skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd be surprised at how many canals and rivers there are across Europe (and presumably the US and Asia too). Since almost all major cities are either by the shore or have a river running through them it isn't really a problem.

It's really not as hard as it sounds: Buy a boat and learn as you go. Holland is great for boats if you're in Europe - I found mine on http://www.botentekoop.nl and paid someone to help me sail it to Copenhagen where I live. The trip across the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark helped me get acquainted with how a boat handles, what you have to be aware of, navigation, signalling, etc.

When I got to Copenhagen I started disassembling a lot of the insides. A lot of boats seem to have an emphasis on having as many bunks as possible so that ten people can sail somewhere or whatever. This isn't really what you want when you're living on it though, so I tore down some bunks and built a proper toilet, kitchen, dining area and office instead.

I got a place at a nice harbour and found that the people there were really nice and had a lot of knowledge of what to do whenever I had a problem. Don't go for an upscale place, they are snobbish and aren't very helpful. I found a harbour with half pleasure yachts and half fishing boats, the fishermen know everything there is to know about boats, and they'll gladly help. Spare anchors, hydraulics, and fishing nets lying around is a good sign.

There is, of course some maintenance depending on what you buy. You can buy steel, fibreglass or wooden ships. Fibreglass is the easiest to maintain. Steel corrodes and gets rusty so it has to be painted every now and then, but not really a big deal. I wouldn't recommend a wooden ship - it's lots and lots of work and it deteriorates quickly if you don't keep it up to standards with oil, lacquer, polishing ans what have you. Every three years or so you have to get the ship on land and bottom-paint it. It'll take a weekend and cost around $1000.

I pay $1200 a year for the harbour where I'm living, and paid $30.000 for the boat. I spent $10.000 refurbishing and redoing it.

I'm planning on going to Berlin this fall, it's only a few days sailing :-)

feel free to e-mail me if you want to know more, my mail is in my profile.
Does anyone know if Goog uses AMZ cloudfront on youtube.com/symphony ?
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This is a disingenuous article. The real comparison is between the difference of what you make vs what you spend. While travelling in the 3rd/2nd world is cheaper than staying at home, unless you have a very particular job, it's also hard to pull in the same amount of income.
Right, except I have a small dinghy so I can sail to the grocery store :-)

There are fishermen on the harbour, so I do actually eat quite a bot of fish.
Advertising worked for ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, and Google etc. While it's somewhat cyclical it's actually fairly stable revenue stream. Ok, Facebook and the New York Times have other sources of revenue but advertising is their major source.

Anyway, I think they are basically treading water and not just burning 20mill / month at this point in time. So their revenue is 300 million / year and there costs are close to that. Most of there money seems to be spent on infrastructure and people to support said infrastructure. So, if the cost of their infrastructure drops to 1/3 then their total costs should drop by ~1/2 as they still need people, and they would be making ~10million a month which is worth around 1 billion. However, I expect they can increase their revenue though optimizations and growth so they are probably worth in the 2 - 10 billion dollar range.

PS: Would need to look at their actual costs to get a better Idea.
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It sounds like he's stating that a UTM can't simulate an arbitrary lambda function then, since that returns a variable function (a second-order UTM: a UTM can't simulate a UTM, which makes it not a UTM?).

In order to evaluate a lambda you need to be able to compute an arbitrary function of arbitrary variables; with infinite resources, you should be able to process infinite variables? Surely there's work done on UTMs and lambdas.
Just a poignant today as the day it was written.
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On this topic how many of you have seen the following:

On several interviews when asked for code they point me to an open source project they are currently working on. I do the natural thing and download the code and start reviewing it. Every time I find countless things, from simple stuff like style inconstancy to actual bugs and design problems. If they know that the code will get reviewed by someone for a job, why don't they take the time to review their own code and fix even the most basic problem?
While there are have been those who've been successfull with that strategy, the richest often have allowed investors in, while not giving it all away.

The real test here might to only give part of your ownership away unless the party you're giving it to will make your remaining shares worth more than all of them would have been without them. In other words, if you give up 20% of a company, make sure they make the remaining 80% you have worth more than the 100% you used to have.
Are you kidding? What kind of futuristic non-money-sucking boat do you have?
Thx for your time, this is the kind of comment I was looking for:

* Make the logo link back to the index.
did that,
* Don't make me register. I'd like to try the problems but am not interested in saving my results. I can't try such and such problems because I need an account simply to validate my answers.

