jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Taler proposes an extraordinarily unethical panopticon, where unaccountable entities (both commercial and governmental) without any due process can surveil every transaction you make.

Engage in the "wrong" kind of commerce and after the political winds change-- maybe you get rounded up and executed. Regardless of your political alignment, one can't really look at the governance of many nations and say with confidence that you can trust that they won't change in a way which profoundly disrespects your human rights.

Taler misleads people into thinking that its private by claiming that only merchants are surveilled. But every time you pay you both were previously a recipient and you are paying to someone else who relieves. Monitoring reception is equivalent to monitoring everyone, and taler's surveillance is realtime and always active.

> It makes income traceable in a way that bitcoin does not, to facilitate lawful taxation.

Taxation is based on self-reporting, whistle-blowing, and serious criminal penalties for evasion, not on invasive realtime state surveillance into the private transactions of individuals.

Facilitating "lawful taxation" by pervasive surveillance of everyone who receives a payment is like preventing sexual assault by requiring a camera in every bedroom streaming in realtime back to government.
It's hard enough to build something like the F-35 for one customer, let alone three. Especially when those three customers have wildly differing requirements. Not that it can't be done, but it can't be done they way they did it. Unless they rethink their approach, the next fighter is doomed to the same fate.
It's not quite 100%. There are still a few outstanding faults, mostly due to different localization assumptions made by the underlying libc. http://libcxx.llvm.org/results.Linux.html
Yes once you're at 90 KB the slope will be much less. It will simply grow with the actual code of your app.
My question was more about figuring out if Julia can be a good candidate, not like writing off Java or C++. Something when you build things for fun, for personal project, for prototype, or research project.

If I am a Chief Engineer / CTO of a company, and need to choose a language for Yet Another data platform, I would definitely look first at Java / Kotlin / Scala for implementation - they are a proven pragmatic choice for such tasks. If there are memory and garbage collection concerns of the former, I would look at C++ or Rust (still risky for staffing).

What I like in Julia is its expressiveness, and that it was built for writing maths and computations. So it's a great candidate for top level libraries above core components - it may be a reasonable choice for a business now.

But Julia promises good performance as well. Therefore, if one does not have very strict requirements to avoid GC it may look like an interesting idea to stick with the same language for the core components. Here was my question above :)
"In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming" They do not want him woke
Tangential clarification: SA was not "storm troopers" in the sense of military specialist unit as used in the world wars. SA was basically street gangs which beat up political opponents of the Nazi party.
They'd have to test it out in Chicago, not Massachusetts.
Reading the other articles.
> as long as I can't taste it

Isn't the whole point of this burger to taste like real meat ?
I agree that we need a new way to fulfill the same function that control over distribution used to accomplish. But the nuclear bomb is here to stay, too. That doesn't mean its invention was necessarily a positive development.

Also, and hopefully you already know this and didn't intend to imply otherwise, but social media is just one way of using the internet.

Which means that there's a third option: learning to use the internet better, in a less harmful and destructive way. And "Big Media" are obviously not the only group of people with access to that third option.

edit: also, "so their accounts reach as many people as @realdonaldtrump" is a very very low bar. that account now reaches zero people.
In these situations it's other villagers, not the rulers, who are the ones left holding the bag.
I'm not sure I agree, actually. There were definitely several questions here I couldn't answer, but I definitely feel as if I should be able to answer them if I were going to work exclusively on the front-end (I'm primarily a back-end developer and have been for most of my career).

I don't see anything here that seems absurdly trivia-esque. The coding questions were easy but I think coupled with the JS and even jQuery questions they do a good job of covering quite a lot of content without falling back to brainteasers (which have their own share of problems, as any HN reader probably has read about a hundred times). Again, I couldn't answer all of them myself as I rarely work in JavaScript, but they all seem like things that one should know if one is working exclusively in JavaScript.
>If you spend some time on a spaceflight forum, you will read enthusiast posts about how cool it would be to see other words, to experience micro-gravity, or how interesting the science behind rocket engine is, but I rarely read about how space science will solve hunger,

If I go to a video gaming forum, do people talk about how to end world hunger? For the price of one new video game, you can feed someone in Africa for two months.
I've always thought of "order of magnitude" as adding a zero, so anything less than 10 is a different order of magnitude.

