skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That there are no surviving letters from Leopold now, hundreds of years later, when there was no reason to save any letters as there might be for a famous composer, does not indicate that there were no letters.

Aside from that, it seems highly unlikely that there would be no letters just based on the fact that there is no known family drama or estrangement.

I think you've made quite an assumption in your reasoning.
>>This is all why I, personally, do not plan to bring children into this world until I can afford the time to raise them with the love and attention they deserve. So that the availability of finances has no bearing on their future. I owe any being I bring into this earth at least that courtesy.

Just be careful you don't end up like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL1-340ODCM

As someone with 2 kids, while there are definitely clear "Wrong Times" there is no time that completely feels like "The Right Time", there's always a "More savings", "Just one more promotion", "That one vacation I didn't take", etc.
Lot of Russia stories on the front page lately
I wonder if people who work online and already face fairly direct competition from a global workforce are more open to this line of thinking?
Don't forget you're using a Dev Kit which is basically 2 years old - personally, although I agree with your DK2 assessment, I am reserving judgement for the consumer version.
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Torchlight II is another fantastic successor for this genre!
A similar low-cost telescope for science education: http://galileoscope.org

Not quite papercraft cheap...
Elgin James was always the most interesting character in that scene to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_James

I met Elgin a few times outside of Righteous Jams shows and he was always super friendly to a kid that just liked his band.

EDIT: This part was always the craziest to me:

While part of FSU, using a tactic learned from the United States government,[3] James and other FSU members set up an "arms for hostages" scenario in which they traded handguns with inner city gang members for pit bulls used in dog fighting rings. The dogs would then be nursed back to health and fostered until safe homes were found for them.
I don't think it's about price. I believe it's about capacity. Population is growing -- in SF it's growing a lot -- but SFO and LAX are at capacity. California needs another option for moving people between LA and the Bay Area since it's not possible to fly more planes.
I’ve watched more V.R. than most people, and I don’t feel like I have brain damage,” says Chris Milk, a former music-video director whose company produces and distributes short, 360-degree movies watched on a headset.

that's one of the best example of confirmation bias I have seen in a while. Chris is assuming because he doesn't feel brain damage he doesn't have it! (I have no opinion on if VR causes brain damage - just pointing out the absurdly of that quote)
Had no clue about this course! Thanks a lot for the recommendation!
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There's also uTorrent, xTorrent, and a variety of others with names ending in *torrent. "I torrented it" was, and might still be, quite a common expression because of that.

Probably for the same reason "I HTTP'd it" never became established because people were already using their browsers for regular downloads over HTTP.
You're absolutely correct--amount of swap isn't as good a metric as how much it's stressed (how much is being swapped in/swapped out). Time permitting I may update the blog, and with your permission use your comment)
The TCP/IP equivalent layer: https://ethereum.org

The WWW/browser equivalent layer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgNjs_WaFSc

Done. *at least as an awesome starting point. The easier it is for developers to build on the platform and the more network benefits/incentives that arise, the more high utility Dapps will be deployed, the more likely Chrome/Firefox/IE will integrate seamless DNS/pointers to the Ethereum platform. The web will become decentralized by default and the average user won't even notice.

And I mean "platform" in the sense here of a distributed blockchain or lower-stack layer, not some corporate-owned data silo built on proprietary API endpoints and protocols.
Can you expound? Why is user control if data the opposite? To me this seems in keeping with the basic principles of decentralization of power, that I should have autonomy over my own domain.
It is interesting that a single comment (since you said "the comment") led to you write a response about "them" and what "they" think. Anonymous internet comments are a grab bag of all the most ignorant comments in the world and are not indicative of actual general social attitudes, and this has been known for a very long time.

The interesting part is that your comment here is, for me at least, one of those exact comments, constructing some sort of imaginary foe to rage against.
As other comments have noted, I a speaking to the fact that you can’t make a function declaration while also specifying that the name is not to be re-bound within its scope.

A function expression bound to a constant block-scoped variable does not have the exact same semantics.
> And you are oversimplifying in a way which is misleading in this discussion: new construction triggers full cash value assessment not limited to the annual 2% increase.

1) That's why I listed two points, rather than just one. :)

2) According to the Alameda County Assessor's office, the situation is not as grim as you seem to paint it (for every situation except the "building flattening" situation):

"Only the portion of the property which was newly constructed is subject to reassessment at market value. For example, if a family room is added to an existing home, only that portion is reassessed and the existing home will retain its previously established Proposition 13 base year value." [0]

This might partially explain all the damned San Francisco apartments with funky vintage 1970's-era single-paned windows. :P

> To the extent that they could, where would the sense be in that?

