skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An infinite amount of money will not change anyone for the better. What you were before remains, you just have more money. If you cared deeply for things before you were rich you will still care afterwards, if you had nothing to care about before you won't suddenly care unless you have someone to kick you in ass. Notch has no one but himself.

Bill Gates didn't suddenly become a philanthropist after all his money, he married a woman who did care deeply about things enough to change her husband's direction.

Steve Jobs gained and lost enormous money but remained passionate about making better products no matter what. You might not like him but he remained the same throughout other than maybe getting a little more trusting and less crazy.
Nowhere in my comment did I say that everyone wants a kid nor that they are a failure at life if they don't have one. What I said was in response to the comment about family life being boring.
He felt isolated in Ibiza. And once he felt dissatisfaction, has the option of going anywhere and be with nearly anyone!

If something is that easy to solve, it's not a problem.

In this instance, his problem was something like the inability to predict Ibiza's utility. He probably doesn't know himself well enough.

Some people have the isolation, and then have no choice but to endure it constantly, unable to change their circumstances. Suffering in quite desperation.

Notch wasn't isolated. He just picked the wrong destination in a large array of destinations.
Ask HN: Would a general classfieds section for HN be a good idea?
I think cloud computing is a great thing. Pretty soon computers will be totally small, and you won't ever need to worry about losing data. Plenty of ways to protect it. So long as there is competition between cloud companies, people would drop a provider in a hurry if they thought their data was being compromised.
Interesting.

Just out of totally idle speculation, what's the Popcorn Time of Youtube?
I doubt it. Actually getting an SDR with transmit capabilities up and running takes a lot more time, effort and intelligence than launching a drone does.
>> the defendant knowingly waives the right to appeal the conviction and any sentence > within the maximum described above [of 15 years] ... in exchange for the concessions > made by the United States

>Maybe I'm missing something, but the only concession made by the United States in the "plea agreement" sees to be a vague promise not to prosecute the defendant again. Given that the government should already have this restriction thanks to the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause, is this even a concession by the government?

Seems to me like the government concedes that they wont demand a higher sentence than agreed to.

>> The defendant agrees to forfeit all interests in any terrorism-related asset that > the defendant owns or over which the defendant exercises control, directly or indirectly, > as well as any property that is traceable to, derived from, fungible with, or a substitute for > property ... involved in the offense.

>That could be almost anything.

That's what he agreed to, why does it matter? And in any case it's not very broad, it's just stuff related to the crime.
> ... including that the forfeiture constitutes an excessive fine or punishment.

>How is it even legal?

Why not? That essentially means that he agrees that the punishment isn't excessive.
That's coincidental, but how is it ironic?
Someone downvoted you, go figure, even if maybe you expressed it simply, your comment is spot on.
Is this really the money or is it the relative fame and lack of anything to do with his time?

It seemed like he was genuinely happy creating games. Why can't he go back to that rather than being a celebrity? I could imagine him fading from the spotlight and becoming a private person within a couple of years.
I believe that some people may be naturally gifted at raising money with an innate understanding of everything that goes into running a business. For everyone else... there's continuing education available at any number of large companies.

What you make of those opportunities... is up to you. I'm simply here to tell you that it can work, and work out well, to start at a big company, get married, have kids, and THEN launch your own business.
you mean like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention_(criminal_law)
Mad Mike Goes to Jail (2014)
Is there a non-flash version somewhere?
Relative to the drug industry, it represents nearly 100% of online sales. Gambling is significantly less so, though that market is already being serviced to some degree online (unlike drugs). It is likely that gambling will grow if and as the user interfaces and liquidity improves in Bitcoin.
You just completely misrepresented the signifigance of bitcoin.

Bitcoin is money without the middleman or bank, which is a huge advance in the fight against centralization and elitism which is arguably one of humanity's biggest challenges.

So you painted it in an immoral light, when in fact it is a great moral cause.
Sidenote: the madness of tweetstorms (and how the press covers them) must end. I believe a simple tweet: "I hereby grant an irrevocable worldwide license to all my Twitter posts to all" will fix the problem once and for all.

