skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a very compelling idea, and a very compelling problem. And a product that is not yet sales-ready yet. But we're getting there. It's been in a fundamental rewrite mode since August (what I thought was the beta was actually the alpha), and I've since added two co-founders so I'm not doing it alone anymore - deeply experienced enterprise engineers like me who have felt the pain that we're trying to solve viscerally.

But yes, thanks for the confidence! :)

The best part of it is when I talk to the target users about it and their eyes light up and they get so excited. The problem is huge, and the current solutions are terrible. If we can't make money at this, it's an execution problem, not a market problem.
I agree with everything but the last. Simulating a human brain is perhaps necessary for consciousness uploading, but not for super human ai. We have been able to travel faster by machine than foot for a long time, in spite of not being able to build a robot that can simulate human running.
Sounds right to me, I was talking more about Patreon or bounty type methods of converting money to engineer time.

Since you have the experience I am very curious about one aspect of this, does the fact that some fellow contributors are paid have a noticeable effect on volunteer contributors. As in "Why would I do this for free when Alex gets paid?" or "Fuck this, I'll let the paid guys do this annoying part" or even just a cultural divide between paid/unpaid or a drop in volunteer contributors in general?

The theory says there would be a small but noticeable effect along those lines if people are thinking about it.

I've seen similar effects with Patreon type contributions, once the money comes once things change and once the money is spent work stops completely until there is more money. Most never come back. That and you get promising fun projects dropped in favour of the stagnant projects with better name recognition, which doesn't last because fixing legacy bugs for less than minimum wage is not a fulfilling way to spend your personal time.

I'd also be interested in how you'd feel having a donation of skilled engineer 20% time compared to money to hire someone less experienced but full-time.
The problem with this article is it derives the innovation derived growth from patent statistics (14% of rising inequality). Then it simply assumes the rest is due to rent seeking.

This is pretty laughable when it comes to software. I'd argue that all software patents are a rent seeking behaviour using regulation to thwart competition.

rent-seeking is bad. but more regulations exasperate this problem by creating higher barriers to entry for disruptive startups. Rent-seeking isn't a symptom of capitalism, it's a symptom of the way lobbyists exploit our legislative and regulatory institutions.

I think it's feasible for there to be regulations that discourage anti-competitive practices and reduce barriers to entry but it's nigh impossible to get it passed with the lobbyists in the way.
The overhead of fork() is negligible, well under 0.1ms.
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Any bank. No banks publicize this, but most will give businesses as many credit cards as they like for a reasonable fee.
Why did you choose a Pinterest-style list rather than a sequences of rectangle boxes and pagination? Sometimes the Javascript breaks when scrolling down (I assume because the server returns a 500 on the response). A refresh would fix it, but since it doesn't know what "page" I'm on, I'm brought back to the top. It's also really slow on my mobile device and old-ish computer, while it's just a handful of images and text.
The problem is that you need to give back everything, even if the GPL code you are using is a tiny part of your product. That's why I prefer LGPL.
> But if you deliver for Papa John's, and they think you swiped some stuff, they can't search your cat.

I think that this discussion is old enough now that it is safe for me to say how much I enjoyed the mental image conjured up by this typo.
It all depends on what we as a society value most. At this point, we (most of us) are forced to work/do things that we aren't passionate about (or even interested in) just to earn a very very basic lifestyle. Imagine a huge part of the population doesn't have to worry about it anymore, as opposed to a small percentage of the population on welfare now. People would start valuing other things more like artistic abilities etc. How many artists have gone into fields that they have no interest in, just to earn a living? They might go back to creating art, writing books and so on.

At least, that is my dream :P

Whether this experiment succeeds or not, it is well worth trying. Finland is a very good bet to start this experiment because of it's small size, homogeneous population etc. It would be very difficult to do such an experiment in big, diverse countries like the U.S
The W3C is still very relevant, in particular in the context here. EME DRM, for example, is a W3C spec,

https://www.w3.org/TR/encrypted-media/

driven by Google, Microsoft and Netflix.

In other words, if the W3C fought back against DRM, we might not have EME today. But, Google and Microsoft won and DRM was added to the web.
This was probably before the online booking platform was launched - you'd find a whole different experience now.

Would recommend using http://www.homeaway.com (parent company of VRBO) instead - has same inventory but better interface.
That's crazy. The employees owners just gutted the value of their own company.
But he never correctly identifies the problem; he doesn't spend any time on the problem. He simply shoos us away from inequality, which given his income bracket smacks of conflict-of-interest.
Found about Brutal Doom recently, and it's really quite good.
"If only there were some of law that prevented the ultra-rich from buying the political process..."
Perhaps the rather counter-intuitive sounding "Voting with dollars"?
http://www.yale.edu/yup/pdf/092628_front_1.pdf
It think it uses a lot of extra memory as part of a design a tradeoff that keeps CPU overhead to a minimum. The documentation above mentions the memory cost in the limitations section.

