skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your didn't show anything of the sort. Your understanding of the underlying science is weak.

Oil is a fundamental part of our food making process. Something that's 1x EROEI positive is not remotely analogous to oil at 100x. Oil is used throughout the entire process from pesticides to mechanical farming instruments to shipping. Any small change in pice, availability or EROEI of alternatives affect all elements of the chain. We currently add about 10 calories of oil per calorie of food produced. This is unsustainable. Oil production is at or near peak flow rates. This is widely understood by folks in the industry, of which I was once one. Oil's relationship to food and population is complex and multifaceted but it is absolutely tied to it at this point.

This is a problem both in terms of oil as a feedstock and as an energy source. You cannot separate these out.

I really am interested what this mythical new energy source is you have in mind. I suspect you understand properly neither the science behind nuclear nor solar which also have significant full life cycle EROEI issues and are dependent on other resource inputs.

Further NPK inputs to agriculture are also incredibly energy intensive - go checkout some pictures of phosphorous mining to get an idea. The original point I was making was that the Green revolution and other solutions of the past bought us temporary respite. Exponential curves don't continue forever in the real world.
It doesn't take a propagandised population to hate Western people, it takes a propagandised population to be surprised at that hatred.
I don't read news anymore. I haven't, for years.

After reading a newspaper I didn't remember anything of what I had read. I was as well off after reading the paper as before reading it. The same with internet news sites, there's just... news, everywhere. It doesn't seem to stick, and it doesn't change my life.

If something truly important happens, the information will eventually trickle down to myself via friends and friends of friends. I can then look it up on the internet, and read more.
3 Reasons Why I Now Like Litecoin
The Birth of Video Recording.
Location based services like Foursquare require users to be successful. No user base = no service. I was pretty big on Foursquare for a while but the whole earning badges for checking in places thing became a chore more-so than it did fun and I eventually stopped using it.

The problem with location based services is they require effort and if you don't reward that effort or reward it half-assed then it will just get old and eventually people will stop using it. That's what happened to Foursquare I do believe.

As it has been pointed out, location aware is the future. Your phone does the work for you, you don't need to open an app the app alerts you when a predetermined action or event triggers an alert. "Alert me when a train that stops at my desired stop is in the area between 5.30pm and 6.30pm", etc.
".. the best interests of all parties involved, they would minimize the interference." is not really true - this scenario is well researched, and the usual expected result is 'tragedy of commons', where all parties suffer and ruin things for everyone until either (a) consolidation causes an effective monopoly or a strong cartel, or (b) regulation.
Yeah ok but this is not regional, this is global.
It has done quite well so far and I can't think of a better global currency with no one controlling it and with the same utility as today.

Maybe gold a long time ago but still doesn't fully compare
There's also the fact that he's treating Ayn Rand as a serious philosopher instead of a base political propagandist.
Most people can't afford to pay for regular cleanings, and 1 root canal every 4 years is not "worst case" for many of those people. You really need to check your socio-economic privilege here.
You can read the history of Obama's and Congress' battle here:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/pr...

This is very sad ... but what do you think is the reason they can't close this center since 2008? Who is responsible for this state of affairs and what can be done?
That seems to make sense. They need to get it signed pronto, especially considering how popular the domain actually is. Aside: do you find it strange .co.ke brought together spells Coke?
This is all well and good, yet doesn't matter if the majority have no interest in seeing them enforced.
Well, given that it's just a rock and doesn't have any people inside, it can be moved very slowly, eg by applying a tiny amount of thrust over a couple of years.
> I'm not going to speak on all libertarians, but my world view is pretty much that you can possess finite scarce goods and call them "yours" (things made of atoms)

If ownership only extends to things made of atoms, then you'd agree that it's totally okay for me to build my house on your land so long as it hovers an inch over the dirt and grass that comprises your ownership. Otherwise, you're claiming ownership of an incorporeal thing--the geographic coordinates that encompass not just your land but the space above it.

> Radios are scarce, but the range and ability to produce electromagnetic waves at certain frequencies is not scarce with said radio.

Ownership of spectrum is not a monopoly on the right to produce electromagnetic waves of a certain frequency. It's a monopoly on the right to invade certain areas of space with electromagnetic waves of a certain frequency. The FCC doesn't care what frequencies you transmit on in a lead-lined room on your own property.
The teleprompter thing started to die once the entire field of Republican candidates was winnowed down to the single non-crazy one who was perfectly happy to use a teleprompter.
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I am a pretty extreme libertarian (kind of a nutter) and keep getting worse at it, but the reason that argument is flawed is that it assumes anyone can own electromagnetic radiation frequency. It is in the same realm as owning wavelengths of visible light. It is a government construct, like patents and copyright, that have no natural scarcity to them, but has scarcity and ownership artificially implied, enforced through violence of law.

