skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first ever downvoted comment alluded to the fact that my iphone earbuds were never used and collected dust in a drawer. The first pair I had with an iPod were quickly replaced by cheap AKG's costing about $7, and the pair in the drawer I gave to a lady customer in an apple store who I overheard asking about them. I arranged to give them to her for free. No use wasting them really.

The iPod and iPhone earbuds seem to me to be an anomaly. They are one of the few areas where it appeared style trumped substance. I can get similar Chinese knockoffs for about a dollar from different places. The cirrus chips and surrounding electronics in the iPhone, and Wolfson's in some iPods are quite capable musically.

My point is more about the legend of Jobs the perfectionist that I've heard so much about in these and other pages. If he were to turn his attention to the earbuds and headphones then I find it incongruous that he would have let the reputation of mediocrity with the Beats sound rest unopposed.

I myself see this as a slide away from innovation.
I didn't realize they were that large up-close. The obvious implication of that fact:

Swanturducken.
How out of touch do you have to be to say that Hollywood stars are the only ones calling for some of the programs?
Why did Quora join Y Combinator?
That is not an interesting explanation of anything, that is Steve Wynn trying to weasel out of something he said at dinner with George Clooney.
> For reference, the US Poverty Line is $11,670 and the US currently spends an average of $20,610/year per individual below the poverty line to combat poverty.

That seems -- on the face of it at least -- to be a remarkable statistic. The citation is:

http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/PA694.pdf

It notes that a large portion of poverty spending is Medicaid, which is completely unsurprising given the dire state of US health care for the less fortunate.
This sort of thing is a big problem with IPv6 adoption. There's a lot of churn in internet software, server software, and hosting providers, and often many of the new guys delay IPv6 support in favor of other features. That makes it very possible for IPv6 adoption to stall or even reverse depending on the success of different hosting providers and software. Imagine a worst case scenario of a next generation web server which becomes hugely popular but which doesn't support IPv6. Fortunately that's an unlikely scenario, but unfortunately it can't be entirely ruled out. IPv6 is still a "nice to have" feature, and has been since it's introduction, that's always been it's major weakness.
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> as they couldn't pay for medical services or medication on $12K

While their numbers do seem a bit low, they are not off by an order of magnitude. Canada's healthcare system averages $375/month expenses across all citizens. [0]

> tax revenue would decrease as at least a portion of the population would simply drop out of the workforce.

Even if the bottom 50% of earners drop out of the workforce, this is a loss of tax revenue of 2.25% [1]. So the first-order effect of reduced tax revenue isn't meaningful.

> It won't work in the real world. I have always wondered why otherwise intelligent and successful people keep bringing up ideas

It would be one thing if there was broad empirically-based consensus that BI "won't work in the real world" but if so you have not brought that evidence with you today. It is probably best to refrain from unsourced assertions that people who disagree with you are stupid.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_heal...

[1] http://www.ntu.org/tax-basics/who-pays-income-taxes.html
As a citizen of South Korea, nationalized health insurance is no brainer at all, but it doesn't need to be as expensive as US.

South Korean National Health Insurance Service covers every citizen (not just for elderly, not just for poor) and is 1.5% of South Korean budget. Medicare is 15% of US budget. Medicare may provide better quality, but cost/benefit is unclear to me.
Wow, I had no idea. If you'd have asked me where to read older texts I'd have said "Project Gutenberg."

This is miles better.
> $ cat 1.md 2.md 3.md 4.md |publishmd --some-options
>
> You killed my chapter titles.

I did not consider such a use case. Currently, markdownfmt works on an individual file/stdin and considers that to be the entire Markdown; it does not know that you're planning to concatenate more files.

It would work fine if you passed `cat 1.md 2.md 3.md 4.md` as input, but removing excess newlines at the end of individual Markdown files will ruin the concatenated result.

It's similar to an issue that goimports also has [1].

