skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know; Bloch does try to note what Borges knew about the math, and he sometimes speculates (for example in the chapter in which he models librarians as Turing machines).

... By the way, having now read the submitted article, let me point out a selection that exemplifies what I love about Borges's writing:

There is a Hindu school of philosophy that says that we are not the actors in our lives, but rather the spectators, and this is illustrated using the metaphor of a dancer. These days, maybe it would be better to say an actor. A spectator sees a dancer or an actor, or, if you prefer, reads a novel, and ends up identifying with one of the characters who is there in front of him. This is what those Hindu thinkers before the fifth century said. And the same thing happens with us. I, for example, was born the same day as Jorge Luis Borges, exactly the same day. I have seen him be ridiculous in some situations, pathetic in others. And, as I have always had him in front of me, I have ended up identifying with him.

In Borges's short stories there are very many selections like this, but it's mostly pseudo-realistic wisdom (or paradox) that's the product of Borges's own mind.
You know, arcade games were sometimes freakishly hard so that you'd stand there pumping quarters in to try again and again. Nobody called that immoral. I don't think there's anything wrong with charging for continues (or health potions, or clean bombs, or whatever.) Telling you how much money a game makes off people, and how much you've spent on it, won't help you to decide whether the tactics it's using to get you to give it that money are ethical.
Did both reddit gold, or Facebook promoted posts exist before the priority date? If not, they're irrelevant (except to the applicant as a target for infringement).
That's entirely backwards, sorry. A "contract" is just an agreement. The signature is just a piece of paper that can prove the agreement was reached. Courts enforce "implied" and "verbal" contracts all the time, and in fact signed contracts are routinely voided for technical reasons too.

The poster above read and understood the contract, and continued to pay the vendor with that understanding in mind. That is absolutely a legally enforceable contract. And in fact the post above is blindingly obvious proof of a bad faith intent to violate the contract. Sorry, there's no leg to stand on here. That's just not the way the law works.
The title of a patent has absolutely nothing at all to do with it's scope. Any company who was sued would surely consult a lawyer and they would tell them the scope of the patent is defined in the claims.
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Well, I apologize. I did not appreciate your mock translation of what I said as it really was way out there and not at all in line with the reality and motives for my choosing C, Forth, Java and Python. In other words, what you said is not what I said. And then you sarcastically expressed incredulity for my choices.

Really, saying that these are "the most horrible to learn languages" is beyond my comprehension. There's nothing "horrible" or, for that matter, difficult about any of them.

C is easy as pie. It's the most fundamental language.

Forth is a super-cool game. My kid already rocks on an HP-41 calculator (RPN). When I introduced him to Forth he literally said: "Wow! I can program in RPN!".

Java, was a short stepping stone as I wanted to give him a quick taste of OO but not drown him in the details. He actually wrote a dozen little games with graphical interfaces and all. Great fun.

Now with Python we are going through the Project Euler site problem by problem implementing solutions mostly in Python but then looking at C and Forth where it makes sense.

It's hard work. At the same time I like it because it keeps me on my toes. At one point I'll have to choose whether to move him towards developing, say, iOS apps or web apps. In other words, there's at least one fork in the road ahead.

However, the principles are all the same. The constructs are fundamentally equal. A state-machine driven website is no different than a state-machine driven iPhone app. Same concepts, you just "say" them differently in code.

And so I fail to see or agree with people who make categorical statements such as "C is horrible" or "C is hard to learn". I don't get it. Yeah, from the vantage point of someone with no frame of reference whatsoever even basket-weaving is horrible and hard to learn. At one point you start taking steps towards learning and, if a good foundation is built, nothing is really horrible, difficult or impossible to learn.

To me, C is the foundation of nearly all you'd want to understand in programming. Only assembler would give you more perspective. I have written plenty of software with complex data structures in assembler. Not for the weak of heart, but you do learn a lot. With a solid foundation in C you can undertake just about anything in any domain, from embedded to web and mobile programming.

So, yes, I felt that taking what I said so far out of context and then expressing surprise for your own made-up statement had to come from ignorance. Perhaps I shouldn't have said it the way I did. So, again, I apologize.
I think there are two issues in this:

0. Where is the money going?
1. Are foreign and domestic policies using tactics that a civil society should use?

Often, in positions of power where secrecy is used to hoard information as a form of job security, what happens is that any challenging argument becomes the secret-keeper protrarys themselves as having more intelligence than any critic, so the challenger always appears misinformed.
I'm guessing your mains supply would've been 230v/5A - in which case I have to say I'm surprised that it didn't blow the diodes out :) I remember plugging a 1N2001 (or similar) into a wall socket, and turning the switch on to watch the diode blow out as a schoolboy.
Fair enough. I think there is they Why (strategy) the What (features and user stories) and the How (engineering getting bits out the door). I am poking at when the How overshadows the Why and What. That's when things go sideways.
Well. Global warming is an important issue, but the janky scrolling on that site caused me to shoot past important info, get a little frustrated, and close the article.

