jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There are actually several diagnosable mental illnesses where the main feature or one of the main features is being able to see reality more accurately than other people. This is especially true with certain types of depression depression (e.g. depressive realism) and autism. My favorite though is delusional disorder, which basically just means that you're happier than other people think you should be given your circumstances.
I think TSI/Seasteading as a technology could be successful, I just don't think the Seastead as Sovereign State thing is going to be viable in the next 20-50 years.

Putting a Seastead in someone's 200 mile EEZ, with that country's blessing, to run a private marine park, offshore free trade zone, etc. seems quite viable. By being physically separate and potentially mobile, a host country would have a lot less ability or desire to regulate beyond basic things. There are also some inherent advantages to an offshore platform in a marine environment (there are some concrete platforms floating in the Great Barrier Reef of Australia to support scuba diving operations already).

TSI does a decent job of splitting the technical (difficult, but reasonably feasible, and predictable) from the political, compared to most free-state projects in the past.
I wonder if I could use these graphs for my office presentations. They're pretty accurate so why not.
Nagorno-Karabakh. Even Kosovo isn't really settled, and is probably the easiest one for a European to reach.
This isn't really surprising.I usually find myself wishing that Randall Munroe (author of XKCD) would teach most of my classes. Not only is he a polymath, but he's completely insane. Those are the best teachers.
The headline is somewhat misleading. The map has only been changed when viewed from inside Russia.

It is unchanged, everywhere else.
I’d this a joke lacking /s, or a genuine post?
That will only add a charge of 'money laundering' to the list.
Reminded me of pg's "How Not to Die" http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
> The story isn't encouraging or discouraging anything. That's not our role. PCMag's job is to cover all aspects of technology, which includes the products, services and activities that some groups and individuals might deem objectionable. We covered these Limewire alternatives because we knew they would be of interest to our readers.

Let me be clear: I support "PCMag's" right to write an article about alternatives to Limewire. It should not be a crime to link to software just because that software can be used to break laws.

That said, my guess is that the vast majority of content available through Limewire is copyrighted and being distributed without permission. Alternatives to Limewire are "of interest to your readers" because they're looking for new places to download this copyrighted content. In my experience the average person running Limewire almost certainly needs the help of more experienced people--like technical journalists--to find good alternatives to Limewire. So it seems to me that PCMag is providing a valuable service to many people who would like to download copyrighted content.

Sure, if PCMag didn't write an article about "alternatives to Limewire," someone else would (albeit maybe someone with different interests in mind, or someone with worse SEO skills). Sure, when presented with a letter like this I can see why they choose to try and get out in front of this issue. Sure, there may be legal implications to reacting in any other way than the way they did. Nonetheless I think their statement offends my sense of frankness and honesty.
I agree - that definitely makes it feel more ethical.
I agree with you that a driver's license is more a form of ID than a public safety credential, if you live in the USA.

Why?

-- You have to take a test to get it, but you do that when you are 16 or 17, and never again. In most states, the test is ridiculously easy.

-- In an average year, you probably use it hundreds of times for its ID value (to buy beer at the grocery store or drinks at a bar, to cash a check, to check in for an airline flight), and (hopefully) zero times for the public safety function (showing it to a police officer after being pulled over).

-- Outside of NYC, the fraction of people over the legal driving age who don't have a license has to be less than 10%
Maybe I'm a big softie, but does anyone else think that some of the images used in the excerpt are overly aggressive?

"blow of my blade against a mighty oak"
"the ant who devours a tiger"

I'm not sure such images would inspire me.
"This font has the unusual property that zooming in (using e.g. Ctrl+ScrollWheelUp on a Mac) actually makes it less legible."

Hrm, it's possible to write a zoom tool that emulates the LCD sub-pixel effects. I bet that people working on such technologies already use one, otherwise they'd lose their sight squinting at their monitors.
Why not a headset? Certainly no Bluetooth headset though, sound quality is bad on linux as of now.

If you don't have meetings all day I can recommend the Logitech H800. Build quality and comfort are meh, but: It's small, you can use a wireless dongle with linux, switch easily between computer and phone by turning it to bluetooth on the headset and sound is decent.
Freedom of speech does not equate to freedom of consequences. Obvious example being standing in a cinema and yelling fire. Trump isn’t being banned because of his views, but because he has continued to violate Twitter’s T&C.
Alright, then maybe in a hundred years your gold comparison will be meaningful, but not today.
To a point, I agree, but there are still a large number of people that understand how their privacy is being invaded, and simply don't give a shit.

Why? Some don't believe these invasions negatively impact them personally. But I think, largely, it's about misplaced (IMO) trust - they trust Facebook et al not to abuse their privacy or "do anything evil", and perhaps worse, they trust all organs of the government completely and totally. Any suggestion otherwise is waved away as "who cares?", or dismissed as a conspiracy theory (yes, even post-Snowden).

