skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it nonlinear even if you have a maximum number of digits in the numbers you're sorting (like say, 64-bit integers)?
Yeah BFS/DFS are O(n) for graphs and trees.
Growth in wages and better working conditions broadly followed the growth in labor productivity. I see labor protection laws as a lagging indicator of worker well-being that are only passed when a society is rich enough to afford them.
What I think of the new Google Compose
>Except that Hofstadter, other than writing about his ideas and theories, has accomplished jack shit.

Why would he have to accomplish anything else? He is not an inventor, he is a writer.

>Pragmatically speaking, Kurzweil is miles ahead of Hofstadter in terms of putting his theories and ideas to practice.

I don't think so. He merely invented some low hanging fruit in early computer science, like OCR and text recognition. Things on which other people worked and had results too.

And things that, even now, 3 and 4 decades after his inventions, are miles BEHIND of his expectations of them, and somewhat of a disappointment still.

>It's very easy to criticize visionaries, until they achieve something.

And it's equally easy to be a "visionary", if you don't have to also achieve those visions. Visionaries are a dime a dozen, especially in California.
Embarrassingly enough I expected this to be an article about chicken's eggs.
No, but at the very least I expect them to be legally bound to respond(in any way) to a 911 call, and not be able to just tell people to fuck off.
Well, I guess we just disagree on the definition of rent-seeking. Matching willing buyers and sellers creates value by increasing the satisfaction of both the buyer and the seller since both should be better off after the transaction. The facilitator who creates more mutually beneficial trades is increasing the wellbeing of society as a whole. From wikipedia "Rent-seeking behavior is distinguished in theory from profit-seeking behavior, in which entities seek to extract value by engaging in mutually beneficial transactions." SilkRoad is not rent seeking because they are not looking to change or increase the transaction friction and regulatory control of the drug trade for their own benefit. That is why rent-seeking is usually used to describe entities trying to create a government policy which benefits them but hinders mutual exchange of others. To define rent-seeking is such a loose way as to cover all facilitators who don't produce anything directly is to distort it's original meaning and make the word useless to describe true rent-seeking.
> Eventually I realized it was an upper-crust blue blooded Ivy League thing, a bizarre hybrid where people are intellectually open minded but socially unbelievably reserved

Huh, I'd always thought Boston was widely known to be an intellectually liberal, upper-crust, blue-blooded, Ivy League city. My guess is that this isn't news to a lot of people in the US.

I really have to disagree with your characterization that people don't socialize much & keep to themselves. People may seem cold here at first, but once you make friends here they'll often be great friends for life and see each other often.

I've heard just the opposite from friends of mine that have moved to the west cost, i.e. that it's easy to make friends there but it's often not a long term thing.
He's an anarcho-capitalist, not an objectivist. The two groups often disagree on many things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_and_Objectivism
HK grew off opium trafficking and money laundering, any other examples?
Show HN: Tired of outrageous hotel charges at WWDC, I created this.
There were lots of private highways and roads in early US history[1]. I'm not saying it's always and everywhere a good idea, but the historical reality or private roads suggests we shouldn't dismiss them out of hand.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_highways_in_the_United_...
>As for your argument against 100 pills, that only holds if it's well-known or well-established that it works and works safely.

Or semi-safely. The rich are also "early adopters". Also see tragically failed plastic surgeries and BS like cryogenics.

But still, that it's not "well-established that it works and works safely", is exactly my point about his use of the pills. Mostly wishful-thinking on his part.
It should be noted that the success rate of frozen eggs is not great. The data is all over the place, but generally, implantation and pregnancy rates are substantially less than a coin flip.
This line from the article is what stood out most to me "And it's a buzz kill on dates when you feel compelled to ask the guy sitting across from you, clutching his craft beer, "So do you think you might want kids someday?""

Is that really the case? I mean if your intention of dating is to meet someone that may eventually turn into a lifelong partner, knowing if their stance on children is congruent with your own definitely seems like something you'd want to hash out pretty darn early.
Strangely, I think it's only the guns that matter because you're not asking for anyone else's opinion on your courts.
Microsoft's Windows RT is a dying platform
That is why I like Costco better: the people who work there don't seem as downtrodden. Either I've been fooled by corporate propaganda or they really have figured out a way to make money, lower prices, and treat people relatively well. Walmarts feel like places of despair to me and Costcos like places of hope. I know how ludicrous that sounds, but the feeling is real. I often chat with workers at checkout counters to gut-test my theory, and it seems to hold up, though it could all just be confirmation bias.

