skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very true. I noticed that if I stop looking at the clock before I go to sleep and I assume I'm getting 8 hours of sleep I wake up feeling great. A few times I glanced at the time when setting my alarm and just knowing how many hours I'm going to get makes me wake up tired. So I went around the house and put tape over the clocks I couldn't turn off (microwave). Turns out life without knowing the time is a lot more calm, productive, and enjoyable.
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On the other hand, the mechanization of agriculture had devastating social consequences when introduced to the UK in the 1700s, leading to mass unemployment, crimewaves and the introduction of the death penalty for stealing food. The industrial revolution eventualy created replacements but things got very ugly for a few generations.

There's no reason to assume that replacement forms of employment will automatically appear when needed.
One of my project started out as something that I built for myself. When I got popular though, I had no time left to use it for its original purpose as I had to put all of my time into development and customer service. Unfortunately I ended up becoming very detached from the market for which I was developing.

My other current projects are e-commerce related, for other people. I don't shop at their stores in particular, but I feel like shopping elsewhere on the web gives me similar insight.
The loom was an example of a technology that actually had a more egalitarian effect on wealth distribution: expensive skilled labor was replaced with greater numbers of cheap unskilled labor.

Given the right prices, this sort of technology can make sense even if it doesn't actually "save" labor at all -- replacing one efficient skilled person with two inefficient unskilled ones for the same output makes business sense if the skilled labor is more than double the price.

Today's market has a lot of disparity in labor prices like this, especially when you look at it globablly. So it's entirely possible for new tech that doesn't actually save labor in terms of output per worker to find a niche.

At the same time, it's also possible for tech to do the inverse, and replace three expensive unskilled workers with one skilled one who commands double the wage.

So in terms of income inequality, at least, it's not entirely clear where technology will take us.
Antagonizing HBO wouldn't be smart if netflix had anything to lose, but they don't. HBO and Netflix have no relationship, and there is virtually zero chance of any HBO show ever coming to Netflix as their relationship currently stands.

They aren't taunting HBO because they want anything from HBO. They're taunting HBO because they want consumers to see them taunting HBO. It's just marketing.
But was everyone carrying around a pocket telescreen to broadcast their innermost thoughts (or pictures of their meal) at any moment, and to read the same from all of their friends, strangers, celebrities? Was your average middle aged office worker checking their facebook (insert social networking site here) during their spare time between tasks? Did you have digital online contact with your Grandmother/aunt/etc (as is commonly the case for many now)? These are just a couple of examples of how much more heavily the internet is utilized by large groups of people today rather than in 2004.

We're much more connected today than 9 years ago.
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If we keep the guy making $30k outraged at his neighbor earning $150k and we keep the guy making $150k angry at the hippy kids and then we wrap it all up in My-Team vs Your-Team two-party politics, we can keep the masses occupied and distracted.
Just one of a bazillion questions that comes up when your car is autonomous. What happens when the sekrit tech elite want to kill you and so they make your car drive off a cliff? Interesting questions to be sure and already being examined on such shows as "CSI" in the US.

Basically one of the reasons new technology rolls out slowly is that there are lots of people asking these sorts of questions and trying to have answers before they ship. Sometimes that works well, sometimes not (cite battery issues on 787).
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I think that's uncharitable. What I, as a non-expert take away is that online ads are complicated and counterintuitive and that even seemingly conservative strategies ("buy from Facebook") can fail badly. The appropriate tale treatment for problems like that is blog posts like this one and the discussion they produce.
Or dogfood.

http://iknowthestory.shutup
I have this aliased as duf:

$ du -sk * | sort -n | perl -ne '\''($s,$f)=split(m(\t));for (qw(K M G)) {if($s<1024) {printf("%.1f",$s);print "$_\t$f";last};$s=$s/1024}'\''
I don't think you're intending to flaunt the fact that these are realistic goals for you but not for others. But it is very easy to read this as such. Some of that turns on what you mean by "financial independence" — if you mean something other than a full-time or multiple part-time jobs, it entails a whole other set of preferences and priorities which are relatively narrow.

A key piece here is that there is a hard deadline, at least for women, and if you have a partner & intend to someday have kids, that needs to be on your radar. A bunch of probabilities re: outcomes of pregnancy start to change as a woman OR man gets older.

There's also relative age of parents to children. Like it or not, your energy level and resilience will change as you progress past your 20s and into your 30s. You could make a decent case that young people are in some dimensions well-suited to raising kids.

And don't forget about your own age relative to your child as an adult— there's a relatively large delta between 60 years old and 70 in terms of mobility, health, etc.

Human beings are also incredibly resilient. It's not something to be proud of, that people who're struggling can somehow make things work, but the reality is that what may seem completely infeasible to you can still work. There's a vast range of outcomes which could arguably constitute "success" or "failure," to the extent those terms have any meaning.

