skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not in a single HN comment, no. I can't compress a lifetime of experience (second-hand) into the amount of text I'm willing to write right now with fidelity.

Reading through my HN comment history, and my wife's HN comment history, can give you some insight into what we learned from our grandparents (hers also had lifelong marriages.) Reading through the books published by the mathematicians I mentioned, and digging through the statistics I posted, are additional methods you can use to gain insight into what works. Talking to people you know who've had long and successful marriages (ie, not my grandparents, but yours) can help.
This is a pet hate of mine. Tech companies, especially US ones have a horrible habit of assuming language preference based on location. In Spain != Spanish. Or do say 14 million Catalan speakers anyway. Whenever I travel abroad I notice how sites ignore my Accept-Language HTTP header. It is just impolite.
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There's a lot of confusion around this. They are selling the Bitcoins that were on the Silk Road servers. There were other Bitcoins on his computers. He said he owned the ones on his computer, but not the ones on the Silk Road servers (because he denies being involved with Silk Road.) At that point, the DOJ posts a notice saying "hey, anyone who thinks they own these, come forward and make a claim." No one did, so they are now at the "sell them off" stage.
I think the article miss a big point: why war it will be?

In term of definition of objectives mainly. If the objective is to exterminate another civilization, why not just launch an infinite number of small vessels that will crash on planets, space station and space ships? If it's controlled by an IA, who cares? the only thing which will matter will be economical sustainability.

if the objective is to take control of a planet or a solar system, you are going to need big vessels, troops and other SF concepts. But I don't think anyone will care to take control of population. They might care about ressources and installation. Everything is so fragile, that it wont make any sense to try to gain control of it, the odds that every will be value-less at the end of the fight are simply to high!
Some fiber is better than no fiber. Verizon has used these whole city requirements as an excuse to avoid wiring any part of major cities. As a result, the densest neighborhoods of most US cities have worse internet than the affluent suburbs around them.
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OT, but near the top of your front page:

"Floobits works pretty well most of the time."
Matt Kaniaris - Co-founder, Floobits

Can I suggest you change this? Makes me think it's not ready.. and "pretty well" "most of the time".. don't think I would want my team using it. Lost time is expensive.
I'm thinking there's no reason that the cheap sensors would be anything but tiny, dark, and cold.

Relatively speaking, this is true. But would basic physics render them tiny, dark, and cold enough in the face of a technological arms race? Remember: think ahead. The opposite side would counter by building IR telescopes with enough sensitivity to detect even the minimal differential in IR emissions and correlate that with other emissions and starlight occlusion. Thus the arms race begins.

Remember that we're dealing with societies with several decades of technological advancement over our own. They would have access to vastly greater computational resources and technological manufacturing. The most esoteric and sensitive sensors available to NASA now would be somehow outmoded by units that could be mass produced. Moore's Law and the like still obey basic physics, but there is nothing in basic physics that ultimately limits detection or stealth. (Maybe getting the blackbody emissions of a unit down to the same level as ambient gas in the solar system?) There would eventually be some balance reached between numbers and individual unit potency, subject to one horrendous cloud of war.
Some people do. Hell, I did at times.
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Oh great. Payday loan sharks meet Wall-street meet the developing world. The whole concept of microlending is based on the free market fantasy that poor people can build their own businesses and be self reliant, as if market entry barriers don't exist. As if a weaver investing in a manual loom does not face the competition of textiles industrially produced in China for pennies.

The financial sector jumped all over microlending: it's a virgin market for financial services ("the unbanked"), the default rate is low because the existing social structure is leveraged (like MLMs, Amway etc.), and the profit potentials are huge. Meanwhile, they can claim they are helping people and the nasty effects of this type of loan sharking take place in a far away country to people who can barely understand they are victimized.

Poor people need jobs and education, not high interest loans that will just finance survival. The developing world will increase it's standard of living the same way the West did: large scale efficient production, ran by educated and productive workers earning wages and creating demand. It will not be via a bunch of banana cart pushers.
Great refresher course && contained some great nuggets of info that I didn't know as well!
I don't doubt you guys will. If you stick together through the wrapping up and put half as much energy into a market that is more new-entrant friendly you will go places. Best of luck and really really sorry to see you guys throw in the towel.
Er, and what does it do with the absorbed radiation?

Er, previous comment was written for people who think one or two steps ahead. A parabola is great for directing EM energy. (Think searchlight.) The rest was left as an exercise for the reader.

and so you also need to make it magically able to absorb limitless energy without failing.