Gets weird thinking about 9 being both one number less and one order of magnitude less than 10, while 99 is both 89 more and the same order of magnitude, but it's supposed to be a rough approximation.
Why do assume that high inheritance tax resulted in massive capital destruction for the aristocracy? In most jurisdictions it's not exactly hard to transfer assets into companies/foundations/trusts/etc to avoid it.
It also implies that brains and intellect don't matter as much as being in a family that can afford good schools, time with kids, tutoring, etc.
Is there a reason why deep linking protection is good? I know there are arguably reasons why a site owner might want it, but any that make it so I should care?
http://lesswrong.com/lw/373/how_to_save_the_world/
Me too. So far today I've been locked out of GMail, LinkedIn and Twitter. I thought it might be due to failed login attempts with a bad password, but it sounds like it's all just proactive lockouts based on being in the file.
The conclusion summs that article up much better than the title: "All broadband technologies are suffering badly from bufferbloat, as are many other parts of the Internet."

It's a little over my head -- any TCP/Networking experts want to chime in?
and it didn't last for very long ;)
PUA meant a lot to me at one time. I was much more of a theorist than anything else, but it really helped me get through some bad times and back into success with women.
> PS3 (bluray player)

Hoo boy, speaking of proprietary issues, I unplugged mine over a year ago, and haven't missed it. I used the PS3 for Netflix and sometimes DVD/Bluray playing. The trouble is, you never knew when it would decide that it needed to update itself. Every update takes like half an hour to run, can't be postponed or run in the background, and your device can't do much until you run it, since naturally, you can't use your Netflix account, which ought to be completely separate, without logging into a PSN account that I have no use for. And of course, the Netflix interface is slow and terrible, and it doesn't really support anything else.

I replaced it with a Roku that does everything better and is a third of the price. Being tiny and taking almost no power are nice too. If it updates at all, it does it silently in the background, which is how I like it.
Do google for "Jazelle".)
Collectibles are also related to durability, scarcity and difficulty of forging. So I guess it's more related to currency than most would realize.

I for one had never thought about it this way.
> "Crunch sucks, but if it is seen by the team members as a fair cost of participating in an otherwise fantastic employment experience..."

Oh, I see: workers should repay employers for a "fantastic employment experience".

Boy oh boy. I say if your industry is such that you must have this sort of in-depth investigation in order to simply work normal work-weeks, your goose is already cooked.
SpaceX has tremendous potential, but most of what will make them lots of money has yet to be proven--both technical and economic.

It's possible they'll never figure out launcher re-use, or get it working well enough to matter. It's possible they will and no one will care that space launch is now 10% what it was, and flight rates will stay the same, and they'll just end up dominating a relatively small and stable niche. It's possible the incumbents will quickly copy their techniques and push them aside. It's possible they'll fail in enough launches to drive off every customer and bankrupt the company.

I don't believe any of that, but it's possible and you have to take the uncertainty into consideration of value. Whatsapp has users and works and will continue to work. You know what you're getting there.
I also think about their 3,000 employees and billions(?) of dollars of capital equipment would be worth a lot?
Whatsapp isn't used by billions of people everyday. Their install base was like 700 million? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_virtual_communities_wit...

Even if each one of them was paying the $1 annual fee, that's still less than a billion dollars in revenue.

Also, often valuations are based on the number of employees. SpaceX has 3,000 plus billions of dollars in capital equipment. Whatsapp had 55 I believe and basically zero dollars in capital equipment.

I think that there is more to this deal than "Google gets 10% for $1 billion". There is no way SpaceX is only worth $10 billion.
> very few people care about privacy any more.

... and that makes selling the whole "if you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide" thing a lot easier.
Why wouldn't they? She proved she's awesome at difficult stuff. Ultimate failure didn't unprove that.
I believe (but cannot prove) that it's to prevent the police abusing their powers. If illegally gathered evidence were admissible, then they could argue - with some justification - that the end justifies the means.
Agreed, right after that are idiots who model everything they talked about in the meeting as a class. If I see Manager/Employee classes then I know I'm in for a ride of unmaintainable dreck.
How biased is the survey likely to be? Now, it is hard to take a few hundred sample size and be unbiased by any measure. Given that, I wonder what specific kind of bias does posting a survey on mturk throws up, since the survey takers are actually "working".
movie please.
Quick question: I've been on my own for a couple of years now at a lower rate but I landed a six month contract and managed to save about $20,000. Unfortunately I spent that on living expenses over the next year after it ended because I am not so good at the business end (leads, billing etc).

