skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm this is a very difficult topic to really do justice to. I don't think that Hayek is necessarily contrary to anything I am saying. The problem though is a definition of virtue.

> You line up the list of virtuous things (curing AIDS, feeding poor people) and the list of valuable things (Ruby on Rails programmers, inanimate chunks of metal) and discover that they just don't line up. At all.

But the problem here is that without a framework for deciding what is virtuous, all you are doing is assigning your own measure of value. In that regard your argument boils down to "what you think is valuable is not necessarily a solution that lots of people will pay money for." But I do think that virtuous solutions are valuable to the extent they are virtuous. A cure for cancer would be worth, I would expect, thousands or millions of times what a hollywood blockbuster would be.

However there are limits to this analysis. While I think valuable = virtuous with regard to solutions it doesn't necessarily follow that the coal miner is less virtuous than the Ruby programmer. Wages are determined in ways that both do and don't resemble market economics as even Adam Smith noted (he saw wage levels as being indicative of negotiating power differences between various professions).

So my caution is to avoid looking at wages (ruby programmers vs coal miners) in the same way you look at solutions (cure for cancer vs the next big MTV hit).
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Have you tried http://hckrnews.com/ ?
There does seem to be the same sort of frenzy in Canada. You can hear it in normal conversations all the time: 'Wow I can't believe you do that, it's so confusing to me. I could never write code.' It seems this mystique is what is paying us so well.
Name the corporation that has the self-given legal right to take ALL our data and store in insecurely.

Name the corporation that has the right to spy on us, and even when caught doing it contrary to the law, no one goes to jail over it.

Name the corporation that when it runs out of money on its stupid ideas just prints more or can raise its prices indefinitely and FORCE you to buy however much of its products that it wants you to.

Name the corporation that has the authority to break into your house in the middle of the night, shoot your dog, put a boot on your throat, then say, "Sorry we had the wrong house" ... with little or no negative consequences for their mistake.

Name the corporation that can sick its money collectors on you for disagreeing with them and then they'll audit your income over and over to make your existence miserable.

Name the corporate agents who have the legal right to manipulate the markets with the creation of new laws and bureaucracies and then can use that knowledge to do as much insider trading as they want to enrich themselves... and it's all legal.

Name the corporation that has the means and the authority take away your house, your children, your very life, and I'll be right there with you.

Until then, I'm going to go ahead and keep pushing against the government that has ALL of the powers mentioned above and that abuses those powers on a daily basis.
hmm, SO doesn't go down much... anyway just tried it and seems to be fine now.
It reads to me as a dark joke by repeating a common caution that is now completely irrelevant. Note the "Je ris" ("I laughed" for the non-French speakers) immediately afterwards. I'm presuming that's what kome think you missed.
The Pirate Bay blocks actually use CleanFeed IIRC, which is the system originally put in place under the premise to block known child pornography domains.

I consider this an abuse of the CleanFeed system.
Never heard it in Quebecois French, Anglicisms like that tend to be continental French in my experience. Or Chiac.
Does anyone know of public research into the makeup of rooms on AirBNB, specifically rooms/house and so forth?

I feel there's often a lot of AirBNB-only properties listed but I'd prefer some actual numbers. If needs be, scraped myself this weekend :-)
"We can not multitask (that’s how our human brain works)" - On the biological/neuronal level our brain works by doing multitasking (paralell processing of events), but our consciousness doesn't as studies suggests.
most of the planet's population != most of the planet's purchasing power

Demand for Ruby on Rails plumbing is connected with where that money is going, and it's alright to think that where that money is going may not equivalent to the wishes, desires (and needs) of most of the population, and to be pensive about that.

In moral terms: he's wondering if the concentration of spending on matters that he's a subject expert in is a negative thing in terms of the world he wants to see.

He's not fighting hallucinations.
Yes, for English speaking Canadians a "pension plan" is a common phrase. No idea about French-speaking Canadians.
My advise is to send only a neutral written notice. If there is any verbal communication, keep it positive.

This.

The organization isn't going to care about your feedback. They're not going to change things.

Best thing to do is just save your breath and move forward.

It's their problem now, not yours.
These come up every day on reddit, and almost all of them turn out to be fake. There was a guy about two weeks ago that claimed to have Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer at age 24. He got thousands of upvotes, got a celebrity from the band Blink 182 to tweet to him, etc. Exposed as fake because he used someone's actual identity he found on Google who did not have cancer.

This line is an incredible clue that it is fake:

>I do not want to go into details about the disease. I do not want to go into the particularities of my life. And because time is short, there will be no comments, no contact address.

Hard to prove false when literally no information is given.

These two lines are interesting though:

>I am 58 years old and I never will 59. I will die in 2013.

