skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the risk of sounding pedantic:

If the statement "culture is built around the game of a meaningful search for eternal truths, timeless values and changeless habits of prowess" is incoherent, how are you able to give a definitive, confident reply?

To paraphrase Wittgenstein, something incoherent can't be either true or false. Personally, I find both of your perspectives on what culture is built around to be interesting but vague.
I can second this. It gives plenty of working examples and lays enough groundwork so you can dig deeper where you need to.
As an AirBnB customer (which I was) you have no idea what it's like to be an Airbnb neighbor.

There are parties with hundreds of kids on the roof, weed smoked in the hall outside our apartment, a broken front door that can only be closed by smashing as hard as possible or not at all, stains all over the carpet outside the Airbnb, people breaking into our house because they're drunk, people buzzing every apartment because they've locked themselves out and it's 4AM. The place is a 365 day Airbnb, which is illegal, and Airbnb know that too and don't care.

AirBnB refuse to take any responsibility, even just to raise issues with the person running the BnB. They have even repeatedly said they can't find a listing by address - seriously, not that the address is wrong, but they they simply do not have the capability. We can't speak to the neighbor because they don't live there, they just rent out their apartment on Airbnb. They got journalists to write stories about how they'd soon have an app for neighbours last year - it still isn't rolled out in Europe despite all the press.

Love airBnB as a customer. 95% of guests are fine. 4% do stupid shit because they're drunk, which is understandable, but having continuously drunk 'neighbors' sucks. 1% are deliberately anti social. But the company absolutely does not give a damn about their impact on the people around them.

Tip for anyone else: call your police non-emergency number or your council. Avoid Airbnb support. They can't help and they won't take responsibility for the source of their income.
Well, hundreds of lines of mock structs is probably a sign that there is something very fundamentally wrong with the code. Go, as a language, has nothing to do with it. Testing is one of its nicest features. I only had to improve my testing experience just a bit, like stringifying complex outputs to compare them easily, comparing all of outputs with expected outputs in a single if statement and issuing a single verbose t.Errorf on failure, showing what functions produced what outputs on what inputs and what was expected.
But if Uber isn't yet public, and won't allow a market in its shares, who would one sell the shares TO to cover the tax?
Ah yes - that sounds like the stochastic gradient descent I've been hearing about. That makes a lot of sense for very expensive models. Thanks for the response nshm - I've recently taken an interest in ML (coming in with some familiarity with optimization), and it's much appreciated to have some 'REPL' in the learning process.
It would be rather easy to increase supply of housing. Berlin is full of brown-field sites that could be stacked with housing.

1. Remove density and height restrictions (e.g. "Berliner Traufhoehe").

2. Remove unnecessarily strict building requirements (e.g. "Daemmungswahn").

3. Remove legislation that is too tenant-friendly (e.g. "Mietbremse").

All three serve as breaks to increasing housing supply, the first is a legal impediment, the other two reduce investments.
True. But I doubt any of it is making things easier for people in that phase of life.
I don't see how open source software is at all compatible with the view you've just expressed.
In this case? Probably. But the idea that catching a bug in production is a huge problem is a myth, pushed by research that was later completely withdrawn.
How many people alive today could come up with Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm when faced with a problem that calls for it? Probably hundreds of thousands, if not more. But, Dijkstra described the problem and its solution at a time when computer science was an obscure field of study. His contribution - among others - helped pave the way for the modern computerized world.

If someone today solves an obscure problem of similar difficulty to Dijkstra's graph search, they won't be called great anything. It is the impact that matters, not the difficulty of the problem or the IQ of the inventor. Great scientists, philosophers and artists had the foresight, luck, and ability to develop something that subsequently had a massive impact on the world.

A point in the article that I agree with is that great philosophers shouldn't be treated as flawless geniuses. Great people of the past made massively impactful contributions, but that doesn't make them the ultimate authority on their field. Answers to today's problems aren't going to be found by disecting footnotes of Aristotle, Turing or Einstein, but in work of people who will make contributions today that will shape the future.
" the secrecy might as well be the right strategy to push it through I guess"

Why not canceling this whole concept of democracy.
They'll find out. You can't get an under the table loan for millions of dollars from a reputable organization. Plus, the IRS and everyone else will be looking into where the money came from.
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An interview with Scott Aaronson touches the some subject: "Scott Aaronson on Philosophical Progress" [1]:

Luke (interviewer):

[...]

