skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know!!! Feeling. I also wanted to buy etherium last Thursday with the intent of cashing out in advance of paying for car repairs (I'm picking it up today)... that was on the news of the dao and arcade city in Austin. (I messed up setting up trading accounts and the money tx was too slow)

I did sell out btc at 440 and bought back in at 390-ish when that story hit hacker news about the button tx saturation "issue"

Two things I go by:. 1) the market is not efficient. 2) herd behavior can be your friend.
I think we will witness much more evil stuff from Google in the future.

This is just a small taste.
We rode in the self-driving cab that will hit Singapore streets in 2019
Looks like you're committing your own fallacy there. Jerf's topic is Taleb's level of authority, not the veracity of the statement of the article. How is it "argument from authority" when the argument is trying to establish how much authority the actor has in the first place?

The comment even has two separate disclaimers saying that Taleb might not be right about this, just that he has enough experience to be worth listening to on the subject.
Those there companies are all the same company. Also while Kyle was a cofounder of Justin.tv he wasn't actually part of it until a little bit in when they needed someone to figure out the camera.
It’s not Cyberspace anymore
Belief is something everyone the world over lives and dies by. The only thing to worry about is if you have a positive belief, as opposed to a negative one. Negativity, in any form, is harmful to all, while being positive has the opposite effect.
Summarily, all communication can and should be based upon opposing viewpoints. This does not make either one wrong, it is just the way it is. So I agree but would change it to "keep your identity positive", large or small is relative.
It's an enchanting, well-written essay on the history of an area of science few people ever think about, a window into the past, containing quite a few things I didn't know before, and along the way a showcase of some pretty neat things Mathematica can do.

No, it doesn't need a tl;dr. It doesn't contain any data you're going to personally need today or tomorrow. It falls into the categories of intellectual curiosity and general education. If that's not your dish, skip it and move on.

But I am reminded of a Lewis Carroll quote:

"No, no!" she broke in merrily. "I didn't mean our Literature! We are quite abnormal. But the booklets--the little thrilling romances, where the Murder comes at page fifteen, and the Wedding at page forty--surely they are due to Steam?"

"And when we travel by Electricity if I may venture to develop your theory we shall have leaflets instead of booklets, and the Murder and the Wedding will come on the same page."

Successful prediction.
Every thing you said was like a wild logical leap, my neck hurts from reading this.
Good point. Uncertainty colloquially does admit the possibility of "no true value" embarrassingly as a scientist, I forgot the stat definition.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10671637
Since the article's title doesn't have that weakness and should have been used anyhow, we'll use it. (Submitted title was "Anguish: A language written in zero-width characters".)

Anyone who uses 'lede' correctly gets express treatment here...
This is very true, but awkward to implement. What do you propose?

We could pay women. Take the number of years the woman had in school, minus ten. She gets that many $thousand per year per child. One could ignore negative numbers... or not. If this takes the place of child support, educated men might be more willing to risk becoming fathers.

For tax purposes, we could divide a person's income by the number of family members. If you earn $123,000 and have 8 kids, we use $12,300 to determine your tax bracket.

There are lots of ways to do this... and there will be lots of objections from those who would be better off with the current situation.
You can Google them all individually, but in general lots of companies are building asset management systems, usually with some sort of hybrid of private along with the public ethereum network
> The free market also doesn't lead to more getting build in locations where no space is left.

Because of the zoning laws - the opposite of a free market.
It'll be good to see MBAs bragging about their "6 MAD" courses instead of their "6 Sigma" ones...
I loved the part about the "friction required to enact choices" bit. Like how it's outstandingly easy to get a bank account, and how as a part of the law regarding privacy, they're required to provide a method for you to opt out of them selling your data, which involves them sending you a paper privacy notice, and to opt out you have to send them a written letter (no form is provided), to an address you have to write out yourself, and at your own cost.

That always infuriated me.

It should be as easy as signing up.
That's always been the drawback to renting as opposed to owning.

And the article sure makes it sound like folks in Stockholm move often. Why does it matter if they're 'kicked out' by someone with more money, versus being unable to find stable housing because of the Swedish policies?

It's fairly blind to say that Sweden's solution works so well, while completely ignoring the intended consequences. I see folks in housing policy doing that often -- if your system doesn't work as intended, it doesn't matter that the intent was good!

"Would-be renters without a first-hand contract have the option of either subletting from someone with a long lease or renting from a private landlord. But contracts are often for a year or less, since individuals who choose to let out their homes are usually limited to a fixed period agreed by the building’s housing association and only for a valid reason such as travelling abroad or moving in with a partner."
The employer also generally gets more time from the employees. (Saving $5 on lunch isn't nearly as valuable as saving an engineer 15 minutes of time)
I got accepted but didn't pursue it. The bank they use traditionally works exclusively with local venture-capital funded startups and multinationals opening offices near venture-capital funded startups, so I'm a bit skeptical they'll be a good match for anyone a continent or two from the Bay Area.

