skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It started some time about 25-30 years ago as the Cold War was winding down -- and it is a genius move by the upper socioeconomic class to divert our attention from the real issue (it's all about the Benjamins).

You see, it is true that in the US the privileged are often white. But that's just noise in the data. Because most of the disadvantaged are also white, and male.

But by building up racial tensions in the lower classes with a fundamental attribution error -- those lower classes are divided -- and therefore, not much of a threat to those who are actually privileged.

This is the same tactic the ruling class has used for hundreds, maybe even thousands of years.

Divide and conquer.
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Yes. They've supported it since V1 AFIK.

https://www.dropbox.com/developers-v1/core/docs#files-GET
It may be a function of difficulty level, but even at the start it's feasible to go in shooting if you're a little tactical about it. I quite liked its puzzle nature as an increment over Syndicate - it's been years since I played it but I do remember it often coming down to finding a good corner to stand behind and machinegunning enemies as they came round it.

The one thing I do miss in SR from Syndicate is that in SR all targeting is manual, whereas if you ramp up one of the sliders in Syndicate they'll pick their own targets.
You can do that when nobody else is allowed to start selling your product, sure. There's an important difference between being the only vendor in a market because nobody else has bothered, and being the only vendor in a market because nobody else is allowed to compete with you. In the second case, we always see prices "raised to the moon". But it can't be usefully compared with the first case; potential entrants may not exist yet, but they're still a constraint on the prices existing vendors can charge.
Dropbox is disproportionately popular with Linux users though, given their great Linux clients.
Yes I do. And a larger % I work with are over 30 rather than under 30.
I asked a guy who had taken four startups to IPO how it was he seemed to work such reasonable hours while other entrepreneurs worked much longer. He said he assumed they were mostly doing trial and error, while he had a better sense of what to do.
>The reason for this lies in the fact that, as the Romans said in the past, Nil nove sul sole

This is from the Old Testament.

http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/1-9.htm
>Eating really spicy food is a form of culinary masochism after all.

Not if you like it.

But historically, and before the refrigerator, it was also a good way to make long preserved food taste less bad, and also a way to preserve food (as spicies contain antibiotics).

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4983/does-spicy-...
Local variable support is sort of part of SQL as it's part of the SQL/PSM Persistent Storage Module extension to SQL-92. Very few databases implement it according to the standard though.
The word 'revolutionary' definitely deprecated in the past years. Anyways, this is great news as I'll no longer have to default to the website search for selectively non-synced files.
He's not from North America, is he? So why do you think that's what he meant?
This sounds like the exact feature I've been desperately looking for, for quite some time now, watching Microsoft discontinue online-only files in Onedrive because "it confused customers", and shaking my head at the blatant lack of this kind of thing everywhere...

Until just recently, when I found odrive[1]. Not affiliated with them in any way, just a fan - if you don't want to wait until Dropbox decides to launch this publicly, check it out. It works with Dropbox/Google Drive/OneDrive/CreativeCloud/what-have-you and does exactly what Dropbox Infinite promises to do, except that it's seasoned, working, practically bug-free (that I can tell), and, well, available now.

[1] https://www.odrive.com/
The cloud "wheel of reinvention" revolves to bring AFS to the masses? Or is this just showing the files using a file manager plugin, not visible as a real filesystem?

edit: working at the FS level according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11571640 - good job Dropbox! Anyone know if it's also supported on Linux?
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Public and political perception need to consider autonomous commercial trucking to be safe, rather than safer.

"Safer than human drivers" all too easily becomes "we can't control when these robot trucks my crash into a mother driving her kids to school," when you put it into the political regulation arena.
Nah fuck that man we need to regress back to racism and segregation, but only if their white or men because they owe everyone for all that sweet imaginary privilege.
>Learn all you can about LLVM

While I'm sure LLVM is an important technology, I don't feel it's everyone's job to learn and know everything there is to know about it. There will perhaps be a niche group of developers making cool things with LLVM, most developers can get along just fine without knowing anything about it.
Sure, so it makes 5/6 long-haul truckers redundant instead of ~6/6.
metric ton (1000 kg)
>>Native speaker here - it's just the word we use for people's tastes.

>Palette would be the word usually used in this case. As in, an artist's palette.

No, it wouldn't.

From the Google built-in dictionary, palate (with 1 "t"):

"2. a person's ability to distinguish between and appreciate different flavours."

And from Webster:
2. the sense of taste

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palate

Also:
https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/palate-p...
Django Migrations to the Rescue
Same issue in Singapore. The Netflix library available here doesn't even contain the latest season of House of Cards – and it's a bloody Netflix production.

