skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said "determining" not "determined," but then you conclude with some absolute ontological statement about something-such not existing.

A: "Are you going to school tomorrow?"
B: "Well, statisticians tell me crime rates are incredibly high; so I probably won't make it to school. Why go, it might as well not exist?"

The point of A is lost — get an education. It's not all teet-sucking techno-commerce; those statistics say nothing about how peoples came to build those systems in the first place of which those [EDIT:] quantificational terms like "income level" describe.

Moreover, a revolution does not require that anyone die off, but that a system, or status quo, ends.
A useful snippet from the page:

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head-fi is still my go-to source for headphone discussion :)
I don't :). For what it's worth, our government very recently passed laws granting our GCSB much further reaching powers. It's been a media circus; one particularly hypocritical politician's currently up in arms because a bunch of his data was compromised -- but in a staggering display of cognitive dissonance, Mr. Dunne voted for the law anyway.

Basically, I've always accepted that whatever I do online is public anyway. That doesn't mean I endorse that, and I'd rather give my money to local companies than endorse the US at this time.
Most of the criticism you hear isn't very relevant for a beginner who's learning, and most people having those discussions have forgotten what it is like to be a beginner a long time ago.

If you like the "accessibility" of PHP, if you like programming in it, if you like the learning resources you have and you like the forums you've found, then go for it.

In due time you'll discover what the criticism about PHP was all about, form your own opinion and might check out other options (and Java won't be scary any more - just different syntax and a few concepts that you'll appreciate better when you have some experience).
So how much money can you make crowdworking?
The US mortgage market was not owned by the US government, it was securitized and therefore incredibly difficult to figure out who actually held the debt.

The financial crisis was bigger than the subprime market. Banks were over leveraged and bond ratings were bogus. If the problem was just sub-prime mortgages, and the actual holders of those sub-prime mortgages were easy to identify, the problem would have been simpler.
None of which ranks up there with killing people, or mass financial fraud, even if they were true. Which several of them are not.
Compared to an Arduino, this is smaller, consumes less power and has a "standard" layout and costs about 1/3rd of an "official" Arduino. The downsides are that there's less memory and less cpu perf, there are less I/O pins, but a lot of (practical, non-beginner) projects don't need that many pins. A highlight would be hardware SPI and I2C support, which are communication protocols for small gadgets (the AVR chip in Arduino has I2C/SPI but you can't use it from Arduino code, you need to write C) and PWM (pulse width modulation) which is a pseudo-analog output signal used to control things like servos.

So what could it be used for? Get a bunch of sensors and actuators that communicate with SPI/I2C/PWM. Think about things like accelerometers, gyroscopes, proximity sensors, liquid crystal displays, motor controllers, servo motors. Now plug them together and build just about any gadget you can imagine.

It's better than an Arduino if you're short on space, weight or power consumption. Things like tiny flying machines or wearable gadgets.

If you're a beginner looking for your first microcontroller platform, the Arduino will probably be easier to approach.
>just a bad year.

1918 was just a bad year, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

>It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them—3 to 5 percent of the world's population at the time—making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.
but voting with your money is a powerful tool. If the US companies lose money because of this issue, they will pressure the government to do something about it.

Just think about the use of microsoft os/programs in the government and how much they could lose.
That's bad. Very bad. iOS Apps use timestamp everywhere so I'm sure this could be a low hanging fruit optimization for many apps out there.

You should wrap this piece of code in a nice API and let people benefit from your findings. (Someone else could do it too, I'm just saying!)
All the dedicated server providers I know, do in fact use "consumer" HDs in systems, but allow you to spend more to use "server" HDs.

And, a properly equipped server for the workload being used, should not have its disks being used a lot, since loads tend to be spiky. So they should be busy during peak periods but much less busy other times.
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I think with better documentation I'd actually call Erlang's model "easy" in that its really easy to do things correctly with absolutely minimum chance of corruption/failure/non-repeatability. OTP gives you the tooling—releases, versions thereof, and simultaneous multiple module tenancy being key—to actually do a good job. That's a rare thing.
Cheap interest rates are destroying jobs.

Artificially low interest rates == artificially high amount to spend on machine replacing labor == labor earnings go down as percentage of the economy.
That doesn't actually make it better. The point is that we want people in those communities to be able to trust that the doctors who come to their door don't have an ulterior motive. It's not a question of whether the vaccines are real (though faking that would of course have been far worse).
Yes, I believe we've entered the era where almost anyone can learn anything, and self-educate himself. Things like educating oneself on the internet that were not possible only 5-15 years ago are becoming possible and much more easily accessible by many. It's possible that for many years majority people are not going to wake up that realization, like I said in my first comment, which is sad.

