skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I agree with him that technology can make us all richer, but I disagree that it necessarily creates greater inequality, even if some startup founders become very rich. It only does that if companies don’t create real value in return for that wealth."

Tim provides no justification or evidence for this argument. This makes no sense to me. While there is certainly a difference between making money from rent-seeking vs rendering real value, the statement that lots of wealth can only come from not creating real value seems absurd to me. If providing some value results in some wealth, why wouldn't providing lots of value result in lots of wealth? It is true that some of the highest money makers are from rent seeking activities (banking and finance sectors especially) but to say that lots of wealth can ONLY come from not providing value is absurd.

Technology, education, and access to capital all create inequality because they all create leverage. Those who use leverage will always get further ahead than those who don't use leverage. Getting rid of leverage is not the answer though because leverage is the basis for creating more physical wealth in the world and for doing it with less resources.

We should ask ourselves, how can this leverage be democratized?
Your assertions are based on? Intuition? Mine are backed by data from market studies. Twitter is a known quantity and those who haven't signed up don't because they don't have a need to. Social networks are valuable because of the type and quantity of people there. You can do many things to monetize that. Not much you can do when that number doesn't grow. Notice the stock has fallen despite revenue growth being spectacular.

This is why people in industry don't always make it as CEOs. Knowing which game to play is key. Thinking like an investor is key too. Don't take it from me; take it from Buffett.
Oh wow, they shipped a bad touch screen again? The Nexus 7 2013 had basically the same problem. They fixed it later with firmware updates that basically added a lot of filtering, so single finger touches work basically fine now but multi-touch is still hit and miss (it's too poor to play Love Live for example, but maybe that's a net win, heh).
Didn't you read the dystopian prophecy above? It's caused by the inability of anyone to mind other people's business. Most people find that to be an undesirable world.

Today, your business is minded by the government and large corporations. As a result, the rules that they want enforced are the ones that actually get enforced. Anonymous money is why you have no ability to prevent people from buying your government: no one with the power to mind people's business actually wants to enforce such a rule. If you give everyone the power to mind people's business, then rules that the people want enforced can actually be enforced.

There is no way to regain the ability to sanction bad behavior unless you can mind other people's business. Financial privacy feels nice, but it gives the wealthy the ability to rule over us with little recourse. Are the benefits worth the cost?
Code collaboration tools have a strong network effect due to them being ultimately social tools, and we expect categories affected by the network effect to have winner/losers mechanics. Of course, they don't actually have to, but it's a common expectation and a common outcome.

For equivalents to "code collaboration tools", instead of "programming languages", "text editors" and "build tools", try "social networks" (Facebook won, MySpace lost), "network protocols" (HTTP won, FTP and Gopher lost) or "spoken languages" (English won)
> I would repeat that a community college course and/or Haynes is a good starting point and then it is off to the forum that caters to your car :).

To me, this is one of the most fascinating aspects of the internet. No matter your make or model, there is a dedicated forum for your car. And it's got plenty of active accounts.
I have a question about neural networks.

Say, you are training a NN to recognize handwritten characters 0 and 1, and you have 1000 training images for each character (so 2000 images in total). All images are bitmaps with 0 for black and 1 for white.

Now, by accident, all the "0" training-images have an even number of black pixels, and all the "1" training-images have an odd number of black pixels.

How do you know that the NN really learns to recognize 0's and 1's, as opposed to recognizing whether the number of pixels in an image is even or odd?
Solving the dependent container wait problem in Docker Compose
You don't pay taxes?
It's an idea that was invoked by the American left to explain Bush's failure in Iraq, and eventually conceded by key figures on the right as well: http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-rumsfeld-admits-that-e.... So I'm not sure it's all that controversial.

And we're not talking about whether individual Iraqis in Minnesota are ready for democracy. We are talking about the link posted earlier in the thread, which suggested that the optimal number of immigrants in the U.S. would be two billion. That's not encouraging immigration of selected individuals, it's endorsing wholesale migration of huge populations.
Slick! Love the design. How did you compress it to run on the web?
Cool to see the authors of both vagrant and docker contribute their answers to the question.

I've actually been running docker containers inside of vagrant for a few months now at work. We're moving to a service oriented architecture and the more services we add the more complex it becomes for us to get new engineers up and running on their development environment.

We're using docker-compose to orchestrate all of the services inside of vagrant and it's been working so far for our development environments. Our next step is to switch our staging servers over to docker containers once we get all our engineers running vagrant + docker locally.
What is it that you don't understand.

Somebody owns some land, perhaps it was auctioned off by government. They plant trees(Adds value to the land). Lumber jacks pay to cut down the trees, and prepare the wood for woodwork(adds value to wood). They sell the wood to a woodworker, who crafts it into a chair(adds value to the wood). Who then sells it. The owner of the land may plant more trees and the cycle starts again.

