skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternatively, perhaps Unions have declined after having suffered from decades of negative publicity from capitalists.

Unions - bringing you weekends, the NHS, paid holidays, sick pay, protection from unfair dismissal, safety standards to ensure you don't get injured and die, and stopping discrimination and exploitation. What's not to like?

I'm a highly educated and well paid technology worker - and I'm in a Trade Union - http://www.prospect.org.uk/
They've helped me when I was made redundant, have held my hand when dealing with difficult work situations, and given me training when my employer wouldn't.

Here's the way I look at it - your employer has some very high priced lawyers on the payroll. If they (or your boss) decide to screw you over, who would you have on your side?

Union dues (in the UK, at least) are the cheapest and most effective form of "insurance" you can have.
it seems almost everyone disconnect himself from the economy in some way to improve lifestyle. I myself stopped consuming sugar, started lifting weights, got married, got kids, learned how to make sourdough bread, kefir, how to build bicycle wheel, how to slaughter animal, how to keep bees... Wow it is a lot for the 3 years :)
> This thought process motivated the creation of deferred net settlement systems. In the UK, BACS is such a system and equivalents exist all over the world.

Also, I can't think of a reason why they wouldn't do it this way.
I would add to that more falsehoods:

1) Every place is in a country.

2) The precise location of country borders is globally agreed and does not vary from country to country.

2) The list of countries is globally agreed and does not vary from country to country.
One data point is not much but my uncle actually invented a new kind of sprinkler and patented it -- without patenting he couldn't seek a buyer cos anyone who got the plans could just go and manufacture it but this way he could enter into discussions without fear. So yes, patent law as it was originally intended is very useful.

There is a "little" difference, however, between these patent trolls and the guy tinkering sprinklers in his basement.
You mean you stopped doing that?
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Very nice, cool build!
Pretty cool that Bryan Cranston (Walter White from Breaking Bad) is in the top 10 as well (shared first place).

Edit - Oh, you can just enter any twitter username without validation, my bad :)
Rather than documenting all of the incorrect assumptions programmers make by topic, it might be easier to list the ones that they make that are correct.
This is a fascinating article, but I can't help thinking that I wish they were more technically incompetent so it harmed their business. The Daily Mail has to be one of the most repugnant media organizations and if there is ever a justification for using the word 'evil' in relation to an institution then they are it.
A bunch of good git tutorials
Throw the laptop out of the window.
Oh its easy. I've already quit 10 times. I'm actually thinking of quitting again next week :)

Actually the only time I managed to quit smoking for more than a few weeks when I was away from my friends/girlfriend for a five months and had no one smoking around me all day. It's easy for me to quit, it takes me a -pretty painless- couple of days. But after a while I relapse.
Worlds (sic.) number 1 online newspaper? Riight. http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/
"Our broadband-only growth has been greater than I thought it would be,"

One word: Kodak.

(They had no idea customers would turn to digital photography so fast and so completely. World-dominating brand now defunct.)
You should read valleywag
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Whats wrong with being a nightowl? If that is your natural rythem then why change?

The only reason I can see for changing is due to lifestyle changes (kids e.t.c).
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It's not really the same. What the lawyer was trying to do wasn't disprove the argument but the facts, which Diffie provided based on his position as an expert. It's perfectly legitimate to do the latter, and really no different than when someone criticizes a source linked in some HN post.
We're not wanting you to leave, you're alerting you to the fact that the system has done this. Most of us commenting disagree with hellbanning.
Ask HN: In what ways is Hacker news better than reddit?
Hacker news and subreddits like /r/programming have so much in common. The voting system, inline commenting, karma and yet HN attracts much larger crowd than any related subreddit. Is it just Signal-to-noise ratio what makes it better?
I see this kind of actitude from more and more people, seems to me the early adopters phase is about to end. Bitcoin is mainstream now.

I won't add more resources to the list others presented but i will +1 this suggestion: if programmer, code something bitcoin related.
Read this new yorker piece for an insight into how cynical they are: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/04/02/120402fa_fact_...

Apparently they realised that there's zero chance of the two readerships ever intersecting, so they let their guard down. It's pretty shocking, even to someone who already reviles them.
I remember running DESQView '386 for exactly that purpose. A TAG BBS on one session, and then whatever else in another session.

It was reasonably amazing at the time to be able to run more than one thing concurrently on your PC.
Does that rule really apply to regional monopolists, though?

