skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my breakdown (disclosure: I'm an old fart but used be a young gun)

JSON: go with the more standard JSON, "special delimiters" sounds brittle --> old fart loses

customers: don't solve their problem unless they paid for it or it's very small (<1hr). If it's a good customer they'll understand, bad customer will ask for more and more --> old fart wins

functionality: restrict if it's a headache to support unless it's something everyone else has already has --> tie, old fart and young gun should discuss it

genericness: big warning sign! In my first few years I was always building frameworks, now I solve problems. When the time comes to build a framework you'll know it but it takes many years to develop that wisdom --> old fart wins

To make matters a little harder the old fart seems to naturally have encyclopedic knowledge or was forced to develop it in a day and age of printed manuals (I remember those days and am glad they are gone!) The current generation of programmers has less need for rote memorization but keep in mind that there's some value in encyclopedic knowledge beyond the pure facts. If you know a lot of stuff without having to look it up your brain also becomes better at algorithmic thinking because you have more data to practice on. Sadly, my own memory has never been so great.
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Brilliant. Have an upvote!
Don't marginalize people by their age. That's not an argument.
Maybe I overstated the case. You'll get no argument from me.

My only point was that while rich people everywhere use zoning to constrain housing and make their own properties more valuable through public policy, in NYC the rent stabilization and control laws have similar effects while masquerading as enlightened social policy.
it is a p2p-market which might offer anonymity. It is a medium, nothing more nothing less.
I'm in engineering and only at the very very end on some "advanced" Control Systems classes did we even touch the toolboxes.

Everything else, from Numerical Methods to Vibrations to lab report creation would've been handled by IPython and pylab much better. I envy upcoming generations tbh.
Bet it's Java.
Again, flawed reasoning. If all bitcoins were destroyed except for one, how much do you think it would be worth? There is no intrinsic demand for bitcoins, only inertia behind perceived value. And it looks to me that the inertia is mostly behind the price per bitcoin rather than total value of all bitcoins.
Alternately, use "console-quick", which brings up a console with your dependencies on the classpath, but not your actual code.

As a (lengthy) side-note, that name really bugs me. In sbt, we have console-quick and console-project (brings up a console with your build on the classpath). Argh! These are kinds of consoles. They should be quick-console and project-console! Alas, those are the names that Mark Harrah gave us, so they're the ones we have to live with, I guess.
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Such an elevator system might allow the formation of tight-knit safe and trusting communities on each floor, but I suspect that the common areas (lobby, and the elevator itself) would rapidly become as trashed as your stereotypical subway station.

My off-the-wall hypothesis is that poverty breeds crime, and crime breeds decay which itself breeds more crime (see: broken windows theory). Small tight-knit communities seem to, in some situations^ at least, put the brakes on this process. The tighter the community the more of a support net individuals have and the more obligation they feel towards their surroundings.

^ A counter-example that comes to mind are your stereotypical trailer parks and near-ghost-town mining towns across the rust-belt. A poor neighborhood that isn't dense isn't necessarily a wonderful place.
Uh, hi, I'd like to deposit $850,000. Cash. Yes, they're almost all pre-1996 $100 bills.... No, it's no problem, I can wait..
If those fake rates were true, I'd only be paying about $2.10 for a gallon of gas and a new 2014 car like my old '97 would be about 7 grand cheaper than it actually was. I'd be able to buy ground beef for $2.25/pound, I could go on and on for days with this stuff.
Yeah I generally agree. With the builtin addition of require() and reasonable scoping rules, Node.js has turned Javascript into a weak-typed, memory-managed C. There is still the 64-bit integer and large decimal problem, but otherwise that is great. I don't see why the entire backend cannot be Node.js.
It's hard to draw that conclusion without knowing what's in either data set. I'm fairly certain that the obesity data would have gender as one of its attributes, and it's also probable that any death statistics would include other vital stats such as height and weight at time of death.

But you're right, it's certainly possible that all of the women in those states are of normal weight and it's only the men who are obese. I'm being a little glib though, it's hard to know without seeing the data.
The transaction history aspect is necessary though. Going back to my analogy, imagine that your bills were just a bill-sized piece of transparent plastic with a serial number on it and absolutely no other distinguishing marks; not even a special type of plastic or ink. If someone handed you one, how would you know it's authentic and has any value at all?

For Bitcoin, the answer is that you can look up the history of that serial number and verify that it's part of the blockchain, and you know that the blockchain is cryptographically secure and vetted by thousands of bitcoin miners expending a tremendous amount of computing power to make sure every serial id in the chain is valid. That just can't happen without a fully public transaction history going all the way back to the first bitcoin block.
Optimism is great, but we need to plan for the worst, too. The environmental costs for fracking could be unbelievably bad.

