skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To speed up IntelliJ products, immediately open Settings -> Directories and exclude all unnecessary folders. Otherwise a crawler background process will indexes every file, and it consumes a lot of CPU and IO resources.
maybe he counts philanthropy as neither?
Love the snappy title for this post... It's poetry.
In what way is it different? You keep asserting this without making any concrete claims.
Well, you could make everyone install a compromised SSL certificate...

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/perpass/current/msg019...
Many people's psychiatric conditions are related to being exhausted: substandard thyroid function (low t3 activity), excessive amounts of dietary seed oils, etc.
> Luckily as PG notes there is a massive defragmentation

His essay is about a _re_-fragmentation, which is the opposite of a defragmentation. If this was just a typo, ignore me, but I wasn't sure if you had misunderstood the metaphor he was using.
Seconded. IdeaVim is incredible. It's been close to 1:1 parity with the vim features I need.
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Thanks for pointing out! I was also assuming it was an article from 1982 at first. I was already wondering about terms like "bare metal" and "automated tools" in the first paragraph. Not sure if they'd have been used in '82.

Would be interesting to analyze further possible differences in the language if the article would have been written in 1982.
Issue trackers work perfectly well in the small and there are plenty of historical examples of successful issue tracker implementation among small, tightly scoped products with good communication.

The problem is, as it scales, you have to start making tradeoffs between the different desires everyone has over what an issue tracker should be.

Does every issue have to go into the issue tracker? If I spot a typo on the about page, do I have to file an issue or can I just IM Lisa and she can apply the fix?

Does the issue tracker have to reflect the ground truth at all times? If a defect was assigned to Bob and Bob and Lisa have lunch in the cafeteria and Lisa figures out she can fix the issue better, does Bob then have to go back to his desk and reassign the issue to Lisa?

Is the issue tracker for employees only or for management as well? For product companies, tracking time is generally unimportant but consulting companies generally require each hour needs to be billed to a particular client. Tying together the issue tracker with the time tracker seems like an initially appealing solution to this problem but now introduces a whole new world of pain.

Is the issue tracker used for prioritization or is a separate system used? Both have pros and cons.

Generally, when you hear people's gripes around issue trackers, it's not around the particular software but the policies surrounding it. But the reason why you hear so many complaints about the policies is because the intrinsic structure around how issue trackers are built actively encourage bad policy because of how many conflicting goals it purports to solve.
Remember what capitalism is: a warehouse full of food at marked up prices where the hungry can't eat because they don't have the gold. There's tyranny in the market too, libertarian.
I can relate to the research. In an office of about 70 staff there are days when we have less than 10 people at their office desk (either because they are working from home or on client sites). And it certainly makes me question why I bother going into the office on those days.
You know what, I am not a fan boy of either Gates or Jobs. In fact badly wanted Microsoft to lose the battle with Google in the early 2000s. Hated Microsoft for Internet Explorer vs Netscape battle in the mid-late 90s. Liked Unix/Linus over Microsoft technology for most of my career, and luckily managed to avoid working on the latter for most of the time.

All that said, one must learn to distinguish between a bad company and a good person (or a person playing different roles). I am a big fan of Gates in his post retirement avatar. He comes across as very earnest and well meaning person. Apart from his role as heading his charity foundation, he has good literary tastes ( picked up 'Guns, Germs and Steel' only based on his reco, about which I posted 9 days ago as well[1]), and a way of finding hidden gems (e.g. he was instrumental in making Khan Academy popular in its earlier years, when one fine day he suddenly mentioned it in one of his talks that he uses that to teach his children).

