skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first reaction was irony to a very well-known propaganda that is sold throughout Central-Northern Europe to justify totally irrational policies which drove an entire nation to it's knees.

But before going into that, I'd like to ask you to be more specific: To which things are you referring to?
Escrow implementation details aside, I love the idea of paying for information with a system that provides a method for communicating information securely between two parties. One of the more overlooked features of Bitcoin allows for message signing: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3337/what-are-the...

With a signing method, you can simultaneously prove someone created information containing a solution to a problem and the fact someone else paid them for the information.
Apple has a patent on the Dock.
https://www.google.com/patents/US7434177

And clickable pull-down menus in the menu bar.
https://www.google.com/patents/USD629412

The legal system strikes again.
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I'm a recent graduate with a PhD in Physics. If you're building a neutron beamline, then I'm the guy you're looking to hire. Of course, if you're building a neutron beamline, we've probably already talked, so let's discuss what else I can offer.

I've spent the past eight years working as the jack of all trades on our project. I've written byte level servers, hardware interfaces, GUI control systems, API's, and data analysis code. Lots of data analysis code. While I might not necessarily be familiar with your technology stack, I'm used to that. I've had days where I've needed to work with Eight different langauges, from Labview to IDL to Haskell to Scheme to SPEC.

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Many of them perhaps tend to, but it's irrelevant to his point.

Having own currency allows for nation-wide bloodletting through inflation, a classic option of dealing with economic collapse. Having succumbed to Deutschmark er.. Euro, they lost the easy option.
Some would say they threw their economy away in mid-nineties.

Then again, they seem to fare better than some countries who didn't (Belarus and Ukraine).
The world growth rate has slowed down some since the 60s, largely due to the economic modernizations someone mentioned earlier. The current doubling time is roughly 50 years - http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lect...

As you can see here - http://www.zetterberg.org/Lectures/l96bTab/doubling.htm. More industrialized regions have slower growth rates. Africa will double in just over 20 years while North America will double after over 100 years, for example.

Many countries, like japan and Italy are finding their population is actually shrinking, this tends to be bad for economic reasons. The US gets a lot of population growth from immigrants which keeps the country growing despite having only about 2.0 children per family (2.1 is optimal for maintaining a steady population.)
there is no reason react can't automatically store state like focus and cursor position for you
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Thank you for taking the time to write this. Many of us are thinking it, but are too exasperated to respond. Hopefully, this will change soon.
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Yes, yes it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...

It's right there with Italy, Greece and etc. All third world countries.
To the extent that TLD's are namespaces of hostnames, it's just adding the equivalent of another TLD, but implementing it as a weird proprietary extension on top of .com.

Why?
Focus cannot be maintained for long hours without some sort of intervention from stimulants like Caffeine. There is a limit to our biology. I like to use Yerba Mate (http://www.theroadtosiliconvalley.com/personal-development/y...) to help with long focus. For me, it works better than tea/coffee.

Once you are focused, choose your battles (as mentioned above ref Peter Drucker). Actually you should choose your battle well before you begin.

I find that whenever I get distracted by a thought, an idea or something else that needs to be done I try to remove it from my head by offloading it into a trusted source. This allows me to continue focus on what I'm doing knowing that "later" I can come back to it for review/pick it back up. This is also what the GTD method teaches you. I use an iOS app called GSDfaster => http://www.gsdfaster.com/ - note this is an app I initially built for myself to solve this need.

As some have stated above, sometimes the day feels like crap maybe due to lack of sleep or whatever. Or maybe it was a crap start to the day. It usually means you got wedged into a bad mood. It can last few hours if you don't find a way to get out of it. What works for me is usually a 1 hour walk, bike ride or a gym session. Gym session is the winner here to wake you up both physically and mentally releasing endorphins and "restarting" the brain in a better more focused mood.

GOTO Line 1.

Hope this helps :-)
Did you respond to the wrong comment? (I do that all the time).
Yes, the law applies to any "operator of a commercial Web site or online service that collects personally identifiable information through the Internet about individual consumers residing in California who use or visit its commercial Web site or online service."

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection...

