skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have said in this thread, the bottleneck of solving epic problems is solving social problems. The bottleneck of solving social problems is coordination of individual behavior; cooperating.

As far as I can see, the bottleneck of social coordination is information transfer, especially information transfer towards facilitation of trust.

Solving epic problems usually requires making long-term investments. I think many individuals would make more long-term investments towards solutions to epic problems if they were able to establish more trust in the cooperative behavior of other individuals.

I think it comes down to counteracting the dilemmas studied in game theory. I think there is opportunity to leverage software and the internet to create new/stronger information flows that can more often raise us above the pessimistic equilibrium of game theory dilemmas.

Despite the increasing ubiquity of internet-connected hardware, messaging systems, and search engines, I think there is still a lot of opportunity for tech-trained people to improve and build information systems that provide key information to key places in support of social cooperation. Software and the internet has made information flow a lot more liquid, but there is still a lot of opportunity to improve query-ability of data sources, and improve the value of information propagation across communication networks.

Ultimately, we can seek to increase cases where an individual changes his/her behavior, due to trust in other individuals changing their behavior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality
I don't use document.createElement('div') in any but very rare situations either.
I only know of one item that the post office lost for me, in 30 or so years. Unfortunately, that one item was a mortgage payment on my house...
It's one thing to talk about "oil going over land" (i.e. being smuggled through) Turkey. It's quite another to suggest that the Turkish government (or major players in the private sector) are outright, overtly "buying oil from ISIS", as you implied in your posting.

If you can't provide substantiation for this claim, perhaps you should be more careful in how you choose your wording -- especially when making rather loaded and incendiary allegations, of this sort.
Why not the same places? I have met countless people through meetups for side projects. In fact I would rather work with people I meet in all the places you point out for side projects to begin with. That's a good foundation for building a working relationship for a serious business. It allows you to get to know each other without the commitment of a business.
Wait, so, religion is based on fiction? Huh who would have guessed.
The links to the JS SDK in your documentation aren't working
Checked in IE 11, Chrome, and FF, and I don't see any hide link.
Perhaps this is different on long haul widebody flights - but one of the secrets of ryanair/easyjet's success is their ability to get so few checked in bags onboard. I've sometimes seen as few as maybe 5-10 bags going in the hold.

Now that means there's a lot of space going free in the cargo hold, but it means you can turn the flights round ridiculously quickly. Which means you can do many more segments per day and you don't have the plane sitting their deprecating.

edit: it's also great for a passenger as it can take up to an hour in big airports to get the bags onto the belts. i hate checking in bags now and curse myself every time I do.
What's genuinely embarrassing is that you think there is enough ice on the planet to raise sea levels 150m.
Blue Origin launches and lands rocket
That is correct, although certain versions of Zork I are freely licensed.
The biggest difference I see is that Bitbucket's diff view is a tree of changed files, rather than a unified diff. There are things I like about both -- I like that I can get an overview of what changed in Bitbucket, and have a better high-level view of changes.

I still miss the unified diff view from Github, though -- it seemed to work well for small changes, and kept me in the flow for reading, and worked better on a narrower screen (since it didn't need a left-side navigation section). That was the main thing I missed when I first moved to Bitbucket.
By any chance, did you use this comic/guide? :)

[0] http://www.ryanestrada.com/learntoreadkoreanin15minutes/
Kilim: Very fast actors for Java (2012) [pdf]
"I think you miss that the biggest and most important benefits of open source are tied to the freedom to fork, which is both the source of the greatest security against divergence in interest between the original copyright holder and the user community and the enabler of community-driven innovation."

I agree that's a major benefit. It's why a form of it is on my list. :P

A non-profit maintaining a shared-source software requiring a mere $1 a year wherever it was used would have enough for a full-time developer plus the website by time it hit 20-20k users whether in original or forked form. Plus could take contributions from others while giving them credit and/or a pass on the money. Whereas many OSS projects get used all over the place with about nothing in return and depend on goodwill of occasional volunteers or sponsored developers. So, there's definitely a benefit here with similar innovation, even community driven if a membership fee model.

"Unlike shared-source stuff like the Fair Source License here, simple closed-source proprietary software generally doesn't try to pretend to be Open Source-like (and, when it does, it is attacked in the same way.)"

Nah, shared-source stuff gets attacked more than proprietary or even shoddy OSS when it shows up. I was happy to see some exceptions considering the license a nice evolution in OSS direction from a proprietary angle or just better than most proprietary licenses.
I would love a "Trust me, I know what I'm doing. Give me a text box to paste Markdown into..." option for Confluence and Jira.
Will accounts be available to those of us that do not live in the UK? At least within the EU?
I tend to agree that world hunger is not the best example of problem that can be fixed in that manner, actually. But there are plenty of problems that can be.

