skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/linux-install...

I followed the installation instructions exactly and it works fine on my Debian machine. I had to modify the script `/usr/local/bin/mechanics` since I don't have a binary named `xterm` on my path. While I was at it, I made it skip that and just `exec $CMD` as it would do if `$DISPLAY` weren't set.

This `edwin` that it comes with is a weird (faithful) emacs clone that runs under mit-scheme. Emacs18, that is.

I carefully typed in the first few code examples and they ran flawlessly. There even is some gui tool which pops up a rendering of mathematical expressions.
Saw the Facebook login as the only interactive option and immediately closed it. Seriously ?
Actually, you don't have to trust the casino. As pointed out by fryguy there are ways to ensure no party knows the deck [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_poker#Shuffling_cards_us...
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It's probably easier to bring three oceans worth of comets to rain on Earth than it would be to dig that deep and extract that water.

Eventually we will opt to dismantle the Earth to build more habitats, but it'll be more like peeling an onion layer by layer. By the time we are peeling 700 km, we'll encounter the water.
Single-prime RSA is commutative. Agree on prime p, and encrypt with random prime e. d = e^-1 (mod p-1) which is easy to calculate using Extended Euclidean Algorithm. With keys e and r, (m^e)^r === m^er === m^re === (m^r)^e (mod p).
Yeah, we wanted to make sure we could properly let you search your connections, there is a toggle on the top right to do so.

That being said, if you want, change the scope of the request and the site should (i think) still work for you... if you feel the need to do so, drop it down to public profile and email which i think is the bare minimum.
My point is that while anything _can_ happen, it's not like Rust just turns off every single check. Yes, they can be gotten around, but it's not like the type system suddenly goes away.
The problem is that in the short term, it is trivial for a well funded private company to offer a better product in the eyes of the end user (eg. GMail when it came out over every other open source mail system).

The only solution to that problem that I can think of is to better educate the end user, and to make them see that even though company X's shiny product seems better right now, in the long term there is everything to lose by using their communication systems. That's a hard fight though.
> On the other hand, can't patents protect smaller companies? Open sourcing projects and technology has its case-by-case pros and cons. I agree the increase in open source adoption has had a largely positive impact on the development community. But there seems to be a lot of stigma against 'proprietary' as a whole.

You are conflating several concepts in the space of a paragraph.

Can patents protect smaller companies? Maybe, if you have the resources to defend yourself in court. If you are seeking investment, you can file for brain-dead patents as a way to prop up your valuation and quiet investor fears. Sadly, this seems to be the main motivation these days among startups.

'Open source' entails a public release of source code and associated artifacts under a copyright grant with certain freedoms. Traditionally, patent grants have not been a part of these licenses, probably because the pervasiveness of software patents is a relatively new phenomenon. It is only with version 3 of the GPL that it gained explicit patent grant and retaliation clauses, and most other open source licenses still don't have such clauses. But the bigger question is what 'open source' even means in the context of Tesla. It is not like they're going to release detailed plans and blueprints from production facilities and upwards that would allow competitors to make perfect replicas of Tesla cars.

'Proprietary' usually refers to trade secrets. If you file something as a patent, which is a form of public disclosure, it is no longer a trade secret.

Most of my peers are strongly against software patents. They don't consider it a moral obligation to open source your company's code or release proprietary information that represents a competitive advantage. In this moral framework, patenting is considered an anti-social act, and releasing source code and proprietary information are considered altruistic acts, ceteris paribus. Note that this doesn't mean that _not_ releasing source code is an anti-social act.
Define "better" such that subjectivity is eliminated. People have different desires, different habits, different mental models of the world. One man's "better" is another man's "wtf is this pile of dren?"
Yeah, we are working on adding other options, but so many early users wanted to search their friends that we made the decision to do that first.

If you want to make a fake facebook profile to auth with I wont hold it against you.
Which one would that be? I've used C, C++, Java, Go, Haskell, and Ocaml, and they all (yes, even Haskell) result in prototyping slowdowns of 2x or more. Common Lisp is the only compiled language that I've felt can match or exceed Python/Ruby/Perl's development velocity, but it lacks many of the well-functioning batteries included with those scripting languages.
Digging down 700 km is certainly no easy feat.
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Almost, I've seen these 2 levels deep before. I'm waiting to hear about the real thing.
Ah, my apologies! I am also learning Ember, so I am not entirely sure. Hopefully someone else can come along and enlighten both of us.
Packages are signed using GPG keys from the package maintainers. The private keys are in an ideal world never even near the machine that serves the package to you.
Or if you wanted to be John D Rockefeller, rather than Henry Ford.
Really wish this included Wayne
AT&T developed the transistor, but it was government pressure that prompted AT&T to release control of its patents on the invention, and it was licensees like Motorola, Texas Instruments, and Fairchild (which gave birth to Intel) that did the bulk of the work in the transistor market. AT&T wasn't even sure what to do with it; they were just looking for something better than the vacuum tube.

