skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Hacker News declining in terms of visits?

The voting seemed to peak out in 2012 / 2013. Not just the top vote, compare all of them.
Well that's pretty easy.

The most obvious form comes from the good old (bs) saying that 'the real price is what the buyer is ready to pay' (feel free to correct me here as to actual form of that).

Hiking up price to a drug (the shkreli story) would be an exploitation and not a 'normal economic transaction'.

So would be buying time of some poor workers in China for a dime. And then selling what they make on a 10x margin and pocketing it. There's nothing economic about that, its plain old theft (or deceit, whatever you want to call it).

There are more subtle forms, like apple spreading bs about their products being 'the best' and them having a 'vision' and then some uninformed fella buying stuff they make when its sometimes twice the price for objectively comparative product. Like always the devil is in the details.

This is all highly endorsed by the 'greed is good' model and it won't stop until we denounce it. No amount of government regulations can change it, snakes will always find a way. It's all in people's heads.
I spent the first thirty years of my life in a European country.
Walmart can "Support" raising the minimum wage but conveniently fail to achieve it.
As they say in the excellent British series Hustle, the art of the Con is finding someone who wants something for nothing, and selling them nothing for something.
It will manage all the package managers that do not manage themselves.
Linux's reasoning is documented here [0].

The justification for not using it for memory-mapped IO is that you are supposed to use accessor functions. Volotile still has uses for implementing those accesor functions (with care taken for the other concerns; and, by there nature, these functions are architecture dependent anyway), or when you are not using a kernel.

[0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/volatile-considered...
My thought: More complicated tax code --> More loopholes, so Less complicated tax code --> Less loopholes. But I'm not tax expert by any means.
You can find the list via `qpm list`.

Here's the current output at the time of writing: http://paste.debian.net/plain/432079
If you are talking about Ted Cruz, I think his idea is a little too simple.
Not to beat a dead horse, but not-so-shockingly a certain enormous software firm that happens to tax prep software was opposed to simplification too:

* http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/26/4150900/intuit-lobbies-aga...

* http://theweek.com/articles/466220/why-turbotax-tried-make-t...

* https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...
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Should have written more about tools
There are enormous number of factors that play a role in the success of startups and most of them are more important than the programming language they use. By the way I have never understood how "powerful" can be the property of a programming language? If you have people with good experience in X language then no matter how "powerful" language Y is, it cannot compete with that experience.
after traveling to London (from Boston) every third sunday night for two and half years (arriving heathrow at ~6am, shower at airport and arrive at work for first meeting), I still could not handle meetings after 3pm (London) on monday -- tuesdays I was right as rain, but i needed a nap at 3pm if I had to be active that night.

The flights home were much easier -- arrive thursday evening, dinner and go to sleep.

rules: don't drink on flights you need to sleep, eat before you get on the plane (eating on the flight is a waste of time)
melatonin is your friend.
So it's completely legal to follow someone every place they go? I thought that was very illegal.
One argument is that death and limited lifespans are advantageous for the species overall. More sex, gene mixing and having offspring is better and allows for faster adaptations.

Plus ideas can change faster as culture changes.

That said, there may be ways to overcome this and I still think it's worth working on not having to die. Though trying to determine purpose behind existential questions becomes difficult pretty quickly.

Even if we figure it out since sex and having children is core to biological life and the basis for the replicating genetic code that eventually lead to us - not sure how we'd solve that. Guess we also better get working on space colonization for our start trek future.
Why wasn't the Linux kernel written in C++? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2405387
Nope, Median of Medians is an approximation.
Those are just two ends of a spectrum. There are plenty of ways to address this. Personally, I'd immediately end the drug war (thus massively alleviating single-motherhood in black communities) and look into changes to divorce/alimony law and the family court system. Ending the aforementioned subsidies referenced by the OP would be massively beneficial as well. Unfortunately there are a lot of entrenched interests associated with everything I've just mentioned, so barring some sort of catastrophe, I suspect a cultural/social approach (e.g. stigmatization) is likely to be the most immediate and realistic place to start.
package calculus
Religion was born when first con-man met the first fool; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_ancient_history
Given how many non-obvious but easily-solvable problems there are with package management... this might actually not be a terrible idea. The biggest issue would be making it sufficiently flexible to integrate with anything that wants packages, including things like video game modding platforms and programming languages with in-language namespacing/module/package features.
It's true that you can frame it that way, but I think it's clear that this wasn't the spirit of what he was saying, and is certainly a far less controversial message ("use the right tool for the job" is hardly groundbreaking!)

