skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not in the slightest defending China's human rights record.

But hopefully you realise that none of the above refutes the article in the slightest. You have not addressed a single point in it.
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I think it times out after a while, it's been mentioned before on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4761102
Liberal democracies also strictly control who has access to guns, and they go right on being liberal democracies, albeit with much lower rates of death by firearms. What's your point?
Why are companies using 1000-year-old organizational structures?
> But yes, the $30 / 1 day data isn't large enough to draw any real conclusions.

It's your business and one primary reason you are where you are is that you've used your "nose for business" along the way to make judgments - judgments, I'm sure, that in many cases could be classified as "Not enough data to make a conclusion" yet you made a conclusion, were right, and here we are. If you think that the data tells you that it's not a worthwhile place to advertise, then go with that. The statisticians and internet commenters with nothing at stake will always ask for "proof" (in terms of trial runs, # of impressions, 30 days, etc) but never forget that you are where you are because of your decision making ability...

And just to be clear, I'm not trying to disrespect/discredit/etc corin_'s comment - mine is just a general comment meant to say that "educated intuition" is just fine when you are a business person running a very small business.
I found the answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4761102

Thanks for your help!
The better answer is to either make policies that are actually reasonable to more people or to invest in more training for the representatives having to pass on the information so that everyone involved understands. Unfortunately, that is not likely to happen. Most times, low-level employees do not understand why a policy is the policy: Even if they do, they aren't likely to be allowed to pass this information on to the customer. More training is not likely because most of the call centers, at least the ones I've worked at/know of have very high turnover rates (in the US). More training would mean more investment in employees that may not last more than 2-6 months for various reasons.

Policies that actually make sense rarely happen for larger companies, it seems.
I think Nvidia will do it, too, starting with Tegra 6 (Denver/Maxwell) and beyond, but in mobile devices. I think ARM can already share the memory between Cortex A15 CPU's and their Mali T600 line of GPU's right now (ARM is also part of the HSA Foundation).

http://regmedia.co.uk/2011/08/19/hc_cohere_small.jpg
This. I get a similar feeling when I read about the latest javascript workflow innovation.

It signals to me that these tools are complicated in a way that will irritate me and that I should avoid these topics until the smart people have fixed the problem and reached a consensus.

Hey. It worked for CSS. I avoided it for a couple of years and most of the problems have been solved for me. ;-)
(repost) How to get your IP unbanned on HN
This popped up again today and I'd already forgotten about it, so here is a repost:

HN has a hair trigger about banning IPs that request too fast (sorry about that; we don't have a lot of spare performance), so I wrote something people can use to get their IP unbanned once if it gets banned by accident.

http://news.ycombinator.com/unban?ip=<ip address>

Obviously you have to use it from another IP address, like your phone.

One way in which the ban can be triggered is if you have a lot of browser tabs open on HN and you restart your browser after a crash.

see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4761102
ROP (Return On Project), the humble beginning... [0/7]
You mean Darcs [0], which kind-of-sort-of does the rebase automagically. Whenever it can, at least.

Fortunately, Git does 99% of that, and with rebase it's just the right for the job. Especially with git-rerere enabled.

As far as I am concerned, the need to (sometimes!) do rebase by hand is artifact of Git's commit history being strictly ordered by time. But just try to remove that constraint, and whomever considered rebase complex, will go completely crazy ^^

[0] http://darcs.net/
I'm not sure who's arguing it should be free. Straw man?

In any event, there's nothing fallacious about pointing out the impact of those absurdly high fees on retirement savings over time. The money doesn't just evaporate from savings. It is specifically lost to those fees.

It's actually your argument regarding how the money might be used by Wall Street, etc., that is fallacious. It's a red herring.

And, of course they should feed on the public's hatred of the financial industry. People don't hate the financial industry because it consists of evil gnomes who steal their peanut butter while they sleep. They hate the industry because it attempts to financially rape them at every turn. So, that hatred is relevant here.

Good old free market competition.

>but I can tell you right now, there are a lot of days I wish I just accepted whatever return I could get from someone else willing to manage my investments for me and focus on other things.

If you think it's worth it to pay these fees, then so be it, but no need to use fallacious arguments to veil their impact.
Are you implying that each line of that piece is incorrect and only a propaganda? If yes, then you need to get out of American Propaganda first and if No, then your statement doesnt make any sense in this context.
These measures are extremely favorable to entrepreneurship in France. They will help people to create companies, to develop them, and even to bounce back if they fail \o/
The US deserves criticism. Hefty doses of it. Particularly because our government is betraying the very principles the country is supposed to represent.

