skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, in both cases, that is a bug of the particular reputation system, not of reputation systems in general:

1) In the Ebay case, reputation can be conditioned on the type of items and the flow of money being processed by the merchant. Someone who is highly reputable for $50 transactions, isn't necessarily so for $5,000 ones. You could also always have "anomaly detection" built into the system, which kicks off whenever the seller moves too quickly from $50 items to $5,000 and either warns users or pro-rates their reputation (if nothing else, radical behavior change could mean the seller's account got compromised...).

2) In the Bitcoin exchange case, there is currently no real reputation score for Bitcoin exchanges as far as I know. But you could have a proof of stake system that requires exchanges to hold X% of their funds available, similar to the requirements for banks. You could also operate the exchange in a reduced risk way if say, to convert $1000 USD to BTC you sequentially post 1000 $1 USD transactions and don't send them the next dollar until the corresponding BTC amount clears on the network and is safely stored in your hardware or multi-server wallet.

Not saying that there aren't fundamental issues with reputation economies, but lets give the dystopia a fair trial and assume that the non-essential problems will be solved.
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2. Run the cost analysis for you if you're not yet decided

3. Tell you if it is worth the effort and why and when and how

4. Help you find right people to run your infrastructure

5. Select vendors, work with them and get you the best price

6. If necessary, I can build a small datacenter with my bare hands and then run it :-)

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That's just an idiom. Every language has lots.

Though admittedly it's a corporate idiom that has passed its best-before date. Kind of like "folks".
This is cool. In the old days... computers came with these things built into the ROM (BIOS, Firmware, etc.). They were mostly called a 'ROM Monitor' or just the 'Monitor'. I never knew why they were called that, but I would guess that it was probably a term DEC or IBM invented.

On a Sun, NeXT, or Cisco box, you could hit a magic keyboard sequence (or send an RS-232 BREAK over the console) to get to the monitor. It was a very powerful thing to be able to interrupt the running OS, modify it, and then resume it. On the NeXT, you could even work with OS structures or sync the disks. The monitor typically had a disassembler and a simple single step debugger.

Earlier microcomputers also had these, and were helpful, but less powerful. For example, the Apple ][ had a monitor, but later ROMs did not allow you to invoke it with a key sequence.

On the later Suns and Power Macs, the monitor was implemented as a standard called Open Firmware. This was basically a standardized Forth acting as a Monitor. Device drivers could be embedded as a bytecode like sequence of Forth words for ethernet or display cards. That way, you could use newer devices even with old firmware and with any CPU. Very cool.

I wish this functionality would come back.
Nice! The same conversation in the context of sports, where they really do want the best:

"We hire only the best"

"What do you pay?"

"Between 10 and 30 million USD per year"
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There's no gain to society from having an open platform (I can develop Windows apps for free only having Windows), and converting it to a closed one.

The transition of users from computers to closed devices like tablets and phones means now most people are only consumers and can't create anything on their devices. Except for selfies, that is.

All PC platforms should be actively protected from this closure.

If you think only a GPL OS deserves to keep that openness then you are ignoring the 98% of computers that don't run Linux, for IMO silly ideological reasons.
That was asked on the spacex sub-reddit. The response was something like "you underestimate the power of a Merlin" which I took to mean that a reasonable distance to avoid the effects is too far to reasonably run ship-to-ship cabling.
Mailinator has a Saas option for this (api, private domain, etc).

http://mailinator.com/featurematrix.jsp
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If I encounter these, I immediately block these permanently with uBlock if the site is useful, otherwise I never return.

Throwing it in my face makes me less likely to do it.
perhaps the best resource on starting up a business quickly is ''the 7 day startup'' by dan norris

http://www.amazon.com/The-Day-Startup-Learn-Launch-ebook/dp/...

check out http://7daystartup.com/ as well. dan occasionally throws a 7 day startup challenge where a bunch of entrepreneurs gather online and start a business in a week
Regarding make, the author states:

Parallelize different commands: Okay: There's no automatic way to parallelize different targets, though you can still parallelize a single target using Bash.

This is wrong, make has supported the -j flag since 1988:

-j [jobs], --jobs[=jobs]
Specifies the number of jobs (commands) to run simultaneously. If there is more than one -j option, the last one is effective. If the -j option is given without an argument, make will not limit the number of jobs that can run
simultaneously.
Only for litigation they initiate.
This was way, way overdue. For much of its life, MAME was a total mess of license restrictions. Just knowing that a file was in MAME didn't really yield much reliable information about how it was licensed. Some parts of the code were under seriously weird terms, including e.g. an assertion of the "right" to change the license terms retroactively (said license also refers to the code as "copywritten"...).

