jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I invest hundreds of hours per year studying bitcoin's development, the crypto markets, etc. But you think your opinion somehow weighs more than mine, eh?

You're reading things into my comment that I didn't say. Note that I didn't claim that my opinion is more important than yours, nor did I claim that bitcoin will not be successful. It very well might be. I just pointed out some inconsistencies in the path to success that you envision. (Or rather, the path that Dan Held envisions, because your comment was an almost verbatim copy of what he recently said in a "What Bitcoin Did" podcast episode.)

> Ignore Lightning Network's development at your own peril.

Lightning will help with scaling, but it's not a silver bullet. To give one example: a lightning channel's state management involves composing precommitted transactions, which are not broadcast but can be used to unilaterally close a channel (see section 3.3.2 of the lightning paper[1]). That means the transaction fee also needs to be chosen in advance. That can be problematic when the transaction fees spike, because there is only a limited window for such a transaction to go through. If it takes too long to confirm, it will not be able to override an attempt by the other party to maliciously close the channel with outdated state.

> You have to be extremely & wilfully ignorant to claim 'medium of exchange' is off the table, just now that PayPal & Mastercard are embracing cryptocurrencies.

Paypal does not currently support using bitcoin as a medium of exchange. See Paypal's FAQ "Can I use Cryptocurrencies to pay or send money with PayPal?"[2].

Even if they do enable "sending bitcoin" within paypal in the future, I'm not sure we can say that that's bitcoin being used as a medium of exchange. The medium would be paypal, while bitcoin would act as a unit of account (numbers in paypal's database).

[1] https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf

[2] https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/cryptocurrency-o...
I'm finding your attempt to avoid dealing with the impact of bitcoin amusing. What are you, a bitcoin investor?

In general it's a bad principle to try and justify environmental impact caused by one thing by pointing at environmental impact of another thing.
It's the wrong fight to have with Google and has a high chance of ruining the potential to start the right fights with Google.
The article raises, but does not answer, the question in the title given here on HN. The article does provide a useful precis of the the history and implications of Novell's purchase by Attachmate, and it provides the simple answer "no", in that the Unix copyrights are not now the legal possession of Microsoft. Microsoft has acquired patents in the deal, but there is no clarity on what that means for Unix, nor is it clear what use Attachmate will make of the copyrights it now owns (aside from continuing operation of the Novell business for the immediate future).
It's not clear at all what the site does.

The text field under "I want to" is too small, what am I supposed to do with it?

I mean what kind of stuff can I type in there? It seems like I should tell you a lot more than just three words. I mean, it says "provide us your financial numbers", how am I supposed to provide you them in that tiny box?

Out of curiosity I tried to type "buy a house", and then it took me to a new page. Now in that new page, the "I want to" box is larger, and it says under it "Example: Buy a TV, Visit Europe, Go on a Cruise". Too late to give an example at this point.

Also it's not clear who will be advising me, will a real human look at my situation and give me advice, or will it be left up to a machine?

It seems to me that the calculation is simple enough that I can do it on my own, the hard part of such a decision is not the number crunching, it's about what else do I want. Sure I can buy a house with a mortgage of say 1000/mo, but how would that affect my life? What if I actually want to travel around the world? Should I still buy a house? How will the machine know?
Ahh thanks guys I must have missed that part.
That thumbnail made me snort coffee through my nose. Looks like the kind of photo an actor would have on their CV
Locomotive BASIC was indeed influenced by BBC Basic, but I think you'd have a hard time arguing that the Spectrum (direct descendant of the ZX81) or the C64 (developed in America) were, and they were by far the two most popular micros in the UK.
for marketers? maybe

for me? if it works, then it's great - especially here, where it saved people's life & expensive af aircraft
It means exactly what it says

Legally binding contract. You know, the law, lawyers, written signatures
I agree. These three points you raise are discussed at length in this blog post constructed around a letter written by Judge Flemming in 1969 which accurately predicted how a quota system, or using different standards for different groups, would result in these types of negative outcomes: https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/the-amazing-1969-prophecy-...

