skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the parent is trying to say that successful people all have luck, while not all hard working people are successful.

I feel this is a correct, one way relation, as being born in the right country is luck in itself.
Yeah, I was just going to recommend that too. Great novel. It was punch cards vs. transistors, but the future was foreseen.
Nobody seems to be commenting on "the standard of living has gone up for nearly all Americans". A basket-of-goods analysis seems a lot more interesting than focussing on income or wealth statistics. I'm in favor of large-scale redistribution but before we do that we need better metrics of who is in need.
This is as philanthropic the Apple II educational program under Job's Apple.
Would love to see what the app experience is like outside of the camera view (push notifications to launch, settings, etc.)
Or at least, we should have a linter, and strongly encourage it's use. Maybe make a rule of disclosing linter warnings when presenting contracts.
Visite it please
Also if that 3D printer doesn't help magic pills for experience, deep knowledge of logistics and anti-psyops manipulation, it won't help much against any large modern military, no matter how much gear people have
Who's deploying a go web server without putting it behind nginx? Not many people.
I'm not really sure why you can't hire a Ruby or Python programmer, if they are open minded about it, and train them. There's not that much actually different, compared to some other languages. In fact, I think the only major things you would need to teach them that they couldn't easily find from the docs would be about how context works, and references (references to a lesser degree, just make sure they get how they are used in complex data structures).
my previous comment "mostly C++" got down voted. I happen to work at a firm in this industry. C++ is the language used most in HFT.

Aside from this, you can verify this by just looking at the job postings.
As a design goal, a programmable contract should be able to express:

- A time deposit, like a CD

- A credit card

- A recurring service charge cancelable by either party.

- A mortgage loan

- A rental agreement (which is what Slock.it was supposed to do)

- Most financial derivatives

If you can do those things, you've probably covered enough use cases for practical purposes. Complexity beyond that increases the attack surface.

Standard functions in rules can do most of the computational work. Good date functions, and financial functions such as present value, are needed. An HP-12C, the standard pocket calculator for finance, is a good basis for the functions needed. (The financial industry would like it if smart contracts got exactly the same answers as an HP-12C.)
The SF Bay Are Vegans in Technology meetup group organized a Future of Food panel last month featuring some local biotech companies in this space (http://www.sfvtech.org/oakvegtech). Memphis Meats is one of the SF Indie Bio accelerator companies that is working on cultured meat (http://sf.indiebio.co/mentor/memphis-meats/)
It's about the definition of 'reasonably thoroughly'. We haven't explored much of Mars, having covered only single digit square kilometers up close (and most of that geologically).
Gates mostly earned money by selling products to people in the top 10% of global incomes - products they willingly bought. Most of his philanthropy has gone to people in the bottom 20% - people who earn a hundredth as much as people typically buying Microsoft software. Read more on this: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/how-much-difference-can-...

I think he intends to give away most of his money before he does - like 90% or so.

As for why the Foundation was started in 2000 - Microsoft wasn't making much money before the 90s so there wasn't much to give. Judging by Microsoft's share price, Gates only truly got rich after 1997.
Even if they did say ".sl.m.c t.rr.r.sm" it'd probably be in front of a gold-fringed flag and wouldn't count.
Scott, your project is awesome. You should repost it in the ShowHN area for better exposure. Here is the HowTo for it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Ethereum is a platform for decentralised applications, it has far more pratical use than a simple blockchain like Bitcoin, but far more risks as well. Give it a chance, it's just starting, there is a lot more development to do, don't throw it away the first bad thing that happens. Can you imagine if the early internet architects thought this way? "Oh this computer in the network got hacked, lets give up on this whole internet thing, it's a fundamentally bad idea".
There will be ups and downs. IMO, right now Ethereum is the best chance we got at a truly decentralised web.
Every program grows until it support (or in this day and age, re-implements) email?
You can buy single pre-stamped envelopes at the post office. The mark up is only a couple cents so if you're not doing hundreds of mailings it's worthwhile to just buy what you need.

I just finished reading KonMari. I move a lot for work and wanted some inspiration for cutting down the cruft that I've been hauling around over the last decade.

The minimalist idea runs very contrary to how I was raised in a rural community on the plains. The attitude was that you needed to always be prepared. Which meant keeping spares and extras for anything that you might need. Stockpile food, because a blizzard could delay the trucks and the grocery shelves run bare. Keep a water buffalo or at least several 10 gallon drums of potable water stored in the house because the pump on the well might go out or the well might go dry. Always be prepared for having to go without electricity. Keep several gallons of extra gasoline handy. Keep spares for tools or anything that might break down because you don't want to end up driving 100+ miles to the city to get a replacement (Amazon Prime though has done me a world of service).
Uh, yeah? Von Neumann machines should be everywhere by now; yet there is no evidence of them.
> I think the fastest way to convince yourself that Perl is obsolete is to try to hire for good Perl programmers.

