skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The well known bettors will place bets knowing others will emulate it, moving the odds in favor of their real bet they have yet to place. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the big Vegas books are in on it since they make their money long term on vig, and don't have to worry about short term losses (thus enjoying any increase in bets those schemes generate).

There is an older 60 minutes episode on Billy Walters that is a good watch for anyone interested in people trying to beat sports books.
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The right punishment is to force people who make bloated pages have Frontier as their internet provider.
"Elevtr IO is an app for testing your minimum viable product or supporting ideas you like."

A MVP isn't a description of something that doesn't exist. An MVP is the cheapest way to get value to your users. Interesting idea for a site, but I wish they wouldn't use the phrase MVP.
I argue that even in the case of char, why so cheap now to reserve a type for char instead of using unicode? I get it, sometimes you have requirements where char type is cheaper to use, but on iPhone a few extra bytes won't kill.
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That's not quite true in the US. Whether or not you ask to be "committed" (a word you should not use), admitting yourself to the ER or a mental health facility will likely remove most of your control over the situation and will indeed curtail your civil rights.

But if you have to ask whether you should admit yourself to a hospital, do it. If you admit yourself voluntarily, you'll have the option to leave within days, and during those days, you won't have to worry as much about the consequences of your own actions, which by itself can help clear your head.
Cory is of course completely and utterly wrong here on a technical level. Indeed, what he's saying is the exact opposite of the truth. Locks that prevent you from modifying the code running on your hardware don't make it easier for an attacker to break in, it's the exact opposite - any feature that lets you install modified code can also be used by an attacker to install malicious code that will steer your car into a bridge on command. This is why some experts recommend the use of locked-down devices like iPhones if your hardware might be targeted by an attcaker.

Likewise, there is no requirement that "A digital lock creates a zone in a computer’s programmer that even its owner can’t enter. For it to work, the lock’s associated files must be invisible to the owner." You need that for DRM because the purpose of DRM is to protect access to files, but a properly-locked-down system will not let you modify the code even if you can look at every single piece of code and data on the system.
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No, it's been up since before HN existed: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.paulgraham.com/corn....
I'm doing my best to capture how bad the experience is and I don't object at all to anyone suggesting that it's worse than I described. I think it's a very bad system.
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The JVM and .net have exactly the separation you are talking about
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> As much as I like Python the scoping based on spaces messes me up far too frequently

Not so much for me, but I like the rejection because consistency is more important. If I have a language where braces is used exclusively in one part and not the rest, I feel that's a bad design approach. At least in the case of Python, braces is a humor joke.

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While technically independent of the C language, the C pre-processor has the idea of C tokens baked into its core (such as refusing to ## together two things that would result in invalid C), which has caused some people (such as Haskell) who relied on the ability of some C pre-processors to sort of handle things that are not C, they have been burned as of late when dealing with ones that have refused to implement extra modes that allow it to process arbitrary text (such as clang).

The preprocessor is essentially specified so as to be able to be efficiently implemented inside the tokenizer of a unified C compiler stack (hence why token pasting isn't textual): it isn't really "independent from the C language". In contrast, m4 is fundamentally more "independent" than the C preprocessor, in that (as far as I know... my experience with m4 is much less, and mostly with respect to amateur-level autoconf work) it doesn't assume anything about the underlying text.
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MIT OCW? Also I think edX has really well done videos(and video controls) as compared to Coursera or Udemy.
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false dichotomy, again.
There's a case for the Wolfram Programming Language since instead of having a standard library...or any libraries at all...the language itself incorporates all the extensions [some 5000 functions].

If nothing else, this is a language design that challenges the way people think about programming languages. What I find interesting and worth investigating is the possibility that not having to import this and that from a somewhat arbitrary taxonomy of siloed knowledge may reduce cognitive overhead. So it's on my list of languages to investigate over the next few months.

YMMV.
Death threats, doxxes, and SWATing has been done against people who are anti-GG, pro-GG, and third-parties who simply makes comments about both sides. There is no clean hands anywhere in this, and both anti-GG and pro-GG are constantly claiming that people who commit such acts are not part of their movements.