On second thought:
But I think you and I agree on the same issue, we're just misunderstanding each other.
I often say similar things on this topic. It doesn't have to be an explicit conspiracy (though there is certainly likely to be a number of conspiracies along the way).

As a physicist by training I think of these things as the stable attractors we see in complex systems, where out of chaos certain configurations act to pull everything towards them.

A totalitarian world of surveillance and conflict which feed off each other leading to us liquidating more and more of our economy to feed the beast, creating insecurity at home and a knee jerk support of those carrying this stuff out, in the name of attacking some faceless enemy is an attractor with many individuals acting in self interest generating motion in that direction.

Complacency prevents people breaking the cycle. A belief that it's a pendulum swinging back and forth rather than a drift towards a stable attractor from which it's hard to move back again.
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Do you have some prior art? People on HN love to use terms like prior art without knowing what they mean. You actually have to show that a) it's been done before, or at least something similar enough existed that the difference is not inventive and b) the document(s) was available publicly before the priority date of the application.
Personally, I try to stay away from free apps/games because I'm never sure what it's really going to cost me.
Glenn Greenwald: NSA Analysts Listening To Trillions of US phone calls
Opponents of NSA surveillance emboldened by close House vote
For longer stuff, and when I know I will likely skip back and forth, I use a browser extension to download the video as mp4, and then VLC to watch it while it's still downloading.. so much nicer.
I don't know much about Kanban as a software development method, but from the description it seems more closely related to the original Kanban concept than the Kanban Method. Kanban (the card system) is mainly about controlling work in progress and not so much about 'incremental process enhancement'. It sounds like the software methodology tries to mainly control the amount of in progress work as well.

This isn't really a criticism on the point your making in the article by the way, which I think is still valid. I find it weird too that software development is being shoehorned into a manufacturing job control system.
Of course there are laws, I have no idea what the other poster is talking about. Saudi Arabia even has a police force, the mutaween, which enforces things like dress codes for women (officially the name of the organization which runs the religious police in Saudi Arabia is called "The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice"). There is a famous example of an incident in 2002 wherein during a fire in a girls' school in Mecca the mutaween prevented girls from fleeing the school due to being improperly clothed, 15 girls died and 50 others were injured from the fire.
Unless they actually don't want customers in the lower tier, I think they could channel customers to the middle tier without insulting potential lower tier customers. They could call it the Solo plan, Micro plan, Bootstrapper plan, or even Lil' 'Strapper plan and come off as less insulting.

I doubt they were purposely trying to insult anyone, but with a thousand roadblocks to growth, knocking down one of them by changing a plan name seems like a quick win.
"that Americans believe our culture to be superior?"

Well, for people outside America it does seem both arrogant and amusing in fairly equal parts.

By the way, about your list.

Peace - bwahahahaha

Transistor - The Canadian Julius Edgar Lilienfeld first patented the FET.

Computer - The first programmable electronic computer was built by Tommy Flowers in the UK for WWII codebreaking.

Cell phone - Yep, american's built the first cell phones.

Internet - Certainly a hell of a lot of the initial work was done in the States, but the protocols were knocked out between groups in Stanford and University College London and the bit of it that most people use was designed by Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN.
Prove it then. find some prior art which discloses all the features of the claim and then there's some weight to your comment, but currently, I've seen no prior art which gives any weight to circlejerk going on here that this is junk. The law requires proof, not misinformed comment and oppinion.
Games have their own dynamics, the expectations and rewards are different.

Now, when you download a 'free' drawing app and then find out the pen costs $5, it's just an annoyance; it builds resentment and lowers your trust in the app store. There is no reward other than what you already expected to be there, and even when done well (eg Paper) it still feels a tad bit dishonest.
I've used it a couple of times but it still has some flaws. For instance, you can only buy things that are listed on the website. I decided to give it a shot to get a new PS3 game delivered. The item would be located no more than 3 feet away from other items listed, but Google would not pick it up for you.

In another case, I just wanted a new filtered water pitcher. It ended up taking three days to get something delivered because the item I had selected would be out of stock, and there was no way to select an alternative. Getting any product on day one would have outweighed any marginal price differences between selections.

