skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I literally took a course in Finance while in business school in which we were taught how to run these calculations (obviously the 'governance' week of the course). Pretty scary to think people actually sit down at their desk and knowingly run the numbers and decide from there. But that's what you get when hardly anyone who commits a blatant crime like that generally is held accountable (i.e. individual culpability, e.g. individual fines or jail time), and the only negative (a fine) is already priced into the model, and the individual's rewards are a promotion. That's a system that, essentially, delivers incentives for crime and it's insane.
Bit-related sidenote: Does anyone know a way to position the cursor inside a terminal running bash when editing a command except navigating with the left/right arrow keys?

This is by far the thing that eats the most time when I'm working on the commandline.
A large number of cores on a single chip is interesting to us programmers not just for the overall performance, but for testing software parallelization strategies.

Low per-core performance is actually a good incentive to parallelize as much as possible.
Yes, I am. I think work places should be neutral places where the focus is on work. I'm a professional--I don't need to bond with my teammates over unrelated bullshit in order to work effectively with them.
> I didn't read the full article

Please do. It's not that long. And the comment that GP mentioned is quite good, too.

You'd save us all some time.
"Stop by the men's department where a wide assortment of sweaters and shaker knits, cottons and jacards are available in the newest colors and styles."

The pre-recorded announcer said things to this effect. Listen here:

https://youtu.be/8t5TYw2bkOk?t=2m10s
Film may be more artsy, but that's not going to save cinemas in the age of everyone having a VR headset and making their own "cinemas" at home.
4 Septembers of uberX in NYC
I was really, really hoping this was about a well-produced terminal based video game
Which models are affected by this exploit issue?!
I hope she wins. I hope other people see her insight. I have not seen this kind of attitude against development in other countries. Sure, some speculators will make out on some locations near transit,and some will lose out a bit. Who cares, what we need are more units, in SF, down the Camino corridor from SF to san Jose.
Build up, have BART go all the way down the el cam, and have local Surface-bahns.
I'm tired of the homeowning middle class as well as the poor (or more accurately, those advocating in the name of the poor) for being so utterly against development.

It's time for change. I'd welcome a housing glut, it'll benefit most, but those who see real estate as investment for retirement.

In the end, I think people will discover that mid density isn't so bad after all. You get convenience, but you lose some of your feeling of living in an enclave.

From communist china to capitalist Korea, when housing is in short supply, buildings go up.
I was actually waiting for your reply saying that I had missed the point :-). I think that automatic line numbering (as an example) misses the point of the UNIX tool philosophy, namely composability. It would seem that the designers of grep and nl thought those were separate tasks. The point of the CLI is that you can make the simple building blocks do whatever you want, for any workflow. You can always make an alias for grep that does numbering by default.

Basically, however widespread our personal workflows are, there are vastly more workflows we havent't even thought of that are essential to someone else's livelihood, for whom automatic numbering (or whatever) would ruin everything.

As for source maps, yeah, that's got room for improvement.
I feel the same about the game. And the expansion unfortunately doesn't add anything interesting gameplay-wise.
Not just heaven. If the right religious nutjobs get ahold of an upload...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Detail
This is dangerous. Just as dangerous as, say, the government taking over a bunch of uncollectable housing loans. Or the United States federal government renouncing all its public debt.

If there has been illegal acts, they should be rectified. But saying "I really don't want to follow through on what I agreed to" just because minds changed is not justifiable, and sets a an ill-advised precedent.
> Women are frequently treated in a dismissive fashion by men.

Everyone is treated in a dismissive fashioned by everyone. Only evidence and careful reasoning can rebut this default policy. You have presented none.

It galls me you interpret treatment that everyone receives as hostility directed toward the group to which you happen to belong. I am under no obligation to give additional weight to your argument merely because you are a woman. That you consider my dismissal of your unsupported claims is intellectually dishonest. You're smart enough to know better.

You're essentially claiming that everyone who doesn't accept your unsupported claims is sexist. You're free to do make this claim, but in doing so, you're crying wolf and weakening your cause.

You're right that I'm being dismissive. I'm also veering toward being disrespectful. That's not because you're a woman, but because you're demanding unearned special treatment. You're a technologist. Gaining status on a technologist's forum is no great accomplishment.
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The author seems to have written the article on the assumption that it will be humans figuring out a brain upload mechanism.

While his time frame estimates might be sound given that context, I'd argue they're wildly inaccurate given a more likely scenario: such things will be brought into existence first via a super-intelligent agent, if at all.

If that proves to be the case, the time frame for brain uploading becomes roughly bound to the advent of AGI. When that happens, the same entity capable of creating our brain upload mechanism would likely be capable of endowing humans with effectively immortal bodies just the same.

