skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Labdien. You are not kidding. I lived in Riga for two years and can attest to this. Latvians had a funny sense of humor though. I once heard a joke about teaching an Estonian the proper way to address a woman in Latvian, something like "Skaistas kājas"? Sorry if I got that wrong, it's been awhile.
> You do realize that most of Western Europe is socialist?

Only if you use the american dictionary.
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Thanks for the heads up. Will fix.
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That is an interesting dichotomy that could use further study.
small point: people who know regulatory rules and opinions ahead of the public can benefit, like some traditional insider trading
people just need to have trust that government would accept the tax payment in that currency and at that rate to the other, paper, currency if it is still around - very low bar of trust for a government to meet and it would provide strong bottom line value for a currency. Especially if some deflatory (or limited inflatory) machinery is algorithmically built-in (bitcoin-style) so the government couldn't "print" the money faster than some limit.

Interesting variant would be a 2-tier system where government would accept only bitcoins "printed" by the government while allowing other bitcoins to be circulated as well.

My main point here is that whatever technology achieves is ultimately made to serve government as well (or sometimes almost exclusively).
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I believe at least in the original series the Klingon Empire is based on the Soviet Union, and Klingons Russians.
that blurry square isn't it, if you travel south for about half a block, you'll see a police car, follow that road forward a bit, and you can see a body, and north of that in the field there is a group of law enforcement.

slightly gruesome screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/bnyNZq5.png
Even as a teenager I reasoned that the job market and economy in general was like a rollercoaster and that the best time to study a subject was during a depression when nobody was hiring it.

So many students reasoned the exact opposite, though, and avoided CS because of the recent bubble.

I'd have pursued CS whatever the economy, though. I'm just lucky my take was right and my timing was lucky.
"nobody has inside info"

It is not known who are making all the trades, wouldn't it be possible that a small group of large bit-coin holders are simply trading between each other in an effort to inflate the price... they have nothing to lose.
I would have told myself to stop trying to figure out how other people become successful and trust yourself more. What works for others might not work for me.
Well it's no wonder: they only use it for suspicious activities.
I honestly don't understand why so many people disagree with you. While this article is not complete BS, many of the examples are just wrong.

>> Russians don't smile in business meetings.

What? Russians do smile in business meetings. In fact, it is considered rude to NOT look in the eye during conversation/handshake and not smile. In general, lots of deals are done by drinking together. And trust me, if you are drinking with me and you are not smiling, then there is something wrong and that deal will not go through.

I feel like the person who wrote this article has been watching too many gangster movies showing criminal Russia of the 90's.

Another reason why many Russians of the new generation don't smile is because of their crooked teeth. But this is changing since braces and other dental work are becoming an accepted practice.

It is true that many people don't smile in public places (airports, metro, etc.) in Moscow but that's Moscow. There are just too many factors for this unique place, which might as well be considered a separate country due its mores.

Try going to different places in Russia and you will see a more welcoming atmosphere with tons of smiles.
(Did you read the whole article? He directly addresses this.)
Supply does not mean what you think it means, in an economic sense. Economically, supply is how willing people are to sell a commodity. In this sense, BTC supply is definitely not fixed (right now supply is determined mainly by the speculative activity).

The demand side of the equation can be debated, but do not pretend that the supply side doesn't exist.
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That's my feel too. The chair seems to be really really interested in bitcoin and how bitcoin works. They [the panel] repeatably mentioning Tor Foundation, Bitcoin Foundation partnership on dealing on this issue. I think the government, at least from the Senate's perspective, what is absent in regulating virtual concurrency. I am all for government and business regulating if the regulation benefit the public consumer (not deep web consumers) in the long run. They also praise the pros and cons of the bitcoin protocol, history of bitcoin and etc.

Chair: "You don't think it was Al Gore [created the bitcoin], do you?"

laughers

Chair: "I like this quote from Mrs. Einstein: 'I understand the words but not the sentences.' Thanks the panel."

Side note: I thought I saw Snowden... http://imgur.com/IaAPGjx

And the hearing record is only saved for 15 days...
Have you written more about this and other culture comparisons (i.e. blog, article, etc)? If not, do you recommend any sites for cultural comparisons by other sociologists?
My only take away is that a German asked a Russian about joy and that sounds like the start to a great joke. I mean they are the most stereotypically serious countries in Europe.
Seems like google just updated the map tiles. I saw it 10 minutes ago but it was gone when I refreshed the page.

http://i.imgur.com/VXCTQ17.png
I just want to say I really appreciate hearing your perspective on things, tokenadult. Everytime I see one of your comments I make sure to read it because I know how thoughtful they tend to be.
> Wait, does that mean that iterating across the members of a Lua table is not in deterministic order?

