skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apologies if my comment came off as accusatory, I really did find it funny

This thread has been a land mine of accusatory reactions, so I apologize for painting yours in a similar brush.

> I have seen people have a bias towards the quality of open-source software even though the closed-source alternative is opaque

Reverse engineering isn't hard, it's just a speed-bump.

I work on a lot of open source projects. At the risk of sounding self-promotional to on-lookers, I'd like to talk about one in particular:

https://github.com/paragonie/random_compat

https://packagist.org/packages/paragonie/random_compat

Random_compat has been downloaded almost 2 million times (according to Packagist), incorporated into WordPress, Laravel, Symfony, etc. It's by far the most collaborative project that Paragon Initiative Enterprises has produced for the open source community.

Yet, until the most recent release, the documentation referred to a MCRYPT_CREATE_IV constant that does not exist. The correct constant is MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM. Somehow, we all missed it.

"Open source is automatically more secure" is a fallacy. I just happen to like open source better, personally.

Aside: despite being downloaded ~1.9 million times, a grand total 30 people outside of Paragon have contributed to its development in some way so far. The "many eyes" are actually quite sparse, especially when it comes to security expertise. (I think it's reasonable to say those 30 represent much of the the upper 0.01% of security talent in the PHP community.)
Tax software firm warns of data breach
> In a perfectly competitive market corporate profits are zero and it all comes out of the consumer.

No, the determinant of tax incidence is price elasticity, which is orthogonal to competitiveness of a market. [1]

Oil is interesting because it is somewhat price inelastic both for demand and supply. People's ability to stop driving is limited in the medium term, but also many suppliers of oil aren't capable of completely exiting the oil business.

In practice, I suspect the incidence is in fact roughly 50/50 if applied in a huge country like the United States (the incidence would be much on consumers in smaller markets).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence
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Of course there is: the more people can't afford to meet their own needs, the more people will be dependent on government programs.

Oh, wait, you said "upside"...
We don't have the TCP listener wired up yet, but it's on the roadmap. Thanks for bringing it up, I'll try to get it prioritized for sometime in the next few months.
That's a good reason to subsidize public transport and a poor reason to subsidize driving.
Sure, but they're not going to even tell you if you're a good fit until you go through the entire expense of building for their gateway. I'd think one would spend that effort integrating with any number of other gateways that have some clear requirements. There's just no clear advantage here that I can see.
It's awkward to even have to compose a reply to that answer! Some people reaaaally need to affirm to themselves that everything is fine whatever happens, for some reason. Small minds.
A previous thread and its uptake in FOSS showed I really need to get a grasp on Git soon. I'm more about practice than theory so I certainly liked this line:

"focuses on Git essentials without getting bogged down in lots of heavy theory."

Bookmarked it for later when I tackle that. Thanks ahead of time for writing and sharing it.
Learning How GC Works
Sent one if you still need.
How is this different than piracy?
Sent one
It's gotten better since the 90s. There are more people in sales with some dev background and therefore at least a bit of a clue.
it's your taxes that build the systems that allow you to buy that laptop
Every single tax is ultimately a tax on workers and consumers.
This is why I said they are great at marketing. There's really little value in working with me, but at least responding while the article is front page makes it look like they are responsive and looking into issues.

Maybe they can sink a big user/customer that's willing to gut through all the pain of helping to make an operation data store.. someone in this thread mentioned mongo and it sounds very familiar.

I'm wondering if I'm being too negative but the flip side of this is that it caused me and others a lot of stress, lost face, and time. Most developers and operators are overworked already so I am trying to save some pain since the blog post makes it seem like everything is fine and awesome.
I have seen lots of "security-software" get lost in the trap of monetising first and never making it alive because money becomes more important than a real secure product. I would much rather let them wait and build something good and _only_ then try to raise money.
"Buyers must promise to only use the information for political purposes."

I promise!
Watering plants and cooking food is also fairly trivial, perhaps our employees should do that too!
This is a distinctly ignorant American perspective on things. In civilized countries the conversation goes like this:

"Hey Mom, are we going to visit grandma for Christmas this year?"

"Yes dear, I booked the train tickets last month."
Yep, definitely. The process of writing anything out (ideas, emotions, plans) lets you separate out the roles of describing the idea vs criticising it. Trying to evaluate them in your head requires you to do both simultaneously.
I can't comment on either project's security scrutiny, as I'm not intimately familiar with either of their security teams.

I will say that, as a rule, I don't believe I can ever trust Github, regardless of how good their team is. I treat every packet I send as "completely public" and every packet I receive as "possibly malicious", just like every other website on the Internet.

GitLab: it's at least possible for me to trust (i.e. if I self-host it).

