skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did know "googol" and "googolplex" but only by virtue of picking it up as trivia when I was a kid. Pretty sure it was a kid named Mike in grade school who enjoyed one-upping other kids on nerdy facts who told me it was "the biggest number". Then again, this was the same kid who later on told me that the actual biggest number was "inthidity".

I have no idea why I remember this but it's just a memory that sticks out for some reason. He must've only heard the word "infinity" but not seen it written out because it wasn't like a speech impediment or anything. Later on I remember learning about the word/concept of infinity and realizing that must've been what Mike was talking about.

Anyway, sorry for the grade school flashback. Just one of those things I haven't thought about in ages.
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There was a great article a while back [on founding and rise of Twitter and Dorsey's bio] that did not paint him in a good light: "All is fair in love and Twitter" [0]

As one former Twitter employee has said, “The greatest product Jack Dorsey ever made was Jack Dorsey.”

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/magazine/all-is-fair-in-lo...
Don't worry, Reddit won't have this on the home page for 4-5 hours.
Nothing to see there. Not long even Muslims get bored there. Wahabis are not really big on history and artifacts. If you think that this is some kind of an open air museum, think again.
>As for whether this is a problem, again, I think that boils down to a valence issue. Either you believe that free trade and trade rule harmonization led by the US is a good thing, or you (reasonably) do not.

Not really.

The TPP is largely a mechanism for stripping sovereignty from signatory countries and handing it to corporations. It does this by creating a mechanism whereby they can sue governments in secret courts for lost profits.

Sure, there are probably a few provisions in there about agricultural tariffs, but trade liberalization isn't really what it's about.
That was a popular opinion at the beginning of the 20th century too.
It's certainly quite possible that Canada will defect. We've got an election in 2 weeks and it's a very tight three way race. The traditional "middle" party is running on a very left-leaning platform, so opposition to the TPP is going to be one of the major differentiators between the two left-leaning parties.
>Modern Diesel technology requires maintenance, fine tuning and specific temperature ranges to live up to its hype.

The same is true for petrol engines. Diesel requires little or no additional maintenance.

>Most people buy a diesel car because the fuel is cheaper

Except the fuel isn't cheaper (in the US), even accounting for the higher specific energy. http://www.fuelgaugereport.com/

I like them because the engines last longer and get better fuel economy; and in my pickup truck, higher power.

>As for the result, the article points to Paris: the city didn't have a smog problem 20 years ago

The city didn't have as many of any kind of car 20 years ago. If you want less smog (particulates) from diesels, then relax NOx standards.
I am ambivalent about the TPP. I am ambivalent about free trade agreements. I am ambivalent about globalization. I generally believe, from the perspective of the US market, that every job that can cost-effectively be exported to Asia already has been. I don't think job exports are a good thing but also don't think TPP has much to do with it.

So having said all that: I'm not arguing in favor of the TPP. I'm simply pointing out that the most common criticism of the TPP --- that it's a "secret" deal --- is both inaccurate and not particularly significant.
In the west we do the same thing, e.g. just look at Niagra falls.
I was also wondering this. The problem with TPP coming into force with all the countries is that it sounds like a very interconnected document. For example, New Zealand wanted dairy access to the US, in return the US wanted dairy access to Canada. So if Canada does not ratify it, then then US dairy industry would get the short end of the stick.
Stupidity in the world seems to be undying.
In Higher-order Perl (http://hop.perl.plover.com/book), MJD introduces local propagation networks, and says of them:

> If you’ve ever seen a discussion of local propagation networks before, you’ve probably seen the Fahrenheit-Celsius converter example. There’s a good reason for this: It’s one of the few examples for which local propagation actually works.

(http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/pdf/09DeclarativeProgramming..., logical p. 487, Section 9.2.2). Since I value his opinion, that makes me sceptical about developments in propagators; but, then again, Sussman certainly knows what he's talking about! Was MJD's opinion never true, or is it no longer true, or does it remain true (but presumably with caveats)? EDIT: Or, alternately, am I misunderstanding the relationship between this paper and the networks that MJD discusses?
I wonder if the ratification process is in the final draft, and we'll just have to wait and see. I'm guessing that what you're implying --- that ratification must be unanimous among the member parties --- is right.
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And the world is much, much safer, more stable, and across the entire socioeconomic spectrum wealthier than it was at the beginning of the 20th century, so the snark here is missing its mark.
I sent this article to my wife, who is doing a PhD in medieval history, specifically looking at women who've taken religious vows, and she had this to say:

"Cats weren't just popular with nuns, but particularly with anchoresses [effectively female hermits]. Which I suppose makes sense because you'd want the company! The 13th century rule for anchoresses 'Ancrene Wisse' forbids all pets except a cat. So they can't have been considered that demonic "
I made this once pomf.se went down:

https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sr.ht

pomf.se was my replacement after my own hosting service, MediaCrush, went down.
https://www.google.ru/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&es...

