skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any more info on this?

I have to do some work on a Linux VM, but also need Windows for Office and a few other apps.

But the Fedora VM is much slower than the native OS, even with a good SSD and plenty of Ram. I could care less about games / GPU, but the CPU / disk IO is just much slower. I use VMWare Workstation, so maybe that's my problem.
I always have the same idea when I replace my old machines, but eventually I just recycle them or give them away.

Usually the hardware I'm replacing it is so much faster that using the old machine as a compile farm or something like that doesn't make sense.

Using it in a robot or something sounds fun, but I'm more likely to use a Rasberry Pi or Arduino for that.

Could use it to play with distributed computing, but even that might be easier using a couple VMs on your new machine.
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In my experience the leverage for influence was seldomly the tax money alone, more often the number of domestic jobs dependent on the branch plays an even more important role.
I think that from an EU perspective the first salvo was the decision to keep a referendum.
Even better, a company can buy a country and we have the first corporate paradise in the world.
You can take your ISA money any time but pensions are drawn when you reach a certain age.
I'd be much more worried about stopping Hillary if I were American. I cannot imagine a greater catastrophe for the world than her presidency. Guess that just shows how the bubbles are diverging rapidly.
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What works for me is the exact opposite of this. I do not like anything resembling classes. I go to the gym and do weightlifting. No fixed times to show up, everybody can work on their own, it is all about you.

The main motivation comes from beating your own personal records or looking better, which happens incredibly fast in the beginning. After a while addiction and routine set in plus you develop a fear to lose your gains, which being a human bias is worse than not getting any. Sure, you want to beat others, but there are so many factors that play into this, so it is quite relaxed.

You can bring a buddy with you, but after a few months you become a regular and notice more and more people you have talked to once. Now it is more like going to a club where you can do your thing. Because of the pauses between sets and the obvious topic (everybody is thinking about how much they can lift) it is super easy to have a shallow talk to a stranger. Since you have talked to them once, in the future they will come up to you if they need a spot.
Once I created a private google doc containing my business idea, I saw that very same text when I searched for my business name.

Thankfully Google showed only the first few lines in its general search. There is some data leak in Google. Its so big, something like this can happen.
This is a very popular question, here's some of the lists of answers that pop up in google:

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/2a9ygh/10...

https://github.com/karan/Projects

https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-great-programming-projec...

Optional: take any of your old code that you're still interested in but is a mess or you want it to be more portable (Go static binaries) and rewrite it from scratch.
A vote to leave the EU secured by means of misinformation that caused areas like Wales to literally vote against their best interests? Misinformation, lies, which were almost immediately revoked by the perpetrators? I think there is much to be ashamed by and worried about. Personally I intend to secure a future for my children as EU citizens, and that appears to mean that we must now leave the UK.
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I'd argue the opposite: if the EU shows that it isn't willing to give any special deals (other than "regular" EEA or EEA-like membership, which is what matters really) to any absconding members, any other members seeing how bad it went for the UK having to stand alone would think twice before attempting any similar action.

Regardless, you seem to be implying that the UK should have their cake and eat it too (I dislike that expression, I apologize). As the larger market the EU has a lot more power in negotiations, it's the downside of standing alone; if the UK want to get something significant out of the negotiations, they're going to have to give something significant back.
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Then the cost of their products will rise by 90% and the customers will have to pay 90% more to obtain them.

So why would you want that?
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Maybe. It's not difficult to be profitable though. Servers are cheap. I don't think it's going to trouble Google though, which is a shame. We could do with some serious search competition.
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No argument is going to work on someone who thinks its okay to torture animals for human enjoyment. Just like no description of smell is going to enlighten someone who lacks a nose.

The only thing that might change your mind is watching videos of the conditions that these animals are in, solely for hedonistic pleasure, extra information/nueron firing in the form of taste. Imagine yourself in their body -- a punishment from birth to death because of bad luck on the end of some humans' excessive want for neuropathic pleasure. Any way you shape it, excess is always going to be morally dubious. When one has no choice, some things like self defense make sense. But there are plenty of choices in our modern age. A vegetarian diet with good farm fresh eggs, cheese, and milk, is plenty enjoyable and easy to do healthy. And a grass-fed free-range steak is not the worst thing to have once in a while. It can be argued that death is not a terrible thing, since we all experience it. Rather, torture is. So eating sustainable and cruelty-free meat, is sound.

