skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that there are many stars that are far older than the Sun with Earth-like planets, this is not that far-fetched. We have already started setting aside regions of our own planet as nature preserves, so it's not hard to imagine someone incredibly more advanced than us reaching similar philosophical conclusions and doing so on a solar system or star cluster scale.

This might also involve an element of self-interest on their part. Perhaps intervention has been shown to produce dangerous results.
Google Exec Quit His Job To Work In China – And He's Been Totally Blown Away
Yeah. A past HN discussion caused me to realize that comments are often used for two independent purposes: structure and commentary. Conflating the two has caused many conversations with the participants talking past each other.

http://akkartik.name/post/2012-11-24-18-10-36-soc
For a one-level undo there's always

cd -

Passing a single dash as a parameter to cd takes you back to $OLDPWD and each invocation of cd sets OLDPWD to the directory you were in.
You can look at "FRP".

The pure-function approach is to have one outer loop to update state (and all earlier references are frozen, not just some), so there are no references from previous-iteration state to future-iteration state (but the reverse is OK).
This sounds similar to imposter syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
You're right, but I'd say my comparison is at least a subset of what you're covering.

Yeah, targeting is one thing, exclusion is entirely another. If you're excluding other races from your product that's well...racist.

>The rest of your comment is pure silliness. Every power that came into power, to repeat your phrasing, did so by claiming they were the best and then grabbing the money. When I see the black girls of code claiming they are racially and morally superior to everyone else, and making tons of cash, I'll consider believing you.

Well, I said potentially and you said 'claiming' implying an active process of obtaining power. We are in agreement that black girls are not a powerful force in the development community, but neither were (pick small exclusionary group/minority that came to power). Rwanda anyone?

They aren't now, but could be, especially with the principles they are using that are in place.
An incoming stream of events is easy-- it is just a virtual clock instead of a physical clock. Multiple multithreaded streams is trickier.
PG is now and always has been one of those ruthlessly pragmatic people. He has his mission and he sticks to it. His mission exists within an overarching framework that many of us consider horrific. His work is genuinely less horrific than that of his competitors (standard VCs) and that is one of his selling points.

It's business as usual. I suppose people like you and I are more interested in understanding the relation of SV to the broad context of humanity. Which is why we always get downvoted into oblivion and have to create new accounts.
16 hours in front of a computer (mostly) working 6 days a week

This is not sustainable no matter how much you love it. There is simply not enough time left to live healthy life - rest, exercise, be in a good relationship. Please do not do the same mistakes I made. I used to say what you say and I used to love my work. But I burned out. Love turned into hate. I had to quit - I just could not do it anymore. And I was left with severe depression, anxiety attacks, health problems and worst of all - loneliness. I did not have time for social life and now I have no love in my life, no sex, no intimacy, no meaning, nothing worth living for. I wasted few years of my youth that I will never get back and I just hope that somehow (with a lot of help from my therapist) I will be able to recover and enjoy life again... but it seems almost impossible now. I am in a really bad place right now... and I see you going there as well and loving it.
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Nothing wrong with ASICs at all, but I would prefer to invest in general purpose infrastructure. It seems like a system favoring FPGAs wouldn't be as attractive to botnet owners either.
The Overstock case doesn't increase net demand for bitcoins. This is how Overstock works. I have dollars and I want to buy something on Overstock. I buy some bitcoins with my dollars. I send bitcoins to Overstock and Overstock sends me the product. Overstock then sells the bitcoins to convert back to dollars.

So there is a buy and a sell for each transaction which creates no net demand for bitcoins. And if you consider the alternative where I already have bitcoins because I mined them, then I have bitcoins and I send them to Overstock who sells them for dollars. In that case you actually create downward pressure on the bitcoin price (against the dollar) since there is no buy on my part to net against Overstock's sale of bitcoins.
As far as films go, the plot is almost identical to Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085933/?ref_=nv_sr_4
Here is someone trying to come up with a good solution for generics, rather than simply complaining it don't exist. I am thankful for the effort.
Thanks!

UPDATE: Read up on the thread. Very sad to see how people, and Joyent in particular, came down on Ben. WTF. For what it's worth, here's Ben's response.[0] Reading that, it's pretty obvious he's the only adult involved in that whole fiasco. Seriously, W.T.F.

[0] https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568...
And yet: something that bothers me about that book/movie is that its portrayal of the labor/immigration dynamics seems exactly backward.

Without a fresh supply of young workers, but with all the factories/tools/capital/housing that supported a larger population, the benefit of incremental workers becomes gigantic.

