skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a large GWT code base, although others here work on it more than I do.

Problems that seem to get mentioned a lot:

1. Difficult to develop or debug without custom IDE plug ins. With Google cutting back on their investment, not clear how well those plug ins will be maintained in the future.

2. Awkward to work with Javascript libraries, at least compared to all Javascript development.

3. Sometimes hard to predict exactly what Javascript will be emitted for specific Java code.

4. Remembering the rules for what Java code can or cannot be compiled by the GWT compiler.

5. A lot of indirection. The event model has definite benefits, but it also seems to make it very hard to figure out what the program will do by just navigating the code.

6. Difficult to find developers willing and able to work on a GWT code base.
every game is like a physics game that gets boring after 5 mins.
It was really the networking that did the job, being buddies with the ceo of that coding bootcamp.

In the end it is always about networking.
It's factually incorrect to say that transactions are untraceable. Every single transaction is logged on a public ledger. The only difficulty lies in establishing that a particular address belongs to a particular entity. KYC/AML does help in a large way in this regard.

However, even with this difficulty, it's still easier than tracing cash payments to a particular entity. If I pay someone in cash, under the table, good luck proving the cash was ever mine. I would wager the government would prefer criminals conduct their business in bitcoin.

If you don't like cryptocurrencies, thats fine, don't use them. I'm just asking that you do not misrepresent them with half truths in some fruitless attempt to show they are flawed when compared to cash.
I think there has already been a ridiculous amount of gaming, regardless of real person or not. I mentioned in a previous comment about this that even the time of day you post can dramatically impact how many votes you get because of the way the system works.
Require that one of the people voting reads the entirety of the bill aloud in front of the whole group before 'yes' votes are valid?

Doesn't make the length boundary sharp, but still provides a limit of sorts.

Less restrictive than the one in Gulliver's Travels!

edit: whoops someone already said this
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It's the value of everything in the aircraft. For a drone, that's basically the cost of the drone. For the airliner, it's the $10M per human life.

Apotential ban on drones would allow licenses and exceptions (thereby not destroying much commercial value), so the primary impact of the ban would be the amateur market. And for them, the cost of the device gives a good estimate of the value.

Yes, we could expand our calculation outward and try to capture all the externalities created by those dead people, or the drone, or the irrational fear of drones. But this would have quickly diminishing returns.
> "Most people that come into a library are looking for a new job, or they’re facing a financial crisis, or they’re trying to do research on a medical problem,"

I worked in a library for ten years. I'd say, by a huge margin, most people come into the library looking for fiction books, and DVDs. And picture books, lots of picture books.
Just republish gameboy, game gear, lynx, neogeo titles, and you'll have a great mobile gaming ecosystem.
What is gitian building? How Bitcoin's security became a model for Tor and Mozilla
That's YOU bub. That's not HER.

YOU learned to accept responsibility. SHE didn't.
YOU learned to acknowledge your mistakes. SHE didn't.

Now she IS learning and she's learning it the HARD way instead of the EASY way, namely, by haranguing from the Internet Mob.

Buddy, you need to really think about this. Are you so callous that you can't see that there wasn't a single person in this girl's life that showed her how to stand on her own two feet? She'll either learn or she won't. It's going to be hard for her either way. Are you so indifferent to someone's struggle that you can't at a minimum think about how hard it must be to live their life and be thankful you're not similarly burdened?
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If the PoW serves any other purpose than mining bitcoin, it can't be used, since there won't be any opportunity cost in mining on the most recent chain.
>It is my opinion that if any government tech project management is outsourced completely, we'll have better technology, cheaper and faster.

No, you won't. The problem is that the government will only outsource these projects to proven companies which are already in the business of handling government contracts. This means it's just the same crappy companies which do ALL their business this way, and are experts at bilking the government out of tons of money for little productivity. Other companies won't bother bidding, because the government bidding and procurement rules are so byzantine that they just don't bother. The government itself already recognizes that this is a big problem (that lots of commercial companies refuse to do business with it), but they have no real solutions for it other than trying to brainwash these companies into changing their minds.

The other problem as far as some projects, like weapons systems, is that if the contractor develops the technology all on their own and has complete ownership of it, the cost to the government is even higher than when the government gets involved and drives development costs up. The dev cost might be lower when the contractor does it all themselves, but then the per-unit cost is through the roof because they get the government to standardize on it, but now they're the sole supplier, so after it's designed-in, they jack up the prices. When the government has partial ownership of the IP, they have more freedom in getting different suppliers to compete, but then the development costs are high, plus with the consolidation in the defense industry there aren't many bidders so again costs are high.

