skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These questions are entirely orthogonal:

Does a thing suck?

Should i use a thing?

The answer to both of them can be yes at the same time, while being entirely true. Yes, i know, grokking this requires a little mental nimbleness (seriously though, only a little), but is an unavoidable truth stemming from the inherent complexity of the universe and the interactions of everything in it. There is no black and white. There is only a vast morass of grey in a variety of dimensions whose numbers vastly outstrip what the human mind normally has to deal with.

And one of the points in that morass is where all programming languages sit: They suck, and given the right conditions they should be used.

And frankly, if you REALLY want to find out what sucks about a programming language, the best person to ask is someone who both has a deep love for the language which has given him the experience; and the integrity to be honest to himself, and the world, about what ailments that language really has.
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I wonder if its to make it harder for us to all start selling drugs to each other.
> The 1/100th of a second time limit used in this example is more than enough time for a bot that does not loop infinitely to terminate on any modern processor; simple bots like cooperateBot or titForTat will terminate in less than 1/1000th of a second. For the purposes of this tournament, you can consider 1/100th of a second a safe upper bound on simulation time when writing your own bots. In addition, the time function itself costs slightly less than 1/100th of a second in overhead

This doesn't seem safe. Suppose I'm playing against JusticeBot, and simulate ver playing against me. Then ve simulates me playing against CooperateBot, and presumably sim-me simulates CooperateBot playing against me. The recursion ends there. But JusticeBot called time once directly, and vis simulation of me also called time, which means ve took more than 1/100 of a second to run in total.
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+1 for this interesting suggestion. Thanks. I've never heard of it and would love to try one.

Apparently, it doesn't scroll, but I'm sure scrolling takes a lot of energy to do all the refreshes. I assume that a large, hi-rez reader can offer scrolling, thinness/lightness, or long battery life, pick two.
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Except now the closer in suburbs(and urban housing) are for the rich. I live in DC, and pretty much everywhere in town is pricey, and the close suburbs that would be somewhat convenient(bethesda, arlington being the exemplars) to "town" are extraordinarily expensive. The (outer, not as nice, inconvenient) suburbs are the new hotbeds of poverty, and I've only been here for ~8 years but even in that time a lot of affordable neighborhoods have priced longtime residents(who don't own) out.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/23/p...
It's worth noting that the NY Times sometimes revises their headlines. I don't know whether that's happened in this case, but it's a possibility given the NYTimes tweet contained the HN title: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/494878654934302720
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We know for sure they haven't been negotiating and agreement. You'd hear about it otherwise.
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I mean sure, but just the very concept is kind of strange and somewhat entertaining (and also sad).
Can anyone give an insight to why they decided to have the stellars pre mined? Wouldn't that make stellars not valuable...
We updated the title.
Ya, that could be it.
Why do HN mods keep changing the title from meaningful ones, which make the reader interested in the content, to generic, vague ones? You'll see that there's definitely a correlation between the moment that HN mods change the title and the post dropping off the top frontpage spot.
No, but perhaps you taking notice of them is a reflection of your sensitivity to the topic. The ones I see way to many of are about how amazing cities are and how crappy cars/suburbia is.
Yeah, I think you're right. The specific language is:

> Later, if a VStore or HStore becomes unreachable through any existing variable, they become eligible for reclamation to release the memory they occupy. The engine may reclaim a VStore or HStore at any time between when it becomes eligible for reclamation and when the script exits. Before reclaiming an HStore that represents an object, the Engine will invoke the object's destructor if one is defined.

I'll put it in now. Thanks - and great catch!
By that logic, any site with any bug in it should never been launched. If it broke, report the bug. It's Open Source: https://github.com/stellar.
So people can't create bots to farm Stellar money. You get free Stellar when signing up.
When you call the time function, it will cut off the simulation once that 1/100th of a second limit is reached, no matter what happens inside the simulation. So even if your opponent simulates you or performs some expensive computation or even goes into an infinite loop, time will terminate in the allotted number of seconds plus the overhead. If that happens, though, it will return Nothing, so you won't have gained any information about what your opponent will do.
I was going to say something similar. However, the ones I have seen are only applied to large trucks. So far, at least, cars can speed through with impunity.
looks nonchalant

http://blog.hackensplat.com/2012/04/php-some-strings-are-mor...

