skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I don't think there is much of a demand, at least not enough to sustain an entire business. You would need to be pulling in serious money from publishers, and on top of that, you're trying to change a system that largely already works. I've published myself, and e-mailing drafts was fine. The only times I've ever seen collaborative documents being used by average people were a) real-time coding interviews, and b) filling out forms. People would not be willing to pay money in either case, no matter how good it is.
Are you supposed to get it to go through the space between the "stars"? Is it even possible?

Edit: Got my first point (50 - 100 tries?). You need to make it go a full orbit without touching the outer circle. This seems obvious in retrospect.

Edit 2: And they knock each other out of orbit. This is fun.
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Such BS. The number of birds killed by flying into windows (estimated at 1 billion with a B per year) is so much greater than the number of birds anywhere near this project that this is ridiculous.
There, I finally got a bird to stay in orbit and a new one appeared on the ground. Score: one. I triumph!

(Now I'd better leave it alone or the next hour or two will disappear.)
> Also, know how you do init in Plan 9? You add commands to an init file, and they run when the machine boots. If a service goes down for some reason, you GO RESTART IT YOURSELF.

Are you saying that lack of process monitoring is a feature? The "add commands to init" thingie has simplicity going for it, and reminds me of the little I've seen of Arch's old init scripts, but I'm not interested in figuring out the dependency order of my services by experimentation, or giving up parallel initialization.
It's true that the rent payment depends on the previous transaction's signature, but if that payment (even if mutated) has made it into even one block, the wallet software that generates the rent transaction is able to figure out which transaction on the blockchain is responsible for the change it intends to use.
A few months back I talked with a leasing agent who was showing a property across the street from me. When he told me the rent, I was gobsmacked. When I asked him why it was so high, he said straight out that they jacked the rents way up because the place was near the corporate bus stops.

That echoes what I heard when I looked for a new place 2 years ago. The buses bring a lot of people with a lot of money to the neighborhood. Basic economics tells you what happens then.
No, just have as many "satellites" in orbit as possible simultaneously. The game is continuous. I got up to 5 and gave up ;)
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and type classes desugar to regular types except with allowance for higher-ranked types
Because private cars aren't a visible symbol the way the buses are. Seriously, they are giant, shiny, expensive-looking double-decker buses with tinted windows. In my neighborhood I see more of them than city buses.
I couldn't get past 5 without them colliding, at least with the minimal effort I put into this game. Really cool though.
Should a body meet a body
Coming through the rye,
Should a body kiss a body,
Need a body cry?

O Jenny is all wet, poor body,
Jenny is seldom dry:
She draggled all her petticoats,
Coming through the rye!
> I'm criticizing the behaviour, not the person.

What you're doing is kidding yourself. You already know that zed shaw, being zed shaw, could care less about what the fun police has to say about the way he expresses himself.

> If you can't call out poor behaviour, you can't expect civil communication.

This news forum provides a mechanism that allows users to collectively rank posts by voting on them. Zed's comment on this article happens to be the top ranked one. Respectfully, I would submit that the majority of people who have seen it value the information content of his post more than they are offended by the way that he delivered it.

Could he have expressed himself in a more PG13 fashion? Sure he could have. Could he have made his point more politely? I don't think anyone would argue against that. But that's not Zed.

Frankly, I think it's a bit presumptuous of you to appoint yourself the civility police and harass people for the way they say things without actually engaging with what they are trying to say. Luckily for us, Zed doesn't actually care what you think. But I don't believe that it is either constructive or in the spirit of this venue to encourage an environment that attacks people for how they say things, rather than what they say. I think that the losses from such an overly sensitive environment, given the diverse range of cultures and personalities this board attracts, would far outweigh the gains.
The video was made after the 36 hours of hacking
$ gdb myprog myprog.core
% backtrace full
...[stack frames with program line numbers printed here...]

Edit: formatting
You got thread-confused. jrs99 was asking thotpoizn if he was black. pessimizer is one level up
You've never thought to yourself: "Ooh I'd better not Google for that" ?
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He also completely ignores the notion of time. Compare the size of the companies relative to their founding date and your going to see the following:

VMware 1998
Microsoft 1975
Oracle 1977
Amazon 1994
RedHat 1993

At least two companies had a major head start and should be expected to be larger.

One doesn't sell software, it uses software (Amazon).

The remaining two are VMWare and Redhat and the success of either can be attributed to the birth of their markets.

The virtualization hardware mostly began with a commercial product and the commercial products were able to stay ahead by being better capitalized than any efforts to commoditize the product.

