skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is imaginary, its a guilt trip imposed by those who need it to profit off of or as an excuse. Oh it definitely existed, don't get me wrong, there were times every countries history where it did.

The real bogeyman is pretending that people don't discriminate against their own kind. Just as in society as in work people have prejudices against those they don't know any many are formed based on societal norms.

Assigning privileged just because of skin color is another form of racism. Its an excuse. Not every white person was born on the right side of the tracks, not non-white was either. Fortunately most of us don't think of privileged status based on color, unfortunately some only do.
However certain parts of Scala are slightly older (16/07/2003)[1]

[1] - https://github.com/scala/scala/blob/master/src/library/scala...
You seem to be contradicting his point, but as far as I can tell you're proving it.

The fact that you see such a stark difference between a first-class network engineer and the work of lesser mortals is proof that they aren't fungible.

I'll also point out that you have, perhaps unintentionally, changed the topic from design to maintenance. We're talking about product creation. Some people like to pretend that all the design happens in the head of the person with "designer" on their business cards. But anybody who has spent time in a team making great products knows that everybody is involved in design. It can't be otherwise, because design happens at the intersection of desire and possibility, and the technologists know the possibility space more deeply than anybody else can.

That a well-designed network can be easily maintained is demonstrates the great design skills of that first-class network engineer. That there are long periods in a network's life when design skills aren't needed isn't proof that technologists are interchangeable; it's proof that they aren't.
I think the point of contention is this: if the artist isn't getting paid by the record company for music sales, is ripping it off from them even wrong?
While it's a great idea to train people for the job skills that are on an upward trend, I feel like the article is being fairly short sighted.

Automating away 50% of the workforce won't happen in a vacuum. It will come with major changes to the political, economic, and social systems.

Maybe we decide to let tech do everything while we go fishing (the oft-cited technology utopia that never seems to happen). Maybe we switch to a fixed-income economic model, where it's fine if people decide not to work. Maybe we decide not to automate some components (gasp!). Or use all that extra manpower to philosophize, make art... or war.

To say "it's going to be a big problem if 50% of the workforce is made redundant, we better start educating people now!" is exactly what you would expect from an (or 'the') economist. Economic rules are based on people's desires, and people desires may also be revolutionized if most of what they do is done by computers.
I think its the loaded work 'privilege' that gets peoples' dander up. It intended to insult, and its the wrong word. Privilege is something given undeservedly, something that can be taken away, and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others. Being born as whatever(white-male) is not a good fit for that definition. It wasn't given, it cant be taken away, and its not 'exercised' intentionally by any means.

The word is just used to make people feel guilty. So they lash back. Not a helpful discussion technique. Why not just say 'genes' or 'heredity' if that's what we mean?
Buffet isn't a bad guy per se, but it's worth noting that a lot of the businesses Berkshire Hathaway owns are benefiting from inequality. Wikipedia mentions jewelery and uniform manufacture as two industries they're involved in, neither of which has a squeaky clean record. Does anyone know if his companies are involved in any activism?
I suppose so, but this sort of problem is well understood by the insurance industry and that's why the "risk corridors" exist. Just a fancy name for a variation on standard reinsurance, how insurance companies themselves buy insurance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsurance

The government had to do this because no one could predict ahead of time what pools the insurance companies would end up with in 2014, except I'm sure the latter weren't as optimistic as the government.
+1 from the communists (if you don't mind that) :)
The demo site works well and feels slick. It's a pity I had to listen to his music to try it out though.

Auto-tune is a cool technology but I liked it better when tone-deaf rich people couldn't flatly sing a poorly-written, over-produced song and call it music.
Amazing illustration of how empty the anti-vaccine position is
more background at http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-teases-new-music-service-...
This whole debate sounds as if they'd just invented gentrification. I'm having a hard time mustering outrage for anyone involved.
Google’s hidden Fitness API discovered
The Mistery of the Floating Hourglass
How long do those ~85 stay at the top?

I'm getting old enough (which is surprisingly young) to watch top-tier super-solid blue-chip businesses crash and burn. Smith Corona, once the most recognized brand in the world? most of you respond "who?". Kodak, with world domination of imaging? dead, just hasn't stopped moving yet. Pan-Am gone, IBM a shell of what it was, a host of other leading super-profitable businesses either crawling on broken glass or gone entirely.

Likewise I've seen a lot of big-name big-wallet people likewise go to nothing. I haven't studied the financial dynamics of wealthiest individuals (in terms of this topic's top 85), but as their hoard is based on business I can presume similar turnover for many. They may be at the top _now_, but for how long?

