skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, we could probably support the same sized military with substantally less money, due to all the waste and mismanagement. Honestly though, it's not just the military- massive waste occurs at all levels of govt. All this focus on cutting spending; yet nobody ever seems to seriously look at waste as a better alternative to public spending. I guess because it's harder to investigate than to cut from a spreadsheet.

Small story from reddit: This guy worked in a government office where his boss would order multi-thousand page reports to be rush delivered to the office, which cost anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars depending on the report; and then took a single paper out and trashed the rest- because she didn't know you could just print single pages.
Yeah, weird why that is getting down-voted.
One example of successful state investment doesn't really say anything about what the ideal level of overall state economic intervention is. Research spending like DARPA isn't even representative of how Western governments regulate and tax.
on the legal argument - remember that is easier for a wealthy US citizen to break the law internationally and even at home than say a German trying to break the law in Germany.

get a local conviction on your personal record and you're toast.
If they are showing us vaporware that's five years away, their comparison is roughly equivalent to doing a grand reveal in 2020 and saying "Look how much better this is than the state of the art for 2015."

Imagine Apple had revealed the iPhone in 2007... And compared it to a 2002 Nokia.
Yes, yet i would hope that someone that tries to address the fundamental flaws in parts of Europe economy has at least a minimal knowledge of that fact.

To make such a fundamental mistake in an analysis, one has to have never had even one single business relation with two different european countries.
That's pretty good though! I worried it might either save something proprietary, lossy conversion (e.g. markdown), or irrecoverable (e.g. PDF) only.

(Of course, you could always use browser-save HTML, but you'd have to manually strip anything like the video)
I'd love if make was less capable of implementing a toy Lisp and more capable of quoting characters. Like quoting a left paren. I mean, at all.
All modern interiors have awful touch screens and shitty UIs and so are less usable than my 2004 Accord's interior. If you put a computer monitor in your dash, I am not buying your car.
We will never know the opposite wont we? It is not that state is not capable of investment on innovation. They are just terrible at it. There are many rebuttals on the issue of "government is necessary for innovation". Here is one of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbR4cjA-Few
Over regulation is not really a thing – the US has under regulation, especially in regards to data safety.

Over regulation is what the US does with taxis. Which is why in Germany companies that do essentially the same as Uber (but legal[1]) already existed before Uber was even founded.

What I see the "issue" is that as soon as some size is reached, we don't really care about expanding further. Why take a risk when you already have a pretty nice market?

[1] In Germany, where UberPop is currently banned, you can start a taxi company if your drivers are insured with commercial insurance. To make profit, your drivers need to have a 55€ license as taxi driver. Simple as that. UberPop is only banned because they did not want to insure the drivers (the license is less of an issue).
If you replace "X is bad" with "X is not the right way to solve the problem in Go programs", you end up with a much more reasonable statement. Lots of good, even great things don't make sense in every program. The notion that every good thing should be available to every program seems more unreasonable to me than the inverse notion.
We're in the process of fabricating a prototype and are not publicly releasing detailed estimates at this time.

I can say that the cost depends on what you want to do - systems can range from less than 1mm^2 to the entire reticle depending how much performance you want.
A kickstarter campaign to send all religious paraphernalia to space? Count me in.
Quora: "Are all the U.S. Presidents related to each other?"

https://www.quora.com/Are-all-the-U-S-Presidents-related-to-...
Okay, everybody will hate me.

But, why are more unicorns a good thing? Yes, there are less VCs willing to throw money at 'SOCIAL APP n', but most startups will tend to have something more concrete.

Plus, assuming unicorns are 'natural forces of free market' is ignorance and hurts the economy in the long-term. These 'natural monopolies' use/abuse a financial system created by government. In a free market(no government intervention), they'd never be able to raise as much money and takeover as much market cap as they currently do.

Less monopolies is not a signal of a interventionist economy. Quite the opposite.
Flying is the safest method of transport.

Unless you're flying into space.
Could you mention which sources? I'm thinking of building an access point on a Pi and would like to read your sources before diving in.
That's the exact business Apple are in with the iPhone. The most expensive models fund the company and make it possible to push the more affordable models to a broader and broader base of users.
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Actually More permissive & lax gun laws -> More police militarization to preserve the competitive advantage -> More govt spending local or federal -> Less spending on other sectors such as health and education

BTW I'm centrist on the issue of gun ownership & carrying but I just wanted to point out the flaw in your deduction.
Thanks! Just what I wanted to know. Must have missed that part from the article regarding the 90 Days.
>These are of course mostly older companies and not part of the Unicorn category, but at the end of the day that’s just semantics.

