skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. The issue is that to most of the social class that makes up the Valley, every high net worth individuals from a CIS state is "Russian Mafia". If that's xenophobia, fair enough, but it's a specific brand of xenophobia, and as the amounts of money we're talking about go up --- perhaps past Yuri Milner --- it's a brand of xenophobia that may get less and less irrational.

They don't call it "Russian money" or "Milner money" or "Soviet money" or any other epithet. They call it "Russian mafia money".
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I'm interested in hearing more of your personal beliefs (re: soul).
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In my limited experience with so-called "spinners," writers would easily prefer to creating their own content as opposed to regurgitating phrases from a source article. This is usually more inexpensive and a better liked job for the writer. It's a little counterintuitive, but letting someone research a topic and develop content on their own (even when given SEO metrics) takes a good writer far less time so it ends up being cheaper & better.

Sometime you can have your cake and eat it too, although this doesn't solve a common problem when sourcing work . If the writer is uninterested or unfamiliar with the topic, the quality will invariably suffer.

* edited for grammar
Casascius makes no mention of backing the coin whatsoever. You have to verify it upon receiving it unless you don't really care.
I understand that this is just a thought experiment, but what's the point if we're going to start with the assumption that if we found $100 lying on the ground, our actions are merely determined by our current socio-economic status?

Not all homeless men would do the same thing... some of them would spend it trying to create a better tomorrow, but many would spend it (for a myriad of reasons) on "right now". I believe that this fact would continue to influence us even if we all "lived like the 1%".
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Either the fry cooks and the middle class would be taken care of by some sort of socialism or they would physically die out.
Impressive and fun. Dying to reverse the up and down on the arrow keys though!
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Neither. In US, your plane has to have the 6 basic instruments to be certified as airworthy by FAA. The reasons pilots die in non-visual flight conditions are twofold.

As the original article pointed out, the first reason is that the sensations are so compelling that doing what the instruments tell you will feel VERY unnatural and you will keep thinking that your instruments are broken or stuck (hence you HAVE to trust your instruments). And even if you remember not to trust your instincts, you will still often unconsciously apply slight pressure to the controls.

The second reason is that for every change in the plane's orientation and speed, several instruments will start moving at once. Without training it is very hard to integrate what the 6 instruments are telling you into a complete mental picture of what's going on with your airplane.
completely inanimate objects to RNA

Has this been mapped out in detail? (Please pardon my ignorance. I'm not an evolutionist but like to stay current).
I understand the gearhead mentality (I was raised by one), and I actually enjoyed reading about the music equipment. I just didn't expect it because when I hear "Zed Shaw" I think "programmer", not "musician", even though I realize that few people, even programmers, are one-dimensional. I guess it's just one of my many mental biases. Thanks for putting my question to rest.
Check out GWT code too, similar writing and design style.

On thr other hand, I always have to pause and think a littlr bit longer when using the Guava PreConditions.checkArgument call (even the author of Guava admitted that too)
Another data point of an accomplished man being down to earth. I almost find this just a step beyond the call of duty.

Scenario: Imagine that you are looking for a job to the next hot small start-up. Send an email pretending that you are a high school student looking for a word of guidance. See if they will have the time to respond the same way dmr did. Judge
Following that same train of thought, there's nothing unnatural about toxic waste dumps.
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Check out Tomato firmware: http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato
Much more control than stock firmware. It may be a matter of adjusting max connections and/or TCP timeout.
maybe 30% of the middle class is suddenly unemployed?

30% of the middle class not participating in the formal labor market would take us to the strange alien society of Japan in the present day or the US in the 1960s.

Who knows, full employment might just have been a weird fluke. For that matter, employment might have been a weird fluke.
Thanks, I'm going to update the code and re-run the numbers.
Captchas won't really stop them, it just adds expense and time. Many black hat tools integrate captcha breaking services. Cost is somewhere around $2 per 1000.
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Who do you seek out? Birds of a feather with whom to weep about your own misfortune? The stupid ones whom you can easily brainwash for fun and profit? The ugly ones next to whom you look sexier than by yourself? The weak ones whom you can rule over? The quiet ones over whom your voice is heard? The short ones over whom you can tower over? Perhaps you seek out neither of the above, but I knew a few too many people who did, and incidentally those people were also the first ones to criticize me for being closed and overly choosy with whom I talk to.

As you can probably tell, I have little patience for mediocrity and "beta" strategies.
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That's why I qualified my answer by with "financially."