I would love to pay someone for timely content, but now that Netflix is blocking vpn access there is literally nobody to pay. It's complete madness.
Not for Gastarbeiter. You're supposed to work, pay all taxes and GTFO before you can legally claim any benefits, while still being despised by unemployed locals for "stealing" their jobs.
More like WebDAV, but yeah. This is what jungle disk did when it was first released.
What's interesting about this is that positions Steam more directly against XBox and Playstation stores (which we don't generally consider as VOD portals, but I suspect makes up the majority of their direct revenue).
It's never been well explained to me how this is a profitable model, especially considering the ease with which popular shows are pirated - in full HD and digital sound I might add. What do studios really stand to gain by keeping Germany et al from so much content?
Finally.

But for me it's too late.
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Why are you investing so much effort in debating a straw man argument? Is there a particular real world case you are thinking about?
Yes, where's the tools? Are they not public? A good set of RE tools would enable the porting and fixing of a huge number of DOS and DOS/4GW games. This has been done for XCOM (resulting in OpenXCOM) but there are plenty of other worthy modernisation targets.
> Alternatively, you can now rent a blockbuster film using money you have made while playing games. Trading cards, skin drops, crates/cases etc can all be acquired without putting money into the system but can be sold for credit on the steam marketplace.

But where you can earn enough money? The total value of all items I've earned on Steam probably doesn't even sum to 1 Euro...
Startup idea, airbnb of VPNs. Normal people distributing a limited number of other peoples, VPNs for a small fare.
>> X most recent photos are stored locally, and everything else is pulled down on the fly as you search/browse for them.

Which app are you talking about? The desktop app is merely an uploader. It doesn't really sync photos.
"White Power"/"White Pride" is racist and "Black power"/"Black Pride" isn't... Minorities can't be racist and everything white people does is automatically racist.

"White privilege"... Brought to you by "Black Privilege".
This only seems to work when you interact exclusively with very reliable people. What if they never get back to you with their input?
Meja+rias+jati+klasik+mewah+MRI+-005
I really hope this is available to personal accounts, and not only business, as the blog post sort of implies. With the average laptop being 256GB and the Dropbox paid account being 1TB, that's badly needed.
Now you need to take into account how many cars vs how many trucks were on the road in the period that yielded those numbers. Only then you can obtain the propensity of car drivers vs truck drivers to get into accidents.
>The latter is native to China, the former a New World import.

From the article: "For years culinary detectives have been on the chili pepper’s trail, trying to figure out how a New World import became so firmly rooted in Sichuan, a landlocked province on the southwestern frontier of China".
The steam video player is terrible though!
> and then there's the localization thing where UK gets a grand total of 11 movies

My, my, the irony is jarring. The UK has localization problems? Then the rest of the world is screwed :p
AFIK this is not implemented using the usual SSHFS/FUSE approach. This is something new.

Edit:

More details here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11571640
This sounds awesome, but with all the talk about drag files, double click, etc., I wonder if this will work from the command line?
>And guess what, those jobs are gone now, but society didn't crumble.

I wouldn't say the loss of manufacturing jobs has been particularly well absorbed, in fact i would argue that we are still trying to deal with the effect this loss has had on our economy.
Ask HN: How do you come up with a good name for a startup?
It always takes me forever to come up with a cool name for a project. I have a couple of projects that are already almost complete, but not having a good enough idea for a name is holding me back.

Any tips/advice on coming up with a cool names?
In Spain Netflix has a VERY limited classic (or contemporary for that matter) catalog. Is only worth paying it for series IMHO.
Whenever Singapore is mentioned, most commentators can only come up with the same three responses:

1. Chewing gum

2. Caning

3. William Gibson

Frankly, if I wanted Disneyland with the death sentence, I'd go to California.
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Collections is a boogeyman. No company actively recruiting new non-distressed customers wants to have a reputation for harassing customers who fight back against pickpocketing. They'd rather let the occasional savvy customer go and continue signing up more rubes.
The author is not assuming you, personally, got an easy ride. Nor is the author dismissing any and all hardships faced by white males during their lifetimes. It is disappointing that you took his comment that way.

Acknowledging that it is easier to make it in the tech industry if you are a white male does not mean that it wasn't hard for you. It just means, for example, that it probably would have been even harder if you were an Eastern European woman who grew up in a poor family.

You don't call out the author on such comments because you don't need to read such comments as a personal attack. I worked hard as hell to get into this industry. I came from a poor family. I slept in my car for a long time just to afford to get my first product out. But I had the advantage of being a white male who grew up in a culture where those things gave me an advantage from birth.

From the cartoons I watched as a child (far more male heroes than female) to the politicians in my country (mostly white and male), to most of my role models in my field of choice (also white, male). In addition to a million other invisible benefits. I was able to go into technology with confidence and social support that many other groups will not have.

