skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Going to Mars "because it's cool" would be somewhat callous. Going to Mars to backup humanity has the real, bona-fide potential to save more lives than any amount of Earth charity; if it succeeds and it really does end up "backing up" humanity (including, might I add, more than just the raw fact of humanity on Mars, but the tech, the other incidental settlements, etc., all the rest of the tech stack and colonization that would occur), it could be the difference between humanity existing and not.

For that matter, space tech of this level of magnitude is extremely likely to have massive positive impacts on Earth-bound humanity too.

We're still not really in a good position to judge the likelihood of a species-wide existential crisis right now, but we do know that the cumulative odds of one occurring only go up over time....

At the very least, it is not a clear-cut case in favor of either position. In the real world, you, perhaps unfortunately, can't afford to try to serialize your problems and attack them one-by-one... you must attack them in parallel.
I cannot remember where I read it, but Musk's view is that curing polio, cancer, etc are all nobel and important, but there is only one way to guarantee human's long-term survival: Exploring space.

Not that I [dis]agree, but I think this point needs consideration.

(Not that I feel good about donating to a for-profit)
Seems much easier. I've never gotten past 2048 on the square versions, but I'm already up to 4096 on my first game which isn't even done yet. I think having two forward angles and five rows to work with makes a huge difference in keeping things organized.
Glad to see it's not actually hand drawn.
It's hard not to expect this sort of appalling behaviour from the Daily Mail but they really have pushed the boat out this time.

As much as I disagree with the Daily Mail, speaking objectively, I think you have to say Paul Dacre has actually been a tremendous success as editor.

The newspaper is extremely well targeted at its audience. They only write this crap because it's what their readers think and therefore it sells papers. Generally, people want to read that they are right.

Newsnight have somewhat played into the Mail and others' hands lately with a number of left-leaning hires but that certainly does not excuse this tripe.

If only the Daily Mail devoted their time and energy to journalism of verification rather than that of affirmation, then they might actually do some good.
Seems like the simplest solution is to continually raise the price of water until supply (via rain) equals demand.
>Basically, your data-persistence objects (ActiveRecord models) become more composable because they do fewer things and rely less on associated objects being present to work properly.

I agree with this entirely, and elsewhere in this thread have said so, and I'm not advocating fat models.

I'm more questioning the precise way in which you've chosen to perform your refactoring. To me, that-method-in-partcular seems like a code smell, and I've not been convinced by your blog post compared to the alternate methods I've suggested in my comment. Does that make sense?
Hack is more than just a type system. At the type level, it would be trivial to erase the types and run the code on vanilla PHP. Dealing with everything else is much harder (xhp, containers, lambda, etc.), at which point it just makes more sense to use HHVM.
Well you got Buffett backing up Bill Gates so that's good.
Stomping out polio is not short-term.
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If they're looking for the short way out, I don't know if they'll get any value out of actually reading it.
Just crazy! :D
After experimenting with standing desks for a while I have noticed the following (YMMV):

1) You should ease into it - go from one hour to two in a week, two to three in a couple of weeks

2) GET Anti-Fatigue MATS to stand on otherwise sustained standing is going to Screw-up your legs

3) Have a stand-by(!) sitting desk and alternate between the two once you "get tired" standing

4) Don't be afraid to say "This does not work for me".
A colleague who tried it with me hated to say this, but she was in constant knee pain standing up but would not go back to her sitting desk.
There's a bug that causes an inconsistency with the displayed dumber on a disc and the internal value. (interestingly the colour of the disc is appropriate to the internal value).

I think it is happening when a merge happens when it shouldn't. like 1.141 --> causes ..24X where X has the displayed number 1 but the colour and behaviour of a 2.
I'm not positive on that but it feels like something along those lines.

[edit] I just got a disc which had the number was 4 in the top half and 2 in the lower. Moving the mouse off the screen and back again fixed it. I'm now figuring it's the browser rendering that's glitching rather than game logic.
Considering that the technologies Musk's companies are developing may be literally what's needed to save humanity from catastrophic collapse (batteries, solar, electric), it might on the long be the better choice.
> If instead you rightly view them as the biggest player on the field that bullies everyone else and picks favourites then there is no contradiction.

Yes, because that image is false.

The government is mostly the sock puppet of whoever has most money - biggest corporations and richest individuals, who essentially buy whatever politics suits them best.