No, it's not just semantics. Look at the history of Siemens or any other of these old European companies. There's one aspect that is present all their history and that's government involvement. One could even say that their first venture capitalist that gave them a chance was the government. They all pretty much started out by getting contracts for building infrastructure or military hardware.
Brian Krebs either has a death wish or balls the size of the moon. Never in a million years would I go and actually try to track down the ATMs compromised by well-funded, sophisticated organized crime gangs. In Latin America, no less, where killing random people only improves your rep and buying police protection is cheap.
Why is that the more interesting question?

Is there anything you can add to the discussion of substance? Or, perhaps, is this drive-by FUD all you have in the content holster?
Interestingly, with Joe Biden in the range (10%, 13.5%) to win the nomination, and (7.7%, 8.3%) to win the Presidency, the lowest his electability could be is

7.7% / 13.5% = 57%

and the highest it could be is

8.3% / 10.0% = 83%

so the market seems to be pricing a probability in the range of (57%, 83%) for Biden to be elected president if he won the nomination - compared to Hillary Clinton's range of (56.9%, 57.7%)

I can think of a few explanations -

1. Biden really is a lot more electable than Hillary Clinton

2. Both candidates have electability at the low end of their range (around 57%).

3. The market is wrong, i.e. they are systematically underrating Biden's chance of winning the nomination (and overrating Clinton's) or overrating Biden's chance of winning the election (and underrating Clinton's) or both.

There is no arbitrage, but if you believe 3, there might be a good profit to be made in expectation by backing Biden to win the election, but Clinton to win the presidency (you wouldn't hold it through to 2016, but take off the bet as soon as the odds come back to something that looks more plausible).

I haven't done the analysis to see if it's still worth it after trading costs, but maybe someone else wants to.
It seems that the graph part is referring to how the input is evaluated one node at a time and applied to the output. The sub objects (child nodes) of the input are evaluated and then applied to the output. It's a graph in the sense that it's a tree being evaluated and built. I would think it's pretty optimal if you're using nosql stores that are cached heavily with good locality of data and you can send the request to the right server based on the first node of the input.
I don't have a strong view about this, and I certainly understand why the BBC is using quotation marks in the way it is. But if I were an editor at the BBC, I think I would be uncomfortable with the fact that the quotations communicate the wrong message to so many readers -- and, worse, mistakenly suggest that my publication is being snarky or skeptical of the claims highlighted in the headline. This seems like very much the opposite of the quotation marks' desired effect.
Books just leads to people to jump between books, bits of information and topics, which often devolves in distraction on many of the entertainment books out there. Oral tradition was so much better because you had to be focused on the expert who was giving the information and you had to learn it to a great enough detail you could recount the information yourself. With a book you can just jump to the interesting bits, but with oral tradition you have to stick around for the whole story.

And lest you think I am just being facetious, this was a legitimate criticism of writing back in the day.

>Writing, Phaedrus, has this strange quality, and is very like painting; for the creatures of painting stand like living beings, but if one asks them a question, they preserve a solemn silence. And so it is with written words; you might think they spoke as if they had intelligence, but if you question them, wishing to know about their sayings, they always say only one and the same thing. And every word, when once it is written, is bandied about, alike among those who understand and those who have no interest in it, and it knows not to whom to speak or not to speak; when ill-treated or unjustly reviled it always needs its father to help it; for it has no power to protect or help itself.

http://www.english.illinois.edu/-people-/faculty/debaron/482...
Impressive.

Although the log-to-debug approach works fine, we used to use that to write an ingame chat client for earlier games: http://creshal.de/Static/?page=dcgui / https://github.com/creshal/devchat-gui/wiki

Latency was… about as high as you'd expect, but it worked. (Although I think we never got around to kill the player if he was kicked out of the chat.)
What Borders Mean to Europe
I'm one of those who really loves IntelliJ and helped introduce it in our company. What happens now? One pays more and owns nothing.

payingCustomers--
Unluckily there are regular languages where you can prove that the number of required states of a DFA is exponential in the input length of the regular expression describing it. That's why one should use NFAs for parsing REs, see https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

For an example of such a regular expression, consider

[ab]*a[ab][ab]...[ab][ab]

where the number of [ab] at the end is n-1. Then any DFA for this regular expression needs at least 2^n states, while there exists an NFA using only n+1 states (the proof is an easy exercise that any Computer Science student should easily be able to do on a whiteboard ;-) ).
Bloc or Udacity
Bloc's full stack curriculum or Udacity's full stack nanodegree? @ycombinator et al, thoughts?
Europe, Nationalism and Shared Fate
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And yet people talk about a $30,000 Model 3 as if it exists. Or the battery swap system. Or autopilot.

These are just ideas and concepts at this point. Why does Tesla get credit, but Porsche is ridiculed for them?
Please give one example of a company that couldn't be setup in a European country because of over regulation but was successful setup in the US.
Where is my shopping cart anyways?