> No, it's not. Just like women don't have any duty to ensure that there's an arbitrary number of men working as models and just like black NBA players have no obligation to ensure that there's enough white guys on the team I have no obligation to worry about some arbitrary quotas.

I think that's a sad way to look at things. We are not trying to ensure there is an "arbitrary number" of certain types of people working in our field. We are simply acknowledging that there are unnecessary hurdles faced by many groups who may otherwise already be working in our field. It is a wonderful thing to have the power and voice to "send the elevator down" to help those people up.
We can see physical or psychological torture used effectively in many TV series. I have read that in real life, torture was very ineffective to make people tell something they want to hide. Generally people die without speaking or do not know any valuable secret.

Remember at school. When one child get punished, all the other childs of the class become quiet. The main desired effect of torture is manipulation of population. They do not care if the tortured guy speaks or dies, they want to inspire fear.

I think it is the only way to understand how something so barbare and so ineffective (in its direct purpose) is still used. TV series should stop disinformation (pretending torture works and presenting torture as acceptable).

Torture is unacceptable.
This isn't the case here.
Compensation wise it's still a better idea to move to the USA to work at google & co then. A typical goofacesoft sr engineer gets +$250k/yr total compensation + paid for health insurance with a %30-%40 total income tax rate as a sr engineer.

Also to start a corporation, you have no capitalization requirements and it's easy-ish to hire canadians, australians and people work who work in a foreign office for +1 yr on a L visa. The waiting times for citizenship in the USA are surprisingly less than switzerland if you're not chinese or indian, which is pretty bad when the USA beats you in citizenship waiting time.

And most important of all, there is a shit ton of VC cash to get investment dollars from.
They sell it over different channels (Amazon Prime, DVD, etc.) and somehow seem to think that people will use more than one to get all content they want. They probably do this to get better rates from Netflix, e.g. "You know, if you don't pay us x we can always give our content someone else". To me this sounds like madness, I would never use multiple streaming services, but I'm not an Hollywood exec, so maybe there is some method to the madness that I'm not able to see.
If you remove the spaces before that link it will be clickable.
Why not just cancel? Is it really worth having this battle, over a newspaper? I'll do it for my internet because that's an esssenit to survive.
If you are watching 2-3 movies a month (a little more than once in two weeks), than you pay the same as for Netflix, but you can choose from all available PPV platforms. It works for me. I sometimes watch movies from Google Movies, because they have better selection of titles in my country than Netflix and are cheaper than watching at cinema (not same experience, but if you just want to watch a nice movie with your wife it's a bargain).

For me at this point Netflix is for TV series and some classics that I missed, because it's convenient.
Would love to get fasttracked. Docker id: kottkrig
>> The government also plans to share data, in some cases, with the private sector.

Ouch!

We're in 2016 and Ghost in the shell story take place around 2030.
Sound like Masamune Shirow's book will be the George Orwell's book of our generation...
Exploiting the Diversity of User Preferences for Recommendation (2013) [pdf]
use the interest lists feature, make different lists for different topics, and bookmark them
It cannot be changed. You can download (watch) any proprietary content (if you can), but you cannot redistribute it to others.
Oh my marketing, isn't this basically NFS?
if i take a look at the data, by most measures asians and jews are much more privileged in america than other europeans.

but of course if people started talking about asians and jews the way they talk about white males the racist nature of their argument becomes all too apparent.

your useful idiot argument very well may be correct though.
The problem is that lots of people don't get that nuance, and then carry the thought along thinking it really does literally mean people who are white and male. Memes morph as they're passed along, and a complex sociological understanding of abstract "whiteness" has no chance of surviving into the popular understanding.

So for each person like you who means "white male in the abstract sense", there are ten people in the movement who literally hate white males for running the world.

When we want to talk about privilege we should say just that: "privileged people". Don't shit on arbitrary subsections of the population.
At first I thought "Well, Dropbox storage is 5x as expensive as hard drive space, so what's the point?". What I didn't see was the team use case: It's actually brilliant to have access to every document of all of my colleagues at all times, without saving all that stuff locally, or taking forever sync. This is really amazing.

