skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure a TI calculator fits the bill for tech heirloom. It's very basic, just an Z80 cpu and a small LCD display. It's rugged and can last. Even with being outdated tech, they sell for as much as when they first came out and could definitely be "inheritable". And, because it doesn't aspire to be a general purpose computer, just do some fancy math, it's not going to be outdated (unless you count ubiquitous cell phones)
I don't think that is a mistake. The lessons learned from NaCl are being applied to WebAssembly, the idea being that WebAssembly will get the best of both of asm.js and NaCl.
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OP's clarification of a non-PhD was clearly labelled as an edit. "Do you even read, bro?"
So does "heirloom" mean "made of wood"?
There are 196 countries in the world, give or take a few. The US is at the very tip of economic advancement of all 196. That we would care so much about one's experiments is really quite silly. To make a comparison, Obama cares a little bit about what strategy Apple is taking, but he's got much bigger things on his plate.
Then they are not mentally healthy and should be treated as such.
Why would that leave "the public" holding the bag? The IPO itself is a down round, which means the public is buying at a lower and, by that view, more "correct" price. But the drop in value has already happened - the public isn't losing out unless there's a further price drop, which is not what is being talked about and won't necessarily happen.

The ones losing out are, in some cases, the employees, and in some cases, the last stage investors. But the investors are usually investing in ways that more closely mimic debt than equity, and usually have ratchets to protect themselves.
Right. We're open core ourselves. In our case the algorithms which researchers can benefit from aren't the same as what the businesses pay for (GUIs, integrations,support,..) which allows us to serve both fairly well.
You are wrong. Lightning works by using smart contract logic. For Bitcoin in particular, that involves using Bitcoin scripting using real Bitcoin transactions.

That blogpost is basically describing lightning. Lightning Network has explicitly described instant cross-chain swaps privately, and publicly for many months.
You're both right. I don't see how your point is exclusive of the comment you referenced.
Lightning Network for Bitcoin uses Bitcoin's scripting, as it uses real Bitcoin transactions.
I thought the heirloom part is that a lot of that stuff is user-replaceable on this design, unlike most (all?) other laptops. I assume this is a standard Mini-ITX motherboard?

So you could keep it working with some maintenance over the years.
Your homegrown object wouldn't have any special meaning in the JVM and wouldn't be able to be optimized as a 128-bit integer.
Unfortunately, it looks like I've been corrupted by current design trends. I can only look at this and think of the fake wood paneling on station wagons[0], or other faux-antiques. It just screams "kitschy" to me, because I don't have any nostalgia for that era.

Also, attempting to replicate past eras through skeuomorphism is /so/ out right now, come back with flat minimalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodie_%28car_body_style%29
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I don't think there are official Apple Stores in Russia, just retailers that carry the products. All the stores I see selling Mac stuff are usually under the name re:Store [1] and while they have certainly imp'd the Apple Store look, they very clearly are not Apple. I know they have an online presence for Russians, but the majority of sales either come through these reseller stores or through people buying online from abroad and having someone send the device.

That being said, the number of old ladies I see on the metro with iPhone 6's makes me somewhat envious.

[1] - http://www.re-store.ru
> I brought up the "death penalty as expensive" point to metaphorically illustrate the consequences of arguing backward from a feeling, reaching for any argument that would buttress a desire.

But I have been making the case that this is easy to think about with our everyday ethics reasoning without having a rigorous philosophical framework and I don't accept the notion that in the veganism case people are generally arguing backward from a feeling (though I'm sure that also happens). So calling out the death penalty metaphor was connected to my argument that people's ethics reasoning acumen is not as lousy as the metaphor implies.

> I accuse the argument of "veganism helps ecology" the same way, which is a point you summoned first. People who advocate veganism probably do so for moral reasons, because if ecological sustainability were their motivating value, then veganism would probably be far down the list of problems and solutions [...] if they wanted to be practical, they would argue for vegetarianism first

In my experience many people do argue for and practice vegetarianism first, and the studies & analyses I've seen indicate that vegetarianism/veganism are at the top of the list of effective and practical carbon footprint reduction solutions. So I think this thinking is based on false premises.