At each step more value has been added(using labour and skill), which people are willing to pay more for.

Money is injected into the economy via banks and government to represent the value of products and services in the economy. If you create too much money, for the amount of value created you get inflation. To little and you get deflation. Obviously this is overly simplified. You also have stuff like velocity of money.
I am using Swift + Xcode 7.2 and mouse over works fine w debugger.

Alas, refactoring tool still does not work for Swift (this tells me Apple engineers must still be using Obj-C).
Linux vms are always cheaper, and Linux licenses are free forever.

<< mic drop >> :)
Maybe I should cry, that such an obvious joke can be taken seriously in this copyright-poisoned world.
I think one reason would fault tolerance.
Is there a fault tolerance layer in GNU parallel? last time I checked their homepage ( a few minutes ago), there was no reference to fault tolerance.

Another reason is, perhaps, scheduling.
once you can modify the cube you basically break the whole point of this excersize. I mean almost all the kids i knew who messed with these when i was a younging would pull the cube apart and then put it back together in the correct shape, or take off the stickers and stick them back...

doesnt really count...
In Apple's case some of the screaming stopped because people just decided to drop the product (e.g. Final Cut Pro X) and go with a competitor (e.g. Adobe Premiere Pro).
> It’s worth noting that the Leaks instrument can also be useful, but it is primarily used to detect memory that is never freed, not memory leaks from retain cycles.

The author does mention it.

For what it's worth, I can't see what gregdoesit quoted in the article.
A better example than the woodworker is an artist. His or her materials may cost almost nothing, but, if the artist is highly regarded, they can transform the materials into something considered valuable. If you want to call it "wealth", go ahead. Does the artist have to sell their work to realize its value, or to gain personal wealth? In strictly financial terms, yes, but their art could be enriching their own life even if they never sold anything. Both value and wealth are subjective.
idk.. we really haven't had empirical (e.g. molecular biology) data for as long as physical (e.g. position of the planets). and even w/ the position of galaxies or fluid flow, there it's not clear what can and can't be "derived from fundamental laws."

so I'm not sure this is unique to bio. also, the title grates on me. would prefer "our incomplete maths" or something.
Thanks for replying with some well-thought-out arguments.

Why are free rider effects acceptable when someone moves from New York to California but not when it's India to California?

There are two, distinct forces at play here. Free-rider effects and cost subsidization.

The non-local worker would start paying taxes into that system? If a corporation is taxed on it's profits, wouldn't they start paying more into that social community.
For the record, the proper way to make a possessive out of a name that ends in s is just to use 's. It should be Lucas's. s' is only for when something is owned by more than one object. Think animals' house where there are several animals.

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/possessives.htm
Agreed. The holes invalidate their record attempt. It's like drilling channels into a football so you can throw it farther.
I will admit that I have experience with only one REI location. I live in a college town were labor is cheap and plentiful. Plus lots of young egos that will talk up all their "experience" to anyone that is willing to listen.
I'm surprised at how old the footage appears to be. Goes to show that commercial flight hardware remains largely similar in the past decade or two.
YouTube Rules of Engagement
A related question.

How can I preload a binary (for example a browser) in the background (without noticeable extra cost), so that when I start it, it opens immediately? Note that a binary may open shared-object files indirectly. It may even open data files.

I suppose a solution would need to run the binary while capturing system calls, so that it can learn (and predict) what files a binary will need in future invocations.
He'll be crawling back to iOS when he sees the standby time of Android eat massive chunks of battery. From the mobile radio active bug to the play store deciding it needs to be active for some unknown reason.

Don't get me wrong, I love android, I love it more than iOS, but damn does it eat battery for no reason. I only switched sides because I couldn't take it any more. Sure iOS devices have started a downward trend of capacity, but at least when I go to bed at night with 80% I wake up in the morning with 79-78% instead of 65% at best.
Sortd: Smart Skin for Gmail
Just because delineating something isn't easy doesn't mean the line has no distinction. Here's an example. I'm an immigrant from the subcontinent. Even among educated people there, coming out as gay can be downright dangerous.[1] I'll go out on a limb and say that we should not allow people to immigrate here any more quickly than we can expect to disabuse them of these sorts of beliefs.

[1] I'm cognizant of the fact that it can be dangerous in some Americam communities too. Alas, we're stuck with that. But there is no need to make the task of progress and civilization harder than it already is.
What trackers are you using for this file? I'd mirror that file for sure.
> The reason I comment is because I'm convinced that a lot of people here never asked themselves - not even once - what privacy is and what purpose it serves.

