skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, unfortunately "white" in this country excludes eastern Europeans, pretty much anyone with an accent. No privilege for you.
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Well, I don't think there's much space for me to agree with you on the issues here, but maybe the past can inform us a little.

Historically, virtually 100% of the population was employed in food production. We've automated well past the 50% point by now. What happened to the surplussed workers?

(Of the things you listed, I'd actually say "use the extra manpower to philosophize, make art, and make war" is a decent description of what happened.)
Way to spin this in a nice tone, you must be great in sales. No I am not telling you to "check your privilege".

I am asking you to not discredit ME based on your definition of privilege, which is really just a generalization under a different name. You generalized and put me in the "white male" category, then applied blanket assumptions to that group as a whole.

There is no such thing as "privilege". There is bias, and it differs from person to person. One manager may care if they are hiring a short lesbian black woman, another may not, that is up to the dynamic of the two individuals and cannot be attributed to some sort of greater force, privilege.

At the end of the day, in this field, it is your work that matters. If you come to me with a shit portfolio and a 2.0 GPA, and you happen to be a short black lesbian female, that has less to do with your privilege and more to do with the fact that your works sucks.

I hire people. I hire people old, young, black, white, transexual, poor, wealthy, gay, straight, anyone. It's the work that matters.

Anybody who patches up their own deficiencies with "privilege plaster" should steer themselves in a different direction.
This title isn't even really link bait. It tells you the feature in thw title. If you know what the "p" flag does, no need to click on the link to find out. For those that don't know of the feature, it is enticing enough to get them to check it out
I apologize if my previous was worded in way that made it come across as assumptions about you, my intention was more rhetorical questions. No one is saying that any of these characteristics are a free pass to happiness and fulfillment in life. It is just to say that many people do feel the consequences of it within their society and that is unjust.

Privilege is most often applied to discuss life in a society that is already well off and thats true. I think this is because no one question the privilege of being born in a wealthy suburb rather then a shanty town. But the betterment of life people within and without of any society are not mutually exclusive goals.
There is a large amount of physical magnetic card readers. Maybe that is the hold up, who will pay for the new technology.

Instead of chip-and-pin there are alternatives which create one-time numbers through the magnetic strip. I think those should be put into place.
> Just went to try to donate. Can't seem to do it at the donation page. Can't seem to enter my Australian address in any of the US and Canada links. I am certain my CC issuer will decline it. What gives?

A few years from now, when cryptocurrencies have all but taken over the existing payment networks, it will be for reasons EXACTLY like this bullshit. It should not be remotely this hard to exchange money between any 2 entities on the Internet.

Their donation page takes Bitcoin donations. I slung them a half a BTC. It took all of 5 seconds and then I moved on with my life. It was a sweet 5 seconds.
Target malware written by 17 year-old Russian teen from St Petersburg
>I offered help and enthusiasm for the project. He called me a lot of names and suggested OpenBSD wasn't for people who weren't like him.

The mailing lists are all archived. Show me the link. The whole point was I hear bullshit stories all the time, but having been on the lists for over a decade, I know they are bullshit.

>but I can't see many people rushing to save it

Nobody cares what you can see. You just want some excuse to push your weird vendetta. Plenty of people are quite happy with openbsd, don't care about your imaginary problems, and have coughed up the $20k.
(Compare that to an extension like AdBlock, which makes clear that it removes ads from pages you visit, so if you install it, you won't wonder why you aren't seeing ads anymore.)

Why would anyone ever want to see ads?

I have always found them to be utterly useless, in terms of whatever they may be peddling, whenever I have had the unwanted irritation of them showing up on my browser (yeah, yeah, your website, your rules; but also my browser, my rules).

The worst idea in this respect is the Subscription+Ads model, which in my book is like adding insult to the injury. No, you may not have my money only to cram ads down my throat, thank you very much. There are plenty of ways I can consume my news on the web, without stupid advertisements, and I'll keep doing that. If you don't like that, you can take your oh-so-precious content and shove it.
For Mercurial, there's this "extension": http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RecordExtension

"Extension" in quotes, because it comes with the Hg installation -- it's just one of those advanced things disabled by default.
Greg Kroah-Hartman hasn't mentioned it on his blog. He's doing one per year, but he didn't announce last years' until it had been out for a month already. http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2013/08/04/longterm-kernel-3-d...

Edit: more official link https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
Yes the apply method is still there. But since it has more than 22 arguments, you cant't lift it into a function object anymore.

This will break some tools, like Play's forms, that need you to pass to a couple of serialization/deserialization functions.