Edit: there's one big difference, though. To shop at Costco you have to buy twice as much (plus typically pay membership fees). That step could be too steep for the people most living hand-to-mouth, even though it would save them money within weeks. So there could be sample bias here too.
Which they might not have been violating.
I wish it would come to the USA.
Perhaps it could be advantageous for men to freeze their sperm at a young age, too. There is some evidence that the older the father is at conception, the more likely his child is to have autism. There's also at least one study that suggests that the link can skip a generation: if a man is relatively old when he has a son, then his grandson is more likely to have autism. (That said, conflicting studies exist, and more research is required.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternal_age_effect

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/grandfathers-age-li...
Which browser were you using?
Perhaps this site can help you:
http://get.webgl.org/
your intention of dating is to meet someone that may eventually turn into a lifelong partner

That's not really typical.
I like the case but it's kind of expensive.

Let's assume a Raspberry PI costs $40 after shipping. This case costs $22 (11 GBP + 3GBP for shipping).

It's like half of a whole Raspberry Pi.
Good points and duly noted.

I'll reach out to caw.

Sorry for the trouble dude.
He found a job about 2-3 weeks after this whole fiasco happened. It was on his LinkedIn.
Twitter's package manager for JS.
http://bower.io
You're a boss!
You forget that there wouldn't be just one private police force but many service providers. So if one offers bad service (by robbing you) you just hire one of their competitors.
What would "extensions" to search look like? Google had "Subscribed Links" from roughly 2006 to 2009, which would let users opt in to receiving links from third parties for certain queries (eg. I added a Javadoc extension that would show me the official Javadoc when I searched for a Java class). Nobody used them. Search isn't a market like mobile phones: it serves an immediate, well-defined need, and there doesn't seem to be a need for third parties to jump in.
No reason to think it will be dramatically different from the cost now. With technology, the cost typically remains constant, while capability improves. The battery you need to buy in 10 years may be a lot better than the one you have now, but it won't likely be much cheaper.
This is too obvious to be interesting.
Maybe Microsoft would have some more interesting products if they had more employee churn...
What's really impressive are the comments. If you ever wondered about readers of the wsj, this should cinch it.
Have you been "MicroShafted"?
Thank you!

So if you put a bound on the size of the keys, let's say 32bit, it becomes linear? Obviously it would be cheating to put a giant number here :)
Thanks, you make some good points. My layman's understanding of the inverse square law makes me think that your claim that "your brain likely gets as much as your lap anyways" might be a bridge too far, but from your other comments, I'd like to see a chart of the emissions from other household objects before deciding how important that is.
All "don't use in production" tags should be accompanied by "unless you really know what you're doing".
From what I've read, fertility starts declining at 35, so if you're going to freeze eggs, probably best to do it before then.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5655762
I'm amused that every single data structure is proportional in size to the amount of data stored and therefore marked as red.
That grumpy BSD guy: Keep smiling, waste spammers' time
Last time I checked SR, if I remember correctly, there were substantial amounts of high-grade cocaine being sold from the south of the US.
I wonder what a woman that spends $50,000 to freeze her eggs in her mid thirties would say about a man who spends $50,000 in his mid thirties on a sports car.
What is your point, other than pedantic nonsense? Who cares that email came before TBL's WWW. In terms of current support for modern technologies, as proselytized by everyone's favorite web consortium (W3C), email clients' support is abysmal. If you want to pretend that the first agent to a system will always have the best solution, through virtue of chronology, be my guest. It's a silly and losing proposition.
It was actually intuitive to me.

But I'm used to interfaces for VSTs (audio generation/effects plugins) that usually have this exact interaction mode. See http://www.protoolerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/screenshot_O... for an example of one.

(Sometimes VST knobs also have the extra of horizontal movement being a "fine-tune" mode, even, which is very handy.)
It should be noted that the author is in Manhattan, which has a totally ridiculous dating/marriage scene.

A small overall disparity in gender ratio can be magnified into a large disparity in the dating population when you bear in mind that most people are paired up at any given moment. So take NYC's overall gender ratio (53% female, 47% male). If you assume 80% of people are in a relationship at any given instant, the actively single pool is actually 1.5 females per 1 male.

Women basically have zero leverage in the Manhattan dating scene, which means that it really is difficult to bring up things like kids, because most men here seem to think of kids as something that they'll get around to in their 40's if ever. Hence an article on egg freezing.*

*) Which I think is great--I think we need more "home grown" kids in the U.S. and if egg freezing gives people a way to do that, then great.
An invisible hander would probably say that the government should not have organised the olympics to begin with (effectively a monopoly).

Using tax money to put on an event of that scale where there was effectively only one organisation with the resources to provide security services is bound to make that one organisation optimize for cost saving.

