skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to be "that" guy and ask... why actors? Why not agents?

The concept of agents (as defined by Rich Hickey in a lot of his Clojure talks) is all about a globally shared, immutable and persistent state on which you can act upon.

With actors you still need to have the actor handle its own mailbox of requests and then handle them, the actor has to define its behavior.

With agents you don't have to ask for the world to stop to communicate, you can read the current snapshot of the world (aka no request to view the state, no database queries) and send transformation functions on the data of that specific agent, which will be then processed by the agent's thread in an ordered way.

I'd love to see more insight on the choice for this, it's interesting as I am currently working on a similar project.
I cannot come up with any correlation except bigger screens help you avoid ads better? All my ad clicks(or taps) on facebook on my phone have been accidental.
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actually make sure your temps are correct - take a look at this : http://jonls.dk/redshift/#comment-1013535899

I'm on 12.04, so I'm sure I dont have a patched redshift.
Isn't that game, like, copyrighted or something?
When I was hired at my current company everyone used Virtualbox for their Linux test environments. Unfortunately, part of my job was building/rebuilding custom ISOs, which required long days of tweak->rebuild ISO->rebuild VM.

After I changed from job-installed Virtualbox to the Parallels license I already had, my workflow sped up dramatically. It was easily half the time to go through an install cycle as before. The performance increase was absolutely massive. Since then we've only had more and more issues with Virtualbox that makes it worth replacing at a relatively high cost.
People often complain about mods changing the titles of stories.

The changes are as far as I can tell, always good.

It might alleviate some complaints if comments added before a title change, have the original title when the comment was made attached to the comment in some way.
In retrospect it certainly seems like common sense. In practice I've met a number of not-stupid people who do not follow any sort of methodical recording keeping in their che ckbook and who do not understand the actual cost of having credit card debt and incurring interest that remains unpaid over time.

I'm surprised when someone tells me that are keeping money in a checking or low-interest savings account rather than paying off credit card debt. For whatever reasons they believe this is a common-sensible thing to do.
Gertrude takes aim at mixing tech and art world
Similar data, but still mostly limited to higher pay levels and by government department is available for the UK ( see for example: http://data.gov.uk/dataset/staff-organograms-and-pay-departm... )

a side note: It is generally accepted that the US government pays the highest salaries compared to other government agencies worldwide. This is the reason why the U.N. uses the US government scales and pays as their base (highest salaries of all member states) - of course before they put their "gravy" on it and more than double it.
Eating lunch at the office can ruin your productivity, your day, and your health
Interesting. So this is something that would be built into the client, and happen automatically I guess?
Really he just says that china was way ahead in 1200 and way behind in 1870. It's really hard to say when one pulled ahead of the other since there are so many areas you could compare in, but I'd put the transition point somewhere around 1650, near the fall of the Ming.
Look at the run-up to the 2006 bill. 1999 was also a very weird one.
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I've always found performance and stability to be quite lacking with vbox. Parallels and VMWare are both mature, performant, frequently updated, and well-supported, so I see little reason not to use one of those, especially given that I'm using it for work and don't want to wait on a VM for no good reason.
Who uses checks?
"Is there any actual analysis to support the claim that it is an order of magnitude more complex than AWS crypto or Tarsnap?"

I don't think so, and I personally disagree with this statement.

As a developer, I find bitcoin 0.1.0's code easy to read and understand (I had requested a tarball of it about 2 years ago from one of the developers, as it was not in source control). And even the number of lines of code is not particularly impressive. Version 0.1.0 has only 13k lines of C++ code (excluding GUI code):

7 ./irc.h
71 ./headers.h
156 ./key.h
177 ./sha.h
182 ./market.h
201 ./base58.h
264 ./market.cpp
265 ./irc.cpp
373 ./util.cpp
399 ./util.h
420 ./db.h
498 ./bignum.h
554 ./sha.cpp
597 ./script.h
604 ./db.cpp
750 ./uint256.h
856 ./net.h
1020 ./net.cpp
1127 ./script.cpp
1151 ./serialize.h
1317 ./main.h
2660 ./main.cpp
13649 total

Plus 6k lines of (boilerplate) GUI code:

417 ./ui.h
720 ./uibase.h
1806 ./uibase.cpp
3228 ./ui.cpp
6171 total

For comparison, many HN readers who are talented developers would consider 5k LoC of C++ relatively easy to write in a span of 3-5 weeks, as a day job, for a small project that they have a precise idea how to implement. So 13k lines for a
project that apparently spanned a few months of Satoshi's time is absolutely plausible.

I believe Bitcoin was written by one man.

Source: http://www.zorinaq.com/pub/bitcoin-0.1.0.tgz
I need to "see" the web like my clients and their customers do

The only way that's possible is to do a lot of travel.
When you to want reform an institution, you need to make sure you don't replace the bad with the worse.

