skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, actually I think we still disagree about the reason for the fall of the USSR (I hesitate to say "disagree" because I don't hold my opinion strongly, I was tossing it out to solicit opposing opinions). What you described sounds very much like falling due to communism. I have heard a quote "They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work," and I suppose my question is which side caused the ohter. My opinion was that "they pretend to pay us" came first (the domestic economy collapsed under military spending) and "we pretend to work" followed. Do you think this is true or do you think it happened the other way around?

I cannot believe that starvation and apathy could coexist, so at some point the USSR's system must have prevented people from working for additional income, yes? In this case, the distinction between BI and communism becomes apparent: if the supply of labor falls below demand in BI, wages rise until people go back to work. Companies function as usual and are free to fire lazy workers. If food becomes more expensive, wages effectively fall until farmers can hire enough help (human or otherwise) to crank production back up again.
How is this any different from blogging?
Kickstarter is scaring me
Would someone change the title to Mach 5.1 rather than the unconventional unit of 3000 mph?
Shit Elon Says
So if I wanted to write CLI applications in Clojure, is this my best bet? Cause the JVM is about the least suitable platform I have ever worked with for CLI apps...which is most of what I do. I'm constantly in this pickle of wanting to use Clojure but defaulting to Ruby because the JVM is so terrible at it.
Now - all those "smarter than this schoolteacher" programmers who've never put code with an off-by-one error into production put your hands up.

Yeah, my hand is firmly down too…
When you spend a few years speculating about what it would take to efficiently compile Ruby as statically as possible (I love Ruby, but I hate moving parts), devious becomes second nature...

The idea of speculatively looking at method names comes from testing that to create vtables ahead of time for Ruby classes, to avoid hash tables in the common-case.

As it turns out, most method on most Ruby classes are the ones inherited from Object or other standard classes, and the number of classes is usually fairly constrained, so again speculatively looking at method names in the compile-time available source and allocating sparse vtables for the most common names results in relatively little waste.

And it reduces typical method lookup to a vtable lookup for common methods, with expensive method dispatch becoming much more rare. There's the tradeoff between theoretical horrible blowup in vtable waste from apps dynamically adding tons of methods and tons of classes, with a unique vtable slot required for each method name across all classes, vs. falling back to doing hash-table lookups all the way up the inheritance chain for "unusual" method names ones you reach certain thresholds for waste.

You do incur the cost of propagating vtable changes down the inheritance tree when methods are dynamically redefined in other places than leaves, but it is fairly rare to see apps where this happens at a very high rate, and the number of subclasses usually fairly small, so it is likely to be quite cheap. Doing it that way is something I first saw in a technical report by (now) prof. Michael Franz from '93 or '94 on "Protocol Extension" for Oberon.

You can probably also get some decent gains by adding heuristics to give preference to names that appears to be used in loops when picking names for the vtables to reduce the need of any JIT'ing.
only marginally more so than the OP project
Silverstorm said, "Hardly sounds like a scam to me. Arbitrage is inherently risky."

I am having trouble interpreting that like you suggest.

My understanding is that the behavior that was originally called a scam was making it look like there was an opportunity for arbitrage that did not actually exist. That is not just someone bearing the usual risk of arbitrage (second trade happens to be unavailable), but specifically injecting yourself into that window by making sure their second trade will be unavailable by posting an offer you know can't fill.
RHEL often backports hardware support. Their kernel is heavily modified - its not really fair to call it 2.6.xx
I hereby propose "High quality government act" which requires scientific approval for all political publications.
It's easier to get friends to sign-up for a service when they receive an email saying you've shared something with them, and linking to the app-download page.

That's what was alleged to have happened with blasting invites to people's entire contact list against their will.

http://www.branded3.com/blogs/the-antisocial-network-path-te...

With that said, from a mathematical standpoint it's difficult to see how this could be a widespread thing. If everybody that joins Path had this happen, it'd eventually become a massive problem where everybody with a phone would be receiving these texts (think six degrees of Kevin Bacon) - so I suppose it's possible this isn't happening to all users.
tck test suite isn't release for apache. the only official oopen source is OpenJDK. Any spec to the language is run through a consortium of companies but is rigged heavily in Oracle's favor. The whole drama and fall out of Apache Harmony (?) sort show this. Plus Sun microsystem promise Apache the TCK test but never delivered. So sun and oracle rule Java with an iron fist.
Beautiful. Is this your project? If so, what are your plans for it?
Debian has a long release cycle and uses the stablest versions available - and I believe that 3.2 is a "long term support" kernel, like 2.6 - getting large numbers of patches, and stability updates backported.
Perl and the human genome are almost perfectly matched; both are almost incomprehensible, with no central design, accreted haphazardly over a long time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5657048
This is silly. Debian also provides rolling releases, testing and unstable. The release cycle is slow only if you ignore the constant development of Debian Sid.
It was not snark. I was just trying to ascertain if you were unfamiliar with working with lumber or just being difficult. Would you really make three cuts?
Getting back into a hobby to get away from another frustration doesn't always work, cause then your heart's not in it. That's just escapism.

