skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe HXT uses the default representation of strings as lists of chars, instead of more efficient packed representations. This likely contributes to the excessive memory usage.
that is a very dangerous train of thought. The worst leaders of the past rationalized some of their actions against humanity with reasons like that. Also what you basically say is that all the good work done by people like Bill Gates helping is nonsense. Bold claim.
yes! Speed isn't a barrier, it just runs slower. But people can't consider ridiculously slow algorithms (nor expt/iterate them).

this doesn't address RAM/store limitations though.
Of course it applies. An "illicit affair" is hardly illegal: https://www.google.com/webhp#q=illicit+affair. Any good dictionary will give this to you as a secondary meaning and probably cite that phrase as well.

But if you really want to understand a word, look at its root. The root of "illicit" is the same "lic" as in "license"—and unlicensed reselling is precisely what the story is about.

I'm going to detach this subthread now, to demote it as off-topic without punishing the root comment.
I'm unsure what's more terrifying going forward, Ebola or the fact that at least three users on this Hacker News story--as opposed to a mainstream newspaper's website comment section where bigotry and ignorant patriotism is the order of the day--have seen no issue in declaring their views unanomymously. Much like death tolls go, how many more wanted to have made similar comments but still had a minimum sense to restrain themselves?
These institutions always start with a lie, then the truth comes out.
Haha wow, that is pretty cool. Nice job!
You seem to be only considering the moment of crime and disregarding what happens before and after it. A tool that almost completely removes risk of getting caught and need for alibi will surely be seen as more practical by all except mad and ridiculously dumb people, regardless of how less effective it is.
Agreed. But note that "faults at run-time", even with recovery procedures, can be very costly in some critical systems.
Even with multi-day conferences, we never charged rates that high. That is still charging about ~$7.40/person/day for a 450 person conference.
I don't think this is such a big deal. After massive dilution and water treatment, there won't be any viable particles left to infect anyone from the 5% unvaccinated Belgians. Let's hope I'm right.
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I find that quite a conceited view of mass tourism, borne of the fact that the author has a "fantasy of being a real individual, of living somehow outside and above it all." Sometimes it is fun to be a tourist at a place where there are other tourists around. And I hate that he says tourists are "economically significant but existentially loathsome". If it weren't for tourists, many tourist attractions would be neglected because firstly there would be no point in maintaining them, and secondly, there would be no money to maintain them.
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Background:
I quit college because it was expensive for me. I entered the company with 1 year experience basic programming(C, C#, etc.). They have given me a book ruby "Programming Ruby" and started to work there as a web developer/tech support/call center for 3 years. I was just earning $550/month and as the company and people grow it goes down to $250 due to failed pricing and small clients.

I was still staying there due to clients that used the product. Also the relationship with clients that I have build because we worked on it side by side.

Current Situation:
I have exposed my resume online. I wanted to do remote or relocation overseas.

I'd like to ask what is there regular per hour rate of ruby on rails programmer. And how skill is based on the pricing. I was also hoping if $15-$20/ hour.
We've discussed this before. The key differences are that the first two things take quite a long time to kill you; the second two things are very easy to treat/prevent and we know they tend to improve as infrastructure is added. All four of these problems can be managed with current knowledge, at varying degrees of expense. Our failure to eliminate them or other obvious causes of mortality is largely due to a failure of political will, inadequate capital, or some combination of the two. HIV/AIDS is the best example because we don't have a definite cure, and we let it get much worse than it needed to because originally it was treated as a moral disease.

In contrast, we lack the capability to treat Ebola reliably, and it acts fast enough and powerfully enough that patients can't get meaningfully involved in their own treatment the way many HIV patients did in the early days of that epidemic. Our best strategy against Ebola right now is to just isolate people and hope that it burns itself out. Given the size of the area where it is rampant, this is a highly unreliable strategy.
Fixed in GWT 2.7 builds (already available):

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You're spot on. The East Coast corridors are managed by a separate business unit than the Midwest routes. Differences in managent vision and population circumstances have led to the large gap in quality between the two services. Essentially one management unit sees train service as a 'public duty' and the other management unit sees train service as 'value creation', leading to a service in disrepair with little/no profits and a service with decent quality and sustainable profits, respectively.
Terrorists could have done that years ago with AIDS or Hepatitis C but they never have - it's not obviously an effective propaganda tool and religious terrorists are likely to have hangups about dying in an unclean fashion.
But WHO's standards (2-3 drinks/day) won't make you gain weight if you live a healthy life otherwise (if you didn't, you'll gain that weight anyway, so hard to say if that was the alcohol doing that; sure if you drink 10 pints/night yes, but 2 normal sized drinks...) and that shorter lifespan is doubtful, but that's anecdotal from my side (the statistics WHO uses are not very convincing though; they just note everyone who drinks and has ailments and when they run their matlab algo's over it, they attribute all these which are known to be affected by alcohol to alcohol (ab)use, at least in the ones I read).