Large sections of the media are certainly part of the problem too (as we are seeing for so many things) - some serious, privacy-related stories are either not covered at all, or covered with pretty blatant, extreme bias.
Advertising figures gathered at this stage and traffic level will be relatively meaningless compared to something larger so you will have to re-test later if you want to get a real feel.

Likely CRTs and income (and ECPm) will drop off sharply as it gets bigger.
Yes, I think this comment gets it exactly. This kind of research always bothers me because it starts with narratives like the Big Bang and parallel universes and then (ab)uses the data to corroborate them. The problem is that, on a multiversal scale, we really have only one observable data point (our universe) so just about any cognitive model that we can come up with can be used to explain its idiosyncrasies with equal validity.

This result is very different from actually observing many universes bumping into each other, or multiple universes starting from a big bang. It's more like seeing a coin come up heads once, and then claiming that the model "coins always come up heads" is the best model describing that situation.
Most recent wireframing tool I have used is Google Docs. Search the templates for 'wireframing' - there are a lot of good template sets for the task (browser buttons, iPhone, etc.)

See: http://mortenjust.com/2010/04/19/a-wireframe-kit-for-google-...
Lots of smartphone mobile contracts come with free wifi on the big hotspot providers like BT Openzone. I suspect most of their use is phones automatically hopping on to them when their users are walking down busy streets. I doubt they'd still be active if no one used them.
They could instead expand the permission system to group various ad api's so that each api is considered a distinct permission. Honestly would be good to do that in addition (i.e. separate from) the general internet permission.
Vaccine implies acquired immunity. Exactly same mRNA tech can potentially be used to treat cancer, cardiovascular or metabolic diseases, only the messenger RNA changes. It's probably called mRNA drug instead of mRNA vaccine even if the process is the same.

mRNA is tech that BioNTech is developing is completely digital. Once you have the RNA structure in the computer, you can just "print out" drug/vaccine using the same process without changing anything else.
This is amazing.

I was lucky enough to study a bit of network science in college under a fantastic professor, and always regretted not taking it further and getting involved with his research.

It impacted my thinking in so many areas (finance, technology, etc.) and the only limiting factor was forgetting over time what I had learned. There's been hardly any good introductory resources for network science given what a young field it is. Great to see that changing!
They self document what they did at work in their own private time. Companies engender this behaviour by calling them "heroes" or "MVP". Particular product/technology gets exposure, free (as in beer) advertising, and similarly as free digestible documentation (project walkthrough) from your staff.

If you forced employee to publish on a wiki, it would feel far too much like work. Having it on a privately owned public forum gives a sense of personal ownership and development.
Time to open a new bank account and find a new home. Simple has been really great for me and I am very disappointed that it is going away.
Haskellers are asleep, let's post impure functions!

function() {console.log(Math.random())}
It might be “Switch” as a model like iPhone. They’d do generations but never totally change to something else.
For Daala, they've purposefully avoided 'technologies' that have been used by other codecs before. This severely reduces the risk of coming across such a patent. Xiph also apply for patents themselves, to ensure it's protected for the future. Below is an introductory video about daala, that talks about this a bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmho4gcRvQ4
Like I said, my point is not about the specifics of his language. It's about the ideas he discusses. I agree with him that anytime I'm typing 150 lines of boilerplate on C++ or refactoring things from global function to member function etc, all the busy work required to do that is depressing. I wish more language devs would take stuff like that into account when designing their new language.
That's very nice. This is great progress for Servo and Rust. It's a screenshot of a page rendered without any Javascript, though. Here's that page, run through our service which removes all Javascript, Flash, and embedded code, parses the HTML, and re-emits cleaned-up HTML.[1] (This tool is normally used to check how our crawler sees a page.) It looks exactly like the screenshot on Twitter, once you scroll down past the video they're not showing.

Now they have to interface Servo to all the ugly stuff - the Javascript JVM, plug-ins, etc.

[1] http://www.sitetruth.com/fcgi/viewer.fcgi?url=http://store.s...
So bottom line, the people paid millions of dollars per year by banks to understand the market have to ask IT for an explanation of the market? Hmmm...
> A colleague of mine calls suicide 'a permanent solution to a temporary problem' - not to diminish it, but to recognize that for most people the desire to die is a temporary state.

I've seen that quote floating around and never much liked it. For those afflicted with long-term treatment resistant depression, it's more like "a guaranteed solution to a permanent problem".
> “It’s A to B-ism,” said Mikael Colville-Andersen, a raffish bicycle evangelist who preaches the gospel of Copenhagen to other cities. “It’s the fastest way from point to point.”

i live in a smaller city of 300k people, i own a car but ride my bike as much possible. i've been to the hospital several times recently for prenatal classes (my girlfriend took the bus). once i was late, really pushed it and it took me 8 minutes (on my bike, that is). last time we were due for an examination and took the car - the same distance took us 28 minutes, 3.5 times as long.
Having ported a decent chunk of code to work with Numba, the key is to minimize where you're interfacing with Numba.

