skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But isn't that just blah blah and not the point here? The constant boogeyman in this thread is that Moore's abuse based upon sexual mores would be impossible in Europe. I think that is nonsense.
I usually punch the air, flex, and shout "I RULE!"
The word "tanker" was evocative, I wouldn't get hung up on it.

All I was saying was that physical stores of value increase in awkwardness (principally through weight and volume) when you increase their number, not so for digital.

Challenges in movement of large sums of gold:
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/08/23/how-to-get-...

Here's what $300 Billion in gold looks like:
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-arti...

(Note that it would be harder to transport, than, say, the amount of gold one can fit in a pocket.)
...cannot be played on record player B.
Seriously? They can't find a better place to host a site like this here in 2013?
The list in the 1st answer is amazing, but the 2nd highest answer has one of my favorite things:

> Turing machines (we think) capture everything that's computable. However, we can ask: What parts of a Turing machine are "essential"? What happens when you limit a Turing machine in various ways? DFAs are a very severe and natural limitation (taking away memory). PDAs are a less severe limitation, etc. It's theoretically interesting to see what memory gives you and what happens when you go without it. It seems a very natural and basic question to me.

I like to think of it the other way, though. A DFA with a stack is a PDA. A DFA with two stacks is a Turing machine. Looking at the 3 different classes as DFAs with 0, 1, or 2 stacks is just so beautiful...
People don't want to be independent contractors.
An agitated younger me: "Listen. They're not dolls! They're ACTION FIGURES."
how about we let the citizenry do whatever we want and force the politicians to take a net salary that is 12x the sub-saharan africa value?
What about that great feature where accidentally leaving a cabin light on completely drains the battery so that you can't start the car? Why do so many cars still allow this to happen? I'm no electrical engineer, but it can't be so hard to measure battery life and automatically cut power to the cabin when it gets below a certain threshold.
openSUSE & zsh all the way! ;) In all seriousness, though, my setup is a wee bit unusual for somebody who isn't a programmer, since I work exclusively in emacs via LaTeX & org-mode, stuffing all of it into git, on a openSUSE system, zsh as my standard shell, i3 as my window manager etc.

The thing is, I do have a script for example to push the current git project to various remote repositories or to create a new empty remote repository on those servers, set it up locally etc. But there are few other things that need to be scripted. I'm sure some of my things violate all kinds of sensible programming standards, but they do work (e.g. looping through shell arguments and then using case "$1" instead of using getopts, because it only allows long arguments in a hackish way).

The problem, essentially, is that of the plateau. If I wanted to do something that pushes things further, I'd need a real project, not the odd, occasional shell script. But for that, I lack the motivation, since, after all, it's not really what I should be doing. It's a bit of a circular problem.

edit: My "job" is studying literature.
Design for the Real World
Have you read it before? How is it?
What's your opinion of the concept?
Get a taste of the Note 3 experience on any Android device.
Nothing at all. But they certainly weren't able to hold back the other potential discoverers of his identity that I listed.
Well it is the main reference but it won't sustain the "HN effect", thanks for the mirror link. I typically use http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/doku.php which also provides a mirror and some extras.
"Thou shall not kill"

Unless you're going off to war to kill bad people. Then it's justified. And the other side justifies it with their side's supernatural beliefs.
TuneCrawl source code now available on GitHub.
especially since some new hires are worth negative amounts. If salary has anything to do with one's worth to the firm (as modern intellectual socialists often argue) then perhaps some people should pay to have the privilege of employment and training.
I love my iPads. But where can I get something like Dark Souls for them? The console niche puts more GBytes of graphics etc into a world. You just don't do that for the iPad. Not this year and probably not the next either, anyway. (Edit: Please prove me wrong :-) )
Well, abortion is a similar example.

Where I live abortion has been allowed since I don't know when.

Doctors have been able to opt out from assisting. This fall politicians and pro abortion started making noise about how doctors that wouldn't participate should lose their license.

So, there is your slippery slope I guess.
A breakdown of lock screen security options
The Unix shell may be a highly powerful interactive programming environment, but it's sure hard to think of anything that comes anywhere close to sucking as badly. With the shell and the standard Unix commands, some things that are hard in other languages are easy, and most of the things that are easy in other languages are hard to impossible... I'd love to see a clean slate replacement for the shell that still feels Unix-like and retains most of its existing benefits.