Any study you're going to look at that measures "lifetime outcome" (if you can measure such thing, is Nikola Tesla a bad outcome because he didn't have much money at the time he died?) will have to look at a span of 50 years at least. So a study done right now would have to start for people born around 1963 at best - a time very, very different from the world nowadays.
Datacenters aren't poofed into existence. The networking hardware could be compromised at the factory, which would compromise the datacenter's network security without compromising its physical security or any of the servers.
>I have also never seen a case of autism.

What? You can't tell just by looking at someone if they have autism. You must have some sort of preconceived notions of what autism looks like. For example, here is two people in my family with autism (they are identical twins)

http://i.imgur.com/9PP5O6T.jpg http://i.imgur.com/aedlKYR.jpg

Rather than saying something incredibly ignorant like "I've never seen it," why don't we use science?

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673699...

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=197365

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa021134

Those are just some peer reviewed scientific publications disproving any association between autism and vaccines. If you aren't looking at real facts, you are just as bad as the anti-vacciners.

NOW, lets talk about how this got started.

The association was started by one study authored by Andrew Wakefield and published in The Lancet. Andrew Wakfield had serious conflicts of interests and it was later found he was paid money by British trial lawyers to prove the vaccine was dangerous so the lawyers could get rich suing. Hundreds of thousands of pounds we are talking. It was found he had manipulated evidence and broken other ethical codes to publish that paper in The Lancet.

The Lancet paper was partially retracted in 2004 and fully retracted in 2010, and Wakefield was found guilty by the General Medical Council of serious professional misconduct in May 2010 and was struck off the Medical Register, meaning he could no longer practice medicine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_controversy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
I would love to see their prior probability distribution for that, and how it was obtained.
Mozilla's bug tracking system has a "good first bug" tag:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=sw:[goo...

Other projects, such as GHC (the Haskell compiler), have a "difficulty" field in their bug tracking system.
Why convert each date with a select if they are putting it into the db anyway? Why not just let sqlite do the conversion as part of the insert statement?
No, but it runs fine using Wine. I created a shell script to launch it with a key-stroke. If you want browser integration, you can run Firefox in Wine as well (or Chrome).
"They complicate referring to a physical instant, because you can refer to it in several timezones, rather than the unique representation of a unix timestamp."

I thought it's supposed to be an external format. I'd always expect a computer system presenting the output information to the user in his local time zone, while accepting inputs from all time zones equally.

"But they're inadequate for political time, because what time comes 6 months after 13:00 (+00:00)? (It could be 13:00 (+01:00) or 13:00 (+00:00) or likely others - you need a symbolic timezone like "Europe/Lisbon")."

You can't standardize a changing practice. I'd never expect it to deal with these issues.
For non-US companies this is even worse. We could actually get sued for not securing our data, if we use hosting in US. Already happened to Irish Google.
Personally, I've seen a lot more vaccination refusal among left-wing anti-corporate types than among the devoutly religious. That may be a function of my usual peer group, but to solve this problem it's going to be important to recognize how widespread it can be.
Ditto. I can't believe "we only spy on communications involving foreigners" is actually an acceptable argument in the United States.
Beg to disagree with your first line. The Gmail GUI was good to begin with but over the past three or four years it has got worse and worse. Now it's poor, and sometimes terrible.

No consolation that some other Google products, such as G+, are even worse.
This craziness with CC is the norm rather than the exception whenever the company has international breadth.
It sadly due to international treaties, weird taxation and bureaucracy rather than coding.
three examples:
Apple store
Amazon
Playstation Store

I agree with you that this is ludicrous, but sadly there's not much you can do. (I keep my french bank account on only to keep my ps games.)
>Looking at the facts lead me to a moderate position.

Mention them, rather than "moderation", and people may not downvote you.
The world has become an (almost) weightless place -
After failing to fund an ubuntu phone, now they're trying their luck again with a not so cheap, not so good hardware (who wants an intel atom instead of arm?).

I use linux but I have come to really dislike ubuntu over time, so this is pointless to me, but I wish them luck.
Is that a quote from the article, or do you just use quotes for emphasis of your own words?
There was a similar discussion on a similar story 14 days back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6268430
Name a country where it is not.
"Millennials believe stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing"
Yeah, but OP was going to Sweden. It should have been easy enough to verify with the embassy if they wanted to.
Slightly off topic, but relevant question: how many people move away from PHP because they get too annoyed to work with it - even if it does "work" - and how many are moving from other languages _to_ PHP because they had enough of another language.
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I am doing the same. It is a lot of extra work and cost but there is now zero trust in any US company.

