skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I give both of them credit for their successful businesses.
It's the same credit I give to Donald Trump. They are all fine businessmen. In my world, I want moral businessmen.

They all made a lot of money.

There's a part of me that cringes whenever Gate's talks about giving away his money. Yes, he made the money legally. We paid for his philanthropy? (To the Gate's, and his wife's non-profit; stop giving third world farmers Monsanto seeds. They are only getting one crop. Listen to Buffett's son.)

As to Mark. Yes he's a fine businessman. I don't think he has had an original thought since he stole the idea from the twins. I've never worshiped, nor liked that guy. I take that back--loved the tee shirts, and jeans. Honestly--I've never understood the whole tie thing.

And to be completely honest; I will love the internet again when/if FB is displaced by a the next big, new, wiz bang app. I am really tired of FB.

Go ahead call me a Troll. Call me a Hater. I like a lot of Founders, and their companies. I have never liked these two.
I would be happy to be proven wrong (thankfully I have dealt exclusively with Postgres in the last two years or so), but I think most of the warts and shortcomings the post talks about are still extant.

Off the top of my head, I can add that you can't have subselects in views (which is preposterous), nor can you materialize views. Also, I don't believe you can have function-based indexes, and most certainly you can't pivot tables easily and CTEs are not supported.

I think 5.7 (if it's been released) finally brought the ability to create multiple triggers for the same event. Until 5.6 you could specify only one.

In short: MySQL is no fun. Choose Postgres or any other decent system, but just steer clear of the damn dolphin.
What would your ideal interview process be like? I often hear about horrible interview processes on HN, but it would be interesting to hear how it can be improved.
This could be true, however I think that if all this torrent streaming sticks to same behavior such as that of XBMC torrent [1] (i.e. streaming for the whole duration of the movie) the swarm will end up stronger, not weaker.

[1] https://github.com/steeve/xbmctorrent/blob/e6bcb1037668959e1...
Somewhat interesting to think that this very personal information of tens of millions of citizens is just 1.5 gigs in size.

Are the implications of the National identifier similar to an SSN in the US?
I don't think Windows had anything to do with this. I think the feature has been in development since before and it is released because it's what users want, not because of what Microsoft are doing.
I do enjoy meeting new people, but not in that kind of setting...
In the context of a CPU, especially one with a deeper pipeline, the comparison value will only be known at some stage deep within the pipeline. Therefore to not stall the pipeline until the result is known, the CPU will start to execute either one of the branches. Then once the value is known, if it guessed the branch correctly it will continue executing as normal, having already partially executed it. But if it guesses incorrectly it has to flush the work that it has done and start executing the branch not taken.

Edit: One particular thing to note is that side effects that occur within the pipeline do not actually occur until the latter stages of the pipeline, where the writes to memory and registers are realised. By that stage the condition result would already be known and the correct branch would be executing within the processor.
I remember being introduced to MySQL a long time ago (around 2004). When I noticed its standards incompliance, buggy indexing, weird collating behaviour and incomplete query optimizer, I was repeatedly told these quirks will soon be resolved and it was 'only a matter of time'. Something to keep in the back of your head when you see similar situations
with other open source solutions.
The Difference Between an Agile Dev Team and a Dev/Ops Dev Team
Allow me to answer broadly by way of analogy (why VHS was better than Betamax): http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/jan/25/comment.co...
Does it contain the addresses of citizens with a double nationality who now live abroad?
No, that (COW) is a combined radio station, power supply, and equipment for connecting to ground based backhaul networks. This release is only software.
"Everyone is winding down during a Friday. After Friday noon, everyone is avoiding to start anything that will take hours. That's why they can leave the office."

Yeah, that's true...but it doesn't explain why programmers are almost never late for lunch. That's also been true, in my experience. And moreover, it's nearly universally true that the folks who complain the loudest about interruptions are the same ones who are johnny-on-the-spot for coffee-break, games, etc.

In fact, a more cynical person might say that it's all about avoiding unwanted work. Ahem.

Whether or not you believe me, the important point is that yes, it's a decision of culture: at some point, you establish a culture for your team. If that culture includes a maximum latency for code-reviews, then the people who don't like to do non-coding work for days at a time can go code in a cave somewhere else. People who can't be "interrupted" with reasonable non-coding communication activities tend not to be very good collaborators anyway, and probably aren't a good fit for a growing team.
>In reality, housing construction is very limited; it’s being restricted by zoning and permitting laws. Because developers can only build a few new units, they’re building luxury, since that’s the most profitable.

Having more space thanks to laxer regulations would just mean that they build even more and even bigger luxury housing because it would still be the most profitable.

Besides, one of those permitting laws they absolutely loathe are laws that say that they must build a certain percentage of affordable housing (not mentioned in this article because that would be inconvenient).