There is indeed a fail, but not the one you envisioned. (EDIT: Don't feel too bad. That discussion on spacebattles was presaged by similar discussions on USENET in rec.arts.sf.science from over 25 years ago. I have a bit of a head start.)
> They should put big intrusive warnings on operator
> overloads to discourage their use, like…

"Warning, you are using the addition operator to concatenate two Strings. Don't do this!", said no compiler, ever. Only C does the "right thing" with char*s or chars when using '+' ;-)

In Swift, operator overloading requires no special syntactic support. Since it's a supported language feature, don't be surprised to see people use it.
I agree it's unprofessional. I put it there as a joke placeholder and forgot about it. I asked Christopher Groskopf if I could use https://twitter.com/onyxfish/status/431567402497609728, but then got distracted by the dozens of other things on my TODO list. Thanks for the reminder.
Nice site. A few thoughts:

- The city search doesn't work if you specify the state (San Antonio, TX for example). I didn't wait for the autocomplete to load and just pressed enter and it returned no results.

- It would be nice if the results automatically updated when changing filters, instead of having to click an "Update Results" button. Also, usually filters are above or to the left of results, not on the right.

- I expected clicking on the small map on the list view to take me to the map view, instead of having to click on the link below. The map is too small in the list view to really be usable as an interactive map.
Then you should've filed a claim with the court after:

1) the government filed "US v. A Wad of Cash Found in the Pocket of Danny Drugdealer"

2) the wad of cash was found to be subject to forfeiture

3) Danny Drugdealer didn't contest that he was innocent of drug dealin' or he attempted to and lost

4) The government posted that the wad of cash was subject to forfeiture at www.forfeiture.gov.

You'd then be entitled to make the case that ten dollars in Danny Drugdealer's wad of cash actually belonged to you and were not subject to forfeiture. You might've even won!

No one filed a claim to block forfeiture of all or part of the Silk Road bitcoins. Not even DPR. I think everyone knows why that is.
It finished in about 2 minutes for me, so you probably have a rendering issue. I'm on Chrome stable for Mac...
"Nice guys don't win." -- He sounds like a Jeffrey Skilling type character. The guys that say things like that in high school probably are the ones that go to Wall Street and become white collar criminals.
Hehe, from our point of view, the intro/tutorial needs a lot of work–if you watch the playtesters, anyway. We will continue to work on it.

Most of our libraries and engines and such are listed here: https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/wiki/Third-party-so...

There are probably a few more in use. If you are really interested, all the code is open source, so you can dig into it here: https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat
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I liked the rest of your website. Looks like an interesting product. Groskopf's quote would be great for the front page.
Misleading title. Also not surprising you nerds at hn brought it to the front page.
> A parabola is great for directing EM energy.

So its a magic surface where the inside is a perfect reflector and emitter, the outside is a perfectly absorbent and transmitter (to the inside)? That (though it requires multiple levels of magic) solves one problem, but of course then its also a drive system you can't control or turn off that turns all of your internal energy use and all incoming EM energy into thrust in the direction opposite the outlet of the cone, in addition to creating a detectable (by reflection from anything that passes through it) plume of EM emissions from the back end of your ship that will expand in such a way as to be visible even in the area from which your ship itself is shielded from direct observation.
Refresh your browser. I've had some that look like it'll take hours to complete and others than complete in 30 seconds.
You may find this article by Sam Altman and the discussion that stemmed off it informative

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7610527
Yes, and you could also use it for other types of embedded programs, like OpenGL shaders.
It's very similar in Northern Europe. Don't know about Africa, Asia or South America, but that's one data point for you.
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Why must they sell all of them as one bundle? Can't they sell smaller amounts to many different buyers? Or is that too complicated?
Refreshing candor.
What people really want is managed time.
Some sociologists have decided to tackle studying the concept of "cool" and how it affects peoples' lives. They clearly stated that their definition of "coolness" is based on pseudomaturity, for which they also defined criteria.

The paper and study are published, and may provide interesting insights, but are unlikely to be accepted as canon without sufficient followup study and peer review, which by publishing the study these sociologists are clearly inviting.

Now, are you saying it's pathetic for people whose fundamental focus of life is to try to better everyone's understanding of the human psyche and in this case psychological development in early years? Are you saying it's a subject not worth studying at all? Are you saying that it's impossible to conduct an unbiased study on the subject? Are you saying that it would be better for the study to be performed by someone who would identify themselves as falling within the "cool" group in their childhood?

Or are you saying you'd rather just dismiss the study and disparage the scientists on the basis that you do not agree with the results of what appears to be a properly documented scientific study?

