skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two or more big firms are better than having one violent monopoly. Furthermore, if people are well aware those are actually firms, it becomes very hard for those firms to bullshit people into obedience. Extortion wouldn't be called taxation, it would be called extortion and everyone will be able to see that. War wouldn't be called war, but would be called murder. And most likely people would rebel against that. So, if I was this businessman running a protection agency, what do you think would I do: risk losing my business and possibly being killed by an angry mob or steady profit and serving my customers well?

Truth is, governments are only able to run this charade because of the combination of power and brainwashing. Take one component away and it's gone.

Of course you might say "but people are so easily brainwashed, of course those firms are gonna be able to do it and convince people that them being de-facto government is a great thing". Well, ask yourself, these days, how many people can you convince that slavery is a good idea?
A few years back I created a basic open-source web spaced repetition app in Django:
http://memizr.com/
https://github.com/stephenbez/memizr
Take a look at this page: http://druid.io/druid.html#whois
Not this man in particular, but in general I think people in this forum conflate "being successful in commercial enterprises" with "living a moral/fulfilling/best-possible life." As do plenty of people in society. (Definitely not all people in this forum, but certainly some, and certainly a plurality.)
How involved was that? Was the some kind of I/O protocol or were the buttons simply broken out?
The "average" is not a technical term in statistics. It's a shortcut in everyday speak for some measure of centrality. What you're referring to is (probably) the arithmetic mean, but the average can be any other measure (for example, when you talk about "average speed" you're not using the arithmetic mean, but the geometric one), including the median.

Also, in this case the mean and the median are probably close to the same thing since recruiter skill is likely to be normally distributed, but that's a different story.
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And it may also have to do with your definition of 'dockworker' ; Dell's mom and dad were a stockbrocker and an orthodontist; Clinton was working-class but not poor; same with Jobs (he was adopted at birth, dad was a mechanic, and mom an accountant); Brin's dad is a Math prof and his mom works at NASA; seems Koch's grandad was wealthy (I can't find more on wikipedia; it also says he went to MIT and doesn't mention scholarships, so his family was probably well-off).
The reason the dollar is increasing in value is because the stock market is increasing in value, and the reason the stock market is increasing in value is because it was previously decimated by a group of wall street insiders working together with government regulators to crash the economy.
I wouldn't say all alt coins; primecoin litecoin and namecoin look pretty solid but they are all built differently and aren't simply clones with changed rates like all dogecoin coinyewest and company.
It should look to you too. Try to investigate.

Look no further than to Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2013/12/26/bulgaria...

The power of propaganda, you say?
CyanogenMod is the equivalent of installing a fresh copy.
Someone I know went to 5 different in-person interviews with Google over a period of something like 3 months. Each time there would be a 2-week or so limbo before talking to someone at Google again. Then after 5 interviews, nothing. Total silence.

This was 2009 or so and was for some sort of infrastructure management position.
>...and the tech industry is any better?

I don't think I said that.
Never mind the dubiousness of equating freedom to modify a particular gadget with fundamental civil liberties (there is certainly an analogy, but the parent referred to the former and you leapt at the latter)... the parent doesn't even live in the United States.
The second graph seems to truncate the first 15 years. I wonder if the data exists, or if it didn't actually support the author's point. Also, I think the author oversimplifies this issue.

I just don't see the connection where the direct cause of large corporate profits is low wages. Are the wages adjusted for inflation?
Exactly. When I was working for GE Aviation I wasn't flying fighter jets.

Thinking about the larger issue, I think It's actually somewhat rare for professionals to consume their own "product". Lawyers, for example, are often discouraged from doing so.
I think parent clearly didn't think it sounds like that. I don't think it sounds like that. Perhaps you should examine why you think it sounds like that.
People seem to be missing the crucial point here.

It isn't that they keep ignoring the "DO NOT CONTACT", it's why Google wants his services so badly in the first place. What does Tarsnap do?

Think about it. Google wants to be bullet proof. Probably internally at first, but then maybe roll out the benefits to other services.
I don't understand, everything is assembly/machine code when it executes.
This is too logical for the internet. Someone might draw an objective insight from what you're suggesting.
These types of agreements might mean that we move from "software patents held by tech giants" to "software patents held by a cartel of tech giants". That would be worse.

An agreement like this might avoid the next high-profile lawsuit, but instead of fixing the patent system it's tapering over the most visible symptom, creating a patent oligopoly in the process.

