skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean? If blocks are 10min apart (actually less as the network hashrate grows before the difficulty adjustment) and the last block was found 3 minutes ago, a new block is expected to be found after 7 more minutes.
Godwin's Law much?
That may be a factor, but an equal or greater concern is the threat of losing the young: teens through twentysomethings.

A single, merged, adult-centric identity visible to parents/mentors/distant-acquaintances/professional-colleagues is especially unattractive to this key demographic.
I agree about the tax issue as well, but I thought this post was particularly articulate about analyzing an issue from a perspective that was unusual to me. I didn't have a good enough counterpoint to his argument, so I submitted the link here to get some discussion going. I don't think the intention here was advocacy or judgement.

You and I may be moderates, but you have to agree, there definitely are more than enough people who would support mob justice (to take a mild example, the attacks on Google's buses recently... the entire situation seems like a powder keg)
TCP is a good point... anyone have more information on how that worked? I always assumed it was free market.
So you want to predict the Super Bowl?
Great points, but I think #1 is the most important for affecting change (although #2 is the most entertaining). Keeping government shenanigans in the top of the news cycle means that elected officials are constantly under pressure to actually do something about it.
Perkins' analogy was tone deaf but, as you note, not completely out to lunch. A much more apt analogy would have been to the French revolutionaries, particularly the Jacobins. Characterizing the anti-tech protests as neo-Nazi is a stretch at best; characterizing them as neo-Jacobin isn't a stretch at all. Indeed, with the rising popularity of publications like Jacobin (https://www.jacobinmag.com), it's even a label they might wear with pride. After all, what could possibly go wrong with liberté, égalité, fraternité? Um, this? http://bit.ly/1n3dnrS
You can change the section search order with the SECTION directive in /etc/man_db.conf, or you can override that global setting with the MANSECT environment variable. I just learned this from "man man". :) I'm personally tempted to put "2 3" ahead of the rest, because most of the time I'm just trying to refresh my memory on function parameters.
I was in a meeting with one of them, and a few other
traders, and they were talking about the new hedge-fund
regulations. Most everyone on Wall Street thought they
were a bad idea. “But isn’t it better for the system as a
whole?” I asked. The room went quiet, and my boss shot me
a withering look. I remember his saying, “I don’t have
the brain capacity to think about the system as a whole.
All I’m concerned with is how this affects our company.”
one can be smart or gifted in their field but not very logical or intelligent about other things. also, logic and intelligence aren't neccesarily linked. so you can be smart but irrational.
Actually, it is not a crime in most US states. Person-to-person firearm sales are a wonderful example of a seller choosing to assess the intention of the buyer, and the moral ambiguity that this represents. A person can legally sell firearms out of his trunk in a great many places asking for nothing more than proof of age of the buyer.

This method of sale represents ~40% of all gun sales in the US. It would be safe to assume that the majority of guns purchased with the intention to commit crime are purchased person-to-person. There's a good breakdown of nationwide person-to-person regulations here[1].

[1] - http://smartgunlaws.org/private-sales-policy-summary/
LivingSocial to Close Its DC Storefront After Another Bad Year
Seeking Mediocre Ruby Devs
Well, even when you spend over $25, you're getting Prime benefit of 2 day shipping instead of super saver. For me it's worth it.
Probably. Because then you'd have money and be too stupid to realize that money isn't everything....
"Becoming rich" and "being smart" are entirely unrelated except by the occasional chance correlation. The wealthiest people alive today either started wealthy or born into affluence. Very few individuals ever "become rich" when starting out in the middle- or lower classes, regardless of their intelligence.
Sometimes ordinary people, not rich, act like they're inbred rich people. I think that's what the Fox News phenomenon is all about, and why people vote Republican

Yes, people who have different beliefs than you are stupid and/or have been tricked. It's not possible they genuinely have reasons for their beliefs.
I buy it. As a consultant, my #1 job is to make my client's life easier: to take tasks and problems off their plate, not give them new things to do. The method in this post sounds similar to what I do, and I subjectively feel like I get a good reply rate. I'll test though — sounds fun.
I'm curious what you have against Palantir in particular. As far as government contractors go, they don't seem especially problematic.
> a bunch of others apps

damn mobile typing.
How to make the #1 game on the app store – Flappy Bird Interview
Have you tried Lyx[1]? It might not be as straightforward as MS Word, but if you care about the way the page looks, aren't afraid of using writing a little bit of LaTeX by hand, it works great.