With the other market, server operating systems, Linux was already a community effort with several distros and you couldn't have exactly have even tried any other strategy than open source without completely alienating your early adopters and dying on the vine before getting to a minimum level of adopter.
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OCaml has camlp4 which is vastly superior to TH for extending the language's syntax.
So bad, why don't they support the space key and instead use click? Trackpads/touchpads are not good for that at all.
The fact that the market leads to economic efficiency for the participants. Tribes and warlords would not be economically efficient.
Wow.

At the point where the person was bluntly told to leave immediately, why did they not?
I'm really digging the British accent, this looks great
Good advice. The other thing to remember is that standing on principle with the police is rarely going to change anything anyway. In some circumstances it will, but usually trying to prove anything to a police officer is basically saying "I'm better than you, see", which isn't a great thing to throw into the equation.

The officer isn't going to have an epiphany because you knew law better than them, go off and take up Buddhism. You're not going to get more of your life back if you stand there and argue. If you can leave, leave. There is rarely anything to be gained by continuing a confrontation - especially if there are no or few witnesses.
Why pick on the city? So much of it would go away if the cities in which these companies exist would loosen their zoning regulations. Then we could get rid of the buses.
Something tells me he's clearly not in the wrong but must have acted VERY eccentrically that night in a way he's not disclosing in post
Catherine Engelbrecht's Testimony on IRS Targeting
Done by the extra talented Caroline Hadilaksono! http://www.hadilaksono.com/
Pictual: Beautiful, Emotional Content-Creation (Valentine's Day Special)
The consumer-web audience has become so used to seeing beautiful content created by design-agencies and creative professionals that it intimidates the layperson to aspire to produce similar caliber content. While the creative professionals who represent <2% of the world should rightfully excel at producing great content, the complacency in the 98% of world is so crippling that it has become more than happy with "liking" and being surrounded by mediocre content in social media. Content creation is at the core of any human social network and most people resort to the means available to them, which in this age refers to mobile apps. Instagram was an educational baby step in the right direction, but it didn't do enough. It took one design element, filters, from the arsenal of tools available to a graphics designer and gave it to the masses. What about the rest of design elements: typography, layout, colors, contrast, layers, texture, and more challenging ones such as balance, harmony and scale?

Enter Pictual.

Pictual is an app aspiring to enable everyone to produce high-quality content without spending hours (which means minutes on mobile devices) in complicated software tools designed for professionals. Instead Pictual brings design, typography and style to expression in a way that will truly empower anyone.

Pictual, founded by an MIT-Sloan MBA who spent years at Photoshop, has a grand vision to democratize creativity. Everyone has latent creativity but they lack the tools or training to unlock this potential. With the web moving to an increasingly visual medium, one's ability to distinguish themselves from others is very important and doing so visually is paramount.

Try downloading Pictual to see how simple it is to capture a heartfelt message on Valentine's day, to send a birthday wish, to capture a crappy mood or to express a moment of elation, Pictual can do that instantly.

Chintan Intwala
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Why I left academic mathematics
At the hackathon we made the room. Since then we made the video and built it into my room :)
The primary reason this isn't happening, is an intense fear of the police state and what it can (and often will) do to any given individual person either just out of typical abuse or intentional malice.

Seattle had / has such a vile police force it had to be put under Federal control.
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Wikipedia has no static definition of libertarianism. The page is the most eccentric minefield of edit wars encounterable on the web. Nice try.
You are right on that. I can't send any bird to space. my bad luck.
Is it easy to install under VMware, VirtualBox, or KVM?
> Do you honestly, and I mean honestly not just speaking for the sake of argument, consider surveillance before you send emails, or chat on social networks, or search on a search engine?

Yes.

Do you belch out loud at school/church/office? Make other silly noises from your body? Do you scratch your nose when someone has a camera out? I think you probably try not to.

Now how about when you know you're alone, or at home? I certainly do. It's a basic part of being human.

As social animals, we humans have inbuilt awareness of social and private contexts. Some time in both contexts is necessary to be a well-adjusted adjusted individual, and providing room for individuals to have a bit of privacy is essential for a healthy society.

A human's well-being depends on having a break from constant surveillance. We can't be 'on stage' our whole lives.
I don't even bother any more. I got rejected a bunch of times, I think it said something about duplicates. Odd thing is I see duplicate posts all the time so I don't see why other people can post them but not me.
It might be more clear how the game works on first playthrough if it starts with a bird in orbit and a score of 1.
> Chinese characters are not an alphabet, they do not carry phonetics, they carry meaning. And, guess what, this is arguably better. Why? Because phonetics tend to shift quickly.