The Alto was first built in 1973, but was used only internally at Xerox and was never made into a commercial product. Meanwhile, a loose-knit Homebrew Computer Club had among its members two guys named Steve. It was a visit to Xerox by one of them, in 1979 -- a full six years after the initial release of the Alto -- that led to the beginning of the modern graphical interface.

Microsoft began developing multi-touch technology in 2001, but it was the iPhone, in 2007, that won the market. Rumors of Microsoft's wall-mounted multitouch displays predate Apple's products, but it was Apple that figured out how to get the products into customers' hands.

What has happened to the PC is that it has become mature. This happens to all technologies. Modern automobiles are not very different from their 1950s counterparts -- just more refined. Refinements in PC technology however has led to things like the Raspberry Pi and a second-generation community of electronics tinkerers.

Not to belabor the point, but the automobile was also patent-encumbered, and it was the development of better production techniques (the moving assembly line, by Ford), that made the automobile accessible to large numbers of people.

The fundamental problem of product development is that those most suited to inventing things are usually not also those most suited to bring a product to market.
It's worth pointing out that fundamentally, humans like to live ... and live more successfully ... in places where their needs are met. That generally means ample food - plants and animals - and ample fresh water.

These generally co-occur in water rich areas, such as low-lying coastal regions or flat, regularly inundated river plains. Thus, flooding in relatively populated early centers of civilization is likely to be a common experience across human cultures, purely by the geographical reality of proximity to water.

Furthermore, recording such events is natural in a literate civilization since the destruction a nontrivial event might cause against food, shelter and population would affect all echelons of society.
For those that don't know, Eric Meyer is an extremely influential programmer, who dedicated a ton of time to improving CSS. Right now my laptop's resting on one of his books. He is as _why was to ruby or dmr was to C. Half of the CSS I've ever written wouldn't work without his contributions.

I'm in favor of changing the title bar color temporarily.
What makes you think this doesn't happen already. Arizona called in the National Guard on California during construction of tunnels out of Lake Mead. Mexico has threatened to take the US to international court over the salinity of the Colorado River. Dynamite was set off numerous times on the aqueducts that bring water to LA. Hostages have been taken and killed over the construction of dams in South America. Fresh water already is the scarcest resource we have in the American West. Far scarcer than oil by a long shot.
At this point in your career, you should optimize for improving your skills by working with programmers who are better than you, in a rapid feedback environment.
No, we built this ourselves and are pretty proud of that.

I don't need your data from facebook man, let me know if you want me to delete your profile and I am more than happy to do so.

P.S. its been a busy day and I want to deploy things the right way, feel free to change scope in the auth.
It's funny how a lot of people (especially those of the anti-capitalist / left'ish wing ilk) cite cyberpunk literature in which corporations achieve a level of power approaching - or exceeding - that of Nation States... and decry that hypothetical scenario as a horrible and undesirable thing.

But in this case, what we see is a situation where we'd like to see Twitter stand up to various world governments... perhaps even the US government. But we all know that, in the end, there's a limit to how much they can contest the will of the government because the governments are the ones with "men with guns".

Maybe companies / corporations with enough power to actually challenge the governments of the world isn't such a bad thing after all. Or, perhaps it would be better to say "maybe corporations with enough power to challenge the governments of the world" is, at least, not a universally bad thing.
I would guess that Fortran's advantage is because Fortran's semantics prohibit aliasing - it is clear to the Fortran compiler whether a variable will ever have its address taken, and the compiler doesn't have to be as conservative in assuming that some pointer may silently change the value within a function's execution. This opens up a lot of optimizations for inlining and storing variables - even complex structs - in registers, which in turn opens up options for SIMD vectorization.
Status is for analyze profile and photos permission gives some information about friendship level as well as location.
Lots of companies have really crappy dev processes but still manage to succeed in the market. Do what you can to improve your process internally but really the important thing is making your customers happy and getting more sales.
It makes perfect sense when you plug the numbers. They're talking about a thin layer of extremely dry, hot rocks in the earth's mantle. Something like 1-2% water by weight [0] in ringwoodite -- about 35-80 grams/liter. (Liquid water at the surface is >1,000 grams/liter). The catch is, it's a staggering volume: the earth's mantle is ~3,000 km thick, and the comparatively "thin" layer they're looking at, the transition zone, is ~250 km [1] -- this compared to the oceans' depth of ~4 km [2].