Finally, remember the adage that happiness equals reality divided by expectations. Just as expectations can be too low, they can be too high. You can try to control for every possible outcome, setting up an optimal parenting situation, but it's all a gamble. Shit happens, incl. kids themselves. And while it may look to you like other people made suboptimal choices, maybe try to remember the foregoing.
And it was likely reported on for a day at most.
Getting an ssl error for your site.
Doesn't seem to work - would love to find a great resource on Julia
I was always a little dubious of the 90 day mission length. It sounded like NASA were just giving themselves a "yeah we meant that to happen" get out if things went bad.
An extra $100k in annual income could make the difference from maybe never retiring and having enough additional income to invest in a quality retirement where you and your family don't have to spend the final 10-30 years of your life compromising and living like misers.
I made Bugrocket (https://bugrocket.com) in my spare time intending to convince everyone at work we should drop Bugzilla and use it instead (it worked :)).

My latest project is CourseCraft (https://coursecraft.net) and just due to its nature I use it less than Bugrocket. I've only made one course so far (https://coursecraft.net/courses/z9NcY).
Meh. The only reason the price is as low as it is currently is that A) $850,000 needs to be added to the market every single day just to keep the price stable B) Coinbase et al. literally can't convert dollars to BTC fast enough. The situation is similar to how whenever Apple releases a new iPhone, it takes literally months until there is enough supply to match the demand.

While this market manipulation is blatantly unethical and possibly illegal, in the long run it's going to be larger economic factors that determine the success or failure of the currency.
Docker is built and tested with Docker :)
Agree, that's a most ridiculous statement.
ANCIENT NANOTECHNOLOGY!

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-1600-year-old-gob...
Haha, yeah, I kinda maybe know what you mean. Smalltalk and smiles are wonderful but I had to learn that stuff.
Bad example. But what I tried to say is that, if a company needs you to build software, you will get paid regardless of the final license of the work.
I hope no one else thinks this is a good idea. The problem isn't corporate control of government stopped this but the fact it would do so much damage to the American economy and maybe start a trade war.
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Work with it 3 days a week, work on it 4 days a week. I have no life
Why? NeXTSTEP was a Unix and had multiple programming languages available to it--in 1989, without FSF-related anythings. Apple packs GCC with OS X, but it's pretty jokey to think they wouldn't just have packed BSD's compiler instead (and now Clang, which exists in no small part because Stallman and company decided it was a great idea to make extending the compiler hard because ideology).
I am trying to make a fact based observation of how actual decision making is done, not on what the best decisions to actually make are. My point is that is many cities cannot afford the capital expenditures, or are unwilling to take them on, but would rather accept the higher operating costs in the long run. I agree that increasing density is a sensible thing to do in general.

My point was that the city of San Francisco's specific situation, which must also include political realities may prevent it from taking the best course of action as dictated by all the fields that you mention.

After all, we are talking about a country that likes to skimp on infrastructure maintenance costs until they nearly reach disaster situations, and then forced to shell out way more in rushed emergency maintenance, and then rushed infrastructure upgrade - hardly the most sensible decisions.
At least in your case, you not only stopped coding but you stopped being around code or dealing with code. That is very different from not coding for 30%. Good chances that if you coded say 5-10% a week and spent the remaining time thinking about code architecture or code reviews, you'd be in a much different position.
What the hell am I reading
Because we treat them like slaves.
The finance industry is entirely dependent on proximity, even more so with the increase of algo. At the highest level of business-dealings, your company has to be within "10 minutes midtown mid-afternoon traffic" distance from the people you meet with (clients and other financial companies) in order to be taken seriously. This is why NY hedge funds tend to be clustered around Midtown East and banks are around Battery Park.

The tech industry doesn't really have such requirements. People are comfortable with working remotely and using video conferencing; more importantly, the tech industry doesn't have regulatory requirements like the financial industry does that require people to conduct business from a physical office.

Whether SF is sustainable or not, well, I lean towards not, but in the long-term it looks pretty bad socioeconomically. Personally, I have no desire to live in the bay area and look for work elsewhere.

Signed: Former hedge fund employee and New Yorker.
I appreciate that you took the time to plagarize from http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentControl.html, as can be deduced by the fact that you mention Friedman, Hayek, Myrdal, and Lindbeck -- and that the website in question also does the same, in the exact order, with the exact same quotes by Mydral and Lindbeck. Also, the two papers that you refer to are the first two papers in the footnotes of said website.

