skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your points, except the claim that BGP is less expensive. If you look outside of fat datacenter ToR switches, there are quite a few models where BGP either requires a more expensive firmware version or is not available at all.
There is a very simple scientific test whether or not two animals are the same species: if they can breed and have fertile offspring they are the same species, otherwise they are not. All the discussions about whether or not they are physically similar to each other are pointless.
I have an experimental and somewhat half-baked programming language where all types are anonymous; type names always refer to interfaces. It then does global type inference to decide whether the thing you're referring to is a primitive type or an object for the actual implementation.

What this means is that at the semantic level, the language doesn't distinguish between objects and scalars, so avoiding the horrible schizophrenia that languages like C++ and Java do --- you can subclass an integer just as easily as you can anything else. Performance is really good, too, mostly.

The downside is somewhat unpredictable behaviour due to invisible boxing and unboxing. e.g.:

function complexExpression(x: int) {
// do something expensive with x
}

complexExpression(4);
complexExpression(numberlikeObject);

The type inference will see that complexExpression() is being called by both a scalar and an object, which means that x needs to be implemented as an object pointer, and the literal 4 needs to be boxed. This means the calculations inside complexExpression() will end up being a lot more expensive due to boxing and unboxing overhead.

I should readdress this at some point; it was a really nice thing to write code for.

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> It just strikes me as incredibly unhealthy as a society to make food that is designed to make money and... not actually feed people.

Ok but why? Many in the western world literally suffer from an over-intake of calories, why do ways to try and manage that (or ways to attain caloric deficit) strike you as "unhealthy"? Do you also find calorie/weight management courses "incredibly unhealthy"?

> So sue me for having an opinion.

That's an incredibly aggressive reply to what's at best questions and at worst a difference of opinion.
Places like Irish monasteries were also saving ancient literature. Indeed it was them, and not Arabs, who kept alive literacy and reintroduced it - along in cases with Christianity, to the West.
So the existence of, if not the acceptance of, forums like equidateinc.com that do run secondary markets in stock options, to me seem a good thing. They mark options as more liquid.

One thing that strikes me about all this is that if capital is and remains much easier to access, then the risk of entrepreneurship is diminished, and the reward to founders seems likely to drop too - presumably being shared more with early employees?
This reminds me of people holding funerals for their Aibo robot dogs. The future is going to get very weird.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
I know what you are going through. My last job was at Shutterstock, which went from 50 people to 700 in 5 years. I'm doing it again now, we went from 60 to 90 people in 6 months.

I have found that there are inflection points whenever things double. That could be people, revenue, office space, customers, etc. When this happens, "debt" affects the company. You're probably much more familiar with tech debt, and probably architectural debt. Maybe less familiar with organizational and cultural debt. You simply can't do things the way you always have, they don't scale.
http://steveblank.com/2015/05/19/organizational-debt-is-like...

Change is inevitable and required. If not managed, it could sink you. Some people will quit regardless, they were probably not the right people for the next phase. At first you don't need teams (you have 1 team), then you need to have 2 teams, them more. This change is disruptive and affects productivity and morale. Read up on team maturity models (not CMM), it will help knowing what phases you will be going through.
http://www.businessballs.com/tuckmanformingstormingnormingpe...

I presented the team maturity models too my devs the last time we restructured the teams. Multiple people came to me proudly stating they were in the "storming" phase, which essentially is when you argue a lot. They knew it was a phase, and frustration was reduced.

You do need leadership as you grow. A leader is not your best developer. The HR manager may scare you because they are a "manager", not a "leader". Good managers and leader can toggle between both roles. Too many people are great managers and not leaders. Know the difference between a manager and leader, know which ones you are missing.
http://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/articles/man...
Honestly, what's alarming is how they are defining "strong" cannabis.

"While traditional forms of cannabis contain 2 to 4 % THC, the more potent varieties (of which there are about 100), can contain 10 to 14% THC, according to the DrugScope charity."

Here on the west coast, 10-14% is not high and 2-4% is so weak that you only find it in strains that focus on CBD rather than THC. High end strains have a little more than 20% THC, usually hovering somewhere around 22%. These strains are tested by labs. This is not hearsay. If we talk about dabs, then we're talking about double, triple, quadruple the potency. Then you have edibles which are a completely different beast. So it is important to realize that they were not testing with potent cannabis at all. Potent for England? Sure, but American cannabis is on a whole nother level.

