skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is your documentation for saying that a particular word in a headline has any penalty at all?

AFTER EDIT: I guess I'm glad I asked, downvotes and all, because I see the link is to a source off HN, not to a statement from any of the HN moderators (which is what I was checking).
Agree on language, but that's actually a strength of Berlin vs. anywhere else on the Continent: you can get by with English-only quite well. Maybe not quite as well as in the nordic countries/NL, but cost of living is absurd in nordics, and they're "boring" so not so appealing to 15-35 year old immigrants from the US/UK/etc. who could live/work anywhere.

(If I were the DE or Berlin governments, I'd make a huge focus of putting dual German/English signage all over in government and private life; everyone meaningful can speak English, but there are a bunch of places with German-only signage. In Frankfurt, there's the semi-absurd situation of English only signage, for stuff like Rental Car Return; due to the US military presence and international companies, there are probably more English-only renters than German-only renters.)

(I'm not sure what's gone wrong with Amsterdam. It had some great early successes, and some great universities, and hfh were about as awesome as ccc, if smaller, but people seem...not so risk-taking, and consensus focused?)
How is either of those fun? I see why revere console logs are funny, if done when there is no time pressure and a lot of time available.

I do not want to work in environment where people feel that it is appropriate to routinely "punish" colleges by making them waste time like this.
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Kasey-

Do you just make shit up or actually look at the source before vomiting on the keyboard?
Oh, I got the point, but historically, it went the other way around. It was the government's duty to provide firearms to the militia for those that didn't have them themselves.

That said, your sub-point is humorous, but overlooks that if modeled after the ACA, subsidized M16s would be available for near free, while non-subsidized M16s would be ~$4,000-$5,000, if you're in too high a tax bracket.
Seems a bit obsessed with terminology. Also many of the points in this post seem difficult to achieve especially for a company with a focus on "shipping" example:
"Freedom:

Freedom to pick when and where they work. How they work and on what they work on. Tethering people down and expecting them not to behave like a lion taken from the wild and stuck in a cage. Just as the lion will begin to mindlessly graze around their cage staring at the window wishing they were free your employees will graze mindlessly around the office and stare and videos on youtube wishing they were free to."

This is hopelessly optimistic, if you're on a deadline sometimes you need people in one place.
I actually did a wipe and clean install of my computer a few months ago. I couldn't think of a single thing to keep so I didn't and the only thing I've reinstalled since then is Chrome.
I live in Berlin. It's awesome. I don't think it'll ever be the next SV, or even come close. If it ever becomes as "successful", it'd be in a very different way.
>Now we are at the amusing point that genes may have unwittingly experienced their own skynet event. Modern science has given us the ability to not only gaze upon our creators, but manipulate them to do the bidding of ideas.

Come on, man. Laugh maniacally! You know you want to.

Here, I'll start: MUWWWWWAUAUAHAHAAHAHAHAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I bought my AR-15 (DPMS, not a no-name) for $600 from walmart in 2011. You can build your own for ~$400-500 if you're willing to shop around.
From the perspective of US and London, net EE wages and Berlin wages are actually within epsilon. Getting awesome people easily for EUR 30-50k, with fairly simple business practices, vs. mediocre people for USD 100-200k, is a huge win; going from EUR 30k to...EUR 10k(?) with a lot more BS to deal with isn't a net improvement.
You might give some thought to how this relates to the lack of diversity (esp.) gender diversity in our field. It ought to be the starting point for a great discussion. Perhaps HN is not the ideal venue for such a discussion....
And when BTC's price changes by 20% to 30%, do yall still pay each other back in BTC or do you convert into USD before paying each other back?

Or... you can be like everyone else and just have a guy go to the bank and grab a bunch of $5 and $1 bills when you know your group is getting together. CASH is the easiest way to settle debts and keep track of payments.
> Does the kernel compile with unlimited jobs keep the number of concurrently running jobs below the processor limit, or are additional jobs in any way blocked on cheap primitives, such as waiting for previous jobs with a mutex?

How do you think threads were implemented by the OS back when we all had one processor with one core?
Thank you for being the voice of reason. It's not as if Kickstarter is somehow deceptive as to exactly what you're doing when you help crowdfund a project. You are not owed equity, or votes in the company, or anything in particular except then very clearly spelled out rewards on the project page.

