skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally had a frozen pitot tube due to failed tube heating in the solid IMC (no thunderstorm though). You just disable autopilot and manually fly by the known manifold pressure numbers, vertical speed and attitude. Plus double check with GPS ground speed (estimating the wind). This is not even an emergency (you have to advise ATC about the situation though).

Things fail all the time. This is why there is redundancy built into the system. A pilot just need to know how to detect the problem and how to use secondary systems.
I noticed that too; after getting my popcorn ready, I could find only mild technical disagreements.

I'd be honored to have an idea shot down so mercifully by Torvalds.
This is something I've long been worried about myself. But lately I've begun to question the assumptions that this position is based on. Clearly we're moving into a world where it's possible to know more about people's behaviour than ever before. This has positive and negative aspects. There is a set of freedoms that we used to enjoy by default—simply because nobody could know enough about our behaviour to deny them to us.

This sort of alarmist article seems to follow the same sort of pattern—the author notices that we're being tracked in ways that were unimaginable only a few years ago, and worries because, who knows how this data will be used? It could be really bad!

While I share that worry, I'm beginning to wonder what, exactly we're worrying about. What, concretely, is the scenario that we want to prevent? Is it all-intrusive advertising? Is it systematic discrimination? Is it violence?

It seems that privacy advocates will have much more success if they identify the specific scenarios they want to avoid and work on preventing those. That will allow the benefits of ubiquitous data to be realized, while providing more direct protection of the freedoms we want to preserve.
I heard an interesting idea recently: auction off immigration slots. (Not all of them, just a large subset.)

Employers looking to hire talented individuals from abroad would most commonly foot the bill.

There are some cool things about this solution: it raises money for the US Government, it determines who will most likely be a high-value contributor to the economy, and it raises the cost of foreign workers (to balance the interest of American workers).
I never made it beyond a college lab, but one of the things that worried me most (and that, more generally, continues to worry me in life) was a screw-up or deliberate maliciousness on the part of others in the workspace.

I recall one time happening to see two other students applying solutions to the faucets handles of one of the lab desk sinks after a lab, because they thought it would be a funny prank upon whoever next used that sink.

Other times, stuff gets spilled by people who don't know better, don't understand the resulting risk, and/or just don't care enough to "do the right thing". And so inadequate cleanup leaves traces for others to stumble through, likely with know knowledge of the problem.

In my subsequent life, outside of a lab, I've repeatedly encountered significant health risks created by as well as ignored and/or abandoned by people who "don't know" or "don't care".

In broader life, buildings are full of lead, asbestos, and everything else, and putative penalties aside, it's basically "buyer beware" as far as inheriting someone else's problem (inheriting to your own personal liability and financial risk, not to mention possible health risks).

As much as "stuff I won't work with", I've developed an attitude of "people I won't work with".
I first learnt Haskell ten years ago for a class. Mostly toy problems. Looking to get back into it. What books are good to learn to build actual apps - especially user input, UI, etc.?
haha me too!
I'm going to store my private key in an arrangement you can't read it from even if you control the system.

For stupid services we can generate long random passwords, store them along. Not bothering the user with that.
The population bomb has already been reached.

7 billion is way too much. We simply cannot continue to eat cows at that rate. Worse: if we want to stay at 7 billion the "poor" countries won't be able to raise their standard of living. We already bombed: too many cows farting, too many fossil fuels being extracted.

We're already killing bees, potentially disrupting the gulf stream (up to the point where it's expected to be so problematic for planes in as few as 25 years that planes shall need to use safer, and longer, aerial routes). We're already seeing people trying to push "protein from eating insects" in the western world: simply because we're way past the limit with cows. We're also killing too many trees.

"No more population bomb", I agree with that. But we already bombed and it's gonna get ugly.
The proper measure would be Joules/transaction.
Sorry, kzrdude. I meant that in general. The end is always nigh, yet it always fails to materialize, this is a known phenomenon. I should be more clear. Sorry to have offended you.
I want a Kendall Square in Delhi, India as well. Entrepreneurs are scattered all over, India is such a big country, yet here we are.

In Delhi, we have the IIT, but the Community Center just across it, is a place to get high on wrong skies. If only the VCs living in Delhi, would rather come out of the swanky embassies and foreign centers :/
Yes, precisely :)
Why did we never hear about similar problems in the Python world? Both languages are pursuing similar solutions to packeges/libs problem: rvm/virtualenv gems/pypi and so on...
I think you're way over-thinking this.

Governments do a lot of things.

While some things governments do are a top down strategic plan, every person at every level of every part of every government is an intelligent actor capable of doing things for bizarre or obscure reasons. Sometimes these things serve large nefarious purposes. Sometimes these things serve small nefarious purposes.

