jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I believe there is an inevitable collision between the government's desire to control, regulate, and tax commerce, and virtual economies. It is hardly a secret that MMORPG items and characters are often bought and sold using real world currency. Players in Magic Online spend real world currency to acquire digital cards, which can then be exchanged for paper cards, and many brick and mortar game stores use this as the source for cards they sell. In theory players could easily use games such as these for money laundering and tax evasion. I don't think the government will shut down MMORPGs, but I believe that government interference and regulation of game economies is inevitable as they grow.

As for Bitcoin, you can research the legal history of various "digital currencies" and you will see that there have already been problems in this area. The purpose of Bitcoin, a decentralized and unregulated anonymous medium of exchange is obviously contradictory to the government's aims. It all boils down to the fact that governments want a monopoly on currencies and want to be able to monitor and tax economic activity. Digital economies are growing rapidly in size and social importance and they are no more likely to be allowed to flourish unregulated than the free sharing of copyrighted media was.
That's a good point: direct link:
http://aws.amazon.com/route53/#pricing
That's not necessarily a representative sample - it's only poker players, thus far.
America sucks more every day.
That doesn't matter. If you want normal people to use Ubuntu, you don't start on at them about Unix conventions.
Functionally, ex-military folks often end up in DC doing government contracting or consulting related to military agencies and intelligence. So that's mainly for signals and intel guys. They earn way more money doing the same old job.

For everyone else, their skills are useless although pretty much everyone I outprocessed with were angstful stop-lossed guys wanting to go into law enforcement in their old towns.

Besides, the incentives are to keep people in the military, not train them to get out...so it's really either DC or bust.
The design's nothing - check out what you get for a 404 Error: http://bouncebargainrentals.com/xxxxxx.html
While it's not that I wouldn't date someone who uses a mac, I probably wouldn't date someone who would only date someone who uses a mac, and I certainly wouldn't date someone who would only date someone who would only date someone who uses a mac. And certainly none of the higher-order terms.
Perhaps the new web meme should be "Animated Gifs are cruise control for cool"
Multiple HTTP requests will be more expensive than the drop-in-the-bucket 50KB to load the library. Sure, you could sprite all your icons but that's a lot of fragile CSS to maintain.
Your first post was one of the more interesting I've ever seen here at hn. Lots of good discussion about an issue way more important than database normalization, encryption, or valuations.

And while I appreciate the follow-up to that great thread, I caution you to proceed carefully. Engaging a caring community of bright minds can be very cool, but please beware crossing that thin line into crowdsourcing your health care.

I sincerely hope you find the help you need, but dude, find a good health care practitioner. If you haven't yet, keep looking. We're not it.
Of course it's different. We sell and support (very expensive) software on Linux and Windows. If our customers thought the Linux dev team could stop us releasing updates, they'd be looking to migrate to more reliable platform sooner rather than later.
You must be new to the Internet.....
It's interesting to speculate how this exposes both perception and familiarity of the brands and institutions.

I wonder how both Google and the NSA would rank amongst their respective peers; for instance say Kraft Foods or Target for Google and say, the National Forestry Services or the local police department for the NSA.

I also really wish the variance of the results were published
I think if React Native lives up to its promise, it's going to drive a much bigger adoption than node/iojs has.
Ok, but these subsidies are not based on a specific group. Some might think to be bad to subsidize Tesla, but would there be such a thing as subsidies for weed farmers?

The reason I am asking: unless there are such subsidies, it would mean that people pay proportional to their usage, so OP's joke about "electricity neutrality" would not only be wrong, it would be against net neutrality as well.
It sounds like this opportunity didn't work out for you. Moving home sounds like your best move.

I'd suggest trying to leave on the best possible terms with your current boss, to get a good reference down the road. Make sure you have something lined up back at home before resigning.

Don't worry too much about the job hopping, concentrate on improving your skills and building a portfolio of work you can show to new prospective employers.

Good luck!
Hehe, crime, kids, etc. are just excuses to grab more power and create a totalitarian surveillance state.
I suspect you saw about 5 people being conspicuous out of hundreds of less exciting folks. I am sure some poor folks committed some crimes as well.
Neophilic interests often span areas that are taboos within (American) mainstream society. It seems to come with the territory of genius, but some are better at hiding it than others. Tesla's ether physics and Wilhelm Reich's orgone come to mind. From [1]:

