skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term "privilege" is being used here in the social sense of the word, not the generic sense of the word. Which, to me as somebody who's spent a decent bit of time wrestling with the fact that, yes, I am incredibly privileged, is actually a little irritating--it's jargon but many people try to wedge it in as a normal word, much like (but less egregiously than) how Stallmanites try to co-opt "free".

> If a person wants to claim my background is privileged and that's what enabled it all and stake claim to what I have as a result

Which literally nobody does. That's the price of using jargon and expecting everybody to already understand you, and it's what drives me batshit. Privilege is not referring to the genesis of your accomplishments. Privilege is referring to the difficulty slider. And very, very few people in tech are at 'normal', to say nothing of 'easy' or 'very easy'. And it is generally considered gauche to roll one's eyes (and while I don't think you necessarily mean to, I kind of get that vibe a little? not maliciously) at somebody who's cranked up to 'holy shit impossible'.

I am at 'very easy' on that slider, even though I've had things that (to me) feel really shitty: my mom left town when I was ten, my brain doesn't quite work right all the time, and I am punishingly introverted. But the sum of the things working for me that were an accident of birth--I'm white, I'm male, I was born in America--is so huge by comparison that I have it on easy street. And it doesn't diminish me to acknowledge that. It does behoove me to recognize it and to help people who aren't so very fortunate, though, which is why I get real salty around here when the cryptoracist and outright racist contingents start pontificating at length about "the black mentality" or other garbage thoughts. (Which I am emphatically not saying you are doing, but happens all-too-often around here.)

Chew on this: http://danilocampos.com/2013/02/unpacking-my-knapsack-the-pr... - Danilo is an HN poster (one of my favorites) and this is a tremendous thing that's worth reading. Because he hits on something that's important, and I wish was more the focus of these discussions than "pfft, you have privilege," when he says: "Any pride I take in that hard work is dwarfed by the anxiety that I don’t yet know how to help others get to the point where they can work as hard as I have." (A lot of what defensive people see as "shut up" when the concept of privilege is invoked is really "think about what you should be grateful for, and extend graciousness to others." But that requires an understanding of the concepts involved, and...argh.)
How to write a Slackbot in 40 lines of code
You absolutely deserve everything you get.

Other people have also worked their asses equally off, and did not get where you are. They also deserved what they worked for and did not get.

It is pretty confusing that people use the same word "privilege" to refer to two different but related things, the ability to get away with things you shouldn't be able to (e.g., that "affluenza" kid in the news) and the ability to avoid harm that you don't deserve. The former is stuff nobody should have, and some unjustly do. But don't confuse it with the latter; stuff that everyone should have, and some unjustly don't.

People having high-salaried jobs without qualification is the first category. People having living wages and decent, safe working conditions is the second. We're not talking about whether people get to buy the latest Wu-Tang album, or even whether they can get a dev job in AWS. We're talking about working conditions at the Amazon warehouses.
>For instance, could you have a defined chain of authoritative servers, where the authority passes in a way where it cannot be abused?

Ripple and Stellar use a federated network of validating transactions to reach cascading consensus (validators A, B and C said this txn is good, and I "trust" them, so I will say this txn is good too) that while not completely abuse-proof, is significantly cheaper than PoW and possibly PoS (not certain about PoS costs; since the network of validators can be modeled as a graph, the central-most validators in the graph could censor transactions, but if validators "trust" a wide-enough variety of validators, it won't happen).
I spent a bunch of time figuring out how to get to long mode in a multiboot kernel. Finally got it working and discovered that a 64 bit UEFI app starts in long mode. Is it really so important to maintain support for non-UEFI x86-64 systems?
Interesting. What is "Multi-point Mitigation"? I know it mentions a few locations. I googled it and it just brings me back to that page.

I wonder if any solution would shutdown a VM and then restart it on another host but that'd be really sucky in some situations like an app might not shutdown cleanly, or the app is in the middle of something like charging a credit card.
Bias is easily removed, just select your zero and scale.

