skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also a fairly long discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam, but I bet it could stand to be expanded quite a lot.

I remember that when I was in elementary school my class had a teaching intern who was an observant Muslim woman and consistently wore a hijab. Our regular teacher told us that we students should refrain from drawing pictures of the intern out of respect to her religious beliefs (this being the 1980s, the prospect of taking cell phone camera photos didn't really come up). I never found out whether this request was something that she specifically asked for, or something that the teacher had assumed or guessed at.
The fundamental argument Comey puts forth is that no one else has ever been indicted for comparable behaviour. So it would be unreasonable to do so now.

Given that, it'd be far stranger if they did recommend prosecution, and in doing so broke from precedent.
What Did Nearsighted Humans Do Before Glasses?
> From what I understand, the upcoming transactional collector is written directly with Go's goroutines in mind.

I'm pretty skeptical that it will produce wins over a traditional generational GC. At best the "transactional hypothesis" will roughly approximate the generational hypothesis, without the primary benefit that truly generational GC gives you, namely bump allocation in the nursery. Time will tell.
My understanding is that the British building society is more akin to a credit union, being owned by its members, than a bank. Is that not the case?
FDIC insurance, the Federal Reserve, a whole bunch of other banking-specific laws...
I like "For $25 you get the plans and some pics and access to our user forum where you can get advice from others like you but you get NO SUPPORT from us. However! If you later decide that you want the full kit, we'll rebate your $25 on that order!"
What statically typed language with great type inference has the library ecosystem of python or javascript? I can't think of one, libraries matter a lot.

Swift looks promising in this regard.
Joseph Stalin is well known for the lack of industrial development under his leadership?
How the media screwed up the fatal Tesla accident
Can HolyC be used to write a network stack? Are there any plans to do this?
Very cool! I'll be keeping an eye on this.

This year I've been experimenting with these DIY self-watering grow containers:

http://earthtainer.tomatofest.com/pdfs/EarthTainer-Construct...

Very little maintenance after the initial assembly and planting, and I've had pretty great results so far.

I've heard about aquaponics before, but never dug into it. I'd be interested in hearing about its advantages over a (presumably less involved) traditional container setup like mine.
I hope I'm not the only hacker news reader who views the discussion/association of human social constructs and anthropomorphism such as property and consent to a colony of insects as hilariously comical...

/and my mother was an entomologist, so I'm perfectly happy with allusions between humans/insects even if most polite/modern society find such offensive...
How long did that last? Longer than a day?

(Seems like a huge arbitrage opportunity, otherwise.)
It's pretty similar. The bank has some cash on hand, and the rest sits in less liquid assets (like loans).

The fund has some cash around, and the rest sits in less liquid assets, too.
I think that Reddit tends to have a bit higher level of users than the typical site. The mods of each group spend a lot of time curating the content - unpaid. Most users and Reddit itself know that pissing off the majority of this group that actually produces their product for free could have negative consequences, and they'd end up like Digg without much warning. It seems that Reddit's way forward is not with ads or affiliate links, but paid content in the form of up voted articles and comments. It's becoming quite noticeable.
Python is slow because the core dev team has long concerned with Python3. Priority is not on speed. CPython actually got slower with 3, and it still is. They say it's "a wash" but I haven't seen that in anything I've done. Since Microsoft got its claws into Python through the core dev team, we've seen a shift from the Linux (POSIX) text model in Python2 to the Windows text model in Python3.

It now matches how the .Net CLR handles unicode. Which is a shame since Linux is kind of increasingly popular.

There are some recent developments where Microsoft is investing through the core dev surrogates into Python3 and speed with Pyjion. That is promising but it's a framework where it requires CPython3 to use a JIT, which strikes me as a way to enforce control- a response to PyPy and alternatives taking the mantle when they abdicated the throne with Python3. But it remains to be seen how it works out, and PyPy already is likely to remain the leader on faster-Python.
11 years old fixing Apple hardware watching Louis Rossmann's video
Is there a summary of the talk? I can't find a transcript anywhere.
A BIO-HYBRID STINGRAY ROBOT POWERED BY RAT MUSCLE
I meant you should NOT say anything until you have a new job.
That being said, there are good arguments for doing away with these, and regulating banks just like any other business.

