skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first gaming was done on my C64 and my bestie had an Atari 800 which we loved because cartridges meant fast load times, my C64 only had cassette tape. He then got an Atari ST which we also thought was a really good computer. This is in the UK. I was so jealous of that 800 back then, it was an impressive machine.

Edit: hey Ross, if you're out there, it's been 20 years, I still remember the good times!
Yes, reading the article it's obvious that's why she was placed on (paid) administrative leave.
Pointing out a likely bias does bring objectivity into question.
While true, it only works if everyone plays ball.

What I learned in my C and C++ years of enterprise coding is that I want to stay away from those codebases.

C++ can be lovely when used in small teams of skilled developers that play by the rules.

On typical enterprise code, with various skill sets of developers that come and go, many from consulting companies, it can be a huge pain to maintain and track down memory corruption issues.
> You're going against Occam's razor so now you've got a lot of 'splainin' to do.

Where did this idea come from?
They should send a bunch of anagram digram via telegram, cabelgram or sonogram, possibly including an angiogram or mammogram to tell that what tits they are being.

Perhaps they could contact Polygram and use paper with a monogram of a decagram, hexagram, octagram, parallelogram, trigram, or pentagram.

If we prapared a cartogram or histogram it could serve as a diagram of their foolishness.

It would certainly serve as an epigram to this whole program and then even an engram will not find a memory of it.
Actual quote: "I have been so pissed off with some mobile games I’ve wanted to throw my phone."

Clickbait title: "mobile games make me want to throw my phone."
It is true that the more people who cycle, the lower the number of transport related deaths and injuries.

Only some of these effects, e.g. less deaths from air pollution, apply to EVs though.
Colorado Weighs Replacing Obama’s Health Policy with Universal Coverage
Rockwell International Star-Raker proposal
I'm not sure this is good thing. After Bill left Microsoft, the board has gradually replaced pretty much every tech savvy person with investment suits. Wouldn't better arrangement be Zuke transferring voting control to new CEO as opposed to create a vacuum which will be quickly filled by likes of Carl Icans?
Off the top of my head, Haxe has:

block level scoping (vs. function level scoping)
classic inheritance (vs. prototypes)
distinction between hash and object (vs. nope)
required semicolons (vs. still uncertain on that after 10 years)

There's also the whole raft of static typing features, but there's too many of those to mention.
Who pays for the standards committees? I note that the IEEE has a charitable foundation with over $45 million in assets...
Instagram also insisted we change our name from Instapainting.com to something else or remove all Instagram references (we used filestack.com which includes Instagram as an upload option).

When I complied and removed the Instagram reference they then decided to extend it to all Facebook references (like button, Facebook upload, etc) on the grounds that people might get the insta prefix confused with Facebook since it owns Instagram.
See the other post in this thread with other URLs and the IP address.
Many years ago, when there was lots more slack, we would request reprints by snail mail. Authors would typically get a few hundred free reprints, and either buy more or have them printed privately.
I had signed up for Docker for Mac beta on the same day of the announcement. I haven't received an invite yet. Did I miss the invite, or isn't the invitation sent on the 'first come first serve' basis?
Radius of the visible universe is actually 45.7 billion ly.
It was hyperbole. It's the same deal in your example: if the is a PoW reward outside the currency, the cost of mining on the wrong chain drops.

The PoW must only be useful for the coin you are mining and nothing rise.
That's the problem: it's fundamentally unimplementable.

First, on even a moderate scale, you quickly find out that democracy is not well suited to make the zillions of decisions needed to run an economy. Voters will be making too many decisions about things they know too little about.

So, they have to delegate the power. Under capitalism, government powers are somewhat limited, so delegating has some checks and balances. But under socialism, you have to delegate power over every aspect of the economy, which is basically everything.

In other words, you've just delegated arbitrary power, which has a bad history.

Even if that all works out, now you have an information flow problem. Prices no longer reflect supply and demand, so how do you deal with shortages and surpluses? What if you have 10000 people applying to be "beer taster" and zero people applying to be nurses?
> The point is that monopolies on ideas are fundamentally unfair...

I could just as easily say "free-riding off somebody else's ingenuity is fundamentally unfair".

> ... but it is provably false in Software.

Citation needed? Many of the sources cited in OP have flaws and/or have been refuted elsewhere, especially studies by Bessen & co. Many of their other sources are from people who don't know the first thing about patents. They cite that "This American Life" episode where the clueless dude from M-CAM suggested there's a patent on toast, something that you'd know is BS with a glance at the actual claim and 5 minutes of research on Google.