I am going to allow unregistered users to solve problems, however, I have to uglify the form with captcha,

* I'm not sure if displaying the last 10 on the front page is a good idea... if I come back tomorrow to check this problem I saw there, will I have to go to page 2? ProjectEuler's page has them in increasing order.
My thought behind this was if u come tomorrow I don’t want to see the same problems (hopefully solved problems ;-) )

* Remove some text. “Average User Rating: easy ” can be transformed into “Easy” in the blue problem header, for example. Make it easy to see and filter. You can use images there as well, or colors. Difficulty: Green → Orange → Red.

Great point, will do that.

* The list of solvers is unreadable. Why is it in italics? What's its maximum length? You could use something like the “following” list on twitter: lots of small icons (24x24 or so).

* Also either display the login or the name, not both.

I wanted to display the name, but also didn’t want to force the user (when registering) to go to a painful process, hence, not all the users have names.

* Why do you limit top user to 10? It makes sense for problems as they take a lot of space, but you could easily display users hundred by hundred.

I wanted to have top 10 ;-),

* Are tests made of problems? What if I've already completed the 5 problems a test contains when I start it? Do I automatically win?

No, you have to answer them again.

* I don't have an account so I can't check, but do you allow LaTeX in the discussions on each problem? Is there an option to add code? Is it allowed? Is it colored when entered?

At this chapter there is still more work ahead, currently only some special math characters are supported (like x^(y) – power, x_(1) , ..)

* The white space on top is way too large.

agree

* Is this a website or a “framework”? Revise your wording on the right.

English is second language for me, so framework sounded cool, I guess I have to look it up in the dictionary.

* In general, try to avoid “database views”. I don't know how to word this better, but don't put “fieldname: fieldvalue” in your texts. For example in the submitter name: “test submitted by $name on: $date”. You don't need a colon here, this is not how you would write it in a letter for example.

agree

* Put all your tags in lowercase. Fibonacci stands out and Einstein is missing a capital E.

agree

* Are you displaying ALL the tags? What will happend when you get to a thousand?

No, only top 100

* Could the problems be put in different math groups? Set theory, algebra, geometry (can a submitter upload images?), trigo, etc. Beware, this could be confusing: should I put this in the “Algebra” category or tag it as algebra?
Bingo. Most of our application is Python, but all of the 3D stuff is in C++.
These guys are "building a more efficient market for flights" so they might need the kinds of connections and insight YC promises. If the founders are amazing and yet they need help producing their show you assume it's all a funding issue. They're from Australia; they don't know tech angels or Silicon Valley, they know YC. Even if all they think they need is money I don't know any angels who are clamouring for unreferred new blood, do you?

Success in the flights industry can be lucrative but if you don't hit a home run you get zip. Solution: impress some knowledgeable, connected people who will be determined to help you if they like you. These guys passed, maybe they have reason to be happy.
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I'm not being lied to. There is simply more to the story.

What's with the headlines this week? We had the "body slam" on prostate cancer, and now this?

And even when knowing the rest of the story, I'm happy that the synopsis I've received in the major news media is adequate. There is no conspiracy or mass media control going on. Robbers have motives. Film at Eleven. Yawn.
I've been a designer in adult for 10+ years now and your correct about not being able to use your work portfolio for mainstream clients. However it's not as bad as it might seem, most of the designers I know in the industry run sites or design plenty of other things than can be used in their portfolios, if they ever do decide to switch jobs. I've interviewed hundreds of people and rarely do I ever care about their previous companies, all I want to see is how well they can design, not who they designed for.

Granted I also wouldn't want to work for a company that would be biased against a designer who did adult work, so for me personally, it makes sense. If you have hesitations, I would fully recommend passing on working in adult.
I am not worried, I got that comment few times before, wanted to acknowledge it (and don’t get it again).
I've often wondered how much diet plays a role in "mental acuity." When he referred to poor children being adopted into upper middle class families that was the first thing that came to mind.
I was just talking with a buddy of mine about this last night. He lives in Rochester, NY where TWC has some sort of exclusive agreement. Apparently, they've capped bandwidth at something ridiculously low a month, but you can pay another $30/mo to blast that cap up to... 40GB/mo!

Oh, and as a show of charity, they capped the max overage charges you can be billed at $75/mo for this special plan which already costs $75/mo. So, basically, you can get unlimited bandwidth for $150/mo. What a steal!
Thank you for that reply. I started reading his page and it was getting stupid. He almost deliberately seems to not want to understand the definition of a Universal Computer (by which he must mean a Universal Turing Machine).

It would surprise me if his example functions are actually computable. In his paper on the subject he comes up with a scenario in which a machine needs to compute a function of n variables that vary with time. He then places the restriction that reading each variable takes one unit of time so that once you've read the first one the value of the second one has changed and so you can't do the computation.