The winning regions in such a scenario would be those that welcome massive immigration to maintain production.

Even assuming some xenophobic fear arising from the uniqueness of the zero-fertility situation, nations like the UK or US, that already have the benefit of worldwide adoption of its language (and cultural exports), and functioning beachhead immigrant communities of all types, would in such a scenario be most likely to recognize that immigrants could soften the pains of a population-shortage.

Keeping immigrants out would require even more of the dwindling population wasted on 'guard labor', and even more empty buildings/communities and idle factories. And to the extent that there are culture clashes – there's now plenty of space to congregate in voluntarily-segregated communities, but still within the same national boundaries for easier trade.

So while I loved a lot about the 'Children of Men' story/movie, its economics were all wrong.
pun aside, but don't these precautions seem a bit too paranoid or is it just me? :D
Why call it a library when it's a code generator/compiler?
Life emerged very early in the geological history of Earth. The probability of this happening is greater under the "P(life|conditions)≈1" model than under the "P(life|conditions)≈0" model. Our historical observations give the "P(life|conditions)≈1" model greater likelihood. It's not exactly proof, but it's enough to convince me.
Why would there be ~40M credit/debit card records for a single day's transactions? Sounds more like they were hanging onto this information long-term for some reason?
>but it would probably take a decade or three.

That is seems like very long. Why would it take three decades?
I'm half black half white, born of a polish father who managed to make it from Poland in 1975, and an army brat african american mother. I grew up in a predominantly white irish and white jewish community on the North Shore of Chicago, racism was subtle but it was there. My older sister has significant experience in this particular field as a woman who was pushed into various programs like this. I happened to end up in CEED at UCLA, a minority focused engineering program and went through the fun stuff of National Achievement related stuff.

So, I know something of the subject.
I think you would enjoy Thomas Campbell's work :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8LaMrn_MM
Yes, that may be so, but perhaps (in some cases) it is because they feel legally obliged to:

"This repository is published in order to share code and information and is not intended to be used directly outside of Twitter. We provide no guarantees of bug fixes, ongoing maintenance, compatibility, or suitability for any user outside of Twitter"

https://github.com/twitter/mysql
Because certain groups face unique discrimination that other groups don't face, and general encouragement does nothing to solve those issues for them.

Please understand privilege.
The issue is fuzzed when you consider less extreme cases than "death row inmates". That is something of a special case since there are many people who think that nobody should be a death row inmate.

A more normal case might be "gender imbalance among garbage collectors" Nobody is going to argue that this imbalance should be corrected by reducing the number of garbage collectors, since they like their trash to be collected. Would they instead argue that the imbalance should be corrected by adding more female garbage collectors? Doubtful. In practice, they will just ignore that imbalance completely. It won't be discussed.
This was in context to the previous comment about power dynamics, but you're right.
There's no way to design a multi-million-user search engine in a way that makes it easy to design, test, and deploy major changes.
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I can't wait for the DigitalOcean of RAM to appear. $5/mo VPS with 20GB RAMdisks, please.
I totally agree. The initial scope of the project is always dragged out by enumerable changes, and if you are on a fixed price agreement you will inevitably be losing. It's an un-fair playing field as far as I'm concerned.
> A kid's first exposure to any interesting subject shouldn't have to be a college level course. Would we teach math that way?

I don't get it. We do teach math that way (unless you think that all math classes are just blobs of an undifferentiated "math" whole).
> but you can't give him back his naive unindoctrinated view of the world.

Exactly the point of my second paragraph. With enough years in front, it can be worth starting completely over again, and gain the possibility of that childlike wonder and enthusiasm. Maybe school -> genius career -> kids and married life -> school -> completely new genius career.

With a long enough healthy life to go, it can be worthwhile to start completely over, rather than hunkering down and preparing for the decline.

EDIT: Anyway, y'all better hope so, because you're all mostly going to live much longer than we elders do, whether you like it or not. Stay sharp.
Hum wow. So there's at least one guy on the internet trying to make sense. And the pop-software culture thing also had to be coined.
Wait 1 week. Then check the numbers of BTC sales again :-)
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Since you're posting your articles to HN, you obviously want people to read what you write. If you want more people to read your writing, then consider making it more accessible and easier on the eyes.

People exist with visual disabilities and giant walls of text in layouts such as yours might as well be a magic eye puzzle.

