skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you've self admitted to being "that guy," here's how I think that guy is wrong.

Almost any tech product, has predecessors. When the iphone came out That Guy was all over it. It wasn't the first phone that had web browswing, emails and music. It didn't even have whatever it didn't have at the time. Basically, just a nokiaberry with reality distortion. Nothing new.

That guy obviously missed the point because within a few days every website was getting iphone web traffic. Sites that had one nokiaberry hit every 3 months were now testing on iphone. When the app store opened, all the users were installing (even paying for) apps. People made sure they had a data plan. The important thing about the iphone is not that it could do web browsing, its that it could do web browsing in an easy, pleasant way.

I don't know if chromecast is any good. But pointing to an android-on-a-stick is missing the point. There are lots of ways of getting youtube or netflix onto your TV. Consoles, set top boxes, laptops, smart TVs, android sticks. They're all clumsy and most people don't use them. The hard part that is missing is doing interaction (eg, text search) in a way thats easy and pleasant and fits into people's slob time.
Someone the govt is unable to prosecute for some law == Capone

Bitcoin == Tax evasion
How to "life hack":

1) Obtain organizer.
2) Use it.

I think some of us like to experience the joy of inefficiency to some degree provided it doesn't hinder too much of productivity.

"within the globalist neoliberal paradigm, sleeping is for losers" This breaks my heart so much. Sleeping, the thing I'm not able to do very well in the first place, is one of the most sacred activities I can engage in. The last thing I need is to make it shorter (albeit allegedly more efficient).

Edit: Er... brain fart grammar. I need more Lifehacking!
Any feedback guys ?
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He should look at the name on the Klaus building and realize that we'd actually heard of startups in the early 1990s and before. The ATDC has even been around for 33 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Klaus
I like the idea of having interface "skins", but I honestly could not tell this one apart from Bootstrap. I would love to see more varying interface styles, not another bootstrap clone.
"using a Visa gift card I'd purchased a few months before"

If you purchased the gift card with another card they still can trace your e-mail address back to you.

Unique e-mail address -> Unique Visa gift card -> unique credit card
Hey appreciate your thoughts on this matter and would really love to collaborate with you in finding ways to engage with those passionate in hardware/robotics. However, 3 alumni working in startups is hardly influential. I've made an effort to speak with Hunter and although he definitely one of the most intelligent people I've met at Tech, he had to be convinced to go to the YCominbator interview because he had no clue what it was. I'm sure you left out a couple other people in your organization that are involved in entrepreneurship but you are right when it comes to changing the culture to show students that it is possible to succeed. That is definitely the core of our vision.
http://www.techweb.com/news/231602248/lulzsec-suspect-learns...

hidemyass logs everything.
The phrase "this is Thailand" comes to mind - individual use will slip through the gaps, institutional users'll work this into their standard relationships with the various organs of government; and general apathy will reign in the end - the various arms of government are still probably embroiled in the omnipresent issues of either (a) a general political amnesty or (b) politically-motivated point-scoring.

No campaign exists, and there exists no space to whip one up considering how thoroughly split the various arms of government are between political allegiances (unless Yingluck's dealt with the judiciary already.)
TL DR is that it's about the scientist Jason Box who even moved to Denmark as he believes the future warming won't bring much good for most of the people who are going to inherit the Earth. He worries about the future his kids are going to have. He knows that the warming is real.

And he does research for darksnowproject.org, which is financed thru crowdsourcing:

“It’s a sad commentary on the state of science funding in America when legitimate projects from respected scientists like Jason Box can’t get funded through the normal channels,” says Penn State’s Mann.

Box also makes a pledge:

He talked about his dream of forming a Climate Delta Force, funded by philanthropists, which could be dispatched to study climate catastrophes in real time. “Give me two and a half million dollars,” he told me, “and I could change the world.”
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Yes! I'll happily pay $35 to turn my "Smart" TV into the dumb screen it should be. Compare:

My Samsung "Smart" TV:
Find TV remote, power on. Wait a while, after which the TV will default to showing static (not very Smart of it not to notice I don't have cable attached, and never will). Press the Smart-button on the remote, again wait a small eternity while it's "Loading". Use the navigation buttons to quickly navigate to the Netflix icon. Oh, you were too slow to reach Netflix, now the UI is locked up for 5-10 seconds because the homescreen is refreshing the Samsung app store icons and ads. OK, now Netflix is finally loading, which takes a good 20-40 seconds. Now to find what I want to watch using the damn arrow keys. God help me if I need to enter some text to search, at that point it's just easier to reach over for my laptop and add what I want to my instant queue from there.

Chromecast:
Using my phone or tablet, load the Netflix app (near instant). Click the Chromecast button (instant). Click the show I want to play, or search using a decent keyboard or voice input. TV powers on (HDMI-CEC, yay), plays my show (in a few seconds).

