skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's super obvious. I don't want to wait 30 min in line and then talk to someone who treats me like an imbecile but they are clueless themselves. And to get someone on the line who actually can fix the problem, I need to explain my issue 3 times more and waste another hour. Phone calls are the last resort, when everything is breaking apart and failing.
Looks like the Twitter account is gone now. Looks like whoever was running it realised the game was up.

As for who would operate it... well, I'm going to guess it probably isn't an NSA AI cloning program in action. My more reasonable guesses are either some sort of aggregator designed to post a constant stream of tech related tweets based on outside sources, someone who's trying to get big on Twitter while putting in minimal effort (a lot of people basically steal social media postings in an attempt to become e-celebrities, it happens even more often on YouTube), or it's some sort of university student project involving AI. The last one's happened a few times in the past already.

Still, it was an interesting read.
Powerful? I'm not sure. It needs an edit for grammar and clarity.

From what I can tell it is mostly trite "tumblr quality" writing.

> So yeah, gay people have sex, and it’s not just gay people, it’s all kinds of people! All these non-straight people, they’re out there, having sex! Sex, between two consenting adults, can be a healthy, positive, safe and enjoyable thing!

There is nothing new or interesting here. I remember er the same writing from the likes of boy George and George Michael.

Before that I'm sure it was the likes of Betty Friedan and the 60's and 70's feminists.

There's nothing powerful about this.

He can press his genitals against anything he wants (*with all appropriate caveats)
You might as well ask who's better between Scorpios and Pisces.
Multisignature transactions with mutually trusted arbitrators.

Payment channels.

No need to worry about replacing any numbers, your software does it for you.

Hardware wallets, etc... Use your brain, common sense prevents the majority of losses.
Monitors were also an integral feature of most "freezer" cartridges for the C64, like Action Replay and The Final Cartridge I/II/III (you could get monitors you'd load into RAM as well, but the freezer cartridges had lots of extra capabilities and of course the advantage of having the monitor in ROM). For a couple of years, until I got hold of Turbo Assembler (no relation to the Borland PC assembler), I wrote most of my assembler straight into memory using the Action Replay monitor.
Of course we talk about psychology, the questions remain interesting. Hacker news discussion does not pretend to be scientific research. Last time I looked a game theory it was a branch of mathematics. See how much utterly discredited nonsense has been popular in psychology over the last 100 years. But this year's fads are different? Evidence would convince me. Psychology clearly continues to have systemic problems with evidence. Power pose. Priming. Yeah. There's plenty...
Terrifying? I assume you're living in a constant state of fear then, because television networks already have and use that power.

On the contrary I'd say that in this field the more players there are, the better.
I think (and hope) that's more to do with it being late in the thread and flying under the radar than any kind of endorsement from any significant portion of the community.

Skirmishes like this aside, on the whole I find things good and continually getting better here in terms of civility and interesting content.

But my God, what it must be like for Dan to have to go to sleep with the thought "today a person told me that he hopes I rot in hell because he disagreed with the way I went about trying to hose down a flame war".
I'm one of the co-founders of http://www.grayscaletraining.com. We have tested this model of free email subscription based courses to teach programming with over a 100 students from our alma mater. So far, the response has been positive. Any feedback regarding our model would be highly appreciated.
> Contrast that with Ubuntu, where installing F# took all of 5 minutes, with one command, 200MB and I had a full IDE and F# support.

Unless you want the latest version then you are cloning a few repos, compiling and hunting dependencies because building mono + ide isn't straightforward.
> but you can always model the system as zero-sum if you normalize the total amount of wealth in the system to 1 after every transaction

Yes, if you "normalize" the world to fit your conclusion, you'll generally find that your conclusion is true. If we just normalize everybody's wealth to 1, then all wealth inequality disappears. Problem solved.

The fact that you need to normalize the total amount of wealth suggests that you recognize that the total amount of wealth changes, which means the system isn't zero sum.

> The power law is created by the preferential attachment of capital to existing capital. Even a weak preference creates an extreme inequality.

The evidence doesn't really bear this one out. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/f...
> The amount of shell and build scripts on Unix-likes that die horrible deaths when encountering spaces is not funny.

