skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there was no scarcity we wouldn't have a problem.
I would have really liked it if the author had mentioned exactly how the co-worker in the beginning had got into the "3-way merge" state, and some how got onto a non-existent branch. I don't know what it means, and I've never got there, so I'd love to know how it happened.

(or maybe the author did mention it and I missed it?)
I wonder how many actual active users they have. I know I downloaded their apps and did a couple activities but quit pretty quickly. Also, I originally tried them based on a piece of print advertising I saw somewhere, which makes me think they are spending a lot per user acquired.
You're reading that way too literally. The point is that the property owners, those with wealth, are too greedy to allow their wealth to be taxed for social services such as better schools and an improved prison system. It is this greed that comes back to bite them when those kids rob and kill them.
No, that used to be what lots of people thought (incl. women). Now, we all admit that some women can lead full satisfying lives through their careers. We tell women & girls that they can have careers, not just families.
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>The interface isn't going to win any awards and most of my domains use linodes dns so I can't say how well their dns stacks up.

Their DNS has been fantastic for me. Very straightforward interface, and even has a few nice touches like being able to automatically set up mx records for you if you use Google Apps on that domain.
I'm almost extremely happy with Dreamhost as a registrar. (I got a year of hosting from them for $10 during one of their quite-common sales, and then let the hosting go but got to keep them as a registrar.)

Their interface is a little clunky but reasonably nice, and they make some stuff, like setting up Google Apps, super-easy.

Unfortunately, their password recovery scheme is to email me my password in plaintext, and I'm really not comfortable having my main domain that controls my email and online presence protected by bad security, so I'm moving off of them very soon, at least for danieljackoway.com
China didn't collapses, only USSR did. China learnt from USSR collapse and now showing the world how to grow while maintaining control.

Chaillete's future seems a possibility. Provide a basic level of necessities but beyond that you will need to earn your way. Isn't that's what Chinese are doing?

Whether communism or capitalisms, both extremes are bad as both results in concentration of power in the hands of a few
One of the reasons godaddy is successful is that they are the registrar of referral for people (web designers, programmers, ISP's) that have customers that need domain registration or renewal. When an end user has a domain they need or one up for renewal godaddy is the registrar that is suggested to them by their "tech guy".

This is similar to how Microsoft gained power in a way. They were supported by a huge network of people that made money off of Microsoft. Additionally traditional tech guys want to appear smart and love (even if they don't make any commission) telling people they can get their domain registered cheaply at godaddy. "Wow I'm overpaying" says the customer.

What many people don't realize is that all registrars pay exactly the same price for a domain. Any registrar charging less than a certain amount (say below or near cost) is making it up elsewhere. In the case of godaddy it is by selling you things that you don't need that have no value.

One and only one example of this is "privacy protection". This is like a FUD from Microsoft.

Many godaddy domains have privacy protection that have no need for privacy and in fact privacy, because they are an operating business, with a business address, is the opposite of what they should be using. While having privacy is of benefit in some cases (to criticize your employer as
only one example) it is almost always safer to have a real address in the whois records if you can do that.

This of course isn't limited to godaddy. Register.com is the
registrar for Fred Wilson's avc.com. Avc.com has privacy protection even though Fred has a business address that he could use and has a public email address.

Domain Name: avc.com
Created on..............: 2008-07-18
Expires on..............: 2019-04-30

Registrant:
Domain Discreet
ATTN: avc.com
Rua Dr. Brito Camara, n 20, 1
Funchal, Madeira 9000-039
PT
cherry picked or not and regardless of your opinion of Florian Mueller, that admission is important and pretty damning. Considering this guy used to work at Sun and is supposed to be Google's Chief Java Architect.
I found git to make a lot more sense personally after reading http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/ . The git parable is also very good.
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I share both your criticism and praise, but would add that GoDaddy allowed me to do bulk contact editing which (along with pricing) was the reason I switched to them c. 3 years ago.

Margins may be low, but the domain registrar market seems ripe for disruption. Are there any interesting upstarts in this space?
China's structure of wealth absolutely did collapse. Now people who were in charge of vast sections of China are no longer in charge, and although still technically communist in spirit, they move farther from it every day.
There is a nugget of useful discussion in there, in that corporations aren't as necessary as they used to be. Better communication technology lowers coordination costs and we don't need big organization and bureaucracy to get big things done anymore.

But the whole "technology is destroying jobs" meme is just horseshit. What's destroying jobs in the US is lack of demand. Other counties (no, not all of them, but many) are doing just fine, thank you, despite technology.

