skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do, but you'll be charged a $200 (or more) "installation fee" if you don't bundle TV with it. When my service was installed, the guy literally walked in, plugged the modem into the wall, and was done. However, if you do order bundled TV with it, they'll prorate the fees if you cancel it... so I ordered TV + internet, cancelled the TV the next day, and now have an internet connection only (without paying their ridiculous $200 "plug it into the wall" fee). I only bought one day of TV service (the cost of which was negligible) and dropped the cable box off at UPS.

I would be using something else if there were ANYTHING else, but my apartment complex won't let cable providers wire the place. I'm moving soon, to hopefully greener pastures.
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Is it a closed biosphere? What's in it?
The monetary supply is tailored to the needs of the economy to prevent volatility and create value. By being able to buy or sell anything and have the currency worth a predictable amount there are many transactions that can happen that would not be possible with a more volatile currency.
Here's a page with the relevant images: http://www.cypherspace.org/rsa/
> Maybe companies / corporations with enough power to actually challenge the governments of the world isn't such a bad thing after all.

We should never expect corporations to take on the role of challenging the government. In "democracies", this is the role of the citizen (whose responsibility is to vote). Corporations, on the other hand, are controlled by people with lots of money whose goal it is to make even more money.
Or just keeping it a trade secret, like WD-40.
I don't think you're right. The mining machines are pointed towards Ghash pool owner and he becomes the owner of the mined block - that's how he can distribute the BTC to everyone who contributed. So in practice, he controls the whole hashing power and can perform the attack without users' consent.
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This isn't accurate. The Chernobyl event has severely degraded the ecosystem for nearly all living things.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/forests-around-...

"Birds around Chernobyl have significantly smaller brains that those living in non-radiation poisoned areas; trees there grow slower; and fewer spiders and insects—including bees, butterflies and grasshoppers—live there. Additionally, game animals such as wild boar caught outside of the exclusion zone—including some bagged as far away as Germany—continue to show abnormal and dangerous levels of radiation."

And there are likely plenty more terrible results we don't yet know about.
Please see my comment above. For all practical purposes, GHash pool owner controls the whole hashing power - he becomes the owner of each mined block and can do whatever he want's with it without users' consent.
Same here, I had to disable the font-family css command in order to read it.
This is an exaggeration -- if they were getting 40-50 touches per game they'd never survive the season.

300 carries per season is regarded as a heavy workload, and that works out to about 20 carries per game. Of course, running backs can also catch passes, but they guys that are the featured backs in a run heavy offense rarely catch more than a pass or two per game.

Edit: I found a list of the highest numbers of rushing attempts in an NFL game since 1960. The record is 45.

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/rush_att_singl...
The view makes sense. We don't want it to happen because it's unlikely to go well. But if it does happen that corporations acquire power, we express our wish that it goes well, however unlikely that is.
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The corresponding type signature in haskell is

bind :: (a -> Either b c) -> Either a c -> Either b c

So really you just save yourself a couple of angle brackets.

That being said, the author does introduce the (>>=) function, but just doesn't say monad because that can turn people off really quickly.
I wonder if a foundation of multiculturalism is why America's business culture is so distrusting.
The famous 'ghost town' of Ordos has actually been sold out. The Chinese are actually buying extra housing instead of keeping their money in banks. Source: http://blogs.aljazeera.com/blog/asia/ordos-boom-town-ghost-t...
Source 2: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/business/global/20ghost.ht...
Just for fun, here's an unoptimized and un-async'd haskell version I threw together:

http://lpaste.net/105557

It takes about a second. I expected it to be faster than node and php, but it being this much faster makes me think I got something wrong. The files generated aren't all the same.
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oops, please don't let yourself get angry :)

some of these are because of actually-similar character traits, and a few are just-for-fun because of physical similarities. I tried to make that clear in the text.

Out of interest, who would be your Mother of Dragons?
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man, I really wanted to say that in the text but it just felt a little bit too cruel :D

Hodor, hodor, hodor = Developers, developers, developers
Interestingly enough, I had just about the opposite experience when I signed up for twitter.

I created my account around 2 yrs ago I think... maybe a little longer.

When I signed up, I remember the onboarding process being a bit similar in terms of requiring you to follow at least 5 people, except for me, the users it listed out were incredibly relevant.

It was to the point where I almost felt like my privacy had been breached. My understanding was that basically twitter looks at the IP address (or maybe it's with cookies?) of everyone viewing every page on the internet that has a twitter "tweet" button on it.

Since I read lots of blogs, articles, etc. around the web... twitter then had at the very least a starting point for the users that I would be interested in (based on the tweet buttons they put on their page).