That's so accurate. I used to write shell scripts with

command $1

until I got a few too many nasty surprises with dashes in filenames.
Anecdote: we recently made a few videos, explaining the most common tech support questions. Studio, lighting, mic, etc. and edited professionally.

Calls dropped in half at least, with those specific problems almost wiped out completely. I am shipping 1000 products per month, and handling 2-3 phone calls per day to support them.

Now planning on making more videos to cover the next most frequent generic questions, and then on to a dedicated video per product (143 products).
How else would he do it?
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I wonder whether in an ideal world there would be an alternative to git that doesnt have git's long learning curve for use by scholars in quantitative disciplines.
> They are attempting to build a secure and trusted platform,

They could do that in a lot of ways without creating a locked down OS with all software distribution centralised through microsoft with a mandatory fixed cut. They just happened to choose the way that eventually puts them in the position to take a 30% slice out of the entire software industry revenue.

It's rent seeking.
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There are thousands of television channels. As far as most people are concerned, when it comes to search, there is only Google.
Do I think Satoshi intended to set up a ponzi scheme? Punt on this question. It requires me reading his mind and making judgments about sincerity of purpose.

Do I think Satoshi knew what he was doing with regards to incentive compatibility of making tokens widely distributed and essentially free early with the implicit promise of them being highly valuable later if adoption occurred? Yes, absolutely. He told people that that was the plan. He asked them to avoid actions (such as GPU-compatible mining applications) which he was worried would kill the goldrush phase before it had attracted sufficient cryptocurrency evangelists to gain traction [+].

Should any evil person use a ponzi scheme when Satoshi schemes are now a technology which exist? Surely not. Satoshi schemes strictly dominate ponzi schemes.

[+] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=12.msg54#msg54
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"staring at the screen thinking what a good job they did."

Do you work in programming in anything other than greenfield projects?

I'm sure they weren't nodding in smug pride, but weeping and drinking themselves into a stupor many nights, and sometimes during the workday. They know. At least, the better of them know.
I'm all for clear and concise documentation, and can appreciate the technical merit of this approach. On the other hand, some of the examples they give horrify me. In many cases, added words or synonyms make a text more readable. I might be wrong, but my gut feeling is that this makes something that is already barely readable (tech specs) into something completely impossible to get through without getting bored after 3 paragraphs or feeling like my intelligence has been insulted.
Maven is really not insanely flexible. I have a build in which i wanted three distinct test phases (unit, functional, and API contract). A simple requirement. But i couldn't have that without writing a plugin, or breaking out a dummy module for one of them. We ended up making the contract tests a special case of the unit tests, selected by passing in some flags; a consequence of that is that it's impossible to run both sets of tests in a single build.

tl;dr: Maven is the exact opposite of flexible.
Oh, absolutely. It tells nothing about the person.

It's only that, if one is on that position, there won't be much downside to take your offer. But if one currently has a stable job, there is.
The arduino documentary is quite transparent about its origins
Watch for complexity. Circa 2000 when Ant was popular I leveraged jython and inlined small python scripts into the rewrite of a grossly hairy onion of make, shell, and perl scripts that comprised a build system for a sprawling collection of JDK1.2/1.3 apps. In hindsight, this was probably a mistake because it solved the problems of "We can't manage this!" and "Anything outside the JVM is not portable!" it made very little inroad against complexity.
I. WANT. TO. CALL. SUPPORT!

Nothing is more infuriating than having a problem, and being endlessly redirected from a FAQ to user forums to email. Email gets me a canned answer from Bob, who didn't read my mail for more than 7 seconds. Replying to said mail gets me Chuck, who's very sorry Bob couldn't help me..and then pastes the same canned answer.

With a phone, you're not running totally stateless, and can actually make progress towards solving the problem.
> The problem there is that it would break makefiles that do not handle their dependencies correctly.

Serious question: In what way are Makefiles that are not specifying their dependencies correctly ever to be considered non-broken?
In Latin. In English "data" is a mass noun. Nobody really says "data are" unless they're writing an academic paper.
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>Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: An excellent book with autobiographic content about Richard Feynman, contains many funny stories and interesting insights of this brilliant man.