Historically, eg Canada and Australia had good experiences with that setup. They had a more stable and advanced banking system in the relevant times (around 19th century-ish, I think), than the much more invasively regulated US at the time.
Nope. You could have a full reserve banking system and lend out all deposits.

BoE has some news for you:

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2015/06/30/banks-are-not-inter...
Or Independence Day in Texas.
Hmm, it seems like a closed (and perhaps exchanged traded) fund holding the same assets would be superior to this kind of property fund?

If you want out, someone else has to take the property off you. Might as well do that via the exchanges, instead of letting some fund managers do it.

Or what am I missing?
> We stand today on the brink of a revolution in
cryptography.

Wow, to be able to make that the lead sentence and it turns out not to be hyperbole!
Does SPIC insurance cover losses from gated funds the same way FDIC insurance protects depositors?
Shared interests can look a lot like friendship. Looking at the postwar period as evidence of friendships between Western European powers doesn't help your point. They were and are unified by strong common interests and common enemies. Economic integration and cultural similarities also lead to common interests. Any conflicts they do have stay below the level of military conflict due to the overwhelming force of American troops keeping peace on the continent, and nuclear deterrents.

Before the Cold War, Europeans had been slaughtering each other for centuries, for millennia.
The devs made some utterly idiotic decisions regarding how they wanted the game to work and it ended up having a whole load of unintended negative effects.

If you're falling above 72km/hr and jetpack, they do nothing and you actually fall faster. Under 72 it decelerates as you'd expect. This is purely because they tried to impose variable physics based on your velocity, which in turn was a bandaid to address other issues.

They really shot themselves in the foot and only as of about 6 months ago - if that - has a small subgroup of the old devs been allowed to start unravelling the mess and make it more like Tribes 1. Before that, they basically ceased work on the game and abandoned it in favour of throwing all their devs at their next cash grab endeavour, Smite.
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It's a man-eat-bee-food world, and the bees aren't morally or physically empowered enough to defer this behavior.
It's not really accurate to call it arbitrage if you can't simultaneously short the underlying. You'll be looking at something (imo) not unlike pin risk. And just like pin risk...well, it's risky.

JNK wasn't as bad as I remember, according to the stats on Morningstar it had a discount of 1.15% at the worst.
>This seems to me very analogous to preventing a run on banks. Traditionally retail banks would invest their depositors' savings in real estate by financing mortgages. Indeed - in England many banks are still called "building societies".

That's not really how banking works in a fractional reserve system. The money banks lend to borrowers is created as part of the loan transaction, and in theory the bank retains enough money to pay off all depositors in the event of a bank run.
Schematics are also available for the hardware it runs on:

http://klabs.org/history/ech/agc_schematics/

The CPU is built entirely from 3-input NOR gates.
It's very annoying to look for the "fine print" if you don't know which funds they are. I looked around and found at http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-property-idUKKCN... that some of these funds were:

- UK Property PAIF and PAIF feeder
- Threadneedle UK Property Fund
- Canlife Property and Canlife UK

Looking at the documents for first of these, it says that "The ACD may [...] temporarily suspend the issue, cancellation, sale and redemption of Shares in the Company where due to exceptional circumstances [...]", so yes, it seems to be allowed by the fine print. I haven't looked at the others, but they should be similar.
Does that include use of a company jet and a personal assistant for non work items? However, I am more thinking of stock options. Jobs for example was given options that would have been worth 10 billion with a B when they vested. Sure short term options have a market price but options you can exercise in 10 years are hard to come by.
Nominative determinism in hospital medicine (Limb, Limb, Limb and Limb, 2015)
You might get more value from the "life simplification" method Bruce Sterling described in this keynote speech from a few years ago. (Starting at approx 32 min) http://video.reboot.dk/video/486788/bruce-sterling-reboot-11

