skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it. First, improvements to thrusters will sooner lead to shorter trips. Secondly, if we build ships in space instead of on the ground we can build much better and larger ships and can accommodate the journey.

And we should get started pronto.
You can think of free will as a control system. Like a PID controller.

A person performs an action, measures how the environment is changed, and modifies their behaviour to get better outcomes (for themselves or other people they care about).

Humans are a bit more sophisticated than a PID controller. While most animals, machines and nature itself are limited to blindly performing actions and measuring the result, people (and crows) can ponder what will happen IF they do something. Several steps ahead. They do not need to perform an action to anticipate the consequence.

When we say the law assumes free will, we mean that the law assumes a good control system. "If you do this we'll put you in a concrete box". The law assumes that threat will work.

This, as it turns out, is a flawed assumption. Many people do not think through their actions (stupid criminals), or they think through their actions and judge them worth the risk (e.g. weed smokers), or they have no other choice of action (e.g. prostitutes).

tl;dr: your rice cooker has free will.
You've brought up an interesting point: correlation vs causation. One of the issues in discrimination contexts today is disparate impact. For example, we know that a bank couldn't say, "we don't want to lend money to black people." Race is a protected class and that's discrimination against a protected class. What if the bank said, "we don't want to lend money to people in cities"? Now we're into disparate impact land. Racial minorities are often more in cities and this policy could have an adverse impact against certain groups along racial lines. The kind of questions that are then often asked are things like, "is there a business purpose?" and "is there no tighter indicator that the bank could use for their business purpose that wouldn't have the same disparate impact?"

Ultimately, disparate impact is about not using indicators that have a racial bias when better indicators exist. The bank might say, "we use city residence because people in cities usually have a history of missed debt payments." Regulators could retort, "then why not just use an individuals history of made and missed debt payments?" Disparate impact isn't about preventing the use of all indicators that correlate with a protected class. However, companies often use indicators that are of dubious predictive power (things where one can't show a significant correlation with the bad outcome the company wants to avoid, but show a strong correlation with a protected class).

Since the article is about analytics, one can imagine building a bayesian model and a few test subjects to put through it. We could think about features that are probably predictive like missed payments. We could also have features like height which should be nonsense. For the sake of this silly model, let's say that one racial group is shorter and is a greater credit risk. You create your "height < 6ft" feature and your "has > 2 missed payments" bernoulli variables and start training your model based on your training set. You find that "has > 2 missed payments" is very predictive, but you also find that "height < 6ft" is also predictive. But there's a certain, "um, we know that the feature is correlated with a protected class and there's no good, logical reason to use it unless you're trying to create a proxy for that protected class so you can discriminate" that might go through one's head.
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> You can write safe code that crashes in rust. That absolutely violates the safety guarantee whatever the reason for it.

You can write Ruby code that calls into unsafe C code and SEGVs. This is a bug in the C code you called. It should have exposed a safe interface.

You can write Rust code that calls into clearly delineated unsafe code and SEGVs. This is a bug in the unsafe code you called. It should have exposed a safe interface.

Anything to the contrary is a misunderstanding of the purpose and role of unsafe code in Rust, and endangers the entire ecosystem, just as it would endanger the Ruby ecosystem if it were seen as normal for C extensions to SEGV the safe Ruby process.
I regard that as part of the site's DNA. It permeates so many things about its design, both internal and external.
That's true, but "Lol that sucks" helps nobody.

Most people are fine with constructive or subjective criticism, like "I don't like Objective-C because I really like pushing the shift key for my braces". From there you can suggest alternatives, or figure out a way to improve the system.

If you can't put enough effort in to a comment to express your opinions you'd be better off using that time elsewhere.
The existence of people who cannot master cowbell doesn't mean that it is as hard to master as the piano :)
At this point I think all the patents have just expired as they sold the division in 1990. I am using a Key Tronic "Lifetime series" keyboard that seems to be a fairly high quality knockoff. You still get the clicking key's and solid construction, but their not nearly as noisy.
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See the exponential fees Yahoo was threatened with (7.9 sextillion after a year) https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2gjvrf/governme...
I'd hold off on South now that Django has its own migrations. They're going to be the method of choice moving forward as far as I know.
That's a very good question.

My understanding is that the main motivation behind the introduction of iostream was to make a type-safe variant of printf. So with iostreams the _type_ of the value is determined at compile-time, but the representation (e.g. should it be stringified as dec or hex? should it be left-align or right?) needs to be determined at run-time.

In other words, the design issue is only partially solved with iostreams in terms of performance.
I applaud any startup founder who has the courage to do a write up post-mortem.

