skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is it that it's legal for workers to form unions and strike? Isn't that just as much "collusion and conspiracy" from the other side?

Employers have a natural organizational advantage, as well as advantages of capital and resources. Given that virtually any workplace has a 1:n relationship with its employees, the bargaining advantage is with the employer. Within a labor market as a whole, a small number of companies may affect a huge number of workers (the case lists a handful of firms and 60,000 or more employees).

This was recognized by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations:

It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms. The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily: and the law, besides, authorises, or at least does not prohibit, their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work, but many against combining to raise it. In all such disputes, the masters can hold out much longer. A landlord, a farmer, a master manufacturer, or merchant, though they did not employ a single workman, could generally live a year or two upon the stocks, which they have already acquired. Many workmen could not subsist a week, few could subsist a month, and scarce any a year, without employment. In the long run, the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him; but the necessity is not so immediate.

We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform, combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate. To violate this combination is everywhere a most unpopular action, and a sort of reproach to a master among his neighbours and equals. We seldom, indeed, hear of this combination, because it is the usual, and, one may say, the natural state of things, which nobody ever hears of. Masters, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink the wages of labour even below this rate. These are always conducted with the utmost silence and secrecy till the moment of execution; and when the workmen yield, as they sometimes do without resistance, though severely felt by them, they are never heard of by other people.

And on for a number of paragraphs.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm#link2H...

Chapters VII and X of book 1 discuss labour, wages, and various differentiators among them. They're impressively comprehensive and informed, vastly more liberal than you might have been lead to believe of Smith (he really is quite the liberal philosopher), and still highly applicable today. I strongly recommend reading both sections, and more of Smith if at all possible.
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Really useful site to get meaningful links about London.
I think his books are a good holiday read. The targets are people in finance (many of whom are charlatans) and economists.
As an industry, we've got to get over this notion of "still", it's like civil engineers saying are you still making things out of concrete? 25 years I would say is a proven, mature technology, not obsolete. Think how much progress we could make if we didn't reinvent the wheel every few years...
2400 Hz, if I'm not mistaken. Baud indicates how many signals you can send in a second. Hz is the wave frequency, which you have to mimic for the signaling tones.
Wow. People just cannot let go of Obama. It's pathetic that people STILL are willing to forgive him, thinking he'll somehow change, that he's somehow better and will rise above this endlessly expanding government of ours and take a stand with reform. Let the fuck go of it.

And sharing memes on Facebook? What the fuck is that going to do?
No-one's going to say "Yeah I was going to apply to YC but HN keeps going down so I don't think I will after all".
Hahaha cool.
Clojure, Dynamic Languages, Creativity and Simplicity
Spotify doesn't have shuffle in the free version, you might be thinking of Pandora. Spotify makes you pay to get rid of annoying ads that come on every 10-20 minutes. They also offer higher quality music and an offine mode when you pay.
I don't understand your frustration here, as I don't see any Obama sympathy in this posting. Was the title different previously?
Firefox with 30 tabs and several Youtube videos uses about 334MB
So, while surfing just 5-8 websites at a time you'd have enough memory.
Sometimes I'm even using a computer from 1996 which struggles even with xp – it's good enough as a compile server (Pentium II).
There is a similar situation in the US where people live for very low rent in vacant houses that are for sale. The arrangement is that in exchange for substantially below market rent (perhaps 70% less), they keep the house clean, are ready to move out with 30 days notice, and leave the house when the agent needs to show it.

I have friends who did this in a nice house in an expensive town for a couple years, taking advantage of the low rent to save for a down payment on their own home.
How does one yawn into the abyss knowing that Dr Knuth himself produced "MULTIPLE errors" in writing code to ... draw a dot.
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As best anyone knows, quantum mechanical effects (like radioactive decay) really are purely and objectively random -- i.e., it is not the case that they appear random because of our ignorance of some deterministic processes. The not-actually-random scenario is called Local Hidden Variable Theory [1], and is ruled out by a series of remarkable experiments based on Bell's Theorem [2].

You can, if you are stubborn, create a theory of QM with non-local hidden variables, but it turns out to be just as weird as orthodox QM; but instead of accepting objective randomness, you have to accept faster-than-light interactions. One example is David Bohm's "pilot wave" theory. [3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_hidden_variable_theory

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie-Bohm_theory
I don't think we're going to here anything substantial from the President. Regardless, providing people with a list of the issues and an easy way to keep track of how we does (or more likely, doesn't) address them sounds like a good idea to me.
This reminds me I'm still looking for a (pki?-)encrypted zfs snapshots as a backup service, /wink-wink @anyone

Hoping the box has ECC ram, otherwise zfs, too, can be unreliable (http://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/zfs-corruption...)
I had reported this to FB security last year when I found it was trivial to find partially masked email ids & phone numbers of anyone behind my Uni's gateway.

