skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a context like global politics, where you can never even hope to have any access to any actual "facts", there are no arguments - only manipulation of "opinions". So the agenda of the author is the ONLY thing that matters.
I think a comment at the bottom of the linked article puts it perfectly:
"this sounds like two straw men having a fight"
I'm actually struggling to find this in the literature, but I've seen it used more than once.

Here's the most simple version:

Minimum two pages, each readable from both sides and one is writable from each side. You need this even for a single-directional queue. Have a simple post/ack counter that is modulo something much larger than the size of the queue (i.e. an unsigned long on most architectures). If (post - ack) is ever greater than the size of the queue, the queue should be considered no longer safe to use; both readers and writers should check this anytime they access these values. Otherwise there are (post - ack) bytes pending in the queue.

To write, write bytes at (post MOD size) and increment post; to read, read from (ack MOD size) and increment ack.

That is a simple one-to-one byte-stream queue; fixed-size message queues are an obvious change, non-fixed size message queues are significantly more complex, but proceed from the same idea. Many-to-one queues are a lot more complex, and one-to-many is more complex if you want reliable data transfer, but much simpler if you don't (just eliminate the ack completely)

If all you care about is throughput and you have more than 2 cores, then just spinning on post/ack is sufficient. Otherwise some synchronization primitive is needed.

On many real-world architectures, particularly SMP ones there are a lot of fiddly details to get right with the MMU &ct. but the underlying idea is simple.
An issue not mentioned is that capital gains taxes apply to illusory "gains" resulting from inflation.
There are consequences of being downvoted enough on HN. You get rate-limited, hell-banned, etc
RSuikit, coolest responsive UI framework is online
There was, IIRC. I think it was Cobind Linux that had something like this, although I don't think it was at the filesystem level. I could be confusing it with another distro, though. This was in the early 2000s.
I wish the industry culture was fun enough to actually implement it.
I'd like to offer a counterpoint to those who believe that this is simply "nonsense invective".

I think the submission is worded like the "everyman" talking, but it makes all the right counter-points.

* venture capitalism != democracy

* venture capitalism = the few get to decide what is valuable

* venture capitalism does not create wealth because existing wealth is used to legitimize "new wealth"

* venture capitalism cannot be used as the solution for everything, because in its existing form, it already undervalues things we would all care for (teachers, nurses, etc.) and overvalues things we all understand as entertainment (Candy Crush Saga)

* Paul Graham has written some very weird things -- his article then, taken holistically with the background of his other opinions, is scary

Pretty well written, I'd say. I am curious to know what words were stuffed into PG's golden mouth.
My thought also. I've read many of his essays which I enjoyed very much, mostly the more technical-centric ones. But reading this essay gave me the same creeping feeling I had when I read Atlas Shrugged ... (cover to cover!). There is a certain lacking of substance and nuance which paints the world in a very coarse categories and leaves no place for anything in between. Bottom line, not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. In fact entrepeneurs NEED non-entrepreneurs (called employees). Some employees are hard working, creative, innovative people who crave something else than 'winning' at the 'free-market' game ...
I added some copy-protection to a Nintendo 64 game once. If the anti-piracy checks ever triggered, the game would do nothing at first - but after a few minutes, the frame-rate would ever-so-slowly start to get progressively worse and worse until it was unplayable. I'd like to think that I pissed at least a few people off.
i currently work on www.letsnote.com to tackle exactly that issue, to get notes of what i read.

it's quite experimental at the moment
And I have also thought about the process of making friends for many years.

Consider that the complex network which is considered the ego network (a la the sociologists) is really considered a complex network, just like the overall global social network: radical inequality in the degree structure, clustering and triangle formation, radical inequality in eigenvalues of adjacency matrix, critical percolation to a giant component, durability to random insult but not attack, synchronizability.

Therefore, it will seem in low-friendship times that a radical prioritization is needed and that the durability to random insult should be used to deal with deep friends only. However, the global structure of the ego net must be maintained also by weak friendships, and weak relations are of the utmost importance in doing anything (see Granovetter's work).

As for the operation of getting the friends, fifteen or twenty readings of K. Johnstone's Impro should suffice.
Um, yes, it's certainly research.

The "heightened sensitivity" of musicians isn't just about being more aware of the richness of sound. The musician will likely score as more sensitive on every item of that test.

The third paragraph you write seems to be in perfect alignment with what the article is saying. I don't know what you are trying to get at in the fourth paragraph.
I managed to merge my keys and wallet into a single lump by getting a wallet with a grommet for a keyring. It's MUCH harder to forget/misplace than two smaller items.

https://google.com/search?q=Chain+Wallet
The post is a great example of how the term "value" is misunderstood. Value in the context of startups (Lean's definition) is not the same value when I talk about a nurse's or school teacher's work. The distinction is subtle, and when the subtly is missed can lead to anger because it feels as though a kind of value is being devalued.
Do you often have things in your pockets not worth saving from being stolen?

