skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Addiction is the continued repetition of a behavior despite adverse consequences, or a neurological impairment leading to such behaviors."

Would you say you have an addiction to Uber?
The same thing that prevents dishonest bitcoin miners from rigging the blockchain to say that coin X went from A->M instead of A->B.

As long as there are more nodes who would not benefit from this particular rigging as there are nodes who would, everyone can act in their own self-interest and the outcome would be correct.
Pickup Artist Appeals to Shy and Tech-Oriented With Algorithms for Getting Laid
I didn't stop using app.net because of a lack of usage, I stopped using it because of the lack of decent clients, coupled with the fact that it was just another walled garden -- not a standardized protocol.
Just a thought ...

euank> In fact, the idea of "approaches" cannot
euank> happen with just rational numbers.

pdonis> Yes, it can. The sequence 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, ...
pdonis> is entirely composed of rational numbers, and its
pdonis> limit is also a rational number.

Everything you write is correct, but I think you're refuting something that wasn't intended. I think euank's comment meant that you can't have a concept of "approaches" when you're just dealing with single values. That's what the "just" is intended to mean, you're "just" dealing with numbers, not with sequences.

With that reading your comment is misplaced, although I can completely understand the interpretation you put on it, and were that what had been intended, your comment would have been well stated.
You don't "disrupt" something because you don't like it, you disrupt it to make it better.

Every industry that's been disrupted was filled with companies that were coasting or in decline. GitHub has a ways to go before it ends up there.

Remember, GitHub disrupted SourceForge because it wasn't improving. Stack Overflow disrupted Experts Exchange for similar reasons.
Music, games, movies alone easily take up like 3TB out of the 4TB. Big software (3d cad software, some gfx software, etc.) take up a TB. One of the NI instrument collections (http://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/bundl...) is like 100GB (I forget which one, I think it's the Piano one with the soundbank) -- that's just a single one.
If you're working with media stuff, it's way too easy to find even 20TB to not be enough for your needs. And I'm just an amateur for goodness' sake!

Oh, and I have an external 3TB drive where I house all of my backups and captures of old desktops. It's completely full, and I will be purchasing another ~3TB drive in the near future for backup purposes.
What does "20 Knowledge bases" mean? Is it 20 articles, or 20 independent sets of articles?
MKIV owners get to 400K without [engine] problems. Usually the water pump has to be replaced multiple times.
Interesting and eye-opening statement, but not entirely correct: The entry level iMac and Mac Mini SKUs have regular hard drives.
You and @rayiner both have the right of it. I started a new company right before my wife got pregnant, and we made it work.

It is a hell of a challenge. But more importantly it is a huge motivational boost. I want to make a better world - and keeping going is way easier when my daughter looks up at me and smiles in that awesome way she has...

...and then proceeds to go off and get in trouble ;)
If your goal is to become CEO of a company that would be large enough to require an engineer to quit coding, it's a fairly universal truth that you will no longer be doing what you did at the beginning of your career. It's not simply that you no longer code - if you come from banking, you stop doing that. If you come from accounting/finance, you are no longer spending all day in Excel. If you come from sales, you may do a bit of it, I guess, but you are no longer regularly jumping on the phone with customers. If you come from marketing, again, you may do a bit, but you are definitely not spending time in AdWords or developing marketing campaigns.

Is there any job that this truth wouldn't apply to? Being a CEO is a full time job that has it's own requirements. It's not simply a title that you slap on a normal job.
It's not quite that simple: it's not just a weight based on voting, since that's obviously gameable by anyone who can accumulate enough coins to guarantee a win on a single contract, but it's a weight based partially on how each voter reflects the majority in all the other contracts. So anyone trying to corrupt a particular contract has to deal with the combined opposition of everyone who wants weight for every other contract.
"a pre-set trading plan".
Second, the analysis is unfairly favorable to scripts with detailed stage directions, which tend to be more complex than dialogue.

