skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A person's desire to not want to fund extreme violence of states and to not want funding obtained by the threat of violence are two ethical positions that are wholly separate from whether said person wishes to promote social welfare through nonviolent means. In a more humane society, all social safety nets would be decoupled from the institutions and industries of force, violence, and war.

What of the people on food stamps, you ask.

They are very important people. They matter. People in need of food and shelter are of deep concern to many people. It's good of you to ask such a fundamental question. Social welfare is critical in many areas. However, the means by which it exists is open to great evolution. Peaceful transitions are critical. Increasing the amount of care in the world and increasing the ways with which people can leverage their individual and collective power (not through violent systems) is critical. Likewise, it's critical -- to many people -- to reject systems and methods one cannot ethically abide by, and to not increase the size and scope of what one recognizes as the unbridled power of suited machines and ulterior, menacing interests.
I'm not trying to "correct" him, just want to make sure aspirational HN travellers take advantage of a tiny piece of information he may have missed. Of course, if you'd rather read too much into a trivial comment on a trivial article, knock yourself out. That's also par for the course.
This article had potential, but its facts are questionable. For example, it claims that "California has been losing native-born residents for two decades."

See here: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-shows-increase...
Because the full power of Java exists in Applets. Browsers do their best to sandbox it and to make sure users give permission before it is allowed outside the sandbox. There are probably other reasons too, but that's afaik the basic reason.

I think it's a little unfair how the whole industry has treated Applets vs. Flash. Applets were pretty nice but Sun couldn't really fight it out like Adobe did against the other larger players.

Anyhow, I disabled Applets and Flash recently myself too. The web works ok, thanks to Apple I guess, but I still need to flip on Flash occasionally.
You can change the font size.
So when do we embrace remote working?

I've worked remotely for big American companies like Motorola (I live in Sweden) and continue to work from home for local Swedish companies. Almost all the people I interface with are in various offices in various timezones around the world anyway.

I also do game programming jams e.g. Ludum Dare over a weekend occasionally, and these are also distributed remote efforts. Yet we manage to work at a furious pace with the same immediacy and accessibility as if we were sitting in the same room.

It works well. It works well for me, and I believe it can be made to work well in general.

This is not just about IT type jobs; most office-work can be done remotely. Only people actually manipulating machinery directly need to be in physical contact with their machine.

But there is a definite distrust and dislike of it, especially among management types.
I'm always slumping and I am 40. Pretty tall, too. Surprised that I don't have a lot of back pain - sometimes I wonder if the slumping has saved me...
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That's an especially sad and wasteful example. What a beautiful place and what a privilege to get to see it, to squander by not even going out and touching it is such a travesty. I hope someday to have the kind of free time, money and connections that might afford a trip there, but it doesn't look likely. What a sad waste.
well i guess we'll never impress you
Well supposedly the difference would be only 5x max for LTC ASIC and be significantly more expensive per equivalent ASIC chip due to the memory requirements compared to BTC ASICs.
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As long as the person in front of you doesn't decide to lean back their chair. I've spent coding sessions on a plane with my screen tipped so far forward I had to lean down to see it. If you fly, please don't lean back your chair without checking if the guy behind you has a laptop out.
It's not really a mistake, possessive forms of pronouns are irregular with often several valid manifestations.
Do you have to use the touchscreen?
I don't like saying this, but her looks have something
to do with it?
Not sure if it's because I'm on iOS chrome, but I don't see how or where to create these animations. I would think generating content is one of the primary actions you want users to be doing.

I also noticed that the page numbering is odd. The second page is numbered 7 in the URL, third page is 6, etc.

You may wan to consider a search feature and or categories rather than only reverse chronological order.

What's your long term vision/plan?
A construction worker can generally make more money in San Francisco than in suburban Fresno. But it won’t likely be enough more to make up the difference in the relative cost of living. Indeed, few working-class people earn enough money to live anywhere near San Francisco anymore, to the point that there is now a severe shortage of construction workers in the Bay Area.

The wages for construction workers will go up and the situation should correct itself automatically. Unfortunately, it will take some time for people to adjust their cultures so that construction workers are valued more socially - like people who write term sheets.
Obviously, I would prefer to work with this guy than with someone more interesting but clueless. However, this doesn't mean that I would be happy doing it.

On the one hand, you present a very idealized case: how can she engage in (tangentially) work-related discussions if she's never around when discussions happen outside of meetings? After 8 years in industry and 4 as a PhD student, I have worked with and around many excellent people. However, I still have to meet someone that fits your example. They probably exist, but it is way easier to find either excellent interesting people or excellent boring people who simply won't get as engaged in your team/company.