>J. Hromkovic: Theoretical Computer Science: An excellent introduction to complexity theory, kolmogorov complexity, automata and turing machine, language and grammar theory

>Harris & Harris: Digital Design and Computer Architecture: Introduction to electrical engineering, graudally builds your knowledge until you could implement a simple little CPU in e.g. Verilog.
> (...) giving a platform to alternative/marginal/dissident figures or organizations, from any part of the political spectrum, would at least have some point and be a lot more interesting.

Sounds like a possible startup if there's a way to generate revenue from such a platform.
My recent favorites: Jobs, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, High Output Management, Innovator's Dilemma, Lean Startup, On The Shortness Of Life, How Google Works, Zero To One, Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Power of Habit, Things Fall Apart, Stoner
I guess they mean that because GUI tools often have, well, a GUI to change options, they tend to write their configuration files. Whereas for command-line tools it's rare that they provide methods for changing their options and thus they tend to only read their config, thus never running into the problem of clobbering user edits.

Mind you, there are plenty of GUI applications that get this right anyway. But usually for the vast majority of users there is never a need of mangling configuration files by other means.
I am reading CTM by Van Roy/Haridi and watching Van Roy's edx vids. Very nice explanations that require a lot of filling in the holes.

If someone else is familiar with Oz/Van Roy stuff, I have a question.
No content is hidden from my side[1] -- I am using default filter lists. Poster must have some custom filters, or using some other 3rd-party filter list which causes this. The logger would tell why content is blocked on his side.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/2M1D6Uj.png
XML has includes and you can have data types like string, int, time intervals, strings with regex, etc. with an XSD, if you want.

The complexity this brings can be overwhelming compared to an ad-hoc config file format.
Interface fail, uses about 30% of a 1920x1080display for the "editor".

Use proper UI scaling please.
After watching the entire documentary I have reconsidered. It appears there is inconsistebt behavior or an exaggeration on the part of OP. Banzi is quite transparent and the origins seem pretty innocuous.

https://vimeo.com/18539129

I would say, as open source developers, we have no right against commercial forks of our code lest we choose a more restrictive license. I believe OP is tormented by the lack of valor in the quite prickly situation but as hackers and devs we need to defend fair use of what code is licensed by. Fair licensing, fair commercial endeavor. It sucks when someone forks without even making contact but part of me feels like open source should be a little bit wild west. The rules are sharp square and leave little for interpretation, thats how we want our freedom
Or just something generally useful. Pixite's apps kind of look like filters you might use a couple times
As a total sidebar, my favourite ratemyprocessor.com review (of myself) reads as follows:

"is always willing to help if you need help just make sure that you at least try for a bit before you go for help from Tony otherwise he will not help you."

And yet the student rated me 5/5 for helpfulness and clarity. Makes me very happy inside to know that at least someone sees that that's a plus.
As far as I know, yes.

For that matter, read your ballot carefully. There's more than just Republican and Democrat that make it to the final ballot. If nothing else you can pick up some terms to Google and learn about. Mostly for your intellectual curiosity, since generally the other parties manage to pick up little more than low-dozens of County Dogcatcher-level positions per election in the entire nation.
While there would be a lot of fear of Google interfering with public discourse, it is key to point out that there are over 1,600 presidential candidates. How many of them do you even recognize? How does the country know that there isn't another great president who just didn't make enough to have public impact?

This can actually decouple correlations between spending and winning. Maybe then we would have a government by the people, not by the big corp.
This comes up quite often, here are two helpful links:

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http://www.hnreads.com/
Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans.
She leaves out the primary benefit of agent-assisted digital channels... they are asynchronous like some sort of people epoll(1). They maximize throughput. The friction comes from the synchronicity of voice communication. With that said some things require voice communication so I doubt eliminating them entirely will ever be an option.
First flappy bird, now floppy emus. Im entranced by our culture guys :-)
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If you are using / in paths your are limited to max 260 characters paths.

If you want paths up to 32k you need to use back-slashes.

I think this is the reason they are not switching e.g. Visual Studio over to max 32k paths.
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Wow, excellent reference.

If that essay were written today another great example for it would be Occupy Wall Street. I saw first hand at OccupyDC how structurelessness led to tyranny of the least shameful, the most bullying, and the loudest.
If you're about to work for the federal government. I suggest catch 22 and Kafka.