By the way, there's a great talk from C++ Going Native 2013, called The Care and Feeding of C++'s Dragons [1] talking about a number new C++ tools, including AddressSanitizer. It's been two years since then, but it's probably still a good introduction.

[1] https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/The-Care-a...
I'd love to see something like NIH grants for open source.
The dual core atom from the 2010 era is a strange beast. True it idles at less than 4 watts, but the chipset they were paired with draw 15 watts or so.

My estimates for my power usage are:

Chipset/motherboard: 15 watts
CPU: 6 watts
2 hard drives: 10 watts
really old crap PSU from 2002: 20 watts

Although I didn't measure each component by it self, all the power requirements and specs are posted online mostly. Except my really old PSU, I can only assume that is where the power is going. I probably should have bought a new PSU for the build, instead I bought $20 in adapters just to make the PSU work with the board :) But my killawatt meter clearly shows the box drawing 50-55 watts around the clock.

And if you are nosy, this is what the dual core atom box runs: http://shorewall.net/XenMyWay.html

I got tired of having a separate web dev box and firewall box in my house. So I stood up Xen on a debian OS on the atom hardware, and now my firewall and web dev box are Xen guest. Make for fun Dom0 host upgrades when the internet is being provided by a guest that it is itself hosting...
Android IMSI-Catcher Detector
Also, no GUI emerged. This is what github gives you on top of git.
I'm not sure how this is even controversial. We should try to save the most people possible. It doesn't matter who is responsible for a death, it's just as sad whether it's cancer or a failed drug.

Any rational person would take a one in a billion risk of dying in a medical trial if it gave them access to all sorts of cures and treatments for terrible diseases. And that's if we were selecting participants at random from the entire first world population, when it's actually done by consenting volunteers who get paid for the risk they take.
I think the general response is, in a real world it's never an all or nothing proposition, and even if it were, the fewer people contributing, the greater the opportunities for those who do. (greater uncontested target market share, less competition, more demand, less supply.) The economics 101 supply demand curve hopefully helps incentivize ENOUGH people at sufficient levels to do what productive work needs/is desired to be done.

And if then everyone STILL decides to do nothing, I think we have bigger problems than a matter of economic policy :)
Yes that would make sense to me, but keep in mind that any user may create an "organization", so this might just be a bunch of repos associated with e.g. a particular framework rather a particular company.
No - the primary benefit this filesystem claims is that you can have a system with write access without knowing the private key to read data back, so even if the system is somehow compromised, the attacker doesn't get to read the sensitive data written.
Yeah, this is not even remotely hipster. Hipster is organic mustache wax and artisanal vegan mayo.

For what it's worth, I bought a Tuft and Needle mattress and have been very happy with it. It's 1/2 the price of what I'd pay in the store, I didn't have to leave the house, and it's basically risk-free, as they've got a pretty fantastic return policy.
Apache geospatial projects support OGC standards,welcome proposals for ApacheCon
It's a full featured ALM (incl. source management, CI, code review & all).

For the tracking part, everything is configurable trough the web UI and per project (contrary to Jira). You don't depend on a site admin to customize your templates, as project owner you are 100% to create as many tracker as you need with the layout you want.
As Stingrays and other IMSI catchers become more common, I thought this project should get more visibility.
even if it's cherrypicked the differences are huge
No, they haven't; we're talking about AI here, not industrialization, they were talking about a different problem back then. The two are not comparable, industrialization just pushes humans to do different kinds of labor, AI eliminates human labor, vastly different problem.
Yes, because some people's utility functions are strongly inimical to other's likely happiness. It will be feudalism all over again, with vastly higher stakes.

If you have a bunch of the super-rich, and everyone else just at some happy medium, then you'll eventually output a mad god-king - in charge of some ridiculous multiple of the power that the majority of the planet can bring to bear - whose favourite sports are gassing countries where people's skin is the wrong colour and fucking the peasants to death on a Thursday.
Seems silly to include lists like "Deaths in year XXXX". This is hardly rigorous anyways.
There is a LeakSanitizer which is enabled by default when you use AddressSanitizer under x86_64 Linux, though it's not supported on other platforms.

http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html#memory-leak...
The magnitude is different, and you shouldn't be ignorant to that detail.
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Yep: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121...
Writing Telemate scripts to automatically play MajorMUD for me while I was AFK is how I got started with programming! I got to the point where I was distributing my scripts via a forum on a board I played on, and I even got contributions back from a couple people. Definitely a lot of fond memories there.
if chinese miners are indeed trying to limit blocksize in order to increase transaction costs, then the necessary chain of events which needs to occur is:
1) faith in bitcoin as a currency/payment system drops causing price crash
2) miners realise that the marginal increase in money made via transaction costs is massively outweighed by what they have lost in block rewards by limiting growth of the system
3) the miners get their act together and everyone upgrades to a new whizzy high capacity bitcoin.