From what I read SVB don't actually issue debit cards to anyone so I'm not sure how useful the account would be, I don't think you could use it to pay for anything except maybe indirectly through PayPal, that may make accessing the funds complicated too. It may leave you requiring local incorporation and a local bank account for all your business needs in which case you're paying 15+ percent tax in the US purely for Stripe.

The incorporation process is itself just a couple forms to fill out. A company I registered through http://clerky.com/ beforehand was effortless, getting an EIN and registered agent was also easy through http://delawareinc.com (except fitting very verbose Costa Rican addresses on the forms), and taxes by http://de-taxes.com. Price is around $499+ either way you do it.
joke?
The whole hating women/minorities is spiel to shut people out. So that no one will question the "Generational Theft".
That's exactly what I'm suggesting is an anti-pattern. Yes you can do that. Yes it's hardly surprising that AWS make it possible, since synchronous RESTful CRUD is such a popular integration approach and often the first one we learn.

But I'd advise you to design your LambdaNews service using an asynchronous event-driven model instead. You'll find it reduces complexity and makes for a snappier, more reliable client experience (e.g. no 429 throttling responses to handle). You'll also find that the supporting AWS services like Kinesis, Cognito, IoT, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, S3 etc are much more in tune with that pattern.

The fact is that async platforms scale much better than anything that has to block and poll. It should hardly be surprising that at AWS's massive scale, it becomes a preferred service design pattern.

Pub/sub integration people have known this for decades, it is not news.

obdisclosure: I am ex-AWS but all the above is derived from public statements and documentation.
Thank you -- I actually lucked out and saw a ~30min cut of the film at the Banff Film Festival last year! It was so cool.
I don't think it ever actually swung into popular usage, until now, even though a lot of smart nerds wanted it to. So, I don't think a pendulum is the right term for what's happening (or what happened with the NC spec).

I think it's a hill that a lot of people and companies have been pushing computing tech up for many years...now we've reached the top, and we're rolling down the other side. Getting to the top required getting mobile networks "fast enough", systems small enough (because what's the point of being mobile if your system is big and heavy...might as well leave it plugged in at home or at the office), and the web (or something like it) advanced enough to be the platform on which these network apps are built.

If it were a pendulum, we'd see it swing back in 10-20 years. I can't think of any scenario in which that'll happen, even as small/personal devices get more powerful.

Note: I don't know if our destination is a good one. But, momentum and gravity (and hundred billion dollar companies) are definitely pushing us in a pretty clear direction.
I'm limited to only my experience in the U.S. public school system (and two universities, one private, one public) but education itself seems to be a walled garden. Curricula are set by policy, not by the instructor. Textbooks are pre-determined, and largely non-negotiable. Many classes mandate all sorts of closed software, sometimes begrudgingly allowing Octave in place of Matlab, for example. Many CS courses mandate a particular language, proprietary or not. And it's nothing new; when I was growing up, it was Apple ][ machines in every classroom. Even in my master's program, the layout templates for the thesis were provided assuming I was using Word. I had to parse them and mirror them into LaTeX so I could use the tools of my choice.

I understand and agree with your concerns, but choice has never been a staple of the education system I've encountered. Perhaps it is different elsewhere.
Your third line of "I'm always amused.." has me questioning whether I truly want to relaunch my side consulting just because design is a skill set. Where I'd land instead is incubating CPG/D2C ideas. Although, that basically replaces "clients hard to please" with "consumers who don't always know what they want" -- isn't that why we do any of this? Business is a sport that requires higher risk capacity than most who just exist and we have obvious rewards of doing so.

That said, are there entrepreneurial fields you know of which mitigate the cycle described above resulting in less headache?
This is a public boarding school for the Blind or Visually Impaired:

http://www.tsbvi.edu/about-tsbvi
The kids who most need the free lunches are most likely to lose the ID. (and books, and pencils, and...)
I actually think it looks kinda of cool.
If you mean the T34 one, yeah it was in USSR in the sense there was tenderloin in the shops. I.e. we knew the name but I never met anyone who could get hold of it. Even then not sure it was even heard of until 1990s.

Bulgarian 6502s were probably shipped with their Apple II clones. Those were hard to come by.
Any mention of the Prius using the Atkinson cycle brings out the inner pedant in me. I suppose to a certain degree, Toyota makes the engine, so they can call it what they want, but late intake valve closing is clearly quite distinct from the engine Atkinson invented (and indeed that design might not have achieved one goal of Atkinson's engine which was to circumvent the Otto cycle patent).