I was informed that this was a design decision since previously used IPs are more trustworthy than any new IP. I considered this a design flaw and reported since large institutions are typically behind a NAT and they become susceptible to targeted attacks.
I think they are mainly charging for ad free playback. I've been putting up with the ads and they tend to be very annoying. There was one for a while where they would outright yell "Trojan Man" and talk about how thin and pleasureable it was while making gasping noises. Another would yell "Ad-vanced Auto Parts" at you. They are also smart enough that they pause when you mute the volume in an attempt to force you to listen to them (I have headphones so I just put the headphones down).
Setting up /etc/cron.allow with only specified users (I.E _not_ your webserver user) is a good thing to do on servers generally.

If you have cronjobs that need to run as a webserver user, setup another user specifically for the task, then in sudoers configuration explicitly allow that user to run the required command in the context of the webserver user.
New giant 3D printer can build a house in 24 hours
hn is mostly a single process application, so dedicated hardware is really the only way they can scale performance (and adding stuff in front like a proxy, cloudflare, etc.)

They even went out of their way to get the fastest single core xeon possible, which is a fairly mid-range CPU, singe they care about process performance vs. overall.
http://istruecryptauditedyet.com/

This suggests that e.g. dm-crypt is definitely more "open-source", and may in fact be better audited. I guess TC is still more "time-tested".
"What I’m asking is, please put away this special situation that has to do with our history."

Bullshit, Nazi. You're demanding, and threatening people with imprisonment and $30,000 fines. And if they don't go to jail, or pay the fines? You're putting the entire government and it's armed forces behind that threat, and people may possibly die or be killed. This isn't about politeness, or decorum, it's about control. You want to control people, and have them kidnapped or worse if they refuse to submit to your will.

Think about that next time you say "there ought to be a law". It isn't the same as saying "people ought to do such and such". Because with the latter, you're just expressing a preference. With the former, you're attempting to stifle, herd and dominate your fellow human beings, and putting the threat of kidnapping and death by armed goons behind that attempt.
To cite ENCOM: "What's different this time?" – "We've put a 12 on the box".

—
From "Tron: Legacy"
I'm a bit sad that there is no scale for extreme hotspots - I'm sure you'd be able to pinpoint the Mona Lisa's location in the Louvre otherwise.
By tolerating the loss of two disks, do you mean raidz2 or do you mean 3-way mirror?

Raidz2 is not fast. In fact, it is slow. Also, it is less reliable than a two way mirror in most configurations, because recovering from a disk loss requires reading the entirety of every other disk, whereas recovering from loss in a mirror requires reading the entirety of one disk. The multiplication of the probabilities don't work out particularly well as you scale up in disk count (even taking into account that raidz2 tolerates a disk failure mid-recovery). And mirroring is much faster, since it can distribute seeks across multiple disks, something raidz2 cannot do. Raidz2 essentially synchronizes the spindles on all disks.

Raidz2 is more or less suitable for archival-style storage where you can't afford the space loss from mirroring. For example, I have an 11 disk raidz2 array in my home NAS, spread across two separate PCIe x8 8-port 6Gbps SAS/SATA cards, and don't usually see read or write speeds for files[1] exceeding 200MB/sec. The drives individually are capable of over 100MB/sec - in a non-raidz2 setup, I'd be potentially seeing over 1GB/sec on reads of large contiguous files.

Personally I'm going to move to multiple 4-disk raid10 vdevs. I can afford the space loss, and the performance characteristics are much better.

[1] Scrub speeds are higher, but not really relevant to FS performance.
I understand that he made a lot of money in 2008 from betting on 'Black Swans'.
Teens and 18-24 are a critical demographic to ANY site that sells advertising.
I still like hardware RAID because it's conceptually simple and nicely isolated. Sometimes horrible things happen to it, though, too.

I didn't realize HN had enough disk storage needs to need more than one drive. I guess you could have 1+2 redundancy or something.
Ask HN: Where to hire designers?
Hi HN. Being tech people, my co-founders and I have a strong network and understanding of where to hire engineers, but a bit lost when looking for ux/visual designers. Does anyone have any success looking outside of your network? Designer News? Authentic Jobs? Behance?

Thanks!
Interesting. What other North Korean state messages do you believe to be, at root, basically true and honest?
The biggest problém is imho that you cant buy BTC by credit card, then you cant use is as a payment system
A philosophy of movie recommendations
But when consent wasn't given in the first place, the duty to leave when given a good reason vanishes?