But faults? Mao killed tens of millions through forced famine alone, and he's practically worshiped as a god in China. There are no countries without bad marks on their records, but on the scale of recent bad marks, it's pretty twisted for China to criticize anybody.
True. Unfortunately there is a length limit on submission titles, and it was the best I managed within the constraints. I don't believe it makes it a less interesting read from a Western viewpoint, though.
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We (Hacker Jobs) usually get a few hits a day from your site. Thanks again for linking us.
Agree on this Kudos :) I activated it by accident (didn't know how they work). I don't regret it. The article was entertaining. Ok. But. The number of false positives with this kudos system is probably very high. You should click to confirm. Anyway, I don't like a web page where I have to be very careful where I put my mouse over. Feels like a minefield. </off-topic>
I agree. it isn't.
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Its even more sad since its not that expensive at all to just run `dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda1` on 170 computers, thats what, a days worth of work for one skilled sysadmin?
Finally, now the rest of the world... :-)
Yeah, the French government killed the $200 million Yahoo-Dailymotion deal
Yeah, right. Anything about americans is always about the world. I never want to say thing, but this is so stereotypical US behavior.
I would also like to mention that all webFWD participants can use all plans of http://errormator.com free of charge!

Best of luck Mozillians!
It's not using 'back'. It's a 'rocker' gesture to navigate between tabs. Right click anywhere, then left click while holding it, move to the left tab. And vice versa.
The Chinese government post one of these every year to "counter" the one that US-based human rights watch do every year. They definitely know that they are in no position to criticize. However there needs to be some context as to why they are publishing this.
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It's also, significantly, an outlier in its rate of firearm-related deaths,

The US is also an outlier in it's rate of bludgeoning and stabbing, at 1.7/100,000. By contrast, the murder rate (all weapons) in western europe is 1.0/100,000, southern europe is 1.4/100,000, and northern europe is 1.5/100,000.

I suppose bill of rights causes stabbings and beatings also?

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
Didn't AOL switch to hosting an IE object around IE4 time?
True, We (also others) used to look towards US for liberty, equality and democracy. Now there is no reason to believe that. Us now presents itself what not to do when you get developed.
is it cool if the startup is in Pakistan? :P
You could try what is detailed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4761102
"Americans are the most heavily armed people in the world per capita. According to a CNN report on July 23, 2012, there were an estimated 270 million guns in the hands of civilians in the U.S. and more than 100,000 people were shot by guns each year. In 2010, there were more than 30,000 deaths caused by firearms."

There are roughly 11,000 gun based murders each year in the US. The US doesn't first have a gun violence problem, it has a black poverty problem mixed with horrible drug laws that drive it all.

The rate of gun homicide for blacks is 15/100k. For Asians it's 1/100k, for whites it's 2/100k. It's almost a 700% greater likelihood that you're going to be murdered by gun if you're black than white. If you fix the black poverty problem, and fix the drug laws, the rate of gun homicides would plunge off a cliff.

And besides, Switzerland is as heavily armed per capita as the US is, and they do not have a rampant gun homicide problem. The reason the US does, is explained by poverty and drug laws.

Also worth noting: the US homicide rate is roughly the lowest it has been in 50 to 60 years. If it continues to fall as it has been, it'll be back to levels not seen since the 19th century. Not to beat a dead horse, but fix the drug laws and America would be exceptionally low on the homicide per capita scale.

http://extranosalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/1homicid...
This is the sort of thing that I was thinking of when I said earlier in another thread that France is start-up hostile. Dailymotion was on my radar very early on when they were just starting out because one of the VCs I work for was looking at them for a possible investment.

They've done a fantastic job at execution especially given the competitive pressure in this arena. To see a French company succeed at this level in the consumer space is incredibly motivating.

To see the French government as minor stakeholder cutting off about 98% of all possible exit partners from the options tableau does not help at all, and will likely cause a lot of French web entrepreneurs to re-evaluate their choices in terms of location and funding.

Be careful when you accept funding, read all the fine print.
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Sure, but it would be entirely possible for Appstores to make their terms less restrictive, I don't blame people for using licenses like the GPL which are designed to push people in that direction.
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But I don't want to do that, I want to do this
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Helping.html

This really should go into my favorites collection.

