skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'm arguing about a better society - one with less crime, better social mobility, etc."

Those countries have less crime because they are very strict on immigration. Many people come to the US and instead of creating a new life and a new culture, keep the broken culture from the county they left, and in many cases, means an increase in crime.

It's also easier to maintain because those countries have as many people as a large city in the US..so the comparison isn't really fair.

"It goes to pay for the huge amount of infrastructure that you used while amassing your fortune (court system, transporation system, an educated healthy population to draw employees from, etc.)."

Those are already paid through many other taxes, so this isn't really a valid reason. Most people that are wealthy already paid many more in taxes than they will ever use. Where did all that money go?

"You view taxation as theft. I view people who use infrastructure and then don't want to contribute back as welchers."

I view an estate tax as theft, not taxes in general. Stop putting words in my mouth to fit your agenda. Let me guess: You are in your early-mid 20s and don't have a lot of wealth?

I run 2 very successful businesses and pay way more money in taxes than most people make in a year...and will continue to pay more in taxes than I will ever take from the system.

We also don't really have any government accountability. If we could actually track where our money was going, there might not be all of this need to take more.

"better social mobility"

How do you think we achieve social mobility? One of the best ways is to start a company. You don't even need an education. In the US, you can pay less than $50 in most states to make your company official..or even just run it under your own name as a sole-proprietorship.

In all of the countries you mention, there is virtually no social mobility and pretty much the only place to get a job is either at a large corporation or for the government.

And lastly, I just don't trust the government to manage my tax money that well.
I brought this up on Twitter, but I think the term "shard" referring to a partitioned database originated from Ultima Online.

The game's fiction included reference to shards of a wizard's crystal that created duplicate worlds -- a convenient explanation within that universe for the need to run multiple, duplicate servers with different users on them.

https://twitter.com/amontalenti/status/615116231092371456
Just a data point, I became an investor just this year and I'm up 35%. If you're still whining instead of acting then nobody can help you but you.
I would think that too, except for all the comments that are so financially ignorant. Unless the shortsellers have misread the HN audience and think that they don't understand these things.
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Extensive experience with Juniper security, routing and switching network devices
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Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, peering and network security
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Own the global network infrastructure
Design, maintain and scale the network to handle billions of low latency requests and petabytes of data transfer
Configure and deploy network devices to global data centers
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Monitoring and troubleshoot network devices
Interface with with carriers and hardware vendors
Design, implement and document network best practices
Automate network configuration (SDN experience with Ansible is a plus)
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Windows with C++ – Windows Runtime Components
Poverty line for each household is $11770 + $4160 per person. Average persons per household is 2.58. So the average cost per household would be $18343.

There are 318.9 million people in the US. Divide by persons per household yields 123.6 million households.

Multiply the two: $2.267 trillion.

Of course, if this is how the math ends up going, there would be a huge incentive ($7610) for two persons to remain "individual households".
As someone that has allergic rhinitis, dyshydrotic excema and allergic asthma, I would welcome a scanner that could tell me which allergens are present in my home and on my skin.
Hi, kabouseng. Right now, I'm the only engineer working on this.

I mentioned this in a comment on the blog post, but the main reason I was able to put this together by myself and do it relatively quickly was that I was able to leverage pre-existing Azure Search infrastructure.

We have great tools for monitoring clusters, a proven queue-based job process and a good deployment workflow. Not only does it make it easy to set up systems like this, but it also allows us to smoothly and efficiently manage an ever-increasing number of customer services. It's been a good investment for us.
I feel like a lot of establishments in New York probably run on the same basic principle.
For example, adopted black children have higher IQs when raised by white parents, most of the difference between black and white kids goes away in that case.

I've only heard of the famous one[1] and the difference didn't go away. Upbringing had no significant influence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption...
Nature?

(I suppose you could argue that the ability to get to said nature is often dependent on roads and other transit networks...)
> Hmm, I had thought the upside of freelancing was to make more money, at the expense of doing all the stuff listed here.

No, absolutely not. You won't make more money.

You'll only make more money if you bring other people into the picture, but at that point, you're not a freelancer ... you're an agency.

You have the freedom to work how you want, on what you want, when you want, with who you want, and how much you want. You'll never have that at a job.
I clicked the link to see RMS's opinion, and got this:

http://b.pagekite.me/blog/2015-06-15_Community_License_Feedb...

