skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you are free to address it if it bothers you. The typical response to this of _I don't want to_ or _I shouldn't have to_ seems a bit naive when working with open source projects. The issue has only been on the tracker for two weeks, and it has the 'HelpWanted' tag, so it's not like they're opposed to improving the speed here.

If you're going to throw out specific numbers, you should probably get them, or at least the ratios, correct.

Numbers from the tracker are:

Go: avg 1.489 secs
Python: avg 0.933 secs

If you'd like to test this on a really large dataset to come up with how long it would take for Python to perform the same operation when Go requires 5 hours, that might be a bit more useful. If we just look at the available data, then the _extrapolation_ for Python would not be 2.5 hours. There's still a gap, but there's no need to exaggerate.
"Reaping the rewards of the rest of the ecosystem" isn't sustainable for 7 billion people.

And whose fault is this, that there are 7 billion people living in the world?

I would say that this race to the bottom is not sustainable.

What if every family will get sustainable and will not have more than two offspring (on average)?
I came to HN after leaving Slashdot. The main reason is the community. Slashdot got worse and worse in the last 5 years, with just trolls and polemics and bullies.

HN community is instead great, and discussions are always very respectful and insightful.
I'm Italian American, and there's definitely family rumors of distant cousins opening pizza shops in Chicago in the early 20th century to do this for mob activity.

Obviously, I cannot provide specific names nor attest to their veracity.
Related to this, was a Reddit thread from a few days ago in /r/golang about improving a csv/reader. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/50ncer/implementing...
4.95user 0.19system 0:05.22elapsed 98%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 29704maxresident)k

A lot better but that’s still 5× slower than Python.
It wouldn't necessarily be quite that simple, but it does seem to me as well that BTC could potentially be used for money laundering, and could provide a reasonable cover.
Cortana will force herself inside your hardware whether your willing or unwilling.

This is an interesting move and I wonder if these companies will back track under pressure from corporate. Is this just a matter of a few drivers built by AMD, Intel or Microsoft? I don't know.
Doors are the toughest part of a car to design; if you pay attention to cars which get a mid-life 'face-lift', you will see that they never change the doors (even when they change every other body panel). There are an immense number of constraints on a door, not the least of which are the hinge and the gasket. When the Model X was announced, my first comment was that the doors were a bad idea, just because of the complexity of the mechanism, and the 'legacy' of door issues on innumerable cars.
Turtles All the Way Down
>Also, how do you sell BC for physical cash?

Localbitcoins?
The neurology of self-awareness
Many browsers now have this option for article-like pages, e.g. Firefox and Safari.
I've downloaded Node+npm modules that require a C compiler.
Or things just fall through the cracks. It's not surprising to me that tragedies like the one in the original comment happen sometimes.
That's a good point. Still not getting what you paid for is a type of theft and a type of deception. The most obvious example would be counterfeit clothing.
Yup[1]. Sorry!

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
Granted this is a massive over simplification, but during the Revolutionary War a bunch of farmers with the simplest of firearms did pretty well against better equipped, organized, trained soldiers.

In many fights of this type (internal) victory doesn't necessarily require militia A defeating army (with tanks) B. It can come from militia A being a large enough PITA to warrant a change in plans, or gathering enough popular engagement and outrage to make a difference, or for members of Army B to say "hey I don't want to shoot (or be shot by) my neighbors in Milita A". FWIW I am not a proponent of armed revolt against our government, but I think your question regarding AR-15s vs M1 Abrams isn't capturing a possible/likely reality.
It might be cultural differences but it always amazes me how people can have such strong opinions without even a tiny doubt that there might be a chance that the person they are criticising is a bit more informed/experienced and is maybe taking actions based on their knowledge and experience.
In your estimation, which old school media giant(s) could successfully increase Twitter's value? Could they do it without relying solely on old-school strategies copied from the radio, TV, and print advertising they already know how to do?
I guess places that sell lottery tickets aren't as strict when it comes to KYC laws (if there are any to begin with)
Santa Monica resident here. Last year my commuting motorcycle was stolen. During the insurance and replacement process I rented a car for 3 months. About 6 months later my new bike was damaged and out for repairs for almost as long, but that time I chose to not rent a car and just Uber everywhere, including to and from work in Playa Vista every day. The two periods came out to about equivalent costs, with greatly increased convenience and less hassle due to never caring about parking or having a few drinks after work. I didn't take any long trips out of town, but for getting around it was great.

I haven't owned a car since I moved to LA 4 years ago, it's pretty great.
No deal an American president makes is binding until approved by the Senate. Wake me up when that happens.
I would think it's more the other way round, the guy who has a winning lottery ticket asks around in a pub "hey, I want my money now, who would want to buy this?" and the barman just might know.

