skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are making a weak argument that creating concrete audio/video recordings has any similarity to the memory of one's mind. There is such a massive ocean of difference between the filters of perception and distortion in memory recollection and video recordings, I think you are making the brain out to be something it isn't.

Nonetheless, this is an interesting debate. Reminds me of an episode of Black Mirror. Check that out for sure, it basically illustrates what you are saying. I found the segment in which before boarding an airplane passengers were required to allow the security to review their memory quite disturbing. Extrapolate that invasion of privacy in every other direction. Having whatever cloud or personal drive you record to be potentially hackable or open for evidence in the courts... It's just some dystopian death of privacy territory that I can't ever seeing the public embracing. Then again, maybe they will and if they do I'll be moving myself to whatever state our country is willing to stand up for privacy and ban such devices.

The basis of my position is the historical record that the most important ideas and movements towards advancements in human rights have often started out as illegal, unpopular and challenges to the status quo. The idea that we can stop crime by recording everything is an illusion and will only serve to suppress advancements which defy the current rule of law.
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One one hand I get academia and on the other hand I don't.

They might argue because it's computer science there should an emphasis on theory over the practice. And while the practice (individual technologies and languages) change rapidly, the concepts moreorless stay the same. There are also software engineering and informatics majors that bring in more practice.

On the other hand, most employers want kids from the "hard" disciplines. And academia knows this and actively promotes themselves based on these metrics. So why not be a little forward thinking and integrate more practical skills into the curriculum like version control, more team projects, more practice with web development, etc? The whole holier-than-thou mentality that you reference is immature and has got to go.
Thanks for the in-depth explanation.
(But it isn't fixed for the cases where bad boys and girls submitted job ads as regular stories. That would require a job ad recognizer.)
Yea it may be worded odd but I'm all for it and was very happy to see the announcement even if it won't be mandatory for all students (which is nice in some ways for the teachers and students both I think).
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Here's a Lisp-ish language implemented in Haskell's type system that I wrote a couple years ago. Computation is everywhere!

https://github.com/seliopou/typo
Looks like almost everyone took a phone, plus sim cards.
One thing seems off in that description:
If the end of the list is represented as pointer to pair of nils then the last element of a list cannot contain nil. The traditional LISP representation is simply a nil pointer for end. '() is nil (NULL in C.)
If I borrow $100 from Bob (deposit), and turn around and immediately lend the same $100 to Charlie (loan), is that creating money? This is essentially what a commercial bank does, except on a much larger scale. If this is creating money, then anyone can create money, not just banks.

The Federal Reserve, on the other hand, can create money from nothing and use that to buy government bonds, like they did with QE.
What followed? Did you have family who were affected alongside you?

I've been spending a lot of time lately reflecting on all the things I've taken for granted through my life, and the lack or loss of a safe and secure home is one of the things I would never wish upon anyone.
Red is more auspicious than green in China, though green is also generally favourably viewed. Except for hats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_in_Chinese_culture#Green
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They're all (except the detail thumbnails) initally loaded as a blank.png and then substituted in with javascript for absolutely no reason. That kind of thing gets me to close the tab real fast.
Floats are not for C/C++/Java diehards but for rather science, engineering, signal processing, financial modeling, computer graphics ...
The same reason as why almost all the activity is on the Everest and there are orders of magnitude less expeditions on K2 and almost 0 on Kanchendzunga.

Because it requires Silicon Valley (the Everest region) and US-style financial institutions (free money) and bankruptcy protection laws.
The mobile app does not authenticate by sending plaintext password to the server either.
Remix (YC W15) is hiring front-end engineers and designers to re-plan cities
New Android lockscreen hack gives attackers full access to locked devices
> They were nowhere near as monstrous in real life

In fact, they weren't monstrous at all. No more than any other army.

One overlooked factoid in 300 is that despite all the "we fought for FREEDOM!" stuff, the Greek city-states were slave-keeping societies (and Sparta was friendly with infanticide), whereas the Persians invading them were Zoroastrian - a religion that forbids slavery. :)
The HN API still has some important gaps. But you have to expect the HTML to change, so cautious scrapers never hardcode XPaths!
I didn't realize people did that! I only checked my own company (vanity!) – I hope we're not guilty of this, if so, I'll raise hell :)
I'm pretty certain what you have described constitutes some form of fraud.
Strangely absent, how they would pay for all of this "free" money. Worthless article, really.

If you go to the site and look for how they plan to pay for all of this free money[0], some of the things they mention:

> "Some of the funds can also come from a carbon tax on oil, coal, and natural gas"

> "increasing the money supply"

That sounds like a recipe for disaster. Make almost all goods and services and energy sources more expensive and then print money to give away. Win-win!

http://www.basicincomeaction.org/about_basic_income
Thanks for the link, fascinating discussion in these answers. I found this very relevant to this point: http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12223/why-did-the-m.... One other problem with the humans as batteries thing (in addition to its inelegance) is that the machines could have used cows or pigs to much better effect.

