skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was over in Rates & Currencies on the BAML side, in 540 W Madison. (I know they have gotten rid of that building, and I live in New York now, but... I enjoy nostalgia!)
HN is very profoundly limited in scope and capabilities.

Simple stuff like collapsing long comment threads would be a Very Nice Plus, f'rex.

I've been on nearly all the platforms you've mentioned. The early ones (BBSes, Usenet) were tiny in comparison. Slashdot always kinda sucked for moderation, though its editorial curation was more useful than people today appreciate. Kuro5hin had some good ideas but ultimately never gained traction. I actually skipped digg. I use reddit, and like it for some elements, but it also frustrates me.

My interests are more toward a bloggy-oriented discussion platform, and the mix of capabilities, community, and hosting (free is unfortunately where I'm at for now), is hard to find.

I'm actually warming back on blogs, with self-hosted static-site systems being particularly attractive.
suddenly? you mean 7 years ago?

This is an old pointless fight. :/
Good point. Subgame perfect Nash equilibrium [1] would be more accurate since it applies to dynamic games.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subgame_perfect_equilibrium
>I've never met a fascist who didn't want to seize power and execute people like me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-fascism

Nothing in there implies genocide, as far as I can tell. Anti-immigration policies that could be perceived as "racist", perhaps, but no genocide! And that's a left-wing slur, not a label that many would choose to use themselves.

>There are communists who, surprisingly, don't want to be dictators.

How can one take the means of production from the capitalists and give them to "the people" without "seizing power"? More generally speaking, how could you ever expect communal ownership and absence of a state to scale with the size of modern societies? And if you don't have these qualities, is it really communism?

The two of you are putting words in my mouth, when I never claimed to be a fascist or a Nazi sympathizer or what have you. But from my perspective, communist strains range from horrifyingly totalitarian and contradictory, to laughably naive, to so close to the status quo as to be meaningless. At least fascist ideologies are forward and internally consist, and sadly, I think, closer to the true nature of the world than we would like to admit.
Gawker can’t hide its bad behavior behind press freedom
I'm not OP, but there are lots of mechanical logic out there.

This uses levers to make a binary adder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hs6eqSdbGc

And this uses marbles to make an adder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcDshWmhF4A
I don't see this as a rant.

It's perhaps not terribly charitable, but x0x0 does make a valid point: having children (in modern Germany) is a choice, and society probably shouldn't be on the hook for you to have as many children as you want.

It might be unkind, but it's certainly on topic.
Meanwhile in Javascript land, if your code is a year old you're already running out of prospective hires that are familiar enough with the language to maintain it haha.
This is why I think the makes the most sense for cities to own their own broadband infrastructure (just like they often own their road & water/sewer infrastructure). Maybe let out a contract for management of it comercially that gets periodically reviewed - maybe even split the basic infrastructure maintenance with companies competing to deliver data from common data centers across the last mile wiring/fiber so multiple have a market to compete within.
How much of a json response gets actually used in your code?
You did before the plots existed. albeit on the level that a wild bird has a right to forage for wild berries.
These reasons are (casually) mentioned in the post:

* "the deeper your reservoir the more efficient the water gets pumped. As the water gets consumed, the pump gives less output"

* "If the reservoir runs dry the motor won’t catch fire. That apparently is a thing water pumps."

* "Since the water is only going through a simple tube and not an expensive motor, you can pump a nutrient solution. If you want to pamper your plants, we don’t."
Well, it's better than the alternative:

http://www.aol.com/article/2011/02/18/stupid-employee-trick-...

Seriously though, this sort of thing is fairly common in art galleries and museums, especially with the complete randomness that seems to be a lot of modern art:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccidentalArt
Could you quote the context? I couldn't find it in the article.
A City for Poets and Pirates
I do the exact same thing. If it's important, have a real.person call me and leave a message. Otherwise eff off.
>Do you also find it strange that white people proudly identify as "Americans" without much stigma, even after centuries of racial atrocities by white Americans?

Evidently many do, having experienced no shortage of white guilt and self-hating anti-American sentiment in my life.

>Your point - as is the point of everyone who trots out the "Communism" is worse than Nazism old chestnut - is to minimise what the Nazis did.

I wish to do the opposite of minimizing what the Nazis did. I wish to knock naive Che hat-wearing millennials down a peg.

>And there's only one reason people do that.

If you're going to call me a Nazi, I think all I can do is stick out my tongue, call you a commie, and close the tab.
The so-called "demographic crisis" is blatant racism.

There are plenty of people who would love to live in Europe. If Europe needs more people, let in more immigrants instead of adding even more humans to the world.
I might be wrong, and somebody who can speak for the company might contradict me in the future. I can only say anything with this proviso.
And sink their ship in the process. What RH is doing with RHEL, is exactly what Microsoft has been doing with Windows for so long.
This project has been bothering me for (what feels like) months and I am glad to see there was an official response by the linguistics department of UW. How'd you find it?

