skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The USA is overreaching and the further it overreaches, the greater the risk of various parts of the socio-economic system breaking. The more things break, and the more serious the problems, the faster the USA will collapse.

This is the real future of the USA if it is not able to curb and even to reverse its per capita energy consumption.

When any system grows beyond its capacity to manage itself, then that system tends to collapse. We see this most clearly in economic bubbles, but the same mechanisms are at work in foreign policy, in NATO, in the EU, in China, and so on.

There will never be a simple way to understand the problems of growth and overreach so this means that countries which have greater capacity for self reflection and thinking through the consequences of their actions, are the ones most likely to dominate and to thrive in the long term.

Right now it looks like the USA will be a historical oddity by the year 2500 if not sooner
> A beta prior is equivalent to assigning “pretend votes” to each new item. Instead of starting out with 0 upvotes and 0 downvotes, we start out with a upvotes and b downvotes. If we expect that most items are bad, we could start with 3 upvotes and 10 downvotes. After getting u real upvotes, and d real downvotes the posterior distribution is Beta(a+u, b+d).

Fascinating. Does this follow as a straightforward consequence of how the beta distribution is defined? Otherwise, is there a proof that someone could point me toward?

> The popularity of an item has a Beta(a,b) prior

Is there an optimal choice of a, b given, say, a specific utility function?
Out of naïveté I am curious: if it is the right to not incriminate yourself that prevents a defendant from being forced to unlock her phone, is it different if the evidence being sought is against a third party? That is, could someone who has been convicted on other evidence be compelled to unlock her phone if the prosecution believes there is evidence on that device to convict, say, a higher rank in a drug operation? Does the third party doctrine apply to private citizens? I am not endorsing this view, merely curious.
Obligatory Klout XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1057/.
This seems like classic "protect the ignorant, unwashed masses from their own folly" condescension. Sure, people will fuckup and waste their money, a lot. Just like they do now with spinning rims, Big Macs, the stock market, lottery tickets, and televangelism. Should we ban those things because we think we know how to run people's lives better than they do? There are already some pretty severe limits in place to keep people from losing their shirt with crowd investing.

Sure, people are going to get scammed, just as they're scammed in numerous ways today, and people are going to throw their money away investing in hopeless companies. But that's not the only thing that will happen. And there's a significant potential for improvement over time in terms of educating investors on risk. I think overall it'll be a big win for everyone despite the abuse. And if it ends up replacing people's even riskier investment schemes (such as the lotto or cousin jim-bob's wacky business idea or the coworkers multi-level marketing scam) it'll be an even bigger win.
hook.io supports lua, along with eleven other programming languages.
Malthusian apocalypse is far too simplistic. It is a nice thought experiment to demonstrate that linear growth is not possible, but it has too few dimensions to be useful beyond that.

The problem is the same order of complexity as chess, where you have to understand the future implications of an action many steps in the future. But in the real world, economy, politics, and society are rather more complex than a chess game.

In addition, in the real world there is no chess master playing the game. The pieces are acting on their own, at times independently and at other times dependently.

Different people want to solve different parts of the problem. Do you want to run faster than a bear, or just run faster than your neighbor who is also being chased by the bear? Some people are focusing on how to survive the chaos caused when one major player reaches the state of collapse. Because only the survivors will get to pick up the pieces.
The "and left them alone" is a very important point that is not being met for innovation.
> I'm tired of grinding it out with a salary that can barely cover the expenses

> owning a business where you control your time is the only end game I can see.

I will encourage you to read first 4-5 chapters of "The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It" by Michael E. Gerber.

“The problem is that everybody who goes into business is actually three-people-in-one: The Entrepreneur, The Manager, and The Technician.

And the problem is compounded by the fact that while each of these personalities wants to be the boss, none of them wants to have a boss.

So they start a business together in order to get rid of the boss. And the conflict begins.”

Excerpt From: Michael E. Gerber. “The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It.” iBooks.
Best practices for using version control systems – Madusudanan
Software patents.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation - the introductory paragraph nicely sums up their remit.
Moncler+Womens+Jackets+Discount+Cheap+Sale
The way I see MUMPS or M (because clinicians don't like hearing that word) is a string typed almost-assembly level server scripting language.

GTM does stick to the ANSI M standard with a few extensions for basic escape holes like calling a UNIX process or writing to a file. It doesn't have the same level of optimization, reliability, recoverability, etc. that intersystems sells.
Here's a paper that analyzes various ways to rank items using upvotes/downvotes; and comes up with a way to determine which method is the best: http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~dell/publications/dellzhang_ictir2...

Also related: http://planspace.org/2014/08/17/how-to-sort-by-average-ratin...
The Clock Is Ticking on Bitcoin's Future
vim and emacs. they will live forever in infinite different reincarnations.
“The Go Programming Language” - Alan A. A. Donovan, Brian W. Kernighan
0. Who publishes a book with an obviously fake name?

