skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks - my point is actually narrower. It's that if both sides have enough money to saturate the voters with their message, additional money is of low marginal utility. Otherwise we'd have Meg Whitman as our governor in CA. She outspent Jerry Brown by nearly 5x in 2010, and lost by 13 points.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/01/meg-whitman-outspen...
It's like the entire point of this video just whooshed right over your head.
Addiction can form over pretty much any substance or behaviour as this is mostly unrelated to the substance itself but to the living conditions of the addicted and his personal life experience.

See the works of Bruce K. Alexander on this: http://www.brucekalexander.com/
What if I tell two prisoners:

"If one of you informs on the other, he'll get off with a 1 year sentence, and the other goes to prison for 10 years. If neither informs, you both go to prison for 5 years."

Does that sound like game theory, or just carrot-and-stick?

Here are other examples of game theory in real-life. I'd say we're in the same category:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#Real-life_...
I'm not sure you do either. Think about the real-life examples here and decide whether what we're doing is in the same category:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#Real-life_...
FWIW, that's how one of my closest friends feels about this - he believes I shouldn't post my opinions on HN in the first place, and just build rep by writing comments that go with the local milieu.

What good would that do to the discussion, though? Read, think, make up your mind, beware echo chambers.

If you think I'm unpredictable, thank you!

If you think I'm unstable and not worth it, it's your right to. My track record should speak for itself for those who know me, and for those who don't, I'm just one more random poster on a forum.
I took an Uber already a couple of times in Seattle and noticed that the Uber GPS seems to take a longer route than necessary in some cases. A former taxi driver told me too that the Uber GPS is not very good.

I'm wondering if they developed their own routing algorithm which would explain why it isn't as good as other navigation systems.
If you ever get the time read "Competing on Internet Time"

It really highlights what a mess Netscape was internally, with multiple codebases for different browser versions, constantly having to fix bugs in multiple places, it's no wonder it was buggy.
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Syntax highlighting is a much more common feature then vertical alignment in editors. People should be able to read your code, but they should also be able to edit it without hassle, and mismatching indentation, or doing it manually, is quite horrible.

If you want vertical alignment, it seems easier to just align it vertically for yourself. Customize your presentation, but leave it generic for everyone else.
The part of the loss of information at each transformation reminds me of http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html (~compiler correctness)
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...also known as the first-person plural pronoun. It's a common feature of the English language.
Make private accessible, but with large disclaimers about lack of future proofing. For example, using a secondary "unstable" API.
The belief that heroin or cocaine cause addiction has been seriously challenged for a while, you should read "The Myth of Drug-Induced Addiction", the speech to Senate of Canada by Bruce K. Alexander of rat park fame.

http://www.brucekalexander.com/articles-speeches/demon-drug-...
Based on what you've written, it doesn't appear that you've measured the performance of whatever method you're using against an appropriately risk-adjusted benchmark. For example, beating the S&P 500 over a certain time period is okay but if you're doing it with a bunch of small- or mid-cap tech stocks, it's quite possible you're not being compensated adequately for the risk you're taking.

For instance, if you're investing in companies with a market cap less than $10 billion, the risk and overall effort you're putting in is really indefensible if you aren't beating the S&P Mid-Cap Index. Which over the last twenty years - just a sample time period - outperformed the S&P 500 pretty hugely: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EMID+Interactive#%7B%22...

Or do a little better and compare your performance against a real tech sector index. Do better still and use the tools of modern portfolio theory to measure your portfolio's performance.

> Of course, I could just be really lucky.

It's probably worth reading The Drunkard's Walk.
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I'm not sure how her back to back drives add up to only $10/hr. I drive Uber/Lyft in San Diego, routinely don't get back-to-back rides and have some long stretches of downtime, and usually make $1000 on a 50 hour on-call week (~30h of actual drive time). So that's about $20/hour. If you minus gas (~150/wk) that's a little bit less; I drive a honda insight, which gets slightly worse gas mileage than the prius, and the per hour and per mile in SF is higher than than in San Diego.
This statement makes little to no sense by itself.

