skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> languishing in someone's bank account

Money in bank accounts is loaned to others and "thrust back" into the economy.

Money in other investments (stocks, bonds) also funds economic activity.

Your argument only makes sense if the wealthy are hoarding cash under their mattresses, which is not what they do.
Huawei announces the Kirin 970 – new flagship SoC
OK.
Wouldn't that indirection add an extra instruction, each time you called a function?
MongoDB on the podium too...

Interesting to see MariaDB in the middle of that list though...
It's not a "scientifically proven fact".
Homebrew's use of analytics still bothers me; specifically, making data public like this. It was supposed to only be used for development efforts, not showing off top-1000 lists. Also, I guess this following statement is - taking the charitable option - out of date.

> Homebrew's analytics are accessible to Homebrew's current maintainers.

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....

Yeah, I know, my tinfoil hat is quite elaborate.

EDIT: Like I said, my tinfoil hat is quite elaborate; I already have analytics and automated updating turned off. I like to retain some control over what information is reported back to Google or other projects.

That doesn't somehow boost my confidence in Google and volunteer-run open source projects to properly respect the privacy of their users.
“Petscop,” the Creepy YouTube Series That Confounded Gamers on Reddit
> The real problem though isn't wealth inequality, it's income inequality.

I disagree. Wealth provides financial security to an even greater degree than high current income. Wealth provides the means to move your family to a place where they will be safe and thrive. Wealth provides a means to start the next generation with a leg up, financially, socially, and academically. High current income can go away next year for most people and is often not portable to a new city or country. High current wealth is far more durable.

I don't think it's the billionaires that are the only "problem". Those with 50+ million USD also live a life essentially devoid of the concerns of financial catastrophe.

I see an incredible amount of logistical challenges in implementing an annual wealth tax (though some countries already do so), but far fewer philosophical problems, even though I am overwhelmingly likely to be one of those targeted by a wealth tax (low single digit millionaire household from 25 years of working, saving, and investing).

I think it good social policy to institute an additional amount of drag on wealth accumulation, preferably by directly taxing it (annually or upon transfer), rather than further penalizing productive income-generating activities that are already taxed at nearly 50%.
I could or couldn't care less.

The material is very flammable or inflammable.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/flammable-or-i...

English is confusing.
The DPRK's first nuclear test was in 2006 --- six years after Clinton left office, and three years after Bush's temper tantrum led to the breakdown of Clinton's deal and the unsealing of the Yongbyon reactor. If you think it's revisionist to say Clinton couldn't have done much about North Korea years after leaving office, you have an odd way of defining that term.
It’s time to balance the power between workers and employers
Oh you humans. Genetic engineering, coupled with advances in digital/consciousness interfaces will yield spontaneously appearing brains with an API.

Good luck.
With both numbering in the 6 figures and differing by ~50k it's not like they're vying for a lot of market share.
But is it lower than a representative sample of the population?
These are reliably at least fairly good in the UK, too, along with cherry tomatoes (about the same size, but round). Plum tomatoes are a bit firmer and cherry tomatoes are a bit sweeter.
Reminder, you can opt out of this with:

brew analytics off

You can check the current status with:

brew analytics
Let me lend you this handy piece of code, straight from my production codebase, written the day this feature was released.

# disable homebrew from tracking metrics
# see https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics.md
HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1
So, no AWS [0] or Stripe [1], then?

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/

[1] https://support.stripe.com/questions/do-you-have-a-phone-num...
There is no point in trying to convince the masses of liberally-inspired, rich privileged people who have never had the courage to face and understand the arguments of the other side, or the masses of liberally-inspired poor people who rather than work to improve themselves see themselves as victims and see the others as the source of the solution to their problems.

Here is an interesting point:

http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-problem-w...
>consoles for gaming

Over my cold dead body, matey.
You're assuming gnerative programming is used to completely replace direct programming. This doesn't have to be the case. It could also be used merely in an assistive role to supplement the ability to write code.
Treat all networks and network termination equipment as compromised. Make your general case a special case of your corner case and you won't have to deal with multiple logic paths - at worst you'll have to do some extra work but at least you won't find things broken when you need them most.
Yep, I saw the really neat aerial imagery, and I know that in addition the USGS ingests enormous quantities of raw satellite imagery (https://twitter.com/USGS_HDDS), however most of that data is not freely available to the public, only to certain organizations.

