skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand all the irony people keep pointing too. The point as I understand it is that people were miserable using the business products of that day.

Nowadays you could make an argument that people are lemmings for using Apple products just for the sake of them being Apple products, but judging from both anecdotes and high customer satisfaction ratings, I highly doubt the majority of Apple product users are miserable with their iPhones etc.
Your explanation doesn't make sense. If you actually do look at what happened with the inflationary dollar since the "late 19th century", it lost 96-97% of its purchasing power due to the monetary inflation.

Which means that if your grandma stored her wealth in dollars and wanted to pass it onto you, you can only enjoy 3-4% of what's left.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YTyPGaEsBcw/T0Kd1nS9zJI/AAAAAAAABQ...
Hey there,

Are you guys looking for interns for the summer? Also, what languages do you work with?

Thanks!
It's the responsibility of the media to make the interview known to the public and direct the public to where they can view it (if they're not showing it directly on their network). When people talk about suppressing coverage, that to me is how they're doing it.

That 30 minute interview is greatly in the public interest.
auto-update on materialized views! one step closer towards an OLAP solution.
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It's an important blockchain lesson, that there are no rules, only a combination of concentrated technical leadership and majority sentiment.

If the blockchain this happened on was serious business you would probably see mass abandonment.
The code samples used to demonstrate that library loads a trees.geojson file with features like 'oak' and 'maple', so I think he definitely meant 'topography'. What makes you say it's a topology library?
Another aspect that I'd like to add is that full cooperation and sync is needed between the Test engineer and the Developer in order to have good testing coverage:
1) It's important that the tester knows which automatic tests are covered by the Developer.
2) The manual tests should have ADDED VALUE to the automatic tests. If the tester performs tests which could have been automatic - that is waste.
The sole fact that one has to reach over themselves and make a great deal to invoke it when thinking within Clojure's mechanics - they become neither cheap to mentally fiddle around with, nor actually implement within.

(FWIW, though, Clojure's novelty to me was an STM system that I could get up and running without a night's worth of tweaking, and otherwise fall safely into a great deal of attention if something were to go hilariously wrong - most of the other solutions around "back then" seemed to regard themselves as research curios lagging behind in fit and finish.)
5% inflation does not a Weimar Repulic make.
I'm hoping to become a mathematician, but math isn't my forte. Is it possible?
blame monsanto, not our poor decisions
Do startups hire people who are 35+ years old? Sorry for the grammar.

And I've asked myself this because of this picture of MixPanel employees:
https://mixpanel.com/jobs/
thank you for sharing. didn't know about these series.
Hedy Lamarr [1] co-invented frequency hopping, the foundation of modern spread-spectrum communications technology (Wifi, Bluetooth among others)

Marie Curie [2] was awarded two Nobel prizes.

Emmy Noether [3] is known as the mother of modern algebra, a pretty important field, and part of the foundation of many applications today.

Some others of interest are Rosalind Franklin [4], Beatrice Schilling [5], and Barbara Liskov [6]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Shilling

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov
When is proper inheritance being done?
> don't really know how feasible this is

And I suspect neither does the author. I looked at the previous project (OpenGL Renderer) which comes in at 250 lines of code and barely any functionality. The current project is has no code at all.

I'm all for sharing ideas, but this is somewhat lacking. The design document touches on the memory model, but ignores all the other problems an OS has to solve (scheduling, networking, disk IO...).
This idea reminds me of what Go is doing with their channels to solve concurrency issues: they're essentially sharing data by copying the data.

Copying data is slow and that's why Go's channels aren't the fastest solution, but they're less complex than dealing with the traditional concurrency issues.

I've written a toy kernel and I just can't imagine copying all process data because 1 little thing changed. However, there's no reason not to pursue this idea, as it may prove to be useful in certain cases. If real-time schedulers have their place, why wouldn't such an OS have its uses? I think Go (and other projects) have proved the concept works, so maybe it's time to see an OS?

Best of luck to you and I hope to hear good news in the future!
Umm.

> Psychiatry and psychology will become useful to science

So no, he didn't say they were useless.

