skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A social Experiment
My name is Hamza Rehman. I am a startup founder, and passionate about technology, innovation and product development. I believe in leaving a legacy and making a difference on a mass scale, and startups are where I get to explore that side of me.

I, along with my team, have been exploring the side of millennial population for the habits of donating to charities. We have developed a product where user can compete on their daily steps by pledging a dollar for the charity of their choice and invite their friends to the competition. We are calling it a social fundraising platform.

For more information;
www.Stepp.io

There is a huge mistrust among the millennial market (including us) due to the lack of transparency inside these big organizations. We are trying to learn what motivate people to donate to these charities.

Please, help us run a successful beta of our product and give us some feedback. App is available in the app store;

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stepp/id1014866950

We appreciate your time and support.

Regards,

Step'p Team
In Minneapolis, sometimes the bike paths are plowed before the roads are.
I'd like to see Bart or similar all the way down the el camino and encourage high density housing and offices. Create a nice long urban canyon with good transit. People could bike a few blocks off the stations.
EPUB is HTML, and that's not going anywhere, either.
And he was a kid.
Border Farce – When Your Passport Is Confiscated by Australia’s “Border Force”
If people have been making profits for the last 25 years and investing them, the amount of money in the markets will increase regardless of the instruments involved. Wealth is accumulating, but people don't really know what to do with it besides giving it to someone else to invest.
Some good points in the article, but I am not sure I agree with all of its conclusions.

CEO pay is going through the roof because of a ratcheting-up effect that has been going for years.

The board brings a consultant to evaluate the CEOs pay. Said consultant is in tight with board, and is looking for their next consulting gig. Not a chance they are going to recommend a significant cut, or a performance plan that is aligned with long term (5+ year) shareholder interests.

I'd like to see CEOs treated like true investors. Want to make 50 million if the company does well? Cool. Company loses money? You owe $60 million. The current status quo is all upside for CEOs - they have no skin in the game.
Sandstorm seems like another good possibility.
Right? They could have at least gone into detail about how businesses now follow the model of open-sourcing the software and then making revenue on the implementation fees.

Or they could have talked about how open sourcing is part of a race to the bottom. They mention some SQL-like databases, which is a tech that started out as proprietary. How much tech starts immediately as open source?
Have you used jQuery? The way that selectors and method chaining works has a monadic flavor which is very convenient. In the alternate reality where haskell is running in your browser, if you were creating jQuery from scratch you would recognize that the thing you were making was monadic, you would make use of the large number of useful functions that fall out from Monad here: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.8.1.0/docs/Control..., and you would also recognize that much of what you needed in your jQuery API is already provided by those functions, so no need to re-implement things in an ad hoc way and force your users to learn new useless things. You might even find that what you're trying to create is a mashup, or "stack", of two or three different monadic things that have already been defined. You'd know that because your new jQuery structure obeys a couple simple rules that it is well-behaved and reasonable in the presence of those functions (and others that don't exist yet), and you may even notice some optimizations you can confidently make.
I don't see where the article stated that this is the explanation for current valuations. Just that it "very likely pushes valuations even higher", which is an understatement if anything.
Announcing s6-rc: an s6-based service manager for Unix systems
Maybe for you, but I have been run over and otherwise injured while biking. The accident wasn't my fault, but I really don't like anything where my legs (and clothing) will suffer if I miss a single pothole. I do not enjoy it, either, not one iota. It was the only realistic option when I was a kid and even into college so I've done quite a lot of biking, but I got rid of the damn thing as soon as I could.

I'd much rather take public transport.
Where I worked, official hours are 8.30 to 6. In Asia of course.
> They really couldn't have made any better decision at the time

Is there some confusion about what the phrase "in retrospect" means?

Time is linear and we gain perspective as we move forward in it. Often times good, smart seeming decisions, or even the only possible decision that was possible at a given point, become regrettable when we view them with the added perspective of seeing how things ultimately played out.

This isn't a condemnation of anyone; it's a simple, obvious observation: knowing what we know now, some of the decisions we made then have had unfortunate, regrettable consequences, however necessary they were are the time. C'est la vie.
Good clarification
And what values or inalienable rights does China stand for? Self determination? Environmental protection? Protection of minorities, children, women? Perhaps... Yet there is zero evidence the rise of any world power other than the US that has brought about as much good in the world? There is evidence geopolitcs is very much a zero sum game for many nations.
I'll take a shot at it.

Quoting tikhoni:

> For Maybe, being a monad gives us a standard way of working with values while automatically dealing with Nothing. It abstracts over repetitive null checking and lets us easily build up Maybe values based on other Maybe values.

