skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A dyed mohawk and a suit, to me, is a lot of work and thought that I personally would rather spend on the work.

I did the purple mohawk thing for a while. The trick is to make the actual dying & haircutting a social event.
> The most recent studies suggest one degree of warming per decade on average

There's been a total of approximately 0.8 degrees C increase in temperature since about 1880, at about 1.5 degrees C per doubling of CO2 concentration. Although part of that increase may be due to the increase in solar activity over the period. And, it hasn't gotten any warmer since 1998.

I'm no big proponent of fracking, but in general peak oil/gas is a much more pressing issue than global warming. I'm pretty much convinced at this point global warming is just a front used to push anti-peak oil policies.
Then the answer to software engineering problems should come from social based solution? What solution?

The argument is good and entails new perspective on this challenge but further refinement is needed to move closer to solution. Reasons aplenty but solutions seems not.
> I looked at getting health insurance when I was unemployeed, it was reasonable. Now the cost for me has doubled for comparable coverage. That would make it harder for me to afford living expenses while I trying to be an entrepreneur.

What that tells me is that the plans you were looking at would kick you off if you actually started using them.

One thing that everybody forgets is that prior to Obamacare the health insurance companies had entire departments devoted to finding ways to kick people off their rolls who used too much healthcare relative to what they were paying.
Is the full stack down to the drivers open source? Otherwise it is no different from the others.

I still have issues with browser as OS idea anyway.
Oh, when did Perl die?

I missed the camel's obituary.

I recently wrote a program in Perl which had to be delivered in two weeks. I don't think I could have delivered it on time with C or Python.

Saying Perl is dead, is like saying AWK is dead. I still write AWK programs sometimes.

Whatever's the right tool for the job.
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That's a removable artificial limit, not a hard one.

By tweaking some settings, the network could easily be scaled to many times that.

If it ever became an issue (read: the network started to consistently max out the TPS limit), the ceiling would be lifted. If that wasn't sufficient, effort would be put into making the network more efficient. If that wasn't enough, more creative solutions would come into play (offline transaction systems, systems built to manage BTC outside of the blockchain [see CoinKite], etc).
And if you would direct your attention to the man's profession, you can see where people's idea of hypocrisy stems from. Thanks for calling me lazy, easy out that is.
> Many people do pay taxes voluntarily, because "it's their civic duty", and roads and schools and all of that.

If it were genuinely voluntary, they could just stop any time they wanted to, without any negative consequences. We all know they can't - they'll be forcefully hauled into jail, and their property will be confiscated.
Haha love the whitespace comment. This also makes you think of the static source-code analysis done at Apple. Surely static tools would have picked this up, no...?
> The overall trend is Perl died everywhere.

Far from the truth, Perl is everywhere, what died is the hype.
Ask HN: What are successful examples of startups which started as blogs?
Wow that's eerie. It's as if they're trying to pretend it all never happened.
How does Firefox OS perform against J2ME native applications in terms of performance?
I've also read Stephen G. Kochan's book, but I think the Big Nerd Ranch Guides for Objective-C and iOS (two separate books) are much, much better.

I also subscribed to Stanford's CS193P on iTunes U (the last class about iOS 6) and it helped me a great deal, but I stopped watching soon as I saw the ones I just needed, and actually started coding.
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I'm told the new Galactic Starfighter expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic has a lot of the things people liked about XVT in it. It's free-to-play now, might be worth checking out: http://www.swtor.com/galactic-starfighter

Disclaimer: used to work on that project, still have friends who do.
> If Mt. Gox crashes owing as much money

With many Bitcoin users claiming Bitcoin is not money, I don't see the fraud here.
I was partially deaf for the last couple of years
Can someone please explain the "GrubHub Seamless" name? It is, in my opinion, a horrible name (either separately is fine).

Is it just the corporate name? Is it from a merger of two egos and neither would give? Or is it some regional thing ala Carls Jr. & Hardees?

Those who use it, what do you call it?
>The outrageous swings of bitcoin hour by hour have the same issue.

Bitcoin loses, at worst, maybe 50% of its value over the course of a few weeks. The Zimbabwe dollar lost 99.99% of its value over the course of a few weeks.

Of course, on larger time scales, the volatility of Bitcoin has been in a distinctly upward direction. So yeah, I guess Bitcoin has kind of the opposite problem of the Zimbabwe Dollar (if you can call it a problem).

And then, of course, Bitcoin will probably stabilize over time. New currencies are not historically stable.
> When we started the X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter project, our goal was to create the first multi-player space combat simulator to be playable over the Internet.

