skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do not appear to be acquainted with how wealth works.

Suppose I buy $15 of Xynodyne stock and $1 per share. Suppose later it is trading at $2 per share. I have just made $15 without any money being added to the system. I sell my shares. Do I keep money? No! I buy shares in a money market. Leave it there for 3 months, then sell that for shares in Apple. At each step I am wealthier and wealthier. And it is wealth that wasn't sitting there, it was created out of the fact that people price assets differently. And they price them differently because the company is producing something valued more highly by our whole society.

Money doesn't actually enter into the picture. I write a check from my bank account to my broker. My broker settles transactions electronically. I eventually get a transfer from them to my bank, from which I pay my taxes. All of the "money" in this system is a brief record created in one place, destroyed in another.

This is all basic economics of fractional reserve banking. The size of our economy is no more limited by the amount of money that exists than it is by how much gold is in the ground. Money is a medium of exchange, not a measure of value. And the rich got that way in one of three ways, owning something that became valuable, creating value where none existed, and theft.

In general the ones who got really rich through theft did so through political connections (Carlos Slim comes to mind). Successful entrepreneurs like Paul Graham fall in the second bucket. And the first bucket happened historically, for example the Astor family of New York, but isn't so common now.
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That's like asking why does Windows use \ instead of /. It's not hatred, it's just... the way things work. Changing it would be very costly and would create compatibility problems for decades presumably, so why do it?
There is pretty good evidence that the two cultures influenced each other in waves. Egyptian culture was a lot more stable earlier and records some Greek history even before the greeks do in terms of greek settlement under the Acropolis going back way further than documented evidence.

The Atlantis myth actually comes from Egypt to Greece- and much of Greek early knowledge of themselves comes from Egyptian historians.

Later after the conquest by Alexander (surrender) the influence on Egypt is fairly massive. If you ever get a chance visit the temple of Hathor north of Thebes.

One of the most "intact" temples still standing and huge Greek influences. Was just there in January and had to ninja in with Military escort as Egypt is a bit unstable now.
The chancellor was hired with an enormous salary under the theory that she would be net more donors and be worth it.

Donors who gave so much money they have buildings named after them wanted her to resign. They didn't get their way.

As an alumni, I received emails from the chancellor about the pepper spray. The first arrived the day of, reflexively siding with the police. A day later, when this appeared politically untenable, she called for an investigation to conclude in 30 days, the Reynoso report. 30 days later I got an email from the chancellor again -- she had ignored the report entirely and was asking for money. I went to the internet to look up the report, and it found her largely culpable.

I removed myself from the alumni mailing list. I decided that, no matter how rich I ever got, I would never give anything to UC Davis.
This is kind of rough for technical or reference-ish books. Perfectly OK for fiction... well, except for anthologies and collections (HAL 9000 says I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you skip past the other Arthur C Clarke stories in this anthology, you'll have to read all the stories in order, at an acceptably slow speed)

I subscribe to F+SF and it would annoy me if I were technically prevented from skipping the end of stories that don't resonate with me.
A few years ago some of the intel SSD drives has issues with this. http://www.evanjones.ca/intel-ssd-durability.html Drive was advertising FUA but it didn't actually implement it (or implemented it incorrectly).

Then there were drives that were storing things in cache and reporting as written but didn't actually have capacitors to write out the data in case of power failure. http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html , also the paper from FAST13.

I think in 2016 the situation looks much better.
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Doesn't work when you're in an Open Space, your back facing the corridor. Grr… I'm glad I don't play poker, I'd be shot long ago.
The market in this case is dominated by both carbon and city pollution externalities. So they should also either price or mandate those. At that point it will be obvious to all that electric is better and we can stop tio-toeing around and roll out legislation to make the improvements happen faster and more smoothly.
What I don't understand is why "we" have your personal problem.

I don't know if I can blame social media for this or not, but people vastly overstating their arguments because they are caught up in their own emotions does not make for illuminating discourse.
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Just because you aren't a web developer doesn't mean you can't dabble in web development. Take 30 mins to play with their starter kit [1] or just play around inside JSFiddle [2]. Now imagine being able to encapsulate your native components the same way.

IMO encouraging you to isolate state management is the biggest win. JSX and component-based abstraction are really fucking powerful too though.

[1]: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/getting-started.html

[2]: https://jsfiddle.net/reactjs/69z2wepo/
> When someone say "everything some other people says about marketing is wrong", what they are really saying is "what they are saying isn't interesting to me and therefore everything they are saying is wrong", which is the well known ad hominem bias.