I'd also observe that if you agree with the statement "People just don't care enough about the problems to fix them.", that that is morally all but the same thing as saying "People don't give enough of their money to solve the problem.", especially if people are careful about who they give it to. Caring basically is money, be it in the form of concrete donations, donations of time, or anything else that money can be converted into. If you can't solve the problem with careful monetary donations, it is approximately equivalent to saying you can't help the problem at all. In which case, under most reasonable moral systems, you can unburden yourself of worry over the problem, if there is literally nothing you can do.

If I were speaking to a multi-billionaire who potentially had resources to realign the world political stage, we might have to be a lot more careful, but we're talking a fairly normal first-world person.
A second dangerous Dell root certificate discovered
Marmalade platform offers Leadbolt app monetization services to devs
Another short paper published in the American Mathematical Monthly by Doron Zeilberger can be found here: http://i.imgur.com/PSigYcb.png
Good luck on the PhD!
Intuit also offer an API to gather financial data. https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0020_customeraccountdata/0...
Clearly a typo for 150 cm.
Neither. We cracked their mobile apps to reverse engineer their private mobile app APIs, and then implemented our own clients for those APIs. To the bank Teller looks like one of their own mobile apps.
Yes and no. Airline prices have been dropping in real terms since the 1980s, if not sooner. (Of course, the airline experience has been dropping also.) I recall reading that since about 1960, net profit for the (US domestic) airline industry has been $0. And the history of the airline industry has been bankruptcy, reorganization, lockout, rinse and repeat.

So airline ticket prices have been dropping to the point that airlines don't make money. So the baggage fees, yes, did not cut ticket prices, but ticket prices were arguably too low to begin with.

It would have been better for airlines to honestly increase ticket prices, of course...
And many of these still don't have enough RAM to make SQLite workable. That said, I look forward to the day when SQLite is the smallest database we will need; its just up for debate when that will occur.
Battle of the search engine: and the winner is
Check out https://80000hours.org/career-guide/start-here/ that has a good guide on careers and how you can "do good". Sometimes it is through having a social impact outright, sometimes it is by earning to give.
The Best Books about Embedded Systems Design
It looks like proving that n^2 + 1 is impossible is still an open problem: http://www.wfnmc.org/mc20101.pdf.
Here's a copy you can view in-browser:

https://www.docdroid.net/GAScP3C/ada619785.pdf.html
One of the authors, John Conway, is the inventor of the Game of Life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway.
CS folks are not really used to upload their papers on the arXiv.

Maybe not to the same extent as physics people, but there is still a lot of CS on arXiv. More so in some subfields than others, but there's a pretty steady stream of CS papers showing up there. Enough that one person can't keep up with reading and digesting all of them as they appear.

That said, I don't disagree that there's a lot more physics than CS on arXiv. :-) I'm just not sure if that's because CS people don't upload to arXiv, or because CS people publish fewer papers in general, or "other".
'A Zillow analysis found that “between 1997 and 2014, homes within a quarter-mile of a Starbucks increased in value by 96 percent, on average, compared with 65 percent for all U.S. homes.”'

Maybe Starbucks preferred to put its stores where values would appreciate more. And New York City was not established as a hipster/monastic enterprise: it has always been there to make money.
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I know this is in jest, but I think one of the biggest problems with this would be the security implications. I wouldn't put my name on a stranger's bag if I didn't know them. Next thing you know, TSA finds illegal substances or something and you're in a lot of trouble because, after all, your name was on the bag!
There's no reason why a man might not be allowed to have a different opinion to a woman about what is and is not degrading to women, in the same way that finding a black man who says that 'nigger' is a part of his identity that he embraces doesn't affect my view that it is a degrading slur.
I'm sorry for broken links. Let me fix this ASAP. :)
A couple days sounds about right and jives with my own experiences, but I feel like "do this in 5 seconds" is pretty misleading, especially for someone who may have never used webpack before. It's absolutely worth the effort, but I wouldn't want someone to be discouraged had they expected a "5 second" solution but then realized it's not quite that simple.
If all you need is a key-value store, consider IonDB: https://github.com/iondbproject/iondb
Some shorter proofs are available in the book "Proofs without Words."

