skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised Phorum gets so little press:
http://www.phorum.org

Phorum powered MySQL:s own (very large-scale) forum (does it still?) among other things, and in a way it seems to share a lot of the light-weightedness with some of the more modern ones in this thread.
Well, you didn't qualify your sweeping general statement at all. You seem to be implying that nobody should find family life boring and not want it.
Probably, but a better idea would probably be to move it to another site altogether. That sounds like the sort of thing the mods might kill if it gets too popular.
No. You're completely correct. Artists will hopefully see the writing on the wall.
My "holy shit I have more money than I ever expected" plan is to buy a 60ft classic motor yacht and then go get my masters ticket so I can crew it myself then spend the rest of my life traveling from port to port around the world, no big houses, fast cars or any of that jazz, just me, just a comfortable boat and the rest of the world to visit at my own pace.
I'm 40. My son was born when I was 34. I didn't see the appeal until pretty much when he was born and I held him for the first time. What happened was that my resistance had softened to the point where I was willing to have a child because my wife badly wanted one. The moment I held him for the first time that all changed, and I couldn't imagine it any other way.

I'm a cynic, and very conscious that it's down to my brain getting flooded with drugs. But they're oh, so very efficient drugs.
So? It obviously did its job well enough and if it no longer does then you refactor it.

It is so, so much more difficult to make a game successful than to make successful game.
The state of wetware is also not sufficiently robust to allow it to drive cars. Wetware likes to drink alcohol, distract itself while driving, or take long trips without the sleep it needs.
There are a lot of photographic jpegs that have black and white text too. Perhaps a caption. Perhaps a road sign in the scene. Reducing block noise seems better than saving such images as bajillion byte pngs.
Aren't miners middlemen? And don't they take a toll?
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...
I should watch more scifi...
Ask HN: Are there any good communities for QA Automation?
I am changing responsibilities currently from backend software to (cloud) system quality. I'm going to be spending a lot of time looking at various forms quality (security, availability, compatibility) and making tools and tests.

I've been thinking about the role for a while and have a lot of ideas of the kind of things that I could do, but I've never worked with someone with this role as I imagine it.

I've done a fair amount of work in these areas while working on server code but now I want to get really professional about this. Is there a community with people discussing this area? Ideally it would be covering topics such as (CI, TDD/BDD, load/stress testing, fault-tolerance, chaos injection, application security, data security, penetration testing, static analysis, monitoring).
I think a deeper perspective is that wealth solves the shallower, easier problems. Once you've covered the basic needs, increased wealth makes many things easier, especially leisure and recreation, but the deeper challenges in seeking happiness remain.

These challenges may even be aggravated by the isolation of wealth if you don't already have the basic structure of a happy life - things like loving relationships, stable/happy emotional makeup, work you find meaningful, etc.

Don't get me wrong, I'd be happy to reduce someone's isolation of wealth by taking a good chunk of it off their hands. But I'd be foolish to trade my family, faith, or health for it - much less all of the above.

It's a good reminder to keep our priorities straight.
That's probably the case, but does it matter?
"As a liberal commie hypocrite I WILL NOT give my money away; yet I still want to be a victim. I thrive on it as liberals and commies are wont to do.
You would think that with an infinite amount of money, you could pursue whatever lifestyle you desire. One could easily buy land and housing anywhere on earth, and surround himself with whatever people he wishes. I can't even imagine the endless possibilities. The choice of a $70mil mansion and non-stop parties is pretty narrow-sighted. Lucky for him he still has a fortune to try again.
Paper shows method of recreating various artistic styles using neural networks
What is more interesting to me is that linear functions: \mathbb{R}^n --> \mathbb{R}^m turn out to be useful when applied in many, many different problems areas. Call this "the unreasonable effectiveness of linear operators" if you will.
This is NOT a sarcastic comment nor a defense of centrally planned economies: which country(s) has a free market economy post the 2008 financial crisis?
Maybe a better summary of this paper would be "IQ tests presented on a computer screen produce scores highly correlated to IQ tests presented on paper," since they didn't use what you would normally call "video games."
> The evidence [0,1,2] seems more like: Given enough memory, GC is faster.

You really have to take Appel papers with a large grain of salt in 2015. Caches and multithreading have come to dominate nowadays, and assuming that all memory access is equal isn't reasonable.

Also, the first paper doesn't make the claim that GC is faster than manual memory management—in fact, manual memory management was faster.

> A garbage collector has the freedom to delay the free, which means potential for optimization.

