jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Isn't this pretty much the same as taking a loan at a bank and buying bitcoins? Couldn't the "bubble" be explained by extremely low interest rates?

Banks create money out of thin air when you take a loan. The only difference is they destroy that newly created money when you pay the loan back (but keep the interests).

See : https://positivemoney.org/how-money-works/banking-101-video-...
> it's no longer his money.

That is one of my contentions. Although it is technically no longer his money, he still has a significant amount of control over how it is spent, and that money increases is political power and influence.

And it is not just Bill Gates and a foundation. If I donate $50 to a charity, it is unlikely I have any influence. It is truly not my money.

If however, I donate $50,000,000 to a charity, I exert a lot of control with that money. I can have a huge influence on the direction of the charity, and even likely get somebody fired or appointed to the board of directors.

I am not saying those donations should be illegal, just that we should see that it is different qualitively from a regular donation and not give it tax advantages.
Unless I'm really unhappy with my solution, I stick with the first thing I write that spits out the correct answer. Since a lot of the problems require you to do some potentially interesting optimization to get an answer in a reasonable amount of time, I don't bother optimizing the ones that don't.
Yeah. It is really clear that Facebook is finally getting around to just implementing this feature of effectively having "hosted clients" for companies to be able to more easily--and yes: less securely--build chat bots (a mechanism that I appreciate is maybe less than ideal to encourage, but frankly just doesn't feel that bad and certainly isn't a surprise: Facebook has been taking about this for a year or two now); and all of the "changes" this week have been directly because of this, including the Privacy Policy update... the key article about which even explicitly said:

> The move, the spokeswoman said, is part of a previously disclosed move to allow businesses to store and manage WhatsApp chats using Facebook's infrastructure. Users won't have to use WhatsApp to interact with the businesses and have the option of blocking the businesses. She said there will be no change in how WhatsApp shares provides data with Facebook for non-business chats and account data.

And yet, somehow, everyone is just in complete hysterics over all of this, claiming Facebook is evil and undermining the feeling of security people have in WhatsApp, with lots of talk of switching not only to reasonable alternatives like Signal, but also to less secure messaging protocols like Telegram (or, frankly, Matrix). People at my supposedly-smart privacy company--Orchid, building something akin to "incentivized Tor for general VPN use"--are even panicking about this news, and it is really frustrating how no one even seems to want to analyze this carefully... "bUt FaCeBoOk Is EvIl!!" :/.
It's also more than ususally cold here in Barcelona, and many people have electric heating (inefficient but rarely needed).

I don't know what I'd do if the power fails :S I have UPS power backup for my servers but not for heating obviously (that's way too much power for batteries)
One quibble: there are way more than 'CSS' changes here. They removed extra wording, removed the CAPTCHA, and generally reorganized the window.
I like the idea of massive production of carbon absorbing plants. Do they come with any ecological consequences?
But capitalism is also what channels the human instinct to survive into productivity. Sure some subset of geeks can be motivated purely by creativity under a communist system, but I'd be dubious that it could overall match the velocity of Silicon Valley's innovation engine even granting the sizable implied waste reduction.
Yes, especially with this: "Dave Malouf is an observer and pattern recognizer..."
The New York Times has a number of open positions, about 10, in software engineering, web development and others.

http://nyti.ms/webjobs

Ping me if you'd like to know more.
This is all very interesting (and even humorous), but I'd appreciate something more constructive. How do we implement a name field on a website in spite of all this weirdness?
I tried to make this same argument in another thread and was down voted for it, so here goes...

Any act of electronic warfare has an equivalent physical response. Regulation such as this is nothing more than power grabs by government and the defense industry.
I feel like there's a market there in a post network-neutrality world. Backups are a great example of internet traffic that is large but inherently time insensitive so long as its secure. I imagine that a lot of international email might also be similarly time insensitive. If it were just a switch between "picodollars for arrival in three days" to "nanodollars for arrival in 10 seconds" I wonder how often people would leave it on sneakernet.
This is a reference to a short story? Or was it a New Yorker cartoon?
Simplenote, http://simple-note.appspot.com might be what you're looking for. It has a pretty good API and a nice web interface.

I really like the iPhone app but I don't think it has any other native apps.
C# in Depth by Jon Skeet.

Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform by Andrew Troelsen (there's a newer edition about .NET 4 which I haven't managed to read yet)
I can see it on everyone else's profile, but not my own.

I would guess that they found it to be useful information to have about others, but also wanted to eliminate the incentives created when people try to push up their averages. It also becomes a much more accurate indicator when people aren't gaming it. Of course, you could still game it by having a friend tell you what it is, but that's probably more trouble than most people are willing to go to.
Nope. As Kurzweil so often does, he's making up whatever crap suits him.

