skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that when you call something utter nonsense, and name a lot of reasons why you think it's utter nonsense, you should be obligated to explain at least one. It's not clear why the features you mention are better than their C equivalents.
You are missing a very important cultural difference: something of this scale in most American cities would be accompanied by theft, vandalism, murder, rape, burglaries and all sorts of other displays by culturally deficient members of our society.

I have been in large protests in other parts of the world where the cultural contrast is nothing less than astonishing.
> The ability to go west was well understood and already successful by other Europeans by then

Indeed, the main reason Columbus was mocked because his plan was rather extreme on its face (and, despite the fact that he never admitted this, was a complete failure for exactly the reason it was mocked, even though it happened to produce benefits completely unrelated to its intended purpose) because not only the shape but the size of the Earth was well known.

> Columbus lucked out to have the political will to make his colonies work

Columbus lucked out in running into a large land mass well short of his desired goal (which he never admitted that he hadn't reached, which is why the lands of the New World are now commonly known by a name derived from that of an Italian map maker and not their "discoverer".)

Columbus's plan was no less absurd than SpaceX's, and is only seen as successful in retrospect for accomplishments unrelated to its intended purpose.
There's a discussion about whether volunteers running Tor relays should be motivated by cash reward. During the June 5th ResetTheNet campaign the EFF put up a landing page for beginners to set up nodes and rewarded people with merchandise etc. if they lasted a certain amount of time. But it's possible that many of the nodes that were set up because of this were not long-lasting.

Motivating people with short-term reward does not produce long-lasting relays.

EDIT: It seems like they are, but I wouldn't mind an update on this. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/tor-challenge-inspires...
Do you know how many cities on earth would kill for HK's prosperity? How many have more 'freedom' yet are ruined by ineffective governance, crime, and corruption?

I'm not saying HK's protesters don't have a legit grievance, but some perspective is required. They're getting democracy no matter what (the right to vote, even amongst vetted candidates is something they didn't have before), a more effectual way to go about it would be to prove to Beijing that democracy works.

Not to ruin a great thing that they already have...
What’s wrong with caring about tight tolerances and good material choices? What’s wrong about caring about good feeling buttons? (This is besides the point, but I actually disagree with AnandTech there, the buttons on the 6 feel markedly worse then the 5s ones, they jiggle ever so slightly.)

I really don’t get why you think it’s not rational to care about these things. I really don’t get that. It is literally incomprehensible to me. Can you explain that to me?
They had to distance themselves from 8.
I'm only replying to you but your sentiment has been expressed by others replying to me.

I think we can divide people into three groups:

1) uses Tor + Bitcoin

2) is aware of Tor and may support their goals, in exactly the same way a person without cancer may support an organization seeking to cure cancer

3) don't know/care

You guys are very quick to dismiss that middle group which includes the audiences of the biggest mainstream news and tech news sites:

IB Times, Gizmodo, NPR, Vice, ABC News, BoingBoing, ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Ars Technica, Telegraph.co.uk, PCWorld, USA Today, Computerworld, Lifehacker, Popular Mechanics, BusinessWeek, Wired, ZDNet, The Register, EFF, PBS, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Forbes, Venture Beat, The Next Web, eWeek, TIME, BBC, NBC, RT, Fast Company, The Verge and The Wall Street Journal.

https://www.torproject.org/press/press.html.en
> A colony of 1 million is also very unlikely to have the ability to produce pharmaceuticals and high-end chips which are cost competitive with Earth.

Well, cost-competitive with products imported from Earth, which is an easier standard to meet. Maybe Mars colonization will finally bring 3D printing into its own. People will discover they need an exotic part, so they radio earth for -- not the part itself -- but a diagram of the part, delivered by radio. Then they print it using local raw materials.

As to high-end technology, I think at least at first, the colonists will have to do without a ready supply of integrated circuits. They will have to live in a pre-iPod society for a while, more's the pity. :)

I can imagine an interview room twenty years form now -- a candidate says, "I'm willing to put up with many discomforts, even danger, to be among the first to colonize Mars." A few facts are delivered, then, "What? No cell phones? Are you serious?"

> If Musk is right about the cost, then there will be goods exported from Earth to Mars. If Musk is wrong about the cost, then it's not practical to send a significant population to Mars.

