skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is this bad?

Because they have more money that they can spend, while you an other human being is almost starving, and maybe can't access to education or healthcare.

It's not only a matter of billionnaires. We can wonder if it is fair that we (most of us are middle-class of developed countries) live a life of opulence when others are struggling. It strikes me whenever I travel in less developed countries.
Why sympathize with them? They either decided in bad faith that working on an interesting problem was more important to them than acting ethically, or they are saying "I'm just doing my job" also in bad faith. These philosophical decisions are simply malicious relative to the rest of us.

There is also the possibility that they have been deluded by nationalism or propaganda in order to believe that a panopticon is acceptable in a democracy, but there isn't much we can do to help these people connect the dots between the panopticon they are helping to build and Orwellian thoughtcrime-- we simply don't have access to them that we could use to be persuasive, as you mentioned. I think this population of people is actually pretty large among the government contractors.

Finally, though you are correct that NSA employees would probably mention this, for the purposes of agencies operating in the public interest in a democracy, the concept of "insider knowledge" is not permissible. I say this not to suggest that we make all the operations of our clandestine groups transparent, but rather to suggest that the complete ignorance the American public has found itself to be in is a byproduct of intentional grooming along the lines of "national security secrets" which really are intentionally crafted backdoors to the process of informed democracy. The citizens not involved in agency day-to-day have a firm need to know the methods and rationales used, and they need to have direct and powerful oversight.

We don't have any of these things, currently.
This is my worry. Can the 1.2GHz version run IntelliJ and SBT comfortably "for the most part" (I don't really mind if a clean compile takes ~30% longer) or will I wish I'd bought the 13" i7 MBA?

I wish I knew how to find compiler benchmarks for these CPUs. Or even better how it would compare to the i7 3770 in my iMac...
CAs aren't the only possible point of failure.

Simply by obtaining private keys for Google/Facebook/YouTube/Yahoo/Baidu, the NSA can passively decrypt a HUGE percentage of the world's traffic. Any server encrypting for Google will need to have these keys so it's quite difficult to keep all these servers secure, and given the keys' values, the NSA would have no trouble budgeting infiltrating companies to get them.
Why are you judging the TAB members based entirely on their ethnicity and apparent gender?

"80% white guys" - yes, and if you don't know who's gay, who's transgendered, or how these individuals handle conflict, then this observation is kind of irrelevant.

Being racist and sexist isn't going to help an already toxic environment.
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Perhaps you are right about the answer. But It is still another knot on the rope.

The next company expecting me do some obscure online automated coding test will need to pair me with an engineer inside.
Kill the bugs (within the iteration)
The Air's i5/7 CPUs are faster then the new Macbook's Core M.
They'll probably attempt to install the bugged XCode at TextSecure, WhatsApp, etc. That way, people are happily using an app from a well known vendor (not CIA Games Company, Inc.) while still being surveilled.
My same exact thought process. I think the real issue is poverty. Globally, poverty still exists on a mass scale. That is the sad part, not the fact that .01% buy private planes and the bottom 50% in the US buys used Toyotas.

My other question with GDP / income stats that I never see answered is, why is lower income worse? While 50 years ago it seems maximizing personal income was the main career goal, that is definitely not true for a large % of the population today. People are looking for fulfillment, working for non profits, taking time off to travel and choosing lower income jobs that they enjoy more. It is represented as a negative thing that those people are making less money even if they end up happier.
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hyperbole or not, credible threat or not - questioning other humans livelihood is unacceptable in this setting. It's overly aggressive and attacks the person behind the code. I'd rate "you're not worth living" the ultimate insult.
I'd like to see a higher percentage of the work force taking the skills they already have, and seeking the profits themselves instead of sharing them with an employer.

When a person leaves the workforce and becomes an entrepreneur who is instead drawing on the workforce to run their business, then they are benefiting the labor market from both the supply and demand sides.

There's probably a tipping point that when enough people in an economy become entrepreneurs that prices for labor of all kinds rise on their own.
Make up a bunch of different resumes under different names and tweak each one accordingly. See which ones work the best and bait the most recruiters, then work that back into the main resume.

Think of it as a genetic algorithm.
Won't work.

If they can install they will and it will continue until someone starts firing people over it.

If they cannot install, prepare to get scolded when they cannot install fileshare clients, flash games, "codecs", -you name it: they'll install it if there is even the slightest chance it will let them watch something they wouldn't be able to watch without.

I sometimes have an image inside my head what it would be like if chefs would be like office workers in this regard: sharing their knives with friends and family, drag their knives into the garden, use them to poke in the sink, stir the paint etc.
This is all I can think about anymore: http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary...

