skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For some (not all) libertarians, "equal rights and opportunities" means that a healthy college grad and a schizophrenic homeless person have an equal right to apply for the same job, and if the latter can't get a job or any support and starves to death in the street, society's hands are clean--after all, they had the same opportunity as anyone.

The libertarian retort is that society's hands are not clean. Whether a homeless person starves without government assistance is a reflection of society. You are not obligated to let it happen just because men with guns don't force you not to, and it is a reflection on you whether you do or not.

And, so the libertarian argument goes, in order for the homeless to be fed with government assistance you need a majority of citizens to vote for programs to help the homeless. But if you have the support of a majority of citizens then they need only vote with their wallets and no government action is required.

More than that, when you put the burden of helping the poor on the government instead of individual members of society then when the government fails to do what is necessary each person need only shrug and claim "I paid my taxes" to be absolved of their inaction in the face of it.
Urgh. I really need more motivation to finish my current project! Always just one or two more features from finishing, then some bug comes up that throws me back and i get disheartened.

Worst part, i have alpha testers, and damn their patient for a new version, i sometimes wish they would complain to make me get into that 'i gotta get this part updated asap' mood again.

Edit:

Hmm after reading the article, i really need to redo my landing page. Get an option there to get on a mailing list.
Nope, not so. Banks don't borrow money from depositors and lend it to borrowers. They create the money they issue as a loan. Sadly, no one understands this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation
Locked down mobile devices do not prevent you from enjoying programming, or sharing in that joy with others. I make a programming app called Codea for iPad. I get users telling me it brings them back to their first days of coding basic, and kids as young as six using it to make games. My forums are full of people sharing their code and creations.

In fact, I'd say that it's more accessible because it's on a locked down, easy to use device.
Nope. You just save a token for that transaction, and tell your processor you'd like to refund that transaction. They have the associated card on file, not you.
Apparently the dad should find his kid some new teachers who are smart enough to tell a clock from a bomb.
Well, there's no guarantee of profit. You cannot predict 100% of the time who will pay you back. It's pedantic, but it means there is _no_ guarantee of profit

Of course, you can get pretty close to 100%, but it's a balance of risk and reward, like most things.
If there's an issue you care about, call your congressional rep's office and ask to get on the schedule for a meeting. It might take a while, but you'll probably eventually get to talk with staffers. Be prepared when you talk with them, and be ready to tell them exactly what you would like your representative to do.

That's assuming you're in the US, but I expect it's pretty similar in all the other Western democracies.
Just substitute "MacGuffin" and the plot still works.

And if nothing else, it's a science-fiction thought experiment: what effect would such a box have?

Considering the current cryptographic protocols we use, a quantum computer would serve rather effectively as such a box. Then again, considering the positioning of cryptography at the time ("export-grade crypto", anyone?), so would a special-purpose ASIC designed to brute-force keys.
The Win-Win Blocksize Solution
I would argue that the merchant is pretty much on the hook for fraud, or even borderline chargeback situations, but where the credit processors add some proportional value is in loosening the purse strings generally. They are taking their bite out of the value side, not strictly the cost side. It's harder for a lot of customers to turn over $2,000 in hard cash than it is to swipe and pay $200 a month for a year.
Antitrust is pretty good at what it aims to be: "idealistic hacker meets corporate environment". They even explicitly mention "Open Source", once.
I'm not disagreeing with your sentiments, I was just more or less stating that, there are monied interests in NYC like Fred Wilson, where if you go back through all his blog posts (or crawl the links in the sitemaps and enumerate all the instances of "kids/children" and "programming/code" in the same sentence, or within 1 or two words of each other you will see that it is greater than 0), who feel that it needs to be in the scope of public education.
Did the NSA spy on google or did they spy on information passing through googles network? How much "interesting" intelligence would likely be found on HT's network?

As for defense, they obviously didnt pass along what they found. If securing US networks was the reason for hacking, they completely failed to accomplish their goal.
Yes i saw. I should have made clear i mean for standard Heroku instances.
These are outliers by definition.
In recent years, Apple doubled iPhone storage levels while keeping prices the same: the middle tier 32gb became 64, and the high end 64gb tier became 128 -- however, the 16gb remained untouched. There is no longer a 32gb offering. I think this is telling.

If Apple had doubled the 16gb to 32, then many of the prior middle tier purchasers would now be drawn to Apple's cheapest tier, and Apple would lose that revenue, $100 per unit. At the same time, those that feel stifled by the 16 have more incentive to upgrade to the 64, at the same price as the prior 32.

