skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I put it in quotes because the group of people demanding it weren't honest enough for me to feel that they have a moral claim to it.

Companies and cities go bankrupt. This isn't news. This has been happening since before the Aztec empire started. If you are going to design a pension for thousands of people you should take care to design it for the worst case scenario. I would rather take a pension that had a 99% chance of paying out $500 per month, than one that had a 95% chance of paying out $650 per month, because the retired should be risk adverse.

Instead the employees were greedy, thought they could double dip by being part of the huge baby boomer group (thus not paying in a fair share, considering what they would get out) and retiring handsomely.

Well you can't change reality. At the very bottom of economics is actual real resources, and if you don't create enough value or save enough value and there there isn't enough other people to feed from then you must downwardly adjust your standard of living. Remember Freedom 55? I actually know people that worked for only 30 years at a government job and are being paid 80% of their best 4 years (adjusted for inflation of course) for the rest of their life. This is unsustainable.
Wow, this is genius. I just searched the intro riff of Smoke on The Water and was impressed and surprised to see so many other bands that have the same riff in many different ways. Would love to know how this works below the service. What is built on? Are you using any API's for this? Would love more details or even open source it.
Except that the overwhelming majority of the violence of apartheid was against Black people. You have to completely ignore context to think that there's a reasonable comparison between an oppressed people - a people that suffered both imprisonment and slaughter - attacking their oppressor and the US dropping an atomic bomb on a city.

All of the posts here decrying the violence of the ANC are ignorant at best. The violence of the ANC was nothing next to the violence of apartheid. The violence of the ANC was far more selective than the violence of apartheid, which was indiscriminate.
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I used to spend a lot of time play with colors and palettes for information display, or I would just plug in some colors, red, blue, green, and work with those.

Going first to ColorBrewer has been wonderful. It provides nice and sane color palettes. While it is intended for maps, I find it very useful for graphs as well.
So the Series A investors would essentially be cashing out the BOOST investors? I don't think any Series A investor would go for this. They want to see all the money go into company growth at that stage.
I'm not so sure it works well enough for us to be at all suspicious of that...

I just got my tofu tweet:
"As a few words. rocking wearing? I injured my syntax highlighting =D? I gotta!"
This is a serious concern of mine. There already exist countries in Europe which tax savings. It wouldn't shock me if after 40 years of living below my means and saving diligently, that an act of congress makes my IRA/401k be taxed at a higher rate to give money to my non-saving contemporaries. I'm sure there are some on the far-left that could rationalize redistributing savings accounts.
Surprised you didn't know about Elfster - I thought about making my own app too, until I saw Elfster.

It's not quite perfect and seems to barely hold itself together (am I signed in, do I have account or do I not?!, etc..), but my friends and I have gotten by. I was able to invite people, remind them to join before the deadline and set exclusions on matchups (I didn't want significant others to get each other as well as people who aren't good friends). People have wishlists, like you mentioned. It's served us well enough for a one time thing, I'm not really sure what else I would need or want.

I guess one could extend the concept and become a broker for the gigantic anonymous gift exchanges? Like the Reddit Secret Santa, except people order from you or send you the packages? I know of people who never got their present even though they had sent a present.
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Too bad the lists aren't counting lists and are dumb cons cells. :(

Has a cool Leiningen (clojure) inspired build/dependency tool.
It looks like it just uses an existing X server as a way to create an OpenGL context, not as an X server per se. Perhaps it would be possible to port it to some non-X method of producing an OpenGL context, such as EGL.
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Well for one thing pot plants have a pretty strong odor, and for another thing if you have too many the cops will totally arrest you. :-)
Court case could mean 'death' of software patents
>> You were asking within the context of the relevant time period.

No, pretty sure I was deliberately not asking about it within historical context, because the aims of those people 100 years ago are not really relevant to the aims and goals of the continuing system, IMHO.
Oh I agree completely. The problem is that life got massively better for a while. That's stopped as the industrial revolution has slowed down. I don't mean that the world is getting worse, just that it's getting awesome at a much slower rate.

BUT the pensions and social security and whatever are premised on the world getting more bitchin' at a high rate. That high rate is gone, but the programs put into place while it was around are still around, and they haven't been adjusted.

I don't mind that we've returned to slow growth instead of rapid, so long as it happens to everyone. That does not seem to be the case re: social security, the housing market, etc and those are largely dictated by government. The Fed (a quasi-government agency) sets the interest rate and thus has a lot of control over housing prices. The Federal Government enacted Social Security and refuses to reform it in any meaningful way.

