skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I don't mean it like that.

In my post I said something along the lines of: I mostly tend to feel like an impostor, but maybe I am some kind of hacker according to some definitions. To which jeswin replied (paraphrased) "No, you see, hackers are actually this, that and the other", so I conceded the point that according to jeswin I'm very very far from being a hacker, and so is the vast majority of HN users. I also said earlier that I believe these labels are problematic anyway.

So I think your criticism should probably be addressed at jeswin, Ferrari analogy and all. Personally, I don't really care if I myself or anybody else here is officially considered a hacker | a real man | a successful person, or whatever.
Well, maybe.

Or perhaps countries with less poverty are able to support higher minimum wages?

http://xkcd.com/552/
There's a fair difference between a 14 and a 17 year old.
Really? Financial regulators and Secretaries of the Treasury often come from big banks or the lawyers that serve them. We can debate whether that's good or bad, but the tech sector's luminaries (whoever you want to argue they are) aren't asked to run large parts of the public sector. I think we'd be better off if they were but that sort of revolving door doesn't exist currently.
Ideally I would abolish fractional reserve lending and the inflation that goes along with it. That inflation of the money supply has a medium and long term effect of raising prices. In a free market prices would drop thus your bad wage gets better even if you can't ever find a better job.
“Hardware must be paid for”, but if you're lucky, the government pays for it and you can ‘borrow’ it when no one's looking.
Damn. I read "to lobbyists".
I don't think triclosan would work well against a virus either.
Skimming over Arin Dube's paper, I can't help but wonder why he doesn't address any of the lurking variables. His time frame, 1990 to 2012, represents a period of vast technological change throughout the US and the rest of the world. I admit I did not read the entire paper, but it seems Mike Konczal and a lot of us are using "causality" and "correlation" interchangeably, which doesn't seem appropriate. This is not an empirical science... lengthy extrapolations don't tend to hold their ground in real-world economics. There are so many other factors and variables working that it seems silly to make these extrapolations. Again, I did not read Dube's entire paper-—he's obviously put much more thought and time into that paper than I have this comment. With that said, that is just my .02
Most of that had nothing to do with Apple not cutting corners.

The Apple device is UL listed, so they can't cut the same corners the Chinese manufacturer can. The same is true of any UL listed USB power adapter.
> [...] Meteor strike? Super volcanic eruption?

Once your scenario reaches that kind of scale, I think the effect of Fukushima itself is going to be fairly negligible... :)
I don't disagree with your conclusion, but do want to point out that the "humanity has survived just fine without this" argument could be used to argue against anything that might improve survival rates. Back when people didn't wash their hands, it could be used to argue against washing hands.
And the ability to premine for a fee!
What attitude? You have no idea if I support IE tracking its users.

I don't, btw, thanks for asking.
"If Bing were to overtake Google and become the preferred search engine, would anything really be much different?"

Maybe. Google sells site ads; Microsoft sells Windows and Office licenses; DuckDuckGo sells search ads; Apple sells hardware. Following the money, you realize that Google's goal is to produce search results just good enough to maintain its brand, while driving as much traffic as possible to sites that display its ads. Always ask yourself how your interests differ from your search engine's.
It's not hard to argue with the "more existing evidence than meets the eye" either:

http://www.deakin.edu.au/buslaw/aef/workingpapers/papers/200...

Three things to observe from the graph on page 31 (adobe reader page 33):

* There is publication bias in favor of the hypothesis that minimum wage increases decrease employment.

* If one takes the liberty of selecting only a handful of studies to argue with, one can find "strong" support for either side of this argument.

* Neither the "true mean" (mean at large y) nor the "biased mean" (mean at small y) of the studies lies anywhere near the break-even point (x value of -1) where the proposal of raising the minimum wage begins to hurt poor people in aggregate (i.e. the sum total of money flowing to poor people is less than it was before the raise).

Also, observe that the graph on page 33 (adobe reader page 35) suggests a trend in elasticity over time which has a plausible argument to back it up. Signed elasticity should increase (minimum wage increases become more beneficial) when labor is overabundant. In this case, labor tends to be sold nearer to the minimum price laborers will sell at and further from the price at which employers will stop purchasing so that a minimum wage increase results in more "win" scenarios (wages are increased without being pushed over the "cliff" that results in negative productivity) than "loss" scenarios (where wages are pushed over the cliff). This is consistent with the narrative of American employees losing leverage over time.

If both the narrative and its theoretical+observed impact on elasticity are true, minimum wage increases are becoming more beneficial over time.
Bing and DDG are good for stuff that is easy to find. If you rely on a search engine a lot they fall short about 20% of the time.
Even though Kanye West gets a lot of flak for his behavior, I think that most of the sampling that he's done (especially on his first 3 albums) has been amazing. Like taking a 2 second sound clip from Steely Dan's Kid Charlemagne and somehow transforming it into the main beat for his song in Champion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XaDeC2LEdA#t=68
This looks like simple probability based predicting. For example, if you're in college you likely have a decent job in the future. In tree form, the next branch would say based on that, you probably have a family and children.

