skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see two other people commenting about framing memories based on moving at a young age. I have the same thing, and I wonder if moving at a young age correlates with higher childhood memories.

I moved when I was 7, and it's a very distinct transition in the quality of my memories. I have tons of pre-move memories, including one confirmed by my parents as my 2nd birthday party, but they're primitive. No sense of time, just a jumble of memories that I can't place chronologically, and most are very brief moments. However, I remember the move and everything after it vividly and in chronological order.

I would suppose that the move made me reminisce about my old home during the period when my childhood memories were fading, and saved many of them from being lost.
You're preaching to the choir, my friend. I think the GPL is great.

I also think the MIT license is great, or at the very least that people who use it shouldn't be vilified. As I mentioned elsewhere, vilifying the MIT license is counterproductive to our mutual goal of seeing less proprietary software. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7026368
Genius idea! Long thought that about a space you could turn up, surf the web, chill out. If they have set this up as they describe could feel move like your home away from home. Surf the web, grab a drink, make some new friends etc. Going to check it out soon!
The real use cases for macros boil down to 3 main areas:

1. Changing order of evaluation.

2. Creating new binding forms.

3. Implementing a data sub-language a.k.a. DSL

Although arguably #3 doesn't require macros, arguably it requires macros to do elegantly (Rubyists might argue not) and reliably (instead of monkey-patching, using hygiene and a macro-aware module system that can handle towers/layers of such systems).
Dwolla disables auto-withdraw, leaves mess
I'm not suggesting anything, like that Dwolla was trying to increase cash reserves by disabling withdraws (similarly to how Google has on many occasions disabled auto payments, requiring users to log in and update their tax info, for no good reason), not re-enabling them and then hoping that users don't re-enable them or take their time doing so, or anything like that...

No, seriously, I'm sure it was just a complete accident, but it's frustrating when companies "fix" things, but leave affected users to cleanup afterwards.
Half of package managers are down (can not retrieve package) as well. Mirrors, please?
I can only imagine what level of frantic insanity is going on behind the scenes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
The impression I get from [1] is when a reporter visited the food was biscuits, peanut butter, toast and an onion (Apparently customers are invited to bring and cook their own food)

£9 would get you four loaves of bread[2] and three jars of peanut butter[3]. You'd have to be pretty hungry to eat enough of that for them to make a loss.

I assume the concept is fairly experimental at the moment, presumably they won't want people sprinting in, making an espresso for 3p and running out. Or I might have misunderstood what I read in [1]. In any case, it'll be interesting to see how it shakes out.

[1] http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2014/01/08/pay-per-minute-c...
[2] https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Wholemeal-Bread-Medium...
[3] https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Crunchy-Peanut-Butter-...
Like Homebrew!
The here key is: trust!

Something, that most big companies lack.

(many successful companies start with trusting their people, but end up with no trust at all ... and at least then the way goes downhill)
"as long as the 'RECURSIVE' part of CTE is
ignored."... To me, the recursive part of CTEs is half the point! All the other stuff is syntactic sugar that can be done elsewhere, but recursion is a function that I'm unable to find another method for elsewhere in the language.

Note: I have far more SQL Server experience than I do with any other DBMS.
When did the Washington Post stop being respected? And by whose judgement?
You were viewing Chris Granger's blog. This was a blog post about the new Light Table version.

What you're looking for is at http://www.lighttable.com/
That's a really unfortunate opinion regarding the role of art. I don't want a world where art is expected to stay away from uncomfortable topics.

Art (and I'm including popular entertainment) plays a very important role in how we think about and understand topics.
Top 5 syntactic weirdnesses to be aware of in MongoDB
There's speculation that NVidia's Project Denver is an Efficeon reworked to target ARM code rather than x86. So there might be a live Transmeta descendant out in the real world again in a few months.

http://anandtech.com/show/7622/nvidia-tegra-k1/2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver
I've done this at my university, but in a slightly less obnoxious way.

We have a grid computing environment set up (using Sun Grid Engine) that allows people to run bulk jobs across both dedicated clusters and in spare cycles on lab machines. The way it was set up, CPU jobs on lab machines were set to an extremely low priority, so they don't interrupt legitimate use, and the jobs in some queues were set up so they'd be suspended when real jobs needed to run.

I'd submit hundreds of jobs to the background queue, which would run for a couple of hours and then stop. I also had access to a fairly large number of Nvidia GPUs which were used largely to teach people Cuda and run big simulations every month or so. I was able to use a pretty good portion of my college's compute power without being particularly annoying to other users.

I stopped after a while (maybe 2 weeks), because it was rather inefficient (I mined about 0.04 coins, at the time worth about $8) and because it was a huge pain to maintain. I would probably do it again with a different currency, but it's really not worth it.
Of course you're "docking" it. Nobody sane hunches over a laptop all day every day.

