jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
But that is a political point (which I agree with by the way) that has no bearing on whether it would be beneficial for HN or any other particular forum to ban anonymity.
Rand's one premise is "Rationality is good" and she derives the rest from that.
Probably related to this - former online gambling lynchpin turns cooperating witness.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/web-kings-life-on-the-lin...
Has it become so taboo to be single that you have to pay to hide it?

It is less taboo now than it has been for many generations (for anglos, at least). Being labelled a 'spinster' or a 'maiden aunt' was a stigma.
Maybe not yet, but lots of people are attacking NLP and thus building all the components of cracking tools that are that smart.
I hear about these long search waits in Gmail, but I have yet to encounter them. Granted, I only have about 26k emails, but every single search I've made completes within the second.

Also, killer feature question: does Greplin allow search operators, like `label:`, `from:`, `has:attachment` ? And can it search within those attachments (not sure if any desktop clients do this currently, but I wants it, Precious. I needs it.)?
What guides my life is my inbuilt future scenario modelling system. If it looks at a situation and predicts gains in status, human contact, interest or safety it makes the predicted scenario feel good/exciting/attracive/likely/desirable.

If it looks at a situation and predicts losses in one or more of those areas, or more losses than gains, then it makes the imagined scenario feel bad/scary/anxiety inducing/unsafe/dangerous/miserable.

Then on top of that I have a conscious mind which rationalises what I do and pretends it was the result of some kind of philosophy or wisdom or moral choice.

Like a lot of people, I've accidentally learned a lot of rules which make the predictions very inaccurate and I'm slowly working on correcting them as I find them. After that (in a few years, maybe more), who knows who I'll be.
I particularly enjoyed Mr. Falkenstein's review of Mr. Taleb's Black Swan.

http://www.efalken.com/papers/Taleb2.html

It's a long but illuminating read:

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Martin Gardner wrote a popular column for Scientific American, and in the process received a lot of mail from ‘cranks’ telling him about perpetual motion machines and the like. So he wrote a book called Fads and Fallacies. In the book he describes "cranks" as having five invariable characteristics:

1. They have a profound intellectual superiority complex.

2. They regard other researchers as idiotic, and always operate outside the peer review.

3. They believe there is a campaign against their ideas, a campaign compared with the persecution of Galileo or Pasteur.

4. They attack only the biggest theories and scientific figures.

5. They coin neologisms.
Whenever there's a big decision to be made: how will you feel when you're 85? That helps a little.
> However your arguments that rights require the actions of others is unconvincing.

As are your rebuttals.
The title is ambiguous. I expected to see a text mode implementation of Conway's Game of Life. ;-)
Existentialism.

The philosophy that I have, that most people disagree with is "Given that Ignorance of a thing is or would be bliss, that thing is not immoral"

So if I steal and give it back, but they would never have used it in the interim, I am fine, even if they found out and got angry, because Ignorance would have been bliss.

If I violate somebody's privacy, but never change my interactions with them based on it, and never reveal what I know to other people, I am fine. Because they are doing precisely as well as they would if I had not.
If you don't believe in free will based on the principle that every event causes another event, which causes another, etc... then take a look into quantum physics. A great intro book is Quantum Enigma.

Quantum Physics is one of the few branches of science that is not always predictable. Even more, our inability to predict is not based on a lack of ability to measure precisely or lack of computing power. Quantum physics gives our world an elements of spontaneity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_U...

The classification levels are "Top Secret", "Secret", and "Confidential". "Classified" just means that it's been assigned to one of those levels.
that's something you could do, but you don't have to. There is a reason many successful programming languages are backwards combitable (a word, ironically enough, not in the android dictionary). You can use scala or groovy to do the development.
They were about the same cost or slightly more than the MaxMind paid version.
I know... I have an Amazon Prime account and it irks me that I can only use the web interface.... although I wonder if https://github.com/handyman5/acd_fuse still works. a FUSE interface would be much more convenient than any desktop client.
There are reasons to not block these emails and there are good reasons to block them (but you better not admit that on HN if you do).
Number 1 reason to reject is: these users never (99.99%) become customers.

That said: http://cleanli.st

An API (beta) to validate email addresses. It knows and dynamically detects thousands of dispoable email domains (including all mailinator domains).
Instead they're providing jobs to thousands year round and generate hundreds of millions in income.

He said, providing no hard data whatsoever.
I heard Microsoft uses provers to check (automated verification) third party kernel mode device drivers. Is that the Z3 proofer? I searched on Google and got several results but the meaning of the term "kernel" is overloaded and means different things in operating systems and proofers/solvers.
It might be better to see Ze and other SMT solvers as souped up SAT solvers instead of comparing them to general theorem provers.

