skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> America is the greatest economic engine the world has ever known. It's not because we're situated on a mountain of rubies, or that we are intellectually superior to other countries.
It's because of our system of government.

I'm not taking any position against your overall point, and I do think there are many (relatively) uniquely American policies that historically have paid wonderful dividends; but you're vastly underestimating the exogenous geographic advantages of America (and I'm not sure if you're doing this, but most people tend to overestimate how long global American hegemony has existed).

We're sitting on 50% of the world's navigable internal waterways, overlaid over by the world's largest piece of contiguous farmland[1]. We've got ports that allow easy direct shipping access to most of the rest of the world's economy (Western Europe and China/Japan/India; We also have easy direct shipping access to South America and Africa, but those have naturally been less important). We've got enormous natural borders with the rest of the powers that were most recently useful in the fact that we've had the luxury of staying out of the incredibly catastrophic wars of the rest of the world more or less until we decided to enter[2] (and to the degree that we decide to enter). Those also enabled us to escape essentially 100% of the physical destruction of those wars.

[1] https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/geopolitics-united-states-...
This is an excellent article with a lot more depth than the couple of stats I referenced; there's also a part 2 that I recommend reading.

[2] Obviously less true for Pearl Harbor, but still true to an extent: consider the impact of a surprise attack for Germany -> France as opposed to for Japan -> US. Crossing the Pacific is infinitely harder than crossing Belgium.
> There's a missing "on Windows" here.

A Powershell object piping system would be great on Unix too. Scraping text is fragile and slow.

Obviously for a Unix port you wouldn't write cmdlets in .net like Powershell but something popular in the Linux/Unix admin world, most likely Python.
What about service apache2 restart
'pretty spot on' how? just like how 'spot on' you were about how I like ggle?
In the past I've recapped some of these sorts of things but to me this is tediously slow - it's almost CLI for non-computer users. I'd like to check the later material to see that I'm au fait with all of it - sometimes one gets a gap in knowledge when learning piecemeal by oneself but it won't let me skip to the later lessons.

Ideally IMO there would be a simple test one could take that would open up the later lessons, like a short recap for each chapter rather than working through the whole ls, pwd, cd, ls, pwd, cd, cd .., mkdir, ls -a, ls -l ... at the start.
Why such a high fee?
> You'll see high quality investments ideas that have been backed by real money.

Why should I believe this is something other than wagering on survivor bias?
Interactive brokers for automatic trading. You would also need to backtest your algorithms, so depending on the granularity, you would need to shell out decent bucks. Daily data or minute data is easy - but if you need Tick data, it gets very expensive (IQFeed is the one I've used in the past). But the most important question is why ?

The only ones who make money in the market are arbitration traders (HFT types) or those who just happen to be on the right side of market. As an individual investor, you will spend lot of time and money to get your systems running - but market conditions will change dramatically and all your backtest algorithms will become irrelevant.
I've had luck using gears to introduce a reduction in movement by increasing the final drive ratio. The motors will move at faster speeds but the gears slow down the process and allow the movement to be more precise. Dunno how it would affect your robot since you have a direct 1:1 connection with the tablet.
Show HN: 6.5 hours of Ember Screencasts
How to turn a valley into silicon valley (Glarus in Switzerland)
This reminds me that the coinventor of the Windsurfer* Jim Drake also worked on stuff like the X-15 which might count as being a rocket scientist.

* ie the actual Windsurfer(tm) that built the sport rather than its more obscure precursors.

Back to the article though, it's always surprised me how conservative surfboard construction has been compared to other sports. Hopefully that won't stop this new construction succeeding.
Yeah, that really bothered me coming from bash. I agree it's not as good from a discoverability perspective. Having said that, it's not the kind of thing that has continued to bother me over time. I've gotten used to it.
As to finding instruction boundaries with a variable-length instruction format: you could use the trick they use to start two instruction streams from a single address by using it for a stream of fixed-length instruction sizes running down that can be used to find the border in the stream of variable-length instructions running in the ’normal’ direction.