It's a hard thing to talk about the failure of your baby.
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There are many legitimate views on this, but FWIW mine differs from yours. I believe that anonymity actually is important for a site like Hacker News, and the odds of us ever publishing the vote data—even pseudo-anonymized—are small. Sorry to disappoint.
Maintaining a monopoly, or even just a dominant share of a market, requires what Warren Buffet likes to call a "moat", some crucial advantage that makes it difficult to compete with you.

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/economicmoat.asp
Wasn't this posted only around a few weeks ago? What's been changed since your last post?
Reddit Gives Remote Employees Until End of Year to Relocate to San Francisco
More on another of Cox's signature ideas – about which he wrote a book[1] – 'Superdistribution':

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/2.09/superdis_pr.html

The gist is to stop charging for software (including subcomponents like shared libraries and reusable objects) per copy, or by copy-based-licensing.

Instead, charge (tiny amounts) per use. Theoretically, this could cure underinvestment in the creation of certain shared components, or in software quality/reliability. It's somewhat related to the idea from Ted Nelson that hypertext transclusion could also route automatic incremental reuse payments.

Of course, enforcing the metering can be hard. (You need either DRM or cheerful voluntary compliance.) And all the usual issues with micropayments apply. But it's an interesting idea and the currently-vibrant in-app/in-game models resemble it in some respects.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Superdistribution-Objects-Property-Ele...
I'm not sure if I now how to read a startup failure post-mortem. What am I looking for? Which missteps, if any, are worth extra attention?
as someone who had a failed startup back in 1988 (we wrote multi-user BBS software pre-mosaic/www days) in straight C and btree tables (REAL no-sql), what I would find more interesting in this collection is a "what-am-I-doing-now" section, where the individuals who wrote these essays now talk about their lives.

trust me...failure bites but often you come back much better, wiser, and stronger than before, and those stories are often more interesting than the failure ones.
s/1%/ruling class/

Don't make them seem like a bigger deal than they really are. Most of the 1% has barely any more say in the direction of the US government than anyone else. The gaggle of assholes responsible for the plight of America couldn't fill up a small town.
I'm pretty sure nfc can be passive, the e-ink display doesn't use energy when not changing, and the "touch screen digitizer" could just be a button that is actually a contact (i.e. most of the time the microcontroller is passive).

Also, you could make the card thicker in areas where it doesn't matter (away from the stripe and the PIN
Almost nobody in this industry has "mild forms of Asperger's." That canard is used far too often, and far too often as an excuse for something much more simple: these people are socially indifferent, to be polite. Some of them are merely socially inept, but others (many? most?) are, to be quite vulgar about it, simply assholes.
Are there any wireless keyboards like this? I am the unfortunate owner of a cat who really really likes chomping through smaller cables.
Yeah, far short of the initial $190 million award.
Code & Conquer looks like vaporware at the moment, sadly :(
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There's a couple bugs in the sample code: `is_thirties` won't compile because it's missing a type declaration, and the `person` function should be called `first_name`.
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25 traits of mentally strong people
I use xubuntu because it's lightweight and runs fast on my weak laptop. I tried ubuntu before that but it became impossible to run anything else with it installed. Maybe I should have just changed the desktop environment but I thought why not go with xubuntu instead. I have been very happy with it. It's got everything that ubuntu does plus it uses fewer resources. Win win for me.
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>I think we get the impression that it's not that way based on our perception of corporations driving money-filled trucks through legal loopholes

I get the impression that not everyone is playing by the same set of rules, not that they have particularly clever lawyers (although, most of them probably have that as well).
I usually take 2 to 3 week vacations, but I try to do interesting things. Ride horses around mongolia. Hike volcanos in Indonesia. Bike and eat across France. Planning is a huge pain because we have to learn everything before we can make the right choices. A travel agent already knows the domain. I do think there could be tools to help agents arrange trips more quickly given our unique constraints. Sadly, there is no app for that. Regardless, the market is likely a small niche.
" but a lot of systems that are universally agreed to be bad are used by millions. Hence why a lot of people in HN are trying to "disrupt" said space (or market)."

So, these people don't like the systems and are jumping into the arena? That's great. Someone is adding value. They're no longer just a critic.
Has anyone on here participated in this before? What was your experience like?
Thanks for the answer. Yes, I was aware, that the focus of iostreams was not on performance. But at least I would have some hope, that since less runtime-parsing would be needed (at least in standard cases), a performance benefit could arise. One of the disadvantages of printf is that even in simple cases (e.g. "%s: %d") rather much parsing is needed.
It's both. Issuing banks can generate the payment tokens, but often, the networks can "stand-in" for the issuer, and generate the token for them on their behalf (the same way that networks can stand-in and do authorization of payments on behalf of the issuer).
I'm speechless. Honestly, the content is so expansive and valuable. I love the internet, hackernews, physics, code, knowledge, and the tiny things in between :)
Oh yea, that's true. I could just install Linux on my mac.

