skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this article and I definitely agree with Toyama's view, however my emotional reaction might be summarized as "Meh, welcome to the party... even though you're a little a late we're glad you showed up"

A lot of the points in the article are of course right in line with many of the arguments that RMS et al have more over the years.

The assertion that 'technologists' (as opposed to concert pianists etc) feel entitled to enact social change is simplistic and misleading. Those who feel entitled in this way are in general just wealthy ego-maniacal control freaks... and in the current age technology is one place where the money is, so that's where they are. That said, there seems to be a bizarre tendency to give 'technologists' a free pass on ideas and actions that are quite obviously negative for free society and human rights.

Of course, powerful monied interests trying to reshape societal for the perpetuation of their own power and ideology is nothing new... meet the new boss, same as the old boss. At least the article does a good job of attacking the false notion the power of technology to transform is unequivocally positive.
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I'm not sure where you get that idea. There may well be individual capitalists who believe that, and certainly in the heat of speculation some individuals act as if that is their belief, but the system itself has no such requirement.
Sure, but the same can be said for organizations that were once hierarchical, but then went flat.
If the FBI has a backdoor to Facebook or Apple encryption, we are less safe
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Windows XP?
Because people compile directly to CIR. See: VB.net, F#, Scala.net, IronPython, IronRuby, etc.
Justified paragraphs are mostly useful for text laid out in columns (i.e. Newspapers and magazines). This way when you are reading the second and subsequent columns, the eye can easily find the start of the line/column.

Most blogs are single column. Justifying the text will create variations in the space between words which makes it harder to read with little benefit other than an overall aesthetic that may or may not be more pleasing to look at as a whole.
"We could also take other data into account, like the user who submitted the article, and generate features indicating things like the karma of the user..."

I'm wondering how helpful could that be in prediction though? Would it actually help if I wish to predict how many upvotes my headline would get, and I add my karma as a feature? I think in fact such features would degrade generalisation performance, as they stand in like placeholders (when training), i.e. high karma users are correlated to higher probability for a "hit story".
I typed "kill me right now" and it didn't work.
Metrification is fine for engineers, but what problem does it solve for people driving cars? Miles are miles everywhere in the United States, and it causes noone confusion. Again, what problem would switching from Fahrenheit to Celsius solve for most people? Rough estimates of outside temperature ranges would have a lower resolution? 100 degrees would be the boiling point of water instead of roughly the temperature of the human body? It would be easier to record measurements when dividing things by 10, but more difficult when dividing by 4 or 8, when in day-to-day life people more commonly divide things into 4 or 8?

Imperial units have the advantage of being human-scale, and consequently they are very useful for when humans want to estimate a quantity. And this is something people want to do all the time.

Europe had the problem of a thousand-plus years of poorly-defined standards that varied from country to country and even within countries. Metrification solved a real commercial problem, and there were so many competing standards that another one didn't really create a problem. This is not a problem the United States has, and metrification proponents always seem to imagine that metrification would be costless.
One reason could be so that you could verify that your information was sent to the IRS with the correct SSN.
> because they're calculating runway and evaluating business-savvy

I would agree that if that's what they're doing that on that slide, then it still does "matter more".
125.1 seconds.

It took me a bit to understand the problem. I'm not sure if it was explained oddly, or if I was just speed reading. Once I figured out the goal, though, I just used patterns to make it work. Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal to the lower right, Diagonal to the lower left.
I'd like to see those graphs redrawn with the outlier who contacted 300 investors removed.
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This says mountains on the importance of good titles.
A bimodal distribution is way more likely. People just do not behave in free of context ways.
Was it because he couldn't tell, or because he didn't want to push on the issue?
On some level there's a tradeoff between individual autonomy and social interdependence, and different cultures fall at different places on the continuum between them.

Clearly the U.S. is at one extreme. But I don't know that one is "better": there are different benefits and costs. In the U.S. people have huge amounts of personal freedom and autonomy, but are more likely to live thousands of miles away from their friends and family, and struggle with loneliness. But there are different costs when you erode individual autonomy.
> Just as important, the company seems to have realized that even great new computing technologies have to attract lots of software developers. Since these people already have lots of work, they tend to dislike learning new systems, even if they are more efficient.

Um... I don't think that description is accurate at all.
>When computers entered rural schools, for instance, guess who held the mouse? Upper-caste boys. Technology wasn’t an intrinsic leveler..

Of course it's not an intrinsic leveler. Who claims that? But wasn't it "technology" that made it possible for the rural school to have a computer at all? That looks like leveling to me - between urban "haves" and rural "have nots". Sure, most of us would want this leveling to happen faster - but over time each kid will get their own mouse (or whatever), and we can move on to concerns about how the brahmin kid's computer is nicer. That's progress.