With a degree of resourcefulness by the colonists, I think there will be local exploitation of raw materials and production of needed goods, relatively quickly. Especially if every idea for small-scale local production, like 3D printers, is taken advantage of.
I think this is a US/UK English thing, in the US 'quite' only means 'very' whereas in the UK it often means 'a bit'. (I'm guessing your from the UK).
Microsoft Skips Windows 9, Heads Straight to Windows 10
Love the look of the start menu.
Well crap, I was signing up on the kickstarter and someone beat me to one of the last 10 dev units.
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Here we go again...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/6979855/Nasa-photog...
http://www.space.com/11057-science-claims-alien-life.html
You should look into the history of the relationship between e.g. Japan and Korea or Japan and China and see if anything interesting happened during the late 1930s or early 1940s. It might be the case that there were concerns other than simply "Will Japan attack the mainland".
Sexism and racism are views on life, much like religion and capitalism--I don't have to agree with them without respecting them as views held by other people. Silly, stupid views that I disagree with and find counter-productive, but it is their right to think in that wrongheaded fashion and talk about it.

I agree that making policy decisions based on racism and sexism, especially when the affected population has no alternative but to be subject to those decisions (say, no other place to look for work, no other police force to seek protection from, etc.), is wrong. That said, I find it just as wrong to brand other people as bad or evil because they've got some silly view.

To put it quite crudely: The primary job of YC is not the policing of ideas and thoughts of people posting on HN beyond keeping things relatively civil.
Everyone keep your eyes peeled for same thing re Value Act Capital and Microsoft.
Shatter-proof screens would be more revolutionary.
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And if the science contradicts what their intuition tells them is correct - they disbelieve the science and cling to their intuition. Additionally, the progress of civilization can be measured most accurately by seeing which threats and dangers are removed from peoples lives. So when these people wish to trust their intuition rather than science, they are vindicated - they are protected by the umbrella of progress that intellectuals before them erected. So they now have the luxury of sitting back and decrying the costs of maintaining the infrastructure that protects them as unnecessary. This fuels the vaccine nonsense, fears of GM crops, fears of wifi signals in England, and all sorts of other similar issues. I expect these things will continue to increase until eventually major portions of the infrastructure of modern society will be dismantled or allowed to decay because no one believes they are necessary.
Writing is Power
> What are you other three fingers doing? I tend to grip with thumb on the right edge, index finger resting on the back and last 3 fingers holding the right edge.

Do you mean "last 3 fingers holding the left edge? That style seems to be a minority, based on a quick Google image search. If fingers are wrapped around a phone, the index is with the rest of the 3 fingers.

This is how I hold my phone http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/isolated-woman-hand-holding-p...

Check out the image search for examples. Most hold it the way I'm describing: https://www.google.com/search?q=holding+phone

> Are you an amputee?

no
Or on the flip-side once people see how crappy life on Mars is, they will realized that we need to take better care of the paradise we have been living in?
Here goes CommitStrip comic book http://bit.ly/1DW8LyX
What part of it was cringe-worthy particularly?
I have to confess I never thought of that, but it's beside the point.
It's worth mentioning that this is coming from a small, new game studio from Poland and this is their first game under the name "The Astronauts". Some of them worked in game industry before as "People can fly" [1], but it's still very impressive feat that this is the first game their new studio released.

http://uk.ign.com/companies/people-can-fly
Nope, it's actually "9", but it's expressed in Base 9, so, "10".

We should all refuse to call it anything other than "Windows 9 base 9".
Are you suggesting that one should find hiring manager and email them ? What do you mean by pitch them ?
How do you find hiring manager's email address ?
Many companies have formal procedure in place where they want you to apply through ATS system ( sucks ! but true )
If you just start emailing hiring manager they will simply mark your email as spam. Beside , how do you know hiring manager's email address ?
Unless you know hiring manager in person , which I highly doubt for OP , your advice is most non-sense thing I have ever seen.
Many applications that I have sent over are through ATS and 95 % online. If you are hiring manager and you are saying "Your resume plays virtually zero role in this whole process" then I pity you. Hopefully you correct your stupid attitude and don't write something non-sense just for sake of writing advice.
You probably would have good vocabulary for this in the ML family languages. You're essentially talking about existential type mismatching—a core component of how modules work in ML family languages.