Now that I'm working with them,I realize those books aren't fiction: they're documentaries.
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Self-help/personal development/philosophy:

- The obstacle is the way (Ryan Holiday)

- Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)

- Level up your life: how to unlock adventure and happiness by becoming the hero of your own story

- the six pillars of self-esteem

- so good they can’t ignore you

- the power of habit

- how to fail at almost everything and still win big

Business:

- soft sell: the new art of selling

- essentialism: the disciplined pursuit of less

- the magic of thinking big

- everything is negotiable

- making things happen

- lean customer development

- what customers want

- inspired: how to create products customers love

- delivering happiness
I could have been your friend. I managed to find a different set of people to hang around with and I'll say that wasn't the company that my parents should have preferred.

Did you friend benefit from this experience? In fairness it could have freed up time for team sports or community service.
I read the article - your points are covered by it, maybe that's why people are downvoting instead of discussing.

That quote attributes more credit to programma2003 than wiring (precursor vs. inspired by). Is that an accurate portrayal of the history?

And there's a middle ground between stating inspiration and getting a tattoo. Inspiration implies idea not substance. Since it was a fork, 'based on' may be more appropriate.
The problem with 2) is that the USD transactions would be too hard to do with the current banking system. While in many cases you can already do instant and free wire transfers, virtually no banks offer APIs good enough to program such scenario.

Also, I'd be afraid of triggering some kind of banking system warnings if I sent a hundred transactions within one day.

With crypto to crypto exchanges a better solution would be to do it as a DAO/smart contract.
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Thanks, but seeing as I'm quoted in those articles I think I got it sorted out :)
I think the opposite is true. Smaller companies will be forced to only hire high quality rockstars from international sources. Owners will no longer think they can save 20k/year in entry level labor (at the hidden costs of 200k/year in productivity, employee morale, etc..).
Not at the moment. I don't think that matters as much as you might think.
There are not thousands of television channels in the US that will broadcast political content such that presidential candidates can push their message across them.

The average American household has access to just 150-200 TV channels, total. Most of those would never carry anything related to the election. The vast majority of those are specific content carriers: movies, music, on-demand, sports. You're down to having a few dozens channels (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CNBC, MSNBC, local affiliates etc) that a candidate can push through.

There are 2,200x tv stations in the US. Most of those are small, local stations with zero national or regional reach.

There are thousands of online sites and platforms that at least have as large of an audience as those stations. All of those sites can be reached by almost anyone in the US, which is not true of the local TV stations.

Further, there is nothing even remotely like: Reddit, Twitter, Wordpress, Tumblr, Facebook, et al. in the television realm, where just about anyone can reach a national audience if their message resonates (and do so for free). There is also nothing like the app options that are available online, whether Snapchat, Instagram, or voter reach apps like NationBuilder.
Cool! Didn't mean this to sound negative, I think the post is pretty cool. It would be interesting to know how performance compares with these optimizations, a cursory look makes it seem like it does similar things as you did manually (although no build ID for gcc6 pre-release in Matt Godbolt's (otherwise absolutely amazing) tool doesn't really help with reproducibility)
or

ls -Recurse -Filter FOO PATH
Lots of people are bothered over GTA. Jack Thompson, for instance, led a long campaign to have games censored, and GTA was a centerpiece. So, if you are insinuating that video game violence is a real-world problem, we've gone through that moral panic already. If you're insinuating something else, it isn't obvious and clarity would be nice.
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Not being an expert and just trusting your numbers: you're saying that right now the spread between power cost and the best-situated miners using the "most efficient" hardware is a factor of 6. The halvening would make that 3.

That doesn't sound like much margin to me. What about all the people still using GPUs or residential power? They certainly seem to be a decent chunk of the mining community, but maybe that's wrong. What if we see another 50% crash in BTC value? That too would take us right down to the edge of failure, right?

Like I said, I'm not a miner, own no coins, and am just watching this mess out of macabre voyeurism really. But the concerns certainly sound legitimate to me, and what you posted honestly seems like apologism.
Forever if you pay for it.

i.e. they have a revenue stream.
I'll assume you live someplace warm. Ice fishing is where you drill a hole in a frozen water body and try to catch fish with a rod through the hole.
It's their land and there are a lot of costs associated with maintianing the canal.

The failure of economics, that you should look at is in the price of oil. The are polluting the atmosphere and damaging the climate and not reimbursing anyone for the damage they are causing.