skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever heard about the war in Yugoslavia? The clock was reset about 20 years ago. Or about the continued involvment of many of its members in Irak, Afghanistan or more recently in Lybia? Or about their enduring support of the industry of armament? The UE never did anything to prevent wars or end them. That's where the joke is.
More plastic shit to print more plastic shit into the world. I can only see this "changing" things in a negative way, at least environmentally. I hope this doesn't take off, unless it is able to actually counteract the way things are going with plastic right now
Understood, but I'm simply defining Y as not X. Within y, the distribution may not itself be homogeneous. There is also the issue of the regressive (and pernitious) nature of inflation on the Y.
Yes, I think so. I like the Economist's weekly updates:

http://www.economist.com/node/21564620

http://www.economist.com/node/21564618

And the economist did cover this news more thoroughly:

http://www.economist.com/node/21564192
Another option for improving sales of AR would be to start a referral program. I would love to send you referrals for a little cut but I don't really want to stand up a whole white label operation.
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I believe Stephenson himself commented that the Enoch Root's long life and the ability to bring dead people back to life, both presumably due to alchemy, makes Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle 'past sci-fi'. Otherwise, yes, it's almost the same as historical fiction. A perhaps better example of the blurriness between the two is "Gravity's Rainbow."

Anathem takes place on another planet, and in our future (in that characters in the book have our present as their past).
For that construction to work, these 'virtual' nodes need to exist in the poset. Your poset is just the vertex set of your DAG ordered by reachability, so they don't exist. I think your intuition is good, but the mathematics just doesn't add up. Perhaps you should look into things like trace monoids, pomsets and petri nets?

Please understand that I'm not trying to be mean here. You mention you've been applying for grants to work on this, but if you don't explain the mathematics adequately or demonstrate how it differs from existing formalisms then I imagine people are just going to reject you instantly. I would suggest seriously trying to formalise some of this stuff in a proof assistant like Coq. That'll quickly tell you if your theory works or not.
Not any more of a concern than what credit card companies and other businesses track on-line..at least the ampaigns shut down (for the most part) after November.
This has been happening in other industries for a long time.

Did you know its legal for pharmacies to sell your medication usage data?

http://www.fiercepracticemanagement.com/story/what-docs-shou...
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I'm not sure that counts in the same way. You would have the branch prediction issue even if you program in assembly language and have precise control over the instructions the computer executes.
I'm not an American so I only have a passing knowledge of what you're referring to, BUT:

That depends on whether you believe in an originalist interpretation of the constitution. Like most legal theories, it's up for debate but I'm not in that camp.
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I wrote a text with "German constitution" and now it's stuck in a loop fetching the information to "Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany".

http://i.imgur.com/0QaY2.png
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I believe timr's point is that this is a hypothesis based on the outcome of the study, but the study did not measure it. The study measured the response to the experimenter.

I would add that it's possible that the two marshmallow experiments have very little to do with each other besides using children and marshmallows to perform. Further study is needed to make further conclusions.

For example, we might be tempted to try to combine the results and say something like "kids who trust and respect authority do better in life as adults." But this is not what the study/studies measured, and while this study may inspire interesting hypotheses for future work, that work needs to be performed before we can make conclusions.
There are almost always reason, but not always conscious rationality. Emotions in the limbic system are sort of like the analog machines of old, before digital logic computers, as a weak analogy.

What is often ignored is that rational decision making depends on priorities and estimations of prior probability, and these vary wildly based on circumstance.
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I'm glad so far the government haven't mentioned bringing charges against the author yet. That probably shows you how much I expect from government these days...
>but it would be interesting to see how quickly the greater affordability of homes started driving the prices.

This was probably one of the leading causes of it.

However, you know what contributed the most? Greenspan lowering interest rates to historical lows in the early aughts and keeping it there for the rest of the decade.

Freddie and Fannie were drops in the bucket. As you said, they bought mortgages for decades and decades without the same problem occurring.

Look up some of this history of the financial crisis. This American Life has a couple good primers.
"Ironically for a book ignored by most philosophers, it contains the answers to a lot of their questions, and the method for answering all of them."

I find this illuminating - philosopher's aren't concerned with answers. They are concerned with the questions. An interesting contrast between the scientific/engineering mindset and the philosophical mindset.
Ironically, now their servers are overloaded because too many people wanted to see their error 404 page.
Nice, happy ghost hunting everyone!
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I will add:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
There is no excuse for some of the security errors we have seen. Especially not government incompetence being equal or greater.

