skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The study's abstract says, among other things, ".. economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence."

Toward the end the study notes: "When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."

At the national level, US democracy is an illusion.
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Shocking Poll: 52% of Brits Now Favor Leaving the European Union
I think the reference to neoliberalism is in the motivation and direction for policy changes in those institutions in recent years, rather than the institutions themselves being neoliberal.
Poll: Majority of French People Back Brexit
There are hardly any (well paid) remote positions in C++ though? So it's the kind of path where your career might dictate where you live.
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Don't get me wrong, I understand and appreciate his motivation, but I doubt he fully comprehends the psychology he's up against. Apologies if I come across as too un-appreciatively negative toward his efforts.
It is probably very dependent on the reasons you are using the VPN as well as who you trust to keep whatever data you are transmitting safe.
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There is also an element of uncertainty. Sometimes you are ready to pay more but you are unsure of the value. Others bidding more, may convince you it is ok to bid more.

For example, foreign jewellery on which you are unfamiliar with the hallmarks. You don't mind paying $200 for it if it is silver, but is it ?

Of course, rationally, for the raison you gave, you should not use that, but conversely if you are familiar with a certain type of popular auction you start to see some patterns. An object that breaks it is either a bargain, a fraud or you were simply early.

For example, silver never goes for less than scrap and genuine auction never really shoot way over boot sale value.

Or maybe I rationalised my irrationality :-)
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"CSID, an identity monitoring firm that is in the midst of being acquired by credit bureau giant Experian."

Experian a few months ago had a breach whereby millions of T mobile customers who had no idea that Experian was storing their data, had all of their sensitive data stolen. Experian's "solution" to the problem was to offer those who had their data stolen 2 years of free credit monitoring. Think about that for a moment - "we allowed your sensitive data that you didn't approve of us storing to be compromised and so we will now offer you a 2 year service after which you will be charged."

That is so completely outrageous, people should be out with pitchforks and torches but you can't fight this stuff, these agencies are far too powerful.

Just to further underscore how outrageous Experian and the other two agencies are - Experian notified people who had their data compromised using snail mail! What kind of decision is that for a time-sensitive situation?!

Lastly the letter they sent to customers and I read my friend who was a victims letter, said that the data that was compromised was data they were storing on T Mobile's behalf, as if they were in no way culpable.

So I guess I this is their strategy going forward is to acquire a half-baked and suspect security firm that will damage innocent companies reputations the same way they themselves have damaged innocent people's credit and identities.

I would urge people to call the three big credit agencies - Trans Union, Experian and Equifax and request that your credit be "locked." This means that nobody can look at your credit profile, except for people you currently have a line of credit with. You will be issued a pin and if and when you need to apply for credit you can then unlock your credit profile and re0lock it afterward. You need to re-up on this every two years which is insane as having your credit profile locked should be the default and should be in perpetuity, but you do what you can.
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Yeah in my opinion traffic laundering - well, fake traffic as a general thing - is a real issue with the arts and entertainment sector - the desire to have something go viral is intense. It may not be jacking ads to show other information, but as far as using web resources in a fraudulent manner, it's a relative. Clicks beget clicks. It's actually baked into the design of websites: Reddit, HN, Facebook...all these sites cater to the idea that a swarm will raise something above the fray and get attention.

There are numerous services that offer indie musicians batches of clicks or followers or what have you. I stay far away from all that because, in hard terms, I want to track organic metrics. Well that and the general principle of thinking pay-for-fake-listens is essentially gutter-trash dishonest behavior. Others...obviously don't feel the same, so the industry exists.
Protip:

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You might not do that. But your Ops guys, for very good reasons, might say: "only *NIX in prod".

At that point, you could develop on Windows or Mac, but at some point you will have to get acquainted with Linux.

For servers Linux is at least as nice if not nicer than Windows. Just don't start tinkering like you did when you were 12 :)
LFS Instructions are not up-to-date or well-maintained lately ....

Plus, most LFS installs will be abandoned sooner or later after the tutorial ends anyways ....