Kudos to the team for sorting it out, and to all the old contributors who agreed to relicense their code where necessary.
That often happens, but it's the rules, not the votes, that are dispositive.

HN is a constitutional democracy. The constitution is https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Please abide by it.
that's arguable
If I give an employee a $100 Amex gift card as a spot bonus, I do gross that up.

If I pay relocation expenses, I require receipts (at which point, it's non-taxable for most situations, so doesn't need grossing up). It's not that I disbelieve the new hire, but rather that I have to make it accountable in order to make it non-taxable.

If I pay cash comp (whether as a signing bonus, periodic bonus, commission, in contemplation of on-going employment, or as part of a termination agreement), they're wages in my book and I've never seen them grossed up (unless more of the character of the gift card or Christmas ham variety).
yeah, thats what happened at TIBCO. They got trim it right away.
Hello, post author here. What I mean by "N/A" here is "Not Applicable" as in Ruby was not designed for concurrency. I didn't mean to say that it is "Not Available" or not possible. I also was only describing language features without considering libraries.

Even JRuby's first recommendation for concurrency is "don't do it": https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Concurrency-in-jruby
> there has been no documented case of exploding teeth since the 1920s ...

... which makes be believe this is baloney.
>* cutting 3 bln. $ would mean that those 3 bln. are gone from the US defense industry not the other way around.
*

I literally do not see a problem with this. How about we take the $3bn for defense and invest in infra, edu or argri-tech instead?
BMW plans to make half the R&D staff computer programmers
It will if you don't want to just be a leach node. Most home 10mb connections have less than 1mb up.
> their encoded representations

What's an example of such a representation?
Depression can affect every organ system in the body
I think the best way to address the issue of how reputations are determined is to let "sellers" or payment recipients decide on who they want to benefit from their goods and services.

So, in the digital currency system that I have prototyped [1], each team decides on which recommender system they want to provide advise, in real-time, on whether to accept or reject a payment offer from another team. Borrowing from your examples, one team could use an "advisor" developed by the HN staff, another team could use an "advisor" endorsed by the subculture you identify with, etc.

There are many issues that I have worked out in the prototype, such as making sure payments are always traceable to the issuer and inflation is decentrally regulated, and most of the solution comes from the budgets-as-currency approach. I'm still in the process of improving the advisor options with better data-science techniques (hopefully with contributions from others). [2]

[1] https://tatag.cc/ui/home-about
[2] https://github.com/siosonel/tatag-api
I couldn't figure out a solution to 3. because of the wording. I thought it proposed drawing a single line segment between a pair of consecutive side midpoints.
If you're on eBay, you don't have any choice in the matter, it's PayPal or nothing.

Charging back a PayPal transaction also basically ensures you'll get banned from the service (and by extension: eBay)
I've heard about two ways - emulator, or where source is available a port. Haven't heard about full rewrites, though I'm sure they exist, especially because the rewrites can be written a lot more sloppily than the originals, given the completely overpowered hardware they're being made to run on.
I think this project is great, and it seems like a great teaching tool.

But maintaining your own separate language, computer or otherwise, imposes a cost, it's not clear why the cost of that choice should be shouldered by the rest of the world.

In general, I think having separate languages divides the world and they are a net negative, despite their role in local culture we shouldn't be trying to keep them all around.

The choice of English as the current lingua franca of the world isn't really fair (nor certain), but there is no choice that is fair to everyone, and English seems to have significant adoption already.
Since it is a private equity firm, what makes you think they are interested in doing anything other than gutting the business?
It's easy to see how the tech improvements we have had since 2005 are not economical technological improvements.

For example, by 2005 (when the slowdown in Labor productivity began) most of the benefit of computers for most everywhere had been accomplished. Microsoft's dream of a PC on every desk was realized. Email was everywhere. For the average office worker, were there any major productivity gains from tech left? Nope.

Most tech improvement since then has been mostly about entertainment and mobility. Entertainment doesn't enhance the economic definition of technology, and the increase in mobile tech is probably a mixed bag in terms of productivity.

Prior to 2005, the productivity came from a revolution in computers and the Internet. Now we are just refining that revolution. To get high productivity gains, we need another revolution of some sort.

3D printing is nearly at prime time, which should greatly enhance manufacturing and design productivity. I don't know if that will have a great impact or not, but eventually there will be some disruptive technology that will bring real change.
Why arent there literally hundreds of GOPRO cams on the droneship?

