skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you described is not increased employee availability. It is forcing an employee to be available to the same employer for effectively 2 extra hours without having to pay for those two hours (remember you're only paying them for when it is best for you). They still have to commute to-from work which eats at least an hour of their time unless they live literally around the corner. Also this does not increase wages for the time or hours worked with pay.

If you're addressing marginal cases you may not want to initially present it as an absolute that should increase wages or hours worked because it obviously will not in all but extreme fringe cases.

The Netflix example would not be them offering you more, you would simply be paying twice, for the same thing you used to get (comparison being the need to pay the upkeep for two different employees rather than the one you used to use). Your response does not take that into account and it seems to ignore it purposefully.

Your policy goal is lofty. But it has been shown over and over that employers having the ability to pay more does not lead to higher wages for workers. That is actually an idea that runs counter to the idea of profit. It would be nice if that were the case but it simply is not true, and something you say you have no evidence for in a previous post, while there is ample evidence to the contrary.
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Agreed on all counts. Was just explaining why I believe the division to be a thing. People have no real concrete concept of what programmers DO. But they can abstract farming down to growing a bean in 1st grade.
I'm Canadian so same thing, basically. The term is used by Rob Pike in the referred presentation and he's Canadian, but he's somewhat older than I am. I first noticed the term used by an Australian coworker about a year ago and I also heard it on a Stephen Fry talk show - so yes to your theory.
Looking for support from HN for my Beacon campaign - for anyone who'd be interested in reading founder's stories and posts covering successes/lessons learned.

Beacon is like Netflix for news. They use a clean, no-ad reading interface with the ability to directly fund writers through their platform.

About Me: I'm a contributing writer to an LA-Based news pub called TechZulu. We cover breaking tech news among other topics, but I've found most of my passion in learning the stories of the people behind the businesses. (Some examples below):

- Interview with Jim Farley, Ford Motors CMO - (http://bit.ly/1m0Or6w)
- Interview with Emir Aboulhosn, Ready SIM CEO - (http://bit.ly/Kh86ju)

Through this project, I'm looking to refine this concept and give entrepreneurs a venue to share their stories and what they've learned.

Specific to this campaign, I'll be finding and contacting this year's W14 batches from notable incubators across the country (YC, Techstars, etc.). If you're interested in these stories, please consider supporting my campaign.

Note - I'm not directly affiliated with Beacon other than using their services, But I do think they have a cool concept and platform and hope they find success.
BTW, is there any reason not to hook something like ClamAV into your upload function and scan files before they are saved?
I'm not sure that'll help like you think it will.

I can't verify it at the moment, but create a /tmp/phpinfo.php file with "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" in it and then run "php /tmp/phpinfo.php". Regardless of whether /tmp is mounted noexec I think you'll find that it executes (because the php binary is under /usr which almost certainly isn't mounted noexec).
I think you're adding in a nuance which I wasn't trying to clarify. Corporations provide a legal protection that doesn't exist for sole proprietorships, partnerships, or some other forms. (For example, like Lloyd's of London over most of its history, where 'Names' backed policies with personal wealth and had unlimited liability.)

You are correct in that it's not "for free", and the corporation is liable. My point is that corporate existence only occurs through state involvement, and there's no obvious reason why the state cannot make money from that.

You follow up with a market reason. Your statement is correct. Companies (and people, and employers) can use tax differences in the world to their advantage. You are free to move your HQ should you wish.

And that leads us to the topic mentioned by the linked-to article. Quoting from the OECD's "About BEPS" page:

> In an increasingly interconnected world, national tax laws have not kept pace with global corporations, fluid capital, and the digital economy, leaving gaps that can be exploited by companies who avoid taxation in their home countries by pushing activities abroad to low or no tax jurisdictions. This undermines the fairness and integrity of tax systems. The project, quickly known as BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) is looking at whether the current rules allow for the allocation of taxable profits to locations different from those where the actual business activity takes place and if not, what could be done to change this.
It's very similar, though there are some significant gameplay differences. But from a visual perspective, compare Bejeweled[0] and Candy Crush[1], then look at Action Candy Swap HD Pro[2].

[0]: http://appshopper.com/games/bejeweled

[1]: http://appshopper.com/games/candy-crush-saga-%C2%AE

[2]: http://appshopper.com/games/action-candy-swap-hd-pro
In all honesty, I don't think the rise of the surveillance state in the US has all that much to do with 9/11 or fear per se. The response of most people to things like the NSA isn't fear, it's apathy. To the degree that there is fear, for example in the acceptance of ridiculous measures at US airports, fear of our own government, i.e., fear of getting arrested, having a lifelong arrest record, or just plain old fear of standing out and rocking the boat etc., is stronger than any real fear of terrorist attacks.