Fresh water's one of those resources that's going to become dangerously scarce if we don't manage it properly, and fracking, like oil sands, uses staggeringly large amounts of it. Maybe there's 100 years worth of gas down there, but can we pump water loaded with who knows what chemicals (proprietary mixture, of course) down there for a hundred years to get it out?

Plus, what's a 100 year supply at today's consumption rate could quickly become a 50 year supply if consumption doubles, or 25 years if consumption quadruples. Why would consumption jump so much? What if cars started running on liquified natural gas instead of gasoline? What if power plants switched from nuclear to gas? What if the population grows another 20-30% in the next 25 years?

It's never actually a 100 year supply. Exponential growth will shrink it faster than you think.
I really like Mozilla too. A key differentiator from other online companies is that they aren't trying to track your every online move and you feel you can trust them on important issues like privacy (unlike some companies who I won't mention).
The old establishment appointing the new establishment, that doesnt sound good.
She hinted that she was a woman

Which of course was really relevant to the discussion. Don't you get annoyed by people showing off when it's completely off the mark?

"Guys and gals, point me to the library to do X." - "You know, there are transgender developers on the channel." - "You don't say."
> 2. hand-wavy name coin reputation thingy. This idea makes no sense.

Using namecoin to keep track of identities makes perfect sense. That's precisely what it was created to do. See http://dot-bit.org/Use_cases

Obviously the reputations would need to be stored somewhere, but using Namecoin to say "this arbitrator is definitely the arbitrator you are trying to use for arbitration" would work perfectly well.
Sounds like you want

sbt console-quick

http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.12.3/docs/Howto/scala.html#consol...
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It would be easier to just create a new Silk Road website.

This site also fails to cover the laundering aspect of sending/receiving from a DPR wallet.
>at least squander that time on Khan Academy or coursera.

Is that squandering? I know when I worked minimum wage, I would get home from work completely drained. These jobs tend to be draining either mentally or physically (dealing with bad customers, on your feet all day, yelled at by managers, etc). Watching TV is a way to turn off your brain when it has been overworked. Studying and learning new things just taxes your brain further.

Learning any skill is not "squandering", and the suggestion completely misses the point of watching TV. It's really hard to better yourself, even harder when you're out of energy. That puts you at risk for a major breakdown or other stress-related injuries. Watching TV while eating fast food has its dangers, but it's easy and it's comforting. Exercising or learning when your brain has already shut down is a waste of time as best and just as dangerous as obesity at worst.
Since that is the only example of such language in the post, while there are many more opportunities for sloppy language, I think he originally wrote it fast, with more of such abbreviations, and then filled it out. So I think he just missed one and does care about appearances.
Bandwidth is a deferred cost. CPU is an immediate cost (on a mobile device).

When you run a CPU-sucking stie on your device, you typically know exactly which site or app is the culprit - you can watch your battery drop and feel your CPU heat up.

When you get your bill at the end of the month, it's a lot less clear why, exactly, that happened. And - fairly or not - it's a lot less likely to be blamed on a lightweight site that grabs extra data.

Not that these two things should be mutually exclusive anyway: an app designed for mobile will do most of its processing on the server with short bursts on the client, and ALSO be optimized for data on the server side. (The server, after all, typically knows what kind of client it's serving.)
I'm a technological specialist. I can build you, but I am not that great at HTML 5, CSS, Graphic Design, etc.

I have a Wordpress blog right now that sucks, and frankly I'm terrified at the thought of making changes to it because Wordpress was never designed for maintainability. Hard-corded absolute URLs in the database are the kind of malpractice that is endemic in IT, and make it very hard for me to copy my blog to test.myblog.com, upgrade to a new version of Wordpress, then change my theme.

(For any system I develop for a customer, on my own account, having development, staging and production servers is an absolute requirement)

I'm afraid of FUBARing my old blog if I upgrade my Wordpress because Wordpress has pluginitis.

I suppose I could switch to some other blog software, but now there are so many options I could spend two months just screwing around with different blog packages.

What I really want is something that cuts through the complexity. I could hire a local webdev shop to do a blog or CMS customization for me around $3000, and expect to put hours into requirements work, or I could buy a product like this for $50 a year and figure that's worth one hour of my time spent reading documentation for yet another off-brand blog.
Maybe machine sculpture.
IDE support indeed has a ways to go, has improved a ton over the past 2 years, but still far from the rock solid Java IDE experience.

SBT is not simple, particularly for complex edge cases, but once you get your feet wet SBT is really quite awesome.