It's some pretty curious moral arithmetic you've got going on there.
Direct link since page is down: http://blog.smartbear.com/wp-content/uploads/imports/poor-we...

http://imgur.com/QDEAPuK
Let's just see how it turns out by the end of all of this. Remember, people said the same thing with DADT: "why not just end this? why not issue an executive order?" Because he was playing the long game and ended up getting a permanent repeal.
Just want to point out that you can use the tool without logging in if you block the prompt with e.g. AdBlock. And yeah, it seems to work just fine in the HN front page.
Have you used KDE? It doesn't look like windows, but it is quite easy to use.
Well Gitmo was ordered closed. So it's gone right? Oh yeah.

Announce all you want, it will still be there tomorrow.
I'm confused - these are the lovely people tearing holes in the wall in the article? Painting graffiti? Heck, living in someone else's building just because they want to and have a crowbar? At least two of those are crimes, so yes they are criminals. I'll let you have the scumbag one - maybe they are really nice vandals...
11 questions you were too afraid to ask about net neutrality
That is part of what a government's reason for existence is. That's what taxes are for. To protect people with livelihoods and property from those who would deprive them of such. That's what makes us live in a first world society and not the world of Mad Max.
How to increase your memory ability: one cup at a time
Poll: Many point tools or few multi-function ones?
When it comes to managing/monitoring your web app - do you prefer many point tools, or a small number of single tools with multiple features?
LESS: Minimum logins, duplication and different UIs.
MORE: Best Practice tools for each requirement.
IDEALLY LESS: But there's no IAAS/PAAS management tools that do a significant portion of the stack yet.
ALWAYS MORE: Always blend my favourite tools; and flavour-of-the-month new tools into my stack.
That sounds a bit like an apologist. I'm keeping my hopes very low - after so many, many disappointments I believe his brand is damaged.
because it's cheap and works my dear fellow.

Yes it may seem archaic, but it a real server has real disk IO, something which on amazon and the like doesn't come cheap
>if not, why don't you move to a more reliable hosting, like AWS?

Ah yes, because AWS has worked out so well for the reddit folk. :-)
Caffeine also potentiates the effects of OTC painkillers

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2012456
I really cannot stand the UI in Spotify. Also, making albums "playlists" just to listen to them is incredibly annoying. Maybe that is gone now but I have been a very happy Rdio subscriber for over a year now. I am really excited for Beatsmusic.com to launch on the 21st as well.
Do you not see the extremely lofty wishlist that has no chance of being fulfilled at all? Maybe halfway on one or two of them, but that's it. When are people going to realize this president is more of the same? This is going to be a damage control press conference filled to the brim with buzzwords and weasel phrases.

You want real actual measurable change? Get your fucking congressman out of office.
...except for all their possessions that were in the property that were stolen / smashed up / ruined / sold for crack.

Not to mention their money and time in getting the squatters evicted, which usually involves courts, the hiring of security people, etc, followed by the cost of repairing the damage they did to the property.
At&t CEO argues for Immigration Reform
U.K. Government sets up national 3D printing centre
I'm from Australia and I'm having infinite loads as well.

Maybe you need better tools.
Tcl is pragmatic. I still use it for one-off projects with simple GUIs via Tk. I get grief from co-workers for the language, but my projects are typically done and correctly functioning in a fraction of the time it takes our Java and C# devs to even prototype a utility.

Below is a walkthrough of Tk which compares identical implementations of examples in Pearl, Ruby, Python, and Tcl. See if you can spot which of the scripting languages are more concise. Hell, I'd even call Tcl more readable in most of the cases:

http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/
I don't think it's finished until we can run the Cray OS in javascript in our browser.

1000 times faster than the original.

It is not only the computing advances that are amazing, those "seats" around the Cray are actually the power supply!
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My predictor says that some of you will want to read The Hundred-Light-Year Diary by Greg Egan (in Axiomatic [1]) ... if you like this kind of thing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiomatic_%28story_collection%2...
Mailgun Webhooks + Special Delivery = Rails App Email Happiness
Is this the new Facebook Paper?
Facebook is rumored to be working on a Flipboard killer.
Reading 2 disks is not very much slower than 1. Its always the I/o bandwidth that is at issue, so it very much depends on the connectivity.

And it all pretty much impacts your customer. We've all suffered under the 4-hour mirror rebuild, the whole machine made inoperable by the constant disk load. The only way to alleviate that, is to design extra bandwidth (e.g. another cable and controller) that's used exclusively for recovery.

I've designed/build storage that worked that way, but it was for enterprise. The home user doesn't want to pay for extra bandwidth and then not use it most of the time. And if the DO use it, then they notice when a rebuild is triggered, and complain. Its catch-22.
Woah, looks like you're right. Didn't see it at first but it definitely doesn't seem to be loading now.
Here's a paper on the subject
http://www1.cs.fau.de/filepool/projects/coldboot/fares_coldb...
The problems that led to this failure of the system are cultural not procedural. We already have the constitution and many laws and procedure that should have prevented what has been going on. What we have is a profound lack of understanding of how intelligence works and the limits of what can be done with it, intentionally or not.