You seem to be bent on excusing torture and pain because no bullet-proof definition or argument can sway you. I don't know what to say, except that you are clearly in denial and lying to us and yourself.
Nobody - including the Conservatives - thought they would win a majority, and that it would have to be followed through.
So you're saying that the masses are dumb, and the ruling elites are smart?
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I think the really large corporations don't care about the tax rate of the UK because they use complex schemes that reduce their tax rate to single digits or less anyway, regardless of country. I think this is mostly about startups and medium size businesses
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Its the difference between a £250,000k Job and a £10k one ogh and coordinating 50-70 different lease holder to pay their share.

Even more extream if your looking at a listed building - which I did when I was looking at buying a ex alms house listed in Pevsner (one of only two buildings of note in my home town)
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>A big plus of switching countries at least every 179 days is that unless you are from the US or Eritrea, don't have to pay income taxes nowhere.

Was just discussing this, is it really possible?
We're in Croatia and for example if we start to move to surrounding countries, how would we manage it?
Would we need to go to the gov office and say "we're moving", travel away across the border to slovenia, say "we're moving here" and repeat that process all the time?
I'd like to remind everyone that in the USA corporate tax is a humongous 35% rederal, plus state.

The point being that there's other ways to attract business that are more effective at growing revenue than cutting tax.
VNC has never been near as fast as even Remote Desktop, and even that is pretty slow for anything more than basic administration. Maybe in a local lan it would work better, but I doubt considering it's slow even in a VM on a powerful workstation.

It's getting to the point where I'm thinking about using a Windows laptop and Linux desktop with a KVM switch, but then I'm not portable.
You used to get a couple of incidents with an MSDN subscription, the one time I used it the service was appalling, it took them weeks to respond.
My personal favorite:

http://tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=1597

US spending on science, space, and technology

correlates with

Suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation
Yep I can't see Ireland being too keen on this "plan". It is not like the UK has to get unanimity on every point from every country in the EU.

At this point I think the UK would be better off just pulling the thermonuclear option and withdrawing without negotiating at all. Get the economic shock (depression) over quickly and then negotiate new trade agreements over time. Why waste two years in dithering dragging out the uncertainty to end up with nothing.
Using an Rc<RefCell<T>> comes down to one method call, .borrow_mut() - it's not exactly magic, but it's far from significant boilerplate either. Additionally, it's not a "workaround", it's an inherent part of most useful Rust code. Servo contains 79 uses of borrow_mut.
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Thank you, that's exactly the kind of source I was looking for. I was completely unable to find anything with the Google queries I was using.
This is a tax on profit, right? Then the tax can be avoided by increasing expenses. Pay out the profits to the employees that created the profit.
I think you need to look at "Churches of the past" a little harder. Churches had their time and while we haven't managed to get rid of them yet, we are a lot better of with a separation between them and the state.
I was strongly in favour of remaining, I just think we have to be pragmatic about where we are now.
>to punish the UK for having the audacity to leave

This is not about punishment or revenge. You want to leave? Fine. Let's be friends anyway. You want to talk about leaving before you leave? No thanks. Just do it, then we talk.

Seriously, some people from the exit league are promising British citizens full freedom of movement in the EU, while EU citizens are going to be submitted to immigration control. Is that the kind of things you want to talk about before leaving?
> The latest plan seems to be to cut corporate taxes to try to stop the larger companies from leaving the UK, and possibly to attract new ones. <
The same taxes that the larger corporates avoid in the first place? This seems a flawed plan.
Yeah, seems like there ought to be some way to do it securely if you have access to the hardware.
I think that as long as one remember that a lot of words used in statistics have very different meanings from how one would use them in normal life one should be fine. "Controlling for" is one such term, "explains" is another.

Of course, especially once study result make it into mass media all statistical meaning of the words used is completely lost and reinterpreted from the point of view of normal-life usage.
Only if there isn't enough redundancy.

Though I agree, some of the systems (food/energy supply, communications) we have built are potentially quite fragile and disruptions could cause a lot of mess short term.

Never hurts to brush up on your survival skills Bear Grylls style :)
I think that is what he is saying.

Though he is saying that the ruling elites are ruling because they are smart, and not that the ruling elites are smart because they are ruling.
Yes. They know they have been conned, but they don't know how to fight the elites. They are strong, but leaderless and so are left with only the Sampson option.
>To get better service by phone, dial the prompt designated for “sales” or “to place an order,” which almost always gets you an onshore agent, while tech support is usually offshore with the associated language difficulties.

I ended up doing something similar the other day. I wanted to cancel my TV service, and was considering upgrading my internet speed. I called in and chose the option to cancel a service. I was on hold for 30 minutes.