Yeah, this basically makes it useless for me. Description can convey a mood but there's no telling how that will translate to what the audience sees. I used to like writing impressionistic, evocative descriptions; over time I shifted towards a very minimal style where each sentence describes a single action or visual subject.
Submitters: please read the articles you post and make sure they aren't lifted from a more original source. If they are, submit that one instead. HN strongly prefers original sources.

We changed the url from
http://www.geektime.com/2014/05/03/the-norwegian-tech-indust...
Storing Bandwidth with Superdense Coding
See also the discussions in http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ycjdi/whitepaper_d... and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=475054.0;all
> Sky is the limit only for people who have right combination of skill and luck.

Don't forget hard work and persistence! :)
You can use java jars with the -java-lib flag. The whole library ecosystem is available. There's not as much IDE tooling for Haxe, but Haxe is a lot more succinct. I haven't needed that as much.
I tend to agree with your basic premise, and I realize that in the general case it is impossible to do analysis. But my fundamental point was that a programmer's salary is limited by that programmers replacement cost. We talk about ageism here now and again, and it is out there, but it is more common in my experience that people who had their salaries ratchet up because their management didn't know what else to do, end up being paid more than their replacement cost. If they try to find a job at a different company, the hiring managers might evaluate their salary requirements as unreasonable. That particular story is way too common in the Bay Area.
The Daily wtf has a number of articles like these, but I guess the problem is that you either have to change the story so much that it barely resembles the original in any useful way.
Simply changing the names is probably not sufficient for people involved not to guess what it is referring too.
For more pseudomathematics like this: http://www.crank.net/maths.html
The comment appears randomly 50% of the time.
Try refreshing the page 10 times and check the code every time, you will have a 1023/1024 chance to see it.
I would not pay for Twitter. In fact, I would prefer for Twitter to pay me.
I'll try that, thanks for the recommendation!
High finance (banking, PE, hedge funds) are basically the only career I know of where you begin at a relatively high salary, and have potentially unlimited career growth (in terms of salary and earning power), where at the highest end, you aren't doing substantially different work than you did at the beginning (this is simplistic, obviously. You work at a higher level, and begin to employ people to do the work you did previously. My point is that the career progression doesn't require a change to realize the highest earnings).

Am I wrong? To become a "millionaire" (using it as a synonym for wildly financially successful) doctor or lawyer, you generally make the majority of your money through either an invention or marketing skills. What career isn't a "dead end" applying this logic? Real estate, maybe?
As one of those people - you can live like a king on that kind of money in eastern Europe. As a freelance programmer I can afford to pay rent for a flat in Ljubljana that puts most SF apartments to shame both in size, comfort, and location.

What's better, I can do that _while_ actually living in the Bay Area. Just because I can and I like moving back and forth between here and home.
When I had time to dive, I was looking at making a ROV or AUV to scout out dive sites and generally explore; are there a lot of hobby projects in that space, or is it all fairly high-end now? What I'd love is something designed for reef photography, ideally with days of dwell time.
>You are simply paying for the Apple logo.

You have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.

I'm paying for a high quality machine with many features already built in, integrated with a well designed, power-sipping, user security and user privacy optimized operating system that uses modern best practices under the hood that scale to current and future multicore processors, with a solid UNIX at its core with hardware drivers that just work. And amazing support like free replacement motherboards, hard disks, batteries, chargers, keyboards, screens, etc. under AppleCare if anything goes wrong.
The Great Smartphone War
His writing is a bit indulgent but I think he has some really good points. Instead of being transparent on rankings, it forces sites to guess how to improve rankings and encourages them to spend money with Google to buy traffic. This is immoral since it is abuse of Google's monopoly power.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7614391.
http://trilema.com/2013/why-i-nixed-p2p-colored-coins-and-al...
Consider also that Google has context when they translate for their stores, but they can only infer context from the content of translations on Google Translate.
Can A New Exclusive, Invite-Only Dating App Weed Out The Creeps?
Wyldfire launching new dating site focused on getting rid of the creep shows of online dating.
I'm just going off my 3TB disk - its only 2TB full, though. I do have it backed up three times over at three different locations when I get the time to truck my external drive around to do so.