I wonder if this kind of thing is a result of the high and accelerating pace of technological change we're experiencing. We expect change to be so fast that we don't even try to predict the future based on the past and present, we just throw our hands up and declare everything to be a fundamental paradigm shift, rather than a cyclical or temporary phenomenon.
despite it being a GUI tool that can't be piped, that loose all the shell goodness such as command history and text substitution, I already did in my example.

the sysadmins in question used mc to delete weird named files just because they never bothered to learn correct argument passing in bash. they didn't know about quotes for filenames with spaces, they didn't know about '--' flag parsing termination argument. when their badly written script broke, they just manually fixed with mc and call it a day.

it's like seeing someone not using the scroll wheel to scroll. If you think that's elitist so be it.
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Anyone knows the difference in performance between QEMU and Virtualbox both running on OS X?
Separate innovation divisions never work.
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I ran into the same situation the author did when getting SSL for a freelance client of mine.

The problem is that nowhere in GoDaddy's certificate purchasing or setup process do they ask you what domain name you want the certificate to apply to. They just apply it to the "primary" domain on a hosting account, which is basically the first domain you set up and associated with that hosting. I kept expecting that the next step in the setup process would ask me what domain I wanted to use the certificate for until there was no next step and the cert was pending setup on the wrong domain.

At no point did they indicate that their single-domain certificate only works on the primary domain until I was on the phone with customer service before revoking it. We ended up going with a multi-domain cert (which they did give us a discount on) rather than change the primary domain on the hosting account because their service representative said that would require downtime for all the sites on that hosting account.
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LocalTiger offers a detailed list of events in Delhi, updated everyday - a complete list of things to do in Delhi, and events for the weekend.
Running a VM also lets you isolate your dev system and simulate your production server.
Carnegie Mellon University To Receive $265MM
Yeah, and Wikipedia destroyed the generalist encyclopaedia market. But it created some value for tons of people in the tech business: there's a whole stack of apps on your average smartphone which let you tap a button and get a definition from Wikipedia (or Wiktionary), which makes the phone more useful (and the connectivity packages offered by the telcos more valuable etc.)

Having a useful (for some value of useful) page rather than a spammy viagra-ad-laden page from some low-rent content farm for a few million common queries must make Google happy too.

Value can mean efficiency, and making the market for encyclopedias or classified ads more efficient opens up new opportunities and saves the users of the inefficient services money.
If the landlord can't afford mortgage, how they gonna lower the rent? Run that scenario forward a couple steps and you see the real looming problem.
If you don't understand git, then don't mess around with 'rebase', 'push -f', or any other command that tries to edit history. These commands assume that you have a strong mental model of how git works, and this is how the author of the article got into trouble.

It's possible to build a very successful git workflow using only the following commands:

git clone git:...
git add path/to/new_file
git commit -a
git pull
git push

(Yes, commit before pulling, rather than vice versa.)

If you want to use branches, you need to add:

# Showing branches.
git branch -a
gitk --all

# Checking out branches.
git checkout some_branch

# Creating and pushing a new branch.
git checkout -b new_branch_name
git push -u origin new_branch_name

# Checking out an existing branch.
git checkout -b some_branch origin/some_branch

# Merging a branch into your current branch.
git pull origin some_branch

This workflow is extremely safe. At worst, you might need to resolve a merge conflict.

But if you start digging around under the hood, and you start editing your commit history, you'd better be prepared to understand what you're trying to do.
It's the result of a merge conflict (e.g. after attempting a rebase). If you work regularly with other people you end up seeing this a lot (or rather, whenever you both edit the part of the same file at the same time).
I believe there will be a lot more entertainers if you include all the people who create movies, music, games, etc.

I also think there will be an army of people caring for others - the elderly, children, the sick.

I do not believe that the 6% of people you think will have all the money will just buy more stuff with their money. They will buy other people's time instead and that's why your 80% group will be more like 25% in my view.
> The problem is short term thinking, not profits per se, or else what is a business even for?

That is a good question: when is a business/company no longer necessary? As short term thinking approaches zero, when does a business simply devolve into just a value transaction?

If investors or management want immediate revenue, they could liquidate the company's assets. If they want longer term profits, then they must define the expected duration for a return on investment. One quarter? One year? Or a sustainable, self-sufficient entity (cf. Built To Last: Successful Habits Of Visionary Companies)?
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If you run a VM, then your dev system is portable. You can put it in dropbox, or on a flash drive.
>A young girl is conditioned to think about her looks

>But still, it is normal for the girls to try to look beautiful, just as it is normal for the boys to try to be strong.

Is it really "normal" when it's something you admit is conditioned of her to some extent by society. There's only so much that can be attributed to natural biological tendencies. Is it really that women are naturally not interested in the "masculine" dimensions of life or are there predetermined boxes that are masculine and predetermined boxes that are feminine in which society subtly puts people?