Maybe I'm seeing things, but I'm just having Google's ongoing anti-poaching scandal fresh in mind.
That would not give me a traceback, and it would not catch segfaults or ctrl-C. It's a different style of programming that would work around part of the issue (only the exceptions, and only by checking for errors manually), whereas what perplexes me is that multiprocessing and concurrent.futures are not designed to handle these error conditions themselves.
Google Beat Facebook for DeepMind, Creates Ethics Board
They should include the Tesla Turbine. Only one moving part.
Gah, why in the heck does that exist? We already have the failed systems: CoFundOS, BountyOSS, Public Software Fund, and many others. There's BountySource (which is a rip-off that charges a fee up-front) and the most viable actually functioning site: freedomsponsors.org

There's tons of others. Open Funding, Bounty Funding, FOSS Factory… and this new thing that this posting is about.

If bounties really worked, we'd see them working by now after tons of attempts and years of trials. And they do work sorta: freedomsponsors.org is the best we've got.

Bitkick.org needs to give up. They're just clutter in an already failing concept. People need to do the research to know what already exists before throwing up another waste-of-time site.
The Google Bus Protests Aren't About Google or Buses or Even Affordability
It's disingenuous to argue that all genders need to "earn their strips and credibility through effort" when everyone who isn't male (and additionally, not white, and not straight, and not able-bodied, etc.) is actively discriminated against and enjoys fewer opportunities to learn programming or design techniques.
My Personal Issues: Github for Self-Improvement
I haven't seen the full picture of Go yet, partially by some examples. I found it makes calling multi-threading functions a lot easier.

I consider Ruby, Python, Go and Julia are the new generation of programming languages aiming to be quickly picked up and made hands-on working.

Can anybody tell me if Ruby, Python, Go supports a full spectrum of functionalities for various network protocols, multi-threading, messaging (sync and async) and concurrent accessing etc. Those kind of functionalities don't only require additional libraries, but also frameworks and algorithms.

Maybe by using Jython, JRuby or something like that, they are able to achieve the complete functionalities like Java.

According to some research, Python evolved from Lisp, and Ruby is closed to Perl. So why aren't those script-based language more popular than Java/C++?
Wow, please remind me if/when I succeed beyond my wildest dreams never to use my accomplishments as a rhetorical weapon to beat people with.

I've always been a fan of Colin from the little that I've been exposed to his work, but that thread instantly made me like him less (though this post tempered the feeling some: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35096)

And yet I'm more of a fan of Richard Sherman (in the NFL) than I was two weeks ago, in spite of his unapologetic bragging. I can't explain the difference.
At best, a copy of you living in VR gets to live until the sun explodes. Which at least is better defined than "heaven".
Considering his downvotes it's clear I'm not the only one.
Ask HN: Recommended readings/books about Ruby
Just asking everyone experienced with Ruby: Any Highly rated/recommended book(s) about Ruby (not Rails, there's a lot of recommended stuff about Rails via Google)? Also great if there are good blogs/readings I can check out. Thanks HN!
I have to disagree. Just in the last few years, tons of new, groundbreaking projects have sprung up. e.g. most of the publicly announced Google X projects didn't even exist a few years ago. And there's so many areas where there's interesting stuff to work on.

Now obviously, unless you're really special (e.g a known expert in your field) you're not going to be able to waltz in and be given a huge area of responsibility and a team, but that's just common sense. You do have to prove yourself, and there is some discounting down of your work pre-Google (your impact since Google is valued far more highly).

At the end of the day, Google is a heavily engineering-driven company, so if you have good ideas, nothing is stopping you from going ahead and starting your own cool project. If you're driven and talented and demonstrate success, the 'cool project' could transform into something much bigger, and you could end up leading an important company initiative.
You sure felt uncomfortable all over the comments page. Yuck bra.
Also, note that firms cannot grow indefinitely, enormous corporations we see today are actually products of this governmental system, in which they bribe government for regulations and deny competitors opportunities.

A great example of a market force that prevented an entity from growing is a recent Bitcoin incident in which one hashing pool was close to 51% of hashing power, which would give it an ability to double spend or otherwise compromise the network. So people simply spread awareness and many withdrew from this pool, effectively lowering its market share. What makes you think this is impossible with other businesses?
The single biggest are intentional inclusion in more technical conversations and intentional non-inclusion in more self-appearance conversations. Along the same lines are expected background knowledge.

For reference, I'm in my mid-40's and transitioned over 5 years ago.

Prior to transitioning, I would frequently overhear or walk-into technical conversations about subjects that were relevant or of interest to me. While there were a handful of guys who understood my interest in technology and would intentionally include me, most simply wouldn't even think of including me (and I didn't know any women who were into technology). Thankfully, I never had a guy react badly when I included myself in a conversation, although I would occasionally get odd looks because of my interest and knowledge. Now I'm very intentionally sought out by colleagues (male and female) during technology conversations that are relevant or of interest.

Prior to transitioning, I frequently had acquaintances make suggestions about my appearance; make-ups I should try, how I should fix my hair, etc. While I've had lots of appearance-related conversations with my trans-friends, and I've had the typical, "wow you've changed a lot since I last saw you" conversations (but not as many as I expected). Other than those, I've only had one person comment on my appearance.