Undermining the credibility of existing, properly qualified players in the field is one of the most pernicious aspects of a quota system.
Nope. Girls have their role models. We've been pedalling the exaggerated truth of Ada Lovelace being the first programmer for decades. She even has a programming language named after her. Grace Hopper is pulled out at any opportunity.

Boys don't need role models. They don't do things "because Elon Musk is cool". You speak about things you really don't understand. Boys do things because they are driven to do them for seemingly no reason at all. Boys obsess over things. Taking things to sometimes absurd extremes. And they're not doing any of it because they want to be rich, or want women, or want to be Elon Musk. Trust me. I've spent all my evenings of the last month on my latest electronics project. Do you think I'm doing that just because Charles Babbage also had a penis?
C and C++ :)

I am evaluating using Wt, Bootstrap, jQuery and PostgreSQL.
But that may not be the best option both to scale the app and the team going forward.
Exactly. When people say 'before we had version control' I want to ask, how old are you? And by the way, I am older than just about all of you.

Started with SCCS with versioned control lists to determine what got pulled from SCCS. The outer wrapper was all written in shell. 1980s.

Talking about a large system, eight or ten sub projects, each sub project in its own versioned source tree.

A release spec pulled the SCCS deltas of all the sub project control lists, and then SCCS was directed by those versioned control lists to pull all the source code for each sub project.

So yes, version control that I am aware of was firmly entrenched in 1980. And I am certain it goes back further than that.
Doesn't "keto" refers to a diet that has the goal of putting your body into ketosis? Where it starts using metabolic pathways it doesn't usually use? Simply avoiding sugars or cutting down on carbs wouldn't do that.

On the other hand, I agree that people have associations about the kind of people who choose to do keto, and that's part of what you're getting when you see those differing responses.
This is great; you should make a full package which people can buy as a complete solution. Start a company!

The one thing which i would really really like is to have a Computer Vision ML system which can detect changes in demeanour eg. face discoloration(lack of blood flow), droopy eyes, tremors in hands, unsteadiness on feet, greater than usual stooping etc. I am the sole caretaker for an elderly parent and am always looking out for these (and other) external markers. The key to elderly care is constant monitoring to anticipate and forestall problems.
They're called computation expressions in F# and not monads because they're not exclusively used to implement monads. The term is more generalised to capture the much larger scope of the feature.

Here's a breakdown of the difference:

http://tomasp.net/blog/2013/computation-zoo-padl/index.html
I got a $15K raise last month, from $60 to $75K. I expect a much bigger one next year. It's not impossible to get those raises, but you have to align your thinking with the way the company operates, have supporters in the company, and bring real value to the table.

If you're just checking boxes or asking for more money "just because", then you deserve the arched eyebrow you're bound to get.
Why would calling them anything different have any effect on learning other concepts?
Fantastic answer! Thank you for taking the time to answer in such detail.

You've definitely got my upvote, though you deserve far more.
Not really 'further' detail - there is actually more info in the podcast than his wikipedia entry.
In a real production environment that command line would be put into a script parametrized with named variables and the embedded awk scripts would be changed to here-docs.
I do some work in a clinical research center at a university. The amateur and unprofessional behavior displayed here angers me, and is certainly not universal across research centers. We have dedicated staff (both NPs and physicians) at our center who take our subjects' mental and physical well being very seriously. We would absolutely not tolerate investigators or staff making disparaging comments for example, or permit situations in which subjects were put in distress.
I'd like to second this. Where I work we get catered lunch, and it's clearly a win-win. Getting food outside the office is at least a 15 minute round-trip and, amazingly, almost always costs more than catering.

We also have a good culture around it - people who don't feel like socializing frequently take food back to their desks instead of eating with everyone else, which I think removes some of the issues people take with the idea.
Location: Richardson, Texas

Remote: No. (though perfectly willing to work on a trial basis remotely before relocating.)

