skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand.

If I make generalizations of an individual of a class based on characteristics of the class as a whole, that is racism. Example: "A young black male like you is much more likely to be a criminal."

But if you do the same thing with privledge, that is considered acceptable (and an indicator that you are an enlightened) Example: "A white male is more likely to go to a school that can afford up to date books" (from macimumloam.)

Both things are true. But if go around saying the first one all the time whenever I speak to a black male I'll be ostracized, but if I say the second, everyone will feel good about themselves about showing some white male his place.

(Posting from a throwaway account because of just this reason.)
I'm not familiar with how much 26MM Dogecoin is in relation to the total amount of Dogecoin that's been mined, but it will be interesting to see what happens to the exchange rate as it gets converted into "real" money so the team can pay for the trip to Sochi. The article mentioned that the fundraiser may have raised the price of Doge itself, and I expect that bubble will pop as soon as the Jamaicans find out that you can't buy plane tickets with Doge (yet).
It really depends how you measure efficiency and value. Everyone likes the idea of their town having a butcher, a baker and a candlestick maker, but they actually shop in an out of town megamart. Which is fine, it's more efficient in terms of calories per unit of currency, but there is also value in the lifestyle you want to live, which I think people only tend to realize too late.
That's not an alternative. I think the alternative will be something like an unconditional basic income. There will be new jobs of course but there won't be enough new jobs to compensate the amount of jobs that will get lost in the process. And that's not a bad thing. I don't think we are born to have a job. Society has to adapt.
I have a feeling that quite a lot of people use LESS because of Bootstrap. And it is my personal guess but looks like even Bootstrap is trying to move to Sass - https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass.
We've resorted to an ugly nested case class structure. We like Play-Json overall, it works well even with large (>100mb) JSON objects, but we'd love to not deal with that. TBH, it's a bigger problem with Slick where you we can't just mess with the schema since other systems use the same DB.
MRR = Monthly recurring revenue. This might help:

http://www.quora.com/Software-as-a-Service-SaaS/Can-you-help...
Man that is crazy. I got in at $1-$10 a coin and I'm worried about it because I talked about it so much back then, but for you guys it must be insane.
Yes, the logic is that the corporation paid tax on their profits before dividends. Perhaps there's a case for corporation tax abolition and increased dividend taxation?
Wouldn't the value increase once the credits end? The new model of the Leaf will suddenly cost $12,500 more, so demand for used Leafs will skyrocket. That could definitely increase the value of your car.
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If you're living in the US, $5k will not sustain a family lifestyle. After taxes and factoring in the risk inherent with a startup / SaaS business, if you want to depend on the revenue as a sole source of income, you're going to need to at least triple that.
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There was talk recently that rust had made the choice of m:n tasks and real threads configurable. Is it still using m:n tasks by default? Would be interesting to see a comparison between the two for something like this (which should of course heavily favor lightweight task model)
I helped write the AMPCamp exercises (and parts of Spark) - the exercises were done in the context of a two-day long seminar held at Berkeley where the days were mostly filled with talks/training about the stack. The actual exercises were designed to take a couple of hours each day, with plenty of time for questions/etc. You can probably get through them in an evening, and I've seen people do it in less!
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Oh, I agree completely. I largely mentioned her and that piece because, AFAIK, she was the actual progenitor of this idea that the busses are The symbol of disparity, suggesting even that they should be protested against. I mean, the busses aren't anything new. At best, they've been really annoying, but this whole outrage thing was born in 2013, not 2012 or even 2010.
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It's not different than the rest of the network stack, most of it consists in "inspecting packets" in one way or another, and security bugs can be (and some times are) introduced.

But nftables is actually a big win from a security perspective, because it simplifies the current code (lots of duplicated code goes away) and moves other parts to userspace.

Old netfilter system: 70.000 LoC in kernel + 50.000 in userspace

nftables: 7.000 LoC in kernel + 50.000 in userspace

(source: http://www.slideshare.net/ennael/2013-kernel-recipesnftables)

Also note that it's not really a "virtual machine" comparable with java, this is how the developers actually describe it

In a nutshell, nftables provides a pseudo-state machine with 4 general
purpose registers of 128 bits and 1 specific purpose register to store
verdicts. This pseudo-machine comes with an extensible instruction set,
a.k.a. "expressions" in the nftables jargon. The expressions included
in this patch provide the basic functionality, they are:

* bitwise: to perform bitwise operations.
* byteorder: to change from host/network endianess.
* cmp: to compare data with the content of the registers.
* counter: to enable counters on rules.
* ct: to store conntrack keys into register.
* exthdr: to match IPv6 extension headers.
* immediate: to load data into registers.
* limit: to limit matching based on packet rate.
* log: to log packets.
* meta: to match metainformation that usually comes with the skbuff.
* nat: to perform Network Address Translation.
* payload: to fetch data from the packet payload and store it into
registers.
* reject (IPv4 only): to explicitly close connection, eg. TCP RST.