Shapeless will probably be fine, or at least, since it is macro based, it will be able to go around the missing unapply and extract the fields directly, like pattern matching does. (I don't know shapeless enough to go into more details)
I think this is very true, but no one questions the privilege of being born in America. However, people do doubt the average benefit that being male has on professional conversations within the developed world.
Toying with the halting problem is fun, but all it really shows here is that you can't infallibly figure out if code is dead, because that means solving the halting problem. Of course, there are tons of ways you can figure out dead code: both statically (say, code after some code that you can prove unconditionally returns or raises) and dynamically (if during six months of operation no-one has called a piece of code, it probably might as well be gone).
For the block layer update, before anyone gets excited like I did, the paper actually suggests it's not useful to most people at all with current era hardware.

In this paper, we have established that the current design of the Linux block layer does not scale beyond one million IOPS per device. This is sucient for today's SSD, but not for tomorrow's. We proposed a new design for the Linux block layer. This design is based on two levels of queues in order to reduce contention and promote thread locality. Our experiments have shown the superiority of our design and its scalability on multi-socket systems. Our multiqueue design
leverages the new capabilities of NVM-Express or high-end
PCI-E devices, while still providing the common interface
and convenience features of the block layer.
FYI `git reset -p` works the same way. Sometimes, depending on your work and workflow it can be easier to add everything and then just exclude a few of the changes.
I don't understand why you think it is a paradox. If a family is poor, without good health care for example, then more children will die or fail and it will hurt the family harder. Their employment is also more likely to be manual labor based where children quickly supplement their capabilities (e.g. farming, retail). It's simple economics.
As a Swede, you're shockingly uninformed.

https://www.google.com/search?q=sweden+welfare+immigration&o...
The Minecraft install episode of ATP spoke to my soul.
I don't totally disagree, but I think this is excessively sunny.

As somebody who was an early NeRD (NeXT Registered Developer) and helped start one of the NeXT User Groups, I don't think I would call NeXT a successful company. It created some great technology for its day, but it was an ongoing commercial failure. Nobody would buy the hardware, so they killed that early. By the end they were killing off the OS and going in the direction of being a set of Windows development tools.

It was only that Apple wanted Jobs that saved them, that and Steve's enormous ego, which demanded he bring NeXT along. At the time, Apple could have bought Be and I expect it would have gone as well or better. Remember, it took them 3 years to get a new OS out the door, which is a long time in market-land. And really, the NeXT stuff didn't make a giant difference; it wasn't until the iPod that Apple really took off.

It's worth noting that Steve Jobs's major skill, aside from yelling at people until they designed something that he liked, was marketing. Jobs was incredibly good at selling himself. When weighing his "genius", I think it's worth looking at the extent to which his public image has been shaped by his own skill in self-promotion, and the fact that his company made something that a lot of people directly use and love.
I think privilege is definitely meant to get peopled dander up so that they discuss it. Also, as I understand it, the privilege isn't being white, its the average benefit that being white will yield you
Would be nice to have a "hide this story" feature for such an occasion. Would also help for those instances where the community's interest in a topic exceeds your own.
Solid point - the great man theory of history fails most noticeably in the Nazi movement though, so I think it was apt. My favorite example actually involves someone who, today of all days, it would be in poor taste to bring up.
Was that mini-Scala any of the { Eins, Zwei, Drei, Vier } languages?
How to raise money from existing investors.... in your first round of funding
Jamaican bobsleigh team raises $25k in Dogecoin
Site is back up. Sorry for the issues. Had to throw a ton of resources at it due to the traffic surge.
I've been a HN user for 701 days (as of today). This is the first time I've seen this topic here.. Sorry not all of us are on HN 24/7. This is new to me, and I appreciate it being posted, because guess what? I've never known of git add -p. Now I do. But wait, what if the person who posted this did indeed see something similar posted here last year and never posted it? Great, now I won't ever have known this great feature.

Like stated before. Don't like the content? Don't upvote it. Move on. The complaining in every thread about these things are more annoying than seeing the same thing posted again after a month or two.
> Why not just say 'genes' or 'heredity' if that's what we mean?

Because privilege derives from many sources and is much more complex than any one of them.

It is unfortunate that it is sometimes used, or taken, to shut people out. This is not the intention of the word. At its best it calls someone to take account of their unconscious biases.
Link is exactly what it says it is:

http://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/explaining-white-pri...
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OK - that seems a long way from where I am standing... :-)

I am a contractor (freelancer?), selling time and keyboard. I get relatively long (3mths+), full time gigs, and yet I want to change the world / build a nice SaaS product to pay the mortgage.

From what I am reading you have 2 trusted clients who want you for regular but intense work, and can estimate what they want well in advance. I seem to dive into a maelstrom of recruitment agents and CVs every 6 months.

Maybe I should stop flipping the bird at employers as I leave ...