As a result I'm not optimistic that social cohesion will continue. We're graduating people who can't buy houses or cars or start families at a substantial rate. Loss aversion is a REALLY strong emotionally motivating force for humans as we're wired to avoid losses much more aggressively than pursue gains. But if you don't have much to lose any possibility of gain appealing and that's how you have a revolution.
Agreed. YC is disruptive at it's core.
One of the things I appreciated about the piece was that the intro is a bit scattered. You kind of wonder where Alan's going with it, then it comes together. The build as the piece develops is pretty intense.
If you know anything about neurology or psychology, you'll know that there is no "objective perception". There is science, but that's about repeatability, and the complexity of geopolitics makes situations difficult to reproduce in exactitude. We make assessment based on different sets of experiences and knowledge, and our perception is influenced by our past and present.

No two people have the same life experience.

The very rawest form of perceptual subjectivity can be demonstrated by the interference of vision and sound caused by the McGurk effect. Search youtube for an example.
I understand your reason for "bias" as well, and I agree it's unfortunate. But let's take the flu as an example. People die from that, but are all the people who didn't get a flu-shot responsible? Do you take into account how often the victims washed their hands, and how well they developed their immune systems beforehand? And who's going to be deciding what vaccinations are and aren't required? My doctor's recommendations change all the time based on the latest evidence. Why are we even suggesting removing an individuals right to make their own decision based on their own research? Yes, you can label it as "irresponsible" and I'd probably agree, but setting a precedent that the government can mandate that you inject you and your child with an agent derived from lethal diseases? That's not many steps away from mandatory abortions for undesirable genetic traits.
> A tech worker with citizenship is able to negotiate pay increases by threatening to defect to Amazon or Google, but the worker with the H-1B visa is forever bound to Microsoft under penalty of deportation.

That is definitely not true. An H-1B worker can switch employers, as long as the new employer is willing to sponsor the candidate's H-1B.

The only thing that somewhat "binds" an employee is the Green Card process, which must be reset when switching companies. But even that is not true in all cases, since at a certain point in the GC process one can "port" their application to a new employer with no need to reset the process.
Edit: The below is actually wrong

> For years I’ve wanted to be able to write my own control flow structures, such as an each...else that runs an else block if the each is empty (Handlebars templates have this).

Actually, python does have a (little-known) `for...else` structure that does what you want.

http://psung.blogspot.ca/2007/12/for-else-in-python.html
This comment leads me to conclude that you don't actually understand what Startup Weekend is about.
Definitely, it's a dangerous country. If you read my response again, I did not disagree with this. I just don't agree that there is a mass exodus of people. The wikipedia article you cite about this doesn't cite any hard data sources, and there are more relevant and recent measures like the most recent SA census.
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And what it changes? If code contain bugs, only full noob will use results for benchmarking.
> How about a shadow-crowdsourced game? You know, just a forum of people hacking stuff up and suggesting new twists.

There are probably multiple extant communities where such a thing could be started. SCP comes to mind for already having a mostly-coherent fictional universe in which such a game could take place:

http://www.scp-wiki.net/
I'm pretty sure that for normal operation, a transaction gets broadcast to the network, and all miners see it and try to include it in their blocks. Each miner has a queue of unverified transactions to include in the blocks it's trying to build. When the miner gets a valid block from another miner, then it removes all of the transactions in that block from it's queue.

In a legit fork with no attempt at malicious action, there's no reason for the transactions in the forks to be any different, since all of the miners are seeing the same transactions broadcast to the network and have essentially the same transaction queue.

For an attempted double-spend attack, miners already check that there isn't a double-spend in the nodes in their block, so they would drop the second transaction they got trying to spend the same coins.

Since a double-spend can't happen in a single block, the double-spend attack relies on 2 miners working on different blocks, where the attacker-controlled miner is semi-isolated from the network and does not include the original spend transaction, but instead the attacker's second spend transaction. If the attack miner solves the block before any other miner on the network and broadcasts it, then the rest of the miners will accept it and reject the original spend transaction as a double-spend, leaving whoever was going to receive it with no coins.
tl;dr? 'grellas is my attorney.
If anyone is curious, a few random thoughts from my mom on this:

It was important that you understood how to get from point a to b. You were always good at being able to put things together easily. Sequencing and figuring out how a character came to be are elements that are often overlooked. Knowing that 1 story could be many with just a small twist is what the Coville books were so good at. Another thing is that your father and I never talked down to you and allowed you to come to your own conclusions.
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There are businesses dedicated to buying, selling and producing it. It can also be exchanged for goods and services, is easily valued in and converted to USD and other currencies, and fluctuates in value depending on supply and demand.

I picked WoW instead of a game like EVE Online because scamming is not an expected part of the game.

