jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Stay tuned, we're nearly finished with a release that includes Python 2.7.1 and various other goodies.

SL4A is still the way to go if you want access to a significant portion of the Android API, though.
There's no contradiction. The prices in BTC for services/goods are lowered until people want to pay. With speculation, the trick is that eventually the currency has to land in the pockets of someone who will trade it for services/goods. If no one wants to do that, you basically have an infinite loop for currency speculation going on and eventually there's no point in grabbing the currency when no one wants to give it up unless it's for USD.
So are we supposed to be impressed by clojures now ? Or are we supposed to be impressed that the "great" Joel Spolsky (a ex manager in EXCEL team !!!!) writes about them.
Yes, I am male.

> Pop quiz: What would Ayn Rand call someone who just parroted someone else's intellectual work instead of coming up with their own?

Why do you assert that I am a mere parrot? A student that draws free-body diagrams and calculates torques can't be said to be a parrot of Newton. Are we obligated to mention Newton's name every time we talk about a third-law pair, or in front of every use of "momentum"?

Clearly, there is nothing illegitimate about communicating an idea without attribution in this context. When I quote, I usually put in a link to the source, but that's not absolutely essential. In a web forum, just putting quote marks around a paragraph is enough, because people have search engines if they care enough to look.

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Incidentally, have you ever tried to read Rand's Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology?
Firebug is aiming for full functionality on other browsers in the future. Sadly not ready yet :) http://blog.getfirebug.com/2010/10/24/firebug-metamorphosis/
and while we're at it, let's put a cap on CEO compensation at $300k/year for all non-founding CEO's and non-founding executives.
> Further, teachers are already paid roughly as well as engineers (per month worked, not per calendar year). See this thread for details:

For certain rather extreme and wide definitions of "roughly". :) Part-time Kindergarten teachers != community college professors != Harvard professors. Pretty wide range of pay there. Whereas engineers always pay pretty damn good, and don't have to babysit children.
commune... be left alone...

Bay Area... little cottage...

hackers... plow the fields...

I don't think you've decided what you really want here.

If you want to live in a small, communal, hacker workplace in the Bay area, then you should join or create a technology startup.

If you want to plow fields, live in a small cottage, and be left alone, you should buy a small house in the countryside.
Who cares? This is the first time I've seen it.

All 4 current comments on this story are completely worthless.
Though it's not popular to talk about it, there are cultural differences between races, as a general rule -- especially regarding attitudes towards education, ambition, work and success.
If by standard, you mean you have to pay for it, prorated to the Linode disk space size, then yeah, it's standard.
Isn't $55 a bit high in total cost? Aside from the 2 servers for projects, all of those aren't going to need entire servers just for 1 user. I've run Nextcloud doing all the same stuff for half that price and don't think Gitea or Monica would add much overhead.

I'm aiming to do a lot of the same (and more) but definitely aiming at a much lower monthly cost.
I'm under no such impression, I'm just pointing out the obvious flaw in your previous post.
They accept the inherent risk that comes with air travel. No amount of security theater is going to make that risk smaller.
Thank you for your interest in US government. I'm delighted to see a foreign citizen take so much interest.

I think you would agree that the likelihood of a filibuster on this issue is zero. I would suggest that the likelihood of a presidential veto on such a bill would also approach zero. As for the whole amendment crap, that is our public shame, that no bill can just be about what it was written about, but instead, must be saddled with miscellaneous additions on any number of unrelated matters. If I could change that aspect of our government, I would do so.
I ordered from him 3 times and never got a drink last time. :)
Yes, a little. I have a day job, and unfortunately am unable to break away from that to join the entrepreneurial pool. Like you, I have a background littered with technical acumen and actually helped with a few start ups. I enjoyed it, but the instability just isn't for me right now.

I still do things and make things, but they aren't start ups. Some are school projects, others are for my day job, and some are just for fun. I read HN because there are great people with interesting opinions on stories I want to read.

That said, I feel the same way. I want to break out and do things. I get that feeling sometimes, and it hurts to feel trapped, but then my paycheck goes through and I log my 40 hours and go home.
"Blocks are actually a great example: what matz did was realize that often, you're only passing one anonymous function to another, and so he added special syntax to make it nicer."

