skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is built in to how the world works: They cannot pay middle-of-nowhere-china salaries of $5/day to cleaners and security guards, even though those middle-of-nowhere-china residents are willing to take it because they cannot commute there to do the work (for transportation, legal and other reasons).

If facebook is paying wages that are too low, they will not find employees.

While I definitely agree with the sentiment that jobs should provide a living wage, and I suspect that driving a bus for facebook might not provide that - I think singling out companies that are doing well financially (like Facebook and Google) and asking them to increase pay is hypocritical. If the pay needs to be higher, that should be codified by law.

I would oppose a protest asking Bill Gates (whom I do not particularly like, btw) to pay more at the grocery store for same services as anyone else just because he can, regardless of whether the person at the register is making a living wage or not. And facebook paying drivers more is similar.
It works like a charm on any intel i-series CPU with integrated intel HD graphics and most intel wireless chipsets (excluding the newer AC* versions).

I use it exclusively on servers, and on all laptops/desktops I use for real work. Its a breath of fresh air! No bloat, no evil, gets the job done - Not to mention some lovely features such as Full (no unencrypted boot slice) disk encryption via softraid, a completely unprivileged X server (with KMS supported GPUs), and a brilliant set of simple and solid daemons included in the base system.

The only time I'll switch away is to use linux - The two reasons there being 1) High-end Gaming, 2) Virtualization.
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> No-one misread the docs, the behavior changed.

I write this without a hint of snarkiness or ill will. Please keep this fact in mind as you read on.

If you read the message by Lortie [0] that Ts'o responded to [1] you find that Lortie was specifically talking about the guarantees made by ext4 in regards to rename behavior. In that message Lortie says "[the documentation of ext4 in Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt] says to me "replace by rename is guaranteed safe in modern ext4, under default mount options"." Ts'o opens his message with "It's not _guaranteed_ safe."

I understand that people are frustrated about ext4's default options. In the referenced exchange, neither Lortie nor Ts'o were talking about the merits of the differences between the rename robustness guarantees of ext4 and other filesystems. Lortie was double-checking his understanding of the documentation of the guarantees that ext4 provides with its default options. Ts'o was correcting Lortie's misunderstanding of that documentation.

[0] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg38774.html

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg38778.html
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Thanks! Here's my economic explanation for why people don't understand economics or have intelligent political opinions in general: there's just no incentive to. Understanding economics is hard, and for the individual there's really no penalty for not understanding it. This is why you have otherwise brilliant people who just don't seem to understand basic supply and demand. Not saying this is true in every case, some people just have a different opinion of the tradeoffs involved, e.g. they're willing to accept slower economic growth in exchange for less creative destruction.

My hope is that this becomes less and less true as people become more mobile. Imagine if you could just teleport to a political jurisdiction that is more aligned with your opinions. Suddenly, the penalty for not understanding economics could be very high.
But if Bill Gates wnted to empty the grocery store of other customers before he went shopping you would charge him more.

Facebook don't want Muni buses and Muni uus drivers, they want exclusive buses and that creates extra costs which they need to pay for. Here the extra costs come from exclusivity and split shifts.
Pusher's been around for some years. In fact they were one of the pioneers of "realtime-push-as-a-service".

That said, the space is still relatively new (yes, there is a whole space! http://leanstack.io/realtime-backend-api ). Most developers of realtime apps use their own hosting but are gradually warming up to the cloud.
SEPA wire transfers are actually not processed instantly. Banks are allowed to take up to one working day. Also, there are still numerous banks that charge a fee per transaction.
In a way any Python program is probabilistic.
Slight (http://slight.la) is one way of leaving messages in a location; those running the app receive a notification when new messages are left nearby.
> If Facebook wants to hire cheaper bus drivers, then they should just relocate to a cheaper area, right?

If they couldn't find them, or were unable to do so by laws (e.g. minimum wage), then - yes, they should. And in fact many companies move as a result of regulations or a talent pool that becomes too expensive.

What exactly is your argument? That the drivers are right? (I don't have an opinion) That the fight is legitimate? (Yes, the fight is legitimate, but it is also legitimate for facebook to say "forget it, we'll get someone else to drive our buses". You can only afford to fight if you can afford to lose)
You're right. Other companies are doing the same thing as Apple: prototyping, testing, iterating. Just not at the scale or speed that Apple does it. The media interest in Apple justifies the approach - with the curtains and the smoke and mirrors, other companies don't have to bother with all that. Apple has the scale, diligence and is being held up as the blueprint of how to do things the right way. There's no harm in it being a story about Apple, as long as historians realise that Apple didn't invent or make the only smartphones.

