skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So to extend your breadboard analogy, Hungarian says you should have a dictionary of colors and everyone should learn the colors, since coloring a wire provides an informationally-dense, well suited way of expressing information un-ambiguously to those versed in the wire color convention. Non-Hungarian says you should attach a sticker with a small free-form written sentence explaining what each wire does, and each person can have their own general style for how they write these things, but the upside is they are intuitive and everyone can read them without learning a color dictionary.

In either case the labeling/coloring of the wire is not fundamentally enforcing the wire's use, but experts are better served by conventions that may take time to adopt but convey information as efficiently as possible given the medium they must be used in.
It's called the "death spiral", and utilities are terrified about it. Once you reach a tipping point of self-sufficient energy consumers vs utility supplied consumers, it no longer becomes economical to provide power to the utility supplied customers, thereby eliminating the power production and transmission market for all but the largest consumers who can't generate on-site.

https://www.google.com/search?q=utility+death+spiral
Really? Then why do you never even mention, that oftentimes this effect could not be replicated in experiments by other psychologists?

Or that the effect was even the exact opposite in some experiments?

Why? Till now, nobody knows, but to write a blogpost, that does state this effect as fact is quite a stretch, when saying a lot of research went into it.

Sorry to be that harsh, but what I told my students oftentimes is, that time of research does not always equal quality of research.

[Edit]: Typo
http://homeaway.com

http://vrbo.com

http://vacationrentals.com
We've been using and loving Celery (http://trycelery.com) who is in this space too. Not sure about ShopLocket but we integrated Celery into shopify easily and they do discount codes and analytics via their backend dashboard as well
"Roger Ebert, who had praised the “pointed social satire” of Verhoeven’s Robocop, found the film “one-dimensional,” a trivial nothing “pitched at 11-year-old science-fiction fans.”

I was about that age when it came out. Still one of my favorite movies, sci-fi, satire and all. I think I'll sit down and watch it this weekend.
My memories are hazy, but Robocop felt very different. It did not criticize the establishment (i.e. the police) very much. In fact, the main character was a cop who got fatally wounded by "the bad guys" and then was resurrected as a badass robot and delivered sweet payback.

Most of the satirical elements in Robocop were directed at corporations.
World of squares emerges, then marches across the screen.

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,2,1,2,0,1,1,1...

Ah, found my old comment when this last got posted (found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5709765):

I quite like this one, it's as though the environment deteriorates. Don't watch it to fast:

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,1,1,0,2,1,0,2,1...

At one point, right before it goes over the "entropy cliff" it creates what looks like a lot of Sierpinski triangles:

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,1,0,1,2,3,2,2,2...

I found it quite interesting that one as complex as this could stabilize:

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,1,3,1,1,2,0,2,3...

This seems to end up like a frozen lightning bolt: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,3,3,3,2,4,0,2,2,3...

This creates a pattern almost like hair in the wind: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,2,3,0,2,4,3,0,3,1...

Seems as though it's many cats standing on each others heads: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,0,3,1,0,3,1,2,1,0...

Like waves on a beach: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,3,4,2,1,2,2,0,4,0...

Some otherworldly data wind: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,0,3,3,3,3,1,0,3,2...

Eventually, all clouds fade away: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,4,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,3,3...

In and out of phase: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,4,2,2,0,3,1,2,3,1,0...

Like sand dunes moving: http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,1,3,3,1,0,2...

Saws on parade: http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,0,2,2,3,1...

Scooty lightning: http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,2,0,3,2,2,3...
Although I haven't read the novel, it would be most meta irony if the article's author was missing the book's subtle societal criticism.
You can mine lithium out of the ocean cost-effectively. By the time is becomes scarce, we will have moved on to a new technology.
A while back PG asked "what motive could a government actor have to create bitcoin?"

Could the long game answer be "To teach the masses of idiot developers basic info security"? If you take a step back the whole thing is a pretty neat experiment in punishing poor security practices.

As a soon to graduate computer science graduate, learning the in's and out's of bitcoin in the hope of making money has taught me way more about application security and the underlying crypto than four years of state schooling did.
I think it's unfair to blame Spotify in this situation. The labels set the asking price and Spotify either chooses to pay it or have no music to legally stream. As a service Spotify is a fantastic service, since it debuted here in Australia I've barely downloaded music in part because I pay $12 per month for on-demand music and don't need to download.

If Spotify were benefiting from the extremely low royalty payments, then maybe I'd side with the argument Spotify is taking artists for a ride, but the matter of the fact is Spotify are not profitable whatsoever. This amazing service is operating at a loss and has been for years now. If artists want better payouts maybe they should lobby their labels to do so.