This growing consternation over income/wealth "inequality" consistently fails to look at the dynamics of those involved, focusing instead on a mere snapshot selected for maximizing political outrage. Fact is, some 85% of those in the bottom quartile move out of that bracket within a few years, with 15% jumping to the top 25%. The only financial help most of them need is for the government to get out of their way. Some do need active assistance, yes, but even most of that is better served by voluntary private charity - and certainly not massive economic changes inflicted by self-righteous & ignorant politicians.

Never mind the oft-overlooked fact that the top 85 spend and invest and donate a tremendous amount, way beyond what is publicly known. They may have half the money in the world; don't ignore how much money they move and thru whom. Confiscate their wealth by taxation in the name of "income equality", and you'll deny those who live on the movement of that wealth.
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Since a couple of people were frightened about being charged at the end of the trial because they would have forgotten to cancel:

know that if you don't like WiseCash, and forget to close your account before the end of trial (and despite the fact that a reminder is sent 3 days before the end of the trial), I will refund your first month's charge, no question asked.

So go ahead and try it out :-)

EDIT: and this is something I'll mention explicitely on the next redesign of my sign-up form. Thanks all!
Really? You don't want a democratic system dictating the spending on public and shared goods? Or you just don't believe in public and shared resources? Sounds like you want some kind of fascism maybe?
He came across as irritated. You came across as self-righteous.
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True enough, I was discussing direct market access. If you're going through a third party, it's up to you to vet them and make sure they are trustworthy. I agree almost word-for-word with Optiver's submission on payment for order flow:

http://www.optiver.com/pdf/FSA%20consultation%20on%20PFOF%20...

I believe brokers in the US are now legally required to reveal any such arrangements to their clients.
With a laughable electric range of 35 km, I wouldn't put it in the same category as the Roadster.
That is such a terrible article on so many levels.
One Thing Is Clear: Gates Will Be More Visible at Microsoft
Imagine a vast school, with all the kids intermingling, and one shouts up and says "My God I understand algebra!". This is a signal for the kids who are struggling with algebra to head in their direction and ask questions or copy the homework answers. Its also a good signal for kids who are working on groking calculus that he is not to be listened to.

To avoid this in schools we sit kids in age-related classes, of small size. But the world is a big school and there is no central authority who knows what we should learn and when.

We just need better filters to block out the noise of algebra-learning kids while we work on infinite series. Those filters might be news-style forums, at least until there are too many kids at different stages on here. Then we have to work on our own filters.

And listen for the kid who shouts "My god, I built a filter to ignore calculus learning kids!"

Edit: OK, Ok there is a difference between link-bait headlines and pre-known content. But the kid has to shout something.
How did acquire your first few customers? Was it all from that initial email list of 900 subscribers? What are you doing now as far as finding sources of new customers?

I like stories like this because I definitely feel like it is much harder to go from $0 to $500 MRR than it is to go from $1000 to $5000. Finding those first few customers is the challenging part if you have no previous email list or audience in the industry.
You can't program away edge cases, but the current standard behavior fails in the bog standard common case.
thanks for the extra links (while the others aren't working)
A Tour of C++
I'm having problems with your cached version. However, using Google's cached text-only page works fine: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:flippin...
I like the site. Can anyone give a technical synopsis of how this has been made, perhaps the time frame and complexity of an app like this?

I'm assuming Kim hasn't coded this himself, anyone know if he outsourced to a company?
It only started getting a lot of visibility after Twitter announced they were using it about 5 years ago.
NetBSD and FreeBSD were the original ones derived from BSD. OpenBSD forked from NetBSD. DragonflyBSD forked from FreeBSD. The forks are the only ones that are interesting. You use openbsd for firewalls, routers, loadbalancers, etc and dragonflybsd for servers.
In the next year I can imagine most people deploying Spark will be doing it on Hadoop, since Cloudera 5 will support Spark. It's a natural fit, most people don't hate HDFS but their use case doesn't naturally fit the MR programming model.
How Your Brain Activity Changes When You're "In The Zone"
A website dedicated to reviewing and comparing smart bulbs
Indeed, you may not be as privileged as someone born in an affluent suburb of
London. Hopefully someone that did have that background would take that into
account when making assumptions about your past and motives. Different people can have different privileges - you can't necessarily win at privilege.

If you at least skim read the checklists you will see that most of the examples
don't take the form of anything like handouts or support groups.

By telling me "Do not talk to me about privilege, I know what poverty is." you
are using the concept of privilege in your argument and are essentially telling
me to check my privilege. I'm ok with that.

Privilege isn't about discrediting anyone. It is about helping us understand
the experiences of other people.
pointers that may have been retained by external libraries

Oh, if only this were easy...
I think the only place I've seen anyone wanting more than 22 parameters was people who had a database table with more than 22 rows (!) and where using the SLICK library.
Bad precedents. War on drugs. Prohibition.
"Your neighborhood will be unrecognizable after the storm as passed" [video]
7 classic versions of Windows and Mac OS you can run in a browser
> What is the relationship between OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD?
>
> And why would one choose one of those over Linux?

