skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point it's not about practical applications. I find the idea that number's (number theory, primes, etc) could be Platonist very interesting, meaning it's existence could be outside ourselves and not an archetype. In other words, a mathematical structure doesn't describe a universe, it is a universe.

Ya I know, It sounds very "hippy".
Ship your project to the public
Does he mean the same thing by monads that Haskell people mean by monads?
I was implying that the majority of laws are reasonable and should be followed by all citizens. Monitoring unencrypted communications for dumb criminals who discuss acts that hurt society MIGHT be acceptable.

But, there are some laws that might be outdated or against the best interest of society. I'm not sure how those situations should be handled when it comes to monitoring.

I actually had drug and tax laws in mind and was hinting at the issue of politicians being paid and influenced by corporations against the best interests of humanity. Though tax laws obviously don't matter in the context of text message snooping, it's just an example to help reinforce the point that the legal system isn't perfect and neither are those who enforce it.
Please. JavaScript is a far cry from the ideal byte code / intermediate representation for all future applications to be built in. It's bad enough that people think every new app should run inside a web browser ... but saying that it MUST be written in JavaScript (or something that can generate JavaScript) is manifestly irrational and ridiculous.
If the "all-red" time is increased to compensate, then the time before someone else goes does not decrease. However, if they are just decreasing the yellow time, and keeping the all-red the same(making the total time from yellow to opposite direction green shorter) then I agree that safety has been lowered to increase profits, and this would be super un-ethical.
It's likely a bad idea to use the Google cache of "jquery". It's likely a good tradeoff to use the Google cache of "jquery x.y.z" on the assumption that they won't change it. The Go convention is to the former.
There's an inherent conflict of interest when cities, counties, and states rely on traffic tickets as a source of revenue. The all-too-tempting incentive is to maximize that revenue, either by abusing civil rights or, in this case, by endangering public safety.
If you extract too much honey from the hive, the colony might not survive the winter.
That's very true. And it's kind of comforting, because you know that by earning well, you're creating positive externalities. This is why I'm happy to pay my taxes. (I don't necessarily support everything they're spent on, but everyone has to compromise on that, no matter what they support.)
Just so I understand, you are under the impression that 0 seconds is the appropriate time required to stop, which would obviously be the case if your car was moving legally at the speed limit at the edge of the road when the green light immediately changed to a red light.
> The same can pretty much be said about the rest of YouTube’s top “talent.” From Shane Dawson to Smosh, it’s almost universally bad content, bad jokes, bad premises, bad production value.

Oh, you mean just like regular TV.
"... our new Mashable Velocity for Google Glass app alerts you just before a Mashable story goes viral. With it — and a pair of Google Glass — you know what everyone is talking about on the social web, before they're talking about it. ..."
Yep, and the comments can be summarized as

"I don't know anything about Go but I have incredibly strong negative opinions about it based entirely on this article. Oh also, I hate GitHub."
You're twenty. Your twenties will continue for about nine years.

It's a good question. Why would you? Maybe it's just because it's a vast challenge. There's plenty of time though, don't worry.

Sometimes, people grow apart from the environment they're in - for what I've seen and thought, that's probably when we're open for a larger challenge and with that, some new risk/opportunities.
"Across town, however, there’s another commemoration of a sort—an outlet store for cookies that carry the name “Leibniz” in his honor:"

Oh my goodness is this low humor.
go get em. where is the flattr button?
A step closer to proving the twin prime conjecture....
Driving through a yellow light is not illegal.

Also, is shortening yellows actually making the roads safer or is it just a way to increase revenues? Seems like one likely cause of shorter yellow lights is that more people make harder stops at intersections, result in more rear-end collisions.
It appears like the constant flux that the new discoveries provoke fruit in better and better solutions. This is utter joy, the heist for more knowledge. Evolutionary and peer reviewed improvments :)
There is some information here...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/quentinhardy/2011/01/26/is-tasty...

I guess is like stackoverflow. But you are allowed to make recommendations or post subjective opinions.
Trust me, in the UK at least, you really don't need much to game the welfare system.

While the government is making gradual changes the requirements and checks for UK citizens to claim job seekers allowance week after week are laughable low compared to the rhetoric thrown around.
Well, if you know the history so well then by all means show some context when you make such a blatant partisan statement.

Anyway, a quick look at Wikipedia gives us this.

During World War II, the 2nd General Army and Chugoku Regional Army were headquartered in Hiroshima, and the Army Marine Headquarters was located at Ujina port. The city also had large depots of military supplies, and was a key center for shipping.

Looks like a military target to me. They just lacked the foresight not to locate such assets within a civilian population. Sadly, the US does the same thing.

Granted, Nagasaki didn't seem to have quite as much in military assets but it is listed it had 9000 soldiers in the city. Sadly that came nowhere near the number of civilians in the city, which included a number of POWs. I wouldn't have picked it as a target.