This argument, that you almost never need to pass in more than one block to a method, is true, only because Ruby doesn't as elegantly support the alternative. If it did, then you'd probably have plenty of multiblock methods like do:separatedBy: as you do in Smalltalk.

"With that said, you may disagree, but you can see where I'm getting at. Just because something did it _first_ doesn't mean they did it best."

So Smalltalk's blocks, which are versatile enough to be the basis for the language's control structures, are inferior to the block, proc, lambda trifecta of Ruby? Are you seriously telling me that you wouldn't prefer Ruby just have procs (real objects) with the block syntactic sugar and maybe also lamdbas, for their different return behavior?

"Smalltalk is a fine language, but I can't get into the whole image thing."

I used to feel the same way, but that was because I didn't understand the image. To me it was some digital blob with code and program state in it; I was always scared of breaking it or losing code. Then I learned how to actually use it, thanks to Squeak/Pharo by Example. Now I wouldn't have it any other way.

"While we're on this whole "educate others about language features" kick, Rubyists almost never use curly braces. One-line blocks are the only time. ;)"

Ruby is a curly brace language even if Rubyists opt not to use them; syntactically it belongs to the C family of languages, which are the "curly brace" languages.
OK, we get it. You're a Smalltalk fan and you believe it's the best language for teaching. I don't disagree, and certainly I'm not going to stop you if you decide to teach people Smalltalk.

But why do you have to undermine efforts by others who do valuable work, but using a different language? There's nothing constructive about that.
then you have a different definition of "right" than most of the rest of us.

If systematically allowing people to die is a wrong, then everyone is guilty of an original sin, given that to date no one has found a way to prevent death.
If you have more than one email address set up in GitHub, you can choose which one's Gravatar to display.
Is it not possible to setup some sort of dollar value or bandwidth maximum and freeze the account upon reaching that value?
Congrats to the FoundationDB team from us at Aerospike. We respect what FoundationDB was doing with NoSQL and ACID and believe this validates the importance of reliability and enterprise-readiness in the NoSQL market.

I'd love to hear from anyone who was actually using FoundationDB in development or production, and what other NoSQL open source alternatives you are considering. pcorless@aerospike.com ; http://goo.gl/KVQxyq
I've also had luck with 3.5" HD enclosures, they were as cheap as the drive without enclosure and with a bit creativity make for very nice looking enclosures for electronic projects.

Another pro-tip I picked up is using match-boxes for storing electronics (resistors, connectors, small modules). They are cheap and you can tape/glue them together to create arrays of small boxes. The sides are clear thus perfect to write what they contain.
You haven't explained why it doesn't solve the problem. My experience has been if I can't understand it, it's because it's bullshit.

So why not take another crack at explaining why that wouldn't solve the problem? And don't complain to me about DDOS, people specifically code cryptographic functions to take longer than they absolutely have to. If they're not worried about DDOS, neither are we for the purposes of this conversation.
This is silly because $x can mean a whole lot more to one party than the other. A rich and nefarious individual could cause massive harm to others.
This works only so long as the receiving side is able to retain all messages (or message ids if those are guaranteed to uniquely reference a given payload). It does not work for outages of unbounded (or otherwise impractical) data size or duration.
That was a rhetorical question. AFAIK the closest thing you can get is wrapper around messenger web app which (which by default doesn't work on mobile browser because FB wants to force everyone to use their native apps).
CME has fairly liquid futures

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/data/crypto-markets/futures/a...
>iMessage seems to be a bit dishonest, because Apple, the owner, has way more information about you through iCloud and Apple ID - contacts, location, payment data, phone number, etc.

But do they bring all that data together, correlate it, and sell it?
But is this an apt comparison. The soviet union was pretty independent from the rest of the west. I's sooner qualify that western/European nuclear is safe, so the average isn't dragged down by despotic/unstable nations.

Nuclear proliferation is a worldwide concern, but a new power plant in your backyard is as safe as relative to the national record.
Curious and funny: The Onion is slightly more reliable than some non-satire websites.

