skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried several times now and I'm still getting "Manifest file is invalid".
How did you block those ranges?
Someone mentioned the other day that "beautiful" is overused. I think I agree: the websites may look unique, but I'm not sure beautiful is the right term. I think polished may be better.

I want it to actually mean something, dammit.
Yes, I accepted a request from someone today (first time being there in quite some time) and it immediately suggested I endorse him for a slew of skills. I presume some people just click the button, thus I largely ignore it, I assumed other techies did as well (I.e. Put no faith in someone's endorsements).
Great advice! We started out with "the launcher" which is what you see when you sign up, but few people found it useful. The response to the directory though, which I agree has been done to death, has been very positive, so maybe there's some truth to the Helsinki Bus Station theory (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/23/change-li...) when applied to product.
I regularly maintain over 250 tabs, and use multiple workspaces to manage a very specific and highly efficient workflow. It works incredibly well for me.
Why do people keep asking for the old days with the 91% tax rate? Do they realize that today the effective tax rate is nearly the same as it was then. Not only that but today the 'rich' carry a far larger percentage of the overall tax burden.
Just saw Thorsten Heins talk last week, no way is he gearing up for a sellout.

But I'll leave this comment here as a reminder to self in case they do sell.
What if, rather than a client failing blocks that should succeed, a client is designed that accepts things (and generates things) that should fail, and yet becomes the most popular client among a very large subgroup (either by accident, or on purpose). I think that's the question being asked with regards to the "Asia, banks, etc." scenario.
Java StringBuilder myth debunked
Nice! Are you based in Norway? We are practically neighbors then. Would be great to chat to see if we can do something together.
> A bit of civility, please?

Sure. I'll let you start:

> I'm sure you're sure you're the smartest man in the room

> don't go around spewing insults about topics you seem to have only a passing familiarity with.

> you comment betrays a lack of understanding about what can cause unemployment.

Nice to meet you Pot.
Introducing the Netflix OSS Recipe- RSS Reader
I think Ars just won the link bait title of the year.
HN: Placety is as international as the places we care about
Unfortunately, you invoked Poe's Law:

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of ~~Fundamentalism~~ Proprietarianism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing.
Author here.

I'm late here, but if there are any questions, I'll answer.

Seeing the github stars shoot up, I guessed HN happened to the project. Here we are :)
Tony Stubblebine, co-founder and CEO of Lift. Can't thank him enough.

https://medium.com/unforgettable-moments/36369a6063d1
A fellow HNer startup. Thanks for all the comments and feedback!
Or at the very least set a long future expires set on it....

I doubt the arrow is going to change much, and if it does, just use a new reference!
> it frees the resources by doing it and produces more value, this value can - and will - be turned into buying work of somebody else.

Or maybe the owner of the company will just buy more
automation for the money he saved that will cause further savings? After all he's business owner and increasing productivity of his company even further is his priority.

You might argue that eventually he'll buy all the automation for his company that is available on the market, and then he'll spent all of his freed resources on something labor intensive, but new, cheaper to use, automation is developed as he upgrades his company so it's possible that he will never be able to buy all automation. Besides labor intensive things he would spend his money on might get much less labor intensive until then due to their own automation.
I've used go at netflix before to hack up a quick load test, but recently the vast majority of my non java/c++ code at netflix has been python for writing glue to interact with our ops infrastructure and julia, which recently supplanted python/pandas/scikit, for my my research oriented stuff.

But overall go is a really neat "systems" level language.
Antigen can pull plugins (or modules as prezto calls them) from prezto too. This is a recently added feature which might break occasionally. I personally don't use the prezto loading features in Antigen.
Do you think you would fare well under an anarchy?
It's as if the author believes that Basecamp was released with +100 known bugs.
I know of at least one person that wrote a fairly significant chunk or erlang at netflix, but this was years ago just as we were moving into the cloud and now, as jedberg wrote, erlang would have a hard time working with the rest of the netflix stack.
In other news kivy just got up to version 1.6.0 http://kivy.org/#changelog
Number of open tabs in Firefox 2051... :-)

Is this a record?
Yeah, cause access to compilers really is a scarce resource.
American tax rates are not outliers and spending as a percentage of GDP is historically high.
So you aren't left in the dark without notice?
So long, and thanks for all the fish.  Missing Douglas Adams.
More like customers of amazon, Google and apple. If suddenly what they were offering sucked, the 'little guys' would put their resources elsewhere.
Thanks, I saved the link and made note of the advice.
What Will Change The World Next… Google Glass Apps
Don't let that stop you - This book is far more about thinking about how to hack than it is about actually hacking the XBox. The lessons learned here apply far wider than Microsoft's game machine and console hacking in general.
I bought this in dead-tree form many years ago and it's one of the few tech books that's managed to survive the several "great purges" since then.
I have no idea, why would you ask?
This page is out of date by a bunch of blocks.

http://blockchain.info/
is updated live.

