. Hence the author's argument.
>> Not being asked for bribe is not necessarily absence of corruption. For a crash course on How Real world corruption works. Great place to start is https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/c84bp/how_realwo....

Having in lived in India most of my life, I don't need to read an Economist article to find out what corruption is. Want to get a passport? Pay a bribe. Want to construct an addition to you house? Pay a bribe (or just do it illegally). The list goes on. In countries like US, Sweden, Canada, etc at least you're not hammered with corruption requests in your day-to-day existence.
You mean engraved stone.
Wouldn't they just get the same core software package the S and the X have?
Don't abuse su for dropping user privileges
The last audio cassette factory [video]
Name and intent aside, being able to detect when an ad-blocker is run and present alternate messages to the visitor can be helpful in many instances.

As a bit of an outlier example, PortableApps.com makes use of another detection technique to then show a simple message in place of the first ad on the page and hide any remnants of the other ads so that the page layout doesn't look sloppy for ad-block users. The message is shown on all internal pages (not the homepage) when ads are blocked and asks users to consider allowing ads for our site with a link to a page explaining how to ad an exception or making a donation to help keep us funded. The small message uses the same fonts and colors as the rest of the sidebar navigation so it's not distracting and has CSS that reserves space for it in the event of ads being blocked so the content doesn't jump at all and distract from reading a page. I realize it's a bit of an outlier case, of course, but many users do then allow ads or make a donation. Granted our ads are bit less intrusive than many sites with only a single sidebar ad above the fold, no banner ad, no popouts/flyovers, no download button ads, no ads that autoplay sound, etc and many of our visitors are open source/free software fans.

For the curious, here's a link to an internal page so you can see it in action with your ad-blocker active:
http://portableapps.com/support
> At this point in time there is no evidence Google has put in the necessary steps to be ready to sell a car in 4 years time.

Their Robo-taxi patent, their existing services (Street View, Express) that could use them, etc., suggest that when they ship self-driving cars, it may not be as a mass-market, sold-to-consumer product.
I have gone over a full year without thouching paper at work before so the 'paperless' office is real.
Wait.. This is a Smalltalk?!
"Nobody goes there, there's too much traffic."

"Nobody makes cars any more, we just take cabs."
In the ext2 days, an incident put a lot into lost+found. I had a Tripwire database with file checksums, and wrote a script to checksum the files and move them back into place. I think a handful of files were corrupted, but I got it booting again.
Fuzzy App Icons on Mac App Store?
Sure. But at that point, why not just python script vim?
And if you choose to gamble, playing the state run lottery (and not some other form of gambling) is mandatory.
This article - at least the last few paragraphs - understates what we're getting out of cows. Yes, the hides are important, but we also eat their flesh and use their bones for stuff. Cows are not typically skinned and then left in the field to be picked over. Also cow leather has a larger range of uses than I imagine seal skin/fur does: the latter is strictly a luxury item and I think that would be true even if there was unlimited sealing. In short, comparing seal hunting and cattle farming is maybe not as helpful as the article's author would like.

I do think the outcry over sealing is because they are cute. As the article points out, they are not endangered. This also affects the comparison with whaling. The whales everyone was most concerned about in the 80s definitely were (are?) endangered, and with whale birth rates being much lower than seals (and cattle, and poultry), killing an individual whale would have a larger overall impact on the species.
All taxes are optional. You don't want to pay income tax? Don't earn income. Actually come to think of it, that's the conservative argument against income tax, some people will supposedly earn less because they don't want to pay the tax.
So they do it without a lock by using a "switch" instead. What is the difference? Or is it the same concept as a "lock" but they've just created a whole new confusion around terms by trying to be different?

Edit - there's an answer on the blog's comments. Apparently it differs from a lock because " it won't prevent any operations from executing, it will just properly order them"
Russian Economic Crisis Creates New Opportunities for US Startups
Attacks accessing Mac keychain without permission date back to 2011
No, it's an artificial distinction (or perhaps better would be to say, there is an artificial distinction where you decided that physics is not a social science). In both cases, you can analyze two scenarios:

1. Car continues and hits the person / investor won't move money out before stock market crashes

2. Car is stopped / investor will move the money out

In both cases, the physics or economics is no less applicable whatever the circumstances of the actual decision. And just like physics cannot tell you whether the car stops, economics cannot tell you whether investors will actually move the money out. But what economics can tell you, under certain assumptions, say, investors want to make money with this and this horizon, whether or not are they likely to move out.

Let me give another example. Water flows downhill due to gravity. Yet, people can decide to build water pump and aqueduct to get water uphill. In doing so, they didn't break any physical laws. But if you ignore the pump, it may seem that the water flow downhill anymore and so the laws are incorrect. What happened is that now our model of the situation should include the pump, and within the expanded model, physical laws are again preserved.