I mean they can make a robotic rocket and sea-based-landing platform, but they cant take good video with $100 cameras? Why are all vids cut off as if it was some lame redditor's crappy gif repost?

Edit: I was clearly misinformed. My question was bad and I feel as.
Informatica, too.
This is why you're seeing all those Chrome extensions today
If the SaaS companies are dumping their desktop offerings, who is buying them? Like you, I'm wondering if this really is a pattern, but it sounds interesting.
AWS does support ipv6 in ELBs in a fashion. ELBs will have both an ipv6 and a dual stack DNS entry created for them, in addition to the ipv4.

example.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com (A Record)

ipv6.example.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com (AAAA Record)

dualstack.example.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com (A or AAAA Record)

These records will only be displayed for ELBs in classic despite existing and being resolvable for VPC ELBs. The twist is that there is no way to add security groups with ipv6 addresses in VPC so its not possible to receive requests.

Amusingly this means ELBs in classic have an advantage on VPC when it comes to ipv6.
Ask HN: How do you balance a serious relationship with starting a company?
And the lemonade stand has the advantage that it doesn't have to compete with every other lemonade stand in the world.

If we had Star Trek style replicators where recipes are protected, how many people would be able to make a living selling lemonade? One of them might sell more, either by chance or because he has a slightly better recipe. So uldn't the money flowing in allow him to spend money improving the product or its marketing, leading to increased sales in a self-reinforcing cycle?

Yes, a few people could make a living selling 'not what everybody drinks' lemonade, but that doesn't quite work that way in software because people do not gain status (yet?) from having that "look how rich I am" app.
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I think part of it is that the remoting situation on X is so bad that a lot of linux users just avoid it in favor of something like tmux or screen for remote work.

Remote desktop from the mid XP era just blows away anything that X has up to now.
"Whuffie has all the problems of money, and then a bunch more that are unique to it. In Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, we see how Whuffie – despite its claims to being ‘‘meritocratic’’ – ends up pooling up around sociopathic jerks who know how to flatter, cajole, or terrorize their way to the top. Once you have a lot of Whuffie – once a lot of people hold you to be reputable – other people bend over backwards to give you opportunities to do things that make you even more reputable, putting you in a position where you can speechify, lead, drive the golden spike, and generally take credit for everything that goes well, while blaming all the screw-ups on lesser mortals.

If this sounds familiar, it’s because that’s how money works."

No, that's how democracy "works".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11226814
Somehow I'm sure that some of the other problems must be a lot harder. Why else would heavy hitters like Poh Shen Lo and other past IMO competitors bother with this?
bummer. :( i was using it a bit over a year ago to teach someone programming basics
I was taught that the first principle of security is physical security. Once your attacker has possession of your hardware, decrypting the data is only a matter of time.

They don't even need a brute force attack. If decryption works without a SIM card, then the key is on the device, protected by a code with a mere 10,000 possibilities. For the FBI, isn't that child's play?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4OmVLc_oDw
"I see no reason to reject ... as one of the factors"

Such agnostic logic is unassailable. You don't know; the powers that be don't know; the courts & lawsuits don't know. You're right not to reject the possibility.

However, you'd be wrong the assert the certainty "... disparity is also caused by discrimination" with such flimsy evidence.
In addition to these ideas on racism, a lot of people are missing that Trump is very skillfully using phatic expression to establish his position of authority, which cannot be countered with reason or logic.

Trump may be using English words, but he isn't really expressing information to the people that are voting for him. Instead, this kind of phatic language is about posturing and dominance.

I highly recommend reading this[1] blog post that explains how this difference is a language barrier. While it was written about the "intelligent design" drama, the basic ideas it presents apply broadly. Similar to how belief in "intelligent design" is more than just resistance to science, support for Trump is more than just latent racism.

Incidentally, this is why John Oliver's "Drumph" name calling can work. It's not about what it sounds like, or even that it involves Trump's old family name. It works because it is speaking the same type of language (phatic expression) in a way that makes Trump look weak. It knocks Trump down a step in the social hierarchy.

[1] http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/05/31/more-than-just-resi...
That's obviously not what I mean. If you keep trolling HN, we will ban you.
> This is just not "backward-compatible to native C code", and the vector actually is NOT the array (which is also not a pointer, but anyway...). Deal with it.

No one claimed any of the things you seem to be arguing against...
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This infuriates me as a Twitter stockholder and user. Has everyone at Twitter fallen asleep? How could they not have the jump on Google on this.
As i start to read this, "Dancing Queen" comes on. Clearly they control the airwaves.
I'm generally not too bothered about sub. v. dub, but for some reason I find Steins;Gate in English to be really jarring. Not sure why, but I feel like the voices don't really fit the characters in the dubbed version.
So...... market rate?