A service like Spotify costs a lot of money in terms of bandwidth and infrastructure to operate. Storing and streaming music isn't a trivial thing, the costs of operating the service are a massive percentage of Spotify's monthly expenditure fees. It's not costing the artist money to put their music on Spotify, it's costing Spotify money to put an artists music on their platform and allow others to listen to it. The royalty amount might be low, but make no mistake, the artist is still getting a better deal than Spotify currently is.

The only people currently winning out in the online music space are Apple and music labels. Services like Spotify and artists themselves are being shafted and have more in common than they think.
Robocop is even more over the top. One of the first scenes in Robocop is a guy being eviscerated with bullets in a board room meeting and one of the businessmen says "That's life in the big city!".

It's just dripping with satire.
The new title is better IMO. HN is partly entertainment, and I enjoyed the post much more since I looked at their site without first knowing what it would be about.
Many people prefer the error messages from clang
"I raised too much money!"

Or you can cancel some of your own shares and take the $50M.
http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,4,2,2,3,0,2,0,3...
In business, people will push for all they can get. That includes you, after all, I presume you negotiated a good salary and conditions?

Two examples from my past:

The law here in Victoria changed, and I (as a contractor) became a payroll tax liability to the company that hired me. So their CFO scheduled a meeting with me and informed me that he expected me to lower my rate to take into account the payroll tax.

I said, "no - the legislation clearly states that the liability is incumbent upon the employer."

He said, "yes, that's true" and dropped the matter. I continued there amicably for another year or so before my contract expired.

Another example: I joined a company as a permanent employee (not a contractor) with clearly specified business hours in my employment contract, and no mention whatsoever of on-call work.

Then a few weeks after joining, it was announced that there was a requirement for 24 hour support from the dev team, and we'd all be expected to participate. My response was: I'm happy to keep an eye out for problems if I'm at my computer and not busy, but on-call was never part of the deal, and I'm not doing it.

Nothing bad came from my refusal in either case; in fact, I suspect my dealings with the first company was smoother afterwards, once it became apparent that I was not a push-over.

Some caveats:

- in neither case were the people involved assholes; rather the contrary in fact

- I was in my thirties when both things happened; had I been in my early twenties I almost certainly would have caved to both requests (self-respect and confidence both lacking back then)

- I remained calm and polite at all times
I could go on and on. The point is not to get hung up on specific examples, but to note that there is a ton of semantic information about a piece of data, any of which may be a) relevant to the user and b) irrelevant to the goal or capabilities of the compiler's type system.

But doesn't that just mean you have a bad type system? I mean, the entire point of a type system is that it automatically checks these sorts of constraints for you. Otherwise, why have types at all? Why not just use chunks of bits?
I suspect it's less cutting into their business and more messing with their pretty spreadsheets.

Building a power plant is a multi-decade bet. The people who put up the money for that expected a certain rate of return. That gives them an incentive to cry, cry, cry at anything that would reduce their expected rate of return.

I think they'd be happy to build a lot of industrial-scale solar plants, but not before they've paid off and worn out their existing plants. It'd be sort of like the government mandating that everybody buy a hybrid. If it's just that all new cars are hybrids, people will deal with it. But if everybody has to go out and pay to replace a perfectly fine existing car, people will be pissed.
Twitter provides immense value for me. Easily hundreds of dollars a year worth of value. Easily.

I don't know if they can capture that value very easily. There is certainly immense risk. I'm not buying their stock. But there is definitely value there.
Why do you question his age, but apparently accept that he owns a $750k house etc? Not being snarky, but has he provided evidence etc?

I'm not sure how the ABC got to talk to him but he sounds young on the radio interview, for what it's worth.
> Bulk of the IITians are busy preparing for interviews...

> IIT's have contributed very little or almost nothing to India.

I don't even know why I am biting but I guess someone has to point it out. I know it is fancy to sling mud on the IITian but last I checked (maybe a year ago), about 50% of my class went on to do higher studies. Out of that maybe half went on to obtain a PhD. A paltry 10% or so went into management. Others went for jobs...mostly in the product sector. Some did join service jobs but quit soon after and they went for a Masters too I think. About 5% of my class have started companies in India.

> Guy's at ISRO. Most of them are from small time colleges, and many with average marks and grades. Many probably don't even have an engineering degree, and probably have a diploma.

Just stop. Please. There are tiered requirements for Scientist categories. Pretty obvious if you check the newspaper ads.

> IIT's have contributed very little or almost nothing to India. Bulk of their students don't even work here. Modern India is the pretty the result of the sweat and blood of the ordinary college educated student.