This comment wraps it up nicely: "All the machines ever wanted was to be left alone, not destroy humanity. I suppose this is the most humane solution they could think of"
Are those penalised (perhaps on a submitter basis)?

A separate flagging feature (jobs ad) might help? Or just plain flagging.
You're both wrong. Come on.

If you, private Bank Lubos, only have $100 on hand but have a customer who wants a $1,000,000 loan, you don't just write a piece of paper. You would go to the U.S. Fed Reserve (central bank) and take out a loan for $999,900 with interest..

The central bank creates the $999,000, and the private bank charges a premium on the interest rate.
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Decimals have a limited application. They basically just pander to the need to have the machine conform to some hokey pencil-and-paper arithmetic rules remotely linked to the number of fingers on two hands.
I'm open to working on it again. Qua user, I would love to be able to view Readability-style versions of stories quickly. And think of all the analytics people could do on a near-complete archive of all HN stories.

But it's a matter of priorities. Had it sped up moderation it would have both paid for itself and made certain campers happier. But it didn't turn out that way. Beyond that, technically it's a nontrivial problem to get working on the full range of content, and then there are the nontechnical obstacles. We wouldn't do it without being sure we could release it.

Sending requests to Internet Archive might be an option if they'd be ok with it, but that of course would only help with caching, not decrufting.
> this is probably a political statement (of which I'm
> not entirely clear yet)

From the article:

<title>... disobedient

> The European Parliament recently voted against a
> controversial proposal that threatened to restrict
> the photography of copyrighted buildings and
> sculptures from public places.

> The camera could be funded or subsidized by public
> and private sector institutions with an interest in
> regulating photography in certain places.
> ...If someone is openly running counter to that

It's when they covertly run counter to that that the real trouble starts.
I just launched my product in just 2190 days. The interesting thing is that only a handful of key decisions, maybe 3-4 decisions, would save 80% of this period. But this is the (now) expert hindsight. It's not easy to spot it in real time.
Payment fees are high and plentiful because banks are a state-maintained cartel everywhere.

For example, it's outrageous that they charge us something like $30 - $60 for a wire transfer, but that's what happens when they can charge just about whatever the fuck they want, because there is no competition!
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> Please note that our Wine Staging repository does not contain the full Wine source, which would be very intransparent for our users and developers. Instead we're providing Wine Staging as a patchset which has to be applied on top of the corresponding upstream Wine version.

Translation: we can't figure out how to use git, to actually make a transparent development stream that users can just pull: and check out to an arbitrary commit, etc. "Let's try this without the last three commits ... git checkout HEAD^^^ ... done".
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Having swordfish in there at all, and not War Games, invalidates the list.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off deserves more credit than swordfish on social engineering alone!
They do it without meaning to. People building startups don't always have time to re-learn the intricacies of HN.
To be honest I didn't volunteer because the program expects "to teach during the school day (usually 8:00-9:30 AM) or during after-school hours (between 3:30 and 5:00 PM)" and that's not something most people can really afford.

Saturday is a different story.

Anyway, I also agree that computer science might not be the right word. When I was in junior high I was given a year long computer course but it was just teaching how to use Safari and the text editor on the old colorful Mac (that was back in 2003, 2004). But when I was in my 3rd grade in Hong Kong I was already beginning to learn how to use computer and then 4th grade learning HTML using DreamWeaver MX in school. We had a beautiful computer lab, not a classroom with broken chair and outdated computer. I am not a front-end guy but being able to just make a simple static webpage was really awesome.

I think they should teach how the whole agile project life cycle, give tech talk, build a couple projects on their own, think of it as a freshman engineering 101 class.
You currently need 501 karma to downvote. What are the other things?
Yeah that's another big factor in how fast they decay. The fact that they deorbit easily is good though, if they stayed up for a long time it'd be harder for NASA to approve so many so easily because they'd become a threat to LEO operations. A lot of them are launched from the ISS.
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Official word is that it'll be the "only major change to the Hacker News UI that we're committed to"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8297695
I just hope everyone doesn't still disagree and propose more 4-minute fixes forever.

In the infamous words of Lily Tomlin, Oh, dang, that's so cute.

https://youtu.be/ZIOogEaO3Hc?t=1m18s

;-)
It is possible that when Morpheus described the 'true purpose' of the Matrix, he didn't actually know what he was talking about. I think that's the excuse most people use. It was a best guess based on piecemeal information (and possibly deliberate misinformation by the machines.)