These articles are so disingenuous. They're telling you that the solution to your housing woes, caused by and large by the ultra-wealthy, is to give into the ultra-wealthy's demand that they shouldn't face laxer regulation. We know how that story always ends.

The solution to housing shortage in high cost of living cities is and always has been to build high quality government housing. Singapore provides a stellar example of what that would look like. Literally the day a program like that is announced prices and rents would tumble.

>The global elite argument really falls apart here.

No it really doesn't. The global elite will happily swallow up all available prime real estate in their portfolios and A) tell you to fuck off to cities with no jobs if you complain about the house prices and B) tell you that the lack of jobs in nowheresville is your problem since you chose to move there.

THEY'RE the problem.
the people in Beijing buying Teslas would rather buy a BMW or Audi anyways if they could get the license plates for them

Really? I can't imagine anyone who's actually driven a Tesla wanting to go back to an ICE vehicle.

People aren't buying Teslas because they're greener or cheaper to operate or even because of government incentives (although those are additional, feel-good benefits).

They're buying them because they're better cars. Faster, quieter, more fun to drive, filled with the latest technology.
This data is being circulated for a while now.

This makes me so angry. It is good that you show the infrastructure is bad, but how stupid does one have to be to say "do something about Erdogan" to the people who are facing identity theft directly due to one's actions?

Many companies use date of birth and address for authentication. The only thing that is missing is mother's maiden name, which then would be enough to access confidential information at most banks (though they wouldn't be able to transfer money without authorisation code).
Honestly, meh. I was moderately early to the Linux game (1998) and bandwagon really didn't do proportional good. I use FreeBSD because I can understand and influence it.
There aren't that many people using i.e. 9 (for example) but still, a lot of companies make effort to support it.

Meanwhile there are huge numbers of people with poor eyesight or other disabilities. You'd think a business would be keen to get those customers.
Süddeutsche Zeitung is funded by Soros? Any proof?
And here I thought it was owned by five Munich publisher families for generations - Friedmann, Goldschagg, Seidlein, Schwingenstein and Dürrmeier...

(BTW, people will believe your rather out-of-the-box accusations more if you don't create separate brand-new accounts to post them.)
Not so, real profits are low.

Companies are doing buybacks because the Fed is basically siphoning all the wealth to big business and the Government via 0 per cent interest rates.

In the past companies had to offer their stock in exchange of savings. Today The central banks basically finance big corp and Government just printing money(and diluting the currency).

So instead of using your savings, the central banks create new money and give it to their friends at 0 per cent interest rates(lower than inflation, aka: free money).

Their friends take that loan and buy their own shares. That way prices remain up without plunging enough time for the CEO of the company to look like a superstar and nobody complying when she retires with a billion dollars in golden parachutes.
Not to the same extent.
I generally take this as a bad sign. Full-EV cars are substantially different in their requirements from ICE engined cars, not taking advantage of that just hobbles them.

For example, the Tesla 3 pushes the passenger space forward and backwards to fit more people in the same space. It can do so because there's no big, heavy engine up front. Starting with a traditional car body and adding electric is just going to waste space.
Don Trump: The L. Ron Hubbard of Politics
> So what you're really getting at is that dividends and capital gains should be taxed at the same rate.

In large part, they are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_dividend
Not using VC is coding with permadeath.

We play Dwarf fortress; Tarn is playing the meta game.
[apricity-core]

SigLevel = Never

Server = http://apricityos.com/apricity-core/

This instructs the package manager (pacman) to load system packages over an unencrypted connection and disables all signature checks.

Source:

https://github.com/agajews/ApricityOS/blob/master/build/pacm...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Package_signing#...
Panama Papers: How assets are hidden and taxes dodged
Great point. This is definitely nice work, and it looks like a great usage of existing tools. Did not intend to come off disregarding the effort.
Fascinating on many fronts. One of the most interesting quotes: """According to the Department of Energy, if you were to take a network of our farms equaling half the size of the state of Maine, you could replace all the oil in the United States."""

I also love the general idea of using oysters as "cleaning as a service" (Bronx river). Pretty cool approach to give up some food farming for cleaning the water.

Pretty inspiring story :)
Not much. Not their style of warfare really.
Don't forget the signaling effect, which can significantly boost share price
My impression is that bootcamps are a useful adjunct for people who are already teaching themselves how to code. Maybe they can accelerate the process.

But taking some random person off the street and turning them into a developed, no.

There are a lot of self taught developers who are quite skilled.

Just treat a bootcamp grad the same way you would someone who is self taught, no better, no worse.
Thanks for the explanation. Are you taking into account the lower rates, though? For example, where I am, there's a personal allowance meaning one can earn £10,000 and not pay a single penny in income tax. The basic rate (which ends at a value substantially above the average salary) is only 20%. I'm guessing you're not in the UK, so it's going to be harder for me to compare situations. I don't think it's fair to combine income tax with VAT since that (mostly) applies on goods you choose to buy, rather than a percentage of your earnings.
I addressed this specifically. If AWS is not running at full capacity, additional computing power has little marginal cost.