If it's in your pockets, is probably at least moderately valuable. Wallet and phone area obviously valuable. Keys might be. Those are the only things a pickpocket is likely to expect from your pockets, and tapping your pockets probably doesn't change that
Yup, exactly my suggestion elsewhere in this thread.
Here's the local perspective on the issue. They argue that Etisalat Egypt didn't apply to renew the license and thus it expired and the regulator body NTRA had to suspend it. Like I suspected, nothing about taking a stand on Net Neutrality or unrestricted internet access, just business as usual in Egypt.

http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFL3N14J3OQ2015123...
This is crazy! And I second too interesting...
This is another thing that makes you wonder why companies expose APIs to their services that enablenothers to make competing services.
> Why would anyone risk harm and spend years training to be an expert welder when he/she will get the same results as some person that throws some seeds in the ground to grow food for 4 people?

Because it's not the same results, it's progressive results.

The inefficient farmer gets 1 result * X tax rate
The efficient welder gets (1 result * X tax rate) + (Y result * X+Z tax rate)

As long as the tax rate < 100%, the higher efficiency is not only part of the return, it's also encouraged to have a better ROI.
Netflix allows you to turn of the subtitles in the UI. I have highlighted the relevant button in this screen shot (http://i.imgur.com/2jnxTJJ.png). This is from the Danish netflix.

Unfortunately they do not allow you to turn on English subtitles, and their translation is incredibly poor.
I actually think it's quite well written. It's not out there to dispute PG's central point. It's written to dispute the idea that Silicon Valley's engineering/business/vc minds have demonstrated skill at building anything more than an economically better future for themselves and those within the system. If it achieves that it seeks to invalidate PG's expertise. (From which much of his authority is derived. A concept familiar to Holly Wood as she is a sociologist.) It also criticizes his breadth of knowledge in the subject area, something an academic would be in a position to comment on. (I'd love to hear from an economist or another social scientist on whether PG's suppositions reflect the broader literature.)

Getting back to the article's main attack- It does so by making a logical, if emotion filled, attack. Venture capitalism is still capitalism. Participants work to, primarily, their own economic benefit rather than the benefit of society. (Yes, it's the worst system except for all the rest, but it still doesn't make the most long term beneficial allocations. See: poor funding for fundamental science research.)

Moreover the article criticizes PG (citing his lack of perspective) for promoting a "bootstraps" ideology. It tries to illustrate that the ideology is flawed in two ways: 1. The people who could most benefit don't necessarily have the personal capital (time, knowledge, etc.) to effectively run a startup.
2. It implies that there is only so much problem space that can be effectively addressed at any given time.

This is written in the style of a qualitative sociology monograph. I find it quite compelling, however, I'm not surprised that the crowd here doesn't share my view.
Similarly in the article how the author was touched by being grounded; most healthy 17 year olds take it for granted that when they leav,e they have a home to go to, and that their parents want them to be safe. The majority of foster youth do not.
100% agree. If you have any tips on features/interfaces that pair particularly well with cron, I'd love to hear about them!

I'd also be interested in hearing more about how your system works if you're willing to share!
Show HN: Macintosh Plus and Raspberry Pi 2 = Raspintosh+
The writer completely understands this issue and is why she is reframing it.

This is part of the thesis, the manner in which capital forwarded by VCs into startups, shape this dysfunction.
With nonfiction books details tend to stick better in my mind on their own (and even more so if I take notes, especially notes in a physical notebook with a nice pen - it's like my mind is more invested that way).

But when it comes to fiction, I can finish a book, wait a week or so, then read it again and only have a rough idea of the general plot in my mind. It's like all details are flushed within days. If it happened with nonfiction or other learning I'd work on strategies to improve this, but as it is I kind of think of it as a benefit! I get to experience my favorite books (and movies) afresh many many times and never get bored.
> I have libertarian biases [...] But I also have a social conscious

Being a libertarian does not in any way imply having no social conscience. Nothing whatsoever about libertarianism implies you should not be helping those less fortunate than you - only that you shouldn't be forced to. For example, Bill Gates' philanthropic activities are entirely congruent with libertarian ideas (although I don't know Gates' political leanings).
> Or it could be, a system capable of reasoning its way to doing X would be intelligent, but you can also teach to the test, so to speak, and build a system that does X without being generalizable and thus satisfy X without being intelligent.

Which is exactly what we do with many kids today; makes you wonder how many times we might invent AI and not know it because we don't raise it correctly so it appears too dumb to be considered a success.
Using MapReduce for a few MB of data? Jeese. That's a whole new can of worms.