On the other hand, there are studies showing that having patents increases the chances of software startups get VC funding and successful exits by a factor of four. How much innovation happens without funding? Even the majority of open source is financed by various industry sources.

> When has something (in software) been invented by building on some text in a patent filing?

And how often is something in software not been built by simply copying somebody else's ideas? Some ideas are harder to generate (e.g. RSA) than others (e.g. online pet store) and deserve protection.
>Yet you still have to statically link all your Go code in one single big binary

This isn't inherent. Dynamic linking works today on linux amd64.
Intel Announces Contiki OS Port for the Intel Quark
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Sidechains are an answer, for you, if you don't feel the current blockchains scale for your needs. For micropayments, or whatever. But they don't solve anything per-se because nothing is broken.

Pay to publish is a feature. It's the rate-limiting mechanism we'd need anyways, but directly tied into PoW and reward.

Make your coin and ask people if they want to use it instead of bitcoin. It's so easy, and you can be proven right.
That's an interesting point. I could only hope that it is actually true, and that the F35 is more subterfuge than boondoggle.
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> would solve a lot of issues

like making sure the 1% get their rent-seeking royalties. The cost of distributing information is 0. Whatever negligible cost to keep the servers running can come from the "technology fees" universities charge their students.
The people who use GDP are aware of this. The thing is that no one has come up with anything better.

It's also worth noting that GDP missed things before that were a lot more important than clock cycles.

In 1800 in the US about, say 1/3 of children died before they got to 5. This wasn't captured in GDP. But it's a far bigger deal to watch children die than to play games on a faster computer.

Years of healthy life also shot up, mostly prior to 1950 in the developed world. How much is it worth to see your grandchildren grow up because you live longer and healthier and children don't die as much?

This all comes from the fantastic book 'The Rise and Fall of American Growth' by Robert Gordon. It might be worth checking out for you. It goes on about what GDP doesn't measure but still uses it to show that productivity isn't rising like it used to and shows the implications of that.
It's worthwhile to note that when Norway found oil they were not exactly a developed country yet. I think that what has set them apart from other oil nations is the strong social conscientiousness (I.e leaders are punished by loss of honor if they are corrupt, not rewarded, and the general population has, or at least had, a strong sense of communal duty.) This conscientiousness is, I think, the true force behind the so-called Scandinavian model.
The median wage in Afghanistan is 50,000 AHD per year. Currently the exchange rate for USD to AHD is about 68.3 AHD to 1 USD. So basically, for one article it is about 2,150 AHD, or half the monthly wage of someone with s median income.

That's for one midrange article.
That's a secondary infection.
So in primecoin I can mine on any block and generate a useful byproduct?

What stops me from attacking that network by mining on my private chain with a double spend? I have no opportunity cost.
After the IEEE $25 monthly service came out, I subscribed for three years until finally canceled it. Honestly most of the papers I downloaded were junks, the only reason I download them was to verify the available references.

The paper quality declination plus publication quantity inflation are the main reasons in this "Sci-Hub" crisis.
I am actually good. Gnome 3 is a beautiful desktop which helps me to focus on productivity. And everything else is just a google search and a command away.
XRay – A Function Call Tracing System [pdf]
So many years ago, I knew an acid chemist who provided abortions as a favor for friends, using ergometrine aka d-lysergic acid beta-propanolamide. But forgone profits were huge, given the potency differential ;)
I may be naive here, but why not search and download the article's preprint from arXiv? Would it be that much different from the final paper? Why would you need to pirate at all?
Eventually they'll just setup their own DNS system, or replace it with something else entirely. something like a BitTorrent for nameservers.
If there is no such thing as a forex exchange, what is this?

http://www.hotspotfx.com/products/the_hotspot_ecn.jsp
Fixed exchange rates are just another form of price controls.
I'm not familiar with Typekit, but from the link it applies more broadly.

> I've discovered a bug when using the Webfont Loader for Google Fonts or Typekit.

I've found most of the Google Web Fonts permit transformation and embedding. You just need to read the licenses closely.
I think you're understating the case for Rust.

Rust has a better standard library (e.g., std::option) and better resource abstractions.

The "existing code" advantage seems a weak case at best for C++, given that it doesn't even have a package manager to use the code. Including 3rd party code is nightmarish.

A greenfield project would have to think long and hard about taking on the enormous bloat and not-for-mortals specifications of C++ over Rust.
Not very helpful for Wikipedia researchers. Or people who are outside the walled garden of academia!
Isn't this the exact same thing as aardvark, which google bought and killed?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark_(search_engine)
> I have been so pissed off with some mobile games I’ve wanted to throw my phone, even if I’m only going to hurt my phone there, and not the game."