I had to hang up and then called back a little later, but this time I asked for "upgrades". I got someone immediately. He was a little non-plussed when I immediately asked to cancel a service, but didn't scold me. I did then upgrade my speed.
If working in the SV for such big companies (Google in primis I guess) why do so many people want to work there? Is it just the "brand" effect or it's really worth it (salary and perks aside)?
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Gov contractors are pissed that the government can build some of its own systems? HA!

The first job I had out of school was on a government contract. The gov employee that was suppose to oversee the technical decisions made was even less experienced than I was and worked about as hard as his salary suggested. Needless to say, our instructions were often to meet the letter of the contract whether it accomplished the intended goal or not. 18F's experience has long been needed.
I agree. There's nothing un-pragmatic about wanting to retain ones EU citizenship though.
If i had a dime every time someone complains about ad blockers...
Donation is probably the best way to use it.

I had an old laptop I used to run Linux + Spotify on, so that I could take it to people's house parties and run music off it. No concerns about drink spillages or it being stolen, and you can let anyone add songs to the playlist. Warning: be selective over who you let near it! :-).
I wonder, if they'd added some sort of concurrency primitive to the language a few years ago, whether it might have stolen Go's crown.
Doesn't make sense, at all.
If with 'around the world' they intend to mean 'The USA and the UK' then I'm all in agreement.

But the rest of the world is not that much different from 12 months ago.

The article sugggests strongly that these other countries had a completely different view of their governments in the recent past but I see very little evidence of that.

But in the UK (see: brexit) and in the USA (see: Trump) there definitely is a populist shift in progress.

The French, the Italians, the Russians and even the Dutch have had a substantial trust issue with their governments as long as I've been alive, I don't know enough about the local politics of a lot of the other countries listed there but I suspect that given the fact that none of the ones that I am familiar with would warrant the label 'collapse' that it is not as alarmist as the title would have you believe.

What is happening is that there is a slow but steady push towards more nationalist representation in the various parliaments and this is a source for concern.

And this is all not to say that a Trump presidency and an exit of the UK from the EU can't/won't do plenty of damage, but with some luck they will cause some real political reform in those two countries.

It's either that or a very good chance of serious economic upheaval.
Move to Transylvania (if you don't fancy leaving the EU after Brexit)
This is really unfortunate, it makes duck.co to loose visitors to google.
If you are working minimum wage, the last thing you want is to spend between 2 and 4 more hours per day on public transportation or driving (if you can afford it).

It could be worse though, it could be that you can't afford public transportation either. Look at London: Unaffordable to live in if you're minimum wage (hence the unofficial "London minimum wage"), plus the train could get as expensive as £500 a month while still living 30 minutes away from zone 1. So there's the situation where what you save on housing you spend on transport (and feeling miserable spending hours on a train/tube/bus).
thanks for this, had no idea
I could, I just needed to turn on subtitles :)
I never said popular.
Race to the bottom (i.e. competition) is a good thing, it reduces waste and inefficiency.
It'll be a coffee bot first.
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I just tried this and ended up seeing the adblocker notice on Wired anyhow. You probably have something else fixing it as well.
Most likely, but still, I find seeking the misfortune of others is a sad state of mind, usually reserved to those on the lower end of the self esteem scale.
Seem to fit the purpose of a church for the modern individualistic city-dwellers. Like-minded people, a common purpose, regular worship meetings, sexy dress code, commercialism and a sense of achievement. Amen to post-workout endorphine rush.
Exactly. If you left the ruling elite to breed amoungst themselves you would end up with something like the Russian nobility - idiotic and doomed.
There is a risk in bringing a gun to a meeting, if you start brandishing it and it goes off you can't really blame anybody but yourself.

It's the summit of irresponsibility.
Like it or not, Apple is right about Spotify (and is bending the rules for it)
Point A and B contradict each other. If e.g. Starbucks avoids taxes then they are clearly not suffering from high taxes. The local coffee shop next door does suffer from unfair competition.
Looks like he understood what a mess he has created. It's more of 'I am getting out before shit hits the fan' type decision.
With the built-in error handling macro, you can generally do:

let value = try!(fn_that_may_error());

Rather than having to muck around with explicit matching on Ok vs Err.

The try! macro would make the linked function much less verbose... Except that what try! does is bubble the error further up the stack by returning an Err if the called function returns an Err — and since this is the main function, there's nowhere up the stack to go (main() has a return type of "Unit," which is Rust's version of void or null; for functions that pass errors up the stack you'd have a return type of Result<ReturnType, ErrorType>, which allows errors to be returned), so try! can't work.