I’ve previously called philosophy a “diseased discipline[2],” for many reasons. For one thing, people working in philosophy-the-field tend to know strikingly little about the philosophical progress made in other fields, e.g. computer science or cognitive neuroscience. For another, books on the history of philosophy seem to be about the musings of old dead guys who were wrong about almost everything because they didn’t have 20th century science or math, rather than about actual philosophical progress, which is instead recounted in books like The Information[3].

[...]

Scott:

[...]

You’re right that these “old dead guys” didn’t know all the math and science we know today, but then again, neither did Shakespeare or Dostoyevsky! I mean, sure, the central questions of philosophy have changed over time, and the human condition has changed as well: we no longer get confused over Zeno’s paradoxes or the divine right of kings, and we now have global telecommunications and the Pill. I just don’t think either human nature or human philosophical concerns have changed quickly enough for great literature on them written centuries ago to have ceased being great.

[...]

[1] https://intelligence.org/2013/12/13/aaronson/

[2] http://lesswrong.com/lw/4zs/philosophy_a_diseased_discipline...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood-ebook...
Eh. As much as we like Prince, his symbol is still a brand, and Unicode should not be a permanent memorial to brands.

And here's why excluding people is nice: I'd say there's history involved in the fact that the North Korean encoding (KPS 9566) has codepoints for special decorative characters for writing "Kim Jong-Il", but Unicode isn't putting those in either.
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around a quantum computer emulator, how is that implemented on a conventional computer? Could you elaborate? Thanks.
The sprint feature reminds me of this: http://www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com/

Discussion on ^ link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11197190

Like the comments linked, I don't like how it just deletes all the work -- what if you'd written something really compelling and lost it all?
Berliner here, working in Kreuzberg. Text me "Germany + 171 as net provider + 19 48 58 0" either Whatsapp or iMessage or johannkaupen at Google Mail more details and I'll help you!
Additionally: you'll find help on WG-Gesucht.de // most of the stuff is in German, but some are texting in English too and Most will ne Sperling German.
The code itself isn't super duper pythonic, which is not ideal, but definitely the right direction for a project like this to move.

It's just hard sometimes to set and follow standards when you're pushing to demonstrate value. Not impossible, but hard.
Let's talk again in a few years. :)

In all seriousness, though, I'm also just speaking from personal experience. That said, if you are working in type theory, chances are that you will end up skimming almost everything on this list...
Reading on, I see that.

It still breaks down when a zero value is meaningful for a configuration parameter, but means something different than what was done before the parameter was configurable. I think that's probably not super often.

In light of all this, I still don't really see what harm we're avoiding by preferring the inlined struct initialization. I do agree it looks a little prettier, but the article seems to give it a greater import.
I sure do. People with scientific training are just as capable of producing art as anyone else. My personal experience is scientists are more interested in the arts and literature than the average person of equivalent education.
WG-Gesucht.de (mostly German) maybe. Competition is hard though
This is not true, especially in our industry. Considering how many start-up owners are under 40 and employ many people.
Am guessing he just turned 40. Cue the paeans to turning old!
Amazing film & director. The hypnotic train scene where it turns from bw to colour... magic
What is a "Ferienwohnung"? A cursory search only turned up articles in German.
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My experience over the years is that Go serves a specific niche ver well. The niche being boring long running services that do simple tasks in unison with other services. It's better to see it as a language wi th which you can build little self contained machines that work well together. I have a system made up of such little machines and it quietly works away at some low end server.
So the OP says what society decides isn't fair, and you say that fairness is decided by society. It seems like there should be a less paradoxical way to reason about this.
The roadmap seems to suggest at least some of your questions are answered: https://infinit.sh/documentation/roadmap
See another answer in this thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11607829.
fantastic! I'll give it a good try and report. :)
> x86 is not particularly nasty

x86's terrible reputation is well deserved. x86-64 fixes a number of problems, but for most of x86's lifetime we've had to live with 8 registers and the lack of IP-relative addressing...

Let's not forget how awful x87 floating point was, either!
What happens when private RSUs vest? Do companies withhold some RSUs and the government considers the tax bill paid by the withheld amount?
AirBnB minus a website plus a lamp post flier.
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Nobody is saying your research has to have the quality of industry open source projects. You're just coming up with excuses to continue to hide your code.

Merely publishing it at all would be helpful. That way other people can pick it up and modify it to work for them. That's still better than them flying blind and having to completely rewrite your code from scratch.

