skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I go from disability to chief priest of God's official temple. I command all citizens of age to make 3 offerings a year, for starters.

God says...
downwards commission Ambition tempts reputation seven him
teachings drunkenness dotards heavenly names glorify aside
lighteth magistrates Christ appears hallow distributed
recovery Wondrous relied royalties whisperings loves Libanus
midnight INDIRECT as severing gallantry starry springs
slave let's created 333 astrologer lighten intrude those
showed townsman sweetly load abstinence withstood shaken
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The v10 beta I have has it. So you won't have to wait much longer.
And you should google "fallacy fallacy".

I intentionally said "anecdotally" because I knew full well it was inadmissable as a representative of the whole. But the point remains that nobody else in my life uses it as a social media platform at nearly the same scale they use Facebook, and when it comes to social media that's the only thing that matters to me.
Yachts aren't the only ships on the oceans which might need rescue. Consider a similar scenario with a fishing trawler stranded at sea instead of a yacht.

It's possible to do a cost-benefit analysis, but it's not meaningful if it only takes into account adventure yachtists.

What about fishing boats which have been hit by freighters (as in http://gcaptain.com/dutch-freighter-sinks-french-trawler/ )? Do the owners of uncrewed freighters have no culpability or responsibility in helping contribute towards a safety net even though the freighter might be the cause of a problem?

Freighters themselves also have problems at sea. Eg, http://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/68327/vietnamese-freig... concerns a freighter where 18 of the crew were rescued by another freighter, the Pacific Skipper.

Here's a case where a cargo ship hit a ferry - http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/18/world/asia/philippines-shi... . The crew of the cargo ship, plus the navy, Coast Guard and other commercial vessels, worked to rescue some of the passengers. If commercial vessels were uncrewed then that's fewer ships that could have helped.
Speaking of different universes, most immigrant families from Ukraine/Belarus/Russia that I know, are working their asses off and are too proud to be on food stamps or any other form of gov't assistance. They view the US as the land of opportunity, and that doesn't mean food stamps.
There isn't even much technical ingenuity here. I'm not sure how this is even noteworthy. You save $1 between two people? So you split it for a lousy $0.50 or maybe $100 per year? Just stop drinking lattes and you'll save that in a month.

Not to mention if you live further away, you deserve to pay more to make up for the extra resources needed to move you around, as nchuhoai said.
"Once money is no longer your biggest problem, hiring is."

Very true. After moving to the investment side a little while ago, I've seen firsthand that when founders are not stressed out about fundraising, they're stressed out about hiring. If I was to categorize requests that our portfolio companies have made of us, the breakdown would be something like:

* 50% help with hiring

* 20% introduction requests

* 15% requests for product feedback

* 15% miscellaneous (technical reviews, sitting down and discussing long-term strategy, etc.)
most definitely the right person is reading this, Apple is a bottom-up corporation and someone reading HN could just talk to their manager and have the complaint heard by the right person.
I'm really impressed with this (now that it has loaded).

I do have a qualm, hopefully taken as constructive criticism and not nit-picking:

The cornea and the aqueous humor are going to have different IORs and because this doesn't appear to be modeled, the iris is unrealistically distorted at sharp angles.

Otherwise, this is amazingly, disturbingly realistic. Good job.
It's alright if you're in Google's silo, if you're not then it really blows.
It's still inexcusable. The security update should have been immediate and separate.
When I first moved to SF as a poor grad student doing a summer internship, your Clipper card could go in the negative (for example if you had $2 on it and took a $5 route, you'd be at -$3). Getting a new Clipper card was only something like $1.50; if you took the Caltrain/BART often (expensive routes), it'd almost always be advantageous to buy a clipper card with as little cash on it as possible, toss your card away when it was in the negative and just buy a new one every time.

I wish Fast Company had written an article about me at the time :( (and this was "legal" too, whereas the technique described in the article is illegal since you're not allowed to transfer payment titles, per BART's/Muni's policies)

(I believe you can't do that anymore - that the maximum negative balance that you can get to is now the same as the price of a new Clipper card)
It sounds like he's had money for most of his adult life, but he clearly still remembers that not everyone is as lucky.
It makes a bit more sense why they'd make us wait a few days, now.