For Wikipedia's purposes, I would think Onion would be an outright "Do not use".

I wonder what cites The Onion? The only reason I can think of would be for meta-Onion entries, e.g., Wiki entry on The Onion itself, perhaps their management board, etc.
I think it could be even simpler. Mobile phones are everywhere. You just need a mass of them to connect by some mesh app. For instance Firechat can be setup quickly. Perhaps integrate that with your drone idea.
I worked at Circle https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/48857/former-head-of-cir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_r...
I am not an expert either.

I would be surprised if they put someone on a ventilator just because his O2 level was low without first putting him on O2 and maxing out the flow. Little experience that I do have is that people are first put on O2, then if their saturation remains low they increase the flow until they can increase no more. At that moment they are a candidate for a ventilator.

Maybe they "relaxed" the criteria after a while if ventilators showed bad outcomes but when people are maxed out on O2, there is little you can do.
Even 8 years later, Dan's insights remain as valid as ever, yet there's precious little progress.

One point that has always annoyed me: Exists x . x + 1 < x.
While I can forgive C for this defect given the history, the fact that this is broken in even Haskell is mind boggling. At the very least this should trap, but preferably, like in Scheme, integers should by default be unbounded.
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> GMO wheat which is grown using chemicals

I think this comment in particular is getting downvoted because it doesn't say anything. Every food we eat is genetically modified; we've bred it to produce more over the past thousands of years. And "chemicals" is literally everything you, food, and most of the universe is made of.
They did market a line of digital consumer cameras, contrary to what the article says. The first was the QuickTake series, done in conjunction with...wait for it...Apple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickTake
Same questions here, Jeez.

Would love to know Jeremy Howard's too.
> since this minority is specifically "disabled people", they can't really do much, so the game-theoretic driver of "possible revolt" isn't there

In The Better Angels of Our Nature [1] Steven Pinker describes the process by which, in the past, humanity has expanded its "circle of empathy". Children, animals and countless other voiceless minorities have gained rights through this process.

One specific process he identified for expanding our collective circles of empathy is the expansion of literacy. "Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point" [2].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Better-Angels-Our-Nature-Violence/dp/0...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/01/extract-better-...
I'm not familiar with the rule number offhand, but I'm reasonably certain they require you to have the same list price in both places.
I was hoping the land was up for sale in order to be protected from deforestation by its current owners.
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On a related note: I've been thinking about making a t-shirt with the EURion constellation[0] on it, just to see if I can break some CCTV camera software (which could be using software image parsing libraries which check for it) or mess with people's digital photos ("This software does not allow the unauthorised copying of bank notes")...

Could be fun, but might do nothing at all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
I look at that poor old querty keyboard with the 21st century steamrollered into it and it just makes me think about how much longer we will have fixed keyboards.
Those articles are just repeating the accusation without evidence. Also, I'm not sure why anyone would give any credence to information from those sources in the first place.

I am astounded by the viciousness and mendacity of those who are determined to undermine 8chan at any cost. These people are essentially fighting for total corporate control of every corner of the internet, just because 8chan doesn't promote their pet issue.
Perhaps a little too literary presentation for my liking but the basic thesis is as sound as it is sad.

As someone who taught in those "lucky" science departments, I must say that the experience was not that much different or better. Deficiencies in the basic skills and oversupply of the sense of entitlement.

Those inabilities to write a coherent sentence or a research paper are just as serious handicaps to computer scientists and professionals. Sometimes it extends even to an inability to write a coherent line of code.
Yikes - I'm mentioned on YCombinator! I'm honored, but a bit taken aback.

Umm - what to say? Whatever I'm accused of, it's probably true. And yes, I make those Klein bottles. A way for this physicist to tweak the noses of his mathematican friends...

Warm cheers all around,
-Cliff (sunny afternoon in Oakland)
You're so right. Carnegie et al. should have used the non-polluting cold fusion technology that was widely available at the time. He didn't of course because he was an evil bastard and loved poisoning people.

Also, as is widely acknowledged, union bosses were in no way responsible for any violence or wrongdoing. It's all so obvious and one-sided in retrospect, you know.

