jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I am, in fact, trying my hand at stats in Clojure, to see if it's a viable alternative. I finished the Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test yesterday, and it's ridiculously elegant compared to the current SciPy implementation. Clojure is pretty fantastic.

But where's the package management? Clojure might be a bit too young.
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(I work on this team at Facebook)

There are definitely sensitive issues, but IMO the limiting factor to putting out more cool analyses is that packaging these up for public consumption takes time and effort, and there is a _lot_ on our plate for a small team. Lisa (the author) was a very smart and productive intern.

If you're qualified and want to help, drop me a line or go to facebook.com/careers
> Legal enforcement legitimizes crypto as property. It expands the definition of property by institutionally conferring the status of "owned" to a functional configuration of bits distributed over thousands of computers.

9/10ths of law is property ownership. I find hilarious that anyone would want less of this concept, not more. My interpretation is that crypto enthusiasts want the "trust of the crowds" not a centralized government. Which doesn't mean the trust system becomes contracted per se, but rather under a different set of rules (i.e. purely direct democracy vs centralized republic).
There's no other way to know what they'll do.
> which is probably why Tesla switched to it recently

"Tesla's Battery Swap Stations Will Help It Requalify For ZEV Credits In California"

-- http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2014/12/30/tes...

Tesla would not make a profit without those credits.

-- http://seekingalpha.com/article/2724835-after-earning-tens-o...
Don't forget the [GCW Zero](http://www.gcw-zero.com/), pretty much the more modern sibling of the Pandora! It doesn't have a full physical keyboard, though.

EDIT: Right, no Markdown. Oh well.
I actually spend some time now and then in Kiruna (see other comments in this thread about the coldest cities in the world) so I have no problem with harsh winter. I think it's amazing. The rain and winds don't sound so nice though.
Generally speaking, there are some EMTs around. Mostly the same crowd as the volunteer fire department. They get some minor training and they do what they can. For anything big, they just transport you to Anchorage.

Back in the day, when I lived there, there was no road, just the railroad. But we had an old Army ambulance that had train wheels that it could deploy to travel to Anchorage on the train tracks. My dad actually took that trip twice IIRC for a heart attack and a stroke (I was pretty young and don't really remember it).

These days there is a road. It closes at times, but the cop has the keys, so they can open it for emergencies.

But yeah, living in the bush, emergency medical care may be a ways away.
Have you heard of Subsonic? The web client supports casting, and so does the amazing paid firm of the Android client, Dsub.
yah, a corollary would end more like "dig until you get to the other side". Definitely prefer Churchill's version :)
> If nobody cares, nobody's receiving any money from their ownership of the copyright, so the hosting obviously can't be reducing their profits.

Well, realistically, that wasn't really the point of copyright to begin with anyway (increase/guarantee of profits). The point was a distribution/derivative monopoly for limited duration to allow a creator/inventor to recoup their investment. The whole profit thing is just a means to an end.

If you look at copyright the way it was actually intended to work, it becomes very hard to argue that distributing abandonware should be prosecuted, no matter the circumstances.
nice! sounds really promissing :)
yup, awesome will need to include charisma and deep pockets to bootstrap. then again I can see a smooth transition from an extant system with an oddly benificent CEO, but I can be delusional like that.

if awesome = neither effective nor productive then we're going to get mass starvation and mass death, or at the very least feudalism, and that doesn't sound nice

I know of no competitive natural system that's more wasteful than its competitors
Apparently there was a joke going around latin america twitter that the coup failed because there is no US embassy in DC to support it.
> The theory attributes ultimate cause to something that is way way in the past.

Yes, that's what "ultimate" cause means. Not necessarily way back in the past, but way back in the causal chain. Basically, you keep on asking "what caused that?" until you get to an answer that looks like a reasonable stopping point. Saying "the engineers failed" isn't a reasonable stopping point because the engineers weren't acting in isolation or on their own; they were acting as part of a larger organization that was not just an organization of engineers. So if they failed, it means the larger organization failed, and you have to look at why that happened to find the ultimate cause.