I think there's something generational going on also. People who constantly publish their current location, current mood and current thought on social media for all to see are going to have a completely different relation to privacy than the generations that came before.

I talk to a lot of people about privacy issues and the difference between us isn't how much they fear a possible attack, the difference is how little importance they place on the government intrusion.
Looking forward to seeing the film come out, and nice job working with Razer on it :)
Couldn't that also potentially break some logic branch through the chip where the app is expected to be running on a GenuineIntel processor? I'm not well versed in this.
I mentioned "open concept" which surely you can't interpret as applying to your product. And you cannot consider one book to be conclusive. The semantic web is generally failing as a set of heavyweight formal standards, but its concepts are being implemented in practical ways. However it cannot be dependent on any closed system, so with good descriptions data will not depend on any service. And you completely ignore projects like Wikimedia which provide the best source of content well in excess of any commercial undertaking on a volunteer basis.

All of the components such as p2p (WebRTC) have been developing for some time and are given in a platform. Thus my query, to situate the goal in the current technical soup rather than that of five years ago.

In any case, it's clear what you are building is not of direct interest to my query which is about a directly open solution (open source / open content / open hosting / open use).
I seriously doubt that, as I would hope most of them are professional.
I'm interested in setting up a Linux-based server at home, but one of the things that have kept me from doing it is security concerns. Are there any server distributions which are very strict in regards to which packages are included/enabled, and configured with as little remote access as possible by default?
You don't happen to work at Cloudera, do you? I noticed you have some submissions about Impala and Oracle being evil, which seems to be a pretty common view among the ex-Oracle DBAs there
"social commentary" implies that there's something nonsensical about it or only understandable in a cultural idiosyncratic way - but is it at all surprising that the genius communicator, marketing, salesperson has a much better communicated, marketed, and sold reputation?
Well, these hits on your ssh port target only the most low-hanging of the low-hanging fruit - i.e. common username/password combinations. Nobody's brute-forcing you anything, they're just trying some common user/pass pairs at random. Disable remote login by password in lieu of key authentication and you can sleep tightly while listening to the soothing hum of failed login attempts crashing upon your airtight SSH configuration.

In the long run, I've found that years pass and connections configs get lost and you forget which fancy port you used for your SSH connection on that server. Maybe YOU have an ironclad convention, but your co-worker had another one, and you can't remember what port he used. And he's left the company or died or joined a cult.

Kids, leave your SSH ports alone. A config is just a config. But keys are forever.
this is interesting, but none of the questions i've asked seem to get answered, even after wording them well and picking easy questions..like 20 questions in a row
I goofed on an AWS update - should be fine now.
Whoops!
I'm not assuming bad faith. I stated explicitly that I think his sexism is completely unconscious, i.e. he doesn't recognize it as such.

So go ahead and wonder if you want. Alternatively you could just read what I actually said.
I've heard this about every linux firewall, can you give some good examples of what either iptables or nftables can't do that pf can?
It's a very odd title.
So I guess everyone marketing a book is a phony? You never learned anything valuable written by someone who marketed it and believed in it?
I though I was cynical ... you Sir are the King.
Why is the alternative necessarily spending the money? If those funds can be taken to the bank each month to pay off a mortgage, why can those same funds not be taken to the bank to deposit into a retirement/savings/investment account?

This analysis is specifically taking into account that money is spent on housing either way. Otherwise, we'd be comparing the ROI of purchasing a house and renting it out as a business in comparison to other forms of investment.
Title and controversy aside, can anyone read this phrase while keeping a straight face?

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Based on that pool address the attacker seems to be mining Batcoin, not Bitcoin, which is appears to be an scrypt-based altcoin, far more profitable to CPU mine than Bitcoin. (In case anyone was wondering why an attacker was bothering to mine Bitcoin with a CPU).
I don't have good examples of what can or cannot be done.

But I find pf much easier to understand. I can write pf rules myself and understand, clearly, what my firewall is doing. I haven't found iptables near as approachable, and depend on firewall configuration tools to generate the rules and chains for me.
I think most companies fail because of the 'culture of mediocrity', especially when they grow. A leader who is unconditionally asshole with a good taste is exactly what keeps the culture fresh and inspired. That's who Jobs was.
We might run out of reply space.

