skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm... not seeing the same behavior today. There have been upgrades in the meantime, of course, but I doubt that this was addressed. Must have been something off that day. It did run off and start downloading the header of every single message in my GMail account, which I would rather it didn't as I really only care about the mail that I have received recently (I only use Thunderbird for encrypted emails but the web interface otherwise). That is still annoying, but since I don't want to bad mouth people with false information:

Let the record show that Thunderbird no longer becomes unresponsive for me when accessing my GMail account, must have been a glitch on that day when I first set up GMail in Thunderbird.
I didn't say that creativity was the creation of a product, per se. But by definition, it does create something: a product, perhaps, but just as likely a work of art, literature, philosophy, or other abstracts. Or maybe even just a plan of further action. The point of creativity is to create.

Why do I question you? Because all you've told me is that you want to spend six months reading books in Thailand. You won't tell me what you're reading, or why Thailand, or why it needs to be done full-time. Do you even know what you're going to be reading? I suspect not; I suspect this is pure leisure, and the plan to read books will only last until the first distraction comes along. But even if it doesn't, I'm not seeing what difference it would make. And all of this would be well enough to leave alone, but you're (hypothetically) asking me to either bankroll it, or to at least treat it as kind of serious personal project, without even telling me why I should do either one.

Why should I question you? Why shouldn't I? There is creativity, and there is BS, and this is sounding more and more like the latter. Why shouldn't you be called out on that? All I've asked is why, yet the response has been defensive if not outright hostile. What are you defending?

I think I know. This isn't Michelangelo or Picasso or Tolkien or Henson or even Yankovic. This is, at its absolute best, Katy t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m, acting out at random in blind rebellion, not against anything in particular, but merely for rebellion's sake, because that's what sounds like fun. And for that, you can leave me off your list of donors.
FWIW I think you came up with a very creative solution.
Most apposite for me - two days ago I read the "How Old is the Shepherd" article, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6848166, and thought "I must try that on my kids".

Looks like I'm going to need to have another child to get the most out of this thread, bit costly.
Do you have a citation for the requirement that labels underreport protein mass? It would be surprising to me if you could not actually discover the macronutrient balance of a food by looking at the label.
Lisp featured support for Garbage collection, exceptions done right, macros, optional typing, native compilation. In fact I would argue that many in the lisp community were so obsessed with the hard bits that they overlooked building simple things that see everyday use in the real world.
I made a very similar bot a few years ago.
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Convertible notes are common across all companies raising early (seed) money, even ones outside YC. I don't know the landscape now, but the last time I was involved in raising money (2011 Q2), convertible notes were the presumptive default for that type of raise. Angel investors did not care at all and VCs sort-of cared, but the amount of money was so small for them that things like pro-rata participation rights were vastly more important.
After 6 days, I need to look at generated assembly to debug
Percent-escaped control characters are fine. They'll just show up in a gui file manager as a <?> symbol, and on the shell as %02 for instance. The shell will never parse percent-encoded filenames and gui file managers don't interpret control characters.

Non-percent-encoded control chars are strictly verboten. The VFS layer should contain a ban list of bytes (or codepoints) not allowed as part of a filename. It won't be a large list, just every nonprintable character from ASCII, every blank character (space, tab, newline, vertical tab, carriage return etc.), the characters /\;:?* - and that's it. This list should cover everything that might be problematic in windows OR linux OR MacOS. For full compatibility, we must also add the %uxxxx and %Uxxxxxxxx percent escapes for arbitrary unicode codepoints (I can sense that it might make sense to also escape all the unicode spaces, combining characters and the like, to make file manipulation from the shell easier).

It sounds sort of sensible, but we're dealing with two layers of encoding here, leading to three byte sequences.

1. You have a string the user entered. That's just a generic name which can be anything.

2. You take that string and substitute "problematic" characters with their percent encoded form. For example, every space becomes %20, non-breakable space might become %ua0, or it might be left alone

3. You now have a string of unicode codepoints, which are all "clean". This is encoded yet again to a sequence of bytes that are stored by the filesystem.

At least the second coding is done by the system, either by the standard file manipulation routines, or by the filesystem itself.

But it is the first one that seems infeasible. It has to be done at a layer above the standard "open" function and I can see developers being very confused on what and how to escape.

You know, maybe the answer might be not to have every other program do all this complicated dancing, but for the shell itself to escape filenames when it reads them. So when you say "cmd file%20with%20space", cmd is called with argument one set to "file with space". And when ls or find lists files, bad characters can be replaced with their percent-encoded forms. And xargs can unescape them.

I'll need to think about it some more again.
It's not that it doesn't implement the hard bits, it just re-implements the hard bits on top of the hard bits. It requires an OpenGL context, which generally requires you to have an X server running.
I have separate playlists on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Spotify because some tracks aren't on the other music service. It's a hassle to switch between.

