skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C is by far the worst...

Side Note: In DDG Lua doesn't need 'lang', you can type in a function name and it'll give you documentation in the 'instant answers' thing.
This is a very important point in favor of Palantir. While there is much to be said for the placebo effect in medicine, Palantir's customers can more readily convince themselves Palantir works. On the other hand, you've either got herpes or you don't.
My comment, since there is a nonzero chance of it getting downvoted/deleted on PH:

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Hi Ryan & the Product Hunt team.

As the person who wrote the Most-Recommended comment on your Medium article with 100+ Recommends, believe me when I say there is a large amount of external interest in the topics of the questions I now ask about Product Hunt.

My questions are simple:

1. What changes, if any, have you made in response to the June Re/Code article accusing Product Hunt of being elitist?

2. You said "all upvotes are equal" in the Medium article as evidence that Product Hunt is fair. Would you say that the binary process of get-on-homepage/do-not-get-on-homepage is just as fair?

3. Whenever someone on Product Hunt upvotes a product, their friends receive a notification saying "X and Y others upvoted Z" with a link to Z. Does this call-to-action skew the upvoting process in favor of people with strong social groups on PH?

4. Do you believe that the current product curation process is meritocratic, that is the best products, on their individual merit, are the ones that are on the front page?

5. As a hypothetical maker trying to get my product onto Product Hunt, would my time be better spent Tweeting and chatting on Slack with Top Hunters or by improving the product itself?

6. Do makers who schedule exclusive launches with the Product Hunt team and offer PH-specific perks get favorable treatment in terms of ranking/exposure? Would this be considered a "conflict of interest"?

7. The new "conflicts of interest" section of the FAQ notes that they should be disclosed in good faith. In the case where a conflict of interest is blatant, such as when a venture capitalist submits a startup they funded (as an casual observer, I notice this happens all the time), are you willing to penalize the investor/submission and force disclosure?

Thank you for your time.

Max W.
@minimaxir
It's much easier in a centralized system. The only advantage bitcoin has over previous systems is that it prevents double-spending in a decentralized system.
S/paper clips/shareholder value/
Societies where money strongly influences politics breed corruption and lose productivity: You can buy political influence with money, of course, but also it works vice-versa: You get money from political influence, by controlling law and policy, rather than as a reward for economically productive activity. The business of the nation, or at least a major industry, becomes corruption.
This is an interesting article, but there's one part that I don't really understand: 'After scaling up the approach by increasing the dataset size, we de-anonymize 600 programmers with 52% accuracy.'.

Isn't 52% close to a random guess? I don't get how this ties in with the rest of the paragraph either.
The Illusion of Freedom – Chris Hedges
The article and comments (so far) miss the second dealer purchase negotiation phase. So you got a car for MSRP, or whatever, that's very nice. Well for $5/month over the lifetime of the loan we can throw in dealer provided product like this custom set of floor mats, they're really nice floor mats and you want a clean car and they're only going to cost you $5/month, right? (note that's $200 for those floor mats...). Or how about rust protection underbody spray, our dealership sells that for only 100% markup over just hiring a local to do it. Or how bout that service plan, we can roll your manufacturer scheduled $80 oil changes right into your loan, why, during your loan you wouldn't have to pay for anything but the loan and gas (and insurance, and garage, and parking permits, and that $80 oil change costs $40 anywhere else or $20 if you do it at home). You just spent $25K, how bout getting years of extra worry free driving with out extended warranty program, years of worry free driving for just another $3K?
I think distributed's scheduler has seen much iteration since then and is now based on tornado. I wonder if that changes your assessment.

Also what do you think of Julia's native distributed capabilities and this library here: https://github.com/shashi/ComputeFramework.jl
Yet the US socialist say a flat tax with very few exceptions unfairly favors the rich....
Not all our files are uncompressed, so directly using mmap does not make sense for us, because we also need to be able to use files compressed with gzip, bzip2, xz (and soonish probably lz4).
Name a single society in history where money didn't strongly influence politics.
What would be a non-emotional reason for banning the construction of minarets?
BCP 38 is like herd immunity with immunization, and much like anti-vaccine folks, networks that don't follow it are knowingly choosing to infect people for any number of reasons. Despite your claim, it is extremely easy to implement and has been a known best practice, with accompanying educational Web sites devoted to the topic[0], for many years. There are nearly zero reasons for your AS to transmit forged packets, and if your configuration allows it, you are knowingly making the Internet a worse place with your laziness and transferring your laziness to other people like me that carry pagers. This isn't a surprise to any network administrator unless they've spent their entire career not reading RFCs.