Moving all of the UI out from the TV screen is a fantastic move. And no, a Roku, Chinese Android players, Apple TV, etc. aren't interesting to me at all because I don't want to interact with my TV screen.
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He used pseudo-notation for something that is possible in GHC. (1+) on type level corresponds to the successor function, and a compiling version of Peaker's code would be this:

{-# LANGUAGE DataKinds #-}
{-# LANGUAGE GADTs #-}

data Nat = Z | S Nat

data Vector l a where
Nil :: Vector Z a
Cons :: a -> Vector l a -> Vector (S l) a
What causes code to turn to shit is taking a well designed, well-factored solution, and hanging a patch off the side to make it do something new, or to fix a use case it wasn't designed to handle.

The "constant love" needed is that after a change you must redesign or at least refactor. Preferably every time, or you build up a debt of work.
Definitely didn't know this, and it's super interesting. Weird that they've died down so much.
> If I get a "who had this IP at this time?" request, well, I don't know, sorry. Deal with it.

Who posted this fantasy about raping a woman that has now gone missing? Oh well I don't know. Deal with it.

Your smug attitude seems less impressive when you apply it to a real situation.
> Dear sirs, a List is a recursive data structure by definition.

I don't think so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_(abstract_data_type)
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It is possible in GHC, see parent comment.
That's why for this class the teacher was a 'roving mentor'. The students still can use him for motivation and inspiration (if they so choose). The computer component takes care of the knowledge transfer.
I go to WGU, and this is how all of their classes are. All resources are online (books, videos, practice quizzes, etc). If I have a question, I email the class teacher or ask my student mentor.
Could this lead to the Internet of Things in your mouth?
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It brings the financial incentives inline with what everyone says the goal is. Fee-for-service incentivizes volume, even if it comes with the consequence of worse outcomes; we simply depend on doctor’s morals to not push it too far, with malpractice and licensing handling truly outrageous abuses. Fee-for-outcome explicitly incentivizes better quality control in a much more fine-grained manner.

More on point, fee-for-service incentivizes unnecessary and expensive diagnostic tests. Let’s say a patient presents with an uncomplicated broken arm. If there’s a set payment for an outcome (successful treatment of the break, with fully restored function), and diagnostic and treatments costs come out of that fee, the incentive is to order as many x-rays as are necessary to successfully treat the injury and no more. In fee-for-service, the orthopedist has no incentive not to order superfluous imaging because it doesn’t cost her anything, and may have incentive to order extra imaging (if, say, she also owns the imaging center that bills for it).

Medicine is littered with examples where there are two tests whose diagnostic power is statistically equivalent, and yet doctors common write for the more expensive test. Fee-for-service is either a neutral or perverse incentive in these cases. Fee-for-outcome aligns the incentive with what society seems to want (lower-cost healthcare with good outcomes).
NonEmptyList is usually implemented that way to be a bit lazier on the implementation end. You can also write it as

data NEL a = One a | More a (NEL a)

but then you have to write fresh functions for all of the default list methods without any performance improvements (which make doing so totally valuable for things like Vector). You also have NEL being an instance of a more general NonEmptyFunctor pattern like in (http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/non-empty/0.1.3/...).

With this recursive NEL, last is

last :: NEL a -> a
last (One a) = a
last (More _ more) = last more

and (inefficient, corecursive) length is

len :: NEL a -> Int
len (One _) = 1
len (More _ more) = succ (len more)

NELs are quite useful not just for safety. head as type [a] -> a is largely considered to be a mistake, the Safe package is quite popular and redefines head as having type [a] -> Maybe a. I use it frequently.

NELs have properties like being Semigroups (and not Monoids) and Comonads which regular lists do not. This helps not only for theoretical guarantees of safety but also so that we can feel confident that our typeclass declarations have the meaning they're supposed to have.

So is (NEL a = NEL a [a]) a bad solution? It's perhaps less independently beautiful than the truly recursive NEL, but it's easier to write and takes advantage of Haskell's built in "possibly empty List" functionality. It's also more "globally beautiful" in that it fits into the family of types "non-empty functors". The recursive version is also trivially isomorphic, so there's no loss in functionality.
"within the globalist neoliberal paradigm, sleeping is for losers" This breaks my heart so much. Sleeping, the thing I'm not able to do very well in the first place, is one of the most sacred activities I can engage in. The last thing I need is to make it shorter (albeit allegedly more efficient).

I thought the conventional wisdom on Hacker News is that you should sleep well, exercise, eat right, and have a good balance of activities, even if you are a startup founder.
>Which makes me think they don't actually buffer anymore. The bar just shows a standard, imaginary amount of buffering by default and nobody really cares.