Perhaps the code was different back then, but I remember the initial follow recommendations being really good.
The first thing I thought of too. A massive earthquake with juust the right condition could squeeze some water in the ocean. Or tsunami like event for a simpler explanation. Or something just big enough to make a good splash in some sea.

The flood myth is very persistent but we need to have in mind that humanity was tiny back then. So even a 2011 Japanese like tsunami could be the flood.
lol, in germany if you are an employee in a company like BMW, you are not even allowed take your personal cellphone with you
What are some of the best techniques for Asian cooking that you have read?
Asian food has a few techniques that need to be applied to cook. These can be ways to cook meat, ways to cook vegetables, simple hacks and tricks to make a quick recipe, time saving tactics, how to peel, different cuts of vegetables and meats. Tell us any tips and tricks that you use in the kitchen every day!
> I have a friend however that shudders every time I mention making programming more visual.

Whenever someone mentions making _programming_ more visual I just get this feeling I don't really understand what they mean. The act of programming is just text to me. Doing simulations, measurements and what not can be visual, but the only way I can see "visual programming" is clunky and cumbersome.

I don't know if I'm just misunderstanding people, but the composition of code doesn't need to be anything else than text-based in my opinion.

Edit: I have seen some of Bret Victor's tools and his tool for visualizing change in game programming is very cool and I'm sure very helpful, but that is a very, very specific thing and whenever you take it out of that context it becomes so much less interesting and helpful.

I'm not advocating just giving up on the whole idea, but I feel like people are trying to generalize things that they've only imagined for very specific purposes.
> super-cool-everyone-wants-it-os that only offers new-cool-language

I'd suggest that these are fundamentally incompatible statements. "Only offers new-cool-language" is another way of saying "it's a pain in the ass to port to - you have to rewrite your whole app!" if you're coming from anywhere that's ever touched not-quite-as-cool-language.
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For weeks, Google services seems are disturbed so seriously in China. All service. How to get through that So Called GFW technically?
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This is not really a good summary of the question. For those interested in the question, I strongly suggest reading "Who Rules America" by G. William Domhoff

http://www.amazon.com/Rules-America-Challenges-Corporate-Dom...

The book in question also has a website: http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/
Well, wasn't e-gold shut down because it didn't comply with aml laws?

What if there were two separate entities? One for the currency, and another one for the exchanges? Only exchanges would be considered money transmitters in such a case, right?
There are some issues that make the actual C overhead somewhat greater than you measured. It's still far in the lead, but not by quite as much as your numbers imply.

The biggest problem is that modern GCC is smart enough to optimize away much of your recursion. If you compile with full optimization as you did and then inspect the 'recursor' function in your executable with 'objdump -d', you'll see that it's essentially unrolled your function 3 times. Instead of actually calling the function, it's just doing a comparison two times out of 3.

The best way to defeat this and level the playing ground is probably to add "-fno-inline-functions" to the command line. When you do this, the program may well segfault rather than run because it's suddenly using 3 times the stack space. At least, that's what happened when I tried it. Depending on how your system is set up, you might be able to solve this with 'ulimit -s unlimited'.

# Linux 3.11.0 x86_64 on Intel i7-4770
$ ulimit -s unlimited
$ gcc-4.8 -march=native -Wall -O3 test-function-call-overhead.c -o overhead-original
$ overhead-original
test-function-call-overhead.c: 1917046018.4902 calls per second
$ gcc-4.8 -fno-inline-functions -march=native -Wall -O3 test-function-call-overhead.c -o overhead-no-inline
$ overhead-no-inline
test-function-call-overhead.c: 402246812.8280 calls per second

This would imply that our actual loop overhead for C is 5x greater than your numbers. But even this number isn't really accurate. If you run 'perf stat overhead-no-inline', you see that it is executing well under one instruction per cycle:

$ perf stat overhead-no-inline
6,517,046,940 instructions # 0.62 insns per cycle

There are a number of things that can cause this, but the most likely is that the run time is being limited by memory latency rather what one would think of as normal function overhead. What memory you might ask? Remember that bit about needing to adjust the stack size because we were exceeding the default? It turns out that the default 8 MB is about equal to the L3 cache on modern processors, and thus the stack is overflowing to the much slower RAM.

To get a better measurement, we need to fiddle with your numbers for N and K. Each stack frame is probably about 32 bytes (I fiddled with your code to figure out what was happening and don't know the exact original), so if you want the stack to fit in the 32 KB L1, you'd be limited to about 1000 levels of recursion. But this is too fast for gettimeofday() to measure accurately in microseconds -- you'd want to switch to clock_gettime() which goes down to nanoseconds.