It is true that startups should not concentrate on perfect security, as supplying something the buyers want should be absolute priority number one, but even then there's no reason to not at least get the basics right if there is any kind of sensitive data involved.
Amazing article. If you can't dream, you can't do it. Some of us have come so far chasing our dreams and believe me that has not ended. But we are enjoying doing that.
Okay. I think this discussion leads to something not useful. :)

We have CofeeScript, TypeScript, LLJS (have no idea when this will be usefull), Sweet JS.

So It's about choices. That is good.
People from other classes can't easily acquire money, even through hard work and pluck, if enough artificial barriers are created to block their entry into the upper class.
Zero content or analysis in the article. Hacker News is not the place for your pseudo science climate change denialism.
Unfortunately, this invites people to turn the signal to noise ratio to crap.

Case in point:
http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/reply-girls-yogscast-m...
I don't like Bootstrap.
I need to fight it to undo rather than do.

It doesn't center elements, spans have an extra 20px on the right, and it sets elements at specific heights and widths without me wanting it to.
Unless that URL is deceiving, and that's not actually the URL for the 404 page - just a URL that doesn't exist that looks like it could be the URL for the 404 page.
I don't see this solving a problem that doesn't already have a (few) solutions. It is early and I will add this to my radar
When I started writing I thought one needed to be an expert to write good stories but I was wrong. My first article,http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3840706, generated a lot of interest. The article was full of grammatical errors, but people didn't mind. I have since improved and learned a lot of things through writing. I would encourage people to try it.
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Automatic differentiation always tickles me. Such a beatiful connection between continuous and discrete mathematics.
Says almost nothing about calculus, but shows how calculus and discrete math share a common component.
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Perl 6 even comes with hygienic macros, I believe. That should be much nicer than source filters in Perl 5.
I don't know how this would work with international but I think knightsbridgefx.com is a good option.

They do currency conversions through bank accounts. So you save $ on the exchange + you get the money wired. Minimum is 10k so this might fit the bill.

Where are you sending/receiving from?
0x10c = Zero extancy = No survival
6. ‘Principles‘ (pdf) by Ray Dalio.

Tried reading it. His life storey reads like an entrepreneur who started by trying to fit in (held several corporate jobs), failed (fired for insubordination) then started his own company.

The rest reads like a self-help book written by an amateur. Some gushing about physics and natural history (which a HBS graduate probably finds unfathomable and mysterious). Then some deep discussion of his own inner psyche; why do successful people assume its their own uniquness that made them succeed and not, for instance, market conditions or good advice?

Then I gave up. Is very wordy, very very wordy, and not many of the words worth slogging through. At least the part I saw.
Such a simplistic but powerful tool.
I am sincerely encouraged. My biggest block has been that writing is hard and I have been way too critical of my own work. Looking for the perfect method, etc has stopped me from progressing. Thank you for your comments
Interesting. I was just today thinking about this problem in passing. I'm certain that many books are 'about' subjects that they would never be categorized by in a library or by a bookseller.

I wonder if it's possible to successfully relate outwardly disparate books by some system using full-text analysis and comparison.
Not sure if you saw it, but one of his concerns is the time debt that essentially binds him to the will of his investors if he were to take their money.

IMHO this is a very valid concern for a "lifestyle" business, if that is indeed what he intends it to be.
This looks pretty interesting, I will give it a go
Definitely spot-on. You don't have to give up on your dreams, no-matter the hardships. Whatever your circumstances, someone in much worse situation have succeeded.
Yes, in my country we use spaces to separate thousands and "," is used for what the decimal point does in the US. In my handwriting I use that notation.

However, from a computer, I (and I'm certain I'm not the only one) actually expect it to output the US notation.

I'd much rather have a computer always output the same format (and that happens to be the US format), than try to be smart with locales, when the end result is that some things will do this, others that. Makes stuff harder to use, and when programming, harder to parse.

I've once had to touch Excel on a Windows machine configured for a non-US language, and it refused to import a CSV file that had commas, even though CSV means comma separated values. It required semicolons due to the locale settings of Windows. This stuff should not happen. A CSV is meant for computers, and to be interchangeable, not to use different types of commas and refuse to work with other types depending on user locale settings...

Of course, when publishing or printing, that's a whole different matter, and there it better get the locale of your country perfect. But this here was about output in the console, which is often meant as input of other scripts etc...
Flash is pretty much non existent on the Pi. The XBMC based distros can supposedly do some flash but it's pretty wonky and the other distros like Arch Linux and Raspbian don't have it at all.
The article doesn't actually say the unreliable adult was the same one offering marshmallows. Maybe the subjects (children) extrapolated from one recent adult interaction to all adult interactions. You'd then have to hypothesize Every adult in contact with a child, even incidentally, had a profound effect on a child.