Not necessarily. They may be saying "For this actual evidence-based reason, everything they are saying is wrong". And you are committing a fallacy of your own, of imputing motivations to someone else without evidence.
As a C++ developer I find it hilarious that Node.js is a high performance league! ( your benchmark for example shows Rust as 6x faster)
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Let this be a lesson about listening to ministers about anything.
Speaking of time, why not bill by minutes spent reading instead of pages turned?
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Read the article on how the scam works.
How about a manual review of any anomalously high payouts? Someone who showed up out of nowhere and starts pulling down $70K a month should at least be given a cursory investigation. Based on the description here it wouldn't take five minutes to uncover the problem.
Another way of resolving this would be mandatory DNA tests of the parents and the child after birth combined with destruction of the data after notifying the parents of the results.
don't worry, there's hope. i visited austin and concludeed i would never live there in a million years.
I guess this is ad hominem, but FWIW the author has also written what strikes me as an islamophobic book:

> Paul Sperry is a former Hoover Institution media fellow and author of “Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington.”
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haha. I still keep a vintage pack of 50 around for the rare instance I have to throw down a crystal radio set for the kids...
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> (a) How could you reliably track this if the user always keeps their Kindle on airplane mode?

Spotify's solution is to require a device to sync at least once every 30 days or the offline content expires.

> (b) How could you track this accurately if the user reads a few hundred pages in the subway, where there's no Internet service?

With a log of events that syncs when they do reconnect.

> (c) How could you distinguish that between someone who hopped around a book in that same time period?

By measuring the duration spent on each page.
Because people are a bunch of bastards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVSlE28hOgI
> Try saying this to someone that disagrees and see how quickly they refuse to agree or accept any facts

I'm not saying your arguments are wrong or right, but objectively speaking, you've described yourself.
I would say that it's not as much of a problem that it's centralised, the biggest worry is that our core protocols are terribly insecure:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/56069/what-secu...
This is very sad. Just this week I have been reading "The hard thing about hard things" by Ben Horowitz and he makes countless mention of how great Bill Campbell was.
giving the nature of those societies, one can see how many people who possess their status in the society and government because of long and respected "[al|ibn]+" in their names will have that status threatened by some mid-level agent in some security related service with access to the DNA db ... until of course they would cooperate fully in fight to defend Motherland against internal and external enemies.
Sorry, I meant the abusers would need to force their fraudulent user accounts through each page.

Normal people who don't find a book engaging can still skip the end, just that they'll (justifiably) be worth less to the author.
I've never used Rust, how would it compare to a C++ solution?
I'm familiar with it. Personally I don't see any clear or compelling evidence that the bombings did not play a role in ending the war. It's not as if the Allied Commanders had direct access to the inner circle of Japanese leaders at the time. History is never as black and white as some may portray it - I don't doubt that there were many complex reasons for the decision to use the bombs and the decision made by the Japanese to surrender.

Personally, I also think it's a bit ridiculous to be ashamed of the fact that the US dropped two nuclear weapons as part of ending a global war. These were primitive weapons compared to what is available now. Were they any worse than the firebombing of Tokyo or Dresden? Any worse than the atrocities in Nanking? Worse than the Holocaust or actions of the Einsatzgruppen? What about the Katyn Forest? Comfort Women? The treatment of POWs? WW2 was full of horrible events that every nation could be ashamed of but let's not forget the context of the conflict and who the aggressors were.
It was full of trash back when it was paid per "borrow" too. People would crank out dozens of 30-page erotica shorts per month, and each time one of those was read they got paid as much as the author of a 300-page novel. More, in fact, because IIRC the criteria for "user has read enough of the story, time to pay the author" was set as a percentage of the length... so the guy spamming shorts got paid after a page or two, but the novelist didn't get paid until the reader stuck it out through a couple chapters.
It doesn't really seem in this case that the budget overrun is the most controversial bit. The sting in the tail is that it resulted in the duplication of existing bus routes with an infrequent service and a comparable travel time. As an MVP it is terrible - what would the Show HN comments be like? "did you even identify your target market?"

The more disappointing part is that it tends to poison the well for ambitious public transport projects in future. That Leith extension will come some time after the Last Trumpet.

But, you know, just as long as RBS got their lovely public funded tram linking Gogar Deathstar to town then it was all worth it.
I am surprised that the Bill Campbell described in this article could be the same one who oversaw Intuit, a company which has engaged in some very shady business practices with regard to tax reform (https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...). This is not to speak ill of the dead, only to note that people are complex and full of contradictions.
My photos aren't the best either, but they're mine. The sensory recall from my own perspective is far more powerful than anything I get from professional photos of the same place because they cue memories of more than just the captured photons. They remind me of the weather that caused that light, those people, the food, that trip. It might be a crap documentary, but it's thoroughly mine.