Perhaps for reasons of cost, the prototypes of the phones from non-Apple companies were "re-purposed" e.g. for destructive testing and therefore no longer exist.

edit: perhaps if other companies had the mindset Apple has (no limits, not even scale) then they would have to start introducing smoke and mirrors.
Alan Watts' The Way of Zen[1] is a great, rather iconoclastic, introduction to Zen and one if his best works. Another wonderful read is D.T. Suzuki's Zen and Japanese Culture[2]. And R.H. Blyth's Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics is a jewell of a book.[3]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Way-Zen-Alan-Watts/dp/0375705104#
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Japanese-Culture-Bollingen-Series/...
[3] http://www.amazon.com/Zen-English-Literature-Oriental-Classi...
The OP's point about damage still holds. After implanting the chronic arrays you have to wait about 3 weeks before recording (the area is silent). It is assumed that the responses are normal after that - and it seems so. But we have a lot of results from arrays that have no counterpart from single electrode recordings so we really don't know.

You are basically jamming a pincushion into the cortex. Trauma is inevitable. The denser the array the more the damage (the more mass you are jamming into cortex). You most likely have a perturbed cortex that has recovered from damage.

Is this the same as original intact cortex?
Like others here, there is something magical about Vonnegut. I think jmduke summarized it very welll.

> it's the conflict between his relentless hope for the universe and the brutal cynicism he developed during his time spent in it.

As for the war being a formidable cause for this worldview, I guess so. I was very close to my grandfather, a grizzly WWII veteran, for largely how it impacted him this way (I still walk around repeating the eerie phrase he would repeat during war stories: "They taught us to kill, but never how to turn it off," and how he resented it all). Vonnegut and much later Joseph Heller, I could never put down. My grandfather passed years prior, but I could find his vicious cynicism despair and unwavering humor in their writings I assume time in the army helped solidify.

I was abroad when Vonnegut died. I was studying in the Middle East, and the library at the universiy had a table with a bunch of Vonnegut books one day. I was so happy and I commented to friends how wonderful it was. Then they told me he died last night. I screamed loudly in the library, scaring many people. I went outside and smoked a cigarette, and was in funk the next few days. Like someone else commenting, I slowly stopped reading so I do not run out of his work.

In tribute, speaking of shameless hacks, I would watch Comedy Central re-runs of Dangerfield's Back to School just to see Vonnegut's cameo and here the comedian scream: "D [on a paper you wrote, Kurt, for my English class], SCREW YOU VONNEGUT!"

The idea of someone so influential taking himself so lightly has always been an influence for my "I will make inappropriate comical comments at everything, consequences be damned approach" I cannot even help it anymore.
I think that when people argue against unions, they are usually implicitly arguing against the moral duty of the company to concede to the unions demands, or to allow the union to form (assuming they could legally prevent the union from forming). They are not arguing against the right of the union to try to achieve better wages or conditions, or arguing it is immoral to do so.

It is quite easy to be a principled proponent of free markets, no matter who they benefit in a particular instance. It is quite a stretch to say that anyone who claims to adhere to this principle is really an agent of the capitalists.
> Or we can edit this post to use the url, if you want, and you can add the comment then.

I would be grateful.
"So basically you're saying that if a family has lived in an area for many years (possibly several generations), and are gradually being priced out of the ability to exist and work, they should just move on somewhere else, breaking long established ties with friends and family?"

You do realize you live where you do solely because this has happened in the past, right?

"That's pretty harsh and selfish outlook about the lives and welfare of working families who will never see anywhere near the six figure salaries being earned by FB, Google et al engineers."

I do not consider it a harsh and selfish outlook that people should try to live where they can make ends meet. My parents did it. My great great grandparents did it too.

I did it myself.
People move over time. Some generation in your family moved for exactly this reason. Probably many.

There is literally no way everyone in the world can afford to live in the same area. It is not an viable proposition.

The fact that people before you lived somewhere gives you no more right than the next guy to live there.
"Mindfulness in Plain English" is real and original Zen Buddhism, highly recommended.
Except that "Basic economics" has a series of prerequisites that people like DannyBee are ignoring.

Free Markets are only efficient with perfect information, fluidity, and lots of jobs (Necessary but not sufficient). Labor markets are almost never as fluid or with enough supply to make them efficient in the way people seem to imply.

Misapplying economic theories has led to so much misinformed political thought in the past century I almost wish we stop talking about supply and demand in schools (joking, but only slightly).
If end-to-end is the default, you don't have to be Google or Facebook to play. It's not about the majority, it's about the capability.
It is a statement of fact.

"Low skilled" is, in this case, in comparison to the population, not some objective absolute. In CA, "driving literacy", which is almost sufficient for piloting said steel contraption, is comparable to real literacy, and I suspect is way above numeracy. Would you consider being able to read or do arithmetics anything other than "low skilled"?
Indeed it does.
The startup thing to do when faced with a $5k surplus is to spend $50k on marketing. Remember, you don't want to build a sustainable business, you want to make an exit or die trying.
"It's a common refrain from right wing commentators."