I'd much prefer having a universal playlist.
>This is exactly why the FDA is acting correctly here!

No, it's not. None of the actual genetic testing is going to stop, only interpretation.
"Read Later" button for every article
Do yourself a giant favor and leave this submission alone.
Damn - great to learn, thanks! Though my point still stands, even with the CAM cycle, CO2 is converted to O2 during the day, they CAM plants just absorb CO2 at night... also it seems the CAM cycle produces much less O2 (obviously absorbing much less CO2 in the process) than other photosynthesis cycles...
I should ask my parents. According to my baby diary, I was reading on my own at 1.5 years, and have been reading nonstop ever since. :)
Not that I agree or disagree, but as a counter-point: Riot has sunk many dollars into organizing leagues for LoL teams, and has put on numerous high-profile events in attempt to push professional gaming into the mainstream.

With what do you substantiate your claim.
True, on the other hand 37.5 hours is a week's worth of toilet breaks plus maybe one lunch out of 5 ?
SnapChat makes sense because it's got the whole deletion-driven ephemral images model. That doesn't really require its own protocol, though.

Now I'm fantasizing about some kind of extensible system that allows that kind of special messaging. Making a cross-platform system for that would be hard. HTML5+JS message bodies (omg security!)? Plugin architecture? Idunno.
You think 5 seconds is slow? If you were to do it manually it'd take much longer.
Once could argue the same thing about Social Security. :-)

In my view, there are 2 kinds of pensions. One is Defined Benefit, which is crazy to count on. On the other hand, companies can offer Defined Contribution, which is fine. If a company offers a 401K, and makes a 10K contribution, I'm happy. It's 10K more income that will probably get taxed at a lower bracket when I retire.
This has changed from the last time I’ve looked. Excellent!

Thanks for all the links to packages. Good to see that distributions have picked up properly building docker.
Well a debt/loan without a term, more like an uncallable zero coupon bond without a maturity date, rather it has a maturity 'condition'.

As you have clearly pointed out, one of the bigger issues with convertibles is that they change over time in terms of their impact on the company. The SAFE fixes that by getting rid of the debt/loan aspect, and this would do the same but bake in a fixed redemption price.

An example, you get this thing (lets call it a BOOST), which is $100K with a redemption price of $125K. Now you startup goes 18 months, then does a series A raise for 1.125M$. They redeem the BOOST for 125K, pocket the $1M, and their series A investor gets their chunk of preferred. The 'rate' on our BOOST then is 25%/1.5years or 16.6% APR.

Example 2. Same deal except the series A comes 6 months later. Now the redemption in only 1/2 year gives an effect return of 50% APR.

Example 3. Company starts, grows to a going concern, runs for 5 years and then gets bought by BigCorp, and the BOOST is redeemed. Now its effective APR is 5% (actually less than that if you're not doing simple interest etc but it illustrates the point doesn't it?)

Example 6. Startup goes poof and dissolves. BOOST is effectively at the head of the line on distribution of the asset value.

Take $100K, divide it into $10K chunks, spread it across 10 different BOOSTS with other investors in them and spread the risk still further.
while native IDEs aren't going away, I think browser IDEs especially for web development are the wave of the future.

Once businesses discover the advantages of having developer access via the browser there will be no turning back. Some developers dislike this notion, but time will tell:)

btw you can download ours (crudzilla.com)
It wouldn't work just like copyright does, even if you extended copyright to functional designs.

Consider how patents and copyrights interact with respect to software. Say you make a new audio encoder leveraging some psycho-acoustic property. Copyright protects the literal source code only. It doesn't prevent someone from doing a "clean room" reimplementation of your software, and in the process taking advantage of all of the expensive testing you did to validate your psycho-acoustic model.

Patents as they exist today might apply to any encoder leveraging that psycho-acoustic property. I.e. a competitor couldn't hold up the fact that it performed independent testing to build its own psycho-acoustic model as a defense to patent infringement.

My proposal falls in-between. You can prevent someone from reverse-engineering your program to copy the essential details, which is the fruit of your expensive R&D. However, you can't prevent someone from using the same basic idea when they go to the expense of deriving those essential details for themselves from the basic idea. What patents as they exist now protect, and what my proposal explicitly wouldn't, is the "flash of insight." The realization that multiple people may have in response to some journal paper that some newly-described psycho-acoustic phenomenon may be used to build better audio encoders.
Anyone interested in making this remote storage business?
Also if you need any specific advice, I would be happy to help any way I can. My email can be found in my user information.
> (3) no interest = less equity at conversion

This will be taken care by the market via the caps put on the Safe.
Just so that it's said, buying at Coinbase right now gets you the right now price (or at least their spot price at the moment).