I always thought he was speaking largely from survivor bias - "we succeeded, and we did X, therefore X must have contributed to our success."
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Thank you for clarifying that, I have had a wrong interpretation of it for some time.
This is base rate neglect: the percentage of people who are using elite tier languages (LISP, etc) are tiny in comparison to the number of people slinging Ruby/Python/etc. All that needs to be shown is that, per capita, LISP users tend to do better. Unfortunately, I don't have such data at my fingertips :)
After living in China for a decade, I was quite amused to find food labelled as Chinese on a multi-month jaunt to southern India, where it seemed the only categories for food were "veg", "non-veg" and "Chinese". There were only a few dishes under the 'Chinese' classification, and the names seemed to have been stuck. However, quite interestingly, I did find three other examples of Chinese contact in South India. The first was Chinese cigarettes, super budget brands that are obviously export only, probably using the worst quality floor-sweepings from China's tobacco industry, which is centered on the province I live in, Yunnan, which happens to be the closest part to India as the crow flies, if you exclude Tibet. Secondly, bamboo-structure pivoted fishing nets[0] were fairly common on the Kerala coast, and particularly in Kochi. These were commonly acknowledged to have come from China. Finally, some locals told me that a traditional system of physical exercise endemic to Kerala had actually traveled to China with a monk and was the true basis for the Chinese system of Kung Fu.[1] I wouldn't write this theory off entirely, but it's not widely known and too close to Chinese national sentiment to discuss usefully in-country.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_fishing_nets
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_Asian_martial_arts#...
it should be called russell's package manager.
Tesla’s latest update turns the road into Mario Kart
Consider Assembly as a counter-example.
It'd be nice if there was a description of the pro's and cons of embedding Mozilla over Blink. Otherwise, this is simply a nice FYI.
"In fact, if you sleight performance or quality it is exactly equal to sleighting future business needs or interests."

This assumes that you are building something you will be using in that future which for most startups is not true. For most it will be a better trade off to iterate faster now and solidify the system once you know for a fact that it matches actual needs.
Talos plan to, if demand allows, sell you a bare bones POWER8 (CPU, heatsink, and mainboard) for $3,700 USD. https://raptorengineeringinc.com/TALOS/prerelease.php
People would be fine with paying more, as long as the more is less than what they spend on avoidance now.
Indeed, being young, male, healthy, educated, and white is a great way to bootstrap out of poverty.
Don't most package managers do that themselves anyway? Like npm and pip seem to. Or are they doing something different behind the scenes.
Institutional lenders are in the risk management business. If they are seriously harmed by a realistic proportion of debtors defaulting, it's because they should have known better than to write those loans.

Are we really going to say that to sick and elderly people being thrown out of hospitals, evicted from their homes, and cut off from food and medicine? To their adult children who must now destroy their household finances to meet the government's obligations in its stead, or carry the guilt of letting mom and dad die of treatable conditions in a shithole?

>controlled restructuring of everyone's expectations

This euphemism seems appropriate when applied to banks and businesses for whom counterparty risk is a cost of doing business. For individuals who gave their entire adult lives to an institution in exchange for security in retirement, it seems tone-deaf.

Maybe taxpayers need to bite the bullet and pay what it costs to run the services they're benefitting from.
Econometrics is essentially a field of applied math. Statistics is also pretty closely related to econ, though it sounds like theres a wide range of statistics backgrounds between programs. I had a roommate that studied econ/statistics and always thought it was pretty neat some modern algorithms didn't come from computer scientists, but from statisticians (particularly Random Forests).
People are lining up around the block to adopt poor non-white babies?

Mothers have no natural human emotions of attachment to their offspring?
Who are professionals in this field? What do they bring?
Taiwan Accuses China of `Abducting' Eight Citizens from Kenya
They hired all the Math, CS, and Physics PhDs, so now they are hiring the tier 2 quants :-)
The US has kind of lost track of the reason for having colonies. What exact benefit does it receive for maintaining control and responsibility for a low income quasi-country with its own separate ethnicity, language, and culture? Protecting the Panama Canal from the Kaiser's dreadnoughts?
Not much of an inventor? Read Josephson's biography "Edison".

http://www.amazon.com/Edison-Biography-Matthew-Josephson/dp/...

You'll be astonished. There's never been anyone else remotely as prolific an inventor.

He pretty much invented the electric power industry. The value of that is almost incalculable. It's hard to see how that is "extractive".

Could you name who you consider a real inventor?
Asking for someone to offer an argument for the claim that "it is worth while considering other life philosophies other than those that lead to chasing immortality and viewing the end of one's own life as a negative", is kinda, well, quite frankly you sound either too naive to the world to understand the wisdom in such a claim, or you are too stubborn to allow any world view other than yours to be entertained.