I hesitated on saying that is because I may have a period where I have two computers to help with the transition.
Such a proposition pertains to a mathematical function. A running computer program does not contain mathematical functions, merely representations of them.

It is akin the difference between the theory of gravity and a falling rock. You can describe the rock with all manner of equations but you will not find any equations inside the rock.
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That's, like, not even the fourth most point of that quote.
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I saw several at the Atlantis in Reno less than a year ago. You do have an advantage, and most of the places they exist they're prominently marked. There are generally only a few, and they're often not played much - perhaps because they also don't pay out rewards points.
I have the Unicomp keyboard linked above. I also have a Das Keyboard, old MS ergonomic thing, and old Apple Extended II, and a few others.

But my favorite of all of them is the Code Keyboard (I have two but the 'green' switch variant is my favorite). Which I learned about from this site, so thanks HN!

http://codekeyboards.com
I believe this is one of those things where everyone has their own idea of what 1 - 3 should be. I think it's ambiguous enough that people will see what they want to see and then realize that the vision doesn't match when actually implemented.

A trend that I've noticed is that many people don't put much effort in trip planning. Their workflow is basically read travel blogs, talk to friends, pick a couple of big points of interest, book a place that seems nearby to some things, and rely on mobile internet/concierge/locals for everything else. And maybe aside from finding the best place to stay, I haven't seen people consider the other steps to be pain points.
The whole point of OO was to allow more complex programs with reusable pieces/pieces that can be edited in isolation/exchangeable pieces, while also organizing everything. Saying to write everything procedurally, thus, removing features, seems inane to me.
Heh, just noticed you work for Blockchain Ltd. I may have been a bit nicer in my last comment had I noticed. Anyway, it's worth noting that your users are still vulnerable to a Lavabit-style seizure (or hack from anyone) of your private keys, with the intent of pushing out modified JS to seize coins or track users. It's my understanding that the purpose of the Chrome extension is to prevent tampering[1], but if the authorities are really serious, they could also coerce/compromise Chrome Web Store into putting out a malicious update, signed by your seized private key.

Which authorities and laws is the company subject to?

[1] https://blockchain.info/wallet/browser-extension
I have two original PC/AT keyboards, and I love them, not just for their correct placement of the CONTROL key, but because they are if anything, even louder and more tactile than the model M. To connect them to my Mac I have to use two adapters, one to go from AT to PS/2, and another to go from PS/2 to USB.

To me, they're as close to you can get on a computer to the ultimate expression of keyboard perfection; the IBM Selectric.
Who says they'd be tried in a courtroom that even has a jury. Remember, we now know there are courtrooms with no juries.
When people go to school more, they go to church less
here's an explanation: *Plastc card will be available to use across all participating locations and with all participating payments types following an over-the-air firmware update in 2015 to enable Chip and PIN and contactless payments.
Man, I wish I'd kept my Extropy magazines. I ditched them in a move about 15 years ago.

I haven't really thought about it, but it's likely I've taken to bitcoin so easily because it's an idea I encountered so long ago. Just sort of inevitable that it would come along, or so it's seemed.

Extropy, Transhumans, Cypherpunks, all those early 90s fringe technocultures. Crazy, out there ideas that still had concrete directions to explore.

It feels to me like there's a sort of throughline from the late 60s computer/counter culture mix, to the 70s/80s personal computer folks, to the 90s extropy people. But I'm not sure where it went after that. Surely there's a current generation.

Cryptocurrency has some of it, especially in the more ambitious fringes, but I've lost track of whatever group is on the broader picture of extreme technological ambition.
Now that I re-read my comment, what I actually meant to say is - I had enough bravado swearing by young people in college, and it is time to grow up and act professionally - but now I realize the comment can be read to mean that I had enough of non-swearing PC behavior in college, and it's ok to swear as an adult at work. Interestingly; I stay at an equilibrium of points after roughly equal upvotes and downvotes. I wonder if it would've swung -- or ++ if the meaning was universally conveyed correctly by me.
They have blockchain.com (and bitcoin.com), but they started out on blockchain.info.
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> Economists, normally, analyse a market from the point of view of the "public interest". With this perspective in mind, self-perpetuating monopolies are almost always a bad thing (unless you believe in such things as centralized planning and dictatorships).

Okay, but the more famous economists are usually at the
more famous universities which tend to have large
endowments and tend to want to get high returns and
often do this by investing in VCs who look for
monopolies that can return money enough to pay for
the professors of economics!