You're perfectly right that you won't receive the coin for 4 or more days, which leaves a lot of opportunity on the table for turning it around quickly, and perhaps increases the risk non-negligibly, but buying is done at spot price, not receipt.
Because past trends do not predict future. You buy bitcoins at $835 and instead of going up to $875 they drop to $100.
My company is in one of these corner cases where we haven't converted our debts but still operate with a small, but growing revenue stream. It's possible that I will be able to repay the debts with interest in 2-5 years depending on how well we invest revenues in growth and part-time development. I wonder if it isn't more beneficial for me to have the option of paying back debts from revenues and then use revenues to pay out dividends to shareholders and more beneficial for investors to be able to call on the debt when it comes due if the company has accumulated enough revenues. With a safe, both parties seem to lose leverage over the other. I realize that startups in my situation are probably already a write-off from the investors' perspective, so perhaps it's just cheaper to ignore them, but I could imagine a number of people raising $100K safes ending up with an app that makes $30K per year and investors just get screwed.
Ponzi schemes can keep going if you can keep growing. They only die when growth stops. Detroit shows us the truth here. When the companies get strangled, people leave, and Detroit follows suit.
It should prefill the username and password. if not, use your Codebox auth credentials.
Asking if utf-8 is safe on the basis of these examples seems like asking if we should throw the baby out with the bath water -- along with the toys and the tub for good measure.

The potential for abuse is evident, but it seems like these primarily ought to be fixed in userland. For instance, by giving cues by highlighting characters in widely different areas (latin vs cyrillic) or by ignoring rtl for extensions when a string starts in ltr.

(Not to mention, in the latter case, if users are opening random docs attached to spammy emails, utf8 is the last of your problems.)
from the wikipedia article

>> Private Web: sites that require registration and login (password-protected resources).

so, yeah.
If someone scams you for 5,000 gold in World of Warcraft, did they commit a crime?
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This may be the first time I've felt like stepping up to say good things about MOOCs.

"Even though German models of scientific professionalism soon contested and replaced such public outreach, there remained vestiges of this sense of mission in the postwar era."

I would rewrite this as

"Even though a fad developed for pretending that literary criticism could become scientific, we still spoke of it in less pretentious terms to audiences where we would not be embarrassed by so speaking."
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That is a problem for the lawyers and any expert witnesses they can find to solve. If such a thing cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt (if we are talking criminal charges) or beyond a preponderance of the evidence (if we are just talking about a lawsuit), then the case would not go through. If it could be proven, then such cases should be permitted.

We are actually quite good at tracing infections back to their source, but that is not my specialty.
For the thought-of connotation of high frequency trading, yes, 5 seconds is slow.
So in those cases there would not be grounds for a lawsuit. Why is this a problem?
Where does this 4 days of transit come from?
Disruptor would be even worse for this - you'd lose all the perfectly valid messages in all the ringbuffers.
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Definitely! I think the link is http://planscope.io/ ??? ;)

btw - I'm hoping to include planscope as some of software listed in the toolbox for workshop members
It's also worth noting that the premise of life getting massively better one generation to the next, is a freak occurrence - and as it applies to the broad planet it's a recent one - over the course of human history. It has been the extremely rare event, for there to be a big leap one generation to the next, if you're tracking the total span of the species.

Why do I point that out? Because there's no rule that human life has to get massively better. There is no guarantee. It does not have to happen at all, and I would argue entropy + certain aspects of human nature are constantly acting to undermine the potential for progress to occur.

It's not just that there have been exceptions. Life getting massively better one gen to the next is the extraordinarily rare exception. We definitely shouldn't take it for granted.
It is difficult to predict the future but when it comes down to it, most of the time when these pensions go belly up, it is due to significant mismanagement and incompetence.

I think a big failing of government pension funds (and Social Security) is that there is always a tremendous temptation for politicans to borrow against them, and leave the repayment to someone who will be elected after they're long gone. The next person kicks the can down the road, and sooner or later you're Detroit.

With sane and responsible management I'm sure some pensions would fail anyway because there's always the chance of catastrophe. But I've seen enough pension problems that were the result of risky investing, poor forecasting, and irresponsible borrowing that I feel like most of the time the pension needn't have failed or gotten cut.
So maybe they should rename themselves to the Consumer Protection Admini... oh wait, naming conflict. Oops.
Yep, your bank account is definitely part of the deep web, a totally-mundane term easily conflated with what some call the 'dark web'.
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Okay dude, we get it. How about one or two posts per thread.
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good idea, just quick question, will you add skill stack match feature? e.g i can setup my skill stack in your service and the mails send to me are match my skill.
> Let us manage our own retirements.

