skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happens with inflation and interest over that 75 year span? Does the mandate to pre-pay use some formula to take that into account?

I'm not familiar with general accounting practices, but it seems like if it didn't it would be potentially forcing the business to save far in excess of the funds necessary to meet it's obligations when the bill actually comes due?
You did speak against his character. You said he tried to destroy a community. That is not the action of a "great person".

You began from the assumption that Sam is not one of us, the "highly community-driven" hackers. That's factually wrong. He's practically a prototype of the community-minded hackerspace type which you extol.

I don't agree with you that people are upset because they care about communities. A readier explanation is just garden-variety sanctimony. (I'm not referring to your comment here, but others.)
The game is kind of weird:

Each player of the pair begins with a set amount of money, say $5. Each puts any part or all of that $5 into a mutual pot, without knowing how much the other player is investing. Then a dollar is added to the pot, and the sum is split evenly between the two. So if both put in $5, they each wind up with $5.50 ($5 $5 $1, divided by 2). But suppose the first player puts in $5 and the second holds back, putting in only $4? The first player gets $5 at the end ($5 $4 $1, divided by 2), while the cheater gets $6 ($5 $4 $1, divided by 2--plus that $1 that was held back).

It seems to me that there isn't actually anything to be gained from cooperation. If both players "cheat" completely (put $0 into the pool), they still get $5.50. In that sense, the Nash equilibrium (both are cheating) is also socially optimal. Kind of untypical for something where you want to demonstrate the advantages of cooperation.
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We solve this by having the e-mails come out in hourly batches for errors, with a separate, single, immediate e-mail for "the site is down" type problems.
Has anybody tried the Twilio-based OpenVBX? http://www.openvbx.org/
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This article surprised me. Is the state of node.js actually not really that far along?

It seems like the examples in the article (and even in this thread) are all basically proxies or chatbots. Are there better examples of successful applications of node.js?
So when google advertises pretty much the e-version of it in your search, you are ok with it?
Here's a blog post on Nodeload if you're interested in details: https://github.com/blog/900-nodeload2-downloads-reloaded
Good list, but what about security?

SQLInjections etc? You need to have that covered more than the rest in my opinion.
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It is a weird game, but experimental situations are usually contrived. They define cooperation as the absence of cheating. But the surprise is that people jump at the chance to fine the cheater, even though they have to pay the same amount as the fine:

You can fine the cheater by taking away some money, as long as you're willing to give up the same amount yourself. In other words, you can punish a cheater if you're willing to pay for the opportunity.
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I, for one, welcome the post-idea world -- consider that the rise of Nazism and Communism was primarily driven by the so-called big ideas that helped the masses "make sense of the world" not unlike in the way the article seems to espouse.

I've known people consumed by ideas (nearly all of my college friends who were into politics). They were antagonistic, insincere, subtly hypocritical, and appeared simply brainwashed. You would not want to have them as partners neither in a business nor in a family. Not a pretty picture.
Here's the part I don't get: `Object.create`, as it's defined there, is a long-winded, roundabout way of saying

{__proto__: o}

People seem to think that this is functionality that was lacking from JavaScript; many of these same people have some inexplicable distaste for the (non-standard) `__proto__` property. What gives?

(Okay, technically it's {__proto__: o, constructor: function F() {}}...)
Yes, it does explicitly say that.

> QW is "Quake World" project, where Server and Client are meant to run on different machine (notice the client staring point is WinMain (in sys_win.c), whereas the Server stating point is main (also in sys_win.c)).
I don't expect to see an automatic microbiology context here instead of a computer one, so I was gonna answer

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The USPS has a shitty track record for not spamming people. Maybe half of my mail is spam. While the USPS might have been in a position to do as you suggest for quite some time, the fact that they haven't indicates something, doesn't it?
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Interesting set of languages. I would include a language focused on coroutines and concurrency as well: Erlang, Go, or Stackless Python for example. Many problems change significantly when seen in the light of concurrency.
I want a way for the citizens of America to "Shut down" the government in exceptional circumstances, you know, for the good of the people.
For comparison, I recently released Plainsight, a textual steganography tool: http://github.com/rw/plainsight.