75GB of TV
300GB of Movies
80GB of Music
9GB Pictures
8GB Code
140GB Games
84GB OS Images
64GB Installers (I rip game cds so I don't have to keep the discs around)
60GB VMs
50GB Containers
2GB Books
2GB Comics
200MB Documents
4GB Misc Audio
14GB Misc Video
240GB of cross-device backups

This stuff adds up. If I actually ripped my entire music, tv, and movie collection I'd easily fill up the rest of the disk. Mostly I'm just impatient about only 20MB/s reads off old cds and dvds.
Inspired by KDice, yes. There are some key differences in game play, rules and mechanics, that were meant to improve upon KDice's shortcomings.
Perspective on an iPad market in flux
A lot of managers are more like secretaries and I think they should be compensated as such.

Which is where I fundamentally disagree with you. Optimised database indexes (for example) can be valuable to a company. But if the company lacked a developer who could optimise them, they could get by - they'd just have to get more/faster servers.

You can't throw money at organisational and communication skills in the same way. In fact, doing so usually makes it worse. If you don't have managers that know the company, can interact with other stakeholders and otherwise just manage people, you're screwed.

If you think that kind of stuff is secretarial work then I could just as easily counter by saying that development is basically just glorified word processing. And should be compensated as such.
Hehe, cool, that's a very close description of the mental image I had when I wrote that, I was afraid that it would be dissed as ridiculous.
The Tale of Two Schools
Maybe I am reading this wrong, but it reads to me like the author wants to continually be paid more without taking on additional responsibilities (which, correctly or not, are considered more valuable by potential employers). I don't think he is correct that fantastically talented programmers don't get pay raises. However, at a certain point, if no one is willing to offer more for just programming, to increase ones earning, you must take on new responsibilities, the same way that a fantastically talented anything has a ceiling on how much they can earn without adding value a new way.
SoundCloud Wall
===============

Faster way to discover new music.

http://i.imgur.com/4rsGkDV.jpg

https://github.com/karan/SoundWall

===============

This is something I've been working on for the last >2 weeks and hit HN frontpage a few days ago. It's almost complete, I'm still working on the UI a bit.
Ask HN: How did C# become one of the most cross platform languages of all time?
This always intrigued me. I'd like to know the history of this. Seems unlikely that a language from Microsoft would be great at building Mac/iOS apps, games(Unity), and Android. Is this just due to the work from the Mono team? I think C# is pretty cool but would have been great to see Ruby or Python get the same love.
Well, in 2010 a 256GB ssd was upwards of $500+. Today, a TB SSD costs that. So yeah, capacity for price increases 4x over in 4 years. So 2022 is a good estimate for commodity 4TB SSDs.

I wonder if we will ever get nand storage below mechanical in price per GB. Even in 2022 I can image 8 - 10 TB mechanical disks being only $100 still, while the 2TB SSDs cost about that. Because by then we are probably hitting some physical limits.
How could we forget, every time someone mentions a salary in the bay area people leap to mention how expensive it is there.
I’ll have to check this one out!

Also highly recommended — "The Great Shark Hunt", a collection of his pieces through the 60s and 70s. "Hell's Angels" is marvelous, "Fear and Loathing” is probably his best-known, but nothing quite covers the range of HST's work like this book.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Shark-Hunt-Strange/dp/074325...
I think twitter needs to find its own path to success, and collections from the users is not it.

Here's my own short opinion about it:
https://medium.com/p/710ed2905929
Norway has quite a bit of hardware startups, which are otherwise rare in Europe. It's not all about Oil. Notable examples are:

- Nordic VLSI: Wireless ICs like nRF24L01, Basically responsible for the Blue Tooth Low Energy standard.

- AVR: Well known 8-Bit microprocessors. Sold to Atmel

- Energy Micro: Low Power ARM Microcontrollers. Sold to Silicon Labs.

