skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the opposite of this, I long for summer to be over and love the coming of the Winter.

I hate heat (fortunately I live in the North of England so it's not that frequent) far more than I hate the cold or dark.

In winter time I burrow in and get far more done (plus nothing beats going cycling on a road bike in the country at night when it's -5C, crystal clear and you can see stars so close you could reach out and touch them).

I actually dread the Summer.
WP also doesn't have a page for every major experiment by every well-known CS researcher.

We can fix that...
not sure, but would definitely take a look.
Pex pipe [1] might be a better choice than PVC because of its high pressure tolerance and the fact that it isn't brittle/prone to cracking. It does require nonstandard tools to work with though (ie. burly pipe cutters, special fittings, etc.)

But your point still stands. A master plumber might not be required for every part of every job today.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linked_polyethylene
I just recently got into the speedrunning scene, and it's interesting how the community categorizes speedruns based on version differences and platform. Cosmo wrote a great blog post specifically about OOT: http://blog.cosmowright.com/?p=33
If I remembering reading correct, MS also sold their version of BASIC to Altair before actually having physical access to an Altair.
Basically just for photoshop. And the (arguably) better hardware.
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China isn't lacking regulations or controls. The Chinese Government has dictatorship-like control over all aspects of the economy. They can literally do what they want, when they want. They're lacking enforcement, which is a very different problem from not having regulations on the books.

Companies bribe their way out of enforcement. That's why their cities are suffocating from air pollution. It's the way business is done in China.
"A witty saying proves nothing."
I think Umair is Pakistani, he's referring to racist tension he feels at some places. As an Asian, I can actually also attest to racism (though of a more subdued variety) against brown people in hipster'ish cafes.

Incidentally, I do want to comment on the hasty and acerbic reaction to this piece on HN: wow, this got emotional fast, I was hoping for an informed and intellectually honest discussion, not going into people's twitter history and finding all sorts of tidbits. If you guys are finding him at fault for saying things that are actually not that out of line with this very article's sentiments, how do you reconcile with -- for example, the Zuck openly inviting his friend to let in on people's private information and calling FB users "dumb f---s"?
You like Yahoo, but the technical debt of supporting legacy systems is mounting every year. Is that a sustainable strategy? I would rather be inconvenienced by consntant change than risk a decline in the rate of innovation. I want to see singularity happen, you know?
That is completely unsustainable on sleep alone. I'm guessing your in your early 20s, your taking some sort of stimulant on the side or doing a lot of mentally light work.
Clever! Although 501 and 503 seem more appropriate.
no, captialism is valuing the accrual of property as a virtue in and of itself, not necessarily above or even competing with valuing human life. That growth is required as a part of the economic model is actually a rather modern concept that post-dates the development of capitalist philosophy, and accompanies the emergence of secular inflation as a matter of public policy.

If you would like to understand how growth is "built in" to the economic system as a matter of policy and structure (and has nothing to do with capitalism per se), I would strongly recommed three resources:

1) Zeitgeist takes a left-ish perspective, and unfortunately is diluted by a lot of conspiratorial nonsense, but importantly its description of the money system is more or less correct.

2) Chris Martenson's "crash-course" is centrist, and very very good, but also very long and tedious.

3) Hidden Secrets of Money (video 4 in particular) takes a more right-leaning approach, and is tainted by the fact that the guy is obviously trying to sell you gold and silver, but the description of the money system is spot on and he strongly makes the point that growth is required. It's also the most concise and well-produced of the three.
Hehe sorry :) and You're welcome. The code is all on GitHub and I actually want to re-architect the site.
It's like the quote by Henry Spencer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer) that "those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly": Those who do not understand Marx are condemned to rewrite him, poorly.
Is -3% really a "hammering"? I did 5 seconds of research and found Apple has closed with a >=2% loss 3x since July 25th.

Sept 16

Sept 10

Sept 20

EDIT "5 second" was to emphasize I could be wrong, not to be a dick.
This does not work for me in FF 22.0 (work specified version). Looks nice in chrome, only time it drops is when you bundle them into a large group and then cross you mouse over it and they explode everywhere.
I would like to point out that going to work only 2-3 days a week and hunting/growing your own food is likely to get stale very quickly if you ever decide to start a family.
Well, nearly every public speech from members of Congress and the executive office and the judicial branch is recorded, with some notable exceptions like national security, but even then, eventually that information enters the public record by law.

The problem is that much of it is difficult to collate. http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php is a good start for the Congressional record online, but presidential records and judicial records often end up all over the place.