Not actually canon but it'll do.
A smart friend of mine in publishing (now a retired multi-millionaire) once said to me, "Successful publishing businesses never stop looking for ways to improve revenue 5% at a time."
That would require someone to read a man page or two. Which they clearly don't need to do because, nearly self-evident proof: they memorized the gnu diff and patch ones twenty years ago, QED.
It takes a long time to learn how to write code in this way.

The current project I'm on is probably the antithesis of this. I wouldn't be able to figure out how to replace anything without rewriting at least 5 other interconnected bits.

So my guess is that some people actually never learn this...
My feelings are mixed on this.

On FB, I'm usually glad that links open in a new tab (well, I middle click them anyway, but sometimes I forget) because if they didn't, I'd have the huge problem of trying to infinite scroll my way back to where I was.

On just some random business website, OTOH, I usually take it to mean the business owner (or developer) thought their site was so important, it should make me keep it open while I go to another link.

I usually middle-click on HN anyway, but I feel like it's sort of nicer in a way, to be in control of that. Maybe HN feels like more of a page than an application to me because it doesn't use infinite scroll / a ton of custom Javascript behavior?

I'm inclined to agree that web _applications_ should open external links in a new tab, but I'm not sure it's best for HN.
As a single parent, gosh I hope childless people reflect on what you said.
>I’d work on them for a few weeks, sometimes even months, but eventually I’d lose motivation and never get back to it.

I think this post helps demonstrate why having a dedicated co-founder or partner can really help ground you when working on projects like these. There will undoubtedly be lulls where you question the project and perhaps your own abilities. Having someone there to remind you of the original vision can really make the difference.
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It's important that makers reach out to kids in this community to let them know it’s okay to be creative. It’s not right at all for kids to feel that they have to hide their engineering talent and keep it a secret.
Thanks for posting your story its made my day :) I'm studying in Joensuu, Finland. About 70km from Kitee where Nightwish originated.
When job ads appear as regular stories, users should certainly flag them, whether they're by YC companies or not.
I think a US asset could have been targeted by their software. Or Hacking Team sold to a country with a bad standing in Israel.

Then the software becomes a direct threat to their agents/allies overseas and it needed to be neutralized. That is the kind of competition you do not want as a state actor.

I also think Gamma International was the victim of a foreign intelligence agency. I don't believe the privacy-minded hacker Robin Hood stories anymore.
Anyone who uses the word AI in any context other than "we don't know it yet" is just dumb. And people confusing AI with machine learning are dumber.
I don't follow.

I can say "well, lympocytes and T-cells exist, but there is no scientific support for the immune system!" But how can you prove that the immune system exists as such?

The immune system isn't a "real" thing. Instead, we have created an abstraction by describing the function of a collection of structures and processes and named it the "immune system."

Similarly, there is no claim to prove or disprove about chakras. It's just a way to view the function of the body and mind.

And, for a very long time, it's been very useful for many people.

Your finger-pointing about who does or doesn't believe in "magic" is not pertinent.
What's the motivation? Just an academic exercise?
What product are you making? Couldn't find it via your profile.
Ok, I get it now. HN is extremely light on the Ajax, so it would be a major design change at that level. If we decide to take that step, implementing this feature would be reasonable. But we probably wouldn't do it for one feature.
Your source includes all VC funding, not just tech start-ups. Boston is #1 in biotech funding (SF is almost tied), so the numbers are skewed if you're just referring to tech funding.
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Let's remove the hyperbole and call a spade a spade.

So, you want them to prove a negative? Just trying to be clear.
Yeah, it's always good to assume good faith :)
You didn't read the article.
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> HN auto-submitting to archive.org

Can you describe this in more detail?
I don't know if percentages are the right metric to use here. You can certainly make up a scenario which is completely absurd, but still has your percentages. Assume 100,000,000 green people, and 100 blue people on a distant planet. Nine blue criminals kill 9 blue people. One green person kills one blue person. So that's 90% blue-on-blue murder, and an 10% of the blue population are murderers, and there is a 10% murder rate among the blue population. Now lets say there were there were 9 green people murdered by 9 green people, and one 1 green person murdered by 1 blue person. Again 90% green-on-green murder, and a 0.00000001% murder rate.
No problem, the new "technology" in the Silicon Valley is AirBnB and Facebook. Let China do the hard stuff.
I happened to work there. Their app store was a much bigger focus internally than the ability to run Windows apps. I think one of their bigger mistakes was charging for Free Software apps in their Click-n-Run app store.