Why is this still the case, years later? I think the issue is that 32gb remains the sweetspot for more than half of the potential customers, and if they offered it, their low end product will cannibalize their mid tier sales and cost them billions.
This lib isn't new. Glad to see it here on HN. I remember building a simple editor for it on jsbin a few years ago:

http://output.jsbin.com/ebahuh
More information about internal policies like how much karma you need to downvote and other thing people don't even know exists would be nice.
I don't see how you make money charging less than 1% when the cashback/rewards alone is 1%. You can make free money fall from the sky making bogus charges to your own credit cards and pocketing the difference.
You're confusing private banks with central banks. I don't think anyone is surprised that the U.S. Fed reserve regulates the money supply in part by creating it.
Show HN: Traffic Cop – Network (2G/3G) Emulation on an OpenWRT Router
Nope. This is how money is created by both central and commercial banks. When commercial banks do it it's a loan. When the Federal Reserve for example does it they are buying a government bond. Same process. Alas, if only people knew.
Yes! This was the biggest flaw in The Matrix (which I otherwise love): it had machines using human bodies as power sources whereas they could have used human brains for computational power leading to huge power efficiency.

Think about somehow hooking up a brain to a computer which can interpret the neural code. Then you have the best known general purpose AI machine running on 20W. Now combine hundreds, thousands of them. Not human brains, of course, but say monkey brains. DARPA already conducted some experiments in this area (http://www.kurzweilai.net/darpa-links-brain-waves-sensors-an...)
As a Davis resident, I was curious to get a more detailed map of the flood areas for a hypothetical ARkStorm than the one provided by the Wikipedia article on the topic [1].

To that end, I created an animation, morphing between a google maps screen-cap, and the USGS map of the flood areas [2].

I didn't get the alignment just right, but from the look of it Woodland would appear to be underwater (at least, according to this USGS flood model).

That all said, is there really any evidence that a strong El Niño has anything at all to do with an ARkStorm? The Wikiepdia article on The Great Flood of 1862 [3] has this to say: "The weather pattern that caused this flood was not from an El Nino [sic]".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARkStorm#/media/File:Californi...

[2] http://imgur.com/cMScw5G

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862
CORNAR: Looking Around Corners Using Femto-Photography
Oh, that much is obvious. Code.org is probably the most egregious lobbying offender on that front.
Sorry to see you've not kept up with this.

I access HN on a few devices, including some whose rendering of "modern" (that is: broken) site designs is at best poor. Frequently no content is visible, either due to text not appearing at all, or being completely obscured by other elements. A Readability view, stripped of cruft, would be excellent for this. I'm aware of issues with site referrals, copyright, etc., but really, it would be helpful.

Otherwise: Internet Archive and Coral Cache are both existing systems which can and do cache some content, on request. IA seems to like having hot stuff fed them, CC have been quite spotty in reliability over the past year or two (both not properly caching content, and simply not responding).
For me, it was a way to start proper task journals. "Proper" in this case meant an ongoing brain-dump document in Sublime containing everything from the output of `history` to code fragments and todo lists. http://blog.voltagex.org/2015/08/01/booting-the-nexus-4-from... was once a random collection of fragments.
Survivorship Bias in Venture Capital
> but partnered with a credit card payment processor.

And then stopped partnering with them, because they took a big cut and also required dev overhead.

Direct deposits are one way businesses pay each other electronically without credit cards.
Bubble Totem Hack Tool Androi-IOS
It's not the definitive default number only because performance reasons and because of C influence in language design.

If most languages had Decimals, I am sure only C/C++/Java diehards would use ints/floats instead. In fact most modern scripted languages should have them.

Regarding go, as it is a relatively new language, and having to interact with databases, with Decimal being a fundamental SQL type, yes, it should have Decimal.
This is possibly the hardest version control problem I ever ran into. Especially in projects which have a large number of changes upstream (100+ commits daily), I've only seen bad and worse solutions.

The bad one is trying to follow upstream on each commit, notifying you every time some patch either doesn't work or doesn't merge anymore so you have to fix it manually. This still doesn't stop the cases where the patch in itself works, but doesn't make sense in the project anymore (some code moved around, tests still pass, but the functionality is not reachable). You also need a fair bit of architecture to test each of your patches with on each upstream change.

The worse solution is taking a few days off every time a bigger release is out and porting all patches. It saves on the continuous testing infrastructure, but takes unknown amount of time and you may discover some functionality simply cannot be migrated anymore. You're also likely to introduce many more bugs with rushed development.

I've been through planning something like this on a number of projects before. It's a lot of effort and it should be avoided as much as possible.