== Starting comments ==

- Pay most attention to your common everyday objects. That is, anything that takes up your immediate space: on your body; in the room with you. Also those things that take a lot of your time

- Buy the best possible common everyday objects you can. Most importantly:

-- your bed: you spend a third of your life in it. Consider the per-hour cost

-- your chair: stop whining about your wrists and back hurting and buy a really good chair. Again consider the per-hour cost

- Ditch anything you haven't used in the last 12 months. eg: wedding china, tuxedo, everything in your storage locker

- Only buy real things you really use

---------

== How to get rid of stuff ==

First, note that getting rid of stuff is HARD (but doable). Do NOT start on impulse. Think hard about it and make sure you're morally prepared.
Then... for each item in your life ask the following questions:

Q1) Is it beautiful?

Test: You have it on display. You share its beauty with the people in your life.

If yes then keep it, otherwise...

Q2) Is it emotionally important?

Test: It has a narrative. You share its story with other people.

If yes then keep it, otherwise...

Q3a) Is it a useful tool, piece of equipment, or appliance?

Test: It efficiently performs some useful function. It actually works. It is the best possible tool. (Do not put up with broken or shoddy stuff)

Bruce's side comment: There's nothing more materialistic than doing the same job 5 times because your tools are inferior.

Q3b) Are you experimenting on it?

Test: You methodically work on it and you publish your results.

Bruce's side comment: Beware brand-new time-sucking beta-rollout crap.

If yes to either then keep it, otherwise...

-> 4) It is unworthy of taking your space or time. Virtualize it (take its picture; record the barcode; record any anecdotes about it) then get RID of it. If you ever need it again, get another one from eBay.

---------

(recycled from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1767990 )
Yikes, that's brutal... one more reason to use ETFs I guess.
I think this is an important point - I had a year of Object Pascal as introductory programming by accident sort of - as I spent a year at another college. It was the last year they continued to use Object Pascal (moving on to Java, I believe). Having had some exposure to Java, C and assembler before - I felt Object Pascal made much more sense than C. Meaningfully higher level than assembly, and much easier to grasp the difference between reference/value/address than in C. I know what * and & means in C, but it just felt more natural in Pascal (it's been so long that I don't remember the particularity of the syntax/semantics ...).

Basic "original" Pascal is very much a teaching language first, and a "real" language second. But the small tweaks (or big, depending on your point of view) to Object Pascal/the default dialect for Free Pascal makes a world of difference IMNHO. So, I think someone can both agree that early Pascal (or plain Pascal) is uncomfortably verbose and rigid, while at the same time think that modern Free/Object Pascal is a great language to work with.

I wonder if there's anyone working on a Pascal back-end for Nim? In some ways is seems like a "waste" that the default target is C.
Interesting. Where is that number from?

I can imagine it comes with a ton of caveats. I don't think it's easy to put eg a value on towns or entire countries.

(It's a shame we no longer see trades in sovereignty to observe prices from, eg like the Louisiana or Alaska purchase. But the wealth is still there.)
I suspect the amount of publicity that Mr. Doig is going to get from this insane lawsuit will pay his costs a hundred times over.
Container networking code – Project Contiv
not entirely true... its authentication can be subverted allowing impersonation.

but its a lot more secure than some....
What do you mean by money? (Honestly.)

I don't think any bank carries lots of cash around these days to pay their depositors. So in case of a run, they have to give them some other kind of money.

Do you mean that they'll always have enough balance with the central bank?

Why do banks care about having deposits?
Just calling out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12047005 in case you missed it :-)
I am tempted to say no right away.

I don't believe in free trials for software because often there is no sense of urgency to evaluate what could be one of a very long list of competing products so often the trial runs out.

I was involved in a high touch sale where we did some setup work for a free trial and looked at the logs 20 days into a 30 day trial and found they had not logged in.