The scariest thing is that I'm almost certain I'll be buying the new Macbook.
Income inequity is generally a runaway process -- the rich get richer, so to speak. When you have resources and capital, making money isn't that difficult. The problem is that as the gap between classes widens, so do the cultural and societal differences.

The rich have SO much money that they can't even imagine what it's like to be poor. They see the disadvantaged as lazy and deserving of their state. The poor see the wealthy as out of touch at best, and arrogant assholes at worst. When the wealthy are so far removed from the poor, it's more difficult to affect change in governmental policies that benefit the lower class. Those in power and those with money pass laws that benefit the upper class or, more likely, simply don't benefit the poor enough. The cycle continues until a large portion of the country is quite poor, and a tiny fraction is incredibly rich.
The iPhones at least -- haven't purchased an iPod in a long time -- still come with power bricks.
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But is inequality the root issue or is poverty the root issue?

If everyone in the world could afford 1 yacht, but 1% each had 1,000 yachts, that is mass inequality. But would that bother you?
You mean NEMA 10?[0] All I can dig up for NEMA 11 are motors.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#NEMA_10
Banning Tor unwise and infeasible, UK MPs told
Hold Cmd when dragging and dropping to move files (i.e. 'Cut and paste', which is a daft name for it)

If the folder you're moving to isn't readily available just Cmd+N to open a new window, etc.
"The less representative the upper body of a national legislature, the greater the gap between the rich and the poor."

Interestingly enough, one of the failed amendments to the Constitution was have each member of the House of Representatives represent a max of 50,000 citizens. [1] I've wondered whether this would be a good change to our modern system where some representatives have 1m+ constituents.

I mean, how can one person accurately represent the views of so many people?

What a larger house would mean is an increase in the number of political parties as small groups of people could work to have their minority groups represented outside of a major political party.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Am...

EDIT: Here's a site with some information about the idea of increasing the size of the house: http://www.thirty-thousand.org/
Alrich Ames was eventually busted for spending money that the soviets were paying him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames
Increasing inequality, and a decline of the wages of the middle class, are worldwide phenomena that are occurring in most first-world countries. The effects of trends are currently the most extreme in the United States, but I'd be willing to bet that the US just got here first, and others will follow.

I won't pretend that anyone really knows why this is happening (although a few causes seem fairly obvious), but it is clearly a worldwide phenomenon, and looking for causes only in the United States is a bit myopic.
Ask HN: CSS design question
This is a followup (very specific though) to the question I asked a couple of days back:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9162139

Thank you for the helpful answers there. I'm still going through the excellent links in question (and trying to lay my hands on a couple of the books mentioned) but I wonder if you guys could make suggestions for the following situation:

I have a block that can be used in two scenarios:

* list of suck blocks

* individual block placed among others of different kind

What are the best practices for deciding its margin?

Say the block has class `main` and a precending and a following block are respectively classed `preceding` and `following` for the second scenario.

If I set a margin for `main` and for the second scenario, I need `preceding` and `following` to be touching `main`, then should I set negative margin's on preceding and following?

Or another solution is to set margins using immediate sibling selector `.main+.main` and not for `.main`.

I am sure I'm missing things, so what are the possible solutions and what are the best practices here?

I hope by this question, I have also managed to give a solid example of the kind of advice I was seeking in my last question. So if you guys want to re-answer my last question, i.e. resources for CSS Design Patterns, that would be great too! Thank you!
This gave me a really good chuckle.
I miss that interface and community. Even if FriendFeed was still around, though, I wonder if it would be as popular. That group contained the early adopters of internet communication among scientists, a movement that has now grown exponentially. My guess is that the signal would be overwhelmed by noise, or broken down into sub-groups by specialty, which would overwhelm the delightful serendipity of it all.
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I see. Thanks!

Highly unlikely that 129 people in a row respond like that though...

More likely is that someone destroys the USB device in anger, dismantles it, is too shocked to do anything, doesn't interpret the number as a counter, or doesn't want to ruin other people's computer. And, of course, that many people in a row stealing a USB device from a backpack is already unlikely in itself.
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I'm waiting for them to release correlated charts too. It's a good idea and I even offered to help in the area of chart data. But they'll need someone else to offer help in the UI area. That being said, the data at least is amazing.
Winter 2014, it's $6 on Amazon Kindle. http://smile.amazon.com/2600-Magazine-Hacker-Quarterly-2014-... The article is called "Recon on Disney's Magic Band."
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Also a CLI guy but I use Pathfinder, http://www.cocoatech.com/pathfinder/
Nothing to hide, nothing to fear kids :-)
Link broken for me. None of the articles in that blog seem to work, actually.
We just launched Mailburn – iPhone email app that turns GMail into WhatsApp
Third party mice that require their own dongle instead of using bluetooth are just stupid.
If gerrymandering persists, the dysfunction of Congress will also persist, no matter how many members there are. Representatives have no incentives to behave responsibly under the current districting situation.
Hi guys!