Why can't he lodge a criticism without throwing everything else out? Read the article he linked to. It's not crazy---they're just trying to be better.
Psychiatry and psychology have probably taken lives as well.
I see a number of projects sharing similar traits:

- DVCS
- btrfs,zfs
- rethinkdb
- persistent datastructures (cons cells, fp trees)
- nix package management, virtualenv, containers
- react/pedestal (pushing ux delta upgrades)
This is actually starting to sound like a far better currency than bitcoin could ever be. You know, a liquid medium of exchange rather than a deflationary libertarian wet dream.

All the best ideas are jokes.
Seems like one of the major unasked questions - what sort of monetary policy will work best for cryptocurrency. And what will be the decision process for that policy. The technoanarchists have conspicuously elided this question.
In the same vein as Kasparov's book, there is this interview of Kramnik where he talks about the world champions before him [0]. It's interesting how he explains how different qualities can offset each other, for example, discipline and creativity.

[0] http://www.kramnik.com/interviews/61
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The old UK V-bomber fleet was definitely targeted at Soviet cities and any air defense sites that would stop them getting there.
This is a good example of how hn is suffering from the real slashdot effect lately. That is, people posting authoritative sounding but completely wrong information and getting upvoted for it.
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Outside the Silicon Valley world, there are numerous similar examples. J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel was rejected by 12 publishers, for instance.

The stupidest things can turn out to be hits. I read of a guy who decided to market an electric toothbrush in the early '90s, when that market was considered by skeptics to be mature and saturated. He was quite successful, as it turned out.

I guess the nature of entrepreneurship is that it's entirely unpredictable. Therefore, we can safely disregard the naysayers, even though they are accidentally right 9 times out of 10!
Are you assuming that fixed supply leads to price stability? If so, please expand.
Actually it deals with both. Primarily it deals with topology and statistics in the context of topography and geography. The concepts addressed by topology are essential to any GIS engine. There are actually several definitions of topology, and turf actually touches on most of them:

- basic topology like detecting whether or not a point lies within a complex polygon

- topological morphology, such as smoothing a line or polygon while maintaining boundaries (this is probably the most common definition in the GIS world)

- topological interpolation, such as estimating z values over a 3d mesh[1][2] (there are a number of methodologies here, and this represents probably the most interesting intersection of topology and statistics)

Also note that turf is geared towards GIS, but most of the underlying operations are not GIS specific and apply to geometry more generally. You will find many of the same algorithms in applications like game engines, for example.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriging
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contour_line
Business analysts want access to advanced analytics
What else could one expect from the Orwellian government? This only proves the point that press in the police state is just a tool of power, not an independent media by any means.
Important performance benefits compared to what? Systems that are very performance sensitive typically don't use garbage collectors to begin with. They instead rely on techniques to avoid generating much garbage in the first place.
It was advertised as being capped and it turned out they hadn't coded a cap into it. If you read the entire thread, the developers appear to just realize this as well after the issue is reported. They then later decide to keep it as it is, which is a change to what was advertised.
I've found #web to be slightly toxic.
Since they're so slow, they're typically only used as "safe" data storage for keys, with all crypto happening in the CPU.

The main appeal of a TPM is then that data stored inside it is "sealed" (bound) to a defined system state (which only protects against the most crude attacks, but still) and somewhat protected from access.

You could just store a password encrypted key in there, like the one created for regular disk crypto. Worst case (TPM fully broken) it's as good as a no-TPM setup. In all other cases, the TPM provides another line of defense.
How are settings like this updated? Is it like the blockchain fork, where the settings are hardcoded into the client, so the longest chain uses whatever settings are in the client most popular with miners?

For example, if someone with a lot of resources wanted to adjust the inflation settings for bitcoin, how would they go about it?
Is it copying all process data? Or copying a reference to the process data and then performing copy-on-write when a process makes changes locally?
This was on here not long ago: http://bropages.org/
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-01-30-core-gamers...

Good article that got passed around in my office on Friday. People who are 'gamers' and by extension people who make games tend to look at "whales" as gullible stupid people but a lot of us tend to exhibit the same behaviour about other things all while congratulating ourselves for not pay 5 bucks to support a game we've played for 50 hours.