Sometimes the desire is just a matter of achieving momentum. I've let my hobby desk collect dust (figuratively speaking; my OCD wouldn't allow it) until I come across something that piques my interest and I plug in Ye Olde soldering iron and fiddle around. Might do that a few days, fall into a lull and then suddenly pick up and follow through.
This particular asset has become an integral part of culture for good and bad reasons. (i.e. the Boston Bomber misidentification incident) Reddit has a lot of risk compared to FB and Twitter, even with their own misforgivings.
IE is never going to support WebGL. They want to be the gate keeper of video games.

They lost it with application and the cloud but they're holding on to the game segment pretty tightly. That's a theory a few programmer have with microsoft and why they chose to create directx.
"...texture swaps in conjunction with compression scaling to account for changes in network latency."

What does this mean?
Ask HN:Is Ghost Really Just Another Blogging Platform?
Recently I have heard nothing but good things about the new Ghost blogging platform. I checked out the website and it seems to good to be true. Anybody else think that or is just me. Seems that is trying to be the new Wordpress.
Labeling is dismissal, not refutation. The latter option is more difficult, but more effective. The former... well, not all dismissal is soapboxing, but all soapboxing is dismissive. "Who cares! Boxes are fun to stand on." Hey, can't argue there.
Once, this was a valid comparison (Ubuntu/Sid). Now Ubuntu is a strange beast, a world apart from other distros in goals and just in the basic desktop experience.

aptosid is probably a better choice if you want a more stable Sid these days without the Ubuntu kaleidoscope.
160 Miles In Under 3 Minutes Ultra Fast Aircraft (Video)
Stop using outsourcing sites to source clients. Your new rate is $100 per hour, until I can convince you to switch to weekly rates in any case. Go out there and beat the bushes to find businesses which have problems which you can address in AWS/NodeJS/etc which are worth paying your new rate.

After your income spikes, start saving some of it so that you can tolerate lean periods between clients. This will let you stop working for less-desirable clients and try experiments like bumping your rate without having to worry about what this will do to a count-on-one-hand number of clients in the pipeline.
"Now, I leave design to the designers. I recognise that design and user interaction is a really insanely important part of a project, and that it should not be left to people who do not know how to do it. This includes developers, bosses, and even clients."

I'd rephrase that to "...bosses, clients, and around 65% of those who call themselves designers"
Right now in unstable/sid, you get the same Linux 3.2 and GNOME 3.4.
It works even better with punching bag balloons.
Hopefully, this will be my first step into acquiring an ability to make things [...] that people see and say “wow!”

Overall, great article, but keep in mind that the goal of good design isn't to make people go "wow," it's to be invisible. The best interfaces are the one people don't even notice. Remember that you're designing for your users, not for other designers. It's surprisingly easy to forgot that.

Also, I recommend checking out "Design of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman. It's an excellent introduction into usability design.
I remember going to their store on university avenue (palo alto) which is think today is the location of an apple store. I used Apollo workstations at the time, but the NeXT boxes looked really cool.
Unbearable for you perhaps. However, those of us with more than a few machines to look after appreciate the glacial pace and the full support of their stable platform.

Change (well, poorly managed change) causes instability and issues. Debian has proven that they can manage change in their distribution and it makes everyones life easier.
Yeah, I was hoping for practical quantification of the minimum viable cost of living. Fascinated with $1 meals, I get a lot of flack over "cost of living" which usually includes a lot which I consider relative luxuries. Take those waiting for the midnight EBT recharge and see what they really buy, and see whether their choices are more a matter of need, desire, education, awareness, and/or availability. Methinks the real issues are buried under the heated rhetoric.
I think this is starting to become an interesting experiment with regards to User Privacy, and Awareness of Privacy. This is the 2nd time that Path has been blasted for shady collection / use of User Data. It reminds me of the saying "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me".

The first time it happened was back in Feb 2012. It was discovered Path would Download the User's entire Address Book, collecting Information about all the User's Contacts without the User's knowledge. Path CEO Dave Morrin apologized, stating "We believe you should have control when it comes to sharing your personal information. We also believe that actions speak louder than words". Here we are, a little over a year later, and Path is at it again. But it does not seem like Path learned anything from the last incident. Once again, Users are complaining about shady use of their Address Book Data.