Women may not even realize they've been conditioned to fit into these boxes and so they're okay with it. That doesn't mean we should continue to perpetuate it. Some women may have been perfectly okay not being able to vote but that doesn't mean we continue to prevent them from voting. The point is the choice to do or do not. When you're perpetuating subtle societal gender expectations, you're preventing women the choice to venture out of the feminine box.
Actually the idea is that if you focus on creating products that people want and are able to buy, the magic of capitalist trade is that the profits will come naturally.

Focusing solely on profits (regardless of long/short term) and not putting the product first is what leads to bad decisions. It is the thinking behind why Jack Welch once said, "Strictly speaking, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world."
>Those that lost their jobs are not now contributing less to society -- their jobs would be glorified make-work in a post-Craigslist society. It should now be easier for society to feed, clothe, house & entertain these people than it was before, yet they are not getting fed, clothed, housed and entertained as well as they were before. It's also hard to argue that they do not deserve to be fed, clothed, housed and entertained.

>It is a failure of capitalism.

I don't see how that can be considered a failure of capitalism. On the contrary, this is capitalism functioning the way it's supposed to function. These people aren't "not getting fed, clothed, housed and entertained" on a long-term basis. They need to find jobs doing something the rest of us are willing to pay for.
Okay... then what does the power structure of private property have to do with it?

Unemployment is not necessitated by private property. Removing the power structure of property owners will not eliminate unemployment or cause people to become educated. This is what Jello implies, and it's naively incorrect.

Come on, Jello openly professes these politics/ideas, I am not reading anything into the quote that isn't there. He mentions power structure of property owners for a reason.
Yes, but the reason why is not exactly the same. That point is lost on Krugman, who equates gold and Bitcoin on that basis.
It's often a good idea to simulate your production server as closely as possible.
One time this girl I was dating interviewed at the company I worked for. Even though I kept asking the hiring manager to let us know how she did, he would always say "oh yeah, let me get the feedback" and he never did. After a couple of weeks I gave up, because either he was too lazy to bother responding, or he was too afraid to break bad news, both which aren't admirable qualities.
Kijiji, AirBnB, Cars.com, etc. etc.
See http://thegongshow.tumblr.com/post/345941486/the-spawn-of-cr...

I think you didn't grasp the phrase "second order effects."
Gold can be "destroyed or put beyond use" by stockpiling (similar to DeBeers & stockpiling diamonds) or by disseminating it such that recovering it is not cost-efficient. For example, the oceans have a small percentage of dissolved gold, but extracting it is too expensive to make a profit.
I'm well aware of how bitcoin works, and for starters bitcoin isn't completely anonymous. It's semi-anonymous. Secondly, a bank doesn't have to practice fractional reserve banking, they can practice Full-reserve banking. In this case the deposit to the bank is really a loan to the bank, with the bank promising an interest rate on the loan. On your point of interest rate, interest rate can't be truly guaranteed in any system, and a run is prevented in a full-reserve banking system, because it's not a deposit it's a loan.

Now, I'm not saying anyone should actually try to do these things. In fact I agree that Krugman is missing the whole point of bitcoins to the point where he doesn't even bring up it's semi-anonymous nature. I simply wanted to counter his argument that commodity currency wouldn't allow the economy to grow, but as I said earlier bitcoin isn't a regular commodity. It is a currency whithout intrinsic value.
Also known as $2.30 per user this half...or about $5/year.
I'm taking a stab at simple registrations and management with Coffee & Domains (https://www.coffeeanddomains.com).

The goal was to make a domain name registration and management system I'd like to use. That means no upselling and no charging for standard services like whois privacy, url forwarding, and email forwarding.

I also made it easy to set your domain names to not auto-renew and to transfer away your name.

There is also no magical price change the second year or hidden fees that show up at the end of the purchasing process.
7 Things Justin Bieber Knows That You Don’t About Business
The kid is smart knows some things most veteran business owners frown upon. Pretty interesting stuff he knows that you don't.
My question is "Where is that revenue supposed to come from?". Let's assume Facebook's userbase doubles in the next year, and tops out/ holds steady at at 1.5 Billion people for the foreseeable future, and that their revenue per user doubles from $4/year to $8/per year -- there's a reasonable $80 Billion valuation for you, but where to from there? Investors buy stock they think will rise in value. Will FB offer a dividend?