You could have:

offset : -----000000000111111
offset : 54321012345678901234
contents: 64212iijkkllllmmmmmm (digits are instruction lengths, letters are instructions)

So, reading offsets -1, -2, -3, etc. you read off the sizes of the instructions you can read in offsets 1, 2, 3, etc. If you have 4 decode units, you can replace the sizes of the instructions by their offsets, resetting the offset every 4th instruction.

With instruction sizes of 1-4 bytes, you could store instruction sizes in 2 bits per instruction. That would lower the pressure on your cache for the extra information you store. There also would be more space in your instruction set because you no longer would have to worry about creating an instruction that has a prefix that also is a valid instruction. For example, you could use 0x01 both for INC and ADD IMMEDIATE VALUE, where it means the former if the instruction length is 1, the latter if it is longer, with the size of the immediate determined by the size of the instruction.

Would that be a net win? I wouldn’t know, but it seems simpler (but ’simpler’ looks like a negative in their worldview) than creating those two streams that somehow must work together to do what a single statement sequence in the source code does.
That's an interesting claim, care to back it?

P.S. *nix shell != bash, there's zsh and fish that are light years ahead re: tab completion and other general niceties.
I got excited thinking this was a way to either:

A) Recruit other developers onto your side project or
B) Hire other developers to help with your side project.

I'd be interested in finding side projects to contribute to, or finding people that would like to contribute to mine. Are there sites out there for either of these purposes? If not, sounds like a good side project...
Having Won Over VCs, Y Combinator Turns to LPs
Previous discussion (with a member of their team chiming in): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9856334

Seems like a _fascinating_ architecture. I don't get the double program counter bit, also seems like too much cognitive overhead to me. The belt (queue of un-named slots) idea and function call for free with multiple return results, such that regular ops and user defined functions work the same way, that sure is clever.

Godard mentions that the CPU space has seen little to no innovation. But what about Transmeta? They were doing some cool stuff, no? And the DEC Alpha, that was super interesting. Probably lots more besides. I'm sure if I bothered to check that Wikipedia would have a CPU graveyard page :) Thing is, x86 has been the only game in town for a long time with Motorola challenging in the past and ARM challenging now. Maybe time for a three horse race?
Don't Invest in Today's Market Size
There's a lot of analysis by tptacek at

http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/08/04/is-extended-random-mal...

I think EKR said he didn't know what it was for or why the government wanted it, while I think people normally have a challenging time getting Margaret Salter to comment on things publicly. (I'm assuming you're referring to Rescorla and Salter rather than Brown and Vanstone.)
Q has IBM changed and be going to hire these kids. I went to interview at IBM a while back and they very quickly lost interest when they found I did not have a BSC.
The Python documentation use this representation since a long time.

https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/introduction.html#tut-str...
I remember reading a story (at least 20 years ago) that some women in Japan were getting their intestine shortened in order to lighten their skin.

No ghits sorry but from memory once the intestine was shortened the skin started to magically lighten.
This "nice analysis" smells like apologist on duty to me:

The only dubious behavior I observed was sending
every keystroke in the Windows Start Menu to the
servers, but I understand that combined Computer
/Web search is being sold as a feature, and this
is necessary for that feature.

Calling it "feature" is insulting. It's a key-logger!
How would a real company exist when OP is trying to validate an idea and see if he wants to build a company?
Mhmm. I wrote a set of PowerShell scripts to do some basic deployment stuff a while back and I discovered...

- Timing issues with something as simple as "remove file," where the agreed upon Stack Overflow solution was to call it "a few more times until you didn't get an error."

- Broken implementations of recursive folder copy.

- Okay, we'll call upon "rm" and "rmdir" -- oh, PowerShell intercepts those and invokes the previously described buggy routines. (Eventually figured out that I needed to shell out completely.)

