skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Marcus du Sautoy's "The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics" [1] is an even nicer one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music_of_the_Primes
Yes, they're on Twitter.
Until those laws get changed, the money from buying drugs from the big cartels funds real crimes.

Changing the laws is the long-term solution.

Not buying drugs from big cartels is the short-term one.
I think here, it means 5 bedroom 4 bath.
Right. And if you have a server running Linux and want to run a basic Wayland environment on it you can now do that with nVidia hardware. For car infotainment I thought the genivi guys were going Wayland already.
Well, yes I have to agree about pachinko. I was thinking more in terms of law enforcement and organized crime having a common cause in keeping foreign criminal syndicates out of Japan. Say what you will about the integrity of that arrangement, but I will never once walk the streets of Kyoto or Nagoya or just about anywhere else in Japan and worry about being caught in some crossfire, being mugged by a junkie, or being shaken down by a cop. On the other hand, I know that legitimate businesses pay protection money and I can see a yakuza HQ office from my penthouse apartment. All of that is a far cry from the insane, desperate chaos that I left behind on the streets of America.
> Productivity doesn't happen to me at office

what i meant here, is the "free time in office". I have struggled to learn something new at office since i am always surrounded by people and thats not how i learn. i like isolation when i am learning. Sorry i wasn't clear above. I didn't clearly distinguish the difference between office work productivity and free time productivity. (did i clarify ? :) )
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I am not sure. Mushroom clouds would end in a total world economy collapse probably so it's not in the interest of US to go that route just because the world will become multi polar rather than the current model with a single superpower (This process is already well underway and I don't see how it can be stopped).

Yes US will end up losing some of advantages but it doesn't need to be so dramatic. Even in multi polar world with several super powers US will be one of wealthiest and most prosperous countries. The tremendous wealth accumulated over last century is not going anyway.
It's useful for solving (or partially solving for a set of conditions) linear differential equations, say in the fields of mechanics or electromagnetism. One can work with dx and dt as if they were just factors and move them around quite intuitively.

In the same line, it's great at shining a light on the substitution rule for integration.

Given that your point that it can be obscure at first remains valid, I'd walk the middle line of introducing students to the f'(x) notation first; and after the introduction to integrals introduce this notation to them.
I don't understand this mentality of getting angry that a company wants to migrate to a subscription fee so they can have sustainable income. You have a full version, so continue using it, but it's not fair to expect updates for free in perpetuity across platforms and browsers in today's churning software ecosystem.

1Password is an incredibly complex, solid and polished suite of software products that provides an essential security function. It absolutely boggles the mind that people get up in arms over the idea that they would be forced to pay $36 each year to use it.
There isn't a country on Earth run on "natural law" or anything close to it.
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They're referring to quantum computers, because for some reason a lot of people seem to be convinced that 1) consciousness is made out of magic and 2) quantum physics is magic so therefore 3) "consciousness" requires "quantum"
Underwriters are difficult because every day people are trying to pull a fast one on them and it's their job on the line if there is fraud and the mortgage gets bought back.

Source: Father and step mother are contract underwriters.
Cheers - forgot to add that when I first submitted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821186
The most efficient basis when you take into account both storage and calculation work is binary. That's not exactly the reason our computers use it, but it's one reason why they never moved away from it.

But humans are kinda complex, and don't trade well long term learning for boring tasks. We seem to be great exactly around base 10 (probably 12 would be perfect, like people already said).
Well living in Lille (North of France), if i take the eurostar, it takes me 30mn to go to saint Pancras (1h30, but there is the time difference, brussels is 2h away from London so 1h if you add the time difference)
I would strongly recommend Canada, especially the Kitchener-Waterloo area. The rents are very reasonable (~$700 USD for a one bedroom apartment, in the safest neighbourhood in Waterloo) and there are tonnes of resources and help available there for early stage startups (Velocity - a free incubator that provides mentorship & office space, Communitech, etc) Not having to worry about things like health insurance is very nice. Also, there are lots of grants offered by the government and the universities there that make starting companies much easier. Last but not least, the access to lots of talented engineers graduating from UW who have experience working for companies like Apple, Google, Tesla, etc makes hiring good engineer so much easier.

