skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not if you're a subsistence farmer out in the boonies with a bunch of hidden, unregistered guns. :P

As for gold though, it takes a long-term view of the apocalypse. In the immediate aftermath, no one will care about gold. Guns, food, etc will all be at a premium. It might take a decade or so for people to care about gold, and even then enough of the population will probably be dead that gold can be had by looting for jewellery that no longer has an owner.
If you publish your ssh key than it wouldn't be a secret either.
pasuspender
If they are in a meeting, they will most likely be out within the next 30-60 seconds, which is when they will see my email/IM and respond. If they are out for the day, that's at least a one-day delay.
The legislation now before Congress simply allows states to collect sales taxes (if the states have sales taxes) on transactions to residents of their states by online retailers. (There was a special act of Congress that exempted online retailers that don't have "nexus" in a particular state from such taxes.) The immediate effect of this legislation, in my opinion, is that Amazon will open a distribution center in my metropolitan area, located in a state with sales tax, and offer same-day delivery for Prime customers. And I will probably take up Amazon on that offer rather than shop in my locally owned retail chains such as Target (walking distance from my home) and BestBuy (which I loathe shopping at, and hardly ever visit). The United States Senators from my state support allowing states to impose sales taxes on online retail transactions, because Target and BestBuy (and some other large retailers) employ a lot of their constituents, and because new tax revenue for Minnesota will be spent by a governor and legislature who belong to the same political party they do. But I will shop at Amazon if this happens. The new law is not going to hurt my favorite online retailer at all.
> There is civil war.

There is NO civil war in Syria.

There is a campaign of terrorism waged by NATO, specifically Turkey , Qatar, Isreal, UK, France to secure the transit for the South Pars/North Dome gas field.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/08/20128513344...

What's at stake? About $200 billion annual output between Iran & Qatar. That's about $360,000 per SECOND.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pars_/_North_Dome_Gas-Con...

Global Research has the best analysis out there:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/search?q=syria
My beloved is a clinical social worker of two decades experience in hospice, oncology, Alzheimer's and geriatrics. There are effective talking therapies, but they are not of the ten-years of Freudian analysis once a week variety - taking payment to listen to a wealthy person complain is a business.

By its nature therapy is about meeting an individual's individual needs. What is appropriate for one boy's fidgeting is not appropriate for another's. Or in programming terms, there needs to be a closure over each person's circumstances and behavior. Mental health standardization is how we wound up with asylums and witch trials.
You're missing Throwaway's point entirely. The context from higher in the thread:

> I'm not sure what they are supposed to show.

In other words, "in the context of what argument are you presenting this data?" Throwaway is saying that the person presenting the data needn't have an intended conclusion; it doesn't need to be part of an argument at all. It's OK, in fact preferred, for it just to be data from which you can draw conclusions, or decide there are no interesting conclusions to draw.
> American economic prowess may decrease relative to the rest of the world

Not just decrease but get overtaken by.

- Our public K-12 education is a pile of shit and our colleges are riding on a public dollars bubble that makes the housing crash look like spilled water. Any attempt to deal with the problem ignites fury over teachers' rights, causing policy makers to run shitting their pants to the nearest podium to apologize.

- At every possible juncture, policy decision is leaning on pervading status quo: patents, bullshit municipal license bureaucracies, congressional players pandering to businesses, not constituents

- Health is a disaster, and even with Obamacare, it's looking like it got neutered just enough to do precisely shit for the long term. People go bankrupt to get care, if they can even get it.

- Culturally, a sweeping wave of anti-intellectualism has taken hold and bolsters everything above. We can't get anyone to care about any of these issues if they're fucking retarded.

- All the while, the smartest, very smartest people in our country are jacking each other off in silicon valley inventing the next cat-picture collection app, while the economic, technological and social divides keep growing. They're more interested in becoming their idoled psychopathic CEOs than actually fucking solving real problems. They're living in an absolute bubble, unaware of what 60% of the country cares about or actually needs.

How are we supposed to be the leader of anything if we're in a constant state of regression?
The encryption keys are useless. The decryption keys are what's important. You do have a point that they could have theoretically intercepted HTTP(S) POSTs, but I don't think anyone's claimed that they actually did that.
Wow. I was talking about (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexplay) so there's a few different systems around.

> Flexplay is a trademark for a DVD-compatible optical video disc format with a time-limited (usually 48-hour) playback time. They are often described as "self-destructing" although the disc merely turns black and does not physically disintegrate. The same technology was used by Disney's Buena Vista Home Entertainment under the name ez-D.
My only real problem with a "race to the bottom" is when the competition is between countries with differences on subjects like human rights, since then it puts pressure on those involved to lower their own standards on those important issues as well, until they reach equilibrium. Otherwise I'd call it healthy competition, which I consider constructive in any democracy.
“[T]he United States cannot afford another decline like that which has characterized the past decade and a half….[O]nly self-delusion can keep us from admitting our decline to ourselves.”

