skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, because there are loads of jobs going unfilled right now for poor black men, right? All they have to do is just go get one.
Too bad it doesn't split or allow independent adjustment..
I'm hesitant to ascribe perverse incentives as a function of the American social system only.

I spent some time in Southeast Asia. The government-supplied social net of the US is absolutely fantastic in comparison, though culturally I found that there the social safety net is the extended family. One didn't need to be a certain socioeconomic level to get help if necessary.
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The CIA has spent years denying that it created a file on Noam Chomsky, but an FOI request has now uncovered an FBI document referencing the CIA file. The CIA file was destroyed at some point, and it is not clear whether that was done in accordance with the Federal Records Act.
I don't think most Chinese Android phones ship with Google Play, or any of the other Google apps.
1) there is so much room for error that it makes improving it not worth it
2) there are already many other devices with better readings and already in place

I guess I'm missing something? ...or is it just a proof of concept (when it's cold things get cold)?
That's really what I do too. My partner still subscribes, so I get a chance to have a look from time to time, and I find it quite upsetting, but mostly tedious/boring.

PS, was going through the comments on out.com, and faire enough, one David Kelsey seems to express the same pov. I guess it's not a coincidence.

(I can't comment there's because I'm not on FB, nor any of the other alternatives needed for commenting. AOL, really?)
You give them data, they get billions of dollars. But hey, you can get your voicemails transcribed for free from their neglected voip service and, like, email for free. email for free with circles. So, it's a wash?
Yes! That would be excellent. This way, browser innovation is not limited by 3 gigantic companies and a nonprofit or two fighting five-year political wars over how to draw drop shadows on rectangles.

Webapp developers can just ship the browser (or, well, the renderer) with the application.
It's an Australianism. I lived in Sydney for a very long time :)
Well, it's a message bus, and requires initial setup, so you don't get the zero-boostrapping capability, and require the agent to stay running and have an open port continuously open to the server.

Yes, you can initiate local runs on other CM tools, but with ansible the multi-tier orchestration and rolling updates can be accomplished from the central server without it -- just set it up and run from a laptop.
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Exactly. I think there's a good article to be written about cloud-lock-in and its effect on mobile OS choice. But this isn't it. This is just Marco "whining respectfully" about why his opinion is different because he objects "to a huge, creepy advertising company having that much access to me and my data". Paul's original article, frankly, was just clear advocacy of the form "I tried this and liked it and you should too!", and I can't see how Marco adds anything that wasn't clear from the original.

Really, yawn. I'm personally very much in the Android camp (though not a big cloud user -- I like the photo backups and bookmark synching, but don't use gmail or Google Now much at all), and found Paul's "Android is better" to be a refreshing confirmation that as the market matures and stabilizes iOS users are finally looking at alternatives. But clearly not all of them agree; I don't think I needed to read Marco's blog post to know that.
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It looks like GitHub removed the old rankings completely. For example, I can no longer see C projects ranked by star count. https://github.com/languages/C/most_watched redirects to https://github.com/trending :(

To be honest, I mostly used those pages to satisfy my own vanity. My C project (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher) just beat Arduino (https://github.com/arduino/Arduino) and was gunning for mruby (https://github.com/mruby/mruby).
+1

For those of us who are picky about our content choices -- and especially those of us who don't really give a crap about sports -- cutting cable makes a lot of sense. I wish cable providers offered a lower-cost option with no sports package, but sadly, that's the bread and butter of the entire cable TV business model. So I'm stuck paying largely for content I don't consume.

Bundling is a raw deal for those of us who don't care about the bulk of the bundle. (To say nothing of the silly equipment costs, etc.).
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I get clear utility out of letting Facebook know who my friends are.

I see no clear utility out of letting the NSA know who my friends are.
I feel like it's a bigger picture than what is described.
There are more options and details to each: http://giacomoballi.com/paid-at-startup-salary-equity-shares...
This google cache shows it:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4IOcCsF...
It looks like they need waiters on Mount Desert Island:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2013/08/13/friends-of-aca...
You can have different holdback times for different territories. Don't put it on Netflix for a month in the US but put it on right away in the UK where AMC is not available and Breaking Bad does not appear to have a pay network distributor.

The bigger issue is the fact that most shows DO have foreign distribution. At the point it's not AMC that's holding it back from Netflix, it's the company that's paid a bunch of money to air it over there. The rights windows in each country can have huge variations just depending on how the contracts are negotiated. It's never as simple as "the US airing network isn't allowing me to see this in the UK because they hate me."
This has nothing to do with how much data you send. A server using a kilobit per minute is just as banned as any other kind of server.
Think Marco was talking about privacy in terms of using your data to sell to advertisers. In today's surveillance state, if it exists to the extent we think it does, whatever you do that remains constant so can't be used in comparison.
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While this is undoubtedly true, there is also the case of accidental assignment.