Ideally the LOC would provide a better online toolkit for this stuff, but you know, good enough for government work.
Ask HN: How and where do you take notes?
Do you use tech or paper+pen?
Do you use some application or do you simply store them in plain text?
Do you use evernote? If yes then what's your structure/organisation of notebooks like?
Even for other services, how do you organise your notes?
I look forward to that blog post. In order to use Scalaz's monad transformers with scala.concurrent.Future, would I have to write my own monad instance for it, or is there a way to re-use the one from scalaz.concurrent?
Are there better sources, or is Nimrod simply not "that" notable yet?

Or we could acknowledge that there are different reasonable standards for "notability" that apply in different contexts. The idea that something isn't "notable" unless it's been written about in the NY Times, WaPo, Financial Times, etc., is just not relevant to (most) software and related projects.

And if the Deletionists have "won" and there's no way to get this stuff on Wikipedia, there should be a way to use web-based technology to do something, like, oh, I don't know, some kind of federation / syndication approach where the corresponding article "exists" on Wikipedia but transparently redirects to the corresponding content on programming-languages-wiki.com or whatever.

C'mon, we can do better than just deleting stuff because we're adhering to some outdated, archaic notions about what is or isn't "notable".
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capitalism based on a fiat currency isn't capitalism... you're as rich as you believe you are, so you can grow as much as you believe you can. the problems arise when your beliefs are based on lies.
"The dominance of social networking sites, such as Facebook, in contemporary life" ... I find it funny when people make such dramatic statements about facebook. I've reduced my usage to once per week and feel no dominance. I can just as easily log off completely.
What will Virgin look like in 2050?
Is desktop software dead?
Thanks for the correction with regards to material.

I do tech/IT by day, but have a welding certification as well. Its extremely easy to braize copper tubing together for plumbing once you've practiced, but feels like its work that isn't necessary when there are easier ways to do it (ie the pex pipe you suggested).

Coincidently, I'm replacing two toilets in my home tonight. Wish me luck!
Flagrant disregard for copyrights is most definitely not the answer to copyright issues, and I say that as an inveterate torrenter.

The real answer is changing the laws; torrents are a work-around for the currently broken system, at best.
Work Hard You’ll Get There Eventually (Hint: No You Won’t)
But has the percentage of premium users stayed constant as they grew? I wonder what percentage of users must be premium for dropbox to be/stay profitable. Or perhaps what percentage of traffic must be "premium traffic". Either way, there are a lot of unknowns, but I don't think this market is sustainable. Like Jobs said, dropbox is a feature, not a product. They are able to exploit a market inefficiency for the time being. I don't see that lasting for much longer.

Dropbox's long term future rests on them evolving into something that isn't easy to duplicate or pre-bundle. And even then, unless dropbox pivots massively, the market just won't be as big. File sharing simply is not a multi-billion dollar market.

(I can't help but wonder who I'm talking to seeing as you whipped out a throwaway for a dropbox discussion thread)
I'm looking forward to that day anyway. And I agree to some extend with you as you say 'doing the hard work in your head', I just don't think all the hard work should be done there. Just the hardest work computers cannot do for you.

I work with vim only because I don't think IDE's contribute much at the moment. I believe they should be able to contribute a lot more. I'm just not sure how that is supposed to look, but luckily smarter people than me are working on that :)
Were is the 'AirBender style' in these particle effects demo ?
This has the quality of one of those things that's actually a pretty good idea but seems like a practical joke.
There's a popular saying: "nobody can understand why Japan is so rich, while Argentina is so poor"
I hate to be that guy, too, but if you're that paranoid, you probably shouldn't be using OS X or iOS, either.
P=/=NP
As I said: This whole "oh god we're the sum of all human knowledge please give us money" tripe is a bit hard to swallow when there's more information getting deleted than being created. If they don't want to be judged on that basis, then they need to stop making that claim. Say "we're a tiny subset of information that a particular clique of individuals approves of". Don't say one thing when begging for money and another when deleting useful content.
> Some of the happiest people I've ever met in my life have nothing by North American standards.

Some of the happiest people I've met in my life have everything by North American standards. Material things are tools for happiness, not happiness itself.

We all go to work for 40 hours a week so that we don't have to live in a tent, cook on a travel stove, and hunt/grow our own food, which suggests a very day-by-day, unstable lifestyle. If that's what makes you happy that's great, but I don't think it's fair to call it "consumerism" when really it's just reaping the benefits of technological advancements. Many people would rather work 40 hour workweeks for (essentially) guaranteed food, water, shelter, and leftover purchasing power, which I think is perfectly reasonable.
Yep. Seems like the software should know that a lonely "#" appended to the url (and similar things) is a duplicate page?
The Nest isn't that kind of engineering. It took a programmable thermostat (already overkill for most people's use cases) and added even more automation on top.
I still don't get it. Let's say the real price is 1 peso per mile for both services. You want to travel 100 miles. On the bus, you pay 100 pesos up front. In the taxi, the meter is set to one peso per mile. Then you pay 100 pesos at the end. Unless you are going to convert from some other good into pesos and then pay, the cost is still the same.
The exact opposite is true. The whole point of having a family is to spend time with your family, which you can do when you're not at work all the time.