The problem with our current shared team folders is that you need to make a deliberate effort to share something with the team. That means when you want to pull information from the shared space, you're very likely to get an outdated copy. Thanks to 1.) no storage constraints and 2.) deep OS-integration, all files can actually be always up-to-date with Dropbox Infinite. That really sounds cool.
Microsoft had this feature built in windows 8 / 8.1 and removed it in Windows 10 cause it "confused" customers. Hope this will nudge them to bring it back.
If they can do this to him they can do it to anyone. The saddest thing is the example the "free world" is giving to all totalitarian torturers.
Not really a trick in the spirit of the blog post, but I often catch people out with this, after telling them that it's legal to divide by zero in SQL:

SELECT *
FROM ThisTable
WHERE EXISTS
(
SELECT 1/0
FROM OtherTable
)
When I play music it's usually the background for another activity (coding, exercise, parties, etc.). When I play a movie, it is the activity - I actively minimize distractions so I can focus entirely on the movie. It's easier to use a substitute for something that isn't being focused on.
Agreed re:selective sync. This seems so much obviously better solution, wonder why it wasn't there before
I wish I could upvote this twice. It's a load of hot garbage.
Now spead that across 10 million system admins. An actual MD5 checksum in the Wild is vasty more likely to be brute forced, or a bug. However, it's reasonably likely to have happened.
I should get around to adding one, but it will be MIT.
RSS users don't need ad blockers because obnoxious ads can't come through in a (full-content) feed, but this means that feed users have all the downsides for the site as if they did have ad blockers.

And feed subscribers are much stickier than most web visitors - you can't generally use a feed without subscribing to it, so anyone who uses a feed will see it again. The problem is that stickiness per se is not actually that valuable (especially when it's difficult to quantify). Feed users are so sticky that they will read everything you post but never leave the site by clicking an ad.
Dropbox is pretty overpriced compared to OneCloud. If they don't solve that I'm not going to switch back.
To those of you who are dismissing this because AFS/NFS has had this for years, the point is that this is running over the Internet, not your local network.
That's my experience. Since dropping cable and going to 100% Netflix, my watching is very much "what's on Netflix this month?" And with full seasons of TV shows posted at once, I can binge watch one of those if I don't see an interesting movie.
From the article:

> The Rust program got a segmentation fault because it attempted to write to inaccessible memory, but only through the stack pointer. None of the undefined behaviors disallow this, which I think is why it’s ok for this Rust program to segfault.

What I got out of that is that Rust does not work as advertised if there are still situations where a program could segfault. The entire premise of Rust, as I understood it at least, is that it does things in a safe manner and the programmer does not have to worry about it. Now I learned that there are undefined behaviors. In my view, for a language that bills itself as safe, there should not exist such things as undefined behaviors. As far as I am concerned, then, based on the advertising of Rust, this is false advertising.
Do you mean depreciated?
I've read a few good Jooq blog posts, and am becoming a convert to Jooq.

The tool seems to work well as a SQL DSL and helps me write testable code. Instead of an ORM that insists everything is an object, I can be honest and admit that I have a database which is a separate tool with its own features. And I have access to them all. Lovely.
$99/year ($8.25/mo) to have "Premium" which offers the option to leave files in the cloud and sync on demand. This is too much money to gain a feature addition. No thanks.
As with any tool there is a place for it. Daily stand ups sucked but on the big project I was on, it did help with people needing to bring up roadblocks. open floor plans suck but you get used to them and start feel isolated when you go back to a cube. Code quality suffered because of the constant pressure to get things done now.
I noticed the same type of response when Dubai is mentioned as well.
If they can make a remote Spotlight index of the cloud content for Mac users then it really would be seamless. Hope they do it.
I don't see why not. I assume they're managing all of this at the file system level.
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Well if he didn't hate the CIA before then he probably does now.
Microsoft had what they called "placeholders" and it worked great, but it did confuse some users who looked for a file, saw it was "there" and happily went offline. Only to find it was only a placeholder. Furthermore, on devices with limited storage (phones, tablets) even the small size of the placeholders becomes a problem when the number of files is big enough. So Microsoft temporarily removed the placeholders functionality, promising to bring it back in the near future using some new (at the time not yet invented?) technique that would solve the problem.
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That's as may be, however, what % of their users are on Linux is the question they needed to answer when deciding on initial platform support.

Linux is also a much larger target than Mac OS or Windows ... different filesystems, desktop environments etc. etc.
My original thought was, so its a network drive huh?
But when you think about the fact that everyone has 128GB Surfaces they take everywhere remotely this is really powerful and I can image a lot easier to administer. Love how they have integrated and just added a simple icon. Well done Dropbox
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That may be true compared to other synchronization solutions on Linux, but I doubt Linux users make up a disproportionate amount of their customer base.
It can't.
This is the type of features that have to be developed for each OS separately.
They aren't really museum pieces at all. They added a web browser and a phone to them and now we all have them in our pockets 24/7.
Eastern European Whites are notoriously racist. Are you really trying to say you don't have it easier than a Romani or a Central Asian, let alone a black person who happens to be living in Ukraine?
Balance of probability has nothing to do with presumed innocent.
SSHFS has selectable local caching and automatic sync of those cached files?
I will curious about the performance. SSHFS/FUSE, expandrive /odrive renderings of your onedrive/cloud drive bucket and so on have been pretty bad in my experience.