[1]: http://www.lyx.org/
I don't think they were comfortable with the Austria-Hungary at all. They were oppressed by Hungarians much more than Czechs by Austrians. Slovaks and Hungarians have pretty complicated relations even in present day.
> It means rule of the people

This definition is wrought with controversies. Let's say it's a rule of law? Then everything falls into place.
One of the common themes of "The Millionaire Next Door" was people with large amounts of wealth living in simple middle-class neighborhoods.
Sexual assault at U of T
Before I clicked through I thought the subtitle would be, "you don't need to be smart to be wealthy". Still sort of applies.
A tiny comparison: -Wall -pedantic gives me:

warning: C++ style comments are not allowed in ISO C90
warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code

-Wall -Wextra gives me:

warning: unused parameter ‘type’

For me, -Wextra is much more useful for finding messy code.
I don't think Tom Perkins was thinking of the San Francisco protests in his letter, and if he was, then he is delusional as to the current state of class relations in the US. Protests in one city over problems that are not endemic to the entire country (skyrocketing housing prices, for example) are not a rational justification for accusing the opposition of Nazi attitudes. Protests aside, inequality is a major problem in the US right now, and Perkins' response is out of touch with reality.
Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I would say yield statements are not beautiful, they're just less ugly. Having lots of yield statements sprinkled throughout my code is (again, in my eyes) ugly. Less ugly than callback pyramids, but still ugly.
> they don't want to do work even for their own requirements ...

Of course, and they shouldn't want to. They ought to be focused on providing business value to their clients. And hiring a consultant is a step taken when they're over their heads and need a hand.
David vs David: Being an Indie App Developer
Laws against anonymizing sources of income (Money laundering) are primarily enforced for tax evasion purposes. It's the catch all for even the most brilliant of enterprising "criminals".
All Amex card holders get free ShopRunner now. I've tried using it a couple times -- most recently at Tiger Direct. It's awful. There are so few items that qualify for the free shipping that it was an exercise in futility and frustration.
But there, it has a different meaning. The twelfth man can play. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_cricket_terms#T:

Traditionally, the first substitute player who fields when a member of the fielding side is injured. In Test matches, twelve players are named to a team prior to the match, with the final reduction to eleven occurring immediately prior to play commencing on the first day.
Yes it could be worth a lot less equity but you can still make a killing with those small investments in the right companies
Now, if the number of people you interact with is so high that the cost of emailing them is significant, and you get enough work to fill your time either way, then you might want indeed want the group B approach. (However, this seems rather unlikely, and in any case the time spent emailing is probably a small fraction of the time spent on work.)

Cf. "Why "Nigerian Scammers" Say They're From Nigeria", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4136016
As someone who spent a fair deal of time in sales, this is the worst thing you can do to close an email.

You're essentially saying, "If you need me, contact me." and allowing the client to just opt out of working with you.

In sales, you always had to have a path where you want to lead the client. "Let's put together a time frame for A, B, C and I follow up when A is done." or "Once the budget is approved, we're going to do A, B, and C by this date." It also shows you're invested in the client and invested in what they want to accomplish.