Human reaction to police actions is a precious feedback that can make them better, not throw them all to jails. What's good in police that is officially correct, but unaccepted by the entire society?
Unless the hashrate of the sum of miners declines once they stop creating the cryptocurrency and start only validating transactions, the amount of energy spent on mining will always be high and will always be ecologically-unfriendly.
Looking at job postings, angular does seem to br dominant, unfortunately.
According to Forbes, there are ~500 billionaires in the U.S., with an average wealth of ~$4B. Let's say $2T total.

If you assume they can make 10% annually on that wealth (probably optimistic), that's $200B/year.

It is totally implausible given the history of U.S. tax policy and compliance, but let's say you could capture a 50% effective rate of that.

That's $100B/year: Not even half the increase in U.S. tax revenue between 2013 and 2014 due to economic growth[1]. Did that extra $200B enable Congress and the President to solve significant problems last year?

[1] And whether you believe in the Laffer curve or not, it's hard to imagine that levying a massive tax on billionaires' investment income would have a positive effect on economic growth & thus tax revenue from the non-super-rich.
The original "design patterns" book, where the term comes from, talks exactly about that.
Things Astronauts Learned While Living in Outer Space
RE: Corruption, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway are literally four of the five countries in terms of "least corrupt". Their government might be dysfunctional, but corruption, they lack (by that metric). And as I understand it the national-general-contentment-rate (I'm not sure what the actual term is, but some sociological survey was conducted with as much rigor as the soft sciences can produce) those countries have similar ratings for happiness as well.

Though, even if you include the former soviet states, Latvia, Hungary, Poland, etc basically everyone except Ukraine is in the top third of the least corrupt, which is not that darn bad considering.
No problem, happy to help :D

Good luck!
Why did they threaten to shut down your account?
A quote that stuck with me from a molecular biology class taken a year ago, "It's not who wins a Nobel Prize off of CRISPR work, it's how many there will end up being".
Can I store my videos frame-by-frame as images?
I think the most exciting thing about this is the AOT compilation into a single binary (Go-style), something I've wanted for a long time [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9590213
Can you elaborate? I'd be curious to hear more. I'm trying to decide between Backblaze B2 and Amazon cloud drive for personal backup and archive.
> hedging different bets

More specifically, they each have their own unique business model which they believe will perform best in the market. You can "oversell" future storage successfully if you know the usage growth rates.
Me and some other people are working on a seL4-based OS in Rust. We're getting ready to publically announce our first milestone by next week.

There's also https://github.com/thepowersgang/rust_os, which is one of the oldest OS written in Rust, but never gets any press.
> I release software the way Banksy releases art.

It's pretty easy to vandalize a wiki tho.
It definitely makes it superior to Google Photos for backup, but Google Photos is drastically superior for viewing your photos. Automatic face detection / grouping, and really good search functionality help a ton.
/u/steveklabnik1 is writing one https://intermezzos.github.io/
Just to be clear, what do you mean by unable to write it?

Are the cases where people make a common mistake, but are quickly able to fix it, counted (such as forgetting to fizz and buzz for certain numbers).

What about cases where the people can code the algorithm, but can't do everything to get a program that will compile. For example, using Visual Studio with C# means some of the basic scaffolding is almost always generated and thus many developers aren't able to recall what that scaffolding is off the top of their heads.

Or is it limited to cases where they just sit there staring at a blank sheet of paper not sure how to proceed?
I wonder if you can use it to back up arbitrary files - if you take any file and prepend it with "GIF89a=\t0\t;;;;" it becomes a valid GIF.
The problem I see isn't that AI becomes super smart, but that it becomes "usable enough" to do a job yet not capable (or deliberately relieved) of understanding the consequences.

Such systems become superweapons for cheap.

Unlike nuclear weapons, AI combined with drone-type weaponry becomes easier with time. The toy factory down the street could be converted to build a drone army for a few million bucks.

