skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To a certain extent, the analogy is fair:

Go's design is much simpler (in the sense of "bare bones") than Rust's, just like C's design is much simpler than C++'s. But this comes at the price of leaving many common, repetitive development tasks as "exercises to the [reader] programmer", such as resource management. Now, I am aware that memory, being plentiful these days, can be managed using a garbage collector. But, for any resource not called memory, you are on your own. Also, Go's shared memory model, while flexible by default, is also quite messy by default. Managing the mess is, again, left as an exercise to the programmer.

Rust's design is much closer to the C++ philosophy that the language must do as much as possible for the programmer. But what sets Rust apart from all the other wannabe C++ replacements is that Rust also incorporates the idea (taken from the Haskell/ML world) that one of the most useful things a language can do for the programmer is provide tools for ruling out huge classes of bugs. Thus you get a strong type system that provides support for parametric polymorphism (generics), ad-hoc polymorphism (traits), guaranteed-correct resource management (the pointer system) and mutability control.

Finally, I would like to improve on your analogy: Go is to C/Python as Rust is to C++/Haskell. Go is for the hacker type who wants to write his program as a sequence of instructions and call it a day. Rust is for a more refined type of programmer, the kind that is aware that his brain alone is not powerful enough to reason about the correctness of a big program, and thus prefers to use tools to automate reasoning about the boring repetitive parts, freeing his brain for reasoning about the actually hard parts of his program.
The problem is i am working in IT. For an IT guy moving slowly from low cost center to medium cost center and from medium cost center to high cost center is equivalent to a successful career progression.

Being in NYC means that i would be working on really interesting projects and i will have more freedom with my work and the decisions that i can make while programming.
I too have some small experience in this department. Saying, "NO! Stop it!" is a questionable sign. "Homeless organizations" are not all alike; they have radically different approaches. (For example, to what extent are they led by homeless people affected by their actions?)

Your post maintains that people should hit rock-bottom; then they will be integrated into government programs to "work themselves back into society in general" with "strict oversight and supervision". And, "They need to bottom out and seek help of their own free will." This notion of "free will" is actually "desperation". It is not a free choice between alternatives.

Consider this: have you spoken with a parent who complained about some random rude person who criticized some minor aspect of their childcare? (Usually a mother, since even rather negligent fathers are heroes.) That can ruin people's days, make them angry and humiliated. Consider being in an institution which is all about this "strict oversight and supervision". And what's the prospect? Many uninterrupted hours a day of even more dignity destruction washing dishes for some strict boss. (Who often stiffs them on their paycheck to boot.)

(I'm not saying people have to individually give money to their fellow humans down on their luck. If people prefer some small sustainable amount of activism to fight the societal structures which make people poor, good on them. That's collective action, not atomized individual action; certainly in the business world, people organize into strange sorts of collectives. And activism is generally in their own interests; the prospect of being poor scares people into accepting worse conditions for being cogs in the machine. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-of...)
Thanks for the link. Awhile back, I had implemented an n-bit cipher (where 1 <= n <=64) with an unbalanced Feistel network and used hash function as the basis of the round functions. I then wrap it within a cycle-walking function to form a cipher for any number smaller than 2^64. I did all this so I can generate scrambled 5-char path IDs of short URLs (e.g. test.com/xA7bc) with domain size of 62^5.
In the Philippines, they ask for your name, but also ask for the receipt when you pick up your drink. I assume that's primarily for theft prevention. But it was wonderful to have everyone get your name right on the first try (it's Philip).
Leukemia doesn't affect many enough people in reproductive age to cause a population explosion. Basically, no medical advance can cause population explosion in the rich world: there are very few people dying from disease in reproductive ages there. Making people who would otherwise die at 55 live through 95 does not make a population explosion because they won't have any kids anyways.
TKM, Thanks for the wonderful reply. I have now more options to consider than just NJ. Thanks once again.
It's about sample size isn't it? I"m sure the village had at least one person who wasted the money in some way. The article never mentions anybody, even if the village didn't, if you expanded it to a larger village there will be one person I'm sure.

But more importantly there's a stark difference between somebody who lives homeless in a developed nation vs a bunch of villagers living in poverty. I'm not sure how well I could articulate them but I imagine it comes from the perspective of what is considered "well-off" for the homeless man vs the villagers.
Who wants to give me a job?
Hello Hackernews,

I'm rather good with HTML and CSS, I can implement Javascript and Jquery elements wherever I've tried. I'm getting better and better with PHP and am about to start the second year of Higher certificate of web technologies. Really however, I'm pretty much self taught without any commercial web design experience.

I've been working at my personal business site for about six months which you can find at www.wildhives.co.uk

Its taught me a great deal about SEO, google analytics, PHP and basic things such as HTML and CSS. I've recently gotten interested in bootstrap.