(But I really do need to pick up Ruby sometime soon.)
That is more or less how my employer worked around this glaring bug. That being said, we've worked together with Influx to fix some issues or add features to Telegraf and even have had their developers fix several of our issues found under excessive load (/me waves to Alex and Sebastian), Influx has a long way to go, but I've got faith that they're going in the right direction and things are getting a lot better. It is true this announcement is a bit too full of blatant marketing rhetoric, but the tech is good and if is getting better. If you've not tried it very recently, give it another shot.
The previous federal government in Australia introduced something along these lines: a carbon tax designed to be revenue-neutral. Compensation for lower income earners was worked into the income tax system (some also went directly to certain highly-exposed export industries).

Unfortunately thanks to incompetence in how this plan was sold by the previous government and an aggressive campaign against it by the opposition, that government lost the following election and now we have the worst of all worlds: carbon tax repealed (the only country going backwards in this regard AFAIK), compensation retained (the incoming government being too spineless to scrap it, despite themselves declaring a budget emergency) and a new braindead "direct action" policy where we now give tax dollars to polluters to encourage them to tone it down (stupidly inefficient and another hit to the budget).
"The voting records don’t say who a person voted for, just whether or not they voted. It includes presidential primary and general election records, as well as state, local and school board elections dating back decades.

The database, which is a collection of public records, can be purchased from the Iowa Secretary of State, typically for $1,500 to $1,800. Buyers must promise to only use the information for political purposes."

In case anyone was wondering what's in the data.
Sent you one.
I'd guess go version doesn't matter, you should install the binary which is statically linked, no?
I don't want to pooh-pooh anyone's hard work--please don't misunderstand me--but I am legitimately curious: why put so much effort into building a house of cards upon a foundation of shifting sand? Your project is completely dependent on GitHub's reliability, integrity, and goodwill. It could implement its own version of your enhancements and render yours obsolete. Arguably, it should do that, because what's the point of relegating useful enhancements to third-party products?

So doesn't that mean that your project is living on borrowed time? Why not build upon an open platform instead, one that you can control, one that can't be ripped out from under you?

Again, I don't mean this as criticism, I'm just very curious, because I don't understand.
Sent you one :)
FYI. TCP support for the embedded DNS was added via https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/19680.
A directory of markdown files. I use git for version control.
Corporate tax is a political sham, a sleight of hand by politicians to make taxes more palatable to voters. There is no such thing as a tax on corporations that's not a tax on people. Corporate income is either paid out as salaries or dividends, or spent on purchasing goods from other firms (so eventually only dividends and salaries). Taxing corporations means reducing salaries and reducing dividends.

The corporate tax also benefits big firms with overseas offices and armies of tax accountants and lawyers, at the expense of small and medium sized businesses that can't afford to play the tax avoidance game.

We should eliminate the corporate tax. Make it revenue neutral with equivalent small bumps in the income tax. But it actually doesn't generate much revenue to begin with, more evidence that it's not worth the trouble.
Right, but then, that's exactly the point of taxing it, which the parent commenter was recoiling from, because it raised prices. :)
In 2014, the US imported 9 million barrels of petroleum per day, and exported 4 million barrels per day. Net imports accounted for 27% of US petroleum consumption. [1]

While that is from 2014, this table suggests that imports didn't change significantly, up or down, in 2015 through November [2].

[1] http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=727&t=6
[2] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=m...
Removing subsidies would be a huge start.
It's public information in all 50 states. Some states require you to pay for it, while others (like Washington[0]) provide it for free.

[0] - https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/vrdb-download-form.aspx
> Code search is also a joke or even an insult

Oh give me a break and get over yourself. An insult? Are you serious?
Yah Alaska really needs to figure out an economy that's not based on selling things they find in the ground.

They need to learn from California and New York and other places where people have figures out how to make money off of ideas.

You need smart people for that, though.
Have you had a chance to throw Influx through the paces of Kyle Kingsbury's Jepsen distributed data store tester?
Since this is about new music, I would drop the "records" branding and refer to songs.
Really? Either way you lose your job, but one way you built a great product that couldn't get noticed, while the other way you are considered to have failed at building the product.
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If you're paying for backups and they get deleted the moment there's an issue with payment, ur doin' it rong. I don't care whatever the TOS says, they're being completely shitty to customers. Sure there should be regular off-site backups. No one is arguing against that. But the fastest restore is usually from the closest source, and that's partly why you'd pay them for it.
Shameless request from me as well. Thanks!
I said this above, but they are an information arbitrage company trading information that isn't valuable. How much value can you extract from a market for connecting people who need their homes cleaned with cleaners? Like not a lot.
Very amusing.. Ouch.. But that tensor beef does look yummie!