(Eric S.) Raymond observes a high concentration of neophiles in or around what he calls "leading edge subcultures" such as science fiction fandom, neo-paganism, transhumanism, etc. as well as in or around nontraditional areas of thought such as fringe philosophy or the occult.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neophile
Please spare us with the royal attitude. Congratulations, you know how computers work, and so do thousands of other people who work harder and cheaper than you. Recruiters don't care if you, candidate number 947392, is annoyed or not. They simply want to know if you're going to the damn interview or not. If not then goodbye, next. If you go to the interview, and you didn't embarrass the recruiter for suggesting you, then good job, thank you candidate number 947whatever, you did your job. If you actually get an offer letter, oh boy, you did a very good job! Recruiter gets 10k after you worked that job for 3 months. Wash, rinse, repeat. You are not special.
For how long will you be able to provide the hardware? You are using prime sense sensors so Apple could shut you down anytime, no ?
The important thing here is to remember that anybody who disagrees with you is a fascist, out to destroy America and freedom. There's no possibility that this is a well-intentioned effort, rather than bank-funded malice. Furthermore, it's all the other party's fault. This guy's actually a closet republican / a perfect example of how extreme liberal democrats have become.

waterlesscloud posted a link to the letter. Read it, then (if you have a real opinion past "government = evil" or some equally inane platitude) contact your senator.

Some thoughts on the content (from someone not particularly optimistic about bitcoin, but somewhat more optimistic about cryptocurrencies in general): Manchin does not actually explain how the use of bitcoin harms anyone who does not deliberately buy-in. The theory that it harms the economy in general simply by being volatile strikes me as silly, given that it represents a vanishingly small fraction of our economy (which, as I understand it, is part of the reason it's so volatile, meaning that as its share increases, volatility goes down).
Wow, I love the irony.
All of this seems to be anecdotal. Do you know of any research (as in, studies) which support any of this?
SpaceX has done low earth orbit, geosynchronous transfer orbit, and is working on reusable self-landing first stages and human spaceflight. Out of them and NASA, I expect SpaceX to get there first.
Your change is invalid. I picked my example very carefully: You can not extend an interface to an object after the type has been created. That only works with protocols.

That said, there are countless examples. I already mentioned the proposed ns+ form, but there are a couple more in the design spec here: http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Feature+Expressions

I'm not going to bother constructing more concrete examples, since it's trivial to do and each and everyone will have case-specific solutions that will seem "nicer" than feature expressions. But that's just it: It will be a case-by-case solution, rather than a general solution. Case-by-case application-centric solutions are preferable for the platform abstractions of your major subsystems, but often you just want to hack it and feature-macros simply don't offer the flexibility you need.
Original thread:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8922578
That's very interesting.

But then, I remember doing some work on college about Gödel number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_numbering). Would it be possible for example, to use this as a form of encoding instructions?

Maybe if arbitrary programs are too broad of scope, how about specifically getting only one instruction correct? e.g. to evolve the correct print(message) syntax. Do you have any references to this? it's a fascinating subject!
In short: you know too much. These salaries are taken by fresh college grads who don't know better, and think the adventure of "a startup" is better than working for a larger company (it can be, but there's no guarantee).

Many startup CEOs would like you to believe they are the only ones doing interesting work, but there are plenty of larger organisations that are still fun to work for, and more likely to value you as an employee.
Depends on what Microsoft will put on the table ;)
BSD conferences are Right Sized and the people are amazing. BSDCan is worth the trip if you want to see a different perspective from the larger confs which are highly commercialized.
At these scales, bandwidth to disks isn't trivial - at a gigabyte a second, it would still take over 130 days to build the checksums for the torrent. I don't think Bittorrent fundamentally allows multithreaded torrent generation.

I think they bundle their data into WARCs of a few (dozen?) megabytes. Copying those around is much more straightforward, with much lower latency.
They have a point. I was way too short in my original comment, a bit of explanation why I thought that way would have been better, too many assumptions on my part.
It's essentially a min-max problem. Optimization is achievable, but hard work.

It demands honesty from both parties and any employee must understand exactly what you said: companies can't give all the employees want. You have to know your own value and make yourself valuable to the company first, then ask for recognition.
Is there any info on Linux Plumbers Conference 2015? I can only find stuff about their 2014 conference online.
Did you read the detailed Rights section on the home page?
If you like this stuff, you will love Jeff Potter's "Cooking for Geeks"

http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Geeks-Science-Great-Hacks/dp/0...
I really like Forrst. It's got a good mix of code and design for a generalist like me. I think I get something out of it. Perhaps that speaks to my level of competency but I find it useful since I am a jack of all trades. If I have a really hard coding problem, StackOverflow is going to be where I go. For a stream of new stuff or latest techniques I may not be aware of, Forrst is for me.

Also I think Kyle has done a great job as developer/designer. I was impressed. If someone doesn't like it, they are welcome to create a better version.