Re arguing backwards, note that here we were discussing how the average person might consider veganism, and not how the the average vegan got there. So the discussion is vulnerable to something like survivrship bias.
This is the opposite of the trend in the UK. Reverting from the big stores and opening shit tons of sainsburys local, tesco express and metro, little waitrose etc
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Hi,

welcome back into programming. A lot of things happened since the 1990s :)

If you want to hack on a minimal dataflow engine, written in JavaScript (but the spec is really simple, it could be implemented in any language), take a look at dflow:

http://g14n.info/dflow/

by now it can run server side or in a browser, but since it is a really flexible spec it could reach also other contexts like electron apps or AWS lambdas.
I was in a very similar situation after I spent decades working as an executive totally forgetting my tech skills I had when I was young. Before I reached 20 I wrote an heavy ERP system and few years ago I was even afraid to touch the shell of a bare metal server (which is btw fun and very satisfying, once you got into it you literally feel the power).

Since I love tech and programming I wanted to get back, not to find a tech job or run a tech startup, no I just wanted something to distract myself after work. So I began dipping into random languages, libs & frameworks. Bought books, read tutorial and did crash courses. I chose popular and new tech, stuff that matters and things which frequently pop up on HN. From mobile development over functional languages to the hottest JS front-end libs. I played around but usually after a few days I lost quickly any interest, I didn't know why.

Eventually I found the best way get back again and it's easy: Look for a real problem you have yourself and you want to solve. Just for yourself, just to use it yourself. Once you identified the problem you search for the right tool and everything else comes by itself and before you realize you mastered a heavy language/framework in a few days/weeks.

Without a concrete mission which really must matter to you all efforts to get into any appealing tech such as Swift, ES6, react-redux, Android dev, Go will feel shallow and you'll end up wasting time going through tutorials/books/guides questioning your journey.
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With premium prices as well ?
Just don't understand why software devs tend to devalue their own work and skills as if it is something anyone can learn in a few days or weeks. I mean it is easy to start but very difficult to master.
"Some may ask why we didn’t report this to the authorities when this occurred, and the answer is that we just didn’t know what happened, didn’t want to cause panic, and were unsure who exactly we should be contacting."

This happened back in July 2014. $5M stolen and you didn't call the cops. They continued to do business and accept deposits even though insolvent. Only when a class action was filed because they were not paying out timely withdrawals did they disclose this theft.

That just screams "inside job".

(Yesterday I made the comment on another thread that Bitcoin exchanges seemed to be doing better; no major exchange had collapsed in 2015. Here we go again.)
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There's always going to be a perspective that makes a business sound crazy before it's mainstream. That said, I used many of those products when they were very, very young and I did want what they were building. In many cases, those businesses came after others that lit the way but somehow came up short.

My point isn't that people should be asking for what you're building. My point is that you should think about how you'd know if people want it before you worry about making it.

That said, I regret adding that comment here, as it detracts from my larger point about encouraging YC to use more constructive ways to help their founders course correct.
Thanks for the detailed reply!

So firstly, I'm glad we agree on the core idea - some effort/funding should be put into this problem. You don't think MIRI is the best vehicle for such funding - that's understandable, although I'm semi-biased in their favor as they probably brought the most attention to this issue, and have been working on it for a long time. I assume that they have good reasons for the approaches they're taking right now. But again, not believing in MIRI or in a foom event is totally compatible with still believing we should be doing something about this problem, so you and I are pretty closely in sync.

Having said that, I read through your notes, and I do have a major object. (You seem to understand more of the technical details than me, so take with a grain of salt).

I think your argument boils down to one main thing - that humans are pretty much "efficient" with respect to data usage already, because of evolution. If we take away that belief, then your reasons for thinking we can't build an AI that's superintelligent goes away - we would be able to squeeze more efficiency out of it.

So here's the problem - I don't understand why you believe that humans are data efficient. I understand the idea behind it, but it seemed to me like the only explanation for data efficiency is that evolution would've taken care of it. You even mention that the default argument agains this point is that eveolution might get stuck in local optimums, but it's very hard to do better.

But there are 2 counterarguments to this:

1. I don't think it's so much difficult to do better than evolution, since we do it regularly. We defeat diseases. We build machines that are faster/stronger/etc than anything evolution has "come up with". Etc.

2. I don't think evolution was "optimizing" for intelligence anyway. Our intelligence, however limited, is enough to become the most powerful species on the planet. Biology faces very hard trade-offs in squeezing more intelligence into us, but this isn't true of digital equipment, which doesn't have to be based on hardware that, e.g. has to be born, therefore has to squeeze through the birth canal, etc. These are limits that evolution was "working under", but that we don't have.

Note: All anthropomorphizing of evolution done figuratively.
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I thought it was great that you brought up debugging as a specific pain point, especially in the context of beginning programmers. I teach a semester-long class on programming iOS apps to journalism majors, and debugging is a really complicated topic once you get outside the command line.

