skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's interesting to me is that the robber barons owned a disproportionate percentage of the GDP as compared to the most wealthiest individuals in the developed world today. For instance, it is estimated that Rockefeller's personal fortune alone amounted to ~1.5% of the US' GDP. I wonder why this is the case. What changed and why don't we have a Rockefeller equivalent today? Is it perhaps because of greater total prosperity and increased complexity it is harder to dominate large verticals and possess such great personal wealth? Or is it something regulatory?
On backlog to fix. But InfiniSQL is for hackers and early adopters at this stage.

The SQL support is documented (http://www.infinisql.org/docs/index/)
Hacker almost derailed Mandela election in South Africa
I was confused by the article not delivering on the title. 1) you can't measure it so "model it" , and throw out fancy acronyms like MCMG and hand-waving.

Just in case anyone's wondering, there are other avenues (read: real science) where BA and other analysis are applied toward a definite result. An actuarial table will accurately predict what an insurance premium should be. These "quant" people are pseudo-scientists, alchemists.

Just ask this question: what results are they delivering ? 2 days ago there was, on HN, a 2010 article about how "investment bankers" don't actually do anything. What does a quant do ? What value do they deliver to anyone ?

Guess what ? I can "model" the statistical distribution of mold growing in my fridge or "monty carlo" simulate the path of rodents in my garage and I've arrived at nothing more substantial in the end. It's a disgrace what these people are doing. Bright minds wasting their talent.
This is so incredibly helpful. Thank you.

Nice find on the iOS transition. Search isn't is a good place, but eventually we want to do real search, so the current functionality can be considered a place holder. Unfortunate, but you have to launch some time. =)

Can you tell me more about what you mean when you say "Friend Requests? We shouldn't have any friend requests.
So many reasons to keep GPL.
They can use GPL just fine, it's just that they don't wanna contribute if they modify it.
Accomplished mostly by fuel taxes of $0.38/liter, or approx $1.5/gallon. This is not far off 10x higher than the (ridiculously low) US rate of $0.18/gallon.
From the brightness, whiteness, and suddenness with which it switched off, I'd be far more inclined to think it's artificial.
I was employing irony there, which can be a useful tool for those on the right of the political spectrum.

My issue is not really with whether Apartheid is great, or Israel is great.

What my post was about was the way people on the far left or far right get away with their views whatever they are, but people in the center are required to assert that Apartheid is evil, while Israel is OK. You literally cannot call yourself a moderate if you do not believe these two things. And yet Israel and Apartheid South Africa are not very different. Both commit human rights violations against the native population. Both have (had) no clear path for the native population to become politically independent. Both claimed to look after the native population better than they could look after themselves. Both justified the situation because it was necessary to preserve their cultural/ethnic identity, and by claiming their opponents were terrorists.

So I call myself a moderate, but because I cannot accept the discrepancy between the way people are expected to view Israel and Apartheid, I would probably be considered a racist (for thinking that Apartheid was partly understandable) and also and anti-semite (for thinking that the desire for a Jewish state is not different for the desire for a White state).
My opinion is that it's something regulatory. If we truly had a free market, we would almost certainly see much larger disparities in wealth distribution.
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I spoke with him when I was at Avanade (he was the CEO) over a decade ago and just got connected with him on LinkedIn last year. My condolences to his family.
But you're assuming here that "the rich" investing money is creating more growth (and you stated earlier, helping poor people more) than the government would.

I think that's a difficult statement to back up in the best of times, although it's certainly a difficult thing to prove either way (moving this question beyond the level of anecdotes is really hard). However, when we've got a persistent demand shortage like we have right now, it's much less of a tricky question because of the multiplier effects of consumer spending.
Why is the problem being denigrated or juxtaposed or, broken down into syntax "math" important?
Awesome project and a killer concept. No one has been able to really solve relational database scalability yet. I'll have to study the implementation. I was just talking with some friends a few weeks ago about this problem and we concluded that if someone came up with a distributed relational database with decent scalable performance they would be very successful indeed. Will try it out and follow the progress. Hope it takes off.
I think it's already plainly visible : since the only way to get more and better performance and features will be large compute farms, the entry-fee for IT related stuff will raise because you need to invest in a horizontally scaled entire data center, instead of just a few computers.