To encourage the build-out of housing in an area that has roughly between three and ten new people move in for each new housing unit constructed annually?

1) It's not like SF is currently starving for cash.

2) In the -very, very unlikely- scenario that only the ultra-wealthy, pensioners, and property "investors" occupy San Francisco, what happens to the tax base? What happens to the character of the city?

[0] https://www.acgov.org/assessor/about_property_assessment/new...
Reminds me of vxworks: the main shell for the operating system is the debugger.
At first, sure. Eventually, though, self-driving cars really blur the line between public and private transportation.

You could have a large network of self-driving cars that you simply hail on your phone and quickly pick you up. It won't look like a 4-door car, but more likely a small bus like you find in many parts of the world. People going in similar directions travel together, only picking up and dropping off with minimal interruption. In lower periods of demand, these are stored in lots with no wasted space as only a LIFO 'stack' is needed.

Furthermore, self-driving cars could be programmed to move in caravans with minimal following distance and aerodynamic efficiency to boot. Not terribly helpful in an urban situation (probably some minor traffic density increase), but wonderful for commutes which could dramatically decrease density.

So, you'd not only increase occupancy (easily 8 people in a car-sized footprint, presuming electric cars), you could also increase traffic density. All told, an order of magnitude capacity increase seems within reason, and in a reasonable amount of time.

That said, I think subways are still a good investment for the time being.
They killed common loot and put on lots of trade restrictions precisely because of the behavior you participated in with D2.

They have brought it back around to more D2-ish style gameplay in the most recent patches.
I worked in this area briefly and I verify that this is actually a high quality article on the topic. The last one I read was a publicity ploy for a rushed job.
I'm not clear how that's different from e.g. the random loot tables in D&D, except that Diablo's version called some different items by the same name for added confusion.
I doubt that "physical manipulation" is a requirement for machine intelligence. It may as well be any kind of manipulation in any kind of reach and consistent environment. It could potentially be rich enough virtual environment.

But, in practice, the only "rich enough" environment currently available is the physical world. And virtual classroom is no substitution...
The logic being used is that JavaScript is 20 years old.
Ask HN: How to get a job in the oil industry in North Dakota?
I hit a low ball in my life. I'm 25 years of age and broke well only $1000 left to my name and I have a car I'm ready for a big change in my life. I'm thinking of driving up to North Dakota with this last $1000 in hopes of making something of myself.

I don't have a DUI or any Felonies and have ok credit have driver license but no CDL.

Can any one offer me tips to go about this I need help.
It seems the recentness of that discussion was enough for many people to warrant flagging this one--it's been sent to page 6.
I personally am very interested in IPv6, but the regular expression notation is more complex than IPv4: IPv4 has four decimals separated by dots; IPv6 has as many as 8 double-byte hex characters, sometimes as few as one (e.g. ::1). Plus, other than myself, I know few people who regularly use IPv6. It's not an intractable problem, merely one that I suspect no one would use.
After the actual acceleration there wouldn't be any difference to how life on such planets works. What's difficult for me to estimate is the likelihood of surviving the slingshot itself however. Looking at the closest known orbit around Sagittarius A* [1] you get an orbital acceleration of this star system of around 0.2G. I'm not entirely sure about the math, but I'd imagine the slinghot would have to keep an orbital acceleration of significantly less than the planet's own surface gravity, otherwise it would probably strip its atmosphere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2_%28star%29
the name itself defines the initiative...
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Oops, sorry, I didn't mean to say you used a RBF kernel. I edited my comment above. I meant to say your embedding resembles the polynomial kernel (not RBF, which was just meant as a generalisation of such neat tricks :)).

What I meant to say was that you didn't need to compute the embedding explicitly. Since you embed into a space that has a nice structure, you can compute the dot product of the embedded vectors without having to compute the embedding explicitly.
There is a focus in the article in playing outside which is good and fine.

But another important aspect missing today is age mixing. This is crucial because it is an informal mentoring process, in effect. 4 year olds learn best from being around 6 year olds who learn best from 8 year olds, etc. up the chain. There is also reflection from being a mentor to the younger ones. All of this is absent increasingly today.

It is not just lack of recess or whatever, but a lack of neighborhood, of community. The young ones learn how to share, how to regulate emotions, etc., in part by witnessing the older ones being that way.
Since you took `glob` as an example, how do you get to the explanation of `for test in .in`?*

`man -k wildcard` points to `man 3am fnmatch` which points to `man 3 fnmatch`. Now the process for python and shell converge, and I still have to know to look at the "See Also" section of the manpage to find `man 7 glob` which finally gives me useful information.