> some mobile games

Cutting a sentence in half is pretty silly.

His actual point is there are a lot of Games with poor game design. This is probably related to the barrier of entry of Mobile games. It costs very little to put together a App and launch it on Google Play or Apple's Store. Compared with building actual arcade machines (or paying someone else to build them) and shipping them to Arcades.
I think the reference was actually pretty good. And I disagree with most of Objectivism, or whatever you want to call it.

The issue with Atlas Shrugged is that the villains were kind of real, it's the "heroes", and their motivations, that were pretty unbelievable. For that matter, the ordinary bystanders were kind of given the short shrift too.
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Rayo's number is so big it is almost impossible to convey how big it is. It is certainly much much much bigger than Graham's number. (Unlike Graham's number, it appears not to serve any useful purpose beyond winning "who can name the biggest number?" games.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayo%27s_number
One Minute of All-Out Exercise May Have Benefits of 45 Minutes of Moderate
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Don't forget that EV ownership effectively requires land ownership. If you rent your parking space, good luck getting a charger installed. If you park on the street, good luck convincing the city to install more than a small handful of token EV spots.

A house in the suburbs with a garage that I could do electrical work on would account for the vast majority of the cost if I wanted an EV.
That'd be a proof-of-stake coin. They exist. You're thinking of in proportion to their percentage of the network mining power. Which for a pool (cartel?) can be sizable.

But that it is more akin to controlling the post-office than controlling the bank. People can be inconvenienced but not stolen from (except in certain cases with confederates of the post-master) and those can be guarded against more easily than avoiding phishing email from "your bank".
Be better if they would compare with Rolls Royce etc. No doubt every other jet engine manufacturer is busy with innovation also.
I found flights to Fortaleza on flychecker at € 701
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In 2014 Elsevier's profit margin was 34% http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/93138f3e-87d6-11e5-90de-f44762bf98...
Is there a source for that? I believe you, I'm just interested in the degree!
Using Python 3:

>>> import unicodedata
>>> s='Ƭ̵̬̊ '
>>> list(map(unicodedata.name, s))
['LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH HOOK', 'COMBINING SHORT STROKE OVERLAY', 'COMBINING CARON BELOW', 'COMBINING RING ABOVE']

The first character Ƭ ('T with hook') is used in some African orthographies. The remaining letters are combining characters; they modify the letter preceding it. The 'short stroke overlay' is intended as a plain-text equivalent to the html s tag. The 'combining caron below' (more properly, a hacek) is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (a notation for transcribing the sounds of languages) to represent the voicing of an otherwise voiceless consonant (as in, d vs t or b vs p). The 'combining ring above' is used in European orthographies, such as Danish (e.g. å).

None of these symbols were intended to be used together, but the design of Unicode allows for such creative (ab)uses.
Thx. Just made my day. Subversion via over-affirmation. Kudos.
Productivity increases don't boost GDP if no one has money to buy the goods&services being produced.

This is why you need to watch out for steep income inequality between the managerial and working classes.
More to the point: do they all understand each other's area of specialty?
RMS could be that equivalent of RMS in the literature world:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Asteroid mining by autonomous robots, completely or almost completely automatic robotic manufacturing/construction, fusion power & genetically engineered crops (including artificial meat) might consivebly make for 1000x gain in less than 700 years.
Until the trolls start answering.
I disagree. Ashlee Vance spends quite a bit of time talking about how the SpaceX approach differs in his biography of Elon Musk. Basically, Musk turns out to be manically cost aware, and a lot of what SpaceX does is focused specifically on that. One of the examples given are that they figured out how to use stock electronics rather than the very expensive radiation hardened versions that are conventionally used, for a 10:1 cost saving. They've done this throughout their entire system. I'd be very surprised if ULA were able to match.
I wonder if it is even possible to achieve 0.2 write a day given the size of the disk and the low speed of HDD.
Not all disciplines use arXiv -- far from it. Especially in the humanities and social sciences, there isn't really anything comparable to arXiv.

But you are right, preprints are not all that different from published papers, as this recent analysis confirmed: http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.05363

[edited to add:] I suppose you could look at the data (https://blog.datadryad.org/2016/04/28/sci-hub-stories/) and see what proportion of requested DOIs have a preprint version in the arXiv. I suspect it's rather small.
Bezos's goal seems only to be Amazon's growth and efficiency. I'm really starting to believe that being one of the 10 richest people on the planet was just a happy side-effect that only distracts him from his goal.
This kind of solution sounds like wishing you could fly so that you could get to the bus stop faster.