As for the monetization, I have to agree w/ steveklabnik that designer/developers are a hard bunch to squeeze money out of since they aren't used to paying for these sort of services. I could be wrong.
Could be anything - github/bitbucket link to some OSS, site you designed/coded, etc.
A city block in many metros is not that much money though. Think Cleveland.
My takeaway from the article is that I should spend no time thinking about shark attacks since it's only a distraction from the much larger danger of drowning,

The pig statistic is mere distraction too.
Replace willingness by motivation and focus. Everybody is willing to do something, not everyone will find the willpower to do it.
There's also the old Cold War rule that as soon as one superpower deployed forces to a given conflict, the other superpower most certainly would not. That's why the US was so quick off the mark to get involved in Korea and Vietnam, while the USSR was so quick off the mark to get involved in Afghanistan. If you were the first superpower (to be blunt about it, the first nuclear power) to get involved in a war, you would be the only superpower directly involved in that war.

To this day, the US is willing to deploy troops for lots of reasons--sometimes to protect allies, sometimes in response to humanitarian issues (Yugoslavia)--but never in a situation where they will get into a shooting war with Russia or China. And the tendency is reciprocal. When Russia sends troops into Georgia, they do so knowing the US will not send their own troops to Georgia. When the US sails a half dozen aircraft carriers through the Taiwan Straits, as they did in 1996, they do so knowing China will not cross that line and attack Taiwan, as they were threatening to do at the time.
Did you try turning the value proposition of the marketing tool on its head by pitching it to print publishers desperate to offer evidence of the effectiveness of print advertising to their advertisers (as the advertisers shift their ad spend towards analytics-supported online services)?
Actually, it doesn't increase much faster than linear. It's quasilinear, and so in O(n^(1+\epsilon) for all \epsilon > 0. There are a variety of such results, so most objections don't hold weight.

The paper you linked to names challenges, but it only states those in respect to reaching practical scaling, which is a result of the constant that is associated with the growth rate, but not the growth rate itself.
Selection bias…
> Do you think that the food insecurity example may not produce a feeling of pity towards minority students, and a feeling of rejection in the minority students themselves?

It could. I don't disagree with this objection, but at the same time this argument isn't just confined to math but also other subjects. I think that trying to cover up current socioeconomic divisions is on par with covering up less tasteful parts of US history, both are whitewashing. The world isn't perfect, we shouldn't pretend that it is

> The problem with this isn't the facts being presented, but the fact that when these sort of facts are needlessly inserted into every possible area of a child's education that child will then have a fundamentally different outlook and racial division will only rise as these differences are expounded

I wouldn't describe acknowledging things that elicit discomfort as "needless insertions". Also they aren't inserted everywhere (as far as I know...)

I don't think acknowledging a situation will necessarily exacerbate it. I think the first step to moving beyond a situation is acknowledging it
Flume channels support both, but yeah those are very different implementations. I think that supporting it in crossbeam would be great too
Well they can make a deal along the lines of 'give back those shares or we'll issue millions of new shares and give them to everyone we like except you'.
It's strange to cast Christian antisemitism as a result of the depiction of Pontius Pilate as an innocent stooge (or alternately a secret pious Christian doing God's work in executing Christ.) It's not the result, it's the cause. The reason Pilate is painted as anything other than guilty is because the Jews must be guilty, and the method of the Jew in destroying all that is good is to sneakily take advantage of the innocent non-Jew.

Non-Jewish, and later Roman state Christianity, required an orthodoxy. As part of that orthodoxy, Jewish Christians had to be demonized and/or converted, and Jewish claims that Jesus was not the messiah and the messiah had yet to come had to be painted as evil. This was one of a hundred ways that was done.

edit: the extratextual antisemitism that largely still exists in various Christian orthodoxies (but isn't actually in the books) should probably be considered a kind of Christian Talmud. Protestantism was partially a reaction motivated by a perception that the Roman church had grown soft, and too lenient on the Jews. The authoritarianism and corruption of the Catholic church was preventing believers from adequately punishing the Jews who refused to, or who pretended to, convert.
1) Gypsy is a slur

2) Both of those things were / are illegal and operated relatively underground, which is exactly the point of the person you're responding to.
Uber as a business is a massive loss, but consumers still _chose_ Uber over taxis because the process of getting and riding in a car is a million times more transparent than a taxi ever was. You can see what car and what driver are picking you up, what route they're going to take, and how much it will cost. Taxis failed because they failed to modernize.
Any benchmarking numbers off top of your head?
Heroku has been great for bootstrapping. I fear though that it's only a matter of time before Salesforce pulls a Chargify like stunt.
I do subscribe to other RSS feeds, but looking at netnewswire's "Attention" feed report, I do visit HN linked sites more than any other.

I think this is a function of how practically useful the information is to me personally.

Conventional news tells me about a lot of things I can't do anything about - I'm pretty much a passive observer. I mean, in terms of politics I get to vote once every year or two? And anything macroeconomic is far outside my control, but might inform me slightly of where people may spend money in the next year or two.