You need to be careful of inadvertently introducing new types. Especially, numba doesn't (last I checked) recognize homogenous tuples (Tuple[Foo, ...] in typing) so each new length requires recompilation.

Similarly, every call is doing inference on its arguments, including Jitclass constructors. If you're making calls with a large number of arguments, you may be killing your performance gains even absent compilation.

If you're trying to make code that can run with or without numba, e.g. the same logic may not run in a loop, definitely avoid jitclasses.

All in all, just_temp's remark that you have to "write it like Fortran" is pretty close. The reason I found it worked was that I had a lot of business logic type stuff segregated to an early section that spat out structures that were very regular and primitive. That meant the code that had to be fast was already very Fortran like.
How does this compare to similar products in this space?

I'm thinking of diagramming tools that are based on text, like Graphviz, Mermaid, PlantUML, and Webgraphviz.
For those still unclear: it's a type of tumor that basically grows things in places they're not normally supposed to be. "Things" including cartilage, hair and teeth.
Not sure why you're being downvoted.

I hope to see a lot of things in my lifetime: life discovered outside our planet, human cloning, artificial organs and blood, AGI, humans on Mars, cures for a broad spectrum of cancers and Alzheimer's, human life extension / slowing aging, broad advances in chemistry and materials science, major advances in metabolomics, protein folding, drug discovery, gene therapies and repair...
First, I was wrong - he wasn't in prison, he was in a jail (MCC). It was the first suicide in 13 years for that facility, not 21. He had just come off suicide watch because he was suicidal. Is it really a surprise that he went through with it?
If you are a founder of a company or already gone through this situation, please write your experience.

This is biggest problem with international student.
A lot of Austin start-ups do: http://indeed.com, http://homeaway.com, http://bazaarvoice.com.
I do this currently, but I wish there was a more elegant solution.

As far as I can tell from my own usage, the only portion that is uploaded is the changed portion. I have a 1GB container currently synced and when I change files in that container, I can assure you that it doesn't upload 1GB of information. It appears to only transfer the delta.
It's a citation, but not of the right type. You say it has been proven false that large C++ programs were more maintainable than large C programs. Such a proof would be quite extraordinary, to say the least. There is a vast difference between a strongly held opinion that this is true and a proof. Your proposed citations: something in Code Complete (where? what does he say exactly?), lectures you've seen at Georgia Tech (which? where? what is claimed?), and a slide showing that in some codebase (again, which?) a given C++ bug took longer to fix than a given C bug (what was the sample set? how many bugs in each language were there overall? was it the same program implemented in both languages, or something else? were they the same programmers?). None of these things are citations of a proof.

Listen, I don't doubt there are some good arguments against C++. But to claim something is proven is a very strong claim indeed, and not IMO supported by the evidence you've cited. Can we say, instead, that the advantages of C++ are "contested"? Or "debatable"? Or that some C programs are more maintainable than some similar, but different C++ programs by different authors? I could agree with that...
I hit upon a pretty simple process a couple decades ago and it seems to work pretty well and doesn't require any fancy books, titles, lingo, paradigms, papers, etc.:

1. observe/listen/read/question/collect-information

2. think (analyze, hypothesize, decide, etc.)

3. code (techically it is 'do', and the actual action varies by field, context and goal)

4. goto 1
thanks! this looks great. two birds one stone.
US Marshals? Actual law enforcement, or some organization that has some standards for admittance?
Yeah absolutely. I think what is important is that people can fork and change the stdlib. I also like the idea of platform independence coming from installing different Gems, i.e. "file-java" and "file-win32". However, that could work out to be a cluster-cuss in practice.
If you use SCSS or LESS, you can inherit the widths into semantic classes. So Bootstrap can be as semantic as you want it to be.
An interesting thought would be using a bloom filter to store certificate fingerprints. It would prevent someone from getting a list of all the websites/certificates a user has seen. However the significant downside is that a certificate hit could be a false positive and the user hasn't ever seen that certificate before.
Do their proxy servers store your sensitive data (passwords etc)?
Trademarks are interesting.

I don't know if this is an apples to apples comparison, but I remember 5 years back there was a big issue with JBoss and trademarks. One guy trademarked the name and made a boatload of money when his group sold the rights to Redhat. And I believe many of the open source developers that contributed were not allowed to use the name for commercial purposes.

http://thejbossissue.blogspot.com/2005/10/free-open-source-s...

