skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, the Fed organized a private sector bailout of LTCM but did no taxpayer money was spent on it. Much different than the financial crisis.
Perhaps they default to SSL for everything. The certificate error might be annoying, but why encourage devs to not use SSL from the beginning?
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It's very difficult to dispute your assertions that Bitcoin currently provides very little utility outside niche markets, that a lot of the investments being made are laughable, and that the shifting goalposts phenomenon is in full effect.

But remember, a lot of things we use the internet and mobile phones for today were envisioned and promised in the late 90s but failed to materialize in a practical, mainstream way until very recently, over a decade later.

Who knows what cryptocurrencies, or the concepts behind them, will mean in another 5, 10, or 20 years. Maybe nothing, maybe a lot. It's still too early to tell.

(I'm skeptical myself, especially in actual currency applications, but open minded.)
Treating a graph as a collection of points is certainly more correct and better if the condition you are trying to satisfy gives a non-continuous set of points. If you can only deal with continuous functions you will be lost in these more interesting cases.
I like the following statement as a good way of explaining the slow adoption of BitCoin:

Bitcoin is growing 25% faster than the internet in its early years.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bitcoin-growing-25-faster-internet-...

http://insidebitcoins.com/news/investment-dollars-bitcoin-to...
It is more likely to look like extracting bits of information from rat's brain in a laboratory setting than as an interview.

Would you still like to try?
I'm not sure cabal can really be considered a package manager as the article here states [1]. Stack helps, but I think just using a dedicated package manager to manage haskell things is probably the way to go.

Nix has a lot of haskell packages in it already, and guix has a hackage 'import' tool which helps you with writing a new package definition for a project that hasn't already been packaged.

You may think that's overkill, and fair enough. But I've been through cabal hell before, and I'd honestly rather not anymore, ever.

[1]: https://ivanmiljenovic.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/repeat-after...
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I have been on Ritalin since last 3 weeks when I got diagnosed with ADHD. I used to be a dysfunctional developer before this, and things are not very different now. Earlier I used to be able to write some stuff up, but I now I just let it slip up and ADHD seems like a good excuse.
HCI. The 'front-end' encompasses far more than just web dev, and some of it is quite interesting. VR? Smart cars? AI? People all need to interact with them.

Even standard web app problems can get quite complex on the UI. For example, recently I've had to use finite automona to verify that a combination of options on a form can result in all possible valid combinations. Since it was quite complex, I was worried that there was either: a) an invalid path in the options, or b) a valid but unreachable path.
College programs (ideally) will expose you to different kinds of ideas, subjects, people and technologies. It formalizes your knowledges. This means you can pursue more valuable ideas in future. Also, a formal degree can open doors to going and working abroad.

I think you should seriously go for a degree.

If you want to keep making money, hire a guy and give him your freelance work, share the profits.
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> I suspect you're being deliberately ignorant to why Bitcoin, a fixed quantity commodity that is immune to counterfeiting, has value

A word in your sentence contains the answer to your statement. Commodity. I do not think Bitcoin is a commodity. Commodities are what I can go down to the store and buy - apples, flashlights. Maybe go to another store and buy a bar of gold. All of these things are useful. Precious metals like gold even have properties which allow them to be good currencies (portable, divisible, durable, uniform...) Bitcoins are not like these commodities - they are not consumed! Commodities are.

> You're confounding physical utility and symbolic value

I would not want to conflate the idea of arbitrary utility and the standard price and exchange value of a commodity. Obviously they are different - as someone else alluded to, an apple has more utility to someone who is very hungry than someone who is not.

> There's no shame in understanding a concept more and discarding misconceptions.

As I said earlier - I said right here on HN back when Bitcoin's price was twice what it is now that Bitcoin's price would crash to $0. That is what "maintaining my initial position" is. So far my prediction has been going in the direction I envisaged! Who should be understanding concepts more and discarding misconceptions, me who knew Bitcoins would lose half their value, or those who were hyping it back then?
I'm skeptical it's as bad as that. We classify cancers by the type of cell that went bad, i.e. lung cancer if it occurs in the lung, liver cancer if it occurs in the liver, brain cancer if it occurs in the brain, etc. But you can have, say, lung and liver cancers that result from the same mutation, and there's a chance, at least, they'll respond to the same therapy.

And sometimes there are other diseases caused by problems in whatever pathway you're messing with. Tamoxifen, for example, can be used to treat two relatively rare non-cancer diseases.
There were never more than a few thousands Neanderthals. The rising tide from Africa just diluted them to 2%. They're not gone; they're here in you and me and Aunt Hilda.
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Please share the link to the MASM tutorial that got you started.
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Don't miss the compelling sequal, "Division by four".

http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.01402
Radiation pressure will push it out of the L1 point pretty quickly (months?) without active stationkeeping. Tidal forces will want to rotate it edge-on to the Earth, and the tug of the Moon's gravity will want to pull it out of alignment between the Sun and the Earth.