Using this instruction-set, the userspace utility 'nft' can transform
the rules expressed in human-readable text representation (using a
new syntax, inspired by tcpdump) to nftables bytecode.
After compiling this with the latest rust built from git, I get only the "Illegal instruction" as an error message when I try to run this example.
They've already converted the 26m DOGE into $25,000, it says in the last two paragraphs.
Wow, in the article it said that this actually affected the dogecoin/bitcoin exchange rate.

>So many people had been donating, in fact, that they seemed to raise the price of the currency itself; in 12 hours, the Dogecoin to Bitcoin exchange rate rose by 50%.
modern eurogame = Powergrid, Agricola, stuff like that. Monopoly is from the USA and the 1930s. Old USA adult games + modern eurogames = complicated adult games.

I was trying to draw distinction between adult board games which are often kinda complicated and kids board games like chutes -n- ladders. If you need an elaborate scheme for distribution of labor when playing "Stone Age" that's normal, but if you need similar elaborate labor sharing agreements for chutes -n- ladders or Uno, you've been playing for booze shots too long or something like that.
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People don't have the same view of another person as me, lets make arguments.
He is doing good things for some people for sure, because he had lots of support in his legal fight.
This guy made money on peoples data? How much did facebook earn of you?
The easy answer to the question is exactly where the cloud was heading up until NSA made the news. The problem was never the the hardware nor is it software as the author reckoned, it is the data. At the bottom of this is a collection of person preference data collected and consumed by each and everyone of theses devices.

API solves the interoperability problem, the standard of data format etc.. But driven by the desire of the power of influence consumer, the API and interoperability are small problem will be taken care in the process, and are not the reason that current state of our digital life has called behind of technology. It is the data especially the sharability of the data that has been in a slow progress. Who can collect data, where to store and wholes can use that data, are all problems pending serious attention and technological innovation.

The classic resolution to the data problem, evidently google and others are working on, is to resolve the interoperability by monopolize the data "sensor" market, with its ubiquitous existence in hardware and software platform. The stack covers a range of cloud providers, platform providers and consumer product manufactures. All of these were working according to the plan, then BAM!, all a sudden came along the whistleblower and nobody wants to trust cloud with their person data thereafter.

It does not matter anymore if one company can win through the competition and control the data market like Bill Gates controlled the PC market 20 years ago, not unless there are convincing data protection and sharing technologies invented. Ironically, this used to an opportunity for government to step in and set the rules to pave the way, but not this time when government self is being questioned too.

The key to the problem is not interoperability between systems/products, but the data sharing/use/storing etc., something like a monopoly of the play field will not be able to resolve this time.
implementing git is an interesting approach to learning it.

i generally support this kind of stuff - however I think that this starts out implementing a source control solution rather than git in particular and its a shame that it follows git so closely later down the line in that regard (but completely understandable given the aim).

solving the problems for yourself you can get some insight into why git is the way it is (and svn, p4, hg, everyone else...)
They've been into bobsleight on and off for the past 26 years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_national_bobsleigh_team

Their story inspired a comedy, Cool Runnings:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106611/
You can also run into it with forms in play, although for a variety of reasons you hit it at 18.

The whole situation just drips with arrogance... "we have a magic number, and if you hit it, you suck"
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I wouldn't be so sure about that. Have you seen poor people in other countries? Many are much skinnier than your average homeless American. I've seen homeless people charging their cell phones in public areas in the US.

And I'm not sure what to say about your negative wealth debate. First world problems?
The fact that they are so wrong on that statistic makes me question their data collection methods. How can you trust anything else on that page?
The problem is not technology, but the problem is our economic (particularly "money-") -system.

The system with interest rates and profits from money (stock) is leading us into rapidly increasing imbalance of property and incomes. Today you can make thousands times more money just by making money from other money -- without any benefits for society involved (in many cases, the results are even devastating for society, e.g. food speculations) -- than any well paid office worker who uses much creativity and produces real values (like an architect or designer) even, if it is not your own money you speculate with.

That should make us think for a moment.

This spiral even has gotten worse in the last decades, because profit margins have been increased and increased. Everybody is crying for "investment opportunities" and pressure is on the stocks to generate more profits. That was also powered up by the globalization.

Normal human labor has been devaluated this way and just making profits from your possessions is increasingly making more and more money.