I'm of the opinion that networks that allow customers to emit forged source addresses should be depeered until they take the literal hour to fix it. "But we have to update equipment when we get new blocks!" Boo hoo. Automate it or get off the Internet so I can stop spending my life dealing with your customer's amplified traffic.

If you run a non-transit/eyeball AS, you are in the absolute best position to stop these types of attacks from ever happening. The rest of the Internet, particularly your transit peers, can't really clean up after you on this one. Do us all a favor.

[0]: http://bcp38.info
And what if your fingerprint gets stolen? Get a new finger?

Biometrics is horrible for auth. [1]

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512578.aspx
That's overly dismissive. The sampled individuals had several crucial genes: the C282Y hemochromatosis mutation, a Y chromosome haplotype which is common among modern Irish, and a gene for lactase persistence, all of which strongly suggest genetic continuity with the modern Irish.
Middlemen
Often, just running `strings | grep '/home/'` on a binary will reveal the home directory of at least one programmer involved in the compilation process.
From what I understand (from a PhD in biotech), the price for utilizing CRISPR/Cas9 is extraordinary. So much so that only multi-million dollar labs can afford to use it in any meaningful quantity. The price "per reaction" is in the thousands.
See-also: trickle down economics.
Amazon Prime Photos
Electronic Arts made a little bit of money, I think.
the DNS record was changed. Someone just claimed the S3 bucket associated with the domain.
Do you run Postgresql, MySQL, or something else? What led you to your choice? Because one is inherently better than the others for what you want to do? That's why you stick with a single cloud provider. You want the vendor lock-in. You go whole hog into using everything that they provide. Once you start mixing and matching the best of breed across cloud providers, you've lost. Once you start coding to the least common denominator amongst cloud providers, you've lost. To really succeed, you must choose the best cloud offering and then use everything that they offer. Otherwise, why are you running stuff in the cloud anyway?

Also, steer clear of "cloud neutral" services and products that will magically move data and services across cloud providers. Interop is the last thing on any proprietary vendor's mind. An example. You have a pair of border edge routers. Do you buy 2 Junipers, 2 Ciscos, or 1 Juniper and 1 Cisco for fear of a bad vendor bug taking out all the routers? I'll tell you which one I would not choose. The .com TLD nameserver requirements used to mandate dual vendor setups. They sure did learn their lesson.
No, a random guess would give you 0.16% accuracy.
This sounds interesting. Could this be applied to Stuxnet, Duqu and malware in general, or would you require more information?
If they were saying that in 52% of the cases, they could guess the correct choice out of 600, then random chance alone would have been <.2%.

If they were saying that in 52% of cases, they could guess if some code did or did not belong to a given programmer, then it is basically a random guess.
Oh wow. I remember a couple months ago the ATL datacenter had network issues too. Really annoying, but I guess it's not their fault 100%. I wish they offered more DDoS protection solutions. I know some VPS companies specialize in that offering for things like game servers. It'd be nice if some sort of solution could just be included. I don't know if it's more of a technical issue or legal problem. As far as I know the only way is to null route(which is an inconvenience to the website, but no traffic going to the router other client's are on) or just adding a bunch of servers to "soak" up the extra bandwidth.
So you're saying that if the tax were lower, people would fire their accountants and pay more taxes out of the goodness of their hearts? A sense of fairness?
Pine mini computer
What I really want to know is how they prevent it from getting lit accidentally. I would figure the smallest spark would make it happen.
> they'll have AI-like drives

What would you point to as a physical basis for an evolutionary psychology of machine intelligence? What is being replicated that "wants," in a very fundamental way, as genes do, to be replicated?

We don't procreate for the sake of ideas.
Considering there are 600 programmers, 0.166% (1/600) would be random guess.
I can see how you did if the picked products were of similar weight/size and stored in cardboard packaging, but did it also work for "flexible" items such as clothing or for instance a blanket packed into plastic?

AFAIK picking is very hard to automate because it's very hard to match the dexterity and eye-hands coordination of a human being.

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This is where all the commies are dying to say "communism", but even they don't have the eyes for that.
It could start a fire in the nearby brush. With a little wind it could spread rapidly to thousands of nearby dwellings.
I used an Atari computer to generate test patterns, color ramps, etc... to tune old TV sets up for date money. Back then, doing that was a consistent business. Sets degraded in months.

It's not dangerous if you know what you are doing. I learned by working in the local repair shop.
That's a lot of guessing and assuming you are doing. How... scientific.
I'm pretty sure the system you're describing is similar to Proof-of-Stake. In a PoS system, an owner in control of a portion of the monetary base (their "stake") controls the private keys to that portion. Depending on the algorithm used, the keys they hold have a chance of belonging to a set of keys that have the ability to sign the next processed block. Some, I'm not sure if all, PoS algorithms use an additional PoW step that acts as a time-multiplier on whether your key is in the signing set, to ensure a block can always be found in the absence of many people staking, and to create a barrier to the speed of block emission.