Actually, whatever gets taught or suggested in the
classrooms, it's both common and easy enough for the
high end universities to look for and like
students who are wealthy or relatively likely to become
wealthy and make significant donations
back to the university -- no joke. Or, universities
are not against monopolies everywhere on campus!
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I have no idea why you assume that pudn is an example of 'open source' to me. I'm just talking about information. Do you get this now? You are again interpreting my words with a predefined, well, interpreter. Yes I agree with you that open source (in a western perspective somehow) doesn't work in China, as I have stated above, just like they don't care about Github. It means that the collaboration, copy right awareness, etc, etc, they just don't exist.

Months ago I released some kernel patches for Xperia Z2 on github. Nobody forks it or send me pull requests. I then released kernel images to both XDA and a forum in China. It got so hot that even today there're still 100+ replies a day under my thread. Of course in a Chinese-'zombie'-style like "fawefawiefuawsef" to satisfy "reply to download".

You can see how information flows... Someone releases something. Tens of thousands of end users rush to it and disrupt the ambience of communication. Makers then hide themselves, and turn to do something else. Of course sometimes they don't face end users directly. They have their own community (but usually formed as an instant message group or so) and release stuff through delegates, who are usually mods of forums.

Chinese forums is an interesting thing definitely worth taking a look at. Most hardware modders post things there ranging from vehicle modding to custom guitar stomps.
I don't interpret the quote as meaning "if you can't do it don't criticize it". It's just saying that it's much more noble to attempt to do hard things and fail, than it is to do nothing but take cheap shots at those who are trying.

In this context I think it was more a reflection on the cheapness of the shot and what it says about the people making the cheap shots. There's a big difference between honest criticism and "your thing sucks, haha!"
And this is where I shall set up my bitcoin operation...
I agree with your last point.

Cookie-based ads tend to show me things I've already made a decision about. Often, it's something I've thought about but decided against, or sometimes even things I've already spent money on (which has to be the ultimate waste of an ad).

In any case, at the very least, I've already formed a preference on the thing, whereas with a search I typically have no leaning in mind and am thus much more influencable.
I usually spend time with friends on the weekend, then spend the week doing hobbies and work. Maybe I'll use Snapchat or texting to talk to the odd friend during the week but I mostly stick to myself. Then on weekends it isn't the whole time, maybe I'll spend Friday evening and Saturday morning doing one of my hobbies then meet up in the afternoon and socialise.

At the end of the day I think it's socialising with those close to you, your 15 or so friends when you can and then the extended friends are those that are either spending time with you because their friends of a friend or something along the line, thus your spending time with them as well.

Another interesting point would be spending time with friends doing hobbies, for example I'll plan a hike and go with my friend because we both share that hobby, then on top of that is the option to bring my camera because it's a hobby I enjoy. But for less social hobbies I figure their better to be done during the week or when you don't have any plans for your spare time.
This is a question asked to Steve Jobs when he released the iphone:
Reporter: "Why in the world would Apple jump into the handset market with so many competitors and players?"

Steve: "One of the biggest motivations for working so hard for a few years to make a great product, is you want one yourself and we use all the handsets out there and boy is it frustrating, it's really frustrating, its a category that needs to be reinvented, needs to be made not only more powerful but much easier to use and so we thought we could contribute something and we don't mind the fact that there's other good companies making products out there. The fact is 1 billion handsets were sold in 2006 & if we get just 1% market share, thats 10million units."

I don't know why but i always remember the guy from pinterest talk, when he spoke about going over a year and just having around 13000 users. I also remember a blog post by someone who actually spoke to him about his idea and didn't like it. How many of todays VC's, incubators & entrepreneurs would stick around for 2yrs to see if an idea will get traction?

Then for some reason i always think about Kevin Rose's milk which had a couple hundred thousand users in just around 3 months and he shut it down. I noticed he has started with the same concept again. Personally i think you cant point a finger at either side as it is hard to stick with a slow growth business and also hard to accept defeat. I think that you just have to be believe so much that your way is the right way and make the world understand that, just the way Steve Jobs did with the iphone in a competitive market.
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Oh, thanks for the reminder. I fixed it a few days ago and did a staged rollout but forgot to push it to everyone. I've done that so it should update for you soon.
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'Unsafe' is a bad term, effect is much better and it is most definitely a rust issue. If the language doesn't have a way of dealing with effects it won't be able to handle them. Rust is honestly a more safe c++ and in my opinion not an alternative for c.
You, the consumer, do not benefit from negative pricing of wholesale electricity. Especially not when it's a small spike on one particularly favourable day :)