Fortunately its not clear the effect is long-lasting. Small children have the attention span of a fish.
The solutions run the gamut from laser printing (or handcarving) your own traces and using copper etchant to getting complete boards made.

The happy medium I found was using ExpressPCB's cheapest service which included high-quality (if only small and 2 layer) boards, then buying from Mouser, DigiKey, or similar the components and soldering 'em on personally. Can probably make three identical small boards for <$100 (and 2-3 hours each soldering) as long as you don't have any exotic chips on your device.

As soon as you start drilling more than 3-4 holes (almost impossible _not_ to do) making the stuff at home just isn't fun unless you have high-end production equipment. Doing it the way listed above was actually pretty fun.
This book is pretty well known. However the sequel to it "Lila" is IMHO better and really undervalued.
From what I've noticed on many of the top YouTube channels I subscribe to, many have merch to sell and other side projects that earn them a little more money.

Not to mention that several producers have multiple channels, where they use the success of a single channel to make their subsequent channels just as successful.
I'd like to agree; but the conclusion "Irrationality is observed; sometimes I find out its based on emotion: All irrationality is based on emotion" is not warrented. Its possible people make bad decisions because they're bad-decision-makers. Or maybe something else, I don't know.
Everyone is using Bootstrap these days. Have you tried this:
http://imperavi.com/kube/
The door is just a border being resized with a transition. Borders can't be styled that well. So this effect is neat but not very usable imo.
Very true, once you start understanding how to approach the right questions, the problem moves to the scientific domain, e.g. natural philosophy--> physics, philosophy of mind (partly) -->psychology/neuroscience/cognitive science, etc
Given the revenue mentioned in the article, it's obvious that many were willing to justify paying $1.99 for Hipstamatic, and then more for additional filters. Frankly, it's rather nice to see a company better value their work and become a strong success. I hope that happens more often.

Based on what I read in that article, I consider their failure to be that they neglected a successful, revenue generating product and instead joined the race for the bottom. $10MM/yr is fantastic revenue stream, and they were willing to throw it away on a whim… yes, a $1B acquisition is cooler than $10MM in yearly revenue, but $1B acqs are incredibly rare and at least Hipstamatic can claim they made money, a goal that Instagram can't claim to have reached. And making money doesn't rule out a fantastically large acquisition; just look at Yammer.

Hipstamatic could have intelligently reinvested their revenue in enhancements to Hipstamatic, built out other products and services alongside the cash cow, and might have scored their $1B++ exit later. And even if that acq never came, at least they'd still have a successful business doing tens of millions in revenue.
Do Developers and Hackers have enough paid time off?
I feel like for most tech companies it is feast or famine when it comes to paid time off. I have friends who have unlimited time off and others who take almost none because their companies don't encourage taking time off. I am just trying to determine if there is consensus on if it is just me and my friends or if other developers/hackers have seen this as well. Do you have enough time off and if you do, do you actually take much of it? Thoughts?
Simple DB viewer (like Phpmyadmin) for node projects.
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For those curious about the name:

0x10c = zero x ten c = zero extancy = no survival
Funny; but seriously the kids enter the room knowing "Im taking part in a serious Adult study of my behavior." They likely try to behave as they're expected to behave. The real test is, how soon does the feeling of obligation decay to the point that the appeal of a marshmallow (admittedly insignificant) outweights the desire to please.

My Sister took her youngest to an experiment where, in the waiting room they put the kid in a room with toys on a table, and took her to 'do paperwork'. The boy was told to leave the toys alone.

Really she went to the observation room. They simply timed how long it took for the bored child to play with the toys.

See, by testing the child 'before the test started' they avoided pre-loading the kid. They changed-up the test by having other kids and adults enter the room and play with the toys, or repeat the admonition, or whatever.

The
> One other reason we chose angular, it is backed by Google.

I like Google for many things - there is no doubt they have some solid developers and have released great products - but they have a poor track record with frontend framework adoption. For example:

- GWT (not a lot of adoption and waning)

- Closure Tools (except for the great Google products that are built with this library and closure compiler it hasn't had a lot of adoption)

- Dart (verdict is still out on this one but it doesn't look good)
>But would the lower/middle classes be able to afford them? Or as readily?

I'm in favour of globalization. I agree with you that they'd be more expensive (it'd be interesting to determine what percentage of the iphone's cost is due to labour), I just don't think there's a moral argument to be made. Almost everyone could afford a car, in America, in 1968. In real terms of quality of life improvement in the grand scheme of things iPhones and computers are probably minor inventions next to plumbing, central heating and the first couple waves of mechanization.