"The water storage capacity of the upper and lower
mantles is less than 0.2 wt%. The transition zone has a
storage capacity of approximately 0.5–1 wt% due to a
water solubility of about 1–3 wt% in wadsleyite and
ringwoodite, which are the major con- stituents of the
transition zone. Thus, the transition zone may be a
major water reservoir in the Earth’s interior."

[0] http://mon.univ-montp2.fr/claroline/backends/download.php?ur...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_zone_%28Earth%29

[2] https://xkcd.com/1040/
make a fake one, I wont hold it against you.
I am not qualified enough to say if it is dysfunctional, however a big red flag to me is when your CTO says he "doesn't want git to be polluted".

My first piece of advice would be to go into his office and very respectfully ask him to unpack what he meant by that statement. He may have just been trying to say that you were too junior, he doesn't believe that unit tests are worth the business advantage, or any number of things.

The reason I suggest this as a first step is because it will open up the communication between him and you over something that may give you more insight as to why he would say such a statement that is so grossly over exaggerated to the point of being a lie.

The theory would then go that if you could get your CTO to open up about this subject, then they are going to be more likely to open up to about other suggestions regarding the development process/other operational efficiencies.
In other words, we need to train end users how to accept poor user experiences for their own good?
I honestly can't even read the article because that GIF is so annoying.

I have two different GIF-stopping extensions and neither of them works because of the way the elements are nested (I guess).

I'm actually so irritated that I'm binding giphy to 0.0.0.0 in my hosts file.

/rant
Unfortunately, education is itself a massively hard problem. that, and you are trying to teach people to avoid something that greatly improves their lives on moral principles. The only tool I know for doing that is threatening them with eternal torture.
On the other hand, regions which make it uninhabitable for humans make it habitable for animals. Chernobyl is now a haven for wildlife.
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From the article:

Sure enough, they found signs of wet ringwoodite in
the transition zone 700 kilometres down, which
divides the upper and lower regions of the mantle.

From wikipedia:

The transition zone is part of the Earth’s mantle, and
is located between the lower mantle and the upper
mantle, between a depth of 410 and 660 km.

So, if our planet is roughly 12,000 km in diameter (6,000 km to the center), then this region of depth represents a 100-200 km thick shell where pockets of water may exist. But let's max it out, and try to find the volume ((4/3) * (pi r^3)) using very rough, round numbers to get an upper ceiling.

Hypothetically, if it were a continuous shell of pure, fresh water encapsulating the entire inner mantle and core, and if it happened to be 200km thick, with an inner surface at 600 km deep (the shell's floor starts at a radius of 5,400 km) and an outer surface at 400 km deep (the shell's ceiling stops at a radius of 5,600 km), the intervening space could collect possibly a volume close to 76 billion liters of water.

Compare this to a hypothetical scenario, where our planet's rocky crust has a radius of 5,995 km, and is completely covered in one giant ocean of water 5 km deep (think Water World with Kevin Costner) for a total diameter of 12,000 km, this huge ubiquitous ocean would only contain 2 billion liters of water.

So, in a world of perfect spherical maximums, rounded to the nearest billions in liters, this subterranian zone could contain 38 times the water we currently observe on the surface of the earth.
And SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE, one of my favourite names for a convention ever, is when snake case is in all caps ;)
After reading about this on Hacker News, I went straight there to find my current favorite song, Happy, by Pharrell Williams. It wasn't there so I bought it for a $1.29. I wasn't happy. Then, I listened to the song a few times and I was happy again.
Does anybody else get the feeling that there's still quite a bit left of the warrantless, dragnet surveillance rabbit hole?

I keep wondering when the next really big thing will drop - like evidence of industrial espionage by the NSA on behalf of some specific company, or a list of targeted organizations that includes things like the Red Cross, or IEEE.
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So Telsa Keeps their patents but anyone can use them? What are some cool non-automotive applications for their patents?:)
Is Tesla getting worried of other technologies like fuel cells? http://www.hyundainews.com/us/en-us/Media/PressRelease.aspx?...
You dropped some zeros. A billion liters is a cube 100 meters on a side, more like a drop than an ocean.
Exactly. The car companies are all adults. I think this signals, "Let's go down a road where we don't wind up suing each other like the internet companies" This doesn't diminish the impact of what they're doing, but there's a practical side.
I don't see where we disagree. Bringing a product to market isn't innovation in the way developing something new is. You can't bring products to market using technogies that don't exist, and history has shown that monopolies are a fertile ground for developing such technologies. Your Microsoft example is consistent with the ones I presented, so is Intel. Intel heavily relies on trade secrets to ensure that its competitors don't have access to its fabrication technology.