The results seen from this are hardly compelling. More than half the sample size were chosen BECAUSE they had reported an episode of psychosis. Still, I hope this encourages more research to figure out exactly what's happening, if anything.
Not going to take any UI advice from somebody with pop-ups to sign up for a newsletter.
"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
The Philosophical Radicals was a philosophically-minded group of English political radicals in the nineteenth century inspired by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill. Individuals within this group included Francis Place, George Grote (1794–1871), Joseph Parkes, John Arthur Roebuck, Charles Buller, John Stuart Mill, Edward John Trelawny, and William Molesworth.[1]

Amongst other things, members of their group were the publishers of Darwin and ran the progressive journal the Westminster Review.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Radicals
> Ok but why? Many in the western world literally suffer from an over-intake of calories, why do ways to try and manage that strike you as "unhealthy"? Do you also find calorie/weight management courses "incredibly unhealthy"?

I don't think this is going to help anyone lose weight any more than a therapist, salads, lentils, etc. etc. I see this as a cool food engineering experiment, but ultimately a waste of money.

> That's an incredibly aggressive reply to what's at best questions and at worst a difference of opinion.

I found your terse response ignoring the subjective content to be quite aggressive in itself, especially considering the conciliatory tone of my original message. If you're going to respond to an opinion, at least put some effort into not being so argumentative.
Wouldn't any successful political movement need the support of the "stupid masses"?
It's a terrible definition. There's no mention of pow, which was the innovation of Bitcoin, and that which secures the network
74 countries according to this article:

http://qz.com/374138/these-are-all-the-countries-where-the-u...

Point stands, nonetheless. That's a lot.
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Very interesting! I've started reading the 3-Lisp paper [1] and it's a lot of fun.

I'm not sure if it's really a counterexample, though. Does 3-Lisp claim that you can only interact with values by calling their methods, or something like that? For example, can you impersonate a cons cell?

[1] http://cs.au.dk/~hosc/local/LaSC-1-1-pp11-37.pdf
Load of bollocks
No, polyarchy is something different. The word does seem to exist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyarchy
Nor is there need for blocks. They can merely broadcast signed messages and acks for all members of the network. The only reason blocks are there is so that phbs will buy these bad databases
This is not the only measure of a species. Please read the article.
Sure, but the product and the service should be separate, so that you are free to choose your storage provider, and so that you can be sure the service can't do anything nasty with your product. Allowing products and services to be converged is bad for consumers.
That is the definition of blockchain. It's what was invented in Bitcoin. All other definitions would suggest blockchains were invented in the 90s or 80s
Thanks for the links to great books.
I didn't realize Chelsea had been elected to high office. I should read the news more often.
If you're talking about MH370, pieces of the aircraft are washing up and getting found on various islands in the western part of the Indian Ocean. It just takes time because (presumably) the currents aren't as favourable to make parts of the plane wash up as in the North Atlantic.

Incidentally, large parts of the aircraft - including the fuselage itself - may have sunk already, which was the case with AF447 a few years ago.
I like that. "Thanks for nitpicking my spelling."

As if no one could figure out what you were talking about.
Sadly, Leo P. Kadanoff, quoted in the article just passed away.
"Every day, trucks laden with food, clothing, and other supplies cross the border from Turkey to Syria. It is unclear who is picking up the goods."

It is a well known fact that Turkey aided Syrian opposition and people live under attack. Perhaps IS might have seized some goods. It is hard to dispatch anything when there is a war. But this news piece starts with a silly assumption. Completely loses the value.

For the second:

" From mid-2013, the Tunisian fighter had been responsible for smuggling oil from Syria’s eastern fields, which the group had by then commandeered. Black market oil quickly became the main driver of Isis revenues – and Turkish buyers were its main clients."

Smuggling. So Turkish government is perpetrator because there are oil smugglers? Please. IS sells oil to black market and smugglers (probably even Syrian Government) takes it. How is Turkish government is a supporter of IS here? Smuggling is a decades old problem in south east Turkey (Mostly Kurdish area). They tried to prevent it with special high tech chemical marker dyes and strict controls but you cannot stop it.

Also keep in mind that Guardian always use anti government sources for Turkish news. (Mostly left leaning, pro-kurdish or Gulenist.).
Very well said and quite true! A managers job should be to facilitate, sadly many of them don't understand this, and breath down the developer's necks.

If you are one of those guys who gets the job done, then you shouldn't be giving a flying f* about the managers/HR, their job is to make things easier for you so that you can focus on your core areas of expertise, if that's not happening, you can and should talk to your founders/owners about your concerns.