– Henry A. Kissinger, 1961

I guess if you repeat it long enough, you'll eventually be right.
It's not necessarily only about the importance of the actual concern or question.

In my experience, customers appreciate it a lot if you get back to them in a timely manner (~30 minutes), regardless of how trivial the issue or question is. It helps you build a reputation as a reliable businessperson, and further helps you build a good relationship with that customer.
Most of them. As soon as you have any real cash flow, you engage accountants.
They're not sneakily grabbing; investors know what they're getting into. Furthermore, Coinbase makes real money on every trade.

In a gold prospecting rush, it's good to be in the shovel and provisions business. Even better if people will pay you to take the shovel back if they decide to stop prospecting.
nice to see Ray Dalio's principles get a shoutout, although I wouldn't necessarily describe it as a "culture guide". Seems like there could be a section here on "system building".
Previous submission of main article, which has been on the front page of HN for several hours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5669179

By the way, I agree with the several comments there that the hypothesis mentioned in the article is far from generally accepted by linguists. (That's probably why the underlying scientific study was published in PNAS rather than in Language or Science, where I'd expect a truly path-breaking paper in linguistics to be published.)
In San Francisco at least, food trucks and carts pay the city a fairly hefty fee to operate and park.

It would be difficult to justify a demand system since day passes for parking meters are sold for things like moving trucks well ahead of time (how do you price something on a random Tuesday two weeks ahead of time?). However, the day parking passes are quite expensive (~$200 for 4 spots all day), so I'm not sure that even at peak demand, the city would make more than that in meter fees.
This is not what VAT is. Import duty is separate. VAT is paid on EVERY step when the product is sold/resold. So the wholesaler pays VAT when buying a product from the manufacturer, then a local shop is paying VAT while buying the product from the wholesaler, and then the customer is paying VAT once again while purchasing the product. Oh,and if the value of the product is over a certain value, they need to pay VAT again if they want to resale the product to somebody else as well! So you end up paying VAT even several times in this chain from manufacturer to the customer.
MAME/MESS certainly boasts of favoring accuracy, but the results are hit and miss.

When you emulate an arcade architecture with three games made for it, you don't have much code to stress test your emulation. Nor can you really expect someone to spend ten years perfecting completely unused hardware features for a system with 100% compatibility already.

Much work is put into emulating 3D video chipsets in software, which is fantastic for preservation (unless you like that most N64 emulators to this day rely on 3dfx Glide wrappers); and then they seemingly throw out all of that goodwill by implementing their CRT simulation using HLSL, which only runs on Windows boxes. Even GLSL would have been much more in line with their portability vision. It's just a weird contradiction.

And then of course, most of the MESS cores simply don't have the volunteers to compete with the standalone emulators.

And here is the concern I have with both MAME/MESS and Exodus: the idea that you can build a system by linking up some discrete components and call it a day. It's great on paper, and practically a necessity when you start emulating dozens of systems with many shared features. But no two chips are exactly alike. There are countless variations of 6502's with slightly different opcodes (the NES' Ricoh 2A03 famously disabled BCD due to patent concerns) and timings. A lot of chips have a lot of functionality that is simply never used. Example: the SNES CPU and Apple II GS both have the WDC 65816's /ABORT line, yet it's not connected to anything on the SNES; it would be foolish for an SNES emulator to add the special abort handling to every opcode even though it's impossible to use. And now look at ARM: every last ARM vendor adds their own spin on chips. Sure, you could make a generic ARM core, and fill it with a billion #ifdef's for each chip manufacturer, but then you'll end up with, well, ... a mess.

And then the whole system for interconnecting everything ... when the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail. Architectures like MESS are about having one design that hundreds of volunteers can jump into, understand, and start extending to rapidly support new systems. But this results in code that doesn't much resemble how the original hardware worked, and in fact simply becomes a nuisance when design limitations prevent increasing accuracy further. For instance, MESS' SNES emulation is suffering due to this reason.

If you want optimum code for a specific system, I think you need to design a specific emulator around that system's unique design characteristics and challenges. But I also think the MAME/MESS approach serves a vital role as well in handling the more obscure systems that can't get the same level of attention as a classic console with a 4000+ game library. If not for MESS, we wouldn't have Super A'can emulation, for instance.
> they'll never understand the difference between something they just happen to like or believe and something that is universally Right, Good, and True.