They obviously hadn't heard of Netrek, the third multiplayer internet game ever, first released in 1988. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek
The WEHI videos are really fantastic, because they do a good job of 'random-walking' components into place. Compare and contrast the WEHI videos to the Harvard molecular visualization videos, where pieces come together with unrealistic symmetry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_zD3NxSsD8&t=2m50s
Those companies have an agenda to sell regarding HTML5 development, plus as soon as your target middle to low end handsets it is turtle speed time.
"They have, and guess what? The same shit happened."

What are you referring to? Comcast and Netflix just started peering a few days ago.
Always incredible to read about how problems were first solved. Things like

Lesson Two: TCP is evil, don't use TCP for a game...

Lesson Three: Use UDP...

and the like are all "of course" solutions now, but they weren't then. How do you build something fast and reliable over something slow and creaky? Who knows.

The shoulders of giants have gotten a lot taller since then.
I'm sure it's some common script/tool/service, but there's either something entirely non-obvious going on, or the person responsible just doesn't know what they're doing. Not unusual for scriptkiddies.

Big-boy firewalls I'm familiar with don't have a single command for doing such a thing, since it won't match their state machine (being obvious nonsense), and the people managing them are generally unlikely to set the weird multiple rules necessary to get such a behavior.

Consumer GUIs sometimes make such rules easy for the clueless to create, but not many NTP servers are going to be behind such rules. Gaining access to that handful of servers will be a net loss because of the relative ease with which your packets can be filtered by even slightly clueful upstreams.

Against DDoS targets, you have a similar issue. Targets will generally be servers on some sort of professional link that isn't heavily filtered by the provider (and if it were, again, this is an unlikely set of rules for a pro to create), so the packets will at least make it to the "end-user" equipment before hitting a firewall with such an odd rule, at which point you're already hitting the target's actual bottleneck (their uplink).
Well, in this case they helped someone out directly with all of the above :)
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Refactoring is not a big deal. In fact I don't even want total compatible with vim.
Enabling peer-to-peer transactions - whether via bitcoin in its current form or a successor - opens up economies for untold millions without stable, trustworthy or conventional banking. Most people, even in the third world, have access to cell phones.
> 14 months after black friday, Poker Stars bought Full Tilt Poker and has since returned all funds owed to Full Tilt players.

Not totally correct. As part of the deal, Pokerstars paid out balances for all non-U.S. Full Tilt players. Players from the U.S. are still waiting for their money, which will be in the form of remittance through the DOJ. The latest news is that those payments will begin soon (nearly 3 years after "Black Friday").
Why application-agnostic? HTTP's own caching isn't application-agnostic; it relies on the server to specify Cache-Control headers.

I would imagine an ideal HTTP2 caching protocol to basically specify that some resources can come from anywhere, as long as the retrieved result conforms to an attached content hash—while also specifying a primary source to get the resource from, if you don't have a DHT handy. (Oddly enough, this is basically a suggestion that web browsers try to resolve magnet: URNs.)
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>I don't think bit coin is relevant though. For automated contract enforcement any payment API will work. Wether it's bit coin, or paypal in Estonian Kroon, the important part is automation.

Maybe you're not seeing the really important part of this; these contracts are cryptographically guaranteed. Any contract managed by Paypal is subject to human error, hacking, government interference, etc. It's not just automation; it's deterministic, mathematical, perfect automation.
https://github.com/codecombat/treema does JSON structures, so it's definitely a possibility to use a very similar interface to represent JSON.
Which is why government intervention is now an imperative.
I felt like Freelancer was a good, more recent game, that was a lot like XVT. I guess even that's 11 years old now :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freelancer_(video_game)
You said legalizing marijuana, not all drugs. and legalizing all drugs is much, much different issue. There is a big difference between legalzing just marijuana versus all drugs. I don't think the profits would be reduced at all, simply replaced by other products.
> If I take your laptop, is it extortion when you demand its return?

Oh come on.. :p It's my laptop, my property. But if I tell you I'm going to hurt you if you don't give me your laptop, that is extortion.

> Likewise, we have collectively agreed (through the process of government, with all its flaws) to pay certain amounts in tax in certain situations.

"We" can't collectively agree on anything, because we're all individuals, and we all have the exact same rights as everyone else (which don't include making binding decisions on behalf of complete strangers).

Imagine there are 10 people in a room, and 9 of them decide that each will eat five of the hottest chilis in the world. Does that mean the remaining one has to eat them too, because they have "collectively decided" to eat chilis, or does he have the right not to participate?
Bitcoin matters for Africa, and all other continents... and this article contains a lot of nonsense. Yes, Zimbabwe's hyperinflation was caused in part by printing money - but it seems a grossly unfair simplification to present that as the root cause of Zimbabwe's economic woes. To quote:

Gideon Gono, governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, increased the supply of money enormously against the advice of economists, but with full support from President (read: dictator) Robert Mugabe. As any basic textbook of economics posits, the Zimbabwean dollar fell in value and hyperinflation followed

Also:

in many cases this was caused by impulsive, foolish “human error” in the form of printing money without thought for the consequences

It sound's like we're blaiming the whole thing on stupid Zimbabweans (too stupid to read a basic textbook!) who ignored the advice of their western advisors.