The main asshat in Congress stirring the pot and helping cause this dissention is a first term senator: Ted Cruz. What we have is a bunch of new regressive "reformers" that are actually being funded by the Koch brothers and people of their ilk, that think destroying the government is a good thing.
it's a bandaid
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There's a university with a 192.16x.x.x allocation who has written about the confusion it's caused.

Nothing that special about it from a CIDR point of view -- but is rather confusing to us humans when written as a dotted quad.

Github's GITHUB-NET4-1 is on 192.30.252.0/22, which is what reminded me of this.
Workers who have been furloughed will only be paid back if Congress explicitly passes a bill to pay them. That has happened in previous shutdowns but it is not certain to happen this time.
In answer to the last question, how about Durkheim's theory of mechanical and organic solidarity?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_and_organic_solidari...

Your other comments remind me of what Lagrange said in 1781 about mathematics:
"...I am not sure that I shall still do geometry ten years from now. I also think that the mine is already almost too deep, and must sooner or later be abandoned. Today, Physics and Chemistry offer more brilliant discoveries and which are easier to exploit"

http://www.westfield.ma.edu/math/faculty/fleron/quotes/viewq...
How does one just become a citizen of Columbia??
the implications of dept!
sorry, I couldn't help myself.

But really, I think most high schools do teach that. I went to a highschool that was not very good at all, and we spent a fair amount of time on that in math class
What do you disagree with from http://www.gwern.net/Slowing%20Moore%27s%20Law#state-actors-... ?
> Is this a poke at Haskell?

Its saying that a language doesn't have to be Haskell to be relevant. If that's what you consider a "poke", then sure.
Everyone that knows anything about politics knew this is exactly how it would work out. It has been political theater the enter time. That's why the financial markets didn't flinch, they knew it would never come to default. The politicians are playing stupid games with gullible people, and they aren't doing it to serve their constituents. They are doing it to serve themselves and their corporate donors.

If this isn't proof of a broken system that fails to serve the people, I don't know what is.
Nobody needs PR crew to spin it that way. Only a lunatic could have honestly believe that a president would abandon his most significant achievement since taking office. So either Boehner and the minority of Republicans he is working with are lunatics, or else they are willing to risk ravaging an already suffering economy for the sake of undoing a single law.
It worked out for them (being bought), but I think you could relate it to a pump and dump scheme.
You may not think you can have a measurable impact on the world, but you can be part of the solution, spread the word to the rest of your network that's not aware of things like this, wake them up to what's going on right under their noses, influence them toward change. It all starts at home, and that's free.

Subscribe to companies that have positive ethics, do what you can to extend their sphere of influence. It doesn't take much to make a difference. As time goes on and you have the means to be more influential both in terms of your audience and in terms of your finances use that to further extend the sphere of influence...
Not raising the debt ceiling and defaulting are two separate issues. We make them one issue to scare people, but one can go on without the other. In fact, both parties over multiple times have passed bills to pay the debt service (the House did this time) without increasing the debt limit.

1979 is interesting because of all the run-up that led to the glitch. 2006 is basically a reverse of today's position.
Flutter (YC W12) acquired by Google for $40M, could make Gmail Motion a reality
Maybe they are. My understanding (and this may well be false) is that show HN is more for cool tech demonstrations and side projects, whereas rate my startup is for launching and rating startups.

Rate my startup may well be hidden in a subset of show HN though.

Another reason may be that they don't get voted onto the frontpage? A quick search shows that there are quite a few show HN posts, but they don't get traction. https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22sho...
As we know appr. 2 405 510 175 users in internet. If we send 1-2 dollar to US it can help. I can send something to save US.
I'm not judging one way or another, but is privacy not something the Swedish people are interested in?
this implies that the world delves into anarchy without government, and no I'm not an anarcho anything
Communities thriving in unexpected places
Bravo good Paul
Tinfoil hat conspiracy: bitcoin v1 client released with intentional bugs to appear it was made by an amateur.
It's not on their full site [1] (as of right now).

But either way, there's nothing wrong with "content marketing" as long as the content is sufficient quality and not spammy. Wanting to build a business and making money is not a evil dark pattern.

It's one of the few ways to market that adds value, rather than simply promotes. But of course there are those who exploit it evilly.

http://www.jobspringpartners.com/blog/posts/2013/3/4/the-war...
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> Right now top engineering talent is getting 165k and above. With some C-Level executives and lower-management in the same range it can make things challenging from an internal-equity standpoint. Do companies stick to their guns and lose out on candidates or do they look to adjust their entire structure?

