skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assure you I'm not trying to justify anything. I'm just speculating on the consequences of people behaving in certain ways.

Would you agree that white men have lost at least some of their control over the levers of power as you call them since the founding of this country when they had total control? Would you agree that it's perfectly possible for white men to lose even more of that power, perhaps even to the point where they are no longer the dominant political force, especially given the changes in demographics in the United States, and especially if white men display a low level of preference for members of their own race? Do you agree that is an outcome which many people consider to be extremely desirable and which many people are working toward achieving?

Assuming that other racial groups also show some preference for members of their own group, what do you expect would be the consequence to white people of this choice to show a low level of preference for other members of their own racial group?
Going through a comments section on subjects like this is playing a game of "Who's the spy?".

Has anyone developed a honeypot or other system for identifying astroturf comments?
This is especially useful for when the app developer doesn't think there is a reason for them to develop such a system. For example, I don't want my son playing a zombie game, but I myself play it often. I could then lock him out of said game, but still give him my phone to use.
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Here's another recommendation for a Computer Science/Software Engineering degree, and find a degree program that focuses on the fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, computer architecture, procedural and functional and OO styles, design patterns, user interfaces, project management, etc. It'll be good if you get exposed to a _wide_ variety of problems and languages and tooling and techniques across the entire OSI stack. My degree program forced me to learn at least one new programming language each trimester, and past the early 200-level classes, we were expected to pick up the languages on our own from the reference manuals. The really good degree programs will have you do things like design/simulate a CPU and write an interpreter/compiler (both pretty far into the theory side of the house) in addition to internships or senior projects with local/regional businesses (exposure to the real world). Ideally, you'll graduate with both a deep theoretical foundation and broad practical experience.

If you're interested in combining CS/SE with another field---awesome! Consider a minor in that field, or double major/double degree if you're sufficiently motivated/funded. I majored in CS with a minor in Psychology, and I was one class away from a Literature minor (which I regret not completing). My Psych classes ended up getting me ready to work supporting IT and computing in healthcare/bioscience, though admittedly somewhat indirectly. Regardless, there will always be openings in your course schedule for electives, so if you want to do AI later, take an AI elective. If you're interested in bioinformatics, take a few biology classes. In general don't constrain yourself to a single educational course; make choices that expand your horizons.

Focus on the fundamentals, go as broad and as deep as possible, and get as much practical experience as you can. You will graduate with a wide variety of doors open to you.

Edited to add: Do not neglect the arts, humanities, philosophy, sports, etc. Aim for "well rounded" as best you can.
No its not. This is a union fluff piece. The reality is these are contractors who will get dropped as soon as it makes sense. Thats why you hire these services as contractors. I think the real test here will be how long till the union pushes facebook too far and they are just dropped. I have never seen a union that could actually compete with non-union shops unless there was a legal force preventing the competition.
With churches, there are a few problems that are intellectually repellent, meaning they won't solve for certain personality types.

Namely:

1. artificial social heirarchy
2. magical thinking
3. group think
4. rules without reason

Part of religion is often about imposing order on the irrational aspects of experience and reality, but there's a lot of centuries-old cruft and inertia behind the ones that exist.

When you take apart any given religion, and inspect individual parts, and place those parts within the context of a small, insular village, dispossessed of plumbing, medicine or indoor heating, any single part starts to make sense. But many are far, far away from that, and need not invest in superstition.

Morality is great, but in some cases morality without purpose translates to overbearing fear imposed with motive.

Mythology and folklore are good for illustrating practical principles and relationships between ideas, but some people refuse to consider whether the ant and the grasshopper never actually happened.

All this taken together, often tips the scales toward cognitive dissonance for some who think too deeply about bald facts. I don't have a solution to fix this, but I've seen what happens when smart people try to reimagine a modern religion that might fit current scenarios, and it's usually equally terrible.

Someone will eventually figure this modern community rationale problem out, but it's not something you can just fake or make up for its own sake. It's something that needs to (seem to) happen organically, on its own, and remain authentic. Sounds pretty difficult if you ask me.
Faster to develop, maybe. Every time I try to do bulk uploads of files over HTTP I deal with APIs that are aggressively developer-hostile at both ends - bad error messages, painful workflow, massive amounts of boilerplate, and missing features that you take for granted in an FTP client.

Just because the technology is physically capable of doing it doesn't mean it's at all usable.
I don't understand why we let people out of prison if we aren't prepared to actually let them out of prison. I'm not really bleeding heart about this, I'd be fine with any murder of this sort meaning life in prison. What does not make sense is letting someone out and then not treating them as normal humans again. It only encourages people to revert to evil.
Reminds of a friends story:

http://learninginnovationafrica.co.za/sihle-tshabalala/

http://leadsa.co.za/articles/7093/sihle-tshabalala-from-a-li...