I would recommend the uninitiated to start with Gentoo/Funtoo install for similar experience (albeit not as low-level as LFS would be). The up-side here is that they are real up-to-date / well-maintained distros, which one would end up using after the install experience ....
This is a post by Fields Medallist Timothy Gowers on why Britain should vote to remain in the EU during the upcoming referendum on membership. It contains what I view as a very compelling argument, which I have never seen before, based on the Prisoners' Dilemma.
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I assume everyone starting or working for a for-profit business is primarily (though not solely) motivated to make money for themselves. Otherwise, they wouldn't be starting or working at a for-profit business.
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The changes have been announced well ahead of being designed or implemented; so at this stage are "proposed" changes.

There are issues on github where they are working through various designs; people are giving feedback, they are listening to them, iterating, improving - they written blogs about why, again taking feedback responding etc

So that's pretty early community on-boarding - its not like they have already designed and implemented it without consultation and did a surprise change - its still in an open design phase.
So many are "Which of the following places have you visited recently?" followed by a list of stores I've either been looking up or was navigating near.

Probably 98% of the time the correct answer is "none of the above" so that's what I pick and I get my 5-10cents. Occasionally I can tell that it's a survey that someone commissioned (asking about how likely you are to vote in some primary, etc) and I do tend to answer those as well.

Overall in the time I've had the app I've collected $60.19 (just checked history). Granted, this is from two years of use but it's good pocket change for Play Store purchases (hey, that $1.49 icon pack or watch face I wouldn't normally bother with? Purchase.)

I guess on some level I understand that like radio or free alt-weeklies, they sell access to eyeballs and earholes in order to fund the services I actually make use of. If they're gonna analyze my usage to try to determine which things are relevant and cut down on spam and wasted ad expenditures, I might as well make a few bucks from it in the process.

And as you say, sometimes I get one that I don't want to answer and it's pretty clearly laid out so I can decline.
Something nobody seems to have mentioned, which I think is actually very important, is to make sure you take time off to get away from work and not get burnt out.
Really? While I'm at the point in my career where I don't use the proposed techniques, I think the advice is generally OK-to-good and was anything but vague.

If you identify as non-assertive and aren't interested in compensating for that during negotiations, you're going to get a particular result.

If you identify as non-assertive, but are willing to concretely work against that tendency for an aggregate of fifteen minutes to a max of two hours during negotiations, you're likely to get a much better outcome.
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Why doesn't Dispatcher implement ISynchronizeInvoke? (2008)
I'm not really sure what you can read about it. Are you familiar with IRC? IRC is a text chat protocol which has been active a long time before Facebook, MSN and even ICQ.

So an IRC bot is a kind of service for IRC chatrooms. IRC bots may define words from a dictionary, do google searches, and so on. Usually the bots answer commands such as !define some_word or !google my search.

You can read more on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC_bot and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat

You are right about the tutorial. I was thinking that if one is familiar with IRC it should be quite easy to get started with this.
(Disclaimer: I haven't read the article in depth)

My interpretation: neo-liberals have tried to bring market forces to bear on the NHS and Universities - and this is the 'overreach' he is referring to. i.e. the fault isn't with the author - it's with those with overly expansive interpretations of market economics.
I think "supermarket" originally meant any store where you pick the goods yourself, rather than asking at the counter.
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The FDA has a lot of blood on its hands. Everyone, especially a chronically ill person on their deathbed, should be free to choose whatever experimental medical procedure they want. Not only is this a recognition of self-ownership, but it would provide invaluable medical research and could accelerate getting effective treatments to the ill.
Developers get commissions on top of above-market salary. We don't directly track nor care about hours, just output and results.

We actually do pay very close attention to revenue-per-employee, that's ultimately what drives the firing decision.
Love these, but patio11 needs a better microphone setup, its so echo-y and robotic! Please take this as helpful feedback rather than hurtful criticism.
Yeah it's not too far off from what a generally smart music algorithm would crank out. I get that it's a different approach though.

I think it's funny they added drums to make it a bit more listenable, because otherwise I think people would generally tune out after about 1/3 of the tune because it's okay but not really engaging.
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I don't see why paying people less would lead to an improvement in love, family, being a good person, respect, transparency, etc -- unless you're saying that due to pay difference vs market, you'll also expect less work out of them.

And money is rarely the actual motivator. Often times, money is the mediator to the things that really motivate people, such as purchasing daycare and enrichment activities, splurging on medical care plans, financial security, etc.
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In theory the solution is simple: show click-bait ads to people who enjoy them only. Publishers still get make money and the ads don't get in the way for people who don't care.