People commonly say this, but I don't see how a malloc couldn't do the same thing if it actually helped. Malloc implementations typically don't do delayed reclamation because it doesn't help; if it did help, they would do it. But cache is king, and prompt reuse of space is most important nowadays.
you've missed some nuance. Options at a startup-of-the-day are not valued. Options at companies that are clearly valuable are highly desirable.
You may be getting downvoted, but you are not wrong. If money truly made him unhappy, why didn't he keep a few million in his bank account, invest another couple million or put in a trust fund, and donate the remaining money? He would still be a rich man, live for the rest of his life without working and without financial worries, and the super-richness that seemingly made him so sad and alienated his friends is gone.

As it stands, he just comes across as somebody wiping tears with a 100 dollar bill.
They don't say it very clearly, but my interpretation of the document is that the author feels that the development of ncurses is misattributed/plagerised and wishes to use that as a basis for challenging the license. To what end, I have no idea.

According to the copyright on the document, the author started writing it about 15 years after the major events took place (and it is now 20 years later). My question is not so much why they wrote this, but why they waited 15 years to write this.
Same zooming problem with Safari on iOS.
In most curricula (in the US at least) matrix multiplication is taught before calculus. So that sucks.
I stick to Rockchip and Mediatek, myself.

An 8-core MT6592 with 4gb RAM makes for a fantastic laptop.
And China isn't sharing their backdoors with the Five Eyes, if they have them at all.
“Good science is nothing more than a progress report. It’s what we know at a certain time with the data that we have.”

That is the best definition of scientific knowledge I have read.
Yeah, the Haskell culture seems to have a problem with naming. It uses a lot of mathematical terms and a lot of alphabet soup identifiers. Part of the problem is just that naming highly abstract things is hard (what would be a meaningful name for the monadic return operation?) Another part is that the commercial programming world has developed a whole art of naming things so that a maintenance programmer can understand them easily, but the Haskell community doesn't want to use that art because it reminds them of Java or something.
How does the contigenics 'see' the lack of zombie factories? Are they flying in a helicopter to fact-check the NYT? I think not.
> Umm, no

Exactly what are you disagreeing with? Going by your comment you seem to think that I said that a ban would have no effect at all. I did no such thing, and I would suggest that you read more carefully next time.

So, umm, no I can't actually get access to a XTC in my country where it is prohibited?

Of course I can. Even if/while such laws effect more than only a ban on the substance in question.
That's a more involved response than I think I deserved. :)

No argument that winux is a only a local maximum, but this thread is in response to an article that basically claimed it was a global minimum. Fwiw, your comments are, imo, far more informative and constructive than the linked post.
This assumption of "Bitcoin will evolve" ignores the fact that evolution requires forks.

Bitcoin vs Bitcoin XT bull$$$$ is a major example. Will BTC actually be able to evolve this relatively minor technical challenge?

As Bitcoin vs Bitcoin XT has shown us, it is the BTC Community that needs to evolve, not BTC protocol itself.
Am I naive, or are these problems a degree easier to solve than problems of people who are not wealthy?

Problem 1: Use your new-found time to work on projects. These could be new companies that grow your wealth, endeavours that seek to create a change that you care about, or doing things to help people that you care about. There are other alternatives, too. Joining investment groups. Taking holidays. Consulting.

Problem 2: For chance meetings, I can see how this is a problem, but if you primarily meet new people through existing social circles, that might mitigate this effect a bit. I don't have this problem, but I have noticed that I've made lots of great friends through existing friends.

Problem 3: Could you not hire someone (or a company) to manage this sort of thing? I realize plenty of oversight would still be prudent, but it should alleviate the stress of it somewhat. Diversity in investments should mitigate the risk of losing everything. Limiting investments to areas that are well understood might also be a good idea for avoiding tax surprises.

I agree that wealthy people will definitely still have life problems, but I'm still not convinced it has to be these ones. Forms of social isolation (eg. imbalance that notch mentioned) seem much more plausible and nowhere near as easily remedied.
Laptops for example have an FCC label (take a look at the bottom of yours) as they have radio equipment on them in the form of a Bluetooth adapter/Wi-Fi adapter/3g modem.
I don't agree with most/all of ilaksh's points. But it is worth noting that miners are 100% fungible, which reduces their ability to extract economic rent in the process. In effect "being a middleman" has been rendered a substitutable commodity.
The other middlemen are the hoarders. If BTC inflates in value, then the hoarders will benefit.

BTC obscures the middlemen. It doesn't remove them.
We went there 2 years ago, and the best time we had was by taking hikes. If you want to experience Yellowstone, don't stay on the road.
We've been lucky enough to even spot a wolf in the distance checking on a lone bison, and to be just on time for a geyser after an hour of walking.
Most people only stay in the park for a couple of days so they rush to all the touristy spots in their cars. Big mistake... Lodging in Yellowstone is cheap by scarce, so you need to book very early.
So far so good on both counts.
It depends on the audience, but I think you are largely correct. Computer graphics / demos / games are a seductive way to introduce linear algebra. Here's how you rotate a point on screen, using only numbers is way more interesting than solving linear equations.

