skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh hey, on top of the prevalent skepticism and detractions in the current discussion, I'll just throw out that, on its own, this is objectively a Good Thing.

I won't dismiss the fact that this is good PR for CAH, but it is still morally-motivated positive impact for some fixed number of people. A company took some profit they had and exceptionally distributed to some of their less fortunate customers.

Don't immediately react and reply that this is gameable.
Don't immediately react and reply that this isn't scalable.

Pause for a second and think about why this is necessarily coming from a game company that's small and makes a crude product. Think about why something like this shouldn't be coming from an entity with much more power to effect positive social or economical change.

And if you're part of one of those powers, can you do something?
I couldn't have answered the question any better myself.

When I was still a teenager, they threatened to ring the door bell and wake up my parents.

Like, what?
The paper:

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)3...

"A Feathered Dinosaur Tail with Primitive Plumage Trapped in Mid-Cretaceous Amber"
I thought this was a joke but the quote is literally "Vitaliy Katsenelson is the new Benjamin Graham"
Bizarrely, as everyone jumps on BTC, i've just cashed my BTC out and am eyeing up gold in its place. The intrinsic value of gold has barely, if at all changed since Roman times. Maybe BTC will soar to $1m a coin and all the millennials will have the last laugh.
> The brown paper bag and the Anchor Hocking jar are going to come back in a big way...

As well they should.

Back when I was growing up we weren't taught to recycle, we were taught the three R's.

1. Reduce
2. Reuse
3. Recycle

And those R's were supposed to be in order of priority.
It really depends on the people and the mood, imo. I've played with groups where it's like that but I've also played with groups where the answers were more interesting.
Maybe they have a budget for that kind of stuff. Maybe they don't. Based on personal experience growing up in actual poverty I would bet most do not. I certainly didn't. And neither did most of the people in my life. It's really no different than buying smokes by the pack or 20oz sodas at the gas station. Many people can easily come up with the money to buy these things, even people that are perpetually "broke". But it does all add up.

Anyway, my point was that I don't think "lack of money" is a very instructive way of looking at poverty. If these people are so poor yet have $15 for an impulse buy do you think giving them $1000 is going to change their life? Probably not. Education and building better habits would really help them a lot more. They could save $1000 or probably a lot more and really turn their life around.
In large parts of America, $15 is a lot more than a single meal. I grew up in relative poverty, $15 for entertainment would seem like a very poor choice in my household.

Your comment makes me think we really are worse off than many people are aware of.
Egads! I'm so ready to do this. I'm in my late 30s and have been a salaried engineer my entire career. I'm sick of corporate culture and dealing with dysfunctional petty politics. My current environment is particularly depressing. You know the office from the first part of Joe vs the Volcano? It's kind of like that :|

I'll admit, there's an element of risk aversion holding me back. That and I simply can't afford to start at the bottom and work for peanuts in order to 'build a reputation' as a freelancer.
charging someone with resisting arrest and nothing else is a pretty popular option
Yep with healthcare taken care of, Canadians have nothing to worry about.

http://www.macleans.ca/economy/congrats-canadians-youre-worl...
But what is that contradicting? Lisp certainly ran on older hardware.

My assertion is that "functional" is not the defining feature of lisp. My evidence is much of modern functional programming was not done for a large part of it's history. My claim is further that many modern idioms couldn't be done on older hardware. Not that lisp couldn't run there, but that modern practices couldn't. Regardless of language.

Functional is certainly a feature. Even a prominent one. Just not a defining one.
Any game that is fun even for 5-10 minutes will ripple through people for years, there is always a new 10,000.

Also they are very good at viral marketing. They have you commenting on the game in a thread on HN about it.

Keep people talking about your game and what you are doing, recipe for success.

The game mechanic is catchy, that is almost all a successful game needs aside from marketing momentum.
> In the background "var a=i, var b=a+j", might compile as something like "var b = i; b+=j";

Believe it or not, many compilers internally represent mutable variables as a sequence of immutable variables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form

Edit: I should clarify that I mean "immutable" in the context of primitive values like integers.
why can't this be solved at the recycling center? why do individuals need to deal with this at all? several municipalities handle separation at the waste center. seems on all accounts a win.

one place to monitor for doing it correctly.

one place to easily apply advancements in solutions.

no need to try to herd cats (no need to try to get millions of people to follow exactly the correct proceedures). I watched teams of supposedly smart colleagues be unable to correctly separate their trash. if the average HN reader can't do it why would anyone expect to general population to ever be any better at it?
I doubt a law firm would put their letterhead on a fake letter, but looking at the public map, most of the subdivision I got a letter for is already owned by the USA:

http://www.cameroncad.org/cadclientdb/propertymap.aspx

Tarpon Haven Subdivision

Edit: There's also two huge tracts of land above that subdivision that are also owned by the US. I'm not sure they even need to go through that subdivision if they wanted to just build a wall through the land the government already owns.