However, the main problem that I see (although I may be totally wrong!) is that all those raw data doesn't get condensed into ready-for-print maps of the affected areas, that can be distributed to volunteers on the field such as those made by Copernicus.
If it could be guaranteed that a particular program would be administered by Swedes, I'd be more likely to support it...
sounds like "2020 is the year of the linux desktop" to me, and you know how well that turns out.
What could this mean? For example if some rich person had a few billion in T-bills or Apple stock, when they disappeared what would happen to those? If that ownership just vaporized, the national debt or Apple's shares outstanding would fall. In effect US Citizens or Apple shareholders would be wealthier.

The only other option I can see is that some tiny percentage of the country or of Apple would disappear. But what part, specifically?

This comment to me is characteristic of thinking of ownership in far too simplistic terms. Very rich people don't actually own productive things, they just own rights to income streams.

There are certain exceptions, such as the Koch brothers who do own their companies. If those companies disappeared that would also be a net benefit to US citizens.
It's not CBC but ECB.
Step 1 should be talking to affected parties, not building software. Meet and talk in person. When something happens, people can take notes on paper and when you meet you combine those notes of recorded incidents. This creates more of a community feeling than anonymous flyers with a link to a website.

Edit: The problem is armchair activism. Your proposed solution is moving the conversation from Facebook to your neighborhood platform. But in the end, if everyone keeps sitting in isolation in front of their computer, the problem remains. If you are not willing to talk to people now, you won’t be later, and not change a thing.
Wouldn't implementing TLS in the kernel result in a substantial increase in the exposed attack surface? This seems to me as if it would be similar to the time that Windows moved the graphics into the kernel and the havoc that ensued thereafter.
Anyone with his wealth is by definition an outlier.
You really should donate that strawman of yours to the rescue efforts. It's not doing you any good here.
There isn't a need, there is a desire.
The people who build houses, boats, and cars might be pretty happy about it.
You obviously never had boerenkool. Probably the reason they don't grow beyond 5f5
Altcoin that integrates deep learning into blockchain
Will Google Fonts Ever Be Shut Down? (2014)
Or maybe he has a sense of humor, a trait in greviously short supply here on HN
The U.S. has a "unified" gift and inheritance tax. If you give away $5M while you're alive and die with an estate of $5M you (1) pay no tax on gifts while alive, and (2) your estate pays tax based on an estate size of $10M at the time of your death. There are a few wrinkles (e.g., (1) annual per-person exempt gifts of $14k/person, and (2) you do start paying tax on gifts while you're alive once total gifts pass a certain value), and gifting during lifetime has some advantages (e.g., getting growing assets out of your estate while they have a lower value), but that's generally the way it works. Gift tax and inheritance tax operate on a "unified" basis.
With the _big_ difference that Oracle are _really_ good at writing invoices and cashing big cheques...

All of the really talented Oracle people I know are enterprise sales people, and they're _really_ good. All the good tech people I know "joined" via acquisition and jumped ship as soon as financially sensible.
In April I left google to teach people how to code. I teach for free and I focus primarily on low income adults who are making less than 30k / year in the bay area.

Throughout their lives, my students have felt that they were 'behind' and they are not good enough. This mindset creates adults with low self esteem, which then prevents them from learning. Many times, they nod their head in understanding when they really meant (I have no idea what is going on, but I'll burn the midnight oil and learn it on the Internet after the class). This mindset is incredibly destructive and forces people to memorize things instead of taking the time to understand things.

Recently, we have switched to a curriculum where everyone learns at their own pace. The ones who are ahead are tasked with teaching and helping others. The ones who are slower will teach the next batch of students and take their time to really learn the material. This works for us.
I still have a BeOS 4.5 disk lying around somewhere. Was a great OS at the time.
One way to interpret why noise = bad for differentiation: The Fourier transform of f'(x) is iw F(w). So differentiation is essentially a high-pass filter.
Social Life Manager
Cynefin framework
Obviously, but neither GP or me are Microsoft incarnate.
My differential equations class was the only course I ever took with over 30% of the final grade being derived from homework assignments. Unsubstantiated - but my peers and I all believed this was because everyone was failing and dropping the course.
(should be) Required reading for anyone working on MUDs, or their MMORPG descendants, or any kind of online community, really. Part of me wants to relate it to the Therac-25 incident... only this episode took place in the mental realm instead of the physical realm.
I can almost feel the LensRental writer's pain of having to write this article without calling a bunch of dumbaxxes dumbaxxes because they are their customers. sigh
Ironically, the lack of ability to blame someone else for one's misfortune was the only good thing about USSR style socialism. When everyone is poor, you can't blame the rich for anything.
US judge says that Yahoo must face lawsuits over data breaches
People should install stuff like their db with docker or vagrant anyhow. It'd be annoying to keep your app's db version in sync with the homebrew package.
People wanted free text messaging, so they used whatsapp.

