skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think, just like always on HN, that people who write these kind of posts and respond to them (agreeing) are not often in contact with 'the common man'. Like the Turing test 'news'; a lot of of people I know would be mistaken for a computer and if I would make a computer which acts exactly like they do, people here would call it a failure and not intelligent. I am convinced the singularity will come and we are all replaceable in the end, however I think before this there will come a (possibly long) time when machines will replace 80%(+) of the working population. There will be no jobs to replace those jobs as the humans doing them simply cannot do things which are vastly different. In the past, for instance with horse carriage to cars, you could see that operation of a car is related to that of a carriage. There is no such move to be made with people who put glue on four corners of the iPhone glass plate (in exactly the same place every time or get fired) and who are replaced by a more accurate and faster robots. Moves like this can be made with general practitioners (most local MDs are already replaced by machines; the only thing they do is search for your issues and prescribe what comes out or refer you to someone who might know) or the run of the mill lawyer or accountant who, in essence, bring nothing to the table already but the fact they have a piece of paper. A lot of people here can do a better job than these (especially MDs and accountants) with Google and their common sense and education. (Edit: I mean by this; these jobs need to be and will be disrupted but only the law/system is preventing that at the moment. There was talk of Watson somewhere with one nurse replacing (many) GPs at a time, but I bet that didn't happen yet because GPs like the status quo.)

I'm not bleak about the future as I do also think we'll need (and force) a more EU distribution of the wealth in the end, but there will be a quite hard period when that's not in place and 1 billion Chinese are out of a job...
Wouldn't pool participants that use this extension to steal rewards be exposed to the pool simply due to their work being consistently challenged and thus lost?

i.e: The pool would notice that certain participants contributions are conflicting with other discoveries, and ban such participants?
Heh, you are absolutely correct. I know nothing of the music industry beyond some very basic knowledge. That's why I'm asking these questions.

So you are saying that if I'm a kick ass singer, and have recorded a few original songs that I put on, let's say, YouTube, then to move on up I need to do a whole lot of marketing and hustling to get the right people to listen to me? Moreover, are you saying that it's a whole lot easier to have someone with all those connections to do it for me? And the way this someone gets paid is by taking a percentage of anything I create? I suppose that makes more sense than the view I had of things and explains why even today we still have music labels.
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I think the problem here is that you were spending too much time comparing yourself to your peers. Instead of being happy for their success, you're seeing it as devaluing your own worth. Is the point of having a high paying 9-5 making more money than your friends, or is it about having the the ability to dictate what you can do in your spare time? And is the point of pursuing things in your spare time and time (like rock-climbing/hiking/taveling/doing cocaine off hookers) to show off on Facebook or for personal enjoyment and betterment? I recently saw an interview with Dave Chappelle where he said that "money is the fuel of choices" and I think he nailed it.
"lets you teach your team one language" - good idea, but why pick one of the worse languages?
Yes, the first book set was to test the "bandsaw" protocol and getting it back into electronic format.

IIRC, they also tweaked the font for better OCR.
> It sounds to me like additional 5% interest, isn't it?

Interest accrues as a function of time. Yes, one could model this fee as an interest rate by taking into account the loan's expected term. But the 5% is not compensation for the time value of money or risk of lending–it is a facilitation payment. As such, calling it a fee seems acceptable.

Since the 5% doesn't change with the amount lent, or other factors, "flat" seems an appropriate adjective (though it is more commonly used to refer to a fixed dollar, versus percentage, amount).

EDIT: since the "fee" does appear to vary with a loan's term, yes, I think this would be correctly characterizable as interest.
A developed product is protected by copyright, not a patent. Software patents are for ideas, and the vaguer, the more valuable. Developing an idea like one-click ordering takes virtually no added time; all the better if you can wait for someone else to do the development and then collect the reward.
Dynamically typed languages are good for very small programs. Typed Lua is going to be a big innovation.
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Thanks for the reference to p. It looks like a good addition to the Thorpe I've done and the do Carmo and Lee that I am currently working through. I appreciate it. This is reasonable?

http://books.google.com/books/about/Curvature_in_Mathematics...
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Automation will undoubtedly take many jobs. Some technologies will create jobs, some will make the cost of living decrease and the standard of living increase. Restructuring society, the economy, and the government isn't easy by any stretch of the imagination, but it's not impossible and could lead to a better quality of life for everyone.

A partial post-scarcity economy would offset the job loss, then there could be regulation that limits working hours to 30 or 20 per week which would be enough because goods and services would cost less (because of automation).