That said I think there is a really really fine line you have to walk to keep your IAPs "ethical" and it's very temping (and profitable) to fall on the Candy Crush side of things.
I think it's a matter of etiquette and professionalism. I don't get huffy about minor misspellings most of the time, but this conversation took place in a professional context. Imagine a scenario where you discover that several thousand dollars are missing from your bank account. You don't want them to reply with, "lol, sry bro... much stolen funds, wow fraud... we'll look into that... l8r"

When talking with friends I'd probably find that kind of banter (when used in moderation) to be amusing, but I expect a business person to take the time to proofread and spellcheck a message before sending it to me. I'm paying them money, they should show me a little courtesy.
Table inheritance already exists, the problem is that its generally not a great idea for databases. I believe the general consensus from much of the community is they wish Postgres didn't have it. I don't foresee many improvements to it in the near term, but also very hard to predict what will come out of it as if someone wants to scratch that itch it has a chance of getting in.
Theres a whole bunch on Swell, the radio app.

But I think founder stories on Pandomonthly video is probably the best - she already covered a good diverse set of people from B2B, B2C, media, VCs, CEOs... etc
The author is probably not even aware of those problems, and will hit a wall when he realizes his new OS has to deal with one of those issues -- and that's assuming he even gets far enough in his project to deal with scheduling or IO. Writing your first operating system is an especially challenging task even when you're not trying to revolutionize the traditional OS model.

I don't suppose this project will actually go anywhere, though I'd be pleasantly surprised to be wrong.
They can re-air portions of it without paying any money (fair use), right? They do it all the time. Why not this time? And why not discuss it? They discuss findings in scientific journals without reprinting the entire articles, so why not discuss a high-profile interview without re-broadcasting the entire thing?
> This might actually have significant performance benefits.

Not really. On the other hand, it makes the implementation of GCs much simpler.

(immutability semantics also tends to make memory churn much higher, so what little gain you get from a simpler implementation is often lost in the GC having to do more work)

Also, it's not like these things are unstudied FFS.
Under OSX it's been completely stable AFAIK, YMMV.
Absolutely, mutual funds and all investments assume some level of risk because to keep it in cash means losing money to inflation. There would be way smaller and more risk averse pool of investment capital if the dollar were deflationary. For example many portfolios whose goal is wealth preservation buy municipal bonds which fund public works projects(and certainly have a non-zero risk of default).
Unless its LFS. :)

But yes, in general all mainstream Linux distros do ship with many tools/libs - X.org, GTK, Gnome, whatnot. Are all of them part of the OS? I see the package manager as a third party tool much like the rest since it does not interact with the core OS in any deep sense. But maybe my point of view comes from being a Linux user since 1996 with Slackware..
An operating system whose main goal is not performance is forever going to be a toy of professors.

Be careful! That statement was once true of programming languages.

Over time, larger and larger numbers of people relaxed their expectations for performance in exchange for benefits like greater safety. Simultaneously, implementors invested in optimizing the performance of languages previously considered "slow."

Operating systems may well wind up with the same dynamic.
If you recognize engineering as the "clinical" side of science, then science has saved lives.

And cost lives too, of course.
That isn't how western government influences media in it's own country. Media know that the US government would be very unhappy about a certain story and they know that the US government is powerful and has carrots and sticks at its disposal.

Who is going to poke the bear?
How Google Ruined 'What Time is the Super Bowl?'
Wow. It took me ten seconds to click the link and read the description where the difference is highlighted. Can't you spare ten seconds?
And now I know how to keep my cookies chewy, thank you jspiros.
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I find it astounding to think that he's my age. His thoughtfulness and eloquence in circumstances that are nothing short of movie-like are incredible. Although this might not have been a hard-hitting interview that tasked Snowden about the manner and nature of his revelations, what is clear is that he is a definitely a thinker. As much as everyone has his flaws, I can only really thank him for attempting to open up our eyes so that we can get a glimpse of what reality might really be like below the thin veil that perceive around us.
Traditional economic theory says that inflation discourages hoarding. Inflation forces those with large amounts of capital to put that capital to work through investments to overcome the rate of inflation, or see their wealth decline.

