skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price of a traded item can go up, even with no investment: people do not have to trade for the price to increase or decrease. Sometimes price movements coincide with lots of actual trades occurring, and sometimes they coincide with very few/no trades occurring. The latter happens once in awhile.

Taken to the extreme to illustrate: if everyone together today instantly decided each bitcoin was worth $1b, then in that first instant, nobody would sell and no trades would occur, but the price would be very different.
Bitcoin is only so valuable because its a pyramid scheme. All the participation and engagement by miners and anyone looking to get rich off it is predicated on how most bitcoins were already made so any market growth translates into increased prices and scarcity for the bitcoin that exists.

This is the fundamental problem with making a cryptocurrency that can actually serve its users well. To get popular, you need to be a get rich quick scheme, but to actually be useful, you need to not deflate out of control forever.

But bitcoin is doing what it was meant to do. It wasn't meant to promote a healthy monetary policy or be a pervasive useful currency to replace the fiats we have now - it would have had a much different coin issuance algorithm / monetary growth policy otherwise. It demonstrated the capabilities of proof of work distributed consensus and made its early adopters ludicrously rich.
In Germany it's the BITV: http://www.barrierefreies-webdesign.de/bitv/bitv-2.0.html
That's a severe overgeneralization and I can tell you that is not the case.
Those were both founded in 1994, and the book spent relatively little time discussing the web (much of which still works, according to the article, despite the headline)
He sent out a request for comment on this. It's not just a random ask.
Just to be clear that animagraff is showing specifically how a 4cycle gasoline-powered reciprocating engine works. Diesel engines account for roughly 50% of automotive vehicles in the world.
> It provides more torque than a screwdriver and is more pleasant to operate than a socket wrench.

Look up what a "speed wrench" is - it's basically a brace-type socket wrench, designed for working with sockets. Usually used for automotive repair work, but I imagine that anything with a bolt/nut could be attacked with it, provided there's clearance of course...
Is there DRM on the bacon packages? You know, to protect customers from accidentally cooking stale food.
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Yup sure thing!
There are several problems with that.

The problem might be solved - what should a charity dedicated to smallpoxs do with their 50 billion?

A good charity today might not be good tomorrow. Today they pay their officers a reasonable sum and the rest goes to scientists who get a reasonable sum. Next year they fire all scientists but one (the officers brother-in-law), and give everyone a massive raise. Science still gets done - just enough to stay legal.
> the original June could identify up to twenty-five food types

Hot dog or not hot dog?

On a serious note this could have been a neat product, but I'm not really interested in an oven that's packed with telemetry and proprietary software. They can't possible expect to satisfy all of their customers' use cases in house, so why not make it open source and let people write their own cooking scripts?
There's always the famous Dole Kemp '96 campaign site (a fair representation of mid 1990s web design):

http://www.dolekemp96.org/main.htm

And this one from CNN (still 1996, but appropriate representation of that 1995/96 era when design had changed a bit from the earlier plain white backgrounds & basic text layouts):

http://edition.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/
This gives a comparison between various developers of routing software, including Ocado
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608640/inside-the-increas...
I'd say that if the company doesn't even know the name of the person providing the service before they order the service, that they've offloaded that particular risk pretty damn well. The employee/contractor grey line is pretty far away from that.
If that's the issue, why spend the money building libraries instead of making computers cheaper and more accessible?

Computerized/digital information sources are far more efficient than physical information sources by practically any measure. They are not only easier to use, but they are easier to store, ship, etc. One thick textbook is much heavier than a single Kindle that could store the information equivalent of 100 thick textbooks, and dust mites won't eat the pages of your Kindle. Pretty much the only thing it's missing is a built-in solar power source, but you can probably attach it to USB solar power source, and it seems it'd be easier to get that infrastructure in place v. a whole library.

Seems like we're missing the forest for the trees here.
My information may be out of date, but last time I poked through the Go compiler, it did no vectorization or anything equivalent to march=native. So there's plenty of opportunity for Rust to be faster.
The article claims that it caused some recalculation in sequestration models. Here is the original paper and some discussion from the peer review. https://www.clim-past.net/7/685/2011/cp-7-685-2011-discussio...
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It's the same as for an ICQ message?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iCPIUGnHQ8
He's talking about Citizen United, which has nothing to do with hate. Corporate money is speech because you need money to buy advertising / billboards / etc. This holds true for small corporations and non-profits as well.

If money wasn't speech, the government would easily be able stifle speech simply by limiting what advertising and promotions a corporation could do. So the ruling and legal precept are prefectly valid.

Aside from that, "based on hate" is a completely meaningless phrase. It's great for creating stuff like "blasphemy laws" though, I suppose. In your opinion, should I not be able to insult Scientology? Is criticism "hate?" Are insults? What about making a negative documentary about Catholicism, or any other religion?