But then again, that book begins with a description that visual arguments aren't truly proofs.
One of the most useful things about CTEs is PostgreSQL's support of having DELETE ... RETURNING and UPDATE ... RETURNING in the the WITH clauses. This way you can easily implement moving rows from one table to another.
XKCD: Hoverboard
...the ejected and parachuting pilots were shot out of the sky.

Were they, now?

All we seem to know at this point is that "Russia’s military general staff is quoted by Russian news agencies as saying" that (one of) the pilots (not both) were shot down, according to the Guardian. Do you suggest that we take statements attributed Russian military spokespeople at face value?
I'm sorry, I don't really have a source. My observation is based on the fact that during PhD/PostDoc years you have more time to spend on actual research. As you climb the academic ladder it is very probable that administrative/supervising/teaching duties become central to your job (unless you really don't want to).

Incidentally I remember also reading [1] that in certain fields, in this case mathematics, most of the groundbreaking research comes from younger mathematicians. Great contributions to the field from people over 40 are extremely rare.

[1] Simon Singh, Fermat's Last theorem. Ok, not great source but still!
Dangers of Speculating
Speculating is the most common way for people, especially students, to attempt to decipher what stocks to buy and what to sell. I am singling out students particularly since students tend to be more confident in their abilities and therefore might feel as if they know where a stock will go. Speculating however is a dangerous way to decide how to invest your money. Since the market has been in existence many have speculated and a very slim amount have succeeded. Those that have succeeded got very lucky. Many that want to invest, especially students want to because they want to be worth a lot of money and live posh lives. However, if you look at any list of billionaire investors none are speculating, they are either value investors or activist investors. These are the two most reliable ways to make money in the stock market. But before we talk about these approaches we first need to talk about the dangers of speculating.wall-street

What is Speculating?

According to Benjamin Graham, legendary investor and the father of value investing, speculating is where someone does not exactly know what they are buying. An investor on the other hand, thoroughly researches the companies they are investing in. Speculators also usually take a lot of additional risk than an investor. The most common thing that I have found about speculators is that they usually don’t have a logical reason based off of numbers and management to buy or sell. An example of a speculator is Jim Cramer. Cramer makes a lot of claims unsubstantiated by facts on his show Mad Money most of his claims are just speculations of how the market or a stock will perform.

“An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative.”-Benjamin Grahambenie graham

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I always just FedEx my luggage anyway to save time at the airport.
I'm considering doing exactly that (unlearning the reaction). Too many people are agreeing with you for me to ignore it.

On the other hand, every time I turn around I think of more things that it "takes away." This time it's an entire category of tool: The visual layout editor. I like it when my code can be data-driven, and data-driven using a standard format that can be saved using a (visual) tool.

I especially like it when my artists can tweak the page layout for me, but I don't like the idea of giving the artists files full of JavaScript or JSX to tweak.

Are there artist-friendly tools that can edit the layout of a React site/app, where the JSX can be modified in-place using the tool? It doesn't strike me as an impossible-to-solve problem, but it could be tricky to do well.
Southwest has the opposite thesis: it believes that baggage handlers are faster at loading bags under the plane than passengers would be trying to stuff those bags overhead.

At least in the US, Southwest is known (notorious) for the having the fastest ground turns of 737s. They started at 10 minutes [1] and have moved to a leisurely 25 minutes, against a US average of 90 minutes.

This seems to make a lot of sense to me -- baggage handlers are pretty fast and can move bags much faster than passengers can board a plane. Moving luggage handling below the plane allows two parallel tasks to execute: one stream is focused on passengers finding seats and the other is focused on bags being loaded. Otherwise you have serial execution of passengers trying to upload bags to the bins before the next passenger can do anything.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/id/43768488
The main problem I have with Signal is that it's funded by the US government (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8106721), which was the main reason for me to switch to Threema.
I guess I'm still confused on what the website says re: pricing and limitations of Sourcegraph Core, and what the LICENSE file in the source code repository says.

The LICENSE file starts:

Fair Source License, version 0.9

Copyright (c) 2015 Sourcegraph Inc.

Licensor: Sourcegraph Inc.

Software: Sourcegraph Core

Use Limitation: 15 users

...

But I think "Sourcegraph Core" is described as teams of any size on the website.
IMO Mondo are a proverbial rocket ship. Keep an eye on them, and join them if you're lucky enough.
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"Oh cazzo, un debian!" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ocXFgowZA

Just a quote: "Don't worry, I've got a small program that reads from /dev/null!"
Whereas ours did the opposite... Pick up the high school students for an ~820 start, run back out and grab the younger kids for a 900 start.
In South Africa we have the same situation, no access to banking APIs so little room for innovation.