To expand on that a bit, in a way that might work for you (or might not): I've got a function f a that exists. It works. It does exactly what I want. Unfortunately, the data I've got is a Maybe a, not just an a. So I can't use my nifty function f, because it takes an a. You can feel my annoyance/frustration - so near, and yet so far.

But, in fact, I can use my function f, because Maybe is a monad. That lets me apply f to my Maybe a, without having to change either f or a whatsoever. I don't even have to write the magic code to do this - Maybe already has it.
> Would it be considered malicious to do such a thing?

Maliciousness is usually described in the context of intent. So your first sentence should provide the answer to your own question. Is there a way to do what you describe such that the result is gratifying and yet doesn't cause significant duress on Google's servers and employees?
Asset prices have gone up 2 orders of magnitude; real inflation for "real" things (not financial instruments) hasn't gone up as much (80% or so).

In part this is because profits have been up, therefore equities are up. Profits are up because companies aren't investing in the real economy as much since the 2008 crash. As to whether this is sustainable... PE ratios are trending higher but no where near the dot-com era levels. So it's not like equities are completely out of whack with reality.
> I'd like to see Bart or similar all the way down the el camino

Isn't that about 1000 km long?
Op is talking about time-spans longer than we've had the internet. Don't flatter yourself by thinking you can predict the future.

( Ironically, neither Firefox nor Opera opened a .epub file out-of-the-box. So much for compatibility. )
I think Douglas had a point here.

“Douglas said…Books are sharks,” Gaiman told a packed audience at the Royal Geographical Society in London.

“I must have looked baffled because he he looked very pleased with himself. And he carried on with his metaphor. Books are sharks … because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.”

Adams told Gaiman: “‘Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books and no matter what happens books will survive.’ And he was right,” said Gaiman.

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/03/06/neil-gaiman-sa...

Though funnily enough, the one thing that has got me wanting to buy an e-ink display is for technical reference.
You'll have to settle for a measly trillion of them
Fun fact: the fill nozzle at the truck stop is also standardized by ISO, so that it will fit all ISO-compliant "commercial vehicles and buses... having a gross vehicle mass of more than 3,5 t". I wonder how how much lobbying it took to convince ISO not to specify anything for smaller vehicles?
That's true. During the winter, I ride my bike in the street. My route is 100% on "tame" neighborhood streets or dedicated bike paths. The city plows the bike paths with the same priority as main roads.
I know Google has cheaper bandwidth than most, but it's still amazing that they are willing to pull 250gb every hour of every day for a single, free spreadsheet.
Such plows are fairly common in larger Canadian cities with heavy snowfall as well (e.g. Toronto, Montreal).
Well that isn't a very useful title.
Don't expose the docker socket, even to a container
You can read more detail in the letter from the EPA to VW: http://www3.epa.gov/otaq/cert/documents/vw-nov-caa-09-18-15....

Here is the explanation for what VW is accused of doing.

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Specifically, VW manufactured and installed software in the electronic control module (ECM) of these vehicles that sensed when the vehicle was being tested for compliance with EPA emission standards. For ease of reference, the EPA is called this the "switch". The "switch" senses whether the vehicle is being tested or not based on various inputs including the position of the steering wheel, vehicle speed, the duration of the engine's operation, and barometric pressure. These inputs precisely track the parameters of the federal test procedure used for emission testing for EPA certification purposes. During EPA emission testing, the vehicles' ECM ran software which produced compliant emission results under an ECM calibration that VW referred to as the "dyno calibration" (referring to the equipment used in emissions tested, called a dynamometer). At all other times during normal vehicle operation, the "switch" was activated and the vehicle ECM software ran a separate "road calibration" which reduced the effectiveness of the emission control system (specifically the selective catalytic reduction or the lean NOx trap). As a result, emissions of NOx increased by a factor of 10 to 40 times above the EPA complian levels, depending on the type of drive cycles (e.g., city, highway).

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And here is what happened when this was found out and the EPA and CARB tried to find out what was happening:

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VW continued to assert to CARB and the EPA that the increased emissions from these vehicles could be attributed to various technical issues and unexpected in-use conditions. VW issued a voluntary recall in December 2014 to address the issue. CARB, in coordination with the EPA, conducted follow up testing of those vehicles both in the laboratory and during normal road operation to confirm the efficacy of the recall. When the teting showed only a limited benefit to the recall, CARB broadened the testing to pinpoint the exact technical nature of the vehicles' poor performance, and to investigate why the vehicles' onboard diagnostic system was not detecting the increase emissions. None of the potential technical issues suggested by VW explained the higher test results consistently confirmed during CARB's testing. It became clear that CARB and the EPA would not approve certificates of conformity for VW's 2016 model year diesel vehicles until VW could adequately explain the anomalous emissions and ensure the agencies that the 2016 model year vehicles would not have similar issues. Only then did VW admit it had designed and installed a defeat device in these vehicles in the form of a sophisticated software algorithm that detected when a vehicle was undergoing emissions testing.