The film the Adjustment Bureau explores this concept on a large scale. If you miss your morning bus, you would never have sat next to your future wife and the tree branches out in a completely different direction. It would take more than a supercomputer to figure out every possible direction your life could take.
I didn't say anything that isn't completely public knowledge. And let's not forget that MS once employed Robert Scoble. So we can't be all bad.

EDIT: and let's be realistic. The papers on search that come out of MSR expose way more about our infrastructure than the paltry sum presented in this post.
I still regularly make searches in duckduckgo (which gets results from Bing) and then find that I have to switch Google to actually find what I'm looking for. The worst thing about this is that Google's results don't seem to be as good as they used to be, and there isn't really any other search engine that matches it yet that I've seen.
Okay come on. It's not like this is a ridiculously common use case. Plus there are 2 other workarounds.

If you're playing with Oracle data that often, you're probably an enterprise customer who's going to buy the next version anyway.

It's not like this was happening every time you wanted to save or copy/paste data.
If you get a pig to wash its hands(paws?) on camera, and say "it's for a study" I think they'll give you a igNobel prize.
The map is easily debunked, but, the fact is that the reactor(s) are not contained.

In addition to the needed nuclear materials for the reactor itself, there were/are at least 89 tons of used rods, "hot" enough that they need to be constantly cooled, stored on the Reactor 3 site.

You can read about the Reactor 4/5/6 spent fuel pools here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_units_4,_5_an...

Read this January 3, 2014 Tepco press release and notice the use of the word "assume" : http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/2014/123333... ... it means "we don't know".
So, we've got three roles and three names... just let's call the allocator "allocator", the initializer "initializer", and the thing which does both the "constructor", maybe? :)
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Use a mouth wash if you're concerned about the smell, not because they are effective.

"Over-the-counter mouthwashes are ineffective at killing MRSA biofilms..."
http://www.oooojournal.net/article/S2212-4403(12)01766-X/abs...
Best counterexample is Canada, if you want to be more convincing and less inflammatory.
I am not a fan of them but I find myself more productive with them. I've taken a look at both WebSharper and Play/Lift. WebSharper has very unpleasant license. Play/Lift have quite a slow feedback cycle, i.e. compilation time is too slow thanks to Scala.
Sure, that's why elections matter.
I never insinuated that I was better than a high school education. I insinuated that someone operating medical imaging equipment should have some credentials in the medical field. I have a distrust and dislike for anyone who compromises my civil rights.
He could just have waited for some other diseases to appear and they would transport them for free!
Major typo on the salt. Meant 300g is enough to kill. (You'd have to seriously try to die by salt.)
Go does indeed add some nice checks over C. For example, given:

type foo int

var (
A foo = iota
B
C
D
)

func bar(x foo) ...

It's an error to write:

bar(2)

That's enough typing to prevent many types of annoying mistakes.
Package management is harder with OSX. With Linux, I can install everything from the commandline with an OS supported utility (e.g. yum).

With OSX, I'm left with 3rd party installers like brew which never really line up the dependencies completely.
Ask HN: Is "Gödel, Escher, Bach" still worth reading?
Since it's such a famous and lauded book, I figured that perhaps I should pick it up and give it a stab. I've read conflicting opinions on it: that it's a timeless classic which intersects mathematics with philosophy and whimsical humor, that it's pretentious or that it's now outdated.

What do you guys think? Is it worth it?
Your arguments of TEPCO links to the Japanese Mob is irrelevant, as the Snopes article discusses on whether or not the radiation levels are effecting the US.

Also, the link you gave on the US raising safe level markings is not a respected news source, and the article only links to other articles from the site as "sources". If's fine to call BS on an article on HN, but make sure you give proper backing to your claims, the post you just wrote doesn't.
My software title "FileSearchEX" is so pirated that I can no longer continue to work on it full time. Indeed, search engines show more "free crack here" links than legitimate ones. Imagine going to the supermarket and having "free" eggs next to the $5 carton ... which would you choose? I know what 90% of them go with.
Please do not confuse dislike of semantic whitespace for structure-less preferences. I want my blocks to be explicit so the computer can know the difference between between incorrect indentation and a block ending. I also do not want to make tabs versus spaces any more flamewar inducing than it already is.
It's worth noting that "churches" isn't the monolithic system that they sound like. There are a significant number of clergy and churches who are in it for the money and may as well count as part of the financial sector for the intents and purposes of this discussion.