On the other hand, at least for a small company, hiring the wrong person is much more costly than passing on a good candidate. Thus, when you interview (hopefully excellent) boring persons, probabilities are hugely stacked against them.
Seeing that my faculty advisor is pushing me toward PhD hastily, this is completely relevant and something I worry about.

Thanks so much for your input.
I have a third party dock for my late 2011 MBP and OS X always gets confused when I dock and undock when it's sleeping. It doesn't always detect my monitors (DVI and USB), sometimes the keyboard doesn't wake it up, sometimes it just crashes a black screen. So while the dock itself works pretty well, OS X doesn't feel like it's well tested in that type of scenario.
It basically was Sun's way to make budget. I would hope Oracle just does away with it.

https://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/will-the-...

We signed a contract through which we’d make their toolbar optionally available to our audience via the Java update mechanism. They paid us a much appreciated fee, which increased dramatically when we renegotiated the contract a year later. Distribution was becoming quite valuable to us and to them – and given the “take” rates, or the rates at which consumers were choosing to install new content, the Java audience saw value in the new application.

The year following, the revenue increased dramatically again – when an aspiring search company (again, you can figure out who) outbid our first partner to place their toolbar in front of Java users (this time, limited to the US only). Toolbars, it turns out, are a significant driver of search traffic – and the billions of Java runtimes in the market were a clear means of driving value and opportunity.
The revenues to Sun were also getting big enough for us to think about building a more formal business around Java’s distribution power – to make it available to the entire Java community, not simply one or two search companies on yearly contracts.

And that’s what Project Vector is designed to deliver – Vector is a network service to connect companies of all sizes and types to the roughly one billion Java users all over the world. Vector (which we’ll likely rename the Java Store), has the potential to deliver the world’s largest audience to developers and businesses leveraging Java and JavaFX. What kinds of companies might be interested?
If you talk to a Fortune 500 company or a startup, pretty much everyone craves access to consumers – which is the one problem we’ve solved with the Java platform. Most folks don’t think of Sun as a consumer company, and largely we’re not, but our runtimes reach more consumers than just about any other company on earth.

-Jonathan Schwartz
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More fun HAProxy bits include pinning a user persistently to one machine (which fails over when that machine fails a health-check)

Particularly useful when you've got a web+mc combo in one machine which can get the most out of such a setup - http://notmysock.org/blog/hacks/haproxy-user-repinning
House Approves Debt Ceiling Agreement to Reopen Federal Government
Breaking bread with TTFB (time-to-fist-byte) worst enemy
LinkedIn accessing FB and email contacts
> run Windows on the hardware

Out of the frying pan, into the fire...
Yes, it happens measurably often on hot paths in reality. I have test cases that produce it against modern builds of v8 and spidermonkey. Naturally, they are not all real-world examples, but they're based on problems from real apps.
Sports commentary has been called (paraphrase) 'a business built on talking about the results of a weighted random number generator'. I expect that parent is using this comparison to express a judgement on the value of the article...
Get a VPS and run it?
Would really love to read a journal of his trip and experiences during them.
Yes-Yes-and Yes. Yahoo decline always bothered me. I
think their stock will eventually be higher than Google, as
long as they don't start acting like Google. Yahoo
still has historical stock API's, while Google decided to
hog the info, and is most likely charging. I wish I bought
Yahoo stock a few years ago.
I have yet to crack the code in motivating myself in a remote-work setting, despite working as a programmer and despite my best intentions. For those whom it works, great, but that... let's call it skepticism instead of distrust -- that skepticism isn't wholly unfounded.
I wouldn't call an end to remote work incredibly positive.
Will it be? Screens in low end laptops are not changing so far. It's the same abysmal resolution for quite a while now. The higher end (> $800) are getting better now finally.
CompetitorLand on ArcticStartup
You are cheating because of all the menus you had to jump through just to make the project :-)
This is a "fundamental flaw" of ANY capitalist system. The rich can usually make more money than the poor. Bitcoin is no worse than other systems (but better in other aspects, eg decentralization).
No information about usage policies. What if we exceed bandwidth? What if I want to build a search engine and scrape the web none stop, forever (I do btw). How many virtual servers are allocated to a real machine?

I'd buy 100 but want more info
Nonsense.

The thing which (to me) makes a scripting language /better/ for actual scripting, is that it's run from sourcecode.

In unix terms, if the file starts with '#!'

Why? Because I can write a 4 line BASH script which I plonk into /usr/local/bin and it just works. When I want to check why something happened on the filesystem, I can open the script in place, and step through it in the REPL.

No faffing around with trying to figure out where the source code is, no compile/link/whatever...