The company's probably long enough gone that I can mention there was an easter egg in earlier versions of the app store client, with developer credits. You had to queue apps to install such that their first letters spelled Click-n-Run, then press Ctrl-Alt-Shift-C. The easiest way to do it was using KDE2's dcop -- DBUS has nothing on DCOP's ease of use and discoverability.
I used the site to download a YouTube video in MP4 but there was no audio track. I noticed for YouTube links you're offering separate downloads for audio/video, but for Vimeo there's only video. I'd guess YouTube is storing audio and video separately, perhaps?
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Insulting people only serves to weaken your argument. BTW, your statements are an appeal to authority.
Disclaimer, I'm not an economist, but I'll leave a brain dump anyway ...

Everyone's a bit confused. Or talking at cross purposes.

* Central banks create M0 (either paper currency, or electronic equivalents - original fiat money). (I had to say fiat, or some gold bug would complain that gold is the real money).

* Banks borrow money, lend it out again, then when the money comes back to the banks they keep recyling it in an infinite cycle, creating M0/fr amount of broad money (M2?).

* Then other infinite cycles create even broader money, but let's forget about that.

A lot of people (especially bitcoin and gold proponents) forget is that the government can still create M0 if it's not just greenbacks (by lending out "imaginary" gold or bitcoins - as long as someone will take an IOU from the government in return for a little bit of interest). Banks can create M2, as long as someone will take their IOUs (with interest). You can ban lending, but since the critics of money usually lean Libertarian, that's not an argument you often get.

What some post-keynesians and some economically literate marxists (and maybe MMTists, I don't actually know what they're on about) suggest is that the fraction can suddenly change.

Boom - lowering fractional reserves, which means the total amount of broad money keeps increasing.

Bust - banks try to lower fractional reserves, which makes the total amount of broad money contracts.

The fraction is often treated as a constant, but if it suddenly changes (or the desired target suddenly changes), it can have a massive impact.

Banks get very comfy lending out money with very low reserve rates (effectively the multiplier of money), because whenever there's a crisis the government will "print" M0, and hand it over. So as long as the banks don't act more irresponsibly than every other bank, they can't fail. "Macroprudential" reforms (telling banks to stop it when they lend to much, or risk fines / penalties) is becoming fashionable for this very reason, since telling banks they'll all go bankrupt is about as credible as a teacher yelling "If the class isn't quiet I'll expel the lot of you!".

I like to consider the human side - in the asset bubble that occurs when M2 is rapidly growing, everyone wants to work hard and save hard, because otherwise they'll never get on the property ladder. That creates a boom, then a bust when they realise it's a Ponzi scheme. Economists who know better talk about high investment, then a crash in investment when the money suddenly dries up.
> they are probably allowed, under the same charter that allows CIA to conduct HUMINT missions, to attack Italian security companies

They are definitely not allowed, under the Constitution, to monitor everyone, but they do it anyway. You know this too.

So why do you discuss legislation as if it mattered to the NSA, when their actions show it clearly doesn't?
Is this another classic HP re-org?
You do not understand central banking at all.

Banks do not create money out of thin air: central banks do. Through loans to charter banks and bond purchases, the Federal Reserve creates (or destroys) money whenever the internal one day inter-bank loan market interest rate is above (or below) a certain guideline (the "interest rate").

On the other hand, if I deposit $100.00, the bank is allowed to loan a certain percentage of it to someone else. That is fractional reserve banking. Let's say the bank operates with a 2% reserve. I deposit $100.00, they loan $98.00 to Johnny. A naive understanding of the system would lead you to think that the bank "created" $98.00 because the sum of the balances of yours and Johnny's bank account is $198.00; it did not. If Johnny doesn't pay his loan back, they're out $98.00. Your deposit is a liability for the bank. The loan is an asset. So in this situation, the bank has $100.00 in liabilities, $98.00 in assets and $100.00 in reserve.

When too many people don't pay their loans back, you have a bank run. Part of the reason the Federal Reserve system exists is to avoid this situation by allowing the banks to borrow from a lender of "last resort" if this were to happen.
Does anyone familiar with the "paid-for certificate industry" know if anything major is going to happen? I'd guess they're going to be inundated with lawsuits or something.

Great work, by the way.
I don't think that was literally supposed to be EG, just a knowing nod in that direction
Please don't make the dupe detector "too perfect". Fact is good content sometimes doesn't get noticed first time it is submitted.

It is common for re-submissions (sometimes with a better title) a few hours or days later to make the the top of the front page.
There's a retrospective on WarGames that's even better than the CS Monitor Hackers article at http://archive.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/16...

WarGames was another case of life imitating art imitating life, when the over-the-top NORAD command center set (the director called it "NORAD's wet dream of itself") became the blueprint for command centers everywhere going nuts with monitors.

A NORAD commander is quoted there: "A few years later, I was an executive officer with the Air Force Space Command stationed at Norad near Cheyenne Mountain. And I'm wondering, 'Gee, where can we get such cool-looking displays?' It was a good forcing function. It required us to all of a sudden say, 'If it really can look like this, why doesn't it?'"