skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A job is a job, and you have a damn good one"

Please don't forget the cost of living before assuming the OP is some privilegiado who is unhappy being filthy rich.

According to this (http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_result.jsp?country...) a 1 bedroom apartment outside the city runs 31.5k a year thats about 20% of OPs salary. If he wanted a 3 bedroom in the city it would run 78k a year. By comparison someone living in Berlin will pay about 8k a year for rent of a 1 bedroom in the city.

So his 165k is roughly like someone earning 40k a year in Berlin. This isn't exact of course because of other factors such as utilities, food, etc, but comparing these costs to other locations it does look to be more expensive on these factors as well.
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These guys already did something like that - https://www.emailonacid.com/mozify
The story talks about an European group trying to reach a global audience. I was making a more general point about how over-reliance on private platforms makes censorship much easier for governments and corporations everywhere. Why do you guys keep assuming that "the law" equals "US law as I understand it"?
>> Deploying web-services on systemd is so much better...

>Can you be specific here? There are a whole host of service supervision systems out there of varying quality and feature sets.

True - but that is a good question by itself right ? Why - when you already had sysv and upstart and everything. Supervisord seems to be very popular that is very, very similar to systemd in its working (same concept of unit files, declarative language,etc). If you like supervisord, then systemd is just a short hop away.

OpenRC would do the same - but are you claiming that openrc is BETTER than systemd ? Because systemd is making that claim.

What I'm failing to understand is how is systemd bad ? it is making my linux machine extremely stable and working with it (creating new unit files) is extremely intuitive. Where is it making everyone's life hard ? the old way of "service nginx restart" still works. "dmesg" still works...
I don't know, having been through a number of B2B contract negotiations (in Australia). It is not at all surprising for one party to make changes without highlighting. I've even seen track changes on a word document disabled, changes made, and then reenabled so as to intentionally hide word changes.

You only have to notify people of a change, if it's already signed (and generally that's because your contract will have some form of amendment system that involves notification).
I've recently came by this article Brett Berry on Medium:

https://medium.com/i-math/why-5-x-3-5-5-5-was-marked-wrong-b...

I was so irritated with the whole argument protecting what seemd so obviously wrong for me so I wrote that response which I'd like to post for discussion.
This is Too Big To Fork https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6810259 at work. Any legally free-slash-open-source software project which is so complex that only a few big actors have the will and ability to make and maintain a fork is de facto under the shared proprietary control of those big actors. (The same goes for software where control of the installed base means de facto control over any changes to widely-used interfaces.) "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." The Linux 'ecosystem' is only unusual in that (as it seems) there's exactly one big actor left standing by now.
No, because the manufacturers don't make all the accessories (think window tinting, etc). And the dealerships, which typically become multi-brand dealership groups can get economies of scale the manufacture typically can't.
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Hello,

Glad to hear you liked the interaction model, may I ask you what kind of options were missing for you ?

The extension model is, I agree, unorthodox, but I think it does work reasonably well (the file you linked manage to provide asynchrounous clang completion and syntastic like diagnostics using it), and keeps things simple. Note that we try really hard only to depends on POSIX tools, so the scripts are actually targeting POSIX shell.

The rational behind this extension model can be found there:
https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/doc/design.asci...

And a more in depth explanation on how to use it is there:
https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/doc/interfacing...
Why live interviews are a particular challenge for statisticians
Interestingly, Busybox developers seem to have a lot of hate for sysv init.
http://busybox.net/~vda/init_vs_runsv.html "SysV init must die."
A predictable pattern of murder?
Sure it's pretty good. But can it interop with other APIs predictably forever without paying Zapier?

And the capitalism dig has to do with when your address verification endpoint decides that an API isn't profitable. Or that it's better for them to change the format of the response. Or require you to have a account of some sort. Or rate limit. Or...

In the overall picture, if you're not helping someone earn money, you're living on borrowed time with the services they provide.
Samsung restructuring workforce to cut costs
Systems are greater than goals
I have one word. Technology.

Think about technology as outsourcing and you realize what the problem is because you are realizing the trend; Technology will compete with higher and higher levels of abstraction and so you either have to be really skilled in an increasingly competitive space or you need to accept taking jobs at wages that are as low as they are because of the increased competition from technology.

And until economist stop treating technology as an externality they wont understand whats going on and we will keep debating this as if its a political problem. In my opinion its not.

http://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/images/d...
Hello,

Very interested to know what was missing for you ? We do not have options for everything, but I'll gladly add more options if there is a reasonable use case for them. In other words, options only get added if someone requests them (and makes a good case for them).

scripting support is documented in:
https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/doc/interfacing...
And Sepherosa Ziehau has been improving the network stack even more for the last few years. I cannot find a good overview but the commits usually include performance metrics. There's an interview in bsdnow episode 93 http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_06_10-stacked_in_our_favo...
The Japanese have a saying: The nail that sticks up gets pounded down.
> Debian isn't really a leader. They're more of a passive target platform and their committee has people from various strokes of the Linux community.