[0] https://medium.com/@colunchers/quotable-tweetstorms-87770df8...
In civil lawsuits, investigation to gather facts necessary to meet threshold requirements like standing is the responsibility of the plaintiff before filing suit.
The Dangerous Long Bias and the End of the Supercycle
The double jeopardy clause has lots of caveats, including the precedent set by Bell v. United States.
He was actively, intentionally, assisting his friend in helping a terrorist organization. (At least that is what he claims to have done.)
I agree RE Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil; that's what I was taught about it and it makes perfect sense in the context. But I disagree with your last sentence:

> because to make oneself responsible for things one isn't responsible for -- whether it is problems others face or the outright wrong things other people have done -- is beyond rationality and is instead both truly human and divine.

Actuall, covering for other people's sins is perfectly rational if it makes others likely to cover for your sins as well. Cooperation is hard to ensure, but it usually has better payoffs than minding only your own interest. C.f. iterated prisoner's dilemma, etc.
> Not everyone feels the meaning given by those tasks.

OK. Do meaningful things with your kids then. Make art. Volunteer at a food bank. Learn how to grow tomatoes. Build a robot.

There are more options than "fold socks" and "put cover letters on the TPS reports".
> Feeding ISIS actual people is material support in the clearest, truest sense.

To be honest, I have no idea what "material support" means. Google defines it as "In American law, providing material support for terrorism is a crime". Could you shed some light on this unholy circular reference?
Have been using MusicKey for the last few months with my Google Play subscription, it's changed how I listen to music where it's now almost exclusively through YouTube.

When music videos had ads I couldn't make it through to 2 music videos without being annoyed by intrusive ads which kills the music listening experience, ad-free music is now the most valued part of my Google Play subscription.
Twitter is maintaining an internal fork/distribution of Git with patches to attempt to make it scale to their needs. It is described a bit at http://git-merge.com/videos/scaling-git-at-twitter-wilhelm-b....

But even then, as you mention, Git doesn't scale well for them. This is why Facebook is using Mercurial. This is why the Chromium and Android projects are spread out over hundreds of Git repos. This is why Google's internal monorepo is using a Perforce-like homegrown tool backed by Google's distributed wizardry.

Git will start to see significant scaling problems beyond say 1 GB total data, 100,000 files, and X number of refs (there has been significant upstream work around scaling refs - a bunch from Twitter I believe - and I haven't measured how well newer versions handle thousands of refs).

The good news is that unless you are a software project with hundreds of developers, have large binary assets, or are doing something like Twitter and have all your developers push all their in-progress feature branches to the monorepo (madness if you ask me), a Git monorepo will scale for you. A Mercurial monorepo will scale even better. Keep in mind that most people aren't {Twitter, Facebook, Google, Mozilla}, so chances are you won't ever reach these scaling limits.
I get this as well, and I have another problem. I usually work in Word but one company wants things in Google Docs. OK, I create the document in Word in Times Roman and paste it into Google Docs.... which converts it into Arial.

If I copy something else from the same Word document into the same Google Doc, then Google keeps it in Times. How does that work?

Is there a "smart paste" feature I've missed?
More like this: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/
Pragmatic Programmer is great. It's overall page count might be long but it is broken into short, isolated chapters.
Would that even work? Who do you give it to? How to you prevent resentment from those who thought they deserved more of the money?
Of course the actual law defines "material support":

the term “material support or
resources” means any property, tangible
or intangible, or service, including
currency or monetary instruments or
financial securities, financial
services, lodging, training, expert
advice or assistance, safehouses, false
documentation or identification,
communications equipment, facilities,
weapons, lethal substances, explosives,
personnel (1 or more individuals who
may be or include oneself), and
transportation, except medicine or
religious materials;

This is not a very fuzzy definition.
There is a great section about the Yellowstone super volcano in Bill Bryson's book "A brief history of everything". Pretty much no spot on Earth would be safe if this one erupted - probably an extinction event.
Could be. Per the article swehner linked to (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10140279), they're making their own concrete as well, which makes sense when they need to pour that much and it has to be of such quality, to keep salt water away from the rebar for 100 years. Also mentions that the mix has to be kept in a very narrow temperature range, "7.7 degrees C (14 degrees F)", which has to be difficult in Panama.
All of that says that a manufacturer can make certain changes to software and hardware without having to get a new authorization. It says nothing about what the user is permitted to do.
The "Relevant Conduct Provision" of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines allows uncharged but related criminal conduct to be used to determine your sentencing at a standard of the preponderance of the evidence. That means that if you're charged with a bunch of stuff and you plead guilty to one count, all the rest can be used to determine your sentence at a significantly lower standard of evidence.

