skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks cool, but I get a Network error, "Unable to communicate with the civclientlauncher servlet. Error: error OK null". Do I have to install something first?

Edit: I've never played Freeciv before
Ironically, they're probably flagging because they can't downvote stories.

As for the article, I disagree with it. The 'New' section moves so fast that there's no need for a story downvote, if it reaches the home page it's because there's enough people interested in it. The mods are also good at managing incoming spam (which you can see from the Dead stories in the New section). Furthermore, whilst it may have been true to say comment downvotes were rare in 2009, they're certainly not now.
I found an interesting and detailed legal analysis of that. It sounds like the answer isn't black and white:

http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v25/25HarvJLTech131...
That's historical and enforced by zoning. Large buildings can now be built anywhere.
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> the qualifications for a good mate are very specific to every person

The set of qualifications is specific to every person, sure, but whatever is in that set for a given woman, you need to be better than the competition at those qualifications.

Unless you're fine with marrying just anyone, the thesis of the blog post doesn't hold for dating; it's not enough to be 'decent' or even 'good'.
> But that doesn't make any sense. Ostensibly, you were being paid market rate before. If you were to leave, maybe you'll be able to get a raise at another position, maybe not, but the other employees at your company don't change that.

When it comes to money, humans are generally irrational in their decision making, mostly biased towards emotional decision making.

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This actually happened to me when I was 16 years old. I started working at fastfood job making $4.90/hr, WA state's minimum wage. I was a very strong worker, and was offered a position as a manager a few months later. I politely declined (read: my mother told me I was dumb to sacrifice my education in order make an extra $1.00 or so an hour).

Eventually I was making $5.15 an hour through a series of wage increases due to good reviews. Then the Federal government raised minimum wage to $5.15/hr. I went to the store manager and asked for a raise. My argument was that my wage increases were do to my performance and seniority. Any unproven new-hire would start making the same wage as I do. They did not see it that way, and declined to provide me with a compensation increase.

The feeling was irrational. I still made my wage, and new employees wages didn't come out of my pocket, so it had no impact on me. Still, I felt that my salary should reflect the value I bring to the company.

I ended up putting in my two-weeks about a year later when they promoted an inept person to manager.
Sold to Microsoft for $265 million dollars and the founder went on to create Zappos (Tony Hsieh).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkExchange
Well, if you continue working harder than them, you'll be promoted and get a raise, and they won't.

Or not, if the company has no money left for merit raises because they're paying well above market salaries to others.

But if that's the type of person you are, maybe the company would be better off without you anyway?

So you expect employees to perpetually go above and beyond the job requirements without consideration of whether they'll be rewarded for it?
> The concept of a salary is to pay someone in return for work performed.

Not necessarily. Having someone retained for future needs, for example, is worth paying for in some cases. Value isn't limited to work performed.

Pay is, of corse, just the point where the buyer and seller agree. There is no fundamental reason why a janitor position cannot pay the same or more than a manager, if janitors refuse to do the job for any less.
I think we agree. I should have elaborated more.

> Wait, what? Not if you use the right test to evaluate your change.

Sure, but how often to people actually choose the right combination of test, testing tool and estimated effect size for their significance to have actual meaning?

The problem with experiments like your typical website split test is the potentially infinite population. With a big enough N, the probability of reaching significance approaches 1.

> The whole point of significance testing is that, done properly, it tells you how likely you would be to get these results by chance if the two sides of the test were actually identical.

Yes, I know. But the magic lies in that "done properly". Have you ever approached a tool in the field that would fail my proposed test? I haven't.
I don't understand the point of saying something like:

> "I show how to build a modern C++ high-performance, asynchronous echo server that can be written with just 48 lines of code."

The fact that it is 48 lines of code is almost meaningless. If the framework was a different design it could be done in 1 line of C++ code or 1 line of COBOL. Given the right library/framework, any application can be done with 1 line of code (taking a bit of poetic licence here, but hopefully you see my point).

As a discussion about using Wangle in C++, the article has far more merit.

Perhaps I am just being overly pedantic.
Sure, that's fair. I was just pedantic about the precise meaning of a "synthetic" benchmarks, which is a benchmark generated to mimic real code but isn't a real/useful application by itself.
While it doesn't effect the city itself, the geography appears to constrain suburbs. The lack of nearby suburbs probably drives prices up.

New York has sprawling suburbs that go into nearby states.

The SF equivalent of a lot of those areas are mountain ranges and oceans. To be sure, SF has suburbs (or suburb equivalents): SV, Oakland, etc. But a lot of prime area for suburbs can't support one.

Draw a 30 miles radius circle from manhattan and SF, and I bet NYC has more livable land.