So my question is (actually two) how do you stay consistently busy and up to date on hours? Also have you managed to save (or are there lean periods) and if so, would you consider hiring out/subcontracting? I've considered becoming a client on oDesk/eLance and taking more of a team lead role. I guess that's three questions.
Due to the sheer volume of responses to this article the author posted a rebuttal to many complaints here:

On craftsmanship
http://dannorth.net/2011/01/15/on-craftsmanship/

His rebuttal is, as the author admits, better edited and more pithy. Some key parts are:

"If I gave the impression that I wanted the cheapest or quickest cobbled-together solution then I certainly didn’t mean to. I want the best value software, something that’s fit for purpose in this specific context, to solve this specific need."

...

"I used the metaphor of negative space to illustrate that the point of programming isn’t the software - it’s the information flow or utility that the software enables. Programming is not fine art."

...

"People want software because they want to solve a problem, not because they like the notion of software. Some software practitioners risk losing sight of that. That’s all."

...

"Some people self-identify as 'rock stars' or 'software' 'craftsmen' in an unfortunate attempt to differentiate themselves from regular jobbing professionals, whom they regard as less talented or valuable than themselves. I don’t have much time for these people."
Cool.. One of my posts on Hacker News.. Just so people know, this post shows the changing times of Google Instant Search going through the Alphabet search from A to Z (with an 8 month window to see what's changed.)
Or you could take a less risky route: work on it at night and on the weekends until you start making enough money to quit your job. That's what I did.
For "hashbang" you can directly derive it from # ("hash") and ! ("bang")
In which case you might as well have comment points display as a user preference and save some processing cycles.
Even a non-plumber can appreciate craft. Here is what a bad plumber does (and tried to charge for it). This is a perfect analogy to a terrible piece of software:

http://i.imgur.com/BIBOS.jpg
Teleportation is a misnomer here. Nothing is being teleported or transmitted rather information is being measured in two different locations simultaneously as if it were teleported. What I believe is that information is showing up in two different locations simultaneously. This term, entanglement, I think means that every quantum spin has an equal and opposite quantum spin at some other location that always exists. In other words, there's an opposite "thing" of our "thing" and when we adjust our "thing" we can now see or measure the opposite "thing" adjusting oppositely.
Flagged. Every positive comment on this thread is by a newly created account.

PG assuming all the votes are by the newly created account shouldn't this have triggered some anti-spam mechanism ?
Seems insane and rude to say its better than Heroku, the service which clearly inspired yours.
If content providers would quit assaulting my eyes with animated, auto-play advertising that makes it next to impossible to read the page, I'd consider viewing their content on their actual website. And while we're here, how about some leading in the seemingly 8px type they all like to use? Better yet, how about increase the size to something that is legible for people whose vision isn't as acute as it used to be, and use an appropriate amount of leading?
Communication skills are always important in a business, and often if people can write clearly and coherently about a topic it means they understand the topic clearly and coherently.
I think it would be ideal if the experience was more transparent. Discover some great articles that your friends and family may enjoy and incidentally get achievements. I don't think anyone on SO, the most successful achievement system out there, actually chases achievements. Instead the achievement system should rewards whatever behavior helps the community and app the most.
"Although to be fair, I put my twitter address on my name tag which happens to be my username here... So I suppose I'm guilty of doing whatever it is you're accusing edw519 of."

Not really. Fortunately, the world is not binary, and there's a fairly large, practical gap between "writing your ID on a nametag" and having a t-shirt custom made.

That said, I'm not accusing him of anything bad -- it was a clever self-promotional ploy. I'm just pointing out the irony.
Nice tip, I enjoyed the article. It might be one of those things that a lot of people read and think, "ya I knew that." But upon reflection, I think it's really easy to lose sight of during the scramble to find funding.
Because people that can express their ideas well are "better" than people that can't express their ideas as clearly.

...where "better" means any number of subjective things - easier to work with, capable of getting more done and faster, etc.
I'm glad you have a successful application, but are people really unable to multiply their bill by 1.15 to get the new total with a tip?

I'm curious, what is the most requested new feature you're getting from your users.
Similarly, I can definitely see Brita ordering these prematurely, based on their (IMO) very aggressive refill recommendations.
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You are right...but there is a bit more to the story. The 747 program was launched on the back of a failed bid to design a cargo airplane for the military, the Lockheed C5 Galaxy was the winner. This failed military transport design was then picked up and was the basis from which the 747 team started work. This is the reason that the cockpit is on the upper deck, as opposed to the lower deck as in the A380, one of the design requirements for the military transport was a front loading bay and a cockpit on the lower level would not have allowed that.

