skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I try to explain to my kids - life is what you put into it.

When my work life gets boring, I do something about it, so I'm starting a saas. If you sit around and moan and groan, life's gonna groan right on back ;-).
The sum of European defense spending is about as high as that of the US, but it's defense efficiency is at about 10% of that of the US due to duplicate hardware and parallel organisational structures.(I went to a Model UN Conference a couple of years ago, and our comitee wrote a resolution on establishing an Unified European Defense Force, and those numbers came up somewhere in my preliminary research, but I'm too lazy to dig them up again). What's intresting is that there are Community Medical Centers in the US, which offer the same medical procedures as regular hospitals, by the same doctors which are paid the same wage ,for 2,5k $ instead of 25k$ afaik. But then they don't charge 25$ for a disposable syringe that cost 50 cent to buy and 5 cent to produce.
Most crashes happen due to pilot error, especially connected to the instruments.

Something as simple as a bad from the six-pack of a small plane could be bad news (note: these are usually 100% mechanical systems). As a pilot of small aircraft, goofing up my instruments might help me tie the world record for "lowest flight ever". Something as simple as coordinating my turns with a bad indicator might make me go into a spin (I'm fairly inexperienced).

I can only imagine what would happen to a big jet.
A deeper understanding of how it works, etc sure... but not necessarily a deeper understanding of how the younger folk interact with it.

I remember reading a discussion of how some technology (lets go with smart phones for lack of my memory) was going to make newer generations lives so much different. They'll be focused around them because they're so amazing and useful. What <the folks that said that> didn't really understand was that, to the younger generation, the smart phone wasn't some wonder, amazing device that can do lots of things. Rather, it just WAS.

It's like a door. If you lived before doors, they would be amazing... you'd think everyone younger than you would be amazed they have it and love it. But they don't. To them, it has always been that way, the door just IS.
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OTOH, OP didn't say he's planning on doing this for the rest of his life. He's 24, chances are he doesn't have kids, so if he could trade some time now for time + money in the future, isn't it a reasonable option?
I've often thought this was the case, but fortunately haven't had an opportunity to test out the theory. Occasionally I've seen software development jobs where they look for the ability to type some number of words per minute. I think that is a red flag.
That only works if the honest participants are naively placing market orders and paying zero attention to volume.

A thinly traded market is at least a great place to try it.
Mind you, the iPad's been approved for cockpit use!
They are shockingly unfit to be the largest exchange in a billion dollar market. They are amateurs at best.
Thanks I'll watch that when I get home :-)
Fortunately, in the US, we have huge amounts of $3 natural gas. I'd be pretty comfortable with natural gas (and hydro and nuclear) for electric cars for now, with a transition to hydro/nuclear/solar/wind over the next 25 years.
Second that one. On these sort of problems it's not uncommon to see 100x+ speedups. My general experience is that just re-writing this in C++ instead of Numpy you'd see a >14x speedup, so I'm pretty unimpressed at this point.
Let's not go overboard; chat interfaces have looked very similar to this in the past, but it's so easy to tweak the CSS to make it look different enough that not doing so is pretty lazy and makes it obvious who they're trying to compete against.
For me, I see echoes of conversations I had ten years ago.

CSS preprocessors? Server-side Javascript? Anybody who proposed those in the past was flamed into submission by the community for deviating from standards or, worse, being "lazy". There's nothing new there. What's new is the community's openness to doing things differently, to accepting that web templates don't need to be written directly in the languages sent to the browser.

I've been writing Javascript pretty much since there WAS a Javascript, so I love node.js. But I'm just getting my feet wet and I'm three years behind the game because I expected it to be written off as a "toy", just like every other time someone suggested running Javascript on the server.

I know I need to get over this skepticism, but I'm having a hard time figuring out which horses to bet on anymore. I feel like I'm close to just saying "screw it" and becoming that crazy graybeard who uses a completely off-the-wall technology stack because that's what he enjoys and to hell with everyone else.
He wants exploitable tech immigrants.
Come here to say this. Economic collapse means you're back to living in huts. Not there yet.
It's still not exactly the same, though. I think the point the article makes is that by appending comments to the end of an article, you take away some important personal processing time. While you're navigating to tvtropes, you're still thinking and forming opinions on what you just watched. The streamlining takes away that pause and makes the discussion leak into the original article.
"How does someone go about making a one way function"

It's hard -- cryptographers have yet to even prove that one way functions actually exist! We have lots of theoretical candidates -- discrete logarithms for certain groups, integer factorization, problems related to hidden linear codes, and so forth. Some day, we will either prove that OWFs do not exist, or that OWFs do exist (and hopefully one of the candidates is actually an OWF), or that the existence or non-existence of OWFs is independent of the mathematical systems we use right now (i.e. that it is an axiom).

