skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A sadly little understood point, and true of all voluntary trade. If A has a chicken and B has a pig and they decide to trade then for A, value[pig] > value[chicken], while for B value[chicken] > value[pig]. By exchanging both profit. Trade is a positive sum game.

But this also illustrates that value is entirely subjective.

AIUI prices are generally determined by market clearing - matching supply with demand. This is not at all the same as there being some objective notion of value. At best you could get 'in general prices are slightly lower than the value sufficient consumers place upon a good to clear the market for that good', but that's a much less general statement.
Beats me why anybody would think that.

Did we learn nothing from "Point Break?" :)
My Classmate Prince, the Rock Star
Ask HN: What does a star next to a profile picture on ProductHunt means?
I received a star on ProductHunt today and "3" next to it. Meanwhile, I know that H = Hunter, M = Maker; I am not quite sure what this star means.
Effectively delegating tasks is a skill and I know it’s a skill because I suck at it.
Power of Positive Thinking Skews Mindfulness Studies
It's a parody. The articles even start the same way:

I read this article by Dean Takahashi the other day, and my jaw nearly hit the floor...
The Ossietzky price is awarded by the Norwegian branch of PEN. Carl von Ossietzky was the first Nobel Peace Prize recipient who wasn't able to receive his prize in person (he was ill and imprisoned in Nazi Germany), so it's a symbolic point for them to award it in the same place Ossietzky would have received his price, i.e. in the town hall of Oslo.
The No. 1 Presentation Tip: ‘Attitude Makes All the Difference’
Arnold Kling used to work for one of the housing agencies as an economist. He's on record repeatedly as saying that the Great Recession might as well have been the design goal of housing policy since George Romney.
So what if that knocks, say 2% off GDP growth?
I think that's just one of rationalizations not actual strategy. It's like alcoholic thinking one drink will give him strength to stay sober.
Creating Business Value with Business-Driven Test Automation
People will inevitably identify with an adversary if the relationship lasts long enough.
The level of courage and calmness it takes to write something like so soon after the news he just got. Dude is top fucking percentage.
Regulation can't be shown to actually work in many cases. The way it is made is .. terrifying.

This is a corollary of "it's twice as hard to debug something as it was to write in the first place."
A faster FT.com: How slow websites damage publishers revenue
Excellent idea, but you run into the "ticket scalping is Bad" mentality.
> These environmental groups are actually the true evil in the industry

I feel this is also a very short-sighted comment to make. These groups are a symptom of a problem that the industry(ies) create. The fact that they slow development in certain areas are a result of malpractice on the corporate level driving people to hold certain opinions.

Calling them "evil" is just as misguided as calling Monsanto "evil".
Why? Do Apple and Google really have that adversarial a relationship? It seems like a small subset of their respective fans are the only ones that actually want a "war" between the two.

Apple is the most profitable company in the world and consistently takes almost all of the profit in the smartphone industry. They also make a large portion of the profits in the PC world despite their relatively meager market share. Does Apple really want to expand into the sub $200, or even $100, smartphone market? Unless they do, I don't even really see Google/Android as their competitor.

I know it can be short sighted to base things on personal anecdotes, but while I don't use an iPhone myself, almost all of my friends do and they extensively use Google products ranging from Gmail, Maps, Photos and search.

Apple seems to have the best of both worlds in the current situation. They dominate the high end profitable hardware market and their users still get to benefit from Google products if they so choose. I'm not convinced that Apple would be better off if Google disappeared. Replicating all those services will be expensive.
Medium raises $50M while it can; adds Ben Horowitz, Judy Estrin to board
I think it's brilliant that this gives security more prominence with setting up the unprivileged user. Pretty much every Docker post / article I've seen tends to skip over details like that.
Norway does at lot of intelligence gathering around Svalbard/North Atlantic against the russians due to the large fleet base at Murmansk. The ships used is typicly equipped in the US before entering service.
Well, most of those treaties are about defending IP, which is possible through other methods.

For example, according to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent
most countries exclude software patents or computer programs, and lots of them are also signatories of many of the same treaties. So, its a very complex situation.

Also, and curiously, it seems that the article 1350 of the Civil Code Of The Russian Federation, is almost the same word by word. So, my guess is that this kind of wording exists in many other countries.

http://civil-code.narod.ru/ch69-art1349-1350.html

PS: I find it amusing to be down-voted just for translating the text of the law. I swear didn't write it, lol.
How to Present Your Idea to a Development Company
It's funny, we inadvertently implemented something along those lines a few months ago, it works pretty well so far.

For things that are no longer clean but not ready to go in the to-wash bin, we have a cache: separate very-small bins (capacity about 4 pairs of socks, x2) and mini racks. These are add-ins to the side of existing closets and quicker to access.
Linux Random Number Generator – A New Approach [pdf]
> work reasonably well for what it was designed to do

An argument can be made that copyright and patent worked before the digital era.