You are right that the 747 program definitely considered both freight and passenger versions throughout their design process, but that was pretty much assured from the start given that the plane they designed had its roots in cargo.
would you mind sharing the source or stack for your microsite? your setup sounds like something i'd enjoy using.
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It's not me deriving the 1% number. These are the official numbers for the IFR. The CFR is entirely unreliable.

The only good estimates are from the Diamond Princess, as all persons there have been tested. Most countries only test people with symptoms, with about a factor 5 missing. Chinese data is completely unreliable, South Korean best, behind the Diamond Princess.

Now they even started talking of 0.30% and lower.

* https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fnd2vc/covid19_fat...
* https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fljcwy/early_epide...

Studies: https://voxeu.org/article/intergenerational-ties-and-case-fa...

CFR's: Korea 0.97%, rest of China 0.4%, Germany 0.22%, Singapore 0.0%, Diamond Princess <1%
The thing is, the FAA and ESA are putting targets for evac times. These have to be adhered to. They are not looking at individual configs, just that evac times are kept and properly tested for.
I always interpreted it as a recognition of different economic models between what we're taught in school ("software bugs will kill people! Remember the Therac-25! Remember the Patriot missile failure! Even if your bugs don't kill people, bugs found late in the lifecycle are super expensive (based on a single paper from 1990 or something)") and that of most saas applications.

The academic attitude is appropriate for critical systems and to a lesser extent for systems that can't get realtime updates, but if your app is non-critical (especially entertainment apps a la social media) and you can roll out a fix in a couple of hours, moving fast and breaking things is perfectly fine, especially for features which don't constitute core functionality. In the saas world, bugs are typically very cheap (or can be made very cheap via continuous deployment, microservice architectures, etc) and opportunity costs are through the roof. In that sense, moving fast and breaking things is probably eminently desirable, since it's cheaper to react to a bug than to delay an opportunity because you want to do quality assurance as though your software updates need to be mailed to users on physical media.
How do you hash your browser downloads? Also you need to perform that on every request. It should be possible with additional addons, but definitely not out of the box.
There are two fixes listed. One is to improve client behavior to reduce the likelihood of an incomplete request to be handled. The other is to fix the crash bug that occurred when an incomplete request is handled. The fix would be incomplete with only the first mitigation.
Funny. Apple takes features from other OSes like Linux. Linux in turn takes features prominent in Apple's marketing strategy for OS X and replicate it in their own.
$7 per 60 eggs (5 dozen) is approx. $2.33 per daily caloric budget, (per this, http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-egg-whole-i1130 assuming you do omelet) which is not incredible, but maybe acceptable deal, given this extreme budgetary constraints.

I, personally, consider eggs reasonably cheap, healthy and fast food, but I did not try to live on $3/$1 per day. (still havent' figured if I should worry about cholesterol)
You'd think that ordering from one service ("WindowRun") around the same times, the same days, would deliver a familiar face now and then. Nah.

People are abundant, flexible, and most of all disposable.
Can you expand upon what you mean?
I really wish it was that simple for me: my phone is synced with the cell network and all of my other computers get their time from NTP.
from my own personal experience I can tell that most of the time I prefer stackoverflow instead of man pages simply because I need to achieve one task and stackoverflow contains answer of how to do it, man pages can teach me how to do all sorts of a tasks, then I have to choose the right one from those that I have learned.

On top of that, to be able to use man page, I need to know command in the first place, while google will digest my broke english question and point me to the right stackoverflow answer most of the time.
Or introduce a whole new hierarchy.
Some resourceful people have co-opted the term "hacker" to refer to people who are very good at chasing money.

Not all the hackers have gotten that memo though.
One other thing that makes dictatorships inferior and democracy preferable over all other systems of governance is transition of power. In democracies, it's encoded in the system in such a way that everyone seeking power wants to play ball. In dictatorship, if someone wants the power, they usually take it by force, leaving a lot of bodies behind - and the very threat of that is already a force making dictators increasingly paranoid.

That said, I think every western country could use a temporary (say, 6 months) switch to dictatorship, because I worry we won't deal with this effectively otherwise. I have no idea how to ensure such a dictatorship would be temporary, though.
I agree. In the end it’s all fiat currency anyway. What does any currency have without the rule of law?
It means if you are hired to work in the SV office, you won't be expected to interview in person, or work in person until the crisis is resolved. The roles are not remote roles, but there's no going into the office at the moment.