Rest assured they derive great satisfaction from your misdirected anger against the "government".
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Eventually somebody gets tired of drawing new borders on maps.
Just because they are remembered as being first doesn't mean they were well designed, or actually pioneers. At the same time C was being written others were working on Lisp, and ML. It has taken nearly half a century for some of their innovations to be recognized as good ideas and taken up by main stream languages, while C was a small improvement upon existing language design.
Well that's very speculative. Mostly I disagree with the heavy-handedness of his stance. I think it would be great for humanity to donate part of a fortune to research & technological advancement and the rest to helping people in need alive today.
Yeah, I'm glad this isn't an either/or situation. There are enough billionaires in the world willing to donate that they don't all collectively need to pick one over the other.
If. Polio is a real problem now. Asteroids are a theoretical problem.
I think what rubs me the wrong way about this is giving it to a for-profit enterprise.

If Elon is willing to step down and run a non-profit to get to Mars, I'm all for it. But I suspect he isn't willing to do that. This is about profit - which isn't bad - but its not charity and therefore is very unlikely in the end to help the bottom 10%.
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Personally, I would donate it all to Aubrey de Grey.
> If all of your code is in strict mode, then we believe the type system to be sound. We haven't done any formal proof of this of course, and there have been plenty of bugs in the past. But that's the goal.

When I look at this from the docs, it seems unsound:

"Hack treats traits as a stand-alone entity during the type checking process. In other words, it ensures type consistency within the trait (i.e., as a black box, so to speak), but does not "copy and paste" the code into all of the classes that use the trait and check for type consistency there. The reason this is done comes down to performance."

Is there something I'm missing that does make this sound?
People who are driven by genius and passion never finish anything. This guy finds the best employees and businessmen are just average hard workers who pay attention to detail.
> It sounds like you're letting "ease of test maintenance" drive the architecture of the rest of your app; I'm inclined to accept that incentivizing test creation will lead to more confidence in the face of changes but am somewhat unconvinced it's 1:1 with "less coupled, more maintainable" a priori.

I've thought of making a similar comment on _many_ other articles but never have. This is actually the first time I've ever even _seen_ anyone else saying it. I wonder if we're relatively unique or if many other people feel the same way and simply (like myself) don't actually comment on it.
I just can't get over feeling conflicted about what Musk is trying to accomplish vs. what a misogynistic creep he seems to be in his personal life. Is this really the person who should be lauded as the savior of humanity?

I always had similar feelings about Lance Armstrong too.
I spent a few minutes searching GitHub for the number of repos in different languages. The query I came up with is:

https://github.com/search?q=stars%3A0..10000&type=Repositories&ref=advsearch&l=<lang>

Where <lang> is replaced with the language you're curious about. Here's a few:

Kotlin 200
Dart 2,836
Erlang 9,087
Groovy 11,515
Go 24,603
Scala 25,846

While we've still got lots of catching up to do, I think Dart is doing pretty well given its youth. (I would include TypeScript in the above but unfortunately the language detection for it is broken so it reports a bunch of Qt C++ projects as TypeScript).
A torrent found on Reddit the day it was leaked. It looks like mods may have removed that thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zz9rw/a_message_fr...

If you find a copy, don't run the .exe file contained within. It contains malware.
Then they'll require plates for bicycles.

You'll start using skateboards. They'll require plates for skateboards.

You'll start doing it on foot. They'll require us to wear hats with our number printed front and back.

I would prefer you use fake plates while committing your organized crime so that we don't slip further down that slope.
Being smart isn't good enough; you need to be able to finish what you've started. It's all about the execution and not the concept.

Furthermore, he's found he prefers to select hard workers and promote them up than to pick smart, ambitious kids from good families or good credentials. Hard work is better than sheer brilliance.
Yes about Javascript Ninja, you are quite right. No doubt, its one's best companion for getting firm grip on cross-browser compatibility issues.
What with the anti-vaccination idiots, stomping out lots of things that should be simple is proving difficult.
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No one invests in a non-profit. Investors want ROI and going to mars is pretty capital intensive.

EDIT: correct me if I am wrong, but YC doesn't expect to make a RIO with Watsi. They just want to make the world a better place. It is a donation not an investment. Most VCs are not that nice.

EDIT: EDIT: Found it: "Since some people were confused when we funded Watsi, I'd better clarify that the money we're putting into the nonprofits will be a charitable donation, rather than an investment in the narrow sense. We won't have any financial interest in them." Link here: http://ycombinator.com/np.html
If you're playing on a windows machine, Autohotkey is probably the easiest solution. You can do key remapping based on the window that's open with #IfWinActive / #IfWinExist.

Writing the scripts is ugly, but effective and not too tough
Radar guns are terribly inaccurate. In about 1 in 100 readings they are wildly off. Even when calibrated. I know this because my dad - who has an IEEE medal for his work on the laser, has testified as an expert witness on lasers and drives like an old Chinese woman - was clicked doing 90 in a 55 by a laser gun. He did the research and found the test results showing that in 1 in 100 readings you should expect an outlier such as reading 90 when the car was going 55. Guess what, it doesn't matter. No judge in the world cares. They aren't going to allow people to question the accuracy of these devices because it would destroy their revenue stream. Anyway, that's my rant on radar guns.
This is exactly why the inequality gap will grow, not shrink, and not for any good reason, like "meritocracy" (read: "mirrortocracy")

Remember Peter Norvig's proof that increasing inequality is not the result of virtue or fitness of the winners, but merely a statistical phenomenon:

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Economics...
Dang I wish these guys would use a nice, bold headline to demonstrate the value prop! The website doesn't say much more than we already know.