I usually take the opportunity to explain what's going on when students think their iOS app has crashed after inadvertently setting a breakpoint (it's very easy in XCode to put one in) to show them that they can now see the state of the running app.
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it is possible, we use it to transmit information as energy.
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Your simple explanation still fails to prove that's why Etsy is losing so much value.
Or perhaps just badly run, bordering on fraudulent.

Where is this company based? Trading while insolvent is explicitly illegal, at least in the UK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_while_insolvent).
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What is the cited source on Wikipedia for that? A link to a pg essay?
I have a PhD in Epidemiology. Studying risk is what I do for a living. And no, the risk is not known. It's known to be "pretty damned low" for the aggregation of all Phase I trials, but for any given patient, and any given drug, we don't know the risk.

Approaching clinical trials in human subjects with caution and care is what has made that risk as low as it is.
I didn't really get doom and gloom from the article - most of the statements were either factual (for example, commenting that the express stores made up less than 1% of global revenue), or what I would consider to be fairly apt speculation (suggesting that closing express stores reflects that Walmart didn't see the business it had hoped, this suggestion coming right after a paragraph that explains the function of the Express Stores).

I mean, the comments they had from analysts even basically echoed your sentiment that it's just business sense, so I'm not sure how you got Doom and Gloom from the article. The title is a bit bait-ish I guess, but the rest is fairly normal reporting.
We don't default to inaction. We default to careful action. There's a vast difference.
They will be asked to cross their heart and hope to die at the next opportunity to corrupt the open standard.
I've only seen one of these stores while traveling, and it seemed to target the small township due to it being the only one in town. So my guess is that a private individual will take advantage of their closure by buying their property after liquidation, and so the employees will simply switch employers. This is why I'm not bothered by the "16,000 workers losing their jobs" statement.
I don't have the answer but for my experience, I nearly don't use search engines anymore since approximately 2 months.

I've got some handful websites for what I want to do with a computer and that's all. By the way, I search more in bookstores than on internet (maybe for quality not quantity, don't know).

Web disappoints me, kind of full of emptiness now. I do not think it's representative.
The point is that this is timeless. What's 'in' or 'out' right now doesn't matter. Jeez.
As far as try goes, see https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/243#issuecomment-1720... . It's reached final comment period so probably will happen soonish?
How about this?

https://www.coursera.org/learn/computational-investing
I read your post before the article so I expected something completely different. You're clearly reading this article through a very interesting lens.

You claim that "The author identifies that technical people aren't strong on "Problem solving, teamwork, self-teaching, communication, attention to detail, organization, etc." What the shit? These are exactly what makes technical people so strong."

You may want to reread the first paragraph, because it AGREES with you:

"I have number of recent example of people . . . already SO strong on the non-code aspects of programming . . . Problem solving, teamwork, self-teaching, communication, attention to detail, organization, etc. "

Your other observations may have merit or they may be just as clouded as this one, so you don't seem like a very reliable source here.
Isn't the difference with Flash is that you have a pre-loaded proprietary blob already (the player).
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That's from the Guardian newspaper -- it's their word count component from their online site that they give the source as open source.
"One case, Bernie Madoff: $65 billion stolen"

From bop.gov:

BERNARD L MADOFF
Register Number: 61727-054
Age:	77
Race:	White
Sex:	Male
Located at: Butner Medium I FCI
Release Date: 11/14/2139
Why is it that valgrind/memcheck can handle that but AddressSanitizer can't?
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It essentially wins crypto vulnerability bingo
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My personal opinion is that open sourcing googlebot[0] and tensorflow, as well as a the numerous other tools like elastic search and frameworks like hadoop make it pretty easy to make narrow search tools.

So someone like me, a pretty shitty programmer, can use an language built on top of googlebot, like nodejs, and just index the stuff I care about and instead of that information being returned to google, I can just send it back to bots viewport directly and not even see the webpage, just the info if I want.

The problem is discovery (what google solved in 1999), no one knew where to find websites, like not even info, just what sites even were on the web. This is a huge pain point again because while there are a lot of great websites there are a ton of shitty ones. This is pretty obvious if you look at sites like reddit or hacker news. They are developed around the idea of aggregating good resources because there are so many it is overwhelming.

So, I think, that of the 50% of the people that are already running googlebot, some subset will start probably using it to get info they care about. Eventually, someone will write code you can use to make this easier for normal people, and then google whill either sell the silos of info to them instead of advertising, or use it in it's new meta structure to solve big problems.