Of course, while developing something a little more serious in a scripting language, I use a linter+unittests in pretty much the same way as a compiler... but that's besides the point.

Haskell is usually much more concise than C++, but I don't consider it a scripting language. (OK, I could use an interpeted haskell, I suppose... Just as you could use a BBC micro ASM interpreter in a VM... but whatever. It's just silly)
Could you revisit the link you posted?

I believe it now implements Forward Secrecy...
Here in Germany it's 0.30 EUR/kWh.
It makes it easier for managers to work with people in open offices. They can keep a passive ear open for other people's status and possibly change design decisions as it happens.

Remotely, a lot of potential communication gets dropped and you have to do a lot of active effort to get status and so on. It's basically more work to manage remote workers. Just like its more work to have your team spread throughout a building or on another floor.

There is also the micro-management aspect of it, where they can shoulder surf and make sure people are only doing work activities. Some people probably get some sort of emotional satisfaction in telling people what to do in person too.

Timezones can be annoying for communication. Anybody who has to do 8pm india/china meetings can tell you that.
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I work remotely from Cambodia for companies mostly based in the UK (but also in the US and elsewhere). Lots of startups do not want to hire remotely. I have heard "no" more than once from companies in the Bay Area. However, it has become less of a problem over the last few years, because with every year that goes by, it gets easier to just do your own startup without ever setting foot in the Bay Area. For example, there are amazing opportunities in the Chinese market at the moment, while it does not give any advantage whatsoever to be located in the Bay Area for those.
Yikes, better call your parents.
After trying for minutes to come up with an apt comment, I think I will just pack my stuff and move to Russia.
I admire Bezos tactic of reinvesting in new markets. It's something that the other 'kingpins' in the article haven't done as well. Beyond that, he's done quite well in these markets.
Strings are a known problem in C++. Wish the standard committee could end this string nonsense once and for all. Until then I'll just stick to std::string and char *.
Having lived their for a while, I think it's 1) their culture, but more importantly, 2) their company culture.
...?? That was my point exactly? Just because some things are ok "when you're adult about it" don't make them ok at the office.

I'm not advocating bringing guns at the office, I'm advocating not giving free alcohol to your employees!!

I don't see what possible good could come from drinking at work, but I see a lot of bad.
The title, coming from Reuters, is a little bit shocking. I mean, I'd expect the NSA to be referred to as "Eavesdropping agency" here, but that Reuters does it implies that this feeling is mainstream and widespread, which was not my previous impression.
"The percentage of married households with two earners has hardly changed over the last thirty years"

I wonder if the split across gender lines is still the same.
You block the lightweight thread (fiber), rather than the OS thread. Fibers are implemented as continuations scheduled by a very good multi-threaded scheduler (ForkJoinPool).
You won't find me disagreeing with that, but the fact is birth control pills are controlled.
It's good somebody even tries to break the old myth about C as an essential kernel part. C is _not_ good for drivers: it lacks most of the appropriate abstractions, just as facilities to create them. Once we switch from asm to C - why not go further?

Speed matters, of course, but I suppose that even script speed is enough for many drivers (and, just in case, we have luaJIT).

Don't sure if lua is a right choice, but it's an interesting experiment - and this is what NetBSD is good for.
> Who cares. It's IE which needs to catch up to the standards Mozilla and Google are implementing.

That's interesting. A time ago, people were moaning at IE for coming up with their own standards / CSS things / Javscript features; now you're saying that they should do the same with things Firefox and Chrome introduced?

I'm being petulant on purpose, don't mind me ;). The HTML5 standards are of yet not standardized yet, so tbh I don't know if they actually should.
I wonder if the Yandex guys are fans of Woody Allen.
My group in Azure is hiring. I don't think we have any Haskell in production, but I sure bet we could get away with using F# and the new immutable collections for a lot of new stuff. zip [marshray@; maray] [live.com; @microsoft.com] Email me, I'd love some coworkers who were really into FP.
Great stories have unusual starts and paths. Olympic Games history is full of successes and failures, all with a story behind, and that is what makes Olympics interesting.

Paul has already his story raving up for him. It is clear he knows what it takes, and has the determination to achieve it.
If they have a workplace, all hope is lost.

How would you react to receiving a package in the mail for your son's friend?
Has anyone out there used LightTable on production project. What are your impressions of its usability? How has it affected you productivity? How does well does it integrate with other tools for your platform? Other...?
That whitepaper is for management and purchasing. The security patches are for the poor sysops who have to look after the mess left behind by the former.

Every large commercial software company is just as bad. It was only a few years ago that Microsoft were doing the same, until they realised they could monetize open source software themselves[1] as well and decided to stop the badmouthing.

