skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've coded this sim (ml/octave) if anyone wants to play around with other numbers (number of people, starting amount of dollars):

https://github.com/subroutines/DollaBillz/

The writeup there includes a clip simulating 500 people (each starting with 100 dollars) and some distribution fits.
Ads I can see as they pay for content, DRM, not so much as the content has already been paid for.
>No, because it means much less economic growth

And why would "more economic growth" be a good thing?

I don't want endlessly slaving to make the pie bigger (while ignoring second order effects, from quality of life, to environmental issues, to debt etc).

How about we learn to enjoy a moderate rate of economic growth, or even a steady economy, and focus on improving other aspects of life besides bank accounts?

>But too little lending is really bad for everyone too, and there are pretty fair reasons to think it might impact the lower class the most.

Under the current model though. Whereas e.g. better distribution of wealth might help them more than more lending.
According to Pew Research: "National data doesn’t identify how many children are removed from their homes because of a parent’s substance abuse. And there’s no one standard for how states report substance abuse and child neglect."

http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stat...
Perhaps providing housing shouldn't be about making money. That is the central conflict here.
It's interesting we could be developing whole new non addictive classes of pain killer from cannabis extracts but instead we standardize on oxyconton and opiates. With a beat up, aging population of working people with chronic pain of course it's a perfect storm. But in states that have embraced cannabis we don't see this level of crisis .
As others have noted, every state in the state space will eventually be explored and so the appearance of convergence is a little misleading. Eventually the richest person will lose all the money and someone else will take that place.

An interesting question is why we happen to see the system in such an unequal state when we look at it after e.g. 10000 iterations. The reason for this, I believe, is entropy. There are just vastly more ways to distribute the money unequally than equally (thinking of these as macro states). For example, there is only one (macro) state where everyone has $100, but there are 100! states where the money is distributed in a perfectly unequal way (e.g. 0, 1, 2, ..., 99, 5050 or any other way where all the people can be distinguished). So, if you randomly peek at the system at any given time it'd be very unlikely that you'd see it in any way other than a highly unequal state. To be fair, this argument neglects the dynamics (perhaps the transition probabilities to those states are sufficiently small that the n! multiplicity is watered down, although I suspect this is not the case.)
Another way of looking at it: respect. In the past, translators were always used on news stories from China. Now, English speakers are going through the effort to learn Chinese because they know it is in their best interests as China ascends to the spot of the(!) world superpower.
It certainly does not deter the USA or Russia or China from invading Panama or Latvia or Burma.
Meaning of Life: Contemporary Analytic Perspectives
RMS has been warning[1] about that specific problem for decades. Unfortunately, very few people listened. Now we have the additional problem of people already giving up property rights for shiny digital baubles. -sigh-

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
As an adopted Mancunian (by way of nearby North Wales) I had never really questioned why we used this demonym at all, I suppose in the same way I might not question why a sheep is called a sheep.

Some other interesting ones from the nearby area: anyone from North Wales is called (by those from South Wales primarily) a "gog" typically with a negative connotation. It comes simply from the Welsh for north: Goggledd (gogg-lev).

And one that the Scousers love to use is "Woollyback", for those from the nearby county Lancashire, as the locals would walk into Liverpool with wool on their backs to sell.
Do you also want explosions in movies to sound just as loud as whispers? Quiet parts of songs are meant to sound quieter, there's even special notation in sheet music for this.
>Don't get me wrong - I love me some theory, it is so much cleaner than the real world. But we don't get to live there.