That said, that is all the more reason for strong development in SF. Or else you are going to end up with SF just being a rich neighborhood for millionaires in a Bay Area megacity.
I wish flagging didn't affect ranking so much. It is still possibly to send a submission from the top spots on the second page with flags, even if it has active discussion and never gets the number of flags necessary to kill it.

Flagging IMHO should be for "enough people have agreed to kill this" and not to punish controversial topics, especially since it can't be directly counteracted (vouch only works on killed submissions, not on those that are only penalized)
Hi, perhaps you could try starting the game again? The error seems to indicate a temporary network error, but it should be working correctly now.
As someone who worked in an office for many years and then moved to fully remote, here are the reasons:

- Politics / Face Time. Some people really do think that nothing goes on when people are working from home. Some people like to have everyone's attention now and again, to demonstrate something about their status.

- They haven't figured out how to do it yet, both technically and socially. If you have one or two people who don't know how GitHub works, or how Trello or Slack work, you can't do it. There are certain people who come from an age where you never needed productivity tools, and they just can't use them, no matter how easy it is. Unfortunately, they tend to be the people who can decide whether remote is working out for the team.

- They haven't figured it out socially: some people have configured their home life in a way that doesn't work for remote. The associations between being in the home and being away from home are deeply ingrained in some folks.

As for actual productivity, I've found it skyrockets in a properly functioning remote team. We have a Slack/Trello/Github/etc mashup where Slack is the hub. Anything that comes up can be pinged to the right person, and you can see when people are pushing code. The cards let you organise things. No commute + set your own hours means you get things done.

Not being tied to a location is great, too, though I do try to make sure the family gets enough attention.
Even worse was France's protection of the dictator Omar Bongo in Gabon. He was protected from from being overthrown and democracy restricted as long as he kept his markets open primarily to France.
http://observer.com/2012/01/uncanny-valley-the-real-reason-t...
Read some books, take up some hobbies, life goes on lil homie.
If I were offered a free $20, my first thought would not be "should I turn this money down because it's metaphorical for the economy?".

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
Wow. What is a typical industry salary for your role in Malaysia?
I might be part of general public, although I do write code for living, and I would like to point out that the landing page is not simple to grasp.

I suggest there should be a short story of why to use it and then how to use it explained in 3 simple steps so that the general public get it.
> and down to the awesome simplicity of their tax forms and tax code. Actually the UK tax code is canonically simple and should be adopted by the whole world ;)

I hope that wink means you're being sarcastic.[0] Yes, the majority of people are only in a single income tax bracket (20%). And the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) system means that most people who earn wages or salaries don't have to file their taxes. But only looking at income tax doesn't take into account the whole picture. "National Insurance" is effectively just an income tax but it's far more complicated than the income tax system (it doesn't get ring-fenced for pensions or health care or social services, it goes into the same coffers as income tax receipts).

But consumption tax is a VAT, which is notoriously expensive to collect. Then there are tax credits on dividends, and various business tax rules. Oh yeah and property tax is paid by the occupier of a house or apartment, not the owner (council tax)! And then there is the City of London that pretty much gets to write it's own rules.

The UK's tax system is better than some, but it's possible to do _much_ better.

0 - https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-of-tax-si...
I would say it's not pleasure vs joy, but happiness vs meaning. Many things can bring us happiness, including money, possessions, and even "being ahead". But these things don't bring meaning to out lives. The things that you listed that bring us joy actually give our life meaning. We want our lives to be meaningful much more than we want happiness. We ought to optimize our life to make it meaningful. That's the only way we'll feel that we had a good life.
Great video. Very informative. Thanks.
Running costs for running a web app
Category Theory and Declarative Programming
Seems like most did not get a single upvote, a handful got 4 or 5.
I'd add salines. My mother allways says that she and her team was very confused about a static "cloud" over Bolivia until they realize it was a saline. It was a long time ago, using the firsts satellite images, so they had less resolution and probably only the visible spectrum.

Example: https://www.google.com/maps/@-19.8339409,-67.5366835,253390m...
I'm not totally sold on it being strictly based on karma. I created my account just over over 1800 days ago and I only have 299 karma. I visit HN 4 or 5 times a day most time to read a few articles and read through the comments. The fact that someone can join and grind for a week or two to get to 500 and be allowed to down vote seems silly when after over 250 weeks of quiet participation I'm unable to do the same.

Unless the goal is to push for user participation, in which case I guess I get it on some level.
Thanks! Do you have any ideas for other interesting things to do with OSM maps and Freeciv? We could for example use the GeoLocation APIs in Javascript also.