The people with money also have managed to make the rules in nearly all the world so, that earnings increase.

At the same time, more and more companies and rich people have brought their money or profits into tax havens, so the countries are starving on taxes ... the lower paid people have to pay them alone.

It's an downward spiral, taking the whole human kind down!
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This is different from the typical Buffer post.

Top 10 lists are almost unequivocally blogspam, as it's usually a list of things without much depth and insight (including this submission). A Top 100 list is worse. (how can you do a comparative analysis on 100 entries anyways?). A subset of a Top X list is even worse.
As a reference for anyone reading, South Korea has a population of a bit less than 50 million. 20 million credit card details stolen means that just under half of the country's population was affected..

There is something to be said about the drawbacks of living in such a small but highly networked society (esp. in S. Korea where the entire country has a particular 'small town' feel) but I do not have the energy to organize and put my thoughts to keyboard at the moment.
How fast is fast enough?
Maybe it's easier to formally standardize a feature like this if it becomes a part of the protocol.
You have my position wrong.

You people suck at this.
It's a very nice looking site. Here are some ideas for future things that I would find useful at least:

- Dated reviews and pictures. This is one of the biggest things I look for when searching out hikes and haven't found a reliable site for

- Hiking buddies? I think adding an "I want to hike this" button, and having some way for people to contact each other and plan hikes would be cool and I'd definitely take advantage of it.
Whoa, I had no idea. That's really useful for retina images. I recently switched to SASS because of foundation. But I often found myself looking up image widths for my retina mixins.

Thanks for the tip.
People are not just required to work because there's so much work to do, but because they need income, so they can consume, take on debt, service it, etc. No work means no income means no consumption means no economic growth means we won't be able to service our national debt or take on new loans.

I'd go as far as saying a non-trivial proportion of service sector jobs is only necessary to keep deprecated business models going, not because they are indispensable or add actual value to the economy.

The cynical conclusion to draw is that the common man will always be a working debt slave. A history of over 200 years of automation seems to support this conclusion, as people only have to work more and more to make ends meet.
There can be up to 100B Dogecoin (ever), so this represents ~0.03% of that. There are about 32B mined now, so 0.08% of doge in existence.
I love it. I will definitely add some trails!
Ask HN: What are some of the best ways to combat fake user reviews?
Sites like Mouthshut, Zomato, Yelp are drowned in fake reviews so much so that sometimes original reviews look like paid/fake. What are some of the best ways you think we can fight against this malpractice?
I thought btrfs was going nowhere for a while because it seemed way behind zfs for a long time.

But now it looks like it's catching up, and has some nice userspace tools, and some features that I don't even think zfs has (like the option to do overwrite-in-place, but you give up checksums/compression).

The user tools seem worse than zfs, but it does look like btrfs will be a leading filesystem soon.
I'm going to be looking into OSM because of comments here. I've also looked at MapBox but last time I tried the mobile web experience was basically unusable (although Google Maps isn't great either).

Do you have other suggestions?
Sorry to break it to you, it's called "human nature".
How was this a huge advantage? Do you mean just class/money or something more political?
Go to a casino. You can play a 100% automated roulette machine, or the real thing at a table. Look which one has the most people around it. For at least this one small example, people have already made the choice to prefer human labor.
It was already converted into USD and donated to them.
Great points - I think you highlighted both benefits and major cons. I was a HackStar this summer in Boulder. The experience and social capital is definitely worth something, especially if starting a business is in the pipeline.
pg somewhat makes that argument http://paulgraham.com/gap.html and says inequality may be a sign of health.
Exactly. Been using -p for a long time.
>Cost-push is described in Reisman's tome "Capitalism" and is shown why it is a false theory starting on pg. 907.

I couldn't understand that. One difficulty is that not only do Austrian economists use a different language to describe things, but it seems to be arguing against a traditional Keynesian viewpoint. Right now PhD programs don't teach any traditional Keynsian econ, (undergrad programs teach a bit), they skip straight to neo-Keynsianism, which only keeps a few ideas from the original Keynes (e.g. sticky prices). So I don't really understand what the article is arguing against.

I already gave a description of what I thought the sticky-prices based argument for cost-push inflation was. Can you explain in your own words how this particular argument is refuted?

Re the professor, I guess I'll just chalk that up to a bad professor.
And rather than wait for it all to be over then try to liquidate the donated coins (and realise that would no longer be possible), they were selling the coins as they were donated, to the very people buying them to donate.

The net effect is that dollars themselves were donated effectively by means of doge.
Very nice. I wonder, do you plan to couple this with any kind of speech recognition at any point, so we could have some kind of custom siri ?
Its not a moot point at all, you are just simplifying it and thus end up creating a strawman no one ever argued.

