skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tyler Cowen actually dedicated his book the Great Stagnation to Thiel. It's silly to claim that Thiel'shis ideas are sui generis, but Cowen seems to treat him as a peer at least. See also:

https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/peter-thiel-on-t...
In one interview Viggo mentions how he went to a Russian restaurant during a film break while he still had the tattoos on. Everyone in the restaurant stopped talking when he came in, when he realized why, he decided he shouldn't go off set while still in makeup.
It seems most people have missed what he actually said, which was that he's not aware of research linking employee intelligence to "company success". Employee intelligence may well be linked in research to employee success, but he didn't suggest otherwise.

Employee success and company success are two different outcomes of interest.
I agree. Some people in this thread are saying Persona is not dead because it's still up... but without the browser integration (which never was arrived), it's not even half as good as what it could be, and without Mozilla endorsement, it's not going to get serious adoption.
I am still forming my opinion on this as a Gen-Xer, but I hear a lot of people concerned about when millennials become the majority/the responsible ones and have a greater impact than the baby boomers on this country (the US). On the other side, I also hear people talk about how entitled and shallow the baby boom generation has been and the enormous burden this group will bring upon the social net (social security, etc) because they didn't plan (in general), don't have the savings to survive major health issues, etc.

I hate labels, but as someone from Gen-X, I've already got obligations supporting family, pretty much plan on making sure my immediate family is not dependent upon others, etc.

For saving up, moving to Europe isn't really an option (in another thread, someone indicated the huge difference in upper end engineering salaries between Europe and the US); however having an EU national spouse, we are definitely looking at retiring in Europe down the road.

It is going to be interesting to see how it plays out over time.
I have the following shortcuts in my panel which open in [insert favorite media player here]:

-BassDrive

-Black Rock FM

-Christmas SomaFM

-Chromanova

-Chromanova Chill

-DivByZero Chill

-DivByZero Progressive

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-Frisky Radio

-Groove Salad

-HBR1 Dream Factory

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-Proton Radio

...All are WebRadio Streams
pg often defends Zuckerberg, it would be interesting to see his take on the this particular matter.
Try out mosh. Local buffers really make a difference for that latency.
Oh that's right
We had someone from a local bank come in to our High School "Career and Life Management" class. Half the class was assigned a script and had to go looking for loans. The other half was given fake money to open a bank and give out loans.

My group struggled to attract people while paying out reasonable interest rates. All the other banks were giving better offers. To actually make a deal, we ended up having to accept uncomfortably risky sounding customers at razor-thin margins.

When the time came, we looked on the back of the customer cards and discovered that thankfully they were not all as risky as we feared. We rolled the dice, but unfortunately rolled poorly and had a partial default by one of our borrowers.

We were a little unlucky. Without that default we'd have turned a profit, and most groups didn't have a single default. In the end, we suffered a moderate net loss.

However, not a single group made a profit. All our competitors were giving out loans at a loss after accounting for inflation.

The lesson was supposed to be about banking and interest. Instead, it was a lesson on business. I'd never realised quite how destructive idiots with money could be.
Hotelling's law assumes businesses are mobile, which is why its often characterized as a pushcart or ice cream truck. The business in the middle would want to move to the other side of its neighbor, and the process would repeat.

As such, there's no stable equilibrium in a three-firm Hotelling's law problem.
It isn't new. It's probably older than man. Birds drop seashells onto rocks to break them open, something you don't need roads for. Car's parked at my local dog beach are constantly under attack from mussel-wielding crows.

But placing the shells on the road for the cars to squash. That's new.
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I use QR for long term storage. Encrypted tarball in my GitHub as well
I think the key take away is "had to"...
If you have an identity server, a website and a browser that all support Persona, (and you've already been through the process once), Persona would work much better than that. You don't have to memorise a new password and you don't have to click on a verification email. You just land on a new site, click log in with Persona, choose your email address, and TADA! you're in. And the beauty of it is that your email provider doesn't even know which sites you're logging in to.
I think it relates to the audience still online today. It must say something about the interests of the offline people :)
> It seems I wasn’t the only one with this concern as there’s been a fairly recent pivot away from the hub-and-spoke network topology to a more organic, wallet-to-wallet routing. The network is now envisioned as a more pure p2p payment layer without those large scale payment hubs.

As the co-author of the Lightning Network, this is not true, there has been no pivot. The design has always designed around wallet-wallet topologies from the beginning (try doing a Find for the word "hub" in the paper). Will there be nodes more connected than others? Of course. But with LN, they are designed to be interchangeable and formless. It may look like other P2P topologies of ever-shifting "supernodes", but never irreplaceable "hubs" like Visa or Fedex's single primary Memphis, TN hub -- in fact you'd be challenged to find a P2P network with a topology of only a handful of static hubs (this makes sense because establishing connectivity is cheap in a virtual system, opposed to physical infrastructure like wires or an airport).