>It’s a world full of trained engineers — and many college dropouts — who cannot be expected to grasp human dynamics any more than political scientists understand Java code.

What a ridiculous false-equivalency. Engineers live in the world and thus develop some understanding of "human dynamics" whereas non-coders do not get exposure to coding just by living their lives.

>If family dinners and school lunches were painful for you, “disrupting” eating with a venture-capital-backed protein drink like Soylent can seem like liberation.

This is cringe-worthy. Psychologize much?

>Talented chefs don’t believe their sauteeing skills entitle them to reimagine Web browsers, but talented technologists feel entitled to reimagine cooking

Because technologists cook too! Especially anyone who'd create cooking technology! Another false equivalency. Technologists: live in the world, use products, cook, clean, travel, eat, buy, ... whereas non-engineers (for the most part) do not code, or design electronics, etc.

>“If you’re a concert pianist, it doesn’t mean that you have any special knowledge about how to cause social change,” Mr. Toyama told me. “And yet that’s the equivalent of the thinking that many entrepreneurs engage in.”

Really? We're a bunch of idiot savants with Dunning-Kruger? Screw you Toyama.

>But Mr. Toyama disagrees: “Technology — even when it’s equally distributed — isn’t a bridge, but a jack. It widens existing disparities.”

Evidence please? And what if disparities are widened because everyone gets a 50% boost? Don't do it?

I'm the first to agree that handing out a tablet to every kid is no panacea, and that programs where that happens are poorly planned. But naive, poorly executed attempts to introduce technology are hardly evidence of futility. Silver bullets have never tended to be as effective as holistic efforts with measurement and feedback loops. A critique of tech as silver bullet is certainly justified. A critique of it as inherently malignant is not.
I guess then I'm not the only one to think the interpretation of the data in these slides is consistently poor.

e.g. The slide with the correlation scatter plots - who devised the model to draw those trend lines? That's just awful statistics.

e.g.2. The slide that judges the important pages in the deck based on the length of time they're looked at (important? why? why not 'complex' or 'difficult to grok'?)

e.g.3. Observed slide order actually says 'team is never in the middle', but then averages the team to be in the middle of the deck.

Hmmm. What an awful piece of data analysis on potentially interesting data.
Err, you don't need a paid account to write into Support and ask for a feature. I'm not sure why you mentioned that.
Does anybody see how the red lines in the "Strive for Quality, not Quantity" diagrams were generated? Looking at the data I don't get the impression that either one looks like it follows the data. Both lines seem to be as good as the other one in either diagram. I'm no expert but from having so many dots on the left sides and nearly none on the right sides I'd say the data is inconclusive. What do the data analysts say?
It's why I love the Nintendo DS and its successor the 3DS - any game can be paused just by closing the lid! In this low-power mode it can last for many hours, possibly days.
66.8 seconds. I originally thought it was pairings of 3, not pairings of 2. Used the same strategy gambiter used.
I wonder how much of Stripe success is due to their gorgeous UIs and overall design, I hate when people say "Design is nothing, content is what matters..." and I love when companies like Apple and Stripe demolish these stereotypes. Design is AS important as content, great content & features will be unnoticed if they are buried under outdated and unfriendly UI design.
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Much of Stripe's success is due to the usability of their product, so it's not a surprise to see that level of quality in their landing pages.

Wow, Paypal, this is your UI:

http://shots.jotform.com/elton/jotform-10-26-2013-19-19-31.p...
From July 2015 on, Heroku will introduce their new pricing system which forces free apps to sleep at least six hours a day.

With this project you can easily surpass this restriction by using only one paid heroku app for all of your free heroku projects:

Just use one paid dyno that is always up to act as a load balancer. Now you can add as many apps that will be always up, because the same code runs on two identical heroku apps.
Heroku Free Balancer will forward requests in the morning to your first heroku app and in the afternoon to your second heroku app.
> I understand this issue of maintaining motivation under conditions of artificial full employment was a problem under the Soviet system, but I'm not sure it is necessarily a problem in a post-scarcity economy.

Post-scarcity economy is a contradiction in terms, and if post-scarcity conditions existed, one wouldn't have any need to worry about economy -- which is, after all, nothing but the system by which scarce resources are allocated.

But we're not really discussing post-scarcity conditions, we're talking about managing conditions where the rewards from production are increasingly concentrated in the holders of capital and the returns to labor are mostly extremely low with a (proportionally) very small set of high-value labor positions available.
Why isn't dmesg (combined with syslog to catch messages from daemon startup) enough? I've dramatically increased the size of the kernel ring buffer (so it -in practice- doesn't evict any message) and done ...something... -I can't remember what- to push early dmesg output into syslog.
It is a problem in US. Simply too much inertia and lack of political will to move this forward. Uniformity with other countries helps too. Why do you think military gets it better than others?

