skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes the discussions and debates do help. But this can also be had today with high quality forums (e.g. HN forum, google groups etc).

>>Many 'great thinkers' cannot just be picked up off the shelf.

That's where a little bit of internet literacy (mainly the google-fu skills) helps a lot. It's not that difficult to acquire it either. If you acquire these skills (e.g. in your high school) then finding great thinkers is not so much of a problem.
In fact, I did it exactly in such a manner: I am from a third world Asian country, where such great professors are mostly non-existent or if they do exist they are almost always inaccessible to poor people like me. So, what did I do?
I struggled with Google for some time, and with the help of some sites I acquired the immensely important google-fu skills. Then I landed on the Wikipedia knowledge-galaxy. From there the access to 'great thinkers' was just a click away.
As far as discussions and debates are concerned, then I read books presenting opposing views on important issues like religion, economics and politics.
e.g. In case of religion the theists' point of views, Bible, Quran etc on one hand and Plato's dialogues, Darwin's theory, Voltaire, Khalil Jibran, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris on the other hand;
Marx's Das Capital and communist manifesto on one hand and criticism of Marx and Atlas Shrugged on the other.

I engage in online debates on forums like this.

Thanks to today's internet and the sites like the ones I mentioned in the earlier comment on this thread, a person who has far less money than $200K (hardly $2500 per year) can actually acquire so much knowledge.

It's not bragging though, as the same knowledge has made me more humbled too.
My voicemail message is "Please hang up and email me" -- this unfortunately has not dissuaded as many people as I hoped.
I hope this happens too. The MVMO Ting is closest I have seen to this. $6/mo each device and data/voice/SMS usage is pooled.
I think you missed the last bit of the text:

> Ex-Design Ethicist & Product Philosopher @ Google

Ex.
I'm on the $30 plan and hit the cap every single month because I'm using it as my home internet. I absolutely refuse to do business with AT&T -- the only cable provider to my apartment complex. I can't imagine I'm the only person in this situation, and wish I had a better option, such as a fixed rate (i.e. X bits/second transfer cap) to the local cell tower at this one location that I actually use data regularly rather than a fixed number of GB per month over wherever they have coverage.
Perhaps it is atypical, though I spend a lot of time on my phone and don't go through more than 1 GB/month because almost all of my browsing involves text and images, with videos usually only while I am indoors (generally over WiFi).
I'm not much of a finance guy so please tell me how this is different than a Ponzi scheme.
It's not quite that simple - I work weekdays, my wife works Thursday, Friday, Saturday, with her Mum looking after our son on Thursday and Friday. On Saturdays I look after him.

Honestly I have no idea how anyone could expect to be able to work at the same time as looking after a two year old, I've done it once while my brother came over to entertain him, and even then it was just barely viable. Young children just don't understand the concept of someone being present in the room but not able to pay attention to them.
there are these 'expository papers' by keith-conrad as well, which are pretty good. they are available here : http://www.math.uconn.edu/~kconrad/blurbs/
Always looking for good ideas and interesting projects :)
Representing higher-order dependencies in networks
If I understand this correctly, they are applying the Chess strategy of thinking n-moves ahead to Scrabble, where the opponent's tiles are hidden and ones own future tiles are mostly unknown.

If you use all the tiles, on the upside you get +50 extra points. The downside is that you leave a lot more room for the opponent to score big since there are more letters on board after your move. Also, you have no control on your next 7 tiles and this can negatively affect your scores for the next 3-5 moves.

The benefit to keeping a few good tiles for future moves comes at the cost of fewer points in the immediate round. The upside is your opponent has fewer open tiles to score big on.

In general, the first strategy beats the second because of the bingo advantage, however their secret sauce is a list of 5 letter words that the opponent can't build on to score big points. So these inert words make the second strategy better for now.

I haven't written any Scrabble AI but I wonder if most of them optimize for the immediate move or look further down the game? Unlike Chess, there are many more unknown variables per move in Scrabble - tiles you both might get, x-y position of n-tiles placed per round, scores of each tile placed, tile bonuses (double/triple letter/word) etc. If anything, the Nigerians' victory has shown that there is a lot more room for optimization in Scrabble and scoring the max per round may not be the globally optimal solution.
Is there any requirement that you can work on a "show HN" project for less than 24 hours? Were you prohibited from touching it afterwards? I don't understand this argument.

If you create something that is only working on Chrome, at least put "Google Chrome only" in the title, otherwise this is a broken application that you've just posted for the world to see.
https://charge.co/data-only

About midway down the page it says: "Your data never expires, so stock up!"
Pretty interesting strategy. I also play very defensively when I play scrabble to the point where I try to sabotage what I think my opponent's next move(s) is(are) which, when using short letters, makes this really, really easy.