I am, however, willing to go out on a limb and say there's somewhere between one and a trillion technologically advanced civilizations in our own galaxy.
Ruby would be Neo-Paganism - A mixture of different languages and ideas that was beaten together into something that might be identified as a language. Its adherents are growing fast, and although most people look at them suspiciously, they are mostly well-meaning people with no intention of harming anyone.

Python would be Humanism: It's simple, unrestrictive, and all you need to follow it is common sense. Many of the followers claim to feel relieved from all the burden imposed by other languages, and that they have rediscovered the joy of programming. There are some who say that it is a form of pseudo-code.

Clearly the author is a python programmer. Otherwise these two statements would have been reversed (i.e. Ruby is simple, unrestrictive, joyful, and Python is neo-paganism).
Private school in Milwaukee and our largest lecture hall seats less than 300.
What's keeping him from working primarily in Public Health and getting NSF grants? Does he need access to industry for his research?
Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC Programming - the orange book with city in the skies.
Anything that relies on C extensions. Numpy is the biggie for me.
No danger here :) Just making things easier to use.
But if you know you can't afford it, maybe you'd avoid going to the hospital when you really should.
All the enterprise users want the tool to fit their work flow. They don't want to have to change their workflow to fit the tool (no matter how stupidly inefficient their workflow is). This means that the enterprise tool vendors all need to create tools that are highly configurable. In fact, they often have to be customized for each different customer.

This leads to enterprise software vendors trying to write extension/customization languages for their tools. And of course, they almost all do it badly, and they all do it differently. (If you're hearing an echo of Greenspun's tenth law here, well, yes, I think that this is exactly what he was talking about.)
Sure, anything can be a placebo effect. However I myself prefer to understand exactly what is happening rather than believing fairy stories, and I think it's fairer to patients as well.

Unfortunately there is a lot of dubious science out there, and a lot of patients who prefer the fairy stories.

Having said that, doing things like exercising and having a good diet will certainly improve health. Exercise has proven to be very beneficial for depression, although I don't think that inflammation has been proven to be what mediates the effect.
Well, given 20,0000[1] head of cattle died[2] in a early blizzard (October 4, 2013) in South Dakota and it wasn't the number one story on any national news site pretty much tells you where cattle rate.

1) estimates go from 10,000 to 100,000 depending on source - it seems like 20,000 was the conservative estimate by veterinarians

2) cattle hadn't grown winter coats, rain, 70mph wind, snow = frozen cattle http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131022-cattl...

[edit: these were in the summer pastures still and I doubt they'd be defined as factory farmed cattle]
What does this "gratefulness" encompass? How should a "grateful" person express "gratefulness" to be worthy of your approval?
Names are human constructs not facts.
I bet the NSA has one to look for vulnerabilities like this though!
> Why take any risks?

Why leave the house at all? Everything has risks, but it sounded like you were being quite paranoid and I meant what I said with a kind heart.
> Pretty sure Gmail uses custom scrollbars

It does. It's pretty obnoxious, but they're at least well-implemented, unlike most custom scrollbars.

> I think Facebook also uses a custom scrollbar on their activity feed.

It doesn't (or at least it doesn't in Safari; maybe it does in other browsers?)
I've seen you apologize for the NSA spying on everyone, for Google giving all of our data to the NSA while putting on their best "don't be evil" face and now you apologize for scum shooting innocent people from helicopters (AND ENJOYING IT!).

You're a terrible person, how do you live with yourself?
Countries like the US focus power in the hands of elites, who act benevolent or not as they wish. To influence their allocation decisions, you have various methods at your disposal. In a dictatorship, you'd similarly try to influence the king; in a Soviet state, you'd influence the Party; etc. In the US, you influence capitalists and the state which serves them.

If you look closer at the critiques than some news article, the Gates Foundation has been reported to give money to big pharma and strengthen intellectual property rights. Rather than more fundamental changes to the system. Feel free to look closer at the real, serious critiques.
He did say that he was referring to the most exceptional programmers, and that it would be a matter of "a few thousand " a year. That was quite clear to me on the first read that he was not talking about the H1B system.
I am happy with the Gates foundation and the strengthening of basic scientific research that has come about from their grants particularly in resource poor countries. Respective governments have a role to play in improving the health systems research and I am not sure that is the mandate of the Gates foundation or any other charity. Furthermore, it may mean meddling with political forces in their respective areas of support and I am not sure if that would really ease the situation.

After all what has the Brenton Woods institutions gained or improved in resource poor countries? Have they not poured billion of dollars in loans and grants and even given conditions (some very painful) on how to administer the monies? What has improved? I think Gates foundation is doing a commendable job in supporting and raising awareness for neglected infectious diseases for example and supporting grass root solutions to common problems. I am no expert in these areas and I stand to be corrected.
I think names are important, but I don't tend to comment on them. It's more like something good you can add if you find a good one.