The trick that Claude Shannon introduced may have been intended to remove noise, but that's not all it did. Digital encoding allowed data to be repeated indefinitely. Put another way, data was scarce when it gains noise (lower s/n) each time it is re-amplified; Shannon's encoding schemes allowed perfect copies, and thus data was no longer scarce.

> copyright and patents exist exactly to create artificial scarcity

Copyright and patent cannot create scarcity, nor were they intended to. They rebalanced existing scarcity.
To be fair, that poster sounds like the kind of person who would also tell a clinically depressed person to just cheer up.
I hope people posting articles behind paywall get paid.
He is de facto sentenced to life in prison. And Snowden is a US citizen and will be extradited. Unless the this case the thread is about gives him a win.
Brazen no more, makers of account-draining bank trojan get 24 years
1) You have no use for peanuts at any price. They have negative utility to you.

2) Supply matters.
> It's sometimes useful to preserve commented out code just because it represents some idea.

Then put a fucking comment saying this: "this commented out code below is to preserve idea FOO". Leaving commented out code without a real comment is just showing how unprofessional you are (or how you want to keep your job by trying to keep a knowledge-silo in your head).
>If you take the metaphor far enough anything that exists separately from the cosmic background radiation has a means for separating itself from its surroundings for some period of time.

>A star has gravity and gas pressure in equilibrium to keep most of its mass inside a radius.

Although I think I see the contours of what you're getting at here, I would like some elaboration on these points. This statement is teleological, and if I was a pedant I would point out that the cereal box was designed while a star is what happens 'naturally' in a universe like ours.

However, I am not a pedant ;) so would you care to explain this metaphor and what it is supposed to 'mean' a bit further?
Obviously there is a range of abilities. I would say that all except one person I know at the very top end of the range were male. If I extend the range down to where I would include the women that I previously called "excellent", I think that would include about half of the men I've worked with. Basically, good solid developers who could be trusted to get things done, knew enough to know what they did and didn't really understand, and could find out the things they didn't understand in a relatively short time frame.

So for the women I know, the distribution seems to be compressed and shifted to the right a bit. I have absolutely no idea if that matches with other people's experience. Or, indeed, if my experience with male workers matches their experience.
My experience was different.

1. It's a way to (pointlessly) delay adulthood.

adulthood != working for a company

Developing the next CRISPR, detecting gravitational waves, or building a stellator is a pretty grown up thing. In the end there is a non zero chance of achieving or contributing to something exceptional during your 20s (depending on your field).

2. Fear of the job market.

Well said. No other entity is recruiting young undergrads like academia does. Only topped by consulting firms, maybe.

3. Don't know what else to do.

The fellow students I encountered (~30) were mostly driven/obsessed by curiosity (2-3 exceptions maybe).

4. Magical thinking

Academia problem or society in general? This pattern prevails everywhere.

disclaimer: physics PhD
No, because someone believes someone else thinks it's worth it. There's a mimetic component to market economics that gets no treatment in writing.
I actually agree so much with this.
http://jmespath.org/
The failed economics of our software commons and what you can about it right now
From personal experience, I can very much relate to and agree with this piece. My father went through a similar process: cancer (melanoma) – two years of treatment and coming to terms with the facts – euthanasia. As a family, we have been very matter-of-fact about it, which was definitely something he encouraged and participated in. We frequently talked about all aspects of his disease, the future, how it affected him and us. Sometimes one of us sighed that it would have been so much better if he would have suddenly died in his sleep but I always disagreed with that, it would just have come with a different set of emotions and grieving. I am actually very happy that we were able to share parts of this process with each other while he was still around.

The weekend before his death, our house was filled with people who worked up the courage to come say goodbye, he sat among them in the living room and took a few minutes in person with everyone as much as his state allowed. I sat on his bed as he was treated with euthanasia, which was one of the most intense experiences of my life. I still miss the man every day, but because of the process we had together, I have nothing but fond memories of the times he was still there, including the very hard periods of time that come with a disease like this.

This turned into a bit more text than I intended but my point is this: If you ever have a choice in the way you are to die, take heed of the points in this story. It may seem brutal at times to be as honest and open as you can about such an intimate process, but having gone through it once, I have absolutely no regrets. I wish Pieter and his loved ones all the best in the coming times.
I didn't know Pieter before today. He's one of the coolest people I've had the good fortune of coming across:

> My first free software is from 1991. I realized the power of community gradually from 2005 when fighting software patents in Europe. I refined and tested the techniques in the ffii for projects like digistan. I saw the failure of money and power in amqp. In zeromq it took years to find the right patterns. I documented much in culture and empire.