If they were so great it would have caught on in the US, but it didn’t.
Homebrew maintainer here. That language could probably be more precise - only current maintainers have access to detailed analytics (the details being specified on that same page).

I wasn't part of the creation of that particular page, but one thing we (the maintainers) commonly find ourselves doing is publicly referencing install statistics as justification for removing an unused formula or taking extra care during a version bump. Having public statistics for the top 1000 most popular packages makes those considerations a little bit more transparent.

Edit: I've created a PR to fix the language: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/3120
Great salespeople. Like _really_ good. (Often borderline or unequivocally evil... As other comments in this thread show.)
0xbear, it helps to cite the relevant scientific research:

http://www.who.int/foodsafety/jmprsummary2016.pdf?ua=1

https://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf/MonographVo...

The short version is that glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer in consumers or farm workers:

https://www.wired.com/2016/05/monsantos-roundup-herbicide-ca...
Old school leet speak used lowercases for vowels
Can someone explain the popularity of imagemagick on there? As in, are that many people tinkering with graphics via the command-line?
In my opinion a big problem in developing as well as developed countries is the idea that farming should be a family business. Here in Switzerland the government is very slowly introducing legislation that favors big farms over smaller ones. This is usually one of the hardest things - convincing society that farming is better done as a profession within a company rather than by a family as a sort of vocation. Usually farmers will lobby against laws that favor bigger farms thereby limiting the productivity of agriculture while maintaining their traditional socio-economic status. The Dutch society might have a different historical understanding of farming (being a seafaring nation that heavily relied on trading) which made the introduction of these new laws easier - but I'm just guessing on that last point.
Would be pretty surprising if there was no hereditary component to morality. If there currently is any selective pressure towards pro-social traits or morality, then selecting exclusively for intelligence would take this away and you would see a decline.
I pay a lot of taxes. It's worth it for me to live in a country with healthy and educated people and that's just the very short list. If you don't value those things, don't live there.
Rush, Trees (1978) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_D0wkLyCXE

There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas

The trouble with the maples
And they're quite convinced they're right
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade?

There is trouble in the forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the maples scream 'oppression!'
And the oaks, just shake their heads

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
'The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light'
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw
Why would anyone go back?
No, removing wealth to create equality is definitely not what anyone would propose as a solution.

But equality of opportunity seems a good idea.
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I'm surprised that ripgrep is so low, at #227.

I've been using it instead of grep the last few months and I could never go back. Check it out if you haven't! Here is the repo and a technical breakdown by the author:

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
>suck up the exhaust

Wat. It's a rocket, it doesn't 'suck up' anything except what's coming through the turbopumps. The engine starts are staggered to minimize stresses on the thrust structure. For the Saturn V:

"At 8.9 seconds before launch, the first stage ignition sequence started. The center engine ignited first, followed by opposing outboard pairs at 300-millisecond intervals to reduce the structural loads on the rocket. When thrust had been confirmed by the onboard computers, the rocket was "soft-released" in two stages: first, the hold-down arms released the rocket, and second, as the rocket began to accelerate upwards, it was slowed by tapered metal pins pulled through dies for half a second."
Yes, if she's hourly, because they probably won't pay overtime.
Probably in part because the_silver_searcher ('ag') which is a very similar tool is #65

It's the one I personally use simply because I discovered it before ripgrep came out. Plus the 'ag' commandline is super easy.
I hate that ripgrep won't let you specify an arbitrary list of filename extensions to search. You have to do some voodoo to get it to only search .foo files. With ag it's as simple as -G foo.

It's better than ag in a lot of ways, but there are little pain points like that which make me shift back and forth between tools.
Why does the growth and change have to come from the job?
I think the lament is that the rich is growing richer faster then the l poor is growing out of poverty.

I think this is a structural problem. When your only source of wealth is your own time and labour, there's a limit to wealth creation and accumulation. The rich isn't limited to just their own time or labour, but is able to take many people's time and labour as part of their own.
You're running Homebrew (and presumably OSX Server, if it still is a thing) in production??
I wonder if there is a lower chance of success for children with absent fathers which offsets this. I would be surprised if there wasn't, given the long term trend of societies becoming more civil and less violent on average.
You know you have a problem when people refuse a FREE upgrade to your latest product. In my opinion, this is a consequence of Microsoft's refusal to just give people what they want: an even better, more optimized Windows 7. That's it.

They could have delivered that with Windows 8, but we all know what happened. God knows how much money they wasted in that process (Nokia deal, Win 8 failure, Win Phone failure).