I'm not aware of any criminal proceedings against people who stole WoW gold, but it is an entirely different matter if actual money (i.e. USD) was taken.
There are many things in Elixir that seem to be inspired by Clojure and/or lisp in general (which I think is great, by the way):

* AST-level macros with quote/unquote

* Reducers (efficient list processing)

* Protocols (which are like inside-out interfaces)
determining "low enough" and "high enough" is what professional market-makers do all day. it's not easy.
"This happens a lot with my bigger/more expensive ideas"

"So I've been trapped with building less imaginative ideas because they're easier and I know how to do that."

I would argue that this is a very fatal flaw in your thinking that you should correct asap. You're making it impossible for yourself to succeed.

It's exceptionally difficult to start big / expensive / complex businesses without the ability to raise equally large amounts of capital. And raising large amounts of capital for that type of business is nearly impossible without the experience and or connections you'd properly expect it to require.

So let me put this out there: do not try to start such types of businesses, unless e.g. you've got the kind of wind at your back that Elon Musk did after selling PayPal (to then start something like Tesla or SpaceX, which required immense capital and amazing execution, drawn on from huge amounts of experience and plenty of brilliant influences and employees).

Imgur, Reddit, Craigslist, Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, eBay, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and on and on. These were not massive, highly complex concept businesses to get started (some of them become very complex of course). In fact, they were small'ish concepts, narrowly focused, with the capacity to snowball massively.

Zuckerberg didn't need a billion dollars to build the first version of Facebook, and it wasn't complex. Ditto Twitter or YouTube or Snapchat and so on. Facebook started at one college, Zuck knocked over one bowling pin market, and then the next and then the next.

What's big and elaborate about the core of Candy Crush? Draw Something? Absolutely nothing. You'll find most successful businesses start out very simple; in hindsight, they make you think: holy shit, that's so stupidly simple why didn't I think of it.

Even difficult to start businesses typically start from a simple premise or a simple attack approach. Take Tesla for example, Elon didn't jump right into trying to make the model S (or a mass consumer electric car). He built up experience, an amazing team, capital, manufacturing experience, technology, a sales channel, a brand, global hype - by first building the low-production roadster for a small group of rich people (which could afford it, which then helped fund the next level of development).

Simple idea + easy to get started + low cost to build first version/s + the ability to snowball massively = what you should be building (strictly my opinion). It helps if you can derive sales from day one to use customers as your funding, instead of giving up equity, but that's not a requirement depending on what direction you want to go.

Also, very importantly: the idea itself matters a lot less than you may think. Ideas are nearly worthless, a dime a dozen. For every Facebook, there are dozens of people that had the same idea and didn't execute / didn't ever build it.

This is one of my favorite articles on this topic:

http://cdixon.org/2010/08/21/the-bowling-pin-strategy/
Parts of it are almost readable!
Erlang is awesome, but the syntax is just so out there that it's hard to get used to it when you're usually hacking with Ruby/Python/PHP etc.

If I would be working with a functional language for 8 hours a day, perhaps Erlang wouldn't seem so alien, but I'm not so it is.

Elixir for this reason is truly a godsend, and perhaps with time I can see myself sipping more and more Erlang because of it.
Oh yeah, given the choices I'd way favor a pure solar/wind economy, with pumped hydro storage. But if we need a power plant to keep us going until then, I'd rather it be nuclear than coal.

Honestly, I'm getting optimistic enough these days to think solar may be ramping up fast enough that we couldn't kill coal any faster with nuclear; by the time we built up our nuclear capacity significantly the solar would already be ready to replace it.

(Ignoring the fact that natural gas has already been stabbing coal furiously in the chest for several years now.)
python's for/else doesn't do what the grandparent post asked for -- that post asked for the else clause to execute if the container that was being iterated over is empty, and in python's for/else (as your link notes) the else clause executes whenever the for clause terminates normally (that is, other than by a break statement). These are very different constructs.
Ask HN: How do I promote my Windows 8 apps?
I'm 15, and I've made about 28 apps for Windows 8. I need to promote the 9 that I've made this month. How do you suggest that I do this, since Windows 8 apps are kind of unknown and not as rich a community as iOS? I know that my apps are not that good, but I need 100 downloads for the latest 9 apps.
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> You're assuming all your important software does that many iterations.

Trust nothing. KeePass let's you choose the number of iterations, and can autocalibrate. I believe it calibrated mine to >1mil iterations. I use KeePass to generate the passwords for pretty much everything else, except TrueCrypt (which uses ~1,000 iterations, but it's far more complicated than that). So the number of iterations everything else does is unimportant.