Contrast that with tech news and what gets posted on HN - it's stuff I can either pick up and use (new languages/concepts/scripts/etc.) or that people will actually go to me for advice on. I can take an active roll and have give and take - there are opportunities for interaction there that are manageable.
>Likewise, I'm skeptical of "neither the SSD nor the data can be recovered"

If the firmware crashes during boot with negative hour counter, it probably could be only fixed by manually flashing new firmware over JTAG.
Um this would require a lot of major break throughs and several Nobel prizes.

Also If you had a power source that small for that amount of power aircraft caries would be as obsolete as a pre dreadnought battle ship.

You would be well into in the SF sense "Panzers" if not actual a "Gunship" (SSTO) armed with CREWS (Beam weapons) of various types.
Unemployment is at historical lows, consumer confidence is at historic highs. It can get so much worse. Look at Venezuela and Colombia for modern examples of what happens in failed states
Eliot's sociological novel, an overarching view of how society works, is part of the inspiration for my logging library, named Eliot (https://eliot.readthedocs.io).

The intro docs are inspired by Middlemarch: https://eliot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/introduction.html
It's really neither. It's the part where information on someone else's calendar was disseminated to an external third party.
doesnae work on iPhone SE
Here's a fun thought - what if you (or the readership you defend) are no longer the average consumer?
Google "fiduciary duty"
As for startup speed, note that in this round our research software engineer in the Julia Lab just brought the "first time to plot" to about 1/4 of what it was before. Julia 1.3 has a lot of these updates, and Julia 1.4 has a development sprint for bringing down the latency. I would be surprised if the common major latency issues still exist past next summer. Of course a JIT will always have some bumps compared to a pure interpreter, but Julia's compiler is definitely getting a lot smarter as to what to try and fully analyze (and what to cache)
I agree 100% regarding tradeoffs. However, saying that something is a "tradeoff" infers value. I.e., how can one evaluate a trade for something with no relative value? Saying something "doesn't matter" means it is not considered. Saying it's a "tradeoff" means you considered it, but found it less important than other factors. Those are two different things.

This is just a semantic argument, but it's one I find important. At our startup, we came out of the gate with viable, working software in under six weeks. Believe me, there were tradeoffs. But at no point in that process did I say, "this doesn't matter". That's lying to myself. It matters, but I will accept for today that I cannot have both. This helps us avoid complacency and keeps our product sharp.
> A hackable text editor for the 21st century

I'll fix: A proprietary (unhackable) text editor that only runs on OS X.

I imagine that web developers will drool over this.
Yep, we haven't lost the tech, just the in-house skills. Each Saturn V engine had an absolutely insane number of extremely fine welds by master welders. Welding is an art form, and we definitely don't have the same number of welders we used to.

That said, we could potentially replace some of that with new fab techniques. But we probably couldn't do it the same way we did.
> Like a pressurised container full of money; if there is any crack or way a hole can be made, it bursts and the money is gone.

That is, far and away, the best description of the problem I've heard. Did you come up with it?
> My straw-man idea was not to add the Dart VM to the browser, it was to add a Dart-to-asm.js compiler to the browser, as an AOT compilation step.

Oh ok, sorry for misunderstanding you.

That might work, but it is unclear it would be any faster than dart2js. Also, AOT is not likely to work in Dart which is optionally typed, unless a codebase is actually fully typed. Overall it seems an interesting experiment perhaps - I've suggested it myself - but an unlikely one.

> I would challenge you to name a standardized technology with a market comparable to the web in which one vendor is so dominant that all of the other competitors are defeated and it becomes a monoculture, despite a large demand.

Well, the web - back in the IE days.

Also to a lesser extent the smartphone mobile web which was a monoculture of WebKit (and to some degree still is today).

And the point is that standards become irrelevant when there is a monoculture. In theory windows supported various POSIX APIs, but in practice windows became a proprietary monoculture.
Got to reply to myself here. I forgot to mention Joe Haldeman who still writes and is one of my forever SciFi heroes because of "The Forever War". And now I discovered that Ridley Scott (Bladerunner, Alien) is going to do "The Forever War" in 3D! So, yes, Sci-Fi is dying, but as long as true fans of the pure art like Ridley Scott are around, there is hope.
Other news sources here in the Netherlands have also reported that it wasn't neccesarily direct info about individual users. A traffic analysis bureau created reports on this data for road management authorities, and the reports combined with accident data was were used to set speed traps.
Oddly enough, I usually hear this the other way around - that if you work on a product that makes the company money directly (shrinkwrap software for a software company, HFT shit for a financial firm, etc) that you'll generally be treated (and compensated) better than if you're in a supporting role.
> When you have the superiority the US sports, it's not hard to win a war.

What was the last war the US actually won?