This is why I don't like some of the states' proposals for bringing fiber there by giving even more such regional monopolies to companies. Fiber is great, if they do make it happen, and don't trick us like they did the last time when they received hundreds of billions of dollars, but giving them regional monopolies just means we'll go through this again in 10-15 years, when we'll need to upgrade to quantum Internet or whatever.

The solution is to let companies fight it out, not give them special privileges/monopoly in order to "bring something" to a community.
Well, my impression is that NathanthePie's answer was rhetorical, too - in other words, interpretation (a) was chosen deliberately and with full awareness of what you actually meant, for no other reason than rhetorical effect :)

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There was a great episode of Horizon titled Eat, Fast And Live Longer which tackled the benefits of fasting. Even a very reasonable fasting routine seemed to have a non-trivial positive effect on the show's host. It was convincing enough that I gave it a shot, and though I haven't been able to stick with it (or an exercise routine, for that matter), I felt significantly better in the ~week following even a one day fast.

One of the things suggested by a researcher in the episode, is to make your "cheat day" the day following a fast. Tell yourself that you can eat anything you want, because (and this was certainly my experience) even if you intend to binge heavily, you most likely will not. You will, however, still feel incredibly satisfied after devouring that bag of chips, or splurging on the cheesecake after dinner. I can't remember the exact number, but the researcher mentioned that during this routine, the subjects would only eat around 10% more than their recommended daily caloric intake.
Yer we are pretty popular in the White House and the Vatican
In these cases, use of CoinJoin is encouraged.
Never heard of Beeminder until now. Out of curiosity, what targets do you have that work really well for you?
Stopped reading Hacker News.
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Late answer, but nevertheless... I don't particularly think that it's a good idea, but I believe that the original intention was to build "living" data.

So you would look at your object structure and could treat it as data, but internally some objects could be proxies to backend system and fetch data on-demand. Some data fields might also be calculated from other fields. This is the idea which Java promotes by having the JavaBean standard. You never know if your data element is backed by actual data or is the result of a computation.

This type of abstraction can simplify certain problems by giving the illusion of a simple data structure, whereas a lot of computations are taking place behind the scene when the data is traversed.

This abstraction is used in may ORM frameworks for instance. You can follow relations between entities and these will be lazily loaded behind the scene as you move around in the object graph.

The problem is that such a living object can only live in its own environment. For ORMs, you cannot move outside the current DB transaction, or else the objects "die". To see some of these problems in the Java world, google "LazyInitializationException".

Pure data, on the other hand, is "dead by definition" so to speak. It does not contain any own logic and can be moved between environments without any problem. The backside of pure data is the very fact that it is dead, that is that you often have to accompany it with logic to interpret it.

With live objects, the interpreting logic is intertwined with the data. This is both the advantage and flaw of OO.

With OO, you have data and logic close together, and have to pay the price if you try to pry them apart.

With FP, you have the data separately, and have to cope with the mental load of knowing which logic you need to apply where in your data structures in order to interpret them.
I don't see FP as less abstract than OOP, either.
The car safety belt was invented by Volvo, but either they didn't patent it, or patented it but allowed other car makers to use it at little or no cost. I don't have a source, but I've read something along those lines online.
My own thoughts were along the the lines of "what a waste of talent on such a scumbag publication".

"Tables are co-located, meters away from the news desk ‘the customers’, meaning it only takes minutes if something breaks for the communication between the developer and the user."

Meh, can you imagine sitting across from journalistic horrors like Melanie Phillips or Peter Hitchens, and being torn between fixing your shit quickly or doing the nation a favour and delaying publication of their right wing tripe from poisoning the weak minded for just a few minutes/hours longer.
That's basically why we tried OS/2 at my workplace at the time: to compile and continue working at the same time.

However, we very soon switched to simply having two PC's on our desktops.
but doesn't 1:1666 mean the success rate is more than 99%?

Asking about the posession of an XX chromosome should separate the people almost 50:50, the rest is something else.

On the other hand, maybe there are just <1% people who don't identify them self with being male or female, so the questions would make no difference...
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thanks for posting! We still teach out of Volume III in the quantum mechanics course I assisted, I can recommend the entire volume and great that it is available to the world.
Xenix wasn't created by SCO, it was developed by Microsoft (initially for the PDP-11) and was based on licensed AT&T Bell Labs code (and some BSD).

SCO ported Xenix to a few processors for Microsoft starting with 8086/8088. It wasn't until 1987 that SCO ownership of Xenix.
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I thought it was an ad too but there's nothing to suggest they work for Google.

