skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude, do you realize there are areas on earth where inhouse toilet and running potable water are luxuries?

Besides,studies have shown that
a) Financial income above a specific fairly low and professionally attainable threshold does not bring any more happiness (70k a year or so)
b) most happiness peoples experience per achievements are due to achieved intrinsic goals (art, science, learning to play the piano, whatever, becoming ceo if that is what gets ones socks rolling)

If this sort of "I'm missing out" thing is on the forefront of your mind I would call it non-beneficial mental noise. Quit twitter, find a hobby - or get seriously interested on some practical problem that is approachable by you and most of all - is intrinsically interesting to you!

Lots of stuff works using principles and systems that are old - some tens of years, some root back a thousands of years.

The function of media is to grab your attention using hooks that are subliminally, compulsively interesting. Ignore that second by second crap and dig in to the root causes of problems. Most things are pretty well researched already and you can get pretty far by developing a learning path of your own.

And if you don't want to - that's ok too! It's your life - live it the best way you can.

What is common with most of these Elon Musks and what ever you got - they lived their life and what they achieved was due to a unique combination of all the genetics and life circumstances that brought them where they went. You can't replicate those circumstances, but what you can do and should do, is live your life.
You define what is important for yourself.

OP, it sounds like you're choosing to accept other people's versions of reality instead of focusing on what you can do (and add) by sticking to your own values and doing the best you can at what you choose to do.

Nothing that the media reports on will ``matter" in 10 minutes, anyway. Conversely, your family, kids, dog, open source project, whatever, will still be around.
The problem is not "there is not enough mobile home parks", the problem is that people only can afford mobile home parks
Yeah, that's the thing, isn't it? You sink that much investment into a mainframe, you're going to be having better things to do with them than mine bitcoin.

Although, yet another idle thought; maybe IBM themselves have 'tested' a machine, if anyone.

EDIT: typos,grammar.
If Mastering Emacs isn't the right book for your situation, you might consider purchasing a hardcopy of the Emacs Manual:

http://shop.fsf.org/category/books/

As a bonus, you'd be supporting the Free Software Foundation with your purchase.
> ...it has been downloaded more than 500 million times and used to identify some 30 million songs ...

That doesn't sound right. On average one identification for every 16 downloads? I'm guessing that second million should be a billion.
>I wonder about this. In a perfect market system, it's impossible to pay below-subsistence wages, because you can't work if you've starved to death.

Exactly. It's no hard to see how those who praise it so much get to immediately benefit from it by being able to hire people for wages that are ridiculously low and forcing the taxpayer to foot the bill for the rest.
That court decided that some of the surveillance that the government has been doing wasn't actually authorized by the Patriot Act. It didn't decide that no law could ever authorize that kind of surveillance.

One challenge is that there is a great deal of other secret surveillance (beyond the collection of everyone's telephone calling records) that the government has also been doing under the Patriot Act. We still don't know what those programs are, but they may involve the collection of other complete databases about people's activity. Some of the efforts to extend this section of the Patriot Act might actually be inspired by those secret programs, without the proponents saying so (because the proponents don't want to talk about programs that haven't been disclosed).

Congress has a lot of choices about how to respond to the court decision, particularly because it wasn't on constitutional grounds. In this case both the court decision and the expiry of section 215 mean that Congress could protect privacy against secret surveillance, including programs we don't even know about yet, quite a bit by simply doing nothing.
Sure, mortgage on a house isn't good for these people, because they don't have the money for a down payment, or the money to pay for a regular house. Give them the opportunity to purchase a small house on a small plot of land, though, and it could work. Mortgage for a house is about equal to the average rent in many places, and people living in trailer parks usually don't have the problem of not intending to stay very long (like apartment dwelling often do).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

^^ This would ensure that nobody got wealthy from doing this type of thing, ever.

If you don't have a land value tax (or its cousin, property tax), the land value is still taxed, it's just that it's called rent instead. Instead of the stream of income ending up as a social security payment or building a school, it ends up bidding up the price of a Manhattan condo or buying a yacht.
Am I reading this correctly? It says that we need to ban salary bargaining because women are unalterably worse at negotiation.

This means that companies are justified in not hiring women to do negotiation - sales, purchasing and acquisitions.

Social justice is eating itself.
Take a break and focus on your product. Sell directly to other people via cold-calls or networking and prove you have traction to accelerators when people buy your product.