[0]http://ipullrank.com/googlebot-is-chrome/
[1]http://www.sitepoint.com/browser-trends-august-2015-chrome-e...
Does being made of wood make it inherently more timeless than if it was made of aluminium? How about if it was chiseled out of stone? You associate a certain style with timelessness, whether you like it or not, while someone else might not.

The "/so/ out right now" bit was intended as a joke, btw.
Southern Florida, the scam capital of the United States. Or they were. From the class action complaint: "CRYPTSY has vacated its Delray Beach, Florida physical office space without any indication where it would be relocating."

Also, Paul Vern, the CEO, seems to be missing. One site claims he's in China, based on an IP address seen.
Facebook seems like following Amazon’s Path
You could split A into multiple components (1st to 4th byte, 5th to 8th byte), and multiply/divide those components separately. That would still fit into 64bit.

Partial example is here:
https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/72286/multipl...
Your arguments in this thread seem to be a bit all over the place, and not entirely cogent with regard to what specifically you are attempting to say. It sounds like in this comment and others further down-thread, that you're suggesting there was not an increase in economic inequality prior to 1920. This is nonsense.

> Prior to 1920 there was basically zero income tax, and it's hard to argue that in the preceding era, especially 1850-1920, inequality was on the rise. Hell, one segment of the population OWNED another segment of the population.

First off, just in your chosen period of 1850-1920, slavery only existed for 15 of those 70 years. I don't think it has anything at all to do with evaluating the state of income inequality in the period--except to have drastically increased its relative levels when the whole of enslaved Americans were made free and joined the ranks of the working masses. What happened after 1865 is an indisputably clear narrative of the newly recognized widening gulf between the wealthy and the masses, elevated to the national stage as a critically important civic conversation. Given the history of the post-Civil-War to pre-WWII era, it is really not difficult at all to argue that inequality was rising--and widely recognize as such. In fact, suggesting that it wasn't is almost laughably ignorant of the period's history.

The increased wealth of pre- and early-industrial capitalists was widely acknowledged at the time to have deleterious effects on social, political, and economic spheres. It was overwhelmingly part of the national dialogue, and fed into the rise of populist movements, social and political agitation, establishment and positive public reception of unions among the working class, political campaigns, local political machinery manipulations, and so much more. The gulf that separated the wealthy from the masses between the Civil War and WWI was a big fucking deal. This inequality of economic conditions, and the resulting power imbalances, along with the ability to purchase and maneuver the state and national forces to protect capitalist interests led to riots in the streets, creation of new political parties, and overwhelmingly massive changes to the social, economic, and political landscape during this period.

I know of no historians of America since 1850-1950 who would, even in jest, suggest income inequality in the late-19th and early-20th century did anything but rise. The only exception to this widely recognized and documented state of affairs occurs after 1918--a notable decrease in the interwar period, a marked plummeting during WWII, a steadying greater equality in the post-war decades, until inequality began rising again in the 1970s. Hell, I'm actually amazed that anyone seriously disputes any of this. It's American history 101--a constant, meandering power struggle between the wealthy and everyone else. This has been a staple of American political, social, and economic life since colonial times. We have, as a nation, had this argument before ... many times.
Parent probably means writing the muldiv function, which would return a "basic" 64bit int.
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Yes...I'm curious to see how 'things stored in the cloud' will eventually work out with the 4th/5th amendment protections.

Seems most of the current law applies to them as electronic communications, but I think they are becoming more and more like a safe deposit box, which I think has fared a bit better. It's unfortunate that it will likely take a few guinea pigs with a lot of money and the right type of case to force the judicial system to work this out.

Of course, the prudent criminal would encrypt anything, using non-backdoored encryption, before it left his/her control thus making LEO/Government access to their cloud storage ineffective.
Could you approximate the square root using 2 integers, rather than using floating point arithmetic?
Yes. Prior to 1986 it seemed like everyone you knew had a money-losing chinchilla farm or something they could write off. If you tried to do that today the IRS would laugh at you.
This is beautiful. Beside the fact of being thick and heavy (maybe), I think the classical feel of this laptop makes it look antique.

I was expecting a steam-punk design before I clicked the link but, I wasn't disappointing at all.
Fountain pens. I have some fountain pens come down to me from my mother's student era.
> they've both required me already knowing how to code, writing code, and having a CS degree.

All of this for only 90k, in silicon valley?