Does anyone know if there is some kind of 'open source trademark' to prevent a Marc Fleury/JBoss incident?
Thank you - what a nice answer!
This has been predicted a few times before. Just saying.
My first phone was a Nokia. My subsequent phones were Nokia too. All these phones predate the iPhone era. Nokia's phone were rock solid. One even survived a fall from the first floor with minor scratches. But their interface was one of the clumsiest; inconsistent, not very user friendly and sometimes not very usable. The only two things I remember doing is messaging and phone calls.
I haven't got my hands on a WP7 yet. But judging by my ZuneHD I'm sure the interface must be very good. So far I was hoping that the deal would bring a solid phone with a pretty interface to the market. But now it's obvious, it's going to be another superb phone spoiled by the OS and the interface.
> Having them instead return the "identity" element of the relevant monoid will always result in a simpler, more composable interface.

But there may be more than one relevant monoid, and thereby more than one identity element.

In the case of a function which returns an integer, should I return the multiplicative identity, or the additive one?
Most corporations will fire you for voicing certain (non-oppressive) opinions, since ideology is important. You see it in schools too, not to mention cults. You're allowed to get to the next rung by not seeing it, already having the right attitudes, or faking it. (Consider some meanings of "cultural fit".)
This is exactly the strategy outlined in the real-engineering fiction book The Rocket Company. The vehicles in that book also use friction-stir welding, though they are all aluminum. In that book, some billionaires get together to fund a fully reusable TSTO rocket operable from the field.
Reiterating what petercooper said: if learning by book isn't your cup of tea, don't do it. On the other hand, lots of people find books helpful. Additionally, while plenty of people may find benefit in this document as a book used for self-led learning, my real goal with it was to release material that can be used for teaching. In that scenario, the people reading it have already expressed some interest in learning jQuery with the help of someone else, rather than just reading the docs.
I suspect the punchline of the story is a neat little provocative thing. Expediting the process can mean a quick rejection.
Just so long as you understand that it doesn't work this way for everyone.

I hate the notion of karma used by sites like HN and Reddit. It turns the content of the site into a popularity contest, specifically because the motivation you're talking about encourages people to do things that have crowd appeal. Conversely, when an active, respected community member -- like jrockway for example -- says something offbeat, controversial, or just different from the prevailing opinion of the audience, and then gets "punished" for it by this collective reduction of a totally worthless number ... to me, all that does is reflect badly on the community.

To be honest, I have a pretty low opinion of a lot of the HN community, and the karma system contributes to that.
"Capital gains at 28 percent"

That's one way to kill venture capital! Title could just as easily read "Obama will seek to raise taxes on Startups to finance ...".

Thankfully startups have at least the QSBS Section 1202 100% exclusion on the first $10m of capital gains through 2014. It helps smaller funds and founders, but there are enough gotchas (e.g. 5 year holding period) that VCs would still be looking at that 28 percent pretty seriously. I wish they would make the 100% exclusion permanent to eliminate the uncertainty, it's hard making decent planning decisions when all the tax rates are changed retroactively at the end of the year.

"The administration’s proposal on capital gains at death would exempt the first $200,000 in capital gains per couple plus $500,000 for a home, along with all personal property except for valuable art and collectibles. The rest would be treated for income-tax purposes as if it had been sold." -- Bloomberg.

That is absolutely terrifying. It would be bad enough to eliminate the step-up in basis and make heirs pay tax on the full nut when selling... but to actually treat the property as if it were sold, that means you actually have to sell it in order to pay the tax! This is actually extremely hostile to middle-class taxpayers.

Imposing taxes in the absence of an actual sale is brain dead. If your parents spend their lives accumulating a couple million dollars in assets they want to pass onto the children, you should not have to liquidate their entire estate just to give nearly half in taxes the day after they die.

Maybe all of this is after the estate tax exemption, in which case it wouldn't be nearly as catastrophic. But it doesn't sound like it from what I can find.
Would love to see some examples!
That's kind of the point. Most of those costs don't actually exist at small scales. The space required for one or two physical machines is negligible, with so little heat load you don't need a dedicated cooling system, there is no bandwidth cost when the server is in the same facility as the users, etc.

You pay Amazon to host your VMs because it's easier, not because you're saving money. There are only a small number of use cases (like having a highly inconsistent/unpredictable load from day to day) where paying someone to host for you will actually save you money.
No, it's not too late. I started at 37 and it took me 2.5 months to get my first app using codeigniter.
Although i had some experience programming when i was in college, it was 17/18 years ago so i had to learn a new language and found it relatively easy to start. I'm not the best programmer but i'm improving day by day, and the feeling i have when i get through a problem is really great. Reminds me of my times in college where i would be up at 3am compiling some code on a 8086...
My regret is that i should have done it a few years before...
Just do it!...