More constructively I shall sign up for wisecash :-), and do the thing I am supposed to do - build an audience on a subject I am good at and enjoy.

Thank you for the reply. May I ask what you do for the clients (can't find a bio on wisecash other than three sentences) cheers
Great to see the NUMA balancing in. My question has always been what workloads require NUMA balancing in the first place? If I present the kernel with the same number of threads as cores and keep all data local to a thread would the existing approach of allocating on the NUMA node the thread is running on have been enough?
World's first? I'm pretty sure that this doesn't pre-date Sega's Hologram from 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Traveler_%28video_game%29
It should be very clear from a cursory walk through life that peoples' compensation is on the whole not directly correlated with their cerebral work or their physical labor. Compensation is tied more to the generation of "value," which is vague, and which can be generated using different types and amounts of effort. There are many types of value that can be produced using automation and skill instead of hard labor. This does not diminish the value.

So, don't feel bad asking for $XXX,000, especially if that is the range for your profession, in your geolocale. That's that the market has decided this labor is worth, because of the type of value it creates. Do the research on the job market, and if you have valuable skills, exploit them, for fair compensation.
The security implications of this are staggering. Or am I missing something?
This Chrome extension does pretty much what you want: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-mark-a...
Wait, a kettle[1] that you put on the stove and whistles when it's boiling isn't the standard in the UK?

It's what I use for preparing hot water, and I have no issue with it. That's when I want tea or french-press coffee [2]. Sometimes I use an electric percolator[3] for coffee, and what a cup it can make!

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Teakettle-Litres-Whistling-X...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Bodum-Brazil-French-Coffee-34-Ounce/dp...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Presto-02811-12-Cup-Stainless-Coffee/d...
No, quickcheck is a testing tool, not a type system. It never rejects your program.

What you're saying is that Shedskin and Python have a non-empty intersection. But would the language of numbers with `+` be the "same language" as Python? It has the same relationship as Shedskin.
The torrents are signed so you can use a reputation model just like now.
> And the way the recording industry works is any different?

"And the way the VC industry works is any different?"
Is Twitter part of your product launch strategy?
As cool as this is, isn't it a rather glaring security risk? Who is to say that the embedded URL isn't malicious? Or a nefarious tracking link inserted by RIAA/MPAA/whatever?

Besides, isn't this rather old news? The page is dated October 2012...
This information could invaluable to the medical research community as a whole and shouldnt have any adverse consequences for individual patients if suitably anonymised.

Currently I don't have sufficient information to judge whether I need to opt out or not so I'm withholding judgemeny.
I honestly don't remember, I hadn't spent too much attention in class. (Mistakingly believing I would never ever write a compiler...)
Here's a hypothetical scenario:

Society A: everyone has at least 1000 wealth somethings, which is plenty to live comfortably. Some people have 1,000,000 wealth somethings. It's very unequal.

Society B: everyone has 10 wealth somethings, which is not enough to live very well. There is no inequality.

How this all works out in the real world is the domain of economics research and is probably something of an open question.
Using Gmail when hiring and sorting CV’s? There’s a better way
During the hiring process, email is one of the most useful means of receiving applications and interacting with candidates. Chances are, you’re using a basic email account, mostly Gmail, for this. With only a few applicants, it’s a no-brainer. But once you’re dealing with tens or hundreds of candidates within a longer time period, things start to get messy.

I recommend a solution for this. That is inhiro.com

InHiro is also a tool for creating job ads. All packed in a nice and clear product design, in which the hiring process is a piece of cake. Nothing that Gmail can compare with.
Aaaaah, interesting. Spray uses Shapeless heavily, so this should make it a shoo-in for the Typesafe stack.
I would like to volunteer myself to slap the shit out of everyone with this mindset.
I suppose the "white privilege" folks would just respond "Well, it would have been way worse if you hadn't been white!"
Much as I personally dislike Paris Hilton and the related series of celebrities (the Kardashians come to mind), I have to respect the business acumen.

A lot of people have made sex tapes, some of them professionally, but very few have made that much money from it. Partially that's because they were rich already, and maybe they just had a good manager/marketer/whatever, but they still managed to make a lot of money from something that is not typically well compensated.
Holding one down does not lift another up. Letting one person rise tends to improve the lives of others.

"Poverty" is a much-abused and much-redefined word. Many rely on an expansive legal definition intended to include as many as possible. Consider that the USA definition of "poverty line" sets some 87% of the world's population as "poor", which is a practical absurdity clouded by emotion.

Using an objective definition of "poor" focused on one's sustenance (and unaffected by whether someone else is very comfortable) we find that, indeed, world "poverty" is declining substantially. A greater percentage of world population than ever is able to obtain more than sufficient nutrition, shelter, etc to live indefinitely - to wit, aren't "poor".