There really isn't any way to win AFAICT. The government needs to completely revamp its broken systems in many areas, including procurement, and in hiring/firing/HR, and other areas like how various agencies are managed and what they're allowed to do with their money. For instance, government office facilities are a disaster in many places: the buildings are WWII-era old and falling apart, but that's because they're not allowed to build a new building without an Act of Congress (literally). Of course, this stuff isn't going to change; there's too many chefs in the kitchen.
My experiences were not hers, they were worse than hers.

She had a solid full-time job making more than I did, appears to be healthy, and signed a lease for an apartment on her own. By any measure that I see, her life was both more luxurious and less stressful than mine at the time.

If you can point out one aspect of her life that wasn't self-imposed and that ended up being more of a hardship than when I went through, I'm all ears. But so far it seems like all you're saying is that I can't criticize because I'm not actually her, which seems silly.
I think you are being a bit pedantic here. His example merely demonstrated that if consciousness is a function of reality (and for the sake of his example he more or less explicitly makes the assumption that there is an observer independent reality) it can be either optimized on how closely it matches said reality OR how much that function helps survival. So if you assume that there is an observer independent reality the projection of that (consciousness) function will most likely divert from reality (at least that's the argument Hoffman makes). Needless to say that if you assume that there is no observer independent reality then a whole lot of questions about perception become moot (ie. everybody sees what he wants/can).
>Inherited wealth must be invested continually to defend against inflation. That investment will continue to power the market economy, even if the holders of the wealth are not entrepreneurs.

This assumes that wealth is being invested correctly, and that money acts in some sort of neutral fashion, automatically flowing where it is most needed. In fact, money just shores up wherever there is some sort of place for it to grow.

It turns out that it is much easier for concentrated wealth to use games and tricks of the economic, financial, political system to make money grow than it is to actually invest it in high-risk areas that might provide stronger growth.

The more diffuse wealth is, the less this will be an issue.
I completely agree. I was going to post the same thing until I saw your comment. The inexperience with exercise causes people to not know how hard they can push their body and still be fine. When I bring a friend to the gym or something, they stop lifting for the set when they feel slightly tired. I can't imagine their pushing themselves to where there's phlegm in their lungs and still going.
Interesting. I didn't see that language this morning.
The reason comcast is diversifying is because their monopoly (it really never was a monopoly) over tv distribution is essentially dead in the water.

Not only does satellite exist, but now virtual cable companies already exist. Sling and PS vue offer full blown cable over the internet. Netflix, Amazon, Google, Apple, Hulu etc. offer most tv content streamed over the internet.

Google and Apple have much bigger control over our media content consumption than Comcast does. Apple extorts 30% from all media sold to me on a phone I bought. It's bullshit. Google uses it's actual search monopoly to weasel it's way into other markets.

>they are building up content because they can leverage it to extract rent.

Isn't that why all content is made?

I do think it would be useful to have a pay per stream statutory royalty rate like we do for radio music. Set it at say, 3 dollars per hour long episode, 2 dollars for a half hour. OR even just require all content have a reasonable MSRP rate so that any serious streaming company can sell it easily.
Ugh. I had a friend who played an incremental clicker game. He urged me to download it on my tablet. It didn't offer anything interesting over any other incremental clicker game, but every so often, a giant ad would display in the middle of the screen.

You'd be surprised at how many touch events you can register before your device has the ability to switch to your browser. After I closed all 10 or so tabs, I uninstalled it immediately.
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Trump – Example of Scaling Well?
Nope, see the description of titration on on wikipedia.
No design is new: Medium, AirBNB, Flipboard, Beats are replicas of older logos
From what I remember reading about the NSA, there are quite a few Dirty Dereks in the government.
A startup CEO, founder, entrepreneur can learn some lessons about their startup by studying the Trump campaign. Read this.
Gratuitous but relevant I feel:

If you're into startups and Pay Once and Play games then Hipster CEO is probably up your alley:

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/hipster-ceo/id731368826?mt=8
Boy that really falls down hard at the end there.
Mission and Values: a new podcast about remarkable startup cultures
I _love_ the way you stated this. Thank you!
From https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/:

"The only restrictions on acceptable teams are founders must be willing to work on their ideas full-time, and teams can’t have previously taken money from investors."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

This is a fun, thought-provoking story about a large combination of things.
Minor nitpick: Haskell has the ST monad for using "imperative idioms internally". There is no need for unsafePerformIO.
...And I'm sure you thought you're writing a perfectly objective, well-argued post. However, while speculating on bc-distractors' motives, you've characterized them as naive technophobes.