I'm not particularly happy that "small-block skeptics" are using LN as some kind of punching bag against their pet ideas of who the enemies are (the arguments have become highly politicized in the bitcoin community). The LN paper itself presumes bigger blocks, and have never argued that LN is the sole solution, merely that a large component of scalability needs to occur via moving transactions off-chain. The alternatives are a failure of mining incentives (whether it be low-value transactions get crowded off bitcoin and moves to a bitcoin-backed centralized ledger, or the fee-market breaks down and miners reduce fees far too low due to commons externalities).

There is a clear obvious misunderstanding of core principles in computer science, wishful thinking does not solve real problems. It is is akin to assuming that systems are easily capable of a broadcast topology -- that everyone in the world can be on the same wifi access point. Bigger block capacity is desirable, but it's also desirable to be able to instantly transact a payment of $0.0001 without everyone in the world processing that payment.

(I'm going to be intermittent with computer access today due to the holidays but I will reply to email or respond tomorrow :P)
Did you read my comment? I propose using currently-available technology to grow food indoors.
The lightning network paper at https://lightning.network/ addresses the rationale for its creation.
Well, there are at least 40, if not 500 years ahead of me.
The radio announced today that if one is especially nice to crows, certain ones will bring you gifts such as shiny bits of glass and trinkets
Use Gmail to send emails from custom domains for free
But even Firefox didn't adopt it! Why expect other browsers to support what desktop Firefox never supported even for a day?
I wonder how much of an analogy we can draw to raising outside capital to fund your own venture.
More Businesses Close Than Start for First Time in US History
That's what most people will do. This current refugee "crisis" is nothing compared to the vast migrations that climate change will instigate.
I always find that the nvidia articles are easy for me to understand and solidify my unclear knowledge of certain things. Thanks for sharing and yay for nvidia for having well written articles
"ivory tower" is reflective of content and delivery, not just source
A little more on the research - http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_488900_en.ht... including why it's difficult to do this in the wild. And some earlier research http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8631486.stm with video.
Integrate other tool-using animals like dolphins and chimps, and see if interesting nontrivial interactions arise.
Tool-using and tool-building are arbitrary distinctions. Once upon a time scientists thought there was some magic deciding line between man and beast, some key element found in us and no other animal. We now know that to be silly superstition.

Intelligence is a multi-spectrum gradient. Our brains are better at calculus, but a crow's brain can adjust for crosswind on landing better than any topgun veteran. To say one animal is smarter or more able than another speaks only of the adopted standard and says nothing of innate intelligence.
This is correct. The simplest way to do this would be to include in your transaction a spend deriving from the coinbase block reward after the fork.
The coastal urban areas and Texas, not the rural south or midwest or rust belt cities.
Right. But economically speaking, if exchanges started allowing you to trade both coins against each other, then supply has doubled while total Bitcoin demand remained constant. So the price would tank to at least 50% of its previous level on each side of the fork to reflect the new equilibrium.

Anyway, I think this is extremely unlikely to happen, because:

1) It requires 50% of miners to cooperate to even create a >1MB chain

2) Anyone using the old chain would be insecure, due to lack of mining power making it susceptible to a 51% attack.

3) If that many miners were on board, it's unlikely that existing core developers would opt to continue working on an insure fork rather than admit defeat.

4) If that many miners were on board, it's unlikely that exchanges would opt to confuse users by letting them separately trade two different types of Bitcoin, rather than just switching to the more secure, more popular chain.
I've written a fair amount of code drinking Oberon. So...
Sparkwise is shutting down, no export function
Wait...

"internet services like ... farming"?
I will always remember the smooth feel of an old SparcStation 20 I got in the late '00s. It was engineered so that hardware interrupts wouldn't get in each other's way. Regardless of the puny specs, the responsiveness was amazing, compared to any then-new x86 machine, where the console would stutter every time the OS felt like writing a large block to the hard drive.
It's already infeasible to directly make a single spend of $0.0001 on the blockchain itself (transaction fees are $0.02-$0.05).
Rbenv 1.0.0
Autopiloting Coast to Coast
IPOs Collapse, “Worst Year Since 2009,” Worst Dec. Since 2008
Yeah in the 90s a friend of mine wanted to get an IUD but her gynecologist objected on the grounds that they were not appropriate for young women. I wonder if the technology changed, or just the doctrine.
Chips already have chips in them today.

See Intel's AMT, baseband processors in phones, controllers in disks, etc.
Can someone explain like I'm five, the trades the author made and how he turned it around to be so profitable? My understanding so far:

In 2008, he made a promise to buy Mexican Maya oil in 2009, at the 2008 price of Maya. The Mexican government presumably pays him some fees for handling this risk for them. In addition, if the price of Maya goes up in a year, he pockets the difference.