(Video link in the project desc.)
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I've been doing this successfully for a few years now and come from a very similar background (scientific computing, had one foot in academia, initially had mixed feelings about a startup). It's not that hard to find the work if you know where to look (I work primarily with seed stage or series A stage startups, but have worked with a few fortune 500s). It's a high-variance sort of situation, but I do go through phases where I have to turn down work (a good sign to raise your price on subsequent engagements!). I'd be happy to chat about my experiences in detail (email in my profile).

For the sake of the HN discussion, I'll say that it's a lot easier to use ML/stats consulting as a "sales lubricant" on top of custom software development. The kinds of details you can tease out from most business data aren't usually actionable without some kind of software that "closes the loop" (e.g. a behavioral targeting system for customizing a web experience).
All 3 pages in one:
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Pretty good read, thanks for posting this!
Even that is assuming that life on other planets is made out of matter rather than light, consciousness, etc. "Reality is not only stranger than we suppose, it's stranger than we can suppose."
Being second can often be beneficial. You get to learn from the mistakes of the first without being locked into those mistakes.
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For all HN users who havent been to their vacation yet. Why not go to Mongolia, as a fellow reader I just took a two-week off the grid traveling to the countryside to Mongolia. Taking the Jeep ride to the steppes takes you far out of reach of g00gle and M1cro$oft and closer to the vays of the nomad ( which is level 2 in civilization 2 ).

Nature in its might:
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Some example of tasty food: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41XBnfrz2gE&feature=player_detailpage&fmt=22&hd=1
In my opinion you don't need all of this if we're talking a quick MVP launch.
According to this article YSL made a pair of completely red heel, top and bottom, which is what landed them in this lawsuit. http://www.inquisitr.com/133848/louboutin-battle-yves-saint-...

This use of red seems very different from contrasting soles - and having a trademark that blocks red high heels seems a bit overreaching to me.
This reminds me of blue boxing; the initial decoy https connection is the equivalent of dialing an 800 number, during which the switch is commandeered with the proper tones and the hacker can dial out to wherever he wants. to the telco it looks like he just made a 3 hour call to an 800.
It's an interesting question. When you look at the vast complexity, diversity and synergy in the natural world it certainly represents a body of work that far exceeds mankinds best achievements so far. If I'm smarter than a monkey because I can build a house then it only seems reasonable to recognize a greater intelligence in the system that built the earth. If we once encountered an abandoned alien city with materials and design way beyond our reach everyone would assume they were smarter than us without ever meeting one. Maybe we just have too narrow a definition of intelligence.
I recall at one point that AOL would do this - I guess enough clueless people tried putting a mailing address into the "To" box that they decided to just go with it instead of dealing with one more class of bizarre support call.
How would you 'check' it, in the sense it could be on a checklist. Are there tools to automate this type of thing?
Don't you need the z and j flags, respectively? The way you write it works for uncompressed tars.
It should be noted that httpbib2 is not a Google project. A lot of people prefer it though.
I have a Java background and I don't really use JavaScript, but I'd like to understand something :

var man = fromPrototype(person, {
sex: "male"
});

After this code runs, we have a reference to a function (man) inside which we declare an object (newObject) for which we define the new property (sex). That means we can now call newObject.sex

But later he's calling that property on the function itself :
jeremy.sex

How is this possible?
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It means the barriers to entry in your market aren't high enough. Seek a new business model, or live with it.
How would the free market fix that problem? Do you have to pay a subscription fee to get a road to your home or business?
I have a log that will mail me first time an error occurs. If it happens again, it will still be logged, but I don't get an email. Once I mark the error as resolved - if it happens again, I get an email.
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When the banking and payment systems are fixed. In the year 2011, there is no legitimate technical reason for paper checks and the mail being a legitimate payment system. But the digital alternatives are little better.
Single page version: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-...
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No, someone made the accusation that it was a marketing op. No real proof was ever shown.
I would strongly favor Forth over Joy, but either way concatenative languages are really worth exploring. It seems fair to compare Forth with C, as both deal with hardware and memory rather intimately. Compare a C implementation of a Fisher-Yates shuffle:

void shuffle(int *array, int n) {
int i, j, tmp;
for (i = n - 1; i > 0; i--) {
j = rand_int(i + 1);
tmp = array[j];
array[j] = array[i];
array[i] = tmp;
}
}