The only shortcoming it has is a lack of access to capital which is quickly changing.
Same here. When I load the page it shows the PDF preview then immediately replaces it with a view that says "This file doesn't have a preview." Garbage software.
The answer to this is new laws and rules

D.C. needs to refactor legacy

See Goodharts Law, Buffets institutional imperative, and numerous other similar arguments in other contexts: we must keep evolving

Government is no different. But the banks and reps get in the way of this on purpose

They have good reasons to do that. IMO the public has good reasons to reject this and require them to evolve as well
That's certainly one way to do it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnuetbfDLpE&t=1m14s
Eh, it doesn't really matter what stats you drive from they all paint the same picture. More and more engineers are moving here from San Francisco for that reason. People never report that there leaving net income on the table, especially once they have enough to be comfortable, and most never even search to look.
That comment was flagged by the time we saw it. 20 minutes is not nearly long enough for the community process to complete, and instantaneous moderation is impossible. Nor would it be a good thing if it were possible.
Think Python: One of the biggest strengths of the language was always the "Batteries Included" philosophy, which took Perl's CPAN idea (massively important for Perl's success, BTW) one step further and packaged common libraries into the base install. People got up and running faster, and Python prospered.
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> For example: III represents 3 things, so III + II = IIIII For simple commerce application that is simpler, I just have to then remember that IIIII = V, and VV = X and XXXXX = L, LL = C. Armed with just those simple rules I could probably get by in the market place in Rome.

I'm not sure having to look at all the possible conversions of a context free grammar to reduce the state to its minimum is actually easier than some simple arithmetic in our current system.
The way interpreting PaaS as "user managing the table and soda" actually does not help explaining (in the original version)
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> I find it hard to write tests when I'm still formulating the logic of how a problem should be solved

I think everyone does. I certainly do. But pushing through that actually helps your designing, because you start thinking of things in terms of how the API will look, how each building block leading to the final computation will look, and the need to be able to unit-test it as you go forces you to write smaller, more tightly-focused components automatically, which ends up making more maintainable code that is easier to reason about
If it were done, then when 'tis done, 'twere well that it were not done during net neutrality week.
Shinkansen is extremely expensive for daily commute. The vast majority of Tokyo commuters are certainly using regular trains. Also I'm sure you've seen the pictures... Let's just say, "a guy who forcefully pushes people into a full train so that the doors can close" is an actual job over there.
Correlation vs causation isn't a flamewar topic. It's a pervasive problem in science journalism and public understanding that leads to bad decisions and bad policy. Blatant mistakes in understanding, very clear in the news article (not the original paper) deserve to be called out.
It's common in consulting roles where the company you consult for is paying for your apartment/hotel. Probably not so common for W2 employees unless you are an upper level executive perhaps. I'm sure the people in this article would elect to stay in a hotel for the week if given the option.
I love scraping websites, it's a stupid hobby at times, but I dig it (https://github.com/asimpson/nodejs-web-scraper-cookbook).

A couple successful scraper projects:
1. I automated buying an iPhone 6 when it came out at the time with a scraper + Twilio for SMS notifications.
2. I setup a scraper to alert me when certain blue-ray titles were available to reserve at the library.
3. I found a site that posted full NBA replays the day after a game. I set up a scraper to on their RSS feed for a couple teams and uploaded the videos to S3.

I've also automated notifications for when my sump pump gets flipped off. My sump pump is connected to a ground fault outlet which can rarely get flipped. I plugged in a spare raspberry pi to the same outlet and have my synology ping the IP periodically. If the synology can't find the pi it sends me a sms via twilio.
- SaaS is for those who can't code.

- BaaS is for hackathon participants.

- PaaS is for web developers.

- IaaS is for software engineers.

- On-premise is for dinosaurs.
IMHO, no. It's made by Valve, you can't really sort them as an indie studio.
PHP is way more popular than Ruby in my circles so I guess it matters where you are and who you know.
I'm pretty sure I said this last time, too - don't buy hardware that doesn't work with your software. Do some due diligence on the shit you buy.
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To test the deployment process you need to do it on like hardware. This is why proper operations practice is to stage migrations/deployments.
> but is now one of the most popular online games and competitive e-sports

Are there any numbers, I'm actually curious. I don't regularly see it on the Twitch.tv front page, so my impression was it was a bit behind the big names in esports (LoL, DotA, CS:GO, SC2, Hearthstone, Overwatch).
What about the argument that they are provided "free to them" food, shelter and clothing? And therefore them working for very small amounts of money, is really them paying for those things.
There are words for numbers in Latin. From Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Latin_cardinal_numer...): unus, duo, tres, quattuor, quinque, sex...

Just like an English speaker sees "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6" and pronounces "one, two, three, four, five, six". Sure, the Roman numerals look like letters, but that doesn't mean you pronounce them that way.
For large projects, compilation times are still a problem, yes.

Modern mitigations for compilation times include: ccache/sccache, incremental compilation, precompiled headers, "modules", etc.
They're uploading the films which have been all be freely available at https://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Movie/index.html for many, many years.

