skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The graph is pretty consistent up until the 1970s (the last 40 years).

What the graph does not tell you is that US dollar was no longer pegged to gold after 1971 (Bretton Woods). The currency devalued over time and the wealthy were in diverse asset classes that retained or grew in value over time (such as equities, forex, real estate, etc). The rest of society kept most of their money in cash.
24 pull requests is back this year
The python equivalent:

real	0m21.891s

On machine in which the C Variant:

real	0m0.570s

But - I learned about Cython today, so great article.

Interesting that the Python Version takes so much longer.

import sys

check=int(sys.argv[1])
lnum=1
lcount=1

for x in range(1,check):
len=1
a=x
while (a>1):
len+=1
if a%2==0:
a=a/2
else:
a=(a*3+1)/2
if len > lcount:
lcount=len
lnum=x

print lcount,lnum
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Do you have source to back up the claim that pockets come stitched because of bombing-threats? My wife is certified seamstress and swears that pockets on higher-range clothing has always been stitched close, because that keeps their model in better shape. But there might be more to it, so I am curious to what makes you say this.
"Thrun is an elite academic. He has most likely never even attended a university that had to teach remedial math courses..."

Thrun went to college at University of Bonn. I don't know how it ranked 25 years ago but today it's # 178 on Times list, around # 75 in Europe and only the 9th highest ranking in his native Germany:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki...

Not that I give much for these rankings but University of Bonn is hardly an elite university. It's a good public university, just like so many other good European universities. But I would be surprised if not some students at University of Bonn take remedial math courses.
what about:
a = ((a & 0x01)? (a*3)+1 : a)>>1;

anyway, when you think about it, you can skip everything between 0 and max_a0/2 because for any value there there is one with a longer chain (its double). that's a factor 2 in all languages.
I doubt that significant growth can be achieved anymore in western countries

Then you should start an investment portfolio that broadly shorts Western bellwether stocks. You'll make a killing if you're right. Make sure you diversify your profit into non-Western countries so that you can keep those gains.

Congratulations.
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Hmmm.. I don't understand much of what that says. It seems that the bartering system basically means, between participants: I will store some of your data and you will store some of my data. And I will provide bandwidth for your data and vice versa. Both nodes agree to this deal. That way, nodes establish long-term relationships exchanging storage and bandwidth. Is that correct?

But, is there a way to buy/sell storage or bandwidth, without bartering? Could there be an economic incentive to run large-scale nodes providing service for buying customers?
Nice. I guess C++ related tasks might be more REMOTE (from Europe) friendly, right?
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This is the best news I've read all month! I really hope they make the process easy. As an ex-Nokia user I've never been the biggest fan of Google's android monoculture and big brother approach to my privacy. I'd be interested to see how sailfish compares to android in terms of resource utilisation.
I submitted a tip a while back (a small reader macro trick for DO/DO*) -- don't know if you ever got it.
I like that there is a perspective of time. A six month sprint would not care so much about working hours, ignoring hype, and investing in productivity tools.
Scala integrates OOP and FP in a truly elegant way, F# is mostly FP with some OO bolted on it as an afterthought, and C# is much closer to Java than to Scala. You may argue whether Scala is really more expressive than F# (IMHO it is), but regardless of it, they are not the same thing.
Strange - everything is working the same way as in Chrome for me.
The Popperian argument would be that Marxism is not a domain of knowledge, because it is not very good at making testable predictions about the world.

Popper compared Marx to Freud, in that both people spawned a theory of knowledge that is very good at explaining what has already happened but horrifyingly bad at telling you how things will be tomorrow, and how to change those things. Almost sixty years after this observation nothing has changed. We now recognize Freud as pseudoscience, but Marxism remains unfortunately persistent. Marxists like to talk about how well Marx predicted the nature of the class struggle and stuff like that, but in a theory which sees everything in terms of class struggle, this is not a scientific prediction at all.
"If you ask employees when they started to notice that something was wrong at Fab, they will usually mention the bike locks."
I don't usually a comment about the things I know little; however this seems harmless enough.

It's apparent to me there is a back story here and the guided reasons were not to demean women, but that's certainly how I feel after rereading the comment in this commit.