(also: your website is really quite pretty, but I'm still lost in terms of what you "do." I'm glad you "leverage proximity technologies" to connect people, but how is it applicable to my business?)
... to have a positive impact on people's lives? To potentially go into research and contribute to the greater body of human knowledge about how our bodies and minds work? Did I miss an /s tag? For some people, and that includes a lot of people working in disruptive startups, there's more to life than just making a lot of money and living well on an individual level.
Psst! 'Murica isn't the country of truth so they don't like it!
Rather than converting viewbox-style bounds coordinates into translate/scale property values, it's probably better to use the matrix property (which is also part of CSS transforms).

The math is trivial, and the transformation matrix is conceptually much more powerful. You can start out with just the 2D zoom effect shown here, and then add rotation and even 3D transformations later while still using just one matrix.
Thanks for the pointers, it's been a while since I've actually used an IBM mainframe in anger, it's interesting to see what the latest state of things is.
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I do not know much about networking but:

> I don’t really get how, in the case of an HTTP conversation (or flow) which is connectionless, all the packets in the conversation get marked the same.

What do you mean? HTTP is stateless, not connection-less. This is probably related to:

> Although HTTP is a connectionless protocol this change of IP address did seem to freak some services out.

Maybe what you saw is a single request being split into multiple packets taking different routes then different source address from what you said. I have no idea how such setup could work in practice.
I followed this blog for a while and loved it! Strongly recommended for Emacs beginners.

Also, one thing beginners miss is how great it is to use an existing configuration to learn. I've personally used @bodil's config from here[1], it's pretty comprehensive and awesome. If you are a beginner though, you should totally start with @bbatsov's Emacs Prelude[2].

[1] https://github.com/bodil/emacs.d

[2] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude
In a system like that, you would have fewer doctors yes, but the ones you have would be the ones who actually want to BE doctors. In the US you have a huge group who couldn't afford med school but really want to save lives as a doctor. Under that system, they could do it. I'd be entirely ok if everyone in the medical profession was there out of passion instead of for the money.

The jobs you'll have trouble filling are the ones that are shitty but get paid big bucks in the US, like oil field workers. Those guys are there entirely for the nice paycheck.
>And yet, criticisms aside, I don't know if any municipality in the country has figured out a good solution from the regulation side of things. In fact, I'm skeptical if regulation can solve this problem. It feels like greedy slumlords are just going to be greedy slumlords no matter what rules we put into place

A land value tax would eliminate this. It would simply divert the rental streams from the wealthy to the government (who can then reinvest it back into the community instead, unlike the wealthy who will just siphon it off).

Raising property taxes would help, too, which every municipality can do.
It's a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson :)
Not surprising. I once looked into trailer/camper housing to save money... Turns out the combined rent was about 80% the cost of an apartment, with vastly reduced choice of living location. Didn't seem worth it.
Because you're "passionate" about it, and making coffee gets boring.
My reading was '30 million distinct songs', not 30 million identifications
Improving cluster shard re-balancing with Jump consistent
I didn't downvote your post, but I can see why others might feel that it doesn't contribute to the conversation because basically the only possible responses are "Me too" and "You are wrong". Adding the complaint about the downvote would ordinarily get a downvote from me, but I'd already used my vote in search of justice.

Anyway, consider the downvotes editorial feedback and perhaps taking advantage of the opportunity to improve or remove what you have written.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An article from 2014 (that I remember reading). Perhaps that should go in the title here...
I'm posting this as a heads up, my ISP is hit by this, they refuse to pay up and I'm 100% with them on that front, if you get blackmailed by this group as well (or any other) tell them to get lost.
My guess is that trailer parks leverage a loophole in property taxes to make all their money. If property tax rates were matching the normal values paid by other home owners, then owning a trailer park would not be a lucrative venture for so many investors and they would actually have to weigh the negatives of increasing rent.
In a way, we've already "cured" aging. On average, we live a lot longer than many of our ancestors. We can check many diseases and conditions that would normally kill elderly people. The problem is like cancer, in that it's not one thing, but a multitude of things. (And cancer itself is among that multitude!)

Not many people, outside of healthcare workers and AIDS patients know of cytomegalovirus, but most of the population has it. What most people don't know, is that if we could otherwise have a life expectancy of 200 years, many of us would be dying from cytomegalovirus. (Simplified version: it takes up memory slots in our immune system, but at a slow enough rate, we die of other causes before that can happen.)