It's still terrible. They should have pushed out a fix for this vulnerability first and push back 10.9.2 if necessary. Or perhaps introduce a modern package system for the base system.
How to make the world a better place.
I didn't miss it at all. That was exactly what I was replying to!

There is this perception of immunity in the US, but people travel. A lot. If the US slows down polio immunization they will see cases.

(Not sure what Amish has to do with it, but Amish have lots of contact with non-Amish people. Most especially they grow food which is a very common vector.)
I think this has a lot to do with the complete instability of the rust API, and I think a lot of others (myself included), are waiting for the 1.0 release before actually trying to build something in the language. Having software built in rust should be great for the community though, I'm exited about it.
http://www.stephenwolfram.com/scrapbook/page5/1989_bearded/1...
So at this point, what exchange should someone who has, say, a ton of LTC, go to convert their holdings to Dogecoin?
The two passengers are going in opposite directions, so when would they ever have a chance to switch passes?

Are they supposed to get off their trains and meet each other on the platform, then wait for another train? Sounds like a stupid amount of work to steal 85 cents.
We should just be happy HN has moved beyond Flappy Bird. Now we're back to watching The Social Network movie again, and talking about how pathetic $400K is over $18 lattes.
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Guest Post From Andreas Antonopoulos on Security
Microsoft Office paperclip (aka. ‘Clippy’) joins group of whistle-blowers
Agreed. Also on the personal level, while it could save you some money, you're not only offsetting mass transit funds to the taxpayers (or other passengers), but also taking a risk that the card you are trading for is from where they say it was from and that it contains the amount of money the other person claimed.

You're also potentially (haven't thought through all of the details yet) losing out on the convenience to tie your Clipper card with your credit card, take advantage of BART high value cards ($64 value for $60), and being able to take advantage of paying for transit in pre-tax dollars.

And unless this could be made very simple, you're going through a lot of daily stress just to save a very small amount of money which can distract you from doing things that give you more value.
> What I wanted to write was something like, this would be the largest successful fraud (=no one goes to jail).

Why would no one go to jail?
Hack the movie theater by buying one ticket but going into two movies!
TL;DR: NTP is the worst, but not the only offender. I personally find it slightly curious that attackers gravitated to NTP so quickly...
Sooo interesting!
Introducing Ratchet 2
No, Sam and I had already agreed by then that he'd take over. We just hadn't announced it yet. I do remember thinking though that this was going to be one of the things I missed least.
Ok, it was just an idea.
KVO is built-in to iOS, but it has some serious issues. One BIG issue is that you have to register to observe a key in order to de-register from it later. If you never register for the key (because it is dynamic for example), and try to de-register, the app will crash. It's a pretty big issue, and this seems to handle it in a pretty elegant way.
Hack your insurance policy by lying about your smoking!
There's no particular reason to not support 32 bit, at least so far.
Data Analytics: The Year Ahead
I was confused when I read that at first, too. The second person is coming from the opposite direction, which means they are already on the train when you get on.
Maybe because the french encourage healthy competition [1] rather than US-style 'free-market' monopolies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Comcast...

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/business/France-Takes-Aim-...
Do you think the reliability is up to it? I'm thinking of in relation to an airliner that was inspected just before a flight that will be at most 12 hours long.

OTOH, compare that to Oakland to Osaka (to pull two cities out of the air) and a trip taking around two weeks. What level of reliability do you need to have to ensure that nothing important breaks? Does this impose an additional cost that's less than the savings of having no crew.

It's an interesting idea that I'm sure will eventually happen but I'm wondering if it's really ready for prime time.
I'm completely on the fence about BTC - it could enable a lot of cool new stuff, but it also seems to have some structural problems.

That said, I see the lack of regulation and high level of risk as something that should just be taken into account by the buyers. This necessarily means only dipping your toe in and experimenting, not viewing it as a solid investment. When it becomes more secure, less volatile, and easier to use, people can take larger positions in it.

Also, we should probably come up with better software solutions that don't rely on third parties.

