skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is item 10,000,001. Here's to another 3088 (or) 3220 days
Hacker News

Officially launched February 19, 2007. 3088 days ago.

10,000,000 posts/comments in 3088 days.

1,165,680 posts/comments per year.

97,140 posts/comments per month.

22,668 posts/comments per week.

3,238 posts/comments per day.

135 posts/comments per hour.

These are all averages, obviously. Looking forward to all the crazy statistics and number crunching I'm sure some of you will manage to amaze us with.

Fun link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1

The very first post, which is posted 3220 days ago for some reason.

So numbers for 3220 days:

1,133,540 posts/comments per year.

93,168 posts/comments per month.

21,739 posts/comments per week.

3,106 posts/comments per day.

129 posts/comments per hour.
The only thing you can't do is aggress against other people.

Google has the right to spread whatever it wants as long as it is not aggressing against other people in doing it.
As far as "well, it's better than what existed" w/r/t Uber, It's still illegal.

... in California. In any case, I was disagreeing with the claim that they are "eliminate using employees". Not using employees was already the status quo, so Uber couldn't eliminate it if they wanted to.
GitHub Nukes Repository Over Use of the Word 'Retard'
With respect, there is a large gap between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law. Yours is a good example: using a gene gun may not be regulated in the US at present, but as was pointed out in a Nature piece covering the controversy around your company [0], that may not hold for the future [1]. My experiences with the FDA, and I have reason to believe they hold true at the USDA, lead me to conclude that regulators are fickle. What is the plan for when Monsanto, seeing your early success, copies your business plan and regulators respond to their terrified constituents in order to "fix the glitch"?

Trying to move fast and break things in a regulated industry strikes me as producing fragile business plans, at best.

[0] http://www.nature.com/news/glowing-plants-spark-debate-1.131...

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7356/full/475265b...
Towards Practical Gradual Typing [pdf]
* (If anyone is looking for a smart C++ dude, preferably someone using QT, lemme know, I'll hook you up.) *

Uh, maybe. Is he OK with low-level stuff too? We do use Qt, but we might ask him to write a disassembler or a kernel driver.
There is another possibility: per capita GDP is an increasingly unrealistic measure for estimating "real" productivity.

None of the three possibilities preclude the others, so there could be combinations. It could be all three.
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I have searched and can't find a pair of reading glasses that don't smudge several times a day, talk about frustrating, any ideas for a pair that's more smudge free?
Went right over my head... I'm blaming Monday, maybe I should get more coffee.
I think they are. The problem is that that price has no relation to the demand.

One concern is to stop monopoly water suppliers from overcharging. So prices have to only cover the costs of delivering the water.
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Me too. I am happy to be proven wrong. There are elements of biotech that could use more risk taking, but they seem to ignore some of more "mainstream" (yet relatively knew) technologies where there may be room for innovation.
10,000,001...

Almost got 10M, but my title had 85 characters and the limit is 80.
GDP is a (attempted) measurement of economic value-add. I cannot think of a better definition of productivity in the context of this conversation. The value-add per person has been increasing despite the claimed existence of "bullshit" jobs, with that being roughly defined (by me) as a zero-value-add position. My proposal is simply that if they are zero-value-add, then the value-add demonstrated by the rest of the population must be enough to completely cover those losses and then some. I'll let the audience decide if they consider that viable.

Feel free to provide a better measurement if you have one.
> I heard that the Windows 10 upgrade is tied to the motherboard.

That still sounds absurd. IMHO, it's the best way for MS to motivate users to move to other operating systems.
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GCing has nothing to do with a language being functional.
All you need is access to the roots and the ability always to determine which data is another pointer. The main 'enemy' of this is the ability to cast integers to pointers (as you may in C/C++).

Interpreters don't necessarily do GC: if the language that the interpreter is written in has GC, then the interpreted language is automatically GCed. If the interpreter is written in a non-GC language you have to manage the interpreted program's memory manually too (which you may do using a GC for the interpreted language).
As an aside: this is comparable to evaluation order: if the interpreter is written in a call-by-value language, then the interpreted language is CBV, if the interpreter is written in a lazy language, the interpreted language has lazy evaluation. (Assuming you are not doing something fancy like translation to continuation-passing-style.)
Any website for practicing coding interview
Does anyone know of any website I can use for practicing coding interview? I will be given a computer based coding test on data structures and algorithms and I like to practice for it.
I wish it was that easy for me. I've been trying to get people at my job to use or at least try PHPStorm (also made by Jetbrains) - but they seem to think that vi is much better (even though PHPStorm has a vi plugin).