It's luck in the way that BG happened to be at the right time at the right place as an entire industry exploded.

That does not mean he wasn't skilled, it doesn't mean that anyone could do it. It just means that the success it ended up becoming was not because of Bill Gates but because he happened to sell a product at the right time.

Hadn't he done it, someone else had.

So no its not a moot point unless you make a moot strawman.
That might be the opposite of what you want if there's any chance you'll be working with a heterogenous web stack.

Define your styling framework in scss, use it from multiple backends.

A common case is to share between a static site generator for a public site, and an app framework for the app, which may well be written in different languages.
I was pulling reasonable numbers out of the air to do an order of magnitude/what would you have to believe analysis.

It's unclear from that article what "ownership" means, given that a kettle is a household-level item, I'm not sure if it would matter if you did your survey as "do you own a kettle" or "is there a kettle in your house" -- they should sum up to about the same percentage. Maybe a smaller percentage of the population would say they own a kettle than would say they have one in their house due to different interpretations of what it means to "own" something. I'd expect those differences to be within the margin of error of most surveys.
Indeed. There were even some benchmarks on Phoronix a while ago that hinted that these block layer changes had resulted in some performance regressions. Anyone know if these regressions were tracked down and fixed?
Social mobility is the lowest it's been in American history and still falling, no?
Honestly, I hate most GUI tools myself. They're often clunky and poorly designed for my tastes. (Even if there does exist a good visualization, that doesn't mean it has been discovered.)

But in this case, I agree with you. The `git gui` command is great for committing changes in patch mode visually. I use it exclusively over `git add -p`. (And it comes bundled with `git`!)
A nice concept, but it doesn't really have much to do with Git. It's just another SCM system, and the concepts are just as applicable to e.g. Mercurial as Git. There are enough differences from Git to make it quite incompatible (named repository, incremented commit IDs, single parents et c.).
British tanks since the Centurion[1] all contain kettles or boiling vessels for tea. Don't mess with their tea, even in the heat of battle!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion_tank
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There seems to be a lot of automation anxiety on HN lately. If an article is not about the NSA it's about how 100 million jobs are about to vanish into thin air and we need a guaranteed income, the theory that people are freed up to do other jobs is bunk because we've reached the end of the line, etc...

I wonder if we're really that close to the end of jobs, or if we are just suffering from a lack of imagination.
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I'm fairly hopeful for this. When Curiosity landed on Mars, I was absolutely convinced the whole sky-crane thing was going to fail miserably, but this really seems like a walk in the park by comparison.

...fingers crossed!
Hope you find the link; I'd like to read that paper.
You are assuming that the developers are critical to the success of the company. This may be true in the startup world, but is not true in normal enterprise environments. In most cases, the core business is something else, and developers exist to improve the internal tools, not to drive the core business. Therefore, improving the dev staff is just a question of efficiency, not one of critical success or failure.

Actually, in many enterprise orgs, one of the key strategic questions of IT is whether or not to even have a dev staff. That is the whole "build vs. buy" discussion.

And frankly, the startup world should be jumping for joy over this - the lack of quality internal dev staffing is exactly what creates the need for larger enterprises to purchase outside products, and therefore create a market for startups.

There is a larger ecosystem at play here - if/when every enterprise-level company starts becoming a good place to be a dev, then their own internal capabilities will become greatly magnified, there will be a correlating decrease in their decision to purchase 3rd party products, and the market for startup-created products will decrease in turn.
"the fact is he still works on his business" a lot of billionnaires still work on their businesses, if not most.
This hasn't been the norm of Bitcoin - most people getting rich just went away with the coins, which is pretty bad.
His estimation accounts for the assets he owns, same method as for the fiat billionnaires.

For the other question, there is only one pankkake.
I personally prefer systemd to upstart. I just hope that distros (in this case Debian) stick to a technical review and don't get drawn into ad hominem arguments.

For many people it seems the answer to the question posed in the post title is "I would expect it to not be designed/authored by the man behind pulseaudio".
I still give the Economist huge credit for releasing this cover image in 2005: http://www.tradersnarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/a...

That was arguably the most unambiguous and accurate prediction on the cover of a magazine, ever.

I remember the lady next to me on an airplane telling me she was just getting heavily into a house flipping business. I happened to have that issue of the Economist with me to read on the plane. I showed her the cover and said "But what about this?"

(I wonder what happened to her business...)
Advice: Post this to inbound.org, they're more receptive to these kind of tools.
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In Scala I find it more natural to group multiple columns together / break the case-class representing the table into multiple case-classes. The problem is that Slick needs to serialize/deserialize those case-classes into tuples.