By politics, do you mean that the letter mentions the social issues surrounding this project/its advertisement? Why did you think it's unfortunate?

One of my friends helped me see that one of the great practical applications of linguistics is to provide justice and value to minority languages and dialects.
As others posters have commented, Python 2 will survive in the sense that there will always be some code running on it (and there will be a niche market for dark artists who can massage it). Python 2 will not survive in the sense that no one will be writing new code for it. Python 3 is already commonly used for new projects and it's scheduled to get several big boosts in that direction as Ubuntu and Fedora switch to it as the default Python.

The old meme that it's unsafe to use Py3 is not true anymore. Practically all of the big libraries work fine on Python 3 now. Py3 code is going to be dominant in new projects in short order if it isn't already, and it's plausible that new Py2 projects will be virtually extinct by 2020.
It's different because the the organizations you cite do so publically. Thiel is doing it secretly to try to keep his hands clean. That's disturbing.

Also the organizations you cite are actually working for the public good, while Thiel is working from a petty personal vendetta.
In case it helps anyone, there's a well-documented hack for modifying one of the more common types of rotary timers to allow much shorter increments: http://hackaday.com/2011/09/09/repeat-timer-hacked-for-35-mi...

This wouldn't work if you want 1 minute a week (since the cycle repeats every 35 minutes), but for hydroponics sometimes you want a short duration with very frequent repetitions, and the electronic timers (which are preferable in most other ways) don't provide enough on/off cycles per day or week.
And now tmux is asked to accommodate the change.

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/428
>> Also, we now have enough compute power to get something done. Kurtzweil claims a human brain needs about 20 petaFLOPS. That's about one aisle in a data center today.

It's a bit late over here so what I want to say may not come out as I mean it, but, basically, who cares how much computing power we have? Most people are not trying to simulate the human brain anymore. And even if Kurzwail's maths were good (I doubt it - the whole idea of measuring anything about brains in bytes sounds just silly) it would just mean that all the computing power in the world is no good if you don't know how to connect the dots.

And we don't. Lots of computing power is good for machine learning, obviously, but strong AI is never going to happen like that, by brute-forcing crude approximations from huge data sets while pushing our hardware to its limits. That's a dumb way to make progress. Basic computer science says if you want to go anywhere with a problem, you need to solve it in linear time at the very worse. Look at what we have instead: machine learning algorithms' complexities start at O(n²) and go up. We just don't have good algorithms, we don't have good solutions, we don't have good anything.

We have "more powerful computers" today. So what. Today we solve the stuff that's possible to solve, the low-hanging fruit of problems. Tomorrow, the next problem we try to tackle is ten times bigger, a hundred times harder, we need machines a thousand times more powerful... and it takes us another fifty years to make progress.

So, no, it doesn't matter how powerful our computers are. We can't cheat our way around the hard problems. Because they're just that: hard. We're just gonna have to be a lot smarter than what we are right now.
> It's not really fair to make cross country comparisons between countries with vastly different geographies.

It's fairer than you'd think. There were some articles in the last few years (summarized at Ars Technica, I think) about how the US is really, really average at delivering residential network bandwidth at a decent cost, compared against a wide variety of countries.

The thing that struck me about it was that the countries in the comparisons varied a lot politically (highly regulated vs. largely free market, etc.) and in terms of varying population density. I think the main conclusion I drew was that there isn't really one simple explanation for why we're pretty mediocre at this. We just have a crappy system.
Reminds me of Dan Ariely psychology of choice. Always find a way to appear better. Bring something/someone less good so people don't question it in the current context.
When you "have to" work, you do not have much choice. Sure you are not forced, eh, you can quit or even not bother to apply if you are an "anti-smoking" weakling... unless you need to feed your family I guess.

You can speak of the abridgment of personal freedom of the owner, but what about the effective freedom to work in an healthy environment? Oh yeah, regulations are there to ensure that. But I may be biased, I am from France and support such things as 35h weeks and no-work-on-Sunday laws (to ensure people can have a social life).
If Go upgrades itself with support with generics but break backwards compatibility in a horrible way and the breaks cannot be caught at compile time, people will be complaining and resisting upgrade just the same.
I think you missed the whole point of this thread. People want ongoing official support of Python 2.7, which involves resources that could be used elsewhere. Supporting stuff is not free, you know?
I'm sure we could figure out a way to intelligently establish identity and reputation before my phone interrupts me.
We should have a group of people dedicated in catering to beauty whether or not it manages to create a large market.
"fall" implies they had credibility to begin with. I don't recall that ever being the case, honestly. How long ago was that?
It's not Nash equilibrium, but this is a standard result in industrial organization. Companies "collude" by threatening to start price wars. The threat of a price war is enough deterrent to prevent anyone from undercutting anyone else.
The thing is, cable is more like the railroad than it is like Standard Oil. Petroleum isn't at all like a natural monopoly. It took a lot of corruption and bribery for Standard Oil to keep competition at bay.

