skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a Ponzi scheme, but what makes it unjust? It's the circle of life, man. Your parents took care of you, and at the other end of the cycle you take care of them.

This describes retirement in general, which I have no issue with, not social security.

The unjust aspect is that you have no control over the future productivity of younger generations, which provides for your retirement. As an extreme example, how do you think China's population is going to deal with retirement once the full effect of the one-child takes effect on Chinese retirees? They didn't set that policy, but their retirement will suffer from it.

My contention is that a person's retirement should be proportional to their own life's productivity, which it is if you have built sufficient invesments and assets by your old age. I'd just prefer that governments not make promises to entire generations they can't ultimately keep.
fees are being adjusted as we speak (at least the default) but you should know that the fee is optional
Don't forget that industrial bees are fed corn syrup during the winter. Trace amounts of the toxin (designed to kill insects) are then fed to the bees all winter long.
Thanks for posting. If anyone truly appreciates "beauty" or quality in software, it's Ole.
> The problem is that all the advantages of Bitcoin is now lost, and you have transferred control of Bitcoin to the Bitcoin bank.

That isn't a loss of the advantages of bitcoin, because you got to choose which organization to trust, if any. With government currencies, you don't get to choose.
Only if it is really increasing my personal learning curve.

1. I want to try stuff my own.

2. Then I want an expert to step in.

3. The expert should teach me how to improve the stuff I already started.

4. And now the important part: I need to understand why/what makes it better.

5. Teach my how to "think" like a pro.

There is a gazillion of tutorials and stuff out, but what I am missing the most is fixing the gap between what is going on in my head vs. what is going on in the head of the teacher.
I would pay for an in-person workshop too. online probably not.
It reminds me of a lot of complex systems where you really want it to be one thing, that can be easily fixed, but it end up being a lot of different things all need to be addressed.

Like when your site is going down and you hope it is just that you need more memory in your web serverSo you add it and then you run out of DB connections so you fire up some slaves but then you start having disk i/o problems so you go SSD then the network ports are saturated..
Ignoring base rates is a great idea until you are hit by a base rate. And by definition, you are probably going to be hit by a base rate. Everyone who succeed and failed all thought they were an special individual.
I totally agree. Plus, I use tmux + top, tmux + watch at work to get a quick idea on how my running experiments are going. It's really effective.
Excellent news. I followed this project briefly some years ago but reverted to Outlook and Evolution.
Maybe you wanted to see something like this:
http://d.pr/i/OaFV
It seems to me that a nicer language even with a slight performance hit would be an advantage. Let alone 30% improvement
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Ctrl+b and then arrow keys will get you switching in all directions.
Define "poor".

The more I read discussions about poverty, the more I realize people are conflating wildly different definitions of "poor". The article is referring to $0.65/day, people who in no way can afford to squander a generous influx of cash. World median income is $2/day; if you're making more than half the people on the planet, I contend you're not "poor". The USA official "poverty line" is 20x world median income, and welfare ensures anyone under that line will be given enough to get there; special cases aside, that's enough that "poor" is more a matter of poor choices than poor cash flow, a life where a burst of cash can easily be spent on pleasure instead of leveraging already-neglected advancement opportunities.
"... We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace..." ~ William Gladstone
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I would (developer) but it would have to be for a price that I wouldn't think twice about, 4.99 or 9.99 maybe per month.
My favorite "resize-pane learnt '-Z' for zooming a pane temporarily."
After mastering screen, I switched to tmux. It's a lot easier to configure. It's also a lot nicer to split panes etc...

Definitely recommend the switch. You might be dreading it, but two days into tmux you won't regret it. It took many weeks trying to convince myself screen is better until I actually tried tmux out.
Interesting topic! From my own experience you indeed lose everything by not making clear cut choices. But "sacrifice" means you already consider the project you are giving up as a part of yourself. For me the best way to stay focused and in the same time not being frustrated is to set yourself deadlines on the projects you are on and avoid projecting yourself elsewhere until they are reached.
Installing Windows was often complicated at the turn of the century, too.
Money itself is not a good asset. I don't understand the point of excessive cash savings - cash is a vehicle for trade and transfer assets, not an asset in and of itself. Ie, if I have leftover money, I will put it in investment funds that purchase ownership stakes in companies (stocks), loans it to borrowers (bonds), or pay off my mortgage (real estate). Even gold or other precious metals. I try to keep a conservative amount to cover cash flow requirements, but honestly I don't understand hoarding Bitcoins any more than hoarding US Dollars. Neither makes any sense or represents anything of value.
I would. Make it like Railscasts and charge similarly and I would subscribe today. I would suggest very concrete lessons designed around a specific task. 5-10 minute lessons with a comments section and source code on github. Make it where I can login using my github account.. I would follow the railscast pricing model as well. Free + a Pro plan. Railscast's system is awesome. I would follow what has been proven successful. Good luck!
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Any PPAs?
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I want to like tmux, I really do, but my main gripes are scrolling in panes with the scroll wheel and selecting / copy/pasting text. iTerm (osx) or Terminator (linux) handle that much better, although I admit they can't really be compared technology-wise.