We can change the scenario to only use AWS when they aren't at full capacity (e.g. check when spot market prices are at a low).
Nice save! FWIW, here's the fix I wrote up before I saw yours. Yours is much better ;)

We only need to consider values in the range 0 < k <= N/2. If k > N/2, we "pick the losers instead of winners" and that reduces k to that range.

The expected time E to pick k out of N, is N times the last k terms of H(N):

E(k) = N * (H(N) - H(N-k))

Applying the asymptote:

E(k) ~ N * (γ + ln(N) - γ - ln(N-k))
= N * (ln(N) - ln(N-k))

We wish to determine its behavior as a function of k. Taking the derivative:

dE/dk ~ N/(N - k)

which is positive and bounded above by 2 for 0 < k <= N/2:

dE/dk <= 2

Using the fact that E(1) = 1, we have:

E(k) <= 2k

So E cannot be worse than linear in k.
Sounds a great deal like peerflix:

https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix
I disagree (particularly about your assumption that "we're all well educated people with high earning potential"), but I'm sorry you're being downvoted.
Thx, I cant edit my original post, but my intention / worry was if FreeBSD get enough cooperate usage that is being sustainable in the long term future. Looks like it is doing fine for now.

Off-Topic: No idea why Limelight fell off my CDN radar long time ago, ( I got focused on EdgeCast instead ), since Limelight seems not want to list their price in /GB pricing ( Likely an Enterprise Only Strategy ), any chance for a different sub brand that offer something similar to CDN in pay per use cases?
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I waited, and seemed to get a bird bath (in silhouette).
Github login?
ForwardSlash: taking back the RESTful operator
Are you doing HW that is frozen in time? I would suggest that many things should be branch rebased roughly every two years unless there are extreme circumstances. I think EMC Isilon has recently realized this as example.
More concerned about the lack of https.
Pirate bay might be legal in your country, but that doesn't mean you want snoopers logging your porn searches.
My child has an instance on another computer, and reports getting a plant.
> We're all well educated people with high earning potential

I agree we shouldn't be encouraging piracy, but that statement is a huge generalization.
They could sue but they would lose because of fair use/fair dealing clauses. In the UK for instance the rule is:

"Fair dealing for criticism, review or quotation is allowed for any type of copyright work. Fair dealing with a work for the purpose of reporting current events is allowed for any type of copyright work other than a photograph. In each of these cases, a sufficient acknowledgment will be required."
<quote>(Some of the responses here are hilarious. I feel like I'm reading a Slashdot thread from 1998.)</quote>

+5 Insightful
Are either of those ones you'd have gone to back when they had physical libraries?

My point was only that if a university funded public access in the past, there's nothing preventing them from allowing it now as well, as long as you go there.
> Chinese aren't buying Teslas because they want clean air even if they should

Neither is anyone else. People buy Teslas because they are the best car money can buy.
I agree completely and like you for a long time I didn't use ad-blockers on morale grounds.

Personally I don't get overly excited about the tracking/re-targeting, but what did bother me was how ridiculously intrusive the ads on some sites that totally destroyed my user experience, wasted my batteries and cellular data and at times prevented me from (on mobile) from getting to the content I actually wanted.

With mobile it was also the stupid number of accidental clicks when scrolling, or pop ups with really small 'x' to close that and a non-zoomable viewport.

Wasting my time (and somebody else's money) on ads I never wanted to click does't seem like a good or sustainable economic value add.

Sometimes ads can be useful. On Google search sometimes the people who will pay for ads are sometimes a better signal than those that SEO their way to the top. Similarly I have discovered things of interest in Facebook & Twitter ads where they were relevant to me.

It does seem that online advertising is in need of a bit of a 'reboot'.
perhaps use a Merkle hash to verify your vote was counted?
I don't see how Apple adding another option is "unfair".

Adding an additional choice for consumers in a market rarely harms those consumers. (An iPhone 4 isn't mass-produced cigarettes.)

Restricting choice for consumers in a market far more often harms them.
I'm completely with you on this one. I pay the bills doing computer forensics and defensive security, and the amount of times that I've seen clients compromised due to advertising networks serving malicious content is non-trivial. I'd recommend ad-blocking purely from this perspective.

When you have a single user the attack surface isn't so bad, but across an organisation of several thousand people it quickly escalates.
What if you are not driving, but using auto pilot?
Small nitpick, they aren't symlinked to their original position, but instead to a "profile" (global for instance is in /run/current-system/sw, your local profile is $HOME/.nix-profile).

This has several consequences. It means binaries distributed with the expectation of libraries being in their original position (e.g. /usr/lib/libc.so) don't work as is. It also means scripts depending on the presence of /usr/bin/bash are broken (which happen far too often).