In the end I regretted writing these crummy house-of-cards PowerShell scripts.
Exactly, I feel like this hits a good balance of prudence and pragmatism. It's kind of a double-edged sword for me since I happen to be heavily into liquid cash at the moment...but I also have higher cash needs because I quit my job a month ago and am planning on taking 6 mos to a year off.

Either way, beyond a bit of an "emergency fund" on steroids, this is actually how I'm taking it: a good starting point for some conservative DCA.
Quantopian has a really good platform for creating algorithms, back testing them on historical data, and for performing real time trades.

https://www.quantopian.com/
Rating recruiter pitches
Maybe you didn't zoom long enough? In the zoom level that you're expected to go, it looks like a series of thousands of photos, each of a point in the trip, taken with a cheap camera (with some noise, but not particularly distorted and far from "garbage").

You should be able to see the railway going on, places, stops, etc.
[Lobby/Ground, 2nd, 3rd] is common in the US too
You are mixing up interest rates and government debt yields.

Interest rates are set artificially by the Fed. Because they are set almost at zero, this causes run on government debt as the only "safe" source of interest income, lowering yields thus making it inexpensive for the government to acquire even more debt.

The result (in the US) is skyrocketing government debt
(from 64% of GDP in 2008 to 103% in 2015)

We. Are. So. Fucked.
You modified applicationHost.config which is an XML in %windir%\system32\inetsrv.

IIS has its' own set of commands that you may be more comfortable with, appcmd is sorta like apachectl (just more verbose). http://www.iis.net/learn/get-started/getting-started-with-ii....
Bash has notorious gotchas, and similarly, doesn't work well natively on Windows without a whole slew of associated applets.

Sounds like both shells have one of those problems... ;)
Some of us do, but we've given up trying to expose HN to the shell. The anti-Microsoft culture that built up in the late 1990s and early 2000s has too much inertia on HN to overcome by occasional articles.
5 Reasons Why Clickbaiting Is Killing You
Wait, are you serious or not? that was pretty funny, but it sounds plausible too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_%28food%29
I don't really understand your solution, but then again I did not understand the Mill's solution. Can you explain it again?

All I will say is that they seem to have really tried to simplify and regularize the Mill _except_ in the opcode stream / decode step where they say that two streams is optimal! Seems like it would be a nightmare and introduce all sorts of complexities. Was the only bit of the talk I didn't grok, whereas most others bits had me nodding my head and thinking "oh, neat".
WebODF is a fine addition to that list.

http://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2015/05/30/typing-together-...
Summarizing the “Black Monday” Carnage So Far
>> possible for a person to learn this independently or on the job. In practice, that is sufficiently rare as to not be worth discussing.

Is this because people don't really feel a strong need to learn this, because they manage to find their next job ? or because it's impossible to learn alone(even with the help of mooc's and the like) ?
We say this about stocks, and companies: "past performance is not indicative of future results"

People are the same way.

LA and SF DAs: A Killer, a Burglar and a Kidnapper All Drove for Uber, Admit that the american justice system encourages recidivism rather due to a lack of rehabilitation.

Are cab drivers held to this standard? How about limo drivers?
I agree with you completely. The slope is prohibitively difficult for a lot if not most people.

And the food industry definitely needs to change to make it easier for people to affect their slope.

And regardless of all of that, I would rather tell people that this is hard and that it requires a lot of work and effort on their part, than to encourage them to give up after quickfix solutions don't work.

Ultimately it's about patience. If you do something, anything, every day (even going for a 10 minute walk is better than nothing). And if you are even remotely careful about what you eat, you will see results. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But if you keep it up for a few years, results will appear out of nowhere. And this stuff gives you compounding returns. The longer you do it, the quicker the returns on any new thing that you try.

When it comes to people you love, would you rather tell them that they are helpless victims, or that they can overcome their problems?

