skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And lottery tickets are a dollar each, and the upside can be so great (thousands of dollars), why not buy one?

But online submissions are worse than lottery tickets, because you buy a lottery ticket, and then check it from time to time. No, they're seductive because there seems to be some pattern behind it, because they're so easy to test, and before you know it, those 30 seconds have turned into 30 hours of testing and reading into the material for a parsley 600 views.

Technically, working at Costco's and spending your earnings on AdWords would have brought you more exposure with the added upside that those are more qualified leads (for business sites), or on Facebook, where that money could buy you thousands of impressions (I found some numbers putting average CPM for a sponsored check in story at 6$ with a CTR of 3.2%, so spending your 192$ from Costco will get you ~960 clicks @ 30k impressions, if you're doing a mediocre job).

So yeah, if it were 30 seconds it'd be a great deal. But unless you have the self control of a buddhist monk, it's not going to be 30 seconds. Never.
Well you are most likely really anxious to fall asleep. Hypnosis can help. Depending on your hypnotic susceptibility
it can be more or less effective. But, I suggest you give it a try. The video down below is about lucid dreaming, however, that's not the point. If you are highly susceptible to hypnosis it'll relax you very very deeply. Then, naturally you'll fall asleep.
Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk6VTM_ZiYA
I hope it works for you.
Here are the 10 rules from his slides, though he goes into a lot more detail in the video (he starts going into the rules at around 14:00):

1. Get good at something
Really good. Get good ts as many things as you can. Being good at one thing makes it easier to get good at other things.

2. Getting good at stuff takes practice.
Lots and lots of practice.

3. Get OBSESSED
Everyone at the top of their field is obsessed with what they're doing.

4. Doing something well and thoroughly is it's OWN reward.

5. Show and Tell
If you do something well and you're happy with it, for FSM's
sake, tell EVERYONE

6. IF YOU WANT SOMETHING, ASK.
If something piques your interest, tell someone, if you want to learn something, ask someone, like your BOSS. As an employer I can tell you, people who want to learn new skills are people I want to keep employed.

7. Have GOALS
Make up goals. Set goals. Regularly assess where you are and where you want to be in terms of them. This is a kind of prayer that works, and works well. Allow for the fact that things will NEVER turn out like you think they will, and you must be prepared to end up miles from where you intended.

8. BE NICE
TO EVERYONE. Life is way to short to be an asshole. If you are an asshole, apologize.

9. Fail
You will fail. It's one of our jobs in life. Keep failing. When you fail, admit it. When you don't, don't get cocky, 'Cause you're just about to fail again.

10. WORK YOUR ASS OFF
Work like your life depends on it.
My post was partially tongue in cheek. American's don't universally hate Canada or Mexico or Silicon Valley. In the right context though many of them might sneer at Silicon Valley (or for many at least the ultra-liberal bay area). Ask most Canadians living in the states and you will hear innumerable sad stories of being the butt of not very funny poutine and maple syrup jokes.
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Yeah, the Trader Joes ones are 0.5 mg, taste like peppermint candies, and knock me out within 15 minutes.
> taxes are at the discretion of the House, and the Senate ignored that

Wrong. Taxes (actually, any appropriations or taxation) must originate in the House. Which is easily circumvented by replacing the text of an appropriations bill that passed in the House using a Senate amendment, and has been used far before the passage of the ACA.

This is hardly new, and doesn't mean "taxes are at the discretion of the House". Every bill must be approved by both the House and the Senate (and the ACA did, otherwise it wouldn't even be a law at all), the original bill is required to have technically originated in the House.

"According to the Origination Clause of the United States Constitution, all bills relating to revenue, generally tax bills, must originate in the House of Representatives, consistent with the Westminster system requiring all money bills to originate in the lower house. House appropriations bills begin with "H.R.", meaning "House of Representatives". The Constitution also states that the "Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills," so in practice, the Senate and House each drafts and considers its own bill. The Senate then "cuts-and-pastes", substituting the language of its bill of a particular appropriations bill for the language of House bill, then agrees to the bill as amended." [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriation_bill
>and that's why we're log-jammed at the moment.

This implies that it's just a matter of mistakes made in the past, that it created some mechanical-procedural problem that all our politicians are powerless to fix, and it just needs to work itself out with maybe some nudging.

This suggests that it is not the case that some group is actively maintaining a condition of closed government offices.
I thought I had it tough as a Sales Engineer but I am a piker compared to these guys.
Not that I strongly disagree with the authors ideas of how Twitter could take on Youtube, but it is worthwhile to emphasize that Twitter's S-1 filing indicate no intention to do so.