It's really infuriating to see researchers creating this false dichotomy between publishing production-quality software and publishing any code at all.
This might be relevant: http://airbnbvsberlin.com (Data analysis of AirBnB rentals in Berlin)

Key facts:

* 10% of the users are offering more than one unit (so not just a spare bed)

* Average user rents out 1.3 units

* Top user is renting out 44 flats
Well, that's the point of the game) Otherwise when you stop writing nothing happens, no stakes.

Of course you can just ignore this feature and simply write without it.

I have also experimented with using a "pomodoro" feature instead of this(just a 20 min countdown timer), but sprints seem more fun. Maybe I'll add a preference allowing people to choose pomodoro instead.
> dismiss all scientific surveys and studies as leftist propaganda

I don't, I dismiss certain biased reporters. I have a great love of science, and have had to deal with scientific (and not so scientific social) studies for years. I believe that it is very important to understand the manner and methods of any study.

> That's a common calling card of the Tea Party.

That's common FUD from people trying to demean others.

> I didn't link to all Tea Party sites because I didn't want you to claim I was only linking to fringe websites.

Pretty sad logic when you don't actually ask people what their specific beliefs are but instead pick websites with a party to promote and people to dismiss.

> Seems it wouldn't matter what I linked to. Facts don't have much sway over belief.

Facts are very important, hearsay not so much. I'm getting a little sick of these political hit articles being taken as facts.

> anti-vaccine movement is rather bipartisan

Anti-vaccine, as I pointed out unlike your original accusation, has some narrow demographics (rich educated liberal, various narrow religions) and using it any political argument is really pushing it. It also wraps a lot of beliefs about people vs state in a dense heart-breaking package. It probably flared a bit this year since the flu shots didn't seem to select the correct viruses for this year in certain areas.

I'm really done with this, you want to demonize me by telling me what I believe, and I was just interested in polymer money and happy Harriet Tubman is going to be replacing a foul man on the $20. I do notice you didn't bother to answer any of the things I pointed out, but I guess never go off the attack is a fine strategy.
> Say you want to resume continuation K, which has a stack of some size N.

The size of the continuation's stack doesn't matter for the problem I described, it's the size of the stack "underneath" your continuation that matters (ie. C(1) and C(2) above).

If C(2) > C(1) there is no way to shrink C(2) such that the continuation's stack can be copied into the right place.

> I like doing unacceptable things in my programs. It's the best part of programming, really.

What you do in your programs is up to you! But nobody else is going to use a C library that messes with the execution state of its callers (unless that is the point of the library, which it isn't with Lua).
"40 > 40: Has-been"
The "recompile" needs then to be extracted into another Verilog source code with all delays taken into account and all tests should pass on that extracted source. Then, if you are diligent enough, you execute static and dynamic analysis.

One should know that for processes less than 90nm the shape of wire starts to play - delay begin to depend not only on the length of wire, but on the number of turns as well.

All this means that the smaller the process, the more time and computing resources will be spent on post-synthesis, place and route stages.
I do refuse to complete any form of test or assessment if they will not guarantee detailed feedback ahead of time. I do reject a lot of employers very early on.

98% of employers treat employees and candidates like shit, so this is a useful and efficient rejection rate if you refuse to work anywhere but the 2% that actually treat you like a human being in addition to paying fairly, offering reasonable benefits, etc.
I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Rust is designed for a specific market, and it sounds like you aren't part of it.
> The U.S. government concurrently has criticized the fundamental prevention principal of the EU Consumer Centre which protects 500 million Europeans from consuming genetically modified food and hormone-treated meat.

Good for the EU. If only our government showed the same care for its own citizens.
I think his point is that everyone harbors strange and misguided misconceptions about life, truth, reality, and culture. Here's his.
The most alarming features of this proposed legislation are the facts that it contains this:

".. it also contains an ‘investor protection’ provision allowing corporations to effectively sue governments for taking action to harm their business."

(source: http://www.publicfinanceinternational.org/news/2016/02/ttip-...)

So .. effectively, this could mean that a corporation could overrule a government in legislation if it would be harming it's profits.