Either way, life philosophies that would reflect such a claim don't have comment length "arguments" that would be convincing to anyone on any level. Some things do not lend themselves to logic. Some things require more than a few paragraphs and an argument. And sometimes, those things, are best served by parsimony, rather than loquacious debate.
From what I've heard it seems like about 60% are completely competent loans. It's those other 40% which are roll overs. Note I'm not talking % of customers here but % of loans. Yeah, 40 is still bad, but there a legit demand too.

Some have suggested that a governmental or other instution needs to be made just to break people out of the cycle and give them a loan at a rate closer to that of credit cards. It's a tricky situation though from a regulatory perspective because you don't want to have those 60% of people who are avoiding massive overdraft fees or dropping credit scores using these services to get stuck with no options.

Personally I think if you sign up for a loan you can't pay, that's on you, not really exploitative as some people seem to propose. Take some personal responsibility, you know?
You're still trusting client side data. What's stopping a more advanced user from replacing your pinned cert with theirs.

Don't do any payment processing client side. Your app should be a pretty interface to the actual service running on your servers.
Also known as bike-shedding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
I-score: Free and open-source intermedia sequencer
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I'm unconvinced by the main argument of the article - that the Panama Papers signal a shift (perhaps paradigmatic?) in mainstream journalism.

Yes, the PP leaks are different than Wikileaks, and yes, the ICIJ reporting/investigation is different than most other cases of investigative journalism, but one outlier doesn't a shift make.

Simultaneously, the article does bring up some thought-provoking points, like the need by journalists to consider how they may be strategically used by leakers of data for their own ends. But that's not really a new consideration for journalists, either.

Granted, the article's author is unlikely to have titled the piece, so perhaps the author would assert that the article wasn't trying to make the argument defined by the title. Yet, all in all, I found the article to be sometimes interesting but ultimately unpersuasive.
pg wrote that he could out-compete Java shops at the time by using lisp or perl. (If you look at Web 1.0, most of the marketing/event space winners were perl shops.)

However, focusing on lisp is pointless because of its low adoption commercially.

(If you want me to provide stats for your class homework, sorry.)
I don't have many quibbles with the rest of the piece, but not sure what the "shift in mainstream journalism" referred to in the headline is. That journalists would break big stories using suspiciously obtained data and documents? They've been doing that well before Snowden and Assange became famous. What would be a shift is if mainstream journalists did go Wikileaks-style and just dump everything online after they had reported on it...but ICIJ hasn't done that in any of their previous leak investigations...nor has any other mainstream organization done that with leaked information (e.g. Guardian with the Snowden documents). However, you do see a lot more news organizations putting up the data/documents that they legally obtained for public inspection...a recent example that was on todays' frontpage is BuzzFeed News's repos:

https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews

However, the "shift" that I do see happening, that this article underplays, is the cooperation of dozens of news organizations to independently and securely investigate a big data/document dump, something made possible by today's technology and cloud hosting systems, and agreeing to an embargo date. This "distributed investigation" paradigm is very new in journalism, and I hope to see a lot more of it.
I already use QoS. It does not fix it unless I hard limit upstream to half of my already useless 1mbit.

That is not a fix.
eventually even atoms will stop spinning. i think what the commenter was getting at, is that, immortality is impossible, and so finding meaning in a life that must eventually end, is still important.

also, your argument, red herring. the commenter didn't say, let's all be happy that old age is crap. at all. that was you. you said that. why? idk.
Zypper, apt, dpkg, pacman, etc. all manage themselves.
Most politicians doesn't want you to prosper; They fear you'll vote for your CONSCIENCE in elections;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_selling

Most https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant_minority doesn't want you to prosper; They fear you'll dilute their HEGEMONY in the society;

If we dwell deep higher social class exhibits increased UNETHICAL behaviour

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1118373109
It might be complicated to tax that money, but if we simplified tax code there would be fewer complicated ways in which people can legally get the money offshore in the first place. Tax simplification is a prevention, not a cure.
Paul Graham says that Viaweb was able to run circles around their competitors because Lisp gave them a big advantage[1]. Of course, Facebook ran circles around their competitors. Myspace, friendster, left in the dust.

So is PHP more powerful than Lisp? (/s) His logic suggests so (given the relative performance of Viaweb vs Facebook).

Having great programmers matters more than using any specific tool.

[1] from http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

"It must have seemed to our competitors that we had some kind of secret weapon-- that we were decoding their Enigma traffic or something. In fact we did have a secret weapon, but it was simpler than they realized. No one was leaking news of their features to us. We were just able to develop software faster than anyone thought possible."

EDIT: Added (/s) since sarcasm was apparently nonobvious
Obligatory link to the great CGP Grey video on US territories: http://youtu.be/ASSOQDQvVLU
There is seafile ( https://www.seafile.com/en/home/ ) which provides client side encryption.