Let's not forget that until 1980, Zimbabwe was ruled by a white minority apartheid government. The country that Mugabe's ZANU party inherited was one where a few thousand white farmers owned the majority of all the fertile land in the country. Mugabe's land reform policies were badly implemented and caused the collapse of the country's food production, which seems to have to led to the collapse of the banking sector. On top of that their economy had to deal with sanctions from the US and EU. By the time Zimbabweans were printing money, their economy was already in a dire situation.

Anyway, the gist of this article is that stupid economic policy can lead to hyperinflation. Ok. So why the generalization about Africa? Does the author think that stupid economic policy is something common to African countries? Does the author know that the IMF is predicting that four of the world’s six fastest-growing economies will be in sub-Saharan Africa this year? [1]

Incidently the article doesn't mention the one area in which I think Bitcoin will be very useful for large parts of Africa: remittances [2].

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/21588896-some-worlds-fastest-g...

[2] http://www.rnw.nl/africa/article/hello-bitcoin-goodbye-weste...
> People make fun of Perl [...] but I think Python's [...] are much uglier

Do you really expect this to end well? There are endless flamewars raging across the Internet about the 'correct' way to place braces with both sides claiming that the other side's solution is 'uglier.'

> And no one will ever convince me that significant-white-space and not having block enders are good ideas

Insightful discussion doesn't usually stem from the phrase 'no one will ever convince me.'

> it makes refactoring and copy-pasting code hazardous

I see this bandied about a lot, but I'm curious if people actually run into this issue. I certainly haven't run into this issue, nor have I come across anyone who has had this issue.

A couple of points:

1) This comes across to me sort of like the arguments against git due to the user's ability to rewrite commits (e.g. "I can't use git because you can rewrite commits; therefore when someone fixes a bug they will rewrite the commit that introduced the bug rather than patch the current state of the repo"). Arguments that are theoretical, rather than practical. Similar to the other top-level poster claiming that significant whitespace will run into issues with all of the Unicode whitespace characters.

2) When you copy-paste Perl (or C, or Java, etc) code, do you not reformat that code anyways? I shudder to think of the code base where refactoring efforts rely on copy-pasting code without any sort of a consistent style since "it's between the braces, so we're all good."

3) This seems to be an argument that runs along the lines of static-vs-dynamic typing. One side argues that static-typing is "better" because you don't have to worry about type errors cropping up at runtime, since they are resolved at compile time. You're arguing that it's 'hazardous' to copy-paste or refactor code because you could mess up the indentation, but you don't have to worry about these things 'for free' when you have more concrete start- and end-block semantics.
Solnit plays loose with the facts in order to spread her divisive message. Not sure why. Here's one response: http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/4449-nostalgia-and-nim...
It's a horrible idea to keep unencrypted copies of a wallet on any remote server. Or encrypted copies that anyone other than yourself is capable of accessing. It is idiotic to keep coins in a wallet that has been created or been under the control of someone other than yourself. And 2FA is meaningless to any attacker with an exploit.
According to my sister (as well as all the data I've seen and the literature I've read on the subject) the usage of Snapchat and Instagram are BOTH increasing in popularity. The kids aren't as into Facebook though.
> Of course when you write code in a dozen languages you stop seeing the language after a while and just see the code. And at that point it really is all the same.

Fully agree. You start to look how language X exposes the CS concept Y, instead of just looking at language X feature list. A kind of meta level, if you will.
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I think I missed that bus. The maintenance was what finally drove me to get rid of it.
Microsoft Lync gathers data just like NSA
IIRC, they were not included because Guido's opinion is that Regex should be a library, not a core feature of a language.
Vastly increased cost, vastly increased complexity, all to work around a problem that only exists because we won't slap down predatory monopolies.
Initially read this as: Mt.Gox tweets "all gone"
Imagine a wormhole opening up in front of you and a computer from the unimaginably distant future drops out in front of you.

You very likely wouldn't know it's even a computer. Countless billions of hours a futures mankinds time has been poured into it shrinking each component to the atomic scale. Generation after generation of hardening against future hackers attacks, and even self aware viruses have increased the machines complexity beyond human understanding. The code the computer interprets would be a lost language from a civilization that doesn't exist yet.

And that is pretty much where we are in understanding the interworkings of DNA today. Nature has a 3 billion year jump on us, and it's going to take us a long time to unravel it all.
I guess you're running the version that shipped over a year ago. Try switching to one of geeksphones other update channels on downloads.geeksphone.com. I've been dogfooding for a year now and its getting more plesant all the time!