This is why Google and Facebook are kings in the online advertising world, because the have mastered the art of showing ads to people that are most likely to care. Heck, Google Search doesn't even show ads at all in their search pages if they figured you never click on them.

In practice this is hard to do without troves of user behaviour data, but the approach that companies like Taboola and Outbrain take of showing irrelevant ads to everyone visiting is definitively not the solution, and if anything it's only going to diminish the efficacy of online ads further in the long run.
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Because largely they masquerade as content, and some users are not savvy enough to spot that. An "article" like "You won't believe what these 80s stars look like now" is not obviously an ad.
I still find Youtube is the best way to listen to music while sitting around having drinks with friends. This is perfect for when everyone has a next song they want to play. Thank you!
Seriously, if you can't afford a great employee, that's fine. But don't try to belittle someone because of your company's incompetence to pay. And don't stand on a morale high ground. It is disgusting.
Another problem is how do you decide that something is clickbait without clicking it? Agreed that most of the catchy headlines are actually clickbaits, but there could be always some that are genuine.

Think of clickbaits as a marketing tactic. On the way to your workplace, you see hundreds of those salesmen trying to sell you something by telling tall tales. Your impression would be like, "Hey, not these stupid fellas again. Next time one comes near me, I'll start a war on them!".

However, if you think about it, a substantial portion of those salesmen (at least 20-30%) are genuine people who are just earning their livelihoods. You know that even after accounting for some of their exaggerations, their products are sometimes actually useful to you!
XML is one thing, MSBuild is another one. It's the only widely used tool where you can't really hand-craft (and therefore fully understand) a complete build file.

Compare Maven's pom.xml with a MSBuild file. Both XML, both verbose, but other than that, radically different.
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"Significant improvement" is 10 points on a 0-100 scale. Maybe others had what to their family would be significant improvement, but it didn't quite exceed the marker.

With one intervention using donor cells in 12 months, for stroke patients, that could be a big deal.. with improvement to the procedure or combining with other treatments maybe more could be achieved.
This was the feature that kept me coming back to soundcloud initially, it would probably be much more useful on youtube.
Are you aware that he was (is) a developer himself, long before he became an evangelist of charging more?
The thing that people tend to miss about Snapchat is that it has a really creative monetization strategy.

I actually like Snapchat ads, while I hate ads everywhere else and install ad blockers on all my devices. The sponsored filters tend to be really fun, and I end up sending and receiving multiple pictures over the course of the day that used the sponsored filter.

And the ads in Vice, Buzzfeed, and other stories are well crafted to fit in with the content. The ads feel like snaps from friends, rather than the spammy, low quality crap that you see in other places on the internet.

Platforms like Facebook and Twitter have awkward, disruptive ad systems, but Snapchat already has a successful ad system that people actually enjoy interacting with, and that is amazing.
I use walmarts site2store some times; I would use it more if they would allow me to use it for groceries (they don't let you use it for 'perishable' products).
Related to this, I've separately submitted the actual IMF paper [0] referenced (but not linked, the link goes to a Financial Times story about the report) in the article, which has more depth than the somewhat broader-but-fuzzier Guardian article.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11831092
Just noticed this on an issue. Hadn't seen it before and can't find an update from Github indicating that this is now possible. Pretty excited about this small but useful change!
The "can Erlang handle realtime control" question seems to come up fairly regularly, but more as an expression of doubt than anything concrete.

This is the classic example of it being done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96UzSHyp0F8

What I don't know is whether that's generalisable, or relies on particularly fiddly work on the microprocessor to keep latencies down.
Kotlin is a JVM language, and doesn't really compete with Java (the two are "friendly"). Rust is a low-level language which is much better suited than the JVM to memory-restricted environments, but JVM languages (including Java) are much easier (therefore cheaper) to develop, so are a better choice for server-side applications. Go and Java are indeed very similar, but I find that Go is better for smaller programs and Java is better for larger ones (due to amazing monitoring, polyglotism, dynamic code loading etc.).
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>but if you are going to present a tutorial on anything that depends on external resources,

Pause. Perhaps that's the solution: LFS should host internal copies of all the required source for a target version, so the instructions can always be the same. Provide references for who and where the upstream maintainer is, so the intrepid hacker can find it themselves.
It varies per person. The history of imperative programming branches off from ALGOL into several directions. One was to C and then C++. Here's my point-by-point trace of how those were "designed." You'll see that C is more an accident of history designed to work on ancient hardware then lots of uptake since UNIX was written in it. C++ was actually designed carefully on top of C with features from many languages but inherits C issues and kludginess of that approach.