I was just exploring an analogy, not particularly looking for any explanatory power.
Thank God this "uncivilized" and "ignorant" country bailed you all out from the Nazis and Soviets and put an end to hundreds of years of Europeans slaughtering each other. Trying to cast a whole nation as ignorant and uncivilized, because of cars vs trains of all things, I think reveals a lot more about you than about America.

Our cars have served us pretty well, seeing that the poorest US state is wealthier per capita than almost all Western European countries, including Britain, France, and Germany. Of course, cars are not the main reason for America's success, but they don't seem to have held us back much.
I recommend having a backup using Git on some reliable Git hosting(s). I can't think on anything safer and more practical.
Your definition of spendthrift is flipped. spendthrift (n) a person who spends money in an extravagant, irresponsible way.
He replied an hour ago...
30% is not a "holy shit" level of fuel tax. The federal fuel tax in 1993 was 18.4c per gallon (and remains at that level), while crude oil that year cost as little as $13/barrel. That's a 57% tax. Of course the real value of the federal fuel tax has monotonically declined through inflation, since it remains at a nominal 18.4c/gallon.

In civilized countries the fuel tax is generally well over 100%. In Switzerland for example the tax is .75/liter, or about 120CHF (~$120) per barrel.
Wow, what a glorious trainwreck of a thread.

That founder seems so tenaciously determined to promote his new iteration of the same old failed startup but keeps getting called out over and over again on his shadiness.
That's exactly what I thought this article was about until I saw its source. I mildly shuddered at the thought I was about to see another revelation of how twisted and overly broad their targeting was. In a rare event, Facebook was a relief haha.
It will definitely strongly affect the type of car I buy next when I'm done running the current one into the ground.
It's 11% of the federal budget [1]. We'd be talking about a steep rise on payroll and income taxes to replace it.

It would actually be a lot more than 11% if it wasn't for avoidance by multinationals like Apple.

[1] - http://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pol...
It boggles my mind that Facebook blocks message text between mutual friends. This could admittedly be useful for stopping hacked accounts from exploiting your trust to make you click bad links. But it should be enough to display a warning message, like Chrome does.

I suppose they're designing for users who don't want to deal with error messages, or wouldn't understand them.
It could be that carbon consumption is fairly widespread between rich and poor: in other words, Bill Gates does not consume 100000 times the carbon that Joe Schmoe does, but maybe only 10 times as much, or perhaps even less. This means that to actually make a dent in usage, you have to make the tax hit everyone.

Of course, you could also try and compensate by lowering income taxes, or increasing the EITC or something, so that the tax is offset for the poorest, but still give them an incentive to use less carbon.

That's what this conservative commentator suggests: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/upshot/the-key-role-of-con...

But... politics. Flagged.
How much to each citizen?

(1) According to income or need? Then it's just wealth redistribution.

(2) Exactly the same amount for each citizen? The farmer who needs his truck pays a lot, and gets back $x. Stock broker who lives and works in Manhattan and doesn't own a car pays little, but also gets back $x.

(3) Exactly in proportion to how much carbon each person used? This accomplishes nothing except adding a layer of bureaucracy (you pay $n in carbon tax and get back $n-20% after government processing).
Babbage was a true genius (2006)
"No upside to a high price of gasoline." This is not true.

In no particular order, and off the top of my head, the rapid disinflation in the price of oil is currently:

1. Wreaking havoc on the budgets of most oil exporting nations.
2. Destroying purchasing power through currency devaluation in Russia, Nigeria, across the Middle East and Latin America.
3. Crushing the economies of parts of Canada, Alaska, and the Dakotas.
4. Directly causing job losses in Texas.
5. Negatively impacting the Houston office markets.
6. Destroying earnings of publicly traded oil companies.
7. Reducing stock market valuations of said companies.
8. Reducing portfolio values.
9. Impacting earnings of banks that have extended credit to oil firms.
"Hey, Mom, are we going to visit grandma and grandpa for Christmas this year?" "Oh honey don't you remember? They passed away last year. Lung cancer."

According to a study, automobile emission causes 53,000 premature deaths every year in the US.

The question is, what kind of person wants other people to die early, and why?

Source: http://news.mit.edu/2013/study-air-pollution-causes-200000-e...

> Emissions from road transportation are the most significant contributor, causing 53,000 premature deaths, followed closely by power generation, with 52,000.
The current version still has the problem that if you do a massive SELECT then it will fill up memory until the process gets killed. In the future we'll give controls to limit how much memory a query can take.

I think it's common in databases that if you throw a massive query at it that the server doesn't have the resources to handle, things will go wrong. It'll thrash, or crash, or generally have poor performance. We'll be working on improving the failure conditions, but if you put a query to a database that is too big for the server to handle, some sort of failure scenario will be encountered. Just a question of how it's handled.