"A motorized standing desk for just $399." would've grabbed my interest right away.
Apparently the password is never sent from the client-side, and I've read claims that the client-side JavaScript code is verified on this. You can install a plugin which notifies any changes to the JavaScript code.
From Microsoft's warped perspective, where dogfooding is a religion, it's more or less correct.

You've always been able to get a lot more out of consoles considering their specs; the 360 was marginally better than the state of the art of PC hardware, for a few months, but being able to code right to the metal (not as much as on an Amiga or Nintendo, but relative to the PC) gave an efficiency that made the games unmatched for years.

AMD's recently released Mantle is the first exception on the PC, and DirectX 12 is reportedly quite similar. Bing it on your Zune for further reading.
I'm very interested in the UpDesk (http://updesk.com). They have a motorized desk (PowerUp) and a manual desk (CrankUp) that are both lacking the middle crossbar and are very affordable. They also can handle up to 300lbs. I'm hoping to get one next month.
I would not be too optimistic here. It's way easier to break encryption when you know the raw text. Writing emails. Forwarding them back, ...
Deadly asteroid is not a theoretical problem. Just a matter of when.
Would you rather give your money to fix a symptom of the problems we face currently as humans, or to help build a self-sustaining machine with the economic incentive to improve lives for as long as we vote with our dollars that the machine's contribution to mankind is worthwhile?

One is a practical choice, and the other is driven by a long-term ideal and belief that capitalism drives innovation better than handouts. Both have merit.
Because when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

For how may be exceptional in their fields, some people may still have a narrow vision outside that (or no vision at all).

Specifically, Page is a technically-minded person who's showing not to be able to see outside of the strictly technical realm, so choosing between a charitable organization and a technological one, is not really a choice, because in his perspective, there's no such thing as the first option.

I was actually surprised (but not too much) that a person like him may have such narrow vision.
Praising, for sure. I was afraid my comment might be taken as an underestimation. Not so, I'm just blown away by the extraordinarily accomplished people he has brought on board and know that, smart though he may be, many of them have accrued far more impressive technical track records.

His early work demonstrated potential with contemporary, off the shelf technology along with a visionary template. His growing team is taking it so much further. I consider that kind of talent acquisition and management a form of genius.

I just expect it to be a really tough herd to manage in a collective fashion and for it to get increasingly difficult as time makes room for the inevitable ego expansions and the elbowing for power, influence and credit. But then it also appears that he has placed some very alpha managers at the top of the executive team.
> I've seen first hand how campaign contributions work between the wealthy and politicians.

How funny it is to see people complaining about the "government", when really these days the government is merely the sock puppet of the biggest piles of money (big corpo, the ultra-rich), who use it to buy legislation and policy decisions that further their own interests.

While the dogs keep barking at the rag doll, the real person keeps kicking them in the backside.
I've been looking for an excuse for more C programming and less web dev. This seems like a great learning experience. Can't wait to start this!
Hm, this doesn’t seem to load for me on Firefox 28.0 – I just see the brown-ish circles, but nothing is filled in. Curiously, in another profile, everything is fine.

I’m new to Firefox, any ideas on how to debug this? Disabling add-ons didn’t help and I’d rather not scratch my entire profile.
I don't believe they they are saying it was never available but that previous versions of DirectX didn't provide it.
Watsi is the first non-profit Y Combinator is backing.

http://ycombinator.com/watsi.html

Disclaimer: HUGE Watsi fan.
I had sort of assumed you meant the second two.

(The question makes the most sense to me as a logic game...)
It doesn't seem fair to generalize everyone who is supposedly amazing at what they do as being poor workers. Seems like circumstantial evidence that might almost never be the case. Who really knows based on 1 person.
Aging is the leading cause of death.
Can we not work on all the problems in parallel?
Politics and ego over an asynchronous channel.
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If you haven't tried out Kimonolabs already go and try it out. It's so well done.
Electric cars can go only half as far in freezing weather, AAA finds
As long as anyone is allowed to give money to particular politicians and parties, as long as the entire political process is not funded exclusively from public money, then money will keep ruling the land.
Why wait until death? I'm sure Elon could use the money sooner, putting it towards a cause LP would be pleased about.
Not actually. An impact is inevitable, given enough time.
I like Cassandra and I think it's something you should look at hard if what you want is an eventually consistent database because multi-DC and availability are important to the problem you are solving.