Compare this to Instacart which gives a lot of freedom in what the shoppers pick up for you. That being said, when the service did work, it was a good experience.
Re: Civil Disobedience, Edward J. Snowden, and the Constitution
Totally agree. That's what was shocking to me as well when I started to drill into it after hearing so many folks complain about it. I think it is a sign of engineering managers struggling to find a simple process to deliver product more predictably. Unfortunately, it seems to be doing more harm than good.
It does not matter who is happier or have better life - middle class family in US or low-cast family in India. Sad fact is that ALL western societies are below replacement level. White US population is on decline (and it's not steep only because of conservative rural population). Depopulation is a bitch and nature hates void. Two kids are not replacement level - you need 2.33 kids on average.

Fertility rate for white female with college degree (liberal dream) is 1.6 in US. What it means? It means that it takes only 10 generations (180-250 years) to go from 150 million species to 15 million (10x reduction). That means that current model of liberal society just does not work from evolutional perspective. Being educated white female is a negative trait from evolutionary perspective.

I am saying this as somebody who has highly educated girlfriend and who is very unlikely to have more than two kids (one reason being that it takes 200k to send one kid to college).
"there are no laws that say that, no religious rule that say that, and men don't enforce that"

That is not true.
In other countries where there are no laws proscribing women to wear burkhas (e.g. India), there are plenty who do so.
Cut the bullshit and make time to write
The problem with Silicon Valley’s libertarians
rayiner's joke is aimed at this category of people :

>3. WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE REST OF THE WORLD
in this article :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6037848

So, for people who only know France through Pepé le Pew, that is a good joke !
In reference to that, I'm more concerned about what they do that isn't explicitly mentioned. Until not long ago, there was no permission denial for reading the sdcard/external storage area of Android devices (even now it's generally set to be disabled by default for legacy reasons). Given the amount of stuff apps store on there, an unethical app could have a field day mining such information.

Although apps should take responsibility for what they store or do not store on an sdcard that doesn't always happen. Android really needs a sandboxed area for each app on the external storage and alternatively require an additional permission for universal sdcard access if it's needed (like by file explorer apps). That may be hard to do with the fact that even FUSE backed emulated sdcards found on some devices are still pretending to be a FAT-like filesystem.
I think you pointed out the main issue with arrays. If I follow your reasoning and suppose we will not want to know who is tagging what and when because we believe we just want to know the bare list of tags attached to an item.

But then the app complexifies, we need more data, and we would like to have ansers to questions such as "is tagging different in the morning or in the evening?", "are there new trends in tags or new tags since last year?", or we even simply want to remove the tags created by some users because we know they try to cheat the system or spam it.

Then with your "simple" solution I think we are stuck and will need to migrate, which is a pain. Moreover, all past data is unsuable.

If, on the opposite, if we just do a "who tags what when" table, we are on much safer ground. We get a scalable event table that can be indexed (and sharded) by timestamp. We can undo any operation (which should be required for any action but email sending). The only drawbacks are 1) we need to aggregate and cache this data to have a list of tags for each item, and 2) we might have stored some data we might not need in the future.

I always feel the saved data granularity should be one level finer than the data granularity used in the business model.
Clooj > Light Table, IMO. Catnip is good too.
imho, i say that the claims of the patent has to first be examined by a person skilled in the arts, without first reading the actual patent. If the person skilled in the arts is able to discern the inner workings of the patent _without_ having read the patent itself, then the patent can be deemed obvious and thus cannot be valid.
Respectfully, I don't believe the momentum angle; I believe in the tipping point premise whereas Snowden became the human face for this continuing failure of the republic.

It's my belief that skilled politicians equate the Edward Snowden revelations and the fears he has of losing his life to that of the "rape of Lucretia" in Ancient Rome. (The rape and suicide of Lucretia toppled the monarchy in Rome and brought in the Republic.)

60-minutes, Wired Magazine, the New York Times have been talking about Patriot Act abuses and even the signing of the NDAA which gave Obama the right to imprison anyone without a lawyer or the right to trial. It also gave him the right to drone-kill anyone if so desired.

All of this has gone over the public's head because a real life example wasn't involved - BUT - when Edward Snowden, a real person said, "I may be killed for telling you all of this" and then abandoned a sweet paycheck because he couldn't live with myself if he didn't that got people's attention much like the aforementioned rape and suicide of Lucretia in ancient Rome.

Just a thought.
Fujio Masuoka the inventor of flash memory [2002]
More info here: https://github.com/sloria/python-subreddit-stats. Not much to it--the script uses BeautifulSoup to scrape user count, and an Openshift app runs the script hourly as a cronjob.
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I found it interesting that even the author of the Patriot Act (probably not a huge friend of civil liberties) thinks the NSA is overstepping and said [how they interpret the provision for collecting phone metadata] "got to be changed … otherwise in a year or year and a half you're not going to have it any more" http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/07/nsa-admits-i...
Looks nice, if you are looking to make a nicer designed http://requestb.in, then I suggest you replace the white background in the inbox page as it looks like a break in the otherwise very nice, dark design.
Not a big deal. You just get access to a better tool through your Adwords account.
The House Judiciary Committee was also lied to and they don't seem happy about that either. Most politicians also understand the potential for abuse inherent in these programs. That helps too.