If BitCoin was created by a pool of secret government cryptos, it's possible their mandate was very different from anything related to BitCoin: The Digital Currency. Maybe their mandate was to start an open sourced project which would optimize a cryptographic algorithm. And then one of the guys handed this assignment said to another, "Hey, we should totally do that BitCoin thing you're always talking about at lunch." And they did it, because they thought it was cool, and it technically satisfied the requirements of their assignment, and their manager signed off on it so they thought they might not get fired.
The UI is non-standard:

- The buttons aren't styled like Cocoa buttons

- The gradient is non-standard

- Why is there so much lime green?

- Why is there a lime green border?

- The images don't look like they scale well, they look blurry and not very well defined, even in the screenshots

It's supposed to be a Mac app but it doesn't use any of the guidelines published by Apple on conformity in the UI. That makes for a horrible user experience, especially when your app is made for the platform which embraces uniformity across its apps. It is not using any UI elements which the user is accustomed to, instead opting for custom-styled everything.
Which I don't think is in the least bit limited to either economists or articles. Any of us could easily find five developers (or any other group of professionals) and we'd also observe "just how confident most of them manage to sound when making statements that some of the others disagree with"
MintChip looks like yet another stored value smartcard, where the security depends on the difficulty of tampering with a tamperproof chip in the possession of the attacker.
HN let's chat
Hey guys I'm bored lets chat about awesome ideas.

Skype me if you want. Still_x_i_rise
Damn that is how you write a git commit message.
Stardock Ready to Fund Video Game Start-Ups, Says CEO
How is it that they get less restrictive each day?
OS X 10.9: A downward spiral or a new hope?
It has been pointed out here before that this would significantly disadvantage both start-ups and small companies who may be working in extremely niche environments and require talent from abroad.
A penny isn't really a fair comparison:

- many countries have eliminated pennies
- mining will have to continue even after "coins" aren't produced, to verify transactions.

It's more apt to measure power per transaction, against a traditional bank (or a handful of cash, amortized over it's life.) There was a good explain xkcd about the cost of carrying around physical money in your car.
Ugh. Not at the article itself - it's very well-written - but at the mentality it describes, which I get was his point.

I suppose you could see it as "hacking Princeton" but also seems diametrically opposed to a hacker ethos, where you're into autodidacting for the love of the knowledge itself, without putting up with any of the pomp and bullshit that others like to layer on top of it.

I've been aggressively opposite of the mentality in the article which means that I basically learn stuff while my friends talk about tv shows and watch sports - I can't really talk to any of them about stuff I learn other than wait for them to laugh when I'm done. But it seems the alternative is to leave them behind for other sets of friends and a lifestyle where I have to wear suits and learn buzz phrases - and my friends don't tease me about the stuff I learn and seem to respect it.
Client: I want this element to fade out.
Me: No problem but only on browsers with CSS3 support.
Client: What is CSS3?
Me: Let me say it differently, it wont work on some browsers.
Client: Why, is it hard to do?
Me: Not really, but I would need to use an open source library to do it.
Client: But don't you usually tell me that that's a good thing.
Me: Yes but see yesterday I someone on the Internet said it should not be a mandatory feature.
Client: You are fired.
Still the place to be in Boston/Cambridge for start-ups, certainly, but it is hardly "the" place compared to San Francisco and the valley. The lack of funding, even compared to New York, has been a real problem for the ecosystem. Why did Facebook, Dropbox, and many others start in Cambridge and leave?
Supreme Court to decide if human genes can be patented
ACT of 30 is 95th percentile. If you don't know anybody who got below that, you're living in a bubble.
"doing is the best kind of thinking" epic quote
I assumed that's what he meant too. The total market cap of the entire bitcoin economy today is a bit over $1 billion USD. That is a small enough number that a large financial institution, or maybe even a few rich people, could manipulate the price with large transactions.
There are plenty of examples of more recent vintage.

Better safe than sorry seems to be a good strategy in cases like this, if there is no upside to claiming credit, why would you claim credit?
I think what's he's saying is that "peaking" is meaningless.

There's a book that was written back in the early 90s called The Ultimate Resource, by Julian Simon. A fair amount of it is typical libertarian wishful thinking, but he very strongly makes the point that in a free society, there is no such thing as a peak. There are always alternatives, and if a resource becomes more expensive, we will start switching to them. If need be, we will also change our behavior to accommodate these alternatives.

To take a great example, look at gasoline prices. There is no shortage of gasoline in the United States. The price goes up, and suddenly fuel efficiency becomes much more important. As a result, economy cars are much more common, as are hybrids and electric cars. Consumption then goes down.