For example:

if (undefined = "something") {}

This is merely a case of stupidity, not madness. :-)
We're still doing this in 2013?
While I see your point on (C), there are characteristics of ansible that have led to that point, such as zero-boostrapping and keeping things very efficient. So yes, I agree that's true, but it hasn't been much of a problem so far.

(D) We're pretty big about backwards compat, so I'm definitely not going to be reverting any priorities. I think a lot of people DO like the way things are set up now. I'm open to including a 'defaults/' type directory in roles though and that's something we are exploring for those that want to ship defaults and don't want to edit their group_vars for whatever reason.
Moral hazard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
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I would wager that the reason Marco (and many other mobile entrepreneurs) gravitate to iOS boils down to one line in his post that he doesn't feel the need to defend:

"We can make a living developing for it."

Android has (roughly) 4X market share but just 1/3 of the revenue compared to iOS. When the per user revenue gap closes, Marco's preference may change.
I don't get the point or impetus for the OP. Is it supposed to be a warning that one should never put all of their information-eggs in one basket? Or that Google is going to be the worser basket of the two?

The latter question of course is just a fanboy debate, and the former question elicits a "no-duh". But to boil it down to just Google vs. Apple misses the bigger picture: to spread our eggs across different baskets raises new issues of security and convenience, which are always going to be tradeoffs.

For example, if you're paranoid that either Apple or Google is going to shut off access to your contacts and calendar, is the solution to spread your information across both?

If so, how do you keep the two in sync (let's assume that at some point in the future, there was no first party support of syncing services)? Or let's say you want to use another calendar/contacts app completely. Then you rely on a third-party service, which raises the issue of 1. How long will that service stay in business? 2. Can you trust it with your data? 3. Do you have to learn another interface?

With the adoption of either iOS/Android, I think customers have shown that they do not want to live a splintered digital life. They want a future posited by sci-fi shows, where "things just work." It's not Apple vs Google, it's convenience vs. personal responsibility/maintenance.
Or individuals in wheelchairs?
The US NE corridor is arguably the only place it makes sense to build a high speed train network.

You'll notice that Elon Musk's plan for the Hyperloop includes an option for shooting automobiles through the tubes. That's because the mass transit within the cities on that coast is shit.

Inter-city mass transit only makes sense once you've solved intra-city mass transit. Unless you really, really love hanging out within a few city blocks of an inter-city train station, you need to have a convenient, desirable mass transit system waiting for you in the city you're going to. If you're linking Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and DC, you're liking the best mass transit system in America with four other pretty good transit systems. Cutting Boston to DC from 6.5 hours to 90 minutes is definitely worth doing.
I think that a bullet hole in the type of tube that supports this much weight is unlikely. Oil pipeline tubes would typically be thinner (less weight to support) and the concept of a bullet piercing those tubes is unlikely.
The point behind it is you can delete the key in one place and not have to worry about erasing every part of flash in the machine (which, after remapping, may not even be possible through normal means).
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If this video was made today it'd be filled with nonsense about Facebook and Twitter. Wikipedia might feature, but I figure email would be a footnote.
> It blows my mind that in this era if your content doesn't require localization efforts why it isn't made universally available ASAP

Because shows are distributed by different companies in different territories.

In many cases the company that airs the show doesn't produce it. You even have cases where a show airs on one network but another network has digital distribution rights and a third has physical distribution rights, and that's only in the US.

International media rights are an extremely complicated thing and usually each show is negotiated individually.

I work in this space and it's crazy how complicated it can get.
My 1st line was a poorly worded TL;DR of the article. I agree with your point.
Loads of radical innovation takes place as Open Source. Git (the software and the philosophy it embodies) being a really good example.

As to innovation in software frameworks, it is not going to take place on the Desktop, it’s taking place in the browser—where every major burgeoning framework is Open Source.
Here's the most watched C repositories https://github.com/search?l=C&q=%22&type=Repositories
Classic Prisoner's Dilemma.
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> "... they aren't Zen masters"

Well, not all of them, at least :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8fcqrNO7so
Can someone explain to me why Marco Arment's opinion is so important? I mean it even seems like he doesn't understand why. What makes him so popular?
> it's still impossible to minimize a full screen game on Linux or alt-tab

I'm not sure how it handles it, but kerbal space program doesn't have this problem in linux.
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This was about a month's worth of work. It boots on ARM PBA8, RealView EB (needs some timer hacks for it to work), and TI OMAP3 based platforms. Dyld will load but loading launchd will fail due to some VFS corruption issue. There are a ton of issues in this codebase, but hey, you get a cool framebuffer and serial output from something that's not Linux or xxxBSD.