(I know, I know, it was a terrible joke.)
Unfortunately, that's only half the battle. Just telling potential customers about the app is incredibly difficult, particularly with the very broken state of App Store search.
You try and do your best. I think living together helps so that you can try to time box time together more easily. I did it along with having a first child with my S/O and it was incredibly difficult all around. A year after ultimately closing up shop after two years of work we are still dealing with leftover stuff from the startup.

Make sure your S/O is onboard. If it is a serious relationship you owe it to them. If they are not you have some hard choices to make.
They have GoPros all over, and they usually release video afterwards from them. The problem is not the cameras, it's the uplink. Turns out cellular signals aren't so strong several hundred miles out to sea, and satellite uplinks are a bit iffy when your dish is being vibrated by a rocket.
That might cause the video to go funky, but it shouldn't cut the feed. My guess is that the satellite dish or other communications hardware gets upset when the first stage effectively takes a flamethrower to it.
Were they borderline performance issues, or were speeds off by an order of magnitude? Would they run acceptably on a Pi3 (about 1.5x a Pi2 and 10x a Pi1)? What about an ODroid-C2 (about 1.5x the speed of the Pi3)?

Nintendo64 and Playstation emulation on ARM SBCs is probably in a similar state, for a lot of games. Some games will run beautifully, some will be hopelessly slow.
Maybe its like the GRE where all the questions are easy but there's a nasty time limit?
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I think part of it is due to the fact that Google has greater access to a broader audience. Not everyone will search Twitter for "Donald Trump" but they will certainly search Google - so Google is providing a way for the candidates to take advantage of what is already happening probably millions of times every day.
The non-zero-sum aspect you describe is commonly described as return-on-investment in a capitalist society. The redistribution is taxes and government spending. The power law is created by the preferential attachment of capital to existing capital. Even a weak preference creates an extreme inequality.

I'm not sure if it'll help you to think about it this way, but you can always model the system as zero-sum if you normalize the total amount of wealth in the system to 1 after every transaction. Or track participants' share of total wealth instead of absolute wealth.
My concern is what are the odds of this working out.

Your company wants to use spark. And you literally have no-one in the company who has ever used spark or wants to read a book on spark.

And there is a company that knows spark, and happens to need a skill you know. And no one in this second company knows it, nor does anyone in the second company want to read a book or learn about it.
"If the jokes are true, the user does not exist in the programmer’s conception as an active or independent player. But they, rather that managers, are the ones programmers are working for. I wonder how software would change if the user was a more prominent figure in the programming landscape."

Very well worded point. The more you care about the well being of a user, the less a manager is an adversary and the more they become a misguided person who needs to be convinced. The adversarial relationship between management and programmers is the fault of both sides.
I'm not confused, I was just disregarding advertising in my comment because I assumed it only captured a tiny portion of the value. According to my first Google result, total US internet ad spending was about $60B last year (~$15/month), so my assumption was pretty reasonable.

The $106B is closer to $30 than $50 (I rounded up). So the combined ad spending and the 106B estimate together is about $50 per month per person.

It's actually more complicated than that - companies like Comcast also capture a (disproportionate) share of the value created. But even when you add it all together, it's still a big underestimate of the value created.
One reason we (collectively) might avoid honesty in that scenario is that we're afraid of a meltdown/confrontation/any kind of incident. When we're on the receiving end, we all know that "ourselves" are reasonable, so we'd never get into a fight over it. When we're delivering bad news to others, we can't be so sure.
Both VPS providers I use - DigitalOcean and TransIP - support IPv6, though only the latter does so by default.
The only thing I would add to this would be how hungry the capital machine is for growth. Public equities are simply not outrunning the bear in a way that certain well placed and timed companies are. And those companies command astronomically high market capitalizations because of growth. Not profit. Capital doesn't need profit right now. There is plenty to go around.
Pretty sure 99% consumers don't give a shit if their ISPs support end to end IPv6 too.
It's unlikely the drone ship would be lost. The rocket is coming in nearly empty. The explosions we've seen in the past are really just the remnants of fuel briefly burning, it's not all that powerful. The rocket itself is light compared to the ship. It's a little bit like someone throwing a soda can at your head. It'll hurt, but it won't break your skull. Some of the support equipment on the deck might take damage (there are fun pictures of the ship after previous attempts with various items dented and scorched) but the ship itself should be fine.
Electric Surfboards – \m/
Hah, no, the drone ship will be ok, it's pretty strong.