> You're also underestimating how massively parallel GPUs are becoming.

I'm a Bitcoin miner and developer. I know exactly how parallel GPUs, FPGAs, and theoretical cracking ASICs are. Only ASICs would be able to achieve 1 TH/s of cost effective cracking power, which is where I spec'd my estimate. Suffice it to say, that number I quoted is an underestimate; it would take a real attacker much, much longer. Unless we're talking about organized crime or the government here, in which case you can look forward to them spending a year of their entire computational power on just little ole you.

> The more important question is - why settle for 53 bits and worry about it?

That is why I asked what your criteria is. A line must be drawn somewhere. Humans aren't good at generating and/or memorizing passphrases. So picking a reasonable threshold is important. If 30 years of security against an unreasonably powerful attacker is not enough, what is?
Clickable: http://www.aeipsapps.tumblr.com
The point is that the typical rules in one language are completely bizarre in another. Unicode tries hard to be at least minimally useful to everyone, meaning that it has to make allowances for all of the rules.

It's complicated. It's more complicated than any encoding standard that came before. It's also the most broadly useful, and the first standard to really take into account the complexities of human written language, as opposed to just one region's written language.
I don't think it's greed at all, if you're going into public service a lot of times you are paid less as a result but it's made up for in the benefits package. If the benefits package gets drastically reduced, then you're left with less pay, and less benefits than the private sector.

So maybe some people will still go govvie out of a sense of duty, but for more than a few people it'll make it a raw deal. Especially considering how government workers now have to deal with furloughs and shutdowns. Sure, many people in other fields have to deal with a lot of uncertainty too, but one of the pluses of gov't work used to be stability. Without stability, it makes the job even less attractive.
He has a constraint that 'instance management' doesn't fix: he wants a clean VM for every test run. By definition that precludes instance management?
There's a good reddit post about this possibility: http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/1rb1mc/poten...

I think it's very possible for exchanges to do this sort of thing, especially when their technology is so poor that it's difficult to audit how they match orders.
Interesting data, but good to note that cheap does not equate with better in the medical field typically.
Might not be the owner... could be a worker doing it.
No, it's likely deliberate on the part of the submitter, since HN stupidly strips stuff which looks like HTML.
Does Windows really display the that "exe.doc" RTL example with the icon for a Word Document? Or is the exe file just set to use that for its icon in order to complete the illusion?
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>Well you can't change reality. At the very bottom of economics is actual real resources, and if you don't create enough value or save enough value and there there isn't enough other people to feed from then you must downwardly adjust your standard of living. Remember Freedom 55? I actually know people that worked for only 30 years at a government job and are being paid 80% of their best 4 years (adjusted for inflation of course) for the rest of their life. This is unsustainable.

And? I've had jobs where I got paid $200/hr. I mean, that's not a "sustainable" rate- I'm just not bringing that much value.

But the boss agreed to the rate; I still expect them to pay up for the hours I work, and I think that expectation is legitimate.
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I reckon they should make every submission appear as the last item on the front-page for 60 seconds. Essentially make that little slot an extension of "new".
I tried to like Erlang, but the syntax turned me off.

Elixir was just what I needed. Makes the power of Erlang accessible. I like Elixir's docs, tooling, and syntax, and look forward to seeing it progress.
I'd be all for just paying proper salaries up front. Chances are it would be very politically difficult to lobby for raising salaries for government workers, even if pensions were eliminated but it's a good idea IMO.

As I said though, it's not "greedy" of people to choose a job that pays less in the short term because it makes up for it with a deferred benefit. It's no different than getting a smaller salary in return for equity or a lower salary in return for more leave. It's just another thing that goes into the equation when people are evaluating their options.
Don't stock markets typically have "circuit breakers" as well? Perhaps they're more transparent about it though.
Can someone give the short version?

1) What is the current problem with convertible notes?

2) How does this solve that?
“Distinct” would do, I suppose, as surrender to the language prescriptivists.
Really? I had it drilled into me from day 3 or so, that "EXCEPTIONS ARE NOT FLOW CONTROL!"
I've always liked the idea of a more free form excel. Excel is great to dink around with estimations but it's way overkill for the job. Something like this looks perfect for those "back of the envelope" calculations that are more in tune with how we really think.
If you have a Japanese or Chinese input method installed, full-width characters are readily type-able.
I recently did Secret Santa app too, but it is frontend only (no server side, to be ran with all people present). I did it mostly to play with AngularJS, but it has some nice geeky features like using truly uniform shuffling and Fortuna PRNG for more unpredictability. It's in russian, but interface is pretty obvious, so feel free to try it :)

http://evgeniuz.github.io/santa/