But I would think (and remember reading somewhere) that phonetics shift more quickly where there is no written record of the pronunciation. Chinese has dozens of mutually unintelligible dialects (Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Hakka, etc.). Maybe this fragmentation would be much less if they had a phonetic writing system in the first place.

> In a few decennies any spoken language has shifted, vocalisation is different, especially when the language is used by loosely coulped communities. And then you have to adapt spelling to new pronunciations. But what do you do with old books? And how do you keep the language united?

English (or Spanish, etc) is a real-world example of a mostly phonetic writing system, and I don't think it is that bad. We can still read old texts, even though our pronunciation of the words has changed vastly. If you go back far enough (e.g. to the time of Chaucer in the 1300s), it becomes hard to understand what is being said, but practically speaking I don't see this as a big problem. In contrast, I think it's very important to have a writing system that is easily learned, so that it is accessible to the entire population (not just those able to invest lots of time & effort).
I am all for learning. But you don't get to decide what other people are going to get offended about.

People in minority groups are understandably sometimes sensitive about people in dominant majorities acting like the minorities are obliged to educate them.

I don't have any particular vendetta against pattern-matching. Being made out of meat, I do it myself. But if it isn't done with respect and politeness, it is at best negligent and at worst arrogant and self-centered. And I definitely have a problem with those behaviors, especially directed at people who already have a hard row to hoe.
8 years? And what happened to the actual individual police who messed with you?
That was a fantastically entertaining analysis!

Not a typographical Easter egg, but one I noticed while reading: could the Eliza rescue team be a reference to the early 'robotic psychologist' ELIZA? That would fit with the other playful human/machine blurring in the movie.
No, the other way around. The one who is pickier about dishwashing, washes the dishes.
'de' also means 'the' in dutch, I thought you were just being clever.

no vs know; natives makes this mistake as well.
Great point. Let me add a much longer textual take on this from a transgendered person: "Debunking Myth #11: Sex and Gender are Straightforward" http://catholictrans.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/debunking-myth...
There is another disconnect. Calling the US a "totalitarian police state" without so much as a hedge is incredibly ignorant. While the US has the potential to become a totalitarian police state, it is far from one. You can go ahead and list all the violations of civil rights you want - the fact that you can do that, and that victims in those circumstances have a high chance of prevailing with the right representation, is evidence that you are terribly wrong.

Using this sort of inflammatory language is counterproductive.
But without a scarcity (market) economy how do you determine which is which?
All I want to do is post a link from Medium (where I host my blog). This needs to be fixed!
Could a roommate of theirs live off of yootling?

You mean, could a roommate of theirs work as a live-in maid?
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I respectfully disagree. Nothing is lost by tailoring the tone of your comments to your audience; you're doing so right now through your choice of words. On Youtube, you might have said, "stop being such a fucking pussy", and it would have fit within the expected norms of conversation there.

>I think it's a bit presumptuous of you to appoint yourself the civility police

I've done no such thing. By claiming I'm not allowed to criticize someone's behaviour, you're doing the exact same thing you're condemning me for.

>and harass people for the way they say things

Telling someone to stop being an asshole when they're being an asshole isn't harassment by any reasonable definition of the word.

>without actually engaging with what they are trying to say.

I don't care what he's trying to say, and I'm explicitly not engaging in that facet of the discussion. If somebody was standing on the street corner grabbing passerby and shaking them while shouting, "don't take on more debt than you can pay!", I'd tell them to stop being an asshole, too.

> I don't believe that it is either constructive or in the spirit of this venue to encourage an environment that attacks people for how they say things, rather than what they say.

You're quite simply wrong. Look at any of the low-value, one-line comments that get downvoted to oblivion for saying something along the lines of, "this sucks". You can say, "this sucks" in a way that adds value, and you can say it in a way that detracts value. Saying, "this sucks because of xyz" is simply more valuable than saying "this sucks because of xyz and you're all a bunch of morons for disagreeing".
> Another example is the Config object. When I started the Python code back in 2005, I was very excited about using the idea of dependency injection for connecting together software modules (this is the basis of how 0install runs programs). Yet, for some reason I can’t explain, it didn’t occur to me to use a dependency injection style within the code. Instead, I made a load of singleton objects. Later, in an attempt to make things more testable, I moved all the singletons to a Config object and passed that around everywhere. I wasn’t proud of this design even at the time, but it was the simplest way forward.