Take as much aspirin as a psychoactive dose of LSD (say 100µg) and there will be no toxic effect from aspirin, but take as much LSD as an active dose of aspirin (400mg every 4 hours for an adult to to treat fever/pain) and you have a dose of 33 times the LD50 of LSD which is quite toxic imo.
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Try micro dosing
In redcode

mov 0,1

is the smallest self-replicating program
Actually, if there really is a 50% drop every 7-10 years, I'd be very surprised if you couldn't make a killing buying cheap, far-out-of-the-money shorts.
It's a minor incentive, but honestly candidates mostly care about having enough money to get their message out, regardless of the source.
Actually, the diff looks like:

+ int barney,

But the patch looks like:

extern int SomeDemoCode(int fred,
+ int barney,
int wilma);
That's a possibility - we've also thought about imposing a cap on spending and going after the first candidate to violate it.
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Hi there, I'm dillon smart. I have recently launched a new project, anonymous photo sharing, however Im finding it difficult to get thing going. Does anybody have any pointers? The site is melonpix.com if you have a look I would really appreciate some feedback. Thanks.
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Similar experience. I have taken mushrooms on a handful of occasions during a prolonged period of sadness and disappointment where I was not coping too well with life. Not a pleasant experience at all. Wasn't using any other drugs or medication. I wouldn't recommend it. I don't think the experiences helped at all. Genuinely disturbing and uncomfortable and seemed to drag on for way too long.

Other times, when the circumstances of my life have felt more secure and stable and my mental state is more robust mushrooms have been amazing experiences.

Perhaps mushrooms have potential benefit for some conditions under some circumstances. I support the idea of more medical research, for sure.
What a fantastic video.

My favourite part: BASE jumping from Verona Rupes - the tallest known cliff in the Solar System - somewhere from 5km to 20km vertical:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110404.html

By comparison the tallest vertical drop on Earth is on the surreal Mount Thor at 1250m:

http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/03/mount-thor-greatest-ver...

[Some great details - like the Earth coastlines used in the asteroid interior (mentioned on the film's website) and the Taijitu in the crater at 1:54].
> When will music publishers learn, suing gets you nowhere?

Maybe they will learn it when that is an indisputable fact. Suing does get them somewhere.
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I'll hijack my own comment and post some more good stuff.

Zephyr Teachout wrote a great history of corruption, I'm still reading it now, but you can get a good taste from this NYT review:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/books/review/zephyr-teacho...

I'll also mention that our biggest challenge to scaling this is money. If you know people who would be interested in donating, please hit me up at jim@counterpac.org. You can also send PayPal donations there if you're so inclined!
One of Julia's main selling points has been speed. They said there was no reason a dynamic language had to be slow, but now we see that as soon as they start adding basic features, such as support for missing values, it's beginning to take a toll on performance. I wonder if Julia 1.0 will be any faster than R or Python.
My highlights of that review are here:

https://www.highly.co/article/547af11a6c696c7d69220000/user/...

If you want you can sign up using code 'hellohighly'
Or is it ? There was an interesting program on the BBC a few years back dealing with this question titled "If… drugs were legal".

In this program they explored something not so obvious about legalizing drugs, namely that the pharmaceutical industrial complex would fill the market with many new drugs, think the current issues with legal highs but industrial scale. Another point is drug interactions are very unpredictable and very difficult to test.

This show is probably available on the web somewhere, here's the bbc page about it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/if/4075235.stm
>Yes, that is what questions are for.

Then don't make them all be passive agressive.
Wonderfully told by Carl Sagan
Anyone got links to good syntax highlighting schemes?
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I was immediately reminded of Robinson's work a few seconds in. There is so much to discover out there and the extremes of physical state and sheer size make it so hard to imagine it all. His writing offer a window into that world and this short was a great visualization of it.
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Beautiful.

You might be interested to learn that Erik Wernquist is also the person who created Crazy Frog some ten years ago.
Alexander Shulgin was able to do what he did in his home lab because he got himself a DEA Schedule I license for an analytical Laboratory.

Also he was friend with Bob Sager and he worked with and for the DEA.
By my calculations, it's generally much better to live in a high-cost area while earning a high wage, than to live in a low-cost area while earning a low wage. This is because a lot of products out there have a fixed cost which isn't based on geography (think iPhones). A higher wage makes it easier to purchase those items.
This is really cool, I recently finished chapter 1 and this really puts in perspective how much there is left to explore.
Funny to be instant downvoted like this when the provided materials takes at least ten minutes to skim over.
> was a concern that my mental state would be permanently affected by the experience,

Yup, that's the beginner's curse. Every single person I know who ever tried potent psychoactive substances had this experience at least once. My worst was when I didn't know that the drug I took lasts for several days. Waking up the next day after the trip and realizing I am still not my regular self was a lot more terrifying then the violent hallucinations I had the day before.
As a german, who in 33 years, has only one single police ticket to his name (riding a bicycle with earphones in on both sides), your comment has a distinctly 1984ish quality to me and everything about this situation feels incredibly wrong.

I don't defend any of Brown's actions for obvious reasons, and don't blame Wilson since he acted the best standard that can be expected of him. As a specific criticism of the situation however i have to offer that your country's judicial system has massively failed in setting up better expectations of police officers by failing to create a less dangerous social climate, by failing to provide adequate training in diffusing situations and by being entirely too lenient and accepting of casual homicide.
Come on, $39.95 / €34.95 / £29.95 isn't much and I am sure Springer deserve to cash in on Knuth's work.
> ...now we see that as soon as they start adding basic features, such as support for missing values, it's beginning to take a toll on performance.