That said, it's a great collection, I remember spending hours downloading single Jpegs because of how high resolution their original scans are. (This was back on dial-up, which gives you an indication how long this site has been around!).
> The tremendous wealth accumulated over last century is not going anyway.

Wealth follows the wealthy, and most of the wealth in the US rests in very few hands, much of it offshore and in other ways hidden from taxation. If they leave, the "wealth" leaves with them for the most part.
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In the general case maybe not, but to get by in a marketplace you'd need just those one he listed... like.. 3 or 4 things. 5, 10, 100, 1000. Most people can remember 3 or 4 things. Children can do it, let alone market vendors who are used to considering that 5 chickens = 1 goat. (Inflation these days!)
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It seems the consensus is that base<prime number> like base 7 or base 11 definitely would a bad idea.
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Likewise, my commute from my home to the office, is approximately five minutes. I'm in Upstate New York. I see these salaries/lifestyles out West/Down State, and wonder if I ever made a mistake sticking around here. But for the amount of my life I've saved having zero commute times, I feel like it's justified. The ability to run home for lunch, take a nap, come back to the office, is just magical.
>Who "fights against the language itself" today?

It is true that now, 22 years after JavaScript emerged as a toy language to allow people to do simple UI tricks like creating alert boxes, and 8 years after people started trying to shoehorn it into the backend for GCool Points, JS has finally started to adopt some useful features. ES6+ address most of the glaring omissions, and writing a script in JS/Node now doesn't feel too much different than writing a script in Python or Ruby (though much more build infrastructure is required; JavaScript is anything but native outside of the browser). Bolting on those features that have been available in other languages for much longer is a big accomplishment from the ECMAScript people, so props to them.

But there are still many instances of people "fighting the language" in the practical sense (the sense that matters). Two main exhibits: Node's "harmony" feature release model that requires the VM to be run with certain flags to enable certain syntax (much worse than Python's `from __future__` model) as well as Babel's entire existence and widespread usage.

I don't know how often you use other languages, but JavaScript is the only platform where I have to run my code through a chain of slow, third-party transformers just to use simple language features like constants with confidence.

Separately, the standard lib is bare and implementations remain inconsistent, requiring everything to be built on struts like lodash and jQuery (with tons of random dangling accouterments pulled from random GitHub repos, a la `left-pad`) that paper over JS's major pain points and general impracticality. Other scripting languages have convenience libraries and wrappers, even alternative implementations, but nothing else goes to the extremes we see in npm, where it's quite common to pull in single convenience functions as libraries.

While these things may not be quite fighting the "language" from the stringent academic perspective of the ECMAScript spec, they do represent practical constraints on virtually all real-world use. Just as you'd be crazy to try to use JavaScript without jQuery back in the day, you'd be crazy to use it now without the huge amalgam of crap people have developed (babel, lodash, webpack, yarn, etc.) because they are so inexplicably committed to shoving the square peg of JS through the round hole of server-side programming.
Do you want a marginal improvement that many people might use, or a perfect system that nobody will?
Kinda like giving home loans to people who have no ability to pay them back?
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The law isn't some fixed thing that we, as a society, have no control over. If you read the history of the War on Drugs, we essentially criminalized a good chunk of what African Americans do, with the very thinly veiled purpose of oppression.
It is pretty easy to tell a Cauchy or a low k Student's T apart from a Gaussian. Just look at your outliers. One thing a lot of people miss is that a normal distribution with outliers _IS_ a long tail distribution.

Too bad inference with long tailed distributions is so hard.
Best "no" conversation I ever heard.

Us: how did you like our pitch?

VC: we're a no, because we don't trust your unit economics.

Us: fair enough. Could you please share some scenarios you've invested in where there were parallel unit economics to us? We'd like to understand what you know about our space and where those economics make sense to investors such as yourselves.

VC: certainly! We have an investment in <X> that's in your space, and their unit economics look great! The assumptions you have and the ones they have are about the same, but look at their margins!

Us: ummm, so that's a function of revenue/price that we don't believe is even feasibly attainable. Our margins are smaller because we think the per-unit revenue is going to be challenged. It's why our numbers are fairly skeptical.

VC: well, we believe they can reach that (unfounded) level of revenue.

Within a year, the company this group funded was raising a Series A to stay alive because -- drum roll please -- the unit economics were not panning out.

I say this is the best "no" because we had hard feedback on what worked for them. It also let us know they didn't really understand how price in our market space was going to have downward pressure. Our approach was to start very cheap, then improve over time. These investors weren't interested in that approach; rather, they went with the team who had "better margins".