With the same algorithm in Forth:

: shuffle
1- for
i 1+ random over +
over i +
swap@
next
;

The types, intermediate variables and many of the unnecessary details of the implementation fall away. It's an aesthetic distinction, since we're really trading these for "stack noise" words like over and i, but I find it very pleasing.

C is normally considered an extremely simple, lightweight language. I think the main lesson Forth has taught me is that we can design much simpler languages in the same space without sacrificing power and flexibility.
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I didn't read it as a personal attack. The OP's post is not that "unpopular" on this site because this website is full of libertarians. pg is one, I believe. Most entrepreneurs of course, support capitalism and free markets. In fact the proposition that "a nonprofit/charity will never make as big a difference as a true for-profit vehicle that is pointed at the same problem" likely resonates with a majority of users, although I can't really provide a figure, this is from my general experience with the site.

I don't think that the parent post is supposed to be an attack on the opinion, but pointing out that it's actually popular.
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people who voted this down probably have no idea about the spirit of '69.
The USPS (or Fedex or UPS or DHL or anyone else) were not conceived to be whitelisted services - they just deliver stuff. USPS does it cheaply, so bulk mailers use them. I don't know the rules and regs, I'm not actually sure the USPS has it within their control to white list actual mail.

I'm proposing a different service -- my main point being that because of who the USPS is, they'd have an enormous natural advantage to offer that type of whitelisted new service. The fact that its a no brainer and that nobody has done it probably means it is hard, more than anything. But it seems it would be easier for someone with the reach and institutional trust of a quasi govt organization (compared to a startup).

Perhaps the USPS would be more likely to do a better job in curtailing their reliance on bulk mailings if they had an exploding, high margin revenue base around ecommerce payment and being a more trusted, secure form of business communications channels. Mail spam sucks, but that is their revenue base. From their point of view, as an institution, they of course would like to see it replaced, institutions don't themselves like to generally just commit suicide.

Tech is what is going to replace them, at least attempting to transition to tech while leveraging what advantages they do have isn't a terrible idea -- because there quite possibly are some things they are able to uniquely bring to the table.
Furthermore, since "punishing" a cheater involves paying $X to force the cheater to pay $X, the cheater will still come out ahead no matter how many times he cheats. This game is... interesting.
I think you're half right here, both on your examples and on your conclusion. Communism was definitely built around an idea. Nazism, though, wasn't; it's just tribalism dressed up a little.

By generalizing from a few data points without looking for other examples, you come to a false conclusion. The fight against both communism and fascism was helped greatly by fighting for ideals like democracy, individual freedom, and the right of peoples to avoid oppression.

What we should learn from this isn't that ideas are bad. It's that ideas are very powerful, and that we need to be extremely careful with the ideas we support. That in turn argues for the sort of careful thinking that the article recommends.
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I have a slightly different view on small/mid-size companies: it's not exactly that they can't afford an in-house math/stats person, but rather that there isn't enough work to occupy one full time (i.e. it's not a budget problem but an ROI problem). So if they confuse themselves into thinking they should hire one full time they necessarily need to offer below-market rates to get positive ROI.

It's much more common for small to mid-size companies to have 1-2 projects per year that could benefit from some mathematical analysis, and the ones I've worked with will happily pay for project work where the ROI is clear. And in those cases I think you can fairly negotiate an attractive rate.
Don't you guys also use node for secure image proxying (camo)?
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I'm sure most people, probably all people are ok with it. It's the difference between hiking out to your mailbox just to throw useless paper into the recycling bin (why can't my USPS mailman do that for me?) and pollute the environment versus ignoring the small text comment on the right side of your monitor while you look at lolcats.
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That antenna looks like it has had serious industrial design put into it.
The "War on Terror" fits that bill nicely.
antagonistic, insincere, subtly hypocritical, and appeared simply brainwashed.