Many have come back to join as faculty back in the IITs. You can pull up say IIT Elec department page and confirm yourself. A decade ago, it was our own faculty who encouraged us to step outside. Now, slowly, we are bringing in overseas culture within our own campuses.

* * *

But hey, you have already formed an opinion and composed an elegy. What I wrote above is not for you. It is for others to gather that you are factually incorrect.
Commissions don't decide peak power prices, the marginal producers of power do. And, yes, natural gas is a large portion of the power stack, but peak days (which only happen a nominal number of times per year) are driven by plants that come online for short periods of time at high marginal costs.

Power companies just pass through market rates, they are mostly ambivalent to driving down rates as they just tax tolls on each transaction.
Another unsung layer to this movie is just how well it ties into key influences on Heinlein prior to his writing the novel. The novel itself is heavily influenced by WWII wartime military and popular culture, and roots its social thought experiments in that context. The movie turns this into visual leverage, weaving together elements from WWII era propaganda films and Hollywood's subsequent decades of iconography of that era.
A Brilliant Introduction To Transhumanism
are Americans that daft? seriously, how can one not see this movie for what it is?

feels like a giant whoosh.
Using PyEDA to Solve Sudoku
Twitter's revenue for the first 3 quarters of 2013 was $422.2 million (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitters-debut-164047360.html)
FDA seeks to ban trans fats in processed foods due to health risks
The Surveillance State Puts U.S. Elections at Risk of Manipulation
Requiring unit tests is a great idea, and I am 100% behind using the techniques she describes, but it's not the real human connection I'm talking about.

One of the best distributed teams I know spends a week per month together despite the travel nightmare that entails. Another reasonably good remote project had the product manager spending 1-2 weeks every 6 weeks with the development team. Having developers participate in user tests is also great, as is finding some way for them or their friends to become actual users of the product.

If the developers don't give a shit about you or your users, you'll have to do a lot more inspecting than if they are personally fired up to make things work for people they care about.
Pricing an IPO is more or less an auction. When pricing an IPO they set a range and then meet with institutional investors to sell their book (in this case 70M shares. The original price was 17-20 per share, and there was excess demand at this price, so the bankers and company, pushed the price to $26 per share.
I don't know about that. Heinlein seems pretty keen on his notion of citizenship through military service, albeit perhaps as a means of preventing "unnecessary" wars rather than enabling them. Either way, it's a pretty terrible political philosophy.

That aspect of serious advocacy is completely absent from the movie.
Watch it again.. the bad guys are not some random street thugs, it is OCP, a mega corporation that produces the robots and is essentially a government organization (since that world is a "corporatocracy").
yes it did critize the police. In Robocop,police officers are just cannon fodder for fabricated street wars set by big business.
In fact corps own the police,the media,the city,politics and gang bangers are hired as "consultants".
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The novel is really short. It's good, I enjoy Heinlein's writing anyway.

He lays out an interesting model for democracy, but it depends critically on permanent war.

It has been a long time since i read the book, but i think the author gives it a fair shake. Nothing really screams unfair representation to me.
When this first came out, the adverts on TV showed a movie full of action and dripping in coolness, I went to the first day of opening and the audience was dumbstruck about 15 minutes in, it was so 90210-esque. The social satire was brilliant in my opinion.
If you are programatically generating emails, there are libraries for most popular languages that will convert an external stylesheet into inline styles - for example, pynliner [1] for Python.

They let you write HTML and CSS, test in the browser, and only at the last moment convert `p { text-color: #333 }` and `<p>..</p>` to `<p style="color: #333">`

[1] https://github.com/rennat/pynliner
Just a correction - Coal India Limited (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_India_Limited) is the largest coal company in the world - not Peabody Energy.
How has $25B of wealth not been created? The market believes that the price of the stock is a price such that the total company would be valued at $25B. What asset can you own other than the dollar that is not based on market pricing? Is $25B worth of gold today worth $25B of wealth? What if the world woke up tomorrow and thought gold was worthless.
Starship Troopers 3 is great too, with a lower-budgeted, more aggressive critique of patriotism, nationalism, propaganda and religion. It's also hilarious. Avoid part 2 like the plague.
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Lobbying groups have worked out how to hack sovereignty (with those pesky democratic processes and a desire to consider the public interest)

We just saw this with the repeal of glass stegal. Could not be fixed because why? Idiots put it in the WTO via the FSA. Now we are stuck with it. Of course nobody ever mentions this until some working paper is leaked by people trying to spike the nomination of larry summers for the Fed Chair. [Regardless of your position of summers or derivatives regulation, its the <technique> that is cringeworthy]

______

“As we enter the end-game of the WTO financial services negotiations, I believe it would be a good idea for you to touch base with the CEOs…”

...