If someone with, let's say a doctorate in cryptography and a preference in 'fiat' reads that, he's going to feel a bit insulted and double down on his position.

He may (and I'm just speculating a hypothetical here) start daydreaming about going around with a metaphorical hammer of wisdom trying to beat some ideas into every bc-daytraders' head. Like the idea that a majority of western societies actually support the general concept of democratically-elected governments wielding some power. Or that having some screws to adjust in regards to monetary policy may be preferable to not having them, some problems notwithstanding.

All this is not new, by the way. This discussion lines up pretty well with the conflict over libertarianism, both demographically as well as philosophical.
In short, for both employers and employees, the "flyover region" reputation is a self-fullfilling prophecy.
Interesting... just having a "donate with BitCoin" link visible caused a noticeable drop in donations? Similarly with revenue on a merchant page. That seems bizarre.
>At the very least, we need to break Comcast into content producer and content distributor (ISP).

Sure, we should break up Apple into software and hardware, maybe even content too. And google into search and service.

Vertical monopoly is just another world for efficient.
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plus a good controller
If I suffered a catastrophic data loss large that caused me to lose my BTC, I'd still be more concerned about the rest of my valuable data that I presumably lost too.

Bitcoin is far from the only case where catastrophic data losses or leaks are very costly. It's something that's certainely worth thinking about carefully, but it's not a fatal flaw for the system's usability - if it were all digital data use cases would be fatally flawed.
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Since "Apply HN" is for fellowships and the idea of fellowships is that the business is not necessarily ready to go into business mode, I'm not sure that application polish is an ideal metric. It measures application quality rather than something more meaningful like potential impact multiplied by potential execution.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11585156
It's not an issue of what I'm comfortable with. What I'm saying is that we can't ever get to a situation we're "comfortable with" without things like press regulation, which is simply not worth the price of admission.
While this comparison highlights that yes, there are very many possible Go games, it's really apples to oranges.

The real comparison would be the number of pieces on a Go board (19x19 = 361) compared to the number of atoms in the universe. And then to compare the number of possible board positions in Go, with the number of possible atom positions in the universe, and in this case I think the universe wins.....
Looks like a difference in demographic -- urban v suburban, adult vs child
my big question is why Talia is having hit pieces written on her...
I'm not sure which bitcoin advocates you're talking to, but they seem pretty far out there.

As for monetary policy, I would look to the history of currency devaluations in the wake of wars and emphasize that bitcoin cannot be devalued in the same way. Not that a nation would use bitcoin as its currency, but it begins to look more like the gold that used to back fiat currencies.

Even Rome debased its currency to continue paying soldiers, while throwing the citizens under the bus.

Re environmental costs: a future protocol change could update the proof of work function if this gets out of control.

> deflationary economics of the system itself

Strictly speaking, bitcoin's monetary base is monotonically increasing and never actually shrinks, which would be monetary deflation. I would also challenge the conventional wisdom that says "Deflation bad! Inflation good!" Again, not that a nation's currency will be bitcoin. It exists alongside other systems, behaving more like gold.

Ponzi scheme is almost not worth mentioning as the allegation is obviously ridiculous.
It actually boggles the mind that a 12-pixel image has more combinations than atoms in the universe (!!!).
That really depends on your quality metric. If you care about computational speed (because there's only a finite amount of time before the heat death of the universe) then the speed of light starts to be a limiting factor, and concentrating all the computation in a small space makes sense.
"The Integral Trees" by Larry Niven is a novel in which people live in a free-floating cloud of atmospheric gas that is gravitationally stable in a multi-star system. They live on enormous trees with canopies on each end, which are blown in opposite directions by the winds (so they look like the integral sign).
How did you do 105% of your max heart rate ...
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But the elemental composition of Apple hate has changed since.
I'd argue that any sort of bias is orthogonal to the idea of an absolute reality. However, it doesn't preclude any reality. Out of pragmatism we need to be able to define one. The survival of our species also hinges upon that.

But thought experiments have the luxury of not needing pragmatism.
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Those exports were lend/lease and the Marshall plan. They were funded with US Govt. debt. Which is to say, they were funded with domestic stimulus spending.
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Sure - you need casts or a similar feature. You don't need standard library methods that do casts, though, and having them invites trouble IMO.
You are no longer arguing that being poor is more expensive, but rather that living is expensive and the poor can't afford it. I certainly agree.
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while true, now I need to put up with hearing about what's new in the world of Hitler re-enactment until I quit the company. if I hadn't tried to be friends with this person, that wouldn't be a problem because we'd just be talking about PHP.
Hello! I recently started a podcast called "Mission & Values" that features CEO/founders of startups that have strong company cultures.