Having said that, you might be interested in the work of Atjai and Dwork on creating an OWF (a trapdoor OWF, actually, and a corresponding public key cryptosystem) from an NP-Hard problem:

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=258604
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I usually wind up calling Perl for that kind of stuff.

That also lets you write confusing filenames like "foo\rbar". Which can be really irritating to figure out without a GUI.
There's a logical fallacy in there. Having access to the mechanism that causes "most accidents" only allows you to cause accidents with a frequency of the order with which those system failures cause accidents already.

"Instrument-related pilot error" may (citation needed) cause "most accidents". There are still vanishingly few instrument-related pilot error accidents.

(And in any case, ACARS isn't really an instrument, it's a datalink standard for communication with the outside world -- instruments internal to the aircraft don't use it.)
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And your financial situation is, for many people, tied to your age because pensions, 401(k)s/IRAs and the like offer tax exemptions that are conditional upon waiting until you hit a certain age before collecting distributions. If you withdraw early from a retirement account, you face something like a 10% haircut in addition to the income taxes. If your money is outside of such a tax shelter, well then you just need more of it to retire because you have to pay income tax plus capital gains tax.
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Matter can be converted directly to energy; the farther down that path we go, the greater our potential energy reserves.

I think we should be using each energy source to bootstrap toward this. By using wind, water, and burning trees, we were able to bootstrap technology to access and use fossil fuels. Using fossil fuels, we were able to bootstrap technology for nuclear fission, which converts a tiny amount of matter to energy. Using nuclear fission, we are working toward nuclear fusion, which would convert more matter to more energy. Using fusion we would work toward even more matter-energy conversion--through some yet-to-be-theorized process.

Yes, in the very long run, entropy will get all the energy sources, but that is a very long run to be worried about.
> That only works if the honest participants are naively placing market orders and paying zero attention to volume.

Doesn't that describe the bitcoin market exactly to a T?

I mean, I really don't care what the volume or price is - if I'm buying coins to spend on SilkRoad that day. Which BTW, bootstraped Bitcoin from zero to 30 at least, and probably makes up 15-35% of the real demand (real value) for it to this day (with the other major fraction being gambling sites)!

Nor do any of the get-in-quick-on-this-new-thing speculators that buy after reading the latest bitcoin article.

And this all fits the fact that when the major EX closes, prices go down drastically on all the other smaller EXs. They should be going up instead for obvious reasons (with such hot demand)! But they go down! Explain that one to me please.
After the paranoia, you still have the stories, and that's what this is about.

http://www.romitaman.com/Images/Category_2/subcat_1532/SpyMa...
I love Lanyrd. Best of luck with this, it looks like a good deal all round.
The irony here is that there may be a reason after all for people to turn of their electronics!
Use an Arduino to send emails and write novels by rocking out on a guitar
I apologize if I came across as condescending, was not my intention at all. I just took a side and went with it--my motivation for this post was from hearing friends tell me that they didn't get much out of their internship at big companies because they were just told to be code monkeys. Again, sorry for coming off as condescending.
I lost you when you started classifying success. There are no classes of success - its defined purely by your own drive and identified purpose in life. It maybe important for you to impact the world some how - but to someone else - success (even of the home run variety) may simply be having a successful marriage - happy kids and enough time for people they care about. Would you say Gates, Jobs, Brin and Page hit home runs - or would you the kid who came off the streets and made a decent life for himself - enough to provide for himself and his family and live comfortably - hit a home run?
Most of the population has no idea how technology works
their interface crashed my mac hard. using chrome. save everything before trying this out.
Thanks freehunter, I tend to react quickly to these things... Not sure why, as it's just another forum, but HN tends to mean more to me than the other online discussions.

I will certainly take time to refresh, and reflect on other's input from now on, at least for 5 or 10 minutes.

I get "antsy" easily :-) Sorry.
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You can forge high-volume transactions when those high-profile market manipulators play with collusion.
If you’re part of any group and you need to choose something together, then...
A point you are apparently missing is that musical notation has evolved from its origins in a reflexive manner. Music theory evolved from and with notation; I don't see why this new, progressive, more approachable form of notation would negatively impact learning and maybe even contributing to the evolution of music theory.

Just because something is new and unfamiliar does not mean it has to be scary. Just like fountain/feather pens are no longer all that widely used to write musical notation in a format that made sense for utensils, why does musical notation have to remain stuck in the past and cannot evolve?
Why didn't he use a longboard? He could of done it in half the time on one.
I wonder if there's any good way to select random indexes from a bitmap using CUDA. If yes, this could be very nice for monte-carlo poker hand scoring.
So, his argument is that the downturn is caused by sectoral imbalance, rather than AD. That's a falsifiable claim - but he doesn't give any numbers.
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In fact, people /were/ copying Mac ROMs so they could run them on the Atari ST, using David Small's "Magic Sac" cartridge and emulation software.