So its not at all that hacking community are fan boys of all billionaires. Remember he was earlier hated by many. And now loved by many. You should try to be fair in your judgement, that's all.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10787625
The inequality gap is the direct result of an education gap
How would duplicates be tracked if you can't see the global list to link them together? Sounds like you'd end up with a lot of potential wasted effort on "interesting" issues being worked on simultaneously.
Based on the downvotes this received, I can only conclude that either people really aren't aware of how free they are (or deny it because it's comfortable and easier to not change), aren't interested in going through the struggle of setting out a life for themselves (as opposed to mimicking others, which is also easier), think I'm being elitist, or they are religious and object to my saying young generations are born without God and religion (even though here in the first world Angloshpere, we are, for the most part, born without God and religion).

Whatever your reason, it is still difficult to deny (IMHO) that more than ever today we have the freedom to set our own path, in a way we never have before.
You're wrong at least 3 times in a single post.

Roundup doesn't contaminate plant products, because it's applied when the plant is still tiny. It does, however, contaminate rivers.

Farmers don't get sued by Monsanto because they accidentially get seed blown on their fields - that's practically legally impossible, given that Monsanto enforces its policies using licencing laws, not patent laws. If you disagree, please provide an example of such a lawsuit.

Monoculture is popular even without GMOs.

There are many things wrong with GMOs and surrounding industry, but what you list above are not problems, but lies.
The great life of Ian Murdock and modern problems of police brutality
I still can't seem to figure out: can IDEA + plugins = PyCharm & RubyMine & PHPStorm & WebStorm?
Not all the lawful methods of making money are morally acceptable and people should refrain from using them.

IMHO this is an example of that. Morality is probably subjective and you might disagree on this example but I'm sure you can find others.
You're confusing proximate and ultimate causes.

> Income inequality is ... a cause of the problem (inequality itself causes vertical social distance, causing unresponsive elites, causing people to get elected that favor the preferences of other elites, which causes..) It's self-reinforcing.

You state the problem is elites in office who have biases in their preferences, and claim that inequality causes this. The links you provide list political polarization, class warfare, etc. as "effects" of income inequality. However, nowhere do you show this is the ultimate cause of the problem rather than a proximate cause.

A better use of time would be to suggest ways that one might limit undue political influence in the presence of inequality, rather than eliminating inequality itself (which would have many deleterious effects as addressed in the original post).
And Red Alert 2: YR fans might find Ares [1] interesting: it's an engine-enhancement that fixes a ton of funky bugs [2] and enables loads of new functionality, and popular mods like Mental Omega and D-Day take advantage of that functionality in interesting ways.

(I used to be the lead developer of Ares for several years, the amount of reverse-engineering and C++ voodoo involved was awesome.)

1: http://ares.strategy-x.com/

2: https://ares-developers.github.io/Ares-docs/bugfixes/type1/i...
If the cluttered garage is in Silicon Valley, then convert it into an apartment and hey presto, real estate 1%-er.
It's not a useful company. It's a lose-lose.
I posit that people enjoying [reading about] this would also thoroughly enjoy "The Reduceron reconfigured and re-evaluated" (accessible from https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/reduceron).
Most of those people received educations costing upwards of $60,000.
Oh, wow... now my mind is blown for real.

May I ask how you know that?

Does this mean that the person actually cracked this game recently just to post such a write up?
Kind of. The core functionality is the same but the plugins generally lag behind the functionality of the focused IDEs by around one major release. Additionally there are some general tweaks to the UI such that the overall experience is more streamlined with the focused IDEs.
> [...] he problem of the ever widening gap of income inequality in the global economy [...]

It's exactly the opposite, and even acknowledged in the article: on an international scale, the world is getting more equal, not less.
I almost exclusively play RTS in single player mode on random generated maps.

And the AI is very good in AoE/AoM series (well except for the AI bugs in AoE2, in both the original as well as in the "HD" re-release). Whereas other RTS games (e.g. EmpireEarth) cheat a lot, that's not very rewarding. The developer at least tried to create an AI that doesn't cheat with resources.

Playing an RTS for several hours in multiplay against friends (LAN) is fun (as long both are almost equal). Internet gameplay isn't that fun, when someone suddenly leaves the game, or just doing a common rush strategy. Nowadays some of them found their niche with League of Legends, etc.