Yes. And it is documented as such. Any dependency on repeatable iteration order is a bug.
I hear a lot of people talking about the need to shift decimal points, but never really understood -- what's the benefit of this over just using SI prefixes? To me, it's clear how 1mBTC relates to 1BTC and 1µBTC.

I think people underestimate consumers. Before Decimal Day (1971), 1 British pound was worth 20 shillings, and 1 shilling was 12 pence[1]. As confusing as it seems to me, apparently that worked for awhile. Likewise, I think consumers could deal with SI prefixes in a decimal system (rather than needing to redefine how much 1 BTC is).

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_Day
This is extremely important to know for many reasons. For emphasis... HR is not your friend! Their loyalty is to the company, and that is all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy
It can be used to create paper wallets for the ultra paranoid.
That's your choice to make. You don't get to whine about it.
To be frank, he does sound like a Russian-American. They are often pretty dismissive of their heritage. Rightfully so, judging by your comment.
Russians also don't have a Halloween. On the question "Why don't you have such a holiday?" we (Russian/Ukrainian/Other-Similar-Folks) answer - we don't celebrate a walking dead holiday, because we make sure our dead are really dead and stay dead insert a smile here if we met before
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The look _and_ the performance. I used to be a die-hard Firefox fan. Then I moved to Opera because it was faster. Then I moved to Chrome because Opera was buggy.

I tried using Firefox again a while ago and I went right back to Chrome. Overall, Firefox feels more sluggish than Chrome. In part, whenever pages are loading in Firefox, it seems to make the whole browser feel sluggish -- something which doesn't happen in Chrome.
Imagine that body was somebody that you loved.
I feel like there must be more to this story. At one point he says he was making $300K from his main job + $650K from a side job in a year. Even assuming that his average year was only half this money, we're talking $475K. If he did this for 10 years, he'd have brought in almost $5M, or about $6.5M in 2012 dollars. If he invested and got a 5% return on his money (easy back in those days), he's over $7.5M in 2012 dollars. Sure, taxes, but even if a third of his money were gone for that, he's still left with $5M in 2012 dollars.

I understand living is not free, nor is raising kids. But, even if he spent $10,000/month on mortgage payments (which should be building him equity) and $120K on raising each child (prorated over this 10 year period), we're looking at $1.7M in expenses.

He states that he saved well and lived below his means, but yet states that his savings when he quit was $500K. Something doesn't add up.
> shouldn't most investigations start with evidence of the crime and an empirical investigation into who could have committed it, rather than starting with suspects and trying to link them with the crime?

This might surprise you, but there are very often situations where the police and the public are remarkably aware of the facts of the crimes being committed, but unable to do anything about it. Drugs fall into this category. Everyone knows that "that's where the deals go down" and "that's where they count the money", but that's only because we're not completely stupid. Proving direct culpability, on the other hand, is an entirely different story, as is proving the culpability of people who matter. (Street level dealers, for instance, are pretty interchangeable: one gets shot, you get someone else to do his job. Ain't no thing.)

If you find a druggie on a corner, it's not exactly a stretch of the imagination to recognize he's probably guilty of possession. It's also sort of pointless to prosecute him, since the actual issue you're fighting is lots of people taking particular drugs, which means what you care about are the people managing the city-wide operation. You want evidence of that crime? That's also the druggie on the corner. Half of whom can tell you exactly who it is who manages the city-wide operation. None of which are willing to take the witness stand to accuse him in a court of law. Because he knows that he goes right back to that corner the next day and not only does he no longer have someone bringing him drugs, but he's also get a bullet in his head for the trouble.

If you want a visceral primer, watch The Wire.
The little computer that could: Raspberry Pi passes 2 million mark
Right click (option click on Mac?) and select 'What's here'. That gives you exact coordinates under the green arrow, with nearest street address under the pink map pin. In this case it's 37.951592,-122.36045. That may be a 14 year-old boy lying there dead and if true it is a terribly sad thing and I hope it is at least blurred out soon.
Positive attitudes regarding Bitcoin by the powers that be give me pause.

Why would law enforcement be eager to support a technology which, on the face of it, seems to reduce the power of law enforcement?
> “Staffing concerns” is new as the #2 reported frustration, which I think is significant: I certainly know that companies using Clojure have a hard time filling openings lately.