It's tough out there.
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Market cap is the main reason in my opinion. The more people get involved the less volatile it is going to be. You should see how volatile BTC was in 2011-2012, what is happening right now is nothing in comparison.
~10 years ago, a huge client came to our huge company to ask for some sort of stuff to manage synchronization over FTP. I was stumped. Very sensitive data. Not even rsync ..
Labor unions typically rely on the state for leverage. Individuals are powerless and organizing helps only as far as they are, even as a group, not easily replaced.
> If your negotiations rely on the monopoly that the state provides, is it really a negotiation?

Good question. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_th...
I've not heard of that; I'll check it out. Are you being downvoted as well? I assume people really hate Opera. ;)
Mainly scala, but I've used some clojure as well. Ever since learning Go, I just haven't looked back. I think FP does well with streaming problems, but outside of that it seems to have a cognitive overhead that doesn't pay
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> there are very few young farmers. Of my neighbours, I think there is one guy who is about 40 and everybody else is well over 60.

That is interesting, because the exact opposite is true of my neighbours. Growing up, there were eight farm families clustered fairly close together. In all but one of those cases, the next generation (all still under 40) have become heavily involved with, if not completely taken over, their family's farm. And in that remaining case, the grandson is starting to take the same role.

The age statistics can be a little misleading as farms are multi-generational businesses, but they usually only count the primary farm operator for statistical purposes. Which, for legacy reasons, tends to be the oldest person still involved. In many cases there will be someone waiting in the wings to take that spot when retirement comes.

> I have no idea what's going to happen in 10-20 years and it worries me a lot.

I am less so. If there truly is a lack of young farmers, 2008 will happen again. Meaning that the food price will rise, and people will get all excited about the fortunes to be made. 2008 has already changed attitudes about farming. It was fascinating to watch people go from "why would you ever want to do that?" to "how can I become a farmer too?" over the span of those months. Farming suddenly became 'cool' as soon as there was money to be made. There has been far more interest from young farmers since that time, from what I can observe.

But people want to be farmers (i.e. the owner), not farmhands. Being a farmhand is still looked down upon, leading to lack of interest from labour. Interestingly, that could maybe even result in smaller farms down the road if automation doesn't solve the problem first.
Here's examples on HN of others using the rule of thumb I shared, which is definitely conservative:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2185782 (Feb 2011)

> zipdog: $40/hr contract is about $40k/yr permanent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438980 (Apr 2011)

>
techiferous: But remember that there is non-billable work (accounting, etc.) and a 15.3% self-employment tax. [...] Working as a consultant for $175/hour is similar to being employed at $175K/year.

> danssig: Calling that pay rate $175K/yr is beyond conservative.

NOTE: two users here also recommended your equation

> slashcom: $x/hour * 40 hr/wk * 50 wk/yr = 2n1000
The general rule is always "times 2, add 3 zeros"

>
jurjenh: yes, this is generally the rule I use as well, take the hourly rate and double it and add a K (eg $30/hr = $60K) [...] Personally I use an estimate of about 75% efficiency

> rapind: For 75% efficiency I assume you mean 3/4 * 2 * $175 * 1000 = $262,500 / year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5299009 (May 2013)

> artumi-richard: The rule of thumb I was told is 1000 billed hours per year.

--

To try to be genuinely helpful: a discussion documenting that hourly rates are a bad idea vs. charging per day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5714930 (May 2013)

> gknoy: If you're doing freelance, you also have to cover downtime, business development, benefits

Here's the article since the discussion's link 404's:

https://web.archive.org/web/20161210162901/https://alanholli...

> Charge More:

> · Take the salary you’d want to earn as a full time employee.

> · Double it.

> · Divide your doubled salary by the amount of days you’d work as a regular employee.

> · This is the minimum rate you should charge per day.

And this seemed helpful too (mostly connecting for my own future reference at this point):

Poll: long-term contractors, what is your hourly rate? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5769348 (May 2013)
That’s closed-mindedness bordering on the silly. ISO 8601, for instance, only represents Gregorian calendar dates and times. But what about Japanese, Hebrew and Buddhist calendars, for example?

Looking at the world as only “what will my Emacs store on the drive when I paste some text into it” is ridiculous. As computers become more advanced—even mobile phones are super computers now¹—we should use that computer power to make the technology work for us, not bend over to some 1980s concepts of computing and standards. It may be more difficult for you to build such a system, I understand, but as a used, I really don’t give a damn.

¹: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/13/a11-bionic-chip-geekben...
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I'm not going to answer you, as I haven't made any claim that I care to defend. I made one little post in support of its parent, and people crawled out of the woodwork to tell me how wrong I am, and apparently try to convince me that infinitesimals are not allowed in serious mathematics, or at least not allowed in the way I was trying to use them.