3D printers and "molecular assemblers" will allow for instant creation of goods, (print every part of a car if you had enough raw materials/trash).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy

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

There needs to be more planning for the government of the future. Maybe a world government would be good, maybe it wouldn't. Should every citizen be able to vote on every issue rather than have a congress? Obviously congress would never do away with themselves, so how would we go about removing them or a similar organization from the government if it became necessary in the future? Do citizens even have that power anymore?

What about more competition between states? Government should be as important to people as sports is. Anyone want to attempt gamification of government and online-voting?

By the way, for the "impossible to secure" argument against online-voting, who cares if it gets hacked? If someone hacks the voting systems then it should be easy to notice that the votes people made do not equal the total (because people would be able to verify their votes) and if it's bad enough then just fix the security hole, reset the votes, and try again.
Your URL is broken -- has extra dots at the end.
I wholeheartedly disagree with the notion that beer shouldn't be bitter. Hops are added early in the boiling of the wort in order to impart bitterness. You can skip this step, but the beer will be sickly sweet with no balance. All of course contingent on the other ingredients, steps, and desired style of beer.
Except Netflix already said that Comcast is charging them less than market transit rates.
Why is the order of the headers different between those two examples?
Any reason why the thesis itself isn't presented a complete and valid SolScript program? ;)
We haven't done A/B tests on the text, but I'm curious on the outcome. I'm not sure we would keep it even if yields better conversion.
Somehow I used to hate curl because I began using it through the PHP Curl extension,which has the most horrible API(no,the other API for HTTP requests in PHP is even worse, it creates adhoc variables,yes variables can appear like that in PHP which leads to "variable name collisison"... ).

But with time,using it in the shell it happened to be quite powerfull for testing apis.

HTTPie coloring is a plus,does it work with XML too?
Feel free to try, it don't cost nothin'.

But there's a specific exemption for: "Trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential, 5 U.S.C § 552(b)(4)"

Years ago I lost a fight with the FCC for data on cell phone carrier reliability. The FCC has great insight into who has the fastest or most reliable cell network, but as part of mandating outage reporting, Congress promised the carriers everything would stay secret.
You should consult literature.
They should at least have to disclose if they are getting a paid to recommend funds.
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When you post things like this, my downvote ends up nullifying my initial upvote on your OP. If you value the precious magic internet points, with a complaint about downvotes you're just giving people twice the opportunity to downvote you.
> Your job, and every job, goes to a machine. [...] This sort of thinking is textbook Luddism

The quick condemnation as "Luddism" is counter-productive because it allows side-stepping critical thinking about how new technologies may impact our life -- whether it is ultimately for the good or the bad.

The cry of luddism should be made cautiously, because it so often is accompanied by rose-color technological optimism.

Technology surely does hold the potential to make our lives better, and there are many ways in which it has, but when we talk about truly radical technologies that can utterly and irrevocably change the world and the way we view ourselves in relation to it (e.g. powerful AI), it is worthwhile to think long and hard before that game-changer arrives.

For example, I do agree that I'd like most jobs to be automated eventually, with the outcome of:

> The main fields of human endeavor will be culture, arts, sciences, creativity, philosophy, experimentation, exploration, and adventure.

Yet, I highly doubt that the default outcome of:

> Let markets work ( this means voluntary contracts and free trade) so that capital and labor can rapidly reallocate to create new fields and jobs.

Is going to be this sort of automation utopia where we're free from labor. More likely there will be a long and painful battle about implementing basic income or some other powerful social safety net; it will likely only be after increased poverty and misery that the safety net will be begrudgingly granted if the particular brand of captialism we currently embrace continues.

A more pessimistic outcome is that powerful AI arrives before we've really thought through the moral and ethical issues, and it possibly destroys us, or is developed and exploited by military interests to who knows what outcome.
Yeah, I've whiled away a few ergs on the topic, but its an amusement more than a serious pursuit. It does amuse me that the memory hole is deep and wide, and this "jungle submarine base" conspiracy has fallen into the maw .. still, if there were an 'ultra-elite' class of people, you'd expect them to know all the details of the apocalypse before us plebes do ..
I don't often use taxis and I've never used Uber so I'm not specifically cheering for one side or the other. I know this isn't presented as an exhaustive study but basing the "results" on a single trip by each service doesn't prove much.
Bah, well that is inconvenient. :/
This is one of the little known gems I recommend often.
the readability difference is just amazing for me.
On that note for those of us having to use Windows at the workplace there are a few things that make life easier:

1) Chocolatey (package manager)

2) HTTPie

3) ConEmu (Shell)

4) gow (Unix command line utilities in Windows)

5) WinMerge (win diff)

6) TortiseSVN

7) SourceTree (git)