That is the type of success mapgrep is asking about: his returns as an investor.
And why, you ask is the traditional retirement age 65? Bismark decided that too. Very few workers lived more than a year or two beyond 65, if they lived that long. It was a great sop, few collected, but everyone felt protected.
Not to mention photoshop/illustrator woes.
Very interesting.. Pilots that want to be rated for Cat II/III ILS landings have to perform them every now and then to stay rated, so I bet a lot of people have been through computer controlled landings without even knowing. Definitely whenever the weather is unmanageable, they have to turn over control already. Here's a really good example of something that would be very difficult for a human to do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXJCHUmuUyw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe_pEK_kRVw
Tumblr isn't a bot fest necessarily, but the fact is that any site with a large amount of traffic will generally become a target for bots. It's almost a compliment to a website, but at the same time it can be a nuisance. The Tumblr bots I'm familiar with follow by category and tags, not necessarily post content. The reason the author's blog gets autofollowed is likely because he is in a lucrative niche.
Rails is not actually MVC. The MVC system is asynchronous, as you can tell with a quick look at the wikipedia page linked there - it was intended for desktop applications (though there are a few js frameworks out there that do a good job of it also).

Rails is closest to a Model 2 system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_2
How is that even a possibility while Google is currently under anti-trust investigation on the premise of being a virtual monopoly?

A cynical person may think this is ploy to raise stock interest so you could ditch any stock you are stuck with...
No, the iTunes store came in 2003, two years after the iPod.
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They aren't interesting but if you'd like to email me, feel free.
None of the posts in this thread really answer the question to "why python over ruby", they just talk about all of the nice features of current python development. The thing is modern Ruby has all of those tool sets as well.

Before you even being to make the statement "Why are more Startups using Python over Ruby?" you need some data. I'd be willing to bet that more places do in fact use python over ruby, but that number is a lot closer to 50/50 than you think. In fact, it is probably so close that this argument becomes pretty silly.

I once heard a successful startup founder describe the choice to use Python over Ruby because a couple of years ago getting started with Ruby was too difficult for them. They had spent a day trying to setup Ruby, Rails, etc and nothing was going correctly. After that they tried to install Python, it worked, and from that point on code was written in python. This story isn't elegant, sexy, or thought provoking, but it goes to show you that there are all sorts of crazy, silly, and stupid reasons why some people pick one language over another.

Lets talk about reasons why startups are _NOT_ using Python over Ruby.

Python is not taught at more schools than Ruby. Well, I couldn't find a list of schools teaching Ruby, but search for the Python list (hint, its up on python.org). There are only a handful in the US and these look like nothing when you consider all of the places that use Java.

Python's syntax is not easier or better than Ruby's. Nor is Ruby syntax better than Python syntax. Anyone trying to compare the two is just looking for a flamewar. Omg significant white space vs lol meta programming type arguments.

Both languages have excellent documentation and community. Very hard to compare these sort of things.

Django is a great framework, but so is Rails. Both have very vibrant ecosystems that are just exploding right now.

Tools - great tool sets in both. If a Ruby tool comes out that is good you can bet your ass there is going to be a python port of it in the next few years (and vise versa of course). A single great tool is never bound to one language/framework.

Implementations - both languages have a ton of cool projects that revolve around finding alternative ways to rebuild the VM.

Go ask people why they chose to write in a language/framework. They are going to give you answers like "it's what we chose", "i dunno, we just knew it". Comparing things like documentation, community, MVC Frameworks, tools, syntax, etc with two languages like Python and Ruby is pretty silly because its going to become a wash every time.
So, might makes right.
For the wealthy this might seem acceptable, but the thing everyone forgets is that the fry cooks and the middle class are not going to go without a fight.

And the first ones up against the wall are the wealthy. No amount of private security, guard towers, and barbed wire fences can stop millions of desperate, hungry people with nothing left to lose.
Dan has a solid concept and a solid plan to get there. In just six months he has turned a concept into a real project. He has successfully built large software systems in the past and I expect he will to it again. I am so convinced, that I add funding to it on Kickstarter.
When I declared N as a global variable, the compiler left it in memory and added a load instruction to the loop. When I put N as a local variable, the compiler loaded it into a register. While I do blame the compiler for this particular behavior (because I did not declare N as volatile), we have to work with what we have.

This is because global variables can be modified at runtime unless they're const. The compiler cannot guarantee it hasn't been declared extern and modified by some other file without sufficiently powerful link-time optimization.
Money laundering = disguising the path money takes. These transactions are extremely traceable.

It is equally ridiculous to propose the goal is to get money out of Russia. How does investing in startups make that any easier? If the money can get to a startup in the US, ipso facto it can get out of Russia, to any other investment.