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I know that this will annoy some people, and believe me, I mean this with a very small 'c', however I think that the open source movement is far and away the most successful communist experiment in history.
Looks cool. If I back the Kickstarter on the "both books" tier, when do I get the first book?
Yeah, the post comes across as a random rant about everything, and nothing in particular, just venting out. I guess the op was somewhat drunk or something... we all do that ;)
Here is some context for anyone else who is curious.

A 1990 dollar is worth 1.84 dollars today because of inflation.
There are about 3 times as many goods and services sold since 1990.(adjusted for inflation) [0]
But real wealth has increased by 4.25x not adjusted for inflation[1]($20 trillion in 1990 to $85 trillion today)

So it looks like there is 2.3x as much wealth, its valued 1.8x as highly, mutual funds manage a 2.7x larger share of net worth.(which is 18% of the household net-worth of $85 trillion) and hedge funds manage a 18x larger share of net worht.(which is 3.5% of house net-worth).

It would also be interesting to see how much of this shift is due to larger amounts of wealth inequality. Specifically the wealthy have less of their net-worth in real estate, a larger share in the mutual funds, and astronomically larger share in hedge funds compared to the poor.

[0] http://www.statista.com/statistics/188105/annual-gdp-of-the-...
[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Graphic.png
[2] http://time.com/money/3919690/americans-total-net-worth-reco...
I live in a neighborhood in Palo Alto that doesn't have sidewalks, and people here walk (and bike) all the time. The reason why it works is because many of the streets are extremely narrow, and we've worked fairly hard at making certain they aren't striped down the center. For whatever reason this seems to get motorists to drive more slowly and makes it safer for everyone.
The article omits some of the basic information needed for making sense of the data: What is the composition of the one-percent?

I doubt that corporate executives make up a significant percentage of the super-wealthy, despite the attention the media pays to them. If that's true, then ipso facto changes in CEO compensation cannot account for most of the structural increase in inequality over the last half century.

A more likely suspect is the influence of technology, which has interlinked global markets so that the dominant players are able to extract significantly more value than in the past. Outsourcing has suppressed wages while increasing profitability, which naturally contributes to inequality. And in an interconnected global trading system, economies of scale become more and more beneficial, which consolidates resources among the top competitors in a given field.

One interesting question is how the sharing economy will affect this phenomenon in the future. Will the creation of 'Ubers for everything' drive down wages even further by saturating labor markets with even more surplus human capital? Will it destabilize some of the entrenched social hierarchies in America by gutting the fortunes that legacy industries currently enjoy?

Another issue worth serious thought is which kinds of inequality are most harmful to society and why. Is stratification of the middle class and the hyper-rich the primary dilemma, simply because it accounts for the greatest resource disparity on paper? Or in practice is America's social cohesion damaged more by the smaller gaps between members of the other social classes?

Finally, how should concerns about inequality influence America's immigration policy? If we view the current situation as a problem, then importing more low-skilled laborers will exacerbate things. It's hardly a coincidence that the super-rich are some of the strongest advocates of comprehensive immigration reform. That may well be a desirable policy for humanitarian reasons, but we should remember the relevant externalities.
Because that is a few into what humanity is really made off. In that hellhole, you can not get high on any ideology.
You can not delude yourself.
Its the ugly mirror.
You look into it to understand, to cut yourself on the shards to find out what you are made from. Sure you can distance yourself from this.
But the human nature from whos understanding you distance yourself, is what makes up your team, its what might create your software. Not wanting to know, because its ugly, can get ugly in itself.
maybe an episode of The Twilight Zone? "Submitted for your approval, a world where pseudoscience has taken over..."
Ace public transport safety with right transmission, storage and infrastructure
It's a bit hard to argue that infrastructure software is dominated by open source. The stack behind Amazon Web Services is almost 100% closed. It's not just closed source--Amazon rarely even comments about how services like S3, EBS, and Redshift work except when they fail. All of the DBMS they have developed are closed source as well. Closed source database innovation is alive and well.
And I'm not a fan of going back to AOL. But the ad tech industry and the "small publishing" industry is lazy and greedy. And I won't support them if they treat me like a product. If they don't I will support them.

I'd like to see Netflix for written content and I'd pay for it.
Man arrested for disparaging police on Facebook settles suit for $35,000
This new water wheel pump "was was first created back in 1746".

It's called the Archimedes Screw and is hundreds of years old. Is very common in third world countries even today.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=spiral+water+pump&tbm=isc...
I'd argue that Marxism is tangential to philosophy proper.