This earned my respect beyond words:

> "There's this experimental cure people are talking about." This gets the ban hammer from me, and happily I only got a few of those. Even if there was a miracle cure, the cost and stress (to others) of seeking it is such a selfish and disproportionate act. With, as we know, lottery-style chances of success. We live, we die.

And this is just awesome: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11521249

"I'm sorry to hear this, Pieter. I don't have a question, but would just like to wish you well"

> Excellent question! (can you tell I'm bored in a hospital)?
Well, it all started when I was about three, and I discovered ants. Fire ants, to be specific. Biting me all over cause I'd chosen to hide right on top of their nest. There's a lesson there.

Thanks, Pieter. For everything!

--

If you'd like to thank Pieter more directly, he's accepting Paypal donations at ph@imatix.com.

> Well this is really kind. Yes, I'm pretty broke and have three young children who will be semi orphans. Cue violins.
Happy to receive on PayPal at ph@imatix.com. I will give my family the keys to that so they can put it aside for ma wee bairns... Thanks for suggesting this.
See FEXPRs in Lisp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fexpr

and

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Special-Forms.html
https://imagelayers.io/?images=node:4.3.2 - I wonder how small we could get an image that's still capable of running node and having an extra user (Buildroot is root-only by default)
First: thanks for answering the actual question.

> It also applies to the consequences of reckless or negligent behavior.

It does, but is rarely used that way. The man wearing a sausage link necklace went on a nature walk and faced the music when bears showed up. I'm just pointing out that the phrase is heavily biased to the point of being a dog whistle.

> It could very well be narcissism masquerading as altruism.

While possible, it is very unlikely that such a trait would manifest at this point in his life. I see no evidence of it in what little I know about his history, and a narcissist would be busy filling that gap. Also, and I recognize the value of a stranger's personal experience, but in my experience: the background checks conducted for security clearance above secret (for military personnel) will filter a lot of narcissists out - as their story fails to match up when you go a hop beyond their provided references.

> There's a small chance he's even been been working for...

So small that it is as equally likely that he is a quadruple agent still acting under the orders of the USG.

> ...the end result was massive damage to U.S. foreign policy.

Eh, I'm not a fan of the original sin concept - but the USG might share some of the responsibility. As far as the classified methods - you are spot on with the observation of the fact that there was nothing new. There were two classes of people before the leak: those who knew that USG had the technical ability and the disposition for a global dragnet, and those who didn't. Aside from posturing (commercial and political) there has been no change, which means the leak of operational details has had no operational impact (likely because it was already well known). So the leak did no harm to the security apparatus, but served to inform those who did not understand the USG's disposition on the matter of domestic and foreign surveillance.
A Simple Way to Hasten the Arrival of Self-Driving Cars
"everything is really quiet" reminds me of this radiolab piece that talks about anechoic chambers
http://www.radiolab.org/story/91792-hallucinating-sound/
and this Smithsonian piece about the anechoic chamber at Orfield Labs
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earths-quietest-pla...
When the fish opens its mouth, in place of a tongue you see a slimy, multilegged creature, its beady eyes staring straight at you, its creepy claws reaching out to grab you or anything else that looks like food.

Now I know where the Alien's tongue comes from.

On a more serious note: My "self" is what I want to be part of me. My fingers? I want them, so they are part of myself/my self. That botfly maggot eating my head? Don't want it, so not part of my self.

Of course that only works for sentient beings. Does the fish "want" to have a weird creature as its tongue?
On a whim I gave w3m (or w3m-el to be precise) a try on this page, and it worked - I found a new adblocker-blocker-blocker, and I'm quite happy I did got to read this gem of a summary at the end of the article:

>In short, the mathematics of self-organizing lists suggests >something radical: the big pile of papers on your desk, far >from being a guilt-inducing fester of chaos, is actually one >of the most well-designed and efficient structures >available. What might appear to others to be an unorganized >mess is, in fact, a self-organizing mess. Tossing things >back on the top of the pile is the very best you can do, shy >of knowing the future. You don’t need to organize that >unsorted pile of paper.
>
>You already have.
> The strongly-typed Python-lite described in the linked man pages

It's not strongly typed and types annotations can be left out in many places:

mylist.map(F(elt) "my $elt")

elt type is not specified.

The command syntax $(...) will cover some of the simple scripting needs. Please provide specific code examples (probably in bash) that you think will look bad.

> `jq` is an amazing

It is but in my opinion much less convenient than built-in support for data structures.
Steam is going to start accepting payments via Bitcoin
"same company that sues farmers for re-planting seeds"

watch the 10min Documentary, "Seeding Fear", Michael White Vs Monsanto [0] by Neil Young [1]

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZGueeao0tE

[1] http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/see-neil-youngs-monsa...
He's not saying all externalities should be compensated. He is explaining public goods. You are familiar with the practice of paying for an army with taxes, right?