Mailburn (http://mailburn.com) is an iPhone email client that shows only conversations with real people and hide all the crap in messages like signatures and quotation. Also we have email tracking built in so you will get a notification when somebody opened and read your message.

This is just our first version and first step in crusade against email. Every other month we will take one completely broken piece of email and reinvent it with new interface, awesome features and business logic. Our goal is to build proper email client step by step and tailor it for the needs of heavy inbox users just like us. We will introduce crazy things like being able to close tasks in JIRA from email notification without opening JIRA itself, or present all newsletters and promotions in a feed with 1-click unsubscribe button for each. Or how about locking your inbox from cold emails so random people without intros don't bother you? Those are just some ideas that we have in our backlog, and we know that all of them are technically possible.

We are a relentless team of 6 people who are bootstrapping with 0 money in our free time, and we don't plan to stop.

It's for iPhone and Gmail only right now, sorry Android guys and IMAP/Exchange users. We can't do everything when all we have are our evenings but we will get there we promise.

Here is link on Product Hunt, we are launching bootstrap way ;)
http://www.producthunt.com/posts/mailburn-3

Would love to hear your feedback!
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Good luck everyone. Will be interesting to see the community try and solve some real problems.
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I just want to say I am way below your skill level, and I mean no disrepect. I see a lot of standalone (especially playing with Haskell binaries, like pandoc). To use one such example, even Pandoc and company are not even self-contained. The problem is I am not sure where other people in Linux communities draw the line. It is not a really serious thing.

Still I applaud you and other Rustaceans. It is nice to see fully formed GUI apps in Rust, because it makes it look to outsiders that news of stabilizing releases means people are really investing building useful tools.
I'd wager that in the US, that would actually be a bigger crime than merely burning out a computer.
Aldrich Ames worked for money - he got over $4 million from the Soviets and betrayed a huge number of Western spies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames
IME, IQ tests (like other standardized tests, SAT's, GRE's etc) are easily gamed. I did a couple practice ones and my score jumped up by 20+ points the second time. Where is the evidence that it measures some hidden factor? Seems to me that (like other standardized tests) it simply measures the subject's level of training and preparation.
Abusive language is still abusive if even used as a figure of speech.
That machine wouldn't be viable if it wasn't for software. The force touch trackpad, which allows the MacBook to be thinner, desperately need the software to make the illusion work.
I know what you're saying, but when I hear people being excited about data stores, I get a little worried. (Being excited about data stores gave us the rise of MongoDB. MySQL tables corrupting because you used MyISAM like a well-intentioned fool is "exciting", too.) I've moved to Postgres for most things because it's not at all exciting for the majority of use cases. It does a thing, does it well, and doesn't break. I honestly can't say the same about MySQL.
What country are you in? When I had some "user serviceable" part on ThinkPad break (in the UK), I had to send it off for a month(!), after spending 45 minutes on the phone trying to convince them to send me the replacement part.
Having moved to OSX at work last August, I tried to approach it as openly as possible, and to learn how to use it the way everyone else in my company uses it. Finder is terrible. Window management is terrible. Installing uBar helped a bit with Window management. I'm going to be working in OSX for a long time, but for file and window management, give me Windows 8.1 any day of the week. Or Windows 10, which is purring along nicely on my six year old Dell laptop.
Agreed. GigaOM was also a terrific source for news about Cloud Computing. Derrick and Barb Darrow had a great podcast as well that covered both topics, The Structure Show. An extremely entertaining and well produced podcast that had some terrific interviews.

Such a shame. Was always a big fan of Om from back when he'd appear on the Cranky Geeks show and loved what he built at GigaOM.
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If they have one spare xen host they can live migrate all guests from one host to the spare, patch the original host, reboot, then live migrate the spare's guests back to the original, and repeat. Patching them all and rebooting them all at once might be quicker though.
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No, it was facetime they were going to make an open standard. And patent trolls killed that. So..
Yes, I know. But most of the time we see ads on bigger screens. The location-based ads have way less location awareness in my experience. I guess, besides the ads from your neighbours (location aware ads), there should be some kind of quicker balance feedback between ad bidding system and what user really pays attention to. Just think about the ads we see in the paper-media-only age, different ads occupied different places. Online ads have not reached that point yet. I wish we could get to that point earlier to make more quality content makers' life easier sooner.
One can recognize that he is not literally calling for someone's death, and still find it unacceptable.
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What do you think her criticism is, that should be taken seriously?