But that was too much for me tonight, so I'll stop here. The final answer will depend on the exact structure of your loop, but should be somewhere in between the two numbers at about about 1 billion calls per second, which is to say about 3-4 cycles per function call, with the much of the overhead coming from the loop rather than the call overhead.
Yeah, holy crap, not fracking specifically but it would be terrible to have a Deepwater Horizon kind of incident, and cause a water flood!
There already are theories about this. For example: http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ29.html

I'm not sure why you think creationists are dumb people. Even scientists don't agree with all theories in the science books.

So yeah, maybe there was an event where fountains of the deep opened up. Some people believe dinosaurs were killed because after that a change in atmosphere provided less food. Others believe a comet killed them. There is and isn't proof for both theories so maybe there is truth in both.

Our creation / existence is one big riddle everyone tries to solve different.
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I'm unsure if this anecdote will be helpful to you, but it's the best I
can offer. During Christmastime, my large, extended family has a big get
together with a fun gift game. All the presents get piled in the center
of the room. Some of the presents are silly joke gifts, but others are
quite nice. Everybody gets a number. When you get your turn, you can
either pick a wrapped present from the pile, or steal a present from
someone who's already opened one. Each present can only trade hands
three times. All sorts of deals and conspiracies follow, but it's a lot
of fun.

This year, one of the kids, a boy about 13, got a pair of battery cases
for two different iPhone models. Though he had an iPhone, he REALLY
wanted to get rid of the battery case so he could pick another gift. I
played the part of the "too kind grown up" and "stole" the gift he was
vehemently flogging. I don't own an iPhone but I figured I might be able
to use them for parts for some electronics project (you can never have
enough spare batteries and widgets ;). The battery cases were actually
good, band name (Duracell I think) accessories, but absolutely nobody
wanted them.

As much as people complain about phone battery life, if you can't get
anyone in a group of adults and especially kids to want a free battery
case, there may be some issue with the product.

Though battery cases make sense to you, and me, I've never been a heavy
mobile user, so I've never had the need for one.
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vim-go(https://github.com/fatih/vim-go) takes care of a lot of things for you already.
In imperative programming, your code can execute in two states, valid and not-valid. You start in valid state, then any validation failure returns you to non-valid state and you remain there. Pretty much the core of any validation technique without bells and whistles.

valid = true

if valid and not check1():
valid = false

if valid and not check2():
valid = false

...
> I think the best we could hope for is a little worse than gold (as it continues to be mined), which AFAIK still carries a significant amount of instability.

Actually, the best we could hope for has much, much higher volatility than gold: there are vast reserves of gold available and the oceans contain about 9 pounds of gold for each person on earth, 100x the total amount of gold mined throughout human history. There are many old mines that could be reopened in a few months or years if the price would justify it.

On the demand side, there are technical uses of gold, medical and jewelry. So we clearly have demand and supply curves that are pretty flat and a price driven by fundamentals, yet we see significant volatility, especially related to gold's speculative and monetary use.

On the other hand, Bitcoin is a digital asset designed purely for speculative and monetary use. It has NO fundamental demand and an almost vertical supply curve. There's no way to price a Bitcoin on it's fundamentals, the only driving factor is "what other people think". As a future PhD in economics, let me tell you that is not conducive to stabilization, quite the opposite, it's prone to violent and self-sustaining boom and boost cycles.
Naval Ravikant. Not to accuse him of femininity, but I think he's building his own little army over at Angellist, and a few of them are bound to be Dragons in the near future.
Fair point. I don't think that Bitcoin's parameters are necessarily "just right", but I'd argue that they are "close enough". An ideal coin that, as you state yourself, does not exist, but neither does an ideal traditional currency. Every currency and payment system out there has it's flaws, but not every flaw is necessarily fatal.

Particularly the deflation argument does not predict that Bitcoin will fail, it states that if Bitcoin replaces traditional currency, the economy will fail. If you choose to believe it however, it's an argument to hoard Bitcoin from a rational economic perspective.

People looking to criticize Bitcoin should rather focus on the centralized mining problem.
We no longer do this because they didn't like the volume of mail they were getting :)
The existential threat to Bitcoin is now at hand
All cultures prior to the invention of the modern state. Basically all current "native" cultures, including but in no sense limited to: the Bemba, the Nuer, the Iroquois, Polynesians, Melanesians, etc. etc. etc. Almost all day to day interactions (familial, friendly, etc.).