Then by analogy, he's saying that more and more things are moving into some weird place where they're more like public goods than what they replaced used to be. I don't see a call for treating them as public good in the article, though.
By earnings I meant EPS
this separation comes from the feeling of "I-ness" or ego. in true circles of yoga, where the stress isn't on physical exercises (that's considered not even 1% part of Yoga), consciousness is considered as the subtlest substance that's pervading the whole infinite cosmos. The term Yoga itself means "to unite" with this consciousness.

Since it's an unbroken infinite substance, once united you can experience and observe things quite apart – as if the whole of universe becomes accessible to your sense of awareness.

The yoga or unity happens by gradually peeling the layer of false ego (I-ness) that creates the impression of separation in the first place.

The ego is built on labels we assign to ourselves and to protect its existence it makes us do selfish stuff. That's why the 8 limbs of yoga has its first two limbs as the virtues and moral conducts that one should follow to pgrogress on the path. Like For instance, truthfulness, non-violence, non-stealing, non–collecting,a balanced sexual life, essentially means control over your senses and living without over-indulgence and so on.

If you observe these principles carefully they're exactly the type if followed with sincerity make our actions and thoughts more selfless causing ego to break gradually.

still posture and smooth deep breath helps in regulating the otherwise ever-wandering mind – the mind is where the feeling of separation resides. Those virtues also help in reducing the chattering of mind while doing meditation. Meditation helps in silencing the mind by concentrating on a particular form or formless for ever-increasing length of time – when the mind is silent, one goes beyond the mind and that's when the unity or yoga occurs with the consciousness.
Any relation to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hodwik ?
Sounds very much like Kant, or even moreso Leibniz and his Monads. Obviously these guys didn't know about quantum mechanics (or evolution), but the thing I find interesting is that the developers of relativity and quantum theory were very familiar with Kant and Leibniz. I have to believe their interpretation of modern physics was shaped by their reading of these philosophers.
He seems to have accepted his fate but you still have to wonder if there isn't an immunotherapy treatment that would work for him.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/persona...

91 year old former President Jimmy Carter had brain cancer and was recently treated with it and he was cured.

https://www.mskcc.org/blog/understanding-jimmy-carter-s-surp...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/0...

http://www.ucsd.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=25970
> But if we take it to mean code point, then if the value is a surrogate… what should happen?

Surrogates are code points. The spec does not say what should happen if the surrogate is invalid (for example, if only the first surrogate of a surrogate pair is present), but neither does the JSON spec.

Java internally also represents non-BMP code points using surrogates. So, simply appending the surrogates to the string should yield a valid Java string if the surrogates in the input are valid.
Interesting! I'd love to read more about this connection.
> Manage multiple servers at once

IMHO will be much better if integrated into the shell. For example it will allow easy access to a shell variables with lists of hosts on which the command succeeded or failed.
Toxoplasma gondii is a bit overrated in my opinion. Unless your immune system is compromised or you're pregnant, there's no scientific proof that there's immediate danger from it. And if your immune system is weak or you're pregnant, you have a good excuse to make someone else clean the cat litter ;-)

Also my behavior is influenced by a lot of things outside my control: Genes, hormones, antidepressants[1]... what do I care if a parasite adds to the mix?

[1] While I can control my intake, I can't control the side-effects.
Minimizing Risk with DevOps
Indeed you can't take money out of them, and the various app stores have pretty strict policies about this. Honestly, if Valve gets worried about gambling laws they could learn a few things from casino apps here. There are a few of them out there where you can "buy" something like a hotel comp using an in-game currency. This is actually ok for a number of reasons but two big ones are that:
- The currency you use to get these IRL items is not the currency you play with and is not necessarily directly related to real money. It's more akin to frequent flyer miles getting you a free flight. That is to say, it's more "how much you play" and less "how much you pay".
- There simply is no secondary market for these IRL items because they're tied to you personally, are non-transferrable, and can't be traded for cash. So while they have real-world value, they're worthless to anyone but you specifically
Theranos Valuation: From $7B to 0
That was my immediate thought too, and I half expected to see 20 year old article. First thing I looked at was the date and I thought, "I wonder what this guy is writing about".
Why not? Pascal to PTX should be trivial (e.g., there is a lot of LLVM Pascal frontends).
That has nothing to do with his intent though, altruistic vs malevolent.

> There's no question as to its legal legitimacy...

Well maybe if you ignore the whole domestic surveillance part. There is also the moral and practical issue of intentionally weakening security infrastructure and standards.
I'm sure there are ion bindings for every language in common use at Amazon. But a huge percentage of Amazon code is Java, so presumably this one was the best maintained and documented.