Then he goes on to say that if he supposes a computer capable of doing n computations at once he can get round the restriction he's imposed because he's able to read all the variables at the same time.

How is this supposed to make me think that Turing was wrong?

Having worked on software/hardware interactions quite a bit you actually see this sort of thing happen. Lots of data comes in on different ports and you need to read it all at the same time. This is solved by latching the data into a buffer which the CPU can read at its leisure.

But the fact remains that the function you are computing is actually computable (he gives the example of summing the data). He's just produced an artificial restriction on the computer being incapable of reading the data fast enough. His n-processors is a complicated way of solving what we solve with buffers.

And also who said there's a lower bound on the per-instruction speed of a Turing Machine. Sounds like this guy just needs a faster machine. After all a Turing Machine is an abstract idea, so let's just redefine it's operating speed by a factor of n and his function becomes computable.
>They're not going to value unknown OSS over a test they created themselves.

Because nothing tests a programmer like writing a 5 line string reversal or fibonacci program
Indeed Switzerland seems to seem think that fair internet voting is possible - http://www.geneve.ch/evoting/english/presentation_projet.asp and http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/25/world/main645615.s... describe how they've experimented with it in national elections.
I agree. The author just picked up a reference design kit. It's a whole different matter to design the circuit itself. Picking the right MOSFETs, gate driver IC, feedback system are crucial to great performance. I'm not an audiophile but I know a great Class D engineer/audiophile who's designed a system with a THD+N of 0.003% (The Zetex amplifier the author chose has a THD+N of just 0.1%). It's cool to hear the engineer talk about the "color of sound".

[Addendum] THD+N is a measure of the purity of the output i.e how well the amplified audio signal matches the smaller input audio signal that's fed into the amplifier (from a CD player for example). So the lower the number the better. Typically, the amplifier circuit itself adds some distortions and noise to the actual audio signal. For example, if you fed a pure 1V 1kHz sine signal into the amplifier, your output might be a 20V 1kHz sine wave but with additional signals mixed in. These signals will include inherent noise generated by the amplifier and harmonics generated by the switching nature of the Class-D amplifer (if you look at your audio signal at the output of the MOSFET switches and before the low pass filter, it will look like a square wave or more specifically, a PWM).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_harmonic_distortion
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It's a very big role, especially in early childhood. As the parent points out iodized salt is a big one, another is omega 3 oils.
I'm a little puzzled by the skepticism about Facebook's utility. I don't know about you guys, but losing touch with old friends is something I feel bad about all the time. Facebook let's you keep informed in a shallow way about people who you don't meet often (enough). That's certainly better than being uninformed.

I would actually pay a small amount for something like Facebook.

If you build something with utility, usually it's possible to derive value.
Please.

This is about money. Some armed men have found a way to get extraordinarily rich in third world-countries by seizing undefended tankers and cargo vessels and holding them for ransom. Then they play for sympathy/admiration by saying they're trying to stop fishing and dumping when they're of course not actually bothering fishing vessels or holding any ship with toxic waste for ransom - much less chasing these vessels out of regional waters.

Describing yourself as a champion of the people while making yourself rich is an old, old criminal shtick.
get a life please do u really think this shit is real?
"""We operate one of the most visited Catalyst/DBIC sites in the world with 90 million users and hundreds of millions of pageviews per day"""

I would say this is quite good to have in ANY portofolio. And, if somebody disregards anybody with this experience only because it was a pr0n site... well, worse for them.
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I blame Disney.
Isn't this more or less the same issue as multiple infinities. Whole numbers are infinite but countable, but rationals are infinite and not countable. UTMs are able to compute the infinite but there are infinities that are not computable.
Yeah, bozo test questions are simple enough to do on a whiteboard.
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The server will get further and further behind, but you can not give it work it will never finish.
"If intelligence were deeply encoded in our genes, that would lead to the depressing conclusion that neither schooling nor antipoverty programs can accomplish much."

More optimistically, it means that they're already working pretty well. In a chaotic environment where smart people are likely to be randomly struck down, most variation in intelligence is environmental: The smartest are those who avoid malnutrition, neonatal infections, mothers with drug addictions, etc. In a utopia where everyone receives perfect education and lives up to their full innate potential, all variation is due to genetics, because we're holding everything else constant.

Edit: Less optimistically, it also means that there are no additional gains to be had at the margin. Maybe the benefit of public schooling has been just to sort smart-student pegs into high-paying-job holes, and now that most of that sorting is done there's nothing left for schools to do.
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Something doesn't add up. Ships are dumping toxic waste (including nuclear waste) into Somali waters sickening the population on land, but at the same time other ships are stealing the fish from those waters? Aren't the fish also sickened by the waste?
For non coders:

Rate of learning of features required > rate of retention of features.