(I suspect PowerShell would be a good environment to take design cues from or even port, but I've never used it so I can't say for sure.)
If the user kept the secret key, that's not much of an online wallet - you might as well just use your secret key at home and send it directly yourself. They could encrypt it with a password or a pin that isn't saved on their site so that you would have to enter it to decrypt the secret key. That still counts on the site not just lying and keeping it or you getting it keylogged or otherwise compromised on your side. Many online wallets do nothing of the kind, they simply have the secret key and use it to send. Someone with your password or access to the site could do the same. It's the same as a normal bank really, you have no physical/technical control over what they or someone who snuck into the bank does. You can control your access credentials (passwords, cards, account numbers, ID info, etc) and that's good and well, but there's nothing preventing it from disappearing on their side besides what they (not you) do for security.
If there is one tech company today that is obsessed with managing its PR, from every angle, it has to be Apple. I don't find it far-fetched at all the Apple has put a lot of thought into how to get early favorable reviews from big media. It's the same reason they basically invented the modern theatrical press event: a huge part of what they sell is an image. Managing that image is paramount to their business.
Let's just take a moment to savor a basic fact: it was a randomized experiment. That alone puts this article above like 90% of the science news one reads.
If this appeals to you, I recommend checking out Conkeror:

http://conkeror.org/

It's nice having a browser that was designed from the ground up to be used with only a keyboard.
I hate the fact that Stripe doesn't offer a gateway mode, with buyer accounts, etc. I'd feel a lot safer entering my financial info on Stripe.com than on a random site that happens to say it's powered by Stripe.
I suspect a lot of the people buying the Final Fantasy remakes are people who played them years ago and are buying them to replay now because they no longer have a Playstation / SNES / the original game discs, but retain fond feelings for them. Which is all fine, but it doesn't generalise well to newer companies who don't have a long-established fanbase already.
I always get knowing looks in the office when I yell "FUCK YEAH" really loudly while coding.
> not to stay on life support

It's not such a simple decision. I know someone who was on life support and minimally conscious and recovered from there to more or less normal health.

It would be better to specify something like: no life support provided there is also no cognitive ability for 2 months.

That gives at least a chance of recovery.
Overview of approaches to relational datastores with blue-green deployments
Coding Entertainment
It is a confusing visualization.

I think it's supposed to trace a line between the first implementation of each feature in each browser. Where the colored lines intersect a dot, that's where the feature was implemented. The rest is just flair.
Richard Stallman gave an excellent use and rationale for dynamic scope in the EMACS manual:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html#SEC17

One of my favourite things about perl and CL is the ability to have lexical (my/let) and dynamic (local/special) scope in the same program depending on what is clearer.

In fact, it comes up often enough that programming in a language lacking dynamic scope (e.g. basic, JavaScript, or python) feels limiting sometimes, and I end up emulating it (settings+extend, observables, etc).
I don't see what I have said that implies I am whatever it is you are implying ... Maybe I am just poking real holes in thus argument and you don't like it so you play this game? :(

You are being too simplistic with this nude beach stuff. What occurs on a nude beach or to people that attend such a beach may be different from what happens to individuals away from such beaches even in the same country.
If this is actually a problem you currently have, I've heard great things about FluxBB[0], it's built on Laravel and also powers the Laravel forums.

[0] http://fluxbb.org/

EDIT: Its alpha 2.0 is built on Laravel and is a complete rebuild.
When you're writing an interpreter, dynamic scope is easier to implement. And it isn't necessarily all that problematic for simple script-type programs, since they don't tend to do much nesting of lexical or execution contexts.

Also it does offer some flexibility, though personally I've never been fond of programmer convenience as an excuse for bug farming.
Of backdoors and bad-codes - How linux kernel & D-Link routers were backdoored
The experienced programmer knows it won't work first time, and does not wait until its finished before testing it. The time spend finding a bug is cubic in the distance you have coded since last thorough testing. You test the foundations are rock solid before building a cathedral on top of it. I find the newer blood writes way too much code in one go.
ruby flourished while perl was going down, even though it also shares TIMTOWTDI.
Apparently a mod changed the URL (to relieve a not so powerful host). The original URL (and thus the one you should be bookmarking/remember) was http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls‎

http://bash.cumulonim.biz/BashPitfalls.html is a mirror, see mlacitation's comment.
I've been bouncing the idea around in my head for a while to predict the weather in an area from a photostream (ie flickr, twitter, etc). More brightness -> hotter is a simple correlation, but you could extract a lot of interesting image and meta features, I am sure (for instance, maybe people take less indoor photos in the summer).