Willing to relocate: Yes (US and Canada only - If you are based in US, I will expect efforts from you to apply for a US visa that leads to a P.R. I'm a Canadian citizen on a TN work permit now working in Richardson, Texas)

Technologies: Web, Android(out of touch) and Windows desktop apps. * 15 years of experience on the web(from frontend to back, though my pref is mostly backend). See résumé link below for further details.

Résumé/CV: http://tinyurl.com/n5bdsd9 (downloadable in .doc, github code also available)

Email: dennis_quicksort-1@yahoo.com

* =not that the number of years of experience matters, but 20 somethings shallow 'software-is-my-only-passion' kids are annoying,(I'm fine with the young, wise, humble ones). I prefer working with silver hairs(or ones born with silver hair - like I was :)) who have life/opinions/wisdom beyond software. Take Care.

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ASP.NET, .NET, Java (J2EE ) - Servlets, JSP, JDBC, EJB (Limited Experience), JavaMail, Junit, ANT, Maven, log4j, SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL, stored procedures, cron jobs, LINQ, HTML, HTML5, DHTML, XHTML, ASP, PHP, C#, XML, SOAP, Web Services, WSDL, CXF, Axis, XPath, XSLT, AJAX, VB6, Windows Forms, Crystal Reports, JavaScript, CSS, CSS3, ActionScript, Flash, Object oriented programming, Optimizeit, javadoc, Popchart Java, VtigerCRM, Smarty, jQuery, Jquery UI, phpMyAdmin, Visual Studio.Net IDE, Netbeans, Eclipse, VJ++, VSS, SVN, Dreamweaver, TOAD, Winmerge, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Mantis, Java on Android, Android SDK, AVD Manager, Android Emulator, Android Debug Bridge,
Databases – Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access, SQLite
UltraEdit is discussed below as the only text editor that can open 500MB files.
It still has to be stored somewhere though right? If it's EBS you've just made yourself a complicated solution that will eventually fail all over again. No?
I wouldn't think there a large number of customers deciding "this is too unreliable, I'm leaving" on the basis of a few hours of down time. On the other hand, there might be a large number of people who, upon finding your site down, decide to visit alternatives that are up at the time, and some of those people might decide they like the alternatives better.
It looks that way, which is pretty sad. I'm typing this on my beloved N900, which I found far more usable and open than Android (which I kicked when it wouldn't stop screaming "CLOUD! CLOUD!" at me, and Eric Schmidt kept coming into my house at night to smell my hair).

Seriously, though, there are only two real competitors, Apple and Google, in the smartphone market, which is unfortunate for everyone. Windows phones have been floundering, WebOS seems to have lost traction, and Blackberries are...Blackberry who? I hope we're not entering the Dark Ages of Mobile Phones.
Most people these days have a utf8 locale; basically nothing from that email applies when that is the case, and grep runs much slower.
Native push notifications aside, Boxcar (as the post says) does seem to do a pretty good job of picking up the slack while they figure out the best route for them.
I know the NYT spends a lot of money on its site, but that's just their choice. It's nice, but usually not strictly necessary for the purpose of delivering news online, and I don't think the NYT's site is really that much better than if you secretly switched its CMS to Brand X. If they want to constantly throw money into that pit and then complain about their financial woes, I guess that's their call, but I would personally prefer to focus on things with a good ROI.
If anyone is curious, I did a post about plain sinatra apps and some of the gotchas with Cloud Foundry here:

http://lusislog.blogspot.com/2011/04/sinatra-noah-and-cloudf...

Sinatra support is pretty basic at this point but it promises to get better over time. The code has several TODOs related to sinatra and node.
Would you be willing to pay $2-5 a month? I imagine that something like Urban Airship isn't very cost effective if they offer it for free to everyone. On a side note, I don't understand why people just don't use Boxcar or http://push.ly/
Excited that they are thinking about coming to other parts of the Kansas City Metro:)
So I'm not a person that actively writes AI software, but I am a knowledgable supporter. I'm all for the Singularity, rights for future non-human intelligences, etc, et. al.