That's the real problem even with competent workflow GUI tools.

Workflow is hard. It is very easy to deadlock/livelock which you cannot explain to untrained people consitently.

-- On top of this someone has to version, maintain & support the workflow tool too. BPEL gets represented as magic, but reality intrudes
Did no one else notice that this paper was authored by the C-Store guys, the ones that went on to create and found Vertica (specifically Stonebraker)? They have an intense bias against map/reduce, as could be expected.

As well, one important fact that people seem to have missed is that they admit that m/r was better at loading the tuning the data, a task which in its regular name (ETL) dominates most data warehousing workloads.

Finally, please note the price tags on the solutions advocated by this paper. They are far out of the reach of any startup founders reading this paper. I looked at them at both Commerce360 and Invite Media and they were just nowhere near reasonable enough for us to replace our existing Hadoop infrastructure with.
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Did you read to the end of the article?

Postscript: Some commentators seem bemused by the fact that both toxic dumping and the theft of fish are happening in the same place - wouldn’t this make the fish contaminated? In fact, Somalia’s coastline is vast, stretching 3,300km (over 2,000 miles). Imagine how easy it would be - without any coast guard or army - to steal fish from Florida and dump nuclear waste on California, and you get the idea. These events are happening in different places but with the same horrible effect: death for the locals and stirred-up piracy. There’s no contradiction.
Nifty idea, but I can capitalize words and remove spaces pretty easily on my own without using a web app, especially under a 140-character limit.
The article read more like a condemnation of our selective global policing/reporting, than a defense of the pirates.

And the motives of robbers is always useful information. Crime is often a symptom and treating symptoms directly is rarely an effective approach.
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Expanding on that, it should also be pointed out that this is well-known as being among the list of assumptions that prevent Turing Machines from working in the real world. We speak of "steps", but they do not have any actual relationship to "time". The tape has no obvious relationship to "space", either.

So, right off in the first sentence "I have recently shown that the concept of a Universal Computer cannot be realized.", I thought "well, it's hardly like that's a challenge..."

There's actually some interesting theory here, I think, but it's only obscured by being wrapped in rhetoric about Church-Turing being wrong and such. All mathematical theorems include a set of assumptions, and it's not news that if you change the truth of the assumptions the theorems may stop holding.
While I will definitely concede that there are porn companies that are "ghetto", (the AdultFriendFinder/Penthouse discrimination debacle comes to mind: http://gawker.com/373445/fired-employee-plots-discrimination... ) most large mainstream porn companies are actually very professional. I have friends that work at one of the largest and it's the most professional environment I've ever seen. Everyone is hard at work, slackers aren't tolerated and they have a constant drive to do things faster, better, more efficiently. Competition in porn is fierce, especially at the top. To stay at the top you need to work hard constantly because everyone else is as well.
In both the "body slam" article and this, the titles used on HN were the titles taken directly from the articles as per HN guidelines. I don't like sensationalist headlines either, but the HN users are not to blame.

(I know you didn't explicitly blame the HN users, just wanted to make that point in case someone interprets it that way.)
This reminds me of a spate of incidents that took place in Taiwanese airports back in the 1990s. Passengers who were angry about a flight being late, or perceived poor service, would hold a sit-in after the flight arrived, refusing to get off the plane until the airline apologized (i.e., lost face) and often until some form of "compensation" was issued. It drove airlines and airports crazy because it held up flights and other operations, not to mention the PR damage. But as long as the protests were rewarded with attention and cash/free flights, it only continued. Background is here:

http://bit.ly/2Y9Ewq

I believe these incidents faded away ended after airport police threatened to arrest one planeload of strikers.

I can see the same thing happening in France -- the protesters have widespread support, are not being arrested, and may even force concessions from their employers. Why should they stop?
How do you know which ships are carrying radioactive waste or other toxic chemicals?
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No, living in cheaper countries is cheaper. Be Nomadic in UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria... and it would be much more expensive than doing a sedentary life in Thailand.
It's obviously being encouraged, but self-nomination just seems presumptuous. Shouldn't stop anyone though...at the very least you'll get read by someone in that impressive looking nominating committee.
That's what I was wondering. I was a big fan of Sandy, especially with its (her?) Twitter integration.

Any chance of seeing that, I wonder? Emails are quick to send, but a tweet is even quicker for many people
Stopped reading at mention of "physical variable".
it also has a CD-ROM player!