skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I liked Mozilla's Persona (BrowserID) for the fact that it protected privacy from the 3rd party provider. You're asking for privacy protections from the site seeking identity authentication.

It's a fascinating idea to have some means of identity authentication where the party seeking to authenticate your identity doesn't have enough identity information to connect the dots, and the party providing authentication doesn't even know about the party seeking authentication.
And what is that 7-year plan?
Life expectancy does not go down by 1 year for each year that you age. One way to see this is to look at the fact that, in the US, male life expectancy is 34 years when one is 45 (total of 79 years); yet, the average 80-year-old male is clearly going to live to be more than 79 years old, as they have already survived all of the things that were going to kill them by the age of 79.

Useful data: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr65/nvsr65_08.pdf
On being lost
4. Performance. There is software that can't be slow.
Isn't that generally approached from the other side, in the form of food stamps and similar programs?
I've had an aspiration done. It was mostly just uncomfortable 3/10, with a few moments of pretty sharp pain more like a 6/10. However, those moments were brief and it was totally fine afterwards.

I also turned down some more potent painkillers beforehand, so if I had taken those instead of just the local anesthetic, it likely would have been less unpleasant.

Mild discomfort followed for a few days and within a week or so I had forgotten about it.
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Very few people are able to make a living today maintaining open source projects.

As for public vs private planning - that's an argument as old as time. One thing to consider is that since the free market doesn't consider externalities, that's one reason why problems with the environment, inequality, declining health and human services, etc etc etc aren't being adequately addressed by the mainstream media.

I view free speech, the airwaves and even the internet itself as public property. So it makes sense that having a greater share of public funding/ownership in those areas would be better than living under the corporate oligopolies that control it now.
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> And I'm tempted to try to write one.

It looks like there are quite a few of us. I wonder how many would be interested in putting a group project together. I would really like to consider and hash out some ideas with a group.
Her analysis is pretty standard. If you really want to remove ad hominem then just ignore she was IMF head and assume this is a comment on a BTC enthusiasts forum. This is the exact value I attribute to that comment.
You don't make billion movies. You probably make billion transactions though; when these are energy-demanding, you are burning precious resources for very little value. If all of humanity switched to bitcoin, imagine we spent 50% of energy production to run mining and blockchain verification. It's a nice proof of concept, we need something different though to survive.
This can't be fixed with the automated methods that google and facebook are using now, given that they really only care about income.

Unless you are some kind of free speech rights absolutist it's hard to argue with the examples in this article.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/10/googl...
Thank you! I did put a lot of effort into it, eg. my energy estimate research represents 30-40 hours of work.
> Trying to support a multitude of co-ops (and managing them to make sure they actually are sustainable and survivable businesses) would seem to be a nightmare.

On the contrary, the moment you create a big scheme like that all the large supermarket chains will queue up. With all the mandatory paper trail we already generate for every action involved, it boils down to.. exactly what supermarket chains are doing:

* Central instance for management and purchases (the latter being optional for the "subsidized co-op"-model)

* resale to quasi-independent sub-entities ("supermarket" or "co-op").

* Individual stores of chains all use the same software already; for the co-cop scenario that could translate to a FOSS-offer (hard requirement being: however you do it, legal accounting principles apply).

I don't see a nightmare here, just a shift of terms and a slightly more flexible ERP configuration.
From the article:

> The new all-electric models will be a mix of battery electric cars and fuel cell-powered vehicles.

They don't specify whether the fuel cells will be hydrogen or something else, but it may be premature to say that Detroit has given up on hydrogen as a fuel.
Redis also has TIME to get the current server time with milliseconds and the unix time stamp. I'm reasonably sure that's what's being used to get the first part of the ID anyway.
Yes, of course !

https://jsfiddle.net/0wc0vjw2/1/
Try to predict karma scores then?
Interesting, can you give me a good link on this?

Overall I'm skeptic (even of PoUW). That's because verifying work is usually almost as difficult as computing. I believe the only true solution to this is Fully Homomorphic encryption (FHE), but known constructions so far have had absolutely massive constants.