Indeed, if there were any existing cycle for which it would make sense to name the Prius' engine after, it would be the Miller cycle, though that has always meant some sort of external compression of intake air (the original patent used a turbo, but all Miller cycle engine's I've ever seen have superchargers).

One other interesting note is that the Miller cycle works best with a supercharger due to increased relative boost at low RPMs, where the drop in torque due to the late intake valve closing hurts the most. The Prius nicely sidesteps this by using an electric motor at low speeds.
Ah...memories. I lived down the street from there for a few years, 20 years ago. We would take a walk in the evening around the neighborhood, always wondering if we'd see excavators moving into the corn field.
You can animate (Pro version at least) and it has some export options (unity I'm not sure). You can also use Ruby to script it.

Sketchup is underrated and considered 3D for amateurs but people don't know that most architectural offices use it during early stages of projects. You can't beat its speed and usability.
Lunches are so cheap (a little under $3/lunch [1]), we might as well just give them away for free to all school age children.

For some of them, its the only real meal of the day they'll see.

[1] https://schoolnutrition.org/AboutSchoolMeals/SchoolMealTrend...
I know where they and actually will probably visit the next time I'm walking past that street ad on the river bank :)
Venmo is turning our friends into petty jerks
Because in the longer run extreme prices helps ensure new projects do get started when possible, and that current stock is maintained.

Holding pricess below market rates helps ensure that over time current housing will be less maintained as money goes elsewhere, and as current housing can be converted into other more profitable land, it will be, thereby reducing housing overall.

There are 100s of papers showing this, which is why rent controls being bad is one of the things most economists agree on.
200 years is over an order of magnitude longer than the time people typically predict we have left before robots "take all our jobs", which is usually like 5 or 10 years [1]. It is also several times longer than it takes each time for the economy get better, unemployment to fall, and this fear to subside, as demonstrated by the article.

This suggests that the current rise in fear will likely reverse long before it becomes any more of a problem than it was the previous many times. That's the point of the article.

What's your point? Why is it relevant to compare against whatever arbitrary definition of "human history" you chose? (Since the "civilization"? Since the Agricultural Revolution? Homo sapiens? Homo erectus?)

[1]: e.g. http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/robot-may-take-your-jo...
Ask HN: What are the most popular non-English programming languages?
I have been thinking about writing my own programming language in Spanish, but I'm wondering if it's even worth it.

What are the most popular non-English languages that you like?
We can make the post use the URL, but then the introductory text that patricksli posted would be lost.

patricksli, if you want to post your text as a comment, we can swap the URL later.
It sounds like the primary evidence supporting Guillory's claim is what they wrote on one question in their YC application (50:50 equity split). I don't know if that would represent a legally-binding contract if the case had gone to court, since it doesn't reference any shares, corporate entity etc.
This look like vi, which is probably the default $EDITOR, git defers to.
Thanks for pointing out the fallicy of equating the lunch program with poverty! It drives me up the wall when people treat this as a 1-1 equivalent.

In Charlotte, NC only 79% of students attend public school. Statewide, homeschooling has been growing at 15% per year for the last two years, and has now passed private school enrollment. Give that this is quite different than the national average, I wonder how the percentages of public school vary across the nation.
What adblocker do you use? I use google-chrome on linux with uBlock Origin addon and the site renders perfectly for me.

The addon says it blocked 32 elements.
It lost me with the opening spoof (?) of Sympathy for the Devil. Love the song but not remotely needed in the article.
1. I introduced the "Sage preparser", which does things like replacing "1/3" by "Integer(1)/Integer(3)" in Sage, before feeding that input to Python to be evaluated; Robert Bradshaw also did a lot of work on the preparer. The preparser uses a hook into the IPython evaluation system. I decided I really needed Sage to use a preparser like this during a talk I gave at Pycon 2005, based on audience feedback, which is why it exists.

2. I would really like somebody to remove the preparse code from Sage and make it a standalone library available on pypi. Here's the code (happy to relicense it under BSD): https://github.com/sagemath/sage/blob/master/src/sage/repl/p...

3. Permalink to your example -- http://sagecell.sagemath.org/?q=nwzdzn
It was, never played a broken one, I think. Look, they wouldn't be remembered so tenderly, if they were not working well :)
We merged most of the comments from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11722126 and re-upped this post, which was actually posted three days ago. We did that because (a) this one was posted by the project creator and (b) the discussion here had higher initial quality.
> Inflation adjusted wages are near all time highs for all quintiles [1].

Nope, that's inflation adjusted household income.