The very vast majority of people up here living the simple life are families.
I would be very unnerved if 250 million dollars could arbitrarily disappear from my bank account, even if "I had a lot more anyway".
Warning: This demo locked up my OS and I had to force-restart. Chrome 25/OSX 10.8/Mac Pro Desktop, Early 2008.
If you want to spend a lot of time in AfD arguments, sure; you'd surely get some good pages added, and you'd do the project a pretty big favor. Go for it!
Goddamnit, entropy.
Neurio turns every appliance in your house ‘smart’ with just one device
Do you think that was really the tradeoff? How are we better off as a society if Apple, Google, Samsung don't put powerful, usable smartphones in the hands of a few hundred million people?

The beauty of "CapitalismStan" (God, even Tom Friedman would too embarrassed to coin that one...) is that each and every one of us gets to decide if parting with $200 and a monthly $80 bill is worth the benefit. I certainly think it would be a bargain at twice the price.
It also seems quite arbitrary to compare LOC's between all those products. It seems like it would vary greatly depending on the language and other factors (No idea of the metric includes comments/whitespace etc).
The scalaz-contrib library has a Monad instance for scala.concurrent.Future: https://github.com/typelevel/scalaz-contrib/blob/master/scal...
Fully agreed.

The posts about how "wonderful" it is that everyone has fridges and smartphones make me cringe. These people have satisfied themselves going a few convolutions further than the lowest common denominator- ie: romanticizing the noble savage- so then they go around regurgitating this idiotic reactionary 'wisdom' about being happy with what we have.

What we have is an ideologically broken, personally unfulfilling, extremely resource-intensive society, and indoctrination quips like "it's the best thing other than all the other things that have been tried" and "our luxuries rise other poorer people out of poverty" shouldn't cut it.
>It seems to be position presented as a rhetorical defense of capitalism, but doesn't seem to exist independently.

It definitely does. This may be a relatively modern development, but a simple google search of "capitalism is not free markets" will demonstrate swaths of people who make a clear (if subtle) distinction between the two. It's even in the wikipedia page for free markets.
Of course the stock will get punished, since the price of a stock is mostly based on future earnings. If a company had a growth trajectory of A and now it's a lower trajectory of B, the stock price should drop.
> Similarly, no capitalist is greatly concerned about economics at the macro level, because they're simply focused on their own success, however they define it.

And if they run a company whose equity is traded in the public markets, they quickly discover that those markets define success as... growth.
I don't know why, but I found N-1 minions incredibly funny and almost spewed my coffee.
Actually, I'd say free wifi is at least as common in cafes and restaurants in Moscow as it is in big cities in US/Canada, if not more.
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This is something I've been wondering about for a while:
To what extent are our economy and stock market merely ponzi schemes that require continued population expansion? If growth slows down/reverses/stops, is the era of easy profits finished?

Or in other words, what will happen to my total-market ETF shares if population growth slows/stops? Is this an argument for investment in the developing world?
So you're also not really a competitor to Namecheap, despite your declaration to the contrary.

You're actually in the business of selling <$10 parcels of cyberland to whatever sucker will pay $30 for them.
As was said in the README: "The following people have submitted code, bug reports, or otherwide contributed to the success of this project:"

But they can please to go die in a fire.
Looks like you don't have wife and children.
One of the differences is an insane difference in price. According to their two respective pricing pages a 500 user installation would be $12,000 with stash and $125,000 with GitHub::Fi.
I was referring to the term 'hacker' in the 'good programmer' sense as mentioned by Paul Graham in the link I posted. Obviously, to be a good programmer one must first be a programmer.
Agreed, this is either amazing, or crap. The suspicious part of me assumes crap. But I'd like to be wrong. This could do utterly amazing things for our understanding of nutrition if there was an easy way to monitor everything that someone ate. The quality of studies would skyrocket.
heh you're right. Now I feel so dumb. Off by one error. I needed to use xrange(1, 100) instead of just xrange.

You're also correct islice is not needed.
That's not the Wikipedia notability standard at all! Here's WP:N:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

There are specific (broadening) rules for some specific article categories, but the general rule is:

If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list.