So while the government didn't have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that his tweets about funding were material support, those tweets could be used to increase his sentence for the Reza Niknejad thing.
I think it is much more intuitive and powerful to make the reverse reasoning. Linear algebra studies vectors belonging to some vector space and the linear transformations between those spaces. You can then realize that abstract concept with, for instance, ordered 3-tuples of real numbers, in which case 3x3 matrices represent linear mapping between those R^3 vector spaces, in which case we can use it to do physics in a 3D world. But it's misguided to say matrices come "before" abstract linear algebra.
quite frankly, xinhua and nyt are both full of shit.
> I also suspect, that C++ is more of a result of design-by-commitee, whereas D is - to a substantial degree - the brain-child of a single person.

That's exactly how I see it. However, "single person" era ended long ago. Since 2007, others (especially Andrei Alexandrescu) had influence in the design of the language.
I understand and completely agree with your issue about memorization. In my experience good teachers don't force you to simply memorize formulas/details but make you appreciate the meaning of the concepts behind those. After understanding the concepts the formulas come out by themselves and look obvious.

E.g.: It's important to know that Greek history is divided in 3 pretty different big main periods and each of them had different column designs but after that knowing the details of those designs is pretty unimportant.

A gerund is a pretty easy and obvious notion. Personally I just know it without even thinking about it probably because I was taught about it at a pretty young age. To me someone not knowing what gerund is is like someone e not knowing what multiplication is.

Honestly anything before college is a pretty young age and 99% of people aren't sure (or shouldn't be sure) about what they're going to do with their life because they don't know enough about it yet. Even that 1% will benefit out of basic knowledge in the long run because that's what makes you a man with basic culture that can discuss on a range of topics.

We humans are not computer programs specialized on solving a single task. High school makes us more like an OS, providing the features to solve (hopefully) any kind of problem we encounter in life.
The+Body+Image+Question:+Athletic+Women,+Hot+Or+Not+Your+Type?
All of the things you're worried about are already illegal. Pointing out that they were legal sometime in the past, and it sucked, is a non sequitur.
The reason there is so much interference on WiFi channels is because there is little regulation within the assigned frequencies.

People playing around with unlocked SDRs is not even a rounding error when it comes to causes of interference.
That is the purpose of the monthly whoishiring threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996333
That's true, and it's disquieting that telling ISIS it needs a better website and asking people to help build it could affect a felony sentence.

But you can also look at it the other way around. We're in part disquieted by the Twitter stuff because we (sensibly) believe mere opinions and their expression shouldn't be criminally actionable. But here we have very concrete evidence that these were not mere opinions, but in fact a concerted effort to assist ISIS in a meaningful way.
"I have a question about curses..."

"Read this."
It is indeed strange, I have been using this option for some time. Works like a charm on 2015 mbps, as well as older ones.
There is maybe an issue with your specific model ? That might also explain why it is not a default yet.
Boston programmer crowdsources altcoin mining for charity
The throwback of the U.S. looking to get to the moon was pretty interesting.
Not true. You can do arithmetic on many things that are not a number. This is why objects such as "rings" exist.

Matrix is not defined just by operations like a ring is, but also by structure - you have N independent axes in a specified space.
How did that guy become a professor of psychology at Harvard?

(The archived link itself is dead, but he's listed as a PI here: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~scanlab/people.html)
Memorizing culture is a social issue and an issue about teachers, not about curriculum. Or you think a teacher can't tell the difference between a student that memorized a few formulas and the student that understood the concepts behind those?

EDIT: When I was in high school there were a few teachers that frowned upon memorizing things. They would give low grades to such students. Then halfway my education I went to live in another country where memorization was the accepted learning method and I've felt the difference greatly so I know what you're talking about.
Mathematics can be taught by good teachers and bad teachers, in a very good or very bad way. It's definitely an important and difficult issue, because teaching mathematics the right way in order to capture the attention and interest of school children is a very difficult problem, not least of all because there isn't even a consensus on what teaching mathematics the right way is.

However, I don't think in the slightest that throwing CS buzzwords such as "REPL" and "hackable" at the problem is the way to go.
I don't have a smart TV, but have been using Plex via a mix of web, android and Raspberry Pi's for about 6 months and have been really impressed.