It does take extra work to nail down clients, and at times will feel like you're trying to herd cats, but it's quite effective in the long run.
Lucky guy- dodged the bullet on that photo staying around for eternity
This is a good article - kudos to Dave Winer. It hits upon a crucial factor in the psychological divide between the "poor" and the "rich". I am remembering now of articles on how the psychological distance between economic classes is a factor in how the upper classes behave. One, there was an article on how the rich in India treat everyone else as nothing but chattel. Ok, it's India with its caste system, but economic class is tied to other social status categories as well. The second is how the children of the upper upper classes are effectively taught that everything in life is nothing but essentially a financial transaction, and if you aren't gaining the upper hand, or a profit, then you are a loser. This they learn from their interactions with their parents. I think this was a 'Atlantic' article, IIRC. The psychological implications are obvious.

To add to this, I've been in the UK for 6 years now and have had some dealings with the upper middle classes - not quite rich, but the 'aspirational' rich whose focus is on maintaining their status and ever climbing upwards. This sort of thing goes on in America, sure, but ... I guess I'd say most of the UK is 'working class', which corresponds to 'middle class' or lower in American terms - but the strivers whom Thatcher idolized / glorified tend to be very nasty people, be they Labour or Tory. Rich people who know their place, who know that their wealth is nothing but effectively a roll of the dice and who are able to understand ... "humanity" and whose values are not predicated upon their status, and exploitation of everything they can exploit, but on an understanding of humanity at large, -- I can deal with such people, I respect them (if they respect me).

It is the sociopathic types, whom Thatcher and Bliar (misspelling deliberate) are a prime example, who are the problem. Perkins sounds like such a person - unable to empathize with the Other and willing to see their point of view. I can empathize with the rich, both the decent ones and the assholes, and I condemn the assholes, not because they are rich, but because of their actions and their values that are the cause of their actions.
"Conventional" boolean operators work as well. Again, I suspect that it depends on whether a developer has mapped something ToExpression can consume, either via forms, boxes, or unlocking the function itself. (This would be consistent with the "throw more mud at it" comment.)

As a Mathematica and WApro user, I find most of the utility in not having to import random datasets myself. As every researcher, I have a disgusting library of scripts that often involve curl, groovy, awk, sed, etc., to pull info into mma. It's nice when that becomes SEP[1].

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+%28x+%E2%88%A8+y%29+%E...

[1] Someone Else's Problem
And how smart...
Correct, tangle was built for the WEB.
Well TeX was built written in WEB.

(sorry for the bad knuth toolchain jokes)
What about this ? http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/

Having some XML output seems to make it easier to add CSS rules ?
No, just that the paper trail generated by purchasing a car from a dealership is undesirable for a criminal. This is why conventional financial institutions and services are undesirable for most criminals.
Woah, didn't realize Facebook and Gmail (April 2004) were released around the same time.
Step NOW. Put up a maintenance window and figure out if it is even reasonable to continue. The risk seems outrageously high.
"This should really be implicit in everything we say or do."

My version of this problem is almost always having to insert the word "generally" into generally almost all of the things that I state (note the redundancy in that sentence).

A corollary to this is to have to preface things that you say in order to not offend one group or another or a particular person that was held in high esteem by others.

"But when you're famous and have thousands of people "

Same issue that celebrities have. We can call it the "sucks to be you" problem. You become so famous that you can't even go out without getting accosted by photographers.
Hi virtualwhys

> I am curious about leaving Scala for something better -- please name this better alternative that is presumably not Haskell.

With apologies if you think this is too OT and/or if you are uninterested in immature languages/ecosystems, let me mention Rakudo and its increasingly capable JVM backend.

Today's Rakudo Star release (Star means "batteries included") is expected to be the last to ship without Rakudo's JVM backend. Almost certainly there'll be a February Rakudo Star release and it is expected to support the JVM backend out of the box.

I would be happy to say more about why I think P6 is going to become relevant again one day, perhaps this year, to folk at least interested in Scala.
> We are ruled by idiots at all levels.

Yet we keep on voting for them. We are the problem,they are just opportunistic b_st_rds. Things will change when everybody acknowledge the fact that we are reponsible for this.
If you feel the direction is lacking in Django I would recommend switching to something like Rails or Laravel.
You are right of course, a dice won't be estimated to roll on a 6 after it failed to do so 5 previous times.