It makes me very uncomfortable how "true" that feels.
Either it's illegal (the government's fault) or hospitals deal with insurers on a bundle basis and they aren't willing to cut out their most profitable procedures (the market's fault). Depends on who you ask, I'm sure :)

Liability might be a problem, but it only accounts for 2% of medical expenditures in the US, so I wouldn't expect it to be insurmountably difficult to insure the procedures to "US standards."
me too, but I get the point that he's making.
Klaus is a bit of a personal hero. Not saying that no-one had heard of/started a startup, more that the culture at Tech isn't particularly conducive to it.
"Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time—so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?"

Sure, yes. But there's nothing new about this and it really doesn't have anything to do with lifehacking or Silicon Valley.

Speaking from the lofty position of having letter of the month in Time Management Magazine in the early 1990s I can tell you that people have been enthusiastic about this kind of thing forever! And some people will be so enthusiastic that they'll totally overdo it and lose the benefit.
A scientific hackathon - writing a quantitative biology paper in a few days
It plays fast and loose on notation, but is perfectly kosher in GHC (not Haskell2010 or Haskell98).
Adult women now represent 31% of game playing population in US
Growth Hacking Isn’t Indefinite
I think perhaps you meant "moot" (I love that word).
Most of the points require reading the whole paper first, isn't it?
That'd work great! My email is in my profile. Thanks!
To me this article 1)says very little 2) conflates 'lifehacking' and 'lifestyle design'

Lifehacking to me has always been about little things you do to reduce friction and mundanity in your day to day. Tim Ferris promotes something else entirely which advocates an entirely different lifestyle, fueled by passive income, allowing you to focus on What You Want™.

[Sorry for the buzzword bingo above, I felt I needed to embrace it to adequately articulate the thoughts.]
Exemptions are a thing, my friend. I have never been denied enrollment in a class (tbh I've been granted entry in a few classes that I wasn't even ready for yet). It's just a matter of persistence.

I love what these people are doing though. Clough ULC is incredible compared to what Skiles was, and with groups like these, it could really transform learning at GT for the better.
Er, no. If you're interested in Haskell, pick up one of the 2 mainstream Haskell books (listed in ekm2's comment) and GHC, then learn it.

SICP might be a great book, but there's a long way road from it to Haskell. If you are to read theory, then Yorgey's (the instructor for the linked course) Typeclassopedia or Okasaki's Purely Functional Data Structures will give you more bang for the buck as far as Haskell is concerned.
It looks good; You should add your framework to: http://usablica.github.io/front-end-frameworks/compare.html
According to Tim Rogers[1] in-app purchases are already being regulated in Japan. As far as I understand it there must be a finite number of purchases, leading to a "maximum spend" per title, which can be shown in-store.

Not sure how this ties in with that, but it seems several companies are also self-regulating by imposing a spending-limit based on the customers age[2].

[1] https://twitter.com/108/status/292004594555449345

[2] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/169254/report_social_gami...
You should also take a look at Pure[1]. It's a series of minimal components to help you get started.

[1] http://purecss.io/
The key factor to the success of any currency is liquidity. You are only willing to put money in if you can take money out. If the government of Thailand says it is illegal to transfer money in or out - that will effect liquidity in Thailand. How will this be enforced? First, banks and reputable institutions doing business in Thailand will not be allowed to trade with companies involved in bitcoin exchange. Of course, this will not completely stop currency conversions, but it will act to decrease liquidity which will act to discourage people from putting money into bitcoins – further decreasing liquidity.

This is definitely bad news for bitcoins.

[Edit] Will a down-voter kindly explain to me how this is good news for bitcoins? Maybe liquidity is not important for a currency?
By preventing you from buying groceries with funds received via bitcoin...
What's a pseudo-tourist?

edit: why the downvote? It's a simple question!
Is your claim that the existence of excellent high-cost treatment options drive down the price of moderate good ones in the present, or that the moderate-cost good ones were at one point paid for by being the excellent high-cost ones? The two claims have very different policy implications.

Overall, though, we should be skeptical of device manufacturers' claims that dumping more money into expensive equipment leads to better health. Most money sloshing around in the healthcare system is wasted (see, for instance, the recent counterintuitive Medicaid study results: increased health care spending doesn't necessarily equate to improved outcomes). If we could spend 50% of the money for 80% of the results, that'd be an amazing improvement. And that money could be spent on other quality-of-life improvers, which very well might improve overall population health more than that last 20% coming from complicated medical treatments.
Technically, nothing is an energy source. It's all just storage and conversion.