- Phalanx: GPU Cores. Sold to ARM.
I will also point out that one does not need a registered trademark to have trademark rights in many countries, and this is certainly the case in the US: the issue is that trademarks are a protection not just for the owner, but almost more primarily for potential consumers; it is effectively a protection against people using familiarity and naming to confuse users into affiliations that don't exist. The concept of a trademark then only requires demonstrating that in your field (as trademarks are always scope limited: if one came across a laundry-mat named Knol it would not be the same issue) the name carries expectation: that people would recognize it and associate it with a specific party.

It also must be stressed that it is not sufficient to have a disclaimer: the user even getting to your website to even see the disclaimer is effectively already under false pretenses, and not everyone reads those messages anyway. If anything, that you feel the need to have such a disclaimer is good evidence that people are, in fact, being confused by your naming. I, for a concrete example, am only on this comment thread because "oh, I remember Knol... I am surprised they are trying to reboot/revitalize that project", and would have read a ton of these comments under that vague premise had it not been for this top one making it clear "no, this is not Knol". This is just such an egregious example of what you can't do with identity :(.
Twitter could charge for something. They already do (ads). However, some advertisers will always pay more to reach those on a platform like Twitter, especially those who are likely wealthy, and those budgets are large enough to overwhelm whatever you would pay to avoid ads.

If, however, you are simply arguing that Twitter should add some cool features that you have to pay for, then you are correct. They could, and may.
Naming and Shaming: The Only Way to Win is Not to Play
another interesting topic that floats by on hackernews,
with no upvotes (except mine) and no comments (except mine).

does anybody have any suggestions for a smarter site?

-bowerbird
And Google. And Facebook. And Reddit (and the entire Internet).
I don't know what you are talking about. The GIL has never bothered me. I have been using Python together with multiprocessing and threads with concurrent.futures. For integration with C libraries I use Cython; generally interfacing with C is one of Python's strong points, don't know where you got that from. Have you actually looked into why Python has a GIL? It's a pretty clear trade-off, I think. It seems intuitive to me that requiring lots of small locks to avoid a global lock might not be beneficial, and attempts to get rid of it such as PyPy is doing with software transactional memory involve big changes, so it's not like you can decide overnight "let's get rid of the the GIL".

Julia looks nice but comes with its own set of problems: no inheritance, 1-based indexing, less libraries, less mature.
I had the same thought: it's clear when translating a game description that the name of the game is a noun in whichever gender is appropriate for proper names of software in the target language.

Has anyone done any more widespread analysis of "auto"-translated Play Store descriptions versus those available through Google's public translate service? It would be interesting to see how much is contextual and how much suggests a different set of rules, training data, or algorithm.
Just as wrong as saying:

1) Inf - 2 = Inf

2) Inf - 4 = Inf

Hence: 2 = 4

Alway be careful when doing operations on infinite numbers, sequences etc. These are the kind of things that roll out of that.

The author just found a way to write something similar in a more fancier way.
The Anatomy of determination (2009)
When discussing Twitter I always keep this thing in mind http://paulgraham.com/twitter.html

Twitter is not a service it is (more) a protocol.

So it that sense people can and should use it anyway they want. And paying for it doesn't/shouldn't change that. I have a certain way of using Twitter that makes it valuable for me. But a lot of people I know seem to be shouting without listening or engaging. But hey, if that works for you, go right ahead.

Also for the other arguments:
- I do feel social pressure in following back. So that's just personal I guess.

- I always felt the "favorite" feature is a bit 'off'. I used to use this to bookmark tweets with interesting links (read later kind of thing). But now it seems to be used as the "Like" for Twitter. But Twitter itself isn't utilizing it as such.

People favoriting tweets doesn't change your timeline.