The notion that Scala compilation gets slower with every release is complete nonsense and is a clear indication of one who is not using the language. Scala 2.10 + SBT 0.13 combined with sub projects (modules) completely obviates the notion that Scala is "slow" since incremental builds are near Java speed (full builds, yes, much slower than Java, but for development, where you spend most of your day, working in Scala is relatively snappy).

Scala is Java++, fair enough, no complaints there.

> some influential Scala people have been leaving Typesafe recently

some is plural, other than Paul P what significant core Scala member has left Typesafe recently? Paul is a compiler addict, he may have "left" Typesafe, but look at his commits, he's still going strong, I don't think the guy can stop, he's obsessed.

> I just have a bad feeling overall about the future of such a language.

OK, leave it to those that use the language: wanting a language to fail is different than watching it succeed.
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ZeroCoin is probably the only way a system like this would work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerocoin
I'm not the most agreeable person in the world. I don't really like being disagreed with and I like to do things my way.

I've learnt 2 lessons: I'm not always right and you can agree to disagree. Ask questions such as "How did you reach that decision?". If they can't convince you, calmly give your reasoning behind your decision. Worst comes to worst, agree to disagree and let your line manager make a call. Go with it and learn.
JSON: go with the standard "special delimiters" sounds brittle --> old fart loses

nah. depends on context. given a large existing codebase that already has effective communication implemented via special delimiters, recreating that same functionality in JSON really does not make much sense.

....sad though it is to say...
THIS is what is so crazy-making about this problem. You can keep all your own paths you make intentionally under 260 no problem, but when a piece of code screws up and goes over, it can make your life hell. Over a stupid file.

If they're not going to fix the problem, and I respect why they're not going to, at least make it easier to work around. It just seems like on Windows you often have to deal with silly, incredibly annoying problems like this that other platforms don't have.
Mediators will be getting a fee, obviously. No one would work for free. With bitcoin, it's just one more transaction output.
First, Git (although DVCS) needs to be located in a non-extradition country

non-extradition country to where? Non-extradiction country to the USA? That's very America-centric. Any place you can host it, will have local courts, local police and local judges. You can't find a country that, effectively, has no laws you have to obey.
You're right that the state holds a monopoly on violence. You're wrong that the interests of the state are significantly misaligned from the interests of the people, or that black markets are wholly benign in nature. Failing to recognize how much you benefit from your government is, yes, I'm sorry to say it, childish - as is publicly condoning breaking the law in reaction. It's an overly-extreme position.

I do think that automated systems that don't require bureaucratic governance are a good idea, so I'm particularly annoyed by projects like this because it can create a negative public image. You can apply the concepts much more proactively.
"Your proposal is no better than the 3 letter server farm working alone. If the poisoner is not inside the wealthy attacker, then the attacker knowing this scheme is better off not cooperating with anyone, including you."

Having the attacker be better off alone is the point.

First of all your assuming that the 3 letter server farm is your adversary. This approach has utility even if some adversaries (which don't happen to be yours) might have enough compute power. The approach has utility if it can ratchet up the difficulty enough that the adversary you care about can't trigger early release. It also means you don't have to maintain any infrastructure that is traceable to you. If an attacker can find and disable the switch before it triggers what good does it do you?

Another advantage of this approach is that you can ratchet up the difficulty to the point that the 3 letter server farm can't complete the task in a reasonable amount of time. I suppose there is hard upper bound in the sense that the network is only going to be a few orders of magnitude more powerful than the 3 letter server farm.

Another assumption is that an adversary finding out the secret and releasing it is the worst case. It really depends which adversary right? One thing you are trying to influence is public distribution, and the people with the incentive to apply the compute power may not be the people with an incentive to act on the information by distributing it publicly. The secret is just going to be an encryption key for decrypting the payload you have put out through other means. It's not black and white whether the utility is zero.

In summation, it's a dead man's switch, and the important part is that it fires if you don't do your thing. There are a lot of other desirable attributes, but real world dead man's switches share many of the same flaws.

"Even if that were not the case, your scheme relies on your identity being a secret, which essentially is "security through obscurity"

I don't actually follow why anonymity is necessary. Dead man's switches are usually because you fear you are not or may not remain anonymous. Anonymity is of course a desirable attribute for a lot of reasons, but if it is blown this approach would still work. Only the person possessing the secret key can generate the poison pills that delay the release of the secret.

Tor is an example of ways to attempt anonymity while participating in a network. I view that as a separate problem space.

I think the real competitor would be a switch that actively monitors a piece of state that has plausible deniability, but that runs afoul of the whole running infrastructure traceable to you thing.
Timely! I've been searching for "Zoomable Sunburst" but was unable to find it. If it's "a treemap, except it uses a radial layout" why don't they call it a radial treemap, instead of a sunburst?