And yes, if someone can improve their income/wealth to a great degree, they are most likely improving the well-being of others in the process. For capitalism to be indefinitely self-sustaining, both parties in a transaction must benefit from the transaction in an economically sustainable manner. This persistent meme of the wealthy sucking the rest of society to death is absurd, as killing customers (or otherwise rendering their income negligible) is very bad for business. Yes, wealth inequality can help eradicate poverty by giving some a reason to improve the lives of others; total wealth equality (especially when forced by government) means nobody has reason to improve themselves relative to others, consequently institutionalizing poverty as the socioeconomic norm.
Tutorial looks awesome. It would be helpful if you would mention from the beginning that you will be implementing in JavaScript before reaching the code snippets.
Researchers demonstrate proof of creation of a mirror by optical matter
> It may very well have been the case, that without the bad, there could never have been the good - they were inexorably linked.

I think there's something important to this notion. I once read a biography of Churchill that suggested Churchill's distrust of Hitler in the 1930's partly sprang from Churchill being the kind of egomaniac who could recognize an egomaniac. I'm sure I've done neither Churchill nor the book justice in this description, but I think there's support for the notion that personality doesn't simply or easily decompose into good parts and bad parts.

[1] 'The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940', William Manchester
VLC for iOS redesigned for iOS 7
The single most convincing reason to use SASS is that it allows you to use the Compass Framework:

http://compass-style.org

I can't make websites anymore without it.
This plaster wall is cracked, crazed, and need of being redone. I know, I will just paper over it.

CSS is broken and in need of being redone. I know, I will just paper over it with another layer of crap, and pretend it is Less work or that it is Sassy.
I assume bomb disposal unit needs to:
A) find bomb
B) go away from bomb really far
C) send robot to defuse the bomb

Unless bomb operates on Holywoodium, they can't outrun the explosion or use it to propel themselves.
There is no need to strawman the article. You can be a huge advocate for technology, while still be concerned about the poisonous effects that winner-takes-all dynamics can have on societies.
Well personally, I'd love to move to Paris to do a tech startup with a French cofounder. Partly because it would give me a non-SVP insight into building products for a non-American user base (I'm a 4th generation SV native). And partly to prove the rumors that you can't build startup teams in Paris are false.
Android support in Go
I love mercurial, but you don't get quite the benefit of `git add -p`, because mercurial has no staging area. If you quit out of `git add -p`, you still get the benefit of having whatever you added staged. In contrast, if you quit `hg record` (because you wanted to change something before committing), you have to re-record all the changes you wanted.
At the risk of grossly generalizing, it's interesting to contrast the French and Silicon Valley cultures -- the pursuit of wealth versus benefit to society. SV invented the hipster capitalist, he wants to get rich but pretends to really want to change the world. OTOH the French are proud of their social institutions like education and health, but hate paying for it all.

Canada seems to be on a middle ground (ignoring the present administration). We complain about taxes too, but even the most conservative like our universal healthcare. It's a trade-off.
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Gitg for Linux also exposes this functionality in an easy to use way.
Very nice. Basic reimplementation is always useful to visualize abstract concept like Git. Git can be hard to new comers, as it's not always obvious what commit/branch/push does. Thank you
"Haptic technology, or haptics, is a tactile feedback technology which takes advantage of the sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, or motions to the user."

Illustrated by a games console rumble-pack.[0]

Part of my university research was into haptic feedback, we considered vibration to be part of that. As do many scholars today[1].

What would be a better way of describing it? It's providing sensory feedback to the user based on their actions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptic_technology
[1] http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=haptic+vibration
The BEP suggests that torrents that do this should include a public key in the original torrent, and then the update must be signed with the corresponding private key. So the idea is if you trusted the original you should trust the update.
BINGO. I actually try to do this before job interviews: build a dumb version of one of their big products. I'm not even talking about something as sophisticated as this git project, I mean "build a dumb version".
I'm sure they could get their domains back through court. But just updating their Google Places Profile is a lot easier. Most are just clueless.
His exchange mpex has that many coins he personally doesn't own that much. His often hilarious blog shits all over ycombinator too (for reasons I can't remember) which I find ironic now that there is a post about him here
> The only way to really combat it is for different
> countries to collude and perhaps sanction tax havens.
> Even then, I doubt they will be able to raise much tax.

I wonder if the US (and probably only the US has the clout, but perhaps US + EU) that any company doing business there has to show they had paid corporate tax on all profit worldwide of up to 20%. Doesn't matter who they paid it to, but if they paid any less than that, they owe the remainder to the IRS, as a cost of doing business in the US. Could that work?
Why not just use a shell script? To avoid typing brew?