Additionally, R3CEV (pronounced like receive, the name isn't an acronym as far as I'm aware) is discussing a system where all banks in the consortium sign blocks in a round-robin fashion with trusted keys, negating the need for PoW at all. I have a feeling this will improve the efficiency of many things in the financial sector, but I doubt it will have as big of an impact as a decentralized and trustless system, like PoW and (possibly, if the wrinkles are ironed out) PoS.
> Therefore the desire to get rid of the human race is actually a logical consequence of most utility functions, rather than being directly specified.

That's only true in the sense that there are infinitely many more Real numbers than whole numbers. Even so, I would argue there are infinitely many utility functions that directly involve the welfare of the human race, and you would be stupid to design an AI who didn't have a majority of its utility functions directly involving measures of human welfare. (Also, recognizing minimum welfare levels as well as median and average.)
I got it to work but I have no idea how. I tried all the branches and the official sources, they all failed the same way. I deleted and recloned the 1.7.0 branch and that worked. Shrug.

Thanks for your help.
> There's no excuse to keep pushing his theory once we know he's falsified his data, taken samples illegally from people without their permission, etc.

Those are pretty different objections. Only one of them detracts from the theory.

I've read that we have pretty good data on how long a human can float in water of various temperatures before tiring and drowning, because the Nazis systematically drowned Jews in water of various temperatures to get the data.

I also read that relevant bits of this data are posted near beaches with cold water as a public safety measure. So far so good.

...and then of course, that there was a movement to take those signs down because the source of the data is morally objectionable. Full credit for moral purity to the let's-take-down-the-drowning-warnings people. In their own small way, they are dedicated to making the world just that much slightly worse than it was.
This was announced a couple months ago.
The Laffer Curve deftly illustrates that lower tax rates can result in higher revenue than higher tax rates. The hypothetical does not demonstrate that there is a single sweet spot, and as noted in the Wikipedia article The shape of the curve is uncertain and disputed.

It could well be that current taxes rates are at a point on the Laffer Curve where increasing tax rates would increase revenue.
As an accountant once told me unless you tax wealth then you can't fight this... and good luck getting an annual tax against wealth passed into law.

The direct tax clause of the original constitution, even as modified by the sixteenth amendment, probably forbids such a thing at the federal level. So it'd likely take a constitutional amendment.

That said, I'm not quite as pessimistic as you. Between consumption taxes and estate taxes (which are about the only wealth tax we have) we could get at most money if we had the will to do so. The estate tax is filled with holes because Congress wants it to be, not because of any inherent complexity or definitional difficulties.

There is an ultimate tax avoidance strategy of renouncing citizenship and living and consuming abroad. I would impose a lifetime ban on entry on renouncers, but beyond that I think it is fair game. If you aren't an American we shouldn't be taxing you.
Where do you want LMDB? apt has a super fast binary cache, the repositories and dpkg store their package lists as text files.

RPM systems have the advantage IIRC that they can basically just download a bunch of sqlite3 databases, which means they do not have to parse any data.
Springer make many logic books freely downloadable
Also:

E.g. In Germany, dealerships have to provide 1 year of warranty for the car.

In some cases they also need to add 19% VAT (if it is a commercial re-sale?)
"So many missed opportunities here" is pretty much Google's motto.
If tax is lower, tax loopholes are less lucrative. Basically you kill the market for accountants.
Brian Balfour wrote a sick guide: http://www.coelevate.com/essays/customer-acquisition

You get experience by doing your own projects, or by working cheaply for a select client or two as you learn the ins and outs.
if you have defined authoritative servers, they can just hold ballance amount and you can dispense with the rest of the blockchain entirely
Some related ideas:

• https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_database
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitemporal_data
Any insight into the source of those costs?
would setting it on fire dispose of it?
I'm not denying running these experiments is becoming much more feasible for small institutions but you have a pretty naive understanding on how to turn these kinds of experiments into successful therapies.

There is often a huge disconnect between what we can reliably and reproducibly show in a lab, and what can be turned into therapy. And that's not just as simple as mining the literature and running more trials.
"It's not a matter of privilege, it's a matter of ability."

Oh, you must be very young! :)
It illustrates that there is a sweet spot. It does not illustrate the sweet spot. Which makes sense because it likely varies based upon the economy & tax laws of this and other countries.

