skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warren Buffet once said something like: there has been class warfare and my side won.

About 15 years ago I had an ongoing discussion with my neighbors (both retired medical doctors) about creeping corporatism. 15 years ago we all agreed that the best people can do is to be resilient by not being in debt, stay educated, have strong social networks; I think the way we agreed to describe it was to live like mice in the walls, comfortably and off the radar.

I still agree that this is the strategy: try to live a free and inspired life (to quote Katherine Austin Fitts) despite what is happening in the world.
BigData framework, library, and example weekly roundup – Jan. 10, 2016
It's a step back just as the walled garden ecosystem is in general, but it did make it easier to find documentation and hire developers, and thus grow the platform.
Does NextHub provides an endless stream of comments, posts, pictures etc.?

If yes, then it is a Facebook clone.
If no, I like you, but how is the app experience?
He was referring to our 'schizophrenic' use of it. It's used differently among generations. Older people use purely imperial, whereas young people use a confusing mixture. For example, I measure long distances in miles, but short distances in meters and centimeters! I think of weights and volumes in a metric way, except when talking about the weight of a person, when I use stone (not pounds, mind you).

I might be an extreme example, but most people use an imperial-metric melange of some kind.
bait and switch? click-bait.
If your co-workers are telling you that you are reinventing the wheel then you are likely not taking the time to understand the framework that has been developed over time.

You are a junior dev. They hired you to invest in you and grow you. They pay you in dollars, not pleasure. Your day 1 contributions are likely meaningless in the grand scheme. What they want to see is that you can read and understand existing code and that you are a team player. Any code monkey can go in and write functions for validation or logging, but if I am paying you to understand HOW you should do it, taking advantage of the (hundreds of) thousands of dollars of my investment, then I would be pretty frustrated with you if you rolled your own. I would be further frustrated if you disregarded my attempts to point you in the right direction.

You are more likely going to have a positive impact by suggesting changes within the framework they are providing you than creating your own. Learn and understand what the code does and WHY it exists and then you will be able to see what can be improved. Coming in and saying that everything is wrong and persisting in doing your own thing, at your employers expense, will probably leave you without a job.

To satisfy your need to learn and be creative, work on a side project of your choosing. You shouldn't expect your day job to give you 100% of your career development. A large part of it is on you and whether you are passionate enough to invest in your own development on your own time.
Wow, this is pretty cool.

It'll be a really useful tool for exploring new languages once it has enough data.
Stack Overflow's Definitive C++ Book Collection:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-b...
Interesting project. Question: do the the authors have any background in meteorology? The satellite meteorology community maybe interested in this. I am at AMS this week in NOLA where there will be various talks on machine learning applied to meteorology[1]. There have been advancements in this area from groups who possess no domain knowledge and simply approach the problem from the big data side.

[1] https://ams.confex.com/ams/96Annual/webprogram/start.html#sr...
Though in principle I agree with you, it isn't very nice to throw labels around: the janitor might well deal with dangerous waste and earn 10x the call center manager.
CheckInstall looks nice! I'll definitely take it into account next time I need a quick package done. I've also added it to my post. Thanks!
Uber Lowers Fares in Over 100 Cities
I was tempted :)
Try browsing it while not logged-in. You'll never want to come back to it again.
Not understanding. Have not done what? If you mean finding and keeping her, well, we're still dating after having known each other for several years and some nasty experiences. Our relationship gets a little better every day. I'm satisfied with where we're at right now. I'm not ready to get married and she's not ready to settle down yet.

More to the point, you don't keep a woman by locking her in a cage. You do it by being the first person she calls or texts to tell about her day.
I guess a good term to describe this is - dark hat growth hacking.
Hm you're right about that. Also wasn't there a lot of people that thought qt wasn't open source enough. From what I recall there where some opposition against KDE for this reason. Shame really because it was quite neat.
> At best, it's better, because the US government didn't have to meddle quite so much to force such growth to occur.

The US government does its share of meddling; just not in tech (since Obama overrode the Apple import ban in HTC v Apple). What do you think "promoting American interests" is a euphemism for?

Farming/agriculture is a good example: farming subsidies and skewed trade are just as forceful as the Chinese protectionism.
I can't believe I see a Seth Godin post on HN. Tomorrow, Charles Ngo, perhaps.
The author has a very perverse mode of thinking, at least to me personally. He praises the fact that medallions and price controls cause artificial shortages and blames Uber for devaluing the medallions through their competition. That's the most bass-ackwards thing I've read in a while. Yes, taxi companies can't compete, because they're a state cartel. The author complains about Uber becoming a monopoly, but laments the poor state-protected taxicab monopolists because their artificially fixed hundred-thousand dollar medallions are depreciating!