Its pretty much running itself now however and I'ld like to take a step into a different river, that of web design and development.

You can find a few further details about me here www.noelvock.com

You can question me further here.

Currently I'ld be interested in small roles, large projects, big roles and small projects.

Is there anyone who would be happy to have an apprentice under wing?
I don't think he was OK with giving 63% of his income to the government. In addition, some part of that 63% is going to another form of charity: welfare. I can understand how someone, after seeing how a non-trivial part of their income is given away to local poor people, might not want to also give money to foreign poor people.
> Human trials having 75% success rating for curing leukemia

Please do not use the word "cure" when talking about cancer. The article's submitter invented this headline -- the article doesn't support it in any way. In fact, it says this: "Scientists don’t talk about “curing” cancer. A cure is the hope so great, so seemingly out of reach, that it must never be invoked. They’ve built a wall around the word."

And well they might.
Ambiente Construído na Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Rogerbooyou, Thanks for your comments.

Am i reading the market incorrectly? since you mention that i might get somewhere around 75K - 100K !
For a 10 year experienced guy in C++ and Java, i was expecting a range of 130K-150K.

That does put a wrench in the works !!
It uses video tag and .mp4
Don't discount the weather. Aircraft at 30K feet are in an entirely different environment than those skimming the waves of the oceans.
thanks noname123 for your comments....
FBI watches ten years while I write my OS.

FBI says I didn't do it.

Fucken incompatent fucks.

God will punish.

It's fucken God, no rules apply, anyway.

God says...
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Would waterest states chosen criedst vile followed self-restraint
apportioned renounce act bier incomplete measure infinitude
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You probably have one of these if you have a printer. It's basically the same mechanism as on the output paper guides, that causes a movement of the guide on one side to match the other side, and for the paper path to therefore remain centred.

Normally you can take the output tray off and turn it over to see the mechanism.
> Edit: Why are people downvoting the person I replied to?

Two options:

* Someone's grumpy and/or a jerk and/or an idiot
* Someone's reading HN on a touch device, wanted to
upvote, touched the wrong icon.
WikiLeaks Party preferences right-wing parties due to "administrative errors".
> Surprisingly, giving money to poor people makes them not-poor.

For a while at least. In many cases, they just spend that money and go back to being poor. It's not universal though.

Let's say you give a poor man enough money to start a business. Starting a successful business requires some basic business/economics knowledge and insights, a market and a lot of work to make it succeed. In addition, they might have to struggle with local corruption and bureaucracy. Because of all these difficulties, you have no guarantee they'll actually break out of poverty. Also, they might just take the money and spend it on leisure (buy a car, TV, clothes).

I think what helps people is education about economics and legal systems. If you have a free society in place with rule of law, people break out of poverty on their own.
If you're afraid that China will invade the USA then you should study history a bit more. That doesn't mean that it can not happen at all but the chances are slim. The USA invading China probably has much higher chance of happening.
It does lead to an interesting plausible deniability claim. If ten people come forward with chunks that XOR to a copyrighted file, they can all show to 90% certainty that they aren't the one with the derived/infringing chunk.

Dealing with the conspiracy claims would be tricky, though.
I'd love to see an idea like this flourish.
There are cases where early results from a trial were so promising that both sides (of a double-blind trial) were put on the treatment.

eg:

A new prostate cancer drug trial has been so successful doctors have decided to stop it early.
Medics at London's Royal Marsden Hospital were testing a powerful alpha radiation drug on 461 people while another group of the same number were being treated with a dummy drug.
Patients taking the new drug experienced less pain, side effects and lived longer.
Researchers were so astounded with the results they decided to stop the trial and started treating all 922 patients taking part in the study because they said it would be unethical not to.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2041301/Prostate-c...
Features like category lists are implemented via database queries. There's little wrong with that; what's wrong is that small result sets can't easily be pinned in memory.

As with website software, cache performance probably has a great deal to do with how WordPress performs.
Complacency and contentment are not survival traits. And wealthy/successful people have the right to be sad/angst-y.

Read up on the hedonic treadmill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill): the tendency for humans to return to a level of happiness no matter what their circumstances.
Alt+D is my preferred shortcut anyway, since it has the same effect in e.g. fullscreen IE10. Consistency is nice.
EDIT 4: Even having set about:config -> browser.cache.disk.enable -> false, I have to close/open the browser twice in order for the cache (and tracking) to disappear.
From the examples posted in the articles it seems to me that 1) can be reduced to the financial part (e.g. microcredit systems such as water.org) and 2) should come first - you need to create a fertile ground where people can lift themselves up from basic survival mode into some sort of business to sustain their family. Once you have enough people being able to sell services to others, infrastructure should come automatically - probably roughly in the order of maslow's pyramid. The only other infrastructure that might be worth it to boost other than financials is education, since this should be expected to accelerate the growth process.
I'm not at all opposed to basic income on moral grounds (it's actually a nice idea from that point of view), but I don't think it's sustainable economically, because it creates a positive feedback cycle.