The advantage to the laptop is you can have your core machine with you everywhere -- home, office, or traveling. But when you're in the two places you spend the most time -- the office or at home -- you plug it into an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
Doesn't practically every high schooler (in the U.S. at least) read both books, be assigned an essay to ask which one has happened, and then come to the conclusion that we're far more like Brave New World? As a foreword to a book, this isn't exactly original stuff.

But there's also a counterpoint, which is that all the distraction, or the pleasure, or gossip, or whatever it is -- that's the stuff that it means to be human. We don't just mindlessly watch TV -- we talk about it with friends, joke about it, have fun with it. When a man comes home after a hard day of work, and wants to unwind by watching Celebrity Apprentice with his wife, I think sometimes people are a little to quick to judge. Everybody needs their 'guilty pleasures'. That doesn't mean that's all we are.
Perfectly put. I'm having to take a VB.net course to advance to the next level of my high school's CS curriculum, if you could even call it that.

It's painful as hell, and like you said, makes me feel like a corporate monkey who's writing some ugly code for use in some specific pants-on-head retarded enterprise "app."
And they don't have to worry whether the two cameras are pointed in the same direction. And they don't have to worry about the pointing shifting over time.
I agree. Have a look at this video for proof of the fallacy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
It really is, I ended up checking here straight away, despite there being a link directly to the status page on the error pages of github.
Probably this if anything:

http://ootbcomp.com/

EDIT: They're releasing explanations as they submit patents, so not everything is public yet. I just submitted the most recent talk.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7027115
yap! and npm, bower, rubygems, etc...
Status page says down for me, but site is up for me.
The parent is completely correct and you would be too if you had said "Yes but…" rather than "Nope."
Buy installs.
is that flashpoint?
I have tons of memories of age 2 and 3. My mother would often ask me, "What did you do today?" before I went to sleep, and so perhaps that is why I can recall so much.

Interesting memories are: the day I saw light shine on dust particles, watching my sister miss her first bus, and eating lint off the floor.
I'd gladly pay for guaranteed work-space on an hourly basis and get complimentary coffee, more so than the inverse.
and..... it's back down. nvm
My earliest memory is definitely strongly emotional - a recurring nightmare when I was 3 or younger (I know that because we moved house) was of a big tube sucking on my belly. I can't imagine that was a memory then of having an umbilical cord, but maybe someone fooling around with a vacuum cleaner...
While there is no system of government that is good, a random lottery would probably be better than what we have today. In a democracy, the best liars and thieves rise to the top of the totem pole. I think that a random sample of the population is more likely to include a few more good and decent people than today's system where outright criminals continuously gain power. EDIT - this idea of the incentives in democracy for bad people to rise to the top is discussed in very interesting ways in Hoppe's Democracy: The God that Failed which I would highly recommend.

One reason why I believe that a voluntary society is the ultimate future of the world is that there would be more opportunity for like minded folks to get together and institute any social order they wish to. If there's lots of folks that believe in a guaranteed basic income, there wouldn't be any regional monopoly of ideas so they'll have an opportunity to try their ideas and convince others that their system is the right one.
It might be visitors from those countries downloading the app via their respective carrier's app "storefront" while visiting a city where the services are offered/operating.
CES 2014: Before Google Glass there was "Forgettable"
Clearly, we need a "Hacker News is Down" Gist so we can chat about Hacker News being down when it goes down.
I thought they settled in order to avoid the felonies they committed by not reporting the suspicious activity? They paid to not go to jail. Obviously, they think $1.7B is cheaper than fighting it with their huge legal team. It's not like the Feds are picking on someone defenseless here.
Ask HN: Bitcoins, where to begin?
What is the best tutorial for a beginner to start BitCoins? I am new to this and so far all I have got is a Bitcoin ID. I need more insight, Please help!!!!
I would be very interested in a bank that is open source, radically transparent, and run for the benefit of the community.

The code for the website, backoffice systems, credit scoring, and fraud detection could be open-sourced and continually improved.

Data on credit decisions would be available to any member to scrutinize and challenge, thus reducing fraudulent or unwise loans and identifying opportunities to expand profitable lending.

The bank's individual loans and investments would be public, perhaps lightly scrubbed of personal identifying information. Regulators, journalists, and motivated individuals could see if sweetheart deals are being made at the expense of the membership or the deposit insurance fund.

The bank could publish a public "blockchain" of transactions similar to Bitcoin so financial statements could be reconciled down to the transaction level. This might make it much more difficult to hide fraud and abuse.