The lack of advertising, javascript, buy now buttons, eye candy and other distractions is refreshing.
Yeah, no problem. Drop me an email if you make it to Evoke.
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What you're assuming here is that everyone is doing pushups in the same way. Some of the difference between people liking/disliking certain approaches has to be related to not understanding it and applying it in the same way, surely? I myself couldn't get my head around TDD for ages and then it suddenly clicked and I became a complete convert.
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Yeah, they simply decide to do an early upgrade instead of spending time to clean them then do a upgrade sometime later. I guess their only lack of foresight is for not donating these PCs away.
That would be me. I tried to use original title of the artcle in HN post but it was over 80 chars so I shortened federal Reserve to FED as I see now improperly.
If you deprive someone of their life with your weapon, that's a crime called murder. There is no right in the US to actually shoot anyone; you do realize that?
Maybe I'm projecting, but I think the main point of doing a --rebase on every pull is that if you have upwards of 20 or so developers constantly doing a pull without a rebase, you will have a lot of merge commits that are essentially worthless. Especially because they'll probably just be the default message.

So, sure, falling back to the merge when things went wrong is ok and all, but odds are high you should go ahead and relook at all of your commits anyway. (Another thing, doesn't the rebase keep the initial author date? It isn't like the history is completely fabricated at this point.)

Of course, I'm a big fan of git rebase -i to do some basic cleanup of your commits before pushing. Leave an excessive amount of log messages in? Rebase them out. Neglect basic documentation since you weren't sure if things were going to change? Rebase them in. Sure, I can sympathise with the "you are messing with history" argument, but I find it challenging to believe that I actually care that you commented last. Or that you actually had a few extra helper classes at some point. etc.
Hogwash.

On a scale of measurement of worthiness of a certain quality - any quality - if you fare so many orders in the negative that you barely register on the scale at all, it is generally held that you nary have a claim to call into question the measure of others.

You are not in that league.

You do not get to even raise your hand.

That's the privilege of similarly positioned peers who have earned the right to dispute or criticize owing to their own stellar record in that virtue.

Make sense?
When iTunes had DRM on music, it was the same, but with Apple/iPod. Luckily about 3 years ago or so, iTunes finally offered DRM-free versions of songs, and I spent £50 or so to upgrade my entire library. Thanks to that, I was able to listen to my music later on my Nintendo 3DS, and now my phone.
and #11, if you are successful, we take most of your money.
The US rate of violent crime is half that of Canada, and 75% lower than Britain. It's lower than France, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, and so on.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-...
True. But the first million is not tax free neither. If over 1,000,000 is 75% then I'd assume that below 1,000,000 isn't much better. I'd assume if I sell for 2,000,000 the total tax will be at least 50%. How is this fair?
Well, for one thing a non-constant second seems like it would break just about all of physics in deeply unpleasant ways.

I think 'btilly is right - it's an unpleasantly difficult problem.

I suppose my point is 'it just happens to be unpleasantly hard problem' - given that a great number of specialists have put serious time in thinking about it trying to solve it, I have a very difficult time imagining that the solution (or satisfactory answer) is as simple as 'just blame astronomers'.

Having _two_ or more slightly different units that measure the base unit of time (which would be the case if we defined seconds in terms of (siderial? some other?)) year seems like a far greater potential source of cock-ups than just having a well-defined unit that might not quite, but more often than not, matches astronomical detail.
1. Consider rounding to a whole number rather than allowing a 15+ decimal (example I see right now: round to 17 instead of 17.0394036208733)

2. Consider an acceptable range and a max queue time.

Example:

Post when hits 60 points or 30 points after 4 hours. This ensures it gets posted while the content is still fresh by allowing you to set a less aggressive low end for when you hit a specified wait time.

3. Would be interesting to see average (or mean?) for a given day and time slot as a base value to compare to current.

4. Consider the free users to schedule a post at a higher point threshold (> 30) for a set one time fee, but only payable if the post actually makes it to the homepage.
Yeah. There are some strange things towards the end of the article but I think the thing about Germans trying to get their gold back is interesting. Unless of course that is pure fabrication.
Well, Dropbox is an interesting example. If you have no JS, you probably can't download much either.
Wasn’t there a thread here recently how it took them until 2010 to build a second sewage plant and still have to haul their shit away in trucks?
If one PC is missed and some sensitive data is sold to a recycling company, and somehow somebody finds it and reports it, there is hell to pay in the press and potential liability. Why take the risk? There is no incentive to re-use these computers. Plus, let's face it, nobody wants old pc's anyway. I tried putting up a bunch of them for free on our local equivalent of Craigslist last year and nobody wanted them, I ended up paying a recycling company to come pick them up. (~ 3-4 year old machines, admittedly with 21" CRT monitors)
or VAT (sales tax) in whereabouts of 20%.
I actually did not blame religion. I blamed islamic radicals. But if you want, I can somehow tie in the IRA.
Articles like these make me realized I am completely spoiled. I am in no position to complain about debugging when modern technology afforded me a much easier time than 30-40 years ago.
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The cool thing about IT is that a lot of people don't care what your major is (though admittedly there could be some "must have degree" at large companies). There's CS people, Information Technology, Infosec, Information Management, and more. There's not just 1 major. I worked with a Linux admin with a masters in Physics, and was entirely self taught.