Of course there is a price to pay for adding dynamic features, but only when you use them. This has been the case for Julia as long as I can remember (for example, fields of type `Any`). As far as I can see, isn't the whole point of Julia that you can go towards the dynamic end of the spectrum if you need to, while still being able to generate blazingly fast code by adhering to type constraints wherever it is necessary? All this within the same language, rather than with R and Python where you need to write extensions in a lower level language and deal with a C API.
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The proper analogy is this:

There is a city where a road service provider (RSP) builds and maintains all roads. At strategic places, there are road checkpoints where the RSP can block traffic.

Recently, there has been a series of bank robberies. The city has strange laws: Bank robberies are illegal in he city, but hard to prosecute directly. The bank, knowing who participated in the robberies, asks the RSP to block the robbers' traffic.

The RSP refuses, bank sues the RSP.
What little advice I can offer. From what I've gathered, there is no sure-fire way to protect your capital from constant things such as inflation and wild things such as economic "incidents", for lack of a better term.

I've lately been thinking that some more reliable means would be to own a "wealth-generating" business. Or a few of them in varied industries, to mitigate risk.

Another method that I've also thought about is antique art and possibly high-quality furniture as well. But that would apply in case of a major war-situation, assuming you could even get those physical items to safety.
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I don't like it when words I know lose power either, but language changes under stress of modern usage and wrong becomes the new correct. 'Literal' became the new figurative. And so it goes.
I'm always amazed at how people want to fight corruption not really understanding that corruption is inherent to politics and government. You can't fight it. It's like fighting aging with plastic surgery. Sure, it may look good on the surface and it may even make you feel good psychologically, for a while. But you're still aging. Best you can do is accept that and lead a healthy lifestyle.

So, if you try fight corruption, it simply becomes more obscure. Corruption exists purely because governments and institutions exist. If you didn't have those, you wouldn't need to bribe some third party in order to be able to establish a business relationship with someone else (e.g. get a licence, permit, etc).
I have learned to stop second-guessing Waze on a similar basis. It has sent me clear around enough traffic snarls and accidents to earn my trust.
> You can't fight it. It's like fighting aging with plastic surgery.

It's more like fighting crime. Aging is an irreversible process that happens to one person. Crime and corruption are background processes that happen to societies.

You can fight it. You can't eliminate it, of course.

Here's a good book on the subject:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/books/review/zephyr-teacho...
Which planet would allow for the largest/densest brain size in an organism that evolved to maximum size there?
Maybe it is related to your passion, maybe not.

Try to enjoy what you have, how lucky you are to be where you are with your skills. Some people can just dream of those.

Sometimes, it seems that we lose our passion but we just need to stop, refresh our mind and start enjoying small things in life.
The excitement and passion will be back..at least, that's what happened to me.

Take it easy and stay positive :)
This looks interesting. It reminds me of http://prose.io/ which is basically a general-purpose Github-based web editor and that I used some time ago to edit my markdown files.
I watched a good documentary about this a while back.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/retirement-gamble/
Then Firefox amd Safari arose, and it didn't really work out well for Microsoft. I mean, I see that as Microsoft's mistake, not them setting the market back. And what if microsoft did keep pushing on IE at the time? Things might have been worse off now for it.
Only partially. Technically, it is simply a conversion mechanism that converts one form of formatted text (the "Markdown" syntax) to another (HTML). Now, since the original format has never been formally specified, instead only being loosely defined by years of practice in email and Usenet messages, Gruber had to specify some constraints for his script to follow, but this is far from a standard.

If we assume there is a standard, it's not called "Markdown", as Gruber heavily opposes that. On the other hand I'll agree that, if we extend the meaning of the term "Markdown" to cover a stantard like CommonMark, in that case yes, Markdown is a means of communicating relatively minor elements of information -- such as emphasis or lists -- as any other markup language.
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Crime too. If you look at what are most of the crimes that are committed in any given country, it quickly becomes obvious that those are mostly victimless crimes or crimes that are invoked by governments declaring something to be illegal (while it harms no one): like drugs being illegal provokes a lot of violence, gang culture etc. The only true systematic source of evil in any country is its government. Without it, you'd still have bad things happening, but it won't be on the same level.
You're right. Addiction can happen with anything, it just may be less common with LSD or certain other substances. I have taken LSD and other tryptamines 100s of times and at times my intake patterns probably resembled an addiction.
I get redirected to a web hosting company - a different company depending on the country I connect from.