Incidents of fraud and default would be published as they occur. The resulting social pressure should reduce the bank's costs, and the data could be used to improve credit and membership decisions.
Perhaps the App Store should provide an option to the developers to hide the app from the listing pages based on a negative list of countries?
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DISHES? Get your self a dishwasher and focus on a task that needs your full attention of just rest. After all this multitasking I think your head and body needs to just chill.
That is true, if the LT team doesn't require a copyright assignment by all contributors (or similar). If they do, they can relicense it. That's the question being discussed.
Why you can't get your medical test results delivered directly to you in CA
Infographic: Digital Tech Triumphs
Hey guys - Farhan from CB Insights here. We're collecting and analyzing a ton of mobile data (50GB a day, 650M+ rows so far!) and are trying to surface interesting publishers and trends.

If you have any questions about the analysis or have any topics you'd like us to look at, let me know. We're always looking for ways to slice and dice this data set. I'm at fahmed at cbinsights.com.
Ordinary people generally do not understand the second order effects of government decisions. That is why you need to explain them the consequences of these decisions in a more dramatic way.

I am new to America but from little experience I can say that if you really want American to move their asses then should somehow link the issue with some of the American sports. Say that NSA is actually fixing NBA, MLB matches and you might have an uncontrollable situation in the country.
Maybe 5% of CS grads at the greatest will ever do CS as a full time job. 95% will be programmers/engineers most of the time. Its nuts that you think we should be teaching the former and not the later in just the same way that law is taught. Instead of teaching the practice, the academic subject is taught which means graduating students require extensive experience.
Leisure driving isn't usually done on roads that are full of other cars all in gridlock trying to get home. It'll be on those same roads at much later times in the day, when the traffic is thinner, or it'll be off on a country road or mountain pass somewhere.

I love to drive. I do not enjoy dealing with major backups. When I'm leisure driving, it's out to a small town in the middle of nowhere later in the afternoon or when everyone is at work; or, it's out in the boonies because wow that view when I take a certain turn is just absolutely spectacular.
This is awesome. Glad they introduced this feature sooner than later.
Anyone know what the difference is between status.github.com and github.com/status? /status just says "Github Lives!" with a timestamp.
> People can easily connect to their desktop machines from home using the VPN.

And use what to interact with it? VNC? I'd lose my mind. That's not an efficient user experience, it's slow and finicky and fucks up keyboard shortcuts.

> I couldn't see myself working on a laptop all day unless it had an external monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Which is exactly what we do. What lunatics do you work with that use laptops as primary work machines without doing this?
This law is ridiculously arcane. I simply don't understand why CA will not allow patients to receive results themselves.
The difference, though, is that the sweet.js example of classes aims to implement something that is traditionally a language feature. APIs tend not to do this.

You might argue that the distinction between APIs and language features is arbitrary. But I'd say there is a meaningful difference. An API helps you tackle a particular problem domain, such as making an HTTP request, communicating over a USB port, or writing an image. Whereas a language feature is much more generic. It's not limited to any particular problem domain. Rather, it cuts to core of how we express problems in general.

If we're all ostensibly writing JavaScript, I don't think we should be using multiple, incompatible variants of the same language features.
I'm very fond of anticafes as an idea. We usually gather there to play board games or for birthday parties. AMA :)

You can drink tea and coffee with cookies or you can bring your own cake or you can order pizza/sushi delivery.

We've visited a Ziferblat/Ziferburg in SpB and it's amazing, they're sitting on the top floor of a historic building just opposite Gostinyy Dvor (and near the jealousy-inspiring VK office btw), they even have a piano there.
Next day deposits? Does this mean Balanced has no reserve policy?
I like controlling the car around those leisurely bends. Feels good to experience the wheels rotating in a certain way around a banked turn WITH an amazing view.
I'm not even sure the word "logical" is necessary there, and I haven't seen any indication that the activities are anything other than a continuation of what Hoover started.
I've run 30-40K through Stripe over the last several months for a couple consulting clients with no issues whatsoever.

Stripe does what it says on the tin.

These guys are a dream to deal with versus my old set up (Authorize.net and First Data). Those guys are thieves who nickel and dime you to death with cryptically-named mystery fees.

I'm in the US FWIW.....
Clearly the idea has worked in Russia, but I find it hard to see how charging a flat rate can be financially viable. The pricing seems like such a fine line to make it cheap enough for its intended usage (people hanging around and such) but expensive enough to cover the food. As other commenters pointed out already, you could walk in, take a bunch of food and expensive coffee and leave.

I think one way of attacking this problem would be similar to taxi-cab pricing (X for the first mile and Y (where Y<<X) for every subseqeunt one. Essentially adding a flat fee of a few bucks just for walking in, then charging a small amount per minute to hang around.
Github is down
https://status.github.com/

Down for everyone.
If you have external service dependancies on your deployment process, you're gonna have a bad time.
Appears to be coming back now.
While we can have mechanical detectors in experiment setups that are part of these experiments, the fact is that there is no way to conclusively say that the presence of consciousness does not play a role in the collapse of the wave function. All experiments we do are done by conscious humans, there is always a conscious observer part of the experiment. That is kind of the conundrum for which after 100+ years there still is no definitive answer brought forward by science.