In fact, the people I know who have actually thought about privacy and its implications the most, myself included, are the ones who hold it dearest. The people that I know who have never stopped to think about these issues are the ones who don't care what information big companies and the government has about them.

>TL;DR: I generalize to a level that prevents me from understanding or being understood by others.

Hmm. Maybe try another approach? Maybe try being specific about what you want and/or advocate for?
ProtonMail did it not – This article in the Intercept is a canard
Near the end of the video it is suggested that the head transplanted onto a younger body would rejuvenate and hence it would make sense to cultivate clones of yourself and periodically transplant your head onto them to live eternally. This is both horrifying and hard to believe.
>- A timing attack if you're using HTTP basic auth

I'd say that qualifies as pretty bad.

How the hell does that even happen? Using time constant string comparison is authentication 101. That's really not something you can mess up by mistake, it's something you mess up by not understanding what you're doing. And that's is all ignoring the fact that there's no reason to not use hashing here.
Some programming styles are not defensive from a security perspective. As a programmer one should acknowledge that using "render" passing a param right from the request, without validating it, is not a good thing, right? That's my point. Some issues here can be solved just by taking the right approach, but won't solve for all of them, of course. XSS mitigation works better with encoding rather than sanitization. If you want me to explain I explain.

But hey, you won't do any good complaining in face of this situation. Time to help people fix it. Peace.
Not sure why you are being downvoted here. It's a perfectly reasonable question, asked reasonably. Even anarcho-capitalists admit that externalities exist.
I'm against foreign employees in all cases except when there is no available qualified individuals in the country of employment. It's ridiculous to screw over your own people for foreign help at a cheaper rate.
TRACKERS

Tier #1
http://kaos.gen.nz:6969/announce

As I said, it's the original torrent file. The tracker it used is long defunct. Only DHT can be used for it now.
I had a similar experience reading Gavin Menzies' 1421 / 1434 / The Lost Empire of Atlantis.
Reactive GraphQL
Apparently 'valgrind' is also ported to OS X, I wonder how it compares. (I haven't been able to use it yet because I'm working on a 32-bit project for an older SDK and it seems that 'valgrind' is 64-bit and using the latest system.)
Sounds interesting! Can you share the slides of your talk? I'm particularly interested in the Word -> Web workflow.
How about him saying "looking a little scaly, bub" for a caption for lewis. Surely what Lewis looks like has no relevance on the argument. Seems Lacklin has it out for Lewis.

I guess calling him an idiot is not ad-hominem in that he's arguing he doesn't understand what he's talking about.
Maybe because I have a bunch of stuff turned off (notifications, email push, no FaceBook etc.), my iPhone 6s plus is about a 3 - 4 day phone easily.

In fact, it's easily the best device of any kind I've ever owned. It is truly spectacular, as you might expect at the cost.
"Is it conceivable that different irrational numbers have different "frequencies", such that high-frequency numbers exhibit their expected averages very quickly, whereas low-frequency numbers may require billions of digits to exhibit the expected averages?"

Yes, and obviously so. Take a (base 10) normal irrational and divide it by 10^1000000000000. The first trillion or so digits of the result will be 0, but the result is still irrational (because duh) and (base 10) normal because the frequencies of the digits have to converge in the infinite limit and giving one digit a large finite head start won't change its overall proportion in the limit. QED.
Nope. mpm has been wanting to move on for a while, it's only recently that he's published plans more publicly.
Should You Agree to “Arbitration Clauses?”
Webpack does everything Browserify does, but arguably if you're used to both the configuration is marginally more transparent (although still terrible). Also, arguably, new features tend to land in webpack a LITTLE earlier than browserify, which might be important to you in rare cases.

In short, I've used both, and I'm currently happy with webpack, and I have a decent configuration on my current project with a dev server, good production builds, support for CSS modules, and hot module replacement, all of which I could have in browserify.

Oh, webpack makes it a lot easier to dispense with gulp; my last browserify config was driven by gulp, but my current webpack config is just driven by a few lines of vanilla node.js code, which is kind of nice.

> What part of my life would actually get better if I took the 4 hours of my life I will never get back to make this switch?

Probably none of them. But if I had two boilerplate configs, one using gulp+browserify and the other webpack, I'd choose webpack because I think it's VERY SLIGHTLY clearer and more maintainable.
Plus at least with the v3 you can do it on the thermostat. I don't know about the others, I assume not based on the comments.

I don't know if it's always been this way, but my V1 Nest let's me fiddle with the schedule on the thermostat. Kind of a pain with a rotating ring as your input device, but it can be done. (Assuming a firmware update hasn't broken this feature; haven't used the feature in well over a year.)
Whoa. Thanks for the comment, I was looking at Xiaomi for my next phone. Guess I'll have to be careful about which one I buy.
Except they will just drop it in a year.
"All it does is drive down wages for everyone and hurt everyone except for the 1% at the top."

