skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might not be related, but my main doubts about buying a model 3 is Adam ruins everything (electric car episode): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQLbakWESkw

He mentions that you can't shop your way out of global warming and that the environmental cost of building a new car creates a much larger carbon footprint than driving a used car.

But upon more research, this is not exactly true: http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1093657_buying-a-new-car...

"The study reveals that fully 75 percent of a car's lifetime carbon emissions stem from the fuel it burns, not its production. A further 19 percent of that is production and transportation of the fuel, leaving just six percent for the car's manufacture."

Hopefully this helps resolve those who have this particular doubt about getting a model 3.
Exactly, they advertised it to be on an island “once owned by Pablo Escobar” implying that it was on Norman's Cay ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%27s_Cay) but Norman's Cay is 100 miles away. Just lies...
Ok right. That's why I feel in Clojure it doesn't provide as much, because it doesn't hook into a debugger.

Having said that, practically, you wouldn't release a tool which has users interact at the debugger, at least for any level of more serious commercial work no?
What would definitely work is a blockchain. It would definitely make sense at least for reliably timestamping video recordings.
GuideSpark’s Jon Parisi helps new SDRs convey real value and avoid “happy ears”
I don't understand the math here. But, it seems people are saying there is equal probability that any state can arise. Is that correct? If so, I'm unclear why that's true given that the state where one person has all the dollars seems like it can only arise from a much smaller set of states (where only one person, and there would be 99 options, had one dollar and one person had all the rest). In comparison, wouldn't there be lots of times when the next state (say where all the people had similar amounts of money) would be easier to get to from multiple states. I'm saying it simplistically seems like the extreme states are harder to get to than the "middle" states. Is than an erroneous assumption? Is there some technique I can use to reason about this problem in a different way?
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Re Alloy

Most people that use these tools told me TLA+ and Alloy do different things with their automated tooling. They usually say TLA+ looks at ordering of things with Alloy looking at structuring. I only found a few people comparing them directly, though. Do you have a resource showing TLA+ does same thing as Alloy or as easily?

Re SPIN

Im saying they were used similarly. You wrote in one artocle like set theory, model-checking for temporal errors, and so on are new. That was the default in high-assurance decades ago using things like Z specs with SPIN for concurrency. Then, they tried to go for verifying high-level code, then rough code, code then assembly, and so on with refinement proofs. However, it started with algorithmic verification with specs in set theory, first-order logic, and ASM's. Writeups like yours tell me Lamport's concept was to similarly use those easier formalisms leaving off anything but the algorithm. Then add more automation to get more bang for buck for more developers. A good idea since the subset of that which Z and SPIN offered had already prevented serious, sometimes deep, errors in prior systems.

Now, far as SPIN, it was used to chech the properties of concurrency models, hardware specs, caching, protocols, standards, and distributed systems. Industry found bugs in all these things using it with relatively little training vs other methods that required rare specialists. Sound familiar? TLA+ now shows up as tool of choice for quite a few of those areas with SPIN still used a lot due to maturity & being well-known. That's why I said they're similar: people are specifying and model checking similar things with them similarly with much less effort than provers.

The easier proving on TLA+ and high-level nature are real benefits ovee SPIN. It's why I recommend TLA+. ;)
Isn't that button for acknowledging the fact that the site will use cookies?
That is always how society works, those that existed before leverage the efforts of the young. 401k, social security, Medicare, etc

You'll benefit from this scenario at some point as well.
Clear for you perhaps. But (anecdotally) every time I explain this to someone in my family, I get the "bitcoin got hacked line".

The article itself is not a HN thread.

A journalist who has done enough research would know the nuances of the cryptocurrency language. Journalists understand that the meaning of their newspaper pieces is hardly dependent on their thoughts while writing. Instead it is tied to the text. It's the journalist's job to educate everyone, and sentences as the above are a barrier to education/adoption/rejection/informed opinions/innovation.

Disclaimer: I haven't owned Bitcoin for years, and I'm bearish on most cryptocurrencies in the short/medium term. I.e. I've got no horse I'm betting on.
The article says at the very end:

> This is due to the boundary at zero wealth which, we imagine, people don’t consider when they think about the problem quickly.

So I wanted to see if this is true. (I ran 5000 ticks, 45 people, 45 initial dollars each). I used my own program.