Hire for good programmers, and they'll be good Perl programmers if they need to be.
... can't. ever.
In 2014, I wrote a blog post (http://minimaxir.com/2014/02/moved-temporarily/) calling out Imgur's shady redirect practices on Facebook/Twitter, with a warning that things will get chaotic if they try that tactic on Reddit. Guess I was right?

Notably, when that post was submitted to Reddit, it got eviscerated, nothing that "hey, they provide a service for free, they deserve ad revenue!"
Most likely, but then someone will have to communicate with the AI's. Specialized knowledge will always be valued. You'll just have to learn how to leverage that by communicating with an AI. Maybe then the upper middle class will have their own AI assistants. Those who know how to tweak / improve their AI will do best.

The speed of progress is definitely a concern but we're not even trying to keep up to speed as a society. We're still in denial.

But at the end of the day there is infinite possible "work" for people to do. All we need is a bit of imagination to see all the crazy things we could do. And by "work" I mean things to do. The traditional definition of work will have to change. There will be more self determination. Possibly UBI emerge as a new institution arising to help transition society.
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> It's all a result of luck and/or leaching off of the backs of the exploited masses.

I can't accept someone truly believes that. You are polarizing this discussion. While it is known that people born with an advantage have a higher chance of succeeding in life, those people have to do their part in order to succeed. That means seizing opportunities offered to them, studying hard, working hard. They might have had an easier time having access to things, but that doesn't mean they could just slack off and yet succeed.
What really killed them was the GIF explosion. Average image size remains largely static and bandwidth and storage costs steadily decline so if you get your timing exactly right, you can hit that sweet spot where your CPM declines slower than your hosting costs and provide an increasingly profitable business.

However, GIFs completely upended that calculation by increasing the average file size by an order of magnitude and pushed the viability of a cruft free image host further down the road by another few years.

Frankly, I'm surprised Google never just bought imgur and absorbed it under youtube or something. Being the default place on the web to host images seems like something way more strategically valuable to Google than any standalone image host.
On the contrary, if you're working with people that dense, it's very unlikely that you'll make any progress on technical grounds. It's hard even among intelligent people.

The reality is that most people do not make value judgments based on objective criteria of any kind. This is true even among technical people, who rapidly build religious precepts around their nearly-arbitrarily-chosen pet technologies and then discard anyone who doesn't present with the tokens and signs of their adopted technical religion, regardless of that person's true technical ability.

People make judgments based on the amount of personal trust and goodwill they have toward the person making the argument. That's the natural status. With a lot of exercise, people can partially limit the effects of this impulse, but very few train at this in any significant way.

The moral of the story is that the way to win arguments is to be well-liked. It's a popularity contest. If you want people to let you do what you want, you have to make them like you. The objective merits of whatever you're arguing about are practically irrelevant.
This looks like an ideal use case for a Haskel based DSL. We need good static analysis capabilities, and we have to carefully manage side effects.
I hope it becomes half the cost of meat.

That's the only motivation I fear will change people.

Maybe it will be like gasoline and it will double in price giving electric a chance to become more robust and popular/adopted.
It's quite hard but not impossible (pun intended). Full disclosure: Patrick Brown was on my committee in grad school. I've had many long conversations with him about these things and he's quite aware of all the challenges. The talk of scientifically breaking down the problem and figuring out exactly what makes meat meat is not just talk, it's actually the way he and the company operates. I think the heavy duty science they're putting into this is going to eventually yield a "burger" that is functionally indistinguishable in many applications.

I think there's always going to be a place for The Counter or other such premium burgers, but what about the zillions of patties used by the likes of Burger King, McDonald's, In-N-Out? Those are cooked heavily, and flavor engineered six ways to Sunday. The top of the SUV analogy is nice, but realistically most burgers are not terribly subtle flavor experiences coming from the brilliance of the meat substrate.

How many millions of gallons of water and tons of greenhouse gases would be eliminated if 10% of patties at big chains were vegetarian? Even small shifts in consumption could have incredibly positive impacts on the environment and perhaps even overall health.
Hey shaqbert, how do you keep tabs on these sorts of things? I want to get to know more about the financial markets but I mean, I don't know where to start--there's just so many companies out there.
That's what the lore tells us, but maybe it's just plain wrong and the old incumbents were just greedy and terrible. I think imgur was bootstrapped for a long time and didn't have much in the way of monetization, certainly hotlinking still worked then.