Look, on the way from a nepotist aristocracy to creating a prosperous middle class you don't get it right the first time. Shit gets fucked up, and yes lots of people do bad things along the way. It's trivially easy to look back and point out how they only got it 30% right and ignore the fact that everyone before them got it 10% right.
There are other basic protections built in to attempt to prevent turning on a dime in a bad direction, as decided by the legislative and executive branches. Since the Court has no enforcement powers of their own, an unpopular turn away from the appearance of consistency could result in a toothless ruling and a constitutional crisis.

Let's use your example, the Court suddenly ruling to overturn the current interpretation of the Commerce Clause. Assuming "current" means "1964 and later", this would also overturn the Civil Rights Act. The CRA was based upon the Commerce Clause, and Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964) upheld its broad definition of interstate commerce [1].

I would have a hard time believing Congress would follow along with a ruling that simultaneously overturned a hugely popular law and decreased their powers. (However, I am aware that there have been a few rulings that might be counterarguments.)

[1]Epstien, Walker. Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice 5th ed. Page 658.
Depends on how rich you mean. Why would the very rich leave a plutocracy many of them have worked very hard to create? The US is a pretty sweet place to live if you have a lot of money. You not only get to live in luxury, you also have a disproportionate affect on public policies that allow you to grow your wealth.

Maybe the 2th would be happy to leave though.
The app itself is trivial. It's the gathering of the data that is hard. If you're looking to create a better crunchbase, focus your energy on how to solicit good data from the crowd.
Replace "poor" with "startup", "poverty" with "solvency", and this post becomes very germane.

"[The problem is] that startups are proverbially illiquid and can't cope with disruption of their finances and lack the spare resources to cover anything. That's what causes disaster and prevents ascent to solvency."

I don't know if the cultural, legal, educational, and mental health issues that define the poor will ever permit widespread savings, but entrepreneurs fortunate to have avoided a critical mass of afflictions can take this lesson to heart.
I would add that if you happen to find yourself in some uniquely valuable position, the ability to recognize that and act on it is enormously powerful.
Trudeau Sr would have been comfortable with this. “Just watch me”
From the article:

> Heavy-duty tow trucks can transfer air from their system to the trucks to release the brakes, Allen said. Failing that, they could "cage" the brakes, which involves manually backing the brake off each individual wheel.

"We have all the capabilities on our tow trucks to do it … but I don't think anyone would want to," he said.

That's because many companies who provide heavy towing would be hesitant to risk their relationships with trucking companies, Allen said.
The source is the fact that it's taught by a pyramid-scheme group of teachers who teach you "special secret phrases."

edit: Editing because I really do want to understand - the mantras serve no purpose as far as I can tell. There is no reason why you can't focus on "I am a good boy today" rather than something in Hindi. It's just a chant, and trying to teach a "special personalized" chant and charge for it as dishonest.

edit 2 to reply to the post below (can't post so much in one thread): Sure, it's not a source, but it explains the logic of why it's a gimmick.

edit 3: @sol: And this makes some sort of sense to you? You claim to understand the mechanism behind this or that someone who made up a random phrase for money does?
Targeted advertising should be banned.

There is absolutely no NEED for it. The advertisement industry will tell you that you want to be targeted so that you get the products you need/want. It's a twisted argument. I rarely/never got targeted with something useful. If consumers could freely choose, they always want ad-free stuff.

Massive societal costs come with targeted advertising. Especially psychological, political and social costs. I see no reason why we should take these risks collectively for the profit of few.

If "they" want it, they should show the evidence that it has no harmful effects. The burden of evidence should be on them.
I interviewed at Alto a couple of years back. Even though I went to take another offer (it was more closely related to the area I wanted to focus on) their interview process was great and their product/engineering team seemed fantastic.
Not having to pay for the care of some amount of elderly and some amount of people who were in bad health for whatever reason is sadly a positive outcome of this whole mess.

The savings to pension plans alone...
3rd party retailers, but same difference I guess.
Personally I look for things that offer ship-to-store since this is using Walmart's own logistics network.
That, and much more, is implemented in SGML on which HTML is based.