Is there enough demand of highly-assymetric and verifiable NP-hard like problems?
Where are you located?

Edit: Looks like Pittsburgh, PA
Completely agree. I've had a team member able to quickly contribute a change to a project he didn't work on due to static typing keeping his code within the guard rails. It's very valuable.
Absolutely disgusting.

But why does the Alabama court say that this is the end of the line? Why can't this go to SCOTUS?
This assumes creativity is anything more than copying from multiple sources.
>3) YC has no incentive to increase in size if it can't maintain a high-quality program because top founders only want to participate in a program with other top founders. If we do something that convinces top founders to stay away - then we lose.

It says right in the post - YC's goal is mass production of startups via incubation.
I would love to see a 100% renewable future for the planet but these issues need to be addressed as part of any strategic plan.

The second article discusses the intriguing idea of match demand to supply.

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/09/how-to-run-the-econom...
Power depends on a great many things. The form in which it's expressed, the interactions through which it's transmitted, the cost and refraction period before it can be re-used, all matter.

Nukes are indeed powerful, but media organs have started wars before.

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Well this is exactly my point. A lot of problems are currently framed as computation problem. As much as it might be useful for some, I'd argue that we should be careful with this.

We get all the great marvels of deep learning, but robots remain stupid as bricks over 30 years of Moore's law. To me this (Moravec's paradox) is a signal that we are doing something wrong, and typically we do things wrong when they are not framed properly.
I still think that org-mode and Markdown have quite different targets.

org-mode seeks to be organized and manipulable, whereas Markdown seeks to be readable, and parsable.
> Maybe it only worked well because you never encountered a file consisting of one very long line?

You correct when you say very long lines are hard to handle, but I'm not sure this is because of the internal data structure used.

In this case the internal data structure allocated a line buffer at every node of the double linked list and even on that Win16 environment that allowed for a line size of up to 64 kBytes (i.e. 2^16) in length.

However, to handle tabs correctly the editor is forced to recalculate the column position on every user event and since that calculation has to consider the entire line, the time needed to do this column calculation grows with line length.

So the editor could handled long lines but as the line lengths around 500 characters the speed became noticeably slow.
A C64.
Ran into this the other day when trying to replace a bad hard drive. Was planning on starting from scratch, wasn’t able to do network recovery, had to do network recovery of lion to reformat the hard drive and then restart the high Sierra network recovery.
He didnt read the article. Dont feed the trolls.
Initially I was regretting upgrading as well. Crazy high CPU as a 'kernel_task' which in turn made my machine unusable. It would completely lock up.

I ran 'kexstat' via the terminal to check out what kernel extensions I had that might be causing the issues. The only third party extensions I had were VirtualBox and Avira. Uninstalled Avira and now things are buttery smooth.
So the gambler brought the case to the tribal court of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians where it was dismissed, then took it to the Alabama state court system.

It looks like the Alambama Supreme Court ruled it had no jurisdiction over the case [1].

Some interesting allegations:

Rape alleged that at that point he was approached and congratulated by casino employees and patrons and that one casino employee said to him: “[D]on't let them cheat you out of it.”1 Rape alleged that the machine printed out a ticket containing the winning amount of $1,377,015.30 but that representatives of Wind Creek Casino took possession of the ticket and refused to return it to him. Rape was then taken by tribal officials or casino employees into “a back room,” where they discussed how Rape's winnings would be paid, mentioning the possibility of a structured payout over a period of 20 to 30 years. Those officials then instructed Rape that he had to wait outside the room while they “called PCI” to confirm his winnings.

I checked several sources in addition to the Ars article, and it's interesting that nobody is reporting what the max payout on the machine was. Although without jurisdiction I suppose that doesn't really matter wrt the court case.

[1] http://caselaw.findlaw.com/al-supreme-court/1875570.html
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A Dell desktop with Windows ME. It wasn't until university that I realized that some people hadn't grown up with computers as I had.
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You look at them when they arrive and then complain if they suck to get a refund. The same thing you do with every other thing you order online.
The UK has done away with such laws in favour of "opinion polls show people like Sunday trading, Christmas closures and such".