Not really all that paranoid. Not a large investment for a possible huge payoff later. Also, this was the kind of thing that Capps loved to do; probably took him an hour or two one evening.

The Magic Sac wasn't supposed to run with EEPROMs -- in theory you had to obtain a real Mac ROM from somewhere -- but all you really had to do was clip a pin on a 27256 and the 'Sac wouldn't know the difference.
My issue with this is that history teaches us that you don't need big money to reach scale, you only need the cash to support scaling up from a technical POV. Look at FB early days, Twitter, etc.

Unless they're going to pay users to join them, I don't see how raising so much money is going to solve their problems.
Many Indian companies including Cipla,Natco and Sun Pharma has been manufacturing generic versions for the last 10 years or so and are selling at a fraction of the price. For your information, India is the largest generic drug producer globally.
http://www.indiamart.com/moderntimes/imatinib-mesylate-capsu...
But TCAS is preempted by GPWS and stall warnings, so the damage is limited to cases where you are flying at altitude directly under another airliner and you can spoof an RA for the plane above to descend into the plane below. The statistical likelihood of this configuration and a malicious attacker that can spoof TCAS is probably so low as to not cause much worry.

(Also, despite procedures, airline pilots are not automatons. They may be able to insert their brain into the loop to avoid disaster, despite the opposite happening from time to time.)
Coming from someone outside of NYC/SF: Foursquare has hit the masses and I have friends/family who have just discovered the app.
It takes a surprisingly long time for new concepts to implement to non early adopters.
So even while it may not be "trendy" in the SF area the app is pulling in a lot more "regular" people now.
How do you define "local business"?
Not sure I entirely agree with this for all cases. One example of a blog post where comments are highly valuable is a highly technical/tutorial style post (be it about coding, mathematics etc.)

Often with articles of this nature, the comments serve as a very swift mechanism to get corrections and bug fixes back to the author - improving the quality of the post for future readers.
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I like, but I'm having a hard job seeing how it's worth so much per month to customers? Silver and Gold plans are definitely not cheap at $799/month / $1599/month respectively (source: http://lanyrd.com/pro/).
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This looks ace. I haven't looked into it much, but is not knowing either of the languages going to be an issue? Or should I be able to pick up what I need easily?
I'm over 40; I started late (after studying music for over a decade) and then spent some time in QA, so technically I've only been doing "pure" development for 6 years or so, and thus perhaps haven't been doing this long enough to face the burnout. But thus far, the more I do it the deeper my interest & passion. There's an explosion of interesting stuff to learn these days -- functional languages like clojure, scala, javascript, ruby, python, go, cloud, etc... -- and even if my day to day work is crufty old java, learning new things keeps me engaged. Even learning new java tricks is pretty fun. Github makes this so much easier. I feel pretty lucky. I believe that if you enjoy learning for its own sake, you'll remain engaged by this profession.

Now, eventually, I figure I'll hit barriers. I expect these to be mostly physical. How long can one take sitting and typing? I've had bouts of back pain and rsi, and these have been more demotivating than anything else. But even here, I think life is getting easier. More companies are coming around to the importance of decent ergonomics, sit/stand desk options, etc... Voice recognition is coming along nicely.[1] So I'm mostly optimistic.

[1] http://pyvideo.org/video/1706/plover-thought-to-text-at-240-...
No doubt this is the REAL test of Bitcoin. I can see if hitting $30 again to bottom out.
This really says it all:

>"Demand for visas may well not be because their [sic] is a need for skilled labour but rather because their is a demand for workers who can be underpaid," said Costa. He said the GAO study showed 54% of those on H-1Bs were paid at the lowest levels allowed and that the majority of the workers were sent back after their visas expired.
For what are you accounting? Most mathematics has been known about for 100+ years... IMO, This comment was a reason for you to hear yourself "talk" or alternatively for you to take a (weak) shot at the U.S.
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Also note: "Your contribution to ‘I am going to survive’ has been refunded."
I want to play, my JS is good, my geometry/math is not :(
Immediate compensation could be to allow "face value plus 5%" of the medallion to be used to pay any local/city taxes, with say 7 or 10 years given to use the credit.

The IRS rules http://www.irs.gov/publications/p535/ch08.html state you have to amortize/depreciate the license over 15 years (180 months). So, any licenses that are 16 or more years old, have already been written off in full, so, a lesser amount would be needed to compensate the owners.
Now what sort of person would want something like that?
Apologies, I phrased that poorly.