If you had only private sporting events then security companies and event organizers would eventually optimize to a state of security that best served the expectations of their customers.
I think it's pretty common in certain crowds, for example geeky grad students. And if you're looking for something serious, wouldn't you want to filter out people who just want to use you for a fling?
sounds very much like security at the vancouver 2010 olympics and the G8/G10 summit. i worked as security doing airport screening of people (x-ray & mag) and oh boy i have plenty of stories. There was so much waste, gaming the contract/system so the government would pay for far more man hours of under qualified under trained workers. Like keeping 40 people on the clock when 5 would have been sufficient. Granted the police were not much better.

I had never worked security before, nor have I science.
I guess I'd say: You may not like distributed crypto-currencies, but watch them emerge anyway.

Long term, actual long term, centralized currencies will not scale. They simply will not be able to.
In grade school I had an argument with my science teacher about wheels. She said that a point along the outside of a wheel moved faster than a point nearer to the center (which is absolutely correct). However, she followed that up by saying that the outside of the wheel makes more revolutions than the inside. I tried to correct her, but she wasn't having any of it. So I grabbed my bike from outside, brought it into the classroom and tied two pieces of string onto one of the spokes on the bike: one near the axel, one near the tire. A few spins of the wheel had her convinced, but I can't believe I actually had to do it.
European startups: How not to raise capital in the US
Indeed. Pretty much all of the ugly 'realities' of the drug trade are those which exist and thrive precisely because drugs are outlawed. SR happens to protect its users from having to deal with most of those realities - and that's a great benefit. DPR rightly deserves praise for helping people to get the drugs of their choice without having to hit the often dangerous streets for them.

Perhaps one day western societies will be able to have an adult conversation about drugs, but for the time being shrill reactionaries still set the tone. Meanwhile for every one dramatic walking-cliche of a drug casualty out there killing themselves and making the world shittier, there are at least a handful of responsible drug users conducting perfectly normal and successful lives. For any drug you can name.
Um, if the situation where different, then intelligent people would respond differently. This has do do with the definitions of "different" and "intelligent".
Because having and raising children, which creates a huge positive externalize in society, is the same thing as a sports car, which is a luxury good for personal consumption?
At age 36, with no kids and no marriage, she had to obliterate her savings to fund 50k? I feel like some part of her "big life plan" went south.

It's rather troubling she mentions having insurance cover this procedure...
It should be though, shouldn't it?
She could move to Silicon Valley and take her pick...
I agree that it's not typical. And given that it's not typical, people aren't really serious about starting families and having children. If someone was serious about this sort of thing and actually wanted this, they'd start asking very soon if not right away.
I don't think this is true. According to this table a large apple has more than 100 calories: http://calorielab.com/foods/apples/62
What characterization?

I am simply asking to not be spoken for, not saying the commentor isn't entitled to have an opinion. I say clearly above that I am OK with the comment as a mere opinion ("No, that part was OK" ...).

I'm curious if you read my reply closely before responding, or if you decided in advance what you wanted to say if I replied to you, because you seemed not to have received its intended meaning.

To repeat: I am not saying the commentor isn't entitled to an opinion, only saying that that opinion is wrong from my perspective and for my case since it is an opinion about me (and I was included by the word "we"). I am also entitled to my opinion.

On top of that, I also happen to think that my opinions about what is best for me should matter more in the public's view than what someone else thinks is best for me. I am not property to be managed, a sheep to be herded, or a child to be guarded. I am my own person - the horse's mouth, for my part - and I consider it offensive to be spoken for. Have you ever been told something is "for your own good"? If so, did you appreciate it?
I used URL Templates (RFC 6570 - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6570) so that the request to the server is not ad-hoc, but instead fully described by the resource body.
You come up with a strategy to allow COBOL systems to naturally migrate to a new language and you stand to make millions of dollars.

I'd say that's an underestimate. You can make huge sums simply by knowing COBOL + having financial expertise. If you can actually migrate COBOL systems in a natural way that's likely a multi-billion dollar problem at this point.
How To Go From $0 To $1,000,000 In Two Years
Thanks for teaching me a new term, I've not heard of astroturfing before.

Not sure how this will be applicable to any of my projects right now, but I've got to admit the demo's work impressively.
Every year, those post apocalyptic novels feel more and more like they are a documentary.
Except Google+ and Gmail are very different things. Hotmail and Outlook.com are exactly the same thing with a different UI.
A luxury sports car could be a signal used to attract mates, like colorful plumage on a bird. So he might also be spending that 50k on having children (albeit indirectly).
It also depends on age and gender. The "biological clock" is not a myth. Women entirely unconcerned about long-term prospects at 22 often do a 180 by 27.

The first time I met my now-wife (24), she said in no uncertain terms she didn't want kids. After two years of dating, kids suddenly became super important to her and panic started to set in about possibly not being able to have them.
... and pay them with... ?

This kind of cuts to my biggest problem with objectivists and anarchist-capitalists, no sense of time context or history.