I'll think about it, perhaps something can be done to solve this.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=7463
The article proposes that everyone (healthy or sick, young and old) pay $350/month out of their BI for health insurance. Would that be enough to replace Medicare?
For exact duplicates, you can use something like sha256sum (http://linux.die.net/man/1/sha256sum) to acquire a hash of each file, and then use sort (http://linux.die.net/man/1/sort), cut (http://linux.die.net/man/1/cut) and uniq (http://linux.die.net/man/1/uniq) to get a list of duplicated hashes.

Once you have a list of duplicated hashes, you can use split (http://linux.die.net/man/1/split), paste (http://linux.die.net/man/1/paste), and egrep (http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?egrep) to reacquire a list of file-names containing duplicate content.

Then, if you trust the hash collision resistance of sha256, you can just delete all but one of those files. If you are slightly parinoid, you can use cmp (http://linux.die.net/man/1/cmp) to compare the files byte-for-byte and remove those that are exact duplicates.

This would eliminate the exact duplicates, which from the sound of things might just be a good portion of your duplicates. It won't help for same but different (i.e., cropped version of a larger image, etc.).
If that aggressiveness comes at the cost of other species, especially after humans either artificially introduced them or eliminated their natural predators, it is our responsibility to protect those other species. Conservation doesn't mean every individual of every species gets to live.
I disagree with most of the points you made (mainly because I think the analogy is very weak). But I'm waiting for your next part before commenting more. For a few short notes:
- Software, nowadays, are both services and products. And we are already providing the services to a much larger numbers of customers than developers.

- It could be said that "build" would be a good description too. But "build" as in "we build a company", rather than "we build a wall". There are big multinational corps as well as mom & pop shop, and there are big distributed programs as well as simple CRUD apps. We'd have the industrial revolution in software when we have one in starting a business (which some may argue is happening too, actually).

- And finally, "engineer" would be an apt description too, we're merely engineering the program, with all the declarative programming and what not :-). The compilers & co are our factories. Luckily in our case, no sweatshop is involved in manufacturing.
The best site for this kind of question is http://www.head-fi.org/

Search based on your budget and pick one of the pairs in your range and you will be happy.
A fair rant, but to correct some misperceptions:

The retroactive application of robots.txt is not a new policy; it's been in place for at least 11 years, and I believe it arrived very soon after the Wayback Machine was first unveiled.

An updated robots.txt does not irreversibly delete prior captures, so if the robots.txt changes again, access to previously-collected material can be re-enabled.

This policy has served to minimize risk and automate the most common removal-scenario, when a webmaster wants a total opt-out of current crawling and past display. But, the collateral damage to unrelated content from prior domain-owners has grown as the web has aged, and more domains have changed hands. (The tradeoff that made sense in 2002 probably doesn't make sense in 2014.)

Figuring out a system that can automate most legitimate exclusions, while rejecting or reversing those that lack a firm basis in content ownership or personal privacy, is a thorny task, but it would be worth pursuing if/when the Wayback Machine has the necessary staff resources.

(My proposal since 2008 has been a DMCA-inspired 'put-back' procedure, where an original content owner can assert, formally, that they are the content owner and do not want the current-day robots.txt applied to captures before a certain date. Then, the current domain-owner would have to counter-notify that to maintain the block. This idea hasn't had legal review, but would reverse some current damage, and any bad-faith blockers would have to go on record with a false claim to maintain the block, potentially exposing them to a third-party legal challenge, with minimal risk to IA.)
There's still objective meaning to the term, even if opinions may differ on what threshold to use for "native". HTML and CSS aren't used to do computation, bytecode and machine code are. So it doesn't make sense to talk about whether HTML and CSS are native or not, only whether the rendering engine is. JITs produce native code, but a lower quality in almost all cases when compared with ahead-of-time optimization, so there's still good reason to make a distinction.
You mean San Carlos airport? (ICAO identifier "KSQL", I kid you not)
I'm currently in India and have a consumption level well below that of the average poor American. I'm suffering no particular adverse consequences.