You should also realize that you are positing something equally crazy by implying causation the other way around, meaning that the collapse of the wave function somehow can cause changes to the mental state of a conscious person at breathtakingly large distances.
Yes! That's how robots should behave. Robot cars drifitng and bipeds doing backflips and pushups when handstanding on one arm.
> Your users can't modify (and must pay for) your derivative.

Which doesn't reduce their freedom, since they couldn't modify it -- or have the choice to pay for it and use it -- before I made the proprietary derivative.

The only "reduction in freedom" is based on the assumption that I would have made and shared a Free derivative if I did not have the choice to distribute a proprietary one, rather than either not making a derivative, or making a derivative for my own use and not providing it to others.
It could be a GIST in github. It might be help for someone.
Banks have 2 key functions:
1. Taking deposits and lending them out again. i.e. creating money through the credit creation process.
2. Providing money transfer capabilities.

positvemoney.org runs a policy campaign which makes a compelling argument for a separation of these two functions as a response to the financial crisis. One of the arguments is that when the investments of banks fail, our ability to transact fails with them. Not exactly a resilient system.

There are a number of existing open source projects to create libraries and protocols to generically provide money transfers.
http://opencoin.org (disclaimer: I am involved with this project)
http://opentransactions.org
http://opencoin.com - open source but very much commercial

Those who say bitcoin is addressing these functions are misguided. Bitcoin is arguably a currency tightly integrated with a transaction technology. In theory the bitcoin transaction technology could be re-worked to be useful as a library for money transfers (non-anonymous). I imagine that would be a significant amount of work.
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I moved countries at ages 3, 4, 5, and 6. Knowing that I can pin any image, sensation, or similar to a certain age really helps me identify the age I was at for those memories, where I'd probably just assume I'd been older, if that makes sense? If it happened in Bangkok, I was 3 or younger, the UK, 3-4, Malawai, 4-5 or Barbados, over 6. This makes it much much easier to know which memories I have from when I was < 3 (very few, but some), and 3-4.
Thank you for the more detailed examples.

I agree that your examples present a worse case than I had initially thought. Although I wonder if there are positive benefits for society that balance those out (I can't think of any in particular).

So if there is a net overall negative effect for society, how big is the effect? Is it on the scale of a nuclear war, or more along the lines of the anti-vaccination movement (causes real problems, but not the end of the world).
"How We Became Posthuman" by N. Katherine Hayles - really interesting book that traces the trajectory of how (among other trhings) information came to be considered (im)material essence of consciousness, a "thing" that exists independent of our embodied experience - she succinctly (and briefly) covers ground from turing to norbert weiner to the macy conferences , systems theory, Hans Moravec and so on. The book was published in 1999 I think and makes frequent reference to Francisco Varela's book "The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience", which I think touches on a lot of the subjects discussed in this thread (ie, creating a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditative psychology) - I think both these books are very well written and may provide valuable context to those who are interested:

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo376...

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/embodied-mind
I'm wondering which of these came from the card networks and, most importantly, what's the actual rationale for including them?

* Virtual currency that can be monetized, re-sold or converted to physical or

* digital products or services or otherwise exit the virtual world

* Sexually-oriented or pornographic products or services

* Airlines

* Cruise lines

* Flea markets

* Drug paraphernalia

* Psychic services

* Prepaid phone cards, phone services or cell phones

* Telecommunications equipment and telephone sales

* Personal computer technical support
Is your intention to learn more about the protocol, try to invest, mine bit coins, use it to buy stuff, work on using the programmability of the protocol to create new types of stuff?

If you're on HN, you're probably a technical person. There's a lot of great resources about the protocol itself that are interesting, but this is one of my favorite introductory resources that kind of made it all click for me.

http://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fin...
--please?
Now that I think about it, quants could benefit from a financial equivalent of a combined MD PhD. Large scale finance and clever math can be quite dangerous after all.
Nice gimick, straight from the Tim Ferriss school of language.
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The only very early memory that I can firmly date is visiting my mother in the hospital before or shortly after my brothers (twins) were born. That was when I was about 2.5 years old, judging by our ages/birthdays.

Other than that, I've got nearly nothing. No solid memories that aren't possibly just reconstructions from photographs or stories until I was about 10 or 11.
We've been experimenting with unison.com.
- easy sign-up.
- no charge for outside vendors/clients/contractors brought into chats.
- multi-threaded rooms (vs. one long chat).

Web-based with native iPhone and Android clients (no native iPad client, which would be nice). Fairly simple web interface. Good feedback and integration into notifications.