http://pastebin.com/UAQaWuWG

Now, there were a few other paths from ALGOL. One was Wirth's tradition of languages that were simple, type-safe, memory-safe as possible, compiled lightening fast, consistent, and still performed well. Started with Pascal with Turbo Pascal and Delphi being big commercial successes. Drawback with him was he leaned too far to simplicity as some features might justify extra complexity. Yet, the Oberon's, Modula-3, and Component Pascal derived from this style could do much of what C++ developers could with more safety, consistency, and development speed. Examples below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3_%28programming_langua...

http://blackboxframework.org/index.php?cID=why-program-in-co...

http://www.freepascal.org/

Another branch was Ada family. It was designed to prevent as many faults as possible in embedded programming mainly. They systematically eliminate them with syntax, semantics, and defaults. SPARK variant extends that to automatically prove absence of common errors in code via formal verification that runs behind the scenes. The systems were never popular for various reasons but empirical studies by military showed vastly lower defects than C or C++ with productivity and maintenance advantages.

http://www.adacore.com/uploads/technical-papers/SafeSecureAd...

http://libre.adacore.com/

So, ignoring functional programming and such, it's hard for me to like C++ coming from a Pascal background where the syntax was readable even to lay people a bit (a la BASIC), operations were safe by default, compiles up to 100kloc/sec on Pentium3, no segfaults, less hacks, GC by default, unsafe for speed if I need it, and small set of features all developers understand and use. C++ was nothing like that although they've improved it a lot over time.

So, given I know better stuff is possible and even out there right now, I have to still think C++ is crap because it combines pieces inconsistently to approximate stuff like I use plus builds on an unsafe foundation with undefined behavior.
Isn't the "death of neoliberalism from within" just the market adjusting itself? I think the situation completely fits what free markets propose.

The problem is not that the system isn't working but rather that it is working too well and we're witnessing the painful consequences of self-adjusting markets.

Self-regulation is cool on paper but in the end we're talking about real people suffering real consequences and, even if the system is adjusting itself, the slowness of "the markets" to realize capital has to trickle down for them to survive (and the resistance of the current capital holders to do so) is producing a lost generation (at best) in the transition.

Of course, the fact that nations (the entities supposed to backpressure the power of capital accumulation) are underlyingly controlled by the very same people not interested in changes to the status quo isn't helping at all.

The system is working as advertised. The society just wasn't told what it all really meant.
We aren't missing the point of web advertising. The problems being described, especially with traffic laundering - illegitimate sites are making money from ads, but aren't giving a return to the company buying the ad. When you have a low ROI on making an ad, you stop buying them. At that point, we don't have enough legitimate ads to support the web content we actually want to see survive.

The solution isn't to get rid of the Ads, it is to get rid of the perversion of the system (easier said than done). An efficient ad system is better for everybody.
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I think the argument is that what we had before this wave if Neoliberalism, pre 1908s with Keynesian economics is part of the answer.

More regulations on the financial sector, stronger unions, etc. Maybe even a bit more protectionism.
The thing is that diff between the film and "encoded" version look pretty fuzzy/muddy and so compressing that diff would have to be difficult.

Anyway, the article doesn't mention this idea, the first hn discussion had someone claim some other ridiculous use of the fuzzy/muddy images that are supposed to mean something and ultimately I'd say it's an example of "my research project has cool images, I can use them for publicity".
YouTube does too by saying "not interested". I have Red and love YouTube's engine
What this will change probably isn't pop music, it's soundtracks for TV commercials, video games, shows, movies etc.

Currently to put music in something you need to license it somehow, in most cases the generic music you hear in most media is sourced from a company that has a library of royalty free songs that they sell for a pretty hefty license fee.

Imagine being able to instead go into some software and punch in some keywords to describe the scene, the duration, track what happens in the scene on a timeline of some sort and let the computer render original music for the score. No middle men, no musicians, no royalties or licenses other than for the software. It would change the industry overnight.. and make being a professional musician even less promising of a career choice than it is today...
That would treat monochromatic yellow light differently from yellow light made up of a combination of red and green, instead of treating them the same like the human eye does. The yellow of an actual banana would distort differently from the yellow coming from a picture of banana displayed on an LCD.