skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I generally trust Nature

That's your first mistake. Don't take my word for it:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/fig_tab/4835...

Glamor journals are glamorous because of their "impact" (people read and cite them), and that "impact" occurs because they publish sexy (not necessarily replicable or useful) findings. Note that Nature is not a bad actor per se, and in fact their editors have completely destroyed my lack of faith in peer review lately (as an author). But the incentives for CNS journals skew in favor of "sexy" rather than "scientific", and the general tendency of NIH to fund "sexy" means that almost all research in glamor journals must be treated as suspect until replicated, ideally in a clinical trial or by an un-incentivized third party lab.

> I can only access what appears to be more of an abstract

There's a site called http://sci-hub.bz/ that can help.

> these claims could be anomalies.

You are correct, and you should heed your instincts. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and a single experiment or replication is one (possibly quite principled) sample from a distribution of potential outcomes. Don't invest yet ;-)

Side note: it seems like numeracy and statistical thinking is becoming the default in an educated population. You, too, are destroying my lack of faith in humanity. Thanks.
Plain and Simple. Charge from Day 1 and don't give stuff for free unless it absolutely makes sense. Also, keep costs low as much as possible. Don't get AWS if you can get a $5/Month DigitalOcean droplet. Don't spend money on ads etc. unless you know exactly HOW it works. Focus on building inbound marketing i.e. people finding you organically.
People don't realize that bitcoin is small-scale. If a powerful government had an interest in overtly or aggressively disrupting it, it'd be dead overnight, on both technical (51% attacks) and practical grounds ("rubber hose cryptanalysis"; large portion of mining power is China-based, where they already have a massive network censorship appliance).

The blockchain is not an effective "insurance against state actors" on the macro scale.
Is that true, though? Does Silicon Valley really pay 6 figures for entry-level? I guess with cost of living they probably have little choice.
>> Healthcare: We're talking about tech jobs. The healthcare coverage you will get from any tech company paying 6 figures is going to be essentially zero cost full coverage.

This is not always the case, especially for small startups. I know engineers who make 6 figures in small startups and pay $1K a month for Health insurance for family of 2 young people.

>> Stability.

I think what OP refers to is stability of financial markets. Canada does not have major financial crisis every decade or so, that wipes out half of your 401K and real estate value.

>> Democracy: again, what is this even referring to? The fact that the US is a republic? That's a pretty weak argument when comparing to a monarchy.

Canada is not monarchy, it is "Federal parliamentary representative democracy under a constitutional monarchy", so essentially Canada has parliamentary form of government.
Also per my understanding they do not have electoral college. US has wired and extremely complex election system. In last elections Democratic candidate received 3M more votes, yet she lost election and Republicans control both House and Senate. Similarly Al Gore lost elections to Bush.
> few really mean that an 18 year old should have the same income as a 45 year old.

Pretty sure a lot of the 22 year olds I saw at occupy rallies thought exactly that. I am a bad person for working for 20 years to get where I am without giving most of my money to people that haven't.
It looks like HN PC brigade has arrived and punished you for voicing a thoughtcrime.
>Unless you do it from a Google Cloud instance, that is.

What's the reverse DNS for Google Cloud IPs? Google says to check that Googlebot's IP resolves to either a .google.com or .googlebot.com domain.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553?hl=en
Global per capita GDP is roughly 10 thousand dollars per year.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD

The median income in the US is 51 thousand dollars and even if you made minimum wage (15k yearly) you'd see a 50% drop in income in a completely equitable system.
I don't see any basis for that. Substantial taxes could very well reduce how much one can invest into their own children.

I also don't see how other countries doing it is a justification.
There is no undefined behavior here? Unsigned overflow wraps around and this is correct. Always has been in C++ for as long as I can remember.
So is it ready for "prime time"? Should I be considering it over Nginx for side projects or real projects?
> I've seen it argued that, paradoxically, the richer and more egalitarian a society is, the more the differences are magnified in the kinds choices individuals of both genders make.

There's absolutely nothing paradoxical about this. The more wealthy a society is, the less incentive there is for women to work instead of being the primary full-time caretaker. Women are happier in single-earner households where they don't have to work or can work part-time at their leisure. This usually means they chose the right partner, e.g. a high status male that lets them survive on 1 income (presumably high).