For me, AI gameplay in single player is more fun.
"> I post them to twitter. ...Why?"

As a reminder to myself how lame some sites are and what happens when it's assumed JS is in use.
And the second reason is that if you want to solve a problem using a network of cooperating companies, you have to be able to coordinate their efforts, and you can do that much better with computers. Computers reduce the transaction costs that Coase argued are the raison d'etre of corporations. That is a fundamental change.

I wonder if the same is true of coordinating efforts in a centrally planned economy - would computers be the same kind of fundamental change there?
I had paid less attention to sleep until I got hit by Appendicitis and I had to be operated, that was a waking call for me to take health seriously, so I stopped all the late night waking and started sleeping at least 6-7 hrs daily. What I have observed is that if you keep everything under check then it won't impact your health much, too much of anything is bad, so I started to daily exercise, meditate
You have no idea how awesome it feels to meditate at 5.30am under a giant tree listening to the sound of birds chirping. Sadly I shifted to a Metro now, so can't sit under a tree, but I do meditate, it helps to clear my mind, meditation + daily exercise = good health
Yeah, if you have the ultimate edition, you can get plugins to do pretty much what all their other products do. Except for maybe AppCode.
Regarding his wife being in on the scam:

> Sandy told the authorities that Kay had played no part in his scheme, though he might have been more convincing if he’d remembered that they could read his email, like the one in which he wrote Kay, “Remember: you never knew anything.”

That is amazing. What a great article.

When I worked on Wall St we had a dude on my desk on the trading floor steal 30k in black car (upscale cars before Uber existed) and bill it to our firm. They didn't even fire him. They were just like, "Don't do that any more."

We also had a secretary at our firm recently put 13k of her personal expenses on the bosses credit card. She paid all of his bills and he never got them, so nobody found out until after she got fired (for other reasons) and they finally looked at his invoices.
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It comes about 95% of the way. The plugins usually lag slightly behind the individual IDEs and their are some minor UI tweaks.
What I learned not drinking for two years
Access to resources & social attention are key concerns.

Some harmful effects of inequality when people do not have access to:

* needs (i.e. Maslow Hierarchy); particularly autonomy
* ability to express perspective
* ability to have perspective considered, paid heed to, & respected
* ability to influence local systems
* protection from those who are abstracted away from local systems; those who will not feel immediate consequences of their actions

If we can create systems where these concerns are prioritized, then inequality of wealth may not matter.

Some people are good at playing the game of gaining wealth. Some are good at other games. In the end, we all benefit from respecting and having compassing & empathy for all life & natural systems.
I'm just saying if you have a criticism share it. If your problem is being an nth iteration then that's not really comment worthy. Sure the node ecosystem has an abundance of modules and frameworks. I don't consider it harmful and it seems the developer mindshare sorts through these "problems" with ease.
Yeah and Harriet Tubman should have been arrested for illegally smuggling stolen goods /s
I was with you until:

> India comes from the Greek word, which is describing a feature of the terrain

I'm not a scholar on these matters, but my impression was always that the terms 'India' and 'Hindu' were closely related. It's not like the Greeks just made up a Greek name for the place.

From your source:

> The name [India] is derived ultimately from Sindhu, the Sanskrit name of the river

and

> The name Hind (Persian: هند‎‎) is derived from the Iranian equivalent of Indo-Aryan Sindh
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Oh come on. I've started a manufacturing business with my smarts, a hammer, a tape measure, and a saw. In 5 years I will sell it for several million dollars.