This should continue to work until block reward becomes negligible in 2035.
Uber won't capture merely the value of the US cab market, they're going to vastly expand it. People are already using Uber for things that they would never otherwise have tried to hail a cab for due to either cost or inconvenience or annoyance. It has significantly opened up the potential scale of the US taxi market, and will continue to do so. Uber's use is also blatantly going to broaden beyond the classic taxi market, whether that's to autonomous (which will again drastically increase the size of the market by bringing down the cost) and or deliveries.

You might as well pretend AirBnB is only trying to capture the hotel market's value. When in fact they're vastly expanding upon it while simultaneously taking market share away from hotels.
If nothing else, it needs to be updated for various new syscalls/x86 instructions periodically on the different platforms it supports (if you've never tried running valgrind on something that isn't Linux, you might not have run into this.)
> PG uses his unique experience in funding and producing thousands of companies

And therein lies the rub:
A) PG is exposed to a very specific part of the economy: the startup scene. So while his experience certainly is unique, it's not such a long shot to think that his understanding of what's going on may be biased.
B) PG (and the people he work with) could themselves be financially hurt by new financial policies, i.e. he is partial to the cause.

So forgive me for preferring to listen to "certain academics" who, while individually most likely are both biased and partial, as a group simply hold more weight.

> and advocate for reducing inequality by reducing wealth and startups.

Did you even read the same article the rest of us did?
> Don't email me again.
True, that is a good point.
Their whole argument is silly. If anything software patents are a form of rent-seeking behaviour because they exploit regulation to prevent competition and earn rewards. Furthermore, only huge entrenched companies seem to build up patent war chests, not spry startups who are too busy building things.

Then the article lumps everything that can't be explained by patents (14%) into rent-seeking behavior (86%) and claims that's the real source of inequality and the real problem.
Yes, please do so! Is it the one with the Xeon? Also what/how much ram...
The article asks "is Bitcoin gold" or "is Bitcoin Visa".

Bitcoin's first killer app was drugs. Then Silk Road I and Silk Road II were taken down. That put a dent in the price.

Currently, Bitcoin is a way to get yuan out of China and convert it to dollars or euros, despite China's exchange controls. Most of the mining and the exchange volume are in China. Buying Bitcoin with yuan and selling it outside China is technically prohibited by the People's Bank of China, but they haven't cracked down hard on it. Yet. Mining is also a way to convert yuan to dollars. Miners in China can also qualify for the loans and subsidies the government of China gives businesses.

Bitcoin as a general currency for transactions just isn't happening. The real transaction costs are too high. There's volatility risk. There are exchange costs getting in, and exchange costs getting out. (At the retail level, those are high; Robocoin ATMs have a buy/sell spread of about 15%) There's also the substantial risk that the exchange will fail or steal your money. (This got better in 2015, but until then, more than half of Bitcoin exchanges went bust. It wasn't just Mt. Gox.) Paying 1% - 3% to Visa looks good compared to that, especially since buyers get protection against merchant fraud.

Bitcoin as a speculation looks good some years, and bad in others. It's like a penny stock, except that Bitcoin is zero-sum. There's no intrinsic value, and no fundamentals. It's all greater-fool speculation.

The impressive thing about Bitcoin is that the system is well behaved in the presence of a very high level of criminality. Few, if any, other distributed computer based systems can make that claim. It would be nice if DNS or BGP or SS7 worked that well.
What's wrong with offering good jobs and perks? That sort of stuff is necessary to hire strong.
So what? As an LP, they made the choice to let someone else actively manage their money. Part of the risk/reward trade-off when using VC as an investment vehicle.
You don't necessarily want random padding; you really want every single packet exactly the same size, potentially with dummy data transmitted to mask data rate as well.
Looks like they left debug=True on in their config :( http://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/946382
For what it's worth, team-based FPS games use a similar style of map design. For instance, in Counterstrike, most popular maps have a middle area of contention. This area can be used to reach each of the objectives. Teams have the option to attack the objectives directly, or take control of mid and decide where to go. There are almost always multiple paths between each of the contention areas, and the player spawns, so it's often difficult to predict what enemies will do because they have so many options.

These maps are much smaller than interesting FPS maps I remember from my childhood, but the principle is the same.
Weirdly, the figure from the paper is actually 17%, not 14% (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctp39a/innovation_and_top_income_ineq...). I'm not sure where the WaPo writer got 14% from.