Is that because it's impossible and unpractical, or because we are conditioned for the current situation?
I agree. The author starts out talking about the ubiquity of photography as a medium and then uses it more of an example to basically say that one should be prolific. I find the idea similar to the article posted last month, "Stop trying to ‘be original’ and be prolific instead" [0]

[0] http://prolifiko.com/prolific/
You should read 'Clean Code', comments mean a failure of clean understanding code
But in the example given the reason the software doesn't work isn't because it needs ads. It's because the ad blocker is broken.
I'm still not sure what part exactly you see as inaccurate. The notion that Intel didn't work on x86_64 early enough? The assumption that if Intel had an x86_64 product first it would have had a chance against AMDs?
Growing the Community – Open Source Initiative
Exactly. Six stories is about right, imho.
Them make it illegal to sell software without publishing the source code.
I think you're seriously downplaying a few variables, to reach a desired conclusion. How many coal mines and textile mills are there in Portland or San Francisco?
The limit seems to be around 40MB now
https://discuss.atom.io/t/atom-file-size-restriction-is-it-s...
> I can't hit up construction, IT, healthcare, physics, retail, banking, and academic industries in a week to find out if I'm cut out for at least one of them.

Sure, but the hypothetical 30ish super-super-capable would have had roughly 5 years (not just one week) to find something better before starting brick laying, and this is the typical CATCH 22, if you are super-super-capable it doesn't take you 5 years to fail to find something.
Already a coin for that:

https://musicoin.org

Musicoin employs blockchain and ‘smart contract’ technology to execute a usage contract along with a payment transaction - automatically and seamlessly - each and every time a listener clicks the ‘Play’ button.
This is a good time to look at npm again and compare. I will not say one is better than the other, but npm v5 has a lot of improvements and addresses most of the reasons why yarn existed to begin with.
RIP Privacy
"Worcester" and "Norwich" are sort of regular, in the sense that the "ces" in "-cester" suffixes often gets elided into an "s" (e.g. "Gloucester", pronounced "Gloster") and the "w" in "-wick" and "-wich" suffixes is typically dropped completely (e.g. "Greenwich", "Warwick", "Berwick", pronounced "Grennidge", "Worick", "Berick" respectively).

My mother has always insisted that "Cirencester" is correctly pronounced "Sisister", which Wikipedia sort of supports (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirencester#Pronunciation).
A lot of talk about attendees' use of drugs and alcohol creating risk, but this catastrophe had nothing to do with that.
Protonmail: 100% guaranteed E2E encrypted, nice UI, servers based in Switzerland, Android/iOS apps available aswell. Oh, and open source.

https://protonmail.com/

As a nice addon they also recently launched a interesting VPN solution. Also headquartered in Switzerland with core infrastructure located in Switzerland and Iceland. No logging, and Tor routing is available with a single mouse click.

https://protonvpn.com/
I've heard Novocastrian but it'd be reasonable to say I've never heard outside of a pub quiz or from a Stephen Fry-type trying to seem clever.

The other two are new to me!
Might that mean that you are bi? I mean, if you like watching it you might enjoy doing it.

If your first response to that suggestion was visceral, maybe you actually have some aversion to the idea that you are. It makes sense, the world is easier for straight people, but it might bear closer examination.
Yep, meals and "entertainment".
On the lightweight end there's https://github.com/catseye/Maxixe
This seems like a good case in favor of Privacy Badger's model, where content blocking is based on the number of times a domain tries to track you across websites, rather than a blacklist of URL patterns and file names.
I'm in Canada, Kia.
Hi deepaksurti,

1) I am thinking to create a web/blog to put those in. I thought that it might interested people to know what are the new features I am working on or will be working on. Beside the To-Dos, I do not know what else I can talk about the project

3) This is a good idea. Like I mentioned in (1), I will see if I can make a good looking blog and put the link on README

4) I did, but I am not so proud of the product. It has over hundred downloads, but I lack graphic skills.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dodger-me/id1069760106?mt=8
My concern with what my Causes and Prevention of War professor called the Mankind Absolutely Rejects Nuclear Explosives scenario is that after you've eliminated existing stocks of nuclear weapons, you have not eliminated the capacity to produce nuclear weapons during the course of a major-power war. If there is another direct major-power war and a nation has a choice between an invasion they project to cause 500,000 casualties and dropping a nuclear bomb, which would they choose?
The iPhone 8 would arrive in four colors
"Bro" has become a slur for any male with normal testosterone levels.
The Philosophy of Programming
You're right, that's totally the wrong word.