In other words, technology like this is almost certainly going to be part of a post-singularity world (assuming there is a singularity in the first place), and who knows what that will look like.
Cool! When was that?
Ahh, this is what I was lookin for. Do you have a source for these predicted timelines? I'd like to dig in further. I wasn't even aware they existed.
I certainly didn't assume you're incompetent.

I was a little baffled by your initial complaint about people who want to raise the working conditions for people who take ad-hoc labor, like you. You said you "worry" about them, that you can't take a regular job, and so on.

Great, fine, I certainly don't want you to have to take a regular job. I think it's great if you can work a few hours here, pick up a few extra bucks as your health permits, and so on. I have no interest in taking that away from you. I doubt very many people do, unless it's to slough off the work onto people who are more economically hard up than you.

I was, however, baffled by your implication that the way things are now (you making an average of $12 an hour with ad-hoc work, instead of some larger amount) is the best things can be.

I think you're wrong about that, but it is, of course, certainly true if we insist that everything's as good as it can be.

And you're right, there's no magic money solution. Basic income is one, and there's several different models that get tossed around, including just cutting everyone a check (so hey, you make the $12/hour patched together on top of the basic income).

But if you think I'm arguing because I think you're a dumb cripple or whatever, no, get over it, I'm arguing because you typed some otherwise thoughtful stuff and I just don't agree with all of it.
I stopped taking this article seriously when they cited a 37-hour work-week as an indicator that the state is "undermining the work ethic." After finishing the article, it really sounds more like the author is prescribing their favourite solution for something that may not even be a problem. This is one third party talking to another third party about someone else's "problem". Basically gossip and just as useless.
There is no guarantee that the subject will not lose a bit of consciousness on every neuron that is being replaced (even if, to outsiders, it appears not to be the case).
> Previously when viewing a thread like this I would take

> a perspective of "It's not discrimination, they just

> don't want to do it".

Well, maybe that wasn't exactly wrong. Or rather, there are different motivations for entering the profession. For males "love of technology" is a much stronger motivating factor, whereas for females it is "job security", "ease of entry" and "flexible working hours" [1]. All other factors surveyed were not different.

When it comes to experience in the job, the only difference found was that women received greater support and mentoring from their superiors.[2].

This is from a study published in the Communications of the ACM as "Women and men in the IT profession"[3]. Although not as interesting an anecdote as the NY Times article, and not fitting the current narrative, the study does have actual data. It concludes that women and men in tech are more alike than different, that the primary difference coming in is "love of tech" vs "good benefits" and that the biggest difference when in the field is that women get slightly better support from their bosses.

Come on in, the water is fine!

[1] http://deliveryimages.acm.org/10.1145/1320000/1314229/figs/t...

[2] http://deliveryimages.acm.org/10.1145/1320000/1314229/figs/t...

[3] http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2008/2/5453-women-and-men-in-t...
In the UK it's fairly common to see windows that have been bricked up on old buildings because of window tax. E.g. http://www.davidwallphoto.com/gallery/Other/London_England/I...
Also, http://www.lego.com/en-us/minecraft
I live in L.A. and Sunset Blvd would be so very dull without oversized billboards featuring super models, new albums and the latest movies.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-08-11/west-holly...
Almost no US cities have licensed and regulated brothels.
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Yeah I didn't really see much in this article but neo-liberal dogma. Shit article.
Eh? Humans are not fixed entities, they adapt and learn. You can't extrapolate into the future based on my previous anything. Six-year-old me can't tell you who thirty-six year-old me is.
Stop taking Adderall for a day. Do you have a link to where your post/ad is?
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Isn't changing the format of resolv.conf going to break everything that parses it manually or using a library other than glibc?
TFA says "...several US states including Vermont, Maine, Hawaii, and Alaska are billboard-free."
Collect on my credit cards. I dare you.
1. The solution to this is to write a translator from systemd units (those of .service type) to the desired kind of unit. I haven't looked into dmd, but this should be possible at least for the majority of units.

2. This was going to be a problem in any case i.e. had most distros switched to openRC one would still have been faced with the task of producing a suitable collection of service configuration files for dmd and then adapting them to dmd's specfic featureset.
Well, after some research it seems Go is pretty fast for starters. The backend I'm building is expected to be accessed by more than 10k people on a daily basis so it has to be robust. One of the other features I'm really looking forward is the built-in web server it offers. Basically I heard it's strong, scalable and neat for a service that needs a lot of requests per day, so it seems like a good idea to give it a try.
I think sharing culture can create an esprit de corps, improving morale and group cohesion, especially in times of crisis.
API is still inconsistent as hell, if you are curious.