I'd also expect more of EC2 and GCE to happen, and ironically the "small" developer to pay less, but also have less options.
This is Adam Curtis you're dealing with, check youtube for some of his other brilliant (& kinda far-out) documentaries
So what, exactly, is your point? Are you saying that what the Apartheid government did was legal and legitimate? Obviously bombing civilians is wrong, nobody disputes that. But the Apartheid government killed and tortured many innocent people. Both sides did bad things. None of this is news. Why are you pointing this out?

Edit: the thing that makes Mandela special is that, once he became the government, it would have been just as "legitimate" for him to have behaved as the Apartheid government had, but he effected peace instead.
Whenever I set up a new Django project, it was always a bunch of boilerplate work to get virtualenv setup. Then if you forgot a step you would have to look into what is wrong.

After spending some time with Node.js, I have become spoiled by how well npm works for everything. Albeit, if you want to mess with node versions you need something like nvm, but it is easy to get the hang of.

Seeing something as simple as npm for python would be awesome.
" Our resort to the armed struggle in 1960 with the formation of the military wing of the ANC, Umkhonto we Sizwe, was a purely defensive action against the violence of apartheid. The factors which necessitated the armed struggle still exist today. We have no option but to continue. We express the hope that a climate conducive to a negotiated settlement will be created soon so that there may no longer be the need for the armed struggle.
Stop saying Facebook does not use PHP.
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https://www.facebook.com/careers/department?dept=engineering&req=a0IA0000006cQPOMA2&ref=a8lA00000004CFAIA2

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At the top of the comment thread,

"This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules."

Though it doesn't specifically talk about censorship, freedom of speech was pretty essential to all of these historical pieces. Ironic.
The Walton family are worth a combined $150 billion. That's 1% of US' GDP.

Carlos Slim is worth $50 billion, 4% of Mexico's 1.1 trillion GDP.

Maybe it's the difference of a developing vs a developed economy.
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As much as I love SICP I have to say that I think that its biggest power is showing a different way to view programming. Unless you already know the basics its hard to appreciate it.
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I agree it is a waste of talent, but what quants are supposed to be doing is predicting the market (their ultimate goal is do construct a profitable trading strategy, but this is roughly equivalent to predicting the market).

So it is quite straightforward to test them, in principle. In practice, data snooping makes it hard to really test quant trading strategies, and as a purely practical matter trades have small effects on the market which makes it hard to test a trading strategy without actually doing it.
Are you specifically interested in bombing as a method of killing innocent people, or are you more generally interested in the killing of innocent people, the method notwithstanding? Coz, surely, you're not implying that white, apartheid South Africans didn't kill innocent people, are you?
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I've worked with several PMs who had technical chops.

Note that not everyone who has the chops necessarily love programming. Also, as others pointed out, in many companies a PM earns more than any technical person.
Why did so many Democrats oppose the bill relative to the number of Republicans that did so?
You can’t get entangled without a wormhole
Honestly the problem is I don't have time to eat that much. I'd have to devote all the time to this single one activity - eating, making food and thinking what to eat next. Others just live eating same as me and gain weight no problem. Besides, if there's not enough growth hormones in the blood, you can eat as much as you want, nothing will stay in your body.
We aim for 600-800 calories per serving, but we don't make any promises about the exact nutritional value
And let's not forget how the streetcar stuff went:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspi...
> Not needing to drive is a big draw of living in New York City, where my oldest son lives.

Very much so.

For your son, it's certainly fun to be able to live in his 20s in a very trendy neighborhood with a vibrant nightlife, and within walking distance of work. :)

But for another one of my friends, New York is one of the only places where they can actually live comfortably.

He's legally blind. Not completely - he can read his phone if it's 2 inches away from his face, but that's it. You wouldn't necessarily know it when you first meet him (I didn't). He can hold a conversation with you and you wouldn't know that he can only make out your face in vague blurs.

If you live elsewhere (and especially if you live outside a major city), it's easy to overlook just how much of people's lives and culture in the US center around the act of driving.

For him, living in New York City allows him a level of mobility and independence that no other place in the country could provide. He doesn't feel like he's missing out on anything, because walking and taking the subway here are the norm. He doesn't really need much assistance beyond that (he can actually get by without the white cane or a seeing eye dog).

While blind people certainly can and do find ways to live their lives in other cities, it means a lot to my friend that he can live as "normally" as possible here.
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A good PM is an great asset that adds huge value to a company. Most are middling middle managing bean counters.

Advice on how to make sure you become the former and not the later would be more useful than this blog post.
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Visiting Silicon Valley as I type this, and I didn't rent a car this time. Looking at the States with a pair of foreign eyes, I can assure you that this country in general, and California in particular, remains thoroughly wedded to the motor vehicle.

