skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know he's famous, but I really like this guy. He says interesting things like this:

"Basically, the reason I work with children and not adults is because adults are famously difficult to change in any significant way. They've made a commitment to the norms of the world they live in. Children are born not knowing what culture they've been born into, how the culture thinks, and what that culture thinks is important. Yet they are born with some built-in patterns of thinking that are universal. Since the late sixties, I've been interested in the extent to which you could cultivate the kind of thinking skills that only a few people use in the world today, by getting children to learn much more widely and much more fluently than most adults have. If you want to make a change, get the children to think differently."
I'm actually starting to feel sorry for Ruby developers. It seems like any time you install something it can anonymously and unapologetically squash any other thing, whether it's a built-in method, an existing module, or what the meaning of "is" is. Honestly, I'd probably be too afraid to ever install a gem.
"The most obvious question at this point (or much earlier) is what are monads good for? To illustrate this in a practical way, consider recursive descent parsing."

This was the most useful part to me. My question about monads is always "Why should I care?" Now I know at least one possible answer: "It makes it easier to implement recursive descent parsing." Cool.
For Rails people, there's http://hoptoadapp.com. (happy user, no affiliation)
There is one thing I agree: threatening people should be done _only_ as a last resort, and only when you are in a position to threaten. Also, if you do it you be prepared to end whatever relationship you have, especially if the threat is unsuccessful.

But in this case it doesn't sound like there is any other choice.
As other users report no problems with similar setups but using different hosts, I don't think that's the case.
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I find it somewhat amazing that the orders of magnitude difference isn't larger.
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They were actually found guilty of "assisting in making copyright content available".
What he should and shouldn't do is for him and his employer to decide, not you.
" whenever the company compiles statistics for applications they include the native ones and make it apparent. "

Do you have any references for this? I follow Facebook pretty closely and this seems unusual.
Postscript is a surprisingly useful print file format although it's use does require taking time to learn (what is effectively) a stack based programming language.

If you are wondering just what the key advantages are - well you end up with a compact, re-usable file structure that is searchable and (broadly) human sensible. An excellent format for archiving documents once they have been generated.
The object of this study is not to prove that all forms of interaction are better than algorithmic computing, it is to prove that machines that interact during computation can execute a larger set of computations.

You also insist in factoring in intelligence, which is not at all revelant to this discussion. This is about which sets of functions can be executed with which machines.

Oracle machines are capacle of executing all functions that a Turing machine can (if you simply shut off interaction) and also all those that involve interaction. Having been proved that the latter set of functions is larger than the first, we can conclude that oracle machines are more powerful.
The biggest leap of faith surrounding cryonic preservation - and the greatest omission on the part of its proponents - is the sticky question of consciousness.

I can think of bigger leaps of faith.

For one, there's the question of what ice does to tissue. Ice crystals shred cells. Some things of small enough volume, like rabbit kidneys, can be frozen faster then ice crystals grow. But the problem is ice crystals also grow when something is unfrozen. And there is no equivalent super fast unfreezing. Unless you count burning. Tissue damage occurs again.

So the question if a future technology will ever be able to stitch together a brain shredded by ice crystals is a very important one.

If we could just freeze something as simple as a heart, never mind more complicated organs like kidneys, it would save countless lives. I mean organ transplants, not resurrection.
> Obviously depends on where in the US you are, but typically is estimated that there would have to be a 50c tax per gallon to make highways self-paying.

Let's go with that number. But first....

> For places where road construction is particularly expensive (mountains, Alaska and Hawaii, etc) that doesn't even come close.

And in other places, 50c a gallon is way more than it takes to make highways self-paying. That's how averages of different numbers work - some are higher than the average while others are lower.

The cited document says that the average fuel tax in the US is 38c/gallon as of a couple of years ago. That does not include sales taxes, which in CA are currently around 20c/gallon, for a total of 58c/gallon, or 8c/gallon over the average required. In the past, CA got less per gallon because the prices were lower, and other states have lower tax rates, but we're not done counting the car revenues and we're pretty close to 50c/gallon.

Taxes on fuel purchases don't include car taxes, taxes on car goods, fines levied on car misuse (which exceed enforcement costs), income taxes on folks providing car services, and so on. (Rail advocates count taxes on folks whose jobs are enabled by transportation and property taxes next to train stations. I'm not counting that for cars, but will note that they would considerably increase the car revenue numbers.)