FWIW: I'm as left wing as they come. Really.

I think you mistake my opinion that "folks should move to where they can afford to live" with a lack of empathy. I actually have very strong empathy for folks in this kind of situation (having had family members in it myself!)

I just don't see a viable alternative here that actually works long term.

Also

"When people move they lose the support network of their friends and family and community."

This is complete and utter bullshit in most cases. It's simply rhetoric with no support. Especially in this day and age of easily available instant communication and social media.

(For reference: I have had severely depressed people in my family who i have supported through their depression, so i actually have some experience in this area. )

"In many ways it's just about the worst thing a person can do for their economic future."

Really? You should probably tell this to all the people who don't end up living near their parents after college ...

Seriously though, you do not offer any evidence of this assertion at all, and all available data i've seen points to the opposite. My ex-wife was the first of her many-generation family to leave the area they lived in. First to go to college. Family pushed her very hard to relocate back to the same area after college. But if she had, that would have been the worst thing she could have done for economic future. Instead she moved somewhere with a better job market for her skill set, and saved money.

Meanwhile, other folks in her family who stayed behind where they couldn't afford to, and where good-paying jobs are hard to get, are now having serious trouble making ends meet. Family can only help you so much here.
Anybody know how this compares to anonbox? (https://anonbox.net)

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Anonbox is a service provided by the CCC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club)

Source Code: https://erdgeist.org/gitweb/anonbox
Who doesn't have a lot of flat surfaces in their kitchen?
Some info regarding TRIM, http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/lessons-learned-about-TR...

For the moment, just make sure you leave a slice of the SSD unused. You could also on occasion backup the OpenBSD install, replace it with an empty ext4fs and fstrim it via a livecd, then restore the OpenBSD install.
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Even more distracting than the shadows would be the fixed perspective. Unless you include some form of head tracking, the immersion will never feel real. Unfortunately, it'll limit one person per room.

Classic example of head tracking: http://youtu.be/Jd3-eiid-Uw
rm -rf * is a power tool. Because of its usefulness, you don't remove the blade from a circular saw. You do, however, put a hand-guard on the blade to prevent catastrophic accidents. Note that rm -rf / requires --no-preserve-root to remove / on most (all?) distros.

The shitty performance of atime is shitty performance, rather than a useful attribute of the tool.
Labor markets are inefficient, that's the primary reason the field of "Labor Econoimcs" exists.

However, these inefficiencies do not explain why Facebook bus drivers make so little. Classical economics is sufficient for that.

You cannot simply point to frictions as a get-out-of-jail-free card from classical economics.
And what if the small-person-on-box now blocks the view of the tall person?
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I'm part of the richest 1% of the planet and though from a strictly monetary point of view I could afford a $20k art print it's far out of what I'd consider reasonable. People buying these prints are really, really rich. Maybe not filthy rich, but rich nonetheless.

You should reconsider your value scale...
"The position of the workers here is not new, neither is their argument, but you have never encountered it before?"

Of course I have. It hasn't made actual sense for a very long time, however.

"You seem to be implicitly assuming that the corporation will fight for their position, and that there is nothing wrong with that. When workers do the same suddenly you are left in shock and disgust. Why is that?"

Because the corporation is already competing for talent in the other direction (very much so in fact!), but when it's the workers that need to compete, their answer is to complain that their is competition?

"If Facebook wants to hire cheaper bus drivers, then they should just relocate to a cheaper area, right?"

Sure, this is a viable alternative to me as well.
Companies often do move when it becomes economically infeasible to stay where they are.
In London many nurses and firefighters servicing inner London experience worse problems. Their commutes are up to four hours away causing them to sleep in their cars between shifts. They're basically priced out of the City and it's too expensive to drive home each night.

Sure it'd be easier to suggest they get work closer to home but real life doesn't work out that way.
They certainly can expect that, remember how it was before when nothing worked out of the box?
tl;dr "A few engineers at Yelp and TripAdvisor" want to tell Google what to put on their SERP via law enforcement, because of "Google’s anti-competitive conduct".
That's not entirely true - they forced me to uninstall the app and just use the website on my mobile browser.

Depressingly I am pretty sure it's a better UX than the app was - just without notifications.
I don't understand the relevance. They are not monopolizing muni busses and muni drivers. On the contrary, they are creating more venues (Bill Gates would pay someone to run his own private grocery in this awfully-stretched-and-no-longer-fitting analogy).

They are happy to pay for the extra costs - but not more than they need to. Now, the question is "how much do they need to pay for that" - and historically, this answer is reached by matching supply and demand subject to regulations.