You can't really do anything this big without some people getting burned, unfortunately.
In the real world business can be war. I have personally experienced a major competitor bribing my top resellers to not feature my product at major tradeshows (a friend on the inside showed me the emails). I've also had a major multinational attempt to keep me off my own booth at a trade show by filing a false temporary restraining order against me (thrown out by a judge who got amazingly angry at the attorney and corporate rep for misusing the law). They did this because I was absolutely kicking their ass with better technology and I was very vocal about it (I was stupid).

Anyhow, my point is that if you don't do it there's always a chance they will do it to you. That's the main reason to still play the patent game: protection from bad actors.

Spending $20 per month to destroy your competitor's inbound lead generation channel would be brilliant and very effective. Is it ethical? I'll let philosophy majors deal with that. Until you've been the subject of truly underhanded business tactics by an adversary far more financially poweful than you could ever be you don't really understand the dark side of the business world.

The only reason I would not tend to do something like this is that it could have pretty serious legal implications. IANAL yet I can imagine a potential twist that could turn something like that into a defamation lawsuit or worst. A small company would be really foolish to even attempt this. A large corporation, on the other hand, has the resources to make this sort if thing happen and avoid being connected to it.
So then what is a crew on a normal ship going to do if pirates board?
Proper code reviews help.

Oh, and unit tests.
Or just seal it up to make it relatively infeasible to break in.
Would it exclaim "Got the humanoid, got the intruder!" when that happens? :)

Current maritime law doesn't allow for robot defense systems with lethal force.

Consider too what happens if the Coast Guard wants to interdict but the distant operators "accidentally" forget to disable the defense system.
> As quoted in the article, just make the trouble of stealing cargo more hassle than it's worth.

If that were feasible, shipping companies would have done it already. As to piracy, a robot ship represents an added risk, not a reduced one. Just look at Internet crime and compare it with old-style bank robberies to see my point -- those who robbed Mt. Gox didn't have to risk a face-to-face confrontation with an armed guard. It's the same here.

> I'm not saying it'd be easy, but it's not the showstopper you make it out to be.

I'll bet that's what the backers of Bitcoin said -- until a week ago.
As for bitcoin being regulated: Well, first of all, that's not an inherent property of bitcoin, but of how it is currently handled politically. And actually, I would argue it isn't actually true. In lots of places, regulation of financial services applies to bitcoin just as it does to dollars, euros, stock, funds, insurance, ... - it may not necessarily consider the specifics of how bitcoin works, but it's not like you could legally operate an unregulated retirement fund in most countries just because you are using bitcoin, and all the general laws regarding fraud and stuff obviously still apply when bitcoin is involved.

As for needing dollars to pay taxes: That doesn't really make much sense, does it? If people didn't want to use it for anything but for paying taxes, how much taxes would they have to pay? If noone wants to actually have dollars, its market value would be zero, so if you measure the income that you want to tax in dollars, it would also be zero, and any percentage of that would still be zero, and so you would not have to pay any taxes at all, and thus would not need any dollars at all in order to pay them (and the government wouldn't even care, as dollars that noone wants to exchange for goods and services are completely useless for the government to have, so why collect them). The only way for the government to actually force the creation of a demand floor would be to force people to sell certain goods and services at government-mandated prices - in which case what you need in order to pay your taxes ultimately are those goods and services and not dollars.
This is quite possibly the most silicon valley headline I've ever seen.
How do these pirates actually unload cargo? Do they actually have a way to unload entire crates (seems unlikely), or do they just break into one crate and fill up a backpack with iPads?
No, it's more subtle than that. If you have paying customers and hence money, you can pay for experts in domain X to sit down with your programmers and finesse the product. If you don't, then what you have is a wishlist of features but no real, deep understanding of what users use them for. That's why the GIMP is the GIMP, every feature under the sun, in a horrible mishmash interface and for more of its life unusable for professional work because the one feature it really needed, 16-bit colour, wasn't prioritized because none of the devs realized they needed to.
Dunno about average, but certainly the median.
How do you know a highly organized unit of crime is technologically illiterate?
I sold 2BTC on coinbase (a YC comapny) recently. So no the price is not a sham.
Hack the power company by plugging your iPad into the electrical outlets on your neighbor's porch!
So release the gas while you're still in international water?
Most can but I've never seen one write good code.
VBScript and AppleScript come to mind.