That document concedes that counting such revenues would mean that govts make money on roads. That's why said document goes to considerable lengths to argue that certain taxes and fees paid by car/truck folk to drive shouldn't be counted. The reasons range from that money is deposited in the general fund, which is curious since the supposed subsidies come from the general fund, to car drivers have to pay something if they did something else, in which case we'd consider those fees/taxes as being associated with some other cause.
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im not sure id use this but email is something that hasn't been innovated on in a WHILE. im glad someone is doing something about it. great job, keep working on it.

also, drop the 77 hours thing. who cares?
http://www.timebanks.org/
I'm staying here in the UK until I hit it big with desktop software, then to Los Angeles to produce films.
Mere coincidence that the Python's gem-like packages are called eggs?
This is probably the third submission for cryonics related articles this month. I wonder why it is suddenly becoming a popular topic.

I personally am signed up to be preserved at Alcor (I am the 830-somthing person to do so). I am happy to see cryonics getting this kind of coverage.

I recognize that cryonic preservation is a HUGE leap of faith. But, given the low cost ($40 a month for Alcor membership + New York Life insurance) I think the risk is worth it. This is especially true given the popular alternatives: being put under dirt or turned into ashes.

Edit: changed 'target' to 'topic'
I disagree, I think the whole 77 hours thing helps build a story around it. It makes a bit more interesting than just... hey I released this thing
> So you both lie and call names.

It looks like he documented that the small claim suit limits are typically considerably higher than the claimed $2-3k. Is he wrong? If not, what lie did he tell?
This week's "This American Life" aired an interview (from last year) with the guy who was in the middle of the Chatsworth Disaster:
http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=354

I can empathize with Bob Nelson - it seems like things got out of control and he just couldn't say no (many, many times), nor could he admit he made a mistake.
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I've used http://liveops.com/ with some success. On-demand agents "in the cloud". Requests can be routed to agents based on training, experience, language, time of day...
I wondered that, also: I didn't think Python's eggs solved this problem... do they?
>So the question if a future technology will ever be able to stitch together a brain shredded by ice crystals is a very important one.

Absolutely! There are so many variables that come into play. Lets say that a significant percentage of brain cells become irreparably damaged; how much of an impact would this have on memory recollection? Perhaps some brain cells cold be repaired; what impact would that have?

There are so many unknowns at this point that you are indeed correct that a big leap of faith is involved.
I have had returns refused, since the CD was opened. How would I know if it's good or not, if I had not listened to it? And I'm not the only one.

I do agree that there are people who keep crap around when they don't need it. But, stealing a CD is not the same as downloading music from a torrent. Stealing implies that the owner of the CD is left permanently without it. A torrent is a copy of the original content. It's a fair distinction, and the point is that music store rules do not apply to the net.
The interesting thing about cryogenic preservation is, there's no downside (you just stay dead) and a pretty awesome upside (you get resurrected centuries later in a world where we have the technology to resurrect the dead). There's no "leap of faith" involved here, just the recognition that if all else fails, you lose nothing.

OK, I guess screwing your kids out of $150,000 worth of life insurance money is a downside too.
Not really. I was doing fine in my classes. This was more an issue with the administration.
Justice Department: proxy servers evidence of sophistication in a crime.
On second thought, can this please be erased?
>OK, I guess screwing your kids out of $150,000 worth of life insurance money is a downside too.

What kids?
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Same issue here. I have a ton of my usernames and passwords for services, but I can't confirm if they are true.

I wonder what I should do? Oh yeah, it's called logging on with them.
OK so you want someone on call all day to answer your 800 line and read from a script. Wow I sit in a quiet room at home most days and if the phone rings I could switch over to a script and answer your customer support calls. I've done phone tech support and can handle customer service questions. I'm working on a startup right now but I have spare cycles for random calls. To monitor quality maybe you could just call in now and then to spot check me. It's just an idea in case you're interested and want to pursue a conversation. We'd need to work out a couple details but if we're reasonable people that shouldn't be a problem.
BumpTop already works on any folder :)

We have an experimental "Bump This Folder" shell extension, which provides a little button in Windows Explorer that turns the current view into a BumpTop. It needs to be enabled in the BumpTop settings.
too bad the Sopranos are not available anymore ;-)
I thought of this. I got thrown out in such a way I couldn't turn to the ombudsman.
Hulu used to take a day (or maybe the whole weekend) to post Battlestar Galactica. Pirate Bay would take only a few hours, and would have it in HD, too.
> Yes, because he has demonstrated his scientific objectivity by changing his point of view from time to time, digging up new evidence when scientists say his previously offered evidence is inadequate, and scrupulously honoring his most ardent opponents with credit when their counterarguments prompt him to reconsider his previous publications.