This is so not true that it is bordering on FUD. Systemd's leadership depended on debian making a fairly democratic, open and violently fought battle between upstart vs systemd. Everyone knew that Ubuntu (which is pretty much defacto installed in every laptop sold in Asia) would adopt systemd based on Debian's decision.

It was an argument that went on for a year. Read it for yourself if you want - https://bugs.debian.org/727708

Not only did Debian make the decision to support systemd, it voted to NOT support other init systems. Mark Shuttleworth made his announcement the day after (http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316 ).

It is an interesting position to take by painting systemd as the lackey of a capitalist monopoly trying to take over the world. I can see how that can get a lot of mindshare. The truth is far simpler - systemd is far superior.
PG and I are assuming a measurable outcome, which the selection process is explicitly supposed to predict.

I made no claims about practicality - right now all I have is a little bit of measure theory showing that pg's algo is, in principle, fixable. I fully agree that the first round capital data he cites is inadequate (and also wrong, due to the unjustified exclusion of uber, which they explicitly note would alter the results).

My concrete claim: PGs idea for a statistical test is solid, I can (and shortly will) prove a toy version works, and given enough work one can probably cook up a practical version for some problems.

"Your idea isn't 100% perfect right out of the gate" is a very unfair criticism. Are we supposed to nurture every idea in complete secrecy until it is perfect?
You're living in a fantasy world. Nearly everyone universally hates spam, and nearly everyone uses a mail system that automatically filters it. They don't sign a pledge, they just use tools that help then avoid spam. They mark spam they get in their inbox to help others avoid it automatically. And they have no compunction about using a site that relies on spam, they merely find it annoying.

And as I mentioned there's no formal system in place where users agree to see ads in exchange for access to content. Nor is there a moral obligation to do so.
Precisely. I had been struggling to find the right balance between studying something deep enough that I can draw on this knowledge when needed but not going so deep that I get bored and nothing comes out of it.
Bob: Can you give me an example?

nl: Sure.

To overcome possible biases in hiring, most orchestras revised their audition policies in the 1970s and 1980s. A major change involved the use of blind' auditions with a screen' to conceal the identity of the candidate from the jury. Female musicians in the top five symphony orchestras in the United States were less than 5% of all players in 1970 but are 25% today. We ask whether women were more likely to be advanced and/or hired with the use of blind' auditions. Using data from actual auditions in an individual fixed-effects framework, we find that the screen increases by 50% the probability a woman will be advanced out of certain preliminary rounds.[1]

Bob: What? But that doesn't count because...

[1] http://gap.hks.harvard.edu/orchestrating-impartiality-impact...
The second paragraph of the Wikipedia article mentions user/kernel-mode division and kernel-protected objects. Past that I don't know. Probably none for legacy systems and similar to Darwin (coarse-grained) for new ones. Could be more fine-grained, though.
Show HN: Mail me when the output of a command changes
It's tenable that a load stack of a significant size would demand multithreading but at this point in affinity processing technology it is uneccessary to develop that capability. It may be possible that doubling the queue length could lighten the load but in my experience it might just be better to pursue non-intrusive commits that pursue freed up buffer resources.
> "The "any questions at this point" comment seems a bit snippy and unnecessary, I was just trying to figure out what you were talking about... but no biggy here goes."

Sorry if it came across like that, I did wonder if that's how it would be interpreted, but I wanted to make it clear that I was pausing for feedback. Thanks for not holding it against me, let's continue.

> "Financial derivatives get a bad rap because they sound scary and most people don't know what they are. They do however play a massively important role in managing risk."

I understand derivatives in general offer an insurance policy against uncertainty in financial markets (thanks for the explanations of the different types, a couple were new to me).

However, one could argue that insurance isn't a productive use of money, especially if the investment being insured against isn't part of the productive economy. What are your thoughts on this?
the last sentence is a good point! I am not very precise typer, and I use vim.

I work on different keyboards, actually 3 different layouts: external keyboard home and at work, home laptop, and work laptop (different one).

I think it would be difficult to do the emacs chords on different layouts. For basic vim usage I just need to adapt to 2 special keys - colon and slash (+ right shift). That takes just few minutes.
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I did read the thread before I even posted, thanks.

Linus' first reaction to systemd accidentally flooding the kmesg queue was to make an ad hominem flame directly at another developer when the kernel was responsible for at least half the problem (lack of rate limiting).