Yes, you like it and can do what you want, but you're throwing sand in the eyes of people you want to read your stuff.
It's not me bragging with or making fun of the lack of intellect.
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I posted this comment on an older thread about the same topic:
"If radio signals is the best way for us to detect alien intelligent life, and vice-versa, aren't we doomed to keep quiet then? I mean, how long until we phase strong radio signals almost completely? I mean, has there been any growth in the quantity and power of radio signals since, say, the 80's? It's an honest question, since I don't know, but I see radio declining everywhere, except for, I guess, airplane and naval communication. What else am I missing here? Probably a whole lot, maybe someone could fill me/us in?"
Why do you think the price is inflated? The whole market cap is only $11B.
Dying stars write their own swan songs.
Not sure that really helps. They are worried about their security because they don't want to get robbed. If I can break in and hold a gun to your head until you irreversibly transfer me all your bitcoins then you have basically the same security problem.

If your response is that they should keep all their bitcoins in a safe place then maybe we can think about what sorts of safe places you can keep items worth tens of thousands of dollars and then I think you basically end up back at banks.
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I wouldn't take advice from Andy Warhol unless you're trying to make a product that insecure, dumb people want because they want to fit into their subculture. Or selling drugs.
Gaming is fun until it bores you. I play from time to time and I certainly would not like to replace more of my life with games. I'm in it not for pleasures but to see what's next and to affect it.

Some individuals will remain active in the virtual society. Active and with lots of technical ability.
Yeah, that's a good one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6860839
Sorry for my late answer and for not understating the question initially.

We pass https traffic as is, we obviously can't look in it or manipulate it.

However most of the products (something like 98%) are on http connections.
Just because your friend wasn't aware of their roles doesn't mean that his/her lack of awareness is someone else's fault and responsibility. Maybe s/he should research a little more next time before singling out and belittling female tech workers. Isn't the rallying cry of social justice something like "it's not our job to educate you?"
We don't completely ignore math until high school, suddenly say "so there are these things called numbers," expect to get along to algebra in one semester, and then throw our hands up in the air when that doesn't work out.
There actually is, but in an extremely limited form.

There are currently four living people that receive medical marijuana from the federal government. They were grandfathered in after the Compassionate Investigational New Drug program was closed to new applicants in 1992.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassionate_Investigational_N...
Honest question: why is this exciting? I'm using a server with 284gb as I write this, and it's several years old.
"Commonly robbed" is an exaggeration.
I regret putting myself on one of those circles. :(
Yes, because your landlord accepts bitcoin. Or, if you have a home, the bank.
Because the real world has surprised for us (and them) to discover. In search of the unknown, humankind has discovered a lot...
Tuning for mobile and low-bandwidth environments
Is there anything that works on Linux other than the steaming pile of crap commonly know as Eclipse?
That may be true for some (many? most?) people, I could think of a couple of reasons:

a) Desire to explore nature's imagination instead of that of another human or AI. Perhaps we never hit a limit of computation, but there is an entire expanding, constantly growing in complexity universe out there to understand!

b) Even with artificial penalties, I doubt any virtual world could carry the same perceived risk as going out into the real world and risking getting eaten by a black hole or burned by an exploding supernova (assuming of course, you knew of/could tell the difference).
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From what I saw in high school and college, the biggest factor in determining whether someone stayed with CS was the quality of the first class in CS. I had a kickass high school CS teacher and he got me off to a great start. In college, some of the 100 level professors were shit, and as a result I knew of a lot of people who decided CS was not for them.

I think improving high school CS classes will make a big impact on students going into the profession.

I think we as professional developers could probably help a lot by volunteering at schools to help give kids exposure to the practical applications of Computer Science, which I think it's far more compelling than just trudging through textbooks. I also think that could give kids access to internships and mentors they wouldn't normally have.
Fortunately, not all high schools are like this.

Mine had 1 classroom devoted to computer classes. These computers were Windows NT workstations. Students logged in with normal accounts (not administrators) but there were no other restrictions.

That isn't to say that they didn't lock down any computers. They did. The library computers were essentially chrome books. All you could do was run IE and Word.
There isn't a paradox. The universe is teeming with life.

I've always believed that there was no evidence for ETs and life out there. I thought it was fiction. Then I spent all of last year trying to find legitimate proof of their existence. I just kept my mind open yet skeptical and looked at all the evidence I could find and simply analyzed the data. I was shocked that my conclusion was that ETs exist, they have been visiting us for quite some time, and they are generally benevolent.