He really does like that story.
So how does one test the closure?
Here is a discussion of and link to the consequences of this "great deal":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10330126
One recommendation from a perhaps unexpected quarter for new working styles is Gen. Stan McChrystal's superb book "Team of Teams". It covers his tenure running special forces in Iraq and how he rebuilt his organization into one where decisions were pushed as far to the edges as possible and how he tried to remove himself from as many of the decision making loops as possible.
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Well that's basically the endpoint of the free trade stuff, isn't it?
It will be really unfortunate if we cannot see the document before the election. I am not sure we can trust the government to give an honest assessment of it.
Even old DDR-200 (aka PC-1600, 1600 MB/s)[1] is faster than the theoretical maximum of SATA III (600 MB/s). Wikipedia says SATA 3.2 can reach 1,969 MB/s, but the more recent DDR3-1600 is 12,800 MB/s and some DDR4 reach 21,300 MB/s [2] ... SSDs aren't even close.

DDR4 also theoretically supports 512 GB sticks [3] Can't wait.

1) http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-memory-speeds-compatab...

2) http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/memory-ballistix-elite

3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR4_SDRAM
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That's very disingenuous - despite that this is sadly 'par for the course' in China, there is a world of difference between what you're talking about and what this article is suggesting.

Imagine in 2009 you forwarded a story to a friend in a private conversation thread on a private computer using commercial software about a corrupt village official that everyone was talking about. Jump to 2016 and now that guy is the provincial governor and nobody in your extended family can get even a $100 loan for anything.

Thats very, very different from sucking up to your boss by working extra hours for free.
Duplicate here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10331299
Lately, I've seen a lot of people claiming that the Objective-C runtime is something worth avoiding. I don't find this to be true. It is highly optimized, with hand written assembly, and it is very fast at what it does. Not to mention Apple's entire framework is build around it.

The new trend favoring Swift value types often leads to reinventing the wheel for the sake of premature optimization.
1. Not using any persistent identifiers when they're transferred as plain text.

2. Not allowing to retrieve any information based on persistent identifier alone i.e. require authentication for all resources (unless all data under some resource was explicitly meant to be publicly available).

3. Optionally, try to get rid of any long-term persistent identifiers (of course, besides Microsoft account ID which is meant to be persistent), in favor of ephemeral ones that are reasonably short-lived and rotated frequently.
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Agreed, there needs to be some hard regulation here to change his environment. Worst case the government needs to regulate what they charge, and find a way to do that without killing all R&D.
I can't see this working out. Dorsey probably is the best candidate for CEO of Twitter, and I think there are some very low-hanging fruit to pick when it comes to solving Twitter's product issues (I disagree with Startup L Jackson - Twitter's product is not fucking fine). The market reaction has been positive - TWTR opened up 3.15% just now.

However, Square is a different story altogether. Square Wallet was a damp squib, and Square's facing competition both from established players like Intuit and more recent entrants to the market, like iZettle. Leading Square and bringing it to market seems like a full-time job to me, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's IPO valuation takes a hit because it lacks a full-time CEO.
"The Trans-Pacific Partnership still faces months of debate in Congress[...]"

So nothing is reached : my understanding of US politics (which is quite shallow I'll admit) is that the congress majority will vote contrary to anything Obama wants.
> I can't think up any other motivation other than greed or addiction to money/power.

Here's some possibilities:

-The desire to please others?

-Not knowing what else to do (Often the jobs are filled by kids who only know how to jump through hoops that others have set up for them)

-The hope that it's only going to be a few yers of grinding?
I think it's unreadable to people who don't understand how Twitter works...It reads fine for me.
Well if the proposition here is that we have another two world wars before then going on to enjoy still greater prosperity I think maybe I'll pass.
Unless I skipped it, the article doesn't mention anything about the new copyright clauses?
When I heard about the "re-centralization" of Skype, I ran an experiment. I set up calls with a couple of people in various locations and monitored my network connections (on OSX I used nettop). Voice and video traffic is still direct P2P. It was the same when I tried it again last year. Not that I did not investigate messaging connections, nor group video chats, not mobile usage, all scenarios where a centralized service may be more useful.