You can't fix culture. You can only shut it down and start over. And that will not happen.
.NET Fiddle adds F#
Supports Mac, iPad, iPhone, WinXp/Vista/7/8.
We run it on Linux but only in the datacenter as a 'media node', we couldn't settle on a presentation layer.

Also we've ported it to Android pucks for conference room stations, but not selling that - no deal with a vendor yet.

There's a web client, but the audio situation there is fragmented so now (sigh) you have to call in. Its OK if you're just attending a meeting but less tolerable for all-day use.
> While Parliament might not have explicitly legalised it, it also hasn't closed the loophole, perhaps in recognition of its social use and history.

Remember this legal philosophy gem next time you read about a corporation using a tax loophole.
Memory Monitoring With LXC
Companies like the linked one make their money in cleaning up compromised servers rather than nuking and reinstalling them.

Not saying it's impossible to do a full clean, but I would certainly not trust a server once compromised.
If you want to dissuade underusage of owned land, then advocate for higher land taxes, not for squatters. As squatting becomes more socially acceptable it gets harder to evict squatters and people become forced to hire standing guards at every commercial underused building. This is not how to cure homelessness.
They also receive substantial amounts of international aid and profit from endeavours like Kaesong. In the grand scheme of things, the petty revenue from tourism doesn't matter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaesong_Industrial_Region
"We promise to work harder next time to not get caught"
Yep, it looks really cool. I forgot to bookmark it. It looks like it was a curated list of sysadmins that you could hire for short term min projects but also retainers as well too I think.

I need to move a WordPress blog from Hostgator to a VPS, but I'm not too hot on setting that all up. I can follow the Digital Ocean community guides ok, but I'm worried I'm missing something. Better to have someone who knows what they are doing. I don't trust people on odesk or elance.
Net Neutrality is Dead
Yeah, but I'm glad we don't still use corduroyed roads.

Tcl is a wheel worth reinventing.
No, 2400 baud - phase shifting is used encode the bits, so the actual frequencies used are complex. 300 baud used two tones for Tx and two tones for Rx so it is easy to whistle (albeit the characters coming out are garbage). Higher baud rates are probably impossible to whistle because the encoding is much more complex. I never tried, acoustic couplers didn't work above 300 baud. ;-)

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem#1200_and_2400_bps
Does anybody have an idea about how to stand out in the crowd where many remote developers disappear, replace themselves with somebody else in their team without telling you, and so on?

This is my biggest problem now. I've been freelancing for about a year, and so far I got every single one of my jobs through friends and ex-colleagues. Currently I live in Hungary and there is an obvious demand for the things I do (mainly Android and back-end Java stuff), so I'm pretty sure there is somebody out there who could use somebody like me with a better rate than back home.

But it's not easy to build trust, especially over the internet, if the default position of the client is that you must be doing something shady unless proven otherwise.
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Google Glass Usecase [video]
Wait. We have unlimited mobile data in the US at reasonable prices? From whom? My "unlimited" T-Mobile plan throttles down to 2G speeds after 500MB.
What's wrong with the DOM? I feel like jQuery abstracts away most of the pain. Do you mean the API itself, or in the abstract sense of laying out web apps like documents?
Ha, I thought there were cooling modules. Anyway, back in those days your supercomputer double as a bench, take that air thin tablets.
Is there a similar file for python?
I feel like a pessimist but this what it sounds like during these types of announcements.
I suspect that's the point. When the reforms score somewhere in the 0-2 range, as you know they will, it's another factor to use in the campaign against illegal spying.
A very similar product by Lithuanian company: http://shop.8devices.com/carambola2

It does not come with built-in antenna though, so an external antenna is required.
Intel Delays Future of  $5,2B, 14nm Chips Factory and Stays Shut
Yes, this kind of simple fix can save many headaches.
Breaking down the Grantland 3.0 redesign
After all these years, I only value the legislation a politician introduces, official actions in office, and their votes. Everything else is too hard to figure out the intent or sincerity.

This might be from having politicians in the 90's lie to my face and then vote totally different.
Nice job! I really liked, it's a fantastic idea! And your UX is great! Just one thing I've found when testing: I've had some problems with non-ascii characters, when I was visiting brazilian websites, such as this : www.folha.com.br.
After Crisis, Iceland Holds a Tight Grip on Its Banks
Assuming the disk footprint is small...

Would recommend a new SSD-based ZFS box (Samsung 840 Pros have been great even for pretty write-intesive load), with raidz3 for protection and zfs send (and/or rsync from hourly/N-minute snapshot for data protection which should eliminate copying FS metadata corruption, as not sure if zfs send will).

Happy to provide and/or host such a box or two if helpful.