As a side project I decided to try and build banking infrastructure from the ground up, learning Go in the process [1], writing about the development along the way [2].

There is so much room for innovation in the traditional banking space, i.e. not using cryptocurrencies. Hopefully there will be innovation, especially when it comes to managing risk.

[1] https://github.com/ksred/bank
[2] http://blog.ksred.me/tags/banking-infrastructure/
The desk is extremely stable, like any other 4 legged table.
Oh I am sure doing anything does, quite frankly.
Peak oil and peak uranium are a simple deduction from the fundamental theorem of calculus.

The only thing to dispute is "when."
> To be clear, your saying that my worry was inaccurate and one person including GPL code into a new, released version of a proprietary app doesn't require the whole, linked source of that app be released under GPL?

If the inclusion suffices to make the app as a whole a derivative work under copyright law (the FSF has a particular opinion on linking, but that opinion is not included in the license), then it would require you to offer the app under the GPL, failure to do so would be a violation of the GPL.

There is nothing "virus-like" here. The license doesn't attach without your knowledge. You may face consequences for the breach if you don't comply with the GPL terms, and releasing the whole work under the GPL may be the most convenient way of dealing with that -- then again, it may not.
Exactly. Empirical research I saw showed that most companies in that market don't do so well in either profits or longevity. The majority of them we see here also intend to sell out.
> One other point I'd make is that I think people may be accidentally overestimating the friendliness of English for printing

I don't think so to be frank. When compared to Japanese or Arabic, once could say English was created solely for printing. I'm a native Arabic speaker, so I can appreciate why people would claim it's a difficult language to print. Word processors and some browsers, to this very day, sometimes have trouble rendering Arabic properly, especially when it comes to linking characters and Arabic punctuation.

> Telegrams historically looked like crap... they couldn't even have punctuation!.

English punctuation does not significantly alter meaning in my opinion. You have sentence-ending punctuation, which is used to differentiate mainly between a statement and a question. Then you have separator punctuation, like commas, semi-colons, and colons. I don't see them making much of a change either. And finally, the apostrophe and quotation mark. In addition, telegrams are short messages, so there usually is no need to convey complex meanings. Therefore, it would have been a slight inconvenience for telegram users at most.

In Arabic, changing a punctuation mark above a single letter in a word can change the word's meaning entirely. Furthermore, letters are linked together to form words - this is not essential, but would make things much more difficult to read. Also, the position of a letter in a word dictates its "shape". This introduces a ton of variation to the letters of the language, making it difficult for even modern keyboards to get right. I'd imagine it would have been even more complex at the beginning.

Of course, I think that the main barrier to widespread adoption of the printing press in the Arab World was more related to demand than anything else. At the time of the Industrial Revolution and slightly before it, the Arab countries' least concern was printing books, as they were too busy dealing with the imperialist occupation.
Most traditional string instruments do not have finger positions marked, so I'm not sure how much help it would be to look, since that would provide only lateral guidance. For some instruments like violins and violas, the perspective is also lousy for determining finger position along the string, since you're looking down the string rather than from above. You have to develop a sense of where your fingers are based on the feel of the scroll and neck, not based on sight.
An informal introduction to Lambda Calculus
So, similar to pdfork in Capsicum and FreeBSD?
Inferior Process and Incompetent Developers
The term is "key/value," not "key-value."

When you have two sides to something, you use a slash. When you're combining two words to make one descriptive term, you use a hyphen.

on/off

client/server

win/win
I feel like NDT had a word quotient for 'delusion', or does he always speak like that.

Not all dreams are delusions.

I particularly like how he started out saying he is horrible at predictions, and then continued to make predictions.

Where I think his specific comment regarding SpaceX MIGHT be flawed is that SpaceX isn't a company that is building a rocket to the moon. SpaceX is a company that puts things in space. It makes deliveries to the space station, launches satellites, etc.

It has the potential to get people to Mars and it's leader openly discusses that he wants to do that. But he hasn't laid out the step-by-step plan to get there. SpaceX, as far as I know, doesn't have a ship designed to go to Mars, they're still working on the near-space goals.

Apple didn't start in 1976 and start building an iPhone. They started with what was possible at the time, and continued building their technology, expertise and bank account so that when the time came, they were ready.

Of course, people will probably shout "that isn't true", but I suggest it is because we all likely knew that one day we would be carrying computers in our pockets, just like we 'know' that one day we won't be carry computers in our pockets and they will just be ubiquitous. Just like SpaceX doesn't have designs for a ship to Mars, they know that one day we'll go there, and they have that keenly in their sights as a long-term vision.
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