Most people would qualify that as "throwing a hissy fit".
I write infrequently over at http://www.strangecompany.org/blog/ .

However, my best post recently was probably a guest-post over at Charles Stross's blog - http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/08/a-storm-...
Considering what happened with the ratio of people that participate in the labour market, further demand creation could very well pull some of those people in work though.

As for Keynes, it is good to remember that he (later on - Keynes in the 20s hadn't reached these insights yet) didn't believe in a natural rate of unemployment (or well, he believed the equilibrium point was determined by a three dimensional equation rather than the two dimensional one that create a single natural rate).
I'm also a believer in in-place formatting rather than 2-pane. Ever since i saw it in [Qute][] (no longer developed), and emacs auctex preview-mode (TiddlyWiki also deserves some credit).

Editorially did this well and was well-recieved but for some reason people are not really filling the void.
I'm especially surprised it's not more popular on mobile where 2 panes waste real estate and whole-screen toggling is jarring. The only mobile editor with in-place formatting I know is Writer & [Writer Plus][].

[Qute]: http://www.inkcode.net/qute
[Writer Plus]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.easy4u.writ...

Also,

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I'm working on https://mathdown.net [https://github.com/cben/mathdown] which does in-place formatting. It's comparable to Stackedit or Classeur in that it's simply "syntax highlighting", e.g. headings are big and emphasis is italic.

- The formatting chars (#, * etc) are still visible, just a bit de-emphasized. I know many people prefer them to disappear except near the cursor. That's trickier to implement with good UX, and not planned soon (PRs welcome of course).

- There is no inline image preview (yet). Nor tables, diagrams, embedded videos... Even links are not (yet) clickable.

+ There is nice in-place LaTeX math rendering (slighly buggy but very usable). This is my biggest unique feature [https://github.com/cben/CodeMirror-MathJax]. Comparable to Overleaf.com's "rich text" mode.

+ I'm doing "soft indent" [https://www.mathdown.net/?doc=demo-indentwrap]. This is a really low-hanging way to make one-long-line-per-paragraph usable, which IMHO is essential for in-place styling.

+ Leading indentation (and list bullets/numbers/quotation) is monospaced to help align stuff.

If anybody's building their own, I'm using and strongly recommend CodeMirror. It makes mixed fonts - things like bigger headings - really trivial and supports arbitrary embedded "widgets". @benweet pulled off polished in-place formatting in StackEdit (and on top of contenteditable but that's way harder...
Didn't even know this existed. Thanks for highlighting it!
Oops - I did misread what he wrote. He was discussing the distribution of the min of the sample, not the distribution itself.

Also, there may be a bias in the true p-value, but there is none in the p-value bound based on h(d) and min(N1, N2).
Red Hat has no reason to care about platforms like BeagleBone Black.
This test can be used after the fact, so you're not measuring expected return but actual return.

It's pretty easy to measure actual return (or actual graduation rate, or actual GPA, etc.).
I didn't say there are no valid examples of bias, just that many people assume unequal outcomes must result from unequal opportunity, ignoring the possibility of real group differences. Surely you know many real-life Alans who see bias every time a particular Group X is underrepresented in Field Y. Moreover, the values of X aren't random; you'll almost never hear complaints of bias regarding, say, trash haulers, or NFL cornerbacks. (But NFL quarterbacks—ah, plenty of bias there!)
Have you done marketing? Do you have a marketing plan? Who is your target audience - your first buyer? Ads don't help if the people who are likely to buy from a no name (regardless of quality) don't know about you.

First thing is to develop a marketing plan - target audience/first market, then promotional channels, price (cheaper isn't always better - if you are priced like a cheap Chinese knock off but are high quality Italian fashion, I won't trust your claim), and product - which you are working on
The messy question here is: who is to say that he modified the contract?
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Looks good. Where does this data come from? Which provider is the source of truth on exhaustiveness and accuracy related to this kind of data?
> And remember that inner city densities work only because of that there are wealthy people there

Wait what?
I live in Berlin and find the opposite to be true, the dense old construction areas tend to work very well regardless of the wealth of their occupants, the spaced out Corbusieresq nightmares however tend to turn into problem districts even though they tend to be less dense, creating a feeling of emptiness, a lack of social cohesion.

Local shops, bars, etc just don't work when there are not enough people in the surrounding area and were often not intended in the function-speared new developments, making those streets much less lively.
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The solution to that is "download some sorting and filtering software". You can force them to write their own, but it'll be like selling aspirins for the pain caused by your blow to their head; unless you're their school teacher -and even if you are- they may just end up resenting you.
In which a crowd of overwhelmingly white male American SW engineers tries to find a mathematical explanation to bias...