Wages (what one gets paid per unit of work) are significantly down from the peak in the 1970s.

http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/commentaries/Avera...
So your answer is "I think so, therefore I assume so without any justification"?
Well there's something close: the "noprocrast" [1] option in your profile.

[1] Explained here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=814695
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Wow, that looks great. I highly recommend that you submit it as an article in its own right, perhaps tomorrow, so as not to be too close to this thread.
Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_... and https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/33x2e9/howare_p...
a salary above average I'm still nowhere near being able to live comfortably in the best areas

This makes sense to me. An "above average" salary should make it possible for you to live in "above average" areas; to live in the "best" areas should require the "best" salaries.

Obviously it's a bit more complicated than this, since different people have different rankings of locations and some people will choose to live in "worse" areas so that they can keep more of their income for other purposes; but in the limiting case where there is public consensus on which areas are "better" and everybody lives in the "best" area they can afford, percentiles of income will exactly match percentiles of housing location.

I find people in Vancouver who are confused by this concept on a regular basis. Vancouver has 900,000 households but only has space for 300,000 detached houses; as long as detached houses are viewed as being superior to other forms of housing, there's no way the median household will ever be able to afford a detached house.
If you didn't scroll down you probably won't notice.

But I'm using Ka-Block on Safari OS X
Would a VM be better for this? Is a VM less likely to be broken out of than Docker in this case? I'm guessing bare metal is the most secure thing to run a honeypot in? My limited knowledge says... probably?
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So wait, that means USSR had no coin valued at less than today's $1.5 by purchasing power (assuming the 1/2 kopek coin existed at the time)? Interesting.
One Python library with some mindshare that has not made the transition is SageMath (http://sagemath.org). We haven't even tried yet (mostly due to lack of funding/time: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-devel/cUVKUx31g...). SageMath depends on sympy, so if sympy were to switch to support Python3 only before we do, then I guess we would never update sympy again in Sage.
I almost feel like @sama's blog post helped Jeremy's case even before it became a case... at the very least, it raised suspicion and caused more conservative readers who don't take "things posted on the internet" at face value to at least think about the underlying reason/cause for his public post.
Sure, but the article is about fear. In those "more than 200 years" there's been a worldwide explosion in prosperity, and each time a rise in unemployment was blamed on robots, it later fell again without any retreat by the robots. This suggests that your claim that "Robots have been taking all the jobs" is nothing to fear.
I should have said the non-English programing languages that you guys like.
Let's Build a Web Server in Rust
The exact response I have to people that badgered me about joining their WoW guild. I was thankfully playing D&D in the years prior and that inoculated me against the MMO genre...

Nearly a decade later, I was leveling a WoW hero to lvl 20 in order to get a Liadrin hero portrait in Hearthstone. Though I think the UI is fantastic and the music score is superb, every game mechanic just seems watered down and the world seems to have all key points curiously spaced out, as if to waste your time on traveling.

When I got repeatedly bullied by the Snapping Turtles in an oasis where you're meant to plant some dried seeds, I just gave up and went back to Teleglitch. Now that's a great game!
Obligatory George Carlin "fear of germs" link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnmMNdiCz_s

4th time posted to HN
>the more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you

You could keep going, stripping yourself of all labels via the discovery that labels are neither good nor bad in a qualitative sense. But this begs the question "what is good?" And then you might conclude that you know what is good, and then form your labels as such.

Having labels isn't dumb; not being mindful of your labels is dumb.
The language is perfect for literate programming. All human-readable characters are comments by default, so you can write completely human-friendly prose, and make the machine-readable content invisible to humans.
> Yep, the government's goal is to promote stable home ownership.

Which I don't understand, because mobility is more important in the current economic jobs climate. With cheap mortgage money, you're subsidizing people handicapping their ability to earn an income if their job evaporates.

The federal government needs to incentivize remote work through tax policy if it continues encouraging homeownership (which I agree is good from a societal perspective), or remove all support from the residential real estate market and allow the free market to be free (ie remove the subsidized benefits of buying vs renting, let landlords absorb the risk of large capital outlays for housing units).
Not really. The citation you mentioned above itself says, under "Private Auctions" --

> The winner will pay the amount of the second-highest bid, split either equally or proportionally between the losing applicants

And if you look at the news articles from the time that .blog was auctioned -- like http://domainincite.com/17991-blog-won-in-eight-figure-aucti... -- Minds + Machines, one of the losing bidders, revealed that they had received 3.4 million dollars after pulling out of the bidding for both `.blog` and `.store`

Also, apart from all the above which is public knowledge and there for you to find on your own, I work for Automattic, and when I checked with those who were involved with the .blog purchase, he confirmed that the winning bid was dispersed to the losing bidders. All in all, not a bad consolation prize.
I'm using https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts and wired is non-functional for me.