By the way, the nice OSM map is provided by https://www.mapbox.com/
Bedrock is not needed to build a sky scraper. It was just natural trends, not enforced with zoning laws.
So what is a technology powerhouse? I would love to hear your definition.
The name change came as a result of the acq/merger with Conectiva, which was popular (in relative terms) in Brazil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conectiva
Well, what success means changes from one society to another, as it's always getting whatever society values.

The entire point of meritocracy comes from the postulate that "merit" is some universal concept and that we should adjust our society so success is reached by merit. And then, and just then, we should contemplate those questions, for practical purposes.

It's indeed a much more complex idea than most people shouting "meritocracy" around entertain, but it's a meaningless idea. Our society has been less meritocratic on the past, and it's possible to make it more so in the future.
Really? I was just in SF for a conference at paid 115 dollars a day for a pretty nice place. That's like half of Manhattan pricing.
Better change the link to this:
https://communities.intel.com/thread/96157?start=0&tstart=0 (which was probably the intended link)

Let's hope that the planned BIOS update won't involve disabling an entire feature set like what happened with TSX:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8376/intel-disables-tsx-instru...
Playing with Spring Boot, Vaadin and Kotlin
The problem is when other scientists do literature searches,

Then the next problem is that journalists find something interesting and publish it as fact, and so both laymen and scientists are lead astray.
Hey dsacco, thanks for the great reply! I am a security guy on the outside of the startup world looking in and I was just trying to get a better feel for what the security landscape looks like.

You'll find that startups between seed funding and Series A are most likely to care about security. They have the funding to pay external firms for audits but they won't want to invest in a full-time security team just yet. After that, if they eventually get to "enterprise" level they'll care more about security and have both an in-house team and external reviews.

I figured this was the case. Pre-seed startups are too concerned with getting something to market and most who raise (and have something worth owning equity in) would have the funds to outsource to you.

As for your proposal of equity, I would never do this. Frankly, security services are closer to insurance than they are to building positive value. I have interacted with many startup founders, and most would not take an equity proposal like that for this reason. There are several obstacles.

The equity for security question was mostly hypothetical to get a better understanding for how security is valued among early employees. When I read the title of Jason's article, "It’s Time For You To Make Security a Core Feature — Not a Tax" all I could think of is what a hard sell that would be to both founders and customers, and you confirmed my assumptions. I completely agree that the business model is not sustainable.

Thanks again!
Why would the 1GB field size limit be an issue?
Wide interest in unrelated subjects? You're a scanner
The scenario I was imagining is when we're both in the same company or same business. Obviously, he shouldn't/wouldn't care how much I make if I'm some random person. The idea is that if you have two employees within the same organization and they both make the same amount of money despite one employee doing less work, it definitely would anger the other employee, wouldn't it?

The point isn't about money. I agree with Seth on that. We shouldn't be chasing money and trying to one-up those around us. But the fact that the work I do as an employee is not viewed in the same regard as someone's else work is slightly jarring.
Oh my....you are dating her and she spent her birthday weekend with fully loaded(pun intended) rich guy.

Run man, run!
I wasn't talking about money specifically. I'm just pointing out that dating (with the goal of a monogamous marriage) is a zero-sum game; in order for you to win, all her other suitors must lose. In that game it's highly relevant how you stack up against others, not just objective benchmarks.

In your example, if every man was thoughtful enough to know to get her massages, then the gesture would no longer have any differentiating effect. Similarly for muscle tone, education, penis size, money, or whatever she happens to care about.

Of course, not worrying about how others are doing and focusing on self-improvement is probably the best strategy to becoming better than other people. But to say it's irrelevant how others are doing relative to oneself is just wrong.
The equity questions was mostly theoretical to get a better idea of how startups value security among their early employees. I completely agree that the business model would likely be unsustainable.
> "The system of upvotes and downvotes is not productive."

> "Slashdot had a better system than HN has, decades ago."

Upvotes/downvotes are not productive, yet you want to replace it with a system that places extra emphasis on that type of metadata?

> "People are incentivized, then, to post at the top of threads or reply to the most upvoted comment, to upvote parent comments of their own, and to downvote other "siblings" in the tree."

I'd suggest a better fix is to allow for collapsing comment threads. It's easy to tell when a thread has passed the point of no return when it comes to substance. You might miss the odd one or two interesting comments, but it'd definitely add to the overall HN experience.
I agree with his overall point, but I don't think the example he used was strong enough to support his case.
Is peaker rate bought off the market interchanges ever more than the retail rate?
You know, this is all said very earnestly but the problem is that it tends to ignore the fact that many, many great things have been achieved with current technology.

The linked to "worse is better" article I have read before, years ago. The criticism of the failure mode of Unix is invalid. If you hit an error condition, then unless you have have kept your systems state for an indeterminate period of time, it's often not feasible to back out of the program to where the error occurred.