But if you want to demonstrate the destruction caused by a weapon in an effort to force surrender, you don't bomb a soft target. You unfortunately bomb the biggest target you can. During WWII firebombings of entire cities was a common practice. That is common in total war scenarios.

Personally, if I were in a position to have some influence on the matter at the time, I would have said the same. I would have nuked any military target of suitable size and hoped that it would suffice to force surrender.

But, as I stated elsewhere, this discussion has little to do with my initial complaint of stating the US is the only country to use nuclear weapons in anger with no context to explain the reasoning behind it.
Back when I worked on a large commercial Python project, we did the same thing. All dependencies where on our server and that's the only place we grabbed them from when building a new release.
What is your body worth?
This is a terrible abuse that pisses me off.

But it still struck me as funny how many of us HN's (self included) jumped to the defense of Weebly for "optimizing revenue" in the "When a Startup Sends a Passive-Aggressive Email Every Day " story that was trending earlier today (1)

If Florida's red-light system was my start-up I'd be pretty damned pleased with myself for figuring out how to drive more revenue with "no cost".

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5704860
I don't know that this author has his ducks in a row.

For example, in the USA, The Bell System provided an amazing quality of phone service. Uptime of the system was just astonishing, voice quality beats cell phones hollow. But clearly, the voice quality and reliability of the system wasn't all that necessary. Cell phone systems don't provide anywhere near the reliability or voice quality that The Bell System used to, and we're all overjoyed with it. It's just that a regulated monopoly could use some of it's wealth to provide geographic diversity, lots of human support and other things now considered crazy redundant.

Why not believe that the Media Monopoly (ABC, NBC, CBS) used their monopoly rents to make programming with lots of flourishes and quality? Just like The Bell System, radio and tee vee networks used to try to provide some reason for their continued existence.

Now that we can vote with our mice, we can pick the funny/weird/interesting content. We can choose the stuff that really matters to us, instead of just watching The Brady Bunch because the Thursday evening 7pm timeslot had 1 show that was bad, and 2 that were even worse.
or at least make sure a remote Github reference is for a specific checkout!
> (It's a very rare disease, and many of the early signs - weight gain, mood swings, fatigue, etc. - can easily be mistaken for typical adolescence)

Thyroid problems are routinely misdiagnosed as non-existent, not only for adolescents. Hypothyroidism in particular may be routinely under-diagnosed due to unspecific symptoms and far too stringent thresholds on thyroid levels.

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com
Don't forget the moral hazard. Women could choose to get a child instead of working. I personally don't think that it is a good idea to grow up in a family where no adult is gainfully employed.

These are complex issues and should be evaluated by each individual. You have different criteria than I and should have every right to donate your income to causes you see as worthy. If I was interested in reducing US crime and poverty, I'd donate to http://www.projectprevention.org/
This is not a unique occurrence. Not long ago, the DoJ responded to a Congressional subpoena for "Operation Fast and Furious" documents by delivering some 7000 pages, mostly redacted.

Seems this isn't particularly unusual for the last few years.

This "most transparent administration in history" by far isn't.
So, what is Walmart paying for? Talent, or they really have an insight that is going to make Wallmart more competitive?
Intellectual property 'rights' are diametrically opposed to free speech rights. Free speech allows you to reproduce copyrighted materials, except the IP rights overrule your speech rights. Free speech allows you to transact under a trademarked brand, but IP rights overrule your speech rights.
From now on, remember this anecdote every time you curse at Maven for making dependency management a huge effing hassle unless you publish publicly on version drops to an official repo.

Go's sin here is being permissive. And it's true that clearly the game dev team just... didn't do things right. They were pretty much on a collision course with failure by managing their project's code the way they did. But Go allowed them to get much further along than they otherwise would have.
They claim there is nothing about Go that makes it bad for games, but there certainly is. There are no large, mature game engines for it. If someone was hiring me to write a basic mobile game I could do with a big engine like Cocos2D, and said I couldn't use the engine, I'd probably multiply my time estimate by five.

I've written complex OpenGL ES games from the ground up before, and its a long slog, especially at the end where you you are trying to crank it up to 60 FPS and doing tons of work rewriting it to be high performance.
If you can figure out a way to get C++ working well in your silo'd environment, I will gladly shell out whatever you are asking.
This is one of the rare moments when I wish someone has a more serious condition, like blindness or deafness, so he can invest to cure those instead.

I can be selfish too.
I fail to see how the fertility rates of the country I live in have anything at all to do with the validity of my opinion as stated.

I think "welfare state" is a pretty loaded term, and I think America's economic troubles have almost nothing to do with health care. (Canada, for the record, has had public health care for a long time and our economic troubles are also completely unrelated.)
> Managing DLL hell may be acceptable to ship a game, but it's not acceptable to openly develop software.