>The main difference between Europe and USA is that we Europeans have learned from our past mistakes

Are you sure? Europe doesn't seem too stable lately.
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The executable has really simple output--it either works and outputs json, or doesn't and outputs nothing--so there's no difficulty with error handling. I guess I can understand wanting tighter integration for more complex scenarios though... an http server is an interesting idea, but could you run into issues with ports being restricted on production servers?

I'm not seeing any performance issues with stdout, but I'm also not writing much data.
There's a Rust parser generator called LALRPOP that is apparently inspired by Menhir.

https://github.com/nikomatsakis/lalrpop
http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2016/03/02/nice...

I've never used Menhir so I can't compare how similar they are in practice, but I've enjoyed the times I played with LALRPOP much more than the many times I've battled various yacc derivatives.
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Geez, srsly...
You did not address the actual points i made.

>Ragel is still better then a generic programming language for writing parsers, by a long shot.

>That said, THIS ARTICLE DOES NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT HOW TO ACTUALLY WRITE A PARSER !

And, if i can dare to comment on your statement..

>As for simplicity leading to security, this isn't a supported argument. But as for encoding semantic security issues into your program (security issues outside of memory safety), I would argue a strong type system is the right way to go here, something Rust certainly provides.

This is, for one, a bastardization of what i stated, that was that a DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IS (usually) BETTER FOR A DOMAIN THAT IT IS SPECIFIC TOO THEN A LANGUAGE THAT IT IS NOT SPECIFIC TO THAT DOMAIN. This is particularly evident in parsing, and to say otherwise is dishonest.

As for simplicity being related to security, that should also be self evident. If not from common sense, then from examples of more complex (needlessly complex or otherwise) programs having more faults (on average).

>blah blah blah, literally just vapor at this point, not worth addressing.

Your post is exactly what a fanboy would write. A post that goes point by point, "bashing" them for being "wrong", "imprecise", or "not strong enough of an argument", all the while ignoring the actual "meat" of the argument (the meat being that A LANGUAGE FOR WRITING PARSERS IS BETTER FOR WRITING PARSERS THEN A GENERIC LANGUAGE). It is the equivalent of "link plz" (meaning "scientific paper of GTFO", as if actually using your own brain is a bad thing). In short, you sir are a fanboy.
> trees just move it temporarily from the atmosphere to the tree and then from the tree back to the atmosphere once the tree dies (through the process of decay or burning).

Your point stands, but if the trees are used for construction or carpentry, it would move the CO2 release quite a long time away from now.

Cutting down old trees, using them efficiently (not burning them), and planting new ones works well to sequester carbon for a long time.
There is no such thing as "Human Power". Animals don't generate power, they just transform it from food via a roundabout process that produces lots of waste. There's just no way this is the most energy efficient way
Long, long ago PostgreSQL gave me a bad first impression because of this.
> This might just be a case of needing non-lexical lifetimes. I'm not sure about that, because I don't know the details of what issues you ran into.

I don't think the issue is about lexical lifetimes, but I don't have a very good understanding of what that means, either. My issue is that I frequently want to take some data and pass it into two separate functions, but I can't do this unless those functions are designed to take the value by reference. Even if those values contain owned references into the heap, the programs can be trivially proven to be correct. I can work around this by always passing references, but it seems strange to use reference semantics when all I really want is to not destroy the original value.

Another common case is that I have a borrowed reference that points to data I would like to pass (by value) into another function: `fn foo(bar: &Bar) { baz(bar.x) }`.
Article points out that the important thing is that everyone has healthcare that they can access as they need to. Many ways to get there, and Single Payer isn't the only option. Rather partial to the German system myself...
What if they could fund an easier, more efficient way to lobby?
A different view on Gates' charity work: [1]

Some highlights:

"The first question concerns accountability... The Foundation is the main player in several global health partnerships and one of the single largest donors to the WHO. This gives it considerable leverage in shaping health policy priorities and intellectual norms..."

"‘Depending on what side of bed Gates gets out of in the morning,’ he remarks, ‘it can shift the terrain of global health.’.."

"It’s not a democracy. It’s not even a constitutional monarchy. It’s about what Bill and Melinda want..."

"In 2008 the WHO’s head of malaria research, Aarata Kochi, accused a Gates Foundation ‘cartel’ of suppressing diversity of scientific opinion, claiming the organization was ‘accountable to no-one other than itself’."

"As Tido von Schoen Angerer, Executive Director of the Access Campaign at Médecins Sans Frontières, explains, ‘The Foundation wants the private sector to do more on global health, and sets up partnerships with the private sector involved in governance. As these institutions are clearly also trying to influence policymaking, there are huge conflicts of interests... the companies should not play a role in setting the rules of the game.’"