Beware the cognitive dissonance that liberals are so intent on perpetuating that empowering women has anything to do with the workplace. It doesn't.
Then what's the point of the tax? I can see how airlines may funnel some effort into R&D to reduce carbon emissions, but only to the point where it becomes profitable to them. Returning the tax as a dividend to the consumer is just as pointless as the consumer is in no way obligated to be climate conscious with their capital.
A "dinner party" suggests the latter. Regardless, Novogratz was "shocked".
I made the switch to exclusively using Lyft during the last few months of hoopla. Occasionally, I'll ask drivers their thoughts on Uber/Lyft - I haven't ridden with one who doesn't use both for work, but most have said they prefer Lyft (this is probably biased because I used Lyft to get a ride with them), but a few did comment they at least feel like Lyft has their backs/pays better, etc.
Why is stress management / relaxation a bad decision? As far as they go, Netflix and video games are some of the best time/value propositions for these aspects of life.

Being poor is a constant juggling act between physical/mental/financial health. I don't think it makes sense to look at trade-offs between them as bad decisions.
Most of the UK stores are owned by the parent company. There are a few franchisee stores though.
I'm in Safari with I-don't-remember-what adblocking (looks like I have ghostery?). Just pressing BACK when the anti-adblock message shows up lets me see the original page! That was an easy fix. Turns out I'd just been closing Atlantic pages as soon as that message appeared for no reason.
What about people who tried hard, worked diligently, made smart decisions, got bogged down in poverty, and decided that there's no point in trying hard, working diligently, and making smart decisions if they're just going to get bogged down in poverty?
There are a lot of bugs out there. They're usually hard to trigger, but you come across them when working on browsers.

For example, the animation of 3d CSS transforms (which needs SLERP) differs in some test cases across different browsers. I don't think any browser displays the correct behavior here, though the spec is a copy of what webkit does so I suspect the spec gets it wrong too. Other engines have an implementation of the algorithm that doesn't match the spec textually. I'm unsure if the algorithms used in these browsers are actually equivalent and it's an implementation bug, or if the algorithm picked is wrong.

However these are just really examples of bugs. There have been cases where the spec itself is buggy, and cases where it is ambiguous, but both get addressed. The specs these days try hard to avoid this. But bugs will happen.
>From a Western perspective, we've a society that promotes and idolizes women based on their looks and sex appeal.

Maybe, but it's interesting that at least in America (which is relevant since you specifically cite the Kardashians), women don't actually put much effort into looking good. Obesity in America is among the highest in the world (Mexico is a little higher). On average, you'll have a much easier time meeting attractive women in Russia, east Asia, or anywhere in Europe (except probably the UK). People just aren't as fat in other countries.

So while American society might "idolize" women based on looks/sex appeal, I don't see that actually translating to regular women trying to look good, or succeeding at it at any rate. People here like to look at pretty people on TV and in the movies, sure, but that doesn't translate to them trying to make themselves look good. They'd rather drive everywhere in their big SUV and drink sodas and eat junk food.
China has only themselves to blame. They've let their little client state (North Korea) get out of control to the point where they have nukes and have made threats of using them. If they didn't want a nuclear arms race amongst their neighbors, they should have taken appropriate action years ago.
I think bitcoin itself is prone to constant deflation due to the 21-million coin cap and an expanding market.

Derivative contracts sounds like an interesting approach to this problem - could you point me to a paper or post on that? I'll definitely have to look into ethereum more deeply - it sounds like it might have the key features I believe are necessary.
That's how I'd take it, but the author reports that Novogratz saw it differently.
What about 'unfairness' in the other direction? Anecdotally, I know plenty of people born into upper (or at least middle) class families who have made impulsive or bad decisions: not working hard in university or at their jobs, abusing drugs, getting DUIs, etc.. Almost all of them are "succeeding" despite their bad choices.

Lack of social mobility can mean it's difficult for poor people to rise above their station, but it also means it's hard for the rich to screw up badly enough that they suffer real consequences for their mistakes.

You say no hardworking, disciplined, motivated person should live in poverty, but what of the lazy, undisciplined wastrel offspring of the upper classes? Should they live in [relative] luxury?
After running a mental Principal Components Analysis over the whole liberal/conservative ideological spectrum, I'm increasingly inclined to reduce the entire divide between conservatives and liberals to whether any given individual is more irritated by the prospect of (A) poor people being lazy and abusing handouts or (B) rich people abusing poor people.
It depends on what and how you're trying to crawl, it's trivial to verify a "true" Googlebot using reverse DNS:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553?hl=en

I know of a few sites that use this as the first step (of many!) to add bots to their "naughty" list.
Almost assuredly the 4% number is biased lower than the true population statistic (unless censoring was accounted for --- very likely not). If you don't include drivers having lived longer than a year the figure will be lower (same if you truncate their lifetime to be one year).

One solution would be to wait a year after the start date of all drivers as the censoring problem would go away (but of course your information is a year out of date!).