I think the product you describe could be actually a really good idea, but a lot of it would have to deal with as clever annotations as possible - what broke, when did it work the last time, who's responsible for porting, what functionality does it provide, is it critical/optional, etc.
Measuring Decentralization
"I was the glue that held the gears of progress together."
I'm pretty sure you're completely missing the point. Any time somebody suggests something is "against the law" in a discussion about the NSA practises we need to remind ourselves that they really don't care whether they break the law. They do it nakedly, in public, with live television coverage and there are no consequences.

The NSA is a criminal organisation. I don't say everything they do is crime or that is there sole raison d'etre just that they don't care about the rule of law. The law is something that they don't need to worry about at all.

Does anyone really dispute that? "I gave the least untruthful answer I could..." Lying under oath. No consequences for that crime or any other.

No respect for the rule of law.

Please don't miss that point, the rule of law is the point, it is a necessary condition for a civilized society and MOST ESPECIALLY the government needs to be bound by it.
I suggest a few basic tips:

1. Make them feel like you like them. Show a real and genuine interest in and admiration for them and the work they have done, and look for opportunities to tell them how brilliant they and their work are. It's important to be genuine and not blow smoke up their ass too much; look for opportunities to be genuine about this.

2. Get them to say they are committed to the team, committed to the project, and will do everything they can to get it to succeed. Once someone says something, they tend to remain consistent with it. Getting them to publicly declare it somehow is good. Also getting them to declare publicly related things such as "I'm a team player" somehow can be very helpful and alter the course of their thinking.

3. Show how other people are pushing for the team, and build bonds between these people and their teammates. People will walk through fire for the love of their team.

All if those ideas are elaborated on in the book "Influence", thee are 3 of the 8 or so major themes of that book.
Sure there is: "Don't support credit cards unless there's a reason to do so". People do a lot of things by default without thinking it through first.
Everyday DSP for Programmers: Step Response of Averaging
This would be an excellent start IMO.
Why Google and not DuckDuckGo?
The saddest thing from this article:

> He’s vowed never to take an invention to school again.
Buying assets (e.g. bonds) is one of the channels the Fed reserve uses to put new cash into circulation. Another channel is loaning the new money out, with interest, to private banks.

Private banks aren't creating money, the central bank is. You've confused the two.
This is an absolutely bare-bones feature for HN. It would make the site so much more usable in general. The big case for collapsible comments relative to HN is stories where the top voted comment is only semi-related to the article (usual suspects being security, software freedom, political leaning freedom, ...) but spawns its own megathread and drowns out any hope of other discussions more germane to the original post.
Quite this.
Whenever a good thing™ comes along, there seems to be the tendency for some in a society to want to jam it down others throats (this is far from being the only "We need ____ in schools, NOW!" initiative), and the more ways the better.
>it had machines using human bodies as power sources whereas they could have used human brains for computational power leading to huge power efficiency.

That was apparently the original intent, that the Matrix used human brains as a neural net. But the script was changed to "humans = batteries" because of fears audiences wouldn't be able to comprehend it[0].

[0]https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv...
Crack Password Protected PDF Files on a GPU Cluster
Top universities should be trying to win him from now
By "imperial languages" do you mean "imperative languages", right?
This article is funny...

Object Oriented leadership? OOL

Human Emotion Design Patterns.

Functional Emotions...

There is no leadership in Tech / Dev. (Don't worry there is much in other parts of the business world and certainly not in the banking / finance realm.) That's why they invented Agile. The business side needed to make sure the tech side was "doing" what they could quantify.

Sure you can read from a book, but leadership is one of the few characteristics that has to be experienced in combination with self evaluation, in what this author is doing.

Real leaders don't shy away from a challenge...
Banks are already working together in a lot of fields.

Before it's IPO, Mastercard was owned by 25k+ banks; Visa is still owned by 21k+ banks; SWIFT, the network behind transactions, is owned by banks too. That's just three examples I know but i'm sure you can find a lot of them.
TIFF is a nightmare to read, because there are too many options. It tries to be a format of many other formats.
Misleading, because you're not going to find out now. This is clearly just a mailing list building effort. The button says "Sign the Petition", and the small print says "While these few details are all we need from you now, we may need more information from you in the future."
Thanks for this link. I was going to say that graphviz covers it, but blockdiag is much simpler (and with extra features)
Well if each block has to be signed with 50% of the banks that reduces trust by some degree, however this still can be done more efficiently with a relational database.
Link to original article.

http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...

there is a section on 'data', of which here is one sample

The data submitted by GlaxoSmithKline on paroxetine for review by the Committee on Safety of Medicines Expert Working Group are described as a complete set of data from all placebo-controlled trials of this drug [5]. The use of this dataset thus involves no selection by the authors, and any selection bias there might have been on the part of the company seems unlikely to have increased the size of the problem. Data from placebo-controlled trials of sertraline in children are also presented, as these also offer a complete dataset, so minimising any selection bias.
Well you can't expect most people of English heritage to understand the particular of french political correctness.