Mobs don't take responsibility for their actions, which is why we always see people talk about one side being made from evil and one side being made from good (if annoying).
> First, you're confusing me for my brother. It's a common mistake.

I feel sort of cheated because you two use very similar HN usernames. You are not as bad as the Rayhawk brothers, though, which I am convinced are all the same person.
> 4. A Ph.D on your resume often makes you look like a poor self-learner.

This doesn't make any sense because after writing a dissertation, you have by definition learned something that no one else knew, therefore, no one could have taught it to you. How does that make you a poor self learner?
> Many would rather be accepted than exceptional. At some point in your life, you may have to make that choice.

I think that there are two problems with this. (EDIT: 'Problems' is a bad word. I don't mean two things that make it wrong, but rather two things that require a careful reading to appreciate fully. I should have said 'subtleties'.)

First, and most importantly, I think that people think that being exceptional is a choice. Thus, someone says "ah, I shall be exceptional!", and sits back and waits to become so. Being exceptional is not a choice; becoming exceptional is, though it is a slow process, subject to setbacks, and not guaranteed of even eventual success (unless—as is perhaps uniquely appropriate here—one is willing to move the goalposts when necessary, and find success where one is).

Second, I take your explicit point to be the decision between being accepted and being exceptional, but I'll respond as if it were between being conformist and being exceptional (which I took to be the subtext). After the problem is surmounted of deciding just to be exceptional, and realising that one must become so, I think that sometimes people confuse blind non-conformity with reasoned non-conformity. That is, a decision not to conform just in order not to be part of the crowd is just as silly as a decision to conform to be part of the crowd. Rather, make your decisions as you will, regardless of the pressure of the crowds, with the idea that you will sometimes agree with and (probably) more often disagree with them, and become exceptional in that way.
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My admittedly wordy post above was an attempt to respond to that exact argument. First, a clarification:

> Do you think that advances in interstellar travel capability will appear out of thin air?

No.

It should have been obvious from my post that this is a straw man, that I'm not arguing to halt all science and wait for advancements out of thin air. I want to pursue science efficiently, because we have limited resources. Also, the time scales involved here will radically change the nature of the problem beyond our comprehension.

This 5 billion year problem you want to start tackling today changes immensely if in 1% of 1% of that time our descendants are all clouds of digitally encoded consciousness that propagate primarily through EM radiation and psychic clouds of gas. I'm not saying that change is particularly likely, but some change on that magnitude is all but certain on this time scale (ie, 1.5 times as long it took proto-bacteria to turn into apes).

Suppose cavemen suddenly had a revelation that air transportation would some day change the world. It would be foolish and dangerous if they immediately devoted their free time trying to jump as high as possible, rather than just working on fire and wheels and spears.

Ultimately fire, wheels, and spears are foundational technologies for the disciplines that made flight and rocketry possible. So even though they seem like distractions from air travel, they're actually the most efficient path to solving that problem.

This is all the more obvious for probes, telescopes, and rovers. Those are the wheels, fire, and spears of space. Those all give us incrementally more information about the very nature of the universe, the nature of other possible planets, and how to build functioning intelligent machines that can survive in hostile environments. If there's some way to bend space to our will for instantaneous interstellar travel, or some way to get highly complex machines to shepherd us among the stars, we discover it there, not by putting a guy on a treadmill in microgravity.
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I wasn't suggesting that I had four different rebuttals to your comment. I was saying that I didn't understand your comment because it seemed to hop from one argument to another, sometimes within the same sentence.

(3) and (4) aren't the same argument.

Argument (3) concedes that increasing housing supply in SF is a good thing, but that it can't happen because of political obstinacy. If you believe this, you're on the same page as I am, and we don't have much to debate.

Argument (4) suggests instead that increasing the housing supply of SF is a bad thing, because it's more important to retain the character of San Francisco than it is to accommodate people who want to live there.