Similarly for instance, if the society decides to regulate markets, the behaviour of the people can be changed, but they don't necessarily have to break some universal economic law. The new behaviour can have a perfect economic explanation, it's just that the frame of the model changed.

It seems that this "infinite regress" confusion (also called Lucas critique, if I am not mistaken) is caused by ignoring the fact that every model of reality only includes a portion of it and is never a perfect description (for example we ignore the physics of human brain when we model the car hitting the pedestrian).

Also, you should note there are situations where knowing more doesn't actually change the behaviour (under assumption of certain rationality) - for example, getting to know the exact odds of casino wins won't entice me to play.
How much of what you do is limited to being beer-centric? I run a small artisan cheese company, and having data like this would also be helpful at refining our make processes, as well as detecting seasonal preferences in both the milk we produce, and the cheeses that are derived from it.
A week of stress produced this doozy while attempting to upgrade from go 1.2 to go 1.3

[peter@bamboo-sb bin]$ sudo mv /bin/ /usr/local/bin/go1.3
[peter@bamboo-sb bin]$ sudo mv /tmp/go/bin/ /usr/local/bin/go1.3
sudo: mv: command not found
[peter@bamboo-sb bin]$ mv
-bash: mv: command not found
[peter@bamboo-sb bin]$ ls
-bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory
[peter@bamboo-sb bin]$ ls
-bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory
[peter@bamboo-sb bin]$ ls
-bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory

All during a skype call. It is very recoverable, but I felt quite foolish.
Building a Ruby on Rails App Part 1: The App
I don't see anything wrong with seeking a job with which I can identify.

The problem comes when I stick it out for too long at a place that does not share my core values. In my experience it is a losing battle. Trying to match what I believe in with a whole company is really tough. I feel burnout is to be expected at times during my career while I figure things out. A little break, some consideration, and new goals help me move forward and find work I can enjoy.
it looks cool! can you make it like an embeddable widget?
> Alternatively, we could get the boot tape out and rebuild the root filesystem, but neither James nor Neil had done that before, and we weren't sure that the first thing to happen would be that the whole disk would be re-formatted, losing all our user files. (We take dumps of the user files every Thursday; by Murphy's Law this had to happen on a Wednesday). Another solution might be to borrow a disk from another VAX, boot off that, and tidy up later, but that would have entailed calling the DEC engineer out, at the very least. We had a number of users in the final throes of writing up PhD theses and the loss of a maybe a weeks' work (not to mention the machine down time) was unthinkable.
Even if the underlying components changed, they could still keep angular backward compatible. They choose not to.

It's the same with many other frameworks and languages. Most of these drastic changes have to do with the politics of the community

I still disagree that it doesn't have anything to do with money. You can't deny the fact that the majority of these communities make money on books, speaking engagements, and consulting.
>There is clearly demand for this type of gambling, so the focus should be on providing it in a way that is not exploitative.

>The government should get out of the lottery-for-profit business

>Allow private businesses to offer lotteries and compete with each other

I'm sure banning government lotteries and replacing them with private ones would be great for society. I mean what could go wrong?
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Well, in the same way that all Android or Apple smartphones have the same core software package - doesn't stop individual variants having bugs.
I'm curious why you think her writing about his already public crimes is at all dependent on his consent.
How to Install NGINX and HHVM with PHP5-FPM Fallback on Ubuntu 14.04
I admittedly don't take Uber too often. I have taken it maybe 10 times in my life. After the first time the "employee -vs- contractor" controversy broke out, I made it a point to ask the drivers: do you like Uber? What do you like about it? And to a man (all were men) they said they loved the fact that they could set their own hours, take off for something else whenever they wanted, etc.

Also, given the presence of cab companies, Lyft, etc., why does everyone think that Uber is "exploiting" the drivers?
I had the terrible scroll when I first loaded the page 1-2 hours ago but can't reproduce it now on any of your posts including this one. Chrome 45.0.2454.85 64-bit linux.
Re the US, the statistics don't call out suburbs; per http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-suburban-are-big-ame...

"Nationally, 26 percent of Americans described where they live as urban, 53 percent said suburban and 21 percent said rural."
Even the startup scene in SV/SF is so huge, this is not a problem unless you do something notorious / egregious (like crash and burn your Ferrari into the CEO's office) and even then, people will forget in a few months. Totally agree that is such bullshit advice.
I was sort of hoping the brand would stay in the elite space and not make an everyman's car. A 35k electric car is cool, but I like the wow factor that Tesla currently has. Like saying "I bought a Porsche" and it turns out to be a Boxster, not a 911.

EDIT: I'm not saying this is a bad strategy for Tesla - it's great for them, I'm saying it makes it less valuable to me, one lone consumer since a Tesla will become less and less of a status symbol. That's it.