Also, there's no new query planner in 0.10. We have a bunch of work getting merged in for the query engine for 0.11. But if you throw a huge query at the DB that the server can't handle, you'll still have great sadness.

Which DB ended up solving your big query problems? Maybe we're just a poor fit? Or what kinds of queries should we be working on optimizing?
Only if you set it up to do so. Other alternatives are easily conceived.
Alright, here's where I need people strong in statistics to correct me if I'm wrong as I learned it a while back. If I'm right, then this is another misuse of math to push some BS result. If I'm wrong, then it's meaningful in some way maybe. So, here is two claims about averages:

1. The average of a diverse group means something for an individual. Like in this article where they connect individuals to average degree of separation.

2. Averages, due to their nature, don't mean anything for an individual. They're mainly good for identifying and tracking trends. So, no connection could be made here.

A pro told me that No 2 is the case a long time ago. It made more sense given the data I've looked at as well in terms of example problems and reports. Need more peer review on that as statistics is kind of opinionated on how its applied. If No 2 is true, then this report is more BS that's too common and the comments here become really amusing (or sad if one is an education reformer).
thanks! fixed.
Also the mobile website sucks badly. "We'll just hide all the things except the top of this README" is not the right way to optimize for a small screen.
You don't need cigarettes. You do need energy.
> Bill Gates does not consume 100000 times the carbon that Joe Schmoe does

People lile Gates and Buffett travel in their private plane, they do consume more carbon compared to the average joe.
Ridiculously easy T/F questions that students still got wrong
When you compare it to the income tax, that's not a big percent. The corporate tax is equivalent to an income tax on people, but with the strange property that it distributes the burden between the classes (shareholders vs employees, though there is a lot overlap) through the market instead of by law. Depending on the situation in a particular firm, the burden might be wholly on employees or wholly on shareholders, but probably somewhere in-between. This is all ignoring that some of the burden could be shifted to consumers too, depending on how competitive the market is and what the margins are.

As I said, you would raise the income tax on the middle to high brackets to offset abolishing the corporate tax. You'd be taxing the same people, for the same money, with much less hassle for everyone.

What does the corporate tax accomplish that an equivalently higher income tax does not? It's the same money.
They also have no monitor though. And I challenge the notion that most people even _need_ a computer outside work.
who is providing api management solution for VISA?
> It could be that carbon consumption is fairly widespread between rich and poor

It's less clear that oil consumption is equal for the rich and the poor. The rich person can afford a Tesla and have zero gas usage. The poor person is driving a '93 Ford Taurus that barely passes environmental air quality standards, let alone having any sort of fuel economy.
It's likely, but do you see the point? They earn orders of magnitude more and have a zillion times more in the bank. But in terms of carbon - or food, to pick something else - they may not consume that much more than the average person. Put another way, 10000 Joe Schmoes are going to consume way more carbon or food than 1 Bill Gates. So to actually curb carbon usage, you're going to have to take that into account. One way to make it 'fair' would be to offset those costs in other ways: if you continue to drive as before, it'll be neutral, but if you curb your driving, you'll actually come out ahead financially. That's the theory, at least.
Entering into a pastebin is.. questionable. But I strongly dislike paywalls that disappear for search traffic. It's really really shady.
Oil companies pay extremely high tax rates compared to the small tax breaks they get. And in fact, most of the tax breaks they get are made up of routine corporate deductions that all corporations qualify for and aren't special to the industry:

https://www.aei.org/publication/the-truth-about-all-those-su...

Exxon and Chevron, as two examples, have been paying essentially the highest corporate tax rates on earth for a long time.
It's also affordable energy building and sustaining those systems.
Maybe progressively tax car ownership based on car's age/price?
In case of Facebook the solution is very easy. In desktop version, when you put mouse over friend image there is a popup menu with item "Following" which contains one more popup menu with "Unfollow" item. When you unfollow friend his activity gets removed from the feed. The friend will never see that he is "unfollowed": no any notification fired. In several days i just unfollow everybody and now my feed is empty.
Not yet, but it's on our TODO list. However, we have to finish the clustering implementation before we bother going through that testing. At this point we're telling people it's experimental and not meant for production use.
It would of course be far better than that. The low corporate tax rate would attract vast numbers of relocations. Companies like Pfizer would stop fleeing the US; major corporations in other nations would relocate.
Sure. That kind of infrastructure makes sense when you jam so many people into such tiny countries.

Great Britain is just a tad bigger than New England, and it's got five times as many people in it.
My GDC talk on building a recommendation system for EverQuest Landmark
No ships?
It does look a little strange that there are entries actually missing though - that's quite different to being buried.
Ooh I forgot about that feature. It does at least answer my big problem with IB: you execute code you didn't write and can't read. I'll have to give live rendering another look.