Then again I've never played competitively so who knows about that "easy" part :)
What happens if your phone is off?
When you have just two companies competing in a space, that's not true competition; that's a cartel.
It really amazes me that you're doubling down on this absurd analogy. In addition to drinking you've thrown in tobacco and meth(!) as though they somehow compare to the rather vague and amorphous "dopamine addiction" caused by notifications on a computer.

To bring all this back into context, Slack has a mute button. You can't mute the physically addictive qualities of drug addictions. This is a completely bizarre comparison.

Equally absurd is your equating the tangible productivity benefits of group chat software (minimizing distractions through asynchronous communication) in an office culture to the oft-cited but scientifically questionable benefits of using drugs to be more creative.

Even if you could prove that getting addicted to drugs makes you more creative through some sort of peer reviewed scientific study (is studying that in a controlled way even ethical?), I doubt anyone would argue that the tradeoffs were worth it because of the powerfully negative consequences of drug addictions.

And, once again, the analogy is absurd because the productivity benefits of using group chat are clearly less ambiguous and the risk of "dopamine addiction" is entirely optional with judicious use of that mute button.

And, frankly, as someone who knows multiple people struggling with drug addictions right now, I find the comparison offensive. No one's life will ever be destroyed by Slack the way I've seen people's lives being destroyed by alcohol and drugs.
While I don't agree with the text and I'm not a big "static typing fan" you are absolutely right

> He has a commercial interest in maintaining his guru status.

This. I suspected before clicking that it was a load of hot air, but gave him the benefit of the doubt
These slides (from 2008) have more details about the Atom DSL:

http://cufp.galois.com/2008/slides/HawkinsTom.pdf
Is it just me or is anyone else bothered by the lack of theory here? The results are great, but seem so heuristical and ad-hoc, like somebody tried lots of things and one seemed to work, but there's no clear idea as to why, and certainly no general theory tying things together.
I was looking up the T-Mobile international roaming high-speed upgrade pricing for my own use so I might as well post it here:

Single-day pass: $15 for 100MB

7 day-pass: $25 for 200MB

14-day pass: $50 for 500MB
Why is Estimating so Hard?
Uber has no need to worry about maximizing profits via limiting drivers, or need for a medallion system, in the long term given that their long-term goal is no drivers at all:

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/17/ubers-self-driving-car-future...

(one example; there are more recent articles)
How can the user install software on a node authorizing payments? Once they do that, why can the Trojan read/write code?

Very shoddy terminal security :(

We can guess that the Bank of Banglesdesh uses not-locked-down Windows desktops to run their system.
Pages can override the default interactions using touch event handlers.
And this is a good example of why a lot of people can't stand this so-called "guru"

The whole text reads more like one of those "reality shows" on TV with a load of fluff, lots of recaps and very few substance

Then you scroll down and his brilliant conclusion is that Java and Ruby has the same coding efficiency when you do it his way. What a load of crap.

I stand by my assertion: I wouldn't trust Uncle Bob with anything bigger than a Hello World. But if you have an over-budgeted corporate project you may look nice to your boss if you contract him
You guessed wrong.
After C things start becoming very subjective.

C++'s standard library goes beyond C's.
Java's standard library goes beyond C++'s.

Then, having a standard library is necessary for compatibility. e.g: in C++ you can go and use something like Boost or POCO but then they might not play well with each other and you will need some glue code.

Those "glue code" problems are extremely time consuming.
Noel Gallagher says it well, granted, he's no longer a working man, but he hails from the section of society I am talking about. And he's pretty eloquent in his put downs;

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/11/noel-gallagher-mocks-r...
"For anyone with a nostalgic attachment to the notion that rock music is a medium for meaningful artistic expression capable of shaping the wider culture, the British band Radiohead is either a beacon of hope or the last bearer of the torch"

This is quite pretentious - I don't view them as either, and I care about artisticness in rock.

There are plenty of artists out in the wild experimenting with new genres of rock, and creating new movements (albeit most haven't reached popular culture excepting maybe the emergence of chiptune production techniques in popular music, including in rock, but other genres such as hip hop as well).

Music isn't about influencing popular culture necessarily -that is incidental. Any attachment to such a notion is vapid.
The biggest thing is that you're going to need help on the application at some point.

If you know you can hire remote, then you have more options.

If you likely can only hire locally, then choose a stack that won't alarm local, good candidates. In my area, for example, Python nearly does not exist. Ruby,.NET, and PHP have the overwhelming majority. I can find .NET and PHP programmers tomorrow, but locally I can't find any Julia or Clojure devs.

