skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might want to check back on Haskell again sometime in the future. It has been my experience that the number of Haskellers writing productive "real world" code is increasing and as a result the paths to do those things are becoming easier.

Though, this could just be me getting more comfortable with the language, knowing where to look, or a combination thereof.
There are plenty of decent domain names available for startups that you can registr for $10. If you can't think of a good name, try using a domain name generator like www.namestation.com
Bullshit. I can buy $4000 of GE or wal-mart and just hold it. The chances a company that big failing are near 0. The stocks won't do shit, but they will pay a dividend, which is a hell of a lot more than a savings account interest payment.
What about Energy? Loads and loads of it without harming the environment? I thought THAT would be pretty cool sci-fi tech
Agreed; I like a lot of what I see in Go (though admittedly I liked it about as much when I saw it before Go was released) but the hype is getting to the point where it's impossible to take the general Go advocacy on HN seriously.

I'm starting to wonder when, when I mention C++, I'm going to be told that Go will fix all my problems. (Rust might; Go won't.)
Good, profitable companies tanked as well. This was 12-13 years ago, and I am unable to recollect some names. I am sure others here can chime in. Even priceline, arguably, at 50 cents was is not reflective of the soundness of the company.
We also programmed in Oberon at varsity. I think oberon with scheme and c would be a great set of 3 languages to teach from school level through till end of undergrad at varsity.
That's funny. The shares of GM that I own are up about 40% since I bought them.

I keep wondering if my investment thesis is simply better than the mean, or if I'm due for an ass-whipping in the market. Maybe the answer is 'both.'
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It's a deterrent, so it's both.
The address and phone numbers are real [1]. But the letterhead logo seems to be an outdated one.

[1]: https://authorcentral.amazon.com/gp/help?topicID=200626000
Prosecutors are the ones I want most to see investigated here. I would not be surprised is this is a real life example of Stanley Milgram's 1963 obedience to authority experiments.

From Wikipedia:

If at any time the subject indicated his desire to halt the experiment,
he was given a succession of verbal prods by the experimenter, in this
order:[1]

1) Please continue.
2) The experiment requires that you continue.
3) It is absolutely essential that you continue.
4) You have no other choice, you must go on.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were emails from prosecutors that essentially parroted these instructions in a more indirect form.

"Please examine the evidence again."

"Finding justice requires that you examine the evidence again"

"It is absolutely essential that you examine the evidence again"

"You have no other choice, you must examine the evidence again"
> Rust provides separate heaps per "task" and a data ownership system which means you never end up sharing state between "tasks" (ala Erlang).

Nitpick: This isn't actually true. Rather Rust ensures at compile time that if you share memory you can't race on it (either you share only immutable data, or you take a lock whenever you mutate). This is one of the things that makes Rust unique among industry languages: you get shared memory and data race freedom.
Ask HN: Learning computer science with Python?
I'm not enrolled in school at the moment just self-learning how to program and I'm looking for a good Python book or videos explaining how to learn Algorithms or data structures through the use of Python? Understanding computer science concepts such as Stacks, Binary Trees, Recursion and Queues and how to implement them in Python?
He gets 30 million views per month for Gawker.com, and the second highest traffic generator only gets five million or so? That's incredible, since getting those 5m is no mean feat either. You'd think that person had the skill honed to perfection. But as it turns out - not even close. There is obviously a point where instinct is no longer linked to skill or experience, and is just a stand-alone attribute that cannot be replicated.
> I don't see how access to medicine makes any difference

That's not quite what I said.

> but the first two alone provided the lion's share of life-expectancy gains in England and the US.

Longer lives => contributing to pollution for a longer period... Are you making the point that modern medicine has contributed to global warming?

> The other thing we're very well aware of now is that 1) continuing to extract fossil fuel resources...

You replied to me. So I think you're responding to something I said. I don't see to what.

As for the Indus Valley Civilization, there are many hypotheses about its collapse, but there is little consensus in academia for its contributing factors. Each person seems to float his own pet theory about the matter, quickly contradicted by another person showing evidence to the contrary. Maybe "catabolic collapse" is a real phenomenon. I looked up John Michael Greer on Wikipedia, and lost all interest in it for now.
Original article: http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/facebook-...

Also note: "Sources close to the development said the deal was expected to be announced in the next few weeks. [...] When contacted, Facebook said "no comments", and an email sent to Little Eye Labs remained unanswered."

Pointing that out only because the headline makes it seem as though the deal has already been announced.
See also: http://pycounters.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
If you're interested in learning more (shameless plug), I run a quantitative finance information site.