Btw. I think the WHO recommends no more than 2(3 for men) drinks per day and no more than 6-7 per week, so that would account for the periods of heavy drinking. You cannot really drink heavy and stay below that.
I don't really care about what they are as long as they are a treat to my family, which they can are if they move out of Africa.

I want a good counter argument to this feeling because it is morally wrong but seems logically sound: between terrorist threatening us at home (they just murdered another british aid worker), ugandas death penalty for homosexuality, out of control ebola in Africa (made a lot worse because these people are too uneducated to trust medical staff, but trust their local community witch) I don't see how we can let these people govern themselves any more.

Like I said I don't want to feel this way, so good logical counter arguments are much appreciated.
Donation pages for Médecins Sans Frontières:

http://www.msf.org.uk/make-a-donation

https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/

Better to cough up cash now...
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The viral factor of ebola is 1.7, but it is also is the place in the world where there is the least amount of medical staff.

In addition it would be a lot easier to ban plane travel out of Africa than it would be to end the ebola outbreak. Both options would prevent ebola getting into India.

In addition I am not that terrified of India - the kind of people who live about the airline are the kind of people who have access to medical resources. I don't want to live in India, but it is not entirely a third-world country, certainly not for the middle-class and above.

Now if it got into the slums of Calcutta we might a bigger problem.
At what age did people who died from smoking, first get infected?
How many years did they live with the infection? Did they have the difficult but still viable option to quit smoking and survive a few more years or even have a full life?

How many people contracted HIV by hugging someone? Or being in the same environment for a prolonged period of time? How many contracted it because of unprotected sex, or perhaps sharing needles? Again, how long did they live with the disease?

How many people did not die from Diarrhoea and Malaria? Do we have medicines for these diseases?

It takes two weeks to die from Ebola from the moment you are infected. You don't have any choice in the matter. It has extremely low survival rates. We have no cure. It infects anyone and everyone. Being infected with Ebola is closer to being the victim of a random shooting than any of the diseases you mentioned.

And finally, in numbers alone, from the original article:
"WHO and Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) both estimate that the number of people infected is doubling roughly every 20 days. This means that in 20 days 6,000 infections would become 12,000 and in 100 days, 6,000 infections would become about 200,000. In 200 days – early April 2015—there would be 6 million infections and in 400 days—roughly Halloween 2015—we would see over 6 billion people infected, nearly as many as the world’s total population."

He does go on to say:
"Unsustainable trends will stop; that rate of new infections will slow down.[3] We will not see the world’s whole population infected with, and more than half of us dead of, Ebola before the end of 2015. It is possible that outbreak may end up largely confined to the three current epidemic countries in West Africa. Other parts of the developing world provide some hopeful signs."

So, there is hope. And it may not be as bad as the whole world being infected, but the possibility is much larger than 60, 25, 6 or 15 million. That too in one year, and not in 14.
I considered the likelihood of getting caught as well. I mentioned that explicitly in the rifle example. It's fairly obvious for the telescope example. For arson, again, I don't know much about how arson tends to be committed, but it seems that a drone is not inherently harder to track than a car, bicycle, or person on foot, given the range, speed, reliability, and conspicuousness of those modes of transportation.
People carrying out assassinations don't exactly care about flight regulations.
Good idea. Thanks. Edit: come to think of it, we can just get rid of "the".
The best way to prevent the log server from being hacked is to use multicast in the logs.

Then you have a few log servers listening for those packets.

Even if the server gets hacked, you will get other ones with the full, correct, log.
It's been on my bucket list a long time; making a demo for one of my 70-80s systems and running it on the actual hardware. Won't be a 2600 (although I have some very old working ones). This kind of things inspires me to get cracking on that.
Actually the US has been amazing in bringing the world together against ISIS: muslim countries fly bombing missions along with the west, France is in, for a moment it even looked like Iran and just possibly Russia would join.
How would you know, unless you booted from read-only media that contained signatures of known-good files?
There is even an egg board.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-egg-police-crack-dow...
Nice, somewhat like Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon's:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon
I think you might have a bug --

return :: a -> State a
get :: State Int
set :: Int -> State Int -- should be Int -> State () surely?
Genuinely not sure if the demo is a joke or not.