However this gels with their explanation that they have only centralized the call setup servers for reliability and voice/video traffic for mobile devices where P2P is not very feasible. On laptops and PCs, where P2P remains feasible, traffic is still routed directly been peers.

Now I haven't run the same experiment in the past year, but I hope somebody will, and that too at larger scale. Given this forum is "hacker" news, there is a distinct lack of technical investigation to verify technical claims, and a disturbing propensity to take tech media for its word, especially when biases are being confirmed.
So pneumatic, or is that just an awful title?
That is, indeed, a pretty shallow understanding. On this issue Obama is essentially allied with a number of Congressional Republicans and in opposition to a number of Congressional Democrats.
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That's true in general but not true in the case of free trade agreements. Obama's opposition is the party of free trade, and also the party of China containment.

The fact that Republican opposition voted to fast-track the treaty augurs its support for the final version. This bill is mostly stuff the Republican party wants.
haha, fair enough. I just checked my github, and as you can probably guess, I've just used their template which is pretty low-contrast.
True. Except when big money tells them otherwise. And in this case, it will. Watch how around half (if not more) of the Republicans will support TPP.
Relevant is the soon-to-be-debated-in-public trade agreements regarding "intellectual property" (a regressive and fiercely harmful concept spawned by greed, but that's a rant for another day) as it relates to the pharmas. The pharma companies lobbied very, very heavily for certain clauses in that trade agreement. The TTP is going to send their profits through the roof, likely by forcing formerly exempt countries on board with their pricing scheme.

The money that the pharmas have allows them to corrupt the political process, enabling them to abuse patients/insurers with insane prices... this isn't new. The incentives are completely fucked at every level of organization: drug development, clinical trials, patient care.

As far as the claim that patients are largely shielded from price increases, I think that claim was made in bad faith, and is laughably disconnected from reality. Medical-debt induced bankruptcy is very alive and well in the US, and is not in other places.
Ironically, Reddit is our best hope for understanding what's in the deal in time for ratification.
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Jack Dorsey is named permanent Twitter CEO
Twitter is not like Facebook or Instagram or What's App. Most of the daily users are not actually logged in users, they consume the information in other ways like Google searches, widgets on news articles or entertainment websites. Facebook and every other app don't have this ability, everything is locked up because of privacy settings so the only people that ever see it are the people you allow. So, even if you're not a logged in Twitter user you still can see the ads and be monetized. Tell me the same for any other popular app out there.
> Twitter is the de facto messaging platform

In what world?
Yes, because the website is what's usually hampering adoption of programming languages.
South Eastern Europe. I'm curious about how common it is elsewhere in Europe too.
There is nothing stoping anyone from doing that. I doubt Twitter will do it though.
The difference is the audience.

While I found this article interesting in itself, it's something that can be interesting to anyone, regardless of its background.

While harmless at first look, this can be an issue if too many content fall into this category.

Then you end up with a reddit clone instead of HackerNews. I'm here to see hacker news, not interesting stuff for anyone.
In theory it shouldn't matter, assuming that 'the mob' truly reflects public opinion, and the government is 100% honest officials who work tirelessly and selflessly for the people.

In reality, you have to remember the principle of 'checks and balances' in a democracy. The government, the media, the mob, the judiciary.... all have voices and occasionally one prevails over the other, or two-or-more support each other. They can also resist each other - the judiciary can send a popular entertainer to prison, the mob can resist overbearing government action. It's scary in a democracy when the government gains too much leverage over the media, or the judiciary because..... then it starts to look like China :)
I got it from Steve Martin & googlephonic sound (1979) which he describes as the highest possible number of speakers next to infinity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjjsz14hL48
I take it you have read it?
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How about financial security/early retirement? Many people take jobs like this for 5-10 years, then quit with a little bit of security and freedom to do what they want. It's really not unlike what PG has advocated before for starting your own company.

I'm glad that your friend made that call, and I'm definitely not in the wall street camp, but I can see reasons for working there.
How do you know what it is really about if it is still being negotiated behind closed doors?

Not trying to be snarky, just wondering if you could direct me to parts of the actual document that you are using to draw this conclusion because I would really like to read up on some of the provisions of the TPP.
> how likely is it that Sirotta came up with the world “googol” on his own, and was not influenced by the massively successful comic strip of the same name, which was EVERYwhere (comics, cartoons, toys, you name it)? I say the odds are extremely unlikely, to the point where I think it’s safe enough to say that he DID get the term from the comic strip

To be honest, that's just wild (and a bit arrogant) speculation on the part of the author. I knew about the comic book, so I expected at least an ounce of evidence, not just the author convincing himself...
If only there was a way people could vote on certain stories based on if they felt the article was interesting or not.