In any case, compressed air is directly analogous to electricity here. It's a way to transmit energy generated elsewhere.
These kids are basically learning how to code before they can read
I always thought that The Prince was about how to maintain an amoral dictatorship.
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Is it really surprising someone is using an ad hominem argument again?
Lifehacking --> Quantified self
It might be useful to mention more about how encryption is done on the website itself since that is the main selling point. As it stands I have to go through the source code.
Sony and Panasonic to develop next-generation optical discs (&gt;300GB, Y2015)
I am seeing this more and more. I've seen the ability to have a phone take over an airplane, a laptop control a car, now a laptop taking over a ship... where are all the security guys at when this stuff is implemented?
If you're the author, you should add it to the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_%28file_sharing%29
"You should spend time doing nothing" is a life hack. Life hacks aren't all about doing more more efficiently, what do you think the title "The 4 Hour Work Week" denotes? MORE work?

(On the record - not a fan of the 4HWW)
That should be the conventional wisdom everywhere.

I would say, on average, programmers are worse at these things. Free food & booze and a job that makes it easy to work wherever, whenever certainly doesn't help.
Maybe they got tired of all those bitcoin users abusing the Thai baht symbol.
I will grant that the specific mention of Guantanamo is a little off. AFAIK there aren't any US citizens there. On the other hand, Bradley Manning has spent, what, two years being tortured (solitary confinement, forced nudity, sleep deprivation). Is it so unreasonable to think that Mitnick might have been subject to similar treatment today?

Additionally, the US has actually extra-judicially executed at least one US citizen abroad. It also isn't entirely crazy (IMHO) to think that an appropriately "scary" "hacker" might be declared a terrorist and violently suppressed.
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This, and your replies below, read like trolling written by someone who hasn't used the features he is claiming are unnecessary. They repeatedly fail to address the point: you actually can't begin in Scala with no notion of lightweight threads, coroutines, or continuations, and simply make a library that does one of those things.

"The style one can program in and the style it is implemented isn't connected the way you think it is."

The above might be alluding to techniques for pretending to have these language features when one does not. You can write CPS manually, and you might even be able to make a machine apply the CPS transformation automatically to your procedural code. Neither of these things sound particularly fun, compared to the alternative of writing procedural code and then debugging the code that you've actually written. It's little help that you have to return every once in a while to avoid a StackOverflow due to the language's embarrassing lack of TCO.

Edit: Apparently if you use Squawk you can have green threads. Can you have OS threads as well?
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> Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time—so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?

Is there anything more self-defeating than investing money to get more money, only to reinvest the profits of the investment?
Being told by sales and project managers that this stuff had been considered and deemed not a priority as it's unlikely ever to occur in real life.
I hope not many people fell for this scam!
Yes, $25 per week is too low. Heck, I recently paid that amount for a 60km trip in Chennai ( 2 hours of travel )

94,000 Rs. - for comparison sake, my motor bike costed me Rs.99,000.

It is definitely a high amount for many Indians, but the average middle class person might be able to pay it in India.
This is why we should stick to a constructive logic :)
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"One of the most admirable things about hackers is their ability to accomplish great things without - or in spite of government. The recent preoccupation is a bit sad. Great minds could be focused on better things."

Government is certainly capable of excess, as we see on the front page of HN every day, but there's a tremendous irony (or blindspot, more accurately) in your statement. The computer industry as we know it, let alone the Internet, would not exist if not for the government. Many of us benefited from public education at some point in our lives, or were educated at universities by professors whose research is at least to some extent government supported. Let's not mythologize ourselves by pretending we build all of this great stuff on our own in a vacuum.

Like it or not, government plays a huge role in the hacker world. It can be both a huge force for innovation and an instrument of oppression. It behooves us to understand how government interacts with individuals and organizations, and current events. For me, the HN community does a great job of surfacing news stories at the intersection of politics and technology.
I built an interface to #1. Before the flickr redesign, it was a lot nicer, but provides some simple attribution markup that I find useful.

http://imager.io/
Agreed. Technology is having such a profound effect on the bigger political picture that, as technologists, I think it's important that we, as a community, are both sharing the information but also figuring out what to do about it.

I appreciate the political posts here primarily because hackers seem to be less afraid to post about and discuss some of the more awkward political events happening right now so there is more candid and open information sharing.
This isn't limited to HN, but I feel like the startup scene is somewhat of a "do as I say, not as I do" phenomenon. People will nod in enthusiastic agreement about the need to work sustainably, be balanced, eat well, sleep enough, etc.

And then pull an all nighter filled with Monster and Red Bull.

There's a bit of a dissonance in the community. On the one hand we agree with all of this talk about balance, on the other hand the culture is still very much an overgrown frathouse. We're touting the merits of working smarter while at the same time playing up the "code through the night!" hackathons.

We'll find our way out of it eventually.
You go to a pub where you are forbidden from having a visible tattoo?

I have no tattoos, and I'm shocked (a) at the existence of such a place in 2013 and (b) that anyone with a tattoo would put up with it.