Easy to install and to upgrade (except a small glitch in the last upgrade).

For the community version, the source code is here : https://github.com/haiwen/seafile (see others haiwen projects).

The Android client could be improved, but it does the job.
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Yes absolutely. For the record, PG was not saying to use the right tool for the job. Or do, but that tool is Lisp.

My comment was couching against someone coming in later with a "well he really meant the right tool for the job."
Flight aware just announced real-time flight tracking data (US & Canada). [1] Also, they will be adding MLAT data. (US)

[1] https://flightaware.com/news/article/Realtime-Flight-Status-...
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This is why I don't buy the theory that automation will make jobs obsolete. The fact that automation produces enough surplus to enable the employment of people to do articles like this!
What about protecting it from Chinese interests?

Not really sure if this is plausible, but maybe if you let enough Chinese capital into Panama, they can defacto control it, vs having the US impose restrictions on Chinese capital investments in strategic property or whatever.
Just drop a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon in Antarctic Ice Sheets. You'll REBOOT the planet.
Network monitoring sucks because its usually an afterthought from a protocol design standpoint. This means most of the monitoring tools end up running at a very high abstraction layer like SNMP or PING requests and as a result, deeper level visibility suffers. We need to make network monitoring as a first class citizen and start including them within networking protocol stack. Like say call out a unique TCP packet type for 'monitor' with the sole job of carrying details on how many packets were dropped, who dropped it and when. Do the same with control plane protocols like BGP and OSPF in that any changes like learning a new route or removing a new route should be relayed to a monitoring tool directly from the protocol stack itself.
A Cluster in Your Pocket (2010)
The median-finding algorithm os exact. Reread the Wikipedia page more closely. MoM uses an approximate heuristic to guide the search for the exact median. The key is that the approximate has bounded error, and can be refined to exact in linear time.
How Is Artificial Intelligence Affecting the USA Election?
http://andrewhfarmer.com/getting-started-tutorials/ has a list of tutorial reviews.

I'm the author of http://buildwithreact.com/tutorial, which Andrew says "is by far the shortest tutorial and the easiest read" :) Happy to answer any questions on twitter.
They'll have plenty of time to dig through old hacker news comments!
Book sales for Harry Potter are $7.7 billion dollars.
They are just protecting domestic business.

To put things in perspective BAE systems revenue was $25 billion some years ago.
You're engaging in base rate neglect: the pool of PHP programmers was vastly larger than the pool of LISP programmers when Facebook was founded.
Wasn't he just trying to isolate the variables?
Are memory barriers transactional i.e. something like begin barrier(), do some shm writes, end_barrier?

I was declaring data structures in shared mmap-ed memory as volatile so compiler does not optimise it away. How would the compiler know not to optimise away operation between memory fences? A fence to me say something about the guarantee of the order in which operations are seen. The order wasn't the problem, write never making it to the other side was the issue...
This is why banks and lenders contribute en-masse to politicians, so they can block decisions which cause them to take a loss.

Small businesses have to accept bad debts sometimes. When dealing with sovereign debt, or other similarly large scale lending, risk is proportional to your political power vs the debtors'
even if we accomplish all this and more, we have still not answered the question, "what is the 'good life'?" because that is not a technical question. we can put off death. we can increase quality of life during the later years of life. and this is important and beneficial work. but, nothing in this work intrinsically speaks to existential issues we face. we may use these technologies as a paradigm through which to attempt to grapple with existential issues, but none of these issues can only be 'solved' with the correct technical tools.

so when your comment begins:
"Every time an existential post is made here, I have to remind people:"

I read that as a global claim (global claims are almost never true) and arrogant (in that you "have to remind people", "thank you for reminding us! what would we do without you!")
For some reason I've always preferred my Science Fiction in short-story form, and my Fantasy in novel form, so this is nice. I do regret that in all of my moving around during college years, I got rid of my print magazines.
> There was this piece at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

> http://i.imgur.com/6uVRUff.jpg

> It shows 100 years of days with someone's life highlighted.

I wonder what do the darker-colored days stand for.

Thanks for sharing this shot.
Because that's not security. The security of your system should be able to withstand an attacker that is able to read the source and arbitrarily modify the client. Otherwise you don't really have security -- you're just hoping no one goes through the effort.
I don't believe in gods, but if I did, I'd pray that I don't live to 90. Yikes.
Rules:

1. Use the system package manager.

2. See rule #1.

In all seriousness, there needs to be a good way to [spray your stuff](http://dilbert.com/strip/2013-06-09) all over a system with the rest of the system knowing about it. FPM does a decent job of this.

There is some research out there on common things that this kind of code gets wrong: https://www.cs.arizona.edu/stork/packagemanagersecurity/