In general static typing helps me on bigger projects with team members be responsible, but slows me down on weekend projects for funzies. I'd go with static if I were you.
If you are fine with robbing a bank and for that amount wouldn't you?
Show HN: RSS feed of Android app reviews via Google's new Reviews API
Last point is bullshit - new languages sometimes contains new ideas and possibilities (like Rust), sometimes they are for specialized scopes (like R), sometimes they are just evolution of existing languages.

Just unfollowed him in Twitter - it's not the first time I read such low-quality narcissistic "dialogues" in his blog, only because in past he had high quality book about clean code.
I'm thinking the reason you can't get the feature you want is because some engineers who designed the call setup for cell networks decided keeping the phone's battery from dying as a result of excessive ringing is a nice feature. I'm with you though, I hate voice mail. So does my mom. She recorded her outgoing message to politely say she never checks v/m and to text or email.
Why do many language home pages not show a single sample of the language?
That second argument does not imply that humans are more confusing than mice, just different.

My reaction was only against the apparently underlying assumption that humans, biologically, are more complex than mice, a remain of the idea that they are more evolved or a biased perspective due to the fact we study them in more detail.
Has anyone noticed how the Slack client seems to just consume resources. I don't recall my IRC clients down the years use as much memory / CPU as my slack client seems to do.

Surely there should not be too much computational overhead involved here or am I missing something?
>I think you can easily fit a day's worth of video on an 8GB ssd

I'm not a video expert but 8GB seems drastically inadequate for meaningful resolution / frame rate. I estimate roughly 291 Kbps which does allow you much resolution / frame rate.
https://np.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/4kdc6d/can_anyone_...
Doctor Will Work for Ether
McDonald's hasn't, quoting the OP you responded to, 'cut off all competition'. Are you imagining that with no competition, McDonald's would still not raise prices?
Interesting that this has been previously submitted five times and only caught on now.
Ask HN: Why Nobody wants to hire a failed Entrepreneur?
After one year of leaving my full time job and starting my own venture it failed brutally, I learned a lot things but to get again on my feet I need to get hold of a job to survive. But I found out not many of the employers are willing to hire failed entrepreneurs, why is that?
That case has max GPU dimensions max length 13", max height 5.88". That's the original PCI standard length so there is no video card or any PCI/PCIe card longer than 13".

Among the current video cards I believe the Asus GTX 980 Ti STRIX is the longest and even that's only 12" long and 5.5" high. Most video cards are 10.5" or less, even the TITAN X and most 980 Ti cards are only 10.5". You will have other problems: the 980 Ti has a 250W TDP and you probably need a liquid cooler in a case this small. (A few years back Asus had an even bigger card, the MARS II but even that would've fit if only for the length -- the reason it wouldn't fit is because it had a three slot cooling system! For very good reasons, it had 365W TDP.)
Japan's amazing urban geography doesn't seem like something Uber can fix, surely.
That would assume the user is only going to view one page. If they look at several pages then it'd be better to have sent all the CSS necessary in the first request and have their browser cache it.

If you only send the styles necessary for the page they're looking at then you lose all the benefits of caching. That's a far bigger problem than sending a bunch of unused code.
I've published video games in 100% assembly language, and others 98% C++ (with some tiny bits in ASM). The latter games were easily more than 10x complex, and were done in comparable time. Games now are done with tens of programmers, a lot of it written in DSLs or programmed by game designers using visual programming languages. ASM doesn't scale. It can be joyful though.
Continuous Delivery: The Holy Grail of Cloud App Management
I'm a developer with an English degree from a liberal arts college and I do agree with the article on this point. When you're trying to dive into difficult literature –and learn how to analyze it in the first place– it's really, really helpful to have a professor leading you through it, and a room full of smart people discussing it. You can't just go fuck off to Bali with Ulysses and get anywhere near the same experience.

Coding is different. The only way to learn how to program is to program. Yeah mentors help a ton and speed things up but I think it's a lot more solitary of a journey.
Its a tough situation and people want to hire the winners and you just need to show them how you have won and you have winning habit.
Someone just registered the domain today as, I suspect, a practical joke:

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Registrar: GOOGLE INC.
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 895
Whois Server: whois.rrpproxy.net
Referral URL: http://domains.google.com
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Status: ok https://icann.org/epp#ok
Updated Date: 22-may-2016
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Expiration Date: 22-may-2017
‘Too much of a coincidence’: identical twins with heatstroke in the same race
Lessons I wish I had been taught (1996)
It halves my macbooks battery life. I wonder if this is a result of the php/js stack. I would not be suprised all these cpu cycles are burnt with busy waiting for new messages.
I don't know why you are getting down voted. This is the correct answer; when a screen only has 1000 pixels of graph you can't plot more than 2000 points of time domain data, max and min of each column. As you zoom in resample for the correct range. Influxdb can help do this, very quickly. I can allow up to 200000 points of raw data before I need to do any pre-computation and still maintain a 100 ms charting latency target.
> Do adolescents today have this kind of relationship with bands?