It would be wise to not treat things like this lightly in public forums, no matter what the back story is.
I think Bitcoin can be serve as a money transport protocol and Escrow services can be built on top of it. Think about buiding HTTPS on top of HTTP protocol.
The problem is not "taking the class." The problem is "taking the class and presuming it makes one an expert." After a single facet of study, it's certainly not possible to be an expert.
Some suggestions it was fraudulent over on @alex_gaynor's twitter, but unsure if something like this can be faked.
Snark is a Dead Scene
A HealthCare site - impossible to tell what operation costs
Font Squirrel conversion botches up a lot of fonts, Droid Sans being the prime example.
Oh! That's a good idea - prevents them from being saved (unless you take screenshots, I guess).
None of us are really that smart
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Thank you for writing this.

Success is an integral function that includes more than just your own dimension.
American Apparel is a famous example. Though their marketing may be subject to discussion, their production practices are admirable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Apparel#Production
1. However well intentioned, this sort of pedantry (the change from 'him' to 'them') just alienates efforts to make things more inclusive, rather than actually helping .

2. Reverting the change appears to be fairly petty. By all means talk to the author of the commit about it, but commit tennis just makes the project look a little immature.

3. Is libuv really now at the point where it is 100% kitchen-sink-included-feature complete, mathematically and empirically tested bug proof, and with code so clean it brings a tear to a developer's eye? If not, then why are you all wasting time on such petty commits, and not on actually, you know, improving the code base.

My boss always puts herself in frame as the 'user' in her comments, documents and emails, so all examples are framed with 'her' in mind. Does anyone mind? Does anyone start making changes to 'them'? No, not really. I guess there are more important things to do.
One could argue that Ghengis Khan had to owe a part of his success to the culture he grew up in and the ability to use combined arms.

We do have a way of rewarding innovators: patents and copyrights. Now, those systems have been abused from everywhere to Texas, but it can be reformed. At least I would like to think so.

What I don't get is why people just don't look at the labor side of this argument. A wealthy person certainly didn't create a work force and educate them. He didn't provide them with a stability and other basic needs. Even at a more basic level where do all the consumers come from? Don't they buy products based on their desires that are largely due to society as well?

I really do think we find ourselves in an economic "web of life."

I don't like the idea of framing it as honest and dishonest either. I would much rather make sure that the wealthy don't have too much leverage overs others in society.

An example I would give is how credit card companies have basically pushed the risks out to merchants. Yes combat fraud. Also push for chip and pin in the states so that less of it occurs and figure out something with online purchases.

To a lesser extent we have taken steps when we recognize this imbalance. Cigarette companies can no longer market to minors. Young minds being the most impressionable ones.
I've used Akka with Java. It certainly works but it's a bit of a pain just because Java is so verbose. Some features like the FSM helper aren't available in Java either.
I know quite a few of these people and most of them say that when they do that it feels like they're using a totally new phone, without much cost.
Created?

Or perhaps actual sacrifices and secret rites were performed in the dark corners of Bretton Woods in order to counteract socialism? ;-)
You are totally free to only accept money from investors who will have no control over your company.
as you said, reading it is just undefined. the compiler has to do something, and it's improbable that a read before write, followed by another read will result in two different values.

if you could produce a piece of code that exhibits the behaviour you describe, i'd very much like to see it.
We're doing 24 Pull requests again this year, last year 881 developers submitted 3210 pull requests to 1521 different open source projects, which was a great success.

Comment thread from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4853864
To clarify, it depends on who was robbed. If bank robbers steal green paper from the vault, the bank doesn't know which business account that money came from. If it's wire transferred out because your password was 'banana', it may be gone for good.
If only they used one of those frameworks, that lift you off the ground and glide you towards the destination effortlessly, graciously pulled by flying pigs, there would be no delay. They would even have time for daily scrums. Always pick the right technology stack, guys!
Title should be: "Libuv developer chided for allegedly merging commit without proper sign off"

Post should be: buried.
How to fight patent trolls ;-)
I do understand that and I agree. My point is that it's simply not fair that someone who is chasing the ball around the field/court gets 8-digit annual paycheck, while someone who helps solve real problems doesn't see a percent of that.

This touches a much deeper topic and won't most likely be related directly to the original post, so I'll stop here :)
I'm certainly not complaining. The toolkit Play offers today more than makes up for any deficiencies IMO.