I suspect that "curing" aging will consist of extending the average lifespan a decade at a time, as we cure dozens of different conditions. Something as complex as a human body is always going to have some unforeseeable epiphenomenal mode of failure, given enough time. We know from thermodynamics and the Halting Problem that everything is bound to break down, and that we won't be able to predict all of the ways it can happen.

(For a given degree of complexity in any turing complete mechanism, maybe an overwhelmingly correct heuristic for the halting problem is a piece of paper with the word "Yes" printed on it.)
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What's with all this reasoning without data? It isn't scientific.

You could do some actual field science and ask a physician in a Nordic country why they chose to go to medical school. Whatever their reasons, the system works for them; there are no reports of doctor shortages in Denmark.
Industrial processes are not necessarily bad. So, too, do many methods exist outside of them that end in a unique product. Know the process and science of your food, and how it relates to the greater system in which you live. The failures and successes of food culture, and its influential place in civilization, can be traced back to our understanding of them and which intentions we have to affect them.
Actual homes depreciate too - it's just the land that may go up in value.
The US already has FHA loans that allow you to buy property with as little as 3.5% down, with the rest paid back over 30 years. They're backed by the government, so it isn't risky for the banks to give out the loans. My interest rate was 3.2%

I remember hearing that before this program was put in, you had to put 50% down on a house with the rest at 9-12% interest paid back over 5 years.

There's also nothing stopping people from pooling money together, investing in an apartment complex, and converting it to condominiums. You'd have to deal with people who don't pay, but I imagine you could get a lender to help you out if you had an entire community ready to pay them back.
They're not taking from the poorest, they're selling to them. People in low income brackets use services and pay for them, just like everyone else in a market economy.

As a society, we need to stop acting like every business that deals with the poor is inherently evil. Sure, such businesses can have unethical practices, but simply charging people for goods or services isn't one of those practices.
I've actually made something very similar myself, as an experiment: a basic baked pasta dish with ground beef, tomato sauce sour cream and so on (lasagna in all but the shape of the pasta, really), with mashed sweet potatoes thrown in.

And it was pretty good! Fundamentally, I don't see why it couldn't have been great in the hands of a better chef.

Besides this sort of experimentation is how you make interesting, unique dishes. It's a lot of fun.
There's no one becoming instantly rich & famous in anything. Behind every overnight success is years of grinding it out getting better at whatever it is that you do. I don't care if you are talking about startups or rap music. It only ever looks like an overnight success because the 5 or 8 years of grinding it out before aren't exciting to talk about. Even people that make it rich quickly on 1 particular startup probably had a bunch of things going before they ever did that 1 startup.

What does that mean for you?

Are you growing every day? You can work hard without growing. Growing is learning, pushing yourself, meeting new people, exposing yourself to new things. If you are doing that on a continuous basis, you will find your way into the "party".
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Wow yes, I think with Redhat 7 you still had to make your own kernel source code, which would generally take the better part of an afternoon. Wow great slashdot reference!
>In most companies currently offering minimum wage, raising wages to $15/hr without changing anything else would wreck the company immediately.

In 2015 and with some data from IRS one could estimate the actual and not just speculative impact of raising the minimum wage. One could know exactly how many jobs will be lost and one does not need to speculate any more. Once one knows the exact impact it's easy to make the decision of exactly what the optimal minimum wage should be.

Also, you seem to be alluding to small enterprises paying minimum wage. I highly doubt that. Small shops can exist only if they are doing something that is highly specialized/technical as the big competitors devour the rest of the general market. As such their employees are highly skilled and don't get paid minimum wage.
Which can be decomposed into not taking the cure by choice (suicide) and being deprived of it forcibly, which can be further decomposed into negligence (accident) or malice (murder).
Price fixing can be indexed. Happens all the time in many countries with many things, like housing and benefits.

Like the thread about trailer parks and poverty elsewhere on HN right now, these are solved problems.

If you don't like the solution because it offends your ideologies, fine, but stop pretending certain solutions can't or won't work. They can and they do.
The things you listed are mostly crap and don't matter.

Find the niche you're really interested in, and intensely follow and get involved with that. It's much more fulfilling than being kept up-to-date with the latest "someone made this controversial remark on twitter" scandal or the IPO of some startup you've never heard of until now.

There's just too much stuff in the world, and you can't know and follow everything in detail. I read a pretty wide variety of news, out of interest, but I have my core areas in which I work which are the real things I'm passionate about.

(also: "Web 2.0" isn't a thing)
Because you want to be a doctor, and use medicine to prolong and improve people's lives?