1. Only a small part is used for food production and none of it directly. All our food comes from photosynthesis, that is, solar energy.

2. That only made people live longer, it didn't make them have more children. It does the opposite actually. (and BTW, sanitation is ancient, mediavel Europe was an abberation. Bronze age cities alredy had water supply, sewage systems and such.)

3. It's energy intensive, but not that intensive, it could be replaced with solar energy or natural bacteria and losses could be minimized by recycling waste. Nitrogen is a building block of cells, it's not a source of energy for them. The fixation process takes a lot of energy because nitrogen molecules in the air are hard to break.

4. Minerals, unlike fuels, aren't used up. They can be recycled forever, you only need to recover the losses.

5. Fertilizers aren't made from fossil fuels, there is no reaosn why we should stop using them. Transport storage and processing is done that way because it's more convenient or the final product is preferable. ("fresh" vs. dried or salted food)
Thanks for the shoutout, manlio. --Sharon Hopkins
But your solution only works if you have a flexible schedule. You say, "I don't have to deal with the shock of losing an hour sleep in the spring," but that's only because, presumably, there isn't a manager standing at your desk at 9 a.m. wondering why you are showing up to work an hour later than everyone else all of the sudden. People aren't ruled by Daylight Saving Time, they're ruled by schedules.

The actual number doesn't matter at all -- I go to sleep at 11 p.m. in whatever time zone I'm in because it's about 8 hours before I need to wake up and jump into my schedule. Saying "11 p.m." is really "10 p.m." doesn't change the fact that I'm 8 hours away from waking up.
Markus "N0tch" Persson became a billionaire and the rest was history.
A tiling region manager for the console (Haskell)
What are you talking about? The headline says the exact opposite of what you seem to think.
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First map of clouds on an exoplanet
> vinpocetine

Hah, neat, I had just ran into that chemical a few days ago in my own research, for similar reasons.

Right now I'm trying diosmin, under a parallel theory: that it protects, increases tone of, and stimulates growth of, lymphatic channels. (Amusingly enough, the main on-label use is for hemorrhoids.)

I picked this avenue of research since my own body seems to have a rather sucky lymphatic system: I constantly get fungal infections (but not bacterial/viral ones); I've had middle-ear infections several times in my life, once leading to labyrinthitis; I have a family history of lymphedema and varicose veins; and no matter how well I maintain my oral hygiene and stay hydrated, I still get dental carries and periodontal abscesses. (Also, oddly enough, all my hair grows really fast; and directly atop lymph nodes, I will get ingrown "compound" hairs (pili multigemni). Both sort of suggest an eccrine system trying to expel debris that isn't getting cleared any other way.)

So far I can at least say that it unplugs my sinuses (in a different way than a decongestant—gunk ends up in my throat, and my sinuses don't dry out), makes me experience heartburn for the first time since I was a child (probably a bile duct thing), and makes it actually painful to sit with my legs folded under me for more than a few minutes, whereas I used to be able to do that for hours (which was probably a bad thing with a high risk of DVT anyway.) So it's doing something.

The experiment I really want to try, though, is to combine the diosmin with N-acetylcholine (or any other metabolically-active glutathione precursor.) From what I understand, glutathione is used up by lymphatic processes (at least both of liver xenometabolism and mucus creation.) I expect, without NAC supplementation, it will appear that my body eventually "habituates" to the diosmin and stops doing anything useful.

Edit: one more bonus piece of anecdata—I've gone, on one week of diosmin, from a person who hates being too hot (to the point that I don't enjoy ever getting my face/chest wet in the shower; to the point that I hate drinking coffee/tea just because it's hot) but is fine in the cold (often not bothering to wear a sweater outside in Canadian winter)... to a person who can easily tolerate heat, and gets cold very easily. Very, very bizarre.
Here you go, that's just one industry, and in general the problem hasn't gotten any better.

http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/24/web-of-tech-patent-laws...
There is little actual content in present day Internet relative to its size. Look, what is produced on those websites that also tend to carry heavy presentation is not content. Real content is Wikipedia, or Hacker News, or various people and their various topical subpages, personal blogs, up and including stuff hosted at Geocities and Tripod Lycos. What is not content is most of the stuff that's created for money, including majority of today's "journalism". Information that is shallow, false and/or useless, and that exists only to make you click or buy.

90% of for-profit content could disappear just like that, and humanity would be much better off. Every information that is valuable, you can almost always find for free, posted by people who don't try to use you.
A very interesting humble brag thread. I'm not sure it's imposter syndrome if you think you're doing well when presented with evidence and then believe it. Not by definition anyway.