So are coal and land and money. All property is a government construct. Stop pretending otherwise.
"Haskell Propaganda: OOP programming couples code and data together in unnatural ways. Typeclasses are a better way of structuring logic."

should be

"Inheritance couples code and data together in unnatural ways. Typeclasses are a better way of structuring logic."
I thought they all used teleprompters. Who doesn't?
You're not taking into the account the time it takes to accumulate the necessary savings! For many people who start their businesses it may as well be 5-7 years.

You're also not taking into the account such investments as buying a house. In many non-western countries people actually save for that instead of borrowing. It is still an investment that creates jobs and inflation hurts that.
> So the difference is not that the type system would catch this sort of behavior or even that it would prevent it--the difference is that it wouldn't arise in the first place.

Or perhaps the program wouldn't even get written in the first place. The problem I have with straight jacket languages, I have to think long and hard about how to do something that the type system doesn't allow easily, especially when you consider all the premature commitments being made. You can argue that this is good, that the program will be more robust for it, but...often worse is better.
Yes, DVI was popular there for a while, and there are an assortment of others, but HDMI seems to have outpaced DVI in my encounters (and the others are quite niche: some Mac, Intel, etc...). DVI is still attractive, but things are shipping without it in favor of HDMI (in my experiences), and that only further helps extend VGA's lifespan. People already have VGA cables, and their only "upgrade" path to digital is often HDMI, so VGA remains the lesser of evils based on price and personal lifestyle/ethics.
Sounds like a good startup idea: A crowdsourced CPI.

Google maps inside grocery stores: Use video in phones to capture UPC and price per unit in grocery store aisles.

This way true inflation can be measured, instead of only tracking certain products, and excluding others.
Just to comment on one of the issues in the thread: not everyone uses a command line editor or even an editor which can be easily invoked from the command line (though I do), so requiring a special command, "git edit-link", to edit some inherently textual data that seems to work perfectly well being stored as a normal text file in the repository, is a little gross.
CoffeeScript is horribly... stabby? Its ambiguous syntax makes it easy to hurt yourself.

And node.js, while great, is not magic.

I would also much rather use Python's classes than do JS OOP or use CS classes. That said, I use node.js more often than Python.
What would happen if all the miners got together and demanded a code change that benefited miners, like perhaps increase the mining reward? Assuming the devs disagreed with the change, would the BTC community have any way to prevent this alliance of miners from updating the code themselves, deploying it everywhere, and using their overwhelming mining power to maintain the longest block chain and thereby making the code change a reality?
I love that idea! What seem to us to be implausible, to the code it looks like nothing other than a legitimate strategy.

The issue for modern games is the amount of memory used.
Seriously? Is that what happened? Completely unprovoked, the government did something bad?

I kinda read that he broke the law and the government were prosecuting him for it.
It's not an application of a GA at all. Before dismissing something, it's best to understand it.
Here is the whitepaper: http://www.ppcoin.org/static/ppcoin-paper.pdf And here is a FAQ: https://github.com/ppcoin/ppcoin/wiki/FAQ It is all very new - so sure it's not a bitcoin replacement yet and it might still have many holes in the protocol.
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It is not centralized - have a look at the whitepaper: http://www.ppcoin.org/static/ppcoin-paper.pdf
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I once thought about starting a news service that only publishes good news, but the problem would be, that probably nobody would read it.
It doesn't matter that the Zero Coin is computationally easy to create, because the Zero Coin doesn't have any value until it's embedded in a Mint transaction in the block chain. Mint transactions will only be accepted by the network if an equivalent value in Bitcoin is burned in the same transaction.
so you assume that "solving unhappiness" is the end goal - to which i m arguing that its not. Unhappiness is but a symptom of some problem (currently, its the lack of wealth and material for 90% of the population). If for some reason, everyone managed to get converted into buhdism and not feel any of the unhappiness that they'd otherwise have felt, did the situation really improve? Aren't they just tricking themselves into thinking they are in a state of enlightenment?
For those that are interested, you can play a javascript version of original PDP-1 spacewar! here:

http://spacewar.oversigma.com/html5/

According to the excellent wikipedia article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar! ) there is only one PDP-1 which is currently operational, and yes it does play spacewar!
I can see a mix where some parts are done by hardware, ECC comes in there. Other things should be done in software (FTL, error recovery, RAID).