"The Foundation itself has employed numerous former Big Pharma figures, leading to accusations of industry bias..."

"Research by Devi Sridhar at Oxford University warns that philanthropic interventions are ‘radically skewing public health programmes towards issues of the greatest concern to wealthy donors’. ‘Issues,’ she writes, ‘which are not necessarily top priority for people in the recipient country.’"

More in the article...

https://newint.org/features/2012/04/01/bill-gates-charitable...
I always find it interesting that although Americans and Brits share the same language, our humor is so divergent.
The three issues of healthcare:

1. Who has access to it?

2. How much does it cost?

3. Who pays for it?

This article mostly addresses (1) and somewhat (3), but doesn't really give enough attention to (2). If pharmaceutical companies are granted a patent for a drug, then they have the sole capability to set the price, which the purchaser of the drug will be required to pay. The most obvious example is that of Martin Shkreli, who bought a patent for an existing drug and hiked the price.

How do you fight someone like Martin Shkreli who raises the price?

One option: don't buy the drug until the price is lowered. Collateral: anyone who doesn't have access to the drug. Problem: it is "unethical" to not pay for a drug that could save someone's life. (That is, our emotional brains set the value of a life at infinity).

Another option: set price controls for drugs. Problem: pharmaceutical companies will inevitably lobby the government so that the "right" price control will be a very high one.

Yet another option: Remove patents altogether. Problem: This removes the incentive to produce pharmaceutical drugs with a low barrier to entry (which is practically all pharmaceutical drugs).

So, any discussion of healthcare that says we need "universal coverage" needs to balance all of these issues. So far, everyone seems to ignore (2).
It sucks as of last month.

The integration with libraries is super-cool though!
(Googler also). I've taken 4 classes and it was very worth it, and that generally seems to be the sentiment on a per-class basis.

I believe the typical complaint is about the additional classes required to just round out the degree that are not as useful to one's chosen sub-field in CS. Can't give you my personal opinion because I'm not there yet.
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This doesn't allow for finer semantics. Just "u.id" tells us what the thing is, but not its role in the schema.

I don't think it's very unusual to do this. The most obvious example is where there are multiple references to the same entity. For example, an Order table might contain two references to a user - one for the user who placed the order, and another for the person who approved the order.

But it's more general than this. Just saying that it's the user that's associated with the thing is frequently not enough to convey understanding, and naming with the role that the relationship is describing is helpful.
Not to mention, it's not hard to find a well-used laptop in the US for virtually nothing, and with things like Chromebooks, you can get something new for around $100. There are charities that furnish computer access either through directly providing a cheap laptop or by offering shared access at centers, etc.

It's absurd to suggest that we need to spend millions building and maintaining traditional public libraries just because some people do not have immediate access to a computer.
It should be noted that they plan to restore 150 million hectares by 2020 and 350 million hectares by 2030, which is 428x and 1000x respectively.

Furthermore they have one of the highest survival rates of trees in the world, ranging from 70 to 90 per cent.

Together, these two metrics are very encouraging.
>Use case is everything.

amen.
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God I miss when the web was designed for people who could read.
I don't understand why this is on the front page. It has almost no technical details, just a bragging piece.
Nope, I just don't use Windows. I use Linux and MacOS where, if you don't do anything too out of the ordinary you are in 64bit land 100% of the time. On my Mac I don't see any 64 bit programs running and on Arch everything is pretty modern.
Fusion research is actually very well funded. It doesn't seem that way because nearly all news stories about fusion are about the Q factor of the latest shot or experiment was. (Q is the energy gain factor.) The field is advancing on many fronts, using several strategies. ITER is but one of many efforts. Some results coming from NIF suggest that ICF is not as dead as it seemed years ago!

ITER itself is (iirc) the largest scientific project on Earth. It is funded by 35 countries, to the tune of billions. They have already had cost overruns (the perpetual curse of modern science it seems) but I doubt that more money would necessarily solve fusion engineering faster. They are currently building the reactor and are on track for first plasma in 2025. An ITER-scale tokamak is as close to a "sure bet" for Q>=1 that you can get. (Their goal is Q=10)

Interestingly, one of the major milestones for ITER is tritium production through breeder blankets - which would solve a critical bottleneck for future, enterprise fusion power systems. (Not to mention scientific research.)
Or there is middle ground

"Allow easy access with no password or username, but only from localhost"

Not foolproof, but as far as I know both this and mongo did the "bind to all ports AND allow access with no password". It was the combo that really killed it.
Basically it means "your dad sells Avon". Avon is a cosmetics brand distributed by an army of (usually female) representatives.