I agree that some of that error handling in 79-101 is pretty awkward looking, but luckily it's not super representative of idiomatic Rust: usually you can make Rust much more concise by using try!, with the exception of the main() function which can't use try! and has to actually handle the error.
I presume UKIP will dissolve too. The party had the unique goal of getting the UK to leave the EU. Now that they achieved it, their raison d'etre is gone.
>being able to prove things about some beautiful intricate mathematical structure most of the times doesn't help you much with the world of matter.

Mathematical ability is just an example. The same abilities that apply to math also apply to engineering, programming, etc. A superintelligent AI would be able to do unbelievable things to "the world of matter". Because the main requirement for manipulating matter is intelligence, discovering better designs and technologies.

> Hackers are successful not because they are ungodly smart. They are successful because they have the will to look for and exploit vulnerabilities. Intelligence, again, doesn't help all that much. I don't think people who wrote stuxnet were able to do this because they were of superior intelligence.

I find this assertion unbelievable. Even average hackers have significantly above average IQ. I can't find the statistics right at the moment, but many STEM degrees have above average IQ. The best is physicists which had an average IQ of 130. An average person can barely figure out how to operate their email client, they won't be building stuxnet anytime soon.

>Super-intelligence won't help you with stock market because it's purely random game.

It is not. People make fortunes with just slightly better statistical models, or slightly better information. Traders spend millions to fly drones and helicopters over oil tanks and parking lots, to get a slight edge over others.

>It's hard to engineer because it's so damn small, not because it's complex. To build nanotech you'll need to build tools to build tools to build tools to build nanotech. You could do all that but even if you are 1000 times smarter, reality has a speed limit. You can't take a shovel of sand from the beach and build CPU, no matter how intelligent you are. You have to build fab first.

But we could potentially bootstrap nanotechnology really quickly from existing biology. There are already labs that will make proteins on demand from DNA. The problem is it's just so complicated.
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Doesn't this describe most jobs that require some kind of technical expertise and creativity? I guess the silicon valley mystique/propaganda really works if people expect it to be vastly different from other jobs.
I find that hard to believe. Those in power, which you classify as (more) intelligent, were afraid of their peer Yanis Varoufakis so much that they did everything to make him leave. They didn't understand his proposals (models) because the other finance ministers missed vital economic knowledge, or that's how it seems to me at least.

If I looked for it, I could name many not-so-intelligent and uneducated ministers all around the world. We can start by naming plagiarized PhDs in Germany, including (ironically) one education minister.

However, if by 'ruling class' you don't necessarily mean the government, then maybe you're right. If that's what you're saying, then the government would be ruled by the economy which would be controlled by those who were put on such a track at a young age.
It's not so much that the masses are dumb, but that propaganda techniques have been so refined and optimized that people have no idea who or what they have to fight to get what they want.

There are a lot of ideological systems that are created simply to misdirect the public's attention away from actual important issues and toward infighting or intellectual dead ends or towards the goals of the propagandists.

Let me give you one example: the murder rate in the US is the lowest its been since 1963. The way the media directs the public's attention and magnifies the coverage of the violence that does happen makes the public think that there's a huge terrorism, crime and gun violence crisis.

Anyone who wants to actually figure out what is going on just needs to look at the numerical data, but that's boring. Instead political life is a bunch of people reposting whatever article got published today to freak the public out or very narrowly guide them into strengthening their belief in a particular ideological narrative.

People aren't stupid, but given limited information they are easily influenced.
Arron Banks, the main funding for UKIP, had already lost faith in Farage. Farage had also fallen out with Doug Carswell. Looks like a coup, pure and simple.

I wouldn't discount Farage coming back, though.
Makes sense. He's achieved a goal he's spent his political career working for. And as such a minority party he'll have little say in the actual negotiations so why not retire?
The problem is that Matrix is positioned right in the middle of the train wreck of unfulfilled promises left behind by Google Wave, XMPP and (for those of enough to remember it) Chandler[0].

It's something that a lot of people (including myself) really, really want to succeed, but all previous trials failed (even when only E-mail was around; now we have the data silos by Twitter and Facebook that are additional obstacles).

Even after almost a decade, the well is still poisoned for everyone from Google's botched Wave rollout; if even Google (with the tremendous leverage of Gmail) was unable to pivot communication is this direction, who will?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_(software)