>Yesterday, I had the whole life ahead of me. Thirty or forty years, at least. Today thirty days.

Either he's losing track of his lies, he's bad at math or he has unrealistic expectations about life expectancy. If a 58 year old had "thirty or forty years, at least" ahead of him that means that he was expecting to live to "at least" 98 years old.

EDIT: Here are links to Day 2 and Day 3 translations.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl...

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl...
>It reads like a movie, not like my experience with reality.

You had much experience of being told you have 30 days to live?
The irony of a TS/NOFORN document being hosted by a foreign newspaper is funny. (NOFORN means no foreign nationals are allowed to know about it)

BTW, if anyone has an active US security clearance, don't follow that link -- the government holds that secret is secret, even when it's public knowledge. And that won't protect you from a need-to-know restriction.
Masterfully executed. Especially delightful is that the first response is "No one is likely to debate this with you", which is promptly followed by 9 pages of discussion.
just add it yourself. <grin>
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Bang on. Does this not remind you of Levis jeans during the gold rush. Few miners really did well, but the companies that supplied the miners all did well. http://davidrbradley.hubpages.com/hub/Levi-Strauss-American-...
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i agree. at first, didn't even realize it is translation.
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I'm an indie game dev working on Tribal Hero ( http://tribalhero.com ). I've actually been getting a lot of players because they played similar games which are pay to win and we aren't and never will be. We'll have paid graphical customizations you can purchase but nothing that you can get an advantage in the game.
Germany occupied NL during that time frame, I'm sure the Dutch are familiar with it too. Most of Western Europe is, actually.
OTOH, someone who has 30 days left to live has absolutely no motivation or need to prove the validity of his story to anyone.
It's pretty much exactly the plot of "One Week":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Week_%282008_film%29
you cannot broadcast what you want on radio or television, you cannot print what you like in newspapers or magazines - there are rules and regulations governing content. why should the internet be any different?
Really good and intuitive introduction in to random forests. The linear regression comparison was a nice visual representation.
>start sending part of your paycheck to the guy in the coal mine

...that sounds incredibly insulting. It's not like he's homeless.

>Why do I get paid more than the coal miner? Because he has settled for that life.

bullshit. This is exactly the kind of attitude that the article is criticizing.

>maybe, our coal mining friend is doing what he loves

Maybe, and that's great. But for most people, "doing what you love" is simply not viable, at least career-wise. Don't forget how incredibly fortunate you are to love doing a job that also happens to pay extremely well.
Taxes and cost of living are very high. It doesn't go as far as you think. But there are a lot of beautiful people and culture.
1) True

2) False

3) True

All of the above require context and/or elaboration.

1. The HN voting ring detection process is exceptionally clever. Bottom line: If the same few users, IP's, etc are constantly upvoting your posts, it will trigger and your future posts will bomb.

2. I've often shared my posts on Twitter (as do most people) and I've never, ever seen it have a negative impact.

3. Upvotes are weighted. If you're a relatively new user, your upvote has little impact on someones post.
From memory, Hayek also mentions the problem of coming up with the ranking function for virtue. Basically "virtue" here is standing in as an alliterative reference to systems of ethics, morality, justice and justness etc etc. Huge fields of human thought in their own right. That sometimes value and virtue align is inevitable, simply because there's so many combinations available to test.

His general point is that trying to make complex, emergent systems fit into neat theories tends to break the systems.

That book I mentioned -- Essence of Hayek -- is worth getting. I began to review it on my blog and never finished writing my follow up ditties.
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Thanks for the reply - I think more what I was looking for was your viewpoint on why kids accidentally seeing porn is a bad thing?

My assumption is that it wouldn't be of interest to them and they'd move on, but that's pure speculation.
Ah, these are the guys who did "This Too Shall Pass"? I've been trying to work out who did this song - it's been infuriating me for ages!

Incidentally, you really aught to see how they make music with a car... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c
No, you are being deliberately obtuse. I am talking about material available on the tubes etc.
There are just so many things wrong with this article I don't know where to start. I've seen at least one error, one incorrect description, and this code:

if ((number & -number) == number) {
return true;
}
return false;

It would be a more interesting interview question to get a candidate to analyze these examples, rather than trying to solve the problem.
Oh! thanks for correction, I'll update the post.