Pope Francis is making statements, but I don't know what he can do beyond talking, and assuming he has useful actions to take, if he will take them.
iOS has a similar (some may say the opposite) problem, especially when setting up notification-based APIs and and app which expects a notification to happen within a certain period of time (ie a user needs their location now to complete an action, say a social post with location). Sleeping won't work, nor will waiting on another thread work because there has to be activity on the main thread for the main runloop to execute. What works is looping until timeout by sleeping for a few ms and then running the main thread's run loop explicitly. Gross but it works. Otherwise, the location notifications never arrive. Such is the downside of cooperative multitasking.
"stealing"
You keep using that word...
On paper there's a solution to this problem: Negative income tax [1]. Would be interesting to see it implemented somewhere...

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
The lack of shielding is rarely any problem. Two oscillators is not better than one, since PLLs can generate the required clocks (480MHz = 25 / 5 x 96, 100MHz = 25 x 4, 125MHz = 25 x 5); SMSC has some USB/Ethernet solutions that use the same 25MHz frequency.

> The Windows drivers are the exact same digitally signed ones that Microsoft distributes through Windows Update

AFAIK there is a standard device class for "USB ethernet controllers", so any chipset that conforms to it will work fine with the standard drivers.

As for the unmarked chip - many IC companies are not averse to creating custom designs for a specific customer (and marking it however you want) if you're willing to buy enough. I don't think it's ASIX since they don't have the single 25MHz clock source; more willing to bet on Microchip or SMSC.
In that case I look forward to the lisper UI toolkit, which stays responsive when application code stalls on a UI thread. I'll bet it goes well with the lisper dynamic linker, which I hear completely isolates me from bugs of code living in the same address space.

Kidding aside, I can't help but think that you keep going back to that "clearly the mutex is broken" analogy I mentioned earlier. If I read you correctly, it doesn't matter if the Oracle code is breaking the rules set out by the MS documentation, Microsoft should account for all possible bugs past, present and future and prevent them. Seems like that's asking a lot. The other platforms I've worked with don't seem to satisfy this either.

What bothers me more, though, is how preemptively dismissive you've been about Win32 while showing something of a lack of knowledge on how it works. I don't think Win32 is perfect. (Ask me about filesystem behaviors some time.) At the same time I have gotten to know it and can appreciate areas where it works well. I would also hope that before making the kinds of comments you are making about any platform, I'd get to know the framework a bit better first.
Recruiters only know bad developers
Oh good. Yes. Let's please bring this up for the infinity-ith time. It is particularly relevent and useful to be mention when discussing an almost 40 year old letter. Thank you so much for making a useful contribution.
You should sell it to Microsoft instead of the users.
This is the first time I've ever seen someone write with an understanding of combining characters, glyphs, codepoints vs encoding of said codepoints - and yet arrive at this conclusion.

What's the largest codebase you tried a unicode-ification project on? It's a nightmare unless you keep de/encoding as close to the i/o operations as possible.

I can't understand how you've ever found it just as easy to do "string x contain substring y" on bytes vs uc strings. Any case-insensitive test will fail miserably unless you only ever see ASCII input. Then there's sorting and tokenization. Oh god, the sorting bugs...

Even measuring the length of string is a miserable fail. And blind substitution of utf8 bytes horribly mangles the output causing mysterious segfaults or silent corruption.

On a large codebase, programmers can't keep track of what encoding is being used in which parts of the code. Eg. Let's allow the users to specify input file encoding! But our OS does filenames in UTF16-LE. And the Web API is UTF-8... nasty stuff. It's far saner to use character strings everywhere except immediately after/before I/O operations.
Insiders can often link bits of public knowledge in a way that effectively discloses confidential information. Every company has a different threshold for where this is, so maybe you're on the safe side of that for your org. BTW, I'm not trying to accuse you of malfeasance, I'm just saying I wouldn't do what you're doing.
Why raise the thermostat setting from 40F to 65F? Why wouldn't 100F be better? Where between 65F and 100F do you draw the line and why?
Seems like Thor and Wolf of Wall Street show up on every list. Some movies just seem wrongly categorized, but the biggest problem is there just aren't enough movies for it to be very useful yet. You need the top 1k movies at least I think.

Another site of this type http://goodfil.ms/
And how did the process start? The poverty situation in the better off countries didn't start improving because of magical fairy dust.

One end pushes the other end, sure, but you've got to start it somewhere.

People and politicians took action and improved laws, businesses still kept going and the cycle repeats upwards.

I don't see that happening in the US. I don't mind if the change isn't minimum wage (not going to happen in America), but at least do /something/ positive.
> Is that really the kind of discussion you want this to be?

Yes. If you're going to chastise people based on what year it is, you damn well better be right about what year it is.

