skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Does it have more than one ethernet port on it? Otherwise, how can you use it as a router?
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What's the difference between college-level and corporate programming?
One point missed in all the comments about enjoyment, is disruption doesn't care about enjoyment, just dollars and cents.

No one in a position of authority cares if you liked your bank teller or not; you're simply told you're going to be using an ATM now for financial reasons. Ditto office automation vs clerks and secretaries. Did you enjoy getting magazines and newspapers before the web wiped them out, well, no one in a position of authority cares what you enjoyed.
>all self driving cars will shut off whenever the chance of precip is above 0%, or the temp is below 32F, etc.

No, they'll probably still work. You'll just have to pay a premium for driving in "unsafe conditions" and "unsafe areas."
Interesting analogy. A publicly traded company with transparent financials and corporate hierarchy vs. a web site that has an unknown company behind it, run by anonymous CEO.
I'm suprised no one has mentioned MikroTik.

Take a look at their RB750[1] which is about $40.

[1] http://routerboard.com/RB750
Some previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6138505

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6140319

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6179041

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6452116

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6536773

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6614809

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6668253

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6819544

There are many, many submissions with "sorting algorithm" in the title:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A%28sor....

Some look interesting, although you'll need to sift through the repeats. One of the items that got several comments is this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5999443 : O(n) Sorting Algorithm: Quantum Bogosort (uwaterloo.ca)

Another:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445963 : Sorting algorithms demonstrated with Hungarian folk dance (flowingdata.com)

And one more:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997621 : Sorting Algorithm Animations (sorting-algorithms.com)

Not a huge amount of discussion, but some.
Perhaps not worthless, but his obvious conflict of interest should preferably been disclosed at the beginning of the article, and not in a footnote.

In my mind, this severely damages the author's credibility.
>and they will be ubiquitous by 2025.

aaaand you've lost me. Apologies for the snide remark, but there's no way we'll be there by that time. The industry won't let us.

Apologies for not having much reason in this post, and only stating a personal opinion without much detail to back it up, but I'm just curious to see if there's anyone that feels the same.
>>The markets did, rather quickly, correct themselves with regards to tulips.

Quickly is subjective... I don't believe several years, according to some historians, is "quickly" considering if you were affected by it.

Also "seems to be pretty reasonable" means it's just your opinion.

You're also very high strung and on the offensive for bitcoin. This is not how you would sell an idea and a huge warning sign of your view being very skewed and not objective when it comes to the matter of bitcoin.
I'm interested only in the uses of bitcoin after this settles down but I would be interested in your take on what the fundamentals of investing are (serious question really)
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> Yes it requires technology to collect the tolls. We have that down to a pretty efficient science these days thanks to cameras. They don't even slow down traffic to collect tolls.

The technology costs money, it creates bureaucracy, and it wastes time. You get an EZ-Pass, you now have more charges to reconcile on your credit card which wastes time (multiply by XX million people this turns out to be a lot of wasted time), some people have to be hired to work in a call center to answer calls, maintain webservers, repair road sensors, do enforcement against people who don't pay, etc. etc. Then it's the government, so they're going to get some private company to do it, which is going to hire a bunch of lobbyists (more wasted resources), which are then going to lobby hard to keep as much of the collected money in their own pockets as bureaucratically possible.

Also, the automated systems make the surveillance problem worse by an order of magnitude or more.

> I've never encountered a toll road that wasn't a major expressway. The coffee house argument is non-sensical.

How is it that someone can't work near an onramp to a major expressway and the nearest coffee house be at the next exit or just across a toll bridge?

To get to the point, are you questioning the premise that increasing the price of something can discourage productive uses of that thing?

> Toll roads have a very attractive benefit to me. I don't drive.

Do you also grow everything you eat in your back yard, never buy anything in a local store or have it delivered by UPS and will never require any emergency vehicles to come to your home or work for any reason?
Love this. It has the bonus of trying to quickly parse different languages in a very short period of time.
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Also, a language.

Oberon-2 language has Pascal-like syntax, with Java-like features (classes, single inheritance, interfaces, garbage collector, sane module system instead of includes). Unlike Java, no VM is required, at least in the system that I used. Like Java and unlike C, it is impossible to write unsafe code accidentally - you have to go out of your way to access unallocated memory regions or break type safety.