I was also skeptical at first but once I figured out how to use remote xdebug - it was earth shattering for me.
I do not intend to mine. I simply would like to run nodes to help distribute the blockchain in the cheapest way possible.
Someone with the same idea, sorry for stealing the spot! :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10000000
Idiocracy rules! See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

And of course Idiots Rule. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrUUd-30Bzw
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Great project! I think Espruino is in the same niche. However Espruino looks much more "user-friendly" - it has tutorials, it explains how to build an interpreter for certain developer boards, it has lots of hardware-specific modules with documented APIs and it has a shiny IDE for newbies.

Scheme could have it all, it even fits better, since it's a smaller language and presumable a faster one. However this project looks abandoned. Also, and interpreter written in assembler would be oh so hard to debug I think.

Do you know if there are other projects with alternative languages for STM MCUs except for eLua and Espruino?
... The options presented are either "bullshit" jobs provide value or they don't. So yes, there actually are only two possibilities. Which other ones would you propose to exist?
also aphyr's clojure from the ground up has great exercises at the end of each post.

https://aphyr.com/tags/Clojure-from-the-ground-up
Right but that's incredibly naive and uncreative. It presumes that fossil fuels are the ONLY way to do certain things, unless you can spend millions of dollars proving otherwise.

For example, right now most steel is made in electric furnaces which can be powered by coal, nuclear, gas, oil, solar, hydro, etc. What's the right tax for imported steel then?

Let me now make a list of a bunch of other things that are in a similar category: aluminum, most other metals, rubber, plastics, glass, etc.

Machines that are used to process raw materials may themselves be made of raw materials which are sourced in various ways. And those machines may be powered by dirty fossil fuels or clean renewables. Which means that components -- as opposed to raw materials -- are also going to be very difficult to properly classify and tax.

The same for subsystems and full assemblies and entire products.

It's a lot more complicated than "do some math and then apply a tax"
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Blogging less while saying more
Our HOA has a rule against collecting rain water. I remember a man in Oregon a few years ago got jail time for refusing to remove his rainwater bins.
Cycles are very much the limiting factor for any kind of creative computing.

I could literally eat a 1000X speed increase without blinking.

I think everyone else could too. The difference isn't about speed, but about quality of interaction.

Today's minimal UIs are a good impedance match for the limited cycles available. iOS was particularly good at leading the way on this, creating a UI that was relatively undemanding of raw cycles but still created an unexpectedly immersive experience.

A big part of that was the move from type-and-point to drag-and-tap. The tactile mode, the skeuomorphism, and the portability and instant access compensated for having to squeeze the UI into a tiny screen.

It felt like a more responsive experience even though it was quite a bit slower and more rationed than equivalent interaction on a full-sized desktop.

That's still true today. You can get stuff done on a tablet, but the most efficient and productive UIs pre-ration the affordances. A desktop is much more flexible/general and gives you much more visual bandwidth.

If you apply this idea to hypothetical 1000X hardware, you won't get more of the same but faster - you'll get completely new modes of interaction, which will likely combine the immediacy of touch with the high bandwidth of desktop interaction, and take them much further than anything available today.

It's possible to imagine all kinds of science fiction experiences. The reality will probably still be a surprise.

Even so - the point is really that today's users feel like they're doing everything they want, because UIs are designed without affordances that would be slow and frustrating given today's hardware.

That will change with faster hardware and new designs, and phone UIs will seem as quaint as a 720 x 350 monochrome desktop PC screen running DOS.
If I may be so bold, a heart attack is a big deal, may I ask how old you are - 40's, 50's? Do you smoke?
I like Sportex reading glasses. Very light weight and comfortable. Not sure about smudges, but I haven't had any problems. Easy to clean though.

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Hi, thanks for the feedback!

To answer your questions...

1) Yes, if you know the event code. Every event gets a unique code, and you can share that code with people to allow them to join. (The codes start out randomly generated, but you can also customize them to something more memorable if you want).

2) You do need to have network in order to initially join or create an event. But once you're in the event you can create posts and they'll be stored locally. Once you get back online it'll sync your posts up to the shared feed, and download any new items you haven't seen yet.
Where are you at, and where is your expected pay compared to others in your area? (ex: via glassdoor, etc) Also, there's a difference between getting passed the recruiters and H.R. types and actual interviews.

Also, what types of .Net development... how much front end (web specifically). Doing webforms with no JS for a decade and a half doesn't mean much. I'm not saying that's the case, only that it can make a difference in hiring.
Your post is dead for some reason.

Idea isn't worth anything without execution :P
How I disabled your Chrome security extensions
Thank you, I gonna check my settings. This bad autocomplete thing has been a mild annoyance for a while.
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You can't centralize bitcoin, that would be like trying to centralize p2p sharing, the protocol doesn't allow it.

You can't centralize the protocol, but you can centralize the most popular exchanges. You still got the protocol down there, but it is wrapped up in a nice centralized single point of failure interface.
I'm gonna keep this example in mind next time I end up in a subthread about how centralization sucks and distribution is so awesome and unicorns.