The performance reviews remind me of this little joke (actually a common real experience) -- "I got rated Above Average!" 'What was the average rating?' "Let me check... Oh. It's Exceptional".
Perhaps, but to be fair, there are fairly specific geophysical criteria for plopping down a nontrivial human settlement, mainly relating to the water table and agriculture. Inland, arid tundra, for example, isn't good place to found a town, and neither is any place where you can neither grow local food nor deliver it easily from other places. The more anthrocentric aspects, like proximity to transportation networks and economic activity, also play a huge role. All in all, it's not reasonable to suggest that much of the empty space seen from a plane can be filled out with people equally well.

Indeed, a disproportionate share of energy use goes toward supporting life in places nature did not will to be particularly habitable. Very expensive contrivances--none altogether successful, and whose sustainability is in doubt--exist to create water and indoor cooling in places like Las Vegas, for example, and to pump water out of New Orleans or parts of the Netherlands. Technology is impressive and can compensate, but neither cheaply nor without all kinds of negative externalities.
Thanks for the clarification, and I agree. If I feel the need to comment on this topic in the future, I'll work on engaging with the history in a more constructive way.
What sort of rules can make it harder to abuse the system, if you insist that the people who enforce the rules must have no understanding of how the rules work?
I know the Amiga manuals (Amiga 2000) was very well documented, a friend fixed ours by measuring the various documented points on the main board, finding a poorly soldered component or fried transistor (I forget the details).

AFAIK Arexx was part of Worbench? But yes, you did need to get a compiler/interpreter for that. I thought you were talking about stuff like the C64 generation of computers.

I remember there were GNU tools available for the Amiga, and some magazines came with various development tools -- eg: Blitz Basic. But most were certainly commercial (including Blitz Basic) - but one must consider that even with aminet - there was nothing like the essentially free distribution of today (eg: push to github).

According to this site, Amiga Basic was actually bundled with the machine (note-section: "bundled basic language interpreter (free with machine)"):

http://www.classicamiga.com/content/view/5044/175/

> The app stores are full of them, just pick one.

Did Apple change their policy of allowing development tools? They certainly don't allow the creation of apps on the ipad/iphone as far as I know?
As always, consult a lawyer (I'm obviously not one) to be sure.
Aren't the judges in question by appointment?
What is this wack interpretation of Material Design? I can't remember the last time MD was meant to have such high radius for corners.
Which no browser has currently. Yes I know FF has prototype of it.

And on mobile, I am yet to have WebGL working properly without transforming it into a cook plate, when I don't get a black screen.

Meanwhile they do OpenGL ES 3.x without any issues while keeping a reasonable temperature.

And when WebGL 2.0 finally gets out across all devices, we will be doing Metal, Vulkan and DX12 already.
Plus it's well positioned to benefit from global warming.
You should understand the purpose of a grand jury proceeding before you make comments like this.

Helpful link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_juries_in_the_United_Sta...
How significant?
I'm impressed you can write such a long story yet address none of my points. You should consider becoming a politician.

The only relevant piece of information I could find in your anecdote is this:

> I assumed that we were talking about in place sorting.

If we limit ourselves to in-place sorting algorithms then we still are left with block sort, pdqsort, introsort and heap sort, all of which run in O(n log n). My argument still holds.
Almost everyone not at work, and most students.. just a tiny little niche.
What exactly is the brainfuck for you? I don't fully understand when you say "I'd like to get out of it, but at the same time, I feel like if I can get out of if, I can get out of most things".

What I mean is, as far as I understand the impostor syndrome happens when you are at a place that you feel you don't deserve (or that you aren't really up to the task/at the limit of your abilities).

In your case it seems the other way around. Your environment doesn't seem to be up to what you can achieve (by what you describe of course).

Wouldn't that cause the opposite effect? i.e. thinking, how the hell are these people my seniors/running things like this? They should now better.

Or maybe I'm misunderstanding and you feel like the syndrome was pushed unto you by means of people being arrogant towards you?

If that's the case then I recommend to just keep cultivating yourself in the different subjects that interest you, to be sure that you really are the one that's correct (you never know when you will be "sure" of something just to find out you were wrong, being humble and double checking before opening my mouth has saved me lots of embarrassments... conversely because previously I didn't shut my mouth lots of times and got burned.), try to learn as much as you can from the actual experience of bearing with people that doesn't sound very pleasant to work with, and then get out of there when you can.

It definitely doesn't sound like a healthy place to be.
The exemptions we requested—ripping DVDs and Blurays for making fair use remixes and analysis;

Does this mean fan-edits are fair use now?
It was. On the other hand I feel like I know exactly my skill level and limitations.
What about having juries composed of actual peers? That is, randomly selected experts, half from industry and half from academia? The lack of prolonged engagement and predictable assignment to cases should make it harder to end up with another CAFC.
Am I missing something here, and I'm not trying to be snarky, but how is this a big deal?
You can maintain the code yourself for the existing devices, that is a lame excuse.