I'm not usually attracted to the places that attract a big crowd taking the same picture together, but when I do the worst thing I can say is that it feels a little silly.
It goes both ways. Numerous female pop stars, and in entertainment in general, angling and fishing to steal away the guy from his relationship because she KNOWS they are meant to be together... She doesn't hear "No thanks" and go away.
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I understand what you're saying. I'm hoping that it isn't some untapped potential but rather something I have proven, but I'm wondering if since it was proven in my own business, will it just be overlooked.

Thanks for the advice on looking for people with problems I can solve.
Ask HN: How do you do QA at your startup?
I'm an entry-level software eng. and I need to build our QA Process for both a B2B web application and and consumer web application.

We use a full-javascript stack on mySql. We also have to ensure a robust data integrity (ie. the data we report in our apps are accurate) since much of our functionality is fueled by large amounts of data.
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What a great tutorial on cognitive dissonance.
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Can you share a link to your book?
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Bill Campbell was also the one that helped negotiate the wage theft that Apple and Google were sued over. https://pando.com/2014/01/23/the-techtopus-how-silicon-valle...
gcc has no problem with static linking. glibc can be statically linked (with gcc or clang) except the pluggable parts, which is NSS. How would you reconcile static linking and plugins?
What's up with the latest Hacking Team news now? I keep hearing about a 2015 leak and I wonder why I only heard about it now.
Well, it was your experience and not someone else's.
Para ler a versão desse artigo em Inglês:

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/18/after-vote-to-remove-bra...
Ha, you are right. It was Louis XV.

It's been a while since I read French history.
Yeah, obviously. The rate isn't that much higher than sober drivers, and the odds of being caught are extremely low. Its problem is the cost/benefit ratio is extremely low. There's nothing to gain by permitting it (maybe more booze sales, not really worth it) and plenty to gain by making it illegal (because every death due to it is pointless).

Paradoxically most of our legal system is based on risk/reward ratios, not level of risk. For example speeding is illegal although the odds of an accident are extremely low. On the other hand climbing Mt Everest isn't illegal at all, even though the death rate is about 50% or whatever it is now. Smoking is not illegal although the odds of smoking killing a smoker are pretty good, yet psychedelics are illegal despite the actual death rates and counts being pretty close to zero.
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It might also reflect over-confidence from a padded/privileged path: With a company that forges on for over a decade with questionable technology, $750M funding and a very politically powerful board, you might not feel the need to have a plan B.
Our innate understanding of reciprocity is severely limited by our social identity though; it's much easier to empathize with in-group members than with an out-group member. To reciprocate with an out-group member requires considerable training.

So I think the GP is correct, once a society encompasses multiple distinct tribes, it is easier to "guide" people with (threats of) in-group punishment than with out-group empathy.
> Look it up if you care to and you'll find its definition is quite broad...

I'd think that my awareness of the broad definition would be made clear by my repeated warnings that criminalization would narrow it.

> Nobody is suggesting locking people up in jail for saying bad words...

Well the poster that I initially replied to was pretty explicit about getting the police involved, as have a few other people here. So I'm not sure if your point is that I should be more charitable and assume that when someone says "sexual harassment" they don't mean sexual harassment, or if your point is that police should get involved but somehow leave the whole threat of violence thing at the door.

> That is what we are discussing, so when...

That isn't what I was discussing, and you replied to me, so you must be referring to yourself with the royal "we". I'll be more charitable and assume that people don't mean what they say, but I'd appreciate it if you'd extend me the same generosity and assume that I've chosen my words carefully.
> And the user can unmask them just as easily. It's not at all the same as having root access.

I don't think so. Running as your user, I could add an entry to your .bashrc that execs your shell with an injected shared library that hides itself (e.g. any child process that reads your .bashrc sees an unmodified version). Same for GUI apps, by touching other files. The only way to detect it would be to log into another account or single user mode, just like a real rootkit may only be detectable if you use another system to examine the disk.