If you're going to offer a rebuttal, may I ask that you perform some original thought, rather than doing a copy-paste from a website? Unless, of course, you are Prof. Block himself.
The cost of getting married isn't small when you include the probability and cost of divorce. (Or the consequences of not getting a divorce when everyone is miserable and fighting)
Game theory in action. There will always be manipulation in every market, even in doge. Early hedge fund managers here.
I've been thinking about this all day. How could we, as hackers, build tools that allow for such activist groups to organize online, but yet keep these plans safe from the government?
The default value for "log_format" is "combined" -- identical to the Apache "combined" log format -- so apachetop can read nginx log files without any needed changes.
Aren't there anybody with insights or knowledge or suggestions?
Awesome! Could we get indexation of url chunks?
P.S. I agree this is pointless. The best solution in my opinion is simply ssh and [h]top or glances.
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If someone throughs a punch at you these are the best ways to avoid it.
The fact that monopolist doesn't need to play dirty doesn't mean it's not a monopoly. In fact it's the definition of natural monopoly. Same with the fact that customers are happy.

Yep, monopoly can fall, like everything else. Still the statement "natural monopoly is a myth" is false. Besides - states can fall just like companies. They are just bigger and fall slower than companies, but they eventually all fall.

But people do have a choice, at least in the well run countries. They are more like share owners than customers - they can vote on who will be on the board. And they can migrate if they doesn't like some policy. For example in EU you can always move to another country if you don't like your own. It's why I don't support global government or too close unification of EU. I prefer to have a choice.

Proposing to change states into system of companies is a risky experiment. We know how to organize states so they are quite just. Some people doesn't want to follow that schema because they want power, but we know how to do this if we want to. On the other hand we don't know how to separate power without a state and universal laws. It all sounds nice in theory, but in practice it probably would fail spectacularly. I don't want to be part of anarchism experiment - if you want to do sth like this please do it on volunteers.

BTW google started in 1997 IIRC. It's like the old movies that came out decade age = in nineties :) Makes me feel old.
I was really surprised not to see atop in his list. Very handy interactive monitor, and the history mode, as you not, puts it well ahead.
I do not think you can say that the general attitude about segregation had changed significantly until at least the 80s, when people who had grown up without segregation had entered adulthood. Even with that change, there are still lingering pockets of segregation now, in 2014 -- two generations after Brown v. Board of Education.

I doubt that assumptions or attitudes can be changed within a single generation.
> And France is an old colonial power -- with some illusions of grandeur still and active secret agencies.

Old colonial power what a laugh, are you waking-up from the 60'? with some illusions of grandeur when all anglo-saxons medias report how much French are depressed and always pessimists. Anyway, I always like a bit of French bashing based on caricatures, always very accurate...
It's not that simple, of course. First you have to transport a miniaturized version of yourself into your own brain and remove your common sense.
Ask HN: How long is too long?
I've been in my current dev job for about 4 years, moving a C++ fat client to .NET/web (mainly .NET dev and team lead prior to that). I'm probably the one with the most experience/knowledge of the "newer technologies" in the office, but compared to your average hacker in a startup, I'm just a beginner.

Most of what I'm learning is what I'm teaching myself, although I'm learning the odd bit about C++ from colleagues (easily my weakest area).

I live in Berlin, so the startup scene is pretty good, and the prospect of working with a bunch of "like minded" talented people really excites me. On the other hand, I'm gaining experience in web (specifically JS, angular), and I've run training sessions for the company, which I find a really good way to get a deeper understanding of a language or technology. Being the "go-to" guy for questions & architecture certainly has a feel-good factor, even if I still feel like a beginner.

This will be my 5th year, and I'm weighing up staying on, learning-by-doing (as opposed to from colleagues) as much as I can, or trying the startup scene.

5 years feels like a limit - I don't want to stagnate, but I enjoy what I do.

How long do you consider to be too long? i.e. if you read a CV (EDIT: resume), how long would give you a negative feeling about the candidate?
I imagine that it depends on the state (or country, if we're not being US-centric), but many non-married couples can and do set up durable powers of attorney (PoA), advance medical directives, wills, and so on.

As a sibling commenter noted, the trick is then getting the hospital, partner's family, etc. to recognize the PoA document; while the law surrounding powers of attorney is generally quite clear, there are certainly plenty of horror stories of hospitals, families, etc. ignoring such documents. I imagine that the likelihood of this happening varies from state to state, hospital to hospital, possibly even doctor to doctor, and so on.

That said, in the US, basically all of the time, you'll be _far_ better off for having drawn up a durable power of attorney than you would be if you hadn't. Definitely money well-spent if you're in an unmarried partnership. I suggest finding a lawyer who specializes in LGBTQ family law; they generally will be happy to take any couple on as clients, regardless of whether they are same/opposite sex, cis/trans, etc., and they have literally "seen it all," which means that they know about all kinds of legal edge cases that can cause trouble for people in a non-married partnership.