Decent module system and straightforward grammar has also allowed writing simple and very fast compilers. It was fun to work with.
I like Scala. It's a JVM language, it's extremely powerful, but maybe it's too powerful for us mere mortals.

Eclipse allows very fast compilation times, but when I tried sbt, I gave up because I CAN'T wait for compilation: we're in 2013, I'm using a quad core at 3.4GHz, 12GB of RAM and SSD, so I'm not ready to wait.
Eclipse allows fast incremental compilation.

Scala's type system is very rich. I don't know if there exists any type that can't be expressed in Scala. Since I don't know if such a type exists, I don't miss it.
But that's probably too much, and in the end, idiomatic Scala emerges: some libraries use the type system in an idiomatic way. It's working, but understanding method signatures turns into a nightmare. Then you must learn the arcane of Scala to understand how the library works.

However, if YOUR Scala is simple enough, then the language can be cool, cooler than Java, and productive. Can be mixed with Java, runs fine for J2EE...
There are somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 centa-millionaires in North America. If Nick is Satoshi Nakamoto, he may need to take basic precautions, but otherwise is likely to be fine.
Thanks for the Proof of Stake reference, I was not familiar with that system but am reading about it now and it's very interesting. This site [1] seems to indicate a rather unfavorable transaction cost for Bitcoins, around 7%. However, I'm not sure whether their estimation of 650 watts per gigahash* is accurate (that warrants some more research), so I don't know whether to trust that figure or not. If it is accurate, it is not favorable when compared to Visa.

[1] https://blockchain.info/stats

* I assume they meant watts per gigahash/second.

[EDIT] It seems like the recent ASIC miners on the market are vastly more efficient (>100x) than blockchain.info's estimates [2] (which probably include CPU/GPU miners since ASICs are relatively new). Without knowing the makeup of the Bitcoin network (i.e. what portion is CPU/GPU/ASIC etc), though, it seems like any efficiency estimate will be pretty inaccurate.

[2] https://www.kncminer.com/categories/miners
2008 - 2012 money supply doubled. This means 100% inflation in long term - guaranteed. Who would care about their suggestions. Look at their actions and track record.
Great market salary info: https://blog.wealthfront.com/startup-employee-equity-compens...
Something I don't get: what is assisted driving for? I can see it being used in a transition period, where we want to assess the reliability of computers, get a corpus… But once the car can drive itself, why not let it? That way, no matter how unreliable you are, it won't influence the car.

Higher insurance rates will be only for people who insist on driving their cars. I believe this would be a very good thing.
The KJV is wrong in its translation (why did you even reach for it?). My degree was in Ancient Semitic Literature. A better translation is the NRSV which is as follows:

Do not say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

The proverb isn't about squelching inquiry, it's about squelching the belief that the past generation was better than the next. It follows a long litany of proverbs, in context, that describe how to accept the reality that has been given to you.
There is also the danger of forgetting what the sky looks like and what normal people sound like.
Money printing is inflation because it will always end up in prices of goods and services. It's just a question of "when" and not "if".

Secondly, if you take money from the rich who would invest it to someone who will just spend it -- how this economically makes any sense is beyond me. We spent too much - that's how we got into the crisis. Now it is time to save & invest. Not to destroy savings and investments.

And thirdly, there are no poor in Switzerland, period. There might be some lazy young people who don't like to work and if their numbers are high enough and their parents are sympathetic to them, you are dealing with big group that you want to please before elections. So trying to make it economically sound (when it isn't!) is just pure propaganda for naive do-gooders.
Ubiquiti does make an 802.3af adapter.

http://www.ubnt.com/8023af
You are confusing grammatical gender with gender identity. It is also informed by sex, but that is only one influence.
You're all being kind of harsh. She was just trying to advance her career.
For the love of god, be sensible - sell half on Monday and put it back into a traditional retirement investment. You'll still do well if BTC goes up. There is no reason to put 100% of your retirement funds into any single asset.
What does the NK system have in common with, say, Germany's?
> The industry won't let us.

How? Because the way I see it, they will have to form a cartel to prevent one of their own from selling self-driving cars and make a huge profit at the expense of everyone else.

The various legal obstacles look bigger.
Maybe the term "imprint" could serve well.