Which is it, biased lower than the true value or a year out of date?
You are right, its an investment, because you are investing in commodity. With its limitations and the insistence of being fully de-centralized (which is in reality is not, due to the consolidation of mining power and nodes etc) and its upper ceiling of quantity, it will never be an actual daily used currency. All the hacks and heists of millions in coins in conjunction with people who have no business in building exchange sites and such doing so, will not help this cause along at all. There is a reason banking and other finance markets are regulated and backed. People just tend to focus too much on the negatives around those entities.

Something else on the same technology is a different story though.
> I came from mech eng, and the cluelessness and defensiveness techies display when their field's hostility towards women is discussed is incredibly messed up.

If you were an innocent bystander and being tarred with an overly broad brush by people with an agenda, I would imagine that you'd be annoyed and defensive too. What's actually messed up is that attempting to argue your own innocence is furthermore taken as conclusive proof that you are guilty, as alluded to in the above quote and elsewhere in this topic.

Frankly, I fall under an underrepresented category that these identity politics advocates are purportedly trying to help (more than one actually) and even _I_ don't wish to be in any way associated or represented by them because they're just that absurd and alienating to ordinary people.
Hard to say if this is good or bad, for Uber or anyone else. Anecdotally, the majority of Lyft/Uber drivers I talk to have a day job and use it to pick up some extra money or for something to do. So if their personal situation improves they could drop it.

After all the same headline could be written about MacDonalds stores and nobody considers them to be augering.
I know someone who said they wanted to pick it up as a second job on evenings/weekends but after doing it for a few weeks and crunching the numbers when all was said and done they only averaged $5 an hour -- just wasn't worth it.
Quite a bit. Good brain, good upbringing, good education, that's my biggest luck in life.

I got lucky with finding that opportunity that really met my skills. But I actually had been looking for one for a while, so it's half lucky. And nobody gave me money. I forced it then, and ever since, because nothing comes easy.

But I am lucky also because I don't have a very strong competition. But maybe because I am in a niche, so not fully lucky?

Sorry for being not very specific in all this...
Yeah, if you want to change the definition of the word to suit whatever meaning you intended the insult to have, sure.
IMO this is the crux of the argument between anti-union workers and pro-union workers. To benefit all parties, the most obvious solution is to get rid of the rule that requires unions to cover non-union workers. Then everyone can associate the way they and if anti-union workers are worse off for it, they can either stand on their principles and make less or join the union and make more.

But, unions don't seem to want that, because they benefit greatly both from the power dynamic in closed shops and from this very argument (that anti-union workers are free-riders at best or scabs out for themselves at worst).
Many comments the output pixel count, no one seems to have noticed (1) the white border (2) ad at bottom (3) JPEG artifacts (block and mosquito noise on edges, dull and noisy colors, color smear) excessive compression. No wonder: 158kbytes for a 1399x2184 picture is 0.05 byte per pixel which ... may be enough or not depending on your quality expectations.
No, not having timeouts is rather bad practice. There are a lot of clients out there that never close connections for various reasons. And since TCP doesn't use healthchecks and most systems by default have limits on the number of descriptors per process, your web server in default configuration will simply leak descriptors and memory over time until the whole thing stops working. The only sane choice here is to have timeouts enabled everywhere and explicitly allow them to be disabled, not the other way around.
No, the point is that many union shops have a contract with the company that says any new employee must join the union.
I was skeptical as well, but it's true.

Cowen is the director of the Mercatus Center, which is heavily funded by the brothers. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center

And here's an article on that connection https://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/06/gary-north/the-koch-brot...
I don't think that's very constructive. The parent comment said [X] should be the rallying cry. I said in my opinion it shouldn't, and I gave my rationale. By all means bring out your chestnuts. I welcome a rigorous discussion, instead of blind conformity to mainstream political mores.
I really think you're oversimplifying the situation from the Chinese perspective.
Yeah it's hard to feel sorry for them. They let this situation happen. This is an anti ballistic missile system, used to stop the very ballistic missiles NK is trying to launch. What did China honestly expect to happen? SK just leave itself open to attack?
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Interesting. I'm curious in particular where Nim fell short, any chance you could elaborate?
I also know a lot of poor people, and none that work hard or work on themselves. The only poor person I know who works hard is me, but that's because every time I have money I use it to attempt a business. I don't consider that unfair at all, just the definition of 'risk'
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Why would the net driver earnings ever be higher than, say, flipping burgers at McDonald's?

Driving an Uber is certainly easier and more fun.
Because everyone is entitled when it comes to housing. When people become obese we say that's not healthy, we should change that. When people knowingly live in disaster zones we say "but they grew up there".
You're right, it is slow! I have to find out why. Do you know much about GNU Social? Is there a caching feature? Am I missing an obvious optimization switch in the config?
So if you @nogc main(), you're set? Thanks.
Email me and we can talk about your marketing needs.
What does 'eat the rich' mean?
Lucius
https://github.com/jonathanfilip/vim-lucius
I like Google's deepmind.
>What if peaceful organizations for revolution have a few violent members?