Check the link you posted for evidence they work with Google products.
RE 2 the ITU/ISO has a definitive list of 2 and 3 letter codes to define countrys. It is certainly the source I used when building the country standing data tables for a BT billing system back in the day.
> Yet their competitors insisted on treating each
> document as standalone until after Google
> popularised this idea.

That's not entirely true, but this is the simplified view that the press popularized because it made for a story that was easier to report.

When you say "insisted" that seems to imply that other search engines were opposed to the idea (whether that is what you meant is another matter). Back in the 90s there were a lot of things we wanted to do, but that we either didn't have the manpower/time/money/talent to do or that we just hadn't figured out how to implement efficiently.

Ideas are cheap, but implementation is what counts.

I can remember that we discussed various link-aware ranking factors long before we even had built a proper search engine, but we needed to solve a lot of more pressing problems before that was even on the agenda (like build a crawler that didn't break the internet :)).

Once on the agenda the question was how to implement it at scale. Remember that this was before AWS, before Hadoop, and before a lot of other things that the average developer has easy access to today. We had a finite set of machines and a finite amount of money to buy machines. And even if we could have had all the hardware in the world we still had to figure out how to turn a lot of algorithms implemented for single machine processing into distributed systems.

That being said, the fellow I shared an office with was able to crank out a sufficiently scalable PageRank-like implementation in a few weeks.

Not that this made much of a difference PR-wise (and initially, it didn't have quite the impact on the quality of search results we had hoped for). In the view of the public only Google used PageRank and PageRank was the thing that made them stand out. End of story. The fact that Google did dozens of other things much better than their competition was...well, too complicated for journalists to report.

As a side note: I think we reinvented, and implemented, various subsets of MapReduce at least a dozen times during 1998-2000. A lot of our processing systems were based around sort and linear disk scans. Two things we knew how to do fast. Google (at some point) had the good sense to recognize that this could be turned into an infrastructure, which allowed them to spend less time building systems that could be expressed using these primitives. They also took the time to solve things like reliably storing data without getting too hung up on traditional filesystem semantics. (When data-sizes grow to the point where you have to maintain large population of disks, you can't really trust a single disk to be there tomorrow. We did some testing with RAID systems, but were unable to find a solution that was both cheap enough and reliable enough. Not having something akin to GFS was, in retrospect, a major impediment)
Wait - Bitcoin-like elections? He may be on to something there. Everyone could have their own Bitcoin-like address, that can't be recreated and that person could only vote once. Then maybe we can finally have online voting.
At a job like this one's mind is free to ponder on whatever matters it considers important. Certainly so after the period of initial accustomisation which can be physically hard until one learns the ropes and how to pace oneself through the day. I had a chance to work in a warehouse of a jewelry store, operate a spot welder at an automotive manufacturer and act as do-it-all in a kitchen of a 600 sit venue catering for large functions working up to 18 hour shifts (normally 12-14 hours, 7 day weeks).

Programming and analysis jobs come with their own hidden health hazards physical and anxieties alike, but worse developers are essentially paid to sit and think whole day very intensely and deeply on topics set by others. This can be disturbing and have a profound impact not only on the physical and mental state, but family life.

That's why I can understand when a 52 year old web celebrity and university professor decides to apply for a job of as a USPS letter carrier. [1]

That's why Paul Grahams advice [2] resonates especially well with me: "A palliative care nurse called Bronnie Ware made a list of the biggest regrets of the dying. Her list seems plausible. I could see myself—can see myself—making at least 4 of these 5 mistakes.

If you had to compress them into a single piece of advice, it might be: don't be a cog. The 5 regrets paint a portrait of post-industrial man, who shrinks himself into a shape that fits his circumstances, then turns dutifully till he stops."

1. http://goo.gl/uVwXL8 - Google Translate, original: http://postbote.lj.ru

2. http://www.paulgraham.com/todo.html
Isn't this solvable to a degree by just asking a big amount of yes/no questions to a big amout of people and then removing all those questions that didn't identify people any further?
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Before all that, you need to choose your statistician. My advice is: resuscitate E.T. Jaynes. Failing that, find one of his disciples. Failing that, find a Bayesian. Failing that, read Probability Theory: the Logic of Science, and just do the analysis yourself. Failing that, maybe a Frequentist statistician will do. Maybe.
Wow that's cool, what robot are you guys using? Did you build the robots yourselves? If so, where did you get parts etc.? And how does the system know when a ball is dropped through a specific hole, which then displays an animation with amount of points?
Great implementation! Looks awesome!
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I thought operator overloading like that was considered bad practise. It seems to me that the + operator should have been overloaded, not the / operator.
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I highly recommend Khan academy as a better set of videos to inform on this topic (https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi...).
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I read the article and I think that they state clearly that the connection between DPR and Satoshi is pure speculation. It is true that they could as well not have mentioned it, but hey, it makes it for a more interesting reading, and as long as the journalists don't get a hold on the paper and print "DPR = Satoshi", no harm done.