Anyway, recall problems aside, this gallery is fantastic.
Same thing, nit picking and even they refer to themselves as Pivotal.

"Mee oversaw Pivotal Labs’ acquisition by EMC Corporation in March 2012, and continues to lead and guide the vision for Pivotal Labs as vice president of the Cloud Application Platform Group at Pivotal."

http://pivotallabs.com/team/executives/
> Pet peeve - not sure why "sbt console" insists on compiling class files before launching a repl. I mean, I'm launching a repl since something did screw up, right ?

Presumably, your launching a REPL because something screwed up at runtime, not because something screwed up in compilation. You can't kick the tires of how code runs without compiling it, so...
As far as JSON, this is the part that's telling to me: "without using a lib/wrapper that hides the underlying implementation." It sounds like he's arguing about generating it directly and parsing it by hand, although without context, I can't say for sure. If that's the case, I'd say the old fart is right on this one.

As far as facts, if you know a lot of facts, you can reason about how changing one fact (eg, "we write this value to this SQL table here, and we are going to stop doing it") allows you to reason about how other facts are affected ("Modules X and Y expect that data to be there").
It's hard to beat D3... once you learn it, that it is. And it takes time to learn.
I think hardware goes in phases. First there are 1 or 2 products that define the category. Then it explodes into 100s of competing products, all with a slightly different take. Then it matures and contracts back into a few.

Right now we are seeing diversity smart phones contracting -- I think we'll be left with iPhone and Samsung. The majority of PC makers are struggling to survive. Portable audio market was pretty much just the iPad. There is a short window when margins are high enough for lots of experimentation and lots of companies to survive.

I think the smart phone accessory market will explode for the next 2 - 4 years, a few key products will emerge and the rest will fade away. Consumers can only handle the excitement for so long before they get tired keeping up and just buy the status quo.
The readme advertises the project as a black market, as does the name.

EDIT: jlgreco, I can't reply to you, so I'll respond here.

> So the purpose isn't the problem, just the name? If Tor were instead named "Thing-to-subvert-the-state-omatic", would you then oppose efforts to popularize it?

The Silk Road was a black market, so 2.0 would need to be pretty explicit that it's NOT a black market to overcome that-- but it's not. It seems pretty intent on carrying that legacy.

I wouldn't call Tor the "Thing-to-subvert-the-state-omatic"; I'd call it the "Thing-to-avoid-surveillance-omatic." This, in keeping with the history of the Silk Road, I'd call the "Thing-to-sell-drugs-omatic."
This is why I hope and work towards making Dart succeed. Dart is very nice as server-side or command-line scripting language - the VM and dart:io provide a very node.js-like environment. It provides much more safety, structure and feedback to help guide developers towards better code than JavaScript.
1171: null was my favorite.

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I don't understand the willful ignorance of libertarians who make the claim that the state doesn't do anything outside of extorting people and ruling with guns. Yes, there are problems with every single government ever made, and there will be for the foreseeable future, but there a lot of obviously good things that come as a result of having a state. Listing them seems silly, but apparently it's not considering how many libertarians share your view.

Things like protecting weaker parties through a court system, providing national infrastructure for the economic prosperity of everyone (as opposed to private infrastructure for the prosperity of few), national defense, food and water regulation, base level research and development, protection from criminals, corporate regulation, are only a few that immediately come to mind.
>Grokking two lines will take less time than grokking six lines.

when your mental/visual pattern machinery have been trained for 15+ years on the latter case? :)
Horribly underspecified. Reputation based third party arbitration is not even close to a solved problem. The bitcoin block chain does provide a new potential tool in making reputation systems more reliable (a distributed repository of public/private key pairs enables you to reliably tie reputation to a persistent transaction history), but there are lots of free parameters in such a scheme that need to be done right.

Additionally, with the node idea, the issue is that most people, including drug dealers, don't want to be mirroring lots of illegal content on their boxes. The set of people who can follow simple rules related to posting on forums and mailing items is much much larger than the set of people who can roll a secure node in a network.
It would be interesting to try a solution where Node.js incorporates itself either on the client side or the server side depending on the device. Or even putting Node on both sides and "load balancing" depending on processing power.

I'm also really interested in seeing how feasible it would be to push all Javascript to the server and basically letting the client act as a dummy terminal that sends and receives Javascript snippets through a WebSockets connection (which is more mobile-friendly than AJAX since some mobile users pay per TCP connection). I would expect that latency would result in an overall slower app, but maybe some client side-heavy apps could benefit from it.
"Don't publicly advertise tools for subverting the state."

wait, what? when did subverting the state become a bad thing?