It would be interesting if companies become willing to give top engineers a higher compensation than management.
More importantly, UN salaries are exempt from income tax: https://careers.un.org/lbw/home.aspx?viewtype=SAL
Our servers are in the US. It should not matter. You can read about a similar case here:
http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/10/07/fastmails-servers-are-in-...
How does this compare with Grand Central Dispatch on the Mac?
"Average
78,673.52
Stand. Deviation
39,191.8525
Max
398,322.00
Min
0.00
Variance
1,536,001,304.3535"

I don't think variance is being calculated correctly
> sometimes an MVP looks like shit and nobody will use it afterwards

Then it's not viable, which is what the V stands for. So it's not an MVP at all, it's just shit.
Keep in mind, it's also not uncommon for those in charge of others to have the same title. That is, in an engineering office the one in charge of a group of 1k engineers is likely an engineer as well, so they'd be a GS-14 or GS-15 electrical engineer. So the person who rose through the ranks of librarians from the lowest level to being in charge of a group of librarians would similarly be a GS-13 or GS-14 librarian.
Now my list of classes for all US Students! Worked 4 years at a college on faculty. Most freshmen were already so narrow minded and focused they never learned anything outside of that focus. They didn't develop any skills to think differently than being a hipster.

1) Developmental Psychology (2 Semesters)
2) Language without a Latin Alphabet (2 Semesters)
3) Philosophy (Which was historical and analytical; writing 5 page papers every week on different philosophers of history)
4) Math (Please not Business Math and Statistics but an advance math survey that covers algebra, geometry and calculus)
5) Reading Survey of a culture not American or UK
6) Programing Class (Survey of 3 or 4 languages)
Unless you're talking about a public library catering to homeless people and children, a "librarian" is typically an educated professional, usually with an advanced degree, who has enough subject matter expertise to efficiently help researchers find relevant materials.
Embracing setbacks once = 3 years of success
Not updated for Mac yet?
Exactly, this whole fiasco has really highlighted that there exists some fundamental problem in the system today. Normally the system of checks, and balances actually works so no individual can exploit the entirety... and if they do, they only have a limit time span to cause havoc, at which point the people vote them out.

however there's two flaws. A lot of people are putting emphasis on gerrymandering. Which I suppose is a practical problem that at least has some semblance of possibly being solved. However to me gerrymandering is really just exposing an even deeper problem, which is a large uneducated populous that is not only becoming uninformed but misinformed... and since we all live in our own bubbles, its really easy to gain confidence that the misinformation we have is true. Remember that Ted talk a few years ago about the filter bubble? This is a practical reality of its effects...

The thing that scares me on a personal level, is I have no clue if the information I take for granted is true or not... and i may very well be just as guilty in voting for the wrong candidates.
The Hidden Secrets of the Deep Web
this is really phenomenal. Congratulations, SE.
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I have a 192.40.x.x address assigned to a VPS I have from a small random hosting company in colorado.
Reminds me of this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Moussambani
I don't see anyone saying it's irrefutable. It's a conference proceeding, which means it's essentially a progress report on a line of research. And small sample sizes can produce compelling evidence if there is a large effect size observed, particularly with the objective physiological measures (subjective psychometrics are much more susceptible to bias). This research is also likely to be supported by other studies, making this essentially replication of an observed effect.
C# is on that chart -- just Ctrl+F and search for 'mono'.

If you select the 'Win' hardware tab near the top of the page, you'll be able to see figures for Windows as well:
http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=wi...
> the US still has enough income every month to service the debt, but they tend to get put together to add to the stress.

As I understand it, hitting the debt limit will nearly certainly quickly cause default due to timing issues of revenue and debt obligations combined with the fact that you then can't issue debt in advance to of obligations to address these timing issues.
Scary and encouraging! Thankfully I'm an hour away, so there's a way to fix that
Well there would need to be a server/host to manage all the signatures, but it could be built into a client. There is one implementation I know of so far: https://github.com/calafou/coinjoin

I wouldn't recommend using it, not sure if it's complete or not.
SHIFT or SIFT? What's SHIFT?
This is a great article, but it doesn't also talk about how imports would become relatively more expensive as the dollar lost buying power. We import most things these days so it could end up being pretty traumatic in terms of quality of living for those already employed.
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"No party has ever held up the debt limit bills until the last minute like this"

You might want to check the history on that.

"Prior to the recent crop of idealogue Republicans in the House, much political compromise came about by horse trading legislation, earmarks, committee appointments, et al, behind closed doors."

We cannot keep paying for those. Even the sequester is a joke for spending cuts.

"Also, the idea that the US can prioritize payments like that is false. First of all, the Republicans have tried numerous times to actually ban the practice of prioritizing payments to avoid default."

The House passed a bill to prioritize payments that was not allowed to be voted on in the Senate. This is just plain a false statement.