It's funny how much this parallels file sharing and the music industry (and even open source) over the past 15 years: the sharing of free music, open source, and even the app store (how can you possibly make a living when you charge 99 cents for an app?) drove down the cost of both software and music to peanuts.

It's pretty clear artificial government controls haven't worked here (IE: copyright laws) and all industries involved have had to learn how to work around it to survive.

Globalization is here to stay and the thing we all love, technology, has made it easier and easier to replace us with overseas workers.

You can try to restrict the companies through law, but they will just end up moving out of the country (and more jobs will go along with them) to compete at a global level. There are plenty of countries that would love the tax dollars in exchange for lax hiring practices.

"How do you feel about companies and law firms gaming job postings to disqualify qualified workers in the US so they can hire someone on a visa for much less?"

it's not really 'gaming' anything. It's using technology to find the best applicant (be it experience, cost, or both). Business owner have learned that just getting cheap labor barely works, but it seems like companies like Facebook are getting not only cheaper labor, but employees that are educated and can compete with their American counterpart.

"Do you consider this abuse or fraudulent?"

Is adblock technology considered 'fraudulent' or 'abuse'? People using it are actively choosing to deprive a website of money, which will result in job loss.

Site owners have to learn how to still make money despite this new technology and so will you if you want to continue working and compete with overseas workers.
CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents
If you're on a mission to spot all the unproductive rhetoric in a substantive criticism of the book, that's fine, but I'm not interested. It takes a couple minutes to think out and write up an explanation of what these criticisms are about, and when you respond to one of those explanations by changing the subject to a snarky caption on a photo, I'm made to feel like I wasted my time.
> Does allowing a company from California hire someone from New York 'drive down wages hurt everyone except the top 1%"?

Fundamental difference: I, as a U.S. citizen, have the legal right to move to California (or New York, or any of the other 48 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and so on) and work there. I do not have that legal right in relation to India. Until we have achieved "free trade" for the movement of people participating in an economy--like the European Union does internally--I do not have any objection to my country of citizenship trying to see that I am employed over non-citizens.

> To me, H1 visas appear to be a sophomoric tantrum of the US transitioning to a global economy.

Absolutely; I won't dispute that. On the other hand, why doesn't India have a program for U.S. nationals to easily move to India and take up employment? Or China? Or Brazil? It's easier to go to the United Kingdom for work than so-called "developing markets."

> Doesn't buying foreign manufactured goods 'drive down wages'?

It can and sometimes does.

> Do you not buy foreign mfg goods?

Where possible, I do not. Most of my clothes are made in the United States as is my television and my computer. My mobile phone was made in the U.S. (Motorola-manufactured in Fort Worth, Texas) but now that's not an option because Motorola shuttered that plant.

> Why not force all companies selling goods in the US to have those products exclusively made in the USA?

I realize this is a rhetorical question but I'll answer it straight anyway: I wouldn't object but that does rather bring about more centralized planning of the economy which is something to which a lot of people would object.
When I was using an android tablet, I used hacker keyboard for my terminal sessions, because it can be set up to give a pretty full keyboard, including function keys.
Android tablets are still not up to par after _many_ point releases.
We've been uploading to PyPI as part of our release process for quite some time, and our own server is hosted on public infra now instead of on a privately managed machine. :)
x = 3
print(x)
x = "hello"
print(x)

Not possible with static typing and type inference (which is static typing without annotation) but done all the time with dynamic typing. (Though still not a good idea, in my mind, but to each their own.)
Or deflating a ball to beat the Colts...
Zcash can't get around financial institution regulations simply by disclaiming liability. If that worked, banks and other institutions would have done so by now.

But yes, a judge would be perfectly willing to destroy a company in violation of the law. See, e.g., Aereo and its ilk.
For a longer (and fairly technical) answer, see "Slapped by the Invisible Hand".

Essentially, a subprime mortgage had the price-will-rise-forever view baked in, as a way for the borrower to passively increase equity in the house while making very low payments. When the prices stopped rising, these borrowers went underwater fast and could not refinance when they needed to.
I also really hatte the official Docker way in OS X. It's even hard to uninstall! If anybody is interested how to uninstall official Docker for OSX: https://therealmarv.com/how-to-fully-uninstall-the-offical-d...
Running Docker in a Vagrant VM is or was the best way. Speaking of Vagrant... does anybody know if there is a xyhve Vagrant project?
Nobody says the company can't grow; just that they need to hire folks legally able to work in the United States.

Ask an Indian entrepreneur how easy it is to hire an US national with origins in Pakistan.