So I always take issues with these kinds of esoteric debates about how to engineer ethics into an intelligence that can learn and become conscious.

Haven't any of these yahoos ever had kids or owned a pet dog?

You don't "engineer ethics" into your son or daughter. You teach them through examples of good behavior, punish them when they misbehave, and reward them when they succeed. Over the course of a few years, given a good environment, the end result is a new young intelligence that knows how to behave well and get along with others. That intelligence often goes on to bootstrap itself up into adulthood and eventually goes on to create later iterations of itself. If it was raised well, then the new ones tend to get raised well too. We call them "grandkids".

So lets assume in 10-20 years something descended from IBM's Blue Brain (simulating cat cortexes) leads to something that is analogous in intellectual range from a dog to an elephant.

Most people will agree that dogs and elephants are pretty damn smart. Dogs are able to perceive human emotional states, understand some language, do work for people, and fit nicely into our social structure. Elephants aren't that close with people, but are highly intelligent, have active internal emotional states, and even grieve for their dead. In some societies, people and elephants have worked together for thousands of years.

In both these cases, we have a long history of working with other intelligences of varying scales for thousands of years. In general, if you don't mistreat them they turn out to be socialized pretty well. Its only when you mistreat them that they learn to fear and hate you. The same is true for people.

So as @aothman said in another comment in this thread, AI researchers are just trying to get their projects to not fall over. There's no thought of "engineering ethics". This problem is going to be solved one little bit at a time. Artificial neural architectures are going to more and more sophisticated over time. But there is a key difference between the underlying architecture and how you go about training these new minds.

If you raise them well, then most of these angels-on-a-pin discussions are just that, meaningless.
Based on iPhone's first day sales, their "uphill battle towards adoption" looked more like a rolling down the hill.

With a help of a rocket engine.
Hey raganwald, Nickieben here. You're a little prickly about this subject. How about I answer the question, since I wrote the post?

First off, everything on raganwald's blog is in his personal interest directly or indirectly. He isn't a journalist, he doesn't have to answer questins like "Do you own shares in Apple" whenever he mentions OS X, because he doesn't have a "Conflict of Interest." That's because he isn't employed by the publisher, he is the publisher. So his interests are the publisher's interests. He doesn't represent his writing as objective or news. He represents it as his own opinions advanced for his own interests.

So I get why he won't answer whether he has an interest in anything he writes about. The answer is "Yes," whether he says so or not. In my mind, a better question is, "Nickieben, what made you suggest that book?" Note the neutral tone :-) And indeed, I can and will answer that question.

Both raganwald and Greg Wilson spoke at Stack Overflow's Dev Days in Toronto. Here are a few reactions to their talks:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27151/devdays-review...

http://blog.techscene.ca/2009/10/24/in-review-stack-overflow...

Greg's slides are available:

http://www.slideshare.net/gvwilson/bits-of-evidence-2338367

Flash forward to last week, and raganwald published a post claiming that programming wasn't an empirical science.

I wrote a post correcting raganwald's error, and named three books. Why three? Well, it's a weird "magic number." You know, you say "There are books treating programming as an empirical science," and someone retorts "Oh yeah? Name three!"

Two are indeed "classics," although quite honestly I don't treat old books as somehow magic, especially if there aren't a lot of others to read. I wanted the most current example of a new book, and since Greg's book is (a) decent, and (b) doesn't have cobwebs, that's the choice I made.

But honestly, don't sweat Greg's book. The important message is really that there is research, but not enough of it. We need so many that the "classics" are the ones that have stood the test of time by being better than the 100s of other books published since they came out.

That isn't the case with empirical research on programming. My "endorsement" would mean a lot more if Greg's book was one of twenty published every year backed by research, and you want to know why you should read his instead of the other nineteen.