If it's not your main device - try nightly!
I'm not a freelancer so my advice may not be practical. Talk to your client, let them know 1) you are committed to finishing the project 2) you don't know how long it will take 3) you want to better understand your client's needs, and in doing so, you can get a better idea of how long it will take.

Let them know that because you are a freelancer, you have other contracts too, so that will be a factor in determining how much time it will take to deliver for them. It's reasonable to say that not having any of the project fee will mean you need to have more parallel projects to pay the bills, and you might see if you can get some amount for work delivered so you can scale off other contracts and dedicate more time to them.
3rd least is NOT an exaggeration, it is straight from the paper you linked to (bottom of page 10.) It is third in the AUTHOR's chosen metric: "Median Multiple" which compares raw price to income.

A valid criticism would be that this is really measuring debt/rent tolerance in the target markets, but I digress.
We were pretty pleased with ourselves, and thought we must be very clever.

Here be dragons, my friend.
The reason those insured by the government go to ER's is because the regular clinics TURN THEM AWAY. The government program doesn't pay enough to the clinics and doesn't force the clinics to accept the patients. Judging by the 3rd degree my wife got from a dermatologist a few weeks ago, those covered by coveredca.gov are going to be in the same situation.

And by "clinics" I mean all those non-ER businesses that purport to offer treatment to the public for a fee, such as private-practice doctors.
Create a scoping document now. You need to put down on paper what needs to be done.

Find all the emails between you and your client that happened up until you sent the quote to the client. Put any requirements from those emails into your scoping document. That is what you work towards. Send this to the client to sign off on.

Gather any requirements asked for since and put that in a new scoping requirement for releases 2, 3 and 4 if need be. Send these to the client to sign off on.

Explain to the client that you are happy to deliver what is being asked for, but you will need payment on delivery of the first release, and each release after. If you have to split the $10k up over different releases, do so, but explain to them that as the scope of the project has evolved you will have to charge for the extra work that has fallen outside of the original project.

All that said, if you are skipping actual paying work to try and get this to work, you are missing out twice. You have already sunk a lot of time into the project for potentially nothing. Don't skip your baths on the chance that it rains.
Sadly it has not.

I was very hoping for this. But the (few) maps are horrible for a "space" sim. The MMO fighter/item-part killed the rest of my possible motivation.

I really hope Disney will come up with something real in the future. I've been building Maps vor TIE-Fighter, X-Wing and XvT back in their days for The Emperors Hammer (that still exists out there!) so I hope they won't forget about the creativity in the community.

SWTOR forgot completly.
> At least Perl has corrected that

Perl hasn't really corrected that. Moose is an external library (with downsides, such as load-time last I checked). When it becomes part of the core Perl language, I'll consider Perl to have corrected it.
That would have been epic
robots better at flirting is an interesting problem. we all would naturally resist being hit on by a robot, but i guess they'd be so smart to say the perfect thing and we'd be all like "ohhhh youuuuu" and there we have it. they are banging us
"dyed mohawk and a suit, to me, is a lot of work and thought that I personally would rather spend on the work."

The mohawk was a lot of work to keep up. The suit? Not so much. Typically putting one on only added 5 minutes to my morning routine, and most of that was getting cufflinks in and deciding which tie to wear. In any case I'm not sure I agree with the assertion that this was a marketing statement. I telecommute so if this was merely signalling behaviour on my part it was a total waste of time as I'm sure the message was lost on my cats.
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>'technology gone done taken our jerbs'

followed by:

>I sometimes daydream about how big you could grow a company (in revenues) without ever having more than ten people.

Do you not see the contradiction there?
I worry that SC is way too ambitious. I never really thought Wing Commander ever delivered on it's hype, and I think SC is more of the same. I look forward to being proven wrong though.

BSG online has a bit of a following, but being browser based I gave it a miss
The 'wallet' would be a verification/allowance mechanism for user-stored private usage data. Basically the user becomes the data broker. And an API/(exchange) could charge a fee on the other side of the business.
That's fiat money tho.
A somewhat redundant exercise given all the tweet archiving and indexing services that are around nowadays. I can't help but think there's nothing sinister or suspicious here and more likely an account compromise.
Rebrand?
FYI, that article got criticized on HN pretty heavily not ago for not doing things in the 'modern Perl' style:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7220167
I am a lazy troll according to you. I earned this by referencing the free market principles that define the Exxon CEO's home as being in the path of progress. If he doesn't want his 'luxury' (according to court doc) home value to decline he wouldn't build it around natural resources the likes of which he aims to profit personally from to buy things like 'luxury' housing.

This is a situation many have to deal with yet are not news-worthy because they are not personally profiting of the types of ventures that they raise lawsuits over.

You can call me a troll for pointing that out as that is your right but you cannot accuse me of altering my comments to askew context, because that is rubbish.
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