Also note that the paper warns that 17% is an underestimate: "Our results are likely to understate the true impact of innovation on top income inequality at the national level for at least two reasons. First, if successful, an innovator from a relatively poor state, is likely to move to a richer state, and therefore not contribute to the top 1% share of her own state. Second, an innovating firm may have some of its owners and top employees located in a state different from that of inventors, in which case the effect of innovativeness on top income inequality will not be fully internalized by the state where the patent is registered. Nevertheless, overall we find a sizeable effect of innovativeness on top income inequality."
Yes, to me the sense of exploration is lost with modern games.

Modern games feel like the equivalent of sitting on an interstate highway and seeing where it takes you vs taking the twisty backroads where you can get lost and end up going in the wrong direction.

That said, a lot of the smaller/independent companies are producing really good games, but you really have to seek them out and avoid a lot of garbage there. For example I found Path Of Exile a couple years ago and it really quenched the modern take on a diablo style game.
Why do you assume people behave this way, when there's every indication that human's don't behave with "utopian ideals"? This is exactly why BI is such a terrible idea, along with communism, socialism, and free-market capitalism. The system we have now works "pretty-ok" which is leaps and bounds better than this theory and others which require people to act as "honorable actors".
Don't assume that "tuition" covers the cost of the average student. Don't assume that teaching students is the only thing that goes on at Harvard.
FiveThirtyEight has a much more comprehensive take on the same subject: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-edited-wikipedi...

In fact, given how FiveThirtyEight describes obtaining the data[1], my guess is that Digg copied the link above.

[1] "we asked the site’s operator, the Wikimedia Foundation, for data on the most-changed entries of English-language Wikipedia in each year."
I am really skeptical. My understanding is that every Utopian scheme to provide equally for all citizens without expecting them to work ended up having to ultimately declare "You don't work, you don't eat." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_who_does_not_work,_neither_... This is what Lenin ultimately declared after The Russian Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution

In a nutshell, Russian communism was supposed to be something that benefited the commoners -- the workers -- and ultimately it did not accomplish its goal. Russian communism is kind of a famous failure of this sort of thing. Russia ended up staying rather poor for a long time.

I see no reason to believe that it works better in an automated society where we increasingly face shortages of enough people who are adequately skilled at administering the automated tech. Historically, societies dependent upon a complex, educated bureaucracy to make their system work went through cycles of failing and resurging, then failing again. If we have no means to motivate people to get educated enough to run the fancy automated tech and the tech upon which our wealth depends dies, then the wealth goes away and the society built upon it ends suddenly and catastrophically.

I am extremely skeptical.
They're working on it.

They've got experimental 64-bit and ARM support in the repo, but they're still ironing out some false-positives. [1][2]

[1] - https://github.com/DynamoRIO/drmemory/issues/1839

[2] - https://github.com/DynamoRIO/drmemory/commit/dcb3af0836e0d75...
Uber stands to gain more than the cab market. It steals trips from car ownership and public transit that were never going to be traditional cab rides (cost, inability to hail in less dense neighborhoods, hour plus wait and piss-poor reliability of calling dispatch, etc).
It seems like this would be expected behavior to some extent, couldn't you short a stock right before lockups expire and make easy money?
I just read your recent comments which indicates that you are a fan of the Vipassana method.

Do you realize that Vipassana as practiced in the West is not so much about elimination of ego as distancing (hence dissociation) the said ego from the soul (the seat of emotions)?

As the emotions are still in place, when push comes to shove the distanced ego will rear its ugly head again and again (hence unreliable).

There is more to the human condition than the ego, and this is what Satya Narayan Goenka doesn't get. He is essentially promoting an extreme form of everyday psychological dissociation.
I think humans' need for the polyunsaturated oils is vastly over-emphasized. Omega-6 poisoning (excess consumption) definitely contributed to my girlfriend's predicament.
Rails 5 does not require Redis unless you want to use Action Cable.
Frequently on my town's facebook page, somebody will post "speed trap near the elementary school, better slow down there", and people jump all over the poster about helping people get away with speeding.

It seems to me that if you really want people to slow down near the elementary school (as opposed to just issuing tickets and collecting fines), this is EXACTLY what you want to have happen. If you put a cop there, and people warn others of it so they all slow down... mission accomplished!

By analogy, if you've got a target very valuable to the enemy (maybe a stadium for a high-profile sporting event), having phones alert users that they're being monitored might help to ensure that nobody tries anything during the event.
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I really loved the point about newspapers worrying about losing business if they change, while losing business because they aren't changing.
You said:

> You seem to be ignoring that there are profitable open source companies, the prime example being my employer, Red Hat.

From my post:

> Most open source infrastructure tools lack a business model to capture revenue from its users.

Can we please not put words in other peoples' mouths? Kthx
$150M a year in losses. Sounds great! My parents generation, which maybe also has something to do with living in the midwest, has been using VRBO and it's affiliates longer than airbnb has existed outside of silicon valley, and are reluctant to change.

They're also the property owners right now, relative to the millennials.