This would be the case even if gasoline were ten dollars or even twenty dollars a gallon. People would simply take the alternative options, which become more and more attractive as the "default" becomes more expensive.
Recently, the one of the most corrupt departments in India, the Passport department, has also taken the same approach. Instead of sticking to the old, come to the office system for appointments, they went for a major technological overhaul.

Though its not completely plague free right now, it has significantly reduced the bad parts by 80-90 %.
There's also bitcoin tumbling services that further obfuscate transaction to the point where it's incredibly computation/time intensive to track transactions...if at all possible.

They breakup transactions between hundreds of wallets before sending back to one address, similar to money laundering.
And it costs more than 11 cents to produce a nickel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_(United_States_coin).
Wow...both companies are roughly the same age (Google is 14, Amazon 17), and the one that had two founders is worth about twice as much as the one with one founder, which makes the net worths of the founders nearly identical. That's a freaky coincidence.
When you're arguing from definitions like this (discovery vs creation) that's a good sign something is wrong with your argument. One could just as easily say 'X has created a hyperspace drive' as 'X has discovered it.' Discovery is rarely so fortuitous as walking along and stumbling across something of value, as if it were a gold nugget lying on the ground. Most 'accidental discoveries' come after lengthy failed searches, much as most 'overnight success' is actually the result of years of hard work.

what you're arguing is basically a sort of teleological justification for communism; if innovations of one sort or another would be found anyway, their finding must be part of an inevitable progression and the identity of the individual finder is incidental, thus we should only reward labor in terms of time spent. Since there's now way to predict where the next discovery will come from, we may as well reward everyone's labor equally on the basis of time rather than productivity.

I don't mean this as an ideological criticism, if that's what you happen to believe is ideal; I'm just pointing out that that's where you argument goes and I'm not sure if that was where you intended it to do.
that is something I must learn. (/does a Mae-Pae beard curl) lol.

Anyways on a serious note, I for some reason, feel that though google glass would be a hit product, the concept is still lacking something important. I don't know what, but for some reason, I don't see myself, sticking to it, beyond a certain period of time.

The Attention aspect is being overlooked as well, no matter how good it can make our life, it would still require a lot of attention from me, like a heavy mental application of sorts.

http://www.visualexpert.com/Resources/lawsofattention.html
Not knowing the details of jQuery 2.0's cruft removal, I wonder how much the performance gap is closed by a jQuery that doesn't need to deal with Really Old Browsers™.
I know that the IO type and monads live at different levels of abstraction. I am interested in the stuff that you were saying about automata theory. But I'm not as smart or have as much time and energy as that lady from Taiwan who implemented the Perl 6 in Haskell parser combinators.

In order for me to use Haskell, I need to be able to get fluent enough with it that I can be productive munging data with it. This means IO, it means a database library, regexes, and manipulating binary data.

For example, I tried to do a program that would do some HTTP stuff. The HTTP was in the IO monad, but the database connection was in a different monad. So now I'm looking into monad transformers http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/monad-transformers.htm... (chapter 18) and my head asplodes.

I love Haskell, but it's one of the few things I've found to consistently make me feel stupid.
I don't see how this is reimagined. It offers nothing that spotify or soundcloud doesn't. It's also slower, but you're on the front page of HN, so that's forgivable, but I wouldn't wait 10 seconds for something to load if I wanted to use it regularly and there were great alternatives (check out soundcloud). There are much much more important features in a music player than real-time syncing.
thats the exact reason i used to love mootools, but too many companies demand for jquery even if they arent going to do any coding.

before the library war started (prototype, jquery and mootools) i picked mootools for that exact reason, after so many lines written against that library i cant understand why jquery won in the end.
> It is a means of lowering wage rates among engineers and software developers

You might think Mark Zuckerberg is in this to bring in international developers and pay them peanuts, but the reality is that most people Google, Facebook, and the like are bringing in on H-1B visas are extremely well compensated, on a par with their US counterparts. Once you account for relocations packages and visa/legal fees (which alone can top $10k) it's often more expensive.

Yes, some companies take advantage of international workers. I don't dispute that. But many people who want to enter the US are losing out - they have great job offers, and end up being slaves to an arbitrary lottery with a fairly meaningless cap in the grand scale of total US immigration.
Correct. It's quite ingenious actually.

"By convention, the first transaction in a block is a special transaction that starts a new coin owned by the creator of the block. This adds an incentive for nodes to support the network, and provides a way to initially distribute coins into circulation, since there is no central authority to issue them."

http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Pin - A Dynamic Binary Instrumentation Tool
This incident provides a good lesson for anyone here on HN. Mentioning a future action, communication, or practice that could be perceived as negative in your TOS isn't enough. Sure, it is done all the time by many organizations. That doesn't mean it is the best way to do it. People just don't read the TOS in most cases. Companies shouldn't be surprised if they hear something about someone being upset or confused by something hidden in a TOS.