Pretty sure all the supermarkets in my small UK city open 7 days a week??
At some point, there were an equal number of average and bad programmers on Stack Overflow as there were average and good programmers on Stack Overflow. But Stack Overflow does not reward people for being good programmers. SO rewards actions that game the system. And when SO points became a kind of currency for finding jobs ("I have five thousand points on SO!" on a resume), it skewed the userbase heavily in the direction of "game the system for more points". So you had average, bad, and awful programmers gaming the system and earning points, but because they are just terrible at what they do and the quality of all of their output is awful, this had the effect of driving away the average, good, and excellent programmers away from Stack Overflow.

At some point, the whole of SO shifted, and what you had was a bunch of point-chasing, terrible "programmers" gaming the system for points. There are actually a substantial number of reasonable questions which are not even slightly related to the questions they're closed as duplicates of. But in the eyes of these shit-awful "programmers" they're similar enough to close. Stack Overflow is on its way out. It has served its purpose in life, and perhaps will remain somewhat relevant to the kinds of enormous enterprises that hire shit-awful programmers with their Stack Overflow points on their resumes. But all the reasons it was originally attractive are now gone, as are the majority of the excellent programmers that made it interesting.

I'm not sure if Quora is its replacement, and I'm not sure what the next big place where excellent programmers go to share insights looks like. But it's not Stack Overflow.
Probably a federal issue
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Yeah, but memory space increases every year and gets cheaper. So this shouldn't be too much of a problem, right?
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Back when I dabbled in bitcoin, one of the coolest things to me was the cryptographically verifiable casinos. To explain simply, the hash of each day’s seeds were published the day before, and the actual seeds posted the day after. So you could verify that your wins and losses were legit.

This could be applied to casinos, but it would take legislation to require it. I doubt any casino, especially the ones in sovereign Native American lands would voluntarily adopt such a system.
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Fair point, although I meant these specific instruments, not the more general class of instruments.
Please excuse this more radical point, but part of me is ok with rescinding the visas to force some investment back into the domestic population. (Out of necessity.)

We have a large enough population that there's no reason we should be hurting for talent, and part of me wonders how much of that disinvestment has been enabled by importing instead of breeding our needs. We're exploiting poor conditions in other countries in order to attract their best, as well as creating poor conditions here for natural born citizens to suppress their demands from resource owners.
Somewhat off-topic, but this man Jerry Rape has a very unfortunate last name. If I had a last name like that, I'd have been looking to get it legally changed the day I turned 18.

I mean, c'mon...imagine if he wanted to become a school teacher and children had to refer to him as "Mr. Rape".
I wonder what happens to the Groove Music integration in Forza Horizon 3.
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Incredulous that people would downvote this.
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> Of course, computers can't be creative, so it is just imitation.

I take it that you've never worked in IT support :)
These are good points, but what about considering replaceability as an alternative to maintainability?

I personally find dynamic languages allow for easy replacability, as there's less explicit references of types. However this is highly dependent on the system being somewhat modular I suppose.
Code generation achieves the same effect with more work and without a standard abstraction in the language it takes more effort to understand. Using general purpose primitives that are blessed to be generic similarly takes more work to understand when it exposes too many underlying implementation details. A nice wrapper class would work much better.

I don’t agree that using piles of built in objects makes the code easier to understand. If I want a Tree<Node, Node, Value>, how is using lists of lists and integer pairs making my code easier to reason about? Or using code generation to make reams of classes that create a Tree for everything I want, and anyone who uses my functions? How is encouraging either of those things a positive?
386 win3.1

I remember swapping in my 100mb "Games" hdd
Would you order your other groceries online though? For a lot people in the west their diet is comprised of more than just fresh produce.
Hoorah, now we can be drunk all week without having to plan anything in advance!

Would be interested to see if it (will) affected alcohol related disease, deaths, rehab, etc.. I imagine a day of enforced sobriety - because you were too drunk all week to plan ahead - might actually have been a great help for some??
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