I remember being younger, doing things the way I found "interesting" rather than the way I found practical. Eventually for a project or two you end up with basically nothing for all that complexity because you're focusing on the wrong things, and I learned to start putting functionality first.
Finatra – Build Beautiful REST API the Twitter Way
Says someone who has quite obviously never worked on database engines. Package manager? LOL. What language are you programming in, Ruby?
Somewhat related to this, yay for SLAAC on IPv6. DHCP is only used for auxiliary info like DNS servers, search suffix, etc. This is known is DHCP Lite.
Do you think it is just a coincidence that the words gay and faggot became insults? I keep seeing this idea repeated that it isn't homophobic because these words have taken on a new meaning and the people using them aren't actually referring to homosexuals when they lob them at people or things. But the reason why they are used as insults is because of a generally understood idea that homosexuality is bad. Do you really not see why it is disparaging that words used to identify a minority of people are becoming synonyms for bad, uncool, and so on?
If you live in expat areas you quite likely get your internet served through HK or Macao which isn't filtered.

The roaming packages of foreign mobile users also don't get filtered.

If you are a Chinese citizen you most likely will be filtered, I've been to China multiple times companies will usually have a dedicated work station with HK internet the rest will be filtered hotels usually also get internet through HK not sure if this is only for foreign guests or not, on normal internet connecions Wikipedia and the likes were definitely blocked at least as recently as February 2015(last time I visited main land China£
Design education is “tragic” says Jonathan Ive
This happens not only in India!
Location: currently in Southeast Asia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore or USA)

Technologies: /primary/ Ruby, Python, Scala, Clojure, C#, Rust; /secondary/ Perl 6, Java, Haskell, C/C++, SQL, JavaScript, R;

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Pob7RHSGg-EL7lS7i_1f3Ev...

Email: me (at) gildedhonour dot com or gilded.honour (atttt) gmail

======================

I'm Alex.

I've been building web, desktop and mobile applications for the last 6 years.

In 2015 I partially switched to data science: big data, nlp, machine learning, etc and this has become one more area I'm interested in.

Github: https://github.com/GildedHonour

Web-site: http://www.gildedhonour.com
I'm about half way through this at the moment - I'm sure a lot of the comments here are completely independent, but most could have easily cited this book! e.g. having a system/habit for things which need to be remembered, reducing the number of things to keep track of, eliminating distractions are all discussed/suggested in the book.
Everyone who uses Git is using the distributed features. It is not possible to use Git without the distributed features, because every time you do a commit or a merge or a push, you are doing it on your local machine on your own remote.

That being said, I will agree with you that most remotes exist on personal computers and not server and we tend to be focused on more centralized servers. I think that is a remnant of the Subversion mentality and is slowly getting better.

But, the distributed features of git are alive and well. Maybe not as alive and well as we'd all like. But, alive and well.
#OregonUnderAttack: People slam lack of govt action after militia takeover
I am offended by language such as the one in question.

There, it’s no longer theoretical.
The parts claiming that PG hates the "poors" would be one example of stuffing words into his mouth. I have difficulty locating any of the points you mentioned in the article itself.

EDIT: Here's the false "distillation" of PG's essay put into quotes (i.e. stuffed into PG's mouth): "I can distill the essence of the entire argument to: “Don’t hate the player, but don’t hate the game either. Hate yourselves, stupid poors, for not getting VC funding to start a company.”"

EDIT 2:
To reply more fully, point-by-point:

* There may be some kind of actual point there in that one needs to have currency in order to 'vote' for startups. I think the point of calling it democratic is that people choose what they want rather than having it chosen for them.

* The few are becoming many with things like Kickstarter allowing just anyone to help bring things to reality, though you may have some point in that the amount of money you can bring to bear on the problem is at issue.

* "venture capitalism does not create wealth because existing wealth is used to legitimize "new wealth"" - I don't even know what you think "wealth" is, but I'm guessing your idea of it is tied up in currency (dollars, Euros, whatever). If we didn't have, say, a cure for Malaria and a startup brings us that, it's new wealth. This is separate from the amount of currency that may exist in the world or how it may flow as a result of this.

If we give everyone $1,000,000 in currency, it doesn't change the amount of actual things we have that could be buyable like, say, cars, though people might be less willing to sell them for particular amounts of currency due to inflation. So this point is completely incoherent as the two sides of it are causally unrelated and it seems not to understand the use of 'wealth' as an economic term.

* "venture capitalism cannot be used as the solution for everything" - A strawman, as nothing is given to show that PG has actually claimed that. Instead it gives us this: "The solution to poverty is as transparent as starting Google, you stupid poors. Come on! Figure Google 2 out already, you idiots."