I think the best solution is to remove the expected next block time counter altogether. One of the reasons UX wise I went for such an expected point in the future was that after reading it you are aware a new block will come again (just like when you first load the project) and that might keep you waiting for it.
It looks to me like this is going to put pressure on the window size (currently 3 weeks). Folks can now wait for 3 weeks if they really want the YC signal to kick in, unless other forces are working to counter act the waiting.

Think of it as a star which is trying to explode because of all those gases burning away, and gravity is keeping it together. The size of the star is the equilibrium point of the differential equations describing this dynamic.

One of the signals that was keeping the 3 week window to 3 weeks could have been the YC investments (gravity), but now that gravity has been set to a lower level, the 3 week window will expand..to account for this.
Perhaps I'm just old and tired, but I loathe reading technical papers on a screen, whether it's my LCD monitor, my iPad, or my Kindle. One thing that irks me about the WWW specifications, for example, is that you cannot get a nicely formatted hard copy. I'm find with technical material being put on the web, but for the love of $DEITY please make a decently formatted PDF available too.
one of those channels has a much larger and stronger distortion field. I'm tired of false equivalencies.
Obama Says Intelligence Director “Should Have Been More Careful”
Price is a demand indicator. I doubt the price hike will have any impact at all to the number of Prime members or its growth rate.

Btw, keep in mind that Prime also gets the rough equivalent of a FREE Netflix streaming account.
Given that Ubuntu 14.04 is not released yet, it would be great to see this in a LTS release...
I'm curious why they didn't build on the "wd" implementation of the WebDriver protocol for Node.js: https://github.com/admc/wd

Personally I like just using "wd" along with a promise helper library or two.

Here's an example using q-proxy (https://npmjs.org/package/q-proxy) and q-step (https://npmjs.org/package/q-step). The result is a pretty nice syntax (admittedly nicer in CoffeeScript than JavaScript) and a lot more flexibility to do other logic:

browser = QProxy(wd.promiseRemote("localhost", 4444))
QStep(
-> browser.init(browserName: "firefox")
-> browser.get("https://www.facebook.com/")
-> browser.elementById("email").type(credentials.email)
-> browser.elementById("pass").type(credentials.password)
-> browser.elementById("u_0_b").click()
)

Or wd's own built-in promise chaining is pretty similar to Nightwatch.js as well:

browser
.init({browserName:'chrome'})
.get("http://admc.io/wd/test-pages/guinea-pig.html")
.title()
.should.become('WD Tests')
.elementById('i am a link')
.click()
.eval("window.location.href")
.should.eventually.include('guinea-pig2')
.back()
.elementByCss('#comments').type('Bonjour!')
.getValue().should.become('Bonjour!')
.fin(function() { return browser.quit(); })
.done();
Clj-refactor.el 0.10.0
Thanks for the link. This is great as I've become very reliant on Chrome's Ctrl+Shift+V plain-text pasting and often miss it when I'm in MS Word or similar.
I have a hard time understanding how an self-admitted very wealthy person living in a 2 bedroom Manhattan apartment, differs significantly from the one living in Woodside estate. He's choosing an ascetic life, but the fact is that he can, without stress, afford many of the basics that the non-wealthy struggle to afford.

Middle and working class grown ups with families don't care about hot tubs and parties, but the things they struggle to afford: decent schools for their children, their mortgage, etc, are things that he never would have to worry about. His decision to live in Manhattan with less stuff doesn't change that reality for them, and I question whether it really puts him in touch with their reality.

Bringing up his personal life choice detracts from the valid point that the wealthy can isolate themselves from the concerns of everyone else if they choose to.

And his argument about wealth vs. smarts is attacking windmills ... nobody seriously believes that having more wealth makes you smarter.