I'm profoundly surprised by this, and would have expected the opposite -- frustrated Clojure programmers wishing for opportunities to use the language in their day job. Is there a market failure here and can we fix it?
"His point was to illustrate that traditional predictors of success, including even prior success, don't guarantee you anything"

I'm glad we agree on the subversive part of the story. There is a stereotypical middle class mantra always repeated unthinkingly that college is a universal good the purpose of which is to eat cash and excrete a credential that results in a good job and success, automatically, all the time, for all participants. Exactly the same Pavlovian thought conditioning process in go to church = go to heaven and several other peculiar beliefs.
An obvious bubble but impossible to predict when it'll pop. It could easily go to $1k, $10k, $100k and beyond since supply is so limited and most of the coins are held tightly by folks who have already cashed out nicely.
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They can absolutely afford to live near it. Based on my own anecdotal experience at least, the people who work for the big tech companies in the South Bay with the long commutes are generally the ones who choose to have long commutes so they can work in the South Bay but live in SF. If affordability were their concern, they could save a ton of money by just living nearby in Sunnyvale or Campbell or wherever.

I also know people who work for those same companies who have long commutes for affordability reasons, but they seem to be the exceptions rather than the rule. Even in their case, it's usually for reasons other than there's just no way they can afford to live in the South Bay. More often, it's because they are determined to have a really big house with a really big yard and are unwilling to concede on that (such a thing is quite a luxury in the South Bay). Even then, they're accepting the commute for because they want to, not because they have to. It really sucks that housing is that ridiculous in the Bay Area, but it's not like any of these huge companies are going to pick up and leave and build their giant new campus out in the middle of the desert or something.
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Vinod khosla (Sun co-founder) says "Fail Fast", meaning that learn all the possibilities (specially the dead ends, how not to use) of the new technology/idea before competitors do. So when the competitors place their baby step on the idea you're more far from the starting line. Good luck.
> But I think that's exactly where suicide and euthanasia are different, where you claim they are synonyms. Euthanasia is for people that are suffering, in pain, and cannot get better. Suicide, in the context of depression and other mental illnesses, is for people that are suffering, in pain, and can get better.

I'm sorry, but where did you find the Guidebook To Life that lays out the precise rules of what is and isn't an acceptable time for suicide? And what is the reason we should follow the advice in this book as opposed to some other book that says the exact opposite?

Regarding mental illness, that is in fact some of the worst type of illness you can get (I personally feel it is the worst type). You can carry on just fine without an arm or a leg (or no arms and no legs![1]), but mental illness is a monster that will truly crush the very core of your being and make life agony 24/7.

Now you come along and say, "But wait! It Gets Better™!"

Except that's not true.

What you mean to say is: "Wait, it might get better!"

Except, depending on the mental illness, the chances of it getting better in any meaningfully amount of time can be zero.

There are different levels of depression, for example, and many people who say they've been depressed haven't actually experienced depression at its worst. Depression is one of the worst "illnesses" that can happen to you (at its extreme), and it _will_ kill you if it's severe enough (by getting you to kill yourself).

The type of agony associated with such a disease is unimaginable to someone who hasn't experienced it, and isn't even necessarily recallable to someone who experienced it in the past, but it is real, and you'd better respect the person who tells you that they want to kill themselves.

In such situations, I believe that the "right answer" (if there is one), is the one the person chooses to make, whether it is to kill themselves, or not. The possibility of their situation improving is not in any way a justification for them to continue the very real and immediate torture that they're going through.

At that point it's up to them whether there is anything left that they want to continue staying alive for or not. That's a decision that they have to make, and I respect it, regardless of what they choose.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=nick+vujicic
Sadly Firefox's developer tools are still inferior to those of Chrome...
I've been trying to switch from Chrome, but when I'm developing stuff I keep going back to it...
It's amazing what the complete inability to fire anyone will do to an organization over time. All government projects have cost and time overruns, just some are worse than others.

You should click that foseti link a few comments up.
Google to pay $17M fine in smartphone privacy breach
That graph is darn sexy, and I am talking about the object itself not the data. The most practical and useful "interactive chart" I have ever seen. Props to Clark Moody. Does anyone know how to use that type of chart to display information from other data sources?
- I wish I knew about https://news.ycombinator.com and startups. Back then I knew you could build your own company but not like this. Most importantly, I wish I knew about how life is made up of your choices and how you can control how your life turns out.
The url in the address bar now reflects the current state of the map, and that can be shared. This leaves no shortening option, but it can still be done manually at <http://goo.gl/>.
Not going to happen. Decades of growing income inequality isn't a problem for DC politicians but take away an opiate from the masses and they'll raise hell.
Do the Hacker News thing and spin up a VM with Flash on it, watch, and then delete the VM afterwards.
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Do you think there's any chance, or the nature of async, the need of Node process always be running (and then having to use things like Forever), will prevent this from happening?
Because you'll still be able to buy a $1 coke if BTC is at $10,000.
>Google Inc will pay $17 million US to settle allegations in 37 states and the District of Colombia that it secretly tracked web users by placing special digital files on the web browsers of their smartphones.