Alternatively, I never figured out how to select / copy text just as fast in tmux / vim / etc as with the mouse.
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A cheap dorm room these days can be around $800-900 a month, and dorms aren't generally coed, so his married status would have made that a much more expensive option. The car was probably required for the job, and the time required to find a new job isn't feasible when you are working 80+ hours a week to keep everything afloat.

Moving is expensive, and would have required both him and his wife to transfer schools. That requires long term planning and isn't a feasible option for an immediate crisis.
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After seeing your work, I can safely say I wouldn't mind paying you to teach me design.
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There are beautiful codes that have never made a dime.

There are ugly codes that have made hundreds of millions if not billions.

I rather ugly/sucky code that makes money over beautiful code that doesn't. I've grown to love money making ugly code.
The ornithopter article : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter gives some details about such design.
In SF, they are also part of Dune lore : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_of_the_Dune_universe...
The 'outside a startup hub' is probably the biggest factor, but I'm guessing the Rails experience is what accounts for the prices being quoted?
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Every 4-5 years I upgrade my home server. This year I've shifted to some nice rack-mounted hardware. At the core of my setup, I have two servers with 8 HDD bays each. One is the active box, and the other is local redundant storage (i.e., backup). Assuming 1 HDD is the system disk, how would you configure the other 7 HDDs to give you 1 massive storage volume in your favorite OS? Would you use the same approach on both the active and backup server?
You are right on that citation. Awesome, awesome book that really opened my eyes (as a 24 year old) as to just how far things had come.
tmux status bars are customizable(no surprises there I guess) and the powerline is one of the nicer status bar arrangements - https://github.com/erikw/tmux-powerline
This very story is a potential example. The mp3 patents in the US will expire in 2015. What "harm" has been done in that time? Fraunhofer made a pile of dough and that's about it. The open alternatives failed to catch on and my guess is that after 2015, mp3s will still be used as before. Very few users will know or care that the patents have expired.

I guess you could say Stallman wasn't wrong exactly, just unnecessarily alarmist over this particular issue. I'm not saying software patents are benign, by the way - I'm only addressing mp3 here.
I am in my first startup, and am very much the beginner in more ways than one. And the days that go well are the days when I feel like the environment I work in values learning above all else.

I think it's important to remember that teaching is a lifestyle more so than a job description. You see this in the best teachers, and as a beginner, it's important to find those people that enjoy for the sake of communicating knowledge.

Thanks for sharing!
You're in the minority as most people will enter their credit cards, as you say, and they will make lots more money because of this. It's a smart move and they are certainly aware of the cost-benefit ratio. (I bet that you will enter your credit card ultimately in the end if you buy one of these things, despite your concerns, since you will eventually cave once an inevitable "must play" game enters the ecosystem.)
Not if you do local installs. You can remove the package simply by:

rm -rf ~/installs/tmux-1.8
Zooming tmux panes
Yes sorry, you are right about having the credit card on file being a good thing, I meant in terms of downloading demos/free apps.
I've asked before: has anyone compiled a list of how various skillsets get paid in our world?

If I could get a job doing X or Y, and be happy at either, but X is $20,000 more than Y, I'd love to know that so I can work on those opportunities more.
Do you mean `tar -xzvf`?
I think that once you post a problem to twitter, a social network, you've already taken it outside of the tech industry.

Saying that the backlash is because of the tech industry is misleading. If Adria didnt post this to twitter, just spoke to the guys and a conference organizer and THEN came death threats... yeah that would be the tech industry.

However, posting to twitter and making this story public, you arent working with the tech industry now, you are working with the general public.

I think there is probably more backlash from developers because a lot of us dont really consider someone who does social outreach as a developer. So we perhaps dont feel like we need a person in that role defending "the future of programming". (not sure if Adria is actually a developer or not, I think her CV goes from helpdesk to developer evangelist, so I have no idea)

However it doesnt matter if that person is a guy or a girl. Sometimes people who are so eager to be considered "tech" socially speaking, but have no development skills come off as the people us geeks tried to get away from. I can understand why some geeks (guy or girl) might feel uncomfortable when you feel like large groups of people are invading your industry turning it into a popularity contest. The rise of the "social media mavens" is mixing together a lot of introverts and extroverts.