As a trivial example, there's a Taco Bell located literally about 300 feet from where I'm staying, but getting there on foot requires a detour of about a mile because it, like all other business establishments on El Camino Real (substitute your suburban highway of choice), is surrounded by concrete wall on all three sides except the one facing the highway. Which means the foolish pedestrian needs to walk around the entire block to get there.

Another trivial example of pedestrian-hostility: the city of Mountain View, being run by nice, eco-friendly hippies sucking on the Google bong, has banned plastic bags in supermarkets, mandating the use of paper bags instead. However, this also has the side effect of making it virtually impossible to complete your shopping by any means other than car, since paper bags disintegrate if you look at them sideways or attempt to carry them more than the distance from checkout to parking lot, much less (say) stuff them in your backpack, hang them from the handlebars of your bike, or even swing them a bit while waiting at the traffic lights.
Currently I barely eat at all tbh. Because I found out it doesn't seem to matter anyway. Only difference is when I eat much I shit unproportionally more often.
If you were to write a book on Bitcoin, what content would you put there?
The problem doesn't go away just because you've closed your eyes.

An age appropriate name for the module could be peekaboo.
That's a lot of ellipses.

In full:

Secondly, we felt that without violence there would be
no way open to the African people to succeed in their
struggle against the principle of white supremacy. All
lawful modes of expressing opposition to this principle
had been closed by legislation, and we were placed in a
position in which we had either to accept a permanent
state of inferiority, or take over the Government.

Not that it changes the immediate political meaning much, but it shows some of the thought processes involved.
I actually thought this was another joke at first...
Have you tried Vertica? One of the big data project my team did used more than 200 servers in a single Vertica cluster. At the enterprise OEM level, the pricing is actually really affordable. You should try out Vertica Community Edition, the free 3 node version.
That wasn't a manipulative or fallacious speech at all. It was in fact deeply insightful, calling attention to the war of characterization being played out in the public sphere. Do people think the speaker honestly intended to pull the wool over people's eyes by agreeing with both sides of the issue?

The first if-by-whiskey is an over-the-top satire of whiskey-haters. The second was a rousing call for reason. It's brilliant wordplay whose intentions would have been clear to the audience.
Most (all?) of those machines are clusters that scale mostly by throwing in nodes. Even if you have completely static technology, you'll see an exponential trend as long as you're scaling with economic growth by adding nodes.
I loved the article, but it almost seemed like three different articles. I actually scrolled through the stuff about dramatic journalism to get to the interesting stuff, about how we are all pawns in a game we cannot see.
That is the meat of the issue as far as I can see it, and until we can come together and do something in unity we will continue down this path.
It's on a BBC blog, anyway. It looks like they have a very small set of blogs, which is nice, but it probably didn't go through the same editorial process as standard BBC articles do.
To both commenters so far I would like to say PEP-370, a new way since 2.7 to create virtual environments.

I started using it recently and I see no need for virtualenv anymore.

I have nothing to say about the pip issue though, never had an issue with pip myself.
Anti-trust laws + a lot of other stuff that used to be kosher but is now super illegal. For instance, look up "credit mobilier". Or consider how Standard Oil used their size to control railroads and basically make it so their competitors couldn't ship at reasonable rates.

As another comment points out, Carlos Slim's net worth is something like 4% of Mexico's GDP. Carlos Slim is pretty much a monopolist though, which helps.
Plastic bags haven't been banned, just disposable plastic bags. The idea is to bring a reusable bag or two with you to the store.
In a previous job, the "title" came after you actually performed well in that job and your current job. Worked pretty well most of the time. For anyone aspiring to start their own company, being a Product (not Project) Manager does make some sense as you get to tackle real problems with someone else's money.
I think the real problem is the company you work for as a PM. What kind of projects you are working on, who is actually holding the purse strings, who the clients are (internally or externally) etc.
I know project managers who are boss hog and ones who are little more than account managers with a title.
TINSTAAFL.
What has the author built to replace pip?
Is it ever not true that when you forget a step, you have to look into what's wrong? In any language, or any project?
I'll try to clarify my thinking here...

An earlier poster asked "Could you explain why you think that 'liberals' are trying to sanitise history more than anyone else?"