The neat thing about Z3 is that it has efficient solvers for the more specific subproblems (linear programming, bit vectors, etc) that you can't have if you state everything using "general" constraint programming. At the same time, Z3 lets you work at a higher level of abstraction - for example, you can reason about bit verctors or arithmetic directly instead of having to encode it with boolean formulas.
Works for me (California, US)
I'm guessing he meant that FLAC could actually inflate the file size (which is very probable).
@metaculus like I answered above I meant block structure creations when I referrred django base templates.
I certainly agree, but linking to the previous comments is also valuable. He didn't call it a dupe, he called it a rerun. I think that's appropriate.
thanks, I've added it.
Here at SCEA (San Diego Studio), for programmers we have: Associate Game Programmer, Game Programer, Sr. Game Programmer, Staff Game Programmer, and Sr. Staff Game Programmer (of which there are none that I know).
its not a rolling cypher either as a number of character groups repeat:

yaq
tgf
On the one hand, kudos to a team for taking on a big project and getting it done without interrupting service. But on the other, the article does nothing to explain the why-behind-the-why. Why did this change need to happen? What benefits are they now realizing? What aspects of Django attracted them in the first place? I want the sequel to this post.
> "cuts ... can't cost the government more in tax receipts than it's gaining back by [not] paying my salary"

Not exactly true. Your salary doesn't disappear once it's been paid to you. You spend it, someone else gets it, they spend it, and so on. At each step, taxes get paid, which the government spends, following the same pattern. Over the course of the average year, each dollar changes hands some number of times between about 6 and 12 (google for "velocity of money" for more info.) As a result, the aggregate taxes on your salary and its "inheritors", as it works through the economy, can (in some circumstances) actually end up being more than your salary itself.

Note this is not an argument either for or against any particular bit of government spending. I'm merely noting that both tax increases and spending cuts can have counter-intuitive effects, and that those effects need to be accounted for when trying to understand how a change in government policy will affect the economy.
One more interesting coverage about this design is on quora:
http://www.quora.com/Wikipedia/Is-having-Jimmy-Wales-picture...
The one with Jimmy on it has 10 times more "conversion" than others. Impressive!

I also like how the fundraising committee involves the community to design the banners. It feels like a genetic algorithm trained/evolved based on human clicks.
I think he must be a compulsive horder.
Great book, I reference it all the time. Article made me very hungry though.
On the subject of evidence for "failing to educate": there is statistical evidence (with a decent sample size and population) that a large percentage of students (36-ish) do not show improvement on the CLA (http://www.collegiatelearningassessment.org/) after four years of college, a test meant to measure the sorts of higher-order literacy skills that almost everyone agrees college students should learn.
very nice: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=x^2
Thanks for the input. Figuring out what to charge, and on what terms, has been a struggle.

To follow up, in your opinion would it need to be a stand-alone tool and/or Photoshop plugin, like FocusMagic, or is a web-based solution viable?
this post can be summarized by two concepts that are typically taught in business schools:

1) do value based pricing not cost-plus for your labor (ask for what the market will bear, not your cost of living plus some small 'profit' on top of that)

2) have a batna (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negoti...), i.e., another offer so you have leverage in the negotiation

i've ignored these tenets exactly once, and that remains an unpleasant memory for me. every other time, it's resulted in increases of 10-40% in comp & benefits. of course, you should balance comp with qualitative advantages, but the point is not to just let yourself get screwed. =)
Does this factor in the huge tariffs on panels made in Asia?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/business/energy-environmen...

If it doesn't then the picture won't be as nice, but if it does then imagine what the situation could be like.
Whether there will always be new jobs is impossible to predict. There may be, or not.

Guaranteed basic income doesn't necessarily give money to everybody: only at the lowest levels of income, where people already have the lowest levels of consumption. It seems like the increase of consumption at the low end from a basic income could be easily projected, and I suspect the impact on inflation would not be overwhelming. Of course I also think we should have a slightly higher inflation target (say 3%), as well.

A basic income would definitely need to be paired with supply-side policies to reduce poverty, to reduce housing prices for example.
The bar is pretty damn high to get some respect on HN.
Honest question here: I'm the OP, but my original title was, Reaction to “Was YC Worth It” – Startup Fundraising Lessons for the 99%. Someone changed my title? Is that normal when YC is mentioned in the headline?
I agree with you in several ways, but to be charitable, just look at the site as a place to go to get some guided meditations for newbies.

I think over time, people turn away from guided meditations as distracting (I know I do), but something like this could be helpful to the right person.
"Time" is a trivial reason - by that I mean - people who don't do X don't do it because they spend their time doing not X. This is true for any X.

The real question here is - what do people prioritize above reading? And maybe a side question is, where do they get that sense of prioritization from?
Screenshot on front page of site made me think of Sublimetext immediately, which is not a bad thing at all.
I install ngrok[1] on my vm's to show off what I've been working on temporarily or to see how things look on iOS.