> OS X was introduced in 2001, and it could run OS 9 applications

OS X booted a modified copy of OS 9 to accomplish that. It didn't fix anything about OS 9. It also wasn't present on Intel Macs, nor on Leopard, the last PowerPC-compatible version of OS X. Nor was it fully compatible -- I always had trouble with it, and have kept older System 7 and OS 9 Macs around rather than put up with it.
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I can have bad eating habits sometimes, but I'm under average weight and unable to gain weight. Should I still consider 5-htp since it's an appetite suppressant?
You know it is usually pretty trivial to assign whatever MAC you want to them.

(I have an unbranded Android phone that assigns a random MAC address every time I turn WiFi on/off. Apparently this happens since they didn't bother to initialise the EEPROM and just left it at all zeroes. But this means being harder to track, so I consider it more a feature than a bug...)
Don't need your word on that. It's pretty generally accepted that it is a better language. It's that relative to what existed it is a new language, not an upgrade. It is incompatible with the old one and most all that has been written for it. Most who are invested already can't and won't go there. Most who are coming into it choose to maximize their options over language nicety. It's all just too problematic.

It was dishonest to call it Python.
Although I would not wear google glasses, i believe that they are "preparing the ground" for upcoming, better products (that won't be necessarily only glasses). Additionally, there are some niche markets that will adopt feats of the glass quite soon.

So no, Google Glasses are not that good , but yes there is potential that may lead to different trends.
AV made a substantial unforced error at exactly the wrong time which resulted in a huge drop in search quality. It wasn't as much a matter of better algorithms as one might think.

There's also a pretty big difference in scale. The AV team working on search in 2000 wasn't all that big.
I would like to use something like ownCloud but my sysadmin skills are certainly poorer than guys hired by Google or Dropbox. I worry that I might end up deleting my own data or mess up my installation. For example, I use Google apps and I worry that a messed up MX entry would send me to radio silence.
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Have you seen the resulting Glass photo? I would wager it's low resolution, poor color and contrast, and captured most of the deck's railing.

Hope you took the picture with your phone, it would be worth seeing again.
Since when Asimov's Foundation was about time travel?
What is even more horrible is how people think they can buy a PC for cheaper than the price of its parts. I am thinking commoditization of the entire device is flawed while commoditization of parts is not.
But all of that speculation is not comparable to actually seeing the clone work in real-world situations.

I would've liked to see the OP do a benchmark on transfer rates between the original and the clone. (Unless he aleady did one and didn't find any difference.)
Being an American currently living in Indonesia I think there are some structural things missing in the analysis here.

The big one is why banks in rich countries are too big to fail. In Indonesia if there was a banking crisis, there is no way that a bank like BCA could be bailed out. There would be no alternative to failure and while there are concerns about overly predatory practices regarding consumer debt, it is different than it is in the US.

Instead the economy is built on a very different basis. 60-70% of Indonesians are self-employed. There are a number of corporations which have institutional investment (including some very large companies) but on the whole the vast majority of the actual economy runs on the basis of small business and the self-employed without investment capital beyond friends and family.

What this means is that the amount of control that banks have over the economy is lower. In the event of a banking crisis, people would find ways of continuing to trade and work, and you can't have the massive and debilitating layoffs that occur in the rich countries. In essence the banking system may be less protected, but at the same time, it is less influential and so while the effects of a collapse can be temporarily severe, it doesn't have the same reach that it does in the US.

A big part of the rich country trap is a economy that runs on investment capital, where the banks are a major source of that capital. A small-business-centric economy is far more robust against this sort of crisis.
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Another way to look at it is if Google detonates start ups from VCs they co-invest with, will their own internal venture arm get squeezed out of some deals?

And if implicit or explicit risk protection (and back channeled information about potential upcoming risks) comes as a fringe benefit of direct investment, doesn't that "free insurance" allow Google Ventures to guarantee themselves more favorable investing terms?
You can't stand up to the financial sector if you are an investment-funded venture. That way is suicide. The problem is that once you get to a certain size, a significant part of your shares are owned by investment banks.
Hmmmmm. Well that is definitely worrying...
I stopped reading after `I Hate Word Docs`

If you have any plans to apply to any job besides your open position, they need to be in a word document for all of the shitty ATS. Don't be that guy who makes someone take an extra step just to apply to your open positions. I don't disagree with the premise at all, I'd rather send PDF docs over word but the geniuses in HRT decided against that.
I agree it's not a very relevant problem that didn't affect too many people. Still, it shows a pretty lame bug (that is, if the Oracle folks did their job correctly). In 1997 it was already usual to offer updates through the internet.

It's still kind of embarrassing.
I think that answers my question.

However, it is like the two guards in conundrum: "One guard always tells the truth and the other guard always lies. You don't know which one is honest and which one is the liar..."

So it still must be possible to phrase the question in such a way the truth is revealed, where 'one guard' is the spy agency and the 'other guard' is the politician and the 'national security' response.
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