Oh wait..
/s
Ask HN: How will automation affect data science jobs?
I'm rediscovering my love for math, and considering going from web dev to data science.

Some articles predict the decline of data science jobs because of automation and processing platforms like Platfora, Impala, Splunk, etc.

What does this mean for a data science career? Does this mean required skills will become high-level (e.g., analyst) and salaries will drop for most?*

(* realizing of course some data scientists will need to work on the platforms themselves)
Just as the Affordable Care Act was nitpicked and scanned by all sorts of interest groups, I'm sure the TPP will as well.

And that's where we come in as well. We'll get to see the agreement, review it ourselves (with the help of interest groups we support) and contact our congressmen if we deem those things to be worth scuttling the deal over.

And before I'm accused of being too idealist, don't forget that The aforementioned health care act was passed, and net neutrality was preserved. In sufficient numbers, your representatives /do/ listen.
Have you checked out:

Process Street; process.st

Asana; asana.com

Wasn't suitable for our use but sounds like these might help you.
BTW: if this concerns the youtranfer.io website (instead of the YouTransfer application), I'm actually a bit hesitant to change this. I'm currently using the GitHub site generator for convenience. There is a limited set of templates available, most of which are either ugly or have readability issues. As the website basically only consists of the README file, you can also look at the GitHub project for more information (https://github.com/remie/YouTransfer)
Well, global poverty did halve in the last twenty years, so there's that

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/06/ec...

edit: have -> halve
And yet, everybody loves Go.
I have friends at Square and they seem to think it's great. From what they've said the last few months have been better for them as well with Jack as interim CEO of Twitter. Maybe he needs this to be really driven? Time will tell but I think you're right, it won't hurt Twitter as much as it might hurt Square.
To any NYT employees who may be reading this: It's 2015, and you're still using graphics (like this trade map) in a way that shows up tiny on mobile devices but can't be zoomed in on -- and you've even managed to thwart the usual "tap and hold, then Open Image in New Tab" trick.

This is the sort of thing that makes people demand ever-ridiculously-huger smartphones.
Ask HN: What is the 1 attribute colleagues should have to make workplace better?
Examples:
* Understand the difference between facts, and opinions, when presenting arguments
* Don't constantly underestimate the time taken to finish a specific task
Quran and Hadith, devoid of their historical context, leave them open to application as required, to safeguard the interests of the ruling elite. It's all about power and organised religion is one of the most potent tool to keep masses in check.
I don't. No one does (besides people who have negotiated it). AND EXACTLY THAT IS THE PROBLEM! Those who are elected are kept in the dark, too:
http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/09/09/german-bundestag-not-happ...

Maybe we the citizens are just plain stupid to understand so we need to be persuaded:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140620/14292827638/us-em...

(Just like we were for Iraq war)

One of the examples of the "brave new world":
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/22/eu-droppe...

You want you and your children and grandchildren to live in it?

If TTIP is SOOOO great why secrecy, why so many people who don't have financial interest in it are against it?

I could write a lot about it...
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Recode is nuancing the discussion: http://recode.net/2015/10/02/why-jack-dorsey-is-ready-to-sav...
Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism.
As an aside to your main point, I am curious about why you have a complete disdain for using credit cards. I'm certainly not advocating using a credit card to spend beyond your limits, but intelligent application of a credit card can just net you assets. I'd also like to point out that I find the motives of credit card companies to encourage people to spend beyond their limits through temporary/immediate convenience deplorable, but that is not the only use case for these cards.

For example I have a cash back credit card that I run every purchase that doesn't entail a fee for credit card usage through and pay it off immediately. I accrue/pay no interest, and still don't spend beyond my means, but I get a discount everywhere.
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And how would you deal with materials that could get you either dead or imprisioned? Can you elect not to host content? For example, in china, you have a situation where you can be materially affected by political content.
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/10/in-china-... Or what if you happen to live in a country hostile to LGBT content, like russia or Zimbabwe, where it may be dangerous to host such content?
The Perl community makes Perl for... the Perl community. If it grows back to its former glory, great. If not, we keep using it anyway. Because, you know, hackers.
If copyright extensions are in the agreement -- which I think is a good assumption -- then the Disney/Bono content lobby will be effectively writing the law in the signatory countries. I think you can call that anti-democratic.

Ian Fleming's work -- as an example -- is in the public domain in Canada, but not for long.

I am also curious if the DMCA -- and its flaws -- will be internationalized.
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That makes sense. And yet it seems like such a waste. These languages are so productive compared to Java and its ilk. Is there a market opportunity here?
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