That's rather... ineffective.
It really is. Way better than that Holliday hole.
I think you can draw some great parallels between Harvey Danger as a band and Cards Against Humanity as a card game.

Harvey Danger

- 1 successful song

- Edgy and cringey (eg. "and I don't even own a TV", W E W)

CaH

- Fun for 1 hand

- Edgy and cringey

I guess Harvey Danger was bored, because they sure are boring.
At a restaurant. Which you really shouldn't be indulging in very often or at all if $1000 is a major boon to your life.
Ramanujan may have been aware of 1728 == 12² because of 12's recurrence within number theory. (Well, really, 24's recurrence. [1]) He wrote down several equations [2] which feature 12 and 24, and given the time in which he lived, he may have been acquainted with the work of Felix Klein and others [3] as well.

The other sum is 1000 + 729, much easier for a decimal-preferring mentat like Ramanujan to pull from thin air.

[1] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/numbers/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_modular_form

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-invariant
The problem is that circumstances often compel us to do what is popular. If McDonalds buys out all the restaurants nearby, realistically you will have to eat a big mac if it's late and you don't have time to cook. If Cards Against Humanity is the coolest thing ever and all your co-workers play it every day it's in your interest to play it with them. Popular things bear upon your life whether you want them to or not, so it makes sense to work to get rid of popular things that one doesn't like.
This is a great thing. Truly, hats of too cards against humanity.

I noticed something worrying about myself when reading these stories. A small voice in the back of my head judged a lot of these people. Those who say they will use it for gifts, travel or other things I apparently deem frivolous.
It is not okay of me to think these things. These people deserve happiness, and these people can make their own choices.
This disdain is something I really wanna work on. :(
I don't like the original game, but they did make Secret Hitler, which is fucking awesome!
Kinda like asking why isn't there a single "best" brand of car. The answer is fairly obvious in that "best" is hugely subjective and governed by many variables including a particular individual's needs or preferences. This gives rise to many "local maxima" in the subjective preference function, allowing a variety of car types to exist.
Same here. All of the sudden all of the college dropouts from my area are blockchain experts, talking up new coins as if they read the whitepaper (as if that is enough anyway). These are the "get rich quick" folks, the same ones who were selling herbalife(or vemma or whatever) a few years ago. Despite this, I can't say for sure that they'd sell given some serious volatility. There's a growing cult like groupthink attitude best represented by the phrase "HODL".

There's also some serious fraud allegations at the exchange level, and I think there may be some truth to the rumor that USDT is being printed to drive up the price of BTC.

While all of this is concerning, it's hard to believe that BTC will drop lower than 1-2k in a panic. I think the market value has been established on a psychological level. I think blockchain is going to be taught in ECON101 classes in a few years. And while I don't think BTC is the best cyptocurrency, I believe in the coming years its value will stabilize, transaction fees will get fixed, and it will be a great store of value. It will be especially valuable for those without access to good banking systems.

The other really big problem is liquidity/access. I live in NYC and my coinbase account was randomly locked a few months ago(good luck if this happens to you). Now the only way I can buy/sell bitcoin is at a cash ATM with an 8% fee, or buy.bitcoin.com with a 7.5% fee. Bitcoin doesn't solve the problems of those without access to good banking if it's impossible to reasonably buy. I think this will get better too, but it's definitely gotten worse recently.

In conclusion:
I think there's a chance BTC could be worth less than it is now this time next year.
I think in 2 years, the total market cap of cryptocurrencies will be significantly higher than it is today.
If $1000 is life changing money for you, you have no business spending $15 on a lottery ticket, unless you are terrible at managing money, which might have something more to do with their situation more than living in the richest nation on Earth.
Upvoted just for giving me a real answer, instead of a defensive drivel.
Yea I wondered that too. I mean I'm super biased, I owned a 2L Turbo 1994 MR2. I loved that car, I was so sad when I sold it. But it was impractical (limited space), somewhat uncomfortable and hard to repair (mid-mounted engines are much harder to work on)

It certainly was a car appreciated by many, but I guess if you asked 100 people what an MR2 was, only ~20% of then would know, so I guess in that regard it was a failure.
TL;DR: this is about the author's preferred tools, not the Standard Model of physics.
That's really interesting - only about 2% off.

Conversion Here: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=speed+of+light+in+feet...
The fees to move the coins to another wallet just to pay for coffee would be 4x the coffee.
Throwaway for privacy.

I've been concealing cancer symptoms for years, mostly because I can't afford to get a colonoscopy. Even the cheapest clinics run well over $1k, which is totally out of reach.

The secondary reason is an unhealthy fear of needles and a desire to live without a colostomy bag.