Here's why: let's say you compute an amount $X of income everyone gets. This means that everyone now has enough money for food, rent and other basic necessities. That means that the demand for these goods will increase (maybe not much in the US, but significantly in other parts of the world). That means that the prices for those goods will increase (unless production increases somehow, but why would it?). To adjust for this, the government would have to increase the income; then the prices would increase again and so on. Basically you'd have rampant inflation.

Now the counterargument is going to be that this wouldn't happen, because production would increase up to a point where everyone's needs are met, and prices stabilize. However, production still depends on labor. What incentives would people have to put in more work to produce more?
Can someone enlighten me as to how this achieves anything, other than a count of people who abstained?

If you want to reform something, it seems like the required action is to reform it. Saying on record 'i want reform', or 'i don't like the old system' does not achieve anything, and in fact wastes everyones' time. The hard part: working out reform and enactioning it, still needs to be done.

Am I missing something?
Facebook wants to put your photos in cold storage
Even after reading this comment I still have no idea what this article is about. Is this an elaborate hacker news trolling post?
"Like many others, I spend most of my day behind a computer."

I tend to spend my time in front of one. Is there an advantage to being behind it?

But jokes aside, I added this to my bashrc, looks useful.
Totally. Also works in Chrome and Firefox.
There was no Internet to fill in the details?
My thoughts about [artificial] intelligence.

Senses do not provide the data for intelligence. Their sole purpose is to provide syncing between reality and internal representation. Intelligence perceives and operates on this internal representation only.

Language is just another sense that helps with syncing of internal representation with some sort reality (might be physical reality, might be reality of social relationships, might even be internal representation of another intelligent being).

I've seen logs of conversations between AI and human, and human and human. What struck me how much more verbose was the AI and human talking to it. Humans between themselves used such shorthands that made the conversation almost unintelligible to me just because I'm not american or even native english speaker.

What useful AI systems up to date lack is the right internal representation. Current interaction between real world and AI systems resemble interaction between an application components and unit testing mockups. Interface is sort of correct but mockups lack the actual meat inside.

AI research should IMHO go towards simulating reality, physical and social in flexible enough way and finding ways of syncing this simulation to reality using narrow data channels such as language, heavily filtered out (moving) images and sounds.
I already knew about this but completely forgot, thank you for refreshing my memory :)
I have this problem with people registering in one forum with multiple identities and I have been fighting it with cookies to track them, but they got smarter and delete the cookies now.. so it's useful to know I can try something new.
> i can apply for a GC (as in Green Card, not the other GC)

What's this other GC?

I looked at 146 GC's here:

http://www.acronymfinder.com/GC.html

and none of them make sense in this context.

Edit: The joke is quite funny -- now that I get it.
No SSL login, and no Android app? Hm…
Here's the issue I think gweinberg has: Imagine you encode an image to JPEG, with the "quality slider" cranked all the way to 11 (or whatever the maximum is). Now, the DCT blocks are tiny and the compression is super inefficient. But it exactly reproduces the input image, and you may say it's lossless. The same image encoded with PNG (deflate) might be way smaller, but that still does not change the fact that JPEG losslessly encodes this image.
> I don't think that's the real issue stopping basic income. I think the real issue is that the money has to come from somewhere --- specifically, the money would necessarily come from the high earners in society. And they would have to agree to basic income since in our current form of democracy the high-earners have a disproportionate influence on the law.

Money doesn't come only from taxes, it can also come from printing. However, relying on printing money to cover government expenses has been a bad idea pretty much everywhere (there are a lot of examples of hyperinflation, like Zimbabwe, Argentina and Germany). Among many nasty effects, it destroys any savings people have.
Definitely Denmark. Also Danish license plates on the cars, in addition to what has already been mentioned.
Stories like these not only show that cancer research edges us ever so slightly towards solving one of the world's biggest problems, but also shows to us the ever upward curve of human innovation. The path to an engineered humanity may seem unspiritual and mechanized to some, but to me it expositions one of the true beauties of our existence - that is, we are our own antibodies. Stories like these inspire and nurture the best in us. Keep at it Carl June - you are a true hacker.
I'm no expert but in the UK there seems to be wide consensus that giving directly to beggars is counterproductive, to the extent that charitable organisations spend time and effort putting up posters round cities reminding people of this.
It's pretty freaking obvious there was a language barrier problem here. He knew of the whitehat program, but not the ability within it to create test accounts: he asks the security team to set up a test account so he can post to it to show them the problem.
Article dated April 1, 2013.
This seems to be an avenue to (possibly) get enough leverage to have more than a snowflake's chance in Hades of actually getting somewhere, given the current power structure.
This article is great because it doesn't argue for piracy or against it. I do feel that it is missing a discussion about the colour of bits being amalgated by other bits. IE, if I buy a movie and then I torrent that same movie, is the torrented copy still illegal? Cloudy at best, I'd say.
Charity.