This is more of a "fun" project in realtime, but historical weather data is actually very valuable for things like energy price prediction, and is pretty hard to get. I don't know what the market is like, but there is almost definitely one (I would be a customer if the data is accurate).
> why I should have to pay with my data as well (not being informed on that by the way, when buying this TV)

You were probably informed, somewhere between page 1 and 514 in the EULA.
An introduction to Ansible
How statistics can help cure cancer
> hire permanent employees as "contractors"

The company doesn't hire them directly. They hire a third party and that third party hires the contractors (or employees for that matter).
Btw, a pretty cool thing about their implementation is that they use a standard DDR3 interface which allows the realization of these machines in a standard DIMM form factor. This means that they could be added to almost any existing server.
"He also points out early in the article that there are financial considerations:

> His smallish estate pays about $8,000 per month to keep him in this state of perpetual suffering."

Now you understand the reason for opposition to euthanasia. The purpose of government is to keep the rich, rich, and the poor, poor. Emptying his estate into the medical industrial complex is not an incidental side effect, but the sole purpose of its existence.

You want to see pet (dog/cat) vet assisted euthanasia made illegal? Implement pet health insurance. Try it and see.
I'm not sure if "stupid" is the right word for this. These companies are capitalizing on fear. Intelligent people can be fearful too.
Michel Foucault. What is Enlightenment?
I'm in exactly the same place.
I believe you are thinking of a different computing paradigm.
Tactical Porosity
> The Coursera Automata course is awesome.

Oh yes. I have a haphazard knowledge of Chomsky hierarchy, and this course is structuring it beautifully. It also fills a number of holes.

Today's latest success: I finally "get" what an LL(1) grammar is! And why so many programming languages have regular tokens and LL(1) grammars.

I bet I'll understand the fundamentals of Yacc before the course is over.
Making assertions that you back up is always a valid debating tactic.
I think its more of a question of (re-)architecting the software to perform well on bunch of wimpy cores vs normal brawny x86 ones.
> Software patent: A patent that can be infringed by executing a software program on a general purpose computer.

Ever wonder why all the jurists all over the world have not stumbled upon such a simple and elegant definition? Herein lies just one problem: your definition of software patents may also include:

- Control systems for automotive, industrial and robotic systems.

- Signal processing methods for digital communications, audio processing, speech processing, image processing, video processing, automated control systems, and so on.

- Microcode in processors

- Embedded firmware in appliances and devices.

- Mechanical watch designs. They are simply mechanical implementations of algorithms.

- Digital circuits, chips and hardware that implements any of the above.

The software / hardware equivalence makes simple definitions impossible.

> Which does tell you something, doesn't it?

It could tell me many things, depending on what assumptions I may apply. Let's see how many you disagree with.

- The majority of software startups are not doing anything particularly technically innovative.

- The (vast) majority of the software industry as a whole is not doing anything particularly technically innovative.

- Patents are expensive to apply for and get, something a startup can't often afford.

- Patents don't provide enough protection for software products anyway.

(The last two are actually borne out by the study.)

> query whether the VCs are interested in patents vs. interested in them as a method for weeding out uncommitted startup founders.

Why wonder when there are studies on the subject? It's called "signaling". Of course VCs have no interest in IP itself, only what it means for their ROI. But if there's no funding, there's no startup, let alone innovation, so for many founders it's a necessary evil.

> Because if software startups aren't getting many software patents, but the number of software patents being issued keeps going up, guess who is.

Again, why guess when there are studies :-) If you believe James Bessen it's actually manufacturing, industrial and semiconductor firms. (See his "A generation of software patents" paper. Flawed study, IMO, but a useful starting point.) If the answer surprises you, maybe you should consider that "software patents" are not easy to define.
I am thinking about what it takes to turn a NFA into a push-down automata.
Second that.

I implemented a task I need and sold it for about $100,000 total to other people.

That's a rule - if you have a problem - chances are - lots of other people have the same problem for solving which they'd be more than happy to pay.
Ruby flourished largely due to rails which ends up being pretty opinionated about how to do things.
I've found that detailed code review before code makes it to master helps enforce these principles and sets a precedent for future code. Gerrit is a nice tool for this http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/.
ReligiousTolerance.org states that:

'A couple of the surviving members of the group who did not "leave" have been maintaining their web site at http://www.heavensgate.com' (http://j.mp/1cKc0KA)
Why the downvotes? Algorithms are interesting and every programmers benefit from studying a few, but very many of them already exist in permissively licensed libraries.
It was Perl 6.