>The Safari web browser used on iPhones and iPads automatically blocks third-party cookies, but Google altered the computer code of its cookies and was able to circumvent the blocks between June 2011 and February 2012, according to the states' allegations.
Does LightTable have autocompletion for Clojure or might it in the future?

How does autocompletion work for Lisp-like languages? I'm wondering if the verb-subject ordering makes it more difficult to build effective autocompletion.

In languages with a syntax like C, code phrases benefiting from autocompletion focus on a particular thing in subject-verb-object order:

obj.method(param);

Consequently I can engage auto-completion by typing the following, where <cursor> is the location of the text cursor in the editor:

obj.<cursor>

I type variable name and the "dot" (or equivalent), and the IDE can make informed suggestions about methods to show: methods defined on obj, or methods taking obj's type as their first input.

When writing code, I usually know what object I'm working on (autocompleting the variable name is useful but not crucial, since it's usually on preceding lines). What I want to know, and the area in which autocompletion helps me most, is finding out what methods are relevant to that specific object (e.g. defined by the object).

When I'm writing quick prototype code, I use an approach that's almost like single static assignment:

A a = new A();
B b = a.foo();
C c = b.bar();

Using autocomplete, I can explore objects and methods while staying within the IDE. When combined with in-IDE documentation, writing new code is extremely effective.

How do you effectively autocomplete in a Lisp language?

(<cursor>

If I type that, there's no object yet, so what autocompletions can show up? A list of all functions?

(<cursor> obj ...)

If I type this line and move my cursor back to the first parenthesis, then it makes sense that autocompletion could understand the context, but moving the cursor backwards is inconvenient. It's not a fluent way to write code.

I have not used autocompletion in Lisp-based languages. How do IDEs or REPLs solve this problem? It seems like a similar problem will affect pure-style functional programming languages like Haskell. Static typing is not the criterion, since Python has effective REPL autocompletion.

Does the lack of a natural opportunity to present relevant autocompletion information inhibit the development of advanced editors for these languages?
You can just copy and paste the URL to share your current view (should include any markers on the map as well).
Did you use http://clojure.org/cheatsheet ? I think it's helpful for discoverability.
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From what I've read in the comments in this thread it seems they are Vulcans to strangers, but act like Americans to friends and close co-workers.

(But, I have no direct experience with Russians.)
Why does one guy earn $10 a week, and the other guy earns $1000 a week?

No, seriously.

Nothing is stable in an economy. Everything is dynamic. Everything is relative. Everything is a shared delusion. Luckily, most people buy into it, most of the time. When that fails, you get massive inflation.
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Well, I have tiny tabs and I just updated. The active tab obscures the favicons of the ones next to it, and the lines between tabs are in the wrong spot. But it works.
I don't think it's entirely impossible.

On Reddit, they have a somewhat popular depression forum which is rather depressing (a typical post is something like, "I managed to shower today" or "does anyone else feel life is meaningless?") but people seem to benefit.

A service that helps people who feel down cheer up could be quite useful if done right.
If X works great as the short-term transfer medium, then it keeps/raises in value, and becomes good also as a long-term store of value.

If X starts to fail as the transfer medium, then the value collapses as well.

No matter if X is dollars, gold coins, bitcoin, cowrie shells or whatever - in practice the transactional usage is so much larger than 'store of value' that it dominates value/pricing.
They've "fixed" it so that you just copy and paste the URL to share whatever you're seeing in the map. Yes, in some ways, it's not obvious, but mainly because the "obvious" way of sharing the URL didn't work before.
I think the new O'Reilly Clojure Cookbook (also available at https://github.com/clojure-cookbook/clojure-cookbook ) will be a hugely important resource in this area.
Huh. I'm not involved directly in SpringRTS, but I'm going to take a look at the code... I assume there's a compilation flag for Lua to disable that, or they've hacked it up and are using a custom interpreter, because protecting sync is paramount.
Frankly, he has two working-age daughters, yet apparently neither will support him until he gets some kind of job. It doesn't say much for the family dynamic...
> I think the difference between a public place and an office is that it's really unlikely for any of those strangers outside of an office to interrupt your work.

Yes, I think this is the difference. The noise around you becomes background/white noise.

But honestly, I don't know how you can work in these areas. Doesn't it prevent you from making phone and conference calls? Assuming yes, maybe that's another reason you can become more productive.
Yes, I wish that had been on there too. I know several people that have really been enjoying it lately.