I've linked directly to the articles on quant trading: http://www.quantstart.com/articles#algorithmic-trading
Stop worrying.
Reminds me of another case in Chicago or Cook County a few years ago where another bitch did the same thing.
"There are plenty of professional investors who have beaten the market year after year"

"Multi-decade returns of 20% and above"

Do you have any proof of these over the top claims?
Whoa. Thanks!
That's your view and maybe a few others and everybody is entitled to their own view(s).
I'm pretty sure 95% of those searches are people googling "why is X so slow" when they are having connection issues, as opposed to wondering why in general a service is always so slow.
The problem is that at some point society became insanely risk-averse, especially for new things.

Cars are OK despite being the most insanely dangerous things on the planet because we grew up with them. American Football is OK despite the ludicrous amount of fatalities and injuries.

Hell, if one of these drones just damages a house plant I'm sure the lawyers will be climbing over each other to take the case.
Outside of political fallout, nothing will happen to the prosecutors. Nobody will charge them criminally, and civilly, prosecutors have absolute immunity in most cases, sadly.

(There are limits to when they are given absolute immunity, generally limited to to advocative functions, but they are often hard to separate out)
"1: These could deliver into my apartment on the nth floor by coming through an open window, as well as the mentioned balconies and front yards or the roof."

This is what I would like. Even if they use a regular delivery truck most of the way, it would be great if they could cover the last fifty feet with a drone, to leave the package on my balcony.

(Amazon's switched to using their own courier service in my area. They make one delivery attempt only and won't leave packages at the door. So right now I can't use Amazon any more.)

Technically, this seems really hard, since GPS might not be enough---too much interference close to the building, trees. But maybe it is possible to get enough onboard visual processing to make it doable. Pretty interesting research problem.
Try dill pickles and cheddar on cinnamon rasin toast. Tastes way better than it sounds.
You don't attack Sha with the miner, you generate prime factors. Those can then be used to attack any encryption.

Not convinced this is what is being done. Just saying it doesn't matter about the salt for this to be worth while.
Yes, all that are facts. But out of how many truck related deliveries? With your logic, one could say that even if 100% of drone deliveries resulted in a fatality, it would be enough to do < 16 deliveries a day on average and be able to say "Drones are not doing a worse job"
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Cool, thanks for the link. I like their logging support.
The rMBPs I've run (including my own) across have had very uniform brightness and white color. I'm curious which manufacturer made the LCD in yours because--going from the usual problems with Apple LCDs.

If you aren't aware, you can tease out the LCD manufacturer via the model string and this command:

ioreg -lw0 | grep "EDID" | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r

If it begins with LSN, it's a Samsung (which tend to be the good ones); if it's LP, it's an LG (which, unsurprisingly, tend to be the poor ones).
no. its an optional incentive to speed up the transfer process
it's called Coinbase
Ahh, nostalgia! Remember also signing up for all those horrible free web hosting services and combining them?
Pretty cool. Posted by the author? Do you cut off rendering purposefully when axis gets around 1x10^153 or is that an artifact of the program?
Ah yes, I forgot about checkpointing. The reference client has certain blocks hardcoded in it to signal the official chain. Only transactions in blocks made after the latest checkpoint can be overridden in a way that the reference client would accept. So to steal Satoshi's coins, you would also have to get people to switch to your own client with different checkpoints. At this point, it really wouldn't even be Bitcoin anymore.
A child runs into the street. The only place to swerve is into a few senior citizens. The kid's dead, right? Obviously the seniors have seniority, you must Respect Your Elders, and their estates can pay for much better attorneys that a grieving young couple can. I just wonder if the software will be smart enough to know that.
And in 10 years we may even return to CRT refresh rates.
Good to see Indian start-up making the mark here, perhaps it will remove the stereotype most startups face from investors and potential acquirers for being based out of India
I'm not sure about the things you mentioned, but responding to your title here is the de facto learning-programming-via-python:

http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/
> Many of the sources telling of the woes of tulip mania, such as the anti-speculative pamphlets that were later reported by Beckmann and Mackay, have been cited as evidence of the extent of the economic damage. These pamphlets, however, were not written by victims of a bubble, but were primarily religiously motivated. The upheaval was viewed as a perversion of the moral order—proof that "concentration on the earthly, rather than the heavenly flower could have dire consequences".[53] Thus, it is possible that a relatively minor economic event took on a life of its own as a morality tale.

^ From the same wiki page ^ No idea with the picture you reference where it's from.

The point about economic theory is the market needs to be fluid. It says nothing about crazy people in a small private market(obvious I guess)

The "Tulip" craze seems to me to just be the normal fundamental dogma that you get when people don't fully understand systems. People distorting instances that are not linked to push their views. To me the interesting thing is people 400 years ago also feared financial systems.
Dropbox is free for the vast majority of people.
A more recent example would be Diablo 3. There the absence of load screens and on-demand asset loading resulted in performance problems which persist to this day. I believe they're even considering re-introducing loading screens in the expansion.
When "other SHA256 purposes" are implemented correctly, this is no issue at all. For example hashing passwords should use bcrypt or something similar, and HMACs should use long enough keys. While you may increase the search speed with ten orders of magnitude, it's still well beyond our current capabilities to successfully crack any SHA-2 hash.