>It could represent either large scale activity on Silk Road, or some form of investment or partnership, but this is pure speculation.
VMS + 1 = WNT, in the same way as IBM - 1 = HAL.

(So far as I know, both of these are just amusing coincidences.)
probably they wanted to go against IE as a behavioural pattern :)
Pro-tip: tell nobody you know personally about this.
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He seems to be a Class A player:
http://chess-db.com/public/pinfo.jsp?id=3012928544
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system#United_States...
Also have a look at: http://www.amazon.com/Chess-For-Novice-Player-Beginning/dp/0... (Eidtorial Reviews / About the Author)

That's not bad at all. I think he's perfectly entitled to give advice to beginners. They don't really need it coming from a GM, for the same reason why primary school students don't need to be taught by academic professors.

Your notion that chess teachers need "decades of experience" or else they are not the "correct authority to instruct us on the best methods to learn chess" is rather silly. How are they supposed to ever obtain this experience then, while they are not yet fit to teach anyone and according to you should shut up? :)

Also, would you recommend against going to a doctor who doesn't yet have "decades of experience"?
> I worry vaguely that the judge or jury might not recognize the vast difference between Diffie and some unknown asshole who makes his living testifying in court as an "expert witness" in patent cases

The "unknown asshole" is an IEEE life fellow and former board member, with a long successful career in research, industry, and teaching in computer engineering, and authored a widely used award winning textbook on digital design.

His profile is pretty typical for expert witnesses. Quite a large fraction of them are people who are retired (Rhyne retired in 1998) after having had a very successful and distinguished career in engineering or science, usually including research, industry, and academia.

Expert witness gigs are a nice way to pay for a new boat or RV without a lot of work. (One of the experts at the trial I was involved in was paying for a Tesla from a couple expert witness jobs). Many become registered patent agents, and then they can testify as both experts on the engineering aspects of the patent and on the patent aspects (e.g., prior art, infringement, interpretation of the specification, and such).

The workload is actually pretty light, compared to what their load was likely like before they retired. Basically, they write a report that analyzes the patent and the alleged infringement and explains why the patent is valid and why it is indeed infringed, get deposed, and testify about the report.
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That is a ISO standard definitive list of places, some of them are generally not considered to be countries (e.g. SJ	Svalbard and Jan Mayen, VG British Virgin Islands) and some claim to be countries but are not recognised by some other countries, (e.g. TW Taiwan and PS Palestine, EH Western Sahara)

Apologies for bringing in hotly disputed territories of the world, but that's basically what this thread is about. I'm not making a political argument for or against any of those places, just saying that there is disagreement.

That said, I would (and do) use ISO two letter codes to identify territories in my code.
More compact. More info per page.
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Falsehoods geographers believe about server setups - http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&lang=en
You have just described Addison Lee in the UK: http://www.addisonlee.com/
I'd like to follow this up with a plea to statisticians to make sure you're not sending data back to programmers with bizarre newline formats - certain versions of Mac Excel save with /r newlines, which haven't been used in over a decade and pretty much break everything. If in doubt, it's probably best to save in Windows newline mode from MS software, at least most utilities are used to dealing with that.
Yeah, that show [1] suggests that there are number of positive effects to limiting calories and protein intake, such as reduced risk of cancer, heart disease, cognitive disorders, and an increase in (neuronal) cell-repair and longevity.

Something that I have noticed is an increase in self-control. Previously my relationship to food had been rather habitual and sometimes even addictive. I've found that fasting has made it a lot easier to control what I eat on the other days...

[1] http://vimeo.com/54089463
Program yourself to hate smoking. Continue to smoke but try to be conscious of it. Feel the smoke while you inhale, try to think about what's happening to your gum, teeth, throat, lungs, hands etc. look at yourself in the mirror and notice the negative effects of smoking. If you're in a city that bans smoking indoors then feel sorry for yourself everytime you go out to have a ciggeratte, because this habit is controlling you and making you do things you won't necessarily do. Start thinking about how the not smokers have a better life and how they're better for not letting this happen to them. Eventually if you keep thinking like that, just negative things about smoking, you'll start hating it and naturally cutting down until you find the right moment to go cold turkey and then just do it.

Hope that helps, it worked for me.