And now every post I have made in this thread tree is getting downvoted. So I'm out. Y'all can argue about nothing--and nearly-nothing--by yourselves.
that's great.
You're recommending a rolling distro? I remember some people at work using Arch they did it for couple of month and then switch back to Ubuntu because random things would break afters updates, dhcp, printing, X server ect ...

Arch is great for home / hack stuff, for work you want something stable.
I don't think I've ever seen someone starving in the street in the US. I totally disagree with the sentiment that Americans wouldn't help each other. There is a lack of community here and that would be a nice problem to solve, but we aren't heartless.
ICQ Messenger Launches Open Platform for Stickers
If you use coinbase then you should try to login to GDAX with same credentials. It just works and the fees are like 0.25% per trade.

P.S.: GDAX is owned by Coinbase
So, Harvard has professors that don't understand/accept the principles of rehabilitation. Sad, but, unfortunately, hardly shocking. There are many people like this all around the world.
decentralized social networks won't work because in order to keep a business running you need profits or the expectation of profits to acquire the talent needed to provide a nice user experience. Solutions motivated by capitalism will not disappear anytime soon.

"But email is decentralized". Actually not true, it is heavily centralized around gmail. Same true with bitcoin, it is centralized around exchanges.
Well, having some sort of a central clock to use for the Game of Life ticks is a prerequisite, right?*

And then the ticks are an all-powerful global clock that you get for free. A-la Leibniz's two clocks metaphor.

* Unless you're trying to go for a distributed multi-verse implementation with separate boards having their own clocks and only limited message passing between them. The more I think of it, the cooler it seems. I'm now imagining setting up Erlang/OTP on these :)
I think quoting Resilio as an alternative to Google Drive is completely wrong. You just handle your own important data to another company. Why should you do that? For these purposes you should set up a self-hosted solution such as ownCloud or one of its clones. Otherwise your data only changes hands.
But that's already happening?
I constantly on Twitter see "7 replies", but I'm only able to see 2.
Lots of users get shadowbanned.

Now with perspective ai it looks like this will only increase and all of this is never a user choice, it's always the platform deciding for me what level of toxicity I'm able to handle. And it often plain fails. Lots of false positives.

I see this on every platfrom, nontransparent moderation and algorithm filtering everything without my knowledge nor any control.

I personally use mastodon daily, I don't know what a platform needs to reach to be successful, but when I use it daily it's successful enough for me.

Even the pawoo drama makes it sound like the only reason people in japan use it, is to see lolicon content, but the whole pixiv platform is far more than just lolicon. It's like deviantart full of talented artists that don't draw any lolicon content. This platform just doesn't think of lolicon as taboo.
Mastodon is constantly growing and it's not just the pawoo instance.
What part of "Russia needs the Black Sea to protect its sovereignty" do you not understand?

What part of "Iraq is essential to the sovereign protection of the borders of the USA" do you .. not understand?

I'm not trying to justify Russia's military action in Ukraine - living quite close to this action, it horrified me. But, on the other hand, I'm not ever going to be compelled to agree with someone who says that the mass destruction of Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen .. and so on .. is vital to the defence of the USA. Because, I know where those places are on a map, and they are nowhere near the USA ...
Is there anything you want from your employer that they don't already give you? If a lot of your fellow employees agree, it would be more powerful for you all to ask as a collective group rather than you to ask as a single employee.
Have you ever thought that programmer pay is as high as it is because of the lack of those protections? It's pretty well established that programmer interviewing is hard for businesses and when they get it wrong everybody needs to be able to part ways.

The speed at which this field moved is almost entirely due to the lack of encumbrances. That includes having to pay a state licensing group to say you are professionally certified in Java, risking losing your job if you fail to renew on time, having the state lock out anybody from the profession who does not meet these requirements, having unions require these certifications and pressure companies to only hire based on them.

It's a long, inefficient and useless money grab who's costs far outweigh the benefits.
Something very odd about my iOS App downloads in China
Game of Thrones will spawn its own finale multiverse to avoid spoilers
Well yes, it probably isn't such a piece of cake. I was too harsh.
Hiproxy – A lightweight proxy tool based on Node.js
Bind is flatMap (>>=)

Confusingly, map in scala is fmap in Haskell
I've always struggled with the fact that only root can use ifconfig on Suse. I only recently became aware of this, but I do see that non-root users can run 'ip a'.
Sure, maybe I've just been lucky to not experience such bugs, but for me the benefit of rolling + latest packages is worth it.
You don't need to try color after color -- just find a theme you like and install it. It's very simple. :)

Make a visit to any Linux user's group, and someone can help set it up.