Skepticism is encouraged in science, dismissiveness is not.
I'm surprised none has mentioned promises yet, since they're an example of this pattern applied to asynchronous code:

getData().then(validate).then(update).then(send, handleError)

This reproduces the code flow of the first figure of the article.
You don't find cocaine at a flea market because cocaine-sellers, not knowing that you are not a cop, do not show it to you. And even if they do show cocaine to pre-screened buyers, that guy could be an undercover cop or an informant. There is nothing inherent to the functioning of any market that makes it illegal.

Silk Road implemented some countermeasures aimed at preventing dragnet-style arrests and mass prosecutions based on casual scraping of the site and analysis of the blockchain, but it was still completely vulnerable to a buyer-informant attack. The real world metaphorical equivalent is that the flea market did not require shoppers to register their real names and addresses, and declare the serial numbers of any cash they might be using to make purchases. I do not know of any flea market that does this, or any that could even survive if it tried.

Was there anything inherent to Silk Road that prevented cops from using exactly the same buyer-informant model to prosecute contraband trafficking that they use for physical street-level buys? No.

And we are not the Stasi. We are not required to inform upon one another. Any duty to report is usually associated with exercising a privilege granted by the state. Actual misprision requires not only that the crime be a felony, the witness be aware that it is occurring, and that they take active steps to conceal it. Misprision itself is only a misdemeanor, and protection against self-incrimination still applies. If reporting the crime would implicate you in a crime, it is not a crime to not report the original crime.

You are suggesting that it is acceptable to seize a person's entire business and sell off its assets before they are duly convicted of their misdemeanor.

Thanks to the decreasing popularity of misprision among Common Law jurisdictions, it is usually only applied to actual agents of the state with some measure of public trust or responsibility. The flea market would likely only be liable for crimes committed by tenant-sellers if the conditions of their business license specified a duty to police and report and they did not.

Silk Road, as a business with no physical premises, could never be subject to such conditions, as there is no one with authority to license it to operate. The fact remains that even if there were tons of cocaine, Silk Road was not selling it, and had no particular interest in the details of the transaction beyond the amount of the commission.

It is very easy to say that Silk Road was a den of criminals, but we expect them to be sleazy and untrustworthy. The cops that we throw at them in the pursuit of law and order must themselves be lawful and orderly. When they steal from suspects, and establish by their attitude that everyone is a suspect, they present an existential threat to the security of private property, independent of any other crimes that may be occurring.

This auction is a slap in the face to anyone at all concerned about police powers.
> I've never understood this position. Why is a symbolic operator name so much more difficult to maintain than a name restricted to [a-zA-Z0-9_]?

Several reasons:

It's not obvious what an operator does, whereas names are descriptive. Some operators are "obvious", because they're firmly ingrained into our culture - (+) for addition is an example, it's almost universally understood to mean that. On the other hand, where in tilde, ~, is it obvious that you meant to test if a string matches a regular pattern? It's only obvious to descendants of PERL, for the reason that Larry Wall decided arbitrarily to use it for such. If every programmer invented his own operators instead of using the common languages we share, we would get nowhere.

Indeed, operator overloads are really useful when you use them the right way, as per your own example, but the flaw in allowing people to overload operators arbitrarily is that they abuse them to mean something unexpected - we all expect + to mean addition, but when it's used to concatenate two strings, it's easy to get confused as to why the hell somebody thought that was a good idea.

A big hurdle is even figuring out what an operator means if you've never encountered it. Unless you have good IDE support to navigate to its definition, or a specialized search engine for searching your language, then a typical search is going to turn up naught. On the other hand, most search engines understand [a-ZA-Z]+.

We could argue that using "+" for string concatenation "is obvious", at least to other programmers - but only because they've encountered such usage before. We can't reasonably expect to learn, recall, and fluently read arbitrary operators for any conceivable operation you can think of. Well, unless you're a fan of Control.Lens.Operators (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-4.1.2/docs/Control-L...), then nobody else is going to read your code.
Yes, I have actually gone up to a girl just to say “Your boobs look great!”

Really man? I usually don't care, but that's just horrible.
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"...you can point to a particular commit hash in that library's repo"

Riiight... because Github has never gone down and never will.
??? How would you propose to mitigate the risk of external repos being unavailable?