Can anyone recommend a Linode alternative not US based?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_of_Lehman_Brothers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Mutual#Bankruptcy

etc.
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I understand that if I was targetted for investigation, nothing within my power can really prevent that. Having worked in an ISP's operations department, I've seen both sides of the coin. I'm under no illusions here :).

Still, I'd rather my money went to local interests, and my data stayed within a sphere I have some control of.
I agree. <sarcasm>Artist and photographers love autocenter/ crop, because it always works great.</sarcasm>

As someone who inherited an open studios site that did the auto cropping of artist images thing, the first thing I did was get rid of that. I was a minor hero.
I use affinity.net.nz -- it's run by a friend :). Probably not the greatest if you're not in New Zealand though, as our international bandwidth charges are pretty high.
Not at all, they've made it quite clear that there are only two options: have the capability to decrypt everything or create America's Great Firewall. They couldn't give a rats ass about the economy.

Now that the cat's out of the bag I'm sure they will refocus their efforts on shoring up the defence of every government communications network.
Aren't Freddy and Fanny state-owned and de facto holding most securitized mortgages in the US?
If you have an Android phone, Google tracks your location (GPS, cell towers and maps-wardriving-provided Wifi hotspots at least), so it's probably easy to see who met who. Maybe they also save seen bluetooth devices.

Phones don't record conversations in the pocket by default yet, but it's not inconceivable when computing efficiency improves that recording is always on, and keyword data is saved by default. Handy if it can creates calendar markings from verbal agreements...

And with Glass, video too.

So meeting in person is getting less secure as well.
No one is forcing anyone. It is just a courtesy, not a binding, to acknowledge the group who built the OS ground up.

The GNU project had built all pieces of the OS, before convincing Linus Torvalds to release his proprietary kernel code in the GPL license.
If the shakedown theory is true, and I'm not sure that it is, that's an order of magnitude beyond the evil threshold.

Now I believe it is true, would not have believed it a few years ago. This Larry Page era is full of surprises, and lets remember that all his pet projects (Android, Google+, X etc) are tolerated by investors because earnings are being increased by 20%+ a year. So Google has to do all it can to increase CPC and number of clicks. The ads on pages have been maximized and then some so they need to resort to tricks and penalties for sites. IMO, this is done at senior level Google execs and then Search execs find the excuse to match search algorithms with what's most profitable for Google. So the lowly search engineer is "changing the world" as the execs count the ad clicks, CPC--and their stock options.

Who wrote this: "The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users...But less blatant bias are likely to be tolerated by the market. For example, a search engine could add a small factor to search results from "friendly" companies, and subtract a factor from results from competitors. This type of bias is very difficult to detect but could still have a significant effect on the market. Furthermore, advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results. For example, we noticed a major search engine would not return a large airline's homepage when the airline's name was given as a query. It so happened that the airline had placed an expensive ad, linked to the query that was its name. A better search engine would not have required this ad, and possibly resulted in the loss of the revenue from the airline to the search engine. In general, it could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want. " ? Larry Page and Sergey Brin back in academia.

>> One plus though, businesses still have the option of engaging their local community which may have a stronger effect than just search ads

The problem is that a lot of people use search to find companies, services and products. Getting frozen out of that is a major handicap. We should support alternative SEs so we have a healthy competition.
>They can of course print more money and keep depreciating their currency, but history shows us that that doesn't end well.

History has shown us no such thing.
You're thinking too small scale.

Certificate Authorities are almost certainly compromised. Why bother with one at a time when you can just force the vendor to hand the keys to the castle over? Sign your own certs, MITM anyone you want.
Open Street Maps are generally better quality, where they are available.
It's not just a map layer - it's also Gmail, chat and forums GUI (see below in this thread), various Google APIs, Reader, Labs...

They managed to get a lot of things right, which is hard. Now not only do they seem to stop getting it right, they actively remove the good things they had built. That's a very disappointing trend, which I hope can still be reversed.
A family from my region went on a trip to Wales and both kids contracted measles and were sick when they returned. When the children were young the parents never had them vaccinated and now they're sick.

It was just sheer luck this happened when school was out, the school system here doesn't require kids to be vaccinated as most places in Canada require.

It's so easy for a stupid thing to escalate into a world-wide event all because of a few anti-vaccination idiots.
Yes. Or MapQuest.