I wouldn't be surprised if more instances of that experiment get discovered and reproduced, after all this is describing a feedback loop leaving patterns on the next iteration (parent -> genetics -> expression on descendant), and feedback loops are to be expected in all natural systems.
What's really hilarious is they tell you "Don't Move". I made a gif of the behavior in question, so you don't have to try it yourself. I inadvertently gave them like, five more kudos trying to capture it: http://oi39.tinypic.com/24e2kw1.jpg

Sorry, I never make videos, much less upload them, so I didn't really know what services to use. If anyone has recommendations, I'd love to hear about htem.
It doesn't really matter what their offense was if the prosecution can't convict them for it legitimately. Any convictions dependent on that chemist's work should be void.
> To an extent. A client is not gonna be super-happy to see two weeks work down as 'Corporate Social Responsibility Report - £6k' on their invoice though. Nor is your boss, if you work in a team, liable to be pleased when you tell them to wait two weeks while you make sure they're not telling you to do evil.

For many cases of software development, just keeping your ethical principles in the back of your mind as you work should be enough. A formal study and report of the ethical considerations of your work is not necessary.

However, there are certainly cases where a more formal review would be appropriate - generally high-impact/high-cost-of-failure cases, e.g. the electrical grid, car/plane control systems, or systems that deal with money or private information. In a lot of these cases, there exist legal or professional standards that apply, such as PCI, SOX, or HIPPA. Those standards are made of more specific guidelines than this code of conduct, but they generally follow the same themes. They also generally require independent review and certification that you're following the rules, so in these cases, formal reports are already the norm.

There's a spectrum. Near one extreme of the spectrum, your client/employer is going to be happy to see two weeks down as 'Corporate Social Responsibility Report - £6k', or something similar.
Am I hyperbolic??? I'm not so sure anymore.
It should be every unjust sentence awarded not served. The terror of being told 20 years and living out 1 them is enough to award 20 years to someone else.
Thanks for the link. Will do that now
Of course - freeing humans from their jobs reduces their economic power. But that's expected. Remember that humans aren't entitled to economic power by default. We need to earn it. If a machine has more economic power than a human, then that human needs to gain the skills and knowledge in order to regain their relevance in the economy.

I'm not saying this like this is how things "should be". This is how things are today, and how they have been since the dawn of the industrial revolution. The only difference is that today we have even better machines, so it's harder for humans to compete.
It devalues money of the rich and of the poor. However, the poor suffer more in inflationary environment. If you spend 80% of your paycheck on housing and food, 30% inflation means you can't even provide to yourself. When you are rich end spent 8% income on housing and food, 30% increase will mean, now you spent just 10.5% of your income on housing and food. You need also to understand that rich benefit greatly from inflation because inflation will show up also in stock market prices (rich own stock), real estate prices (rich own real estate for rent), etc. Inflation is always poor getting poorer and rich getting richer.
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This is incorrect. If bitcoin is successful over the coming years, the best approach to monetizing that wallet, other than very gradual diversification into other currencies, would be to set up a bitcoin bank or flex agent, providing liquidity to other bitcoin businesses in exchange for a small fee.

Basically, that wallet should be used to nurture and feed the bitcoin ecosystem, and in doing so it can become worth vastly more. It becomes the JP Morgan - circa 1910 - of the bitcoin financial world. With the profit generated from the business, it can be used to calm panics, and help lessen volatility, a form of pressure regulator.
I don't know how Massachusetts law -- or US Federal law -- swings, but here in the UK there's a specific crime, magnificently called Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice, which covers everything from perjury to faking evidence. And while the average sentence is on the order of 2 years, there's no upper limit: a life sentence is possible in sufficiently extreme cases.
Someone who made millions and then lost it all
so if everybody is given 1,000,000 CHF we will just end up suddenly millionaires, huh?

Socialists "logic" never stops entertaining me.
There's so much envy towards those who made money from Bitcoin, it's not even funny. Many try desperately to manipulate the market. Others greedy by nature live in denial as a self-preservation.
No. It is simpler than you are making it out to be.