>>>

Temporarily Unavailable

The website http://b.pagekite.me/ is unreachable at the moment. Possible explanations:

The computer may have been turned off

The computer may be disconnected from the Internet

The PageKite program may not be running

Please try again later.

What kind of site is this?

This website connects to the World Wide Web using PageKite, a Free Software solution for
exposing "localhost" servers to the public Web.

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Not a good show of PageKite's value.
Ask HN: What's the best book you read on sales
Just curious if you suggest any book on sales and pitching
Three things:

1. Startup Culture is "meme"-able (see https://archive.is/UZ5Wp)

2. Political Correctness trolls / beta male white knights (the jackals)

3. The normal deficiencies that come with any karma based system, "circle jerk".

That said, I get away with truths here that'd never fly on reddit. Ranked by freedom of thought (Worst -> Best):

DevShed Forums -> StackOverflow (Unconstructive) -> Reddit (Paoist) -> Reddit (Pre-Pao) -> HN -> /g/

/g/'s huge benefit is anonymity and karma-less system. You get used to ignoring the cruft. The problem is it's the ultimate extreme end of the spectrum.
Three things:

1. Startup Culture is "meme"-able (see https://archive.is/UZ5Wp)

2. Political Correctness trolls

3. The normal deficiencies that come with any karma based system, "circle jerk".

That said, I get away with truths here that'd never fly on reddit. Ranked by freedom of thought (Worst -> Best):

DevShed Forums -> StackOverflow (Unconstructive) -> Reddit (Paoist) -> Reddit (Pre-Pao) -> HN -> 4chan
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Quite. I wouldn't call people "lazy" if they've fallen in a benefit trap. The benefits have been created with good intentions, but they have paved a road.
... because nobody lives there.
Man this is a horrible article. I get that people think 'vote' -> 'elect' done cycle but they really haven't thought it through and they have no idea how things really work.

You don't just get 378,000 people to vote for you because you want to serve. Why should they? They don't even know you and they sure as heck can't evaluate your abilities.

As someone who decided to ask this question "for real" I can tell you the process is straight forward, but time consuming.

Step one, run for city council or county supervisor. If you can't convince a few hundred people to vote for you then you won't ever be able to convince thousands to do so. And then serve your 1 - 2 years and get a feel for what it takes to get things done. If you can't get anything done, or you can't resist taking bribes, you should just decide it isn't for you.

But if you do survive, and you find that you can get energized by making a difference then take on something a bit more controversial and make it happen. Get a polluter sanctioned, right some long standing wrong, or just champion some better ordinances that makes peoples lives better. Bottom line start making a difference that people can see.

Do that enough (and it is not apparently a very high bar to jump over) and then folks will start to come to you. Once you are starting to be effective and people try to play you or coerce you into supporting their agendas, you will get to see how well you are at dodging the slimier side of politics.

If you pass that test, you now have a whole city or county that knows what you can do and what you stand for. You can try running for state representative or congress (depending on how spread out your county is) Anna Eshoo for example, my representative for a while jumped right from County Supervisor into Congress.

All told its a 3 - 5 year process before you "graduate". And no, if you just stick your name on the ballot (which you can do) you will probably not get elected.
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> how does one find good subcontractors or outsource work properly.

If you do that, you're not a freelancer ... you're an agency. Different conversation.
Why autonomous and self-driving cars are not the same
smallest OS possible is no OS , second best which I use is tianon/true image from docker registry, 125 bytes, with my compiled golang app as binary image size under 5 mb, https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/tianon/true/

reference
https://github.com/senthilnayagam/godockersample

edit: added a implementation link
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Your index wouldn't be clustered, is it? For a regular index, insert is O(log n). For a clustered index, insert is O(n).

You can also bulk insert records, rather than 1 at a time.

We have 2k operations per second on our aws rds.
Okay, just so we're clear here, you're no longer claiming that Ulbricht was indicted with a charge of "murder-for-hire" or conspiring to hire a murder in USA v. Ulbricht, Case No. 1:14-cr-00068-KBF New York Southern District Court. Is that correct?

>It is literally the opposite of what you've been claiming it is.

I'm going to borrow a quote from you here:

>Read the actual indictment. It's staggering to me how people can be so firmly convicted of things about this case that are refuted by even a casual reading of the primary sources. Come on.

Indeed. Come on. You're mistaken. Stop digging. I hope this saves you further embarrassment. No need to thank me now. Good day.