I love NixOS, but that is one of the biggest annoyance I have with the system.
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I dislike this kind of moral point when the alternative only offers the appearance of morality.
Yeah, but what if do_side_effect_and_return() deletes file. This surely cannot be prevented.

What I'm mostly wondering is how it is that half of our code doesn't break all the time due to speculative execution.

I'm looking for an explanation how it's prevented or if it's just careful luck because compiler and runtime writers took precautions.
Like this [1][2] you mean?

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2029648/Holiday-squa...
[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1322246/Man-leaves-h...
https://github.com/agajews/ApricityOS/blob/master/build/pacm...

They use the default archlinux mirrors and add one for the extra packages
When are we as a community going to stop cheekily "tolerating" piracy and finally stand up against the unjust and immoral lie that is the concept of intellectual property rights?

When you can tell me who owns the number two, I can tell you who owns a song.

It's not just "I want movies without paying" posturing. Culture is reuse and remixing. Half of internet culture these days comes from V, from Tyler Durden, from The Matrix, from the Terminator. Should response GIFs and image macros be illegal?

Literally ALL use of every kind is fair use.

Creators should get paid, yes, but that does not warrant the current farce in any way whatsoever. The "legal solutions" foisted upon us under the current model (eg Spotify) see creators getting paid approximately the same amounts as they did under the Napster setup.

I hate to admit it, but rms was right about the whole mess, and it was much, much bigger than computer code.
As far as I understand, we are more handshake deal based. A lot of our traffic is special events where a customer blows up the Internet for a day and needs a lot of help in mitigating problems from that.
My information may be out of date because, as I've said above, my dance with academia ended a long time ago. AFAIK most (all?) of Elsevier's journals aren't open access and reviewers aren't paid at all. They aren't improperly paid, they're not paid at all. The publisher gets a hefty amount of income out of their unpaid work, of which they share exactly nothing. This is well past the level where we can debate nuances of fairness.

I don't know enough about this field to be able to properly debate the proper mechanics of payment. I just wanted to point out that one of the pillars of these publishers' income -- the credibility brought by peer review, such as it is -- is effectively the unpaid labour of a lot of very, very clever people, who contribute enormously to human progress (not just to the publishers' pockets) pretty much for free (sure, some of them are also assholes, but that's besides the point). I can understand why sometimes they'd be less then collaborative. Over here, in the industry, if I were offered the (industrial) equivalent of that deal, my answer would be a warm and heartfelt fuck you; in fact, I don't think any serious company would want to compromise its image by offering such a deal.

Edit: at the risk of appearing to suffer of the anti-academic sentiment that is so plaguing our profession (which, I have to insist, I do not), I also think that some of this problem is self-inflicted and has to do with the way in which modern society treats higher education. I sometimes think that part of the solution could lay in discouraging the short-sighted, what-can-we-reliably-solve-in-no-longer-than-three-years, paper-focused approach to research activity that is self-feeding the publishing machine.
Dang don't worry about this. I have been critical many times of various YC companies and as long as I have approached the criticism in a constructive manner I have not been voted down let alone banned.
300,000 new Tesla's on the road should boost that number, however I would like to see a Tesla range extending roof box with a small engine in, however unlikely.
Building a humanoid Hollywood star
Hi throwaway user,
The leak is being managed by Süddeutsche Zeitung, which used the ICIJ to distribute the data to 100+ different newspapers.

Are you accusing SZ to be in the pocket of your US corporate overlords? Or are you trying to drop names to discredit the leak?
How to top Babel and start Node.js
What's your mileage in Rust compared to C++? I found as soon as I got in the borrow-checker mindset I spent less and less time thinking about ownership and lifetimes to the point where I don't care anymore. I spend more time thinking about my program and its architecture (which I'd spend in any language) than thinking about Rust itself.

What would you say are exactly the pain points of productivity for you when using Rust?

My biggest gripes with Rust are macros (they're so useful but sooo hard at the same time compared to Lispy languages, where you don't have to fight the macro system as much due to their simpler syntax), compile times (which I hope will get better) and the fact that even at 1.x the the language and std still don't feel mature enough.
I both make a small amount of money from ads and also use AdBlocker.

The thing is, I don't mind ads. The problem is that the people providing content should own and manage what ads they show me. This idea of allocating page space and then bidding it off? It only leads to click fraud, malware, and all sorts of other problems. Instead, write things I find useful, then provide me links -- text links -- to ways I might continue my investigation.

Ads are fine when they help people. When we start focusing on the money instead of the experience, however, it all goes to crap. I don't think ads are something you can outsource if you want to be a quality content provider. They're just as important as any other content on the page.

By the way, this also means that mostly-plain-text pages could work fine for both creators and consumers in the vast majority of cases.