Actually, I would say both blaming (a couple of years ago) and praising (right now) PHP are a matter of fashion and nothing more. PHP was and still is pretty simple and practical tool to use, but core developers were and still are making ridiculously stupid design choices which they generally think of as a "compromise" and which no other programming language designers I know of currently make. So, if you are looking for good design in a language — PHP is still a disaster, I assure you.

What actually changed for good is not the language itself (which has changed, but the quality is questionable anyway), but infrastructure. Now we have HHVM, Composer, better libraries (Sculpin being a nice example, by the way), FIG-standards. It's far from Node or Python in a sense of tools and libraries available, but significantly better than it was some 4 years ago. And deploying it is still much easier than Python, Ruby or Node, so that makes a reasonable choice overall.
The title of that post does not reflect the true nature of the discussion.
The second interpretation. The documentation is not entirely comprehensive because interface between components is not only a grey area of accountability, but also continuously changing. When the system is composed of multiple distinct sub-programs with their own development teams, update cycles and planned feature sets, what is possible at any one point in time is largely a matter of which versions of those sub-programs you are using, as well as what the root program (e.g.sysvinit) allows in it's version. There is no one set of features, nor one set of bugs, nor one set of directions. The best you can get in this regard is whatever your distro put together for the combination they chose, or alternatively to read the docs for every sub-program and intuit what new capabilities may exist in how they interact.

I think the clearest example of this would be everything that makes up the core Linux environment, compared OpenBSD. OpenBSD has amazing documentation, and the systems are all designed to work with eachother because they were all designed and developed as a working whole. Linux, on the other hand, often exposes interfaces through the kernel, and some other set of developers (or multiple set of developers) create systems to interface with it. As such, the documentation can be haphazard or near non-existent. That's not to say the Linux methodology doesn't have it's advantages. For example, I think there's a better feedback loop in Linux in determining what is needed from the kernel, and what can be done from it in userspace. It's a more market-like system, and sees rapid advancement.
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I'm honestly surprised there's never been any sign of a "Minecraft: Lego Edition" (rather than the physical "Lego: Minecraft Edition"), with mechanics basically identical to Minecraft now except with all the terrain in-game made out of Lego blocks.
I particularly liked the way it just breezes over the better part of a trillion dollars in reserves. If they can't adjust to a crisis starting with that many advantages, working an extra few hours a week isn't even going to register.
São Paulo is filled with graffiti instead of ads. Not art, just tags, as most major Brazilian cities. It's not visually clean by any standards.

That said, the article is an ad in itself - "began to suffocate under a smog of signage", gimme a break. I find it funny how anti-ad folk often advertise massively against ads.
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The future of UI is text....specifically Hypertext Markup Language.
I'd add to that list "couldn't go on the path in the first place", too, as there are plenty of people who fall into that bucket. I wish there were more public acknowledgement of the sentiments in your last paragraph. Refreshing comment.
There are several different styles of history writing. One is to describe what happened. For example, there are histories of battles, and of Krakatoa, and of Newton, which follow more or less a timeline.

Another is to identify underlying patterns and trends that help understand what happened, and hopefully can be applied elsewhere. For examples, how did the introduction of light mobile guns by Gustavus Adolphus change the battlefield? Why did the explosion of Krakatoa have a big cultural impact as well as physical one? How are Newton's view on alchemy and biblical research connected to his work on physics?

The first is more descriptive, and the second is more predictive. Both are good history.

Both are scientific, but call for different sorts of research. Both require extensive literature analysis. The latter requires more work to come up with alternative hypothesis and relevant comparisons, in order to test and disprove hypotheses.

This article does both. I think it does best at the descriptive aspects of the event. But it uses a historical model that isn't well tested, but could be tested by looking towards other genocides to see if the model fits.

If the model doesn't fit in a more general sense, then in the context of US gun control laws, it's a curiosity at best, and not something that can be used in decision making.

It is trying to making that comparison, and not limit itself to the uprising, which is why I regard it as a bad piece of historical writing.
I don't mind billboards it's whats on them that's horrible.

I Williamsburg where I live as far as I understand it's not legal to put up posters or billboard posters. Instead people paint the billboards.

Which is pretty cool.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/SneJtEDliUk/hqdefault.jpg
I wouldn't call myself a technologist. I do have a Certicate in GIS. But I intended to be an urban planner before life got in the way and I have failed, so far, to get a job in tech. However, I also know of a man high on the leader board who is a school teacher. Being a technologist seems to not be required to have status here. Being male does seem to be a requirement. There do not appear to be any women currently on the leaderboard. So I believe you to be wrong that it is no great accomplishment for a woman to gain status here.

You're smart enough to know better.

Thank you for saying that. But it does not change the fact that men here are routinely asked to show their work and women are routinely told they are simply full of shit. I have tried to show you what I know. You dismiss it and seem unopen to considering additional evidence.