It is hard to say if we'll see meaningful reform come from this, but it is encouraging see the reaction so far. The hearings in the House this week are going to make for very interesting TV too.
>I can still see how it might make sense.

Yeah, but as the good professor stated in the article, we are already dropping bombs on their heads, so they are pretty much aware that we know who they are (paraphrasing).
To the extent that's true of free apps/games, its equally true of paid apps/games. The only way in which the two differ is that the ones that aren't free come with a particular known cost on top of all the potential unknown costs.
This is where I see the trouble when How is limited to engineering! (As an e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6119340)

You need to be able to capture every activity and every team that gets involved in the process. If not you will have a dysfunctional company where each department does not see the whole picture of how we push features.
How = PM setting out the stories, Marketing putting down the value (how else are you going to sort the que?), Engineering building it, IT managing it, PM measuring the usage, and capturing the actual value denoted by the customer.
The board should be able to capture all these. In turn providing feedback to every team. For e.g. if Marketing is constantly assigning wrong values to features, then we need to figure out what do we need to do put in right estimates for them? etc ...
Kanban is about looking at the whole picture by breaking it down into the actual activities you as a team are involved in. You could be actually following a waterfall process internally but still observe it, capture it, measure it and then improve upon it. That's when its a kanban process. Everything else is cargo culting.
practically people will maybe start to exchange DVDs :)
Somewhat off topic, but this article perfectly shows how difficult taking full advantage of a multi-core environment truly is, and how lacking a lot of our tools are. Granted, this is an extreme example.
There was a post on reddit where abused women have higher levels of oxytocin. Maybe that has something to do with it.

Abused/brainwashed is pretty much similar, except one might have physical traces.
US approves drones for civilian use
I don't personally, but I reckon a day with way-back machine may be enough to establish prior art. That's the problem with overly general patents, unfortunately.

Also good to know I've finally become one of the "people on HN" though for having a bit of common sense! It's good folks here, and I'm glad to be part of the community.
In countries that use the USD as their primary currency, the USD is the currency of the tax raising authority in that country. However the citizens do also pay a small tax to the USA from the use of the USD in the form of seigniorage, i.e. they still have to buy the dollars. For coins this is apparently around 45 cents per dollar.

As for entitlement to territory, the only entitlement to territory that really counts is the ability to keep hold of it. If you want an anarchist utopia, you may have problems keeping it for any length of time unless you are fairly inaccessible or fairly martial.

This isn't particularly fair, admittedly.
He did hardware.
The empirical evidence on a relationship between minimum wages and economy-wide unemployment is extremely mixed. How you describe it is how things work in toy economic models, but any model with a hope of being realistic would at least have to account for the fact that employment demand isn't external and static. Other complexities include how it interacts with automation: in some jobs, artificially raising the cost of low-end manual labor just moves forward a few years the point at which it becomes cheaper to automate the job, which may be good or bad for overall employment.
Ah, delightful, unread Borges texts still popping up after a four course meal of collected works I got presented with a few years ago (not an English edition). Thanks.

In Lisbon, there's a small, discrete monument to Borges - just a carved stone with a few lines of one of his poems. It is situated in a small garden diagonally opposite the crossroads from the Argentine embassy (GPS 38.736322, -9.142172 ).

I first came across Borges, many moons ago, in an SF collection, with the story of the man who was, recursively, another man's dream ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circular_Ruins ).

But I think he did catch us out with this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolen...):

The list divides all animals into one of 14 categories:

Those that belong to the emperor
Embalmed ones
Those that are trained
Suckling pigs
Mermaids (or Sirens)
Fabulous ones
Stray dogs
Those that are included in this classification
Those that tremble as if they were mad
Innumerable ones
Those drawn with a very fine camel hair brush
Et cetera
Those that have just broken the flower vase
Those that, at a distance, resemble flies
Try textadept! It is structured in a way similar to Emacs: small core in C, most functionality written in Lua. In my opnion the only thing better about Elisp than Lua is that it has macros, everything else, from scoping to speed and coroutines is probably better in Lua. And the icing on the cake? The parsers use LPEG grammars and not regex!

Of course there is a downside: it has a tiny fraction of Emacs's functionality (even without considering non-default Emacs packages!), but it mostly has the fraction I use and is simpler enough than Emacs that I am more likely to extend it than Emacs.

(If you already knew about textadept but don't consider it a "programmable text editor", please let me know why.)