I made a mistake when I said quickcheck, I was thinking of the combination of Dialyzer and Typer in Erlang ( http://www.slideshare.net/konstantinvsorokin/kostis-sagonas-... )

I think I get what you are saying, that you have to take the totality of language in the current context.

And I would have to say yes, the language of numbers with "+" is in fact Python. I think it is also Haskell and lots of other languages. If I look at a corpus of language through a slit, I will always see a subset of that language. But it doesn't stop being that language by looking at with a microscope. What happens we see a code snippet like

a = 5 + b - 10

We don't know what language it is, but it doesn't matter. It is valid Ruby,Python,Lua,JavaScript, etc.

Are we,me splitting hairs? I am just a layperson, I would like to fix any discrepancies in my knowledge.
> Haskell, by its lazy evaluation, is basically a macro-only language

This is not correct. To understand why, please see Ryan Culpepper's answer to this SO question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7046950/lazy-evaluation-v...
How did the rapgenius pitch to 'affiliates' go?

"That shit will BLOW UP!!!"

Here's hoping they're right. Again.
Government regulation will arguably only paper over the problem in the short term, as it incentivizes capital to route around it, mainly by accelerating the automation of these jobs.

I'd argue that the focus should be on fostering policy and technologies that allow independent creation of wealth. Policy-wise, empowering self-organization of local communities. How can a community with high unemployment act in their own self-benefit? How can we shape policy so that they can grow their own food, build their own houses, and generally not be utterly dependent on "the system" for their survival? Technology-wise, let's look at things like 3D printing and solar.
I think it's an automated submission. Like the "Your blog about $BLOG-TITLE is fantastic Ill recomend it to al my frends".
Happy to see you guys are using Drupal. I usually remove article as one of the first steps in an install and replace with something that confuses people less and/or restrict permissions appropriately, but it's hard to always get people to always follow the right path.
It's so noticeable to me because people don't use Windows Phone and Surface products in real life. It's actually possible that a typical person in a real situation would be using an Apple or Google device.
Or go via Incognito/Private with your browser.
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In what universe is Sociology a 'real science'?
That's what I use. Since I access my VPS from just two places (home, work), I have only those two address allowed. Rest everything is dropped.
I'd definitely agree that iptables is not nearly as approachable as i've seen pf be. I've yet to see something that can't be done with it if you take the time (this is discounting performance, i know that it can get a little hairy after a few hundred rules if not setup correctly).
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In related news, comapnies pay for ads on TV and Brad Pitt was paid to drink Pepsi in WWZ. World shocked.
Great post by an awesome humble programmer :)

(NB: he's a friend who also happens to be a colleague at work)
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This is a baldly political article that doesn't belong on HN, and I flagged it.

But I can't resist engaging with one part of it, because I really dislike its author:

This playbook of fear has not been limited to motivating military actions. Environmentalists, once ridiculed as “tree-huggers” are now often characterized as “environmental terrorists” — as individuals we should fear and neutralize. The hacktivist Jeremy Hammond, who exposed the nefarious dealings of the private intelligence corporation Stratfor and its clients, was characterized as someone seeking to cause “mayhem” by Federal District Judge Loretta Preska when she sentenced him to 10 years in prison.

Horse. Shit. Jeremy Hammond decided that he didn't like what a private organization and its supporters were saying. So, he coordinate a large-scale breakin of their computers, stole the credit card numbers of all its subscribers, and released them on the Internet. This is par for the course for Hammond, who a few years earlier stormed a restaurant in Skokie that had been hosting a holocaust denier; the resulting mayhem injured only innocent bystanders, one of whom was hit with a broken bottle wielded by one of the "protesters". Ludlow is quick to spend column inches painting a picture of an unjustly extreme sentence for Hammond, but not at all interested in informing readers of Hammond's history, which included a previous felony conviction for the same crime.

If Ludlow is the only person whose writing on Hammond you read, you could be excused for believing that Hammond is of a kind with Aaron Swartz. Which is, of course, his intent; he's made the comparison explicit elsewhere.

This is how Ludlow seems to argue, in piece after piece. He evokes political messages that many reasonable people, myself often included, would have a hard time arguing with. "Global War On Terror"? Fuck yes, that's a problem. It's so obviously a problem that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with then-SecDef Robert Gates, lobbied (unsuccessfully) to stop pretending that's what we're doing. It is an utterly banal observation. Orwellian surveillance of US citizens? How could opposition to that possibly be unreasonable?