It doesn't make sense to compare the two. Basics costs are much lower in India and Bulgaria. I live on less than the average poor American too, but I also pay 80$/month to live alone in a large apartment.

I can only assume that the "concrete bad thing" that might happen below 14,500$ a year is some combination of malnutrition, homelessness, illness, etc. The number might be less than that, but it's not much less.

The only claim that GP made was that many people consider 7.25/hr or 14,500/year to be too low to cover for basic costs. Why are you taking such an obtuse and provocative tone?
I'm the filmmaker and the author of the blog post. The total budget for "But for the Grace of God?" was about $10k. It depends a little on how you count. I spent $2k on equipment (mainly an HDV camera), $1k on software (Final Cut Pro), $3k on editing (all of which was ultimately wasted because I ended up editing the whole film myself) and $2k on music licensing, plus some miscellaneous expenses. Close-captioning would cost about $500 or so, or about 5% of the total budget, or about 50% of what the film has made.
Do you mean wire wrapping? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_wrap
I think the fact that the money for college and the money for houses can't be used for other things has a huge impact on the dynamics, along with the fact that both housing and college are often purchased (partly) as display of wealth and the fact that both are oversold as investment. Which isn't to say we'd see no change in the price level, but rather that we'd mostly only see that where costs of production actually rise - otherwise, competition will still hold prices down.
Here's what I've got, grouped by broad swaths of BWV numbers:

* 1-224 (cantatas): http://open.spotify.com/user/rspeer/playlist/0RkVeCJ3iMVc1My...

* 225-524 (various works, mostly vocal, sorta dull in the 300s): http://open.spotify.com/user/rspeer/playlist/2sCCwEMpTXPsOBa...

* 525-771 (organ works): http://open.spotify.com/user/rspeer/playlist/1aGTiGWlnSiGNcJ...

* 772-994 (mostly keyboard works): http://open.spotify.com/user/rspeer/playlist/4ka3cJd5UCg5EoJ...

* 995-1080 (solo suites and complicated stuff): http://open.spotify.com/user/rspeer/playlist/4v8NejHWIKDDSmc...

* 1081-1128 (discovered since the 1950s): http://open.spotify.com/user/rspeer/playlist/5dmTRLVqUi8dB0M...

Of course this isn't close to finished. I'm guessing it would take a year or so, given the rate that I listen to Bach while working.
Right: as I said, I think Google needs to make a point that compatibility with libraries, even though "apps" are not compatible; apparently they didn't.
I'd like to see a more up-to date CDB with the 4Gb limit removed. Writing could be implemented by using additional smaller CDB or text file. It would be an interesting problem to find at what size a flat text file should be converted into CDB to maximize speed on the whole.
It would cost about $500. I "ignored" the needs of some viewers because I was completely clueless when I started making the film, and I was only slightly less clueless when I finished. It was not my intention to ignore the needs of the deaf community (in fact, I am generally a supporter of the deaf community) but it just never occurred to me that a deaf person would want to see it. In fact, if there is even a single deaf person out there who wants to see this film, it would surprise me.
Most open source development takes place outside of github. It is a very valley-centric thing.

You'll find a ton of life changing stuff on SourceForge and random FTP sites.
Anki and SRS in general are awesome indeed.

As for using pictures only: there are studies that show that pictures and mnemonics improve recall, but AFAIK there are no studies that say that using your native (or another known) language is bad.

The idea that our memory is organized as a mapping native-language-word -> platonic-concept or word->image->concept is just an analogy, we don't have any evidence that our brain works like that.

A trap that many learners fall into is assuming that words and grammatical structures map 1-to-1, and so they try to form sentences by translating word by word. But that's orthogonal to memorizing via pictures. Translation is ok but it must be mostly in the target-language->native-language direction.