Why not? Having something that compiles and runs is probably a bit of a boon to the development effort.
There's no paradox: people don't care all that much about production values.

People watch Jenna Marbles because she's funny and attractive. Whether or not she frames her shots well is much less important.
IIRC, Go does not support importing anything but HEAD (yet, at least).
>>the Go answer to version control of dependencies seems to be "clone the head of the master branch of a Github repo"

Yes and it is only the fault of these devs that they did not do that. One of the first things I did when starting a job programming Go full time was go- woah, we need to clone our dependencies so we can manage upgrades. It was just common sense and easy.
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Show HN: Cool HTML5 Clouds on Cloudiff
Exactly! But trusting a remote repo to contain an essential part required to build the project is just extremely short-sighted, no matter what language is being used.
Did Bezos learn this practice at DE Shaw?
Cool! How do you execute everything in the browser?
Lengthening the yellow light duration reduces the number of red light violations: http://www.motorists.org/red-light-cameras/timing-myths

Even worse: Red light cameras make intersections LESS safe by INCREASING accident rates:

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/18/1835.asp

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/red-light_cameras_l...

This only makes sense since you're removing decision power from the person most qualified to make the decision (whether it's safe to stop or not).
What would be neat to see is how many of those 40+ success stories had failed businesses in their twenties.
> relative to the rest of the industrial world the US has far more people at the "bottom"

Is that really true? http://www.homelessworldcup.org/content/homelessness-statist... puts Europe, US and UK at very roughly 3-5 homeless per 1000.

But in any case, my point is about the chronic homeless and http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/consequences/homeless-mentall... suggests that most chronically homeless are mentally ill in some fashion. How society should properly care for its mentally ill is an extremely hard problem. Strait jackets and padded cells? Forced drug treatments? Or let them camp under bridge overpasses?
Reproducing other peoples' creative works has none of the relevant characteristics of "speech."
Ask anyone who knows anything bout music - Rick Allen is a not a great drummer.

John Bonham, Dave Lombardo, Bill Ward, Peart, even Dave Grohl is better than Rick Allen.
Postgres has hot standby built in nowadays, and it works well.

Sharding certainly isn't as easy - the technical compromises that mongo makes make it pretty trivial to implement, whereas it's relatively hard to make it work in an RDBMS while maintaining all the expected capabilities. It generally requires some application-level work on open source dbs.

With that said, I really think many people grossly underestimate the effectiveness of scale-up. It's worth remembering that Stack Overflow (for example) is still running on a single pair of master/hot standby database machines.
More rear-end collisions also leads to more tickets and more revenue...
I'm working on it!
It's a bit harder to set up but it's very much worth it once you have it running. I use clojure.browser.repl
Slight difference, of many: Spams aren't causing traffic accidents.
I saw a study that claimed improvement in sufferers of sleep apnea who played the didgeridoo.
RedHat has a SystemTap fix available on their bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962792#c13
This indie project goofed up, so now they're (probably unintentionally) hurting Go and Kickstarter with more bad publicity. It's going to be information that's hard for the public to properly understand, so it will probably hurt that understanding as well.
A detailed diagram or a slightly extended discussion of a topic will easily get you another page.
I originally come from Spain, where the weather is nicer than in the Netherlands, and there certainly are homeless people living and sleeping in the streets, or in cold occasions during winter, they can also be seen under the roof provided by an atm / bank branch.

However, having been in SFO multiple times, the number of poor/homeless people with no resources is much more evident there. My take is that generally the unemployment, healtchare, etc. benefits offered in most European countries do play a significant role in reducing the number of cases.
The Feds Mandate Abolition of Free Speech on Campus
If you'd like to keep all your transactions tracked in one place, Square needs to allow for non-credit transactions.
Likes and Follows don’t mean a thing without action
If the purpose of a government was to make money, this might be more acceptable.
Maintain your own forks of the libraries you need. Commit your changes there, and also submit upstream. Pull upstream changes back to your fork when you are ready. You have this problem with any language or tool that uses github directly as the registry.
That would be nice, but I believe Firefox, Opera and Chrome already detect unresponsive tabs and offer closing such a tab and freeze it until you make a decision. Opera has both opera:cpu and opera:memdebug.
How profitable is the typical acquihire for founders? This article cites $5-15 million exits but I've also read about circumstances where the purpose of the acquihire is largely to get the VCs something greater than zero for their investment and for the founders to save face.

Is it really common for founders to walk out of an acquihire with millions in the bank, as this article suggests? If founders can walk away with millions for just competently attempting entrepreneurship then there is little doubt the incentives are misaligned. But if founders earn little to nothing and VCs get some cash returned to their funds, it's a more reasonable exit.
Personally, I have no problem consulting the domain experts before coming up with a solution. Personally, that's all a great programmer really needs to be able to do in my opinion.