"For Bourdieu, cultural capital is the status culture of a society's elite insofar as that group has embedded it in social institutions, so that it is widely and stably understood to be prestigious. Schools take it as a sign of native academic ability but do not themselves impart it, performing acts of social alchemy that transform class privilege into individual merit."
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yeah, i had similar experience while deploying production stuff to systemd. It does not hurt anymore, it has lot reliable tooling that just works. I understand that it's not "unix way" as people like to say. For me that also means "being reliable". Systemd gives me as an application developer everything i need and takes a lot of pain away. I'm happy.
I discuss in a different comment the effect of additive noise. I admit I haven't worked out the details of the min statistic and additive noise yet. But I'm actually fairly bullish on it - this problem is mostly just simple statistics.

I also suspect that first rounds data is useless. PG is being too credible about it - I suspect he is just being political and making his post more PC, since he doesnt seem that statistically naive. (Taking a lesson from Sam Altman most likely.)
So, they started with a proven codebase, refactored it with some developers + funding, got more developers/funding, and imported other proven code. The result was a working system in a short period of time. So, I might change how I present the project. Nonetheless, sounds like what any well-managed project does and what Hurd could've done. Matter of fact, I was going to suggest they could've reworked BSD 4.4 when I get a holy shit moment doing a quick fact-check on Wikipedia:

"According to Thomas Bushnell, the initial Hurd architect, their early plan was to adapt the 4.4BSD-Lite kernel and, in hindsight, "It is now perfectly obvious to me that this would have succeeded splendidly and the world would be a very different place today"."

That was an epic hit. :) Far as microkernels, the few in existence were tied up in I.P.. So, I wouldn't rag them if they had to do that part custom. Mach was available with painful work. I believe Chorus was, but commercial. Only alternative I would consider was cloning Hydra's capability-secure microkernel. It ran on PDP-11's that UNIX was built on. CMU might have even given up the code since the project was dead. So, possibilities there. Past that, doing a microkernel at that time would be foolish and 4.4BSD integrated with GNU components was obvious choice.

After certain amount of time passed, there were a number of usable microkernels that could be split off and turned into working systems. There had also been numerous published projects... TrustedMach, Distributed TrustedMach, DTOS... by DOD to improve Mach's failures with UNIX compatibility without much success. Several commercial microkernels, including QNX, achieved success in in the market while publishing concrete details on how. Given all this, I think there's little justification for Hurd to keep trying failed strategy on the very microkernel that gave the rest a bad name. They're better off trying to rewrite parts from scratch on a L4-based kernel or QNX clone. Or joining MINIX 3. ;)
It would be nice to have a "Demo"-button to be able to display it immediately. Could be only temporary available for 24h.
It's not except in terms of features they can produce and bugs they can eliminate. The research I did in response to vezzy-fnord's comment shows that Hurd ignored a proven codebase (4.4BSD) in favor of trying to build on Mach, a problematic microkernel. The Hurd author admitted the first part. They continue down the path that didn't work while Minix 3 adopted a better microkernel architecture built on their proven codebase. So, their stuff is predictably in better shape.
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Embedded is not embedded:

Theres the really deeply embedded systems running on tiny processors which probably only run a single binary and are never updated.

And then there are big systems (think cellphones, automotive infotainment, etc.) running on quad core procoessors where you have dozens of processes, which might even be independently installed or updated. For those kind of systems you really want a sophisticated init system, and the cost of systemd is probably minimal compared to the instances of chromium/webkit/blink that you might already have on your system.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want some of my money you need to get it from the people who charge me every month for accesing you web page: My ISP.

They are the ones making money off the fact that I want to get on the internet and access content.

Too bad there is no reliable, independent mechanism for taking some of that money and putting it in a large pool to be ditributed to content creators. The amount you get is based on how popular your site is. The ISPs know exactly how popular your site is.

(Too bad I'm late to the thread. Nobody is going to read this)
In common law systems (including the UK and US) a contract is a "meeting of minds" (that is, you and I both agree on the terms). The writing merely makes clear what has been agreed, but if one side has been tricked then its still fraud. So if a salesman says "never mind the fine print, it just says you can cancel the contract at any time" when in fact the fine print locks you in to paying silly amounts for the next 5 years, then that is deception and hence fraud.

In this case its reasonable to suggest that by submitting his altered contract without drawing the banks attention (e.g. by putting at the front "here are my proposed terms") then not only does the bank not have to abide by them, but he was guilty of deception by trying to trick the bank into signing up to them.

Normally these rules are used to protect consumers from fine print proffered by suppliers. For instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfoto_Picture_Library_Ltd_... established that unusual or onerous terms cannot be hidden in a page of fine print and still be enforceable. But the rules apply the other way around too.