As you can see, the 0.7 chain has already overtaken the 0.8 chain, and clients are now resubmitting transactions into the 0.7 chain.
Hah, this is great. Reminds me of an old quote from bash.org (who remembers QDB? it was like like the youtube of IRC)

http://www.bash.org/?111338
Social Media Marketing for small business
Definition which?

Let's take a look at the relevant one from the OED.

1.1 That is of concern, that gives cause for consideration; important, weighty. arch.

Note the annotation 'archaic' - as in, not actually in current use. Words do, indeed, have multiple meanings. They do also have common usage and this one is just silly and bad writing. 'Concerning' does not mean 'cause for concern' - if you are sure of the contrary, find me a non-blithe usage of it, in that sense, in any current publication that is not a forum post or blog.
Interesting thread. I hope I can be nearly this lucky in the future. Can't tell you how many times in NYC I've been flat out told "we don't take chances on people." I understand and I certainly don't feel like my life has been stymied by lack of opportunity. But I'm definitely still looking for the first one that really clicks.
Sounds like a interesting story, why not value add and say more about the issues?
Google Experiments with a Ring that Acts as Your Password
"Homesteading the Noosphere" by Eric Raymond covers exactly this topic. He compares the open source software ownership to Lockean land titles. With Bitcoin, it's interesting since the project itself is a system of value and transactions.

http://catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/
It seems like the obvious thing to do when you first start advertising - to bid on your own company name. But the money is probably not wisely spent when you wind up being the #1 natural listing anyway.

For eBay, Walgreens, Amazon, etc to bid on their own name seems like a complete waste of money. Anybody searching for one of those company names is just probably being lazy and typing it into google instead of the url bar.
If you look at my comparison, you can see that it isn't a decimal number. I said (dropping the v prefix, that may bee to subtle for HN): 0.8 < 0.10 < 0.80. In decimal that would be: 0.8 < 0.1 < 0.8 - the comparison doesn't work this way (duh). But it isn't lexicographic sorting either. This sequence: 0.8, 0.80, 0.2, 0.20 has this lexicographic order: 0.2, 0.20, 0.8, 0.80, while a proper version ordering is to compare the stuff after the dot aka 2 < 8 < 20 < 80.
Oh my God, BC uses BDB? I had no idea! Oh it's just such a... such a sadness.
I'm pleased that use are amused. Pulling at semantics usually gets me in trouble. :)

While I understand the hypothesis, we haven't even determined that a 'sugar rush' exists. Quoting from Wikipedia (Fount of All Knowledge), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_high#Nutrition.2C_food.2C... :

> Sugar does not cause hyperactivity in children. Double-blind trials have shown no difference in behavior between children given sugar-full or sugar-free diets, even in studies specifically looking at children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or those considered sensitive to sugar.

From the citation, at http://www.bmj.com/content/337/bmj.a2769 :

> At least 12 double blind randomised controlled trials have examined how children react to diets containing different levels of sugar.2 None of these studies, not even studies looking specifically at children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, could detect any differences in behaviour between the children who had sugar and those who did not.3 This includes sugar from sweets, chocolate, and natural sources. Even in studies of those who were considered “sensitive” to sugar, children did not behave differently after eating sugar full or sugar-free diets.3

> Scientists have even studied how parents react to the sugar myth. When parents think their children have been given a drink containing sugar (even if it is really sugar-free), they rate their children’s behaviour as more hyperactive...

If a hypothesis depends on a mechanism we haven't observed, then I don't think it's likely to be real.
Or maybe the owner of the company will just buy more automation for the money he saved that will cause further savings?

Maybe. That would then create job for automation creators - and for somebody to mow the lawn of automation creator because he's now too busy to mow it himself, creating the automation. The point is - more productivity creates value, not destroys it. Even though the value created may be allocated differently - so if $100 of value were created, it may end up (grossly simplifying, of course) that somebody would have $150 and somebody -$50. If you think in human terms, getting -$50 sucks, and I can totally understand that and there may be talk how to help that particular unfortunate man to deal with it, of course. But if you switch to economics terms, it's still +$100.

It's the reverse of the famous Broken Window Fallacy. If the world worked like the author of the main post thinks it does, you could create wealth just by breaking and destroying things - which "creates jobs" both for breakers and for somebody who would the restore them. I think it is obvious that no value is created this way.
The usage of "cloud" really annoys me. When people use that word, they mean specific server(s) on the Internet, but for me that means things like BitTorrent, where I don't have to care where my stuff is, just what my stuff is.
Please explain to me how a smaller population help with unemployment?