That's called a "god object", unless I'm mistaken. It's an abomination in any language. I have the misfortune of maintaining a codebase with this "feature". Never, ever, do anything like this.
This is a great film, but I'm not sure why knowing more about the plot or the background to the design would ruin it for you? Do you also worry about spoilers for works of literature or films from the past? What about spoilers for young people on the entirety of human output?

I agree everyone should go watch this film, as it was really fascinating and a probably far more realistic take on living in space than most - the boredom, paranoia and drudgery were very effective - I feel compelled to stop discussing it here though in case I violate your no spoilers rule! I think I'll watch it again sometime, and I'll probably enjoy it more, not less, having read some of the discussion here and knowing more about it, and having seen all the twists of the plot already. Those are the least enjoyable and least important parts of the enjoyment of the film, and a focus on them omits all the other fascinating parts of this story (the repetition, the model-making as a way of escape, the corporation that controls his life, the convincing drudgery of space etc).

If you really don't like spoilers, don't click on discussions which purport to be about the film until you see it, or stop reading them as soon as the film is mentioned. That's really the only solution for you, and more effective than calling for no spoilers. Where did this recent obsession with spoilers come from?

A great story should not need the prop of plot-twists to be enjoyable - there are so many facets of entertainment which don't depend on plot (character, narration, allusions, themes, language, even setting and typography as here!). Stories like The Odyssey or Julius Caesar are not ruined by knowing the plot, because the pleasure is in the telling (and sometimes the retelling) and worrying over spoilers shuts down any sort of significant discussion of a film or story. To me shutting down all that discussion is far more damaging than any potential loss of momentary surprise when something happens you didn't expect.
She's a brave woman, and I respect her courage, but she's sadly misguided too, just like practically everyone else on the planet.

Catherine: "I ask you, I implore you, as representatives of the people of this great nation, to pass a law that protects all citizens of this country, from the increasing use of such abusive practices."

-But you already have the Constitution in place, to protect your freedom of speech. Do you think they should pass another law to the same effect, now that they've thrown the Constitution out the window? Do you think they wouldn't ignore that too?

Do you think there might be a problem with some people ruling over everyone else, without being responsible for their actions to anyone?

Catherine: "Pass a law that exposes government officials who trample on the rights of ordinary citizens".

-Right. So the very same people who trample on people's rights should pass a law that forbids them from trampling on people's rights? They should write down on a piece of paper that "trampling on people's rights is bad, mm'kay?", and that will magically prevent* them from doing so?

The problem there is that this small group of people has the power to oppress everyone else. We all know that if the IRS had to ask nicely for your money, there would be no government. That's exactly why they take it by force, through extortion.
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I got 4 and was very, very proud of myself. That said, if it were controllable through spacebar, I'd play a lot longer.
Another good blog on a similar topic: http://www.scifiinterfaces.com/
Try refusing or questioning the polizei in any regard sometime, see if they don't bloody your mouth just for opening it.
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Why hire a lawyer for a traffic ticket? Would that not cost more and kind of be a waste of time for everyone.
Looks cool, but I'm traveling and on mobile. Maybe add touch events so us mobile users can enjoy too?
You just made me smile.

I have done systems programming in Assembly, BASIC dialects, Pascal dialects, Modula-2, Ada, Oberon, without writing a single line of C.

There was a time C was confined to UNIX System V at some university labs and the world at large had other sytems languages to choose from.

Interest in C raised, because we wanted to have at home some kind of compiler for homework and while at the same time UNIX variants started to spread into the industry.

I know kids these days, raised in the VM golden age, think many of the current language features are only possible in a VM based environment, it wasn't like that 20 years ago.

There are hardly any feature ANSI/ISO C has over other systems languages, other than having 30+ years of investment into compiler backends and complaining other languages tend to be a bit more verbose.
I use google search a lot, when some sentence just doesn't sound right, I google it, if it has thousands or millions of results I accept it as right, if it has just some hundreds or less I rephrase it until I find a "popular" way of expressing what I want to say.
First big mobile messaging exit since Instagram
FWIW, Mouse gestures still work in the new Opera.

My biggest gripe is that I used to love how opera could actually navigate its history very quickly. Forward and back are slow now like chrome.
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I am not, I love to learn about new architectures.
Yeah, and grading homework is stupid and counterproductive and should be left behind in high school. College students can do better. They get $15-30/hr internships and then go back to school to do copy-pasta homework problems instead of meaningful projects, all because the schools are obsessed with "ranking" students to feed into the global elite.
You must be kidding. Nobody did a pencil and paper list. But according to Snowden leaks this list is easily retrievable with a few clicks. These might had been speculations in 2000. Today this is a fact.