As soon as it became clear that the move from 5 to 6 was going to be discontinuous, if you wanted to be a Perl developer you had to decide if that meant being a Perl 5 developer or a Perl 6 developer. Being a Perl 6 developer was the clearly marked path to The Future, but Perl 6 was years away from being ready to use in production environments, and it never seemed to get any closer. Perl 5 was practical for real-world use, but choosing to be a Perl 5 developer meant worrying that you were investing time and energy learning skills that were already marked as obsolete and writing code that would end up having to be re-written.

That kind of uncertainty is fatal to a language. Why put up with it when there's so many other languages out there with clear upgrade paths? Especially when the upgrade path for the one you're using now appears pretty similar to learning a new language anyway?

So developers drifted away from Perl to other languages, and that, as they say, was that.
I disagree with some of your points, and I have experienced what you pointed out should be needed to bring that conclusion. This stuff isn't cut and dried, so i just go with whatever the project is already using. Seems easier that way :)
But why disallow physician assisted suicide in cases where one is certain (as in, the patient is of sound mind, but in constant pain, and makes that decision), because of cases where you can't be 100.0000000% certain?

Have you ever seen someone suffer horribly for no reason and without hope? I swore myself that if I ever have a terminal illness with a bad prognosis, I would rather kill myself before it's too late, instead of risking ending up in a situation where I can't; where I beg medical staff to kill me and they have to say "sorry, but I'm just doing my job".

Yes, dementia is tricky, and so is suicide in general. It's a deeper issue than just being for or against it. How would we weigh the risk of people dying needlessly ("easier access to suicide and getting rid of the uncared for elderly"), versus the risk of people existing (I wouldn't call it living) in extreme pain, without hope, needlessly? I don't know, but I do agree that something has to change. Medicine is supposed to make life better, usually it does; but sometimes it makes it hell, and the ones suffering in that hell should have a say in wether they want out or not.
These need to be questions that are invariant over a lifetime:

- Were you born in the northern hemisphere or southern?

$2^{33}$ is sufficient for those alive now, but the human population is a dynamic function. Set a bit when the person dies?
I am terribly confused by the interface, although I assume its intention is to sort of remind me of rap geniuses "explain" feature, but for Alice in Wonderland. I love the idea, but the execution needs a bit more UI work :)
Sorry, but I am getting really tired of this form of discourse.

A million interests prevent you from doing a million things every day, but apparently it's only objectionable and worth remarking about when it's the government. And it's not even like I disagree with him -- yes we should allow assisted suicide. But boy oh boy is it hard not to notice that he wastes no time thinking about why things are this way, or which interests specifically may be preventing things from changing. Nope, it's just THE GOVERNMENT. Short circuit, do not pass go, no further critical thinking necessary.

"The Nanny State Didn't Show Up, You Hired It" http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/09/the_nanny_state_didnt...
The Long Shadow of Chinese Blacklists on American Academe
the 'contractor' role would be of ambiguity illegality.

however, outsourcing the job(s) to an external, possibly offshore or cross-border firm that specializes in low-wage workers with a puppet CEO who's actually a supervisor would do the trick nicely.

then, of course, the 'janitorial' firm would be owned or otherwise controlled by a parent company where the execs make much more money, since they are either

a) not bound by compensation rules or
b) don't hire anyone under a certain salary
I never said they are.

It was to illustrate Christianity's generally positive outlook on suffering as a trial.
The value of learning arts doesn't need quantification. Of course, a study which checks this is welcome. Arts stand as a unique field that has antiquity as old as humans themselves. I wonder what cave-art artists must be motivated with? There is some deep connection between being human and arts. I don't think a small study where children feel coming to museums may be cool isn't validating the place of arts in life.
Copy the link and replace https with http.
Oh the spam that will ensue if/when this happens.
Any form of suffering on the helpless scale is especially painful. There's something hellish about helplessness that can't be described, you just have to experience it. Anyone who goes through months or years of helplessness without committing suicide is a warrior. The particularly insidious part of this kind of trauma is the intense PTSD that is the result of this mental torture. Reading the S.Adams blog entry, you can just see the PTSD dripping off every word. I feel for him. I feel for anyone who has gone through this because there is no justice at the end of the bullst rainbow that the Christians describe.
As hard as it is to remain anonymous, how did Satoshi Nakamoto do it? No misstatements that betrayed his identity? No IP addresses that point to him or his location?
I've got a near fully built front-end that needs a back-end. The project is in the travel industry. It's a lot simpler than AI, video crawling, etc that you mention, but it's straightforward and ready to make money. Ping me on Twitter if you're interested.