It's just hard to read that into Haskell since "modules" are not as well represented in-language and exist somewhere between Haskell-the-language and Cabal-the-package-manager/ecosystem.
Thanks wasd. The next thing you could do, is highlight some C and ask the community any questions you have. I intend to keep writing the series, since there's easily enough material there for a book. If you signup for an Omniref account, you can follow the project and you'll be emailed whenever I post new content.
Random crackpot is random. I showed this comment to everyone here. We all had a good laugh. Thank you.
Lol! Where is Windows 9?
Actually, it's thought that few diseases (perhaps only limited to venereal diseases) were brought back to Eurasia from the Americas. Thoughts on this range from the higher densities Europeans may have been living at and the much higher contact with many more varied types of animals. Though I'm not sure we know exactly.
Instead of going for the quick win, you'd rather we had risked an invasion with five- to seven-figure casualties to each side, followed by years of necessarily yet insufficiently brutal occupation, followed in its turn by another war against a nation we'd just finished giving every reason in the world to want to wipe us off the face of the earth?
Also posted about 9 hours ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8387276 , linked to the author's own web domain rather than through the author's publications on Medium.
From my understanding the rewards aren't that big, even with large tips like the 10 BTC one. It's probably more of an acknowledgement thing.
We had evaluated Celery for our use case. There were a few things it couldn't do such as create queues dynamically with per queue rate limit.

We chose Lua because the queue operations involve modifying more than one Redis data structure and this had to be atomic.

We'll be adding more details on why we built this and how it compares with Celery.. :)
"bro-fest" is the most racist thing I've seen on hn this month, but maybe I'm not reading as many articles as I could. I feel like you ought to have the freedom to say it though.

How on earth is 4. going to happen especially with an international crowd? Is any organization doing 4. adequately? Is YC supposed to educate the whole world on how "bro-fest" is PC but [something else]-fest is not?
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I don't like the appearance of Live Tiles in the Start Menu. They aren't really related functions. It's a compromise.
Gumroad Launches an iPhone App Where Users Can Access Their Digital Content
Those were my first three guesses. Perhaps I should have just left it open ended.
This looks promising https://github.com/cloudspace/angular_devise
It should only be a significant problem when you edit modules with TH. I don't know how often that occurs within a Yesod project. I imagine you can accelerate builds by isolating the TH modules.
I'm also curious how this compares to Celery with rate limiting. One advantage of Celery is that you can use an AMQP broker which is probably better suited than Redis if you care about durability and at-least-once delivery.
I totally agree; many drugs are a racket these days, made only for profiteering "sick care", and the government is totally on board with it.

Two examples I can personally testify to: treating people who don't yet know their life's purpose with mental drugs / electroshock, and treating people who are carbohydrate intolerant with.. more carbs.
Unfortunately, their products are not consistently beautiful anymore, IMHO. Examples: iPhone 5s silicone case with circles, antenna lines on the back of the new iPhones. :-/
Most likely many people would have still died. Much of the genocide was precipitated by (unintended) biological factors. Perhaps more of those civilizations would have survived, but they would have still be reverse-decimated (decivivimated?) by disease.

If we cared enough to end war I would have hoped we would have ended slavery as well.
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I hate to say it, but I am well and truly tired of this flim flam man. This latest gambit is surely the most cynical plot of them all. He really is the latest Steve Jobs, whose marketing genius was imagining a never-ending string of products that define a superior class of people.

The Musk M.O:

1. Identify industry with big inefficiencies that depends on huge government subsidies. That's cars, commercial space vehicles, mass transit and now: colonizing another planet with the 0.1%.

2. Convince the media and envious government officials you are Tom Swift, boy inventor. Have these governments fight over how many billions to give you to build your space car factory.

2. Use these taxpayer dollars and gigantic tax breaks to create iconic products and services for the elite class, effectively transferring huge dollars from the poor to the rich.

3. Rinse and repeat.

I see no evidence at all that Musk cares any more about technologies to enable several billion of us to live together without slaughtering each other than he does about money
The C# compiler is insanely fast, so it's not for all AOT-compiled languages, just ones that require the compiler to do a lot of work.
Someone needs to introduce him to http://www.mars-one.com/
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here is a better idea, develop self sufficient AI that will miss us enough when we all die out on earth that they will make sure the development of life here eventually produces new human friends a billion years later after earth heals from our mess. what do we call this?
So dualing straw men? Nobody light a match :-)

There is a pretty clear body of evidence that humans do not expend resources on something they don't value. And the question of whether or not the value of the planet would change with the expansion into space is a reasonable one to ask.