(That website hasn't been updated yet to reflect the changes made by this new law.)
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You need to spend more time in the third world if you think those virtual paradises are even close.
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I don't know where you got your information. Yes, hydroponics and growing under artificial light is pretty hard - but farming MJ in the open is easy, the thing grows like grass.
If anyone is confused like I was when I opened this, there's a media query that reduces the font size when your window is less than 900px wide. Full screen it and the article will have huge text.
I hope that Poland will follow the same way.
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For a CS student or professional, not nearly so irritating as the ACM and IEEE duopoly.

My university subscribes to ACM and IEEE databases, so I should be in a better position than most, but somehow that doesn't include IEEE conference proceedings, which is where the papers that (possibly) matter appear. It's not a mystery why people in this field are so crap at staying on top of this kind of stuff: the stuff is hidden.
An equivalent rant could be written about any system of government that has or does exist. Establishing such hierarchies of privilege is intrinsic to the governing class. Always has been and always will be.
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He was not practicing civil disobedience, because he wasn't deliberately violating any law. He seems instead to be the victim of an assault.
> Politicians can't pull devaluation stunts anymore

LOL. They just keep printing.

http://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/euro/circulation/html/index.e...

2008	783B
2009	827B (+5.6%)
2010	861B (+4.1%)

How much % do your savings generate again? :)

I'm trying to find the figures of the amounts they printed after 2011, it's in hundreds of billions.

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article32265.html

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article30666.html
In order for a common currency to be valuable in any way, you must have a common monetary policy, which practically means that every country should hand much more power to Brussels.

No one is willing to do so, so we ended up with a totally irrational scheme on which you have the ECB controlling the money flow, while politicians with different agendas throughout Europe act like they don't depend on each other.

Either we need to unite Europe, politically, or the EU project is doomed. There are any pro-Europeans left in the South, and being lazy or corrupted has nothing to do with this.

Germany might be the only country who really benefited from the Euro, boosting it's exports beyond what would be possible without the Euro expanding the credit level.

All others in the long run are doomed. No wonder the UK never gave in.
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In economics, everyone is always looking to blame everyone else. But the fact remains that, once the initial recessionary shock is over, whether or not an economy recovers depends almost entirely on whether the central bank follows mainstream economic principles, or the pseudo-principles that are popular among politicians and pundits. Israel and Australia are known for executing the former. The Fed split the difference. The ECB has taken overwhelmingly the latter course, and Europe is paying for its love of convenient, self-flattering economic narratives.

The policies and the policy effects of central banks are measurable in elementary ways. This is not an opinion. It's very important to realize the role of the ECB and the Euro in this recession, because the current popular alternative--mindless national hatred--has not turned out very well for Europe, historically speaking.
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This is not true. Followers are established by connecting to bittorrent swarms. From the paper: "The last network is a collection of possibly disjoint “swarms” of followers, based on the Bittorrent protocol, which can be used for efficient near-instant notification delivery to many users."

Furthermore, not all clients need to store and reseed all messages they receive. More seeders is obviously better for network health, but it's not always a reasonable option. The paper suggests that clients can choose to be "achivists" which means that they keep messages and seed them to others (so it's optional). Clients like mobile phones could easily disable this behavior.

Also Twister can't use Namecoin because the incentives are wrong. In Namecoin, miners get to create domains. It would be horrible if only Twister miners could make accounts. Instead they get to make promoted posts, so it has to be a separate implementation.
Followers are established by connecting to bittorrent swarms. From the paper: "The last network is a collection of possibly disjoint “swarms” of followers, based on the Bittorrent protocol, which can be used for efficient near-instant notification delivery to many users."

Furthermore, not all clients need to store and reseed all messages they receive. More seeders is obviously better for network health, but it's not always a reasonable option. The paper suggests that clients can choose to be "achivists" which means that they keep messages and seed them to others (so it's optional). Clients like mobile phones could easily disable this behavior.
I sort of agree with you here. If anything, he's a nexus of reader's potential reactions. Such is his nature!
Until we can figure out something that doesn't suck, yes. Look, I'm sympathetic with a huge chunk of the world's population having to deal with a (potentially) unfamiliar character set, but what can you do about it? There has to be some standard that everyone can agree to which doesn't compromise the integrity of the net.
So prior governments didn't falsify financial records like they say themselves? Greece did not take on more debt than even the faked statistics supported?