And yes, action composition is how we handle authentication. ;)
Obvious question: why not let people check the "I understand the risks" box and withdraw without mixing?
The idea is to optimize while keeping the algorithm the same throughout the languages, at least if you want any meaningful comparison. You are comparing languages not different algorithms. +1 for effort though.
... And you got these links from? What is the license for these .eot and .woff? Who says you can self-host them?

Rocket science or not, the bottom line is that these are not available from Google Fonts. You are expected to either use hosted version or muddle through the conversion process.
>> We have had experiments with other systems than Capitalsm, and some of them are still running. Korea is split in North and South, the southern part is capitalist, was in garment manufacturing and now has an exceptional level of wealth, while the northern part is communist and has become one big concentration camp.

> By cherry-picking North Korea as your only example as a non-capitalist experiment, and pre-disqualifying anyone who says that it isn't a representative example for all possible non-capitalist systems as someone employing a logical fallacy, you haven't really left any room for discussion.

> Why not pick China, or the USSR?

I cannot fathom what's going on in your comment. But there are two obvious responses:

1. North Korea was called out, as mentioned in the comment you respond to, because, unlike Maoist China and the USSR, it's still going.

2. Maoist China and the USSR also fit the bill of "one big concentration camp", so if he had picked one of them instead, nothing about his comment would have changed. Both were total, unimaginable disasters for the entire population of each country. It's like you said "sure, 2 is an even number, but what about 8?"
As I understood it, it's insider-speak for 'hacking'. While theoretically possible, it's non-trivial to sniff a complete db dump.
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What are some good books on market-size estimation?
I agree totally. Arguments like these tend to forget that the balance of power is very unequal.
Especially when "making docs gender neutral" is a terribly misleading way to describe changing from the traditional gender neutral pronoun to a somewhat better one.
I'd say a better solution is to encourage people not to be 100% self- interested (sorry I'm a rampant Marxist). They have laws but corruption is rife.
Every philosophy was created, I'm not expressing a conspiracy.
[*] arrogantly dismissed gender neutrality as "trivial"
(#1015)
[*] actively taken steps to revert positive gender
neutrality change
[*] chided @isaacs unnecessarily
[] removed women entirely from the industry

Ostensibly, reverting a pointless commit is one step away from removing women entirely from the tech industry.

Most shocking to me is how some people in the previous commit discussion genuinely believe that modifying two pronouns in code comments will somehow be a crucial step towards gender equality.
Everything you need to know about bitcoin is contained in this articlear http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2002020751_b...

If you don't understand why, then thank God you are not working in a bank. Banking is one of the most innovative, talent hungry industries in the world, with the anomaly of (and exception in) the US retail market due to legal idiosyncratic US regulation..

Mand
"The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism."

-- Joan Violet Robinson

More substantially, I disagree that our technological capability is currently sufficient. Maybe once we have universal molecular assemblers. Of course on the grand scale there will be competition over black hole orbiting real estate, because the energy for work has to come from somewhere.
@eps

http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/
This is basically already being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6821677

Reverting is pretty weird.
It seems so on a first glance, but if you think about how this 2D phagocyte can be formed (especially on a macroscopic scale) and how would it interact with other structures it becomes much less obvious.
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Even in perl5, the unicode support is incredibly good:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-p...
Because it's magical thinking at its best...

Personally I would have used "them" from the beginning (or the equivalent in my native language), but correcting someone like this is condescending and it would irritate me too.

This atmosphere of hysteria - ooh, ooh, he's just about to remove women from the industry - reminds me of religious fundamentalists who also want to shove their worldview down everybody's throat and never fail to inform you how the apocalypse is approaching, how we're doomed to eternity because someone wore a mini-skirt etc. etc.
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Maemo, Moblin, LiMo, Bada, MeeGo, mer, Tizen, Tizen NG, Nemo Mobile, Sailfish OS...

This is tragic.

All this effort gone into endless, pointless rebranding and new website designs instead of new code.
This is from September, back when people were speculating that Apple would release a low cost phone. And the entire article is predicated on a false assumption that this speculation would bear out. So... why are you posting this to HN?
Wait. So we're not in a country that is purposefully moving backwards when it comes to distribution of wealth? /s.