Here's a question for you: if we agree that being good at your career takes daily effort and practice for the majority of life, why does this conviction fall apart when it comes to diet and exercise? Why do we assume someone else should take care of that, not us? That it should somehow come as if by magic? It's a skill. You have to practice it to get better.
And yet scripts for them are still written in a bash-like language for backwards compatibility reasons, which is really a shame in my opinion, because it is not a particularly convenient family of languages.
What Does Money Velocity Tell Us About Low Inflation in the US
>Go is an option

Drink the koolaid, fine, but don't drink THAT MUCH of the koolaid.
Ugh, it really bothers me how the partitioning in the die shot is 100% made up (it says so in the small text).

It looks neat and all, but the Hexagon has existed for a while in a number of phones and I've seen pretty minimal usage of it. Would more ARM cores be a better use of die space? Also, why not implement the video codecs on it and drop the fixed function hardware?
Quick Ruby solution, https://gist.github.com/jamesdaniels/ebe2a09c21fbe6343c73 about 3x slower than your Rust in MRI (only 1.5x in JRuby) but good enough for a Rails developer :P Heh
> Things like button's text, color, visibility is nicely controlled via adding/removing classes

Isn't the whole point of using React that I don't have to manually manage state like this? When text, color, visibility are all changed independently in different places for more than a handful of states, suddenly it isn't so nicely controlled.
You say that as if that makes remembering things easier.
Not sure from the video, does the artist look at the robot when painting or at a screen? I feel like it's going to be really hard to paint that slow, so it might be better to simulate the whole thing (which will be way closer to real time) and then reproduce it later on the robot (with some corrections if needed). But simulating might be difficult... or lead the artist to use brush strokes that are really hard to replicate. Cool project anyway! Let us know how it evolves :)

Also just a heads up on the Amanufactory website the font in the Plans section is really hard to read, you might want to check that out ( http://i.imgur.com/Klvmorc.png ).
Keep in mind that much of what seemingly makes Powershell so great on Windows is inapplicable in a Unix shell environment. So there's still some juvenile "M$ hyuck hycuk" nonsense, but there's also some pretty spot-on discussion of the difficulty of trying to move tools between very different systems.
This is a good collection of slitscan videos:

https://vimeo.com/tag:slit-scan
Oh yeah: I've also put some work into a website based on a novel scheme for idea representation/debate: http://westoncb.blogspot.com/2015/06/improving-idea-represen... And there's this game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8u8VxjtgJs which is 99.99999% done, but still unreleased for some reason :)
Once at a party I accidentally started an argument about which way toilet paper should hang from the roll (front or back) by mentioning how silly it was that people would argue about such a trivial matter.
You're right Paleo doesn't encourage butter, but ghee(clarified butter) is accepted by many.

In my case I've never noticed any issues from dairy products so butter, yogurt, cheese, and milk get some place in my diet.
I'm confused about your "bliss point" statement. That sounds like a good thing to me. Why is that a downside?
That example you gave is from 2008. You would use the current PowerShell Cmdlets provided for managing IIS.

IIS:\>New-WebBinding -Name "Default Web Site" -IPAddress "*" -Port 80 -HostHeader TestSite

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee790599.aspx
Well, to be fair, in 2002 it was far from clear that there were going to be millions of C# programmers.
Same. Seriously, it's a fantastic example of "user interface designed by an engineer". It's not that I don't understand how to use Eclipse - sadly, it's an editor I have spent all too much time working with in various incarnations/skins. It's incredibly powerful and extensible (which unfortunately leads to it being used as a base for further IDEs built on top of it), it's just incredibly painful and unintuitive to use. You can do literally anything, it'll just be buried five menus deep inside some control panel.

Today I fired up Android Studio for the first time, and I literally cracked a smile and did a fistpump when I saw IntelliJ staring back at me instead of fucking Eclipse.
Peak People (2014)
> web applications are becoming more and more complex

The way I see it, it's becoming complex the more you learn. For instance, the first time one learns a programming language, one learns the language and steers clear of frameworks. The deeper you go, you learn tricks and stuff "which this library does" or "this framework does". Eventually you get exposed to the stuff that does more stuff in less work, away from the programming and more on configuring.