The sense of entitlement people have after this Oculus thing is insane. Your entitlement as a backer is what you were promised as a reward. That's it.
>Even if I do get hit with something catastrophic, I'd rather have them send me the bill and let me negotiate and pay it off myself.

You do realize medical bills can be in the millions of dollars, right? It isn't even vary hard to get into the hundreds of thousands. Requiring everyone to have insurance solves the "free rider problem," where some individuals pay less than others for the same thing. You can "negotiate" all you want, but that just means person A pays less than person B for the same thing. Especially if you get a $200,000 hospital bill and you had to declare bankruptcy. If there are a lot of Person As, it makes the costs for all the person Bs rise. If there is no incentive to be a Person B, then many people would be a Person A. Requiring insurance tries to eliminate the Person As.

Disclaimer: In the real world of US healthcare, prices are nuts and different for insured and uninsured.

> I realize this isn't a trade that every person is in a position to make, but why do I need the insurance?

Because most people can't deal with a $30,000 medical bill.

Also most people are, for lack of a better word, stupid. They don't make rational choices. My sister for example, thinks that she doesn't need health insurance because juice fasts can cure all diseases. How many of my sisters are out there vs people who are responsible with their money?

You may think you will be completely healthy, but really, we are all human and something terrible (and expensive) can happen to you tomorrow.

Do I think this is a good system or a good solution to the problem? No, I do not.
It's fixed now, the rule is that one of the team must be a citizen of the country the team represents.
> It is in our best interest as a society as a whole to have a society that controls its fertility.

Conjures up images of other societies who have controlled their fertility..
I often feel like always telling the truth is the result of privilege. And that people who are more insecure for whatever reasons have much more cause to lie. That being said, I have very little patience for colleagues who lie about work-related knowledge. It's a huge waste of time.
It's a sort of interesting divergence from what you'd expect, though. (There's no "one way" of course, but) The Components (mixins) have all of their logic centralized in Systems which get called by the simulation tick. Adam Martin (t-machine.org) writes about how it's similar to a relational model, and even suggests the Entities and Components be stored in an RBDMS when its feasible for performance (MMOs). If you're not using a database, then you're sort of replicating the relational model in your code.

entity: id
component: id field1 field2 field3...
entity_component: ent_id com_id

Then your tick iterates the Systems, each does a query for the relevant components, applies transformations, and puts back in the datastructure. So your logic is very centralized, and the entity behaviors are basically declared by a combination of choosing its Components and choosing the active Systems.
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Because that area is so gang infested that OPD ignores large swaths of it. Any other neighborhood that closed down the street for that type of "fun" would have OPD swarming on them in a few minutes. Not this one.
I've heard from CPAs that have studied the law that Obamacare mostly seems to just be a series of taxes disguised as a healthcare law.
So, I got all excited about funding this, and went to their page[0] to see what funding options are available. Unfortunately, there's nothing there that's reasonably priced and exclusive. I'm not a film maker - I'm a film watcher - but I'd love to see more open technology for making films come out and reduce the barrier to entry, so that I can find more of what I enjoy. I just can't justify giving away a significant amount of money without getting something in return. $25.60 to get to see a film a few days before everyone else is not worth it.

Compare that to something like The Mechanisms's new album's Kickstarter[1]. If you pay anything more than £15, you get unique stuff that ties into the world, from patches and t-shirts to toys, books and bags. The point is that you won't be able to get this stuff once the album's finished.

While I get that Gooseberry is likely to be a large and extremely ambitious project, I think that if it's to meet its goals, it needs to provide something compelling for the majority of people who have no intention of making a film.

[0] https://cloud.blender.org/gooseberry/
[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1985371014/record-high-...
This is an interesting idea. For this to impact market correlation, would you need to insist that everyone place their orders in beta adjusted terms or would it be enough for the bid making protocol to allow for it?
You could argue that "use strict" does the same, except it's language mandated. But yes, you have a point. These are not particularly fun, if you are on the receiving end. I've seen more than enough hair-raising bad JavaScript to last me a lifetime.

But you gotta admit, if you're on the pranking end, it could be fun to see someone tear their hair out.

Or my sense of humour is way out of whack. probably the latter
What is being described in this article is latency arbitrage and is not illegal. You will notice it specifically mentions that his order was changing the price on other exchanges, not on the exchange he submitted his order to.