whistles and walks away
Grumble, don't talk about e.g. JavaScript regexps. :-(

>>which is a seriously uncool armchair quarterback thing to say

Imho, you read too much into the discussion. Everyone knows that Booking.com must be doing a lot of things right for their particular problem set and situation. It is a high profile place that attract good talent. (I am hardly alone in assuming they aren't too stupid to listen to Ovid et al.) Their situation is unusual and the resulting specific differences in methods will be questioned, because of their high profile.
C already has sum types, just slightly sloppy ones (as unions aren't required to have a tag).
There is a fun anecdote about how to beat tit-for-tat by using a collusion strategy. What you do is enter a team of bots, and their strategy is as follows:

1. For the first 50 rounds, behave according to a predefined sequence.
2. If your opponent also does this sequence, then cooperate in every subsequent round. Otherwise defect in every subsequent round.

I don't have a reference on hand, but from what I remember this defeated all other algorithms by a large margin in one of the main yearly Prisoner's Dilemma tournaments.
It would be incredibly interesting to see a forecast for Europe just now. I wonder if the data he collected is available somewhere?
Why bother asking a question when you word it in such a biased way? Obviously my answer is yes, that is the world I want to live in.
"I have never deployed PHP on a production server by myself,"

As much as i dislike PHP, i can't take this rant seriously after reading a line like that.
Hello, Andrew from Stellar here. We're using Facebook as our identity verification mechanism for our giveaway, and we've added additional spam prevention checks to ensure lots of Facebook accounts aren't created just to claim the giveaway reward. We will be tweaking these checks in the coming days to ensure legitimate users like yourself will be let in. Please check back soon!
include "foobar.php", IIRC, is executed at compile-time, and I assume must be in Hack's type checker too.

Also, I don't see how pausing execution and re-invoking the compiler at run-time to load the rest of the code base (which you can do in PHP with a conditional include, don't know about Hack) can't be done with static typing.
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Agreed, this was such a treat to read. Love when science sets the sales brochures straight.
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I like the idea. I don't like the proposed date. I have plans.
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Without the inclusion of mining and the incentives to establish a mining infrastructure, how do you intend to provide safe decentralized verification of transactions?
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They tried to drop the lawsuit because they thought they could go on to fry bigger fish (television), but unfortunately they tried to step on someone who snapped on their foot like a bear trap.

Lucky for them they'll probably come away from this accident short a leg and a patent, but I'm sure they've got a hundred others to go troll someone else with. At worse, they'll just sell the remaining bulk of the company to another troll who will just start doing the same thing.

Can we honestly get some patent reform already?
There aren't any traffic lights and crosswalks on this street?
I was feeling generous. sent you 1000
Any specifics that you are thinking of here?
A few suggestions (which would probably need to be limited to over X age):

* Google accounts

* Github accounts

* Twitter accounts

* bitcoin-otc accounts (probably with a minimum reputation)

* GPG keys with some minimum threshold of age and "signedness"

* S/MIME certificates from issuers that verify government ID.

I'm guessing the difficulty with supporting multiple methods is a desire to limit this to 5k/person. I'm not sure there's a good solution to this, though I will say that you may have just added some additional incentive to steal Facebook credentials.
I've thought about this for years, since hearing about Gladwell's 10khrs rule. I recently started reading The Inner Game of Tennis, and I think it's clarified what's going on here. It's obvious the trend is related to physical, not intellectual, skills. Playing violin, soccer, archery, etc. The 'deliberate practice' concept basically boils down to clearing up interference between Self 1 & Self 2 [1]. You have to maintain the constant feedback loop, where you are aware of what you are playing, you hear the notes, and you make small adjustments to Self 1. The opposite of this, the useless kind of practice, is where you tell Self 2 to shut up and keep making endless adjustments, never listening to the feedback.

This state of mind, 'conscious unconsciousness', trains your Self 2 to execute. I don't know why it takes so long for the subconscious to learn, but muscle memory does develop.