I would not be surprised to see such an obviously mistaken comment upvoted on reddit, but it is an alarming sign to see it happening here.
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Average starting salaries for the "top" universities in California (not arranged by degree): http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/best-schools-in-califo...
What do you mean by counterfeiting? Do you mean selling coins online that don't have real codes? Because you certainly couldn't pay for goods with a counterfeit coin, since they're instantly verifiable.
That is like saying a carpenter doesn't need a hammer. An IDE is just a tool for doing your job. You don't actually need an IDE to write Java, but it sure makes it a lot easier to build a house.
Lack of correlation, wtvanfest. Important word! Lack of correlation is evidence of lack of causation. It isn't absolute proof but it is good evidence. After all, "lack of correlation is evidence of lack of causation" is the contrapositive(ish) of "Causation is evidence of correlation". If that's not true then all hope is lost of ever learning anything.

Sorry, but that's exactly the sort of thoughtless repetition I'm talking about. You're in such a hurry to chant the mantra and wave your scienciness around you didn't even take the time to notice it was the precise opposite of the conversation at hand. Which is precisely what my complaint was in the first place.
Show me the source of both of them.
I assume that when you by a good with a physical bitcoin, the seller would immediately verify the code.
Isn't it both? Can you explain why it's a great quote?
Many embedded compilers and assemblers are terribly buggy. Having worked with dozens, my impression is that the compilers targeting 8-bit microcontrollers are generally of similar quality to 80's x86 compilers. Emission of incorrect assembly given correct code is rare, but optimizations are incredibly weak and the compilers segfault relatively often.

Some of the DSP tool suites have solid compilers that optimize insightfully for their target architecture but whose in-circuit debuggers are tied to flaky IDEs. I'm currently working with an XDP debugger on a Sandy Bridge board that requires the debugger software to be restarted nearly hourly, often corrupting the project file requiring me to enter the memory map again.

Lately I've been thrilled to spec in ARM micros because I can just use GCC, an el-cheapo universal USB JTAG adapter through OpenOCD, and expect everything to work.
The problem is that certain people (no comment) do not realize the value of debian and the same people's fanboyism for Ubuntu leads them to be Ubuntu is the greatest thing in the world.
I've never flown a bonanza, but the 'doctor killer' [1] has quite a reputation.

[1] http://aviatorcollege.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/why-is-the-“d...
It kills me that these people "expect ubuntu" and are oblivious to debian...
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Start ups may not have a lot of time to respond to that sort of thing. When you are living off Ramen and praying that you don't lose money this year, you tend to be pretty busy.
I must admit that I didnt quite get what you said here :( Would you care to elaborate?
Great library! Here are bindings for PHP: https://github.com/lstrojny/php-ccld
I'm not holding out hope that we'll be able to homestead in my lifetime. But, you know,that's my hope. :)
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Agreed. I spend way more time in the debugger in CoffeeScript than I do with Java, simply because I have no idea what type of object I'm dealing with at that particular instant. I also tend to write pages of Java code and it runs the first time because I can read it and see exactly what it is doing before it runs. The compiler also tells me what typos I have in my code before I even have to run it.
I have never understood the fixation on boot time.
Sadly it seems the iPod Classic isn't supported... Oh well.

Honestly, if no-one beats me to it, one day I'll write my own Android music player that works the way I want. The spec's been solid in my head for years, it's just that's the first platform I've had which would make that a practical possibility. With falling smartphone and memory card prices and improving battery life, the days of the standalone MP3 player are severely numbered.
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a system that allows individuals to opt out of being governed

"...Somalian pirates we!"
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/225458/somalian-pirate...
If you only want to detect one frequency, can't you jut use the "slow" fourier transform?
Are they not? Humans, like other animals, have waste. And like other more sophisticated animals, they generally make an attempt to isolate it from themselves. You see similar behavior from cats. You may as well argue that beaver dams are "unnatural".

This "natural == not human" thing is fine (bullshit, but fine), until you start trying to use it to make moral/ethical arguments.
As an advisor (on the giving side) and an entrepreneur (on the receiving side) I totally agree with this.

It's tough because people are nice, but as an entrepreneur, I learn the most from the negative advice I have gotten from mentors (I've been ripped apart many times).

So now, when I give advice, I give my true honest opinion if I don't think their idea will work. I just preface with it saying, look, this is only one opinion, and not to take it personally.

And when I get ripped into, I always listen and ask questions, but I don't necessarily let it discourage me.

I think you can always tell by people's expressions if they are holding back. If you think they are, you should ask them: "It seems like you have some reservations about this, what are some of the risks you see?"