The name is very literal - in the 1-on-1 interview, we cover the company's mission and then go through their core values and how they came to be.

For startup leaders, you get to see how others are managing their teams. For startup employees/fans, you get to dive into what it's like to work at the featured startups. For everyone, you get to learn more about your own goals and desires with work.

Here are the guests so far:

1. Zapier - Wade Foster

2. Gumroad - Sahil Lavingia

3. HelloTech - Richard Wolpert

4. RadPad - Jonathan Eppers

5. WayUp - Liz Wessel (recorded, not yet released)

Here's a description I'm playing with (feedback desired!):
"Dive into remarkable startup cultures. Learn about leadership and find where you belong. It's your life, so make your work matter."

I'd love to hear your thoughts about what you like/dislike or would want more of. I'm already learning a lot both about podcasting and about startup cultures. I've had 2 guests that didn't have codified core values, so I've had to adapt the show format as I go.

Who would you like to hear on the show?
Lamarr & Antheil invented frequency to help the Allies, so their remotely steerable torpedoes could not be pwned en route.

One should not fail to mention Antheil, it was a collaboration.
Steam uses Bitpay. "KYC" means "know your customer". "Customer" is the guy/gal trying to use Steam to launder bitcoin. Relevance elucidated?
Western do-gooders need to resist the allure of 'exotic problems'
Yep, just had this actually happen to me. Blew up on someone in the company parking garage and did not know he was a friend of the firm. He in turn told my boss who then brought it to me. Ended up filing an 'incident' which will prohibit any raises and limit bonus for the next year.

I did not loose my job or end up poor but I bet that guy is thinking "what an idiot, what were you thinking" not knowing how this did impact me.

Prob a poor anecdote but damn did I learn my lesson. Especially since it impacted me financially.

We all make mistakes, financially or otherwise. The point is that we should learn from them and not keep repeating them.
egrep, fgrep, grep (+ z* variants) share the same binary too.
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Is there not a chance they're planning on doing this themselves? They spent all that money on the Xfinity rebrand. At this point, Comcast is essentially Xfinity + NBCUniversal.
My favorite is to use an elliptical machine, warm up a little then crank it to maximum resistance and just go as hard as I can until I'm done. I can induce a "runner's high" within a few minutes that feels amazing, and I prefer it to treadmill/cycle for the whole-body workout (you can really utilize arms/shoulders/back/core on the elliptical)

I'm usually done within 10 minutes, and if I've been out of practice I can certainly feel it the next day.
I have actually been told by legal people at my employer that if it can be proven that anyone at the company has read a particular patent, this can occur. So, yeah, the system is rediculous. But no looking at any patents related to software for me, I guess.
> It's a tagged union. Sometimes the tag can be elided, sometimes not. If you did a direct cast, you'd lose the tag. More specifically though, layout is undefined, so you don't know if the tag is first or last, strictly speaking.

Do you not have a generic syntax for unwrapping a tagged union, forcibly assuming that it's one particular component? That seems like something users would want.
Nice! Great tips on colors.
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It does feel like piloting a jet at times, and engineers deserve the worthy comparison. Good read.
But what are you looking up? You have to know what class of problem you have to be able to look it up.
Agreed. I wish Nintendo would release a quality game pad to go with their upcoming games. I can imagine if it's done right, would be awesome.
Outside of some niche areas right now I think what you are hearing is people trying to pitch others to pay for their time to experiment and build something with Watson. Not that they already have a solution, again except for some niche industries and groups.

Overall, IBM is having to reinvent itself (again), and IBM people themselves are pushing in new directions and pitching new ideas which fit their longer term plan. At the same time they have this huge legacy dragging behind them, so it can't be easy. Personally, I have never been a huge fan of some of the total crap (consulting mainly) they put out there, but then they do some crazy amazing stuff with their research groups. And I have seen a few really stellar software consulting gigs they have done too, but that seems to be the minority. But at least I'll say for them, they aren't Oracle, and they will complete a project.
I believe most people don't realize that to support Bitcoin you either have to adhere to extremely polarizing political beliefs or be completely neutral about it (because you don't care or you don't know). (IMO, of course)

People who are neutral might fail to realize the political implications of Bitcoin and immediately jump to "those people are mental, why do they hate us?"

That applies pretty much to any political discussion ever.