What I meant to say is that it is hemmed in by land, since its only land border is with Saudi Arabia, who are leading the boycott. And, Qatar doesn't have any deep-water ports.
Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks by LAMDA Group
> And why would "more economic growth" be a good thing?

Because billions of people still live in poverty worldwide.

> I don't want endlessly slaving to make the pie bigger (while ignoring second order effects, from quality of life, to environmental issues, to debt etc).

No one does. Economic growth, although not by itself, helps alleviate a lot of these issues. There are other factors that also impact this, and I'd argue a lot of the economic issues we face aren't from too much growth but from these other factors (taxation etc.) not being handled properly. So in general more growth is advantageous, but we have to other things going right as well.

> How about we learn to enjoy a moderate rate of economic growth, or even a steady economy, and focus on improving other aspects of life besides bank accounts?

Well a lot of people disagree about what things like quality of life and adequate environmental care are. One of the beauties of capitalism is that it allows people with wide disagreements about what's important in life to coexist and even benefit each other.

Edit: sorry I didn't see this before:

> Under the current model though. Whereas e.g. better distribution of wealth might help them more than more lending.

Maybe, but if that better distribution of wealth comes at the cost of shrinking the overall system (which there is a real reason to think would happen: this is why people and corporations bank outside of the US frequently already) then I think it's hard to conclusively argue either way.

Again this is not to say I don't see problems with our current economy, I just think "it's growing too much" is not one of them.
Oo! Sorry hasn't been published to npm yet, still prepping for beta. Try `npm install orcproject/orc` to get the latest from master branch on github.
Purely cost wise, an old reliable car is much cheaper than anything you mentioned here.

Let's be upfront and frank about it. You will pay more for the added convenience. You really should put a number on it to get an idea.

I bought my car 6 years ago for $9000. It was an 8 year old car, but with low miles. In the last 6 years, I've paid $2100 in repairs and maintenance (includes changing oil, tires, etc). So a total of $11,100 in 6 years. My car is worth $2900 now. So a loss of $8200 in 6 years. That's $1367 per year.

How much will your car depreciate in 6 years?

If I compare it with a top of the line Subaru Forester, that depreciated at least $8K in the first two years.

Your situation may be good - I'm not sure. But unless you really run the numbers, you'll never know. People always do hand waving rationalizations in their hand. Don't. Get a spreadsheet and run the numbers.

Not saying paying a lot for peace of mind is a bad idea. That's for you to decide.
Strategies that work: how to increase your maximum file upload size
It is even more granular for some of the cities, I am in Liverpool (also mentioned in the article) and scouser is more of a superset, containing:

* Plazzy – (from plastic, meaning fake.)

* Wools – (from wooly-backs, having accents sounding as if they might live near sheep, traditionally traders would commute to the city from other cities with wool on their backs.)

* Johnheads (the "ketwigs" (those that spend their money on Ketamine rather than haircuts) that congregate near St. John's Market)

Interestingly, the subsets are more likely to cause offence if used since they're terms mainly used to describe others, and less likely to be adopted (though scouser was adopted.)
Aanndd just saw you did that already.
And there's definitely no aging physical labor population in Washington, home of Boeing plants and a massive agricultural industry.
some people used to record the chart show off Radio 1 and share the cassettes with their friends. It didn't stop me buying music, I couldn't afford to buy music and would have done without it. In fact it turned me into a music fan, and once older I bought a lot more music because of it.

Where the official sources beat the torrents is on convenience. Spotify and Apple whatever are easy to use and busy people will pay.