If the customer is not putting chips in the pot they are probably not taking the thing seriously.
we bought a handful of these. The execs demanded them.

Then, they sat in the bottom drawer of each of their desks because their iphones were a lot simpler and more useful to them.

(multi billion $$ Mining company)
Anything worthwhile is hard.

Not to be too harsh, but this is Calvinist BS.

Listening to great music isn't hard. Watching a great film isn't hard. Simply spending time with loved ones isn't hard.

All are, in my view, worthwhile.

Yes, there is a satisfaction in accomplishing something difficult. But that neither makes it inherently worthwhile, nor does it mean all worthwhile things are hard.
Unless the central bank doesn't print enough money, and we end in a deflation. Then money under the mattress gives real returns at no nominal risk.
How Trees Calm Us Down
When you have to turn to Google Trends to try to support your point, it's a pretty flimsy point. If we believed your data, then 2012 would be the high water mark for Facebook usage (globally), which is obviously false when you look at actual user numbers released by Facebook. A much better explanation for the decline in searches is the shift to mobile, where people actually have the app installed and hence don't search to find the website.

The VentureBeat article is obviously anecdotal and relying on poor data.

Doom and gloom all you want, but the only real numbers we have (from Facebook) directly contradict your view. If you're trying to force the data to fit your hypothesis, it's usually a sign that your hypothesis is wrong.
Thousands in NYC protest fatal police shootings; dozens arrested
You don't think people inherently value art & beauty? That would be the "intrinsic" value of the painting.

Now, if we were really getting down to it, I would argue there is no "intrinsic" value for gold (or anything else). It's only worth what value different people may assign to it, which depends on entirely on the historical, cultural, and technological context in which we live, and varies greatly from person to person.

Sure, there are some aspects or properties of objects for which there is relatively high amounts of agreement about the valuation, however that doesn't make those properties or their valuations "intrinsic". And of course, there will never be 100% agreement about anything.
This, I presume: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12004060
tight_layout() gets rid of all that whitespace :)

There are some alternatives with pretty defaults - I personally love seaborn [1] which builds on top of matplotlib, but seaborn is even more "do it the way I like it or suffer the consequences" - however, the coming v2.0 of Matplotlib comes with a few API changes and a different default color scheme: http://matplotlib.org/style_changes.html or http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/matplotlib-v2-0-0b1-...

[1] http://stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/examples/index...
In a Remote Part of Utah, Life Alone in a Hangar (2012)
My latest foray involved Infinality patches on Fedora 23. Honestly, with the exception of Ubuntu, this is the best I've ever gotten with Linux. I think part of this is due to Google having released a lot of great fonts with open licenses (droid mono, e.g.). But still, they just aren't as good as Windows 7. And it's not because I'm just used to Windows. I rarely use Macs, but when I do, I'm more than happy with the fonts (they're probably better than Windows). In both, the display and sizes are consistent in all apps, but Linux has so many different toolkits that don't respect the default - Java, VLC, Chrome, etc. - basically like 50% of the apps I'm using most of the day.

My latest try with running Fedora 23 on my laptop outside of the VM seemed okay... until a recent Kernel / X update turned it into a hot mess - fan constantly running, processor overheating warnings in the logs, etc. Maybe it was my NVidia card or something. The problem is that I have a Dell Precision which is one of THE few models (along with Thinkpads) that are well supported on Linux.

But I just don't have time to deal with these things anymore. If Windows 10 doesn't clean up its act, I'll probably be moving to a MBP, even though I haven't had good luck with them in the past.

Honestly, I'm at the point where I'd pay serious money to RedHat or some other company (maybe Dell or Lenovo) to put out a well supported laptop / Linux combo: nice fonts, supported discrete video, working ACPI, upgradable parts, and no spying or trying to monetize the OS user nor dumbing down the interface a la Apple and MS.
I think a clarification might be helpful: the TempleOS account is banned. When a banned account posts a comment, it's marked as dead. You can opt-in to seeing dead comments by going into your profile and turning on the "showdead" option.