Lottery's rate of return is worse than in sports betting, so buying a ton of tickets is probably not good business.
^ Not sure why this got downvoted. I'm pretty sure that if you told someone who lived in a rural area that they lived "out in the boonies" or that they were "rednecks," they would also take offense.

Please take some perspective: People on here are literally calling my beloved hometown and place of birth a "Rust Belt."

Even though I'm in Silicon Valley now, the vast majority of my friends and family still live back home.
But what can you do if countries like Ireland or Malta just allows tax evasion?
you could use an art gallery, you have normal customers walk into the shop and also have "mysterious" purchases of the more expensive items. you could also deliver it somewhere to store or destroy. then you buy more art from an unknown artist and put up in the shop at high prices. if the artwork becomes in demand you can then sell those items again legitimately (if you kept them in storage).
What's really insane to me is that all the walkable cities are out East and get run over by a glacier for half the year. If there's anywhere where walking and biking and taking transit should be preferred it's LA. It's beautiful almost year round.
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/12097929
Nothing ironic about that. To paraphrase Hal Abelson, computer science is as much about computers as biology is about microscopes.
Adding to that - arguably, haven't rats, cockroaches and mosquitoes almost achieved more than us in terms of expansion when we take into account their scale? Or influenza for that matter?

I recall a scientific study that suggested the (perceived) passing of time is relative to the size of an organism.[0] So perhaps we can only notice or appreciate phenomena that occur on a timescale that is relative to our size. It's true that with modern techniques we can now study things but our ability to value or appreciate things diminish as the time scale departs from ours...

[0]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24078179
I don't no much French but I think in this case the final e is not silent but also not stressed. Stress is on the i, same as in the Spanish pronunciation I think.
Reminds me of something one of my Economics professors said once: An Economist is just a mediocre Engineer, an Engineer is a a real bad Physicist, a Physicist nothing but a bad Mathematician, and a Mathematician the lowest form of Philosopher.
This was always the Achilles heel of the EU. In the end it can't work unless tax policies are harmonized.
Well, I was wrong.
Here is a list of cars effected with recalls for using the "save a few dollars" airbag using a propellant that was known ahead of time to be problematic.

http://www.nydailynews.com/autos/news/takata-airbag-recall-l...

Brands include:
BMW, Mercedes, Land Rover, Jaguar, Audi, Lexus,....

These companies sell themselves as luxury brands and their cars are very expensive, but it seems clear that the MBAs and bean counters are running these companies and not engineers and car designers.

This is my HN submission of a NY Times story on the topic of the airbag recall. One can read how the auto manufacturers deliberately put their customers at risk to save a few dollars per automobile.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12367031

The question I have is since it seems clear that engineers don't get to decide the safety of the car design and proper engineering in these luxury brands, how do we trust these luxury car manufacturers to even allow the engineers to design the car that they think is best and not the bean counters?
Bitcoins can be made almost as anonymous as cash. Bitcoin wallets (accounts) are anonymous, and bitcoin launderers claim they can obfuscate transactions by mixing them with other transactions and sending them through complicated webs of temporary bitcoin wallets.

But bitcoin launderers aren't really money launderers. They conceal the source of your funds, but they don't create a plausible fake source. You still need to launder your money.
The latter: Buy a lot of tickets (which aren't tracked transactions, so there's no saying how much dirty money you spent), and lose N% of it to the "house". Take your winnings (and if you buy scratch tickets, you should be relatively statistically safe) and it's "clean".

Of course, I've read that the scratch tickets systems are often flawed, and with some you can calculate if it's a winner by examining the serial numbers. That means you have various ways to cheat the system to give you better odds, but the reference I just found to that is a wired article, so take with salt. Pretty believable though.

http://www.wired.com/2011/01/ff_lottery/ (anecdotes about laundering and odds being beaten are past the 50% mark, but the whole article is worth a read)
Not that surprising for the unoptimized binary, the expression simply doesn't get folded and the division is executed on the processor. x86 processors trap when they do a division by zero. This is a totally correct execution with C, as division by zero is undefined behaviour. You would probably even expect that to happen.

I can't tell you though why the GCC binary even with optimisations outputs SIGFPE though, they probably don't optimize as much with undefined values.
Note that internally Java represents strings as utf-16
We've reached the comment limit here, but it is absolutely not agreed that the Fed has legal authority to buy equities.

"Former Fed official Joseph Gagnon has lamented that the Fed’s asset purchase authority “is limited by law to the Treasury, agency, and agency MBS markets plus foreign exchange” (emphasis added), and others agree."

http://blog.supplysideliberal.com/post/114021461013/greg-shi...