Here is the rub with/for FB: The best ads are no ads-- playing the 'Like' game is cheaper, and more authentic for advertisers. Better than Google's search results your posts are more social, cost nothing, and show up in between pictures and posts by friends.
True, there are leaches too. But the goal to ensure that everyone has a basic level of living standard is in the direction of what the OP talks about. Note that this is different from the systems implemented in USSR where everyone was provided the same, regardless of their skills or efforts.
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How an omniscient Internet "sextortionist" ruined the lives of teen girls
Quick, someone send this to Toady One!
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He wrote the original. It's not as if this is some guy that went and copied SUN code wholesale and it's not as if we're talking about the core of android here, it's 9 lines.

Ok, damages: $500 should do it, and that's probably an overestimation. If there is wholesale copyright infringement I'm sure we'll get to it but this particular instance is hardly reason for a general alert.
You're right: Technology doesn't kill jobs.

It kills demand.

Who wants to send paper mail, or a landline phone, or to take out traditional classified ads? The alternatives are too appealing and the demand for the old versions is never coming back.
An endowment of a public university by a king seems like a far cry from a "private donation" (which that list presents) to me...
USSR was different where everyone was eligible or provided with the same whereas the poster talks about providing some basic livelihood to all and allowing those who can earn more to continue to earn more and live better.
How much does it cost to live in Vietnam, though?
Definitely agree on the expense of a list-keys operation, be sure to avoid at all costs.

Some of the Riak documentation was incomplete/incorrect which made implementation a little sticky, but the mailing list is extremely responsive and helpful.

Otherwise, have had a great experience with Riak thus far. Looking forward to the ease of scaling as well!
Sure there's alot of entertainers, but most of them will struggle without making decent money (just like today).

There's a reason I said 20 years. In 20 years, most of baby boomers wealth will have disappeared. And so the eldercare/health industry will collapse then.

And remember there will also be alot more robots/vending machine/teleremoting help desk doing services, reducing human needs.
Fiat currencies discourage saving by gradually stealing the value of the saved money via inflation. Theft isn't essential to trade: people will still innovate and exchange without being coerced into doing so by the systematic devaluation of their previous economic contributions.
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This is not very insightful, mainly because the author does not understand how the algorithms are chosen. The methods of attack Watson used in Jeopardy were chosen and tuned by the programmers. Even the automated training they gave it was programmed to find answers with an outcome the programmers chose. For example, when the author says

Inasmuch as he makes errors, these errors are randomly distributed. His mistakes are not skewed due to political preferences, personal relationships, or other sources of human prejudice. Watson by design avoids the ideological bias of judges—which textualists so deeply fear— because, of course, he does not have any ideology of his own.

Of course the computer will be looking for answers to questions that humans ask it, using techniques that humans programmed. Even if the humans introduce bias unintentionally, or accidentally recreate the effects of "ideology", the most you could say is that the computer is not "responsible" for skewing its answers. Of course the answers will be skewed, whether we know how ahead of time or not. There is no reason to think that the errors will be evenly distributed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan#Uncarved_block
Discovering New States of Mind
If you push separation of concerns far enough, you start finding roles that can be played by computers and robots rather than humans.
Agreed.

Good government must manage the leech/liar problem. Such people should not be enabled.
Just to re-inforce this: While the initial memory spike can seem pretty unreasonable coming from a site with a couple Mongrels or something, converting to JRuby from a Unicorn site using 16 workers and over 2GB of RAM is very nice. You end up using a lot less RAM and support a lot more connections.
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Ugh. No. The financial crisis killed demand.
Obama already suspended Saturday delivery.

There was apparently a rogue delivery person four days ago, joyriding in the mail truck and asking me to sign for a delivery.
This article skips discussing one reason why jobs are in a sense ends to themselves: the feeling of being useful. Retired people often complain that they don't know what to do with themselves after leaving the workforce, so they go do things like volunteering. A friend of mine recently took 2 months off between jobs and nearing the end of that time, she started becoming very depressed and realized it was because she wasn't contributing to society or to herself. I think most people work not only to pay the bills or to acquire luxury items, but to have a sense of self-worth.
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Any game vaguely resembling Wolfenstein uses a uniform-cost grid.
> they can practice Full-reserve banking.

??? A bank makes money by taking deposits (giving interest) and then lending them out (collecting a higher interest). The reserve percentage is that amount that remains unlent.

Full reserve = no loans = no profits = no bank.

Edit: Yes, you can practice full-reserve with a negative interest rate, which is effectively a safe-deposit box does (they charge a fee for the box).

That is the tl;dr of the wiki link.
Sadly, the premise going forward is that everyone should get a basic income. I don't think the monkeys will agree until it's far too late.
more people working doesn't necessarily mean less jobs available. more people working can mean more jobs / value creation opportunities which results in more jobs overall
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