The article you linked quotes anywhere from 20% to 70%.
Somehow I can rant about any topic on the internet, but so long as the topic includes a dissenting opinion about javascript, it will be upvoted.
Yeah! Like, antibiotics, man. It was basically mold that invented that! Totally not a medical breakthrough at all... no idea why so many people were impressed by it.
Two scenarios:

1. I don't have a Google or Facebook account. Does that mean I cannot buy electricity?

2. I have a Gmail account that I was invited to join in 2005. Google's only link to my identity is a Yahoo email account that was deleted in 2007. Is there sufficient trust to allow me to sign up for electricity?
If you can fall in love with anyone, it would pay off to be wise whom you chose to fall in love with...
That's like needing an app to tell you that you are using an electronic device.
Did you use Glass? There really wasn't any AR potential there. It was and still is really little more than a glasses based notification monitor. There's no augmented reality no virtual reality, it's simply a prismatic notification monitor with some slight basic functionality.
This always comes up around Valentines Day so I created http://www.fallinloveapp.com
"Could you write a complete Mars landing project in Haskell for instance? That would impress me. That's the area where Ada excels, or (less impressive) C and FramaC. But Haskell? No way."

Depending on what you mean by "in Haskell", probably. You can write hard-realtime software in an embedded DSL in Haskell that gives you explicit control over timings, scheduling, etc, while still giving you Haskell's higher order features for composing your programs.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/atom

As I understand, the company that wrote it uses it in production in automotive systems.
The 1980s called. They are in dire need of more cold warriors and want you back.
They would if the cost of hiring someone to help save money on taxes cost more than it saved. It's not about a sense of fairness. If paying someone to save on taxes is a bad investment, people stop doing that.
Your statement is simply false.

Here's a material answer - https://cloud.google.com/docs/google-cloud-platform-for-aws-...

In short, Google has parity with AWS on many fronts, and exceeds AWS on many others. Only material AWS advantage at this point is full IAM. Biggest thing you gotta remember is AWS is stuck in "VM" world and only slightly deviates from that. Google's advantage is in its fully managed services, which AWS does poorly (don't tell me Redshift is "fully managed").

Google has Bigtable, which AWS has no competitor for. Google's Pubsub is vastly superior to SQS. Google doesn't need Firehose because Google's services scale to Firehose levels without needing a new product and a new price. Google has Zync transcoder service.

Google has BigQuery, which is vastly superior to Redshift in price, performance, scale, and manageability. Google has Dataflow, which AWS has no competitor for.

Even for VMs, Google offers better networking, faster disks, more reliability (live migration), better load balancer, etc.

And to put the cherry on top, Google's no-committment, no-contract price is only beat if you lock yourself into AWS's 3-year contract.

(disclaimer: work on BigQuery)
I completely agree with this. Short of taxing wealth or taxing consumption, like the FairTax proposal[0], there's no way around shelters and avoidance.

I find it hard to hold a grudge against wealthy individuals who minimize tax liability. It's perfectly legal and it's in their best interest.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax
You are absolutely right about the model year coming to an end.

I typically also buy 1 or 2 year old low mileage models at the end of the year around nov-dec timeframe. This is because once January hits the car will be officially a year older.

Hence the dealer will work harder to sell you that 2014 or 2015 model before it becomes 2016 and it gets tainted officially as last years or 2 years ago model.
Growing up in an communist country I saw much less corruption than after we were liberated by democracy and liberal capitalism has been introduced. As a consequence of the system change, the corruption throughout the country rose to the unforeseen levels.

But of course, since communism lost, at least for now, it is an easy target for snarky comments.
A lot of people don't seem to realize that the term "privilege" is simply the opposite of under-privelavged and think the term means they were born with a silver spoon in their mouth.
Wait, you're saying that Linode uses facility transit? Like, they buy bandwidth from Savvis and TelX? Well that would be the problem right there.

From what I can tell, Linode doesn't even have their own AS for customer traffic? It appears that they have an AS for some internal use, but not for customers?
The love didn't "just happen." They didn't wake up one day in their separate homes and think, "I'm in love with him/her." (Which, of course, can and does happen.) They went into it deliberately.
As an accountant once told me unless you tax wealth then you can't fight this... and good luck getting an annual tax against wealth passed into law.

Wealth has many of the same problems. Unless you're going to try to tax someone's global holdings (how?), it's much easier for a hedge fund billionaire to park (and enjoy) his money in Chilean wineries and Dubai-registered jets than it is for a mere millionaire. Sure, you can buy a little plot in the south of France or a condo in the Caribbean, but it will cost you a much larger fraction of your income to keep it up and travel to enjoy it.

And trusts can shield wealth just as well as they can shield income.

It's effectively impossible to make the top few hundred taxpayers pay an effective rate much higher than 15%. But other than some appeal to fairness, who cares? They're already paying thousands of times over what the median taxpayer is.
The Inca.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5872764/the-greatest-mystery-of-the-i...