A better (for almost every meaning of the word) change would be the reduction of the requirement for people to commute - especially over such long distances and times.
be renamed. Really a careless error for BBC.
I've done a lot of work on tools that interface with the academic publishing infrastructure. Elsevier not only make a huge profit margin, but they operate at a staggering level of inefficiency. They are haemorrhaging money and producing precisely nothing of value, and still making profit for their investors hand over fist. Quite incredible.
The general line between fan fiction (or any type of fan work) and a professional one is whether the production is trying to make money.

That's why fan films and series are likely to be shut down if they try and market them via Kickstarter or Patreon or a similar service or distribute them on a service where money is involved (like Steam, or as a published work on Amazon).

If they're trying to make money from this Star Trek film and don't have permission from the franchise owners, then it's not particularly surprising that they're being sued. It's a similar situation to a certain Zelda movie that got shut down when it tried to sell tickets to cinema screenings.
Calling lawyer and C levels executives tits is very offensive for the mammary glands and their bearers. Tits are awesome. They nurture life, they look pretty and they are instant antidepressant for a sizable chunk of males (and a lot of women in my recent environments, but that is another story). And they are also forbidden from Instagram - so I guess people working there have no idea how they look like.
> I don't think it's inevitable at all.

I said the author is not saying it's inevitable.
Oh, so if doctors weren't to pirate they wouldn't remain abreast? That sounds like yet another disservice from the publishing industry. They are indirectly decreasing people's health. Fantastic.
Imagine yourself as an employer who has to go through a large amount of applications. You can either read all their publications (if you even understand them) and try to get some idea of their academic performance, or just trust that the more prestigious journals require the publications to be of importance and quality.
Why, in 90s we have to hard code HTML to make a website. Then PHP emerged, and then WordPress and Joomla and countless themes - making a shitty website became very productive. What happened next? Crappy WordPress sites were not cool, so the Rails era began. Making of big crappy websites became very productive. Nowadays there are React and other indispensable stuff to make very cool crappy websites. The productivity soared - one could make Bootstrap, React, Mongo, NodeJS hello-world website in a half of a day.

But if content is crap productivity of making site does not really matter, and if content still is a king, no fucking hipster's frameworks are required (hello, Craigslist and this very site).

Same thing happen today with ML tools and techniques. One could download and install Tensorflow in 15 minutes (I am so clever!) - a huge boost of productivity, and then one has to apply ones own brain, which is, usually, not near as productive.

That's why.
Because most papers are not on arXiv.
How Big Data Can Make a Big Difference for Manufacturers
Web Project Management: Common Pitfalls
50tb is like 1/10th of a backblaze pod. And 50tb of bandwidth is not really that much (last month I spent 1.2TB of bandwidth on a consumer grade connection, so like 50 users can pull this off in a month)
Is tenure still as widely available as it once was?

But yes, entrenched interests hold everyone back eventually. They are currently being disrupted, and this time they lost the battle completely - there is not a single thing they can do to effectively keep their entrenched interests from crumbling.
That wasn't an easy read but it was worth it if for no other reason than to drive home the point.

I would now like to create an app that sends snapshots of what random things weigh, and call it gramgram. Any drug dealers on HN with a lot of ill-gotten investment cash looking to be laundered can contact me at HSBC HQ.
Mark Zuckerberg Declares He Is God During Facebook Earnings Call
Here were the startups that pitched if anyone is interested www.xooglerdemoday.com/startups2016
Fake a Tweet and take a screenshot, for dummies
That doesn't sound possible. Are you saying your raw bill for _just_ colo (ie. space and power) and bandwidth (ie. IP transit) was less than your _entire_ AWS bill? I've never heard of anyone take such an extreme stance.
Flash of Invisible Text?

That is the _worst_ on mobile.
Sublime Text is interesting, in that you also get unlimited usage without paying. That was helpful at a time when I didn't have a lot of client work coming in, and it helped me bootstrap into better work. Once I had solid client work coming in again, it felt like Sublime had helped me get there, and Sublime suddenly felt incredibly underpriced, so much less than an hour's work. There's incentive then to buy it to make sure they keep working on it, to get rid of the nag screens that occasionally slowed me down, and it looks & feels far more professional when you're not using unregistered trials as part of your work!
Are AWS APIs down?
Seems like AWS APIs are down with no response at all and eventually leading to timeouts. The status dashboard (status.aws.amazon.com) looks shows everything is healthy, but that's usually the case.
Can you give examples of the inefficiencies you discovered?