FWIW my native language is Portuguese but I've studied 2 languages (Japanese and Hebrew) using mainly English, which is my second language.
I would be thrilled to have someone volunteer to close-caption my film. In fact, I'd even be willing to pay for it. But AFAICT it's not so easy to do. But maybe you know something I don't.
I didn't say that at all. The point is that people who were born lucky - parents that provided for them, or maybe they easily and quickly found success in their career etc., tend to have a world view that because things came relatively easy to them, that everything should be handed to everyone else.
Which part of "PPP-adjusted" you didn't understand? Bulgarian GDP per capita is 7,000/year in nominal dollars.
Yes wire wrapping and hard wrapping the same thing.

Hard wrapping was something the current day mags called it (Popular Electronics) for one.
I really can't decide if the music, the organ or the performance was more impressive! As the final notes faded away, I realised I had been crying for most of the piece. It was truly beautiful in every aspect.
Gutenberg is also an absolute treasure, though its formats tend to be rather spartan. When you consider that it started on mainframes (and with founder Michael S. Hart hand-typing in the earliest works), and that for reasons of compatibility it has long standardized on flat ASCII text as a storage format (I'm not sure if this remains the case: ISO-8859-1 is now supported and many works are available in HTML, PDF, and ePub versions, though I understand ASCII remains the reference).

The wealth of material at Gutenberg is pretty staggering.

But yeah, TIA's BookReader is really nice.

If you go to the project page and view some of the sample works (from read.gov and the Internet Archive itself) you'll find some more colorful examples than my boring focus on 19th century economic heterdoxies ;-)
Ya, I tend to agree with you, but without some sort of recruiting angle I'm left with nothing. Still scratching my head.
Until math can bring the mind to directly realize the ineffable, you're going to want something like Buddhism.

The whole point of enlightenment is for the mind to escape the trap of logics/concepts and directly perceive and be liberated by the ineffable. This is emptiness, which cannot be described, and is simply this present self-known experience which is infinitely slippery and effortless.
As a family we've been taking a week and learning a little bit about composers. This week was Bach, so the timing on this post was perfect. I've watched two videos so far and was completely blown away! Beautiful music, fantastic camera work and stunning performances by the musicians. This site is going to occupy a Chrome tab for a very long time.

Thank you for posting.
Man. I hate on Quora. Didn't realize they were YC. Shame.
-1, not viewable on an iPad in portrait orientation. There's a giant popup that covers the entire screen displaying "tilt your tablet" when in portrait mode. Who designs this stuff?
Rise in prices of housing and education is largely due to their investment-like nature. You won't be able to sell food as a great investment to the future.
Thats a quite pedestrian view of Buddhism that may have sufficed for ignorant lay people.

But, being an intelligent person, you're going to want to go for the meat of it, which is to realize emptiness of the ineffable and see that both subject (observer) and object (observed) are empty. In short, meditate.
I believe using your own language is fine (please see my other comment).

That said, you can still use pictures together with example sentences. You don't have to find a picture that unambigously means "hope". It can be a picture of the Red Sox or your $favorite_underdog for instance, the dvd cover of a movie related to hope, etc. The point is to improve recall, not "skip the translation step".
Software already went through the industrial revolution. To take your analogy, the car designers (the ones who work to build the prototype) are all craftsmen. Once the car is designed and we make copies of it, that is the industrial process. In software, the industrial process is trivial.

The car designers who build the first prototype, tweak it, make it actually work would call themselves craftsmen. They might use parts of other car models (same as we use libraries), they might duct tape something (same as we hack things), but the fact remains they are craftsmen.

I would also like to point out to one of the better arguments for this from Dijkstra - https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/E... - you actually have to think across many abstractions and as a result, writing software remains a craftsmanship.
That's not the actual reasoning behind redistribution, it's just a huge straw man and again an ad hominem attack on Clooney.
I don't think it would be better. At the risk of excessive snark...