That said, there is an audience for whom the beauty of the subject is enough. Now when I hear "Galois theory" or "Navier-Stokes" I just think "I don't know what that is, but I want it!"
Please don't call commenters "apologists" on HN.
Where do you think contingenics is getting their information if not from the local press?
Ask the people who spent years attacking Word for being "bloatware" ;-)
This seemed pointless to me until I saw that they tested on this platform:

"ASUS Eee PCs/Laptops"

This reminded me that I have a 5 year old Eee laptop that I haven't used in years and throwing Android on there could be a fun weekend-afternoon project.
Isn't this used in Iceland?
I also love how all the self-driving car enthusiasts talk about the computers as though they're infallible. How does a self driving car deal with a sensor failure? Will people be OK with it? What if I want to take over the car to avoid a wreck, but the car won't let me for some reason?

Yes these are corner cases and yes corner cases are by definition rare. But the majority of people who buy term life insurance when they're in their 20s or 30s are at VERY low risk of dying. So why are they being so obviously stupid? Because it's actually not stupid!

So just because the odds of dying are small people still buy insurance. I can't see how self driving cars are terribly different. I could die accidentally by my own hand with a small probability, or I could die at the whim of a computer with also a small probability (granted quite possibly smaller).

Over the course of my driving career I've had no accidents and narrowly avoided plenty of them. I also know people who have had several. I am already substantially more safe than the worst drivers, and as a result also substantially safer than the average driver because as far as I can tell, it's a bimodal distribution. Either you're an awful driver, or you're above average. Getting the wreck-every-2-years person off the road is a great goal for self-driving cars.

But because it's a bimodal distribution (or so I suspect) getting a self-driving car to be better than the average driver doesn't make it better than most, it's just better than the horrible drivers. I'd be much more inclined to think positively about self-driving cars once they're much better than the good driver population rather than being better than the bad driver population.
I think your first part is intimately related to the second one. You can't use "maintenance programmer" names such as real-world analogues if your language is highly abstract; they carry too many incorrect assumptions to be precise.
Without miners there would be no certification of the blockchain. This is pretty much the central point of the technology.

Calling them middlemen couldn't be more wrongheaded.

Its like calling farmers "middlemen" because after all the sun / seeds ultimately grow the plant.
Your example of the CB craze ignores the fact that there were plenty of regulations at that time -- there were actually more then than there are now. They were totally ignored.

For instance, back then you were required to have an FCC license to operate a CB radio, but not one user out of a thousand bothered to get one.

Regulations and laws aren't magic.
I think BSR here stands for "branch to subroutine", i.e. CALL.
Their naming is similar enough to leverage existing research literature, and knowledge, though. Those with a background in math can map some of their existing knowledge. Those without a math background have a more precise vocabulary to understand the concepts and research further. Even if they are a bit foreign, I prefer the attempt to be precise.
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Pair programming eats up so much time. If I'm just given a list of tasks, I usually work 7-8 hrs at work (1 hr. break). Return home do an extra 2-3 hr. non-work related coding.
Miners produce actual value by processing transactions and generating new coins. So they are more like base-men.
The Haskell monad typeclass _is_ (modulo technical details) a category-theoretic monad on the category `Hask`.

As Edward Kmett says in more detail in [1] - the point of calling a monad a monad is not to confuse the reader, but to unlock 70 years of documentation on the concept for the reader. How many programming concepts/tools/libraries do you use that have 70 years of documentation?

Being abstract is profoundly different from being vague.

[1]: https://yow.eventer.com/yow-2014-1222/stop-treading-water-le... (around the 20 minute mark).
I second this
It's an objective term (a defender of something controversial), unlike "linkbait" or "bashing" for example.
>>Because in some devices, to restrict the baseband from interfering, you also have to lock down the OS to the point where the user can’t modify it.

Can you please give an example ? also couldn't be solved by designing the correct API for the communications processor ?
> it's possible the product is good and I suck at marketing

You probably suck at marketing this product, but that's ok. No one is "good" at marketing something on the first try -- they're good at using trial-and-error and user data to improve their marketing. You weren't going to nail it on the first try, and neither would a veteran marketer.

You're going to need time and money before you can be sure that this has failed. You could try raising money, but investors will generally look for 1) a great team or 2) great access to a (niche) market.

"Slightly below break even" sounds like it might be worth continuing for a while. Use things like Lucky Orange to see how users are behaving and try to tweak your marketing.