> The theory conveniently exonerates Boeing engineers

It does no such thing. It is perfectly possible for the engineers to be at fault and for the larger organization of the Boeing corporation to also be at fault. The reason for looking beyond the engineers is not to "exonerate" the engineers, but to make sure that "blame the engineers" does not get used as an excuse to exonerate others who also contributed to the failure and who should be held accountable.
Wow you have means, motive, and opportunity. Now all you need is this pesky little thing called evidence of any such fraud occurring. It’s a big roadblock though, understandably, no one has managed to produce anything of note that could be accepted in court or any reputable investigation.
What do we do about it?

Is it possible to disrupt the government? Somehow create a system that renders them obsolete?
It's probably unpopular here, but I think Manning leaked what he did not as a principled whistleblower, but as a confused/spurned/etc. kid. And deserves substantial punishment for betraying his oath as a member of the military and TS clearance holder for ultimately personal reasons (and doing it in a stupid way).

Snowden, on the other hand, was quite principled. One might argue he went about it the wrong way (should have gone directly to Congress or a federal judge, or leaked less info), but I think what he did is quite defensible.

So, I'd stand with Snowden, but I think Manning deserves to be in prison. I was expecting 20-50 years sentence, dishonorable discharge, etc. He got 35. I think 10-20 would have been fair, but the general sentencing based on other similar crimes pushes for higher. There should have been a greater reduction than 112 days for how he was treated in pre-trial detention, possibly a halving of his ultimate sentence.

I also predict PFC Manning will serve less than 5 years, and not because he's released early.
Kind of ironic for someone who works for an internet security firm to say that he's deleting his Google account not because of privacy issues but for other "inconveniences". I get where he's coming from though. That YouTube pop-ups are really annoying.
Thank you for pointing that out. I suspect many of us in this thread are referring simply to the single parameter to BCrypt.gensalt as the "work factor" or "number of rounds" interchangeably. And you're right, the work factor is what is actually provided to gensalt.

Nevertheless, in all implementations I am aware of, the default for that parameter is 10. And earlier, you wrote:

> If they used ten rounds, it's dire, and just saying "bcrypt" doesn't say much unless you also specify the number of rounds.

tedunangst and I both assumed you were referring to the default 10 work factor of BCrypt and were calling it "rounds" as many of us are doing.

The obvious question that tedunangst is asking (and others in this thread) is whether a work factor of 10 is considered too low.
> Doesn't culture fit go both ways?

Yes of course, and it's never a waste of time to explore a potential business partnership. I've found it more productive to have an initial Skype/phone call with the hiring exec before any in-person meetings and tech interviews. Demand this upfront and lead with your own questions.
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Tech jobs are the easiest job bar being rich and watching investments make money for you. Crazy that people think being a barista is easier.
My concern about security is that this would be used like Slack, but for apps -- always on, sitting in the background, occasionally has my attention.

If I drag an app that has an integrated terminal (e.g., VS Code), could one of my teammates start rooting around in my filesystem?

It wouldn't be too hard to use Slack status to determine a time to do this when the other people sharing are not online/not watching.
Awesome, thanks!

I did start the service with just the Pro plan at $36 per year or $4 per month.

I received quite a lot of feedback from users asking for a cheaper plan that would allow 1 custom domain etc. which is why I eventually added the Lite plan.

As long as it makes enough to pay for itself I'll be happy as I made it to solve a problem for myself initially.
Go to a cost of living calculator and see how much money 350k is in SF compared to other cities. You'll be surprised. I'm not even making 200k a year and I wouldn't move there for less than 350k.
Heh, I missed the first ' and parsed the title as

(The Color of Surveillance): ([Monitoring of] [Poor and Working Peoples Reading List])

instead of

'([The Color of Surveillance]: [Monitoring of Poor and Working People])' [Reading List]

but I suppose the latter is partially about the former anyways.
Ruby is not the problem at all. The vast majority of time with homebrew is spent doing git operations, downloading tarballs, running makefiles, and the like. You could rewrite the entire thing in Rust and not notice any difference.