There is a big difference between skepticism or desiring firmer evidence and disrespect. I don't expect you to give me special treatment. The standard on HN is supposed to be civil, respectful discourse. But my history suggests that standard applies to men and not women. It has improved, quite a lot, but there are still differences.

When I joined Hacker News, there was much more collegial respect here -- for the men, not the women. That has deteriorated some over the years. It is perhaps being repaired. My hope is that if it is fully restored, it will apply equally to all members.
Synchronicity :-) Just this week I scraped and analyzed only the homepages from the Alexa top 1 million [1] and majestic million [2]. I used rqworker[3] and and a fleet of mini-servers from scaleway[4] to do the scraping. Some results:

- 1.8MM successful scrapes
- 25GB total size (stored in postgres)
- 1 server to host redis and postgres
- 9 physical servers for workers (4x core ARM servers) = 36 total cores
- Peak rate of ~ 100 reqs/second achieved across all workers (36 physical cores total)
- I saw that I could oversubscribe workers to cores by a factor of 2x (72 total workers) to achieve ~75% utilization on each server

All in all it was a fun project that provided quite a bit of learning. There are a lot of levers to pull here to make things faster, robust, and more portable. Next steps are to optimize the database and wrap a simple django app around it for exploring data.

Or maybe push it futher and try my hand at these 26MM domains?

[1] - http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip

[2] - https://blog.majestic.com/development/majestic-million-csv-d...

[3] - http://python-rq.org/

[4] - http://scaleway.com
I don't think it's fair to discount present entrepreneurial endeavours because of Sisi's regime post-revolution -- which, my own opinions aside, many Egyptians are still proud of and feel like he's doing well by the nation.

Regardless of politics, it's still incredible how many young Egyptians are starting and sustaining businesses.. and particularly ones that are solving social and environmental problems that systems (political or otherwise) have not fixed.
We aren't talking about modern web applications and all that entails though, we're specifically talking about the ability to load and send content without reloading the page. That was in use in browsers older than Internet Explorer 5.

Netscape Navigator 4 had frustrating limitations once you had the data, but people were doing all sorts with it regardless. More was possible with Internet Explorer 4, but again, you didn't need XMLHTTPRequest. And if you just want to strip it back to the bare-bones of loading and saving data, a few people were even doing that as far back as Netscape Navigator 2 if I recall correctly – by dynamically loading new images with varying query string parameters.
They are admitting to using two year old footage to identify people in a crowd, who are associated with people who turn violent.

It implies that they can and will dedicate that much time and power to put you on lists and possibly harass you for exercising your freedom of speech and assembly.

Given the relationship between the police and protesters, I wouldn't want to suffer the repercussions of being in their systems as one.

The result is that I'm less likely to become politically active out of fear of being identified and associated with subversives in the eyes of my government.
'As opposed to the discoverability within the Mac interface for showing disk usage?'

The answer lies in your question. A lot of power user (yes, relative but Apple have focused on consumer) functionality is buried in the gui, and every release pushes stuff deeper in to the interface.
It would have been interesting to discover who the other "users" were.
Anyone interested in this subject would do well to read "In the Land of Invented Languages".[1]

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/Land-Invented-Languages-Adventures-Lin...
There's was Lego universe, but they wanted dong-detection.

http://www.exquisitetweets.com/tweets?eids=SOlZp2L8I8.SOl4Cs...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9639249
No. Death is really not that bad; to be dead is no more evil than not to exist, because to be dead is to not exist. Dying itself is evil in that it causes grief to others still living; but while grief is painful, I do not think anyone would compare the evil of suffering grief to the evil of suffering slavery.

One might argue that death is bad on counterfactual grounds: if a person had not died, they could still be alive and happy, and isn't that better than them not existing? But this argument leads to the Repugnant Conclusion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_addition_paradox)! So be very careful if you take this line of argument that you understand what you are saying.

I happen to be a total-happiness utilitarian, and do accept the repugnant conclusion. But ultimately all this means is that death is a mirror-image of birth - it ceases one hopefully-happy life; birth begins one. There is grief attached to death and joy attached to birth, but apart from that there is just as much imperative to maximize births as there is to prevent deaths - and one of these is far easier. This is, however, a deeply counterintuitive position that I don't expect many others to share.

This isn't Deep Wisdom. It's just utilitarianism, taken seriously.
While a agree with the problems people mention in this subthread there are also, at least in some parts of the world, plenty of women in "life sciences" (biology/chemistry/medicine) and other fields like economics.
It's weird that the article didn't mention the large tax reforms and other measures in the recently announced 2016 budget, seems like that would be obvious to include in an article like this.
If you don't mind the endemic poverty and lack of basic human rights, of course.