The changes came when imgur took VC money.
They are not completely exclusive, but more extreme politicians are certainly unlikely to become very popular, and more importantly, the more popular they are, the more dangerous it is to think of them as extreme. Especially if you turn out to be wrong.
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And every company who will sell you the compulsory insurance will have that verbiage in their EULA, thus making the choice "agree" vs "can't drive".
Can I do the coding camp? I'd like to learn...
My grandfather survived 5 beach landings in WWII and came home to open a restaurant. He worked every day (you have to or people in that industry will steal from you) to provide for his family.

The only luck or exploitation he had was having the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki so he didn't have to die on a Japanese beach (his medical records at that time listed him as suffering from typhoid and dysentery - but because the war effort was stretched so thin, he was also listed as "combat ready". He would have died)
Keep in mind that Ethereum only runs one thread. It puts transactions in order and runs one after another.
It's not intended use because fsyncing every write to disk makes it inferior to every datastore designed to fsync every write. See here PostgreSQL.

For read performance if your dataset fits in memory PG is just as fast as Redis.

The main attraction of Redis is in-memory writes with async persistence. Trading durability and availability for the increased performance. If you give up this then there is precisely 0 reasons to choose Redis over PostgreSQL.
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IMHO, a good manager would communicate the importance of the project along with the spec of the project. "Because I said so, so do it" is not a good strategy for highly skilled, highly competent, highly intelligent people. The "why" is every bit as important as the "what". Presumably you wouldn't "waste" a good programmer on a simple task if it wasn't important. Similarly a good programmer would understand that business priorities means that some projects are complex and interesting, some are important and boring.

As an employee, if the manager is not a skilled communicator, it's not the sort of place I want to work for. As a manager, if the employee is cannot understand business priorities, it's not the sort of employee that I want.
You can object to the settlement, or you can remove yourself from the class and sue separately, like any class action.
That makes sense.

I'm used to having to worry about disconnected environments (I worked on Cloud Foundry buildpacks for a while), for which Spring Boot's JARs work a treat.

In a fully connected environment this approach looks promising. If I bump into any of the Spring folks I will mention it.
>Decent imitations of highly processed meat exist already

I am a meat eater and I can tell you that, in my experience, this simply isn't the case. Your opinion is colored by the fact that you really, really, want it to be a decent imitation because you're a vegetarian. Every imitation meat product I have ever tasted has been immediately recognizable as such, and was almost inedible.

Unfortunately, the idea of fake meat that people won't notice is, at least today, a vegetarian fantasy.
> Current vegan/vegetarian incarnations of fake meat (Boca, Morningstar etc.) are typically actually not that healthy in terms of protein/amino acid content and sort of end up being eating a cake made of grains.

This is why I've stopped trying to find a meat substitute, they all fail in some way or another (they either don't taste right, don't have the right texture, or are far worse nutritionally than what they try to replace). I'm not a vegitarian, but I've found I prefer the Morningstar Spicy Black Bean Burger to a traditional beef patty - I like spicy foods and it has a nice texture I enjoy without feeling the need to compare it to beef. Also, the first ingredient is just plain black beans, there's some brown rice in to help as a binder but overall it has a fairly low amount of carbohydrates compared to other similar products (13g total, 4g of that is fiber).
Looks like a really cool project. Is there a non-solar charging method, just in case? Have you done much testing in less than ideal solar locations?
Yeah, i gave up on Clash Royale when I found out that the chests you got were not random. The payout schedule for the chests is so low which makes it almost impossible to advance to the higher arenas without paying. It was a fun game, but I gave up on it.
Thanks! That helps reaffirm my thinking that "good models of processes" are important, even though implementations will always have limitations. Good to know I'm not completely off base...

A good example for me has been virtual memory pattern, where from a processes point-of-view you model memory as an ideal unlimited virtual space. Then you let the kernel implementation (and hardware) deal with the practical (and difficult details). Microsoft's Orleans implementation of the actor model has a similar approach that they call "virtual actors" that is interesting as well.

My own stuckness has been an idea of implementing processes using hierarchical state machines, especially for programming systems of IoT type devices. But I haven't been able to figure out how to incorporate type check theorems into it.
Title was VERY misleading. And that whole earning to give notion is bull. You work at a non-profit or as a social worker and you have a DIRECT impact on people's lives. You donate to a charity and you have no idea where that money goes. Many charities are corrupt and don't use your dollars at a positive rate to help others and even those that do often find their donations ending up being misused or apprehended by crooks and tyrants.