[1] https://ngrok.com/
So they can only get their job done if they are in the same timezone or if you don't happen to reboot your laptop? Those don't seem like great use cases.

Plus if you are at the point of QA/PM review of what you've done, the code has already been checked into source control. They could just as easily spin up their own VM with the Vagrantfile.
That's definitely the hard part. :-)

From the interview: "We will find all the live objects in the heap in a single pass. We will never have to revisit any reference." So, no the GC never has to revisit any object, and it completes when it's scanned all live objects.

The read-barrier is what prevents the program from interfering with the marking phase. That bit about unmapping virtual memory happens later when marked objects are being moved. As the GC walks through memory it's marking references by setting (or clearing) a bit in the pointer. Meanwhile the program goes about modifying objects by copying references - first reading them into a register and then writing them back out to the object's storage on the heap. The read triggers the read-barrier. If the reference being read has already been marked, great. If not, the trap handler marks the reference before allowing the program to continue. The write operation then writes a marked reference on to the heap, so no need for the GC thread to return to that object.

Make sense?
I'm disappointed with Ars on this one. There is a lot of fear-mongering in the article with a strong implication Apple is taking the data. There is not any evidence the data is being used by Apple at all.

Yes, the file should not be in the clear (it probably shouldn't exist in its current uncapped form), but can we stick to the facts, please. When we know something is being sent to Apple, we can turn on the hate.
I'm sure it's got its merits but the Sproutcore site does a horrible job explaining what it excels at.

For example, on the Demos and Sample Code page it has me install a ruby gem.

http://www.sproutcore.com/demos/

What the hell? You lost my interest at ruby and the command line.
Your privacy and security called, it wants noscript back.
Sorry. I think the days of self-hosting my blog are over.
My favorite RGM is still OK Go's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

The one in the article seems too electrical for me.
No, these little tech startups (mostly, with obvious exceptions) make no difference in the world and will die in a few years never to be remembered. The point is that people enjoy doing them.

People play piano too. That doesn't do much for the world around them, but they and the people listening to them get enjoyment from it.

You can't ask for everything you do to have a lot of purpose for the rest of the world. We do things because we enjoy them, and what is life if you don't enjoy it?
Wonder if they bother pushing forward with an individual case against those that don't settle or just quietly stop contacting them. Would probably end up losing them money to with years of legal costs against someone who probably doesn't have all that much even if they win a massive amount.

Sure they have to push on with some high profile cases to prove that they actually would, but that has already been done. Interestingly if no one paid the settlement their model would fail pretty quickly.
No, this is a full "IDE locked up" kind of delay - and it's not just code completion, the whole thing feels sluggish compared to Netbeans. This is both on my Windows desktop and my MBP, so I guess the only thing left to blame is the size of the codebase I'm working with.
Is Australia a "tiny island nation"?
TBH, there knowledge cards that ddg shows are significantly inferior compared to Google, and sometimes ddg is just worse in terms of research. Thank goodness for the Google bang.
Take a look at Verilog-to-Routing - an educational/research tool that is open-source.

https://github.com/verilog-to-routing/vtr-verilog-to-routing
the lack of PHP is surprising to me, but I guess there isn't that many PHP full time roles to fill?
That's interesting, I like the idea that digital natives will have more of a vested interest in caring about the internet, but I'm not sure if it will play out, especially if there continues to be such a strong focus on things like Instagram and tiktok which are largely disconnected from the net at large.
I know how to switch the default search engine, thank you.
I would guess that depends on whether the change affects the HTML. If it's only a CSS change, you could probably get away with redeploying the CSS file.
I appreciate your advice, and it absolutely makes sense. But my complaint was not about jobs being absent, but about companies ignoring applications.
Chargebacks? Reversing accidental payments? Theft? Fraud? These are all pretty important parts of the currency system, and people aren't going to give them up just for the sake of some nebulous idea of decentralization for decentralization's sake.

Do you always log into every machine as root? Do you want everyone to have admin powers on HN and every other social media/chat/forum you use? Authorities exist for a reason.
>"You're holding it wrong"

Yes, like I said he didn't admit the problem publicly, but actually offer a free case to those affected. Not to mention the Antenna gate lost of a few db signal was a problem that mostly affect US Carriers where Tower to Clients ratio are one of the lowest in developed countries.

> Magic Mouse

I cant find the pieces, where he actually admit the Hockey Puck Mouse problem and the general dislike from its customers. Not only do you have the option to use another mouse, which makes the matter not as urgent, he admitted he was working on a new design 6 - 8 months after the hockey puck shipped. And the Next Apple Pro Mouse was great.