Either way - I'd wait it out. They'll drop the price for black friday
Generally these things work by creating a master key to encrypt the data. The master key is then encrypted with a key derived from the password. To change the password the master key just needs to be reencrypted.
I will have a look at that, thanks! :-)
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Why? I hear a similar argument for things in the physical world ("well what if you lose your phone, how will you navigate then?") but this isn't an analogous situation. You won't be programming Go in a world where your IDE doesn't exist.
Hey guys, I created a simple app to decode your password using this algorithmic trick.

Check it out and tell me what you think!

https://nicosandller.firebaseapp.com/projects/passwordshelpe...
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Using the smaller Falcon 9 you could send approximately 1500 people's ashes in to space (assuming an average of 3kg left after cremation for each person), at a cost of $39,000 each.

I wonder if that could be a viable business.
Surprised there's no freemium tier or bulk discount.
There's Trump but there's also Bernie Sanders, who recently called for eliminating private prisons. He's within 10 points of Clinton in the latest national poll.
It looks like this may have appeared in America as "Look who's back". The Onion AV Club, which actually publishes decent book reviews, thought it wasted the intellectual heft of its premise: http://www.avclub.com/review/look-whos-back-wastes-provocati... .
LFTR's produce 239Pu (among a mess of other stuff), that's the stuff that goes BOOM in nuclear bombes, not 238Pu that glows warmly to make power for spacecraft.
I think the contrast shouldn't be with rethinking fundamental assumptions, which is another good but rare activity. It should be with assuming that things are pretty much as good as they get, or assuming that small wins aren't worth bothering with. Because that's where a lot of businesses are all the time. Computer hardware is very much the exception.

If you want an example of where this matters, the car industry is a great example. In Rother's "Toyota Kata", he has a graph showing productivity per worker among big auto firms. The large car companies all rise together until the 60s and then plateau. Toyota, which had a very strong focus on continuous improvement just kept on rising for decades. This enabled them to go from Japan's post-war decimation to become the world's largest car maker while the others stagnated.

And I should add that continuous improvement is a good way to drive fundamental rethinking. The only way to get long-running continuous improvement is to pay a great deal of attention to how things actually are working. Eventually you will say, "Well, now that we've solved a bunch of little things, the biggest bottleneck is X". But changing X forces fundamental reevaulations.

For example, consider software release. Unreleased software is like inventory just sitting around the factory. You've paid money to make it, but it's not earning any money for you.

Years ago, quarterly and annual release cycles were common. The last part of the cycle was when a large, manual QA team would beat up the whole product. As we have kept squeezing release cycles, this has forced all sorts of innovation. At my last couple of companies, we've used continuous deployment, where every commit to master is automatically tested and deployed to production. These small teams averaged a few releases a day and had no QA people. Etsy has 50+ releases a day [1]. If you were to describe this to people 20 years ago, they'd call you insane; it's a fundamentally different view of how software gets made. But we've gotten there via 15 years of continuous improvement.

[1] http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/03/etsy-deploy-50-times-a-day
I don't know if this has any special significance, but I think the number of FB/Twitter followers for the current frontrunners are interesting. I'll use Facebook numbers.

Hillary Clinton	- 1.3 million

Jeb Bush - .26 million

Donald Trump - 3.7 million

Joe Biden - .85 million

Bernie Sanders - 1.4 million

Marco Rubio - .99 million

John Kasich - .14 million

Scott Walker - .36 million

Ben Carson - 2.88 million

No, I don't think that Donald Trump is the runaway favorite for president. On the other hand, a look at these would make Walker's collapse and Bush's struggles (despite a goliath $100 million warchest) less of a surprise than the political press has portrayed. Likewise, Sanders' challenge to Clinton would be less surprising.

Bush is the real surprise to me. Endorsements and dollars show that he's the establishment's pick, but people just aren't interested in the guy. It would be kind of amazing if someone went from having a D-list celebrity following to sitting in the oval office in a little over a year.
Having served in the military, I don't think it's possible; the military wastes so much precisely because it's so big. Waste is inherent to large organizations. More administration, less flexible thinking, more room for fraud, waste, and abuse to go unnoticed.

Want less waste? Make it smaller. This will, of course, decrease its capabilities (which might not be a bad thing). If you want it to have the same capabilities as it currently has, the waste is going to stay as an unpleasant side effect.
Mandatory backup cameras beginning with the 2018 model year will severely limit your options.
Lets start that since that since the Cromwell times Britain has not been a part of Europe by its own choosing. The whole balance of power. Even today UK is a different beast than all the rest of Europe.