> The fundamental problem of product development is that those most suited to inventing things are usually not also those most suited to bring a product to market.

This is absolutely true. So how do you ensure that inventors get adequately compensated when people bring their ideas to the market, backed up by tight outsourced supply chains and heaps of marketing?
I'll take things I may consider putting on my girlfriend's computer for $400 Alex.
As a frustraded Twitter ex-user I'm interested in hearing your experience.
The only part of this that is a red flag is what the CTO said about unit tests. You need to know why he said that. An outsourced product that has a shitty tech stack and that growth rate are fixable problems lots of startups have gone through. But an attitude that "everything is fine, we don't need to be better" in that set of circumstances is a disaster.

My current company was in a similar situation a few months ago in some respects, but we were releasing constantly and desperate to improve. We're WAY better now, and we're getting measurably better in every single respect every day. The reason we're unrecognizable from what we were 4 months ago and why we'll be that way yet again is because we're desperate to improve and have NO egos. Not a single person on the team is anxious to be right - we're anxious to get better.

Find a team that's as anxious as you are to improve. That, you can't fix.
This is tangential to your point, but I recently did a international money transfer to a friend. The fee was $40AUD for <$1000USD sent. They received it in a day and a half.

For Bitcoin I need to:

* Get the requisite amount of bitcoins, plus a percentage extra to protect against fluctuations (BTC crashed is not a valid excuse for non-payment of rent)

* Help said friend set up a BTC wallet, plus security

* Find a trustworthy person willing to exchange USD for BTC at some agreed value

* Send friend to person and hope the exchange goes as planned.

I'd love to use BTC in place of IMT but it's just not easy enough yet.
Odds are you are already in there. If you want I can look you up and email a file back to you with what we have?

Our permissions are to improve your search experience. And we got the feedback from today that we need to pair it down, we will be doing that. In the meantime if you want to change the scope in the permissions I wont hold it against you (email and public profile are pretty much needed to make it work)
This place does sound a little screwy. (Unit tests are "pollution"? What???) I think it couldn't hurt for you to be very quietly looking around for something else.
> I was simply pointing out that there are many flood stories in many cultures

Being in many cultures isn't evidence against the story, as it seems you are trying to imply.

It could simply mean there was one huge flood and lots of cultures recorded it.

I am aware there is no scientific mechanism to cause a worldwide flood, this is explicitly about divine intervention. (i.e. a miracle, not creationism pseudo science).
> I tried to write some unit tests, and I was asked to removed it from git because the CTO doesn't want git to be polluted.

This is how you know.
Same experience as gp: Twitter for me today only has possible value as a news source.

Please correct me if I got this wrong but:

Posting just about anything to twitter means spamming most people that follow me with stuff they don't care about: programming? Everyone except the programmers couldn't care less. Java programming? Now it is just noise to about everyone. Etc.

Basically this means I should keep a few different twitter accounts, right?

I've tried using it as a news source as well. However I'm down to just hn + a web edition of one of the bigger local newspapers. Less noise.
Interestingly, this analogy works very much at the company level, but reverses at the country level.

For companies, patents represent weapons in an arsenal, in which MAD prevents offensive action, as you've said.

For countries, the reverse holds: a country that jettisons its patent architecture, or never evolved a restrictive one to begin with, will be a bastion for innovators. The stable equilibrium is no bad patents - a lack of shallow protectionism - and the only reason patent law in the US has remained constant for so long is because of the other advantages that have given it technological and scientific primacy.

As those advantages erode, patent law will loosen to stimulate competition. Perhaps there is an upside to the perception of decline?
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This is awesome and inspiring even if it's just PR.

"Tesla, other companies ..., and the world would all benefit from a common, rapidly-evolving technology platform"

Indeed.
There are plenty of alternatives to Capitalism that do not involve State-heavy mechanisms. For instance, in Communism, despite your assertion to the contrary, there is actually no state at all.
Interesting topic. There is nothing you can lose by starting a friendly "debate".

There are three likely scenarios:

1. You are wrong, CTO is correct, and you learn something valuable.

2. You are correct, the CTO is wrong, and he gains respect for your initiative and skillz

3. You are correct, the CTO is wrong, and he loses respect for you.

First two are obviously good, 3rd one is a good sign you probably won't or shouldn't stay long there.
Yeah, it's a loosely-coupled decentralized system vs. a tightly-coupled decentralized system. Advantages and disadvantages to each.
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