We already know from pre-social security times that approach doesn't work; most people end up destitute.
As a sole nutrition source as soylent is, the increased biological value of vegetable protein combining would be a valuable improvement in efficiency. The "myth" is that micromanaging every meal is necessary (it's not), ... unless of course you are on a meal replacement product for weeks at a time.

A higher number of nutrition sources is better than a single one... a varied diet.

Grains, not in large quantity. Agriculture is about 10,000 years old. Yes, the diet of ~4 million years is a "fad" while the one 400 times shorter is normal. Taken to extreme, the modern diet, where everything is pumped full of sugar has lead to an obesity epidemic.

Also, physicians are far more qualified in other subjects and take only a fraction of the nutrition courses a dietitian would. There's a reason a doctor will refer you to one--it's not because they are less qualified.
I agree with this, it is mainly people's plight against change.

Don't ask for approval for creativity, noone will let you. Do it and ask for forgiveness later. If you are waiting for approval for creativity you are doing it wrong.

This is the same problem that plagues big companies who had a large market share, without creativity/prototypes/new innovations those companies are dead. The people in those companies are shut down when asking for approval. See the pirate flag days at Apple and what Steve Jobs had to go through for a high level at what happens, even if you start the company they won't let you be creative without a fight.

The very definition of creativity is thinking different and with that comes resistance.
Wikipedia's article seems to point to the idea that recently, super alloy applications are placing high demand on a supply chain that was not prepared for such a change in market trends.

I think rhenium diboride seems to be a useful substitute for tungsten carbide in places where tungsten carbide is useful for its hardness. Apparently rhenium is used heavily in the production of tungsten alloys, so there's an association, in that industrial pipelines involving tungsten tend to have a lot of rhenium on hand too.

Meanwhile the super alloys which involve high use of rhenium are nickel-rhenium alloys. Apparently GE has produced a series of super alloys named Rene alloys, and the compositions vary among each memeber of the series, some don't involve rhenium. Given that they seem to be proprietary products with military applications (mostly high temperature rocket engine nozzles) details are somewhat scarce.

Maybe the demand directly relates to how many rockets are being launched, and how many fighter jets are serviced for replacement parts or lost in crashes?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGQJaAjrZLA

Hilarious! How does one come up with ideas like this? There must have been substances involved...
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Defined contribution is kind of a poor match to future needs on the recipient's side, though, since people do not live fixed and predictable periods of time. You could fix this individually by converting the lump sum to an annuity, but few people seem to do so (it doesn't help that the annuity market is a bit confusing). The end result is that people who live significantly longer than expected run out of money. And they do so at the least convenient time: many people early in retirement could probably go back to work if needed, but a typical 100-year-old, who retired 30+ years ago and now ran out of money, is not in a condition to reenter the workforce.

In most countries the backstop is to have a small defined-benefit state pension, so they won't end up literally penniless (in the U.S. this is Social Security, which pays a minimum of ~$9,500/yr). Other countries have tried to move more people into essentially buying annuities to mitigate the varying-lifespan risk. For example most defined-contribution private-sector pensions in Denmark now pay into pension funds (third-party, non-profit organizations) that by default are essentially the purchase of an annuity. You can cash it out as a lump sum upon retirement, but if you do nothing, the default is a traditional monthly pension for life, with the amount dependent on your contribution.
It's not a socially stable option. Not because we want cheap gadgets, but because of the social imbalance.

Also from an ethical point of view, it's not very fair to deny them the chance to become a developed nation.
An exception in one thread shouldn't affect others - why would it?

I agree that unstructured use of threading primitives leaves you with an unpredictable system, but it's possible to build safer, higher-level abstractions and use those.
If Alice is able to maintain a fork at equal length to the main chain, that's a 51% attack.
Maybe the internet is our version of that "alien"?
I also can't help but wonder if insiders of sites like MtGox are taking advantage of their market knowledge.
You folks should check out this video:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/retirement-gamble/
Actually dropbox used to do that.
>Predictably the now-pensioners claim that they paid for pensions and are thus 'owed' them.

Do you think employees are 'owed' a paycheck after they do their month of work?

Some jobs, instead of paying you all that money up-front, instead give you a pension. Just because it's deferred 30 years rather than just 30 days doesn't mean it's any less your pay than your paycheck.

I mean, you can argue that it isn't sustainable, or even that it's stupid to expect a company to deliver on a promise 30 years from now, but when you are paid in a promise of future pay... you are certainly owed that money.
None of it is sustainable, not even remotely.

Falling populations alone force a requirement for ever higher taxes due to a downward spiral equation on taxes / people / savings / standard of living. The next generation always has to pay more for the last (greater population in the past each cycle), while having less savings and a lower standard of living.