The ideas that keep the left and right from posing a political problem to the established order are, respectively, pacifism and patriotism. Pacifism limits conflict to electoral and symbolic efforts. Patriotism does the same by loyalty rather than dissidence. To reenforce the idea of pacifism, for the benefit of the left wing, the mainstream media canonizes pacifist heroes, such as Mandala and Ghandi, downplaying the roles of militants in their self-determination movements.
First it depends on who your audience is. A book for people wanting to buy Bitcoin for the first time will be much different than a book for developers who want to build applications that utilize the blockchain.
This is really fascinating. Do you have sources for this? I hadn't even thought about this side of the economic equation.
Definitely accurate. I've spent some time working on a web crawler with a friend, and eventually you just realize that no matter what you do, requesting pages is going to break, hyperlinks lie, content is borked, ect ect ect. After countless hours debugging you just say "FUCK IT, WE'LL JUST GO THE NEXT PAGE". And really, that's what you would have done anyway if you had filtered the page out...
I also went to Stanford Summer School in 2012 (I didn't take your same class, but maybe we walked by each other or something!), and honestly I thought it was a waste of money. Not that there was no value in it, but the price was exhorbitant and that definitely could have been applied to all sorts of cool things. Fortunately I was funded via an outside source, but I still wish I had put that money towards something else. It really seems like a way the university makes money of the Stanford brand name.

The other thing is that a large portion of the Summer School students are people (like me) who don't normally go to Stanford. So if you're trying to network with them, it may not be ideal.

I don't know what the best way to meet investors is, but I don't think it is Stanford Summer School is it.
Learn parkour? :D
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Did you mean to link to http://www.infinisql.org/docs/index ? I was getting an error on /docs/
You're not counting local taxes. Gas taxes are about 50 cents a gallon.
Is it hard to buy reusable shopping bags (or backpacks, since you're talking about bikes) in Mountain View?
I'm not sure the economics of the situation are obvious as that.

If he raises prices: is he actually going to get "better" clients? He'll have to compete with other high end'ers. What if there competition is too fierce at that price point? What if his skill/quality doesn't match up to that price point?
I literally said WHAT THE FLUCK when I got to this sentence.

> This was reported in the press - who also described how Yeardye drove Diana Dors to safety in a green cadillac owned by a bubblegum tycoon called John Hoey.

Most of this should've been condensed for less tedious reading.
I stand corrected. I'd still prefer normal exception handling but whatever.
I agree with the sentiment, maybe one day we can hope to "hack" cancer. Once we can deconstruct something, we can control it, destroy it, whatever.

RIP Mitch Hill. Seattle, represent.
"Freedom of speech" never implied a right to have a specific third party publish your comments for you. It was always about limiting law and government.
C programs are so damn reliable I spent last three weeks mostly trying to debug others' code (from multiple software projects - I was lucky enough they decided they'd all start hitting obscure bugs at approximately same time) and waiting for it to crash again.

Just imagine my feelings when a critical server that ran just fine for 3 years gets a bit more load and starts getting assertion failures. That was a known and already fixed bug, but after version bump to next stable those had changed to SIGSEGVs - and it's not trivial NULL pointer dereferencing but a weird concurrency issue.

C has neither [relatively] strong guarantees of OCaml and Haskell (so I could be at least sure there're no trivial bugs with that weird macros doing crazy pointer juggling), nor dynamic flexibility of Python and Erlang (so I could hack working runtime live, letting it fail and hot-swapping code at will).
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Yes, it's Product Manager, as in the guy who is responsible for deciding what the team is going to build.

A lot of the replies here seem to be castigating the role of a Project Manager, which is the often technically clueless PHB type responsible for ensuring that a waterfall project is completed by its deadline.
It's funny how I misinterpreted this title. I read it as: "If you were to write a book [and publish it on the blockchain of] Bitcoin, what content would you put there?"
Vertica's a data warehouse. InfiniSQL is geared for OLTP.
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Thanks, jacob019. Please fork/follow on github, twitter if you're into that, etc.
From their documentation:

> InfiniSQL currently is an in memory database. This means that all records are stored in system memory, and not written to disk. This provides very high performance--but it also means that InfiniSQL currently lacks the property of Durability. If the power goes out, all data is gone. This limitation is temporary.

They do mention that they'll implement persistence, but that's likely to lower performance, as you're limited to how fast the write ahead log can be written, even if updates to on-disk structures are batched.

They also mention:

> No sharding is necessary with InfiniSQL: it partitions data automatically across available hardware. Connect to any node, and all of the data is accessible.

I haven't looked at how joins are done across large tables that span over multiple nodes (or if it's even supported), but that's not likely to be fast either, for obvious reasons.