Remember, you were there before these guys even came into the picture, and you are responsible for the growth of this company which is now even able to afford new people, and I am sure the company owners do realize that.
You could specialize for primitives, e.g. under the hood generate complexExpression_int() and complexExpression_ref(). It wouldn't be too bad in terms of code size, because you only have to specialize primitives, and all reference types can share the same implementation.
I agree and while I have no reason to doubt the science regarding measurement, this quote is telling: "“It is possible that these people already have a different brain and they are more likely to use cannabis.”

That point is, AFAIK, the current state of science in addiction related research. Cannabis is not addictive, unless you have a predisposition for addiction. That predisposition correlates with a higher chance of psychosis and such. I totally have no sources other than being Dutch and having seen a documentary. Will search for sources.

See sources below (sorry for the Dutch links). I am amazed that you can publish research "because MRI", with a disclaimer that stands at 180 degrees with current information from public health policies.

The only point that I see being made taking this into account is: "56 people that smoke daily and got a psychosis, differ from 43 people that don't smoke and didn't get a psychosis, MRIs show." (small lol)

Sources (update):

[1] THC-monitor in Dutch (20%!! THC avg. in Netherlands in '04, somewhat lower since)

[2] Belgian drug information site states my point too: "Use of cannabis can amplify development of psychological trauma in people that have a natural disposition" (my translation)

[1] https://www.trimbos.nl/actueel/nieuws/bericht/?bericht=1586
[2] http://www.druglijn.be/drugs-abc/cannabis/faq-is-er-een-verb...
I didn't vote for Obama, but I do remember he put a great deal of effort in telling supporters he was going to get us out of the wars of the Middle East, no?

Anyway, any equivalence between what is going on now the ME and what Hitler and the Nazis were doing back then is totally false.
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I don't think the 'average person' who works an 'average job' has any qualifications for acting as a member of congress. Taking into consideration that they can't even select competent members of congress, I find it hard to imagine that they would be one.
Prohibition causes the stronger strains to be selected, since they are smaller and easier to conceal and transport (as with spirits during alcohol prohibition). Another reason why we need to legalize and regulate things properly, and consider higher taxes on the stronger forms (of alcohol too).
I don't care about Nim case insensitivity, but underscore insensitivity??
Breaking grep is a _very bad idea_.
the occupying state.
You need truth to be objective in order to be a blockchain. There's no mention of pow in that definition. If every single node in the Bitcoin network went down but one, and 99% of the network were "lying" then we'd still know the "truth". That is what a blockchain does. These voting databases are silly decades old technology
>So why would anyone in his right mind would create a whole new programming language? Isn't BASIC or C++ good enough already?

Ha ha ha!
Just imagine the data collection on these occupier provided networks.
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Capitalism fun story:

In order to counter skyrocketing calorie levels and the lack of fiber in ordinary cheaply produced food, and following hysterical trends like being afraid of fats or carbs or gluten, companies are busy inventing new food that doesn't have any nutritional value.

Although this is basically just garbage manufactured into pseudo-food, with some clever marketing it's bound to be a hit on the market, and people who have no clue what they're doing will probably ruin their health in new interesting ways.

At the same time, billions of people in the global lower class don't have access to even barely decent food.

If this sounds insane to you, that's because it is in fact completely insane.
Good luck with that
This is what happened in the West. It doesn't always need to be the same cycle of total destruction followed by reconstruction. While we should look to history for guidance, we cannot assume the same things will happen, or even that the same pattern will repeat itself. Short of an accidental nuclear holocaust, it seems rather unlikely that the current economic system will be undone anytime soon.

As a counterpoint to the demise of the Roman Empire, the Chinese Empire not only survived for thousands of years, it assimilated all the different people's living in the Chinese Mainland into one race (the Han). I feel like something similar is likely to happen in the future of the world.
Unfortunately, you are not going to be able to keep things weird (in this case). The only person who has complete control over the corporate culture is the CEO. And, even then, the CEO takes orders from the board and owners.

From your description of the recent changes, it appears that the CEO, board, and owners do not view unconventional culture as being important to the company's success. So, unless you or someone like you has great influence over the CEO (either directly or indirectly), this is not going to change. Trust me: there's no point in fighting it.

If an unconventional company culture is important to you, it's time to find a new workplace. If you have some time and patience, you can find a company that aims for the same goals as you.

1) corporations are the opposite of democracies,

2) those in leadership are not your friends (though they may be paid a lot to act that way),

3) things that appear to be 'for you' are always 'for the owners', first.
Maybe that's the point. I feel sometimes like the world today is so complex, that it's hard to be sure of any politics whether it will work, or produce more misery than good. So, perhaps on a subconscious level, it's easier to bicker about details and never actually do anything.