If you want to experiment with different kinds of windows managers (like xmonad or i3 for keyboard productivity), you have the option. With Windows or Mac, you lose many options.

Linux often has desktop features far before Windows and Mac, for example virtual desktops: Windows got them in version 10, Mac got them in 2007, but Linux had them since the 1990s.

I'm not trying to convince you to change -- just saying that it isn't complicated to make Linux look great, and there are always people available to help.
For an entire index, that would be a crash. If AMD dropped from 10 to 7 in a month, that would be bad news, but pretty normal.
Computers Can Program Themselves Now: Awareness, the Internet of Co-Computation
Nice straw man. Russia has done plenty, wrong.

But the USA has erred by a factor of 500x the sins of Russia, yo. If you can't understand that, I've got 1000 kilometres worth of walking refugee children to show you ..
I always tell my children "...there is nothing free on the internet."
You can easily transfer a bunch of files in a batch with FTP. With HTTP it's not as easy.

Although SFTP works fine as well, but if you don't need security it's not any better, just equivalent.
While private prisons account for a relatively small percentage of total prisons in America, they're a multi-billion dollar industry, and they lobby for laws that affect all prison populations. So, in that sense, we do have a highly privatized prison system.
Can you actually see battles happening now or is it still "get one updated frame every few minutes"?

I remember back in the day when we had 1,000+ ships in a system attacking LV and basically you used to just sit there and hope that what you were doing was having any effect at all.
See also https://sites.google.com/site/chromeoswikisite/home/what-s-n...
I logged into GDAX, but it requires a webcam to complete the setup. Something that I don't have at the moment.
Is that not the exact point of the state? A large, unified actor is working against a bunch of individuals, those individuals are having problems organizing themselves into a large, unified actor so they ask the state for a little help, the state provides it, labor organizes and boom, workers and their bosses are on a little more level footing. All's well that ends well.
Kind of intrigued why they used hourly gross minimum wage to determine how many days one would have to work to buy an iPhone 9. Why not median or mean?
Unfortunately it doesn't work when trying to connect via ssh and warning about unknown key pops up.
At least in Canada the last bank integration I worked on was FTPS (FTP over SSL). Files were otherwise in plaintext with account numbers and everything.
The community editions are great as well, Manjaro with i3 is fantastic. If you like vim you will love a tilling window manager.
I wish GPG wasn't so esoteric of a tool, considering our email protocol situation.
Thanks for your support, but I never said anything about non-standard analysis. I made one post in support of its parent, and people jumped on it to say how wrong I am, as apparently I accidentally stumbled over a sore spot in mathematics. I don't know why infinitesimals apparently aren't allowed, but the tone around here has convinced me to not care.

And now every post I have made in this thread tree is getting downvoted. So I'm out. Y'all can argue about nothing--and nearly-nothing--by yourselves.
I haven't used a swap in the past 10 years and have not noticed any problems. Is it relevant anymore?
Oh yes - I forgot to mention the schlepping of VBS code across two Microsoft Office upgrades during the application's lifetime... And the migration exemptions that last for years while the porting is done - lots of love from the desktop IT department to this application...
Edward Snowden says U.S. should show evidence of Russia election hacking
> I've been thinking about similar things in the context of a basic income. If we were to just pass a law and guarantee a significant basic income I think it would have disastrous effects and fail miserably. A guaranteed income is a good goal, but before we do that we need to figure out how to replace meaningful employment with other meaningful activities. People need a purpose.

I don't think so. I think people can find a purpose without us imposing one on them.

> If I can get anything I want from a replicator in the wall, what are my incentives to still better myself and work towards something?

Why do people get really good at chess when there is little extrinsic motivation in it? If some people just want to hang around, is that really a "problem" we need to address?
I'm not sure what you mean by that, since what I'm implying is that there is no real economic incentive for Apple to support multiple users.

And on the other hand, there are also benefits (for Apple) of encouraging one-user-per-phone. For example, it makes it more likely it becomes an extension of your identity. Having multiple users per phone undermines that type of personal attachment.

This isn't something that started with Apple - mobile numbers have always been tied to individuals - but it's very convenient for their "lifestyle" approach to selling their units.
But the demand for parts is a lot higher than that for stolen phones.

You might not buy a phone from an internet cafe that sells 2nd hand phones, but you might buy a replacement screen from an internet cafe that does repairs.
Because Apple does not make all the components required for MBPs itself and depends on other vendors.
From the professors:

"If officials who take a careful look at the case decide that Harvard should move forward, then we think that the university should do everything in its power and ability to welcome Jones here and support her, and we are indeed happy to play a part in that effort,” they continued. “We have stated our concerns as questions, and we hope they are treated as nothing more nor less than questions, not as an implicit or explicit judgment against a person and her candidacy.”

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