The big difference is that CDs would cost $15 a pop. $15 being the perfect price point for me, as an incomeless preteen, to get just one CD for my birthday and maybe one in my Christmas stocking. And then I'd be stuck with those CDs for a year. Or stuck with the one CD I had loaded in my portable player during school or family road trip or furniture store excursion.

I was stuck with Radiohead for a long time. I remember I'd get so tired of listening to a CD that I would pull the headphone jack a millimeter out of the slot. It had the effect of muting the bass frequencies and sound terrible, but it sounded different. Breathed new life into my meager CD collection when I discovered that lifehack one day in sex ed.

I happily upgraded out of the CD era as quickly as I could, but I can look back and appreciate how well it forced me to get to know the few artists I had in my collection. Though it also came with a certain destitution of choice.
"cartel (n): an association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition."

Having two competitors doesn't necessarily create a cartel. Are you trying to argue that Uber and Lyft are working together to maintain prices at a higher level?
Generally pensions operate similar to a 401(k) except for entire companies instead of individuals. Companies are supposed to fund them with the assistance of actuarial models.

The problem is a lot of companies either under-funded or the pensions themselves invested poorly. Ultimately the future cannot be predicted so its likely at least some would fail even if everyone were blameless. This is really a double failure of both the pension plan itself and the insurance that's supposed to provide the public with trust in the system.
"Nigeria is beating the West at its own board game"

I know that the definition of "the West" is pretty vague, but this journalism seems a decade or two behind its time with its "us and them" style. Scrabble doesn't belong to Europe/USA and Nigeria fits geographically, politically, economically, and religiously into common definitions of "the West".
Balde: a microframework to develop web applications in C
I do projects that interest me but they aren't recruiting related.
The question is: in which countries are you operating? US only?

Is there any SIM as a service in a Linux host or behind some REST interface? (for the creation of bots) Could I have multiple telephone numbers/identities in a single SIM?

If not, does anyone now where to find those kind of services?
I liked the original title - can we change it back?
Dell, why u no VPNC
How to Make All External Links Nofollow Using JavaScript – InfoTechSite
That looks easier than cracking games!
Have you tried/IV Play? http://www.mameui.info/
Not enough information. I really don't think there's any overall pervasive sentiment of "don't hire failed entrepreneurs" out there. Sure, some individuals may have a bias like that, but there's no real justification for it. If you're having trouble finding something new, maybe you're looking in the wrong places, or you need to tweak your resume, etc.

Can you share more about what your background/skills are, what kind of work you're looking for, etc? Maybe somebody here could help you if you do...
Packaging almost anything sucks. Use fpm.

Https://github.com/alanfranz/fpm-within-docker for native packages.
DropArt – Water drop photography kit
Average max, min, or average average?
Did you know you can delete voicemails without listening to them?
My friend was cheating against me in words with friends by looking up the biggest words. I beat him pretty handily with defensive play.

In words with friends you can easily control the double and triple words by avoiding plays that open certain areas of the board. There are more double words in Scrabble so WFF is more strategic in that regard.
I know, my position isn't quite decided. I just think there's a certain onus on the people who choose to be drivers, who accept the way things are. Why the hell are they agreeing to work for Uber if they're not making any money? Go find a job that pays then. By taking up a job with Uber and dealing with their bull, they're directly supporting and sustaining that system.

I can understand why it would be terrible if every business tried to pull this shit. Nobody gets paid to work? How would society function? But if you work for an outlying company like Uber where there is no money, that is your problem. Go find a paying job. It's not like Uber has a monopoly on the job market and everyone is required to work for them, for nothing. It's a choice. So don't choose to work for nothing? All I'm hearing is "I signed up to be a driver for Uber. I know they pay nothing, but I intentionally choose to work here, knowing it pays nothing!".

If this were a real problem, Uber would not have any drivers, and they would be out of business. If it were an even more serious problem, we'd have tons of companies paying nothing, and our first world economies would collapse overnight.
Hm... what's in the other 8 bytes that had to be skipped?
4 things I learned scouring 12,000 mutual funds
My exact thoughts, what a strange way of referring to the process they were investigating.
I can confirm that it is very simple to disable voicemail with Ting.
economically?

GDP - per capita $1091.64
Thank you I came into this thread either wanting to find someone pointing this out or to post it myself