I removed the condition that you must have at least $1 to redistribute it (in other words I allowed negative wealth) and ended up with this distribution:

http://i.imgur.com/SctNJWi.png

vs with the >$0 redistribution condition:

http://i.imgur.com/wRVZxlO.png

While it affects the shape, it is far from the case that it looks like some brownian motion near the starting wealth. When sorted, it still has a basically unequally distributed shape.
Your view is binary and doesn't reflect reality. I've lived in China 9 years. Despite an oppressive government, the ingenuity and perseverance of the people can't be completely contained. I absolutely do not condone the Chinese government's behavior, but that doesn't mean I will write off an entire region of over a billion people in one simplistic swoop.
> That's because oxycontin and opiates work for relieving pain.

They do not work for relieving long term pain.

https://www.fpm.ac.uk/faculty-of-pain-medicine/opioids-aware

> > 1. Opioids are very good analgesics for acute pain and for pain at the end of life but there is little evidence that they are helpful for long term pain

> > 2. A small proportion of people may obtain good pain relief with opioids in the long-term if the dose can be kept low and especially if their use is intermittent (however it is difficult to identify these people at the point of opioid initiation).

> The existence of painkillers are not the reason we have drug addicts.

This is just untrue. Please provide a valid source.
This comment has a strong blend of meta and ideological flamebait, which nearly always poisons the discussion. Please resist the temptation to do this, no matter what you're replying to.

We've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14729686.
Here's the one using similar approach, but for Node.js.

https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss
Had a similar thing on my website, I put all my images (regular jpegs, pngs, etc.) in a directory named ads (which contained more than ads) and the adblocker was dutifully hiding them - took me a while to figure out the culprit was the adblocker + folder name.
Who is in the top 1% changes drastically over time, but it is still mostly people who were born in the top 40% or so. For example, see this chart - https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21595437-americ...

Or for example -

> Studies by the Urban Institute and the US Treasury have both found that about half of the families who start in either the top or the bottom quintile of the income distribution are still there after a decade, and that only 3 to 6 percent rise from bottom to top or fall from top to bottom. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_the...

Now, you could look at how people/families move around the distribution over longer timescales (multiple generations) but we don't really have the data yet.
Yes, true. But it's build into the format, instead of transparently applied afterwards.
Pierre Menard could have made a movie.
But even leaving that aside, and assuming for a moment that replays are indistinguishable (and one can enter the same river), would you accept that a movie is reducible to a photographic film chemistry?
You don't. They'll find you.
That's all true, but these analyses always seem to skate over the fact that the copyright system exists because without it it's hard for authors to get paid. Don't talk to me about a world free of intellectual property rights unless you can also offer practical suggestions for what creative people are supposed to live on while they're working. Regrettably, the cult of celebrity has blinded people to the fact that cultural work requires as much time and effort as any other variety.

A good place to start the analysis would be an assumption that all software is freely copyable, so suddenly nobody wants to pay for any of it other than for bespoke purposes. Consider how projects like NumPy and so on are only now getting funding after becoming so widely used that people are dependent on them and it takes a threat to retire from further work on it to make people put their hands in their pockets.

If you're against copyright, then you need to be for something like a basic income and universal service availability, to create the conditions in which creativity has an opportunity to flourish free of market pressures. Otherwise you're just saying you want media to be free as in beer. The biggest barrier to creativity is not the inability to iterate on existing work. People already do that, it's fun and some of the results are great, but innovation is more complex than that.
I'm hearing on the one side that these legal prescriptions are causing the problems but on the other had others say that these drugs being illegal is causing the problem and if we made them legal that people will use them in a safe manner. If people get addicted them when prescribed legally then how can making them legal have any hope?
If you want to save yourself a click...

Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity

I would say the content fits this description.
IIRC, with Postgres, you can write to Redis directly from SQL and as part of transaction. (See `redis fdw` on google.) Perhaps, there is writable FDW driver for your queue system.

(Or maybe you can just dumpt stuff to sockets by using Postgres function written in Python, JS, Perl or w/ever you prefer.)
I don't remember when I first released FSet. I did write it before Clojure showed up (2004-ish). Anyway, by "now" I just meant that FSet was a relatively recent arrival in the history of CL, not that it was necessarily newer than Clojure.

Agreed on both counts about map default values. I've been wanting to change how they work, but the change I have in mind would be incompatible. Here's what I'm thinking. Instead of every map (and seq) having a default, which defaults to NIL, we would distinguish maps with defaults from those without. Doing LOOKUP on a defaultless map at a key it has no mapping for would signal a condition (similarly for an out-of-bounds lookup on a defaultless seq). Then the defaultless versions could be used more conveniently with UNION (and COMPOSE, another place where I've tripped over this problem).