Do you really value money that much, that it would guide major life decisions (like how you spend your life)?
That's like saying shooting yourself in the head is just an allergic reaction to lead.
That's a pretty misleading statistic there. US unemployment in that time period has tended to increase in spikes on the order of a few months then fall rapidly in most cases but slowly since the 2007 recession. So you'd expect that in any randomly selected state with an unemployment rate over 7% it'll have decreased after one year in 90+% of cases.

If you're willing to be creative you can come up with a statistic that seems to support nearly anything. There are plenty of decent arguments and studies you can use in support of a minimum wage rather than something like this.
would you say the difference quantitative or qualitative?
How can it be 'decentralized' if it runs on a specific domain?

That's just another slashdot, who for all intents and purposes also do not censor anything, and reddit, who censor very very rarely and try to avoid it at all costs.
That was simply a vote to extend the current program by two months:

"That was immediately followed by rejection of a two-month extension to the existing programs. The vote was 45-54, again short of the 60-vote threshold."

I think it's pretty clear the policy was they don't want an extension of the Patriot Act, which I think is a good thing. I also think there is a lot of confusion here, everything I've read about the USA Freedom Act seems pretty sensible and addresses privacy concerns. It completely changes how the NSA could gain access to phone records and bears no resemblance to the blanket powers the Patriot Act allowed.
I hadn't tried Magit before now, but on the suggestion of this blog I'm giving it a look through. Looks good so far. I also enjoy the style the blog is using: anyone know what backend the author is using?
Why on earth would they do that, the depreciation on the machine would be higher than the amount of $ generated that way and that's ignoring the cost of the energy and the facility to host it.

It would make absolutely no sense.
That would imply that it would be even better, from the perspective of "stimulating consumption", to just give suitcases of cash to random bums, who spend it even faster.
I've seen these arguments before, but find them very unconvincing. I've no idea how I'm supposed to comfortably press ctrl with my palm, the issues with 'now hotkeys are in bad places' are resolved by just not having capslock at all (although I don't actually have any difficulty pressing anything either way), and the pinky load/awkwardness just doesn't seem that important to me, I don't think the keyboard is particularly well calibrated to use the pinkys appropriately anyway.

I'm happy for some people to find these things important and type differently, but what is the evidence that it is actively wrong to bind caps-lock as ctrl?

Edit: There are a lot of good points in these pages and I appreciate that the author has made many customisations in pursuit of an ideal layout, and the principle of sharing load between hands equally is a good one. It's just that I'm quite unconvinced that having capslock act as ctrl is a terrible thing, especially compared to many other changes that can be made even on a normal keyboard layout.
So does banning child labour and many other regulations. Not all jobs are created equal and not all jobs are useful or need to exist at all.

And if they so desperately need to exist then whoever so desperately needs them should damn well pay for them.

And if they cannot then by definition of modern economics, that demand does not actually exist and nothing of value is lost.
absolutely, would be fantastic to have watson incorporated into sites like supercook.com - really mindblowing use of computational power for the benefit of humanity.
That really depends on how much you raise the minimum wage by. Small increases have been shown to have pretty negligible effects on unemployment, especially in the short term.
What demographic are you expecting to draw from reddit?
The 14 fold increase in capacity in one generation is incredible. There is still quite a revolution going on in storage. Any bets on whether the next generation will still contain spinning media?
> "..and we put a big focus on privacy"

https:

"This server could not prove that it is frizbee.co"
Font weights, colors, sizes are making this all very hard and unpleasant to read.
Luxury condominiums, organic ice cream stores, cafes that serve soy lattes and chocolate shops that offer samples from Ecuador and Madagascar are rapidly replacing 99-cent stores, bodegas and rent-controlled apartments in the Mission District

It's a minor tragedy to set up the conflict this way. "Largely useless and hedonistic shops replacing stores that actually matter! How long can the city tolerate these too-wealthy, dandy scum?!"

Certainly, if the stores are being replaced, that's a function of property-owners' decisions to change tenants, is it not? Why are we blaming financially-successful technologists for actions taken by greedy land-owners? Don't you think these "gentrifiers" would be happy to pay the same amount that the "natives" have been paying for so long?

The property-owners are extracting as much from the world as they can, because they have a monopoly on the land/property and nobody except maybe the government can argue with them. They were taking as much as they could from you before, and now they're taking as much as they can from the wealthier people moving in. This is capitalism: they've earned their right to set the price for their property by buying it/building it/inheriting it before you did.

What options do we have, if we want this to change? Let's not pit the victims against each other.
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum LP
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