There may be some argument (5) that I missed as well.

We remain in a place where I still don't understand your objection to my argument that San Francisco should resolve its housing problems by drastically increasing the supply of housing units.
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About half the people that police shoot and kill each year have a mental illness. This amounts to about 500 people with mental illness shot and killed each year.

This compares to the 35,000 to 40,000 people who die by suicide in the US each year.

If someone needs help there are probably things you can do - be there with them; make sure you say they're calm when you talk about them on the phone; make sure there are no weapons around.
Preface: Please, no advice. Please!

You may think that this is coldly logical. It's not. I have dealt with OCD and depression-like systems for a long time now. 90%+ of the time I'm "fine" to "great." Another 9.9% I feel like scum for no good reason. That last 0.1% is what sucks -- that's the suicidal thoughts.

Holidays that are the worst, when everybody seems to be paying each other extra attentions and I find myself feeling lonely/forgotten. Last night, I had raging suicidal thoughts for a few hours (about the length of the usual bout). These thoughts are not directed or particularly purposeful.

When I have these thoughts, I badly want to talk to somebody about them. It's like the monster in your closet -- in the light of day it's less scary. But I can't, and it sucks! If I go to a shrink about this, I would likely be involuntarily committed and be greatly impacted in my professional life, etc.

Suicide is a taboo topic and it's too bad for those who struggle with suicidal thoughts, because they have to keep them inside. I've brought them up to some "friends" before and the reaction is that I must be crumbling, etc. There's almost a sense of shame from these people, like they've accidentally seen you naked.

I keep this to myself, but the most productive thing is to confront the issue. The best way I've been able to do that is by reading things written by/about suicide not from the perspective of "gotta save you!" This might sound odd, but places like /r/SanctionedSuicide (which isn't really what it sounds like, if you recoiled) actually makes me feel respected and not ashamed. Looking through a different lens, I see that my life is pretty good and I have many things to live for! When I feel this way I read the generally "gotta save you!" stuff too because hey, it's nice and positive, but in isolation it's quite patronizing.

Mentally sound people seem to immediately equate suicidal thoughts with an imminent life-and-death struggle and have the accompanying "EMERGENCY!!" reaction, and that is simply not how this works.
If you're able to make decisions without considering how they'll affect your income, you're enjoying a luxury that the vast majority of humans ever born cannot enjoy.

The liberal arts have always been a privilege of those who don't have to worry about where their food comes from or how they'll pay off a huge debt. I'm one of those privileged few, and it's endlessly enriching to have studied and understand various humanities and "impractical" fields of study, but I'm fully aware how lucky I am.

> nobody has the right to dictate to you how to spend your time

That's true, but they have the right to decide how they perceive you and whether they want to pay you.

> If an employer doesn't respect your education you almost certainly don't want to work with them.

That may be true, but (as I said above) most people can't make decisions this way. They're lucky to be covering their expenses with each paycheck, and they can't afford to be choosy about employers.

In some cases, their field is small enough or their resume is weak enough that they're desperate for any job at all. The employer has the power in most industries.
> When someone sees a market inefficiency that everyone else was ignoring, and then solves it, they are in position to collect economic rents until others catch up.

PG, for example: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html . :-)
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I almost pinged Niko to be like "you know Java has closures right?" and then I saw him mention `ret` and was like "oh this is ancient, ok".
While training datasets are really important in the development of weak AI, there is a fundamental problem with it. The problem is: humans do not learn using training dataset, but rather via interaction between a teacher and student, in a language that both understand. I really wish for the development of such a 'teacher student' paradigm in the field of AI. IMO, this might cause rapid advancement and might also be the key to making strong AI possible.
This is a fantastic idea @trevyn, love it! Reminds me a bit of the Awesome Foundation [0], a community of independent chapters around the world that give $1k to interesting people and projects with absolutely no strings attached. No tax breaks, no catches, some people just want to sponsor cool stuff. Good on you!

[0] http://www.awesomefoundation.org/