0-100 for freezing and boiling points is way simpler to use, especially when 0 is a border for significant change in environmental conditions when temperature goes in either direction from it. Most common temperatures will be two digits.
HP has had a strong recent history of strongly preferring to launch products made by other companies originally resulting in lagging pretty far behind and failing to become a market leader in any higher margin business with actually realized growth. Internally developed products from R&D got far, far less backing compared to a salesforce of hundreds to thousands pushing acquisition products like Fortify and Autonomy or 3PAR and webOS based tablets on the hardware side.

I'm not sure if you meant to make a pun, but HP literally had a project called Project Moonshot for a while that was a bet on the rise of microservers. It was also highly coupled with HP's bet on OpenStack taking mass control over internal datacenters of the Fortune 500. I, myself, kind of bet fairly hard on Openstack but after seeing the rather slow progress of adoption for it after the better part of a decade of its existence in some form, I'm thinking that people will start pulling out just from lack of progress.
there is nothing wrong with py3. some people just want to be ornery.
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Nix wiki lists some: https://nixos.org/wiki/Haskell#Other_resources.
Don't say that... why would Apple change the underlyings of OS X? Blasphemy :(
Thanks for those links but they mentioned their codebase is full of legacy code.

I talked about what they use on their PHP stacks and they mentioned they don't use any frameworks at all. They use AngularJS for their front-end but on the PHP side they use pure PHP and no frameworks at all.
Well, to be honest I didn't. I just started dedicating my time and efforts only for a few select people that are worth it. Otherwise social interaction can be too tiring and even lead to depression. Empty conversations, not loneliness, are what I hate the most.
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The four outliers on the two y-axises could be excluded as well.
Absolutely days, I close mine and reopen it a week or so later. I never actually turn it off.
I don't think it's a mistake at all to prefer to run GNU/Linux on a OS X or Windows environment.

If they have trouble helping you just because you run a different OS then they don't sound like they're skilled enough to begin with.

And it's probably them who can't adapt rather than you.
I believe the likelihood that we're going to see $50 / 8gb type prices from carbon nanotube RAM in the next five years, on the shelf at Best Buy, is zero. I don't believe they're (the companies that license it) going to be able to manufacture millions of high capacity units (multi-gb) at competitive cost, because they're not going to be able to produce it cheaply any time soon.

This is just another in a very long list of proclaimed traditional RAM killers that has been touted, only to come up empty on price or performance. In this case, it's going to be price and capacity. In my opinion this product will turn out to be far more difficult to manufacture at volume than what they're admitting. Five years from now, you still won't be able to buy it at scale for a competitive price.

For them to enable the manufacturing of billions of units of a carbon nanotube product, would practically make them wizards of chemistry. Nowhere on earth are carbon nanotubes being manufactured like that, and there's a good reason for why that is.
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I've been a huge fan of toaster ovens for as long as I've been heating up food and just can't seem to find one that does what it needs to do well. It toasts too slow or it's the wrong size or heats unevenly. Seems like a simple problem to fix but I've been through 5 different ones over the last decade+ with mostly lame results.

As such, this is _very_ appealing to me. I haven't owned a microwave in several years so the ability to reheat something while I'm somewhere else in the house is fantastic. A little pricey for me (not saying anything about the value, just a lot to spend) but I might just go for it.
Ok I had a total brain-fart there.. I didn't realize that you were responding about the cputhrottle command. Whoops
No, it worked - you were just paused along with it. (It times out automatically if there is no user input.)
Reminds me of Bokononism a bit.
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Been pondering how Pidgin would be to use if it had a IRC like interface. Your contacts down one side, and tabs for each conversation.
Zenefits just released a response: http://blog.zenefits.com/adp/
Serious question: If they have fully functional native apps why do they need a fully responsive mobile web client?
Focusing illusion states "Nothing In Life Is As Important As You Think It Is, While You Are Thinking About It"

I think the Placebo button addresses this, as this is a cause of significant stress in our lives.
UBI is absolutely a kind of socialism; it may embrace the same kind of 'capitalism' we have now, only in that what we have now and sometimes call 'capitalism' is a system which blends many elements of socialism with some structures of capitalism in an attempt to address the kind of problems with capitalism that were the center of the critique by the socialists who named "capitalism" as a thing while at the same time maintaining the desirable features of capitalism, e.g., reward mechanism and incentives. UBI builds on that to, to be sure, but it certainly reflects an idea of common ownership of some commons on which rents are collected (and, if its going to work at all in an increasingly capital-intensive and less-labor-dependent economy, those "commons" are going to include a share of superficially privately-held capital -- i.e., the means of production -- so its pretty hard not to see the direct connection with socialism.)
I agree, KVM on Linux is amazing and there's nothing that comes even close with performance IMHO.