I'm writing from the perspective of real-world enterprise web application management best practices. This is not "failure to understand how dependency resolution works", it is "real world experience". Honestly, I don't think I've ever encountered someone with meaningful experience who hasn't come to the same conclusion. There's a first time for everything, I guess....
It depends on whether a the algorithm can generate a sufficiently large path (the white line) at first, since further development requires the purple path intersect that fixed path.
>It starts to make sense if Priceline can convert even a small fraction of them into hotel and airplane buyers

i think it is other way - the "flight+hotel+rental" package will be extended with breakfast/lunch/diner options.
This is a religious matter and as such no tactics are off limits. Tea first is wrong.
This was my first but that is what I've heard from people whos opinion I trust also.

Most of the time I even read books good authors wrote in completely different genres just because they were good (Simmons for example). Even if I usually don't like the genre, the books are still good. On the bad side there is Neal Stephenson...I tried so hard to find the reason why so many like him...
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Having amazing string capabilities is more important now than ever. But that actually argues against including regex in the language syntax itself. You want regular expressions to be able to evolve to become ever more powerful and useful.

So just include a literal string type in the language itself--one that minimizes the need for escapes and can be used for all sorts of protocols--and use a regex library. The syntaxes of the library and the language can then evolve somewhat independently, and if it reaches a point where you need a non-backwards-compatible change in the regular expression syntax for some great new innovation, people who still need the old one can continue to import the old library, while others can import the new one.

The freedom of technologies to work together yet evolve independently is an important "feature" that's worth protecting.
God, I've not known of the oninput event. I've always used onkeyup, or onchange instead. And their behaviors were so tricky. These "vanilla JS" features sometimes surprise me. Shame on me.
At the end.

Find some method for disabling future data entry at the end of the test drive but make it freely available in its frozen state and easily exportable.

If the user likes your service and wants to continue, the request for a credit card will be welcomed.

If the user doesn't want your service anymore, you will generate good will by allowing export of the data. The person either will export data and delete the account, just delete the account, or walk away and leave the data to rot on your servers.

Basecamp does it NEARLY right. Except they lock the user data behind the wall and won't let you export it. I have two Basecamp accounts right now for two different businesses. One is the unlimited $150/month account. The other one expired at the end of 60 days. It is much smaller.

I will become a paying customer for the second but the fact that they locked me out of my own data adds just a smidgen of hate in my heart for Basecamp. Add that to the fact that my employees are not terribly thrilled with Basecamp (they find it hard to use for the types and numbers of projects we have) means it is probably that Basecamp has pointed me toward a competing product over the semi-near term -- for both businesses.

That's one user's anecdote about Basecamp. I suggest you attempt to go through life trying to piss people off as little as possible. That's a reasonable business model to pursue.
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From the radar issue submission:

>Any modern language should natively support regular expression literals

Regex literals add needless complexity to the language, and tie it with a specific regex implementation, with no real benefit.

Just because Perl/JS/Ruby have this kludge, doesn't mean a modern language "should" have it.

Now, a way to write unescaped strings (e.g not having to escape all the regex operators like \ etc), that I can stand behind.
Its about time LinkedIn got call on this. They have been doing this for years.
Yes, but it is somewhat dull math because the problem is relatively simple. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulerian_graph, and compare it with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_path and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_path_problem
> But 'older' and 'wealthier' does not equate to 'does not consume porn' or even 'consumes significantly less porn', at least, if the adult companies that I have stats about are anything to go by.

Which are?

> And that still side-steps the question of which age bracket spends the most money per-person on porn which further skews it.

I think it's a reasonable first approximation that the demographic which has the highest sex drive may also be the one which spends the most. It could be wrong, of course, but it's one's prior expectation.
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> once Apple reads my radar and implements /regex/ literal syntax

jesus, get over yourself.
I was really impressed with that drawing one. I only clicked to see how I did with my side project(s) of drawing and it was nothing as polished or nice as that. On one hand I'm a bit sad (with myself for not being able to do that on my own) but it really is cool. Especially liked the slideshow (that's what I see) part of it.
TripAdvisor recently bought lafourchette (~$140 million according to TC) who are pretty active in Europe where OT has very less presence. lafourchette apparently has 12,000 restaurant partners according to this article http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/07/lafourchette-gobbled-up-by-...

Disclaimer: I work at TripAdvisor.
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Ugh definitely. The awful thing is that they harvest your email from someone's address book and then bombard you with "people you may know" on your actual legitimate Linkedin account(tied into that email).

LinkedIn is a ghetto of recruiters looking for no benefit contract employees("Oh we see you are an EXTREME CUTTING EDGE WEB2.0 NINJA, would you like to take a $50k contract job?"). Does this work on anyone? I can't imagine any legitimate "superstars" actually respond to these folks.

Edit: the really awkward thing is when it starts recommending you one night stands from years ago just because you may have at some point exchanged an email.
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