Edit: updated!
Depends on where you are. Toronto? Definitely. I get recruiters every day asking if I want a job (always onsite though, never contracts). Anywhere else I've found salary and perks drop quickly. Case in point, my last location (PEI) the salary was barely above minimum wage (35-50k/year), even though they keep complaining about shortages in skilled IT folks
it was not alarmist, it was just a convinient explanation to turn US into next China.
Anyone who has been paying attention to the right media/news has known this for years.
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I'm working on a revision control system for spreadsheets (http://www.spreadgit.com) so people can sort out their Excel mess, ie. track changes, diff and eventually merge versions like you'd do with code.
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They also have the problem of special cases who list in airbnb but are actually professional bnbs/pensions/small hotels etc. who use other commercial listing sites. They're probably on top of their tax vs. amateur users (their spare room is not a sole income stream) who are taking some of that market and heck cities can't lose that cut of tourist/hotel taxes.
Looks like it's a term used in Belgium:
https://www.google.fr/search?q=%22plan+pension%22&lr=lan...
Bonjour

Je viens de recevoir après avoir demandé un réexamen de mon site (maison-eco-malin . c o m) une réponse de Google, que mon site n’est toujours pas conforme ! Identifiant du message : [WMT-81011]
J’ai envoyé un fichier pour désavouer un grand nombre de liens non désirés
Mais rien ne change !
Je me retrouve avec des liens de sites bizarres sans rapport avec mon site.
Comme des liens de sites sexuelle voir porno, de testes de sites, ect…
Savez-vous comment arrêter cela ?
Comment empêcher de faire de mauvais liens vers mon site ?
Comment expliquer à Google que j’y suis pour rien ?

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Cordialement
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You could use it for parameter tuning.
If you hand your tablet off to your child like that unsupervised you're a bad parent anyway.

Finding it really hard to sympathise with these people who can't look after their own offspring responsibly
It depends on the porn. Much at the harder and violent ends of the spectrum portray a very demeaning attitude to women. That i would argue _is_ wrong, particulat if, as many studies are begiining to show, it is gravely distorting young people's attitudes to women and theur understanding of sex. Most women, for example, don't want to have their faces spunked on by 10 guys simultaneously.
Yeah, I'm already on a fairly sweet local maxima. I mostly want to move to do more interesting work in more interesting places.
Funny you should mention torrents

By making it require a work around to view even mild pornography, the work arounds will inevitably lead to areas of the most hardcore right in your face.

Say some 12 year old wants to look at naked ladies, what's he gonna be doing? Probably google image search boobs or some soft core pinup girls name, relatively harmless and have his curiosity satisfied. However if the lower levels of that are blocked the work around with inevitably lead to a much bigger source with the violent pornography just a click away from the more regular.

Same thing happened with P2P, we used to have services where it was easy to download a single mid quality song, companies put an end to those so we found a much more efficient way to shift much larger amounts of data. Now it's hard to steal a single song but really easy to steal a full 320 album rip.
Using Google Trends to try to divine how "alive" something is is fruitless, as the graphs you get are displaying the percentage of all internet searches that that use that term. Since the internet is constantly growing and new terms are being added all the time, it is impossible to say whether a declining graph on google trends means that absolute number of searches are going down or up.
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His is an extreme case of "no true Scotchman" ("no guy that truly tried Go complains about Generics...") and confirmation bias (since those that stick to it, are happy with the status quo) together...

Lots of people have both tried Go, legitimately, and are still concerned about lack of Generics. I've read several that have done so, and have tried it myself and would like Generics. But sure, I could use it, and even enjoy it, even without Generics. That doesn't mean I'm perfectly happy with the situation.
Thats great, lets minimize government, lets privatize schools, police, prison, the fire department and everything else!

Since when did "private" become a bad word? F%!# that, "private" business is me, you, your neighborhood plumber, the dive bar on the corner, IBM, Microsoft, Google and a whole range of "in between" companies. Nothing about a firm being "private" makes it "bad". In fact, I'd argue that it's just the opposite... anything that can be provided by a private firm, participating in a free market, should be provided by such, or not at all. Note, however, that "private firm" does not necessarily equate to "corporation" OR to "for profit business". The range of "private" organizations also includes various non-profit cooperatives, communes and collectives.

Lets deregulate everything, because you know you can trust Corporations!

If we were really serious about minimizing government, there wouldn't be any Corporations, as Corporations are a legal fiction which depend on the State for their very existence.
True, but it's still advisable just stick to laying out the facts. Don't add in any commentary on top.

The interviewer can and will draw their own conclusions, both about the previous employer you're talking about, and more importantly, you.
Most compilers target LLVM? That doesn't sound right. Maybe most compilers written in the last five years or so.
Because it isn't and shouldn't be controlled by any one governments ideas of what is right and wrong.
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This sounds like pretty much every software project/team that's managed by a large company (or a subsidiary thereof).
Rad, this is really neat thanks for that.
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You do not justify why it's wrong? And as I said in my OP, yes it is impossible, but some measures will cut exposure.
Now if only the format of the document synced to Google Drive was a usable one like Markdown instead of a link that is unusable locally.
> I doubt that'll work - the PirateBay is currently blocked in the UK. If you change your DNS settings to use a non-UK server, it still returns the filtered IP address as they're silently intercepting lookups for banned domains and returning a non-authoritative answer.