Suggesting that someone's father has such a non-masculine job as delivering nail polish is so childish and stupid that it's funny.
Whole foods, as a stable profitable business, is the perfect kind of candidate for this type of funding. Not sure why this would ever be scrutinized.
How is the difficulty of courses when comparing to edX's MIT's Underactuated Robotics or Stanford's Roughgarden's Algorithms?
You could, but that would be missing the point of the whole honesty exercise by using an overly restrictive definition of lying.

In 'Lying', Sam Harris defines a lie as an intentional act of deception (or something like that).

That definition fits your suggested responses and I would call them lies.

Answering "No, but I think the colour matches your eyes", on the other hand, would not be deceptive, assuming you did believe that.
Isn't the availability of classes an orthogonal question?

When OP says it's "exactly the same degree" I read that to mean that the school gives you exactly the same piece of paper at the end, as opposed to giving you a piece of paper that has the word "online" on it. In other words, I read it as meaning that there's no way for an employer to know whether you completed the degree in person or online short of asking you directly.
Covers a number of ways humans can actively (and passively) support their own energy use. Things like contributing waste to bio gas production, gym machines to mini generators, etc.
At you - or at least at your post, the one that is great-grandparent to this one.
About $4 +/- $2 depending on what toping I use (meat costs more).

14 inches. Probably enough to make the equivalent of 2 mediums.

Pizza is more expensive here though. I can't get 2 mediums for that price.
Don't forget self driving vehicles. That will be a huge change.
The article does not mention ebooks, which is a surprising omission considering it involves Amazon.

I don't know how it is in the US, but for instance German libraries offer to loan ebooks: http://www.onleihe.net/

Donating ereaders and rights to ebooks to libraries seems more effective than printed books.

Big caveats here are Amazon's monopoly position, DRM and copyright and loans for ebooks vs. physical books.
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Check out the stats on their $1500 toaster oven

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GPU 192 NVIDIA CUDA cores
RAM 2 GB DDR3 1600MHz
Sam Harris wrote a good short book on this topic:

https://www.samharris.org/lying
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I find this titles very off putting.

It seems to imply that someone, who wasn't competent enough to make billions of their own, is somehow more apt to know how to better spend them than the one that actually did.
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is the best book I've read in a while. It's like Guns, Germs and Steel but better argued and far greater in scope.

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins was a great read too. A bit of a slog in some places but otherwise brilliant and insightful.
In 'big languages' I am thinking more about how much 'talking about' domain specific topics looks like 'talking about' the topics covered in the core language. Or maybe about how easy it is to make 'talking about' domain topics look like 'talking about' core topics. Maybe it's the degree to which the reductionist process of dividing up code into files is typically reflected when writing code.

Some languages like Python default to explicitly referencing the module, that is the happy easy path leads to writing "math.floor(x)," not "floor(x)." That's even after I write the mandatory "import math." C is probably close to one end of the spectrum, and at the other end of the spectrum are languages like Wolfram, where:

GeoDistance
[Entity["City", {"NewYork", "NewYork", "UnitedStates"}],
Entity["City", {"LosAngeles", "California", "UnitedStates"}]]

Racket is probably closer to Wolfram, and Haskell closer to C. I think the C end is more likely the more a language tries to solve problems that programs don't have before they are written...e.g. speed and type errors. The Wolfram end tries to solve problems that programmers have before programs are written...e.g. what do I want to say.

Wishful thinking is often Abelson's starting point in the SICP lectures. That's a bit at odds with the philosophy of some languages.
I am just going to have to assume they haven't thought it through. It's not limited to just one part of the political spectrum, however. This veers off-topic, but it ties back in.

About three months ago, on a different site, I had a conversation with a very liberal lady. The conversation was about someone being detained for failing to unlock their encrypted drive when demanded to do so by the judge.

The thing is, she wanted him to be held in perpetuity, because she was certain he was a pedophile. No, she was certain - and repeated this, over and over again.

Granted, the guy is probably a pedophile.

However, no evidence suggests he is. He just refuses to unlock his drive for the investigation. She wants him to be detained until he has proven himself innocent. She further insisted that all allegations should result in the accused needing to prove their innocence.

You know... I served as a Marine. That's how I paid for college. Sometimes, I'm pretty frustrated too. This sort of thinking, on all ends of the spectrum, isn't going to help us have a functional justice system, a system that is needed for a democracy.

And, yes, I am on the political left. I just call it as I see it. No, I don't have a solution. I don't have the answers. Damned right, it's frustrating.
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I'm imagining the planning meeting for this:

Engineer: "Hmm... what else needs to be needlessly complicated and also have Wi-Fi?"