He was taking advantage of multiple exchanges in order to hide his order flow, because as a natural consequence of market laws large orders move prices. He is just upset that other folks were better at finding his order flow than he was at hiding it.
Please also remember that a backup is only as good as the restore process. If you've never had cause to test that your restore process works as intended then you're still vulnerable.

PS: I admit that while I keep backups, I've not once checked that I can actually restore (but I know I should). I suspect many people are the same.
I do see patterns in languages, it's just that the patterns are hidden below arbitrary nonsensical syntax that has to be relearned every single time I switch language. Some syntax, like Python's, is easier to remember and guess than other syntax. I conclude that Python's syntax is good and Haskell/J's syntax is bad.

Basically, I want the languages I use and have to constantly relearn to have a syntax that is quick to pick up after having partly forgotten it for the nth time. That requires memorable and guessable names and keywords.
Some issues:

Your GCC build has to match the userspace C library (uclibc or other). If it doesn't you'll need to do all the path passing and usually link manually as well.

It has also to match the kernel somewhat (not so critical for userspace apps, but if you want to add a module or something it's critical)

So, basically what you "should do" is build the whole system together (cross-compiler + userspace + kernel), some tools do that, building first a "raw" cross-compiler, then the C library and kernel, then a full compiler with all the options applied.
An AR-15 is not an M16. That's actually the main thing I was attempting to clarify, though I seem to have meandered from the point.
It is only harmful if the developer actually used the variable as a side effect, aka relied on it outside the current scope.

By making the global variable local to the scope around the if statement, side-effects won't escape the local scope (as said, the if block does not declare a new scope).
Is it wrong that I just won't read anything from Business Insider?
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For what it's worth,

Here is another place where I made a version of my argument (with some other context added): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7498742

Here is where I retracted the faulty assumptions I made in that comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7499369

My unchecked assumptions led to a flawed argument.
This is a really great point. And not only 'would' take a 50-75% paycut - they already do this en masse.

Another thing that is important is the ridiculously low rent. Seems to be ~75% cheaper than London. Many people in London/NY/SF/SV pay a whopping proportion of their salary into rent, so if you take a €2k/month paycut but end up spending the same amount less in rent, everyone's winning.

As nearly every startup hub is really struggling with insane rents, Berlin could be a serious competitor here. I think Berlin's property market will have enough slack to take on a fair bit of population growth, too.
I agree that the ACA needs work, and has some questionable elements. The conflict I have is that I see as so much better than the previous non-system that it's hard to argue about it's crappy parts without someone jumping on the NObama train and killing any chance of discourse.
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I don't like taxes in general but wouldn't a small tax per share (pennies even) pretty much end HFT?
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I don't disagree with you - I just believe there must be some way for someone to "opt out" if they want - but if they do that how do we prevent someone from gaming the system who doesn't have the money to actually pay for what they need? It's not that far fetched to be in a situation where medical expenses can be in the hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. Ultimately we need Medicare for everyone, but until that time (if it ever comes) is it possible to make the current law more palatable for everyone?
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It's disingenuous to suggest it's "not physically addictive", it makes it sound like there's no danger of addiction, yet there is actually a significant portion of the population who when consuming porn regularly do get addicted, just like cigarettes.
What is being described in this article is [regulatory] arbitrage and is not illegal

FTFY
Could one bleed the HFTs by putting out orders in one exchange, waiting for them to buy up the shares elsewhere, and then cancelling the order? Or just waiting for the HFTs to re-sell them at the previous/lower price and buying them afterwards?
But all parts of the city are not the same. The very high crime areas, no where near the downtown, are what skews the stats. Downtown Oakland is no less safe than a lot of other cities. Certain parts of Oakland are a lot less safe than the worst parts of many other cities.

So, do you avoid Oakland or avoid the bad parts of Oakland? I, personally, just avoid the bad parts.
Uninsured person doesn't need a card. Doctors cannot deny treating a sick person in emergency care. Hospitals will however take all your assets away.
Hi kriptonic,

I've got about 5 years on you age-wise. I currently run the Dallas Ruby user group. The biggest two pieces of advice I can give you are:

1) Stop stressing out over finding the next big startup idea. You're young and have plenty of time to find the problems that you can solve in exchange for money. Keep training your eye to find them and explore them. Read the bits about finding out if the market is viable, testing quick-and-dirty prototypes, etc etc. You have plenty of time. If you have a group of people you can ping ideas off of, do so. If not, my email is in my profile and I'm happy to be a confidential idea discusser. If it takes two years to find the next good idea, it should be more motivating and exciting than spending two years writing products nobody wants.