The thing that might make a difference is to build some custom infrastructure, so that `brew update` didn't have to do a `git fetch` every time, but instead downloaded the updated formula registry in a more efficient manner. But that's a lot to ask of a project like this.
I put on some fat with it, but due to the weights I was lifting for the last 6 - 12 months it didn't seem to be a concern. Remember what you see on TV and the movies aren't representations of strength, they are on special diets, have trainers etc...

I was strictly concerned with being strong, not being cut, so carrying around a little extra wasn't a big deal. The main thing, no one will think you are fat when you are strong, it is quite noticeable. Lastly, the meal I posted was at my strongest, lifting the heaviest. If I wasn't lifting those weights I would have gained quite a bit of fat.

If you are taking a few months off due to a baby, cut back on eating. Always think long-term. Two months off while you adjust to a newborn will do wonders when you get back into it. If you try to do it all, you'll be stressed and not enjoy lifting - or anything for that matter.
> First, current forms of discrimination could be reduced or eliminated.

How? (While you're at it, I'd like a unicorn.)

> Third, the tax system could be redesigned to be genuinely progressive in ways that would close the distance between those at the top and the bottom of the system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_tax
"A progressive tax is a tax by which the tax rate increases as the taxable base amount increases."

The US tax system is extremely progressive.

We could have a tax system that said that everyone had the same after-tax income. While one might call that "progressive", it would have other effects.

The authors assume that reducing the distance is necessarily a good thing. They're wrong. Equal does not imply good.

The authors think that envy is good and greed is bad. They have it backwards. Tearing someone else down doesn't build you up.
>"Employee" is probably a better example than "programmer." This topic seems dedicated to workwear as a whole, not a specific field.

No, because expectations of appropriate dress vary radically by field. If you dress appropriately for a nightclub hostess job and then try to, say, get a job as a financial advisor or an enterprise software salesperson, you are likely doing yourself a disservice, even if the nightclub hostess getup is more flattering.

>Sure, our perceptions of appropriate dress change by the decade or so. But there's a difference between lowered expectations of what's appropriate (business casual instead of business) and no expectation. I think the later is what you're suggesting, that opinions of us are less influenced by our dress.

I'm suggesting that there are some situations where looking less attractive is more likely to help you obtain a positive business result.

The obvious examples are the trades, but I think there are certain, ah, stereotypes about programmers and sysadmins that also have a similar effect.

I mean, not always; but there are certain companies where a programmer showing up in a suit would be seen as almost as weird as an electrician showing up in a nice silk 3 piece.

>Though a programmer might dress in jeans and a T-shirt, he surely combs his hair.

I find this statement to be so far outside my experiences and expectations that I wonder... are you American?
How is Bitcoin a ponzi scheme? As far as I know it's a distributed database, nothing even remotely related to a ponzi scheme.
The only non-news show that I've seen actually get a non-satirical swing at their corporate overlord in the last few years is Leverage. Leverage, which runs on TNT, absolutely savaged CNN's Nancy Grace last summer in "The Three Days Of The Hunter Job". Of course, News Corp only owns an indy label, not one of the big ones.
Property is for the benefit of its owner.

But property, as a concept and related body of law, exists for the benefit of society—we tacitly agree not to take each other's stuff because lacking that rule would suck for (most of) us.

Intellectual property as a concept is a recent attempt to recast things like copyrights, trademarks, and patents—government granted monopolies intended to serve specific purposes, and tolerated for the benefit of society—as some sort of Lockean natural right.

However, if you are trying to reconcile the two concepts, you must face the fact that intellectual property restricts each of us from full enjoyment of our actual property.