>It was ventured by the prosecution as a formal piece of the case. The prosecution actually staked part of their case on it being true.

Sounds like a good argument for re-sentencing or maybe even a new trial; and also a good argument for prosecutors not to try to include such shabby evidence in their cases lest they risk an otherwise strong case.
> Besides that, asking any government to take money from the people, run it through the giant bureaucracy machine, and magically produce a net benefit to the people is both logically impossible and naturally never going to happen.

So apparently the federal highway system isn't a net benefit? How about the internet?

Also in more direct terms, the government "magically" made profits by bailing out AIG, GM, and so on -- so we got taxpayer money (or printed money, doesn't matter) being used to create (a) more money than was used, and (b) the net benefit of not having the economy implode together with the more arguable net benefit of (c) GM staying in business.

As an aside: a friend of mine used to work as a transport economist, trying to figure out the net benefit of government projects. (This was in Australia, but Australian politics is every bit as borked and corrupt as American.) Typically the cut-off point for a government road project was a societal benefit / cost ratio of 20/1.

The thing about corporations -- they raid the societal common (the benefits of public education, civil order, roads, etc.) and make profits "themselves".
Interesting totals. I had 4 No's and would have had at least 5 had I considered negative digits.
There is still big amount of specialized software and things like tuned kernels, enhanced networking and so on in such OSes.

For example CoreOS comes with lots of tools helping to orchestrate and manage those clusters.
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Ask HN: Career crossroads
HN,

I'm faced with my first major career move, and I need some unbiased advice.

I have two options:

1) be a leader (but non-exec) in a very sexy (very early) B2B startup run by high-caliber people in an industry I love, working with people who share my philosophy and principles. Decent equity (but high likelihood of dilution because it's quite a capital-intensive business), solid pay raise and significant responsibility increase relative to my current position.

2) be an exec (make two jumps in title), nearly double my salary, and get a solid amount of equity at a non-sexy but already established company that is a former leader in its industry but has grown more slowly lately bc of poor execution the last few years. I have worked with the recently-hired (new) exec team in the past and I trust them, but our philosophies are different, and I know I'll bear additional stress (I know I'll be stressed anywhere) related to our deep-seated disagreements. All that said, because they trust me, I'll have instant credibility on the exec team and with their (very well-known) investors.

What's your advice?
I built a content pipeline and CMS on top of flat files (json) and mercurial.

You can get repository level transactions by committing on each consistent state (squashing before push) this lets you do undo/redo and recover from failed operations easily - databases sort of give you this - but only for the stuff they actually contain (so unless you're putting your asset files in to the DB you don't get this).
Because removing a single editor-in-chief is much more damaging to the publisher than removing a single author?
> assuming they are producing with increasing marginal costs, which is generally true

The norm is marginal production costs decreasing with scale. The usual exception to it is when those costs stay constant.

Unitary costs increasing with scale isn't unheard of, but it's also not common in any way.
Then the third order effect is that it becomes more profitable to supply housing, and rents come back down.
Facebook wants to build a $1B data center facility
If you haven't read this[1] I think you might enjoy it. It covers the ideas you are talking about. I think it was featured on HN some time back.

[1] http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Yes I did, though not to 28 places as tptacek had done. With 2 to 4 place floats, including negatives, the test worked as expected.

Like others here have said it wasn't a particularly hard "rule" to figure out. Easy to immediately rule out geometric relationship as in 2^y, which didn't leave a whole lot of possibilities to test. For the commenters here, I'd attribute ease of finding the solution to familiarity with the kinds of problems that programming presents.

Which leads to the idea there's value in learning even the rudiments of programming. Logically, it should encourage better problem-solving skills in general. We might think there this has important implications for our educational systems. But I know, that's probably not realistic at all.
America will be about the last place to attempt this, if the past (and our current welfare) are any guide.

It's an interesting concept. My immediate reaction is that it creates disincentives to work. In theory it does, but the only data we have is those who are currently on welfare and do not work -- but maybe those people were basically not going to work anyway! We have no competing group of people who are on welfare yet still CHOOSE to work to better their lives, because as soon as someone gets a job, no more benefits! So it's natural that an outsize chunk of people on public assistance don't work -- and the ones who stay on the longest, of course, don't WANT to work. But it undercounts those who go on the system then back out of it as they get work.