And that's also honestly not relevant to the discussion at hand. OP stated "the alternative to capitalism is to remove negotiation from individual interactions by implementing more State-heavy mechanisms like Communism" and asked if (s)he was making a straw man. I responded that (s)he was on many levels -- there are plenty of alternatives to Capitalism other than Communism, and Communism is also the opposite of a "state-heavy mechanism" given that it literally has no state.
Yandex is the 4th largest search engine in the world and #1 in Russia. I'm pretty sure they have a large local social network as well but the name has slipped my mind.
Would it be okay if you could verify the whole process, but couldn't prove which way _you_ voted?
One such scheme is outlined at https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/10/new_voting_pr...
Because using sloppy language is so much better...
ah good analogy, but arguably I could say the same thing about Mayer and her slew of recent acquisitions :) 37 acquisitions in 20 months (!!)

http://ibnlive.in.com/photogallery/15418.html
I really doubt the seriousness of anyone who thinks that throwing away an empty cup of water is a good test of character. Interviewing (and probably working) at Hubspot sounds like having a high maintenance boyfriend / girlfriend that is always 'testing' you and judging you on how well you jump through their ridiculous hoops. No thanks
What people should be more concerned with is the fact that the government is selling off someone elses property before they have even been convicted of a crime. Dread pirate roberts plead not guilty and has still not had a trial yet. He has not been convicted of any crime so if these are his coins they are selling them before the trial is even finished
While not quite finished, there's also Slate (https://github.com/slate/slate) by Holowaychuk
> Now, if the good was completely fungible, risk-free and totally liquid (think cash), there would be no expected discount because of risk.. just transaction cost.

How is that not the case here?
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Epic floods are somewhat of a staple in early mythology (not just the bible exclusively), but the thing to keep in mind is these civilizations did not have the means of detecting the scope of potentially global events. So even if flood myths are based on real events, they're most likely catastrophic but local occurences. This is supported by geological evidence which shows flood events in many regions over time, somewhat fluctuating sea levels, but never a truly global flood.
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ya but not one of them is going to save Yahoo!. Yahoo!'s problem is that they're too large to be a media company but too small to be a technology company, so inevitably, they are neither.
> I'd also request that the licensing party grant a reciprocal bulk license to Tesla as well.

That what I thought "in good faith" meant.
Use a VPN (Virtual Private Network). They're useful for a lot of things
in addition to getting past firewalls, censorship, and similar. The type
of VPN you use can make a difference in some situations. For example, it
may not be possible to use particular protocols or ports due to blocking,
but good VPN Service Providers allow a vast array of options (i.e. running
ssh or openvpn on multiple ports to enable people to connect in non-standard
ways). Due to being on a Verizon Wireless EVDO G3 (cellular data network)
connection, and Verizon doing on-the-fly recompression of images and other
data, I always use a VPN. The company I use is Tunnelr. It's run by some
good people who also provide free shell services and are supportive of the
OpenBSD project. All their servers run OpenBSD.

https://www.tunnelr.com

If you pick a node that's outside of China, you should be able to
access Google services without any trouble, but of course, I have not
tested this, so you might want to use their free trial to make sure
it will work for you. The support multiple types of VPN's and you're
able to access their servers on multiple ports, so there should be
some way to by-pass the Great Censorship Wall of China. They are great
with support, so if you have questions or need help, just contact them.

Good Luck!
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The first six minutes alone are worth a listen if you're in a rabble-rousing mood.
There's no debate here. ZenPro at no point engaged in my actual argument. Every step of the way he decided what he thought I meant by some stereotypes in his head and then attacked me with that as if speaking his caricature of me loud enough would make it so.

Now maybe he just trolled me masterfully, in which case, well played; but if he really believes any of his own bullshit I feel sorry for the dimwit and everyone who has to deal with him.
As someone that moves around a lot, I appreciate how willing Amazon is to take care every order-related issue, with zero fuss.

I fail to see what the "security" issue is, other than Amazon choosing to lose some money on fraud. That's not a security issue to anyone outside of Amazon, and Amazon seems clear in their stance.

Edit: A much bigger problem is Amazon's use of OnTrac, which repeatedly fails to make deliveries. Even in downtown SF.
I'm a little curious why in this case one wouldn't choose to do "RPC over HTTP".

Assuming the following points from the post are correct:

a) the perf problem is YAML marshalling
b) that can be solved via a go rewrite

then perhaps an easy way to solve "I want to call the old code" is to access it over HTTP, using a cheaper marshalling method than YAML.

I guess the tradeoff is whether you'd prefer an AMQP broker in there mediating the requests or an HTTP load balancer (or http client pool code in the go app). And whether you see other uses for that broker in your setup.
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What te hell?

Evolution doesn't work to achieve a goal. It isn't a goal-seaking mechanism.

Are these people getting grant money to pretend they are doing science?

Unbelievable.

Somebody send them copies of "The Blind Watchmaker".