Have fun.

(I'm 16 by the way.)
The Government would say: NSA protects you from the terrorists, there's your clear utility. But there are enough other threads to discuss NSA.

I'm interested in Google here. What are our limits feeding it? Are we really aware of what we are doing, in the name of convenience?
There's ALWAYS a job available if you're willing to accept a low enough wage and relocate. No matter who you are. Maybe not right where you're at now.

Surely you're not implying that getting AIDS is in any way a good idea.
You could also use SMAWK.
My fragile sense of self-worth thanks you.
The top ten languages are listed on the side here https://github.com/search?q=%22&type=Repositories

edit: The actual number "#42" is gone for now, but will be resurfaced in more interesting ways in the future. (SOON)
It's actually really stupid. Car sharing models mean you'll have a car waiting for you at the destination. There's no reason to bring your own steel and rubber.
Because many (most?) of the channels you have are subsidized by the popular channels. Of course, they still sell advertising time.
Obviously if you're willing to give up the reboot/etc. tolerance, you can run a ramfs and buy more ram, especially on servers or desktops (it isn't too hard to get absurd things like 18 DIMM slots in a machine)
1) Leaving the city means leaving the safety net of begging for money and food.
2) Would you hire a homeless man who just moved to your small town and is starting to suffer from withdrawal, has no place to live, and has no means of reliably getting to work? for any job?

There's a world of separation between the jobless and the homeless. No amount of willpower can bridge that divide, only fortune.
...Did you watch the video?
It'd be interesting to conduct a blind test, where all the logos/branding were removed from the devices.
You get utility in exchange for giving them utility^2.

Is it worth giving someone $100 if they turn around and turn it into $10,000 when you get nothing in return? (Note: we're not designed to think on such expansive macro-connected scales, so nobody (except weirdos) cares to stop enabling such broken behaviors.)
Just hit "escape" when the page loads. This is "hacker news", right?
I'm saying that the number Netflix pays per stream is so small it might as well round down to zero. If just getting users to watch your show on Netflix was a great way to make money then everyone would be putting their new shows on Netflix. Almost no one does that. Instead everyone puts old seasons of their shows on Netflix in hopes that consumers will then watch the new season on subscription cable or buy the show direct off iTunes.

Content holders effectively give away old content so they can sell new content. If they give away new content there is nothing left to sell.
I'd be interested in hearing what you mean about being more abstract, but I think you'll like the simplicity angle.

In general, we build things with the goal of readability by diverse levels of skill and busy-ness -- to make things readable like a book and easy so you don't forget something in Ansible 6 months after you wrote it, and so you can dive in, get something done, and dive out.

We've got some IT managers saying they can tell employees to do X, Y, and Z, and not knowing Ansible, can still read the playbook. So, it should be fine for your freelancer case I'm sure. This is also why there is no graph dependency system, just handlers and notifies, so you can read things top to bottom.
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They could at least provide guidelines.

Right now I seriously have no idea if a legal, non-commercial instance of apache averaging 50kbps and peaking at 5mbps is going to violate their rules or not.

If they said it had to be enough bandwidth to affect others then I could breathe a sigh of relief that I'm fine.
What if IBM has a clue?
Why has it been painted as a dichotomy of Apple vs Google?

In my experience, you want apple software/service, you have to go apple hardware; and essentially vice-versa. (Correct me if I'm wrong!)

But if you go with Android (or other OSes) you can choose whatever "cloud" services you want. Just cause Paul used Google with his android phone doesn't mean you have to.
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If you're familiar with Go you can read the source of the apply function here:

the loadKernel function reads in the kernel and builds a symbol table looking for the bsd_ast and current_thread symbols here:

https://code.google.com/p/rsc/source/browse/cmd/pprof_mac_fi...

then the "apply" func writes the modified binary instructions code:

https://code.google.com/p/rsc/source/browse/cmd/pprof_mac_fi...
Great article. I think considering lower bounds and building intuition of a problem before attempting to solve it is a major step in algorithm design lots of people miss. If you don't really know your problem well, how can you ever be certain that your solution is good, let alone optimal!
And that's the point Marco makes; that relying solely on one vendor (Apple/Google/Facebook/Twitter/MS) is foolish.
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I struggle a lot with procrastination. I'm not even sure if its that, laziness, a lack of discipline or all three.

From the age of 13, I distinctly remember not bring able to finish software/game projects, not out of difficulty but something I can barely describe. I just hit a block. If I try and force my way past it, I go at a snails pace and have no where near as much energy as when first starting the project. This is true even if its a trivial project longer than a couple of days.