The BSDs each are a complete system (as opposed to just a kernel) so if you rephrase your question like "why would one choose one of those over Debian, or Ubuntu, or RHEL, or Slackware, or Gentoo, or Arch...", then maybe you begin to see some parallels.

There are all kinds of reasons that make people prefer one Linux distro over another, and similar reasoning would apply to the BSDs. However, the differences between the BSDs tend to be larger than the differences between select two Linux distros.

Just to give you a glimpse of my personal reasons for using OpenBSD (both on notebook/desktop as well as on servers), it's probably got something to do with the 30 years of evolution and turd polishing that has resulted in a really really consistent and well integrated system. The OS is reasonably simple, requires little configuration & maintenance, it's well documented, it does what I want and it does what I expect it to do. It's predictable. It's easy to live with. It helps that everything is documented in a man page, and the same group of developers is in charge of integrating and documenting everything (even if not all parts of the system originate from the OpenBSD project).

It's hard to be more specific than this without pointing at the thousand little things it does right but which you don't notice until you're accustomed to them and then try any distribution of Linux where everything feels a little bit "off", everything is constantly changing (how many init systems and audio systems and daemons and configs and package managers have been invented or re-imagined beyond recognition in the past 10-15 years?), documentation is spotty, and all these groups of developers with different backgrounds and different goals make their own different things that aren't integrate in a way that masks all these differences..

OpenBSD is very consistent, and remains "Unixy". It hasn't been influenced by ex-Windows users trying to turn it into a Windowsy desktop OS, or by ex-Windows enterprise users trying to turn it into a windowsy enterprise server, or by corps turning it into an embedded router/PoS/whatever OS, or by hipsters trying to turn it into a next gen smartphone OS, or by hipsters trying to turn it into a cool must have Awesome OS X desktop, or by overzealous programmers trying to turn every little thing into a not-so-little programmable & scriptable monster that communicates with other programmable & scriptable monsters so (in theory) the thing can be made to do anything and everything (if you can program it and it's overcomplicated design & flaws allow for it...).

That's not to say it cannot be tasked with much of the tasks people use any other OS to complete; it just does things in a rather specific way. If you happen to like a traditional Unixy way, then OpenBSD is a good choice. I cannot speak of the other BSDs because I haven't used them, but I hear their strengths are quite different.

Oh, and it's Free.
I love sass because i can always use libsass to compile the code faster without the need to install ruby.
The fact that wealthier countries and people have fewer children is truly one of the great paradoxes of the human condition, from a biology point of view. I've occasionally wondered if it isn't a partial solution to the Fermi paradox. Rich humans have fewer children for many reasons, the most interesting one to my comment here being that on the "numerous vs. expensive offspring" spectrum, primates & humans have basically gone all the way to the "expensive" side, hard, and we continue to make children ever more de facto expensive in various ways.

Every other biological sample we have says increased resources leads to increased reproduction; suppose humans really do have a very bizarre, very unusual biological niche here and indeed most species really do fall into an uncontrollable Malthusian trap because they don't go all the way to the "expensive" side, and end up getting crowded out by the "numerous". I mean, it is not as if this is some sort of conscious choice we have made to contain our population, it just happened, which in some sense is why it works. If it were anything less than nearly universal, it wouldn't be able to save us. Nor, abstractly, is the Malthusian argument that bad... its only flaw is that it is observationally wrong (for population), and reality trumps theory, no matter how pretty the theory.
In case you didn't already know, magit exposes `add -p` functionality in a very emacs-y way: it leverages the region concept by making it so that if you select the part of a diff you want to stage in your magit-status buffer and then press s it will only stage that region.
I would find this very useful for downloading TV episodes of currently running shows. You could have a single torrent for a TV show, and all new episodes would download automatically.

My current method involves some hacked together RSS feeds and regexs that are less than ideal.
It's not about handouts. And you can have privilege in one domain and lack of privilege in others.

Are you a white male? The fact that you had a hard life doesn't negate the fact that you derive certains advantages from being white, and male.

You say you've had it hard. That's an absolute measure. Privilege is a relative measure. If you had had the same
circumstances, except you were black, your life would be hard-ER. A relative measure.

You should take a look at the linked privilege checklists. For each item that applies, ask yourself: would my life be hard-ER, in a relative sense, if this weren't true for me?
The Economist, imho, has never been a great place to read about Internet trends (they do a great job with cutting-edge tech, esp. from a science or R&D point of view). But their current special report is a rare exception.