HN semi-recently introduced a new feature called vouching. When you see a dead comment you feel is worthwhile and constructive, you can click on the comment's timestamp, then click "vouch." This will cause the comment to become visible to everyone. That's what happened here.

The "vouch" link will only appear for users with a certain amount of karma, and abusing this privilege can cause your vouching ability to be removed. It's one of the more impressive features of HN, since it gives some measure of moderation control to the community. Tangent: It's also the only way that people who create new HN accounts via Tor are able to post comments, because comments posted via Tor from new accounts are autokilled. I've only seen this matter once or twice, but the fact that vouching worked for those few cases made the HN experience feel quite special.

If you go to https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS and haven't enabled your "showdead" option, you'll only see Terry's vouched comments. This may have been a source of confusion, since it could have given you the impression the account wasn't banned.

The HN mods are quite responsive via email. In general, if you have a question like the one you originally posed, you may want to try sending a short, clear email to hn@ycombinator.com.
The whole story could have been designed to inflate the value of all Peter Doig's paintings.

From that PR perspective it might make sense to actually pay $5M in damages in order to attract even more attention and sell the paintings on that hype.
Don't think so. Though they did have bank runs before government backed deposit insurance was a thing. (And I think not all countries do deposit insurance. But most major rich economies do.)

As an aside: there's strong pressure to cover losses from money market funds. (Usually on the sponsors of the fund, but I think there was a government bailout recently?) Even though those funds don't have a formal guarantee. But they are supposed to be liquid.
One of the optimization goals for the design of Pascal was compile speed - single pass compilation source > link > binary. That usually also meant less optimizations. On the other hand, Turbo Pascal was really popular as glue code for programs and demos written predominately in assembler for speed... so there's that.

I wonder if a rewrite of WWIV from Pascal to Pascal would've yielded similar speedups, or if it really just was the optimization passes that made all the difference. If so, one might think that a Pascal compiler that targeted C might have been an (almost) as good solution at the time.
Actually, the latest version of Intellij's IDEA is pretty snappy on my 5 yo MBP.
I meant in a more general sense: it's closer to something uncertain like statistical arbitrage.

Thanks for looking up the numbers. 1.15% seems entirely reasonable compared to having your money locked up.
So it's racist to act on true beliefs?

Consider a woman walking down the street late at night. Dark alley 1 has a black man. Dark alley 2 has an Asian female. Is she racist if she walks down the alley that minimizes her risk of violence?
And people in the UK get to have a reason to work again as land prices fall back in line with local wages.

Hooray. Speculators: go home. Of course we still need to put our parasitic banking industry into line but it's a start.
Thanks for that comment, I'll read over that thread to see if I missed anything. Upon closer reading of the spiral rule, I don't think I have actually been following it as closely as I thought, so I don't think it affects the correctness of any other parts of the article. All this time, I had been kind of thinking that the spiral rule was a sort of 'gold standard' way to remember how to read declarations, but it doesn't clearly explain how to parse stuff like

a[1][2][3][4];
Men set their own cites high: Gender and self-citation across fields
You're missing the point. There's "suboptimal parallelism", and then there's "no parallelism". Python and many other dynamic languages fall into the latter category.
apparently 'homeserver' = 'P2P node' running as a service on your system
BTW interesting blog. Added to my rss.
I don't have to, I think, but often writing more-complex code than I'd otherwise want is sometimes the most efficient way to get things done, because otherwise I'd get stuck in analysis paralysis. Also, I tend to shy away from the more "succinct" option because it seems like it'd lock me into certain choices, with more edit distance between design decisions.
>These are hedge funds managing complex instruments.

How come it's only when it comes to matters of finance that people tell me things are too complex for me to understand, yet I am well capable of understanding the most convoluted of machinery and systems. My only conclusion is that they are needlessly complicated on purpose.