I said "hello" it said "DIAL OH OH".

I said "Apple" it said "GET KENT".

WTF?
I actually want to know the answer to this question.

Mostly because I think the odds are remote, yet it happens more often than is reasonable to predict. Thus, I suppose I believe in a sort of synchronicity. I'm not sure if I realized that before.
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Sounds like the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon#Fre...
Not letting others govern themselves has largely been the problem. If my country had been fucked around by foreign empires for several hundred years rather than being the one doing the fucking, I'd probably trust my local witch more than outside doctors too.

Also, the distance between the groups you are treating as some sort of homogeneous lump is 4000 miles, or about the same as Washington State to Northern Japan.
Yeah, I was only a bit curious about the wording of the statement.
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> Mostly because I think the odds are remote, yet it happens more often than is reasonable to predict.

It happens as often as you should be able to predict it. This usually indicates a limited access to relevant data rather than some kind of exotic mechanism.
You feel this way because you think there is a solution to human nature (there isn't) and that your developed country and society have a more admirable morality because their political crimes don't look like blue-collar crimes that directly threaten your safety, they're just white-collar crimes to impoverish, restrain, destabilize and control (at home and abroad.) Often they even work within the legal framework.
To be fair though, 'creating a new business entity' takes all of two hours and 500 dollars.
I found 'Humans need not apply' utterly unconvincing. For instance, the example cited regarding computer-generated music that was supposed to prove that computers could write great music. But the computer-generated music that was featured in the video sounded obviously like computer-generated music, and not something that I would ever listen to.
" If the founder gives away 10% more than they should to the first 10 employees, then that's 10% less that's available for fundraising and future equity grants -- and that might break the company."

This is not how stocks work. Exceptions aside, every previous round gets diluted by the next round where the 10% eventually becomes 1%. Also, not every employee will stay on for 4 years to vest their stock options completely.

You do have the risk to burn through your allocated employee stock option pool if you're too generous (this is the point after which the investors and founders start to dilute their shares).
>loss of control over how they are presented to the customer is a big deal.

As there people presumably wouldn't be customers of Trader Joe's products without this store, I'm still not sure I understand the issue.
Metadata indexing isn't really a filesystem-level problem though, depending what you're trying to do.

An index can be anywhere, and the data you want to keep is somewhat arbitrary - so why not just use a file on the filesystem anyway?

There's also an important difference: metadata indices can be considered disposable in a lot of cases. File data isn't which means the constraints are different: with metadata you want to pack it all into the tiniest, most local part of the disk you can.

With file-data (and the actual filesystem) you want to distribute and replicate that data as widely as possible to minimize the chances that a cluster of failures wipes out important structures.
No specific reason really. I didn't think about it at the time, that's just how I typed it.

Probably because C is a single letter, and thus potentially needs some differentiation from the surrounding sentence, whereas Haskell is an actual word. But no idea really.
If you're a skilled Ruby on Rails programmer, you can get well over $20/hr as a remote contractor. It might take some time to build up to the higher pay rates, but it's certainly doable, and you can probably make decent money along the way as you develop your skills. You could try sites like ODesk and Elance on your own, but you should also consider joining an "offshoring" firm as an employee to learn more about the business and develop your skills.

Caveat: being a successful contractor requires more than good programming skills. You also need to be an effective communicator, find clients, plan and manage projects, etc.
The level itself seems to scroll while I move with the arrow keys. Bug?

Also, given the outcome of the HTML5 Mario[1], I have my doubts this will stay up long. Pretty cool though!

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2796627
Run-time faults would happen even in a static language however, as those aren't just about tag match errors or NPEs. A really heavy-duty (dependant) type system is needed to get rid of resource (out of memory) and arithmetic faults (divide by zero), so those safety critical systems are more likely to be formally verified instead.

Haskell is also completely unsafe when it comes to resource usage, which is why it is not used often in say avionics.
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> users are urged to employ an anti-virus program to wipe iWorm

rm -rf /Library/Application Support/JavaW
rm -rf /Library/LaunchDaemons/whatever
killall -9 com.JavaW

Of course, compromised system, so all bets are off and anything else may be installed. Hope is not a plan, and using an antivirus is only asking for hopeful solutions. I fear for the return of the scareware.