See also the answer I just posted on the SE question.
Hobby wise: Haskell, Rust, Nimrod, Haxe

Shipping code: Go, Erlang, C++11 (avoiding legacy), F# (with Xamarin)

I program in many more, but those are probably my top 8 right now.
Skycrane landing. I've been reading and reading and can't believe it hasn't been mentioned - the drone simply unreels the payload on a cable while hovering until it gets to the ground. Then you either detach the clips, or, use a disposable cable and just clip the wires at the drone-end (saves on possibly tangles).
Trivial but useful. Next time, instead of kicking in my own custom timing decorator (5-liner, but...) I'll probably use this. [Edit: pycounter looks even nicer, didn't heard of them before, thanks for sharing!]

The only downside I see, it does record function name, but doesn't record module name (and, for class members, classname). For example, it wouldn't be too useful to see "authorize" instead of "ppp.common.authorize" in RADIUS server profiling logs. :)
I've been looking at a higher resolution monitor than my 30" Dell and found that there are these things called "TVs" that apparently have 4K resolution but in 55" format.

I'm after screen real estate and want to see a lot of code at the same time. Does anyone have any thoughts about replacing my 30" work monitor with a 55" TV with a lot more resolution?
The really hard part of critical thinking is training your intuitive, heuristic filters. Applying rigorous critical thinking to everything takes way too long. Conversely, applying critical thinking to nothing at all makes you a gullible idiot. Developing that filter to strike the right balance is a lifelong learning process.
Please adopt contrasting colors for header anchors when using custom topcolors. (See problems with #000 and #fff, below)

https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/456556/1653002/49d37416-5b...

https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/456556/1653003/49d42960-5b...
Python: Extract text from Word (docx) simply
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_Simons#Business_ca...
Peter Lynch. He managed the Fidelity Magellan Fund from 1977 to 1990 and averaged a 29% annual return over that period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lynch#Fidelity
>having a high IQ is just another element of human talent. If there is a long spectrum of categories with many different talents, I would only be a part of the spectrum.

I think this is spot on. Plus the scope of IQ tests seems to be limited to a very small part of the intelligence spectrum forget about assessing talent in general.
I used to use 2x30" very comfortably for coding, I don't think this is that tough.
already discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6825924
> if you remotely care about color accuracy or gaming

Lots of hackers only care about having enough pixels to legibly represent characters in their tiny coding font.
Yeah, the simplest thing to do would be to add the module name, which I may do. You can also pass a name parameter to the decorator.
I think it's a good option to have, though some may see code compiled with Go that links to C++ code compiling slowly as the "supposedly fast" Go compilers fault.
Not really, I was lucky enough to have mentor who literally just let me screw around with them. I had hundreds of real hours programming random stuff on both, as well as fixing real world problems with the safety of someone double checking. So I was very comfortable and I mostly used reference manuals for quick look-ups.

These systems are VERY different that what you are most likely used too, so having face time with them is really important.
"Where you happen to work is a totally arbitrary consideration relative to where your money should be..."

It is actually worse than that. To diversify and reduce your financial risk, your money should be concentrated away from where you work. (Otherwise, for example, if the company goes bankrupt, you lose both your savings and your job!)
Scaling up in disk size, mostly.
Because people think it can carry ever human communication in the world, simultaneously. It's being abused with such things as Netflix.
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Saudis, Israelis developing new 'super Stuxnet' against Iran nuclear program
I've built SpreadGit (www.spreadgit.com), a version control system for Excel that doesn't suck. started as a side project a couple of months ago which turned into my full time job.

I've cobbled SpreadGit together myself (mostly in Python) and it's live with a number of paying subscribers. Looking for a UI/UX/designer/JS guy to join the ship as a co-founder. am fully bootstrapped and want to ride this wave for as long as possible.

if you are interested, email me at bjoern@spreadgit.com. thanks!
>Is 'legalese' really a high-level language

I think he meant the language that lawyers might use amongst themselves. Legalese is actually fairly low level. It's like a fully type annotated version of English that redefines all library functions each time.
Your point about android v ios really hit home with me. People who have tried both often express to me that they enjoy ios far more than android, but can't really explain why. I, myself, appreciate the fluid 60fps experience, and generally on explaining that difference to them, a lightbulb goes off in their head, and they realize that does actually bother them as well, but they just didn't know it was something to be noted.