Jobs are performed primarily to benefit people. Less people means less jobs.
The teamsters, carpenters and a few food sectors are crying over cheap Polish labor every time they can, but hamburger joints can't hire people who can't speak Danish (because the place is essentially automated except with customer interaction).

Lego is moving some of the production of Lego out of the country.
It would annoy me, too, if we were in an enclosed room together.
The same could be asked of most any form of currency and of many different ways of generating wealth and value (and I'm sure many of them generate orders of magnitudes worse pollution).

Take, for example, reddit karma - people pay to power their computers and purchase hardware/software to create memes and original content that will reap positive karma. What notion or idea will be "valuable" to the reddit hive mind next is anyone's guess, so your best bet is to keep plugging away at it and generating as much original content as possible. While there's no direct translation of earned karma to a national currency (yet), it can carry a social/fame value.

These people paying their internet, hardware, software, and electricity bills provide a basis for an exchange rate of <national currency> to <reddit karma>.

The only differences between this and bitcoin are that people can give bitcoin to one another and that there are bitcoin to <national currency> exchanges.

I stretched the analogy a bit thin with reddit karma, but I'm sure people can think of other similar electricity->money "pure technology" wealth/value generation methods (high frequency trading hardware/software, for instance).
"Rage faces" aren't necessarily composed only of "rage". Explained in the other comment why this actually isn't lexicographic sorting.
It's exceptionally useful for getting a quick background on people I've spoken to (or will speak to) in a commercial context
This reminded me of something that I came across years ago, strobe lights shifting the "timing" of fountains ( http://cre.ations.net/creation/the-time-fountain ), hopefully this summer I can find some time to build one or a combination of these cool fountains :)
why are geographically proximate people of more moral worth? It gets worse when you take the marginal utility of money into account. Capitalism has this wonderful feature where industry goes and sets up shop wherever people have it worst off because their labor is the cheapest. This infrastructure improves the crappy areas until it is no longer the worst, repeat. The world has thus been ratcheting itself out of extreme poverty since the industrial revolution.
12-Core Mac Pro for only $2499.99
Haha, nice one!
Exactly, the cloud is really just a lonely blade server sitting in a dark room in a basement somewhere.

But saying it's a cloud it makes it easy for sales people to draw on a whiteboard.
Sigh. It's not powered by fruit. It's sad how many people believe this.

It's powered by the metal. The fruit just acts as a salt bridge from the metal. The power source is the oxidation of metal.
Old HN link but libreoffice is trying a similar thing.

The video doesn't go into enough detail IMHO but the TL;DW is they are making it easier to commit and putting automated processes into place to mange it(Like extensive and easy testing). Rather than a commit is hard philosophy.

I think the first 5-10 mins of the video is the important bits.

https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/challenges_libreoffic...
You're right, we did this to have a good time and talk about some things that we wanted to talk about. We'll get better as time goes on. Sorry about the editing, that was all my fault. I'm still learning what works and what doesn't. Happy you checked us out. Let me know if you have anymore feedback you'd like to share. Thanks. :)
Almost everything you listed can be bought for under $1000 total and others rented for very little cost. That does not mean they're sharing the wealth. That just means economies of scale and planned obsolescence works and makes things cheaper over time. Things you cannot import from China are still prohibitively high - education, healthcare, insurance etc. Giving people $300 gadgets does not make them wealthy. Even having a $99 iPhone with $40/mo data plan does not mean you are rich. It means you have $99 and can afford $40/mo. Anyone on minimum wage can theoretically do that.

I don't disagree with you that quality of life has improved due to technological progress for almost everyone but I would hardly define that as sharing the wealth. I would define sharing the wealth as not having to declare bankruptcy when your kid has cancer. Or not having to take whatever job is available in any field instead of your speciality just to pay rent because you cannot collect unemployment anymore. Or not being stuck living in a city you want to move away from but can't because the house you purchased has fallen in price through no fault of yours and will barely make 50% of your mortgage in rent. I don't see how adding a $300 TV or air conditioning to this mix would make one feel like they're sharing the wealth.
Interview with CSS Guru Eric Meyer
That's just a flat tag page... the parent commenter's summary, in my opinion, is much better.
Canada tried it in a single town once.

On the one hand, the Mincome experiment ran vastly over its budget. On the other hand, it monumentally decreased the symptoms of poverty and improved living conditions, while turning out to only reduce people's "practiced work-ethic" (ie: real work-hours) by 5%.
On-Premise Cloud is my pet hate. How is that even a Cloud?
That name was taken by the television.
By this logic, anyone who improves anything is a job destroyer. One small team of factory workers can ruin thousands of blacksmith careers. One good therapist may wipe out an entire local industry for divorce lawyers. A single medical research scientist could prevent countless would-be morticians and undertakers from ever discovering their true calling.