Most people think these people are training their Self 1, as if studying music theory will guide their hand, unconsciously, up the scales. It doesn't work that way. You can't memorize a compound bend on guitar, you can't memorize a double stop on a violin. Self 1, as important as it imagines itself, cannot play music all by itself. There are far too many notes in any song to consciously focus on each one as it passes. You have to rely on muscle memory to get you through.

Keeping that feedback loop open is about as hard as maintaining averted vision in the night sky. Or staring into a Magic Eye. You've got to relax and focus.

[1] you'll have to read the book. Self 1 observes & directs, Self 2 executes. Roughly, Self 1 is conscious, Self 2 is subconscious.
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It reminds me of a beautiful Brazilian film I've watched recently in NY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5hTIOCuwy4
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A better way to phrase what you just did:

Maybe the values are stored as a float? But that would be silly, so there must be a better reason.
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Technical problems tend to fall rather more rapidly when billions of dollars in R&D spending is put into play. Just the top 10 Formula 1 teams spend something like $4 billion annually, and now a significant amount of that is being funneled toward research on highly efficient vehicles.
We want to give them away as fairly and to as many people as possible. Stellar doesn't require mining and so there's no need to give them away to the people with the most CPU cycles. Anyone can participate regardless of technical ability or income.
This is the Paper issue all over again
In Kansas City, Missouri, they installed a bunch of red light cameras and a bunch of false cameras (just boxes mounted on stoplights to look like cameras). The real ones and fake ones were published quickly (with whether they were real) and it had 2 major consequences. First, the traffic courts were quickly overwhelmed with challenges, and it became normal to wait 5-7 months before getting a court date for running a light. Second, several of the intersections with cameras saw a quick increase in accidents, as people were so terrified of a ticket that they would not worry about being rear-ended when stopping very abruptly.
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Now, about 1 Stellar. In the future, about 1 Stellar.
An excess of 500 calories per day would lead to a weight gain of roughly 50 pounds per year. That could lead to obesity in less than a year and morbid obesity in just a few years. Most likely the average obese American is eating an excess of substantially less than 500 calories per day.
[Full disclosure: I am the PM for this project, a principal eng/manager at rackspace, and I believe in honesty]

> Rackspace is a tarnished brand for me. I immediately associate it with ridiculous pricing and bad "cloud" (mosso). With closed eyes it refused to see the quicksand of commodity it built its tower on.

You know what? I agree. Several years (4+) ago when RSC (Rackspace Cloud) came out I used it. My job was breaking the limits of cloud providers, and I did my job quite well. I was unimpressed with the cost and what I saw.

But - as old-gregg said much more eloquently; things have changed. From OnMetal to OpenStack, we've improved in capabilities, understanding the developer and hacker markets (my job, basically) and you're actually probably representative of the precise group of users I built this program for because this type of feedback, raw, unfiltered about technical capabilities and failings is what we need.

As someone on the inside now, I am proud to see the changes - the Managed Cloud launch was all about finally making the public statement "here are the infrastructure prices and here is the support you get". It's a clarifying move but a fundamental shift from the bundled pricing you had several weeks ago.

For example, when I went to developer events, people would ask me "do you have a cloud" - Yes I would say, and it has all these great features and capabilities and heck, we can do crazy topologies that mix dedicated gear with cloud stuff. People would be excited...

Then pricing would come up: and I would have to write down the prices and then explain that those prices included support - from 24x7 phone, to everything else you can imagine. But that triggers the uncanny valley when talking to developers as you probably know.

So now, here we are: we've separated our the cost of support from infrastructure. Our infrastructure prices are competitive with other providers (we lowered compute pricing for example), and now I have a channel with developer+ to try to win back - or get that raw feedback I need to make our products much better.

developer+ isn't evil, it's not got crazy ulterior motives: it is us saying developers are important, and we haven't done well for them. I want you to sign up, I want you to try the services, SDKs, Docs, dev portal for a spin. If it sucks, or there are bugs, I want to know directly from you.

In my mind, rebuilding a brand is much like rebuilding a relationship. It takes time, energy, honesty, candidness to regain trust.

And I'm saying we're here to do that. I can't promise everything is perfect, or we're not without flaws. I can't say developer+ is 100% to where I want it to be. But I'm aiming for that.