I believe what is posited is not precise self-interest so much as a reevaluation of risk and its concomitant change to the cost of failure.

As an example, one might speed down the highway with a perception of low risk of being caught, but that behavior might change if a sign appeared that said "speed limit enforcers are on duty." So in the presence of the new information a re-evaluation of the risk of being cited is undertaken and behavior may (or may not) change.

The question posed is whether or not the value calculus that currently drives the environmental and military engagement thinking of the world today, would be altered by the existence of a stable 'somewhere else'. That is a general question and not one that turns on precise self interest.

I do not believe such a settlement would change the value equation, as it would not apply to a large enough fraction of the current residents to change the calculus. Now I also would not expect the prototypical someone who was born and raised on Mars to feel particularly motivated to change what folks on Earth were doing, just as non-Chinese do not feel moved enough to intervene on the actions decided upon by that country's government. They might "care" and have some empathy for the resulting negative outcomes, but they would be insufficiently empowered to actually act.
there was a massive internal debate to talk the marketing dept down from naming it Windows 10 Live Active Desktop 2015 Home Edition
This is all very interesting. I love a good grammar battle, but um... we're talkin' about bombs here!
What a terrible article. Excerpt:

They have created a system that is a free-for-all for criminals

So we should give up all rights to privacy to help catch criminals?

What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law

Maybe that says more about your laws than the desire for privacy?
Better yet, if there was a wrapper for this, it could just operate on abbreviated hash-prefix (i.e. git ref) rather than URL.

$ transfer < ./foo
acH39gew

$ transfer acH39gew > ./foo

The ref would just be short for the URL, and you could still use the URL, of course.
Developers Receive OS X Yosemite GM Candidate
ctr+V will finally work as paste in command prompt. Finally !
We’ve killed off half the world’s animals since 1970
Microsoft unveils first look at Windows 10
Y Combinator president upvotes Reddit with $50M investment
In fact, such a book has been written before already: http://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope
They started making it and it went wrong. Don't mention it to them; it's still a sensitive topic.
Maybe they can call it OS X using a Roman numeral for the version, that would be good for marketing.
This is a bit like protesting door locks because they make it harder to pop in and look around.
I'd be willing to bet that they'll add more soon.
I doubt its the going to be the "same" Windows on all devices considering all the different device architectures involved. At best they'll all feel the same which is great but would probably be just as much of a hassle from a developer point-of-view.
"One product family. One platform. One store. Windows... One. Wait no, Ten."

This level of cluelessness from Microsoft's branding team would be stunning if it hadn't been the rule for a decade and more. The OS itself looks nice, though.
It's hilarious that this makes it into the demo.
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Google and Apple's marketing teams must be relishing this. I'm guessing it's very dangerous in their departments right now with the champagne corks flying everywhere.
I stumbled on this on Google and got incredibly confused: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2613504/microsoft-windows/m...
More likely he was using cya language. Either that or he was unbelievably ignorant.
My sympathies for the FBI's concern about people being "beyond the law" is lessened a great deal given the past decade of revelations of illegal actions at FBI forensic centers, and the complete lack of prosecutions, not to mention the NSA spying, etc. Even the TSA is in violation of the law (fourth amendment protects against search without warrant, USC 18-242 makes violating that a federal crime, and a felony if done while armed.)

I'd like to see the government stop being "beyond the law".
They're really bad at numbering. First the Xbox One, and now this
Love how open Baremetrics is with all their information. Really awesome to see this become more common place in the community.
The anonymity aspects of bitcoin could result in more fraudsters getting away with fraud.

Ignorance creates comments like this. Bitcoin transactions are not reversible, you have zero opportunity for fraud as a buyer.
It's not exactly true that ferrets need other ferrets around to keep from going crazy; frequent, interesting interaction with humans easily suffices to satisfy their need for stimulation. Between the tunnel runs, and the fact that happy ferrets are endearing, friendly little creatures in general, I doubt she lacked for enough to keep her mind active.
These are the people behind transfer.sh: https://github.com/dutchcoders/

...Based on some words I see on that page, I think they will anticipate abuse and roll with the punches.
They are going straight into "think of the children mode"

" Smartphone communication is “going to be the preferred method of the pedophile and the criminal. We are going to lose a lot of investigative opportunities."

Apparently "what about the terrorists?" isn't as effective anymore. Let's hope the public will see through their manipulative talking points.