I know I need to see a psychiatrist or a therapist to help me get over these irrational fears, but you guessed it: I can't afford to. I make just enough not to be covered by any of the ACA's tiers, which means it'd be $400/mo for health insurance. It's like.. $400/mo? Do you have any idea what I could buy with $400/mo? I'd be able to afford to eat as much meat as I want to, let alone health insurance.

So yeah, just barely treading water down here in the good ol' USA. Cheers from down south.

(I'm not jealous, to be clear. Hopefully we'll get our stuff sorted out someday.)
Ha, I did. Thank you!
But how much does a difference of 0.5% matter on this metric?
Yes, else they wouldn’t allow NEO to exist.
Why not just package everything in literal money? People would dutifully rinse everything.
The place people usually trip up is with freebsd-update getting confused about what version it's trying to update. The '--currently-running <release>' option is your friend here.
I wonder what advantages The World has over lines like Seabourn[0] or Silversea?[1] I can't imagine it being cheaper with the upfront costs. Besides the higher exclusivity and more consistent guests, I suppose. Then again, it looks like the ship averages ~1/3 occupancy [2] which would be a huge plus.

[0] https://www.seabourn.com/
[1] https://www.silversea.com/en.html
[2] http://aboardtheworld.com/sites/default/files/TheWorld-FAQ.p...
Bought a few of these (for myself, and as gifts). Was happy to have been a part of just day 1 - well worth the money. Everything else is icing on the cake.
Ann Rand, sea steading.. same ideas
When everything is going to shit, people are in the hospital and you barely have enough food stamps to feed your kids ...

You can go to a movie. Are you going to really fault someone for that, or taking their partner to a restaurant, using what little they have, to just try and forget how bad things are for a few hours?!

It's not like they can just stop being poor.
Perfect competition is actually not a very useful concept in the real world. In Silicon Valley, we live and die with patents which are term limited monopolies. That's as far from perfect competition as you can get. The entire concept of intellectual property is anti-competitive.
not surprised the subjects of the story are in their 70s...seems like a huge bore unless one's notion of a good life is reams of idle time surrounded by fawning servants
Modern dumps can be very environmentally friendly. The bottom can be clay sealed with leak monitoring to protect the ground water. With a little extra effort they can designed for methane capture to prevent problematic off gassing. Maybe aluminum and other purish metal scrap gets taken out of the waste stream and the rest goes back to the Earth. Some carbon capture happens and the site can be mined in the future if it seems worthwhile. Add video monitoring of what goes in for future prospectors to evaluate the ore body and call it a day.

Recycling does not make much environmental sense and considering it is sort of like a little ritual that washes away your consumption sins, maybe a net negative on getting people to consume less. Even mass compost is a problem, potentially spreading plant diseases and, in the Bay Area, getting poison oak in your mulch is a real downside. Oakland is now charging more for compost disposal than for garbage, so some kind of problem is going on with it. Plus one one truck zooming around waking people up in the morning instead of the current three.
$100k isn't a particularly high salary for a software engineer in the US these days. Even in lower COL areas.
Related: last month's NY Times article about Wilson:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15624881
Thanks for the recommendation. Positively great talk and you are right it inspires a lot of usecases. Speaking as someone who had heard about Merkle trees but never looked into the details of what they were about, this talk was absolutely worth watching. Regarding IPFS there was a question at the end about the difference between IPFS and the stuff he talked about so it's briefly talked about by the speaker then.
I'd love to buy more of my stuff in glass.
I think back to last year's Holliday Hole. One of the FAQs was, "Why don't you give the money to charity?" A: "Why don't you give the money to charity. It's your money."

I'm glad this year they're not literally throwing money into a hole...err..dig a hole.
Introducing Ignite – A reproducible deployment, development environment manager
because Ferraris and other supercars are built to go fast at the expense of literally everything else.

The overwhelming focus on aerodynamics results in a sterotypical look, but it's just one that happens to be horrible at carrying groceries or more than two people.
You went out of your way to buy a 2nd gen MR2?! WTF is wrong with you?! You're like the guy who goes to a convention on the last day.
>He was fired because he gave up control of his company and for no other reason.

Gave up control or lost control?

>Founders don't get fired because employees find them unbearable or sabotaging. Those employees get fired or quit...unless the founder gives up control and then loses an internal political fight.

see Kalanick, founders don't get fired because of employees, they get fired because of they can't keep their board loyal to them. This was the case with Steve Jobs as well.

Jobs' return to Apple in 1997, he made sure that 4 new board members were appointed[0], which you can be sure were loyal to him first and foremost.

He lost control of his company the first time around, learned from his mistakes and corrected. There is no need to glorify his early mistakes, they don't diminish his accomplishments.