>The limits imposed by the Constitution.

This assumes that a) the intent of the founding fathers was relevant to today's society and b) their intent was to have a limited size of government, both of which are pretty big assumptions. For more on the failings of constitutional originalism see here: http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/09/eu...

>I'll be a bit more clear: we either need much less regulation, or a whole lot more.

Your conclusion does not follow from your premise. How would removing an unrelated insurance corporation promote healthier decision making amongst investment banks?

Poorly designed regulation does stifle innovation and thus growth. However, there are certain kinds of innovations that prove to be too dangerous to be handled without some safe guards.

It seems to me you possess a shaky understanding of 1) the events that led to the FDIC and SEC, and Glass-Steagal 2) the events that occurred from 2001-2007/08 and 3) the cognitive pitfalls and biases human beings suffer from when reasoning about risk.
It does have some problems with decoding DTS content (I don't have a receiver) though. I've tried a couple of things already like overclocks and re encoding the audio but I'm still trying to find the sweet spot. This is all on RC5 raspbmc, still have to try openelec.
Being your own angel investor (or cross-bootstrapping)
I personally haven't used it but I really like it. You can customize it to your liking though...
That is more physician's medication perception data, but still troubling.
And that failure comes from incredible mismanagement. Blowing tens of millions on office space, parties, and trips to Vegas and NYC, all while building a talented engineering and design team that was then given no focused direction and subsequently laid off is what led to Hipstamatic's downfall.
11AM EST is the current estimated launch time..

Anyone know how long the ascent is going to last before he actually jumps?
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I'm getting this strange vibe from the original ad that makes it look like it might have been something out of Portlandia. Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HhP23M53Yc

It just begs to be parodied.
Many millions of people feel the same way about US control of the Internet. Now what?
> The parent didn't say that and nobody outside of the former Paul campaign has ever suggested. This is exactly what I'm talking about.

It's implied. It's what always comes after that part. I nipped it in the bud. You're welcome.

> Stop using month-old Democratic tal...

You're an idiot.

> But yes, because it works for 62 million Britons, clearly if someone doesn't think it will work for 312 million Americans they (a) are racist; (b) are stupid; (c) hate poor people; (d) all of the above.

I agree.
I think it is incredibly important for tech companies to not only give adequate amount of leave, but also to make sure it is taken.
I know that after 6-9 months without any holiday my productivity drops, my motivation too, I can start to get bored etc. After a week's (or preferably two's) holiday, I'm raring to go again, and my output sky rockets.

I think the mandatory minimum in the UK is 20 days plus public holidays. However, less than 25 is too little in my opinion.
I like to say "Rewrote it? So now its bigger, slower and more expensive!"
Yet, nobody has really gone the long way to bridge the gap between the quick and 'hipster' photo retouching like Instagram does, and real cameras (point and shoot, DSLR). I'm pretty sure that there's a niche market there.

I have a hard time actually believing that Instagram killed them. It's just that Hipstamatic didn't do their job right.
Now if there were just a button so I can 'Loo'ke it on FlushBook...
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The US is much less dense than Europe and East Asian.
This will be even worse, as it's ARM rather than x86. I'd be shocked if there is even a Flash plugin for ARM/Linux.
I just pushed an update that gives better results and fixes a few of the many bugs.

Thank you everyone for the feedback!
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Even better: the Thermal Flashlight. Makes a cruder picture, but way cheaper:

http://publiclaboratory.org/tool/thermal-photography
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Why not charge the higher rate, but give a discount to local clients, and invoice as such?
This is what happens when the police invest in design
So they built basically an IR tracker. Talk about dual use.
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I got a 'creepy crawly maker' for Christmas when I was a kid. It was cool. But after I'd made all the bugs and run out of juice, it went in the closet.

3D printing is a toy so far. I don't see how it will ever be more than that.

Sure, folks promise better materials soon. But its actually hard to make metal things well. That's why its done in large factories with expensive presses and stamps and things. You're not going to recapitulate that in your living room.

I'd love to be wrong. But so far, lumpy plastic toys is what we see. Why? Because that's possible at low temps/pressures and with cheap tooling.
Two hours?

https://twitter.com/BBCPallab/status/257483119807045632
Philosophy and Technology mixed together.
ABS and PLA are common plastics home desktop 3D printers use. PLA is widely known for being corn based, and PLA is recyclable at recycling plants. ABS can be melted more than once, and people are working on machines that can take your broken ABS parts, and remelt it back into plastic filament you can use for your 3D printer.
good read along similar lines -
On War: Carl von Clausewitz

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117031.On_War