In terms of tagging, that's never taken off. Why? Because it turns out tagging things is harder than you might think, because you can call the same thing by different names, which is somewhat ironically a major problem with hierarchical file systems. You basically end up with needing to be able to locate all the tags that are synonyms of each other.

At the very least, a file system comes with a convention. I know where configuration files are on Unix - I go the the /etc directory. If I want to find my executables, I go to either /usr/bin or /bin. For my files, I'm under /home/chris.

If I was to tag stuff, I'd also need to stick to a convention, or chaos reigns. I know, I've tried this before. I basically ended up with a hierarchical tagging structure.

That's not too say tagging is awful, only that it's not a panacea to all perceived ills.

As for version control - git is honestly the best example of a versioning system that does everything you describe - content addressing, versions control, snapshots... And guess what? It's all in a DAG.

Oh, and one more thing: all that "untyped text" that is a "bad persistence model" firstly ignores the fact that it's not untyped, that every file system contains metadata, and that a file name is no different to a tag that is a label.
> "Specifically, a warning is issued for if, else, while, and for clauses with a guarded statement that does not use braces, followed by an unguarded statement with the same indentation."

> "The warning is not issued for code involving multiline preprocessor logic ... The warning is not issued after a @code{#line} directive, since this typically indicates autogenerated code"

Seems like a good thing to have, and pretty conservative about not causing false positives. In particular, constructs like double-iteration should be fine:

for(y=0; y<ymax; y++)
for(x=0; x<xmax; x++)
{
//...
}

Which I checked because I like this construct and people very rarely think about it.
The major indicator is that the wheel becomes quite stiff and resists turning it. The next one is the sound it makes when engaging. The icon is relatively secondary.
Yes, but not everyone living in SF has that kind of money.
HOLORAMA: An Optical Theatre [video]
They're building the new Transbay Tower in SF on soft ground. It just means they had to put in a bunch of very deep piles and a foundation that constituted one of the largest concrete pours of all time. But the real estate market is such that they were happy to do it, in exchange for permission to build the tallest building in the city.
John McAfee on his new startup and why he should be president
Looks great! But got an error for Amsterdam location.

Another indirect feature of your service is to browse internet when connected to restricted Wifi hotspots. This is possible because of https protocol you use.
In your mind who is forcing them and why?
Neat stuff! I'm also really curious to see where exploring active materials through the lens of computation and computer science might lead.
That's really an awesome achievement, and your post is chock-full of very practical tips. Thank you!
> I ask because it sounds like she's using you

I'm 32. She's mid-twenties. She's a gorgeous girl, I'm not going to hold it against her for exploring her options. If she does decide that a rich, handsome guy is right for her, that's fine by me. I have plenty of options too, and that works both ways.

> By the way, $200 for a bottle of real Champagne in a restaurant while pricey is not anything to crazy.

You're just thinking about the Champagne. He flew down there, took her on a trip to a nearby town, dinners, drinks, and dancing every night. Sure, $300 isn't that much when it's just for the one dinner, but my guess is that he blew well over $5k on this one trip.

That's a lot of money. Worse, it's a lot of time. Were I him, I'd just have hired an escort got on with it. She enjoyed the parts she enjoyed and didn't enjoy the parts she didn't enjoy. To me it's an extravagance that is wholly unnecessary. I would not trade my life for one of that kind of luxury. If I could add the ability to pay for that kind of luxury onto my current life, sure, that would be fine. But the best things in life really are free.

> And yeah, some of the best places in town to eat are expensive.

Depends on where you live. If you're in NYC or LA, where all the talent flocks to, certainly the top restaurants there are great. Generally in a mid-size city like Kansas City or Atlanta, the ethnic restaurants available are amazing the best of those simply blow all but the very top-tier ones away. At my company, we go to Houston's sometime on the CEO's dime. The $30 plates there are decent, but I always come away wishing I'd been able to go to my favorite Korean taco place.

> So if you were her, would you rather the option to eat at any of the best places or only the ones you could afford?

I think she's coming around to my way of looking at things. I took her to a Korean yesterday (different from the taco joint) and this girl, who has been wined and dined by crazy-rich guys, was over the hill about how amazing the food was in this little hole-in-the-wall strip mall joint and how it was some of the best food she's ever had in her life.

I go there twice a month.

Certainly she'd like to have the best of both worlds, but Hugh Grant isn't knocking on her door. I don't have to compete with movie stars, I can just compete with the other guy she dates. And from what I hear from her, you can be rich and handsome and still be an insufferable bore.

If anyone's using anyone, it's her using these guys for spa treatments and dinners.
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This trips many people up - £200 per week is not the same as £800 per month as most months are usually longer than 28 days. It is a way of (to many people, very sneakily) charging people more than they expect.