(For instance, I can't lawfully use my own computer to copy someone else's copyrighted book, my garage-full of parts to implement someone else's patented invention, or even my own pens and paper to market products under someone else's registered trademark.)

"Manag[ing] it contractually", as you put it, would prevent this from being a problem. (Whether an opt-in scheme would be very effective is another story). However, this position relies on the right to contract, not any inherent right to intellectual property, contrary to what your earlier post implied.
According to the MythBusters, no.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs4Q5jZSJbA
A couple gripes:

- You will find a number of angel investors happy to invest in LLC's (depending on the stage and complexity of the funding round). While it's true that some investors require a more complex structure, the blanket statement that it's "required" is just wrong. It can also be destructive. There are REAL benefits to an LLC for a pre-revenue startup.

- Place of incorporation. I've never had an investor care about the state we've incorporated in. There are obvious tax implications, but it's often easier and cheaper to just do the paperwork in your state. It really just depends.

Points of emphasis:

83b election: This is SUPREMELY important, and applies to anyone attempting to invest equity (under any legal structure). Without properly handling the 83b you run into incredibly onerous tax issues. Learn about it and do it when you incorporate.
You incorporated in Illinois?

I don't know Illinois law well, but there are good reasons why most corporations are Delaware (with a few in Nevada and a couple other states), including tax and governance issues. Did you ask an attorney if Illinois was the right state for you?
Feynman was dead for many years before Wolfram Alpha came out. That would have been some feat to communicate with him then:)

The letter is also dated: October 14, 1985.
Interesting...

Obviously the actors aren't liable if they have RIAA's support. But if the RIAA is promoting mash-ups and stuff in what effectively would amount to propaganda (regardless the reason why) and then sues people for doing exactly what they were promoting... That's got to be some kind of illegal, right?
Change the density and the swimmer's buoyancy will change. Change the viscosity and the optimal swimming algorithm will change. As you increase a liquid's viscosity, the swimmer loses its ability to coast on the inertia provided by previous effort. At a high enough viscosity (given a swimmer of constant size and strength), it's as if the swimmer has no inertia. The movement of the swimmer and fluid will be effectively a function of what forces the swimmer is putting on the fluid at that point in time, because any inertia will immediately get "stolen" by the fluid.

For example, scallops can swim in water, but with a high enough viscosity (or a microscopically sized scallop), their swimming style would get them nowhere. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scallop_theorem . At high enough viscosities, the best way for a human to swim underwater would be to grow new skin on the scalp and reabsorb excess skin at the feet.

Viscous fluids are better at stealing the effort you've put in, so you're going to have a harder time swimming in them, unless you can find a good way to push yourself along without donating your velocity back to the fluid.
He passed away long before WA
Definitely. That's what I would do if I was doing apps. Crank out as many low quality novelty apps as you can. Make one a day for a year.

That's giving people what they want. For many, the whole point of an app-store is to find fun novelty apps like light-sabers fun noise things, etc etc. It's just a way of personalizing your phone like ringtones used to be. Something 'cool'/'lame' you can show your friends.
100% this. People here fail to realize that there was some nutter on Christmas who suicide bombed himself over 5g conspiracy theories. Where was the FBI to stop this guy? No one where to be found.

I hate to be the one to say this but political motivated violence will be on the rise sharply.
This doesn't work with the push to HTTPS.
Either you use proxy connect, and Privoxy is no better than /etc/hosts blocking. Or you'd rely on the proxy's poorer and slower implementation of TLS. Certificate verification will suffer (no certificate pinning, no certificate blacklist, no OCSP stapling, no way to verify incomplete chains), no SPDY, no sunsetting of bad ciphers or bad protocols.
>Why do you assume the nun is a theocrat?

Please show me evidence that a plurality of catholic nuns want legalized abortion. Otherwise I will continue to assume they don't that via basic common sense, current catholic theology, experience, and history.
I have used Reactable (https://github.com/glittershark/reactable) in a recent project and was extremely happy with it. The design was very customizable and the sorting / search functionality I needed was available.
What's the best form factor to be able to go up stairs, or places humans typically go, and to then recover a body from a building or similar?