If you want me to retract that endorsement, I could just as easily say Read every book that is backed by actual research. The lack of competition is the real problem here, not whether there's some cozy Toronto cabal of shills in operation.
I don't understand the point of all this business of learning trigonometry when there's all these history books to read!

Relax, we can and should do both. In fact, the various space programs have been immensely useful in terms of the technology we can apply right here at home and we learn stuff about our neighborhood. The more big, bold science and engineering we do the more our species benefits.
“People”. You shouldn’t use gender, race, religion or nationality to describe a group of people unless it is somehow important to the story.

Otherwise you end up propagating stereotypes.
I haven't seen anything on specific timing but I read they will be looking suitable terrain (flat with no large dangerous rocks, but enough small rocks for the helicopter's vision system to register) to fly in as the rover drives. There's also no provision for the rover to pick the helicopter back up as far as I know, so they will be stuck in the same place during the 30 day test campaign. Given that and given the "proof of concept" nature of the helicopter I imagine there might be a desire to start getting data back from the rover's main scientific instruments before deploying the helicopter.
It is worth stepping back once in a while and thinking about how things appear to non-technical people. The FBI was suspicious of Serge Aleynikov in part due to his use of a "subversion repository" [0]. "Git" isn't all that appealing to non-technical British audiences, either.

[0] http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman...
Well, any time I make rice the water goes in a basin and ends up back int he garden a few minutes later, so I don't feel guilty about that.
Its generally pretty easy to find plants just by using Google maps. You can't see the plants themselves, but you can make an educated guess about which sites will have the appropriate terrain and microclimate. It is enough work though to deter people who are only casually interested.

If there really are only a handful left then that probably doesn't work in this case, but for most things that are merely uncommon it's a pretty good technique.
That they come pre-pwned, mostly. I don't really trust digital media.
MS has been pushing more and more for all of their tools to be scriptable through powershell, to give you just that. Getting stuck is harder and harder these days. Hell, powershell has features I'd love unix shells to copy, like being able to import libraries and use their classes and functions like any other shell command.
Making a conscious decision not to use an inferior language is far from laziness. It's a productivity-oriented decision.
I think there were two thoughts there, one that it beats the Air on battery and performance, and two that it's a fanless ultraportable that has more than one USB port (with an implied "unlike the new Macbook").
As Spock once said, "Colloquially expressed, but essentially correct."
I noticed this on the official results page of the recent Parliamentary Elections in Greece. It uses JSON in the hash.

http://ekloges.ypes.gr/current/v/public/index.html?lang=en
OpenBSDs 5.7 includes "New iwm(4) driver for Intel 7260, 7265, and 3160 wifi cards."
I'm writing some plugins for Haraka _right now_. Definitely recommended!
Miracast is such a POS, I am saddened by exactly how horrible it is.

I have a Miracast setup with over a second latency for video. When it works at all.
Neat. I'm curious why the quotes around the commands are necessary. Why "py '3 * 1.5'" instead of just "py 3 * 1.5"?
A beautifully written and tragic essay.

(Note: What follows is US-centric.)

After nine years of teaching mathematics courses (one semester as an undergraduate, 4.5 years as a graduate student, and 4 years as an assistant professor) and navigating university politics, I'm convinced that this is, at its heart, a cultural issue.

There's a hatred of mathematics in mainstream American culture that runs very, very deep. And it will probably take generations to change that (if changing it is even possible at this point).
After this hack, Bitfinex account holders took a haircut (30% or so) and were given tokens representing the remainder of their dollar-denominated account balances. Those tokens were paid in full in 2017ish.

Later, the UK, Portugal, and Poland seized $1B or so of Bitfinex customer funds due to the funds being delivered by Crypto Capital Corp who was found to be engaged in money laundering. Bitfinex issued LEO tokens to make up for that asset seizure, and have a clause that if the 2016 stolen bitcoins were recovered, they'd be used to retire the LEO tokens. That's why LEO has greatly increased in value recently. https://cryptowat.ch/charts/BITFINEX:LEO-USD?period=1d