That being said, just because you feel threatened or uncomfortable doesnt give you the right to make death threats and rape threats and I hope that people start thinking about their actions before making dick jokes in public.
It's interesting to note the time per request when you invert these. Even some of the most drastic differences (like Spring vs. Django) turn out to be the difference of a millisecond or two. That's pocket change in terms of user experience.
Titan is a new real-time, distributed, transactional graph database that can use either Cassandra or HBase as its distributed data store.

Titan 0.3 was stressed tested with Cassandra at 120 billion edges and is capable of loading 1.2 million edges per second on a 16 machine hi1.4xl cluster (https://twitter.com/aureliusgraphs/status/316255164719828992).

This release provides a complete performance-driven redesign of many core components, and the primary new feature is advanced indexing.

Here are the new indexing features:

* Geo: Search for elements using shape primitives within a 2D plane.

* Full-text: Search elements for matching string and text properties.

* Numeric range: Search for elements with numeric property values using intervals.

* Edge: Edges can be indexed as well as vertices.

See http://thinkaurelius.com/news/
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No, I can assure you we definitely do not think it's "pre-release" quality. I work closely with Brian Behlendorf, and I'm sure he would not have made the stable release if he thought it wasn't ready for prime time.

It's a little disheartening to see people pay so much attention to a fictitious number, which really has no regard to the actual state of the code/project. Whether v1.0 or v0.1 was used, the quality of the release would not differ any.
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Hey chad, I'll try to answer your questions briefly, assuming you're familiar with the terms you used... Yeah there will usually (more often than not) be a cap explicitly stated in the note. Sometimes notes are uncapped though. Discount will almost always be a term. Maximum dilution isn't a term I'm familiar with for Notes. For multiple angels you can set up a structure that allows multiple closings for the notes within a specified time frame (like 180 days). Hope that's helpful!
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Most people don't win the lottery. Statistically speaking, you almost always lose. So why play, right?

Sometimes, its okay to ignore the statistics and hope for the best. Sometimes, its okay to stop hoping and start believing, even if the odds are grim.

Selection bias does teach us one useful thing. That you don't win if you give up.
After writing my own blogging app in Django and being unhappy with it for months, I switched to WordPress some time ago. I blogged about my reasons for switching here: http://ankursethi.in/2013/03/okay-wordpress-you-win-this-rou...

In summary: WordPress has a neat dashboard, thousands of plugins, and wonderful themes. Writing and maintaining a blogging app is boring. I prefer to spend my time blogging and programming, rather than programming admin dashboards for blogging apps.

People will tell you that WordPress is slow, which is true. To remedy the situation, you should: (1) use a PHP opcode cache (I use php-apc) and (2) use a caching plugin (I use W3 Total Cache). That's about it.

I'm quite happy with my setup. It's not the fastest or the hippest, but it works great for my blogging needs. My advice would be to choose whatever makes you happy, and then stick with it.
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This is where I plug http://www.recruiterspam.com/ , even though it's not my project: the stats are interesting.

I myself am always back and forth on the value of recruiters in general. In the abstract, it seems like a perfectly okay idea for some circumstances. In real life, though, I've only ever talked to one recruiter (out of dozens and dozens of requests to 'connect on linkedin'), and that's because the salary they were offering was so high I figured it might be a joke.
"How does it manage to stay consistent if a cosmic ray strikes it and flips one or more bits?"

At the time (and I think its still true) cosmic rays do not have sufficient energy to flip a magnetic domain on disk. Memory bit flips are detected by ECC and channel (between the I/O card and memory and/or disk) are identified with CRC codes.

"How does it manage to stay consistent if you physically bump in to the drives and cause physical damage by having the disk head briefly touch the disk surface?"

The disks are part of a RAID4 or 6 group (RAID 6 preferred for drives > 500MB, required for drives >= 2TB) so physically damaging a drive results in a group reconstruction of the data on that drive.

NetApp has always had a pretty solid "don't trust anything" sort of mantra that has been tested and fortified a few times by various events. The ones I got to see first hand were an HBA that corrupted traffic through it in flight, drives that returned a different block than you asked for, and drives that acknowledged they had written data to the drive when in fact they had not.