And I would honestly welcome you and your feedback, no matter how tough that love is.
Yeah, see, I would probably find that incredibly suspicious as well. Though, most spam accounts try to get around this by sending out hundreds of friend requests to random people.
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Voyager used gravity assist to achieve its current velocity, so the comparison isn't 100% fair. A craft with this drive can certainly avail itself of that technique as well.
Amazing. Japanese culture is the only one I know of where suicide is encourage and respected—is there any reason for that?
Is there any reason the number of rounds is fixed? I didn't think anything interesting could come of that:

>If the game is played exactly N times and both players know this, then it is always game theoretically optimal to defect in all rounds. The only possible Nash equilibrium is to always defect. The proof is inductive: one might as well defect on the last turn, since the opponent will not have a chance to punish the player. Therefore, both will defect on the last turn. Thus, the player might as well defect on the second-to-last turn, since the opponent will defect on the last no matter what is done, and so on. The same applies if the game length is unknown but has a known upper limit.

Also, I'm wondering if the rules prohibit collusion. The rules say one bot per person, but don't mention teams.
Because that's a terrifying world to live in.

I am biased. To accept the idea of compliance with the law to the letter constantly is unreasonable. Roll 1-3 feet over the white stop line? Ticket. 1-2mph over the speed limit? Ticket.
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If you or I penetrated the Senate's computers I would expect we would spend quite a long time in jail. Is it naive for me to expect that someone at the CIA will spend a long time in jail?
Hi, I'm excited about Stellar, but disappointed in the initial offering scheme. People with lots of real-looking Facebook accounts can grab some extra funny money and the rest of us get shafted. I'll check back later!
Thank you very much! And fixed :)
OK, I will offer more. $20? Nobody interested in selling 7000 stellars for $20?
I assume automobiles, racism, and consumer preference for large lots are still factors in Canada in Australia. But I haven't researched any specific housing policies that encouraged sprawl in those countries. I'm having trouble finding materials on the subject. You know any good resources?
And it was in the dictionary before that.
An autopilot, great. But driverless, as in, no way for anyone to take control? No thanks. There are plenty of places your GPS can't take you the last few hundred metres, nor would you want it to, you want to decide where to park based on a variety of factors.
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I get what bitcoin is.

Can someone help me with what stellar is, and why it is better than, or a complement to, bitcoin or the traditional system?
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No. They dropped the ball in my opinion from what should be a really savvy group of people who "get it" when it comes to identity/etc.
So what happens when you are caught breaking into a building, and the camera is evidence of your crime?

This entire line of reasoning would completely destroy any kind of automated crime detection (security systems, security cameras), which is ridiculous on its face.

Further, what happens when you commit a crime where there are no witnesses? People are rightfully convicted of crimes based on "things" rather than the testimony of a person who saw it, regularly.
Just on the softlayer-esque note, I'd love your thoughts about the OnMetal product
Would be interested in trying this, but can't obtain any yet due to (intentional) lack of Facebook account. Happy to pay it forward in the inevitable HN article when they launch non-Facebook mechanisms.

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Hi, Andrew, please realize you are depending on the desire of people on HN not to be assholes to acquire imaginary currency.

A part of me was sorely tempted, out of annoyance, to simply acquire enough facebook accounts that would bypass your check just to point out how little value it has. I've long since quashed the urge but not everyone will.
Yep, just another premined coin to the list, and as it turns out it's a fork of Ripple. Everyone here should read this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8115272
Oh, for sure. It's by no means an apples-to-apples comparison (just being in orbit around Earth before you start your journey out gives you a huge jump on that), just gives you a sense of scale.
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make some tool/app for people in lesser known occupation.. maybe plumbers or mechanics .. where they can exchange things,etc..
It's a fairly common anime trope.

42 examples on: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Hikikomori
Can you (honest question) itemize what's better white glove service? Because I want to take that list and act on it inside of Rackspace.
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>> Remember to ask the officer(after he has given you your ticket) what model laser/radar detector he was using, and at what distance he measured you at.

That's an interesting point. Would that be admissible, though? Wouldn't you saying "He said it was at X feet" would be considered hearsay in court, versus a cop saying "I took a reading at X/2 feet"?
Url changed from http://blog.ycombinator.com/videos-from-startup-school-europ..., which points to this.