You don't have to believe anything I say, in fact I wouldn't want you to. All I can ask is that you also spend some legitimate effort doing your research. Here's something to start your path down the rabbit hole:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyVe-6YdUk
I'm pretty ignorant of these details, so: why do atomic bombs only take us to 8% of the speed of light? What happens if we're at 8% and explode a couple of more bombs?
The current randomness supports human life. I'm not so sure that whatever replaces it will too.
My experience has been that it's endemic among people who don't care to go to the effort involved in fluency, but that doesn't really shed light on the question of whence comes the fallacious idea that "self-expression" necessarily implies imprecision. If anything, I'd argue that the opposite is true, and that successful "self-expression" relies on the precise use of language; how else, after all, to express oneself in the fashion in which one intends, than to do so as precisely as possible?

(In case anyone cares, I keep putting "self-expression" in quotes because all use of language is to some degree "self-expression", which makes the phrase so sloppy in meaning as to be essentially useless, save, I think, for purposes of self-aggrandizement; there seems some inherent presumption that placing something in the category of "self-expression" renders it immune to criticism, which even if true confers no more nobility upon the subject than that afforded to the finger paintings a youngster might bring home from kindergarten.)
The squeeze bottles (which seem better than neti pots) help, but they don't actually cure infections, in my case. On the plus side, my kids think it's extremely entertaining to watch their dad shoot water through his nose!
Naming and shaming is something sjws do, not suffer through. Equal treatment would be sex/rac/heterosex/ist!
The "we can't let you delete your account, otherwise our entire system breaks down" thing is something I simply can't understand as an argument, especially on YCombinator's HackerNews.

I already asked for deletion of all my comments/submission and the account, but never got a response. I'd not be ok with having my account "disabled" like on Facebook. This is not a police database or a highly critical system where deleting records is illegal, dangerous or anything. People just submit links and talk about it, that's all and we all try to be friendly to each other here as good as possible (not always though).

I believe that letting people go and opt-out, or delete their account is not a luxury or an option, but a human right and part of a good customer service too.
I don't think that's the appropriate attitude to take. If you want Mary Jane legalization and tolerance in the mainstream, you need the banks. In other words, relying purely on BTC will only hinder the progress towards federal legalization for the simple fact BTC is not mainstream.
Also, not just for HTTP either since they can sign their own software binaries with it too.

Probably cheaper for them to be their own CA long term.
I don't see what problem bitcoin solves for these businesses. The first example in the article is having to take $51,000 in cash to pay the company's taxes to the state. Bitcoin does not solve this in any fashion. I really struggle to find the problem that bitcoin solves in this situation.
Populations are contracting because of overpopulation. I think it's clear we're in the later phases of Calhoun's rat experiments, where overcrowding sent rat birth rates crashing. In the human context I think the "overcrowding" stress includes the ever increasing complexity and flux of the society. There's not a techno/policy fix. This is a self-correcting problem that should be left alone. Fertility peaked in the industrialized world many years ago because the lands are full. Allowing immigration has been a mistake.

A contracting population is clearly a big problem for the capital class. It's bad for stock and bond holders, employers of labor, politicians, and I guess people who made poor retirement preparations. But I don't buy that it's a problem for workers Joe and Jane Blow. They eventually get cheap, high quality housing, and are more inclined to start a family.

Anyway, I also think the various futurist techno fantasies are wrong. Unless liquid thorium reactors or such-like come online next month we're entering an age of permanently escalating energy and food costs. Technology still runs on energy. The Jetsons future of electric cars and soylent for growing billions is not going to happen. The future for most is bicycles with rice and beans.
A lot of human, throught humanity's history, had the material means to live a pretty pleasant, labor-free life, and yet chose a different path, away from hedonism. I suppose this will still be true many centuries from now.
They're only permitted to keep the full credit card number for as long a business need exists. For a hotel or a car rental agency, that might be days.

But for a retail transaction, it is a couple of seconds: submit the charge, mag stripes (and maybe PIN-block) and all. Then receive back the accept or decline. Just a simple HTTPS request. They are only allowed to keep part of the PAN beyond that time frame (the BIN and the last four if memory serves). No expiration date. And no CVV (the one that authenticates the mag stripe data, not the three or four digit code you enter for online transactions).

What the hackers must have done is to install malware on Target's POS terminals that was intercepting the full mag stripe data and making it available to the hackers. They must have gained free reign on Target's corporate network, allowing them to access the POS terminals remotely. The marketing database breach was just frosting on the cake.
Personally, I think they are underrepresented in technology leadership.
The sad thing is that it's very likely that sjws will embark on some sort of crusade against her for not fitting into their worldview. Anyone who exists in a way counter to their ideology is marked an enemy to be destroyed in the most high school styled manner possible. Ironic, considering that they claim that their goal is to further the cause of women in tech, etc.