Back in the early 2000's anything that could happen with a disk with a probability larger than once in billion operations or higher, they got to see once a month. It was an interesting challenge which requires a certain discipline to deal with. When I went to Google and saw their "we assume everything is crap, we just fix it in software" model it gave me another perspective on how to tackle the problem of storage reliability.

Both schemes work and have their plusses and minuses.
pretty good article. I've seen some strange things with money and disparity. The one thing that I've always found, though, (common to urban myth) is that effort is reciprocated with more money - I find people have always looked out for me from the higher layers even when everyone around me who worked half as hard complained about no raises. At that time I was a little underpaid relative to my peers. So good resources will get the money balanced out over time if they are really truly good imho. Good will aside - that's a separate issue of course.
Is there any compelling reason to use tmux if you're already using a tiling window manager?
So far, all the suggestions seem to be for main.py, not Pyglet.

So is this something that can be "fixed" without diving into Pyglet?
Valid point - I wanted to use this as more of a gauge and then take the next steps.
What is preventing me from converting my USD into Euros or Yen? I can choose whichever Government / Central bank fits me the best.
Did you use zpool import -F (are you sure)? I'm surprised that'd be necessary though, given my experiences. How long ago was this?
I don't understand why people think ZFS doens't have a fsck tool: zpool scrub
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> it's just as dangerous of an assumption to assume that poorer people would waste money given to them

I wasn't saying all poor people do this (only some do), and I wasn't saying they behave differently from rich people!
I was just saying that when you're running a charity, you think twice before donating money directly, because _some_ poor people end up abusing it -- and it's a lot harder to abuse food and shelter than it is to use money.

For all I know, I think poor people would probably make better judgment calls than rich people, but that's orthogonal to what I'm saying (re-read the above if that doesn't make sense).
i've switched from tmux to screen to byobu ( which is a wrapper for screen ) because of its simplicity.
screen also has very little problems, with tmux i always had time costly issues.
Ruby users may also be interested in adding pry to that setup: http://www.alanmacdougall.com/blog/2012/03/27/using-vim-slim... (disclosure: my own blog)
Just SSH and the built in screen sharing app since it's headless and just sits on a shelf.

Admittedly my needs are easily met. I really just wanted the following

* stream downloaded content to PS3

* host virtual machines for testing (I use Parallels)

* run Jenkins for building projects and running tests to keep it off my laptop

* download torrents

* host local backup

I'm sure there are better solutions but I don't feel like it's worth investigating for myself.
In-person is a good idea but too hard to scale in my opinion. I would really be looking for students who WANT to learn rather than students who just sign up to poke around and never use it.
Yes, formally. You don't have to specify -z in GNU tar today, you can just say -x and it'll add -z or -j for you -- it figures out on the fly if the archive's been compressed and how. Very convenient.
This looks really good, but two things would be helpful to know before splashing out. Can any amount of hacking get it to do full disk encryption (without losing redundancy), and is it sufficiently fool proof for my non-tech-savvy 80-year-old parents who use only windows?
tmux has mouse mode to enable scrolling/clicking.

This appears to be a helpful article: http://tangledhelix.com/blog/2012/07/16/tmux-and-mouse-mode/
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> Can you recover your lost keys or phone without sharing your personal info with a stranger?

I was thinking about this the other day when I temporarily lost my key, and figured that you could attach a non-personal email address in the keychain. Or maybe a phone number if there's a service that routes calls through an unidentifiable number.
But the problem is that if there’s an oil spill off the coast of Mexico or the U.S., this also contributes to GDP. If we have more crime in society and pay to deal with it, this contributes to GDP. If we have more war, it contributes to GDP. Our main indicator of economic progress doesn’t distinguish between beneficial economic activity and dysfunctional economic activity.

This is my favorite paragraph, because it is key to make people realize why GDP growth does not necessarily improve people's lives.
If you like tmux, also check out teamocil (https://github.com/remiprev/teamocil) to really enhance your use. It enables you to define tmux sessions via YAML, which is great for programmatically setting up a complex dev session. Mine, for example, fires up six panes in my preferred layout, and starts up a particular part of our project in each pane.
Persistent sessions is a nice feature.
The time to define a direct, true social media ROI has come.
Sure, but you can also choose bitcoin, which has no government or central bank, if that fits you best.
It's a little disheartening to see people pay so much attention to a fictitious number

So, rather than adapt to people everywhere and call it v1.0, let's be a little sad that calling it 0.6.1 doesn't have the same effect, and then leave it the way that it is, and complain about how irrational people are?

Or...

I know, let's make a new release of v0.6.1 called...wait for it...v1.0. And then we can move on to real issues, not fake controversy.

The adage "pick your battles" comes to mind....
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