In exchange for your feeling of superiority making the underclasses earn their bread, you're getting political wrangling over what the jobs should be and tremendous misallocation of labor as the jobs aren't the best thing those people can be doing with their time, we take up the time they could be putting into making themselves more fit for more interesting (and more useful and better paying) jobs, and we do nothing to free people to work on projects they're passionate about which may have a harder time capturing value produced (unless a bureaucrat has specifically blessed them).
> Canada's healthcare system averages $375/month expenses across all citizens.

That sounds great, but that's an apples to oranges comparison. Medical care in the US is drastically more expensive than in Canada, and unless we implement single payer (which will not happen) those numbers will not come down. Therefore $12K (which also has to cover living expenses) won't come close to supporting the medical expenses of the Medicare set in the US.
Care to elaborate why you posted this comment without context and why you felt the need to downvote me? Did you read the Techcrunch article? It was proclaiming native apps are killing web apps (which is exactly what my comment was referring to) I wasn't saying the Internet was the web...
It also feels a lot like a Quora & SV circlejerk. Idk why but for example the fact that this question http://www.quora.com/Quora-Community/What-do-the-Quorans-par...
is posed as "What do the Quorans' parents look like?" as opposed to "What do the your parents look like?" is indicative of something that I can't quite put my finger on but that I find really, really annoying.
Logging domain registration information (WHOIS records) and having an alternative method to applying opt-outs for sites whose domains have transferred might help address this.

It's not clear-cut. WHOIS records are principally oriented at the domain itself. They may not clearly identify a registrant, registrants' identities may not be clearly evident across renewals, changes, or even registrar-related actions (M&A, failures, splits), the formats (and quality) vary wildly by registrar, some registrars (attempt to) restrict access and use of the records, and more.

But it's a start.

Hell, a TIA archive of WHOIS registrations might itself be useful....
The difference is entirely in the types. A sort function in Haskell has type:

Ord a => [a] -> [a]

You therefore know that the implementation of the function can only make use of functions provided by Ord, and manipulation of the list structure. The function cannot inspect the values in the list except via comparison. This is an incredibly powerful guarantee. It's also really useful when you go to implement the function because this level of parametricity guarantees that there are only so many valid implementations and only a couple of them are even close to correct.
This present experience is ineffable. Is this present experience hogwash?
We need net neutrality because companies are not subject to the 1st Amendment
Part of this realization came to me because of an xkcd comic I read recently. Last year there were many revealed instances of the government violating the 4th Amendment through the forced cooperation of various tech companies. I don't believe it's a huge leap to assume they could do the same to the 1st Amendment if there were ever a caste system for Internet data.
Could you share more about how you've used it for less structured information? I've used Anki for about 3,000 Chinese words, and also some structured information (world capitals / countries). I've been experimenting with Anki for more conceptual knowledge and it's not nearly as easy.
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Basics costs are much lower

I wish HN allowed formatting beyond italics - then whenever I discuss this topic I'd put the phrase "PPP-adjusted" in bold 18pt font.

...some combination of malnutrition, homelessness, illness, etc...

The mean Bulgarian does not suffer these problems. Neither does the upper middle class Indian who lives on far less. When I say "far less" I mean after adjusting for PPP, i.e. adjusting for "basic costs", or however you want to phrase it.

I don't know why you consider my tone "provocative". It's not obvious to me what the phrase "too low" or "basic costs" mean.

Incidentally, when I said "live on less than the average poor American", I meant in terms of material consumption. I have no car (75% of poor Americans do). I can't drink the water coming out of my tap. I have a small living space. Most poor Americans have more possessions than I do.
Net neutrality aside, there's still the separate issue of providers not paying to upgrade their peering equipment. How would that best be handled (assuming that increasing competition will never happen)?
Do you also read the Diary of Anne Frank and then post "LOL this girl really thought the nazis were after her haha" to Facebook? Because that is how you are coming across here.
I thought this was weird until I went to the grocery store and found out that it was a dollar a pound. Yes please.
Weird side-note, when using CDB's from Perl, do not use tie, its painfully unperformant (realized this the hard way)