"Causing a ice age" is pretty rich, too. It can only block 1.7% of the light the Earth gets. If it gets any closer to the Earth, then it ends up in a non-geosynchronous orbit, (Well, not strictly geosynchronous. You know what I mean) and stops blocking the Sun. All the failure modes of a L1 sunshade are pretty benign.
Quoting further, "the mass and scale of the sunshades will also be similar to current terrestrial civil engineering projects such as the Chinese Three Gorges Dam [20], and require a mass production of coated thin material equivalent to the current world decadal production of aluminium foil."

They continue with "Nevertheless, scholarly work has yet to identify a scientific showstopper for its implementation". To me, the idea of designing a practical support framework for a disc of aluminium foil having a diameter of one thousand four hundred kilometers -- a framework that has to be shipped from earth one rocket-load at a time and assembled in space -- would be at least a show slower-downer.
These are clean macros. Macros do have their place and not every time you see a macro your macro red flag should go off.

It took me less than a minute scrolling through the file to figure out what's going on.
Problem is, many rightsholders either no longer exist (orphaned works), or refuse to profit (keeping books out of further print).

What we really need in the US is a copyright system that is "use it or lose it". For a mass produced work such as books, music, or 2D art (anything that is not strictly a limited edition run, or a one off, really), if you refuse to sell it to someone who wishes to buy it, you lose the copyright.

A lot of things pirated are pirated simply because people cannot legitimately buy them. The reason Popcorn Time works so well? Because rightsholders refuse to do business with Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Rightsholders do not have the right to make that choice in today's America, and need to be forced to understand that they must make the sale if someone offers them an acceptable amount of money.

Before computers and the Internet, yes, they had a right to say no, since publishing books and tapes/CDs and whatever cost money... now with the advent of modern technology, publishing works electronically now has a cost that is not relevant to this discussion. Literally, they are throwing money away by telling people no, and that actually MIGHT be illegal depending on how you interpret US law (given how most of these companies are publicly held).
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You should of course use what language works for you. That said, the series on moving 0install from python to ocaml might be the kind of poin-by-point argument you're after?:

http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/02/13/ocaml-what-you-gain...
The world economy is not analogous to "any piece of software", it is loosely analogous to something like "all software running on the Internet" or some other broad set of heterogenous systems.
I think there is a lot of reverse-engineers from CIS you know about it's because once USSR disappear there was a lot of freedom (many would call it anarchy) in copyright area and very limited pressure on illegal activity in internet in general.

Basically anyone who had PC and interest in reverse engineering may do almost anything without consequences. There was a lot of people that did it all publicly without really hiding their identity or even making business off it (like well-known DRM-removal tools). If you would try to do anything like that in western would you'll end up in prison soon.

Also reverse engineering isn't some independent area, but it's usually linked with black hat security, virus making, carding, SEO, etc. There was a lot of CIS-based illegal and gray area communities and services that only may exist because lack of government control and many still exist.

So it's was as well one of ways to make a lot of (illegal) money, but at some point any person grow up, get married (and make a child) and don't want to take criminal risks. Many of them want move to EU/US where risks are higher. Here you go where huge part of experts has come from.
I re-use my code less across projects in the web, but well designed MVC or MVVM can save you a lot of time. Just by having models available, I can re-use them on every page.

This turned out to be a life saver when I had to analyze / modify a bunch of data- I was able to get a node script up and running over one weekend re-using the existing javascript models and just focus on the analysis, instead of having to recreate everything in Java or Python.
1996 wasn't the Internet's early years.

Raising more venture capital in non-inflation adjusted terms, is not the same as growing faster. Those are completely different concepts. Also, adjust that for almost 20 years of inflation, and it's half as much. Not to mention that figure only includes a portion of the total VC raised by Internet companies in 1996, it's intentionally misleading in just about every way possible.

Even comparing the VC raised, in inflation adjusted terms, would be comically simplistic. What were interest rates in 1996?

Beyond that, Bitcoin better grow drastically faster than the Web in 1996: bitcoin gets to ride on top of trillions in investment having already been made into infrastructure and computing. Even if it were true that it's only growing 25% faster than the Web in 1996, I'd say it's moving too slow by a factor of x200.

Imagine the laugh we'd be having, if you were to say that the iPhone today was only 25% larger than the Palm Pilot after seven years on the market, despite all the market / infrastructure / Internet advantages that the iPhone gets to enjoy today.
> The industrial value of gold is far below its trade value

Huh? Don't supply and demand meet at price? Isn't that mainstream economic theory?