Users are urged to reinstall OS X from scratch and restore only user data from a Time Machine backup from the user setup dialog.
>In the vast majority of cases law enforcement and court actions against domains are justifiable and benefit the internet.

Based on what stats?
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most us states are not those places.
Not the original commenter, but I'd say... Imagine you've been given some VC and you are in the Bay Area and you have to compete for hiring with large established/stable companies, and you only have a year or two of runway to build your product. You're going to pay well for good engineers. So this creates an artificially inflated market for engineering talent that doesn't necessarily translate to other areas or countries that don't have the same injection of VC capital (you could also call this "desperation" or a "labor friendly" market). There are definitely enough engineers here who are willing to take the gamble of salary vs equity to keep the startup companies bootstrapping, but increasingly I've met more people who want salary and stability, and that may be due to the increasing expense of living in this place. So, the spiral continues.
It seems odd to me that you'd have a waste dump path in such a place which didn't have a secondary decontamination step in it. Running the water through UV sterilization would be an obvious move, and incredibly cheap considering the danger.
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So 'Trader Joes' owns 'Joes' as well. I'd better tell the local bar up the road called 'Jumping Joes' that they are infringing on copyright.
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Honestly, I'm not sure that anyone can answer this for you. As a freelance web dev myself, I can barely answer it for myself.

I suggest starting by setting a bare minimum for yourself – the rate you need to charge to survive. Freelancing should probably be about double the rate of full-time employment, as you have a lot of unchargeable (or just plain idle) time, so you have to allow for that.

Then, it's really just a matter of looking around and trying to figure out what other people are earning for similar work. It also helps if you have some idea of the value you're providing for your clients, as your rate should be roughly proportional to that.

For instance, I know one of my main clients charges out (both my time and theirs) at a flat rate of NZ$150/hr, and a bunch of their time is unbilled, so the NZ$80 they pay me is in the "reasonable" zone (especially for pretty solid guarantees of ongoing work). My "survival" base rate would be about NZ$60/hr (NZ$40/hr at the kind of hours I manage to bill wouldn't really provide me a living.)

But like I say, you're in entirely different circumstances to me, so the details don't really translate at all. It's a matter of (for all of us) figuring it out for yourself, really.
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In that case why would it be a sealed court order? Also if sealed court orders are involved and we assume we don't know about all of them, how can you possibly make claims regarding "the vast majority"?
From the link posted above: In Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music Inc, the Supreme Court recognized parody as a potential fair use, even when done for profit.
yes, you can do this but you don't get a refined print and not human or printer friendly, and if you are doing it on paper you waste a lot of sheets (13 to be exact).
You should go read "Double your freelancing" by Brennan Dunn
http://doubleyourfreelancing.com

Also check out his blogs, his book goes exactly through how to figure out all your questions, like how much shouldnyou charge, how to find clients, etc
While you probably won't be charging 100+$/hour at thr beggining you can work your way up to that eventually.
This is one of the most important questions in all the open source world, and yet, instead of one of the big-name writers of the hacker world bringing it to the floor, it comes in the form of a question from someone hoping to earn $15-$20 an hour. It makes me sad.

gdiocarez: First and foremost, thank you for breaking the silence on this.

As for an answer: So, the world is weird. I generally bill $185 an hour as a spot rate. I have fairly little problem finding steady work at $100 or so on a steady basis. I tell you this because I think it's fairly typical for someone living in a major city in the US.

My hope, and I hope everyone's hope, is that the world will generally equalize around this range, or even higher. I have observed again and again that, each time I or a colleague makes a contribution of value, we create a dozen or so opportunities for like contributions.

Unlike the fossil fuel economy that characterized the industrial era, I surmise that the information age is somewhat sustainable as an exponential curve of economic possibility. This is a radical viewpoint I'll warn; many of my (otherwise seemingly reasonable) friends fear that "the music will stop" unexpectedly and that today will be one of "the good old days."

The truth is: nobody that I know knows the answer to your question. Price yourself aggressively and work hard. I can tongue-in-cheekly advise you to try to be lucky. So far, being born in an economic powerhouse (and in an economic, racial, and social position of privilege) has worked for me.
What if the server is using certificate-based authentification ? Does the 'hacker' has to prsent a valid certificate to use shellshock or are there any server-side shell script that might be called during the authentication process ?
I'm using endian firewall (v2.5 community, based on ipcop). I have installed up-to-date bash version, but, you know, you're never sure !
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Productivity is a different metric from safety. It is more reasonable to argue that haskell allows you to write correct code faster than it is to argue that haskell allows you to write "more correct/safe" code.