AI face recognition, targeting and flight control are smart enough to deploy a weapon - but dumb enough to do the job without question.
I think what makes you privileged is the fact you mostly don't have to deal with bullshit (that's on the edge of - or beyond - workplace law) that is described in the article in your workplace. It's only tangentially related to computers.
The San Bruno gas pipe explosion investigation found a very cosy relationship between the CPUC (the commission meant to regulate the gas industry (among others) and be a watchdog) and PG&E. The tiny city of San Bruno has been pushing to get the regulators punished, but no dice. The regulators were literally in the pockets of PG&E, consulting with PG&E over decisions and bending over backwards for PG&E.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Bruno-says-PG-E-to...
Silicon Valley: The New Welfare State?
we should demand an elucidation of the likely consequences of tax cuts and tax increases given our current situation. isn't exactly a rejection of your first paragraph there. It's basically a synonym for tangible implications for policy.

And dismissed as a rhetorical device doesn't mean it is useless, it just means that the concept itself isn't worth a whole lot in a policy discussion, at least not once you've got everyone in the discussion to agree that cutting taxes can be beneficial (which I hope is not usually something that requires much discussion).
I think you present a false dichotomy.

A distinct coding style does not indicate that the code is surprising or difficult to follow.

A diversity of styles should help overall code quality in an organization because you get to pick and choose the 'best approach'* for a situation, and more importantly, learn from your peers.

* whatever that heuristic happens to be... probably unsurprising and reproduce-able for you. I'd say the heuristic for me is 'concise, read-ably correct'. I've always thought of programming as closer to writing mathematical/logical proofs than anything else. If I can eyeball a program and say 'yup, that does what claims it wants to do,' then it's good. I don't think that heuristic always holds up in practice, simply because successful code-bases blossom proportionally to their success.
32c3 talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dagxIy4ZNSQ
Back to geocities websites with hit counters! I like how it was implemented though, I simply hope I won't start seeing this everywhere from now on because it doesn't add anything to a repo to have that badge.
> just as long as it’s not grunt, gulp

Well that sucks. What if all I know is PHP and Javascript? To manage a pipeline I'm slowly learning out of necessity bash -- sort of a need to know basis. What do people recommend for this? I'm considering to explore Python as a third language over Ruby.
This document specifically claims that "All traffic is routed through custom GFE (Google Front End) servers to detect and stop malicious requests and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks."

https://cloud.google.com/security/whitepaper
Redox was started independently by an OS hobbyist. It was linked to reddit.com/r/rust by a member of the community. It's since gone on to gain a moderate developer base within the Rust community.
Unpacking My Knapsack: The Privileges of a Hispanic Male in Tech
Deja vu. I wonder how he came across one of the really old works of Zakir Hussain. One of the greatest percussionists of Indian classical music of all time.
Could just be the difference between storing arrays in memory using row-major order vs. column-major order. Not sure which ordering JavaScript uses, but R is definitely column-major.
Strangely this whole thread convinced me to try Linode. Why? everyone keeps saying it's so cheap and I do A LOT of web crawling so I don't need 99.999% uptime
Metallica's Kirk Hammett: Lemmy Made It 'Okay to Be an Outsider'
Lethal Force as First Resort
> 7. Try to go by yourself and not with with your spouse or significant other , so you are the final word.

Although, if you have a willing partner, you can play good cop/bad cop with them.

One partner wants the car, but you don't. The salesperson has to be the intermediary, and make concessions to get you on board.

It makes it very easy not to be interested in whatever the salesperson offers. "$1000 off? I don't care: I don't want the care."
Also the original source (https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm...) is all tiny fonts, directory listings and PDFs. I hate blogspam but this isn't it: it's providing some actual value.
Hey, that means Google Bedroom-View is just around the corner. I, for one, can't wait - nor can the NSA.
> I'm curious, though, as to why you believe Google would expend less effort developing the runtime considering the different trajectories of ART and the JVM.