However, if the price of Maya goes down, he still has to buy at the higher 2008 price, but can only sell the Maya on to others at the lower 2009 price. To protect against this risk, he bought 'options' - the right, but not the obligation - to buy WTI and Fuel (amongst others) at some strike price. This is where I get lost. How was he reducing his exposure by selling Fuel, had he bought options at some super-low strike price, thus letting him earn a profit when he exercised those options and sold the Fuel?

Then, what restructuring did he do with the Mexican government in a way that could benefit both Mexico and him?

He had also short-sold WTI - he had bet on WTI prices going down, by promising to sell it in 2009, at a 2008ish rate, allowing him to buy it cheaply off the market and fulfill his promises. This, I understand.

Then, he "accumulated a massive position in Maya", which "strengthened significantly" compared to his hedges. Does this mean that the price of Maya was recovering faster than the other oils that he had bet against, so he was able to sell his Maya at a profit?
Maybe with current technology. But as technology continues to advance things will continue to get cheaper. What costs a trillion dollars today could cost a couple billion dollars in a not so distant future
do you have any status of the project?
Or any dates when we can expect?
Here's Niklaus Wirth's talk about his Project Oberon revival project at his birthday symposium:
http://www.multimedia.ethz.ch/conferences/2014/wirth/?doi=10...

I was at that symposium :)
I love the use of color in this textbook to make payoffs for each player identifiable. I am looking forward to reading this in detail.
I lived in my car for 8 months this year. When I didn't have a job I was at the public library everyday reading about and writing code. I applied for every job I could anywhere in the country. Eventually it paid off and I got a job.

Playing the race card on why life is hard is a cop out. You have to put effort into this. You cannot huff and puff your way into it.

This site is filled with people posting blogs and sites that contain free tutorials.
I'm presuming 3dfan is assuming some kind of split in merchant/exchange acceptance, I agree this is less likely, though. However, in a hardfork, you can be sure there will be some kind of forkA/forkB exchange site that will emerge (not at a 1-to-1 exchange rate, of course).
Misinformed how? It's not as if abstinence-only education claims babies come by stork.
> someone will crawl out

From a mine shaft, I hope. Please encourage your daughter to follow the dream she doesn't know she has, yet, and go take her rightful place in the mine with colleagues that mirror perfectly the composition of the general population. She'll thank you later.
Microsoft Slams Facebook's Free Basics Initiative in India
Irony: being unable to read this because Cloudflare actively blocks Tor Browser with impossible captchas.
Teens being denied access to proper and accurate sex education isn't their own doing.
Url changed from http://www.hexapolis.com/2015/12/23/new-research-shows-that-..., which points to this.
These are not juicy "internal documents", these were freely circulated on public mailing lists. Mozilla is very open about product development and direction. I believe these were early concepts, but may actually see some additional prototyping since the change in direction.
Why I'm answering customer support email on Christmas Day
I made sure my kids knew it was ok to watch things like this. We also had a no taboo policy that applied to anyone in the house.

Quite a number of my kids peers took advantage of that. Their questions and topics of discussion were often challenging and enlightening.

I like to think the lower rates are partially due to much greater information access possible today. "Open and safe houses" are still important, which is why we did it, but there are more options for young people to get informed than we or our parents had.
California firm Hyperloop to build Vegas-area test facility
I also read, maybe when a kid, that in the early days of cars, a hired person had to walk on the road ahead of the car to notify horses and humans that a car was coming, with a flag or something ...
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9167008.
Windows 10: C:\Winows\System32\calc.exe 32,0 KB (32.768 bytes)
You should take a look at Crystal!
This evokes memories of colonialism. Most Indians I know are like "gtfo we don't need your help" and Zuckerberg is going like "well I'm going to help you whether you like it or not."

It is SO obvious he's doing it to make sure Facebook has a permanent hold on the huge and growing Indian market. But to disguise it as a charity, that's scummy as anything I've seen a major company do.
It's the worst when it says something to the effect of "you made a typo, so we already ran this unrelated command for you!"

Tip: run the following to add a 1-second pause between the message and the "fixed" command being executed:

git config --global help.autocorrect 10
Spelling of time machines, you've also seen the UI.

(which, FYI, is functional though non-pretty, just like the HTML)
Actually it lets you transact instantly with anybody you can construct a route to.

That should be essentially everybody with even a pretty loosely connected graph.
Steam leaking user email and cc info to other users
I agree Facebook is doing this for their own greedy reasons, but they make one very good point:

"Banning free basics on the basis of net neutrality [...] means 1 billion people cant afford to access any services."

It isn't a choice between having facebook, or having the full internet.