The block interface itself is actually matching the flash, you read/write/erase in blocks, they may not be 512 bytes but rather 4k/8k/256k whatever works for the underlying hardware.
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/
No, you don't move them. You release them, all.

You have not charged them with any crimes for the past 10 years and have not put them on trials. The problem is not the location of the prison. The problem is you are shitting on Habeas corpus.
So, put your savings in an interest bearing account. Doesn't seem to be rocket science to me.
Me too. It's one of the only ways of keeping people that make long-term predictions accountable. Usually, no one calls them out if they were wrong, they only get the attention and praise if they were right.
they have editors, and the editors are there to give it a cohesive voice, which implies a mind.
> Yes. Pen testers are rattling off the ~60% of passwords that were chosen poorly, all of which were chosen by methods other than the one detailed in the comic.

But the crux of my point is that the comic doesn't necessarily teach good password habits. I do happen to work in infosec† and I've lost count of the number of pseudo-techies that rattle off that comic as evidence that obvious passwords can be secure without taking into account that they need to do more than just concatenating two words together.

You keep taking about ideal world scenarios (people picking passphrases and sites having sufficient max char limit on password fields to fit any conceivable passphrase), but people are idiots. So I'd sooner see idiots type a 10 char password from a pool of ~70 characters than two guessable words concatenated.

So my point was born out of frustration of having to advise and apply security policies for clients.

† I'm not just saying that to sound like an authority on the subject by the way. I know how some people "name drop" / lie about such things to prove a point :)

> I'm coming to the realization (giving you some credit) that your objection may be to a specific piece of the comic's particular presentation: "random" is often used to mean "arbitrary" and people might think they can do it in their head?

YES!!!!

You and I might understand the maths behind the comic, but many readers just see "words can be secure" and then just pick their dogs name and their favorite footballer. Randal's message gets lost because (and as with all of his comic) he assumes a certain level of intelligence to begin with.

> Regarding the last, I don't think we were ever arguing about passphrases in general, but about a particular way of generating them... passphrase really just means "long password", more or less, and that doesn't provide a lot of guidance as to how to come up with one, and leaving people to their own devices is how we wind up with ~60% of passwords being horribly crackable.

I think that's fair to say. Plus as I said before, I'm all in favor of passphrases. I just don't like regular words used as passwords. I know passphrases and passwords generally refer to the same thing, but I make the distinction because the former (passphrase) suggests multiple words, which agrees with your sentiments about how longer groups of common words can be secure and why I keep saying I'm fulling in favor of passphrases. Where as the latter (passwords) suggests something a little more basic (eg the dogfootball facepalm I described above). At least that's how I make the distinction between a password following Randal's advice that's secure, and one that's insecure.
It doesn't matter if he's guilty or not, he could be Hitler for all I care. He should be charged and tried, not tortured for 10 years.
I would support you if you want to go after the people that made this happen, that said if you want to clean up the mess as it currently is, then you'll have to work out how to get it done. Complaining about how it shouldn't have happened in the first place doesn't translate into action now to remedy the situation.
Can you give a concrete example? Generally if there's something that Haskell's type system won't allow you to do, you shouldn't be doing it in Python either.
January 22nd, 2009:

"EXECUTIVE ORDER -- REVIEW AND DISPOSITION OF INDIVIDUALS DETAINED AT THE GUANTÁNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE AND CLOSURE OF DETENTION FACILITIES

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in order to effect the appropriate disposition of individuals currently detained by the Department of Defense at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Guantánamo) and promptly to close detention facilities at Guantánamo..."

- http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ClosureOfGuantana...

"The bill also prohibits any spending on detention facilities in the U.S. for present-day Guantanamo detainees."

- http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=741&sid=2226350
This would be the same McCain who, just in December, shot down the idea that Gitmo prisoners could be transferred to the United States, right?

http://www.politico.com/story/2012/11/84379.html
This all comes down to a distinction that is not made in the article at all. One has a choice in engaging the news: one can be a passive consumer of whatever gets thrown at one, or one can be a thoughtful consumer who directs one's own reading/viewing of the news. None of the issues mentioned by the author apply to the latter approach.

In a highly interconnected, multicultural, technological world, it is more important than ever for the ordinary citizen (let alone the entrepreneur, thinker, or "creative type") to be aware of what is going on in the world, and on every scale (global to local). The author's recommendation would lead to a radical disengagement that would be suitable only for those aspiring to be hermits or stylites.
>> There's plenty of time for those competitors to catch up to AWS by 2020.

Very true, but this fails to take into account that Amazon will not stay stagnant till 2020 for competitors to catch up.

Because Amazon already have a healthy majority of the users/marketshare, they are perhaps better positioned to understand and innovate upon the future needs of these customers, and keep building their product offerings by anticipating where the "puck is going to be."