2) Get promoted. It sounds like you have a lot of skills but aren't making enough in your day job. Figure out what it takes, like moving or improving an essential skill or two. Maybe find a different language that pays better and then work on that for 6 months or a year and then switch your day job to that. This will expose you to more industries, which will gain you knowledge of other people's problems in their industries, as well as gain you vacation monies. If you save, you should be able take a year off when you're feeling super confident about your next startup.

I'm also emailing this to you, but I wanted to post here for others too. (Others: feel free to email me... it's in my profile.)
In my experience, more young people in the tech industry prefer crappy weather and lots of clubs/music/dating/party/etc. and living in an urban core, vs. having awesome houses in great weather.

San Francisco vs. South Bay is a perfect microcosm of that choice. (which is ironic since I'm a huge house with a car with no neighbors within line of sight kind of guy)
Oh you can definitely fake block scoping in JavaScript, with ES5. ;P
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Guys, this is serious. .org is for non-profit organizations. .com is for commercial purposes. This is why moot had to beg for donations for years while helplessly watching everyone and their cat monetize "his" "content" on a .com domain.
It's exactly like what the airline industry does. Sees that your shopping around so it raises the prices.
I suggest looking at LinuxFromScratch[0], especially II.5. It's hard to do a "real" cross-platform compiler because your target system might not only be a different architecture but also has different libraries on the system with which the compiler has to work. All in all, doing it right and being able to ship binaries is a lot of work and constant maintenance as your target system, in this case Raspbian, also changes their libraries.

[0] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/
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Do investors find it concerning that the number of inactive accounts appear to be growing exponentially? Are these real users who've stopped using the service, or has Twitter just gotten a lot better at deactivating spam/hacked accounts?
If you are just starting out, do the very basics. Write your HTML and CSS and JavaScript by hand, because you will want to know what your tools are doing, and when its time to switch to a new tool you will know what it's doing, too.

But be aware that most employers will demand, sensibly or not, that you know whatever the latest fashionable toolkit is. Even if you could learn it in 3 days, they'll want you to have already learned it.
Exactly. I was fiddling with non-standard DPIs on my machine and I noticed that Chrome trainwrecks on them, and Firefox looks great.

I get frustrated because all the people who complain about the new Ausrtalis UI seem to want to drag FF back to the oldschool Netscape/IE6-looking thing. I think FF's UI is in a perfect place in the current version - clean, crisp, and compact. My only complaint about current FF is the redundant "bookmark-star" button in the Address bar that I'm constantly accidentally clicking.
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I think it's really stupid to get domain like this, whether the name is trademarked or not. They didn't steal the domain, they just registered it (or bought it) because it was available. 4chan.org has absolutely no right to it. But since .com TLD is not really international, who knows what will happen.
Allowing it is enough, and you could populate it initially by deriving quote from the other books. The CME does it for futures.
Devops is something not included by majority of web dev classes. Yet it is not ignorable in this profession. Do include something on that.
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The top post in this thread did so clearly.
I don't understand how HFT increases liquidity, this Q/A[1] is a start at an answer. My conclusion is that yes HFT probably does increase liquidity at the expense of adding a tax on many of the transactions. Except this tax does nothing else to help the markets except to further feed the beast (profits) of companies running HFT.

So the real question to ask is: does a marginal increase in liquidity outweigh the financial cost? I'd argue that it is a tax on society with no real benefit. I've started to hear about auction's to improve the markets which is interesting and saves us from the millions (billions?) of dollars that HFTs pocket for themselves.

[1] http://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/1658/has-high-frequ...
There are lots of things you are glossing over that complicate this picture quite a bit (like the fact that your broker is almost certainly executing on an HFT platform), but the biggest issue here is that no one can see your order until you place it on the first market.

Once that order hits the market it is public signalling data that should impact the prices on every other market. That some traders are more efficient at responding to that public signalling data than others is not an issue and in fact is a large part of why the markets are as efficient as they are.
Who uses git-rebase before / during / after code reviews? 
we are evaluating the range of github-a-like tools and are hitting a fairly common blindspot - a review will have (in-line) comments and they not only make up useful info for the submitter but also useful organisational knowledge - if the submitter rebases their code as part of review process, those comments can / do get lost / get harder to find / vanish

Anyone got any similar experiences?
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