I guarantee you a "night" person came up with that.
I doubt that would work with NAFTA, and allowing Mexico and Canada a free ride but taxing farther countries would be odd.
Actually, in recent years Disney has been hitting it out of the park, at least for children's features, when it comes to their DVD front-matter. They respect the "title menu" button and even pop up the absurdly-named "fastplay" option before the trailers explaining that you just hit "enter" to jump to the DVD menu (the ridiculous "fastplay" option really means "play all the trailers then immediately play the feature film, like you'd experience at the movie theatre - no menu appears".

While it's got some silly doublespeak there, the end result is that the DVD actually lets me skip the trailers. I have a lot of other children's movies that I have to mash the "skip" button or even (horror of horrors) have to fast forward the front-matter.
Kind of random, but this looks very similar to Ming (php plugin) which renders flash in a very similar manner. I open-sourced a library for rendering animations using it just a few days ago (although the project itself it 6 years old) - https://github.com/erbbysam/ming-icanimate

Thanks for this, I'm probably going to spend some time recreating that ming-icanimate rendering system with two.js
No, that would be http://html5zombo.com/ ;)
What do you think caused it for him? Was it letting his skills become outdating and not staying up with the current trends in the field?

Sincerely,
A 20 something programmer
html is for the browser to read not people.
Stick around, in the next few years we might just get a federal VAT to go with the state sales taxes.
Can you comment on some of the things I've heard about Bitcoin which might prevent its mass adoption?

- The network imposes a limit of 7 transactions per second (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability); and the information I've seen suggests that it typically averages much less than that (http://blockchain.info/en/charts/n-transactions).

- There is a finite number of Bitcoins, and they can effectively be lost forever if private keys are lost. This has led to people doing things like leaving tips in BTC which expire (https://www.bctip.org/).

This is disregarding the volatility of the price and the fact that it seems to behave like a speculative commodity rather than a real currency -- what is your vision of "mass adoption" of Bitcoin?
What does this have to do with anything? "Chattel" is a basic legal term; it's used in every state of the US.

Rayiner, who is a lawyer, presumably typed his comment with his mouth wide open and his forehead bleeding from being pounded on the desk. There isn't a lawyer in the country who doesn't know what the term means. Presumably, your comments are to a legal professional what the guys who invent their own ridiculous substitution ciphers are to professional cryptographers.
There's another important class of transactions that are reversed: mining outputs. In order to accept a payment from someone while isolated from the network, you have to carefully check that all the coins they're sending you were generated before the split, or else those coins will evaporate at some point in the future.
Key quote from Fred Wilson: “If Bitcoin really becomes the global currency that every country and every business accepts, and Coinbase becomes the JP Morgan Chase of Bitcoin, that could be worth a lot of money.”
This is one of the dumber comments ever on HN.
Recent transplant to California, and I now have to go back to Oregon whenever I make a major purchase. A weekend trip to see friends, have an Amazon order shipped to them.
How long before Google kills Google voice?
Using the reasoning they uesed to kill Reader, I can't imagine them keeping voice around much longer. I'm sure it has far less users and obviously has very little development resources allocated to it.
If you're willing to jump through some hoops, you don't have to spill. You can recover the pointers on the stack by making all function calls return a flag indicating whether it's a normal return or a stack scan for GC. If a function returns the stack scan flag, you register the local variables in the current stack frame to the GC, and then you return the stack scan flag from that function. This way it unrolls the entire stack and you scan everything.

Of course you've now destroyed the stack, so either you have to copy the stack before this process starts and later restore it, or you introduce stack restoring functions as a source to source transformation. The former is probably simpler and faster, but the latter is neat because it doesn't use any hacks like copying the stack, and because it allows you to restore only part of the stack and keep part of it in the heap and restore it lazily, which is important for GC pause times if you have very deep stacks.

The disadvantage of this approach compared to the ideal is that now all function returns get slower, because they have to check the flag. However it's probably better than spilling everything, especially if you inline enough so that function calls are infrequent.

Example:

def f(...):
var x;
var y;
...
z = g(...)
...

becomes:

def f(...):
var x;
var y;
...
z = g(...)
if STACKSCAN:
register_gc_root(x)
register_gc_root(y)
return // scan parent stack frame
....
Regarding no gassy planets near our sun: The rocky ones, including earth, [are supposedly the cores of old gassy ones](http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/4220/rocky-planets-could-h...).
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Yes, I know what VAT is. The US does not have VAT, and would need either an import duty or a requirement that sales tax be paid on imports for the situation to be equivalent to the EU... and that is not part of the bill AFAIK.
I am sure that someone said that same quote about [printing press/calculator/CSS/etc.] one time. Not comparing Meteor to these other inventions but tend to dismiss the argument that "X new technology will make my job easier and this is a bad thing."
Brick-and-mortar businesses collect, at most, two sales taxes. Even if a customer from every single state walks in their door. They can engage one local accountant and pretty much have all their questions about tax classification of different products/services, filing requirements, etc. covered.