P.S. CoFoundersLab looks cool. Thanks for having the initiative to start it Shahab.
Last week mining profitability was back to 2011 levels but then somebody Goxed it up. http://www.bitcoinx.com/charts/
It's almost as if Google isn't a single person...
yeah in python it would be [str(x) for x in lst]
An other fine example — from the same history — was the commit fixing the security issue 2 weeks ago: http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitd...

This is an absolutely beautiful commit message
Maybe but it does not seem very obvious to do so to me.. I guess one is better off with using JS's localStorage from Fay[1] or Sunroof[2].

1. http://fay-lang.org

2. https://github.com/ku-fpg/sunroof-compiler/wiki/Tutorial
I absolutely agree. Companies like TCS, that get the highest number of H1B visas already, will easily be able to bid high enough at an "immigration auction". Nothing would change at the high end - only at the low end small companies would be crowded out.

Taking this further, the big corporations could potentially (and probably will) play strategically and outbid most start-ups.
Since they're optimized to compute SHA256 hashes, then yes: any application requiring such a computation.
Interesting, but I'm curious, does anyone know how that compares to something like SETI, or folding at home?
In some online markets, monopolies are created through UX
Organometallic reagents like dimethyl mercury have their own entry in the same series of blog posts as the OP, cf. http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/10/23/things_i_won...
so you're saying that just by using jquery i dont have to test on every possible browser version and mobile too? i dont know what kind of jquery i been using but i do that everyday.
I've read that book of his and also another one - Screw it, lets do it.

> allowed him to hire good managers (Ex-McKinsey types) to run and launch new businesses under his name

That still makes him a good businessman, IMO. I thought of changing the words to "good manager or delegator", but prefer the former. Employing good people and monitoring them is still the work of a businessman, methinks.
Alright, someone please explain to me how this can be fixed? For example, I'm American and my team is a Russian and a Belgian. I would love for all of us to pick up our bags and move to the US, but can't because of obvious immigration issues. So even if there was a system set up to support them immigrating to the US, how on earth am I supposed to prove that they would contributing members of society (aka pay high taxes and add jobs)?
I'd search the social graph around Julian Assange and Wikileaks. Bitcoin came out shortly after they were blockaded. Wikileaks then waited a year or so after Bitcoin was released to start using it. There's also a nexus of cypherpunks around them with the skills and knowledge.
pretty sure, If you think it's a bubble, it's not a bubble. It might be overvalued, but that's very different from everyone screaming BUY BUY BUY
The chief one seems to be that this does not seem to directly address any particular problem.

Except that you later say:

I think Ramkumar has had (at least) two very good insights: that "git add" and friends should understand submodules a lot better than they do, and also that they should have this understanding by way of consuming some API that understands them rather than incorporating separate code for submodules into every tool.

This is exactly the problem this solution solves. Instead of having a weird configuration file in the working tree for something that should be an integral part of the repository, there will be a generic system for adding links. With this generic system in place it is much easier to implement "git add" and friends support for submodules.

He repeatedly makes this clear but no one reacts to this point.

But what I suspect is the True Rejection here is that this will pan out like all the proposals before it: to be different, but not strictly better, than the current implementation.

Implementing code in a different but not strictly better way that allows you to more easily understand and extend your library is called refactoring. This 'True Rejection' is essentially rejecting the merit of refactoring code.

I also don't think that the hardlinks/symlinks analogy holds very well. Hardlinks and symlinks are both features in their own rights. Having submodules be defined as a weird file instead of as a part of your repositories objects is a superficial change, he also states this. Everything the current submodules do could be achieved using the proposed solution. (As he repeatedly has to make clear to Linus and Junio)
realworldhaskell is good for general purpose.

i think the yesod o'reilly book (free on yesodweb.com) is a very good one if you dont mind to make web apps.
Indeed. Mike Hearn's talk at Bitcoin 2012 is a great overview of all that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4L7xDNCmA

All these goodies just waiting in there to come out and play.
Why creating conspiracy theories? You can suggest it's martians who created it with the same level of credibility.
It's good 'ol Inkscape :)
Bitcoin's Volatility Is A Disadvantage, But Not A Fatal One
Oil is not pesticides and natural gas is not fertilizer. (Why do you think they are?)

Both of those are energy, and you need energy to make pesticides and fertilizer - but you need ANY energy, it doesn't matter what kind. So even if oil flow rates were peaking (which they aren't), it wouldn't matter as long as we had another source of energy, and we do.
Cookies are Harmful (in single-page apps)
haha fair points! Best of luck; exciting work!