Earning to give is a way the wealthy ease their conscience (not unlike carbon offsets). It is not good advice to give people with the heart, courage, and strength to be one of those front line warriors at a non-profit or in social work and to claim otherwise is garbage.

Nobody makes a bigger difference to the children and families who experience birth defects or childhood illness than the nurse in the children's hospital. Certainly not the rich goon who contributed the most money and got it named after him/her. Without that rich goon, a need would still be fulfilled by people whose lives were effected by the lack of such a facility coming together and pooling their resources to make it happen (the whole point of government, taxes, and society in the first place).

Without that nurse, there's nobody to take care of those children post surgery and offer the love, support, and attentive care that only someone with that kind of courage and compassion can provide.

No one says your mind and talents must be constrained to your job forever, but if you can do it you should.

Superman DID run vaccines to people in ADDITION to saving the world from more petty (and also much more catastrophic) crime. So the example (which in the comic is hilarious and presented ironically) the article sets itself on is a false choice.
It'd be nice if they made an area available for random mall-goers who are also software engineers to come voluntarily hang out and instruct / help out random kids or teens that stop by, with potential for networking or further tutoring services for those really interested or who want to do something more interesting. Unfortunately I bet if a lot of us just camped out unofficially for a couple hours we'd be branded as child predators or something, and escorted out by mall security in any case...
Tool that suggests simpler (English) word-choices for international readers
Seconded, I use automatic which means to use this I have to pick one or the other.
It is highly unlikely that a class B airport will allow for drone operations, even if you call them. Case in point, I live in downtown Boston, within Logan Airport's 5 mile cone, so I can't fly the drone anywhere near my house and get some great footage of the Charles river and the downtown skyline, even if flying over the water instead - calling ATC resulted in a prompt no. I now go by Harvard instead, which is well outside the 5 mile radius, and can get some pretty great shots of the city while complying with the regulations.
It needs to know when the car is in reverse.
I too am a camp follower following the bread crumb trail.

After looking at Herbert's wiki, I feel like I've been creeping around his ideas for much of my life without realizing he was the progenitor, to the point where a few comments ago I used a word he invented. Krakauer's ideas too really resonate, these guys are really onto something.

Tentatively dipping a toe into complex adaptive systems and the Sante Fe institute also keeps coming up time and time again, they seem to have captured everybody thinking about this in depth.

Does anybody have good leads on Krakauer and Simon's ideas? e.g. books for a dive into?

Hoping for a Adaptive Complexity for Dummies!
1.5M people access the Internet via free Wi-Fi at Indian railway stations
I find failure to be more fatal on the JVM. That's neither a bug nor a feature, it's just what it is.

For example, BEAM puts the process call stack on the heap, so you don't need to tune them separately. You won't hit a stack overflow, you'll just run out of memory.

Many, many characteristics like that exist. I prefer a working slow system over a broken system, but I fully understand the preference for loud failures.
Settlement means neither side gets what they want in full.

If you think you deserve better, you're free to opt out of this and sue them yourself.
For those thinking this has something to do with "regulation", it does not. Paypal has done this sort of thing for years. In the past it has been the "cyberlockers" and VPN services, even Wikileaks. Someone is putting soft pressure on Paypal. Someone in government or, more likely, someone within the copyright-lobby is threatening them. That has been the pattern in the past.
Also, gelatin is considered vegetarian by some, or at least there are some vegetarians that don't realize that gelatin is an animal product (just some sort of "mystery" ingredient, I guess).
Use the HN api and publish it somewhere..
I like being challenged by coworkers, so I wouldn't dismiss someone that does it.

It is actually a great chance of engaging in a meaningful conversation and hear more about their experience. I like people that can think for themselves and can be diplomatic.
> It's software, not really comparable to an English-language contract.

If the point is to be an alternative to normal, "dumb" contracts, than that is exactly what it needs to be comparable to.
Yes, but he IS still a major party nominee. It's like being the least skilled basketball player in the NBA. If you call him extreme, what does that make, say, the Independent American Party?
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I refer to this as "design backpressure". In a microservice world you need to consciously decide to cross the network boundary.

With a single memory space it's easy to simply go around whatever architecture you "should" be following.

Microservices don't solve balls of mud, but they can make it harder to form and easier to spot forming.
With mules?
I run a small Saas company that does mail forwarding as you mentioned above ("send mail as the logged-in user"). If not putting the user's email as FROM, how do you recommend handling it?
My argument is that without GUIs, computers would have either never become common or would gain adoption at a substantially slower pace than they have with the general public. With no/slowed adoption of computers, it's not possible for programming to become more common than it is today.