If the price of gold went over its industrial value, or electrical coating value, or value as a tooth filling - then, as mainstream economic theory goes, demand falls as the price rises. The fact that wire manufacturers, dentists, industry etc. buy gold shows that it is trading at its proper value - when they want to use it.

Yes, the price of gold or any commodity can go above its real value for a short period of time, even for a few years. Eventually it always goes back to its utility price though.

> de Beers

I don't disagree that monopolies can fix prices for years, even decades. We can throw in Verizon/AT&T prices for mobile or land lines. Electrical companies. And so on. Yes, monopolies do throw off prices and values.
The thing is, all that stuff is a long ways off. Something to work towards for sure, but we still need mid-term solutions. Self driving cars that are empty and come pick you up will, if anything, lead to more traffic on the roads initially since now you've got more vehicles than people.
I hadn't either. Kind of off topic but the membership of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization[1] which Somailand is a member is pretty interesting reading.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrepresented_Nations_and_Peop...
We've banned this account. Hacker News is for good-faith discussion, not race trolling.
How many U.S. cities can you fit inside Tokyo?
There is a large amount of books, code and information about omp for the beginner. That makes a huge difference.
I ran into this recently. The 16 GB is an outright lie.

First, a bunch is reserved for the OS and similar. The phone might only start out with 12 GB for the user.

Second, a bunch just "disappears". Attach a phone to iTunes and it claims perhaps 2 GB free. But view the free space within the phone itself and it might only show 500 MB free. Huge discrepancies are inevitable, and it doesn't seem possible to find out how to resolve them.

Third, a large chunk is often taken by Apple with pending iOS updates pushed to the phone. But then the phone refuses to actually do the update, claiming there's not enough free storage.

It's a clusterfuck. And there's very little discussion or outrage about it. Apple should be embarrassed, but they don't give a shit.
> Of course, I'm probably just an idiot who doesn't "get" bitcoin

Two more "idiots" who don't get Bitcoin are Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. Munger says Bitcoins are "rat poison". It's possible they're just old fuddy duddies who "don't get it". It's also possible that, both being born during or before Herbert Hoover's presidency, that they've had decades of experience sniffing out what's valuable and what's not.
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> How ignorant are you?

No personal attacks, please. This comment would be fine with just the second sentence.
The usage for low power devices is tricky. I suppose if you constantly broadcast for the specific device in range a sleepy device could pickup any desired changes but its a but tricky.
There's a big difference between "features" and "libraries".
Which is part of the problem. Suppose maps.google.com would only be to report errors and you need to find another site that works.
Agreed here too. I graduated first in my class of 200-odd engineering students, then completed a Master's degree with a perfect GPA and a couple papers published (on top of my thesis). A couple years later I started web programming, eventually building a relatively successful web-based business. Nothing in the OP sounds like a symptom of slow thinking to me. Doing something reasonably complex with unfamiliar tools should take a bit of time. In fact, being able to keep focused and get something like that done in a single day sounds pretty impressive.

Sure, if you already know the library you're using inside and out and have built such a thing before, maybe you could whip it out in a couple hours - maybe - but a day really isn't that long.
The biggest problem I see with this is that we will lose the incentive to dial down extraction of fossil energy. The non-warming side-effects of oil and other deposits such as carbonic acid in the oceans would become just as severe if not moreso.
> The chance of successful recovery of frozen dead brain after 100 years is very close to zero (assuming that the recovery process was never tested). Kim Suozzi's “1 or 2 percent chance” is extremely optimistic forecast.

While it's impossible to predict whether you'll be able to be revived it doesn't sit right with me that you, and many others, are making predictions about how future medical technology will work. Honestly, if we can keep progressing as quickly as we have been, it wouldn't surprise me that we couldn't do it after X years but could do it after X + Y years. Meaning if at some point we have the technology to start reviving people but can't do it reliably then wait another Y amounts of years and there is a significantly better chance.

Honestly, unless the brain is just completely ruined or something bad happens to the handling of the brains, it wouldn't surprise me if they're all eventually revivable. At this point we may be talking 200+ years away but they're frozen, who cares?
Edit: I can't edit my post, but how about instead of down-voting, you answer my question? I don't get how my question isn't genuine.
Good post. Though it doesn't really make the distinction that these giant viruses are actually very different from normal viruses. They may have actually "reverse-evolved" from bacteria, and may not even be related to regular viruses.

For anyone who listens to podcasts, there is a great Radiolab about their discovery.
I program slower so that I am more productive. The cheap hack can be fast but it quickly becomes technical debt. The fix is already in, so don't fix anything -- maybe refactor. How do you eat an elephant? One byte at a time.