Goggle has the knowledge and money to do so.
Agar.io+minions
Compliance checking is a formal way of identifying and firing assholes. As for "checks and balances", yes, separating powers between several groups of people to enforce coordination between them is a good thing, but it also gets gamed at a meta-level, which again means you need to find and punish meta-level assholes.
Hmm, to solve those problems, would it help to have massive supplies of clean energy?
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They've asked for access, but this doesn't mean they're not doing it already.
> software is eating the fitness industry.

Unfortunately it doesn't improve on the current state of things (health improvements on a matter larger scale), although it's getting cheaper.
Very good point. Intellect is not a ratio scale.
How to go about financial planning practically?
Well, no. There are fundamental algorithmic reasons why some problems can exploit GPU power and some cannot. Look at any of the ~15 most popular molecular dynamics codes today, they all have some sort of GPU support. Look up something that solves an elliptic PDE, like incompressible Navier-Stokes, and you'll see no-one using GPUs.

As for the PIC code you link to: they don't mention any sort of fair benchmark anywhere, so if they are objectively "blowing things out of the water", they're rather silent about it.
There's no such thing as permanent daylight savings time. The point of daylight savings time is to shift everyone's routines forward during one section of the year, and backwards during another.

If you don't shift, and the new times are fixed, then people will get used to it and just move their routines back 2 hours. People will treat new:6:00 as if it's really old:5:00, because it is. Nothing will change besides the numbers on paper.
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We mostly created vouching for comments. The problem was that banned accounts sometimes post good comments, so autokilling every comment is too coarse-grained. The core idea of modnesty (comment vouching) is that being banned no longer means your comments are all [dead], but merely that they are subject to a jury of your peers. After a month, I think it's safe to say that this has worked; in fact it has exceeded our expectations.
Too bad it is not a proper diffset of the original Firefox codebase, such as a branch, patchset, and/or separate commits... whatever you want to name it. But as of currently it is an initial commit with all and a license change?
I have recently changed job from a large stuffy office to a small office with sliding doors that let in fresh air (Sydney weather = fairly comfortable a lot of the time!). Although I can't say I am performing better based on that, I can say I feel more humane with the combination of fresh air and natural light that the new office is offering, and I would hesitate to take a job without those factors.
Or the fact that the cookies folder in Windows 7+ comes under "protected OS files". It basically has dozens of textfiles from all the ad/tracking companies..

The Cookies folder in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local(or Roaming)\Microsoft\Windows doesn't show when you enable show hidden files but shows when you enter the full path or enable showing protected files.
If you are looking for more about this approach, "additive smoothing" might be a good search term not mentioned in the article. Also "Laplace smoothing" or "Lidstone smoothing". "Dirichlet prior" (add an 'h' to the spelling in the article) might also be on topic.
The Obama administration has been just as draconian and authoritarian, if not more, as was the Clinton administration (within the means of technology available at the time).
So that poor guy just chose the wrong license. It should be CC BY-NC-ND-SA, not CC BY-SA.
Time zones still give a close approximation to solar time. In an ideal time zone, you won't be off by more than 30 minutes. Daylight savings time means you can be off by a whole hour, on top of the error introduced by time zones.
Only a few WinAPI functions can take UNC path, Explorer and cmd.exe don't support them either. The same problem has with the dotNet framework which is implemented on top of WinAPI.

Nodejs is a console application and can call system applications via command line/cmd.exe.

WinNT kernel and NTFS/ReFS have no such path limitations, that limitation comes from Win16 API and to make the job easier the Win32API and its subsystem (32-bit and 64-bit Windows since Win3.11 with Win32s addon and Win95) comes with such legacy restrictions.
I was too smitten with the notion that titles are the bikesheds of HN to think about changing it.
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Transmitting FM, AM, SSB, SSTV and FSQ with Just a Raspberry Pi
That's wonderful to hear. Thanks for the update.

Edit: I had to look up pou sto. Turns out it's Archimedes' "place to stand" from which he could move the earth. In other words, the best possible foundation. A high aspiration for a programming language course.
Every single one of those has substantially more regulation about what they can do with how much of his money, and what they must and must not say when they do it.

I'm not at all sure all of that makes sense, but it's a huge difference.
That is brilliant.
launching iOS beta nxt week. 1k ttl users (Mobshr – coworking at local cafes)
> among the APL examples from the article, I'd add most of the IOCCC submissions

That can only be because you don't understand APL or its principle of condensed simplicity. This is one of those cases where the reflexive judgment is completely wrong. We're so used to code being sprawlingly complex that APL and its derivatives seem obviously perverse, when in fact they are lyrical, and the problem is with us and our 'obvious' preconceptions.

If APL were a matter of intentional obfuscation you would never hear a student speak like this 30 years later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10481967.