Its a choice between having facebook, or having no internet at all.

Surely no internet at all, is the worst option.

Nobody else is going to give full internet to them for free. They will be stuck with nothing.
And this funny line from the manual-page: (on Linux)

> The input and output radices are separate parameters;
> you can make them unequal, which can be useful or
> confusing.
So when people discuss statistics about women/ethnic minorities/eye color in tech, you really think it's about breaking barriers to entry and not about mirroring the composition of the general population in a ridiculous failure to understand the sampling bias?
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No technology, just doctrine.

There was a bad IUD with a design flaw back in the 70s called Dalkon Shield which injured and killed many women and lead to many lawsuits and settlements. Dalkon Shield gave IUDs a bad rap in the United States and lead to a cultural idea that IUDs in general were risky.

Now that IUDs are finally being accepted as a method of birth control for young and nulliparous women and teens there are new ones coming out designed specifically for them. Which is great, both from an individual and public health perspective.
This is awesome! I have been pretty stumped on the tablet section and this was very useful. Which stack did you use to build this on? A tutorial on what you used to create this would be pretty rad
It's actually been quite nice reading, today. All the articles are pretty good!
'''Left recursive grammars, such as G, are unsuitable for recursive-descent parsing because a left-recursive production leads to an infinite recursion. While the parser may be partially correct, it may not terminate.'''

I don't see why a left-recursive solution doesn't terminate. Does anyone have an insight to offer, or an example grammar and text on which a left-recursive production doesn't terminate?
Went through this switching from a European layout to a US one, it took me around 4-5 days to be really comfortable with it, now it takes just a few minutes to switch between the two mentally.
Thanks. Wasn't trying to be argumentative, just wanted clarity.
You know that famous YC question "What is something you feel most people are wrong about?"

Kevin Kelly, founder of Wired Magazine, believes the answer is overpopulation. He says it would be a disaster to stop population growth. Read more here:

https://edge.org/response-detail/23722
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10790284 is related.
I'll be darned. It's still there in OSX. It's actually nice because if I have a lot of terminal windows open I can send a reminder to myself in all of them quickly.
Recent college grad, naive + propaganda sponge? Have done 0 research, and know practically nothing on the topic - but watched a few documentaries on Netflix?

Every generation has gone through the same type of existential angst. Sell your house, liquidate your 401K. Buy gold bars, grow your own food, live out of a cabin. The economy is going to crash, the world is going to fall apart - it's different this time.

Nah, probably not. Not in your life time. Most likely, the machine will keep on rolling. Some of the problems we have will be solved. Some will turn out to be less dire than the alarmists anticipated. There has NEVER been a better time to be alive. This was true of the previous generation, too.

But, unfortunately for you, you now live out of a wooden box. But hey, at least you got those gold bars. Surely they will be worth something when the economy melts down (it's just around the corner!).
Yes, that with "hands."
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Fund:

You get paid if nothing happens, traditionally 2% but probably lower on average these days. If things go well, you get 20% of the high watermark profits. If they go south after that, you don't pay it back. You're always paid in cash.

VC:

You get paid a salary that's below what you'd probably get in an established company, plus you get equity. But the investors will typically try to get preferred stock, in case things go badly (liq pref). If things go well, you can sell some shares at each subsequent round, but of course you have less after each. And some of the investors will want board seats, which means a degree of control.
Guys, this will be coming sooner than we think! I know a lot of other schools and companies are doing research towards this. I shared this one because I feel like it's most likely to happen the soonest.
One issue is that it won't be possible to have regulation that doesn't prevent Free Basics, but prevents other abuses of not having net neutrality.

Such as having lots of subsets of the internet being offered for free or cheap, and the real internet being gradually priced out of the range of most people(citing 'infrastructure costs" of course). This can't be prevented as long as there's a loophole for Free Basics in the net neutrality regulation.
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Fantastic point! Never thought about it that way! We explain it away by saying it's "instinctive" behavior, which only kicks the can down the road.
Ahh, ther is is a lot of beauty level design on doom maps. I saw a lot of tricks like creating fake deep water, fake bridges, or simply playing with lighthing to create a deeper scene.

The only other game that I found that reach this level of simplicity and powerfull level making, are the old good Unreal Tournamet, and the Unreal Tournament 2004. It's like levels for DooM but is real 3d, thanks to substractive booleans.
These?

http://www.oberonwines.com/oberon-wines-napa-valley.html
Misinformed because they don't inform the kids about birth control. It's a sin of omission
Does that mean the people chasing fads are off chasing a long-lasting fad while mere rational people are still being rational? ;)
Unreal engines was substractive. Only the last iteration has becomes additive.
Maybe you also know how to stretch this video full screen?
Pay walled
Could we get screenshot examples?