They could attempt to do so with some really creative legal interpretations, but it would probably take an act of Congress to resolve all of the resultant lawsuits.
To most people machine learning and data science are magic. They either believe in magic or they don't.

Once you learn it with sufficient mathematical sophistication, it stops being magic and starts being a tool that works in some situations and not in others.

You are surrounded by people who believe in the magic and will buy anything whether it works or not. Equally frustrating is being surrounded by non-believers who don't accept that simple things are actually possible.

We are still on the upswing for now so there are more believers than not. But if another AI winter happens, be prepared for the mbas to reject applications of data science that make complete sense because "we tried that data science stuff and it doesn't work".
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On Reddit, one reads comments more so for their entertainment value, rather than actual substance or relevance to the topic posted by the OP. Of course, this is not always true and tend to vary by sub-reddit.
Apple's latest report said that they paid a little over 6% in taxes, whereas the 0.005% number came from someone looking to score political points (without any evidence); do you have a trustworthy source for either the 0.005% or 1% numbers?
Is Reddit really broad? It seems to cater to a certain sort of person.

For instance, my mother in law is into Oprah Winfrey and might get that itch scratched by something a bit like Reddit but that is appealing to her. Maybe Pinterest is closer to that.
Exactly - it really depends on where you live/work, but LA's a surprisingly nice city for cycling in. It almost never rains, the Bus's all have bicycle carriers for emergency punctures/Hollywood, and the cars are rarely going fast enough to be a problem. The bicycle theft problem is also much less than usual, since not that many know how to ride a bicycle.
Registries in the US have very poor compliance rates; under 5% for a rifle registry in CA in the 1990s (the Atty General called the registry "a failure"), and a similar rate for a more recent attempt to register long guns in Connecticut.

The government can run through the physical paperwork (held by dealers), but it's slow, inaccurate and inefficient. Many people think that is a feature.

[The funny thing about "assault weapon" bans is that of two firearms that are functionally identical, one will be banned because it merely looks evil -- black and creepy looking -- while the other will be explicitly allowed in legislation. It's political posturing that just creates more criminals and does nothing to address the underlying causes of violence, namely failed socio-economic policies and the war on drugs, which creates a nice, solid economic base for gangs].
I assume that many of the same reasons that make me put more effort into my HN comments than my reddit comments also apply to other people here. The net result is that HN has a higher fraction of useful comments, and a higher fraction of smart, open minded readers. These reinforce each other, and keep the site viable.

I think this is a key observation: HN started with a very slightly positive feedback loop for quality comments, and over time this built up to a considerable advantage. If HN ever collapses, it will likely be because some other feedback loop with greater gain drowns this out.

My guess is that for most discussion sites (Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, etc) the desire for profit eventually prioritizes higher traffic over quality of discussion. My hope is that HN will remain mostly immune to this due to its (debatably) not-for-profit nature.

[By the way, I thought your comment was brilliant, likely due to the care you put into writing it. To recoup some of the effort, you might consider putting some of the details of your background into the About section of your profile page.]
Of course, that commute is about 40 miles straight through downtown. Somewhat like commuting from Stamford, CT to Brooklyn. Or across the whole of London (say, Beaconsfield to Romford).
Cash only businesses. Family, friends all eat there for free, like grandma's kitchen used to be. They gotta eat anyway, and it fills out a restaurant. The busier, the more you pad. Give options of top shelf scotches, etc... A guy is celebrating and wants table service, you provide that. Strip clubs, etc... Easy easy ways to either hide what's coming in, or pad what's coming in. Food trucks are brilliant for this, though stretching the definition of restaurant.
Fair question: how does it matter?
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Thank you! What is your craft?
Sure, buying an orange peel can result in death too. Guns just happen to be especially efficient at it.
Alright. I was having a 'people are wrong on the internet' moment.

What does get my goat though is that a comment can spin off a hundred replies and the initial comment is invisible. I've seen it happen a few times now to other people. It is controversy/mystery and then a back and forth without context and I find myself highlighting the initial comments to discover what actually happened.

It even happens to the OP's initial statement! Blank and a slew of comments. That might be the flamewar detector in action though.

That seems like a flaw in the algorithm. If the thread is worth reading instead of a flamewar then surely the initial comment ought to be (more likely to be) visible for reading?

I get that the initial comment could be nonsensical and the offspring of it could be still useful but it seems weird since those replies wouldn't have happened without it. You've heard the saying that it is easier to get good information by saying something wrong on the Net and being corrected, rather than by requesting said information. Seems like the present algorithm goes against a 'Law of the Internet'.
Well, you can threaten to throw them out of the EU if they don't fix their unfair (to other member countries) laws.