Not on my ISP (A&A), though that may be the case for the big six.

As you say, the VPN option is an easy way around. <hat material="tinfoil">Until the government mandate that ISPs should block anything like that unless you have a license for encrypted traffic, of course.</hat>
> you shouldn't care if someone is a dick, what you should care is if he's right.

And yet, when someone offends you or attacks you, people are unlikely to take them seriously.
for small videos it's fast enough http://www.barbafan.de/html5video?video=tron
What about benefits/a support system for vulnerable people? By helping people develop their own lives (which is pretty damn virtuous), you are in the long term preventing crime and helping the economy because those people go on to spend money in shops and what not.
The value of a lot of these apparently lightweight B2C apps is derived primarily from the attention that they get from their users. If you can build something that gets attention, then that's worth a lot of money.

In a world where people are spending less and less time watching TV there is now a huge imbalance between corporations who have lots of money and want attention, and huge numbers of people with smartphones and limited attention spans. It's like a thunderstorm, all these electrons trying to get to Earth, then suddenly, Bang! Instagram. These valuations, and the developer salaries they fuel are just a by-product of all that money trying to get from point A to point B.

Google got huge by inventing one new channel for that money to flow through. And a pretty brute force one at that: You searched for "laptop" here are some ads for laptops... It's still ahead of everything else though, which is basically a re-implementation of the old TV campaigns but on the web. If someone could only figure out how to show you laptops just before you thought of searching for laptops, then they would be even bigger than Google.
I'm not talking about education (admittedly clouded by my anchoring my post in school experiences), I'm talking about kids picking these things up on their own because it's easy, fun and useful. Nobody would learn Word in school for the sake of learning Word, they learn it because it's a useful tool - the fact that there's a class is helpful, but mostly tangential.
While a lot of HN members are programmers, we usually don't discuss these kind of questions here. I think you'll have more luck if you post your question at StackOverflow.
One reason for how much software developers are valued is how big part of modern business it is. From the Steve Jobs Lost Tapes in mid 90s:

So software is infiltrating everything we do these days. In businesses, software is one of the most potent competitive weapons. One of the biggest business wars was "Friends and Family" in the last ten years. And what was that? It was a brilliant idea and a custom billing software. At&T didn't respond in 18 months, yielding billions of dollars of market share to MCI -- not because they were stupid but because they couldn't get the billing software done.

At the moment there are about three times as many programming job openings in the US as there are programmers graduating from universities. No wonder developers get paid well.
By itself is not that funny, but when you see the video posted here in the comments then you realize the joke in the full context. :)
No. You typically want different types of the same kind, or of the same family (e.g numeric types or types that extend some interface, etc), not every random thing thrown in.

If it was truly whatever type, how would you know what to do with it when you got it out of the collection?

E.g

foo = myColection.get(2);

foo.?????? (what operations can foo afford?)
Then you should upvote it.
I think it's a clustering algorithem where the clusters a unknown. The mnist handwriting dataset size is 60000. They've used it on 10+ million images I think also.
> I subscribe to the belief that if an article is not worth reading 2 weeks later, it's not worth reading at all.

I realized that I had been spending upwards of two hours a day reading non-programming articles (the liked of Wired, TechCrunch, ATD, etc.) and then also spending the evening wondering where all my time had gone.

I started shunning all those articles (I keep reading HN and programming articles in general because I think they're much more valuable to my future) and started spending two hours in the evening reading books (currently trudging through The Brothers Karamazov) instead. After two weeks, it feels like I'm giving my brain a nice chicken caesar salad instead of a Big Mac.
There's an OCaml LLVM backend [1]. The author found a number of issues with LLVM [2] although this could be overcome. The real problem is that the low-level object format is completely different which would break all OCaml extensions written in C (eg. any extension that links to an external C library). Plus the current code generators are really fast and cover all common architectures anyway so there's not much point.

[1] https://github.com/colinbenner/ocamlllvm

[2] http://oud.ocaml.org/2012/abstracts/oud2012-paper7.pdf
That said - the matter here is the call logs, not the content - there's nothing to listen to. The easiest thing for them to do is hand over the logs used for billing, though they may have the same information from network performance monitor systems as well.

Not that it makes it ok, but Verizon isn't handing over the actual conversation in this case.
/r/javascript is full of basic questions, small simple libraries and otherwise not really interesting content. I feel that signal/noise rate was much lower on /r/javascript than on any other subreddit I'm subscribed to. I have unsubscribed half a year ago, and I would never recommend it as an interesting read.
No but I have lost some close friends and relatives and when they are so close the end it was always ugly and disorderly.
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