Other things that seem "obvious" to result: inflation. If everyone can afford $x for housing, why should housing costs not go up by a similar amount? The same way 2 incomes is now "normal", and the same way giving tax deductions on mortgage interest to make housing "more affordable" means, now that everyone can afford more housing, housing is bid up.

I don't know, but it's a fascinating experiment, anyone who is not paying for it should be in favor of this experiment -- unless you just hate poor people.
I don't know what I was thinking, but I read 'In the Court of the Crimson King' and thought that was probably both really cool and maybe not the best thing ever. As it is, I think it's just the former. :)
Mondain, the wizard!
But Caro isn't reproducing the image, merely hosting it

A private backup service would be mere hosting. If Caro sends the image to third-parties, it's reproduction. Now, in the US, the DMCA law grants Caro a safe harbour, which is to say, a pardon for the infringement if Caro takes it down rapidly after being notified. But it's still an infringement.

Ben is also infringing, of course, assuming he knew the image was to be shared by Caro.
Don't be hard on them, I made a lot of money off Tesla short sellers :-)
What about performing your own version of a copyrighted song publicly? Reciting a copyrighted book in a theater performance? That's not allowed almost everywhere in the world and is still not appearing in exact form anywhere else.
The goal seems to be to reach an agreement, not to get embroiled forever. First, show your teeth. Biting can come later.

Also, that biting would be costly, especially for less established scientists. Not publishing in high-ranking journals can be bad for a career.
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I really can't tell what you're trying to argue here. Ulbricht was indeed indicted for conspiring to hire a murder, in the case in which he was convicted; he was convicted of conspiring to hire a murder, among other things. The defense failed to rebut the alleged facts.
I think this web site is a non-original content. I remember reading the exact same sequence of photos in English a few months ago. I think some Western journalist/enthusiast managed to get the access to this hangar and he posted the original story. These guys just picked up the content and re-posted it. Notice copyright on the pictures to Ralph Mirebs. Maybe he was there with his Marine friend?
2 come to mind,

Sales Autopsy

Never Eat Alone
What's the term for "compared to last quarter"?
Fully agreed about rants in general. But I also agree with the commenters pointing out that complying with a lawsuit settlement is really not the same thing as a donation. That, plus that the story is significant, is why we haven't penalized this article the way we normally would. I'd be happy to swap it out for a more substantive, less ranty article, if one exists.
Not so.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MonotoneIncreasing.html
It's sad that this process hasn't started earlier. It's a farce that publishers got to erect a walled garden around tax funded research without adding anything of value.

That being said, EU CS academia is a cess pool where more often than not it matters more who you know than what your actual research is. I partially blame the funding agencies for attaching unrealistic publication metrics to grants (publish or perish). On the other hand i had high ranking university staff tell me "they love how they can just burn €6M in 2 year EU project with zero outcome without consequences". Reviewers of such projects only need to have the right political color and zero domain knowledge.

It's sad really and i'm happy i don't have to work in such an environment amnymore.
It's getting downvoted because it's unnecessarily inflammatory, and ignorant of common practices with many other companies, both for companies that are well-established and for companies that bringing forth strategic emerging technologies.
Why would he not rate his own app 5 stars? Same reason every presidential candidate ever says they are going to win the election. It makes no sense to say otherwise.
Autonomous cars will no doubt become more common in the next few years. But for self-driving cars to become the norm, a lot of industries will have to be completely changed.

And with the way lobbying works nowadays in the US, I doubt we'll see any changes anytime soon.
Risk may be overstated: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/02/wikipedia_jumps_on_b...
One thing you might be thinking of is "there should be one mode, and it should be secure".

http://iang.org/ssl/h3_there_is_only_one_mode_and_it_is_secu...

This isn't exactly the same as what you said, but I think it's an argument in favor of your point of view.

Another analogous thing is that academic cryptographers will regard an algorithm or protocol as broken if an adversary can gain a significant advantage (probability of distinguishing things that are supposed to be indistinguishable, reduction in work factor, etc.), even if the resulting work factor to mount the attack is still enormous. For example, if there were an attack that could break AES in 2¹⁰⁰ operations, AES would be considered broken even though we believe there is no one who can perform 2¹⁰⁰ operations, because it no longer provides the designed or advertised security margin.
We don't need no stinking UML diagrams
I personally think Telsa's car business is bound to fail when the majors decide to compete. But that's a more long term strategy.
reminds me that i have been seeing some oddities recently when trying to use it as a (s)ftp client. Can't seem to find a way to debug the protocol traffic in it though.