However, my problem is that I'm stuck with Windows 7 at work, so I have to use something like VirtualBox to run Arch on it.

I'll try getting one of those SATA-over-USB converters and I'll get my SSD to the office, hopefully they'll allow me to boot over USB so I can run Arch and bypass Windows completely.
It should tweet it and some identifying characteristics that way the NSA can simply use their Twitter integration to locate and destroy the target. No need to make this complicated.
Correct.

Pound -> Newton
Slug[1] -> Gram

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_%28mass%29
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But many blogs will place advertisements or other elements to the right of the main content. Would an aligned border improve the readability of the ads leading to higher conversion when text is justified?

Alternately, you may get lower conversion as the aligned text creates a "stop here" signal that makes the reader less likely to wander into the ad space. Should be worth A-B testing.
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Accurate snapshot of the internet state in Cuba, well written from a american point of view.

As the cofounder of one of the most popular cuban websites, revolico.com, I'm suffering this since 2007. We launch revolico on December '07, on march '08 the government blocked our IPs, then when we circumvent this censorship, they made a DNS spoofing nationwide.

Nevertheless revolico is still the #1 classifieds ads site of the island, way ahead of the government offering, our users are doing a lot of crazy and creative stuff to get acces to the site.

So Cuba, besides having an internet penetration of less than 5%, strongly censor the link, which is even sadder. I predict that access will increase in the near/medium term, but unfortunately proportionally with the censorship.
That is probably 90% of the reason I stopped playing multiplayer games. Which sucks because the number of single player games I want to play is, I feel, getting smaller over the years. There was a day when first person shooters, no matter how good the multiplayer was, had a single player campaign as well. There was a day (even when processors were absolute shit) when you could add bots into the game and they would play like humans with personalities.

Hell, even the single player games are getting to be unpausable. How many cut scenes are there in GTAV? And if other duties are at hand, the only option is to skip the story line so you can pause.
I'm not sure that entirely makes sense. This presupposes that your name and salary information is somehow less sensitive information than your SSN, and ignores the fact that essentially the entire point of the form existing at all is to document the statement "Please match SSN [X] with income [Y]" and removing one of those two pieces of data defeats that purpose.
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Not once did I pick the 128kbps compression. I don't claim to be able to hear the difference between an uncompressed file or 300/320kbps mp3, but I picked the uncompressed version 5 of 6 times. More likely through luck than hearing ability.

I tend to get my music v0 or v2 compressed. For archival purposes (and to re-encode for mobile devices where space is a larger issue than quality of sound) I might get it in flac quality.

For most music genres 196kbps will suffice. I'm not a snob over quality until it gets to 128kbps (or heaven forbid, more compressed).
And when he creates his 9th account and proceeds to use the n-word to insult people he feels are intellectually inferior to him - that one will be hellbanned as well, and rightly so in my opinion.

The guy learned how to write compilers and operating systems, surely he is capable of learning to stop using that term - at least on this forum.
In section "Interfaces"

impl Interfaces {
fn my_method(a: isize) -> isize {
return a;
}
}

It isn't implementation of trait. It specify default implementation of trait.

It must be:

trait Interfaces {
fn my_method(a: isize) -> isize;
}

struct Impl;

impl Interfaces for Impl {
fn my_method(a: isize) -> isize {
return a;
}
}

In section "Enums", you can apply default implementation of equality trait:

#[derive(PartialEq, Eq)]
enum BasicEnum {
Option1 = 1,
Option2
}

and compare

if e1 == BasicEnum::Option1 {
e1 = BasicEnum::Option2
}

In section "Parameters", you said "All three languages default to pass-by-value if not otherwise specified". For privitive types it's true, but it's not. Classes in Java have reference semantic (copy only address in method). Structs in Rust have move semantic witch is connacted with ownership concept (https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ownership.html).

In common, many basic things for Rust have very good descriptions in Rust Book (https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/). Please, pay attension on it and be more careful.
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"By default, hitch has an overhead of ~200KB per connection"

Ouch. This default means 16GB only lets you handle 80k connections. I would hardly call this "scalable". In 2015 you find blog posts left and right showing you how to reach 1 million connections on a single machine with language X or tool Y or framework Z. Maybe the developers should change this default.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3028741