[1] through azure and buying into major open source ecosystems to gain mindshare.
That was my first reaction too. I would love to read about his adventures. 23 years is a very long time travelling. I am not sure of my facts but Alexander the great traveled (or was on an expedition) for about 15 years. He has far surpassed that feat.
NginX is very good WEB SERVER - so it shines in serving content - web pages, caching images etc. But in proxy mode, the load-balancing between backends is pretty basic.
HAProxy is born to be very good LOAD BALANCER - you can have different balancing algorithms, not only round-robin.
HAProxy have also TCP mode, so you can balance your MySQL backends, for example.
Also for me, personally, HAProxy stats rock.
Or the construction workers wages will go down, as they have, and they won't live anywhere near where they work.
My question is: how would I get in touch with someone like yourself? ;-)
"It seems you have a problem with companies initiating force, but not the government. Why is that?"

Why does it seem that way? I don't know, it's your impression. You tell me.
Same with bitcoin. Is it that good knowledge of cryptography somehow makes the author to hide it's identity?
Referencing: The reuse factor : Nature News & Comment
Apps don't use cookies but rather Apple IDFA and Android ID. This is one of the biggest differences between the app world and the web world.
Formula predicts research papers' future citations : Nature News & Comment
Pretty sure most ASIC miner guys will come out in the red. Maybe with the exception of the guys making the ASICs.
The biggest problem is that there's no gradual migration process. The first remote worker on a team forces everyone to change how they work and communicate. Even with the whole team accommodating the remote person, they'll still miss out on a lot. It can be frustrating for both sides.

Also, the software for real-time collaboration sucks. Even if you constantly screen-share and video chat, it's not as good as working in the same room. Simple things like pointing at a section of code are difficult to do, and synchronizing files can be a pain.

I'm working on solving this (Floobits YC S13 yadda yadda), but there's still much to be done.
This will be bad for cooperation between NSA and DEA.
That whitepaper isn't really FUD. It's basically just explaining 'open source' to people who don't really get it. The paper explains that Oracle software includes open source software and then Oracle is arguing that they do a better job of developing, leveraging, integrating, and supporting FOSS than IT workers in gov't offices can. It's a fairly reasonable argument.
Why Berlin should not look up to the Valley
you can use DI in backbone and clearly seperate your concerns as well. It is just not as much enforced in the framework (not opinionated)
I heard that Oracle won the America's Cup recently which leads me to give them some unsolicited advice.

Put the award on the shelf in your lobby, sell the ten million dollar boat and hire the engineers needed to update the Java patch cycle to monthly with the spare cash.

3+ billion devices will thank you.

Spot on. Working with their products on a daily basis, I just get the feeling that Oracle doesn't really give a shit about anything other than that god damned boat.
I know in the Bay Area Commercial rates charged by PG&E
are lower than Residential. Never understood why.

Actually, our electricity in the SF Area is very expensive.
I don't know why. One half of our power is from Dams.
I think it's 1/2.

Actually, I think they charge us so much is because they
know we will pay.

To all the Élon Musk fans, I wonder what your PG&E bill will
be?

While I'm on this subject--yea, I'm an electrician, don't
heat your house with elecrtic heaters. They will really
eat up the kilowatts, and look into Radiant hydronic heating
if updating. My bill is 1/4 of what it used to be. You
can install yourself, if determined.
Tra.in
Having had a lot of trouble with Amazon APIs, stopped reading ... it's just a very apples - ... not even oranges comparison.
> C is _not_good for drivers

You'll have to back up that assertion with some facts here, there's a whole industry and millions of lines of code that contradict you.
So what you're proposing is that the state should wither away, so that the food can trickle down to the poor.
Resources for HTML and CSS
At least outside the USA it's my impression that it's virtually universal.
How Hollywood Can Stop Suing Downloaders and Capitalize on Piracy
"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_creed#Motto)

I say let him have his games - it's not for us to shit on other people's dreams.
And Dota2 as well! (:
Just get the JRE from

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde...

That garbage is just from the consumer web site and no different than bundlings from other corporations, like Adobe and Google.

I also don't want the Google Toolbar or McAfee installed.
A reminder is good, but an entire website for this purpose alone - with data culled from the WHO? And four people to create it?? Is there any other purpose of the site other than to remind us that our aged parents are nearer to their graves? I tried to find the site pithy but it was equal parts depressing, simplistic and oddly cute. I looked around for other stuff to click on, but there was nothing. Am I missing something?
1992 Neil Postman http://youtu.be/KbAPtGYiRvg
Introduction
"In 1959, Sir Charles Snow published The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopoly

SOS
Google technology could halve construction costs