Edit: lost second half, re-added.
Edit2: wording tweak
Picking up the pieces after the N Twitter account theft
> The distinction between TeX and LaTeX is actually relevant here.

I know very little about both. Could you elaborate on the relevance?
For anyone else out there that had no idea what this article was talking about, here is the link to the editorial by Tom Perkins that started this: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230454950...
This is interesting, and actually similar to a policy that a lot of elite high schools in the US follow: not ranking their students. If you have good unis accepting 50% of your class, ranking your students unnecessarily makes your 50th percentile weaker candidates than the 95th percentile at schools that rank (often even if those schools only have 2-3% getting into top-flight unis).

However, the downside of not ranking is that your top 1-5% of students are not clear to the extreme elite (Harvard, Stanford, MIT) schools, meaning there is no one who is "guaranteed" those positions, as even your top 5% has to compete with students in the top 20 or 30% for admittance. For high schools that couldn't hope to admit more than 5% of their class in top tier unis, it makes sense to rank (as then you get to showcase your top students as being exceptional). If you expect 20% or more to be competitive candidates though, it's usually better to stay quiet on relative success.
That's reductio ad absurdum. You can take pretty much any conflict between groups of people and reduce it to: Group X feels its economic survival is threatened; looks for a scapegoat in Group Y to blame for it. Conflict between fast food workers and restaurant companies, car companies and auto workers, car dealerships and Tesla, can thus all be analogized to German persecution of Jews.

Do people who are suffering and feel threatened, sometimes lash out at people who they see aren't suffering? Sure. Is building an entire editorial on this unremarkable observation a sign that your strengths lie more in spreadsheets than public discourse? Surely.
smart money management doesn't buy you a mansion in woodside, which is the kind of rich the author is talking about. you aren't going to save your way to being larry ellison's neighbor.

that kind of money is either inherited or made by founding companies. only one of those involves smartness, and i'm pretty sure that's the kind of rich he means.
I had student free prime and decided to pay the $79 or so for prime instant video thinking it would be netflix plus 2-day shipping.

Boy I was wrong.

Let's be honest here, Netflix has some series and NO movies. yeah, it has a few, but mostly crap or things i've already seen.

amazon instant prime is 10x worse. and netflix was bad enough already.

And besides no content, the Wii client i use, i take roughly 5min to start to watch something in my playlist! the loading times are Horrible! and the constant interruptions in streaming convinced me to not even look into their cloud services.
I guess it's something obvious when you're inside the culture but... why was a interstate rest stop dangerous for you?
> Following this logic the wealthy have already paid their dues so to speak by making other people more wealthy.

Wow, so simplistic. Answer this, then: Why are poor people poor?
TeX is the low-level typesetting system and programming language. LaTeX is a set of macros on top of that that try to support a more semantic approach to document layout. If you see long command names that more or less spell out what they do, it's usually LaTeX. If you see short, cryptic abbreviated commands it's usually TeX.
The 10 minutes is only an average time at which the network can solve the problem with random tries. You won't see a lot of blocks 10 minutes apart because only when measured over longer timeframes it averages to 10 minutes.

Just like when you flip 10 coins they likely won't result in: head - tail - head - tail - (...). Though on average you end up with 5 tails and 5 heads.
agreed. That's why I said necessary but not sufficient.
Incorporate in Switzerland, I can help. tyfour at gmx.ch
Not usually. Private sales of firearms are cash and carry most of the time. Thus the debate over gun show sales.
Difference between Software Engineers and Programmer/Coders.
Software engineers develop frameworks and tools to be used by coders in software. Similar to the relationship between a mechanical engineer and a driver.

What do you all think?
People who are "gamblers" win powerball like lotteries very frequently...

Of course a lot more of them lose.
I thought the title was pretty funny - definitely grabbed my attention. Good luck!
You choose a career because it's something you want to do with your life

That's why you chose your job, but plenty of people choose a career because it will make them good money.
Confessions of an ex-TSA agent