The python workflow involved one fewer discrete step, but the user would have to know both help() in the python REPL and how to navigate man pages, while for shell scripts the user only needed to know how to navigate man pages.

I'm not trying to say python is good here (well, the stdlib documentation on the web is actually pretty good, it's just not easily available from the console). But the idea that bash/man is more discoverable is just wrong... You can find the glob under "Pattern Matching" section which is all right, but you need to understand most of the expansion mechanism of shell to know it applies to "for". Then again "for" itself has a definition that belongs more to a CS material, than to a usage guide.

I do very much agree with you here. Man pages are not very accessible. Some man pages (most that I work with, but I understand that's not everyone's experience) are very good, complete, and understandable. I'd be comfortable saying that python's and the shell's documentation features are roughly equally usefule ± some small amount.
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Seriously, you created a new account to tell us that you don't like a video game?
Thanks mini. I'm not sure why they banned me (I used a link in my first post?), but they let me create another account, and am now using that one.
Today's America has a stronger phobia of getting hurt.... or maybe of getting sued.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/may/21/children-weak...

http://www.bustle.com/articles/41370-11-stupidly-dangerous-t... --- I remember some of these toys and they were great fun.
Doing preemptive multitasking (with hardware memory protection, more or less) was actually not too hard on the 130XE (and the variants that added more RAM... I had mine up to 320K at one point, and some people even had 1 or 2 MB).

The extra RAM on those machines appeared in 16K banks that could be switched in and out by setting a control register.

Code in one 16K bank was totally isolated from code in other banks. Obviously code that wasn't located in that part of the address space could access anything that was in the currently switched-in bank, but there was no way for one bank to directly access another.

I wrote a primitive multitasking kernel (nowhere near as elaborate as this) using a C package that simulated a 16 bit machine by using multiple bytes of Page 0 as pseudo-registers. You just had to save those off before switching banks and jumping back to the other task.

It actually worked reasonably well, but not fast enough to be practical.

Yeah, I'm old.
Bad SSL
I had the same reaction as an American living in Berlin. There was a playground right next to my apartment where a whale shaped slide also had a water pump that went right into a sandbox essentially making mud. There were always kids playing and always kids making mud but never once did someone get buried in mud, mud thrown at them... it was _civilized_ play day in and day out. Just kids having fun in a way that I haven't seen with my own eyes for a while. (plural of anecdote is not data, etc etc.)
Where do you see $250 for 42? I'm seeing more like $2,000.
Src code: https://github.com/lgarron/badssl.com

Credit to moviuro for sharing @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10186516
I find the quality of their examples is really good, and helps to illustrate a point/topic without introducing too much 'noise'.
Probably the key is to provide rich enough environment and be very careful with repetitive scheduled activities... Teaching a five-year-old to code is probably Ok, as long as it is a very small part of life of that 5-year-old...
Are there no polyfills/css libraries to take care of Safari?
I think all three of these principles are important but miss an obvious one that should come first. A decentralized web should have decentralization as its central principle.

If we're talking about our ideal pie-in-the-sky protocol (where people have total control over their data) then let's dream big. Web hosting should be completely decentralized. DDOS attacks should become infeasible because there are no dedicated servers to target and web services should already scale directly in proportion to usage. Entities should receive incentives for participating in the protocol, but have no feasible way of negatively affecting others no matter how much relative computing power they control in the network.
Awesome writeup!

Sure, it's easier to setup your own web presence with "the cloud" today than it used to be, but this only further centralizes control of content to the big cloud providers.

Not to mention the cost of bandwidth when serving content via HTTP. Sure, you can distribute your content via BitTorrent, but what kind of user experience is that? Can my grandma use it? Probably not.

I hope IPFS sees further adoption.
Dude, I thought you were interested in this subject, so I wanted to give some examples of how Kuhn's theory works, seeing as the article did it poorly. I guess I didn't do a much better job myself.

I'm not here to argue with you in case you have that impression.
There's a somewhat relevant concept in Seymour Papert's book Mindstorms. Papert talks about "body-syntonicity" where the act of drawing a circle on the computer screen with LOGO can be seen as bridging children’s sense and knowledge about their own bodies to something abstract. Young children would often pretend to be the LOGO turtle, acting out commands on the floor, during stages of planning a LOGO program, or while debugging LOGO code. It has also been a strategy for teachers to introduce programming and procedural ways of thinking. This video shows this in action (with some followup comments from Papert): https://youtu.be/bOf4EMN6-XA?t=254
Donna Chang? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsKpShq2X6s
The article you've linked is about unityped languages. Perl 6 is not unityped.

To quote the conclusion of the article you linked:

> Why should you care? Because, I argue, that a fully expressive language is one that supports the delicate interplay between static and dynamic techniques. Languages that force only one perspective on you ... hobble you; languages that admit both modes of reasoning enable you and liberate you from the tyranny of a single type.