The big problem with this for example here in Finland is that through these measure big corporations could try to take over the nations natural resources, like water and forest, which are and should be protected by local laws. But through this kind of legal means, these corporations could be allowed to sue the government over the loss of a profit due to protecting legislation, in order just to make a profit out of it. Which is complete and total bullshit.
I guess when you remove 3, you would increase the supply, but only with what you see for example in London: Mostly luxury flats

Doesn't really help getting more affordable flats on the market.
Sam Altman has commented on this before. Among other things, he advocates for much longer (10 years) exercise periods for equity grants.[0]

He also discusses the need for a change in tax treatment by the IRS. One of the fundamental issues is how options are taxed. Should you exercise an option, you will need to pay taxes on the spread (delta of strike price and current FMV, i.e. latest 409A valuation).

In many cases, the spread is so small or nonexistent, that the tax bill is irrelevant. But, in a few cases it's so large that most people can't possibly raise the capital to cover the tax bill.

I think the fundamental issue is the definition of FMV. When there's no public market, and employees are covenanting away any rights to sell their equity on secondary markets, is there really a fair market? I would say no.

[0] http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity
A state machine has states and transitions.
Some transitions are valid, others are not.

Therefore when you implement a state machine in code the consequence is sequential coupling.

Imagine a car class: You have StartCar(), Accelerate(), Break(), StopCar(), SwitchGear(). Can you accelerate with your car turned off? no. Can you stop your car twice? No.
So there should be validations in state transitions. Since in this code those are missing, it's possible to arrive to invalid states that can cause undesired behavior.

In the "request" npm module (an ambiguous module name that wastes a lot of my time in a regular basis), you can abort a request that has not started. That causes an exception. It took me a lot of time to find it. It was all because of a broken state machine.
I'm not sure I would even call it an undercurrent:

> I listened closely as Jesse spoke. What stood out for me was one unusual detail—he’d been extremely cold, “freezing” he said, just prior to the first episode. I began to explore this with Jesse, and asked him if anyone on either side of the family suffered a trauma that involved being “cold,” or being “asleep,” or being “nineteen.”

This is pretty much indistinguishable from the sort of cold reading technique used by "psychics" and "mediums" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading#The_Forer_effect_...
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FWIW, the literal translation is holiday/vacation apartment.
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Thanks. That was a great post. Hopefully, his proposed solutions gain traction.
"(as generally EU is the over-regulated side)

Why is regulation a bad thing?
These rules exist for a reason in health/food for example.
I've never come across anything that was so effective at being depressing that I felt weighed down just from skimming it.
>And it is a simple fact that proprietary software puts you in a position where you can be taken advantage of by the software developer and free software doesn't

Two (non security, as you mentioned, even though it's brought up continually by apologists) examples off the top of my head:

* FileZilla, a GPLed FTP client, had malware added to its installer by Sourceforge at the request of its developers.

* Ubuntu, an operating system composed entirely of free software, started sending search data in its UI to third parties without prior notice.

If you think it's impossible for the developer to take advantage of you because their software is "free", you simply aren't being imaginative enough.
Oh, that's simple. We gophers don't make any mistake. Ever. It makes our lives easier.
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For things like coal and oil the cost is in acquisition, transportation, and storage of the fuel and the infrastructure that goes with that.

You can't just go out and find coal lying around. You need to hallow out or level an entire mountain to get it. That requires a lot of people and equipment. And you need to transport large quantities of it around to where it's needed which requires special infrastructure dedicated to that task. The same goes for oil/natural gas.
If you're interested in tabulators & punch cards and the impact they had on human history, read IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black. It's a sometimes dry but fascinating explication of the role IBM played in supporting the Holocaust and the strategies the company employed to continue doing business with Germany during the war.
I've seen electronic microscope image of a working polar transistor in few dozens of atoms. Wires were couple atoms wide. The method employed for that scale was able to place about couple of hundreds of tungsten atoms per second.

It was in 2005. I lost contact with these people, I don't know how they do now.
Musk is in a league of his own. This is based on my own research and comparison. I believe I've watched every interview he's given, read his biography, read the in-depth profile on waitbutwhy.com, and followed his companies fairly closely. I've done the same with Bezos, since the day Amazon went public. While I highly respect Bezos, I believe if you did the same, you would come to the same conclusion.
It might have been amazing / done well two years ago. Two years is an aweful long time in App Store land.
“Because Mike Pall is a robot from the future”
Any hope that humans can eventually beat robots?
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Generally I agree with you.

The recent changes to VAT feel like a mess. Maybe I'm missing something there and they're not as bad as they seem?
> No. culture is built to improve biological fitness of the population.

> This seems to be written by someone who harbored strange and misguided misconceptions about life, truth, reality and culture

This seems to be written by someone who harbors strange and misguided misconceptions about life, truth, reality and culture.