The solution to all problem is to admit there is a problem, The new Apple fail at that spectacularly.
Good luck with a message to creators that they can’t do their own ads in their content.
The sad thing about the author's core anecdote is that he doesn't even understand what about his actions made him a failure. (He alludes to it at the end.) If your app/server is vulnerable to a single person taking it down with no recourse to where you "felt the grim reaper clasp [your] neck," then you have built a house of cards unable to withstand a gentle breeze. The issue isn't that your trust or lack of vetting, it's your dependency on others to build your idea; You're an idea person. It's true, he has no one to blame but himself, but not for trusting a stranger, but for want of software deployment skill.
That's me. While I was working at Sun in '90-91 on NeWS, we tried very hard to convince management to hire him to work on HyperNeWS for TNT, but Sun wouldn't give us a requisition (because they intended to kill NeWS, not save it). So I quit Sun and moved out to Glasgow to work with him at the Turing Institute on HyperLook, and ported SimCity to HyperLook.

HyperNeWS aka HyperLook was like HyperCard implemented with PostScript programming and graphics, plus networking. In that alternate universe, PostScript would have been the universal bytecode for the web.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/77192884/HyperLook-Product-Info

https://www.scribd.com/doc/77164708/HyperLook-SimCity-Manual

Arthur's programming and entrepreneurial skills are indeed awesome, and I'm glad I quit my day job at Sun and left the country for the opportunity to work with him! He's now an advisor to my current company: http://pantomimecorp.com/the-team
The sign of a great idea: you sold me with the four word HN title.
Definitely. But so far, Dropbox is faster and has better sharing functionality (e.g. show me a list of folders that I shared, which e.g. Google Drive cannot do).

For business use, the $10 per month is peanuts for a more seamless experience.

Besides that, Dropbox seems to be branching out. There is Carousel, which I like quite much compared to the cl*sterfuck that is Google Plus photos. I can put my photos in regular Dropbox folders, but still have a Flickr-like experience. Also, there is Mailbox.

Of course, they need a better collaborative editing story than 'you can save from Office on Android/iOS to Dropbox'.
The only real, but extremely useful, use case I see for this is for uploading video while it's being shot, because someone might take your phone away. For example, when filming the police, or filming any other disruptive / conflict type of event.

What other reliable apps are there that can do this?
Yet $2800 MacBook Pros
> It's not as though that is the reason the US went to war with Japan.

I realize this, but WW2, for Japan, was mostly about taking over much of SE Asia and that would have happened regardless of them going to war with the US.
> Some people might not actually need to cultivate a deep understanding of CS

Most people :)
seeing figures like 2.5K makes me think back to the days of programming assembly in 4K space on an HC12
No, it is nearly impossible that "Einstein was right all along" in the EPR 'thought experiment' he was convinced that 'local realism' was the answer so the 'spooky action at distance' that QM predicted was wrong, except that all the experiments done so far show the opposite..

In one way, this is also a proof of Einstein's brilliance he was one of the few to understand this implication of QM..

That said, this is really a pity that it took so long between the 'thought experiment' and the real experiment: if the Bell tests experiments could have been done earlier who knows what Einstein would have achieved?
Can it help to find the real author of bitcoin?
The same way authors of text posts online can be identified.
The logic is this: you are taking a picture while I see the whole movie. So, Apple is winning 'now', so is Whatsapp, but they may lose it eventuallly b/c they are closed models.
http://www.gizmag.com/soundracer-vx-sound-racer/34898/

The tester claims that the beefier engine noise made him a more aggressive driver, or something of that nature.
Yes. He has a youtube channel where he does live coding sometimes. He also seems a bit eccentric. An interesting and gifted man for sure.

https://youtu.be/9LaIezgiUmw
*$1,199 once you add in the required car harness to, you know, connect it to your car.
I think you have no idea what you're talking about, and are simply regurgitating "your solution isn't perfect therefore it's horrible."

Please take some effort to understand what the problem is, because it's painfully obvious to me you do not. If I had to guess, you're not even from the United States. I say that solely based on how completely disconnected from this problem you appear to be.
Is there a similar source that would let you compare MSAs for building of housing units? I'd be interested to see how Boise's MSA lines up with the Bay Area. Most Californian transplants I'd met growing up in the area were from Sacremento/SoCal though.
Yes, same person: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/13/17561484/george-hotz-comm...
Correct, mining in a pool you are guaranteed your fair share of the mining (minus admin fee from the pool operators). Even if you never mine a single block, you get your fair share of the mined blocks by the pool.

If you were to mine by yourself, you'd get zero pay outs unless you actually mined a block. It is possible, but the odds are on par with winning the lottery.

DYOR on pools, but I can recommend f2pool (https://www.f2pool.com/) for Ethereum mining.