But then he uses that accord to immunize actions reasonable people can't support. Using violence to make political statements isn't persuasion; it's thuggery. It's how you justify blowing up women's health clinics. Ludlow diminishes everyone who dissents from the conduct of the government by continuously supporting thuggery.
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Rust tasks have the same large fixed-size stack as OS threads. A fine-grained concurrency model like a task graph would be build on top of them.
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Neustar's Monitoring and Intelligent alerting provides a push interface to process events. The events are processed by a small javascript program which has a restricted set of APIs.

Disclaimer: I wrote it.

https://home.wpm.neustar.biz
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Came to say this. Indeed this has nothing to do with Bitcoin.
> I tried medication but it gives me insomnia
> and a racing heart.

Try a lower dose. In particular, start at the minimum dose.

If you are prescribed 20mg Adderall XR or 50mg Vyvanse (or equivalent), then that's an insane first-timer dose.

Pills have risks and side-effects for sure. But so does making zero progress on your ambitions in life.

Maybe you can find something less harsh: http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics
Whoops, seems that you're right, I was wrong about interpreters taking noexec into account - either I misremembered something or things changed, but the fact is they don't. Sorry.

Anyway, it's also better to have noexec than not. :)

At least, it'll help if there's no complete shell access but only ability to run some binary by name, without args, or modify environment variables when running some executable.
I've seen many movies based on real-life events and have yet to read a review of any that didn't find huge fault with its accuracy. The most notable are probably the Ben Mezrich movies, but most recently I watched Wolf of Wall Street and then subsequently read an editorial by the lead prosecutor calling the movie out as inaccurate and assailing the real life Jordan Belfort.

The lesson in all this is that when you are mass-marketing a story to the public, the truth doesn't sell as well as a greatly altered version of the truth. People want to see a romanticized version of the story, so that is what Hollywood gives them. There shouldn't really be a huge surprise there. If you really want to know what factual events took place in any story, you're probably going to have to do a lot better than a two-hour Hollywood interpretation starring the lead character from Two and a Half Men.
Not likely. AMD processors are very carefully designed to correctly execute code, even if it just assumes GenuineIntel and never even checks.

If code is dumb enough to try to use something low-level (let's use Bull Mountain RDRAND as an example) without checking for that specific feature bit, then it obviously is the code that is broken, leading to an illegal operation and it gets killed. That's not the CPU's fault.

Intel and AMD CPU manuals both pound in the point, too. In the sections on these advanced features they always insist that you check the feature bit first.
For people like me who have trouble making it to the end of an article, I want to repeat the solution that the authors propose:

>Yet however well people are taught, their abilities will remain unequal, and in a world which is increasingly polarised economically, many will find their job prospects dimmed and wages squeezed. The best way of helping them is not, as many on the left seem to think, to push up minimum wages. Jacking up the floor too far would accelerate the shift from human workers to computers. Better to top up low wages with public money so that anyone who works has a reasonable income, through a bold expansion of the tax credits that countries such as America and Britain use.

For basic income advocates, I would also like to point out that this policy is much closer to basic income than increasing the minimum wage.
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You already have an init system that does some level of "thinking" for you. You had to learn how that one works, you just don't want to learn a new one.
> I don't think the second claim is true at all, though. Lightweight threads have been extremely successful in Haskell, Erlang, etc, and not just on microbenchmarks.

They're mostly successful in languages that GC/heap-allocate all stack frames (paying the costs that come with it). Rust uses the machine stack so the benefits come with some very significant drawbacks, most notably unpredictability of performance that comes from stack thrashing. Large mallocs are slower than small mallocs in general, but on the typical sizes you need for machine stack segments you probably aren't going to hit the malloc implementation's free list anyway, so you might as well just allocate up front. If you GC stack frames, though, you just bump allocate in the nursery, at the cost of greatly increased GC pressure (but it makes task spawning much cheaper).

There's some interesting discussion on this near the end of Simon Marlow's paper "Extending the Haskell Foreign Function Interface with Concurrency": http://community.haskell.org/~simonmar/papers/conc-ffi.pdf
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By QOL here we're talking about happiness. After a certain point (once you have the things you want & don't have to worry about things) more money doesn't bring more happiness. Hedonistic adaptation crushes this down further.
How to you feel about the use of 'iPhone graphics' in Sherlock?
Sometimes the means of remote access do require visibly moving the mouse and opening windows and the like on a target, though. SWATing is easy to do and keeps pesky staff from noticing.