That seems like it would be legs + arms in some arrangement.

Powerful wheels could perhaps get you up the stairs (arms + legs can scale and climb, wheels don't do so well there), but legs can fold, and a robot could in theory fold its legs to a significantly smaller size to fit through various spaces. You can't fold large'ish wheels very well without completely disassembling the structure.
> Deep down he just doesn't give a crap about starving children in Africa.

This is a pretty uncharitable reading of the article. But I agree with the assessment that scientists' main motivation doesn't tend to be altruism but probably more things like curiosity and competitiveness, and of course always needing more funds. Which I think is fine.
In my experience this is one of the things Apple still has yet to perfect. I frequently have a problem of my mid-2012 MBP not wanting to wake up when I open the lid no matter how many times I close/open it. Often I have to do a hard reboot.

To Apple's credit, this is also still a problem with PC laptops from what I hear.
Actually the few cases that remain unexplained are exactly that sort of evidence (or some other intelligent control). Sorry to say but you obviously havent looked at the actual evidence from military personal and equipment that show high speed right angle turns of devices that defy the laws of physics as we understand them. There are literally 1000s of cases on record about this that have been left in the unexplainable category.
> According to a measure I’ve heard once (probably depends on many factors), a new full-time engineer adds some $1,000,000 to your company’s sell value.

Hmm, that's a suspiciously round number. I'm also curious as to why employees in an industry where labour costs are the majority of your costs, would suddenly be considered such a valuable asset by a business guy.
> In the USA that process drops people from the calculation by simply assuming disinterest in employment if one has been unemployed for a certain time

No, it doesn't. You are dropped from unemployment benefits after a certain time, but from the headline unemployment rate [0] only when you stop actively searching for work.

[0] and even then, those “discouraged workers” remain in other unemployment measures published by BLS. (U-4 through U-6, just not the headline U-3 rate, or the even smaller U-1 and U-2 rates.)
Yeah it's called edibles.
Thanks, great resource. I've had Incremental explained to me by a Jane Streeter and I'm sure it influenced my thinking, but it's always good to have public explanations.
>Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are probably soon going to dictate what traffic can or cannot arrive at people’s end devices.

This was the money quote for me. FANG may kill the web, but the idea that ISPs (in my opinion some of the scummiest corporations out there) get to decide what content they serve me and what they don't has the potential to kill the Internet as we know it.
How long ago did we almost have a hard fork?

How long ago were the exchanges found to be manipulating prices fraudulently?

As if crypto is immune to systemic issues.

It's not a closed system after all, is it?
> you have to livestream your stay

Oh, just like airbnb, except you pay $25+/nite and you're not told you're being livestreamed.
It amuses me that you say this... A while back I started secretly quoting people from new.yc on my tumblr when they said something intelligent.
Rubygems has gotten a few improvements from the popularity of Rails. Github gem hosting may have been a stepping stone, but it did help. Bundler and gemcutter are definitely an improvement.
iirc after tipjoy's demise you went to facebook. Why did you leave for dropbox?
I think it's not overly clear what the site actually does. There's a lot to read and none of it really jumps out at me to explain why this site is of benefit to me.

The biggest problem, as has already been mentioned, is that it looks like a spammer's site. I know you say you're not a designer, that's ok, I'm not either. But when dealing with financial stuff you MUST look professional.

I'm pushing my own barrow here a bit, but try a service like http://fivesecondtest.com or (for fairness) something like http://conceptfeedback.com

If you want, shoot me an email at support@usabilityhub.com and I'll get you set up with a free 5st premium account so you can get some test results quickly.
Hate to sound preachy, but compare to Python developers, who very carefully maintain and update their stdlib.

I feel like it is risky to commit to using Ruby for the long-term.