I am curious to see how the Users react. I've always had a strong stance on User Respect, and I must admit I find this entire scenario a bit distasteful. I think the "Golden Rule" applies; Treat others how you would want to be treated. But even with this said, I question weather the Users even care. My own personal customer validation for unrelated projects seem to indicate that User Awareness of Privacy and issues like this is quite low.
This is complete bullshit. And by "this" I mean the story, not the act. The act seems to be silly, but did anyone actually read the draft? http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/HQRA.pdf

The act has nothing to do with findings in any way, it simply says that the NSF (prior to funding) has to publicly certify that each funded project is 1) in the best interests of the country, 2) ground-breaking and important, 3) not a duplicate of any research being done by other publicly-funded projects in the US.

Flagged.
If only it were that easy. The fact is that X >> Y, but not all parts of Y are useful to satisfy X.
Maybe for Blackberry they are. I'm surprised that RIM is still alive.
Some harmless, old-fashioned fun with CSS
I had an evening a month ago where I had to return similar items to both WalMart and Costco. Each one should have been really quick, but Costco was very slow (about 30 minutes), With a rather rude cashier. Walmart took just 2 minutes and they were perfectly polite and helpful.

Strange that Walmart customer support was 100x better.
Right, so that was your opinion. Nothing wrong with having an opinion but on HN we try to back our opinions with real world data, otherwise it becomes just a case of he-said, she-said.

Have you ever considered that the suitability or otherwise of Javascript for huge projects might be attributed to other aspects of the language, rather than prototype based OO?
Artifact of the release process; experimental has 3.8.
Personally my motivation isn't just to improve the front page, but just to do this in the interest of science. We probably have one of the best communities on the internet insofar as percentage of members interested in data science. Providing this data would probably result in several HN worthy write ups on how someone went around detecting voting rings from the data made available.

Science should be a good enough reason to do it ;)
As a Chinese student, I like the way this website introduces new characters, since many Chinese characters evolve from abstractions of real objects.
I also appreciate how the designer uses traditional Chinese chars instead of Simplified: Simplified chars have less connection with the shape of the object it stands for, or its meaning. And in my view, they are not as beautiful as the traditional ones.
However, somet advice for Chinese learners:
Most people in mainland China use Simplified Chinese instead of Traditional. So if you want to communicate with people from Beijing or Shanghai you'd better learn Simplified Chinese well.
What is wrong with Debian's KVM support?
> To help someone (including yourself) achieve real success the best way is to make it safe to fail.

Oh I was just thinking this same thing a while ago. If we want to reduce unemployment we have to empower people to employ themselves, since corporate spending appears to be trickling down in other countries. I was thinking of it in the context of free healthcare and free education.
BI has the advantage that it retains 100% of the marginal incentive to work at the low end of the spectrum. This comes at a marginal cost to the entire system, poor and rich alike, but arguably the poor need to be incentivized more than the rich.
Debian's 3.2 kernel includes backported support for much newer hardware from more recent kernels. Debian's primary kernel maintainer, Ben Hutchings, also serves as the upstream maintainer of the 3.2 stable kernel series.
Design for Hackers is a good book. I learned a lot from it, one of them is that design isn't that hard, there are some tricks, but they are not that hard to learn, and they do help a lot.

IMO, a hacker should learn every aspects of software making, design included.

PS, I am not saying that this book is what you can used to learn how to become a designer, it's a good one for a developer to reasonably understand how design works. "Design for Hackers" is exactly what this book trying to achieve.
It's actually the third time that's been publicized. Dave Winer blogged about Path's stealing user address books back in 2010.

http://scripting.com/stories/2010/11/15/theTechIndustryIsAVi...
I'm very confused by this article, which links to the draft in question[0], which is quite short and can be seen by anyone who reads it not to say anything like what the article claims. It doesn't say anything about findings or results. It says that before a research project is funded, the director of NSF has to publicly certify that the research is worth doing.

Which seems pretty dumb, but as far as I can tell this article is nothing but blatant lies, banking on an assumption that readers won't check the facts. Weird.

[0] http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/HQRA.pdf
Yes...for instance, I use Arch Linux. 64-bit. With no 32-bit support.

I want to support Steam on Linux because I think it's a good thing. But I don't want to install 32-bit support in order to do so.

I realize that I'm complaining about something that has an easy workaround I'm refusing to use. But it's weird that they'll support 64-bit Ubuntu and not 64-bit anything else.
You could also use node.js with Clojurescript, if you're willing to accept the compromises of Clojurescript.
To elaborate, communism aims for the abolition of private property and the elimination of class distinctions. BI aims for neither.
High quality site with headlines such as "Dow Jones Reaches New All Time High, Making Republicans Look Like Fools" written by Justin "Filthy Liberal Scum" Rosario.

Keep political bullshit off HN.
In the normal economy the first year You take care about the business, the second year You and Your business take care about each other and the third year the business takes care about you.