You are saying, contrary to propaganda, the greek government sector and the state-run enterprises were in a splendid and efficient state a couple of years ago?

Furthermore, contrary to propaganda, their is no problem with the completely ineffective and unefficient tax collection system?

I didn't know that, I am very sorry...
just think, if you add a salt that you can change to switch "virtual DNS networks" then everyone can own their own google.com!
That's not really true, as all new members are required to start using Euro as a currency.
Which is what is happening to Greece: It's cheaper to import fish to the epic Island of Ithaca, than to actually fish it!!!
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Ha ha true. Besides those it seems not much else has changed in the type of stuff that tops HN, whether that's a good thing or not is a whole other story I guess
I'd be more impressed if you just deleted your facebook account
Racist much?

As someone who grew up in a third-world country, you don't know what you are talking about. Please, educate yourself.
One problem with defending the Euro is that some of the best anti-arguments are also the most easy to understand. But ask the Japanese how easy it is to actually inflate a problem away...

On the other hand "massive inflation" isn't exactly the easy option. It's just very easy to understand if you are prepared to oversimplify macroeconomics.
no, he's excluding the UK, which kept the pound.
Latvia was put through an austerity program despite having their own currency. Hard to say if that was the right thing. Now that Latvia has a 5%+ growth rate, success has the proverbial 1000 fathers.
Maybe we're talking about different things.

You wrote this: "No, there may be an inflection point in the metric "cost per standardized transistor". But this does not equal "cost per function"."

I claim that is does equal cost per function. Here is my reasoning on that, perhaps we can find out where we're disagreeing.

I'm going to claim that an engineering group E has a design D which they put on a process node Pn. That is a pretty easy claim since pretty much everyone who builds chips does that. :-)

I'm also going to claim that the engineering group is doing everything they can to efficiently use their transistors based on the evidence that efficiency is a key sales metric for chips today.

Then I'm going to claim that for a given design D, on a given process node Pn, you can compute an average cost per transistor for that pairing by considering the number of transistors in the design, the number of instances on a wafer, and the yield of good devices from that wafer, divided by the cost of that wafer.

Here is the assertion the article makes (and I agree with)

In the next process shrink, the cost of producing a wafer will be so high, there there will be zero change in the cost of chips produced on that process.

The engineering teams will do all they can, but the wafer costs will be so much higher that the cost per chip will either not change or go up. It will track signedness if not in magnitude this metric of 'cost per standardized transistor'. Once that is shown to be true, there will be no more investment in new processes because the economic value will not be there. And I claim that this will mean that from that point on chips will get more expensive over time with or without additional features being added.

I can't wait for the papers from the 2014 ISSCC which will tell me if I'm crazy or not :-)
The Eurozone (Germany mostly) is getting closer and closer to Russia. I don't think Latvia will gain any advantage from this.

Take a look at what happened to Cyprus. They (the EU) would never do that to Italy, no matter how crisis-striken would ever be. Meaning: Say tomorrow Russia invades Latvia, the EU will do a couple statements and that's about it.
Welcome to technological progress. Of course it's cheaper to do bulk fishing than small scale fishing with no support infrastructure....
No: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_%28computer_scie...
The alphabet isn't restricted to English. Also, see: punycode.
If you're already using directives to get all your app's state out of the DOM then there's not a lot of practical benefit to using React over Angular. You get some perf gains due to the DOM update batching and it's conceptually cleaner. I think Angular is better for a mixed designer/developer team if the dev builds directives with the goal of letting the designer work independently since non-directive Angular is extremely easy to learn.

The excitement here is that React is a MUCH better match for Clojurescript. The React model is a one way rendering into a virtual DOM, computing a minimal edit list against the real DOM, and applying it in one batch. The idempotent render lines up with pure functions. The batch nature lines up with the epochal time model of Clojure's vars. Clojure's persistent data structures allow react to bypass model mutation checks.

I discussed the topic of client side state with various people at a couple NYC Clojure meetups in the spring and at Clojure/West and everybody had ideas for a solution but nobody had THE solution. The React model, if not React itself, is that solution for Clojurescript. I'm disappointed that I didn't look into the implementation details of React when I checked it out this Summer and found it unremarkable.
For the people emailing me: This is just a copy of the text by Clark as his Popehat site was down. This text doesn't align with my views.
With SHA1 the chances of that happening are so close to zero that you'd have to create trillions of keywords before you even approach a minuscule chance of hitting a collision.