A similar effect is possible with TV shows and films. I have Amazon prime, and Netflix. Prime costs me £79 a year, Netflix costs me £7.99 a month I think. Now I have a Youview box. I can watch Netflix on it but not Prime. For prime I have to buy another device or use my laptop. I wanted to see what the 'Game of Thrones' fuss was about, neither has it (amazon charges per episode actually). NowTV from Sky does, so I got a trial subscription, but the NowTV app on the Youview box only works for films, not TV shows (!), and the NowTV pc app doesn't work on Linux.

So I pay for three services and still can't watch due to petty rights issues. I could watch them all on Kodi for free of course, but that would be wrong (even though I have paid for them elsewhere).

In summary, if they refuse to get with the 21st Century they will sell less shows. If they allowed easier access to the shows they would beat piracy with convenience. DRM just makes it harder. Don't get me started on HDMI DRM
From the article:

"He concedes that there are challenges: improving the optical performance of the elements; suppressing spillover effects between different signals in the device; and honing the algorithms that calibrate the camera’s performance."

The line of "honing the algorithms" is the complexity orbital-decay is referencing. These types of sensors do need computationally expensive reconstruction to generate images we're used to seeing with traditional optics and sensors currently found in many consumer devices. The filtering and focusing work the lenses do still needs to happen. These sensors essentially rely on complex math to replace the finely ground glass.
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AMD EPYC Infinity Fabric V. Intel Broadwell-EP QPI Architecture Explained
Interesting, wasting money on a Toyota Sienna's sliding doors and windows which kept breaking down the minute it was out of warranty, and its write-off in what seemed a minor accident is what drove us to the above strategy.
Literally firebombing means bombarding women in startup world with incendiary ordnance, be it be plane or artillery barrage, and to my best knowledge no such action took place.
It's a myth that heroin and opiate addiction are the result of pain killer prescriptions: "According to the large, annually repeated and representative National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 75 percent of all opioid misuse starts with people using medication that wasn’t prescribed for them—obtained from a friend, family member or dealer. "
Indeed. Why is that acceptable state of affairs? Remember, we have a law that essentially tells everyone that lending / selling your DVD is legal. Why isn't there such a law for digital content? Why can I sell a Die Hard DVD but not a Die Hard movie file?
Yes, Kia.

I heard 7 years in Europe. Is it true in the US too?

I wonder why 5 years only in Canada!
> I'd probably reduce usage of some sizeofs just using the constant

Why? The sizeof is resolved into a constant at compile time, ie, no runtime cost. I see the 'sizeof(i16)' as conveying more information than a '2'.
i16 seems to be a typedef for short int, which may be actually be larger than 2 bytes depending on the compiler.
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This is a copy of the ISO 32000 PDF specification:

http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/pdf/p...

This is a long document but it is very well written, if you read it on the bus or while you're waiting for your compiler to finish, you will get to understand it.
> assumptions based on search autocomplete results (which vary based on location, IP address, browser, OS, and other factors).

I imagine you could just do the same searches in an Incognito browser window and get results not tailored to you, nor your location, IP, etc. (Or, I would be rather surprised if google searches were STILL tailored to some determinable attribute of you in an incognito browser window.)

I also imagine Seth did this (but only because I would be very surprised if he did not).
Dvorak is something anyone can use on their own any time. I imagine it is much more successful than Esperanto, because the only point of language is communication. It is the Facebook problem - you need a large network of participants to make a language work, or the language fails its purpose.

Also, Esperanto is ugly as fuck. It has I believe 4 accented letters, and I have no idea why anyone would think when divising a new language that accents or umlauts are good ideas (unless all the letters supported them and had consistent meaning). Otherwise, just use new characters.
Short version: affordable housing is illegal to build.

A bunch of people sit around thinking "Wouldn't rooftop gardens be nice? Hey, let's make it a law that you have to build them on all new towers!". And then they are surprised that the housing costs more and excludes lower-middle class.
We are legion (We are bob):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LWAESYQ/ref=series_rw_d...