I was thinking that creating a map without supplying a default should give you a defaultless map, and that's how I wish I had done it from the beginning, but making it work that way now would break a lot of code. I could release it as a new major version (and call it "fset-2" in Quicklisp so people don't pull it down accidentally). Or, I could leave the existing constructor behavior unchanged and just add a new defaultless map (and seq) constructor. I think this is considerably less elegant, but it wouldn't break existing code. What do you think?
Neither 101 nor 17 goes through Cupertino or even near its borders.

I can't even parse your second paragraph.

As for "easy drop-off" from 280, remember Wolfe is quite busy before the Spaceship even opens at all, let alone staffs up fully.

Then, what?

Everybody packs Homestead from De Anza Blvd through all residential neighborhoods? Or onto Homestead from the Lawrence Expressway end, which is already busy thanks to the new, huge Kaiser medical center there? (Not to mention that access to Lawrence from 280 is via surface streets, not direct-linkage ramps).
The New and Improved Flask Mega-Tutorial (Kickstarter)
Everything is culture.

But yeah, the stuff produced by copyright mafia/Big Entertainment/Hollywood/whatever is far, far from the only culture that exists.

A lot of culture is happening on DRM-free places like YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, DeviantART, Tumblr, itch.io, etc.

Especially YouTube. It's huge. And it's full of people who download other videos and remix them in interesting ways.
Isn't that just paying the interest in the beginning in full, instead of over time or at the end of the loan?
It looks like postmodernist fluff to me. I assume from the downvotes it received that I'm not the only one. I accept the possibility that we all missed some great insight - would you care to give us a hint?
I'm not saying I'm smarter than your average PhD but it seemed intuitive that it would concentrate wealth, basically because you can only give out 1 dollar per round even if you have >1 dollars.

Having said that I would not draw too much inference about economics and human society from this. There is no such "1 dollar per round" rule in life.
The issue is not that these startups fail; the whole idea is that most startups will fail. It's how much easy money they take with them. It should not require $59M to learn that delivering expensive food at a loss is a poor business idea.

The easy money in tech right now is harmful, as it crowds out actual innovation. But I don't see it getting better anytime soon.
> Who said anything about draconian measures?

DRM is a draconian measure, by necessity.

> Most modern DRM is almost completely transparent to legitimate users

What do you mean by that and how is it relevant?

> Do you believe that financial models other than a complete, permanent purchase of a copy of a work are useful?

Maybe.

> And if so, how would you propose to set up a realistic rental/library/PPV scheme for digital content without relying on anything that could be called DRM?

By just leaving out the DRM?
Do you really spend $1k/year just for TV, or does that include internet? Because if the later, it's not really comparable.
Ask HN: Can you identify or read someone from one picture?
You can try this on -> deducer.paradict.com
Be warned about IOTA though, it still is not decentralized, see https://medium.com/@ercwl/iota-is-centralized-6289246e7b4d and the reaction of devs/foundation-members to that article, does resemble the reaction when somebody has something to hide. And https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/6jzfak/whats_wrong_wi... and some others, but also the official channels are moderated/censored.

Seems to be more promise, hype abd marketing, than what it says on the tin.
If you go into a walk-in (or even GP office) asking for pain meds, that sets off all kinds of alarms.

If you go in with an obvious injury and they offer the painkillers without you asking, they probably feel a lot more confident that you are not drug-seeking.
Jawbone should have been Sonos. Their initial success was in audio products.
Could you just make your argument instead of hinting it? Not being a gamer or a full-time developer I have no desire to go off and spend hours figuring out the intricacies of how Steam works to see whether I agree with your assertions or not.

You claim that DRM happens in this particular library. OK, and the practical consequences of that are...?
1. A process engine that can execute a process given as an EPC (ideally with an embeddable gui editor). The app notifies the API of event completions and the API allows you to query the current state of the process.

2. An embeddable survey tool like SurveyGizmo, but completely whitelabelable, including the survey editor

3. An API for benchmark scores for iOS and Android devices (give me all devices that are as fast or faster than a Samsung Galaxy S6)

4. An embeddable private commenting tool (like Disqus, but for the back-office parts of the website)
Are you trolling? HTML was invented for scientific papers.
"Nobody seems to admit it, but Php, Ruby, Python, and Javascript are the same language"!!!