But Inferno literally means Hell. (or "a large fire that is dangerously out of control.")

I think it's a bit off-putting, like "OS from Hell."
I wasn't implying at all that the North's use of loanwords was due to the South, I was asking how widespread are the English loanwords around the border compared to the far far North. -- Because the South has embraced loanwords much more than the North, would it be not uncommon to possibly hear 찍개 somewhere in the North as opposed to 스테이플러.

Didn't know about the Russian pronunciation thing, is 도꾜/도쿄 also included in that?
No. Interpreting untrusted data as code can be pretty dangerous. Lisp is usually about interpreting trusted data as code, which is no problem.
When is it the responsibility of the United States? Isn't it the responsibility of the affected countries to mind their own store? After seeing what happened to rice shipments in Somalia, something could be said for the value of a bomb. Personally, I prefer Bono's approach -- develop markets so countries can afford to help themselves.
It's too late to start programming when you decide it's too late.

Pick a language. Python is easy to learn and rewarding.

Grab a book.

Write some code!
Fukkenschtupid
And you get a Windows edition upgrade too, all for only $50.
> Your argument seems to be that questioning the morality of anything an otherwise well-meaning person does and might be sensitive about is “shaming” and “insulting” and an attempt to “control” the person.

One thing to note about your argumentation style here is that you didn't merely question their morality. You assumed that deep-down, they actually agree with you but were acting immorally anyway, and you continued from there. The news flash is that no, people don't believe that what they are doing is wrong. The fact that they find it painful does not mean that they know deep down it's wrong, as you erroneously claim. Doing the right thing can just be painful sometimes.
> I think the $500 figure is the number that AMZN pulled out of a hat, and I think it is a yearly number, not a monthly one.

A coworker in a non-unionized position said that the didn't like unions because of the dues. When I told them what the dues were, their opinion quickly changed. The funny part is that unionizing would only bring about small benefits in our case since the existence of unionized positions with the same employer reaped benefits for all employees.

And for what it's worth, paying $500/month in dues implies an income of about 30,000 to 50,000 per month. Not only is this outside of the target demographic of unions, but it ranks up there with taxation levels (with much richer government services). Suggesting union dues of this level is either an unintentional mistake or disingenuous anti-union propaganda.
I agree with you that the best option is to own the mine/land/platform. I wonder if you would agree with the adage if it were reframed as picks and shovels being a better option than trying to find gold oneself, especially on someone else's land?
I bought a Sense (https://sense.com) because I loved the idea of applying ML to my energy consumption. While the interface is nice, it just hasn't lived up to its promise. It wants to classify 40% of my energy usage as 'unknown'. Nothing so insightful that it's really worth giving up my privacy, unfortunately.

The future of IoT is open, hackable, and decentralized. The IoTaWatt looks like a big step in the right direction.
First hit on google: SBLC == Stand By Letter of Credit.
Clearly, Common LISP is not important/relevant according to google. It seems like "Common Lisp" implementations may be stuck in the mid 1980s and the implementors do not have any idea about how to use shared libraries. So sad
Well then, let's see your working. Gas is really quite efficient in all ways.
Mail has always been spotty, but Mail's search completely stopped working for me around the time I upgraded to Big Sur.

Currently, it finds only a few random scraps and doesn't search the entire mailbox. Spotlight still works; searching by the text in Spotlight shows a match, but clicking on the match (to open it in Mail) does nothing. I've tried rebuilding the mailbox and I've tried wiping the entire Mail directory; nothing works. Apparently other people have the same issue, but I haven't found a solution.

This is too bad, because Mail.app is probably the most functional, no-nonsense client for macOS. I've tried some others (Airmail, Spark, Polymail, etc.), but they have a lot of usability issues and weird features (like Sparrow's team support) that are irrelevant to me.
From an outsiders perspective, there's very little difference between both your political parties.
An analogy for web programmers: Parentheses are HTML; S-expressions in memory are the DOM.
This is an incredibly important comment. You cannot legislate loyalty to the country. You cannot legislate morality. You cannot legislate most of what makes a country a hospitable place to make a life.

Culture matters more than anything else.
They don't want to understand it, because understanding it would mean that a big chunk of their userbase could download and use the software, see the opt-out panel, opt out (because really, who wants to be spied on?), and they would receive no information whatsoever about it.

That's what they're trying to avoid. It's not about the user convenience benefits of autoupdate, it's about their metrics panel and the "success" it implies going dark/trending down.
> Some cities may also use a subdomain of their states domain, which may or may not be a .gov.

This reminds me of how longwinded the domain hierarchy for .us originally was. In MN (not sure if it's the same for every state), city domains were "www.ci.cityname.mn.us". Then the school district's web site was "www.cityname.k12.mn.us". Not only was the order inconsistent (why not www.k12.cityname etc.?) but sometimes the city might be typed differently - i.e. the main Minneapolis site had "minneapolis" in the domain, but the school district had "mpls".