It doesn't matter if they have no violent members. The secret police will provide enough to disrupt the movement. The secret police exist to protect the interests of the state. They protect the interests of the people living within it only insofar as those interests are aligned.
Yep, every driver I've asked in London has positive feedback, but the ones I have spoken to had all been driving with them no longer than a year.
My apologies, I didn't mean to be condescending. However, It is a fact that sea level rise is a large factor in this, even if it is not the "main culprit". Most people in that area rely on the oil industry either directly through employment or indirectly through the local economy so they tend to have a blind spot when it comes to AGW, which is completely understandable.
The funny thing is China deployed long range radar system that can monitor the sky of S. Korea AND Japan like 10 years ago...
There is a rover on Mars that had been running by itself for quite a bit and it contends with far more than a dryer.
It's because he wrote this:

> or the people running the network decide upon a hard fork?

which screams malice aforethought to people. The idea is that Ethereum had a hard fork which has divided people across two sides. To average people, you can get them to take any side depending upon how you compose the questions. You ask a non-techie:

1. What would you think if a company like Venmo decides to revert donations you received to pay for your daughter's cancer cure?

2. What would you think if the network of services you were using had a major theft, and the network took measures to thwart that theft by denying the thief access to the funds?

Please don't argue on which of the questions is more dishonest. The point here is, if you ask the first question, majority of the people will agree with the anti-hard fork side, and if you ask the second question then majority of the people will side with the pro-hard fork side.

Grandparent comment, writing what he wrote in passing is like reading a 'seemingly' unbiased article about US election, with a passing line about "but would people be ok with having a president who deleted confidential emails, only time will tell".

This is essentially what the GP comment did.
Good for the governor. Compare that to North Carolina where the legislature passed a law sticking their fingers in everybody's ears: http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/culr/2016/03/21/north-carolin...
What is the Chinese perspective?
How is it over-simplified? China is letting this happen because of a lot of the profits they make, and russia make, off of the dictatorship that there is.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/15/world/asia/north-korean-labor-...

Russia gets slaves from them, thats why Russia protects them. China both profits from them, but also doesn't want to deal with Refugees. So they make the selfish act of letting the child run crazy.
Historically that's not what has happened. Before the era of government education, education was improving rapidly, with literacy rates rising.

As government involvement in education has increased, education outcomes have stopped improving:

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/111/3/671/1839...

I'm making the case that forcing people to pay for the costs of raising poor children will create an incentive for people to produce poor children.
Any opinion on BeeGFS?
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The difference tends to be a bit semantic; by political I (and the character) mean something much broader than the mere party politics of House of Cards.

The chemistry used by Kirk may not be political, but the show - and that episode in particular - is intensely political! It deals with how we interact with each other and with other societies, and those are always primarily political questions. And had Kirk thrown a rock at the Gorn instead, would the plot be any different?

That said, I don't think all sci-fi is political - only most of it :)
What makes you so sure that cryptocurrency brings anything to the table that the underbanked would want? Particularly since M-Pesa is changing the world (in some countries) without it?

I agree it is worth exploring, but we need to treat this as an open question. Easy conversion to/from other currencies at stable rates may be more important to most users than the theoretical benefits of decentralization.

I think the most obvious use (hypothetically, not proven) is in countries that have seriously unstable currencies or controls on foreign exchange that the user is avoiding. "Darknet" doesn't seem like all that bad a way to refer to these use cases, so I'd say the gp is unsubtle and perhaps dismissive but not irrational.
How many fields require 18 hour workdays outside of IB? Even then, that's just shit working conditions regardless
I don't think pointer arithmetic is defined to behave as unsigned. Unsigned is the exception in that it's overflow behavior is defined.
I handle a number of sites that require a login but need Google to index their content. I verify that Googlebot requests are actually coming from a domain owned by Google. I can't imagine that I'm the only one doing that.
Take up Uber driving and use it as an opportunity to pitch your idea/service to riders: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14166730
A siege of E-Commerce delivery trucks threatens to choke cities with traffic
Requires a new enough car, which prevents some people from doing it. They provide ways to rent, but I believe that requires a full time commitment.
That echo's the sentiment of many drivers I've questioned in Seattle.
What is Google's slogan these days?
+1 for Digital Ocean.
Unsigned overflow wraps around, but signed and pointer overflow are UB. In this case, the code was depending on pointer overflow wrapping around.
How so? China is their largest trading partner and NK is building the missiles using Chinese parts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/kim-j...