As far as I can tell it boils down to "The kernel people are abusive, Linus in particular is abusive, and this document doesn't change my mind about that".
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If Bill gates acting on is focused on building ~3 ITER style fusion reactors starting in say 2000 and without the overhead of multi-national organizations or all that PHD research he could have a reasonable chance of building a working fusion reactor 30 years before we are likely to.

Granted, Bill has done the world a lot of good, but I suspect that's the kind of project shutupalready was referring to.

Or for a higher risk example a few billion might get you a multi stage scram jet for getting stuff into LEO which could be huge. Or for an organization idea, build an ion drive tugboat for moving satellites around in orbit. Then if it works you take the revenue from that and start building ever more space based infrastructure with the long term goal of getting some people living on other stars.

PS: If you accept huge projects might just flat out fail there are plenty of possibilities. Human level AI?
I thought this was about the continent. What a pretentious title.
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1. We're working on something in this area: http://mysqlserverteam.com/generated-columns-in-mysql-5-7-5/

2. InnoDB has fulltext from MySQL 5.6+

3. I agree utf8mb4 should be renamed "utf8". When this was introduced it was given a new name to support downgrades, but the feature does exist :)

4. RAND() is actually deterministic (via other meta data written to the binlog). In any case, MySQL also supports Row-based replication and it is the proposed default for 5.7.

5. I would like to have this feature too :) It is important to note that few databases have this though.

6. MyISAM is no longer the default. PITR works fine with InnoDB.

7. The logging verbosity can be changed. In MySQL 5.7 there is a new server logging API which makes sure the output format is consistent. For some of the meta data you are suggesting, the better place to retrieve this is performance_schema.

8. You are probably talking about gap locks etc. These are required for statement-based replication, with Row-based they are not required.

10. I would suggest that ARCHIVE engine is of limited use-cases.

11. Please see http://mysqlserverteam.com/the-mysql-5-7-6-milestone-release... (search "innodb native partitioning"). Allowing more arbitrary functions would most likely require global secondary indexes. 5.7.6 contains an important change to move in that direction.

12. GIS support is improved dramatically in 5.7, including InnoDB support. Please take another look :)

14. I agree on this one. Async drives is becoming very important :)

RE: Point #4 in your second list, MySQL 5.6 contains much better configuration out of the box: http://www.tocker.ca/2013/09/10/improving-mysqls-default-con...
Absolutely, I was just giving one example.
They continued to run FriendFeed for 5 years after it was clear the core team was moving on. That is above and beyond the call of duty.

37 Signals has a healthy business with good revenue building only "sane" products. To compare the two is apples to oranges.
Having exceptionally wealthy people in a market puts an upward pricing pressure on goods that have a limited supply. For example, if two very rich people want the same house they can bid for it and one will win. That person who sold the house now has more to spend on their next house, so they pay more in turn, and so on down through the market. In theory that means everyone wins - with the notable exception of a person who is buying their first house. They face higher prices with no external wage stimulus to give them the additional purchasing power to buy. Consequently they're shut out of the market.

Now extrapolate that to all goods. Poor people just can't buy things if there are people at the top end of the market with vastly more wealth than them. If that happens then people start to starve, get sick, or resort to crime more. Society is worse for it. There's little point in being hugely wealthy if you can't leave your lovely secure house without feeling the city you live in is a horrible place.

The concept is called 'private wealth versus common wealth'.
As best i understand it, when Torvalds breaks out the big guns the issue has usually spent some time simmering in the lower tiers of the developer chain. Also the person being chewed out is likely to be someone senior in the kernel community, and so should already know what is expected in terms of code quality and behavior.
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How about explaining your reasoning to give it more credibility?
Going from 1920x1080 (16:9) to 1920x1200 (16:10) is better because you get more vertical estate. But you seem to suggest that 1728x1080 (16:10) is also better. Aspect ratio does not automatically make a resolution better lol.
Yep, thanks, that was it.
I searched the article for "Federal Reserve" and saw no reference to it so I didn't read the rest. It just seems obvious to me that if you give easy credit to one segment of the population, the money will chase up the prices of assets and make those without access to credit more impoverished, relatively speaking.
Am I wrong to be completely stunned at this statement? Did experienced candidates just not participate in the Crypto Challenges and Microcorruption?

I would have expected at least some experienced candidates to drop into that "top tier" of people. What's up with this?