The gap is just to huge , the irreverence of french satirical newspaper is beyond most of the english word capacity to accept.
Do UK/US people do even like really dark humour anyway ?
I realise this gets complicated, but showing some level of stats for domains could also be interesting. Possibly:

● Submissions

● FP/Submissions ratio

● Most recent submission

● Submissions/interval (day, month, year).

● Ratings and comments scores -- what sites typically get high discussion and/or high comments?

Might want to trial some of this internally. But I'm sure the data itself would be fascinating.
> 1D byte-level compression

Now you've got me curious what the compression ratio would be if you just re-ordered an image's pixels using a Hilbert curve (so that in e.g. a 100x100 image, the first 100px scanline contains the first 100px of the Hilbert path through the original image) before passing it to PNG for compression.
GNU sed only.
Saturn's Moon Enceladus Is Covered in a Global Ocean
And that justifies (or even explains) what exactly, outside maybe that the police officer heard the name before? If anything, his father seems to be a man of peaceful methods.
Complete rewrites are bad. An approach we follow is to rewrite a small section of our product and release that to our users. With React, we can separate everything (repo, tests, architecture) from the core product but still integrate the new version within the app. It is like replacing the parts in a car one by one until you have a completely new car.
Two ids (passport and driver's licence), some cash and two debit cards from two different countries, because the world is already globalized and modern, you like it or not. At least this is what I took intuitively when the 25th April earthquake struck my room in Kathmandu. All other my possessions were of least importance.
Several Left Traumatized After “Classless” Men's Bathroom Incident
Some way of aggregating the stories and their votes would help. Almost certainly manually. But a way of tagging and linking similar submissions under a single link, with grouped votes and comments.

One thing I've appreciated about Ello is that its re-shares of posts aggregate activity rather than divide it. In terms of increasing apparent activity, it's a tremendously useful feature.
I've always loved traditional recursive descent parsers.

You have to learn a bit about transforming the target language into the required form. But they are nice because they require no tools at all. Being hand-created, they can be among the most efficient available.

This link seems to have good info on language operations required to put language in the required form.

http://www.cs.engr.uky.edu/~lewis/essays/compilers/rec-des.h...
Everybody can create new money. Not just banks.

Let me give you an example. I'm worth $100. We agree I lend you $1,000,000. Sure, I don't physically have $1,000,000 but I can still make a loan to you and give you some piece of paper telling you you have $1,000,000 deposited with me. My assets have increased by $1,000,000 (loan amount) and my liabilities have increased also by $1,000,000 (what you have deposited with me). I'm still worth $100 but I created $1,000,000 of new money.

This is what commercial banks are essentially doing. It's not like they have some superpowers. Everybody can do this.

So I don't understand what's your point.
That's mere a narcissistic (hipster's) self-delusion.

I still feel like an idiot at 40.

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A hipster is mere a role-governed behavior with corresponding fashion and hairstyle.
The trouble with Foodpanda
I think I understand what you're getting at, but the example you gave is not a learned act, it's a reflex action. It bypasses your brain entirely, you generally recognize the pain after you reflexively withdraw your hand.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_reflex
yep yep! thanks dang :)
Younger 'voters' don't show up on Election Day, it's a time honored tradition. They make a lot of noise online and then forget to pull the lever..

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/05/08/six-take-awa...
The brains-as-the-Matrix conceit would have been much more powerful. Damn. Lots of symbolic value, and a statement on human culture, human nature, and complacency vs. untapped potential.

I'm going to go ahead and pretend that's what actually happens. :)
You've created a string of hypotheticals and argued them down like they're straw men. I kind of like the one you created about where I would say something about "user experience", because it's fluffy and mocking (on your part) at the same time. Bravo.

I had said that Apple stalled NFC development by not releasing it in 2014. Are you saying that NFC market adoption would have been the same, if Apple had released NFC in 2012?
Interesting. Some of this fits in with my "non-brief moderation thoughts" essay:
https://redd.it/28jfk4/

In particular: no content-ranking system is perfect. Some level of random ordering (within a range) is probably actually preferable.

Also, Aon on randomness:

"When your reasons are worse than useless, sometimes the most rational choice is a random stab in the dark"
http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/is-the-most-rational-choi...