Whether this will hold with dogecoin remains to be seen but is somewhat logical.
Oh I'd love to see him do it, because it would be a great research platform. Don't get me wrong. But that didn't seem to be the goal. Maybe I just interpreted the article wrong.
They can, and they did. For example, the New York Times included 3 minutes of the interview in their writeup 5 days ago:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/thelede/2014/01/29/video-fro...
Reddit takedown of this stupid blog post: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1wddfp/us_media_bl...

Of course, on the Internet, it's not Occam's Razor that controls, but Godwin's, which states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the greatest dramatic implications must be selected.
Get a job, I wish I could sit around analyzing YouTube clips for 8 hours a day.
how would a user interact with such a system?
Show HN:company-internal community with just 2 files to install
How many other companies do you think would do that?
> they're essentially sharing data by copying the data.

No. Go only copies the immediate values, if you send a pointer the pointee is shared for instance. Go's concurrency is shared-memory.

Erlang copies (almost[0]) the data sent between processes, and has process-local heaps.

[0] binaries above 64 bytes (IIRC) are refcounted and shared.
This is misinformation, Shibes. Mean (random) block reward halves every 100k blocks for the first 600k blocks, after which it will be 10k reward indefinitely. The first halving will happen in less than two weeks, at that point, 50b doge will have been mined.

Within the year, it's estimated that nearly 100b doge will be mined. The block target is 1 block/minute, so it will take about 20 years to reach 200b coin in circulation, assuming no irreversible coin loss.

As such, this is nowhere near the "trolling" and otherwise apocalyptic event that the wolves on HN are claiming. It's actually surprisingly sensible economic policy.

Edit: I'm actually a bit disappointed that HN seems to be having such a hard time figuring out how this works.
Thanks daanlo. I understand and appreciate the concern that others have for this issue, but I wish there was less of a knee-jerk reaction when it comes to these stories. I feel like there many assumptions being made here, as responsible citizens we should be doing our own due diligence to verify the accuracy of articles like this before jumping to conclusions.

That said, we need to keep a sharp eye on the government. No doubt.
FYI: FreePascal has Dynamic Arrays that are automatically resized by the runtime, which addresses section 2.1.

2.4 - separate compilation was added in Turbo Pascal 4. (one could argue that the result is Modula, rather than Pascal - so be it)

2.2 - initialization of module data was added in Turbo Pascal 5. Yes, "static" data has to be at the module level instead of hidden within individual routines. Bug or feature? (let the jihad/crusade commence...)

As the commentary on http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyPascalIsNotMyFavoriteProgrammingLa... points out, the critique was against the 1981 academic version of Pascal.
Oh, look, this again.

> "ads are what makes the current internet work."

No, they're not. The Internet was designed as a tool for enabling communication, not money-making. Without ads, a lot of the blog spam that exists today would go away and the Internet would be better off for it.
>It's an important blockchain lesson, that there are no rules, only a combination of concentrated technical leadership and majority sentiment.

Yeah.

>If the blockchain this happened on was serious business you would probably see mass abandonment.

The hard-currency fanatics would run. But where would they go?
Those were the original rules. The title is misleading, people are disappointed because they expected the devs to eliminate the perpetual generation of coins in the original software. The decision was simply to do nothing.
Hardware Transactional Memory in Java
Outside the Silicon Valley world, there are numerous similar examples. J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel was rejected by 12 publishers, for instance.

JK Rowling wrote a crime novel under a different name. The critics praised it, but it was a commerical failure. It's more likely that luck can play a large failure.
> There are currently ~40 million "dogecoins" floating around the internet.

I'm assuming you meant to say 40 billion.
So I need to power off my iPhone before I put it in my pocket?
I submitted a Google translation of the German transcript right after the broadcast and the original English video shortly after that. The submissions didn't get a whole lot of upvotes (2 and 5 respectively). I just figured nobody cared.

The YouTube video is still up and I was told the video was available internationally, though I did not verify that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7127368

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7130438