I think the more interesting part of these graphs is that economic mobility can regress in society and the USA has not hit a point in its development where that is not true. It's like the price of freedom being eternally vigilant thing except most of society is unaware or powerless.
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I don't see how C and Cython versions are different. It's almost word-for-word C.
You explicitly said "Communism in the formal sense". You were wrong with that.

Most ideologies and political or economic ideas have had their names subverted to mean something different by opponents (democracy, republicanism, communism, anarchism, capitalism...). That doesn't mean that if you speak in the "formal sense" you can decide to use whatever meaning you prefer.
I agree with this.

But you have to realize that most people on hacker news who want socialism never had first-hand experience with it. People have to learn their lessons the hard way. :(
There was a sign-off apparently: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/commit/804d40ee14dc0f82c482d...
> There are no communist countries today.

What about Cuba?
Globalization and technology has played a much more important role than union-busting and deregulating industry (not sure how that last one factors in at all to be honest).

Think about it, before the lowest 90% were competing with themselves. Now they're competing with the Chinese, Indians, and robots who are happy with a few dollars a day or a nice greasing.

In depth report of why inequality is growing in OECD countries:
http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/social-...
Nimrod includes rst parsing and html/tex generation (http://build.nimrod-lang.org/docs/rstgen.html). While orthogonal to your quest you may want to look into its implementation for inspiration (or adopt rst instead of asciidoc for your publishing needs).
Android is so widespread due its nature as the QNX of the mobile world. A manufacturer gets it for free and then can add shit on to it.

The vast majority of users chose a cheap smartphone, not Android explicitly. Samsung and others do not even mention Android anymore, that for specsheets like the processor being used. China has this large number of Android devices which are non-Google, no Play Store, no Google Now, nothing.

Now Jolla comes in and acts as an alternative to Android. For whom? End users? 99% don't give a shit. Like asking which fuel injection systems your car uses.

So what does Jolla offer to manufacturers to choose it over Android? Even less restrictions than the open Android? Less cost? If so, it can't be price - will they adapt the OS for specific hardware for free as well?

Android compatibility. You want a KILLER feature? iOS compatibility. Enable devs to simply copy over their code and run their shit on Jolla.
Refusing to participate in the ideological degradation of language is everyone's responsibility.
I think more people might take part if it was less intense. It's going to be hard to learn multiple code bases and submit a meaningful pull request every day if you're full-time employed. 12 days of Christmas, 12 pull requests!
That must be why it has such strong labour laws and enormous social safety net supported by a tax and spend government then.

We can't have good labor conditions without the capital and productive capacity in place to offer good labor conditions.
Post would benifit from examples or stories. Also genuinely curious how author can stay afloat in the rough and tumble world of note taking SaaS.
That's a ridiculous statement. Have you even used recent versions of IE?
The Max Planck Institute of Mathematics is in Bonn - I'd imagine that it's influence extends to the university in terms of top-tier mathematics education.
Anyway, the answer of his questions has definitely its place in this thread, so it's a good thing that someone is asking it.
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Marxists like to talk about how well Marx predicted the nature of the class struggle and stuff like that, but in a theory which sees everything in terms of class struggle, this is not a scientific prediction at all.

And they typically do him a dis-service. I find when "Marxists" speak of such things, "bad" is synonymous with capitalism just as "capitalism" is synonymous with bad.
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> ... to avoid a software change.

"It's OK, it doesn't need any code changes, just a modification to the configuration files, so the approval process does not apply."

That company's developers just need to learn the trick of making the configuration file format Turing-complete.

If you don't have time to write your own interpreter, XSLT is an easy one to sneak by PHBs.

I've seen one system where 70-80% of the functionality was implemented in XSLT for this reason. It meant changes could be delivered in 5 days instead of 35. Obviously good news for the customer. The PHBs were pleased that the bug count in the C++ core had dropped (it hadn't really, we just stopped using the buggy modules.) The integration testers were pleased that the end product worked. Basically everyone was happy except the C++ reviewers in QA.
> The rest of society kept most of their money in cash.

Not true. Regular people have most of their wealth in their house and cars. That's if they have net wealth in the first place. (And 401ks and other mutual funds, which is also not cash money).

According to the census bureau households(depending on income or asset quintile) have between $200 and $1800 in their checking account. (http://www.census.gov/people/wealth/)
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