It would seem he ought to love Perl 6.

"Getting beyond static vs dynamic" may be of interest:

* HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9089259

* Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id4pDstMu1s
I did say SF - the fellow before me said internships were paid in Silicon Valley so I was curious if there was a leg that added to BART to get there.

I just don't know what companies expect for frontend work - I have been doing the tutorials for React, Meteor, Ember, and Angular but this sounds more like backend work to me. Should I be looking in the direction of markup languages? I have used HAML to work with data in YAML, I need to conquer SASS, LESS, and Stylus I think.

I feel pretty confident about my language list - IRC kinda 'raised me' on programming.

C, C++ (templates are still hard), Java (don't know popular libraries), Ruby, Python, Lua, Coffeescript, JS, Lisp, Haskell (can read, not write..), Erlang, Elixir (beginning), PHP, ...

I just mean to say I do know Python quite well - I worked through the Violent Python book a month ago and loved the hell out of it :-)

Thank you for your feedback - I just wish I had a better idea of what is frontend. Imo things like React blur that line building components against the backend so closely?
The recommendation (swap == 2 x RAM) was more common in the nineties when RAM was much more expensive. It was a reflection that the resident set size (RSS) of a process is often a fraction of its Virtual Memory footprint (often an order of magnitude smaller), so a process could run effectively even with most of its data swapped out to disk.

There was a fair amount of interesting engineering to make swap effective.. For example, for the code (text) segment, which was read-only, you'd use the file itself (e.g. a.out) as the swap for the text (code) portion, and if you'd try to `rm a.out` while it was running, you'd get a "text file busy error".
Now that we have ES6 generators, this is much less of an issue.
The "Share" menu on the left is covering the text.
Trying to grok the criticism.

So English professors are racist, so using a ethic name as a pen name is more racist?
I don't know what does it do, but seems powerful.
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I'd like to know this too.

I get this impression the "research" conducted in the article involved actual printed material and not something like textfiles.org.

I quote-searched a couple of sentences from the article on Google, and got the article back as the sole result.
Thank you for another resource, I found this that I think I will apply for: https://www.jrdevjobs.com/jobs/1438869644aa61299d
How do these synthetic biology startup valuations stack up against valuations in social media or information technology (cf HBO's SILICON VALLEY)? As a biochemist who performs computational protein design in order to achieve novel form or function in proteins, I have always been interested in new developments in the biotech startup land. However, I'm skeptical about the monetary rewards of synbio -- it appears to me that conventional chemical engineering is still much cheaper and more effective then new synbio approaches.
You can check out the actual platform here, invite your team and it's great for solo projects too. It's web only at present, we will be rolling out our mobile UI soon.

https://app.zephyrplatform.com/register/
Depends on what you mean by "school" (NB the quotes in the parent comment). There is a huge variance in options for working parents of a 2-3 year old. From cramped cinder block day care -- aka The Cacophonous Petri Dish; to private nanny; to "forest schools" where kids spend as much time as possible outside digging in the dirt, climbing tree stumps, and learning how to devise and engage in large projects together (yes, a group of 2.5 year olds is capable of this).

I don't think the parent comment was talking about toddler MIT.
Can't tell if this is an abstract or the full thing, but here's what the poem looks like at least: https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals...

This is pretty interesting. It seems obvious to me though, that one's identity is hugely important in the meaning of any creative endeavor. However it seems equally obvious that a name does not necessarily imply any specific identity!
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nitpicking: ... to effect a run out
I'd argue that that's significantly worse at conveying the intent than the shell script version.

The shell script started as a workflow that was executed repeatedly, manually, from the shell, and then automated. Naturally, the shell script resembles very closely they commands typed in at the shell, with some added code to encode the part of the routine that was executed in the user's head.

The python script doesn't look anything like the routine that was previously entered at the shell. That makes it harder to tell at a glance that this script does the same thing.

It it horrible? No absolutely not. If you're working on a team where everyone knows python but not everyone is comfortable with shell scripts, then writing the script in python is the clear best option. But if you're working on a team where everyone is comfortable with both python and shell scripts, the shell script probably wins out.
I still can't get used to $100k being a realistic salary for an experienced dev. It seems so astronomically high - I live at home with a mom who has supported our family of 4 on $45k/year before taxes for over a decade. I do hope to use a minimum starting salary to my advantage, it just feels like I can't gain independence and save for my future with rent being what it is in the bay area. It definitely makes sense to find a roommate though..

Thank you for your childhood. -- oh, I mean input :-) Just having a flashback to The Giver..