I meant the characteristic that makes it a hash function is producing a fixed size output.

It may not be that important for some contexts, but without that characteristic it's not a hashing function.

Conversely, I can have a function that isn't one way, but produces a fixed size output. Granted, it's not going to be that useful, but it's still a hashing function. If I have a one-way function that doesn't produce a fixed size output, it's not a hashing function.
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Reading the press on this, there is one thing that is glaringly absent: any numbers around growth. They quote a bunch of numbers that are sums of things since inception of the company: how many checkins total, how many businesses 'using foursquare' (they don't define what 'using foursquare' means, which implies it's something trivial and misleading).

The title of the press release is "Continuing Foursquare’s Growth"! Growth is obviously what they want to make you think is happening, unfortunately they have no growth to show.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=foursquare%2C%20pinte...

Foursquare has no growth since 2011 and no way to generate significant revenue. If the numbers they quote on the press release are true, they would have so much cash rolling in that they would laugh at the idea of raising more money. The press release is intentionally misleading; this company is dying.
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I don't buy it. Apple has always been like this, even when iPhone was far and away the best thing on the market. It seemed to work fine for their marketing department back then.
Same. It empowers me as the consumer to get exactly what I paid for.
What about making withdrawals to real life banks?
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Yes, and I think it has a jump once you hit a very frequent word (such as "or" from the example).
Also, as a few other people have noted here, it's actually less expressive than standard notation.

There's no way to show phrasing(especially important for figuring out how to phrase 5/4 or 7/4 time), triplets, and I'm not sure how slur/tie notation works(especially because dotted notes are presented as tied notes... not ideal since they're technically not the same thing).
You are aware, that the first slave owner in Virginia, who went to court over his slave, was a black man, right?
You make the ad look way different than it is in reality: https://www.apple.com/iphone/videos/#tv-ads-brilliant

You can barely even read the words flashing by. And your point is sort of empty anyway; is this the first Apple ad you've seen? Nothing has changed.
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I'm not sure it was meant to be useful to an end-user. An end-user doesn't care if the computer he's using was stolen, counterfeited, etc. The company making the equipment and software does, and this is useful to them.
Shoot me an email. I have a package that I offer to startups like yours. It helps them start quickly, and reduces the amount of stress of a launch. Plus it only costs $249. Includes a marketing package that simply works. Email templates, phone scripts, tactics, help with the copywriting, etc. Let me know you are from HN in the message.
Bolo makes me nostalgic. There was a small but active winbolo community for a while more recently. No idea if they're still around. I'd love to see a modern port of bolo for Mac with modern networking and such.
Not long ago you could hear people saying "I don't care about politics..." but still complaining about the effects that political decisions brought to their lives.

This could definitely be worse in Spain, but it's not unique to Spain. I hear the same sorts of things all the time and even wrote a blog post about one example: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/connecting-the-dots... .

This is economic hell and NOBODY can save us.

I'm not an economist, but based on my reading and (limited) understanding of the situation, the most likely outcome is the destruction of the Euro as a currency, or at least a vast shrinking of the currency zone. Devaluation would help many of the problems Spain, Greece, Cyprus, and others have. It has other well-known problems but the situation is one in which there are no good options.
They issue isn't can they be spoofed? It is can you crash a plane remotely? Or even can you force a plane to go somewhere? The answer to both is basically no. You can confuse the heck out of the pilot, and possibly make them do some maneuvering until they ignore the system (and send the police after you).

Realistically the idea of putting encryption on ADS is one of the stupider ideas ever. I mean can you imagine a crash caused because someone didn't update their CA list, and thus it rejected a the signature of another plane?

Anyways, you could just jam the whole ADS-B system for your region. The system is protected by aggressive action against rogue transmitters.

Also the "with an android phone" part is disingenuous, as you'll need a fair amount of equipment.
I believe that the thesis was that health care companies make heavy investments in R&D that are only profitable because of very high prices in the US, and that these innovations probably wouldn't be available at the lower cost in other other countries without this profit center.

That's just a thesis. It's an interesting one, I'd be interested in reading some discussion of it, especially insightful comments backed with data.
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First hand, it happens. Not every CEO is a wonderful caring person, and some can get very vindictive when it appears that an underling is threatening the operation of their company by (in their view) holding the job hostage for more cash.
I think CRUD apps have become a bit of an in-joke because they are common and often superficially differentiated. Every non-technical client with an idea for a product talks about building a platform for X, but at the end of the day, they're usually "just" asking for a CRUD app. It's a bit unfair because there's nothing wrong with CRUD apps--you can build a pretty solid business off of them. Maybe that's why the HN crowd isn't a fan ;-)