So stay tuned.
I have used unstable as my main desktop for over a decade now.[1] At first there were occasional issues but these went away as I became more experienced with debian. It has been years since I encountered a bug that caused me to lose more than an hour of productivity. The most recent issue that I have had with unstable was over a year ago and it was simply a matter of pinning a version of libcairo. The only reason I remember this so well is that someone else on HN was having trouble and my comment[2] on how to fix it was my highest rated comment at the time.

[1] To be honest I actually run a mixed system with a few packages (not just oneoffs but big things like xmonad/iceweasel/awesome/git/pandoc/git-annex/gitit) from experimental. If it has been a long time (5-7 years) since you tried unstable you can think of experimental as what unstable used to be.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3907796
This is a quote from a stand up comedian, Michail Zhvanetskiy I believe. I don't think it describes the economy in the USSR very well even though it's catchy and funny.

People considered working as some out of ordinary experience. For instance there were so-called "student construction squads" (строительные отряды, ССО) that consisted of young people, usually students, who toured the countryside and doing whatever construction work they could find (and there was a lot). This was a very well paid job and you could make a year of normal salary in a few months. People joined those to make enough money to buy new furniture or car etc. and after that returned to slacking off at their government job/study. There had been many more outlets like this so there were ways of getting reward for hard work. However very few entertained the idea of doing this full time.
According to http://www.factets.com/application/path-LS7TuNU/history, growth has been pretty steady, and is on the rise. Granted only facebook #'s, but should be at least somewhat representative of overall trend.

Not sure if that is independent to, or a result of, their spammy marketing.
That was an awesome read. Thanks for the article. It makes me think about how corporations work a lot of the time.
The negative income tax really isn't a left or right issue, despite the fact it was advocated for by a free-market proponent.

The only problem I have with it is not the idea itself (I quite like it), but instead the income tax all together and the entire tax code. In the U.S. we waste a ton of money every year conforming to the tax code and there are many simpler ways that we could collect federal government revenue. I especially don't like the idea of taxing income. Something like the Fair Tax solves this but introduces a few problems as well. It would interesting if we could develop a system which functions like the negative income tax but has the efficacy of a sales tax.
do you have sources on "low dopamine responsivity", the ADD/ADHD connection, or the "nerd"/"creative" thing?
How to permanently bootstrap your startup
The only bit of your post I objected to, discourse-wise, was the phrase:

Long story short, please don't say "we," since your ideas are strictly your own.

This sounds like you are saying the commentator is not entitled to voice their opinion of the effects of a policy on a group if members of that group might hold a different opinion. You call this "speaking for you"; I say this characterization is incorrect - it is "speaking about you".
There is apparently evidence to the contrary in a leaked copy of the next version of Windows: http://withinwindows.com/within-windows/2013/3/30/blues-clue...
I suggest that death row inmates be selected for the "Mars One" mission. These inmates are the most practiced at being forcibly confined in a hopeless environment and would be the most inspired individuals to make a death sentence into a life sentence. Australia is a de facto example.
"ghetto culture"? "the gangsta rape craze"? seriously?
If the startup slowness is your problem, look into Nailgun: http://www.martiansoftware.com/nailgun/

If that's not your problem with the JVM, what is?
Probably voicing an opinion in this thread might get you investigated at some point in the future....
In-app purchase (IAP). Path.app sells stickers and filters.
Depending on what you're doing, you can consider the REPL as your CLI and run everything in that process.
Yes, it does. I've tweaked it a bit and added it to the site CSS.
6 apples: 600 kcal. A full day's worth of fiber, vitamin C, and sugar. But not much else. No protein or fat to speak of.

Big Mac: 600 kcal. Half a day's worth of fat, protein, and sodium. 12% RDA of fiber, 30% of calcium, 25% iron.

If you could only eat one or the other, you'd probably be better off with the Big Mac. If you wanted to turn these two poor choices into a full day of three meals, you should probably eat two Big Macs and 6 apples (plus lots of water, and hopefully a vitamin supplement).
It's almost certainly safer than the late 1960's station wagon we had when I was a child, with the backwards-facing seats in the cargo area. The rear crumple zone on it was everything behind the axle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siT-SIfOnQw
thank you for mentioning this. "austrian economics", for all its flaws, has little to do w/ current austerity policies
Should an issued business method patent keep you from building your startup?
Currently building a disruptive mobile application. Found out there is an issued business method patent but it seems so obvious. It's literally taking the idea of buying something (physical) that you can in the real world and just buying it via a mobile interface. Think it has a chance to be upheld in court? Should this stop me from moving forward?
"Don't attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity".

I think taking application fees even when they are at least 10 years away from their goal is absurd and probably unethical, but it looks like their team has a sincere desire to make the mission happen. Its threads like this that make me wish HN was not so cynical.