I am still building the authentication system for a web application. It took me half a day and there are bugs, many bugs -- they don't show up, but I know they are there. It should have taken me AT LEAST four days. Speed is relative. I bet you do some things incredibly fast without realizing.

On the other hand, we have yet to build the hundred year language. Some say it will take a hundred years! Others say it is JavaScript and it will be around for a hundred years. I am building my own one hundred year language. It is a programming language/tool/paradigm to allow me to still program when I am one hundred years old -- I call it the hundred year language.
It's a pun on Perl Compatible Regular Expressions. You're being downvoted for bikeshedding over a name.
You are assuming that there is a talent shortage and that universities know how to rank the talent. Not really true, considering how many PhD seats there are and how few faculty seats there are.
Slow is fine. Don't worry about it.
Nicotine, and cholinergenic smart drugs like the racetam family and substances like centrophenoxine can boost focus memory and learning temporarily but really you likely only have a perceived deficit. We're not super human - none of us. A few might seem smarter or better or faster or whatever but interest and careful slow observation will almost always win out, and they're likely that way because they've already gone through the period of being slow to understand the details, and are now fast. Don't move so much - stick around at a role for a while and you'll likely then be the alpha giving noobs a hard time for being slow.

I used to think the same thing. Now I'm not sure if I'm insanely smart and fast or stupid and slow. I'm working on a contract at google and it flip flops back and forth about 20 times a day. My friend once said "being a developer means feeling like a genius and a complete idiot at the same time all the time"

But really, only an objective medical advisor can tell you. Even then, it's pretty subjective what you're asking and analyzing. Believing it may in fact be a cause - maybe you're obsessing and worrying about being slow and that belief and anxiety itself is hampering you. Who knows? Nobody will be able to tell you if you're faster or slower than your peers. Even you and your peers side by side would have a hard time saying that because you'll know one little section better than them and be faster there for sure.

Beware your own attitudes! Have you ever heard of this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

Impostor syndrome[1] is a psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments. Despite external evidence of their competence, those with the syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve the success they have achieved. Proof of success is dismissed as luck, timing, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent and competent than they believe themselves to be. Notably, impostor syndrome is particularly common among high-achieving women.[2]
Apologies, if this is a bit off topic.

I am a freelance computer programmer from India. I have been teaching Haskell myself for the past 3-4 months. I have stopped for a while, because I am hard pressed to find a job where I can work remotely. Can you look at some code I have written and let me know if I can put Haskell as something I can put in my resume? If yes, what is the best way to put it.

Here is the code.

1. A simple neural network with back propogation algorithm that recognizes alphabets letters on a 8x8 grid.

https://bitbucket.org/sras/haskell-stuff/src/default/snn.hs?...

2. A port (partial) of my side project web application in PHP/MySQL to Haskell using Spock framework.

https://bitbucket.org/sras/babloos-hs/src/06bffa288865af1fc3...

What are my chances of getting a remote Haskell job? Based on my experience, What kind of position/pay can I expect to get? If it matters, I have 9 years of professional experience in developing web applications.
I'm using this one, thanks!
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early detection is great, if you're being specifically checked for cancer. the problem is that you can have tumors growing inside you for years, and during that time, the effects of those tumors may lead your doctor to misdiagnose the problem. And by the time those tumors make themselves painfully obvious, you've got Stage 4 cancer which is pretty much a death sentence.

In the US you can order your doctor to arrange a cancer screening for you (scan or blood test), if you are worried you may have cancer. It's your money, after all. In other countries such as Canada, that's not so easily done. You're at the mercy of whatever doctor you've ended up with, and that doctor is not going to do anything for you unless it makes sense to him.

This has basically been my experience, anyhow. Thanks to my doctor's inaction I have maybe 6 months to live.
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Surveys show overwhelming popularity among single-payer systems. The parent poster doesn't need to have met many people--all the data we have suggests that single-payer is very popular.

As for the "wealth transfer" stuff, well, yes, that's what society is. The idea that we're all somehow making money in isolation and in a vacuum (some more, some less), and the government can only interfere with that activity, was in vogue for a while but seems to be falling out of favor, I think, because it doesn't actually describe reality.

Reality is, we all live in a society we all share, and when someone comes out on top, the answer isn't "ok, you're rich, you won the game, and screw everyone else," the answer is, "ok, you're rich, now you have a greater responsibility to everyone else." Behold, society!
A lot of this rings true. Especially where you touched on following notes rather than deeply understanding a problem to the point where the solution can be generated by looking at the problem. I'm guilty of clinging to DDD-style application development and I don't even dare to think what my old code looked like before I discovered that.

Thank you for the in-depth links for more information.