Because the runtime is much more than just the VM. If you look at the breakdown of the JDK source tree[1], you'll see that it's 77% Java and only 18% C/C++ (although the Android ecosystem is already making indirect use of some of that Java code, when it uses tools like javac, javadoc etc.). Also, Google might choose to use HotSpot or parts of it instead of or in addition to ART.

Of course, all of this is pure speculation (and wishful thinking) on my part.

[1]: https://github.com/dmlloyd/openjdk
It's not about blaming the victim -- My point is extraordinary risk requires extraordinary response. If your career centers around rattling the cage of criminal hackers, you've made a choice to expose yourself to extreme risks.

Things you can do about that vary. For example, in New York, if you're a victim of severe domestic abuse (stalker, etc), you can actually get a special address provided by the State, who will confidentially keep your real address and forward mail to you. Maybe a similar approach/service can be used in this case.

NIST defines the various trust levels that underlie identity solutions and offer increasing levels of validation from level 1 (no proofing, just validation that you are the same individual) to level 4 (in-person proofing with "hard" crypto authentication token). Two-factor auth without proofing doesn't really change the game -- that's why PayPal MFA is a joke for many use cases.

The problem with this stuff is that proofing requires a big uplift in cost & effort. If I were a service provider, in the absence of a mandate to serve Mr. Krebs or other high-risk targets like him, I would terminate my relationship with him.
Can you provide some definition of "ecosystem" that would be problematic? I'm not proposing a law that says "you have a right to somebody else's ecosystem," I'm proposing that APIs not be copyrightable. You still have to provide your own implementation.

I feel like I'm arguing against the position that you should have to service your car at the dealership because otherwise the independent mechanic who does the work is somehow illicitly expropriating value from the OEM. How is it that that has come to be a right of the OEM?
Similar. I skipped that to see what was next, said "No" to stricter gun control, and my candidates are down to Trump and Paul.

There seem to be some issues with the data.
Star Wars: 3Ms de billets vendus en 5 jours en France
Decouvrez le film star wars qui fait un tabac en france et dans le monde. Ce septième volet de la guerre des etoiles aurait attire 3 millions de francais.
Not to be overly pedantic, but it's also predicated on a person's understanding of love (in the romantic sense). For example, if one understands love to be significant emotional attraction, then this type of exercise seems likely to produce it. However, if emotional attraction is necessary but not sufficient, (e.g., a person can't/won't romantically love another without a shared worldview) this exercise will only identify potential friends.

Also, to a great extent I agree that love is a choice, but it doesn't strictly follow that if it's possible to love anyone, then love must be a choice. It may also be possible that we can fall in love with anyone by chance, but the chances for a love-producing circumstance are small, so romantic love is infrequent (somewhere between zero to a handful of times per lifetime). On this view, Dr Aron only identified a mechanism for increasing the probability of romance.

For the curious, the idea that love (a belief, to an extent) is a choice falls under a hotly disputed umbrella position called "Doxastic Voluntarism" [1].

1. http://www.iep.utm.edu/doxa-vol/
Amazon nags me quite a bit and tries to upsale me to Prime on the Amazon website.

Every single time I click "check out" and in several other places I get these Prime popovers or full page ads with a very small "No thanks" or "Cancel" link. There are now even normal non-Amazon products that are sold only to Prime members. Is this how Amazon.com cares about loyal 15+ year consumers?

I DO NOT WANT PRIME, GOT IT? Not now, not tomorrow, not next months, never. Why should I pay a premium membership for a virtual shopping center?!? Are there any "Prime"-nag-screen blocker browser plugins?...
If MMT claims are so weak we are in dire necessity of a paper or, at least, a blog post that address its issues seriously. After searching, I have not found such thing. Maybe you could write it.

Most critics dismiss the conclusions or address questions that are not really part of MMT.

Personally, I am specially interested in criticism of the most descriptive part of MMT, starting on chartalism but going beyond, banks money creation, sectoral balances, foreign exchange, etc..
They seem to have made available almost their complete catalog up to and including 2004:
http://link.springer.com/search?showAll=false&facet-content-...