...Until the bankers’ re-draft of the FSA, each nation controlled and chartered the banks within their own borders. The new rules of the game would force every nation to open their markets to ... {too big to fail universal banks}.

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/larry-summers-and-the-secret-...
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Outlook displays (embedded) images too by default (that's why lots of people include them in their signatures).

I think that href images are (correctly) blocked, because they pose a security and privacy risk. That, and the only group who uses them are email marketers. If I want to see your catalog, I'd open your website.

You might have guessed, but yes, I do mark those image-mails as spam (and any mail where I can't find and 'unsubscribe' within 2 seconds).

I wonder if Americans have less trouble with this. When I was last in NY the quantity + obnoxiousness of the advertisements shocked me - we're more used to being blitzed by Germans, not by marketing. Compared to that having an inbox full of brightly colored marketing mails is restful..
>your average programmer could build twitter. obviously there are some scale issues, but...

I'm going to be nice and just assume that you're so completely surrounded by competent and successful people that you overestimate the capability of "your average programmer" and underestimate the difficulty which Twitter's variety of "some scale issues" would pose to "your average programmer."

The community is the externally visible thing which gives Twitter value, but that community wouldn't exist without some really awesome technology providing it the capability to exist.
Huh? Please come up with about ten references (one isn't enough) to back up those claims.
"flat" is a pretty ambiguous and miss used word, hence the quotes. In fact, "flat" designs use depth more frequently (ie one ui element over another). the "flat" trend is more about removing superfluous (subjectively) design elements
Who is IHG? They are the place I end up at because I search at Hotels.com and they posted the cheapest rate. Sounds like a shit business that is as profitable as an airline.

I don't use AirBnB, but my understanding is they take 12% no matter what. In some ways, AirBnB is more like Hotels.com than the local Holiday Inn.
US speeds are not great compared to some places. But let's see where things are in 5 years. Could be much better. Doesn't matter for me. I stopped buying anything from Sony when they removed OtherOS.
Not a clue, I'm not really a networks guy! Though the setup in vanilla Linux is pretty straightforward I feel; not sure how much a VM would help with the use case I outlined above.
I renew my library books from a script in ruby. I haven't had a fine in over a year now.
More specifically, "the bad guys" and OCP were actually in cahoots. The CEO of OCP has the main villain kill a junior OCP executive after the executive humiliates the CEO.

There is also a subplot where OCP is deliberately working with street gangs to drive up the crime rate and gather public support for demolishing the entirety of old Detroit and building the corporate-owned "Delta City" in its place.

The movie does criticize the establishment, it just stops short of criticizing the actual street cops.

Side note: I'm actually looking forward to the remake. I had strong fears that the reboot would be strictly all-action and contain none of the social commentary. While it looks like the movies will lose its satirical elements, the cynicism will remain. I watched another movie by Jose Padilha recently and I'm hopeful.
If you don't want to sign up for a Litmus subscription, you can use Direct Mail for OS X (http://directmailmac.com) to run design tests on a pay-as-you-go basis. Also inlines your CSS by default (but can be turned off).

Disclaimer: I am a developer on Direct Mail.
The stack itself will be launched next week at AWS re:Invent conference
You can flip it around and ask why have names at all? What is the point of a name? Why not just have randomString() choose your names? The name is an important dimension that is provided by a programming language to describe some piece of information. Hungarian is a way of leveraging this dimension, which is separate from the type system, that is optimized for efficiency at the cost of intuitivity.

Also, many of the examples I gave above have little relevance to enforcing constraints on the use of data, which is the job of the type system, but are still relevant to the programmer in helping them understand and properly work on the code.
I agree that Facebook did the best thing, that is raising the most money with the least dilution, though you can see culturally how downward pricing pressure and momentum has forced them to be much more focused on driving revenue than in the past. Revisiting the price in ~3 months will be a much better gauge of the accuracy.
The novel was far more explicit in its commentary. In fact, most of the novel is the protagonist wondering why they're going from planet to planet, destroying other races as they go.

The movie, on the other hand, conceals the irony well enough that it bleeds over into the real world.
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- User accounts
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- Withdraw/deposit buttons so users can deposit or withdraw from their bitcoin balance
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I mean, there are some really terrible sci-fi B-movies out there. It's sometimes hard to tell satire from actual terribleness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

I didn't really see it as satire until I read articles saying it was. I thought it was just a really campy military sci-fi movie. I also don't really see how the movie portrayed the bugs as acting in self-defense. The movie begins with them slinging an asteroid that destroys Buenos Aires.