The update looks great on paper -what's the problem in reality?
This is just another iteration of the timeless "people invent new problems when the old problems are taken care of" law of human nature. We're all subject to it, but most of us carry it well enough to know when to shut up.

In this iteration, the rich complain that their former problems have been solved, but have been replaced by other problems as a result of solving those initial problems. It is a fallacy to assume that these new problems are of the same magnitude of the other problems, and they really should not be treated with the same set of thoughts. The problems of emotional awkwardness with newfound vast wealth are not the same magnitude as the problems of building a company, and those are not the same magnitude as overcoming past emotional abuse, or struggling to feed your family, or trying to avert emergently approaching death. See how I've captured several logs of magnitude here?

The conflation of magnitude is what causes the negative reactions when rich people complain. They are complaining about things at the very top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. These are philosophical (academic/only relevant under very narrow circumstances) problems that are in all likelihood completely unsolvable by complaining to others. These are the kinds of problems that are solvable with critical introspection, discussion with close others, and discussion with professionals. You get no points for throwing yourself onto the pyre and wailing to the world-- there is tumblr for that, and it isn't a realistic shot at solving the problems.

Anyways, a more direct response to your points:

1. I've been in this situation, and just ended it recently. There were no disconnects with old friends... I think you'd have to have shitty friends for this to be a problem.

2. Everyone already has ulterior motives and purposes for each other. Sometimes all you want from the other person is friendship, and if it's a mutual feeling, it's great. This is human nature-- everyone does want something from everyone else. The more you have, the more they want.

3. I'm not sure if this is a serious statement. This isn't a problem on most people's radars, and is really irrelevant because you mention that these people can pay others to deal with these problems for them. If the money is stressing you out, just ditch it... oh wait, you like it too much. Clam up and make do, or talk to a therapist-- one of the few people who will take this line of thought seriously.

4. Of course wealthy people can be miserable and wealth can be a burden, but the beauty of wealth is that you have far more resources to help you carry burdens. This means that when the wealth complain about their burden, the rest of us snort derisively-- it's as though they have forgotten that the weight on everyone else is heavier and more unwieldy.
I just don't get how we still allow closed source operating systems for critical business tasks.

Maybe I'm a bit behind the times, but some collection of VM, MVS, OS/390 aka zOS, CICS, IMS, DB2, RACF, SNA, Oracle, SAP etc etc is probably running the majority of America's critical business tasks. Did it all get open sourced when I wasn't looking?

Needless to say, Google Docs and Gmail are not open source either....
You are clearly unfamiliar with historical linguistic references to the federal government; use of the plural form was the norm from the foundation of the United States as an organization with institutions through the period of the Articles of Confederation and the early part of the period under the Constitution. Tge institutions, laws, etc. of the federal government were, at least in terms of grammar, portrayed as belonging collectively to the states, not to a singular entity named "the United States".

The singular form, IIRC, didn't become common until sometime in the mid- to late-19th century (maybe after the civil war.)
A part of me considers this a geek tabloid piece. "Hey everyone, this famous geek is rich and miserable. Omg!" I feel a little guilty even commenting.

Another part of me is disgusted with the way he resents his former employees. There does seem to be a miser mentality at play here. He deserved his success but would he had gotten there without the right people? I sense absolutely no gratitude. Most of them were most likely required to work at Microsoft for a certain period of time to receive their bonuses.
45yo here, no ex's, kids or even pets. It is a completely different life from my families', friends' and peers' lives. Many envy my choices, some feel sorry for me* but most are indifferent. Mom has come to appreciate my stance only recently: *alone is not necessarily lonely. I have respect & admiration for those who commit to marriage/parentage, and I empathise with the many who fail... most empathy reserved for the innocents who grow up amidst, and as a direct result of, such failures. I was the parentless, feral kid amidst a dysfunctional divorce, went to 9 different schools from k-12 and used my own monies & a fake ID to get snipped when I was 17. I won't be repeating that mistake. I am an idealist, I have refused to curtail or abandon my lofty goals for an enlightened humankind and my finances/quality of life have suffered for it. I do not HAVE to do anything, nobody is reliant on me beyond my reponsibilities as a service provider and I can afford such luxuries as true independence.
> Nope. It does mean that you lose the right to complain though.

Yeah, let's isolate rich persons even more instead of helping them to find their way together with us.

That's for sure will lead to a better world where rich can connect with others and share their fortunes for a common good.

/s