Access to a user's account is no less damaging to them than root access — the damage just doesn't extend to the rest of the machine which, in many cases, doesn't matter.
I'd say it's more of a TLDW here.
It's not so much about altruism or the moral validity of taxation. It's about equality and fairness. If some people can take advantage from the expropriation of others, then who gets to say who can be expropriated and who can't? With taxation the justification comes more or less from the revenues and wealth differential, basically it is assumed that rich people can pay because they suffer less from the requisition of a small part of their wealth. But if the criteria is only nationality, I'm not sure they will accept it that easily.
What's your technology stack? What will you QA exactly?
That's basically server side rendering;

ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup would do it? I on't know if it affects a real DOM though; it might have weird side effects on the app.
> It's much easier to make a book sound epic, insightful and/or wonderful than it is to actually write something like that. It might take a while for the user to give up, but who cares if people only get 50-100 pages into your book before quitting if you can attract multiple times more people?

I don't see how that is any different with a per-user pot than the current system?
If terrorism, what stops someone from renting cabinets, bringing in "servers" loaded with explosives, and blowing the place up? Or even a molotov thrown at some of those big fibre entrances. Sorting that out, I'd imagine, would take a while.
Or do! They closed the markets in the US for two days during Sandy even though NY4 (and the other US equity exchange data centers) were fine.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240529702047893045780871...
Just to chime in with another anecdote, I've got several MikroTik RB493G's acting as PPPoE access concentrators that are stable as hell and have been in service for a couple of years with no issues.

In general, I've had better luck with the lower end of their product line.
It would be a waste of time for most startups to make back-up plans in advance. Why expend time and effort on something you might not need? Instead of making back-up plans the better approach is to quickly recognize when your original plan has failed and then pivot.
Okay, I understand that the burden of correctly supporting the internal gossip protocol is very high.

It's a shame though, because it makes it harder for medium-sized installations to convert. If you're running a small cluster, then getting a few more machines to test it out isn't that much of a burden. If you're so big that you have multiple clusters, you can probably roll through and upgrade cluster by cluster or keyspace by keyspace or something.

But between those two there's a medium size installation where an upgrade to ScyllaDB is a serious project that would eat up a sizeable chunk of the server budget just to test it out, and the ability to do a server-by-server upgrade of a running cluster would be invaluable.

On the other hand, that type of customer probably wouldn't be interested in premium support either, so there's probably little incentive for you to support that scenario over the large installation scenario. And that's totally fair, I might as well be wishing for unicorns and rainbows. :-)

On another note, DataStax recently announced that they'll be discontinuing the free version of OpsCenter from Cassandra 3.0 and forward. So you have a shot at grabbing people that are stuck on 2.x, because if there's a cost to upgrading anyway, and if you could offer something better than OpsCenter, your alternative might look very tempting indeed.
I think the reason SMTP is hard to get right is not because of the many RFCs. The reason is that it's not documented.

Operational experience at scale is needed to know how to write an effective SMTP implementation, and that experience is half-documented by many people in many different information silos.

But... I'd also say it's an extremely forgiving protocol. In fact, it's the fact that it's so forgiving which makes operational experience required to implement it. A "correct" SMTP implementation has a lot of latitude in the choices it makes - and it's that latitude which makes life difficult.
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Tell that to the PDP-8 on my dresser (it's all Bipolar TTL logic, but you are not wrong). FETs are a lot easier to understand in many ways, there is a reason they took over as the dominant semiconductor switching element :-).

Although my favorite FET demo is a piece of surgical tube connected to a faucet, and a water balloon sitting on the tube as the "gate". You can demonstrate all sorts of things like avalanche voltage (water flow regardless of the gate state), gate leakage (poke a small hole in your balloon), pinch off potential etc. Makes a great science fair project for you parents out there.
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It was a little more than a "leak"... They were pretty much dismantled. http://pastebin.com/raw/0SNSvyjJ
I don't know Scylla, but Aerospike is intentionally designed for low-latency networking [1] (i.e., typically colocated within a single rack), which can be a challenge in the cloud.

[1] https://aphyr.com/posts/324-jepsen-aerospike
they did.
Knowing next to nothing about musical terms I couldn't figure out the workflow of the AI. Does it generate note after note trying to follow the learned "structure"?
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One topic I've never seen covered in any depth is how to insure that humanity is not a threat to AI, especially given the common view that AI has the potiental to be a threat to man.

(Just to be clear, my reference to AI is not singlural, but plural.)
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How about Japan.
Reminds me of the Amiga Boing Ball demo from 1984.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ga41edXw3A
> TRILLIONS

C'mon now, let's not get ahead of ourselves...
Lobste.rs

http://www.theserverside.com/

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/

Various sub-reddits... /r/machinelearning, /r/artificial, /r/semanticweb, /r/libertarian, /r/guns, /r/metal, etc.