Also one of the huge benefits of post WWII order was the creation of homogeneous national countries. Which explains the abnormally long peace period. So nationalism and national identity are extremely strong in europe.
Absolutely, but there is certainly a very large strain of "father knows best" in the golang language and community. Which can be very off putting.
Then it sounds as if they are one in the same, like two sides of a coin being flipped throughout history.

Legal systems become corrupt and unaccountable, giving rise to vigilante systems. Those that survive long enough begin to improve as those involved seek to better the new systems. Eventually they reach the point of being the new legal system which slowly corrupts itself til it is beyond being held accountable, at which point it reverts back to a vigilante system that competes with new ones.

Perhaps the only issue is we should consider a different name from a vigilante systems that arise due to a corrupted legal system not meeting the needs of the populace vs the legal system itself that falls into a state where it is no longer held accountable.
Been using tmux resurrect for awhile now and I love it...one thing occurs to me though: does anyone have a hack to automatically save my tmux session on disconnect?

Edit: ahha, not exactly what I asked for, but linked on the tmux-resurrect page is tmux-continuum, automatic saving of tmux sessions. Perfect for me.
A plane travelling in level flight at a constant speed has constant energy, though. Conservation of energy isn't going to explain how it keeps going in a straight line when gravity is otherwise trying to convert its potential energy into downward kinetic energy.
> We can conclude that "this idea sounds stupid" or "this is a first-time founder" are not good reasons to dismiss an investment opportunity.

No we can't conclude that. These companies are immense outliers in a marketplace where over 90% of startups fail due to being stupid ideas.
Good point. :)

I've meant "hacking" in the (yet again) bastardized sense - the tech start-up scene.

It just seems to me that the scale, or the grand vision of new tech start ups has been incredibly mundane lately. I often imagine myself listening to a pitch presentation that goes something like this:

Hi, everybody, I'm Clarc McSugarHill <me: vaguely paying attention> and we are going to disrupt the market <me: interested, but annoyed by the buzz word> of buying fedoras online. <me: angry and asleep>
So...if you're a person from Wichita Falls moving to NYC knowing basically zero people, what exactly do you do?

When I was in university, I got some awful roomates in my dorm - and now that I can pick my roomates, I'd love to be able to check if these people have caused problems in the past.
(Minor disambiguation fix; too late to edit: I wrote "One of those is Ted Nelson", in a context which makes it sound like Nelson was one of the small number of people not influenced by Bush. The opposite is true. Nelson was one of the many influenced by Bush.)
For sure not just Westerners. Pork consumption in Asia is huge, and that's an understatement.

For instance, China has a strategic pork reserve: http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636507-ch...
Search for "navy rescues people" and you will see that the military and other navies around the world do far more than fight and are trained to do far more than fight and do so willingly and without regard for their own safety, every day of every year.
.. and in next episode Sea Shepherd will ram USS George Washington
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I think they have a payment plan, at least. It says there's a standard payment plan, but it doesn't say how long you have to pay it off or what the interest is.
I agree with that. And I would add: over regulation "imposed" by the old unicorns this article mentions. They don't want new, disruptive players enter their well stablished monopolies / oligopolies. In EU they have lots of administration levels they can lobby and it's easy to increase barriers to entry. I can assure this is absolutely true in Spain.
that I like. It is good to see sane people like you at HN.
Better don't, it was my first bigger programming project, and the first I made in C.
I'm incredibly tired of this argument from Go folks. Your language makes terrible design decisions, period, because its designers can't be arsed to learn about the last 2 decades of language design. When people compare your language to other languages it's because other languages have better ways of achieving the same goals.

But let's take your argument seriously for a second and pretend that all these terrible designs are actually the best way to achieve Go's design goals: to make a language that compiles fast for giant codebases while maintaining reasonable performance for a huge infrastructure (Google's). If that's the case, why are you using Go? There are a very small handful of companies where these design goals even make sense as goals even if they did achieve them. If you're going to claim that this is about different design goals, then I'm just going to claim that those very design goals are why you shouldn't be using Go.
I wonder if the following could be relevant.

1. In my experience, Europeans are less dominated by the "newer is better" desire to constantly get the latest gadget/technology. I wonder if others agree.

2. European money appears to be more dominated by old money / aristocracy and that these people like to invest within that network. Engineers are less likely to be part of the aristocracy and are treated more like commodities than the enabling superstar athletes they are (at least the kind that make unicorns). I know quite a few engineers that make over $200k in SV but only one who makes over 100k GBP.
Except in your example your command will update the vendored code, potentially (and in some cases probably) breaking dependencies.

It is a fact, that the go dependency management story is weaker than nearly any of the other modern development environments there are. It is getting better through time, and probably won't a problem long term (and for many people isn't a problem now). But lets not act like it isn't a weakness.
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