The bus drivers might want to increase the price (by reducing supply - that is, in fact, a union's leverage). Facebook might counter by hiring a different bus company.

If the wage is not livable, they will not find drivers because those drivers need to eat. If the wage is livable and there are willing employees - why should they pay more? "Because they can" is an answer I personally find unacceptable.
The term had been current for a while: Rockafeller Skank by Fatboy Slim was 1998.
Not entirely sure how different it is in the US but I (UK) can send money from my bank account to a friend's one and he/she gets the money in less than 20 seconds.
The only thing sadder would be programming a strong AI or brain-computer interfaces in javascript. Hopefully the disaster will be stopped way before.
Somehow I read "what the users want" as "what location based rating companies wants". From all the faults you can blame on Google+ (real name policy, tighter integration, etc), this is probably the one users are most unconcerned with.
I'm not sure I understand this. If you don't like Google's search results... don't use Google. That's how the free market works.

Personally I have been extremely happy with DuckDuckGo's results recently. I switched my default search on my Mac and iPhone to it, and very rarely have to go back to Google for anything. (Occasionally when searching for extremely recent pages.)

(Though I wish that DuckDuckGo would consider renaming themselves to something less... silly. Not that "Google" is much better, I suppose.)
Google is not a human right, it is a company and should be allowed to do what it wants, without governmental interference.

/European
Ok, done. I hope you copied your text :)
It looks more like Genius.com is behind this. See the link at the bottom of the homepage.
If I build a grocery store with similar net profit, revenue, etc, is it a "startup"? why should your SaaS be?

The term is not well defined, and basically meaningless; but I think a definition that would resonate more closely with most people is "a company whose meta-strategy is to expand like crazy, whose strategy is flexible, and who is not yet an industry pillar".
Well its more difficult than that, there is texture too, and other aspects. And frankly no one is ever going to bother to reproduce accurately the artworks I have on the wall, and it would cost more than the originals to do so.
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At the very bottom: "Yelp Ireland Ltd. ..."
Exactly. This seems pretty desperate.

Besides, many of the companies listed in the footer enjoy significant exposure in the SERPs. For instance, Holiday Check is placed 8 of all domains when it comes to Google Germany SERP visibility (according to SISTRIX), with Trip Advisor coming in at #18.
Looks nice, but the pie chart is really not a good choice. It's not clear at all which choice is the winner when some are close (among other things).
Add an option to change to a bar chart or something else, or change the default please.
Their SSL cert seems to be broken according to Chrome 37.
The first part of this statement sounds like speculation, and the second part sounds a bit like Voodoo logic, no pun intended. There are many factors that will attribute to an employees stock in the company, and I'm not just referring to 'company stock'. Equity is an entrepreneurs best friend, and as such should be treated little different than a savings account (Rarely touched: with exceptions of a rainy day, or if something exists that you REALLY REALLY want/need e.g. a specific Employee) as opposed to monopoly money, where it is spent till the original owner has none of it left. If the company starts to award every employee high yields of equity, it hinders an entrepreneurs ability to leverage the companies assets to possibly position it's longterm stability. This is why there exist so many 'perks and high salaries', and they work... for the most part. However, to imply that these perks and high salaries are falsely impacting an employees investment at a company for long term duration's seems a bit of a stretch without data points, perhaps Hacker News should strike up an Anonymous Poll to find out if such claims are true? I will speculate that for some it is nothing more than 'just another job', but for the right person, it can be the right job. Thus, perhaps the solution isn't necessarily in an excessive amount of equity, or bloated perks, or high salaries; perhaps the true solution is taking the time to find a candidate that isn't necessarily as skilled as they could be, but over compensates by possessing a fervor of desire? If that is indeed the appropriate conclusion; isn't that in other words what Y.Combinator is all about? The ability to find individuals in the most unliklyist of places with a will and a heart to attempt what may just lie out of their reach, helping them grasp what once was only the impossible? It is people like this that attribute towards a companies long term standing, and without them, fulfilling the founders end goal will be much more difficult.
What's the difference between this and say Mailinator [0]?

[0]: http://mailinator.com/
I, too, have been using DDG as much as possible. My own problem is that I get "paranoia" that I'm not getting the most results, so I end up searching both. And all too often end up leaving my browser config'd for Google.

Anyone know of a plug-in to periodically reset my search tool back to DDG?

Also, FWIW you mentioned the free market, but notice that this is a European project, where laws appear (IANAEL) subtly different. The site makes this claim: "European competition laws prohibit companies with a dominant market position from engaging in anti-competitive conduct that excludes competitors from the market (conduct that reduces consumer welfare)."
"understanding fellow human beings (sociology and psychology)" You just defined fiction.
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