I of course agree with your sentiment here. It scares me how general population has everything exactly backwards when it comes to aggregate effects. Fighting centralized sorting is one example. Fretting over unplugged chargers is another (savings here are minuscule; most people would save orders of magnitude more of energy if they stopped driving their cars so much and used public transport every now and then). It's as if people cared only about gestures and feeling good about themselves, and not about actual effects.
Not dead at all, alive and kicking :)

> Idea isn't worth anything without execution

Well, funny to hear this from you :P
Hey there, I created this video. It was just one part of a longer lesson I was trying on "Random Algorithms" because it involved Fermat's primality test...so in this case we really needed that formula to try it out which is why I added it at the end.

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/crypt...
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$25 Firefox Matchstick dongle cancelled, will refund backers
Don't mean to derail the conversation, but, -wha?!?!? That's amazing, I had no idea you could do that. How do you do that?
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Unless your costs are greater than 2 billion? I mean then you could make 2 billion in revenue and not turn a profit. ( 2 billion - (# greater than 2 billion) ) = (negative #). This is a very basic concept.
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I will be switching to Ubuntu as well. I have encouraged my friends to do the same.
I had the very same idea last week while watching friends swapping pictures at the end of a weekend away.

Looks great, the only thing I would say is there are events outside of weddings where this would work so don't leave other casual occasions out of your marketing plan.
¿¡!? no llores cabrón...
Wasn't this one of the reactions to the RTBF?

That it's a red herring to the EU's greater trade regulatory problems?
You kinda touched on the problem. Illegal according to who's laws?
Thanks for the posting. The article is dead-on but it misses one important contributing factor- the rise and mass acceptance of the "disrupt" culture. It's become acceptable, desirable, even lucrative to use Internet technology to jump into lives, right into people's faces.

If most people had realized what they were signing up for when they first slipped in a phone in their pocket- that every greedhead who could figure out an HTML tag would eventually be able to use that phone to interrupt any part of their lives- I think most consumers would have thought twice. Now, they're all addicted to the endorphin buzz of "likes" and are quickly losing the ability to seek for themselves.
Ice bergs are nearly neutral as far as water level goes, since they displace about the volume of water they contain (if melted). If all the sea ice melts, the sea will rise on the order of mm. (I have the calculations around somewhere if you want details.) The problem is the ice currently located on land.
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Do you have any recommended reading on this? I know this is a problem that can be heavily mitigated by engineering...it just boggles the mind. Even when the trash is sorted at the disposal point, I've wondered how recycling plants efficiently keep bad/non-plastics out of the recycling process.
Another day, another place claiming to be the next Silicon Valley.

yawn moving on.
The video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXqbLzHd_oo
I kind of miss simple <b>...</b> tags... I accept that <i> is now typically used for icons... but is <span class="foo">...</span> really better?

I was once a really big proponent of semantic markup, and avoiding tables for non-table data... but I don't know that flexgrid that much better, more flexible, but not really much better.
There's no biological limit to their age - only accident/disease statistics.
Absolutely. You'll find folks doing that over at the Bootstrapped forums or on the Chasing Product podcast:

http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/
http://www.chasingproduct.com/

A better bet is to have multiple products that you sell to the same audience, not just one product. One product alone may only have small success, but if you have several small products all bringing in revenue it will add up over time. And while you're working on building them, it's safest to keep multiple revenue streams to fund yourself while doing it - be open to doing freelancing / consulting, or keep a part-time job. Patio11 worked at his day job for a long time while doing Bingo Card Creator.
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Fascinating! I've always thought about pneumatic waste systems but didn't know they existed anywhere.

See also: NYC's Pneumatic Tube Mail Network

http://untappedcities.com/2013/03/15/nycs-pneumatic-tube-mai...

http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/pneumatic-tu...
Ruby offers an abstraction that other languages don't. That doesn't mean that using the abstraction is a bad habit.

I agree that C-style for-loops can be handy, but the prevalence of this shorthand doesn't make it good pedagogy to skip right to it. Not everybody is ever gonna enter the real world of programming, and not all of those people are going to use languages with C-style for-loops, and, even then, for-loops aren't fundamental; they're just a shorthand.
Yes, low interest rates allow for a lot of meaningless labor to be performed .. why not? You can borrow at near 0% to pay for it, so who cares.

The fed is pushing interest rates lower and lower to keep people employed - even if it is in purposeless, pointless jobs. When they stop though, we'll see how many of these jobs remain.

Zirp did the same thing in Japan, by the way. Japanese hate unemployment and with Zirp they were allowed to keep a lot of people employed that otherwise would be laid off in a normal functioning capitalist society.
It's actually not:

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/code-vs.aspx
http://i.imgur.com/JXcaIWM.png
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