Do you mind describing your product for us a little bit?
You can do the arithmetic any way you like, I suppose, but there is definitely a reason to always think of a matrix as a rectangle, and the article went to some length to explain why. A 2x2 is not 4 independent real numbers thrown into a box, it is a set of vectors that describe a linear space in relation to the "world", and it doesn't really make sense to describe a linear space any other way than by writing down the vectors that make up the axes of that space.

This is what a 3x3 matrix is:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/364079/WhatAMatrixIs.png

Just one of the many reasons you don't want to use R^4 to describe a matrix is because, for an orthonormal basis, A^-1 == A^T. The inverse and transpose are the same thing. That doesn't work in any arrangement except a rectangle.

(edited for spelling)
Ncurses is a part of the GNU Project. It is one of the few GNU files not distributed under the GNU GPL or LGPL; it is distributed under a permissive free software licence, similar to the MIT License.[8] This is due to the agreement made with the Free Software Foundation at the time the developers assigned their copyright.

When the agreement was made to pass on the rights to the FSF, there was a clause that stated:

The Foundation promises that all distribution of the Package, or of any work
"based on the Package", that takes place under the control of the Foundation
or its agents or assignees, shall be on terms that explicitly and
perpetually permit anyone possessing a copy of the work to which the terms
apply, and possessing accurate notice of these terms, to redistribute copies
of the work to anyone on the same terms.

According to the maintainer Thomas E. Dickey, this precludes relicensing to the GPL in any version, since it would place restrictions on the programs that will be able to link to the libraries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses#License
Why there is something rather than nothing – The finite, infinite and eternal [pdf]
If you go look at my githb account you will see lots of spaghetti code that will never be sold for $2.5 billion ;-) It doesn't matter how poor the code was, it was incredibly valuable before anyone else joined the company.
What does your shortlist look like right now?
> for all the good it will do humanity.

More all the good it will do America, it'll be pretty grim in Europe but they've found that the fallout wouldn't be as bad as expected due to Yellowstone having a low sulfur content.

The rest of humanity would definitely feel it (dramatic weather shifts, much colder winters, crop failures) but it's not an extinction level event or even remotely close.

I was reading a report the other day saying that they have not been able to tie major eruptions to extinction events, flora and fauna seem to come through them ok.
Sorry if I'm being thick, but I'm using the same clipboard to paste between the same two documents, so I still don't see why GDocs should interpret them differently....

I can try clearing the clipboard between pastes: would that make a difference?
Did you miss the time between 1:30 PM - 4:55 PM. Shouldn't it be 5 hrs. ?
When to pull the plug is feels the hardest thing to figure out.

My feeling from the story is that you almost have the product the people want to buy – or your marketing wouldn't of worked as well as it did. You're just a little bit off of product market fit.

But you also sound a bit worn down and tired which is not a good place for a side project.

So that sounds like a hard place to be.

I can't really offer advice – but I will tell you that the thing that has paid my (and several other peoples) wage for the last decade spent the first year completely in the red sucking cash and paying zero while I worked full-time on it and my partner did it as a side gig. Completely self funded. Sometimes it takes quite a while to find your fit as a company.

But sometimes it's never going to happen and pulling the plug on doomed projects is the only way to get to the project that's actually going to work.
So is it possible to explain monads with Javascript ? or even LISP ? seems to me monads == haskell so if one doesn't understand haskell one can't understand monads , cause all monad tutorials are written in haskell. So I ask , what is the point of learning what a monad is if i'm writing some Java ?
Aquameta Layer 0: Meta – Writable System Catalog for PostgreSQL
What's the project? It's tough to guess whether it's worth putting more effort into without knowing anything about the project itself.

My gut feeling is that if it's been this hard to make even a tiny spark with the traction you've gotten so far, it might be smart to look for an easier hill to climb. I think the question to ask is, have enough people who would be ideal customers seen the product and understood how it could help them? If not, how could you get it in front of enough of those people to gauge whether there's some intrinsic attraction in your offering?
I went to school at a Canadian university with a coop program. Engineering coop interns were regularly paid upwards of 20$/h.

But yeah, as with all remuneration, it's always very dependent on your area.
> just pointing out that his burden is light relative to most.

Yeah, and as someone who makes enough money to not worry about not being on the streets, but also not enough to be able to just do anything I want, my burden is light relative to people in 3rd world countries.

No matter what you say, someone's burden is light compared to another, and completely denying someone like Notch the right to be able to get their burden off their chest, just because their's is less than yours, is asinine.
It's far more dangerous than that. If we had an ash cloud significant enough to dim the sun then plants would receive less sunlight, which means a poorer growing season, which means worldwide famine. If that thing erupts, renewable electrical supply will be the least of our worries. I would say we'll spend most of our time trying to grow enough food.
You would do well to learn about effect size and p values. Your common sense guess at what might be reliable is incorrect, which means your doing a disservice to your own understanding of the world.