But nobody is really stepping forward to lay residential fiber. Google is the exception and it's because they're one of the only companies with enough money to survive a war of attrition with the incumbents, and even then it's only in a handful of places.

It's prohibitively expensive to have twelve companies each run a different strand of fiber to every house. And you only need one. The key is to a) get one instead of zero and then b) put competition on the other end of the fiber. Have one company (or municipality) be the regulated monopoly that provides only the physical layer, and then let all willing providers compete to terminate the fiber and provide internet/TV/phone service.

Separating the natural monopoly (the physical layer) from over the top services is the key to preventing monopoly abuse. The entity that does that should do only that.
There are so many things wrong with this article that I don't even know where to start.

* Gawker does not deal in journalism any more than Keeping up with the Kardashians does. It's an entertainment company that makes a profit by exposing details of people's lives which other people have no business knowing. There's an argument to be made that the world be better off with that type of gutter "journalism". It's not giving people "news" which they "have a right to know" (the kind of thing for which journalism needs to be protected).

* But if we accept that Gawker has the right to its thing - and it does - then Gawker has to accept the consequences of pissing people off - which is usually solves through litigation insurance. If it gets sued out of existence, it's its own fault, no one else's.

* Thiel did not "take down" or "punish" Gawker. A court of law punished Gawker for breaking the law. The fact that Thiel paid the defendants attorneys is irrelevant. If we have a problem with that, then we could pass laws to disallow third parties from funding other people's law suits which would have terrible consequences (no more ACLU, for example).

* If the argument is that "the person with the most money wins lawsuits", I don't disagree. But that is a problem with the justice system, not Thiel.

* We can't have "freedom of speech" without "freedom to sue", otherwise these entertainment "news" outlets can easily ruin the lives of people for profit (as they do).
When we were refugees in Germany, my parents felt stuck in a tiny town with few jobs because the job center made mobility out of the place you "landed in" extremely difficult. Being able to travel and move about the country freely can make a big difference economically.

By the time we moved to a different place Germany decided to kick out every refugee, and in the meantime made rules requiring jobs go to natives first, if one is applying, and refugees second. So in the end it didn't matter that we didn't live in a big city because everyone got the boot. We weren't terribly poor, not average certainly, but it was more of a struggle than it should have been.

In the US, on the other hand, they barely spent any time on government assistance because they moved upwards professionally, got compensated well, became citizens, bought a house, and funny enough sold it and bought couple more in Germany.
The thing that makes it unusual is that he's acting in secret and actively soliciting lawsuits he has no interest in, and structures the lawsuits to remove incurable claims because he has a personal vendetta against a media outlet that he doesn't like.

If you can't see the difference between working in public against a violent racist organization and a petulant billionaire waiting 7 years to throw a bunch of middle class people out of work, and send a message to the media at large to play nice with him, because he got his feelings hurt, I can't help you.
What we learn from some of the challenges here can be applied to eventual Mars colonies.
SU: How do I get OS X to recognize my USB modem is plugged in?
By definition an opinion can't be wrong. I think you meant speculation instead.
I'm pretty sure the ground I'm walking on is real.

But then again, you can never tell...
Boys who live with books ‘earn more as adults’
Both the sony z3 and now my current galaxy s5 have the ability to add any # to a built-in Auto Reject list. The z3 even had a built-in answering machine and at one point I told att to disable voicemail. I love it when I get those calls as I then just block them. Problem solved. And of course there are free aps which can do the same.
مشاهدة قناة العربية الإخبارية بث مباشر Alarabiya News
Lots of people are going into typescript (es6 + types). I wonder how long before python gets the same. And when all languages merge into one. With a new '(universal . syntax).
The video might have a few inaccuracies, but it is hilarious.
Well I'm sure this is a naive point of view, but I'm going to put it out there anyway. It seems there are many Python devotees out there who are lukewarm about Python 3, and quite a few who really don't like it at all, hence a slow adoption rate. Right now it seems like the community is fractured along that fault line.

Is it too late? Can we back out of the current incarnation of Python 3 and go down another path instead? In other words, turn the slow adoption rate into a plus, call a do-over and mold the new Python into something more people are happy with.
4 years ago when he tried this the first time I pointed out that most of his larger properties are in 'blue' states and that he should not shit where he eats..
Please tell your friend that most engineers have no business interviewing anyone. They may be intelligent in some ways but my experience in interviewing 100+ candidates for various positions is that most of my fellow engineers should stick to computers.
As opposed to what? Employers and business lobby groups presently manipulate society and democratic governments for their own ends, to the detriment of their society's future well being.