The EU should have more statutory authority for laws like this just as in the case of the US Federal Government over State governments.

At any rate, don't blame Amazon, Starbucks, but rather blame wealthy governments that refuse to spend the money for talent that can fix the laws (or iteratively "refix" them).
If you look at a time-lapse video of a plant reacting to e.g. a light or shadow, it already looks quite sentient.

For instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHe7y8cy-7Y
The tax attorney thing is a red herring. Wal-Mart averaged a 29% tax rate from 2008 to 2012--higher than your average American and much higher than companies like Apple and Google. You think Wal-Mart can't afford good tax lawyers? Or to lobby aggressively for tax breaks?

No, the problem both Wal-Mart and the local sausage cart have is they're "meat space" businesses. They can't shift profits to low-tax jurisdictions by parking key IP there. Their ability to arbitrage otherwise reasonable tax laws is limited by the physical nature of their businesses.
Most tumblers' implementation are flawed, allowing the senders and receivers to be identified. AFAIK the attack can only be prevented by forcing every participant to use multiples of a common, low entropy amount (ie. 0.5BTC), which most mixers don't do
Having worked and lived in both North America (USA and Canada) and the UK I find it's easier to be a shy or introverted person in the UK and I observe more shy people in the UK too. That's just my experience but the point is whether or not it should be celebrated there are strong cultural and societal differences about acceptance of it even within countries that are close culturally.
Why do you have to sell for cash ? You're in the clear once you can explain where your money came from, so it can go to your bank account and then you pay taxes like a good citizen.
I agree that it is ideal not to be investigated, but I'd think if you're making lots of money illegally, then authorities already have a decent idea of suspicion.
A brief survey of Fully Homomorphic Encryption, computing on encrypted data
The big cartels launder money straight to the banks. Drugs are a huge business, 10% of global GDP by some estimates. The banks are all involved, they have to be. HSBC got caught laundering $670 billion. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-02/hsbc-judge...
Instead of no longer paying attention, just manage your timeline better. Stop following people who automate tweets, it's mostly garbage and it comes with extra baggage like more click-tracking and redirects. I've found that most of the items people share on Buffer are things I already read here on HN or saw someone else share earlier.

Not following too many people is great, because the people you follow will curate the interesting stuff for you and re-tweet it. Stop following all media accounts for instance, maybe follow a couple reporters instead and you'll still catch all the interesting stories.

If un-following is socially awkward for whatever reason, mute people you follow or at least toggle off re-tweets for those that do too many.

I read my whole timeline most every day and it's great. It does take regular pruning though, like a plant in your garden.
I agree with you. And like FB they can just show the top few lines and you can click to read more.

I don't agree with the other comments that 140 is some magic number. I also don't agree that forcing people to shorten their message is a good thing or adds anything. Lots of things can't be shortened to 140 characters. Lots of people post 3-9-12 tweets in a row to try to make their point or post pictures of text or whatever to get around the limit. If you knew you could write as much as you want but only the top 140 characters would appear "above the line" people would still try to give you enough info in that first 140 characters for you to decide if you want to click "more..."
You are assuming that the company could obtain financing while never buying back stock or paying dividends? This seems to be an implicit (and often explicit) part of the fiduciary duty of the corporate officers (maximizing shareholder returns in the short or long term). I would not purchase stock from a corporation that promised never to return money to shareholders.
Bankers get sued all the time.

You're probably talking about criminal charges anyway, in which case the answer is that they rarely do anything that illegal, and when they do it's not very easy to prove.
The "indirection" here is on the intention of the 2nd amendment, which while written to provide for gun ownership is actually intended to provide for popular revolution. Having said that, yes, I left out why a gun registry might restrict the probability of a revolution unstated.

Let's imagine it's 1860, and the local ex-slave population is acting up. But, you have a registry of all ex-slaves who own guns. You drive around with a posse and confiscate them all before a popular revolution gets going. Is that in the best interests of the local people? Probably not, thus a registry in this context could be used to suppress the citizenry.

The same thing is true today, but realistically there is no way individual gun ownership in 2016 is going to be sufficient to for a population to successfully revolt. It's not like we are letting people own gunships. However, the 2nd amendment hasn't been updated to reflect modern reality. In a lot of ways, this boils down to an "originalist vs living constitutional" argument.
> How much time do you spend on HN? (average)

Per visit or per day?

> Should HN implement tagging?

Kinda hard to answer without knowing what tagging on HN would look like.
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