"How I think Twitter Could Take a Billion Dollars From YouTube," would be a far less misleading headline.
Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult
Context: job posting on HN linked to: https://www.drchrono.com/jobs/
My guess is that military is buying up all their tech. We usually hear these teasers designed to encourage decision makers to speed up the funding. It's like putting a gun on their head "if you don't buy this, we will sell to someone else". After the rounds of funding is over we hear silence. It is not unlike many other cool very promising research projects but they can be threatening if other countries get their hands on them. Their main page says...

Organizations worldwide, from DARPA, the US Army, Navy and Marine Corps...
DARPA is funding the early development of technology they think will some day be useful to the military. Similar to how the DARPA Grand/Urban challenges helped plant the seed for fully autonomous ground vehicles.

So this specific robot is not meant to kill humans, but a robot in the future based on it's technology might. Currently the military has a large aversion lethal autonomous systems, so I don't think it's going to happen.
Accurate gunners NEVER fire on fully auto. When I was the commander's gunner behind a .50 cal cruising in a humvee around Baghdad and (more often) Mosul, Iraq... You fire controlled 8-10 round bursts or 3-5 round bursts if you aren't trying to go nuts.

Perfect aim and fully auto are mutually exclusive. That is why the M16A1, which was used in Vietnam as the standard issue rifle, was replaced with the no longer fully auto M16A2. The A2 has safe, fire, and 3 round burst. The fully auto selector was removed as soldiers just wasted a lot of ammo and burned up barrels.
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> The problem is, I don't know how on earth we can get the crooks and corrupt out of our government.

The fundamental problem is that while everyone agrees there are a ton of crooks and corrupt people in government, nobody can agree on which ones. There's a large fraction of people who think only about half of government is crooked and corrupt, another large fraction who think the same of the other half, and far too few people who realize that both halves are.

More seriously, we have a voting system that effectively created the two-party mostly-centrist system we have today[1], which lives and dies by the idea that a compromise between two extreme positions is always the right answer[2,3].

So, personally, my preferred choice of windmill is less broken voting systems, though voting for third-party candidates (particularly in local elections where they actually have a chance) is a close second.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_middle_ground
This is related to something called the Doomsday Argument, and it was recently the topic of an xkcd what-if blog:

http://what-if.xkcd.com/65/

By all accounts it comes down to the old bayesian/frequentist battle lines.
Excellent example. But we also failed to build the necessary safeguards to prevent using the Internet as a massive surveillance machine. When will we learn something from our past failures?
No, districts don't create the two-party system (or at least not alone); plurality (first-past-the-post) voting does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
80 employees. Wow.
Currently the military has a large aversion lethal autonomous systems

Humm... what about the drones?
Here is a portion of the summary of the President's 2013 budget proposal. [1]

I don't know where you get the idea that the President is violating the Budget Control Act. The issue is that the Senate and the House refuse to conference, due to the remote possibility of an actual revised budget being passed. Therefore CRs are used to maintain funding without dealing with the seemingly intractable partisan disputes in the current split Congress.

(and the Budget Control Act of 2011 was attempt to move this debate from the full floor to the Supercommittee, which promptly failed and resulted in the sequester) I'm not sure how that's relevant. [2]

[1] http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress_Joint_Se...
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Reduction of entropy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_and_life

But that's not helpful. There was a saying on a bench, here in vancouver to the effect, that " You can't find yourself, you need to make yourself". But I suppose making yourself on a solid foundation requires introspection. I'm not sure where you are at but, eventually you will come up with answers/non answers and then watch your life pass you by. (similar to a stream processor) here's knausgaard.

"As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it. Things that are too small to see with the naked eye, such as molecules and atoms, we magnify. Things that are too large, such as cloud formations, river deltas, constellations, we reduce. At length we bring it within the scope of our senses and we stabilize it with fixer. When it has been fixed we call it knowledge. Throughout our childhood and teenage years, we strive to attain the correct distance to objects and phenomena. We read, we learn, we experience, we make adjustments. Then one day we reach the point where all the necessary distances have been set, all the necessary systems have been put in place. That is when time begins to pick up speed. It no longer meets any obstacles, everything is set, time races through our lives, the days pass by in a flash and before we know what is happening were are forty, fifty, sixty . . . Meaning requires content, content requires time, time requires resistance. Knowledge is distance, knowledge is stasis and the enemy of meaning. ".

I think the answers I appreciate the most, are the ones which emphasize noticing the world and the best parts of other people.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/17/the-meanin...
Why not just try interlacing the top posts and new posts randomized?

i.e.