Hey, this is the internet. We all switched from AltaVista to Google and from MapQuest to Google Maps, and from Yahoo mail to Gmail. If Google sucks, vote with your feet.

It's really no harder than changing a bookmark.
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Yea, 15 times faster would have be much clearer. On the other hand, 1400% has "shock value" and makes for a very link-baity title.
Killing about 5% of the entire population of the world about 100 million people, just imagine now with seven billion if a flu outbreak killed 350 million people.

Even people on remote islands in the middle of oceans died from the flu.
My experience suggests that's not always the case :(.
Facile indeed, full of loose talk.

> and the only effect will be to devalue the yen, if anyone cares, which they don't.

So if the yen is devalued to $0.0000001 they won't care? With what will they pay for imported oil? Japan might prefer a weaker currency; not worthless, but stable. Many japanese entities have foreign denominated debts, and exporters also rely on imports in some form.

> Everyone knows it's unpayable, if it had to actually be repaid, which it doesn't.

The national debt of any country is not expected to be repaid. Japan is no different. Nor is the Japan the only country writing a bunch of cheques to itself. That's the essence of QE.

Japan is heavily in debt. Were they to write off that debt overnight, it would still be heavily in debt because the write-off would show up in the accounts of the bond-holders, many of whom would be made insolvent. Foreign entities would then refuse to trade with Japan. You'd merely be taking from one hand and giving to the other. There's no trickery or matrices, there's nothing unreal about any of this. The accounting practices may be absurd, but there is real value at stake, and destroying it is to be avoided, not posed as a solution.
Well exactly this is the total wrong approach. This does not work at all. For example you will find myself not in address nook neither is my mobile phone number in any public phone book. A customer knows exactly how his address is written and furthermore mail services are most of the time able to figure out where the delivery belongs to
If the address is not clear. As mentioned by the other comments above, there are so many exceptions. This is a pretty good article about zip code: http://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-ab...
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"Speaking as a foreigner, I now have very little trust for basically any major US tech corporation"

Speaking as an American, if they do this to US tech companies, imagine what they do non-US companies.
For me, all the revelations and confirmations of foil hat theories have destroyed the joy the internet used to be. To me its now a dirty high tech voyeur spy's dream.

As for the US part of this, yes, my country the UK, is up to its neck in it, but, the part that is driving me away from the internet is the fact that Americans think their laws apply to non-Americans, and if necessary, Americans will force those laws on people who had no vote in it what so ever. Government will be leaned on and pressured to hand their people over to a US legal system I have zero faith in, and a penal system that borders a barbaric reinvention of slavery. If that fails, the US will "render" people, or as the rest of us call it, kidnap. To get my encryption keys, as a foreigner I genuinely fear American torture.

Now, I suspect the likes of China also do or aspire to spy on us all in the same way, but I don't feel the same risk of state kidnap, their laws, legals system, etc.

The spying is one thing, to a point I can live with that and alter behavior to compensate, but the idea I could break laws I don't agree with and have no influence over, while getting no support from my government, or be kidnapped, is frankly too much to accept. Even in typing this post I am self censoring.

As such, the internet has now become something I'm now very wary of. I almost feel like the using the internet is the same as traveling to the US, which is something I would never ever do. Its simply not worth the risk to my liberty and freedom.

Sad, very sad.
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>You're correct, but they mostly went unheard.

Even worse, it was heard constantly, but ridiculed. Every other mainstream article seemed to be "Why Hysterical Morons Seem to Think That We're In a Housing Bubble, and Why They Are Idiots Who Are Missing Out On a Great Chance to Flip a House!"

http://www.amazon.com/Real-Estate-Boom-Will-Bust/dp/03855143...
I never said you were talking directly about US policy. I both times used the word "implication." You say there are two camps. I point out that the majority view, which includes the views of the CDC and WHO, and described in their publications, is in neither of those camps that you proposed.

Specifically, you say "Sadly both camps (pro and anti vaccines) have too extreme positions to have a constructive debate."

The US health policy is decidedly pro vaccine. Therefore, I can use it an exemplar to determine if it has "extreme views" which are "too extreme positions to have a constructive debate."

I then showed that there is a lot of debate and cost/benefit analysis on the use of different vaccines, including a change in the vaccination policies over time as conditions change. Nothing about the debate looks "extreme".

Therefore either you don't understand the majority view or you are using an very different reference frame than the others on this forum, without explaining the context shift.

That's the likely source of the downvotes that you complained about.
But for what advantage? What are the chances that I type my mail, phone and address completly wrong so that the sender can't contact me at all? I don't see any advantages in that validation.