You could say the same for plenty of folks in the tech scene. I'd say it's a pretty sweeping generalization, no?

The concepts of capitalism & free markets that were incorporated into the framework of the United States as a governing body were pretty big ideas as well; heretical by the standards of human civilization at a period of time which knew nothing but monarchy & tyranny.

Some "big ideas" turn out to be cynical, evil and horrible for society. Doesn't mean thinking big (politically, business-wise or otherwise) should be discouraged or driven away from our collective consciousness.
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My co-workers ran in to the same problem once they started using node.js for a project (it's a chat server!) All the examples out there are very "hello world". Even the chat server library that we attempted to use as a foundation for the chat server had never been used in a production environment. But they got it all working and it runs fine.
I think Smalltalk is an other language that's at least fun to explore. Especially if you want to know what OO is really about.
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5-7 year old hardware. This is an affluent community - I know it's unusual to think about it here but some people absolutely cannot afford to upgrade. I'm talking about hardware that barely meets the minimum specs for XP.

I'm not one of them, but I see them every day. Windows 7 does not solve the Windows XP problem. (The Windows XP problem will be solved when any given computer can run Windows 7 easily.)
I'd say it's pretty far along: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules
In Apple's eyes, probably not enough. It was never produced.
Same, gone slowcarb, don't eat bread even on weekends, take a vit supplement, and no longer do I totally crash about 2 or 3, and feel the need for a Mars bar. Now waking a bit earlier and feel alert until the evening.
I do think you have a good point with the ugliness of ganging up on this guy.

My feeling is: if this was actually an "experiment", as people claimed -- and not some lame attempt at proving people are really fluffy teddy bears inside -- then what happens in context of that experiment should stay in that context. We shouldn't be making stabs at this guy's character for doing something that was basically part of the game.

The experiment was asking "what will happen if we do this". We got our answer: "someone will take advantage of it". At least the guy that took advantage of it was willing to fess up, and we all (should have) learned something.
Why do you assume that demand for USPS mail is elastic? (at the current low price point anyway)
Great quote, thank you.

A buddhist blog [1] attributes it to Shirdi Sai Baba, and notes the phrase is also attributed to the Quakers. [also, 2] ("Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?") [3] cites it as a Spanish proverb.

1: http://thebuddhistblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/does-it-improve-...
2: http://www.peterme.com/archives/000047.html
3: http://quotes.prolix.nu/Proverbs/
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I'm talking about machines which barely fit the minimum specs for Windows XP - I guess this is hard for you to grasp, but some people can't afford to buy a $300 netbook when they have a perfectly functional desktop from 6 years ago.

Also, we have several applications which, while they will run on Windows 7, they simply do not run well. From a business standpoint, it's really hard to justify an upgrade that results in reduced functionality in the name of security. I can clean up after malware pretty quickly - people working with outdated but business-critical applications lose hours of their days when software starts acting up because it wasn't written with a good security model in mind and it's being forced into that environment.

You can say Windows 7 solved the problem all you want, but there remain countless areas where Windows XP is required, and virtualization is not a magic bullet - networking is always tricky. And in any case, we do all that work of migration and what do we gain? Exactly what we have right now, except with hardware accelerated graphics that don't support all our hardware and some difficult to quantify reduction in malware attacks.
Regarding long lines: that's a common complaint (e.g. Of the DMV), presented as evidence of government inefficiency (not that you were making that argument).

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In return for for the massive taxpayer savings, you have to wait in line for ten minutes 2x a month (or per year in the case of the much-maligned DMV), and occasionally endure employees who are unenthusiastic to be earning very few of your tax dollars per hour.
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It is true according to my IP instructor. UPS has a trademark on the color in the context of delivery services, it being strongly associated with their brand.
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