This is true for Jensen and several other researchers - yet they are treated as pariahs in the public arena.

Several have questioned the objectivity of Jensen (and other researchers). As I have said before, James Flynn is both a passionate left-wing politician and he freely admits that he is egalitarian. E.g. in “How to defend Humane Ideals: Substitutes for objectivity”:

> This book was written by someone committed to humane-egalitarian ideals...

So, how can anyone question Jensen's objectivity but not that of Flynn?

There are several attacks on Jensen and others holding up Flynn as the poster boy (see at the end). Flynn has not done anything to dispel that. He even wrote a book attacking Jensen indirectly (Race, IQ and Jensen). Here is a quote:

> However, the last stand of the racist is not without importance, something I will attempt to demonstrate by giving a racist ideologue his say.

Scientists should search for truth – with not prior preconceptions or beliefs (i.e. he should search for truth and not just justification).

Here is an example of some Jensen attacks:

“Resurrecting Racism: The modern attack on black people using phony science” (by the popular anthropologist Francisco Gil-White):

You can read chapter 6 here : http://www.hirhome.com/rr/rrchap6.htm

I will not quote it since the whole chapter is full of Jensen attacks.

The extremely popular “The Mismeasure of Man” by Stephen Jay Gould also have the same attacks Jensen and others.

The list goes on. There is a saying that I translated to English: “They are not sheared over the same comb” i.e. Flynn are treated differently than those with opposing viewpoints.
From how eager they are to return the TARP money, it looks like they are more willing to work for $10 million a year plus stock than $500,000.

Yeah, not quite what the article was about, but it's ridiculous what some people expect for adding so little value.
1.6 million files break down in most viewing paradigms. In BumpTop you can turn on "infinite workspace" and you can have thousands of files. Then use pile by type or date to automatically make that more manageable.
I've never had that problem and have used Flash video on Mac OS X for years.
This is the part I found most inviting about the whole process; the fact that it's covered by life insurance? Wow! And you raise the excellent point of options, what are the better options? Cremated? no thanks... Six feet under? I'd rather not sit to rot. I find that given this preservation is easily accessible by insurance, I would expect more people to sign up for it. I know I'm considering it on the options alone... what do you have to lose? Either way, as the article points out, the decision is based on faith... but maybe it also comes down to taste and a little bit of morality or how you were brought up (there's also logic to consider if one is educated).

Maybe some things to be lost are if one is to be resurrected, pushing the consciousness aside, one would have to be sure one's estate is preserved too- otherwise, one might come back homeless. Also, could you live 100 years from now, without any of your family members (except maybe their offspring) because they didn't feel right about doing it?

Very interesting and thought provoking article.
A site listing foreclosed and abandoned homes for squatting?

Or perhaps the same for gardening?

A house trading site so that you can trade houses with someone where your and their job prospects are better?

A better roommate matching site than any one I've seen so far?

A kid-sitting exchange site?

A more-local Ebay (not like Craig's List), more like the Ebay of old?

Apprenticeships?
Agreed. Never ever listen to analysts. They're paid to hype.
Make Me Dinner - a match making service that would connect people who need meals with people who can make them, presumably in their neighborhood.

So a single working person indicates what kind of food they like, and mom who cooks for a family of 6 adds a couple extra portions to what she makes that night and delivers it to a couple neighbors. That pays for her whole family. Chefs could post updates of what they're cooking that night, and people could "follow" their favorite chefs and pick from the meals available. Chefs build reputations, etc. It's like the ebay for food service.

It builds local community, creates opportunity for people to start their own micro-business, and it works really well in a recession -- people spend less eating out, and people who need money can make some.

The potential challenges are city/state laws around food inspection, that would all have to be investigated and figured out. There are lots of caterers and personal chefs, so I assume there's a way to navigate all of that.
This retarded subthread is my fault, I'm very sorry, now let's move on.
I agree in some respects, but there definitely are still some real advantages to being in the Valley.

I've been doing a lot of work towards monetizing justin.tv lately, especially with video ads. These products tend to be very ad-hoc, and are usually quite poorly documented. Sometimes we've tried to get an integration working by having me try to follow the docs, and call/email when things don't work properly. It usually works out in the end, but it's frustrating and takes too long (sometimes several days of back-and-forth).