Besides which, "useless degrees" seems to be used in this context to mean "Anything I feel doesn't have employment prospects." Those things are not the same as each other.
Interesting, I did some more searches and found this http://smile.amazon.com/Digital-Programmable-Socket-Energy-S... According to the Q&A you can get it down to second acuracy so you could do the 20 seconds. I'd much rather do this than a wifi switch that I need another system to toggle it.
"Cachetalk requires Python 2.7.x to run."

The above quote stood out in light of: "Python 2.7 Retirement Countdown" ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11793857
What idiot called it “deep learning hype” and not “backpropaganda“
As someone who learn Python 3 first, I'm amazed that people really think Python 2 is better.

After so many years, why the resistance?
OK, but paulpauper was considering submitting the to arXiv.
Or the CARDIAC: https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/museum/cardiac.html
Norway is 148,718 mi² and California is 163,696 mi² but you're right in that they're relatively close in size.
I immediately thought of numbers stations when I read this title.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

Not quite as mysterious and intriguing, but still pretty cool.
A paycheck.
Your post is the only place in the article or this thread where I've seen that word. Typo?
Swift 3 Will Not Have a Stable ABI
<galaxy s5 (has) the ability to add any # to a built-in Auto Reject list.>

Until you hit 200, anyway.
As it has already been noted by others: those 3 examples are atypical for Germany. The authors could've asked the more typical poors about their backstory (the white trash, immigrants, street kids, drunks and junkies). I can only assume they wanted to portrait poors to which "middle class"-people could relate.

Which at least for me touches interesting points:

1) I think that Germans do not relate to their typical poors - at least not as much they'd like to think they do. To me this is connected to the welfare system: It effectively does anything to prevent middle-class people from a hard landing while doing up to nothing for the poorest to being able to compete for better places on the social ladder.

This makes sense from a political game theory standpoint: The vast majority of Germans aren't poor, at most they feel struggling. How can a democracy prevent its own sovereign (the majority of voters) from polluting the countries institutions for their own interests?

2) This "welfare focus" comes at the price of low social mobility: A welfare system aimed at the majority of people is generating huge costs, which the poorest also have to compensate for (ie harder to find employment, even harder to self-employ).

3) This "focus" is also reflected by the political debates about welfare reform: It's usually dominated by the concern for a soft landing rather than upward mobility. The massive welfare reforms of Chancellor Schröder in the late 1990 were thus mostly criticized by those groups fearing to become poor, rather than by people advocating for the poor or the poors themselves. In fact, for the majority of long-time jobless those reforms netted them more cash and a simpler way to get it.

PS:

4) Being poor within a society is always bad, no matter how high the average standard of living is. It's kind of sad to see those 3 example's compassion-worthiness degraded just because they are "poor in Germany". (In fact: If I was young I'd rather be poor in a country with a lower standard of living if it hat a higher social mobility.)
Wow, that's bizarre. I am not aware of such a culture existing here in Seattle. I hope it doesn't spread, because that sounds just... obviously maladaptive.
I had the means, not the right. As soon as someone homesteaded it, I lost the means. By definition, you cannot have a right to unclaimed property. Having a right to it is synonymous to having a claim on it.
An impeller driven pump moves a fixed amount of water per revolution.

There are very few pumps on the market nowadays (even the super cheap ones) that don't have run-dry protection. In any case, no pump is going to catch fire running for 20 seconds.

It is very common to add fertilizer to planted aquariums. It's dissolved in the water, and therefore makes no difference to the pump (it doesn't change the "pumping" properties of the water at all).
In the free market if you're a venture capitalist and your job is picking winners and you fail you've got to find another career. It's a self correcting mechanism.

If you're a Fed whose job is picking winners and you fail there aren't any negative consequences for it.

I think these guys are being selective with history to make their case. There's a role for government in regulation. Government can even encourage certain industries like the $7,500 tax rebates on electric cars but not in deciding who wins and who loses. There's a role for government in financing basic research that leads to breakthroughs.

More often dying dinosaurs use campaign contributions and lobbying to protect their companies and we can agree that is wrong.

If you're an immigrant who lacks money and political connections your startup shouldn't be held back in favor of inferior technology by a Fed trying to pick winners.
This is the first thing i was thinking of: Germany being one of the best countries to live in right now in Europe given their economic status vs Greece which is the one country with most problems!
I would very very very much suggest that no one transmits text from this over radio.

At least in the USA, I'm nearly 100% sure that this is in violation of the Part 97 rules.

If any unknowing HAM transmits anything from this, they are in for a world oh hurt.
Here's the clip in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U72QVCgh_Q
There should be a simple requirement that VOIP calls must have a legitimate origin/callback number, or none. Usage of phony caller-ID should have that VOIP node blocked from the phone network altogether.