Apparently we are at whim of a "single private company" controlling our transportation, but somehow being at the whim of state governments is not an issue at all.

Circumventing local regulations makes you a greedy monopolist, but instituting outrageous item and price controls doesn't.

And of course, the ultimate irony: complaining about monopolization and cartelization while praising unions. I'm not opposed to unions, but they are demand-side bargaining cartels and to be in denial over this makes you look disingenuous.

If this is "capitalism at its worst," I can only be horrified at imagining what the author thinks "capitalism at its best" will be. Food rationing, I presume.

Terrible article. Only gives more ammunition against left-leaning commentators and nothing else.
Exactly. This is why Win10 is so bad. You simply cannot deactivate the telemetry at all (as an end user)!
This isn't an issue anymore, nowadays there are MMUs which isolate shaders from memory they aren't supposed to touch.

OP's problem stems from the fact that some video buffer used by his browser hasn't been cleared after deallocation. At some later time this buffer either has been erroneously displayed instead of the game's buffer or has been allocated to the game which erroneously displayed it without filling with new content.
Cool stuff. We've come a long way since I ran around the office at night upgrading everyone from a version of Windows that didn't allow a user to type Format C: return when they meant Format A: (floppy disk), and immediately reformatted their hard disk by mistake. Progress is being made but it seems slow at times.
Always start with customer interviews. It sounds obvious, and even the people that do them can mess things up by pitching to early or leading customers to the answers they want to hear. THe best practice is to usually ask about past actions or behaviors rather than 'what will you do' or 'what do you want'. The term is called New Years Effect I believe, because obviously if you ask someone about getting in shape they will lie based on what they want to do, but may have never done before. Another great read is the book 'The mom test', to carry out realistic user interviews
Kept the woman of your dreams. For most people this implies a monogamous relationship. Unless I miss-understood that is not what you're describing?
If you work somewhere and everyone else gets a raise because there's a new company-wide minimum wage, but you don't get a raise because you were already compensated above that level and you got there through hard work (or so you think), you might quit, not because you resent the people who got the raises, but because you figure that you'll get a better deal at a place that gives raises to people who work harder.

As to state-wide minimum wages - "the" argument against it is that less people are employed at a higher price of labor and that those priced out of the market are likely to be the ones hurt the most by it, though their numbers might be smaller than the numbers of those employed at the higher wage. (Of course this applies to the company with the $70K minimum wage as well: that company could have used the money it cost to implement this policy to instead hire more people.) There are counter-arguments along the lines of the demand for labor being inelastic and other such, but it's kinda off to not present a sensible argument against a minimum wage while presenting a crazy strawman argument against it, the latter implying with a high likelihood that the author supports a high minimum wage.
This whole VC mentality of a company having to explode with growth reminds me of shows about the old day traders snorting coke and running out on the trading floor, crushing deals.

It seems short-sighted and aimed only at huge payouts for the early investors- no consideration or thought of building a brand that people will love 50 years from now. They want their payout NOW!
Not to mention the practice of keeping the number of registered doctors low on purpose (in USA)
The lack of any kind of introspection is painful. Sure, new tech will be abused for anything, but no industry has so completely and totally unethically abused tech as the advertising industry.

The only other field that has been so utterly unencumbered by any ethical concerns has been state intelligence, and at least they have had enough sense of shame to do it in secret, and can claim they do it "for the greater good".

Ad tech has exposed the utter moral void of the advertising industry.
> Discussion with someone who disagrees requires debate to settle the matter.

> Either debate or remain silent on it.

I disagree with you. I provided evidence showing that Eric wrote a dictionary of jargon including the term "hacker". I see no other reason to continue this debate because you obviously cannot click on the link to read what I provided, and I'm not going to take the time to copy and paste every detail here, which I won't force you to read anyway if you don't want to.

I do not have to remain silent, and you just contradicted yourself when you both said that someone had to debate if they disagreed but at the same time had the option to be silent. Did you ever take a class in logic? It would serve you well to study it.
Modern C++ is indeed pretty productive. It's the tooling and compile times that hold it back.
There is a big difference in quality of packages. Debian primary focus is stability, security, upgrading from 5 years old package to newest, strict freedom.

You can build Debian packages as Arch but that wouldn't be the Debian way.

Stability - our QA process is huge and much more strict then the Arch one. We often notice upstream bugs during our packaging and testing process and we also often patch them before upstream.

Security - we have Debian Security Team which is ruthless and security is a big focus so when for example the Chromium security problems was found, it was also noticed that that feature was disabled in Debian chromium package by default.