* "Paul Graham has written some very weird things -- his article then, taken holistically with the background of his other opinions, is scary" - Fear is the "mind killer" and its effects can be seen in this piece.
The Serious and the Smirk: The Smile in Portraiture (2013)
I thought we are not supposed to talk to strangers?
#h00t: Censorship Resistant Microblogging
Steam sales - I posted it here a while back. Clojure + Reagent site - http://www.hydralist.com
Amazon doesn't care about selling the hardware. They'd be ecstatic if this caught on. It'd be like owning the kindle ecosystem without having to take a loss on the hardware.

They provide Alex-as-a-service: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-vo... ("Build for Free. Using AVS to power speech experiences on your devices is completely free.")
(Note: I'm guessing that this will be lower accuracy than the echo, since the echo's acoustic models are probably tuned for their hardware.)
Here's the service that this depends on: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-vo...
This article says that PG's article is barely literate invective. So if PG's belongs here, this one might as well be here, too. Otherwise it's a bit of a double-standard.
Doesn't this say that the 1958 Tsunami was 100 ft, not 1,000 ft, in height?

> the sudden displacement of water resulted in a megatsunami that destroyed vegetation up to 1,722 feet (525 m) above the height of the bay and a wave that traveled across the bay with a crest reported by witnesses to be on the order of 98 feet (30 m) in height.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami
> Using those phrases shows a lack of tolerance for diversity

Not at all. You can be tolerant and socialized with a particular vocabulary. Same old arguments from the same old SJWs.
Perhaps someone could sneak it in as "further support for FAT32 variants." According to Terry, RedSea is "similar to
FAT32, but with absolute block addresses instead of clusters, fixed-sized 64-byte directory entries and no FAT table, just an allocation bitmap" [1].

[1]: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/RedSea.html
Dane here. I pay about half of what the biggest channel package costs in mandatory license fees every month, and it is a very poor offering.

Netflix is only 80kr, or about 12 dollars, whereas I pay almost 30 dollars for the tv fees. I watched about 10 minutes of broadcast tv last year but many hours of netflix. I don't get why I should be forced to pay for something that doesn't produce any value for me.
It's much ( and I mean very much ) more difficult to actually prove that money corrupts the political process in any significant way. And it may be even more difficult to show that this is expressed as (or causes then) an increase in inequality.

I could easily be quite wrong, but most articles I read of income inequality are simply descriptions of (perceived) social ills caused by systems which follow a Pareto distribution.

Pareto distributions have exactly one parameter - the "alpha". US income is distributed by two Pareto distributions added together - a bimodal Pareto distribution. One has a sort of offset such that its median is around $100K.

If inequality is increasing, it is because the distribution representing the higher income scale is growing - its alpha is increasing.

Nothing else need change except that, to change inequality.

I understand "the map is not the territory" but I write this just as a description of the process in a shorthand form, not to imbue the distributions with powers of anything more than description. The underlying process need be no more than increasing numbers of people in a "higher energy state" of the economy. Those in the lower energy state could probably not even "feel" this except through reports, and possibly changes in the prices of certain things.
East Germany thrived on snitching lovers, fickle friends and envious schoolkids
In your reference [1], one of the answers is http://english.stackexchange.com/a/100992:

> OED gives at least two different senses for this word. That of female genitalia is attested as early as 1699, but it's not considered for the sense meaning "coward". The other one, which I copy below, is the purported source of pussy meaning "coward". Basically, using a pet name usually given to women, like sweetheart, princess, etc. to refer to a man mockingly.

The part where making fun of a person by calling them women names is what’s not okay, regardless of whose genitalia are involved or aren’t.
> Most drivers prefer Uber. Uber takes value away from the middlemen, takes a smaller share of the middleman cut, and redistributes the remaining value to the driver and the passenger. Hence its popularity.

This is a primary result of the "fragmentation" caused by the corruption of the medallion and taxi corporations. If drivers had continued (in some cases) to be direct owners of the medallions or if Taxi corporations had not directed many of the profits to the top, then the answer of driver and consumer choice would be less known.

More drivers likely prefer Lyft if the market of riders exists (Lyft takes a lower cut and is less harsh), and that eventually lower cost (even free / open source) alternatives are taking over (Spain).
I don't see how someone can credibly argue that raising income tax rates discourages innovation. As if Zuck or Gates wouldn't have started their companies if they only would have made $25 billion instead of $50 billion.

He even argues in earlier writing that most of the innovation comes from genuine passion for solving a problem, rather than profit motive.

People who have worked a lot to increase their wealth understandably don't want a portion of it taken away, even if it probably won't make them less happy, or motivate people less in the future.
I'm still not sure how the subjective taxation of risk would work. Nor do I understand how it would be better than the objective taxation of success (i.e., income), especially when it comes to reducing corruption.
> ... could you share some of your examples ...

I used `yersinia` many years ago for this exact purpose (DHCP exhaustion). It supports attacking several layer 2 protocols as well.