1) Top #1 post
2) Random New Post
3) Top #2 post
4) Random New Post
5) Top #3 post
6) etc.
Dear HN: Please don't start a response with the word "wrong."
Example:
Dave: The sky is green.
Bob: Wrong. The sky is blue.

It just makes you look like an asshole. Be more tactful and civil in your discussions. I promise you people will respond more favorably if you don't come out the gate blaring a buzzer like a game-show host.
I believe that is the point. A human doesn't have the timing/strength to accurately shoot in full auto, a robot possibly can.
YC definitely does not have interns
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If a normal business were as fiscally irresponsible as the US Government, all of its employees would have long since been out of a job. I find it bizarre that people apply a different financial standard and expectation to a nation's finances as they would to their own or a business'.

The massive deficit spending, financed by the Fed, that keeps all of these jobs going, is mostly in fact funded out of the pocket of Americans without their knowledge. If we were forced to balance the budget tomorrow, a million people would lose their jobs. Given the guaranteed increase in the cost of debt over the next decade, that tells you exactly what is going to happen to all of these jobs given our national debt will climb past $20 trillion (just 5% on $15 trillion wipes out social security or the US military).

This shutdown will end very soon, despite the hoopla. Not one of the major financial problems that America has will be resolved however. An even bigger disaster will merely roll closer.

The most surprising thing about what's going on, is the fact that so many people dependent on government largesse have for so long been spared the consequences of the out of control financial problems in DC.
Roundabouts have turned a corner
Rubinius 2.0 released
The average yearly income in the US is $43,000. The base price of a Model S is $63,000. There is simply no way to afford a Tesla as an average, middle-class laborer without making massive tradeoffs in quality of life elsewhere. If you can afford a car that costs such an absurd amount of money, you are either living in squalor to afford it or you are not middle class. It's tiring to see people who are obviously the beneficiaries of economic privilege pretend as though they are "average." You are not, and to assert that you are demonstrates a fundamental ignorance about the difficulties that "average" people face.

As for the house argument, you and I both know that the two are totally incomparable. Putting a roof on your head is a much bigger priority than buying an electric supercar. People need to pay for shelter. They generally can't afford to pay a lot for luxury cars. If you argument is true, why isn't everyone buying $63,000 cars? (Not to mention the millions of people who can't even afford homes.)

Your posts demonstrates everything that is wrong with class stratification in America. I don't think you or your friends who elected to choose Teslas over Porches know what it means to be "average."
go build -gcflags

If you run `go help build`, you will see:

-gcflags 'arg list'
arguments to pass on each 5g, 6g, or 8g compiler invocation.

Then you can run:

go tool 6g

And see:

-m	print optimization decisions
There's a pretty strong argument that the telcos love iPhone (see Horace Dedieu's analyses, e.g. http://www.asymco.com/2013/04/23/the-job-the-iphone-is-hired...). The music companies may despise Apple but they're kind of being stupid. It's not Apple's fault that the bottom dropped out of their nice little business of selling people CDs with 10 tracks they didn't want to get 1-2 tracks they did AND selling people CDs of music they'd already bought as LPs.

The TV channels are a different matter. They are, today, right now, happily making $2 per viewer hour, and Apple is offering them effectively $0.70 or so (let's say the average TV show is watched by two people in a household; even if it's only one, that's $2.00 vs. $1.40.) The TV networks aren't threatened by a Napster equivalent. And the people who really might benefit from Apple's business model -- content producers -- are tied up in an existing business model that's hard to wean off of.

It seems to me that it will taken people like Joss Whedon or Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars) -- the kinds of people who could Kickstart a movie or TV season -- to try their luck at selling content direct to consumers (through Apple, Amazon, etc.) to convince rightly skeptical content producers to ditch the useless middlemen.
Government Down For Everyone Or Just Me?
I think you're also forgetting: post Marbury v. Madison, the meaning of the Origination Clause is at the discretion of the Supreme Court.

Match point.
...all of which are more feasible on an MBT, or weapon station (which is robotic, by the way)
I feel bad for whoever slipped this in. They will probably catch all heck from their boss.