The blog post fails to make that case anywhere. I am guessing that is because it is an ad for GCE and not Cassandra.

I know these kinds of benchmarks are necessary to get and keep your widget on the map, but they always annoy me because I know N other ways to arrive at the same or better numbers with a different set of tradeoffs. Demonstrating scale out is not great for differentiation because it says nothing about the total cost or complexity of use.

Why is it that only GCE + Cassandra could have done a million of these particular kind of writes in a cost effective way?

I also feel like they are fudging how elasticity works. It's not instant. Bringing up a cluster of a given size is not the same as adding node at time to a running cluster to arrive at that size and actually receiving full benefit from the additional capacity. From the wording it sounds like the entire cluster was brought up at once.

Overall my beef is that the blog post fails to inform the reader and is mediocre as a benchmark of anything other than GCE. And let's not even start with the complete lack of random reads, does GCE offer SSD instances yet?
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Non-profit status doesn't mean anything about an organization except that dividends are not paid to shareholders. E.g. it doesn't mean that executives don't pull down giant salaries or that sweetheart deals never transfer resources to outside parties. There are wonderful and terrible non-profit and for-profit organizations. It's better to judge an organization by its accomplishments than by its non-profit status.
What do you mean a theoretical problem? It can happen - just because you can't imagine it happening or that it might happen years, decades or centuries from now, does not make it any less real.
If it was about money Musk would have retired already. Tesla and SpaceX are both hugely risky endeavours. It is not unlikely that them being for profit makes them more likely to succeed in the long term.
I never understand the fascination with moveable standing desks, instead of just getting a tall "drafting" chair like you did. That also lets you put shelves or hanging holders (eg for tower cases) under the desk.

The Jerker no longer being available is mourned by some http://www.ikeafans.com/home/modular-desks-ikeas-jerker-is-u...
Well then he should do it right now, why wait until he's dead?
Hmmm, Larry better think twice about updating the firmware in his Tesla now. Suddenly his brakes don't work very well...

:)
I think you are confusing him with the other Larry who actually looks like and embodies Bond-villainesque

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Oracle-s-cheati...

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732479890...
Thank you for your work on this and for open sourcing it. It looks like it can make large code bases in PHP a great deal more manageable.

Do you expect Hack to be stable without large breaking changes going forward?

The documentation doesn't say much about the scheduling for asynchronous tasks. Can async functions be used to batch requests to e.g. caches and databases? Can Awaitable be used to interface with code that expects chainable Future or Promise-style interfaces?

Can HHVM/Hack use standard PHP extensions, or how much work is it to port an extension?

Is there a Hack plugin for IntelliJ?

Does the Hack project have a mailing list or forum?
If you look into what the actual outcomes of "charity" and development aid are in the third world, this makes perfect sense.
I'm not sure what's heavy-handed about it. The statement was with regard to Larry's wealth, not a general guideline for post-mortem wealth distribution.

If Larry thinks a Mars-shot would be a better investment for his particular (large) slice of the pie than other investments, that's his business. It doesn't imply that the rest of the world needs to either agree or follow him as an example.
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You sound very sheltered, which I would also like to avoid.
Imagine for a moment you could colonize space. What problem would that solve, really? The thinking and systems that are causing us to destroy / consume our planet will simply be exported. It will only delay the inevitable.

The line must be drawn here, on Earth. We must overcome our primate programming here in our own nest, or else become a menace to all the universe. Fix it here, my friend. Now. For time is not on our side. That is the battle.
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Solving poverty can also help improve world peace. When your economy is doing well, you are less likely to let your leaders drag your country into war.
Isn't curing polio, etc a requirement for ensuring the survival of the species? What I mean is: doesn't it matter that we try to save each person rather than just a person?
I see contradiction in:

1) The AGPL is philosophically well founded, the GPL is arbitrary.

2) The AGPL enforces an arbitrary distinction, the GPL does not.
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Almost everything about the plan to go to Mars, especially about creating a "backup population" is uncertain. Compare that to the current, immediate suffering and lost potential that is caused by poverty and disease.
Don't get me wrong, Bill is awesome, but still:

(1) Exploration of space today will some day save everybody's lives.

(2) Driving Teslas with energy from Solar city will postpone that day.
I'm French. I can tell programming is downright painful in Azerty, so I end up buying Qwerty computers and use the "switch to International US" shortcut whenever I need to write French. On that one, quotes and double quotes become accents and tails on letters. You can even put an accent on "l".
Such a shame there is no author listed for that - it would be interesting to hear what happened to him in life.
He has greater disincentives than anyone else, and 3rd party hosts have the ability to read your email no matter where you host it.