This search yields 110 041 results across all disciplines covered by springer that should be free to download in complete. Only 11 451 books from the same time range are 'preview-only'.

I'm not certain that this is intentional. I haven't found any statement by Springer that they make available all ebooks older than 10 years. Does anyone know more?
Can you elaborate why is this disgusting? Is it because it is coming from GS?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10807410
I would add Poverty Creek Journal by Thomas Gardner
The federal budget is nearly $4 trillion. The top 400 Americans earn about $134 billion. The top 1% earns about $2 trillion. Even taxing them at 50% would only raise half of what was needed.
Sure, any energy expenditure over and above what would be necessary to run a centralized database can be considered inefficient, and therefore "ecologically unfriendly". However, the hashrate isn't burning energy for no utility: the security of the network is directly proportional to the energy expended in hashing.

Considering that the energy is being expended for a purpose (security against malicious actors), and that it is economically infeasible to expend more energy than the marginal fee revenue in a given moment (once we transition from the current block subsidies to a pure fee market), I question whether calling mining "economically unfriendly" is fair. The energy usage will scale linearly (not exponentially) with usage, which seems perfectly alright to me.
Yep, Hot vehicles means there are 10 suckers behind you that are begging to overpay to get what they want or 5 others that don't care about money. Hence the dealer are willing to tell you to go F-off (not literally but negotiation type).

I actually had a dealer act like I was crazy when I laughed at the price of their stock Jeep wrangler in the 35K range. I had a couple jeeps before and I love jeeps but I'm also aware that they are not good vehicles for everyday usage and they are not very reliable . They are fun to drive and and off road with, but there is no way that I would justifying a 35K jeep for off-roading or weekend getaway vehicle.

Apparently others do and are willing to pay that 35K for it, so I'm out of luck in purchasing a Jeep as they don't need to negotiate.

So dealing with a dealer will be pointless for a 1-3 year old jeep.The only hope is to buy from an individual in need of getting rid of it, but even then that will be tricky because they likely owe more than its worth or what you would be willing to pay.

So my options are to buy an much older paid off jeep from an individual or possibly look at other alternative jeep like vehicles.

Also luckily for me I have a friend with a dealers license that allows me to buy at auction. So that will likely be my method of purchase when I'm ready again next time around.
>> We've actually told customers to go away because their content was too DOS-prone.

Isn't that a good way to earn yourself some nasty one-star reviews? "They shut us down because of our political/religious content." That doesn't sound like a way to attract and keep loyal customers through stellar reviews and word-of-mouth advertising.

I hope there's a better way for ISPs to solve the problem than just to get rid of the customers who are the targets.
That is the historical lesson: give up some of your bounty or give up all of your life. There's a country that once had such unrest about this that the people built machines to make it efficient to remove people's heads, they had so many to remove. And it wasn't just the rich who got caught up in this frenzy, at least one innovative chemist had his head removed and he wasn't all that well to do.

So yes, it's destabilizing for ultra wealthy to keep trying to take all the marbles.
Neither would $100M or $200M. And for someone making $50,000, paying a 50% effective rate sounds like a great deal compared to living in Bangladesh. I don't think that argument implies anything about what rates should be, which makes me wonder exactly what it's supposed to demonstrate.
Leave it to HN to over-analyze a romantic anecdote...
This is great. I assume you used the API for this, any chance that's available on GitHub?
Thanks to the hack it has been proved that AM business was based in luring using with bots was and that a significant part of their accounts were completely made up and that even so there were 1 woman for every 10 men. It's just unbelievable that they keep advertising their strength with their fake numbers.
Cost of average San Francisco rent actually fell last month
I was a big fan of Zakir Hussain back in the days. He was an inspiring celebrity for us in India.
Immigrant Entrepreneurs Create $1.7 Trillion in Revenue a Year