Upgrading - I don't think any distro can offer this without issues and those issues are exactly prevented with out packaging guides and Debian Policy. In Arch you would get from time to time - please do this manual things in order to upgrade to next version of this software. While in Debian you can go to trip to Mars, live there for few years, come back and then just apt update && apt dist-upgrade the thing and go on coffee without worry.

Also notice we had much before Arch the gpg signing of packages, you can't become Debian maintainer without at least two Debian Developer signatures on your key which happen in face-to-face meetings (so we create a web of trust you will not introduce bad code in your packaging).

So yes, you are correct that easier is to create Arch package then Debian official one, but in Debian you can also create very quickly packages (checkinstall, fpm etc etc) but then you miss all the power of Debian and you're on your own with those packages and potential breakage with system (or is that a freedom you have?) :)
My take is that a greater percentage of websites can be written in HTML and CSS than currently are: both in the sense of websites that could be entirely written in HTML and CSS and as portions of websites that can be written in HTML and CSS instead of with something else.

Many of current batch of tools were developed to meet the needs of engineering teams at scale: e.g. Angular @ Google and React @ Facebook. Their heritage is not "hobbyist programmer" friendly. They are great if the hobby is reading about technology. But many many of those opinions embedded in Django and Rails only become natural once a person is deeply familiar with the culture of their communities.

My advice, do the simplest thing that will work and make something. Pick tools that require a lower level of commitment to an overall architecture as the need arises. Stay out of silos and rabbit holes.

Good luck.
> "it lives on through ROSA Linux, Mageia and OpenMandriva."

... and PCLinuxOS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCLinuxOS

http://www.pclinuxos.com/
We may all die horribly
> no need to actually run it, and it can't do any damage without being run

How sure about this are you?

Some common apps like Hangout and Facebook misuse iOS features to run in the background despite Background App Refresh is turned off, AFAIK.
> Look how much fun France and Europe is having with all those hungry masses flowing in.

Most of the fun is probably in Italy and Greece, though France has its share since the fireworks are of course in Paris.

> France allowed her colonies independence

Except that Libya wasn't, and has never been, a French colony. It was Italy's until 1945.
Where would one encounter a 32-bit system today?
I edited my response to answer your question.
It's usually about ego. It's not always bad people who have big egos. Sometimes good people have a large ego too.

Consider the person who was told at 5 years old by his parents that he'll never be as good as his classmates. In school, they were told the same - by teachers, bullies, other authority figures that they'll be worthless unless they do something a certain way. Sometimes good people get pressured into this by friends, spouses, in-laws.

Such a kind of person would be eager to prove others wrong. This is the kind of person who chases 'success'.

They'll want to prove they are successful as a form of revenge or a way of impressing the in-laws. Buying expensive cars is the most obvious way. Or suits. Clothes. Houses.

Sometimes there's insecurity and self-doubt. Everyone wants to improve, but the line for improvement is really vague. So they make it relative - compare progress to someone else rather than anchoring it to something solid, like savings.

To many of these people, narrowing the minimum wage bar would be frustrating as it proves that they are hovering on the minimum line.
That's true and can even be true with larger companies--at least if teams aren't already highly distributed through acquisitions, etc. That said, barring major shifts, it's probably also true that new companies are increasingly going to have to choose between having a nominal HQ in a favored area like SV and being largely distributed or locating somewhere more affordable.
Carmakers fret their industry is on the brink of huge disruption
Didi Games Baby Hazel
> I will discover that his already accomplished engineers had been flown to Germany last year for three months of extensive additional training necessary to deal with the low-lying water table beneath the prison.

Who teaches these guys this stuff?
I sincerely envy people who're happy working their asses off to buy fancy cars and even houses, as it's a relatively affordable ideal. Those of us whose ideal it is to do what we please with our time are desiring something that seems to be more expensive on average.
I disagree that the capitalist class is interested in reducing immigration from developing countries. Reducing labor cost is a primary concern for this elite group.
Given that Uber is going to replace all it's drivers I think it's important to understand that this is not just an intellectual debate where making some isolated logical arguments make you win or loose the argument. You might be logically correct but the implications goes beyond the argument.

This is something that is going to affect most people over the next 10-20 years no matter what industry they work in and so we need to discuss it in a different way.

What is it that technology and capitalism does to our society, how do we ensure that the millions of people who don't have the skills to participate in the work force are going to be able to participate in society and so on.

The authors mistake is that he introduces morals into this. But even if we take that out we are left with a real problem for society IMO.
Freeciv-web now supports choosing any map in the world using OpenStreetMap, and playing Freeciv on that map. I implemented this feature this weekend. Feel free to post any feedback here.
There is also my SLua [1] compiler. It compiles Lua to C code.