It has more to do with political economy than dialectical materialism. If you want that, you should read Hegel.
My desktop is Linux and I still use LibreOffice, VLC and Thunderbird. And I also used Google's Docs, Calendar, Gmail and Music, but I've cut off my Gmail / Calendar usage due to their poor implementation for standards, having migrated from Google Apps to FastMail. I'm also paying for a Dropbox subscription because they are the only major cloud storage provider with native support for Linux and even though some clients exist for Google Drive I can't use a solution that doesn't want me as a customer; but enough ranting.

I don't agree with you because the browser is ubiquitous and the web is open and based on standards. And you don't actually need a server to do interesting things in the browser. Quite the contrary, because of modern browsers, a majority of people with a PC have access to a potent development environment. And then the difference between the web and app stores is like night and day.
Actual tinnitus remedy (admittedly this is anecdata):

1) Get earplugs

2) Use them

3) Never skip using them

Cost of the earplugs can range from $0.50 to $160 depending on your needs, but I can say that this method changed my life.
looks really interesting. thanks for sharing
I'd be happy with just a minimum vesting term for options, like 5 or 10 years. That way they're in the same boat as the rest of us schmucks who can't go golden-parachute job-hopping every few quarters.

Something that would motivate them to make decisions in the interest of the company's overall future, not just the next earnings report.
Here is the moral ground that I stand on: I pay for the data coming down my link, you don't. Your ads and trackers cost me money, and there is every chance that your ads cost me more money than the site owner gets from that "ad impression."

You can not claim any moral ground at all. Claiming that web sites will fold if you don't exist is like a drug dealer claiming that taking them off the street will make life worse for the drug addicts.

Sites funded by invasive ads need to adapt or die.

I would like to see a micropayment system where I can load up a few dozen dollars a month and pay shares through +1 or liking pages. Sure, 1/1000 of my $50/month isn't going to make much of a difference, but if you are getting paid through ad impressions you will get a similar monthly return.

Even better, you will make more money by producing content people like, with reduced incentive to split a five word article over six pages of ads.

These days the ads are to the point that if I see a site start janking around as the stylesheets load and ads start pushing content around, I just force quit Safari right there on the spot. I don't have the time or money to support a web fuelled by the advertising dollar.
Brian from Backblaze here. In general we are shooting for about the same reliability as Amazon S3. Backblaze is really transparent about our redundancy
and pretty much everything we do. We use 17+3 Reed Solomon across 20 computers in 20 different locations in our datacenter. You can read about it here:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...

Also, we are the only company we know of that releases our drive failure rates. We release them quarterly, here is the most recent failure analysis:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-...

And for the record Backblaze only has one datacenter. This bothers some customers deeply so if it is a show stopper definitely don't use Backblaze B2. We just want to be transparent about what we do and what we don't do. One idea is you could use B2 as a primary copy of the data, and make another copy into Amazon Glacier in case the Backblaze datacenter is hit by a meteor (or a terrorist attack or an airplane crashes into it).

Oh, I said this elsewhere but I have a lot of confidence we won't lose your data, we've been perfecting that for 8 years. What Backblaze DOESN'T have much experience in is serving up viral videos and the CDN (Content Delivery) layer. I'm looking forward to that layer, I think it will be fun to polish, but especially over the next few months of invite only beta anybody using B2 needs to be able to work with us to get the kinks worked out.
Your answer is merely a simple online search away.
Development is the key to revitalizing New York’s housing market
I think you've pretty much got it, but what makes it work is that you're overprovisioned at each level. You don't have to set up an addressing scheme that's guaranteed to be able to satisfy every conceivable request as a contiguous range. The extra buffer means that if you run out at one level, you can get another allocation from the next level up without having to advertise it globally.

Right now, if you need more IPv4 addresses, you have to buy a /22 or so from someone else. Because the address space is so hotly-contested, that block could come from almost anywhere, which means every core router on the internet needs to remember where it lives on the actual topology.

With IPv6, maybe once in a while a customer comes along who needs more than a /56. No big deal; you just give them another (maybe non-contiguous, if you're unlucky) allocation from the ISP's block. The ISP needs to remember that both allocations belong to the same customer, and route packets accordingly. But everyone else can just route based on the ISP's all-encompassing prefix. That's what makes the system fundamentally more scalable.
A U.S. carrier group?

A U.S. carrier group can bomb a country in the ground - a country like Iraq. The safest place for a U.S. carrier group when in a conflict with Russia or China is.... in the harbor at home.

Are U.S. Navy surface ships sitting ducks to enemies with modern weapons?
http://www.johntreed.net/sittingducks.html

And by the way, the Falkland Islands war is one of the most underestimated, least understood wars in warfare. The next major conflict will only know two kinds of war ships - submarines and targets.