I'd hate working for a company that can't meet its payroll. This really is awful, shouldn't the authorization to hire be the authorization to pay a person?
They are DARPA research projects, it doesn't surprise me at all that we have not seen anything deployed yet as it simply isn't ready yet. DARPA focuses on far out research.
You're telling me. I actually took a break from Guild Wars 2 to comment on this thread.
It's funny that what we see as not eventful is usually seeds for something big. I remember this with egypt both times and syria. I am not saying that this is going to lead to something big but you never know, there could be an uprising over the police moving towards kill at any cost vs kill only if necessary. If you look at the video, at one point there was six cops surrounding the vehicle, one cop had his forehead on the front passenger window yet they could not see a little kid in there, also they could have shot out the tires, someone that has no gun training could have done that as it was at point blank range. In the 80s polics had better judgement and less police injuries, today a guy can have a knife be 10 metres away and a group of cops will go for the kill shot, amazing.
Here you go:
https://github.com/mkdynamic/dcut
Source code:
https://github.com/mkdynamic/dcut
The biggest problem with the shutdown is exceptions.

There should be zero exceptions, no police, no weather, nothing, absolutely nobody allowed to keep working.

No piecemeal pick-and-choose whom to re-enable, fund all or none.

Then this would be solved a tiny bit quicker.

Plus we should do what Australia does and dissolve Congress entirely and have new elections. But I guess that part is a fantasy.
Lighten up. The submitter identified exactly the line and commit that enabled crashing all mongo deployments with a 16-byte post (I presume, from the report). Considering the circumstances, I congratulate the submitter on being so whimsical.

if (strcmp(buffer + position + 5, "$ref") == 0) { / DBRef */

Seriously?
This is so true. I'm currently a student and am sort of terrified to join the workforce in this industry. I really have no desire to surround myself with people who are so ignorant of and inured to the way real fucking people live. As someone who spent the majority of their childhood in poverty and was homeless for an extended period of time, this sort of hubris is profoundly saddening. It's very upsetting how abundant this form of arrogance is in the tech industry.
The drones aren't autonomous - they are remote-piloted. Think of them like R/C aircraft... that kill. In any case, all "trigger pulling" is done by a human.

The military, as of yet, has had an aversion to robots that can decide to pull the trigger on their own.
Looking at the github it seems you benchmark GCC 4.8.1 vs. go 1.2rc1. Numbers for Go look promising if one considers that Google's Go implementation does not even have an advanced optimizer yet (in contrast to GCC).

>c++ -std=c++11 -O3 -Wall -pthread -ffast-math -mtune=native -march=native -o cpprays cpprays/main.cpp

Have you tried -O2? -O3 often generates slower code.

>i7 2600

Intel's compiler would probably generate faster code. That's why you can't just say "Go vs C++". You could let Go win this fight by compiling the C++ with Digital Mars. It is also a C++ compiler but it lacks a modern optimizer and the generated code is usually much slower.
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We have enough events, because in this case it is appropriate to model the actual random event as 'million miles driven' with a chance of fire happening or not happening. Gasoline cars have a mean of 0.05 fires per million miles, and given the current Tesla data, the mean is 0.01 fires per million miles. I'm not taking out a calculator, but it would come out to an extremely low (0.0001%) the 'true' fire chance is the 0.05 gas car rate or higher; the 95% confidence interval should be 0.01 +- 0.02 or tighter, so still twice better than gas cars.

For an exaggerated example, if Tesla had driven a billion miles and had 0 fires, you shouldn't say that there's not enough data - you definitely would have enough data to say that the chance of fire is below the gas-car rate of 5 fires per 100 million miles.
The only extension I use is NuGet ( which I think is built in now?), but it still is the best IDE I ever used.
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Their weapons aren't autonomous.
As `teovall noted, any particular reason you linked a version covered with SEO keywords with only a few views of the video instead of the one with 2.5 million (which has the exact same title but is remarkably lacking in SEO spam)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE is the original, for anyone who's curious.
It's super simple to write your own. Periodically check
https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments
and when a new comment appears, get the parent's author and send a notification.
If police were federally funded that could make some sense, but they aren't. Is that part of the Australian constitution? We have no mechanism in place, presently, to do anything of the sort (I suppose we might be able to have local recall elections, but just checked. In 1967 courts ruled federal legislators weren't held to state recall laws. Things may have changed since then and a new court may rule differently.
Lay them all off already, give our privacy back.
It's called the goalkeeper ciws. Look it up on YouTube. Well, to be fair, that is not a standard issue rifle. But the principle is no different, and we are just a few years or tens of years from the correct servo technology.
"1 occurence" is misleading, as the miles driven is the actual random event. If you throw a coin 100 million times and 1 time it lands on its side - then you can have a rather reasonable estimate on how rare that possibility is even though you have just 1 occurrence. I.e., it may be that the chance is 0.5 per 100m or 2 per 100m; but it'd be very strange if the actual chance is 10 per 100m.