The article appears to be from "Scientific American", volume 252, issue 2, February 1985, pp. 18-21, about Rog-o-Matic ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rog-O-Matic ).

If so, http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/rogomatic.html is a different article on the same system.
The world is heaving with people who do their job to pay the rent. It's normal. The mantra "do what you love" and claims that programming should be some kind of wonderful life experience is self-selecting echo-chamber chatter. If you love your job, that's a nice bonus for you, but it's really not necessary.
I would like to see a full length Wanderers movie. The optimistic feeling of adventure, travel and belief in science, would make it well worth spending a couple of hours watching.
Ezra hired me at Engine Yard about two months before he left. I loved discussing infrastructure and software with him. He did a lot for the Ruby community and brought to light lots of great tech (redis and nginx). He had a big impact on my career and for that I will be forever grateful. Prayers and thoughts with this family. Rest in peace Ezra.
Games, at least what I've seen, usually just don't use 3x(8|16|32) bits per pixel, if it's not needed as alpha. It's pretty rare to pack 24/48/96-bit pixels in memory. Traditionally, unaligned loads are just not worth it.

Sometimes packed formats were worth it. I remember doing RLE schemes for fast "alpha blending" (anti-aliased blitting really!) back in 2000 or so, before MMX or GPUs were common. The scheme I used had three different types of run lengths. Completely transparent, pre-multiplied alpha blended and completely opaque. 16-bit pre-multiplied values were in memory in 32-bit format like this: URGBU00A. Groups of 5 bits, except U denotes unused single bit. Frame buffer in RAM was in 15 bit format, 0RRRRRGGGGGBBBBB. With this scheme, alpha-blending needed totally just one multiply per pixel [1], compared to three with usual pre-multiplied alpha or six with normal alpha without pre-multiplication.

[1]: Frame buffer pixels were masked and shifted into 000000GGGGG000000RRRRR00000BBBBB, multiplied by A and shifted back in place. Because all values were 5 bit entities, no overflow (overlap) could occur in multiply, thus one multiply yielded 3 multiplied frame buffer pixel values, for R, G and B!
Here's an archive http://archive.today/vqdTN
This is really really funny. The only person I could imagine writing this before I saw this was Michael dell. Most people around the world who worked for him have nothing good to say about him. And he is another one who was caught for doing illegal business practices.
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This is fundamentally a question of the balance between our efforts focused on the long-term vs those focused on the short-term. Space exploration offers significant benefits long-term but generally provides no immediate pay-off next quarter.

I'm personally baffled by the desire to focus all our resources on the short-term. The questions of the long-term future of humankind and our place in the universe, make the immediate issues like pollution and disease look petty and irrelevant by comparison.

Also, from the practical angle, we're already spending a huge amount of money on solving our local, short-term problems here on Earth. Adding ~$2 trillion would be an increase, but not a game-changer. OTOH, humanity spends under $50 billion/year on space [1]. Adding $2 trillion would constitute 4000% increase! This might be enough to transform humanity from a precarious single-planet species into an interplanetary civilization in a few generations.

Another important point is that a lot of our problems here on Earth are entirely self-inflicted (e.g. inequality, pollution, global warming) and so they can't simply be fixed by throwing money at them: they need political transformation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_government_space_agenci...
Alrighty.

This ought to be quick work for a good patent attorney now that they can cite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_Interna... to get their subject matter ruled ineligible. I think the real question is when the Nintendo patent will see a court test.
Vertical alignment of variables is one of those things that feels like it makes your code more readable when you look at your code in a page, as the original article did.

The reality is, there is a big difference between pretty code and readable code - when actually reading code, we do it line-by-line to discern meaning. Vertical alignment means we see these numbers as a collection, making them easy to read as a group, but that's not useful. What we care about is how those numbers link to the variables on the left.

Sure, the fact that syntax highlighting solves the same problem better is a good argument, but a better one is that vertically aligning assignments actually makes your code harder to read.
>Gary Kildall, for one.

That would be Bill Gates mother. She was buddy buddy with IBM CEO and she was the one convincing them to go with Microsoft.
'quick work' being, of course, entirely relative. Not to be flip, Alice should help the situation a lot.
That's interesting. I always had problems using objc_msgSend via FFIs because if I remember correctly it was implemented via setjmp and longjmp.
As you may discover from the graph, section 4.1, where the "Maxwell equations of software" resides in, is among the nodes with the most number of connections with other nodes.
Thanks! Funny, I get the same error now. Probably having something to do with the sudden traffic spike (albeit infinitesimal)
Apple still doesn't allow 3rd party browser engines, which is why Firefox is nowhere to be seen on iOS.

What Apple do allow is to build a custom app around a limited version of the Safari engine.