One of the more surprising topics that's changed has been car talk. I've never considered myself a car-person, prior to transition this wasn't ever a problem. Since I transitioned, it has come up with alarming frequency. While I've made a point of letting people know that I don't know a lot about cars, I still get comments that imply I'm an idiot for not knowing more.

Another thing that I find interesting is that prior to transitioning, I never had anyone suggest that I go a blind date with a friend of theirs; not one single time! Since I transitioned it's happened several times.
to what do you attribute your ability to overcome the trappings that keep your peers down? genetic makeup?

a huge chunk of HN directly or indirectly makes their money from advertising. what do you think that industry is about if not fine-tuning the mechanisms that get people to buy stuff that they don't need?
I don't agree with this article (wages may be low, but that's exactly why corporate profits are so high). I think the internet and new technology has helped companies expand their profits at incredibly low cost. Consider the recent article about Stripe joining The Billion Dollar Club [1]. It's an absurd fact that such a small and new company can become so successful in so little time. If that is the effect that tech is having on small companies, imagine what effect it is having on large companies. The internet is like steroids for business.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230463220...
The phrase "two greater amper one" seems to help me. My tendency otherwise is to type the ampersand before the greater-than.
> surpasses a human expert on three of them

I hazard it's not very impressed with your Space Invader score, either.
You need to think about how you want your life to go, from now until your death, and the different paths it can take. Success is just a stepping stone. It doesn't have to make you a different person.
Ohhh, did Google buy them? Or did the AI figure that the best place to launch world domination from was inside Google so it forged a letter from Larry and Sergey offering to acquire the company? :-)
Nimrod's turn is coming soon. And it is well-deserving. It has already had some pre-HN-darling attention here, which is what brought it to my attention. I'm very intrigued by it. http://nimrod-lang.org/
I think you need to listen to minorities more instead of attacking and talking over them. You're no ally, that's for sure.
They have an assload of cash on hand and the singularity is coming at us like a freight train. I'd think they were drunk if they weren't snatching up everything relevant in sight.
Well Grounded Rupiest.
Good lord. I think you just changed my life.
Define the function you're passing to the pool before you create the pool, and make sure you use an 'if __name__ == "__main__: main()" line at the end if you're writing a script, since it needs to be importable.

If functions within functions are not supported I don't see the problem, because the thing with multiprocessing is that you need to be conscious of what you're passing between processes, so explicitly passing everything as arguments or through an initializer is the way to go.
Content of the article itself aside, I think this is a very well designed piece of online content. Very easy to follow and way better than some wall of text article you'd expect to see!
Whoops, plus 125 ml white sugar for the metric.
s/C++/g++/

clang++ isn't nearly as bad.
So I'm the developer here. I've been posted on HN before and while HN posts land lots of eyeballs on my website, there's been no noticeable uptick in game installs at all :)
Read "The Algorithm Design Manual", and do exercises from every chapter.

Whether or not you decide to interview at Google, building up strong CS fundamentals will make you a better programmer. And we're not the only ones who ask those types of questions. :)
And I don't think you fully understood mine. Regardless of the effectiveness (or lack therefore) of their recruiters, Google is still has over a thousand open positions (look for yourself: https://www.google.com/about/jobs/search/). None of my civil engineer friends are getting spammed by companies.
It's a learning technique where the software tries to show you a flashcard for review right before you would have forgotten it otherwise. So each time you see it, it will be longer until the next time you see it. That way, you're not wasting time looking at a bunch of stuff you already know well.

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

also: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia...
Kim Jong-un executes uncle's relatives
This is an example of both very good information and also good design.
I reached the 10 article limit. Usually one can remove all the cookies but after a bunch of pages and a ton of JS executing it told me I had already ready 10 articles. So how are they doing this? Some kind of super cookie?
For me, I'd much rather read the "wall of text". I found myself wanting more depth and detail about the story.
Sunday Conversation, Asheem Chandna On Enterprise Cloud, Security, Mobile
Incognito/Private mode. Probably using local storage, but haven't checked honestly.
I tried some of the examples with g++/cc and with clang. Clang is a lot better but it still produces some pretty ridiculous output (but not gigs of ridiculous output fortunately).
Yes , that could be added , though there are non celebrities on most of the twitter categories too , results are sorted by number of followers so celebrities happen to be on first page
If my car became very well known for being unlocked and immensely popular with people taking joyrides, then yes, my continued unlocking of the door would constitute tacit permission.
No need to apologize. I agree the PPP basket weights is a problem without a perfect solution but I has been studied extensively. My understanding is that most experts don't think it is a huge problem. I think most people would agree that Denmark is more expensive that the US but we can certainly argue about how much more expensive[1].