With that said, nothing is set in stone, so competitors might as well overtake AWS by 2020, but if I had to bet my money, I'd bet it on Amazon.
South Africa has a site like that: http://www.sagoodnews.co.za/
How do you test a) ? How do you know what you don't know? :) It seems like you're saying that something is not important if you do not find out about it..
There was a bunch of Chinese text. Chromium asked me if I wasted to translate it. The English text "connection reset by peer" was in and amongst the Chinese characters. No clue. Similar layout to the old IE error pages, maybe an IIS error page?

It does seem to be working for me now.
> When I was at home in Yemen, in 2000, a childhood friend told me that in Afghanistan I could do better than the $50 a month I earned in a factory, and support my family. I’d never really traveled, and knew nothing about Afghanistan, but I gave it a try.

Sorry but this account is troubling. He went to Afghanistan during the Taliban extremely insane cruel anti-woman Islamist totalitarian regime and expected a better life? That's like someone saying he traveled to Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime and expected a better pay as he didn't know anything about Cambodia at the time. This alone takes the credibility away from this story for me.

The rest is an account about how they are force feeding him because of is voluntary hunger strike. Anyone knows how hunger strikes are handled in other penitentiaries? Not sure they can just let the prisoners die.
Just to relate this to known concepts, this is basically Type Coercion, aka Implicit Type Conversion, at library level. Or it can be framed as method overloading with some magic to neutralize the parameters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_conversion#Implicit_type_c...

I don't think magic like this is out of place with JS; that's the zen of the language. Similarly for Ruby. Whereas in Java or Python, it would be out of place. Now you might use that as an argument against JS, but that's a separate debate.
I don't see how his answer was naive. I think we've reached a low point as a people if believing an elected official will actually attempt to keep his campaign promises is naive.
James Althucher is a writer who has lived through a bunch of nasty experiences, and now writes about what he's learnt.

In his writing he often preaches to cut yourself off from news.

Here's an article I found quickly that makes reference to avoiding stress sources like news:
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/09/how-to-cure-stress-befo...
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How would miners demand? They can't say "do it or we'll stop mining", there will be plenty of competition out there willing to take their job. As for deploying the code themselves - it's not like you can deploy it and force people to use it, every individual user decides which client or version of a client to use voluntarily. They would have to convince people to switch to their fork.
If there is no clean accusation: let them go where ever they want to go and compensate them for the time in jail. That would be the normal way democracies should deal with such things. If there is a clean accusation, they can be brought to any other jail in the US.
One of the main reasons I come to Hacker News is because a) the upvoted articles tend to be of high quality and in-depth, and b) the comments section tends to have even greater depth of discussion and variation of opinion.

I think both those points make HN fall outside the article's criticism, for the most part.
I think you covered 99% of America here:

"Your argument rests on the flawed premise that the reader is a passive fool waiting to be spoon-fed their morning panic ration."
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Define "direct support" for inheritance. IMO, a symbol named inherit doesn't have to exist for there to be inheritance.

Here is a blog post answering your exact questions:
http://areyoufuckingcoding.me/2012/07/25/object-desoriented-...

Here are examples of inheritance in Go:
http://golangtutorials.blogspot.com/2011/06/inheritance-and-...
http://diveintogo.blogspot.com/2010/03/classic-inheritance-i...
> For real life examples, see the classic USA situations of railway and oil magnates in 19th century - these monopolies weren't caused by the state and regulations, but by lack of it.

In the case of Standard Oil, the consumers benefited greatly from the practices of Rockefeller. Despite controlling 90% of the market at one point, its output quadrupled in a single decade (1880-1890) and prices of kerosene dropped by threefold over the same time period. Standard Oil was simply the best at what it did and succeeded as a result. During the early 1900s, the market shifted away from kerosene to gasoline (thanks to Ford) and there was a large amount of competition entering that market. Its market share in oil production fell from 1898 to 1906 from 34% to 11%. Yet it was only in 1911 that Standard Oil was broken up by the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (which, funnily enough, was passed in 1890: at the end of the decade of massive increases in production and decreases in price by Standard Oil). The fact is that, in this case, the market function properly in spite of government interference, not thanks to it.

Funny that you mention the railroads as well. The biggest threat to competition was not the companies in the free market, but instead railroad companies in control of the ICC, created in 1887. It was this government entity which allowed railroad companies, through law, to eliminate competition and screw the consumer by raising rates in a collusive manner.
Which university is this?
That would be great. It certainly doesn't need to be for my personal gain. More of an exercise than anything.