You really think you're a domain expert because someone discussed their business requirments with you in order that you complete a job? Ah maybe you are, but's it's not the impression I feel you're giving off right now.

No offense though, it's probably just a cultural thing. I have a hard time calling myself an expert in anything, yet many with much less skill sell themselves quite a bit harder.
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I've read some of it, and it's not even in the same sport, much less league. SIQM has no code and uses all the handwavy notation you could read in better books (Landau, probably; or Feynmann, for an intro). It struck me as the Ford Fiesta to Sussman's 911. In fact, after that read, I was pissed at the author from riding the coat-tails of the Structure and Interpretation series.
Microsoft announces Windows 8.1
I like asm.js and have used it (http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/ ). But I understand the basic case for 'web bytecode' to be this: software fault isolation and portable low-level distribution formats have both been demonstrated showing considerably less overhead than the roughly 2x of current asm.js, going back to the 90s (e.g. http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~greg/cs255sp2004/wahbe93efficie... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_Neutral_Distributi... ). asm.js will improve, and it has a great adoption path, but it hasn't yet been shown to run as fast as that old work claimed to have done.
Dwolla shuts off transfers to mtgox
In many places, such as where I grew up in Ohio, the language regarding yellow lights is to "clear the intersection", and that if you are able to stop, you must not enter an intersection when presented with a yellow light. In other words, treat it like a red light, unless you absolutely cannot stop.

Of course in practice most folks will go for it if they think they can clear the intersection in time. Some may even accelerate, and having excessively long yellow lights may encourage that behavior even more, despite it being illegal.
Considering that Leibniz was truly a gifted child of the Age of Enlightenment and a philosopher, scientist, mathematician, diplomat, physicist, historian, politician, librarian and lawyer, who has left behind an opus of written documents that requires one whole dedicated Leibniz archive, I was indeed astonished by the tone of the author - comparing himself with Leibniz :)
Just did that at school, they needed someone to teach and I got lucky and got selected to do it :)

Thanks ;)
Even if you increase the all-red time, shorter yellows are still more dangerous. For example if you drop the yellow time too low for the legal speed limit of the road then you will create a situation where people have to start emergency braking in order to avoid running the red. This situation is unsafe for obvious reasons.
This might sound harsh, but...

Maintaining software is hard.

Blaming your own incompetence on a library or an entire language is easy.

I've been guilty of this at times, but when you get down to it, it's your job as a software developer to understand how your software works and how to maintain it well. This doesn't just include the code you write; it includes your tools, third party libraries, and the internals of the language (VM, compiler, etc.). Its not easy, but it's part of the job.

On a more positive note, versioning packages in Go is already possible and is starting to gain momentum. Check out http://www.gonuts.io/
Ok, you have a good point. I'll instead list Open Office and LibreOffice and Symphony and Lotus Notes. Those are hugely complex GUI's and work as good as or better than anything proprietary out there in the same class pf products.
And where does it print the receipt? An emailed copy is not good enough, in fact it's far more inconvenient.
Obviously I wholeheartedly agree with you. I was just trying to make a relevant joke.

On a more serious note, people who treat others (be it men or women) as objects/puppets are themselves devoid of any deeper intelligence. I will go so far to generalize and say that they are pretty shallow morally, and a lot of times, intellectually (not quite, but I don't know a better word).
It's highly ironic then, that you respond to a not-asking-for-money article on "how to get some basics off the ground" with advice to buy yet another "this time it's totally right, honest" book buy a guy who considers a quarterback more useful than me, Steven Hawking and probably you as well. And later in the thread you're starting to peddle miracle cure.
Let's Pivot this blog we are starting to blog only about tech startup with
Yeah! Been waiting for this forever. +1.
I work close to a fairly rare "no right on red" (in California right on red is legal unless signs prohibit it) intersection.

Without fail, near the end of the month there will be a cop car sitting under the bridge overlooking the turn for hours just waiting for someone to make the turn. Shamelessly sitting there, in the dark and under a bridge, blocking half the rightmost lane of a busy street, causing a far greater safety concern than would be caused by anyone taking a normal right-on-red at that corner.
I can't wait for self-driving cars to become commonplace. Wonder how much of a hit these departments that rely so much on red light camera and speeding tickets will take.
Why Go? Because it's new and cool, of course. The whole Haunts project already had serious problems; this was just the final nail in the coffin, if you'll excuse the pun: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/24/haunts-anatomy-of-a-kickst...
> Maybe to disastrous results if it ends up being wrong

This is what I meant. Bugs are never introduced intentionally in this manner. Though I suppose we can say that most encryption is used based on an unproven assumption, so I see your and dmvaldman's point!