Online retailers will have to collect, at most, 53 different taxes, under 53 different tax codes, remitted to 53 different entities all with audit rights. That's not really the same.
ehm...I pay lots of money to Google Voice. I think the difference is Google Voice actually has a revenue stream...
They have a location in Tucson that never has a line.
>Or does it rely on other APIs, such as Foursquare?

It does, according to their Twitter feed.
Sure: Generating good diagnostics requires a large quantity of infrastructure, much of which is inherent to the compiler's design and not something readily ported piecemeal. That's not to say one compiler won't learn and benefit from changes in the other, but reimplementing features in a very different design is more than a simple "copy".
Absolutely, all praise should go to Jonas for this great tool! I am merely a happy user sharing my experience.
How is Bitcoin shady?
Obviously 2. Bitcoin is pretty useless if you don't have a dependable electrical grid or internet. I'd rather have $10,000 in USD, EUR or GLD than $1M in Bitcoin in a war zone where I had no other funds. Heck, I'd rather have gasoline or coffee than bitcoin.
Are you arguing that patents should have as long a lifetime as copyright?? Also what country has a 24 year patent protection?
"And this is what bitcoiners and similar don't understand."

Replace "bitcoiners" with "crypto-anarchists" and your argument is more plausible. I like bitcoin, but I have never considered it the answer to a civil war type situation. In those situations, wealth is equivalent to utility (food, gas, water, and yes, guns).
My accountant would not be able to handle a XX-fold increase in the number of tax codes, forms and filings he has to handle per-client. We're going to have to train more accountants.
You're assuming the app is a joke. I see no indication the app isn't real.
What disturbs me is how many people in other countries (like the USA) feel that this type of thing could never happen here. However, it seems that even in the US the internet could be controlled by the government/army if they so desired and various proposed 'internet control' legislation packages seem to push us one step closer toward that possibility.
As 'they' finally 'catch up'. To what really? Honest question. What do you think the rest of the world needs to catch up on?
I wasn't talking about what's legal, I was talking about what's ethical and/or economically efficient. States didn't tax online sales because there was no legal framework for doing so, so online retailers were able to gain an edge over local businesses by locating outside the states, avoiding the taxes. That is inefficient because it means firms are taxed differently based on an arbitrary aspect of how their business is run.

You're claiming that' it's somehow treating them differently, but I call bullshit. Building an online retail site and marketing nationally is comparable to Best Buy building stores in all states, and of course one expense of doing that is having to pay sales taxes in all the states.

> even if they have customers from all 50 states come by and make a purchase

That is an edge case that is rare in practice and is difficult to exploit. If it was a huge problem then yeah I'd agree they should make a special tax setup for it (and this DOES exist: if you live in Washington and buy a car in Oregon, they will come for the sales tax: http://askville.amazon.com/Washington-State-resident-buy-car...). I would certainly agree that if they are delivering products to all the states then yes, they should have to pay sales taxes to all the states that they delivered to, and if this law doesn't handle that case then yeah, I think it should.
The novelty is in the presentation and execution.
Hi Jeff, how would better search have helped you? Are there people who actually search for certain kinds of games on the App Store?
Let's put it this way: if it is a crime to exchange USD for Bitcoin, where are you going to get your Bitcoin money? Bitcoin would die overnight if exchanges went away, and most people are not going to send an envelope full of cash to some shady person on the Internet.
I don't agree. Maybe you could ask your accountant? I guess at some point I could ask ours too.
Adobe doesn't care about you.
I'm sure creative cloud is great for agencies that use all the included apps and need all the latest features. However, they are completely ignoring the casual user.

I still run a copy of cs4. I'll fire up Photoshop or illustrator every now and again. But not enough to justify a monthly subscription.

All of a sudden everyone is chasing that recurring revenue weather you need it or not. They are shooting themselves in the foot. The cloud has its place and its use. But the spin they are putting on to justify cloud service pricing for a desktop application is silly. I think Adobe and EA have been drinking from the same fountain...
I downvoted you because you imply that government collecting and recording data about their citizens is the same as citizen collecting and recording data about their government. You don't support such implication with anything, and just states it as an fact.

It is false. Actions made by Government, and actions made by private people has different effects on society.

A transparent government is a good thing. it allows for accountability and protects the individual. Its the only defense against power abuse.

A lack of privacy for the individual is a bad thing. It destroy modern society, breaks the court system, and encourage politics to focus on conservative efforts against political threats. Suddenly, one can identify any future political leaders before they has risen to a point of power.

If a popular smarthpone allowed people to identify any movement of an other person, FSF would likely not cheer on. Such app would be used to steal identify, provide stalkers with location data, allowed thieves to know where house owners are, and so on.