We learned a lot, and kept learning, from this investor's "no".
Those are all centralized login systems. I'm talking about just making password managers smarter.
That's great, and your solution is okay for individual developers, but Expirify is designed so that you can notify your whole development team whether they are onsite or remote of an expiring domain or SSL certificate in case someone is on holiday, like the Lead Developer and can't action renewing an expiring domain or SSL certificate.
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No, the prison uses the money they make from the sales for the prison, that was in the article. Haystack would still have bought the milk for standard price, and sell their cheese at standard price. The extra money from the cheap labor when into the prison itself.
There is definitely a difference in meaning, maybe just in specialized fields like theology and economics.

An Austrian school economist, or an Arianist in the early Christian church, would be called "heterodox" but probably not "unorthodox". It has the connotation of following a definite tradition that is not the main tradition in the field. "Unorthodox" means something more like "doing your own thing", so Steven Levitt (the Freakonomics guy) might be called an "unorthodox economist" because he studies unusual topics like drug dealers, but not a "heterodox economist" because he studies these strange topics using mainstream theories.

I think "heterodox" fits reasonably well in this article, it suggests that these engineers are following a distinct tradition, not just "doing their own thing".
Strange, for two days now I've been trying to login to bitcointalk.org and get an invalid login. When I do the Ask a question for invalid logins I get invalid login again.
What I got from reading Paul Graham's own writing on the genesis of YC, was that his key insight was that VC's should be funding more companies, and earlier, and giving founder's much more control.

The other key innovation was funding in batches, in classes. This created a close-knit ad hoc community with shared goals, and one in which teams whose ideas were not finding traction could join teams whose ideas were.
No, you need miners to transfer bitcoins
Except student loans are going to be worse. You can't exactly have your diploma foreclosed on, and they're difficult to extinguish through bankruptcy.
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For the french speaking, Nouvelle Ecole is a very nice, humble podcast interviewing people with a non-standard path. Very nice and interesting!

http://nouvelleecole.org/
Making statements like "if you paid attention" or calling people "desperate" is confrontational language, or at best unnecessarily harsh.

Linux gaming is obviously a subject that you hold dear - you've jumped in multiple times on almost every single top thread in this discussion - and that's ok, but ease off a bit..

Let your points stand on their own merit, you don't need to call people out because they're not as deeply informed on the subject matter as you are, or because they don't agree with your perspective.
Similar experience. When we were buying our first house, I sort of envisioned just walking into a bank, exuding the aura of "looking for a mortgage", and the bankers would tackle me into the ground with quotes. But instead we had to fight just to get the time of day from a banker. Even SchoolsFirst, well regarded for its customer service, gave us hassle just getting basic info. Getting actual quotes was, as you say, quite tedious. Lots of questions and documentation. We were smart and had our bank accounts in order, but still had to produce a couple weird documents anyway for them.

On top of that, real estate agents and sellers have gotten picky too. Most real estate agents we found wouldn't talk to us unless we had a mortgage lined up already.

The housing bubble burned _everyone_, and now I feel the market has spun the other way in its paranoia. That's perhaps a good thing.
>Back in the day for a conservative to say that we should shut down the Dept of Education, would have met by resistance by most people around them and this opinion would be shut down. But now, you can just find people who believe exactly like you on the Internet.

The federal Department of Education was created in 1980, so there was no DoE to eliminate in 1960. The growing centralization of education policy in the hands of ever-higher levels of government and ever more monopolistic public sectors has not worked.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-gates/bill-gates-school-p...

[2] https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/111/3/671/1839...
That's essentially what happens in real life in some places: Don't pay for the fire department (although you should have known better) and in case of a fire the fire department will protect your neighbor's house, but will watch as your house burns to the ground: http://www.kfvs12.com/story/13281481/fire-chief-responds-to-...
However, if the law says "You must pick up a passenger under [SMALL LIST OF EXCPETIONS]", then you basically are banned from excluding people on the basis of their race, right?

*(NB I'm not USAian, and don't know much about US taxis)
Just because you did't make an effort to actually look for these things, that doesn't mean that they don't exist: https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Git-Executable.html.
BMR is a scam in my opinion. It just prevents wages rising as they would naturally need to if housing became increasingly unaffordable to the point that workers can't even commute in. It recruits people into a program of lucky allocation rather than working for more. Busy or I'd write more.

Look how rent control turned out.
That's not the argument at all. The argument is that the internet genre of the snarky dismissal is harmful in its own right. It subtly (and not-so-subtly) encourages many of the things we don't want here. So please stop posting like that.

If you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; otherwise please don't comment until you do.
I'm guessing you're lazy and expect society to provide everything to you on a silver platter.

Guesses don't help anyone and add nothing to the discussion.