"Let's abolish the government and all that stuff, it is bad and not natural", ignoring the fact that without the sort of government-structured society we've already made, they'd be in no position to have the wealth they are so afraid that taxes are going to "steal" and it works forward too in the sense that without the protections we take for granted from tax-sponsored government, they'd be robbed blind very quickly by those with the means and will to do it.
If you need this, you're doing yourself a disservice by looking at it.

Go back and learn the concepts so that you're not memorizing anything.
Why waste money buying a case? Just make one. I made mine using the original shipping case kind of like this one http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-original-shippi...
In my case I did not have a rotary tool at hand, so I just used a knife and my oven to warm it up so that the plastic can be cut easily. Just be careful not to overcut (or cut yourself).
Did someone take into account the kids? My dad turned 60 recently, and the mere thought that he will be a pensioner before I make any considerable amount of money and likely senile/needing full-time care by the time I turn 35 is…weird.
Thanks for the clarifications. I actually wasn't aware of what Medium is. Now I know :-)
Health insurance is a similar situation.

Once you've saved up a decent amount, it makes much more sense to go with a very high deductible plan. Sure, you might lose 10k in one year through some disaster, but on average you'll pay much less than that, such that it's cheaper to forgo insurance for everyday health expenses.

If you're poor, though, having to spend 10k out of pocket will throw you into a spiral of debt, bankruptcy, and poverty, on top of the associated health problems. Even 1k out of pocket can ruin you.

Over decades, you can reasonably expect to save tens of thousands of dollars on health insurance with a high deductible instead of a "comprehensive" plan.
"And SSR said to bring many advantages suck as Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 , 64bit , UEFI secure boot support and USB recovery disk support."

Dude, that's a hell of a typo. Umm.. I agree? Heh.

Its a shame though. Man I loved Ghost back in the day. I remember that magic boot floppy and the double-headed LPT/Serial "ghost cable"(1). Good times.

(1) Technically I think the cable came with an overpriced utility called "Laplink".
The point is that she spent $50k because she spent too much time not focusing on starting a family and instead was doing something else which was probably a self-centered lifestyle. She would have nothing to say to the man who bought the car.
To the cynic in me, all this just seems like Facebok and Google have not yet learnt to play with the the political big wigs.

To the cynic in me, all this just seems like Facebook and Google have learned just fine how to play with the political big wigs...as in how a cat plays with mice.
What are you having trouble with? The html? The backend? Something else?
In high school geometry, I remember my teacher making some assertion that was plainly false - I think it was that 3 planes always intersect in a line. After arguing with him for like 15 minutes, I walked to the front of the class and wrote a proof on the board. I spent the rest of the class period sitting outside.
We can't assume someone raised by that sort of parent will be a positive addition to society.
She doesn’t have or raise children. She freezes some eggs, which, with some luck, could later provide her with the possibility to have and raise children.
Where is the Pascal love?

Is it dead and buried at this point?

I threw out the box to Turbo Pascal only a decade ago.
I do not know anything at all about how to do this or start it.
That's actually a great idea. If I were a math teacher, I would teach my class that IFQ is a reasonable answer to a question, and I'd throw in a few plainly ill-formed questions just to keep them on their toes. Actual thinking > correct answers.
Her point seems to be that by doing it, she isn't burdened by that question.

The idea of freezing your eggs is still way too cost prohibitive for most women. This is unfortunate because it leaves only the "Sheryl Sandberg"s of world- wealthy and educated to take advantage of this opportunity.
You keep showing up in unrelated threads talking about how JavaScript is terrible, even when it isn't remotely relevant to the topic at hand.

Case in point: the models of Rust and Go have nothing to do with prototype-based OO. Typeclasses as Rust uses are in fact about as far as you can get from prototype-based OO: they are less dynamic, not more dynamic. There is no virtual dispatch involved at all. Neither Rust nor Go have any support for prototype-based OO.

I understand you dislike JavaScript, but would you please stop derailing comment threads that have nothing to do with it?
Design Philosophy
"The rich get richer. The poor get -- Children"
Perhaps it's a really long stick and we are cutting off small pieces. Cut off one small piece: 1 cut. Cut of 2 small pieces: 2 cuts. Etc.
> No, but at the very least I expect them to be legally bound to respond(in any way) to a 911 call, and not be able to just tell people to fuck off.

Then we're talking past each other. That isn't what the Supreme Court decisions were about at all.
There is a better option that allows you to have as many children as you want whenever you want: adoption. Why bring in more children into the world when there are already so many that are unwanted?
I would add a feature called "announcements" which would allow a project make infrequent announcements that would show up on the timeline of all the project's "starrers".
Perhaps the teacher or the author of the question understood the problem differently – we are cutting off small pieces from a long stick. So to cut off 2 pieces, we need 2 cuts, not 1.