An awesome sci-fi story about a software developer who wakes up in the 22nd as a computer program
That certainly is the result of painkiller prescriptions - just not ones written for the person who starts using.
> This may be TMI for HN but once in a while I (a straight male with zero attraction to men ever) have searched for and "enjoyed" gay porn.

And yet I have never. Does this mean I am (on some ruler) "straighter" than you? (Not that I care, or think this matters.)

(I once discovered gay male porn on the parents' computer of a woman I once dated, while trying to fix it. Awkward...)
> Given the scale of the crisis, it’s not hard to understand why, when Donald Trump promised Ohioans on the campaign trail to “spend the money” to confront the opioid crisis and build a wall so drugs would stop flowing in,

Have a look at this document with data from 2009. Compare usage rates in Americans for opiates with opioids with prescription opioids:

http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/WDR2011/Sta...

Annual Prevalence of use as a percentage of the population aged 15-64 for the year 2009

Opioids 5.90%
Opiates 0.57%
Prescription Opioids 5.60%

Those drugs are being prescribed by doctors. The cause is not illicit drugs from outside the US. The cause is the terrible healthcare for pain. Illicit fentanyl coming in from outside the US now is just a symptom - stopping that fentanyl will prevent death (because it's a very dangerous opioid) but it won't do anything about the real problem: people in pain with inadequate treatment for that pain.
Similarly, does 'sis culture' at colleges keep talented men out?

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-REGjzKeq_LY/T53intthiXI/AAAAAAAAR...

This seems like a larger and more relevant problem for the president of a college to address.
Reining in the dastardly algorithms that are trying to control our lives
Transparently tendentious reasoning of this sort fails to serve your turn, and that's especially regrettable in this case because I agree with you that we would be very well served to look for means of addressing severe and chronic pain that don't involve the most addictive class of drugs known to man.

I would esteem it a kindness of you to find a way of advancing your thesis that does more to support it than, by retreat into intellectually dishonest tactics, to make it look indefensible.
If you stored $65 million in cash and had it stolen I'd go ahead and feel comfortable blaming you for choosing a stupid currency medium, i.e. physical cash.
Sure, but skilled machinist work in a Boeing plant isn't even remotely comparable to the forms of unskilled manual labor common to Appalachia. While the strawberry pickers of California's agricultural industry tend to be undocumented immigrants, and one's drug of choice is significantly shaped by demographics.

I'm not arguing against the merits of cannabis, mind you. I'm just saying that it's lazy and ridiculous to argue, "We don't have strung-out hillbillies on the Pacific coast. Must be due to the presence of marijuana! (rather than the absence of hillbillies)".
Build a billion dollar business with a single instance of IIS and SQL Server
The company I work for built a billion dollar business using nothing more than a single instance of IIS, SQL Server, and a monolithic architecture.

I wanted to post this because there is a lot of tech going around that solves big problems with clustering, horizontal scaling, micro services, tdd, nosql, etc. You can build a billion dollar business without any of that.
>Now adjust for frustration of sudden issues of an old car.

Everyone keeps saying this, but when I ask, no one answers:

How much should I adjust for sudden issues?

I once got stuck in the middle of a national park because my starter malfunctioned. People might have laughed at me for buying a used car. But let me ask you: I'll give you two choices:

1. For free, I'll give you a special insurance. If you are ever inconvenienced in a fairly populated national park, I'll pay you $5000. Heck, I'll sweeten the deal - I'll pay you $5000 if you're inconvenienced anywhere because of your car. Heck, I'll sweeten it further. I'll pay you $5000 even if you are never inconvenienced due to the car!

2. You get to not be inconvenienced. This option will give you no money, though.

Which would you take? Note that in reality, my special insurance can be worth a lot more than $5000.
I live in Liverpool but grew up on the Wirral and frequently am told I'm a big Wool, and I understood it to be nearly anyone in merseyside but not in Liverpool and plazzy to be anyone not in merseyside but affiliates as a scouser.