The solution to joblessness seems simple: We just need to ensure that no one ever does anything important.
Introduction to Concurrent Haskell - Simon Marlow
Tip folks on GitHub with this Gittip bookmarklet
Meanwhile, network folks have been drawing clouds since 1980.
Can someone explain how they control for roll ?
Ask HN: What's the first thing you do when you wake up?
I've found that the way my day turns out is largely dependent on how I start it.

My start usually involves: getting out of bed, meditating, making coffee, using the bathroom, and some reflecting (what I'm thankful for, what I like, what I'm doing for the day). When I start like this, my day tends to be fulfilling and productive. When I don't, it's a crap shoot, but sometimes it still goes well.

Was wondering if you guys had any routines that get you going.
'The usage of "cloud" really annoys me. When people use that word, they mean specific server(s) on the Internet'

When we hear "cloud" it means servers on the net.

To your manager, it's another term for outsourcing. If I put mail and calendars in "the cloud", would I need so many sysadmins?
How is that title link bait?
so there is some browser based simcity or is this ui for the last released(and controversial) game?
I have a suspicion that average karma isn't updating.
Cool. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1308/the-cloud-my-butt.png
And there's definitely a lot of great reading material there. This earlier piece has a great exposition, though it is on the long side: http://www.popehat.com/2013/03/06/what-prenda-law-is-facing-.... I do recommend reading it—it is just as engrossing as the OP. What I couldn't find was a 2 minute summary that could let me understand who the main characters are in this case. Hopefully we'll have a Wikipedia page for this case up soon.
I thought this (http://www.samsung.com/us/article/get-your-head-in-the-cloud) was pretty funny, but I'm also a child in an adult's body.
Mincome in Manitoba. I don't read too much into it and think it's pretty debatable that it failed, but one thing it certainly did show is that people wouldn't all suddenly stop working. IIRC only one group of people actually decreased how much they worked significantly: teenage mothers. The modal response was continuing to work and using the extra money for extra consumption.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
+3 please :-)

The idea of marrying "slow" Python and OLAP is disturbing my sleep!
Slavery has been outlawed. Thankfully.
Irrelevant. The point being made originally was about legislative deadlock.
You're ignoring the social and governmental factors.

Technological improvement actually did lead to widespread unemployment once: the Great Depression. There was simply no need for so much farm labor after it turned out that unlimited and leveraged stock-market investment wouldn't make returns on every last penny and bushel.

(Everyone in those days, no matter their political slant, knew what overproduction was.)

The eventual solution was to raise wages, shorten working hours, allow unionization and go to war. I'm only partially joking.

On some level, widespread technological unemployment is a sign that our productivity is too high for our designated amount of work that constitutes a "real job" or "full time".

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/
You would understand if you were a code ninja.
I had a similar problem when living in a college dorm; Youtube was suspiciously slower than the rest of the internet.

A workaround is to use a ipv6 tunnel. Youtube was literally 5 times faster when my tunnel from SixXs was active.
We need a lot more educators. We need people to take care of elderly. We need more people to work on preserving the environment. We need much better public services. The amount of work needed is astounding.

The fallacy of putting equals sign between work and production of commodities is what causes this dim view of our economic future.
Silly as it is, the project can be made more generic. There must be a user-editable map, "buzzword" => "replacement". I think it will quickly obtain many more entries.
If you have a much better TV than somebody had 50 years ago, then in that one particular way you're wealthier than they are. Ditto similar advantages over them in recorded music, communication, gaming (if you play computer games) and so on.

As for not being able to pay for a cancer cure without going bankrupt -- if it's a cure that hadn't been invented 50 years ago, then again you're richer than or level with people from 50 years ago, not poorer.

But all that doesn't necessarily mean there isn't a problem. If it takes two parents working rather than one to "get by", then the fact that one is "getting by" in more style than people used to may not be consolation. Even without such considerations, wealth doesn't automatically equate to happiness, and inequality in wealth generally tends to detract (except perhaps from the happiness of those best off).
But it's more efficient to hire 1 worker for 8 hours than 2 workers for 4 hours. The latter has more overhead in terms of training, etc. Why would an employer choose to do that?
They knew exactly how many users to expect, I'm sure. But you aren't going to pay for a solution to handle all of them when you expect the demand to taper off after a few days.
Here's an arrangement:

Tax everyone a flat percentage X%. Collect all the money, and distribute it in living stipends of T/N, where T is the total money and N is the size of the population paying in. Thus everyone gets a stipend of X% of the mean income. Rises and falls in total income will naturally be reflected by the stipend (with a short time-delay for tax collection and stipend distribution to occur), and various markets will eventually balance out between those who just live off the stipend, those who have jobs to earn more, and the owners of the means of production who were taking in all the big money anyway.
does not seem to work all the time