In the primordial days of the web, back before good search engines, this didn't make it very easy to find the school's web site.

Fortunately many governments realized this and moved once .gov became available to cities & states. (or they just used .org). For instance Minneapolis uses minneapolismn.gov, but many are still on the old style domains. The school district uses mpls.k12.mn.us, but at least they've dropped the "www."
Try Pistol Whip instead. It's the same type of games, just with guns.
I had never heard of NRx until you mentioned it. I generally try to stay away from selling my identity to a single word, or a set of words.

Yes, I am not a social marxism conspiracy theorist at all. Right and left, it's all the same. You've missed the whole point I have tried to make.

I will rephrase in a more literal way for you to understand, in a way more difficult to avoid: Without resorting to claims of crackpotness, conspiracy theory, sympathising with vocal minorities and Nietzsche's ideas' supposed negative consequences on society, what exactly do you disagree with about using Nietzsche to understand our moral psychology, and specifically about the sources I have given in this post and in my other submissions?

I envy you like I envy god-believers. It must be nice to believe and fit in.
This scheme only makes economic sense if you neglect to factor in the cost of being sent to federal prison for many years.
I mean, you sort of do! Every modern US car has a wheel to steer, a brake pedal on the left, a gas pedal on the right. Calculator UIs vary way more than that. In the US, you can drive a manual after training on automatic, but that's not true everywhere.

And in-car driving instruction happens with the teacher next to the student in a car they're familiar with. It's not like they're radioing to 30 students each in a separate car.

Also, the calculator is a tool to teach math. If someone gets distracted figuring out the calculator, they're behind. The student driver car is to teach driving.
Senors, software and such seem pretty error prone or otherwise defeatable. What about a "deadman's switch", a wrist strap connected to a short cable connected to a USB dongle. When the dongle is removed (laptop snatched) it would lock the laptop. The only way to defeat this would to somehow completely restrain someone from moving, and I can't see how you'd do that without seeing it coming. Even a tranquilizer takes a few seconds to kick in.
Because Smith was working at Quick Stop during the day and shooting the film at night, he slept no more than an hour a day. By the end of the 21 day shoot, Smith was unable to stay awake while some of the most climactic scenes of the film were shot.

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerks

sleeping an hour a day... :)
Or, because of their ability to copy another existing site, and having the business savvy and relationships to sell it for a huge sum.

Having a successful startup is a lot more than the tech behind it or the product itself, right? I mean, you should know, considering Digg never returned money to its investors. (joke!)
I know this because no one reports it. Everyone moves on. To another idea, to another company. The better candidates work for a YC company.

Deal flows in Boston and NYC is better than Silicon Valley right now. Pay attention to OnStartup.com, JasonLBaptiste.com, and things Bijan Sabet is saying.
I'm pretty sure the main costs of those "Million dollars to raise a child" reports are extra housing costs and lost income.
i wonder if anyone is going to build the wikileaks search engine? that would be pretty interesting...
I've just been skimming through all the comments here and I really think that a lot of you are missing the point of this article because you're focussing on that fact that you know just what you would do with $1,000,000 and how much of a positive effect all these things would have on your life.

You're focussing on finding edge cases of people who genuinely need exactly $1,000,000 to pay off a bunch of things that are holding them back that are to the value of $1,000,000 (but even then, there's plenty of places you can abscond to if you want to escape debt - you just may not be welcome to return :)

The essential message in this article is lateral thinking. It's about looking at the mountain in front of you and noticing that there is a way around it instead of having to climb all the way up to the top and go back down the other side.

Of course there are people and situations where this doesn't apply. The title of the article "YOU don't really want a million dollars" naturally invites these comments because he's addressing a large audience of people, many of whom may have legitimate needs for that amount of money.

If it were me writing it I would have maybe phrased it as "Do you really want a million dollars?" and focused on the fact that the question is addressed specifically to the guy at the store who wanted a million to solve "all his problems" in some abstract way.

That million dollars that will solve everything IS lazy thinking. It allows you to say "unless I have that million, I can't possibly solve my problems" without ever giving any real thought, or doing any real research, into whether or not there is an alternative way to solve your problems other than "getting a million dollars" which for most people is an impossibility.

I personally think that the author could have done a better job with this article because although I came to agree with it's premise after reading it twice then reviewing the comments, I was also initially thrown off the scent by listing all of the things I'd do with a million dollars if I had it.
Thanks, but I still can't see it from where I am. The problem isn't that I can't see the use of (to take your example) sum types. I've coded around C#'s lack of them before, and sure, it was clunky and painful. But I've needed them like < 1% of the time.

If I had them as a first-class language feature, would I use them more? What for?