Oh, how I wish they had, some days. But they didn't.
Has the Bitcoin show been stopped? I've been following the Bitcoin community fairly closely, and I must have missed it.
Prelang – awesome web gui for setting up a new rails app
15 years later and the UPS-no-left-turn story is still going strong.
Ponzi schemes are a form of fraud, sure, but the particular kind of fraud under discussion shares the key features of a Ponzi scheme, since its sustainable exactly as long as there is a sufficient net inflow of money from the outside to cover the money being extracted by uncontrollable losses.

The only difference from a traditional Ponzi scheme is that in such a scheme the extraction is to the fraudsters pockets, rather than to the fraudsters incompetence.
And what do you think how much is 20% downpayment for a decent house in SV?
I want to see it used to provide an interactive map of a large store, with the ability to search for products and see where the relevant shelf is compared to your current location.

I don't know if anyone is doing this, but the technology seems accurate enough.
I don't know, but the same article was submitted 3 hours before

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7297490

www.fpcomplete.com/user/chowells79/types-not-tutorials

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7298646

www.fpcomplete.com/user/chowells79/types-not-tutorials#desk-darkness

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I had this issue the other day, and yep - I hope its fixed.
So you write "ENTIRE SHIP FILLED WITH POISON GAS. IF YOU BREAK IN, YOU WILL DIE." in multiple languages in a place where no one could miss it. It's about the deterrent factor more than anything else.
ArnoldC – A programming language based on Arnold Schwarzenegger one-liners
Except the subject wasn't "the wealth of this region" but a poor immigrant living on food stamps.
There are enough mechanical parts in a plant that at least one will break during a two-week voyage. However, reliability is already something that's being improved year-after-year, along with added fail-safe systems, so I don't suspect it'll be a great barrier.
> So then what is a crew on a normal ship going to do if pirates board?

You're not thinking this through. The reason pirates can board ships with relative safety is because the operators have realized that if they arm the crews, the pirates will simply kill everyone on board as a precaution. So a decision was made to avoid too much a show of force, because that would only invite retaliation in kind.

After a ship has been taken over, that's different -- that's the time for a show of force, but training and arming cargo vessel crews as part-time soldiers was obviously a bad idea.
Up until now, managing a thread pool in Clojure still meant dropping back to Java and doing something like this:

http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/01/java-thread-pool-exampl...

Clojure makes Java interop easy, but I hate every moment that I have to use Java, rather than a library that offers me idiomatic Clojure.

If I understand Claypoole correctly, it removes the need to drop down to Java. No more ExecutorService.

To my mind, this is awesome.
I wish Fast Company had written an article about me
at the time :(

Not enough Big Data.
Still sounds better than doing the same thing, but with a crew on board.
but this picture that is being painted of him as some sort of homeless street person is rather warped, don't you think?

I don't think there is a single person painting the picture you describe.
Maybe you want to reconsider yours? I'm contrasting the US with comparatively affluent European countries; US social mobility has been comparatively low for quite some time, but inequality (as measured by the after-tax Gini) hasn't risen all that much over the past two decades, either; it's gotten slightly worse, but not massively. I'm talking about college tuition as a symptom here, not the primary cause (there are obviously many drivers of inequality and lack of social mobility).

So it isn't surprising that social mobility is actually experiencing a slight downward trend [1].

But to elaborate: A college degree has become more crucial than ever for the chance at a middle class life in America, yet real wages have stagnated, despite higher college attendance, and a college degree isn't worth what it used to be, either [2], while student debt has exploded [3]. In fact, even life expectancy is correlated with education and has even fallen for the least educated [4].

As a result, colleges have a seller's market available to them (in part propped up by the student loan scheme, though it likely wouldn't be all that much different without). Conversely, people are willing to sacrifice current and future income to essentially tread water economically (=> stagnant real wages).

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-american-dream-is-now-a-m...

[2] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/27/why-a-ba-is...

[3] http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/08/chart-of...

[4] http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/01/not-everyone-l...