In ui development, we recognize things like responsiveness and fluidity, and something as clearly different as 60fps v 30fps is conjures a very clear picture in our minds, but most people are not versed in such language.
> Free markets and Free economy don't exist anywhere at the moment, period.

Right. They haven't existed since the neolithic revolution when we moved from being hunter gatherers to farming and living in cities.

> And of course Deflation in Japan was a direct consequence of the Japanese government actions.

Wow, that is some truthiness there. From [1]

> Deflation started in the early 1990s. The Bank of Japan and the government tried to eliminate it by reducing interest rates and 'quantitative easing', but did not create a sustained increase in broad money and deflation persisted. In July 2006, the zero-rate policy was ended.

So wait...the government was trying to get rid of deflation, but you claimed they were the ones causing it? WTF?

Reasons

* Tight monetary conditions. The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy loose only when inflation was below zero, tightening whenever deflation ends.

* Unfavorable demographics. Japan has an aging population (22.6% over age 65) that is not growing and will soon start a long decline. The Japanese death rate recently exceeded its birth rate.

* Fallen asset prices. In the case of Japan asset price deflation was a mean reversion or correction back to the price level that prevailed before the asset bubble.

* Insolvent companies: Banks lent to companies and individuals that invested in real estate. When real estate values dropped, these loans could not be paid.

* Fear of insolvent banks: Japanese people are afraid that banks will collapse so they prefer to buy (United States or Japanese) Treasury bonds instead of saving their money in a bank account.

* Imported deflation: Japan imports Chinese and other countries' inexpensive consumable goods (due to lower wages and fast growth in those countries) and inexpensive raw materials

Here is the only point (an explicitly libercrazian one) that supports your position:

* Stimulus Spending: According to both Austrian and Monetarist economic theory, Keynesian 'stimulus' spending actually has a depressing effect.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#In_Japan
If range is a problem, a drone could move a package to the next depot and leave it with another drone, or use that stop to replace its battery before continuing.
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Show HN: Weekly coffee delivery for startups
At many of my past jobs we always had the problem of running out of coffee or just getting the same kind of coffee every single week. That's why we started Gravity Company. We love coffee. I think it has an import role for the startup efficiency and productivity, so why not have someone deliver excellent sourced coffee to your office weekly.
I came to the same conclusion about ten years ago and switched into index funds. So I did ok from the financial perspective but I think the biggest benefit was not having to care so much about the mood swings of the market.

With my new spare time I developed software instead, which I sell, and has made me far more dough than my investments ever could.
What if every fund manager had a certain non-zero level of skill - but the market price was such that the mean skill level returned no profit (or the risk free return rate). I guess this is more or less the efficient market hypothesis - except if you follow it through I don't think it says that there is no skill in stock picking - just that the skill is undetectable. Under those conditions a random strategy should do as well as the mean - and the mean return will simply be the average market return.
You guys are pretty awesome however seems there are no h1b or remote options right ?
Nimrod's got me so hot. Much pretty. Doing anything in it so far?
See Desmos https://www.desmos.com/calculator if you need to store and share graphs.
Isn't it normally referred to as the efficient market hypothesis? You don't have to think investors can consistently beat the market to distrust that hypothesis, and plenty of economists think it is suspect, e.g. behavioural economists:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2009/08/behaviou...

A belief in an efficient market is far from a consensus among professionals.

I personally think it's pretty absurd to claim that markets are efficient given that their behaviour is driven by humans with a lot to gain/lose, and algorithms which are looking for short-term profit, not efficiency, and also given the many acknowledged examples of over-confidence, corruption, bubbles and subsequent crashes over the last few decades.
I tried two 24 inches once, my neck got sore for a week. My cubicle is simply too small for it to work well.
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MySql and Sqlite are relational database management systems (RDBMS), which hold databases that are based on relations. (Other RDBMS are e.g. Postgresql or MS SQL Server)

SQL is a programming language to manage data and data definition in RDBMS. ("SELECT * FROM users WHERE lastname = 'Smith';")

NoSQL is a term which describes database systems that don't understand SQL and usually work as key-value store. (Examples: Riak, Redis, MongoDB (document-based))
Wow they blacklist ips
Now you're just acting hweird.
Pneumatic tubes, with a drop pad on the roof
Whoops, good catch. We had a Google Group setting that needed to be changed. Should work now.
I keep hearing this weird reasoning, but have yet to come across anyone who confused a poorly designed, ad-filled placeholder site for a real website.

Put differently, if you're losing people who click shady text ads on a shady website, they probably weren't potential customers to begin with.
While technologically fascinating, is it just me or are we creating a really sad sad world, where we eliminate all human interaction and pollute or skies with these ugly annoying things. I wholeheartedly hopes this fails as hard as possible.