The big thing that trips up hackers in articles about technology is "reliability" of sources, which you can imagine is a topic that has been discussed on WP probably in greater depth than in any venue in the world and perhaps all of human history, some of which coverage is here, in WP:RS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources

Suffice it to say, the standard is NOT "The Washington Post".
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Damn net profit of 7.5billion is now lower than samsung's 8.13billion.
The thoughtful comments here by participants I trust prompted me to flag the article. That's about all I have to say about it.
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Absolutely beautiful, lost a few minutes just playing around with it. Would be great as slow, randomised, background or screensaver.
> Yes, it can be worthwhile learning by reimplementing from a high-level description -- I've done it a lot -- but that doesn't excuse making replication difficult.

I don't understand what you're trying to achieve by saying this. Did I somehow imply that people should be excused for not making their work reasonably reproducible?

It my sub-field, it is utterly ridiculous to expect to reproduce work by running `git clone && make` or by getting a prepared VM. Computational biologists are not known for their systems or software skills.
I was referring to the term hacker in the 'good programmer' sense (as mentioned in the PG essay I linked to). Being a good programmer pre-supposes being a programmer (and good programmers should definitely have an idea how emulators are written, IMO).
By the way, this not only applies to Dollars, but also to other currencies like Euros (Although we barely buy those, since we don't need them).

We also have problems buying online, for example, if I buy something on Steam, since the money is going outside of the country, I have to pay 20% more in taxes (I think that's the correct number) although we get the official dollar price.
I see.. I looked for that tweet to find context but couldn't find it. However I did find two others in which he claims that white people having beards is racist, or something: https://twitter.com/umairh/status/393721183197483008 https://twitter.com/umairh/status/393722734918004737 As an occasionally bearded white guy, this is distressing news; I was planning on growing a beard in December after "Movember", I hope I don't offend anybody...

Maybe he's got a point in the cafe case, but honestly it seems like from the other posts he is just an purposely inflammatory troll. That seems to be his schtick, which probably explains the harsh reaction on HN. It's the sort of reaction he was looking for.

> "...how do you reconcile with..."

I'm not sure what needs to be reconciled. Can you explain this more?
Stash is great. We use it at work and it's quite simple yet powerful.

You can set up branch permissions, require at least one approval before merging pull requests, one Bamboo build to pass etc.

Since JIRA 6.1 (I think) you can branch from within JIRA, if it's wired up to Stash. (Although this might be any Git repository.)
I would like to see some benchmarks of curdling vs pip...
Works like an absolute champ with Fedora 18 64bit + nvdia + chrome 30
So then isn't the sustainable option to grow until you can, then leave the last stages of "grow, crash, burn" to some fool and then start the exact same company but with a different name (i.e. RougeChapeau) and recapture your old market by doing exactly what you used to do, but now you're in a growth position compared to your old self that crashed and burned?
"Mad Max" is probably the wrong analogy - 2000AD's Judge Dredd (85%+ unemployment, riots against automation, and so on) would be the dystopian sci-fi you're looking for.
I think there was a clear "ceteris paribus" implicit in the parent.
Thats not a problem, its an opportunity. You are able to pay things in dollars at a much lower rate than the illegal dollar.
here is the video which finally convinced me:
JFK Beyond the Magic Bullet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-5xfTKqf1A

Now back to George ... de Mohrenschildt ;)
+/-3% is a common benchmark for the market's definition of "big swing". There's nothing really formal about it, and it's a more accurate measure when applied to the market as a whole rather than individual stocks. For a company like AAPL which is famous for not providing a lot of detailed information to investors, it might not be a big swing. For a different company, say P&G, it might be a huge swing.
I would say 1995 to 1997 were the dark days. Not because MacOS wasn’t working well (even though its aging architecture did mean it needed to be replaced someday.) Apple’s problem was one of focus. They had too many product lines, too many managers, and too many mediocre sales locations.

Steve Jobs’ return to the company changed all that. He killed most projects and fired a lot of people (after Gil Amelio had already done his fair share of firing.) Apple released great products again far before Mac OS X came out. The iMac was introduced in May 1998.
How ironic is it that when I clicked on "Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer" I got a 503
I don't personally, tons and tons of people living this life do.
Not sure I appreciate a total skipping of actually doing modulus by pre-creating the repeating 15 values but oh well, I do love me some python.

python -c 'print "\n".join(w or str(i+1) for i, w in enumerate(("..Fizz..Buzz.Fizz...Fizz.Buzz..Fizz...FizzBuzz."*7).split(".")[:100]))'

If you actually want to do the math, you can make your python shorter: http://stackoverflow.com/a/6890045