With that, you'll be able to get more insight, and you just have to remember that there's tons of risk, it's just up to you to decide how risky each situation is (and how to mitigate that risk).
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I don't agree with your assessment that adding things necessarily increases complexity. Assuming these things are simple (in the objective sense as defined by Rich), actually suitable for the problem, and used correctly, then any complexity arising from their use is necessary to solve the problem, and can't be avoided.

The definition of a system in this case is anything with one or more components that accomplishes a particular purpose.

It still seems you're using a different definition of complexity than I am. To me, complexity implies unnecessarily intertwined elements.

In your hypothetical library situation, the answer is likely no. Your program still depends on the "library" code in ways that make the two not treatable as standalone entities, so no complexity has been removed.

An inherently complex tool may solve the specific problem it's built for, but it does not combine well with other tools. A simple tool tries to keep itself standalone so that can be freely combined with other simple tools to provide functionality that the original authors of either tool might not have envisioned. Clojure has many examples of this idea in action, but it's not the only language to exhibit simplicity.

I think Rich's definition of simple is straightforward and objective. For example, Clojure protocols fit the definition. They give you freely extensible polymorphism based on object types. Protocols don't even provide a direct way to do inheritance. That can be done by using a map of functions that you modify as needed, but requires no explicit support.

Your defense of s-expressions is rather puzzling. The evaluator defines what s-expressions (lists) mean in CL, and depending on context, there are multiple meanings that are completely separate. Certainly you can argue that Clojure conflates macro and function calls too (it is justified to me though, since they're all operators), but it has at least reduced complexity by not conflating binding and grouping with those elements.

As an added benefit, with few exceptions, whenever you see a list form in Clojure you can assume it's either a function call or a macro of some sort.
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When talking about Usmanov, people seem to lean more heavily on the fact that he was convicted, and thus "pointed questions should be asked", rather than the fact that he was rehabilitated because the charges were fabricated.

Since I don't know Alisher, I can only speak generally, but: I was born in Uzbekistan, and know a few things about the region, and the political history there, so here's my two cents:

Fabricated charges during the Soviet regime were as common as, say, marijuana arrests in the US. This has happened in my family as well: my grandfather was a state judge in Uzbekistan, and his rival framed him on bribery charges, for which he was sentenced to 7 years in a labor camp. My grandfather has always maintained that he was innocent.

How come I believe my grandfather? Because, in the court documents, the sum of money which he allegedly accepted as a bribe was ludicrously low: 50 rubles. That's like taking a bribe for $150

During the 1990's, he was also rehabilitated with the same conclusion: fabricated charges.
I think you can still find a couple minutes to respond to someone reaching out for help once in a while. It doesn't mean it's your responsibility to shoulder all the burden of helping everyone asking, but it is worth doing it sometimes because even if you don't realize it, other people did it for you, many times.
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Seems like the perfect scenario for sensory augmentation. There was an article on HN a while back about attaching electrodes to the tongue to replace vision in blind subjects.

One of the precursor experiments was attaching electrodes to the hand that were tied into a compass. The subjects were able to eventually feel North.

A similar device could be attached to something like an altimeter or other instrument.
Dennis Ritchie's death: 1,190,000 results from Google

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Ripping off FreeBSD and Steve Wozniak's ideas are far more worthwhile than developing your own.
But those charges aren't the only reason people ask questions about him.

In fact, the charges are convenient for him, at least with respect to his public image in the West, because he can argue that he was vindicated; PR 101: leverage that vindication to ward off all other claims.

The links to Gazprom and the general public image of CIS extractive industry tycoons presumably contributes as much (if not more) to the cloud over him as the Soviet-era charges.
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Highly recommended piece by William Langewiesche on the same subject:

The Turn
At the very heart of winged flight lies the banked turn, a procedure
that by now seems so routine and familiar that airline passengers
appreciate neither its elegance and mystery nor its dangerously
delusive character. The author, a pilot, takes us up into the subject.

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/langew/turn.htm
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Oh, I agree, the whole "it's not natural so it's BAD!!!" argument is infantile. My usual tactic for making people realize this is by pointing out how something they do, like living past 18 years old, is unnatural.

It's not like animals don't bring about their own ecological collapse some times.
It's not - FTC won't allow it. Maybe they're saying this to drive up the bidding price?
If somebody could explain why storing fuel in space is more efficient than just packing what's needed for each mission? :)
Dont fall back to UTF-8
Moreover, you "launder" the proceeds of a numbers racket or a heroin dealing ring. When you control over 1/10th of the metals industry in one of the world's largest industrialized nations, you don't "launder" the proceeds; you create banks to hold the money.

The "money laundering" charge does a disservice to any legitimate qualms one might have about Oligarchy funds.