One of my favorite analogies for SHA collisions:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/4014407/690258
How do they recognize you as an alien?

At the border, sure, but inside the country?
The post Stalin Soviet Union also provided everything you mentioned.

No, it didn't, at least not on its own. Even post-Stalin, the Soviet Union couldn't feed its people from its own resources; it relied on large food imports from other countries (including the US). And it still relied on violence to keep people in line, just not as overtly as Stalin did.
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Not in the movie, in the book ('Make Room! Make Room!') by Harry Harrison which inspired the movie
It actually can't -- a fundamental characteristic of this marketplace is that the work can be automatically verified [1].

As part of my PhD work, I created a service for crowdsourcing the verification of Java programs which relied on the same characteristic: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/pubs/veriweb-oopsla20....

One limitation of these crowd-sourcing approaches is that, in practice, validation ("are we trying to build/prove the right thing?") is as important, if not more important, than verification.

[1] this might not be quite true yet, since a solution of "admitted." would pass the Coq checker.
Equality isn't about eliminating differences across different groups. When I argue for a more equal society, I'm not saying everyone should be made to be identical, I'm saying everyone should be treated equitably.

If you read the last article I linked. Pay close attention to this part:

"When participants were told that they were about to perform a working memory task (which included math operations as a kind of distractor) to get norms for student, men and women performed equally. But when the same test was given with the information that this was a test of complex mathematics in order to compare males and females, performance in female participants dropped almost 30 percent."

This suggests to me an inequitable society. A society where at a young age women are already taught that they aren't supposed to be good at math.

The top five countries where women scored better than men are Malta, Albania, Trinidad and Tobago, India, and Kyrgyzstan. Do you have any evidence of educational policies favoring women at the expense of men in these countries?

As to the reading gap, of course this is an issue. Just as much effort that is put into bringing math scores to parity should be spent on the reading gap. Sweden is an example of equality, because even though there are plenty inequitable parts of their society they actively work to make those equitable. What is your preferred model of an equitable society, or do you simply think that equality inevitably means oppressing the dominant class?
Even with two technical co-founders (we're both developers), we're still following this strategy with Lambda (http://getlambda.com). With the exception of our homepage (which is a Jekyll site), we haven't written any code and don't have any immediate plans to start coding either. We've been able to bring in >100k in sales in one month and expect to be able clear over a million next year.

We've discussed some ideas we could start developing, but in each case, we've always been able to come up with a quicker/cheaper way to test the relevant concept without development work. Sticking to a "no code" strategy has been a good way to focus our efforts on activities that actually matter. We both like to code and would probably be happier spending a week hacking instead of taking sales calls, but the latter is more important to our company right now.

Just because you can write code doesn't mean you have to.
>> On average, it took 20 to 30 minutes to purge a month’s worth of posts. After about 12 hours of hand-deleting stories, I decided it was time to automate.

12 hours of deleting by hand? I don't know if I could even do 20-30 minutes worth without seeking a tool.

That's dedication, or something.
I think you've missed his point. If the ECB prints more money but most of your trade is with other Euro countries (which it will be) then you can't really use the devaluation trick.
If they have ever been caught and convicted, I bet they're not allowed to get a license.
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17" 1280x1024, viewing distance about 50 cm. When I'm reading a book, the text size is much smaller than on this page. Mostly like HN pages really.
Wops : ) Thanks for the explanation!
Elsevier is a leech on society and should be destroyed.
Here is the book http://www.amazon.com/Pinterest-Savvy-Followers-Strategies-B...
an epub of that page:
http://www15.online-convert.com/download-file/9bb357fa4f58ff...

using this service:
http://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-epub

seems to work surprising well. not sure how long the link will last but I'll be reading this on the train to work tomorrow :)
Are there successful clinical trials on M&Ms? We're talking about recreational use here, not prescriptions.
I remember trying to install and run this 2 years ago. I checked up on it from time to time, but since it seemed dead I stopped following it(although there seems to be code edit that was an hour ago[1]).

[1] http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/etoile/