"Tea Party republicans have nothing to show off to their constituents except for achievements in idealogical concessions from the other side."

They have showed how alike the party leaderships are and are making a lot of people think about third parties. The 2012 election also showed that the 2012 convention problems were not a fluke.
unconstitutional?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origination_Clause

The Origination Clause, sometimes called the Revenue Clause, is part of the United States Constitution. This clause says that all bills for raising revenue must start in the House of Representatives, but the Senate can amend them as in the case of non-revenue bills.
Great that it helps!

re 1) Ok, makes sense. Will be tough though. Margins will be very small.

re 2) I get the wantlist and how you wand to 'collect' demand, so the suppliers then will follow. But I'm not really convinced the users will actually follow through. As long it's just one of many features, that's fine. But make sure you don't build your business model on that.

re 3) Change that. Otherwise it won't be used :p

re 4) Don't know if I misunderstood, but what I meant with Facebook is not only as a trustbuilding method but to just replace this page: http://comicswap.com/login Completely. (Yeah not really, there are still people not using FB or not trusting you with their login, but I think it would make sense to make FB the default, and then under a ---- or ---- offer the normal forms). Then you even don't have to make them connect to FB for trust-verification-reasons as they already are.

Just a thought I got while writing:
Thought about offering (parts of) your platform as a whitelabel shop for local comic stores? So they don't need to create their own web shop, but can just use your, specialized platform?
I recently moved to the Valley from elsewhere. There are two key differences between "other places" I've experienced (Minneapolis/St. Paul, certain areas of Florida, Colorado, and Texas) and the Silicon Valley: employment availability and quality of life.

I'll just say this: a true "apples-to-apples" comparison can't be restricted to, e.g. the cost of a 3/2 in each market. The availability and quality of public services (parks, schools, government offices, etc.) and, for me, exposure to a variety of cultures, is a huge factor. Additionally there is consideration for the availability of work. My experience is that there simply isn't the wide availability of jobs elsewhere as in the Valley, even in places that are "hot" in the start-up scene, and for the most part they are more "enterprise-y" in nature (i.e. software developers belong in the IT department, are cost centers, and should be considered as fungible as our call center staff). Given the relatively disloyal, and even antagonistic view companies take towards employees I consider that last one to be a huge factor.

I will consider moving out of the Valley for a lower salary, when those places with lower salaries have: a) much higher job variety with more tech/software centric companies; b) much better public services and facilities.
But none of that has changed. All along the house has had enough votes to pass a bill exactly like this. The catch has been that the Speaker of the House has a policy (not a house rule at all) of not bringing anything up unless he knows it will get passed with no democratic votes at all. This policy is what prevents moderates from both parties from reaching some reasonable agreement.
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Coal contains things that are considered toxic.

The dust of coal itself can also have adverse health affects if inhaled. You might want to properly shrink wrap the coal. You don't want some poor unpaid intern to get a whiff of coal in their lungs between when they open the package and throw it in the trash. The workers who inspect all packages might not appreciate it as well.
Your 1.) is missing a point that has been passed over throughout most of this thread - knowledge does not build up over time like so much detritus. New discoveries replace old, inaccurate ones. It is conceivable that with sufficient optimization of scientific models, one could have a superior understanding of the world using less total data than older models without even taking into account the excising of blatantly verbose and inaccurate beliefs.
Thanks for the link.

Actually I experimented to find the ‘temperatures’ that looked the best with my monitor. Now I understand why I had to use that method.
In praise of exploratory statistics
If you have access to the battery and it is not a sealed type:

Check the battery fluid level. If its low, you may use some bottled water to fill it up. Chances are the car will startup and allow you to get home. Note that you should replace the battery after doing this.
~1,189k are not!
> Boring people? Hell, I just don't want to work with them. If I have a say in hiring someone I'm going to spend hours a day around, I'm going to do my best to make sure it's someone I find entertaining.

What the fuck, man? Are you trying to hire professionals to do a job or are you treating hiring as some sort of fucked up way of making friends?
I am not sure I appreciate this kind of thing but it is interesting nevertheless. My folks have lived 4.5 years beyond the expected life expectancy for my country! By the way, the app needs to handle this case gracefully: I am a foreigner in the US so I see my folks less than once a year. I tried putting in 1/3 but looks like the lowest number it can handle is 1.
Put it in Mashape :) (Disclaimer: I work for Mashape)
Given that hipchat groups are completely separate from one another—meaning no shared data—it seems that there are natural ways to shard the various datastores. There is no theoretical reason why comments from one group need to be placed in the same search index as comments from another group. Sharding of course brings lots of challenges.
Wait is 7 years all I need to be a 'senior engineer'?

And what do I do if I don't like to release my code publicly? Should I not be hired by any company if I'm not personally a fan of open source (hypothetically)?