That's a big claim and I bet the author doesn't know any of these languages.
Congestion charging might help as well.

But anyway, most of the things you mention are social solutions to social problems. We are not very good at actually implementing those.

We are fairly good at implementing technical solutions, however. And whenever we can (even if only partially) convert a social problem into a technical one, that's a win.
I feel like there's some weird fundamental misunderstanding going on here.

The way I interpreted the solution was that every individual will at some point have the max possible amount of money (which is roughly $100).

I don't think jordigh is trying to imply that a single individual will have a majority of the total wealth
Works for pastebin.com, but not dpaste.com, sprunge.us, ix.io, fpaste.org, ideone.com, paste.fedoraproject.org, hastebin.com, termbin.com, paste.debian.net, gist.github.com, bpaste.net, lpaste.net, pastee.com, irccloud.com, codepad.org or susepaste.org.

I currently have ~40 lines of regex for this, plus some custom logic for a few that don't have raw URLs at all. A service would be very convenient.
Dropped the original author a note, unfortunately he's not near a machine at the moment, but does plan to check back in when he can.
As my sibling poster explained, that's not why meant.

Try to reduce some of the problems these people have: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/856542/elegant-solution-...
Actually I agree with asking about pain. If someone's REALLY in pain they'll tell you, but if it's "minor suffering" some are predisposed to tough it out.

I can't remember having ever been in 'real pain', maybe for that the addictive drugs should be considered under a monitored regime.

For lesser pain something lighter should be used.
Maybe it's more likely a competition between 2 different democracies as opposed to authoritarian vs democracy which main stream media often sell to public. Let me explain.

Contrary to most western audience's belief, Democracy is also a value promoted by CPP , at least literally. But the meaning of democracy is quite different. The one in India focus on equal voting from everybody , in China such practice is only gradually implemented in some area recently, but what CPP emphasize more is collective decision making by a group of participants not a dominant chief officer.

As to select policy maker/politician , Chinese system evolved to a very different systematic procedure with some democracy factors (i.e. selected by vote, but not by average people). See a TED speech:

https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_x_li_a_tale_of_two_political_...

The consequence of the difference is "democratically elected" policy makers are good story tellers finally win the voters . Usually they are former Lawyer, Journalist who are very good at articulating and performing to gain higher votes, live in their own alternative reality sometime lead to war. As a comparison, typical Chinese officials are usually not so good looking , even can not speak fluently without a speech note, more likely trained as engineers with better understanding facts , less influenced by ideology. But they are in that position for a better reason: They have some track record of accomplishment.

From Machine learning point of view, India democracy looks like a simple one layer Perceptron with equal weights on all inputs, Chinese "democracy" is a forward feed neural network with a very small hidden layer with the weights somehow adjusted.

Good luck to India people.
I do not have the time to do this right now, but - as this is a recurrent, finite, state machine, there is a unique stable distribution on states by application of the Perron Frobenius theorem[0] to the state transition probability matrix; that stable distribution on states is a strictly positive eigenvector with sum 1 and eigenvalue 1 (and can thus easily[1] be computed from the sparse 23751x23751 transition matrix)

This, is, by the way, somewhat similar to how Google's original PageRank[2] worked: Each page has some "worthiness capital", and at each point in time, it randomly gives one "worthiness coin" to one of the outgoing links. Give each page some starting capital (e.g, 1,000,000 coins), run the game for a very long time, and rank pages by the capital they managed to collect. There is a big difference, though - each page is not equivalent to a person in the 5-person game, but to a state in the 23751-state space; also, PageRank had damping factors, sink escapes, and other changes, but the basic idea is the same, and was actually (at least) 20 years old at the time that Page and Brin applied it to links of the "href" kind.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perron%E2%80%93Frobenius_theor...

[1] for a suitable definition of easily.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
We are already getting a lot of safety benefits. Cars are drastically saver than they used to be, especially for the people inside them. But even pedestrians are already better off---EU regulations even demand that.
Extensive discussions of the original articles:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14226889

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14280569

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14654223
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The problem with the first point is that autovacuum can't mark "dead" tuples as "dead" if there are open transactions that are "older" (in MVCC terms) than those tuples, no matter how aggressively it's tuned.

"SKIP LOCKED" (or, pre-9.5, "NOWAIT") will definitely help with the locking issue, but not with the bloat.
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