You can go to "Discover" but that is not the same. So I always felt Twitter is missing a feature OR they are not utilizing the Favorite thing the right way.
So... They should be transparent and make it really easy to game the system, as opposed to actively attempting to keep people from gaming the system?
Scala has it.
The Star Wars geek in me has to correct his spelling of Tatooine. While Tataouine is a city in Tunisia, but given context (his mention of a dive bar consisting of characters from every solar system - obviously Mois Eisley), he clearly meant the desert world and first planet in the binary star system Tatoo, home of Anakin and Luke Skywalker.
I wonder what the correct crisis/communications strategy is. It's entirely possible that everything he said was true (I'd be shocked if a company the size and speed of PayPal didn't have a few insiders in key roles who were widely known to be horrible, but couldn't be fired for political reasons), but he's still going to get fired/resign.

Do you lay low for a while? Focus on some non-public-facing role (which is difficult for a Director of Strategy who is on CNBC/Bloomberg frequently as an analyst).

It seems like the main strategies are hide, try to minimize what was said, or double down on "PayPal has horrible problems internally, and I'm just so authentic I couldn't keep myself from calling them out in frustration while drunk."

None of these are great, but once it's done, what's the best thing to do?
You probably meant to reply to the thread about concurrent.futures.
It means 20 sets of articles.
The difference is that the equation is actually correct for y=2. It doesn't apply for y=4 because it only converges in the range e^-1 < y < e.
Cool concept, but ran into some crazy lag on kill events; another player and I must have stabbed each other 6 or 7 times before I died.
You can fit 403 MicroSD cards into the volume of a standard (9.5mm) 2.5" laptop hard drive. The largest MicroSD currently on the market is 128gb, meaning you can fit 51.5 TB of MicroSD cards into a 2.5" drive.

SSDs need additional circuitry, chips and memory, but MicroSD cards aren't 100% flash either. This shows that the ceiling is very high even with current lithography.

My guess is that there's just not much market for a $200k+, 50 TB 2.5" drive, but it would be possible to make in high volume production.

If you need storage capacity, traditional hard drives will easily beat it in terms of TCO.

If you need IOPS, it's much better to use an array of smaller high performance drives.

I could picture it being useful in some military and space exploration applications but that's about all.
I read this every year on the morning of the Kentucky Derby. It's truly a work of genius by a man who became more famous for his other works, and it should be appreciated more.
Doesn't Time Capsule count as a backup? It's not difficult. https://www.apple.com/airport-time-capsule/
Is security through obscurity a security measure
Yes, I have looked into why the Python has a GIL. I've even written C interface code which released the GIL and then reacquired it when necessary (I know a ton about this, having spent too many of the last 20 years integrating C and python). Yeah, I actually know what the tradeoffs are and can evaluate them (I used to work with the author of IronPython).

you have several choices for C integration in Python. SWIG, which is now generally considered a huge mess, hand-wrapping, which is a tedious pain, and dlopen/dlsym methods that talk to the C api direectly (which requires something like GCCXML to handle type recognition for complicated APIs).

I don't think PyPy's approach to transactional memory is the right direction either.

In short: multithreading on multicore machines is how you write performant software in industry. The hardware is designed for, the compilers are designed for it, and if you don't take advantage of it, you're just wasting machines.

Now people could argue that multiprocessing addresses it, but it's just message passing between different process spaces, which while a wonderful and powerful tool, is ultimately just more cumbersome (hey, I used to write big MPI/OpenMP apps that did both models at the same time).

Anyway, the ultimate existence proof is that IronPython was both faster serially and in parallel, without the GIL, than CPython. So basically we know it's possible. The Python developers have no will, inclination, or ability to make it so,.
Can you give an example of a situation where you would rather have cascading variables than lexical scope?
Great recommendation! I've always had trouble with his book-length works, but have loved almost every piece I've read for him that was published as journalism.
Project VimR – Refined Vim experience for Mac
No, it is a derogatory term.
If their tech sector really has tilted strongly towards resource extraction it might be a sign that Norway isn't avoiding 'resource curse'.

Helping other countries extract fossil fuels more quickly might well exacerbate the planet's upcoming crises. So, from my perspective this is part of the problem.