When a convicted felon can do that, the argument that we don't live in a Free Market doesn't hold any weight, imho. A person can find a need, build a business around it, and become powerful and have money.
Google scholar still existing?
Just incase anyone fails to spot the implications of AI without emotions, we already have examples of non artificial intelligent sentient beings without the "emotion" of empathy, we call them psychopaths and sociopaths

I'd like non sociopath/psychopath AI please. Doesn't seem too much to ask for considering the possible fallout.
Some copy protection systems relied on using subtle timing errors to create disks that would read as "corrupt" by standard system software. Replicating this behavior in an emulator would be a major undertaking as well as being hard to reproduce in an image format.
Some classic examples:

* TCP/IP (USDOD)

* HTTP and HTML (CERN)

* The initial research for the Google algorithm (NSF)

* Compaq and Intel’s early stage funds (SBIR)

* Tesla was launched with a $500m guaranteed government loan

In fact, 77 out of the most important 88 innovations between 1971 and 2006 (rated by R&D Magazine’s annual awards) were fully dependent on US federal government support (1)

(1) http://ser.oxfordjournals.org/content/7/3/459.abstract
Here is a blog post by Joel Spolsky, with some insights about Bill Gates' reading.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html

The article already states Gates' reading habits. Sometimes they do put some videos on Gates' notes, (the one I saw was Bill interviewing Vaclav Smil) and it was largely consistent with review, enough that gave an impression, Bill Gates wrote the review. He may have people prettying up or other stuff, but there is no doubt that Bill Gates is responsible for a very significant portion of the output on Gates notes.
I was sharing a post,and noticed Hacker News..clicked to take a peek..like what I found and the guidelines I read STAT. This thread my first,due to lack of similar context else where. Great stuff, Stay Calm and get it on:Hacker News!
Not only is there a one-time wealth transfer, there is in the ongoing extra taxes of companies paying what they should be paying.

i.e. let's get Facebook to actually pay something in taxes
Pressure, yes, but I want numbers - what percentage of jobs have disappeared over, say, the past 20 years, and could increased demand realistically replace those jobs in other sectors? You can't simply say "manual labor is over, because... singularity." There's no singularity yet. Until then, you need data before you can really extrapolate from current trends. The easiest things to automate are already automated, and harder things are coming along slowly. It might be true that jobs disappear faster than prices fall from the automation, or prices might fall fast enough that most people can have jobs that don't pay much, and still get by.
"The ultimate way to get market price is to work for yourself, by starting your own company." This seems to be one of his main points here, and for me it is not true at all.

There are many people that bring real value, even if they would not be good founders (and maybe not even good as first 1-10 employees). That is just one specific set of skills (in addition to common skills), a person can bring a lot of value without being a good founder.
This is spot on, that's exactly how I remember the scene back then.

"Beneath Apple DOS" (and later ProDOS) were the cracker bibles back then. It's pretty much the only official documentation you could buy that described how the floppy drives work at the lowest levels. There was no internet and BBS were reserved for the most wealthy hackers. Basically, you were on your own to figure things out.

With the knowledge from this book, you could theoretically crack anything, but as the article shows, you also need to have total mastery of the 6502 and of the Apple ][ ROM layouts too.
I am a fan of C&C Renegade (the concept of 3D shooter and RTS gameplay is so awesome) and C&C Generals. Would love to see some community projects around them as well. Something like 0 A.D. for C&C Renegade and Generals (mind you both featured the same game engine)
I'd say more money or fewer hours will keep people onboard but only despite other problems. The other problems will still persist and they will adapt to the new lifestyle of more time/money they will take it for granted, but the niggling desires will still be there pushing them to another job.
Disinformation is a natural progression after total information awareness.
In one extreme example, my project was a scraper that scraped in 80k images or so, and IntelliJ was essentially unusable until I did this (16 gig of ram, SSD, i7 quad core etc), and completely fine afterwards.

So if anyone is having performance problems, please do check this out.
> More fundamentally I just don’t think it is good for the ultra rich to live a life that is so different to the rest of society.

Why not? So Jay Leno has a 10,000 sqft garage and 500 cars, what do I care? Tom Cruise doesn't affect my daily life. Politicians do, and most of them are rich but not ultra rich.