This is true for almost everything in my life. Ill stick to a healthy eating regime for a couple if weeks, I'll exercise daily for 5 days and books and projects remain some percentage completed. The only things I can seem to finish are ones I can do in one sitting.

What's interesting to note is that this problem is more subtle. It is not as intense.

I was wondering if anyone has any advice? I do believe this problem is seriously getting in the way if my life.
His proposal includes "entertainment displays", so there is some sort of built in distraction technology.
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> The next super power (China?) will, with time, probably behave in an equivalent fashion.

And no doubt when they do, you'll be at the forefront defending them? Re-read your 2nd and 3rd paragraphs as a defence of China as a world power. Do you still stand by them?
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Your comment could have a few names changed and apply equally well to the Lycos and Yahoo web portals of the early Internet.

The Tech elite have the same chance as the rest of us. We're all humans, vulnerable to loneliness, envy and every other mortal sin. The pain of switching is not technical, but social and political.

It is a deeply political and social decision to disconnect from our social fabric and not one that even the most ostracized members of society make in haste. I just think you're ignoring the real costs in favor of the monetary concerns.
I (the author) actually did lose a lot of time trying to prove those weren't the same bound! Eventually I found a variable assignment that made it obvious:

let w = n/log(n)
let h = n

(Note: I use ↑ and ↓ as binary operators for max and min.)
(Note: @= means asymptotically equal. Analogous for @<.)

'switching'
@= (w ↑ h) ↓ ((w ↓ h) log(w ↑ h))
@= (n/log(n) ↑ n) ↓ ((n/log(n) ↓ n) log(n/log(n) ↑ n))
@= n ↓ (n/log(n) log(n))
@= n

'lower'
@= ((w ↓ h) log((w ↑ h)/(w ↓ h))
@= n/log(n) log(n/(n/log(n))
@= n log(log(n)) / log(n)
@< n
I don't know about you, but the device itself is branding. If I pick up an iPhone, I know pretty much immediately that I'm holding an iPhone based on the layout of the buttons, especially the "God" button. Similarly I would never mistake my Nexus 4 for an iPhone 5.
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Yet another handful of anecdotes about a need-based social welfare program.

If you're desperate enough, sabotaging yourself to qualify for a need-based social program eventually becomes the objectively optimal thing to do. This is the first I've heard of that sabotage extended all the way to intentionally getting AIDS and intentionally not seeking treatment, though.

Typically these stories can be dismissed for the anecdotes they are. I have a handful of right-winger friends who love sending me some article from the Wichita Star or something where some woman got promoted at her job, lost her Medicaid benefits, so she quit her job, and now gets even more benefits, or something, and RAAAR $16 TRILLION IN DEBT WE'RE ON THE ROAD TO GREECE MAKERS TAKERS SMALL BUSINESS THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO HELL.

No, this country has decided it's beyond the state's responsibility to provide food, shelter, and medicine to everyone. Instead, various state and local programs only provide it those things to a fraction of the people who need it, usually based on some seemingly well-intentioned criteria. And then some people have the kind of lives where being a homeless prostitute without AIDS is worse than having a roof and having AIDS, so they decide to do that.

You can accept that any program like this will induce morally hazardous behavior in some people, and look for objective information vs. sensationalized anecdotes to see if that program needs reform. You can also realize any need-based program will almost always introduce said morally hazardous behavior, and the problem is that we underfund these programs so that they need this need-based criteria to begin with.

Or you can push to eliminate all these programs because you think they turn everyone into lazy welfare AIDS-seeking moochers, and the good news for you is there's already a political party in the US that pretty much supports all that.
(disclaimer: I'm one of the Libcloud developers)

I want to add some context to this.

Our current abstraction provides a relatively simple API which is guaranteed to work across multiple providers.

If you want to access provider specific functionality we offer so called extension methods and arguments. This is similar to how jclouds and other cross-provider libraries handle that as well.

We support over 30 providers and for the more popular ones this means you can usually access most of the native cloud functionality through the base API + extension methods.

Doing that will obviously make it harder and more work to switch between different providers so we always put up a disclaimer and make sure our users are aware of that.

We are trying to standardize as many APIs as possible and promote extension methods to the to top level API (proposals and patches are always very welcome and appreciated!), but sadly in a lot of cases this is not possible. Usually this is because the provider APIs are too different and the glue code needed to make it work would be to complex.

In the end it's a trade-off, pretty much like everything else in life and a lot of other things in CS (CAP anyone?).

If you want good portability and easily switch between providers you will stick to the base API. If you don't care so much about the portability you will also use the extension API.

Side note: Even though official provider client libraries exists, a lot of people still tend to use Libcloud with extension methods.

Usually the reason is that we support a variety of Python versions and we have a stricter testing policy which tends to result in less buggy code.