> Even small website often requires hundreds of megabytes of dependencies.

You wouldn't want to write those from scratch.

> Sometimes one application can have 2 different build systems

One tends to use the build system in the language nearest to the platform. I still have yet to see a person write Grunt on a Java project or Maven on a JS project.

> Micro/nano services trend looks optimistic, but I am not sure if it's not double-edged sword

It is double edged. More control but you need to set configurations, set conventions. Do it wrong, and it's easily spaghetti.

> In few years instead of writing code are we going to write configs files?

For all that configuration, your are configuring something. That something is written by someone. So while you're configuring here, someone is programming somewhere.
Already asked: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/18385/do-asian-e...

The only answer proffered doesn't actually answer the question, though.
Saving of credit card information is optional on and it's can be removed with one click. There no big difference between trust service that it's going to remove this data or whole account.

And idea that some people going to remove somebody else account to "help with gaming addition" is good reason to not implement removal.
Glad you liked it. He'll be super-stoked to know that people are playing his game :)

I'll see what I can do re sharing the source code...
Edit: updated per research.

Wouldn't it be, for his example of changing the port:

Set-WebBinding -Name 'RadWebServer' -IPAddress "*" -Port 443 -PropertyName Port -Value 4430

I don't have a huge amount of PowerShell experience so maybe that's incorrect or has extra bits.
The Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Never Truly Ate the South
Gopro+adventure+camera+-+Home+-+GoPro+Funs
Totally.. he even invented the company "Ackson" (for Ackerman & Son) and the company logo you can see in the corner of the main screen (him and I holding hands).

He is a pretty awesome kid :)
>It's all about thinking about some idealistic past. If great-grandma wasn't wealthy, she ate lots of tinned beef smothered in potassium nitrate, all sorts of stuff packed in gelatin/salt, etc over the winter. And lots of beans.

Not sure in which parts of the world this holds true.

In my part of the world, and we're talking a really pour country, everybody had their patch with vegetables etc, people caught fish, had animals (chicken etc) and all that. Most of the things they ate were fresh. For the non-fresh staff, they simply preserved it in salt (like they did with cod), or brine (e.g. for goat cheese, etc), or they dried it.

No "tinned beef smothered in potassium nitrate" and no "gelatin".

I'd say most of the places in Europe were like this, and some were still like that up until the 60s or 70s. And maybe people in NY, a huge city without ways to have your own produce and animals, ate all the "tinned beef" stuff, but I can't imagine many people doing that in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, etc.

>Most of my great-grandmothers were the daughters of Irish farmer. She probably shared a house with a cow and a dozen siblings, if they were lucky enough to own one. They had fresh milk with no anti-biotics, but also with no pasteurization or medical care for the cow. (Hopefully she didn't get sick.) No plastic bottles, but they drew water from a hand-dug well in a treeless landscape where cattle were the main farming activity. (ie. high probability of a contaminated water source) When you got to march, you didn't have to worry about pesticides in potatoes, but you did have to watch for worms.

That's how people lived even up to the '70s in large parts of European countryside (Span, Italy, Greece, France, etc). From everybody I've talked to who lived like that in several countries, it wasn't particularly hard or bad. Farm work could be intensive but only for specific times of the year, most of the year they didn't have to do much if at all. And living with several siblings in a small house was just what everybody did, so they didn't feel they miss out on anything. Most of the time they were out and around in the village anyway.
I'm a Market Monetarist, not a Keynesian.
* in US pop culture
5 Upcoming Hackathons That Can Help You Start Building Smarter Cities
epoxy-like tubes of Go-Gurt

Well, the important part of that statement is probably epoxy-like which is probably meant to describe the consistency of the Go-Gurt. What makes go-gurt more epoxy-like than yogurt and what that adjective means elude me though
The anti-Microsoft culture that was earned in the late 1990s and early 2000s has too much inertia on HN to overcome by occasional articles.

FTFY