[0] http://money.cnn.com/1997/08/06/technology/apple/
Speed of light is by choice too; the numerical value is in no way "fundamental"
Why does this need to be regulated? Why would anyone buy software with such an obviously malicious contract like that? I think the problem is we've put up with EULAs for too long. No one would agree to sign a 50 page document when purchasing almost any other product.
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They offer their base product as a download for free on their main page right below the buy button and it is licensed under the Creative Commons... And they give you instructions on how to do it most easily. They are an exceptional company, and have earned fans instead of customers.
surely less impactful than the collective trash heap generated by coastal technocrats replacing their phones every year
Agreed. As cool as IPFS is, I only clicked on it because I thought it was going to explain how to scale my Tim Berners-Lee WWW server in a decentralized way (without relying on some big monolithic company). Has anyone seen a primer like that?

As for IPFS, I’d love to see them succeed, but as long as you have to know about merkle trees, hashing, etc for it, it’s not going to be any more mainstream than things like PGP or IRC.

Finally, they claim IPFS is good for archival. To me, that means it will be as good as putting a few hundred paper books in a few hundred different libraries around the world. With that in mind, how does censorship work with IPFS? If the government wants to rewrite history by deleting my archive, how do the mirrors avoid being tracked down, and told to selectively delete the undesirable blobs?
g in SI units is very close to pi^2.

And the weird thing is that it almost is not a coincidence! The meter was almost defined as a second pendulum (implying pi^2 is exactly g) but then the variability in g was considered to impractical.

So then they choose the first meter definition (1/4 circ. if the earth)... which is suspiciously close to what they wanted to define the meter with in the first place
A significant amount of the population of the world lives in poverty and destitution, while arguably working just as hard or even more than these millionaires. I can see it definitely seems like a waste, in the grand context of things.
have you found a mixer in it?
Shipping your garbage half way around the world does indeed make little sense. But Recycling itself is a good idea - we used to do this, AT&T did it with everything they made, milk and soda came in reusable bottles, other products like instant coffee, creamer, ovaltine, and others also came in glass instead of plastic - yes, reuse does cost the manufacturer more, but right now, those costs are still present, they're just being passed down to an unknown party, at an unknown point in the future.

We should be trying reduce plastic use to places where really nothing else can do the job - and use more glass, metal, , and paper instead.
That helped thanks!
We asked the internet how they’d design AI
> people who really like Cards Against Humanity leans towards people who like being "politically incorrect"

Not quite, it leans towards people who think that being "politically incorrect" is funny. The great thing about CAH is exactly that it should be clear everything is said in jest.
It is important in a society to be able to joke about the taboos. And it is great for people that enjoy this kind of humor to have a place for it where people don't suspect you say these things because you mean them.
i feel like this wouldn't have been as well received if it weren't preceded by the holiday hole. CaH has kind of built a reputation where they do silly things with silly amounts of money. Because they spent last november literally dumping money in a pit, they can fairly easily avoid criticisms about how this isn't a perfect scheme with the "it's better than throwing money in a pit" excuse.

And i don't in any way mean this as a criticism. There's a lot of benefit to be had in experimenting with non-perfect ways to help the poor, but way too often those projects are criticized harshly for being imperfect. I love that CaH is able to do this.
How about you start with what in the F€>£ is ifps? Not everyone is clued in to whatever the FISH you spent the last four years of YOUR life working on.

A little intro section would be nice. I’m just sayin’
Amazon.com: LeapFrog Shapes and Sharing Picnic Basket: Toys
Go is impoverished compared to Haskell but not when it comes to concurrency. The Haskell analogues for these concurrency primitives seem laborious...and they were even moreso prior to the advent of the `async` library.
Steve Jobs Blue Box Goes on Display at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit
anarchists, or insurance fraud
What I don't get is how these licenses are particularly binding, in that it's only whomever is installing the software that is actually party to the license. After the software installation has been completed, say by some rando from craigslist, the copy residing on disk is constrained by only copyright.

It seems like their chilling effect is mostly due to people not wanting to be harassed by legal goons, rather than the concern that the backwards company would actually prevail in court.
Because socialism has been proven to fail, over and over and over. Roads are not socialism. Roads have not destroyed societies like Venezuela or Cuba. Socialism is when the government decides private property is illegitimate and it fails every time it’s tried. Some amount of socialism may not kill the host but it’s a thing to be feared and wielded carefully not lauded.
Literally every single poor person pictured is obese. That baby is almost certainly going to be overweight in a few years.

I'm amazed this isn't a bigger issue politically. Nutrition is a huge driver of health inequality. In 50 years the obesity rate has quadrupled. A return to the eating habits of the 1960s is perhaps the greatest possible welfare achievement right now (in the US), with impact far larger than universal healthcare. And it doesn't need to cost anything.