To contrast, with the ad companies that are in the Bay Area, we just ask them to send a developer to our office. Both of us sit on my couch, while I do the integration and make bad jokes about the quality of their documentation. We usually get it done in an hour or so this way.
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Do those type of startups exist? Certainly there are people that think a mistimed launch or tipping off competitors would be a disaster for their site, but they're probably wrong.
Bill Gates' First Flopped Demo Had Him Crying For His Mommy. Literally.
reduce is still available in the functools module. Also map and filter are lazy in Python 3; they return generators instead of lists.
Engadget endorses Monster Cable? Uh, hell no.
> (who cares about IE6 resizing anymore?)

Most decent front-end developers.

I imagine there's a correlation between running IE6 and having impaired vision (yes, I'm talking about the elderly).
You can stream using whatever media player you like. We already have good video standards, it's just that people don't like dealing with their native video player and websites somehow feel that streaming Flash is easier.
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Presumably the center of startups and innovation, no?
I want an email address that tied to something biometric about me, not an address at all.

Pie-in-the-sky, yes. But this kind of thing makes me think of the possibilities we haven't even begun to explore yet.
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To be honest, reading Reg's posts lately you get the impression that this happens all the time. Obviously it does happen a certain amount, hence the various people (quite understandably) complaining about it, but probably not as often as one might start to think, given the number and volume of complaints.
>This is the part I found most inviting about the whole process; the fact that it's covered by life insurance?

I know! It is a pretty sweet deal.

>I would expect more people to sign up for it.

I totally agree. From my perspective, i would think cryonics would be MUCH more popular. I think it has to do with the fact that death and dying are just plain touchy subjects that people don't like to think about.

> I know I'm considering it on the options alone... what do you have to lose?

Not much; just some money. Signing up is not hard and I highly recommend it if you are seriously considering it.

>you're basing your decision on faith

This is true and as an educated person, I have trouble with this reliance on faith. But I do have "faith" (rather I believe in the likelihood) that man will solve problems. We will discover the Higgs Boson, we will go to mars, we will clone a human and we will figure out a way to wake these Corpse-Popsicles up. If other want to call that faith, then faith I have.
Singletasking by Caterina Fake (photo)
No, eggs are just an unofficial, "convenient" method for distributing Python modules.

However, AFAIK, Python itself "solves" this problem simply by giving errors whenever you try to import a different version/instance of a module, but I could be wrong.
I think your answer is right in regard to OP. But it seems to be not so interesting to everyone :)
He seemed to treat the DOJ the same way, except in that case, his mommy was named "Ballmer."

People's personalities do change over the years more than science credits, I think. I know mine certainly did.
FYI, having the first and only comment on your account be an ad hominem looks like trolling. This post does not. Keep it up.
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Graham Hutton has written a couple of papers on monadic parser combinators:

http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/bib.html#pearl

http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/bib.html#monparsing

He also discusses them in chapter 8 of Programming in Haskell; the code is up on his site, you want the 'Functional parsing library' and 'Expression parser'.

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html#code
Considering that pythons lay eggs, and that Monty Python's use of "Spam and eggs" heavily influences the language's replacement for "foo" and "bar", yes.
It's a Rubygems issue, not Ruby.
Bragging about how fast you built your product is good if this is only a hobby, but I think it hurts your image if you're trying to build a business.
Well i don't see how WE should need any excuses.

I've failed to be proven guilty of anything. Who am i depriving of something when i download stuff ?

The society is guilty for letting the record industry, in its hunger for expansion and money, assimilate downloading with stealing.
The bigger news to me in this story is that Bill Gates' nickname is "Trey".
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Let's agree that bragging about how fast you built your product is always okay between hackers and on Hacker News in particular.
Ask HN: How do you guys approach abstractions when reading code?
I have been going through code, as far as I can tell the code is very hard to read. It seems that all the abstractions put in place for (future) flexibility make it so. Sometimes when I am reading code I end up in a place, and I have to backtrack to realize how I got there. I had to basically write down every step of execution to figure out how everything fit together.

This put me to think that sometimes abstractions can lead to very hard-to-navigate code. Is this usually the case? or did the architects blew it? This code is written in an OOP language btw (Java).

Do you guys think that sometimes code can get unnecessarily complex, if so do you guys have any war stories or advice to avoid going down that path? How do you guys approach abstractions to make it as leakage proof as possible? And finally, how do you guys read complex code? I am used to reading code, every once in a while I go through some open source code and try to figure out how it works, but If there is a book you guys could recommend to get better at it, please do.

Thanks
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