Makes day to day stuff much smoother....
In a fishbowl like a high school, people are really driven by their insecurity.
Note that Google Fiber is essentially a cable company since they provide TV. Whether a company uses coax, twisted pair, or fiber isn't relevant to video franchise agreements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multichannel_video_programming_...
Not really. There are always lots of 'versions' of the blockchain floating around. The network only keeps track of the longest chain (broadly speaking). This means the network with 51% can determine which transactions get into the blockchain. For example, if the pool owner doesn't like you, he can essentially 'blacklist' your account, which means your Bitcoins can become unspendable, basically. The longer they have the 51% power, the more damage they can do. GHash already performed what you describe as your '49% attack' against a gambling site that accepted 0 confirmation deposits. There has been no known instance of a 51% attack yet (e.g. double spend after 6 confirmations).
Exactly. Seems like a lot of the verbosity that is saved is simply implicitly assuming -i -H 'Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8'
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The difference is that if GHash.io launches an attack, miners have the choice to move to another pool. If the US government inflates the currency (yet again) there is nothing to do.
I think your track record of alarmism and disrespect to non-academics is relevant, but even if you classify it 'ad hominem', you've earned it with your own prolific slurs of critics.

I've addressed your continued "no-you-dint" willful-blindness about earlier analysis elsewhere... including on your own blog at (http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/14/response-to-feedbac...). You failed to discover (and thus footnote) prior community work, from years earlier, that did everything except for your more-rigorous boundary formalizations. So again, nice write-up, but exaggerated novelty. The interested can follow the links and decide for themselves.

I'm sure someone said no pool would ever even try to get 51%. Others simply said a pool in such a position wouldn't self-destruct the entire ecosystem, against their own interests. (Instead, they behave like the 'stationary bandit' of Mancur Olson's political-economy. Not ideal, and not what Bitcoin intended, and worthy of attempted-fixes... but also not an instant and unsurvivable crisis.) It's this latter prediction, of stability even in the presence of explicit (or secret) 51% cartels, that is still, so far, outperforming your own. For now they have the same claim to "I told you so!" as you do.
How much of your day would you say you spend thinking about how oppressed you feel?
Meticulously detailed account of Kepler's bride computing process can be found in his letter to unknown nobleman (dated from Linz, 23 October 1613). I've read just fragments of it from "The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe", the book by Arthur Koestler.

Introductory paragraph (p. 399): "Kepler's first marriage had been engineered by his well wishers when he was penniless young teacher. Before his second marriage, friends and go-betweens again played a prominent part, but this time Kepler had to choose between no less than 11 candidates for his hand...".

What follows could hardly IMHO put in any proper mathematical formula. In the best case it has to be modeled by some stochastic process with exponentially increasing number of random variables.

Anyways, the book is more important than that and I cannot recommend it enough. There is nothing else to my knowledge that so convincingly describes how process of scientific discovery can be arbitrary, fragile and random. The mentioned 'choosing ideal bride' episode is merely anecdotal chapter in the book that better explains Kepler's role and importance in the history of science.
A much bigger discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7890215
It isn't hype, a 51% attack is a very serious breach of confidence.
The sessions, the wget-like download mode, the binary detection, the upload capabilities... there is a lot to like here. I will definitely be checking this out. Thanks for posting!
If there are consequential performance gains to be had then even better. An interesting case is Dart. The implementers have a strong dynamic typing bias and wanted to keep Dart as dynamically typed as possible. Their position was we dont need any static typing for speed. They have since relented.

You realize that you just planted a good solid troll magnet of the "I never make any type errors" variety. Some people get annoyed by the notion that you can enlist the compiler (using succinct syntax) to write and validate tests that they ought to be writing. They would rather write the tedious tests themselves.

@spankalee They had a blogpost along those lines, sadly not bookmarked, but you might be able to find it.
I haven't looked at any code, but I would strongly suspect that it's because either HTTPie or python-requests is using a plain dictionary instead of an ordered dictionary under the hood.
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I'll integrate that into my app, just as soon as you get the file down to 24K.
So Lua is faster/simpler/smaller than pretty much every other dynamic language and now has optional typing as well.

Why have we not seen an effort to build a solid ecosystem around it the way node has with JS? Lua with equivalent libraries to Python/Ruby/Javascript/PHP would be superior to any of them.
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>Interest accrues as a function of time.

"per year the loan is held" sounds exactly this.

>Since the 5% doesn't change with the amount lent

that is the definition of a '%' sign, isn't it? :)

Using '%' with "per year" is a definition of interest, isn't?