If you say "I did the test that proves it is heroin" and you didn't, and you are smart enough to be a chemist, and you see some poor guy get put in jail, then you are evil.
i believe you forgot the /sarcasm and /troll markups in your comment.
Is the anywhere that lists the new features in Mesa 10?
I would expect them never being allowed to be a prosecutor ever again. There's plenty of other legal jobs they can have, but they abused the public's trust too much to ever hold this one ever again.
I had a similar experience to you: I used to do a ton of side projects. About three years ago, I started working at a job where I had a very long commute, and that combined with attempting to continue those side projects burned me out hard. I started leaving programming to what I did for my day job, and if I had the hankering to continue programming I'd just stay at work later.

After a couple of years of that, I admittedly feel mixed about it. I do feel like I've regained some of my lost personal life - though it was too late to save my marriage, particularly since in that first year or so after I came to the realization above I simply ended up working until late in the evening instead - deferring personal projects by simply replacing them with other work and not with maintaining my relationships. Once she left, I finally realized that I not only needed to cut out these side projects, but I also needed to maintain some kind of reasonable work-life balance. (it took me a long time to get to the point where I can accept that this failure of mine caused the dissolution of our marriage - I always viewed my programming and work as a way of making sure that there would always be food at the table and that she'd always be able to do whatever she wanted, but in retrospect it wasn't worth much when she was the only one sitting at that table, and when it didn't seem like she had a partner at all. It took me a long time to be able to say that.)

I now feel a bit less burnt out, and have a desire to start side projects again - but at the same time, I don't want to go back to spoiling the rest of my life for it. I honestly can't figure out how I can resolve the three and still have time to sleep.

So anyways, I sympathize with your situation. Sadly, I don't have any good answers. All I know is that there must be a way to find a good balance, and that I have thus far been unable to find it - and I don't know about you, but my failure to do so has cost me a great deal.
Read the Wikipedia article on Tulipomania, or _Famous First Bubbles_.

OP should too, actually, since his comment that

> The price of tulip bulbs has yet to recover from its 1637 peak.

betrays several fundamental misunderstandings of the tulip market at the time. Of course the top tulip bulbs depreciated. That is like saying 'a patent has never recovered its peak value' or 'Windows 3.1 never recovered its March 1992 peak'.
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It is frightening to watch, but the math seems to be somewhat straighforward. http://vimeo.com/37751380
You have a very good point, and I hadn't considered that aspect. However, if people defer their consumption, surely they'll also have less need to spend money, and thus less incentive to perform economically productive activities in order to earn money to spend? I'm sure people will be quite happy in the short term, but over longer periods (decades) there will be much less effort (not necessarily money) invested in economic activity.
That's evidence against Satoshi=Szabo; IIRC, somewhere Satoshi says he started coding up the prototype in 2007, so if Szabo is suggesting someone write it in 2008...
Those 'basic precautions' will not be cheap and would probably require the liquidation of some of their bitcoins since they probably aren't anything like as wealthy in non-bitcoin terms. Liquidating their bitcoins would damage their psuedonymity, which is something that they are clearly not keen to do.

The other thing is that most of those centa-millionaires are not keeping their holdings entirely in cash that can be moved quickly in large quantities psuedonymously requiring only a small piece of information likely to be held by Satoshi.

Certainly, securing multi-millionaires is not an insoluable problem (although it fails sometimes), but I think that Satoshi is likely to be in a situation that make the consequences of being unmasked particularly dangerous and the difficulty of measures to keep safe particularly onerous.
A system in which no one ever has any control over where their vehicles choose to take them is not necessarily benign. Such a system can be tampered with, taken over or simply glitch because some idiot caused an overflow or the maps are inaccurate or all of a sudden $something_inefficient.

The purpose of 'assisted' driving lies in the premise that a 'perfectly' automated system doesn't exist, and will fail, and when it does, it should fail to wetware.
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Really? Is there something a stock or anything accessible by mere mortals that goes up 20+ times it's value every year? :-)

I bought and sold my bitcoins when prices where bellow 100$. Well, given the fact that I doubled the money I should be happy and brag about it, but I'm not. I could be holding 10k now and it hits in the stomach when I'm thinking about it.

On the other hand, I would never invest more than I can afford to lose.
Garbage collection for trains.
My understanding is It's built in what happens when it's too expensive to mine by adding transaction fees. Or once there are no more coins to mine. The network still needs to verify, so the person in the transfer offers up coins to get it verified which go to the miners.