But the best kind, the kind that may actually work long-term (as long as "raise money" means voluntary donations, and not some sort of taxation).
Great article, just one major inaccuracy concerning the Pirate Party:

> they have a silly name and their focus seems to be solely on ‘sharing culture’ at the expense of everything else.

Then you go on to say:

> What we need in this country is a protest party that campaigns on the issues of Internet privacy, censorship, copyright/patent reform and computer misuse laws.

The Pirate Party campaigns precisely on these issues. For those that think the Pirate Party is just focused on protesting against unfair monopolies, please look up their actual ideas.

A good illustration is given on Rick Falkvinge's blog:

http://falkvinge.net/files/2012/manual/PirateWheel-2012-11-1...
It took me longer than I'd like to admit to realize that this was a joke.

Reminds me of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnkT6C9Ose8
“But we have so many vases already.”

I'd love to hear that from my life partner. In her case I'd like "vases" to be replaced with "pots", "flowers", "mugs", "cups", "plates", "furniture", "shoes".
As long as their axes have some orthogonal component, three allow for a torque-cancelling solution in three dimensions. It may not be as easy an equation as three pairs of cancelled-moment wheels, but it's more weight-efficient.

However...
What little I can puzzle out about systems like this suggests that six active wheels (plus spares) would allow for desaturation of spin (cutting back when one flywheel approaches its maximum RPM) without either additional spacecraft rotation or thrusters.
not in context at all, but considering his BG I thought Garbage Collector :)
that is the worst way to solve the problem - just use incognito mode.
OpenStack Savanna - Fast Hadoop Cluster Provisioning on OpenStack
April-fool detected. (?)
Erkanoplans last resting place
In case anybody feels like visiting. And this is what it looks like inside: http://englishrussia.com/2010/09/05/ekranoplan-the-inside-vi...
Pretty obvious it's a joke. The bottom of the plane holds the luggage, there is no way to see through that.
We The Tiny House People (Documentary): Small Homes, Tiny Flats & Wee Shelters
Thanks. I'll have a think about this and then edit the article to give a fairer representation to the Pirate Party.
> Can someone enlighten me as to how this achieves anything, other than a count of people who abstained?

That in itself is quite useful. At the moment, anyone who doesn't vote generally falls into one of two categories:

1) I don't care

2) I don't want any of them

Having some way of explicitly saying "I care, but have no confidence in any of you" can be quite powerful. If it wasn't, votes of no confidence wouldn't mean anything.

> Saying on record 'i want reform', or 'i don't like the old system' does not achieve anything

Only when people agree that the old system has problems. If all the parties think it's fine and they think their constituents are happy with it then a significant voice saying "No, we're not" is important, even when there's no plan. If people agree that there are issues then yes, it's pointless.

You don't need to form a party for this however, you can spoil your ballot paper, that has to be counted.

Unfortunately, due to misinformation (IMO) the plan to reform the voting system failed. I think that would really have helped.
This is such a bad idea.

(a) null voting is already a "none of the above" option

(b) they ask to give money to do... what exactly? Why give this guy 300k£ to basically waste? Give it to charity FFS.
Why would you need to 3D-print it? It's a tube.
Sadly, you'd probably achieve more political change by making an e-petition and persuading Jeremy Clarkson to endorse it
So can I report the same bug under the guidelines and get paid for it, or did you rob him and patch it already? Just pay the man, as a programmer a simple bug like this is a huge no no in the engineers part, and not rewarding the user for his conduct is plain selfish of the company.
Information gathering with Nmap scripts
thanks dewiz... apologies cantrevealname...

While typing GC, i could'nt help myself adding that... thought i was being smart :)
I think it's fear. This essay questions the motivation and premises of the biggest life choices of many people on Hacker News. Be smart, be ambitious, study hard, be successful, make a lot of money.

I've seen people recoil very hard when they are reminded about very deeply buried insecurities. When someone suffers from depression or anxiety, you'll sometimes see the most incredible mental gymnastics to avoid going into therapy and doing a bit of introspection. "I don't like the therapist". "It's boring". "This is pseudoscience". To me this looks like an instance of the same phenomenon; it's more comfortable to reject this premise entirely than to consider that it could also be relevant to your own life.
Orny Adams on Failure [2009]
Does null voting leave the seats in parliament empty? Or do the other parties just get a bigger share?
An argument could be made it wasn't so much the discovery of the bug but rather the manner of reporting it that was a ToS violation.