Edit: wow, i just now recognized another possibility - charging 5% x [expected years] upfront - that would be "fee", yes. One fr!cking large fee. Who in sane mind is going to pay it? That sounds like preying on people who have no other choice.
You should incorporate firstbits into the system as well. That will make it very handy and better than most current online tools. Instead of remembering a whole Bitcoin address, the first 6-7 characters would do. Will make usability better as well (I know there's debate about whether firstbits are good or evil, but it would still be interesting to include that feature).
That could be, though I certainly have met outliers who thrive from a childhood of rebellion. Many of them seemed uninhibited but really had a sadistic ability to wait for their opportunities to maximally affect their surroundings.

But I'm not really saying behavior inhibition has an adequate explanatory power, just that it is confounding. Just one quantitative measure like gratification delay is enough to make a qualitative measure like coolness a worthless subject.
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You'd see that every single block was mined by the same pool.
That would appear to be a bug to me. When you want to see the headers of such a transaction you want to see them in the order in which they left the server.

I checked the server and it looks like CURL has it right.

Colorizing is one thing, reordering is quite another, debugging tools should show the situation with as much fidelity as possible.
That's going to cause problems for you one day. Some people put their LinkedIn in their signatures.
> I say SolScript is "duck typed" and "scripted", because that's how it feels to program SolScript. However, under the hood, SolScript is a statically typed, compiled language.

Duck typing refers to the ability of making shit up at runtime, as in the ability for functions, classes or code to manifest at runtime and to respond to user queries based on runtime info. It doesn't refer to a lack of explicit types in your code, since in a static language types are still there and still have to be something concrete and solvable at compile-time. It doesn't even refer to structural typing, because again, the types themselves have to be solvable at compile time.

I'm a static languages fan and I've also worked a lot with dynamic languages. The ability to make shit up at runtime is much more than the ability to call a method on an object without being explicit about the interface used. This is not about succinctness as as it about programming style. With an expressive static language used to its strengths, as a developer you want to write code that is as close to provably correct as possible, so even if the static language used is very expressive, the style is oriented around modeling the problem domain with types. In a dynamic language on the other hand, the focus is on the raw data that needs to be manipulated and code is written to make shit up on the fly (i.e. method_missing, eval, classes manifested at runtime by means of meta-programming, etc...).

Hence my opinion that duck typing shouldn't be used outside the context of dynamic languages, because people might get the wrong idea about it.
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Engineers create automatic sliding doors with Star Trek-like intelligence
Well, maybe. Unless they have some kind of faster-than-light technology, they won't even know what we're up to for years, decades or even centuries, depending on the distances involved. And decades or centuries more for them to come here and start bashing on us, by which time we'll either have gone extinct or developed advanced technologies with which to defend ourselves, and/or fixed the environmental problems that attracted them in the first place.

Although, the whole idea is rather preposterous in the first place. Aliens might have a totally different idea of a friendly ecosystem -- 800 degrees C, 100x the pressure, atmosphere of pure methane, etc. I mean, is there a galactic standard for "green"?
Hmmm... Sets, Groups, Topology, Algebraic Structures... Sounds alot like the Bourbaki "Mother Structure's".

Sets and Algebra, I can teach as a homeschool dad. Group theory, topology, and abstract algebra are to difficult for me.

I don't think this is intrinsic. Lots of Rosen is hard for me.I suspect Smaullyan's math logic book coming out this Summer will be transparent(Euler diagrams alone make it clearer). Likewise, lots of Stewarts Calc is obscure. Yet, strangely Spivak's Calc is clear and simple. I suspect there are similar resources for abstract algebra and topology.. I assume that I will have worked through baby Rudin before DS finishes highschool... however, there must be a more direct, less abstract path.
The really terrible thing is how hard it is to get those contacts OUT of the system. The best part is once you figure out how, they only let you delete 100 at a time (odd they had the capability to upload more than that at once). Just spent an hour last week doing this.
The counterpoint from my colleague Ed Felten is based on a flawed understanding of how mining pools work and how pool participants are rewarded.

Explained here: http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/08/fairweather-mining/
Link to the missing github page (maybe the paper is written before his github page was ready)?

https://github.com/andremm/typedlua
jq is awesome, particularly if you need to filter or otherwise process JSON, but the great part about httpie is that it works with just about everything so you don't have to remember a different filter chain for each type of content.

It uses pygments which means you also get nested formatting for e.g. CSS or JavaScript inside an HTML document.
You can use !bc to jump to a blockchain.info search.
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That doesn't mean a 51% attack happened, it just means someone got 51% of the network hash rate.
Interesting. For the benefit of others unfamiliar with this.

There is a hardcoded list of checkpoint blocks in the Bitcoin client. Any new chain starting before the last checkpoint will be rejected.

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1061/can-a-51-at...
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3114/which-block...