As an aside, I'm continually amazed by how many _married_ couples don't have wills, PoA documents, advance directives, etc. etc. filled out. Even if it's not strictly necessary from a legal perspective, having one's wishes and instructions written down explicitly is a relatively small-seeming thing that can make a very bad situation noticeably less awful (or so I've heard from people who've been there).
> Nowadays it's a lot easier to install Linux in most computers than Windows. If you want to install a version of Windows that isn't specifically supported by the hardware, you're SOL.

Please substantiate this. Aside from the Macintosh EFI mess, Windows will install on pretty much anything and has fallback drivers for just about everything. Its backwards support is impressive, too; my one single-boot machine is a Win7 Thinkpad A22m with a Pentium III in it.
"In the 19th century, the maturation and standardization of weaving technology finally brought long-overdue raises to textile workers."

Wow. Way to completely write out of the story the PEOPLE who fought tooth-and-nail to get those raises, WaPo....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Mill_Girls

Of course, acknowledging the real struggle might seriously impact the whole "things will get better by themselves, just keep sleeping" argument of the piece...
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What does "crumbling family authority" result from? And are you positive that is an accurately described root cause and not a symptom?
“I feel so awful for those who lost here.”

Nothing sweeter than the tears of someone who lost money truing to manipulate other people into losing money ...
My favorite recent example of that: http://www.2014equals420.com/about.html

It starts with the curious observation that 2014, spoken aloud as "twenty fourteen", becomes "teen 420" in reverse. Perhaps just a coincidence. But then it further notes that April 20, or 4/20, is the date of Easter in 2014. Two coincidences! Now the numerologist starts getting suspicious...
But is this espionage carried out specifically by the Governments of these nations by and large? Or by agents of companies which reside in these countries? I'm not aware in these cases to be honest.

The point being that the difference between companies committing industrial espionage, and a government instituted policy of said behavior, seems vastly different.
I love Dish Network but with them and DirecTV charging upwards of $90 a month for a couple of DVR receivers, they are forcing me to consider an internet-only solution (and Dish started out so affordable!). I just got a rate increase of $5 a month in the mail. I get the feeling though that it's not their idea, that the stations call the shots. So I applaud Netflix for keeping their price so low but wonder how long it will last.
Why is it more important to subsidize successful marriages than successful lives in general?
Didn't the first one already happen with Michael Hastings? Although to be fair, it's just suspicions and not any officially accepted story. Nonetheless, they're fairly strong suspicions, same as with the Karl Koch case.
We already search in url (after title and content)
If you don't think You're freedom is worth two hour's effort then I rather despair. And you don't have to say "porn please" just "turn off the filter please", I just don't succumb to Cameron and his Daily Mail ilk suggesting it is something to be embarrassed about.
Well sure, smelling comes from bacteria, but what if I get dirt on it? Will it resist that? Sure the water repellant stuff is helpful, but I find it hard to believe it'd keep it perfectly pristine.
The market is about buying low and selling high, or selling high and buying low.

If you trade with out an edge you're a moron. I really hope no one trades actual markets believing they can 'pick' equities.
Monoculture is bad [1]

https://speakerdeck.com/garann/bacon-is-bad-for-you
Any idea why they abandoned it? CPU-only mining seems to be kinda pointless these days...
Yeah, right, prisoners. SF is the sole oasis of civilization on the SF Peninsula, surrounded by 35 miles of desert plains that happen to be covered with offices and restaurants, a couple airports, and public transportation.
Well, it must, some day. But I'm not betting on any specific millennium.

I just love those articles that state that "we have no problem" because "everything just settles out at the end", while forgetting that one of the mechanisms for everything to settle up is a huge share of the population dying. It's survival bias acting at slaughter time.
Clifford Stoll has a great chocolate chip cookie recipe in his book "cuckoos egg" - about his experience tracking crackers through international networks. (With cameo appearance from RTM and the worm).

I'd put it here but the experience of cutting / pasting on iPhone is painful. (Hints and tips gratefully received).
This illustrates a simple idea in economics: cartels are hard to maintain because participants will look out for their own self-interest.
TL;DR:

> It is difficult to imagine productive activities that cannot be automated—mining, construction, many medical services, house cleaning: the list goes on and on.

> A decline in the demand for labor, caused by automation, will result in lower wages, without necessarily producing an increase in employment (work effort will not grow if there is no work), let alone an increase in national income.

However, as he also states, "with no truck drivers to pay, the cost of truck transportation will fall, and price will follow". In my view, this will further reduce the main necessities of living (food, hygiene products, energy) which will in turn allow people to live with much less money. Therefore, the poverty levels should fall, as well. It is not hard to imagine the government paying enough social welfare so that everyone can afford basic stuff. Actually, government could also just buy enough robots and produce all the necessities itself.