I'm not expert in the details of either GDP or PPP calculations but here is my understanding of how parental leave would be treated. It would show up in GDP because wages are included under the "income approach", one of the three main approaches used. I don't believe it would directly show up in PPP as it is not a good or service that people buy. I don't think is means anything to say parental leave is less or more expensive.

Anyway I don't think it would have a big impact as there only about 50,000 births every year in Denmark in a population of 5.5 million. So if they max out the benefit it is only 25,000/5,500,000 = 0.45%. This is a good example why GDP and PPP work in practice - all these random errors tend to cancel out.

If you are interested I suggest you read up on how GDP is calculated. The Wikipedia article if pretty good[2].

[1] http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_resul...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product
Developer here: you're right that it's totally unscientific. I never really set out to do a "scientific" comparison, because being an indie developer, I really don't have the time or budget to spend hundreds of dollars to find out if something works or not.

So I spent around the same time setting up the Facebook campaign as the AdMob one (about an hour each, including the time to make the graphic), and for the time/$ spend, the AdMob campaign trounced the FB one.

In terms of conversion tracking, it was quite unscientific, true. But basically, I can track the number of new players of the game per day. Normally I get a pretty steady flow just from the Play Store. With the FB campaign running, there was no significant uptick in signups, but with the AdMob one running, the uptick in signups was immediately clear.

I didn't actually know it's possible to target mobile only with FB campaigns, and so I'll definitely be giving that a go.

Anyway, my point with the post was just that for someone on a tight budget, with not a lot of mental bandwidth to spare for tracking ad conversions, AdMob was just way better value for me.
It's good for people to be aware of this but there's so much either ignored or misrepresented as to make this almost harmful.

Fake olive oil peddlers aren't hurting themselves by peddling fake oil as the scam is as old as the olive oil industry itself. It's likely never going to go away and has been a mainstay of various criminal organizations (Sicilian mafia, etc) for longer than pretty much all of us have been alive.

What should also be pointed out is that many Americans seem to have smell/taste quality standards of EVOO completely backwards. An olive oil of desirable quality should have a strong flavor; bitter and peppery.

It's so easy to get a decent quality olive oil once you know what to look for and it doesn't at all have to be from Italy. California Olive Ranch makes good stuff that is highly price competitive with the imported Italian stuff which is always more questionable anyway.
In the securities market is it illegal per the securities exchange act of 1934. It is called a bear raid and is normally done by short sellers who have heavily shorted a stock and then collude to drive it lower. It is not as common as the pump and dump and it is true that market manipulation happens all the time just people dont talk about it because it is illegal http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bearraid.asp
If you think it's inevitable, wouldn't you rather be in control of its launch than someone else?
I am also looking for a telecommute job. There are few posts on StackCareers, but very limited.

I am well versed in PHP and its related frameworks. Also capable of scaling high traffic websites.
Yes, because what the financial elite want the most is to crash economy. It's not like they have all their wealth tied up in financial assets that rely on a healthy economy to remain valuable...
Oh, I totally agree. That said, these examples are engineered to make your compiler shit a brick. Most of the time clang++ gives you much more readable output. g++, however, is a lot more careful about your digits. It'll take a little while before clang++ gains serious traction in the scientific community.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/business/last-car-plant-br...
>These are brilliant, fun, unflappable women

Unflappable except supposedly they literally can't read this website out of the inescapable fear that someone will make a pun about man pages, and then someone else will be unimpressed with their outrage at a pun about man pages.

Lolks
That may be true, but I did get a noticeable increase in install rate with the AdMob campaign, with the same budget.

With a bigger budget, I might have been able to get more of a boost from Facebook, but I'm an indie developer and I really don't have the time or budget to spend hours and hundreds of $ tweaking a campaign.
Check and see if they are using flash cookies. It's amazing how few people check to see what sites have left a trace in flash... especially when all porn sites use it as the defacto standard for videos.
My favorite was the Best Cheat winner:

/usr/include; perl -e "@c=\"x\"x(2**16); while(1) {print @c}" 1>&2

"Extra credit for using Perl, which is the only language less readable than C++ templates."
A great introduction to wheels. I'm still not sure if wheels really is a good idea though. For simple use-cases traditonal pip seems fine, for more complex use-cases buildout seems better? Having tried to install numpy and pygame in a virtualenv I do see a need for something better -- but I'm not convinced wheels will solve the problem of complex c-library dependencies...?
I wish I had $350 to spend over 7 days :)

But I'm definitely going to try a mobile-specific FB ad, I didn't even know those were possible!
TL;DR -> DMMT

(don't make me think ;)
After Snowden: How vulnerable is the internet?
I would recommend you to check out zend framework 2. Its really a industry standard framework.