Instead of learning about their mistake, they kept this strategy going with Windows 10, but UWP is not taking off and Windows Mobile is dead.
And the other doesn't get in to it anywhere near as much as the US because most of the time you get what is subsidised.
That's the one. Cheers!
>Also the stability is substantially worse because Microsoft will force update my machine frequently with updates that can take 30+ minutes.

30 minutes might be a bit hyperbolic, unless your computer has a 2 core atom, 2GB ram, and 5400 HDD. also, updates happen once a month, maybe twice for out-of-band updates.
This was my first thought as well. Looking through the repo [1] behind the paper the people behind it seem to have some crypto chops. A lot more can go wrong in kernel space, but the performance improvements might prompt the big players (Google, FB, etc.) to invest some time into locking it down.

Also, it seems that only particular parts of the stack are handled by the kernel. Per the README:

The socket does data transmission, the handshake, re-handshaking and other control messages have to be served by user space using appropriate libs such as OpenSSL or Gnu TLS.

[1]: https://github.com/ktls/af_ktls
Everything is one of my most indispensable tools. I use it many dozens of times a day. I have 1.7 million files on my C: drive, and it can find any of them as fast as I can type. Map it to a hotkey so it is always there ready to go.

http://www.voidtools.com/
Right I guess that part of my point is that even if you resolve all those issues you would still really want to select for is intelligence and pro-social/moral behavior in order to optimize the positive impact of a person.
I think it's still pretty commonly used on the server side for image manipulation on uploads.
There's significant value, when developing a product, in knowing which other products your customers are likely to have, so that you can prioritise your different integrations.

Similar data could probably be compiled from Google Trends, but this clean and authoritative view is something that can be trusted, and I think the result makes the open-source ecosystem stronger.
Why is it that the Swedes don't speak German today?
You can't accomplish that with the -g glob flag?
A lot of stuff at the top of the list is requirements/pre-requisites for other packages, for example wget is in top place used by other packages to download stuff.
> But I'm still a sucker for buying Linear Tech or TI components before, say, Maxim or Toshiba.

Hah, reducing your BOM cost isn't a major factor in your decision making? ;)
Indeed, I should have mentioned this. Thanks!

This is also a chapter in https://smile.amazon.com/Selected-Papers-Games-Lecture-Notes...

I would be lying if I said this was super easy to read. It is easy, though. Not sure if it is a good exposition for literate programming. I certainly like it, but I think I was predisposed to.
Living in Asia I use nothing but LINE unless dealing with property agents.
What would you suggest as an alternative if there were only enough jobs to support 20-30% of people .. including professional jobs like doctors/radiologists/lawyers being displaced?
My parents are going through updating their will. They have a collector car. It might be worth $50K, probably worth $70K, maybe worth $90K. They have a house. Might be worth $350K, probably $450K, maybe $500K.

Provided their estate will not hit the federal exemption (it will clearly not) or state exemption amount (ditto), there is nothing to compel them to prepare a balance sheet with fair market values.
Can I get a "Huzzah" here, now that's the spirit!
I can see this being a good option for fruit and vegetable production but I don't see this sort of intense farming being good for animals no matter how humane. There has been a big movement for completely free range and outdoor reared animals, although there are a lot of issues to do with CO2 emissions and run off from farms that are configured this way.
Imagemagick and graphicsmagick are being used for server side image manipulation. E.g when you upload your images on a server, two of the first things to be done is to delete the metadata and resize.
I'm curious why releasing data in this fashion is troubling? It think this kind of public data sharing in an open-source project is good, since it builds transparency. A top-N list seems like a good way to measure the health of the Homebrew ecosystem, similar to other package managers. Without any other identifiable information like email addresses, it seems near impossible to de-anonymize statistical usage from this set.
Most people seem to use LINE from what I see, living in singapore and traveling around.
Let’s take that up a notch - try both and actually measure the results.

It’s accepted to design products and services by trying lots of permutations and measuring the success, is this ever done with teaching?

So many people (myself included) have stories of, if only I had been exposed to such and such concept in a different way it would have had a much bigger impact.

Why not measure multiple aspects? Efficiency of learning, motivation, inspiration, relevance...

Maybe it’s being done and I don’t see it. Maybe it’s not being done, because companies will pay six figures to have people A/B test a different button location on a web site, but the business case for optimizing learning curriculum at traditional institutions is piss poor.
$ rg -g l foo
No files were searched, which means ripgrep probably
applied a filter you didn't expect. Try running again
with --debug.

Empirically not! :)

EDIT: I see, you have to do "rg -g '*.l' foo". Well, that's a bit silly. Why force people to put asterisks inside of single quotes on the command line? Asterisks have a specific meaning in a shell setting. It's five times longer than -G l, the ag equivalent.

EDIT: Thanks for all the explanations.