Moral high ground is the privilege of those that don't do anything...
I assume you refer to page 28 in the first slide deck? If you would have read closely you would have noticed that it says:

> We will restrict ourselves to discrete sample spaces for now, to avoid some technical difficulties…

In the later lectures they take a look at sample spaces that are uncountably infinite. Good luck working with a sum there.
If by obscure, you mean that tens if not hundreds of thousands of high school and college students read all or part of them every year, and that their themes and motifs permeate our culture and still underly our understanding of governance, mathematics, and even Science, then yeah...they're obscure.
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Freelancing Deal: I'll do your Android project at USD 3500 a month.

I had a project pipelined, which suddenly got cancelled (postponed without a new date) and I have a void to fill. I had put an Ad in the July Seeking Freelancer - for an Android project offer. I accepted a pretty large and complicated Android project, which required me to clone an App and has given me pretty good experience on Android.

This would be my second Android project; but I have used Networking, Sqlite, Broadcast Receivers, Services, used the Drawing api to create a custom widget, and MP Android Charts in the last one.

I can also work in Ruby on Rails, JS/HTML/CSS and Angular (although people should be phasing that out by now).

Prior to this I've developed large apps in C++ and ASP.Net. I tried to do a startup Creating survey programming tool and a Cross Tab engine in C++/yacc so I have pretty good programming experience overall.

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"Participation rates don't align very well with poverty or unemployment numbers on a state by state look, meaning the system is obviously throwing money away."

Sorry, can you explain your logic here? Enrollment is handled by the states, and procedures in different states are very different. (There are also federal funding incentives for states to reduce enrollment.) You would expect different states to have very different participation rates.
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Point being, there aren't any genetic "Clintons" to pass the torch down to.
Dunning Kruger didn't show that more competent people thought themselves lesser than incompetent, just that they thought they were lesser than they actually were, and incompetents thought themselves better than themselves, not better than those more competent.

i.e. Self reporting showed a shallowing of the competency slope, not a reversal.
It's bin a while since I encountered it, but I remember having to hunt for MagicISO or PowerISO to open several archives that I couldn't find anywhere else.
I'd assume this thing having been launched in 2005 has enough memory to hold imagery for the entire planet so one wouldn't have to be in the region they want data for. That's my assumption and it seems to agree with the data.
Any more details about how it was built?
Isn't the goal of soylent the inverse, closer to the "meal in a pill" of mid-century science fiction?
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Not in Mexico. They're used as exact synonyms as far as I can tell. But you seem convinced that absolute synonyms don't exist. As a corollary to this, exact synonyms between languages don't exist either, so exact translation is impossible. I'll agree that exact translation is impossible, but I think a good translator's job is to convey the closest possible linguistic experience possible. In this case, a chapulín is the closest Mexican equivalent to saltamontes or grasshopper. Although Mexicans will understand the word "saltamontes", it sounds a bit foreign and will resort to chapulín instead.
Damn, a billion dollars is alot of money. Amazing that something can be put together in less than 5 years that is worth multiple billions of dollars. Even more surprising that you can amass a list of 100+ companies that are less than 10 years old and worth tens of billions.

I foresee alot of NFL and MLB team owners in the next 10 years.
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I remember the Tamagotchi crazy back in the day (this is a very well done play on it, really enjoyed the linked site) but never owned one (and am not sure how they worked exactly on a technical level). I wonder if it is technically possible that some of them are still "alive"? I wonder if the programmers made any implicit assumptions about lifespan that were tested by now (assuming the batteries could be changed without "killing" them).
As does my packer + puppet repo.

The point was, start with docker, get that for mostly free. You can feel free to further manage the underlying hosts with chef, puppet, or ansible, but docker will make the systems interface to your app quite a bit neater and you'll still chef to configure the app.

Your CM now does less, which is a good thing.

Throw in mesos or kubernetes because your CM isn't really amazingly helpful at deciding where things should run and your CM will now do even less.

That doesn't mean your CM will definitely go in the bin, but if all it's doing is changing a couple of system settings during an image build, it arguably could be bash, though I personally would rather it wasn't.
Yeah, try aliexpress or ebay if you want to get a good price on one. They're often identical devices, some of the ones you find on Amazon are just companies who got their logo stamped on the same ones you can order off aliexpress for less than half the cost. In fact I own one which looks identical to the one pictured in the article but I think I got it for a lot cheaper...

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/USB-2-0-Digital-DVB-T-SDR-DAB...

$7.35 instead of $21.95... I think the antenna is a little nicer on the NooElec one, but it's 3x the cost and neither is particularly good (as the author of this article points out), you can probably find a much better one if you look around.
It's the least arbitrary and most accepted widely measure, though.