Ludwig Siegele, the anchor (Economist writers are allowed bylines for special reports) has covered quite a bit of ground. Some of the stuff may be familiar to HN readers, but I can almost guarantee it will be very useful and revealing to most other (non-tech) readers. Which is why I'll take the risk of posting links to all the stories in the report:

The 'Cambrian Explosion' in web entrepreneurship - http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21593580-cheap-...

Lean methodology - http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21593580-cheap-...

How venture capital is adapting - http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21593585-ventur...

The role of accelerators, including YC - http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21593592-bigges...

Rocket Internet's approach towards farming startups - http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21593586-how-bu...

Global startup ecosystems - http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21593582-what-e...

The 'dark side' of starting up - http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21593591-are-st...

Hardware startups and Shenzhen - http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21593590-why-so...

The growth of platforms - http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21593583-prolif...
Hehe, I remember taking a compiler class by Martin Odersky when I was studying at EPFL 8 or 9 years ago. We had to implement a compiler for a mini-Scala.

After that class, I thought I would ever see it again.
Oh come on. Teeny-weeny flag to a Git command ends up on the front page of HN. Amazing.
Good point...

I should clarify that "anybody who is there" means "whoever happens to be at the scene NOW".

How do you mean modern eurogames?

The nautical industry actually has excellent emergency management protocols in place -- it constantly amazes me that other industries do not copy it.
Richest 85 boast same wealth as half the world
the CLRs type system is in the annoying place of being both too powerful and underpowered to support scala's type system.

If it was weaker (á la JVM) it would be fine, if it was more powerful it could represent stuff at runtime.

I'm trying to find a link to the paper which says there is not an efficient one-to-one mapping from Scala to CLR
Hoefler Tricks Partner, Frere-Jones, Out of 50% of $3M Company.
They have these "computer" things that actually use electricity just to work. Worst of all, they produce heat, so then they have to use this "air conditioning" machine to make it cool again. Crazy stuff.
Nobody is talking about you specifically, and nobody claims that white people are set for life or that no white people have shitty lives. The claim is that, all else being equal, and on average, being white provides a boost.

This doesn't mean that you personally have benefited from this; but my grandfather smoked three packs a day and lived to be 90+, does that mean that smoking doesn't shorten the life expectancy?
I can't believe I'm about to do this, but here's me sticking up for sweatshops...

I'm not sure what to make of the allegations of them keeping workers captive. But assuming the work is voluntary, sweatshops are not all bad. In fact, they're the fastest way we have to bootstrap an industrial economy in a developing nation.

Yes, these factories have terrible work conditions by modern, western standards. But compared to other local job opportunities, the factories are an abundant source of relatively well paying employment.

I say 'relatively well paying' because, despite how poor the pay is, the alternatives in the local economy are worse. Often, a so-called 'sweatshop' pays at least 2-3x the average local pay. It's almost axiomatic that a person would not work in a sweatshop if they didn't think the pay was worth it. So if they have workers in their factories, then it must be worthwhile to them. (That's assuming, of course, the work is voluntary.)

Once enough factories have appeared so that they have absorbed the excess labour capacity of the local population, the wages start to rise as the factories need to compete for the available labour. They also compete on non-monetary terms, through better working conditions.

Wages will stop rising when it becomes economical for foreign companies to move production to a cheaper place (after expenses related to building an entirely new supply chain there). If that starts to happen, then excess production capacity appears, which gets absorbed by local companies. At that point, the bootstrapping is complete and you have a self-sustaining industrial economy.

Over the past 60-70 years we've seen goods (clothes being a good example because it's labour intensive and not particularly capital intensive) being produced in a succession of countries. In no particular order, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Vietnam have all had their day as the primary producer of garments. Currently, they're made in places like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

So I don't consider sweatshops to be a bad thing in and of themselves. But they are breeding grounds for all sorts of abuse (including but by no means not limited to confining workers to the factories), which is a problem. So we should be pressuring corporations to ensure safe and non-abusive work conditions in their factories. We should not be discouraging them from operating factories in low-cost-of-living locations, or trying to artificially increase wages.
My first customers almost only came out of the newsletter (people who had received a invitation to try out the beta). I sent a 20% discount lifetime offer, with 2 reminders.

Now I'm doing blog posts like this one, growing my newsletter patiently, I speak at conferences on the topic of cash flow/bootstrapping, and my SEO traffic is growing.

Glad you liked my story - and yes it was fairly hard :-)
My thought after reading this article: "Must be easy to feel good about walking away from making more money, and make a career of talking about it, when you've got that nice cushion of a few million in the bank already."
Now we've completely derailed the discussion.
As Google Shoots For The Moon, Microsoft Praises The Virtues Of Open Research