People will always have a warped perspective of others, that's just how the human brain works. In fact we discuss that on HN frequently, how Silicon Valley can seem so clueless solving "white first-world problems".
I understand how any trip to the hospital might lead to a reflection on your health. However, I fail to see how appendicitis is related to a lack of sleep.
The first does not follow from the second.
Location: Canberra, Australia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

- Machine learning

- Python, Django, Celery and Ansible development.

- Numpy, Scipy and Matplotlib.

I am a former software engineer, who is about to complete my MSc in Computer Science at ANU, with a focus on AI. I am familiar with machine learning concepts - logistic regression, neural networks, SVMs, the lot - and I would be interested in pursuing a career in this exciting field.

Winner of the AusDM'2015 Student Data Mining competition.

LinkedIn:

https://au.linkedin.com/pub/lee-wei-yen/39/ba9/aa6/en

Github:

https://www.github.com/yen223
I think the actual arcade game was before my time, but i seem to recall playing it, or one of those clones, on DOS at some point.

Edit: or maybe my brain is in dire need of a fsck. Checking some screenshots on mobygames makes me wonder if it was the NES version on emulator.
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You asked why I was certain. So I asked why you were certain. The onus is on the people putting out apocalyptic theories to justify the apocalyptic scenario (extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - a central tenet of the scientific method).

We are going to have a normal-intelligent AI before a superintelligent AI.
Yes, that's absolutely natural. That's like saying 50 to 70 of Internet traffic went through an ISP.
Battle for Middle Earth did that quite well. You could play on a ladder system that paired you up against people with a similar win/loss ratio. A friend and I used to play 2v2 quite a lot. We got to the point where we could comfortably beat 6 AIs and we were OK against people with a little online experience. Occasionally we played against serious people from the forums and got thoroughly destroyed.

It was fun, but beyond casual battles it became too much like exploitation of the engine - e.g. having to destroy farms yourself because you didn't want to give the enemy units experience.
Imho it's much simpler than PG explains. If we feel more or if we feel less than someone else we create separation.

Ofcourse there are forces that stimulate this separation (like PG says) but in the end it's just us.

The solution it to listen to yourself. Am I feeling less than this person? Am I feeling more than this person? If so: stop that thought.
So you force your citizens to install a compromised SSL cert and can now impersonate any website. Now what? If you want to monitor someone don't you have to proxy all their traffic? Is that even feasible on a country wide scale? Because you can't do it intermittently since a user can just check which cert the key is signed with to tell you whether you're currently being monitored.
Does anyone have an OS X build of this?
So why do people work there if it such a bad job? My second job at Burger King wasn't great, but I didn't plan on making a career there.
I don't know. I haven't thought closely enough about the issue. But what I do know is that often, the difficulty of moving towards a new paradigm is that constraints which are considered essential under an old paradigm turn out to be not big deals under the new one. My term "bankrupt only software" takes inspiration from "crash only software" which also faced this same shift in mindset.

Maybe there are additional constraints to be added to make dupes not a big deal (each issue can only be a day's worth of work max). Maybe it will turn out that dupes aren't a big deal anyway and that the increase in productivity offset the occasional dupe.

The thought experiment was basically RSS Reader:Twitter::Issue Tracker:???
Yesterday I tried creating a Rails project with the name containing the Lithuanian character ė. In some parts the letter was reproduced correctly, in others it was incorrectly capitalised (it should be Ė - so not complicated - but was still the lowercase version), and in others was silently dropped :D
That's just sad how much you are missing my point, all the while defending the coffee that your text kind of reads like you had too much before reading.
I suppose. I mean, I get the difference between quality and quantity, but if we're talking about the gravity of the problem, the knowledge that 50-70% of trades are HFT/automated tells us something about the nature of our securities, commodities, etc. markets. Doesn't it?