1. https://github.com/Neopallium/slua
Is serotonin the happy brain chemical?
I wasn't arguing that it's not practical.
>He praises the fact that medallions and price controls cause artificial shortages and blames Uber for devaluing the medallions through their competition.

I didn't read the text as 'praise' for taxi companies or government regulation, just a statement of facts about them. Reread that part of the text from a neutral place.

"Next, it’s time to understand the legal difference between what Uber is doing and what taxi companies are doing. The taxi industry is highly regulated and each cab must have a medallion, which is basically a licence to operate a car as a taxi. With prices over $300,000, these medallions can be valued as highly as a home. Since Uber has shown up, those prices have plummeted.

Why go through the hassle of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to become a taxi driver when you can just download an app and become an Uber driver for free? Taxi companies, which are regulated by the government, cannot compete."

It's stating that the playing field is unfair and that becoming a taxi driver isn't a career path anymore.

>Apparently we are at whim of a "single private company" controlling our transportation, but somehow being at the whim of state governments is not an issue at all.

This article focuses around Uber's role in our lives, not the government. There's enough hatred to go around though and we're allowed to dislike two types of monopolies.

>And of course, the ultimate irony: complaining about monopolization and cartelization while praising unions. I'm not opposed to unions, but they are demand-side bargaining cartels and to be in denial over this makes you look disingenuous.

It depends on how you perceive unionization. I perceive it to be as a means for workers to make certain they have fair working conditions and fair pay for their work as a base. Everything else is all part of a layer of bureaucracy that comes later and/or is corrupted by corrupt actors.
It says "high-performance servers" in headline...
The Value of Downvoting or How Hacker News Gets It Wrong (2009)
NextHub is not like Facebook where anyone can create a posts, it is not about friends or even about people. It mainly revolves on interest centered hubs where publisher can post different type of media including articles. Users can then discuss about the topic in the comment section.
Because of the 80 character limit!
With JSON support complete in 9.5, wouldn't that be a great way to handle hierarchies? The only downside I can think of is the 1 GB field size limit.
>I do not have to remain silent, and you just contradicted yourself when you both said that someone had to debate if they disagreed but at the same time had the option to be silent. Did you ever take a class in logic? It would serve you well to study it.

I said it was required to settle the matter. I didn't say the matter had to be settled. Have you studied reading comprehension? It's incredibly useful!

>I provided evidence showing that Eric wrote a dictionary of jargon including the term "hacker".

He wrote something and called it a dictionary. Great! I can do that. Anyone can do that. It's not a credential. It's enough to garner interest, and like I said, I read the entry, but writing something and slapping Dictionary as a heading is hardly evidence of that thing being true. That evidence is what he fails to even try to provide. I have provided a definition of both the word hack and how the suffix -er functions. Neither seem to be in dispute so the idea that there's disagreement over the combination is frankly nuts.
SF has a law (1986's Prop M) that restricts the supply of new office space:
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-law-blocks-tech-bo...

One saving grace of the law is that in years when nobody wants to build, the city "banks" the excess for years when construction is over the limit. But we've just about exhausted those savings, and are now hitting the cap.

The developers and the owners of existing office space know that the carryover is about to run dry, and that the cap is going to be in full effect every year for many years to come, and are pricing their long-term leases accordingly. And companies, knowing the same thing, are signing them.

Did you hear that the Sierra Club is going to have to leave the San Francisco headquarters they've occupied since the 1800s, because the rent is now too high for them to afford? (http://www.sfexaminer.com/sierra-club-moving-headquarters-fr...) The irony is that those rising rents are due in no small part to their acting against their stated mission when it comes to allowing tall buildings in this city. They'd rather sprawl people out into the suburbs and beyond, where they'll bulldoze swaths of nature to build their buildings, and the people living and working there will have much larger carbon footprints.
>It would be safe to say that those two people didn't quit because other employees got a raise. It was probably due to the fact that their contributions didn't hold the same value anymore.

Their contributions held exactly the same absolute value, which is the entire point of Godin's post. Their decision is completely irrational unless they place a significant value on their relative status within the organisation.
The article uses the word "mind" in its title, but the article is strict neuroscience, i.e. it discusses the brain from a biological perspective. The word "mind" never appears again. The mind (psychology) is not the brain (neuroscience).
Schibsted wants to circumvent the mobile adblocking apocalypse
I think to there is also an attitude about minimum wage going up that - hey it's great they get raise. But if 75% of the country is getting a raise why am I not getting a raise as well?

Or for some people who worked hard to get up from minimum wage to get to $10/hour. They are now, in a way, demoted back to making minimum wage!
Facebook, Apple, Netflix and Google worrying about the stock market
The app might make an interesting "Show HN". Product Hunt status, not so much.

Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Good luck.