There's a bunch of neat things you can do with a math degree in IT. Off the top of my head, anything involving statistics. Most people can't do any statistics at all, and the ones who can are limited. There's a lot in the areas of business intelligence that requires math majors. I think my company employs a few.

Another area is algorithms. There's a lot of algorithms to be had - spam filters, job schedulers, search, etc. It could be a good fit for you if you're into that area.
Actually your data further validate the other user's point, since in the ratios you mention are much less significant in terms of deviation that the ones related to firearms deaths.

I wouldn't call the US an "outlier" for the data you mention.
But even typing git pull isn't canonical, bar what the defaults are. git pull pretty much does a git fetch && git merge for you.
I love reading popular neuroscience books, but boy, they sure are filled with a lot of hooey... It's refreshing to hear about a book that tries to avoid this problem.
"Old" is not equivalent to "broken". For a lot of businesses, particularly non-tech ones where the staff are relatively unskilled, the 1000 year old model works quite well. If everyone is interested in the company and smart enough to see that their input makes a real difference then you can experiment with new models. Sadly though, that sort of business is still quite rare.
Mostly agree, but, nitpick: I've only lived in China for about two years, but I don't think it's exactly right to say Mao is practically worshipped. I think it's better to say most Chinese people are thankful to him for various things he did, while accepting he also made terrible mistakes.
I think that's the most useful comment I've read on HN. For me working on the firmware for the Safecast Geiger counter was one of those projects. I guess this is one of the real benefits of hacking on some personal open source project too, you get a clear pay off which restores your belief in yourself.

Now if I could only find a few more projects like that...
> I sell the business after 3 years for 1,000,000 dollars. You are telling me that it is fine to take 750,000 from me and from my family?

You're so very wrong.

1° the 75 % tax doesn't apply if you reinvest the money in a new company. There are several different ways to avoid paying the tax through investment. It's a tax on revenue, earnings, NOT capital. If you use your money as capital, basically you'll never pay more than about 35% taxes overall.

2° you don't understand how marginal tax rates work. You pay 75% of tax on everything ABOVE 1 million. So if you sell your company for 2 millions, the 75% applies on the second million but not the first one.
So many comments basically saying Chinese media has no right to comment on human right issue as China does it so poorly. The whole point of this linked article is that the other side is thinking exactly the same. Talking about nationalism... there is just no objectivity on both sides. Both sides should just mind their own business - hell, like that gonna happen.
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Worth noting a couple of points made in an article in Telegraph (which is of a similar political view to the Mail) that covers the same ground:

"Researchers admit that comparisons of crime data between countries must be viewed with caution because of differing criminal justice systems and how crimes are reported and measured."

"A Home Office spokesperson said: “These figures are misleading. Levels of police recorded crime statistics from different countries are simply not comparable since they are affected by many factors, for example the recording of violent crime in other countries may not include behaviour that we would categorise as violent crime. "

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/5712573...

NB I'm not denying that the UK probably has more violent crime than the US (although I suspect that, just as with gun crime in the US, this is highly concentrated in particular areas and times).
"busy - MEFISDOS filesystem currently in use. Please try a little bit later again ..."

Gotta love this message. It conveys the feeling that this thing is for real.
Easy to see: despite all the whiners and the bad reputation, you can find good people to work with in France.
Some form of nested commit would be useful for this I suppose - it would be arranged with something like an interactive rebase, that would squash a sequence of commits into one (for the purposes of log and bisect and the like), while leaving the original ones still accessible. This would give you your neat history for most purposes without losing the original commit comments and original sets of individual changes.

This is of course a bit like how branches are merged together ordinarily, at least if you don't go around deleting them the moment you're done with them. And sure enough it looks like you can sort of persuade git bisect to treat ordinary branch merges like this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5638211/how-do-you-get-gi...
It's fair because you're driving on roads, bring your children to school, may need to go to hospital at times, and profit from a judicial system able to enforce law and your company's contracts, among other things. If you want to live in a country without taxes, try Somalia, or Congo.
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Interesting as long as you don't ignore a whole demographic (e.g. very poor people without phones).
I can tell you in NYC you can skip ad's every 3rd or 4th video only !!
Its odd they don't consider the correlation between anti-depressant use and country wealth. Oh sorry I forgot, that's just because were all stressed from working so hard in order to earn more money so we can be happy!

Maybe letting economists dictate the social agenda is the problem in the first place.
Any algorithm.