skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, it is not possible to solve the problem that way. There are over 600,000 people living in this city - more than the population of Wyoming and Vermont. You wouldn't just tell everyone in Vermont to move to New Hampshire because the federal government can't get its act together. I was born and grew up in this city, as were many people who happen to fall on this side of the DC border.
Yes, I've read it. It's not a very good book, in my opinion.

The end of your second point fails to address the comment you responded to, I was addressing an entirely separate issue about how this community (and to a lesser degree, the programming community) chooses to communicate. Specifically, how it fails to actually remove flaming, trolling, rudeness, and arrogance. It merely wraps these things nicely in pseudo intellectual packages.

Anyways, I wasn't defending my (purely spiteful) "ageist" comment, nor do I intend to. Although, I keep getting baited to address it, so here I am. Rest assured though, while I may never transform into a different gender or race, I will certainly age. I'm sure one day, when I'm older, someone on the internet will say a rude, politically incorrect comment towards me, and I shall weep with regret and understanding.
Actually any type of freelancers should avoid if possible. Though if you need to accumulate portfolio and get paid even a little bit it's worth a try. Also I saw some burnt clients only look for local devs for higher rate which is still miserable compared to the price you would pay on the ground.
It looks crap.

Google, please don't release that.

(OR: Google, I will pay more not to ride in that.)
I used to be in the field of ultra-high-speed flow cytometry. We were working on developing 1-mega-event sorters around 10 years ago.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cyto.a.20160/full

James Leary was our PI.
> I've never, ever seen this "append stuff onto your password" approach being used.

Then he doesn't have an eBay or PayPal token, because they both do it. Or rather, it is an option to do it that way, in order to skip over the "submit, enter token, submit" workflow.

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/helpcenter/helphub/article...
[H]aving numbers publicly available would complicate
[taking investment money in the future].

I don't understand why having publicly available numbers would complicate getting investment in the future. Would someone be gracious enough to explain that to me as if I have no knowledge (true in this case)?
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It's a neat place, but it's also way too isolated. You can't have an "ecosystem" if everything else around you is farms:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/H-Farm/@45.554728,12.42898...
This is the kind of self-prosecution that you can't trust the USG to pursue with the necessary zeal.

This is what the International Criminal Court at The Hague is for.
Accusers and the Accused, Crossing Paths at Columbia University
The pea-sorting machine, like all the small-item sorters, uses a row of small air jets controlled by the computers. Here's a more advertising-like video with slow-motion imagery of the action at the air jet station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbSxlZ6J1h4

It's amazing that individual sorting of rice grains is affordable, but it is.
Larger fruit and vegetable items used to be graded by people, but there are machines for that, too.

Machinery like this helps to make "Amazon Fresh" possible. With computers inspecting produce, there's less need for people to shop for it themselves. Webvan tried to do this 15 years ago and had quality complaints. That problem has been solved.
Neil and Buzz spent 2.5 hours walking around on the moon, in a very small region. In comparison, Apollo 17's surface EVA time was 22 hours - driving a lunar rover many miles. Seems like we should be talking to the astronauts in the later missions if we want to hear about what it's like to be on the moon.
Then why didn't "your" team fix the laws of the country so that immoral acts like this can't get ignored? You know, when "they" had the office.

Any which way you slice it, buddy, both halves are to blame (and should take accountability and act to fix it). Too bad people fall for your line of thinking and simply excuse any bad stuff by blaming it on the other side. How convenient.
I hope so too, and I doubt the US government's response will be cyber-warfare related. There's not much they can do in the first place, and it would be a petty tit-for-tat reprimand.
Is performing a second burn to circularize a craft's orbit to near-sync with Martian orbit really cheaper than a deceleration burn? In fact, that would just be a complete Hohmann transfer.

I'd guess the target orbit for a craft performing this maneuver would still have a periapsis in the neighborhood of Earth's orbit, meaning it'd still be very unlike Mars' orbit until the craft was captured by Martian gravity.

(googles a bit)

It looks like these exploit Lagrange points somehow[1]. Precision maneuvers and weird, long routes to the target body. I'm not quite following how this works with only two bodies (Sun and Mars), versus the Sun-Earth-Moon trio. Wikipedia claims the Mars Orbiter Mission used a low-energy transfer at some point, but I can't figure out whether that was for the insertion into Martian orbit or some earlier maneuver it performed.

[1] http://www.gg.caltech.edu/~mwl/publications/papers/lowEnergy...

[edit] Hoffman -> Hohmann, because I'm an idiot.
I'd be pretty happy if governments all decided "cyberwarfare" was an acceptable substitute for the real thing. Nobody dies, some money is lost, some important people are embarrassed.
Nah, it's a double false flag by the hacker 4chan.
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And yet he wants to go systemd...
A lot of these sound like ideas that Jeff Hawkins has been pushing with his Cortical Learning Algorithm
> Bitcoin has rarity and speculation only.

The implied point here (I think) is that bitcoin is a bad store of value because it has rarity and speculation only, not real value. This is incorrect though: consider the counterexample of gold. Gold is the oldest store of value around, but it really only has rarity and speculation going for it. Around 90% of the gold in the world is either sitting in a vault somewhere, or used as jewelry [1].

So for your implied point to be true, either (a) gold must be a bad store of value, or (b) there is something that distinguishes gold from bitcoin.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold
I will take his tame/boring "starups" any day over a large percentage of the startups I see on TechCrunch and Pando (which I am starting to see many that have tame/boring ideas at scale anyway). His business is profitable, he doesn't need to worry about the problems that come along with accepting VC money, and can sleep in during rush hour (sold me right there LOL). Many startups are high risk with a high reward long shot with just as high failure rate. So I will take lame but profitable ideas to the bank anytime.
That's a novel approach. The catch is that the number of items per row is fluid, so you'd have to overestimate on how many extra items you'd need, then you have the problem of not knowing how much overflow to hide for the parent container. Unless i'm misunderstanding your idea?
it's the future. might as well get used to it now.
I am profoundly scandalized that they edited 500 pages out of this monument.

Give them to me.

Now.

I need them.
This is like claiming that physicists are "wrong" because they spend time thinking about a frictionless vacuum[0].

> (Actually, classical economics does, in the sense that markets follow a price-demand curve rather than a wiggle as seen experimentally.)

That's the difference between the limitations of an idealized model and the limitations of experimental process. That doesn't mean that either one is "wrong", any more than it would in the physical sciences.

> Obviously you don’t do that when you go shopping.

Correct - classical economics describes the behavior of rational actors with perfect and symmetric information. In this case, there are significant, non-zero costs to obtaining perfect information. That doesn't mean that the principles behind classical economics are false, were those assumptions to hold. And it doesn't mean that the model is useless even absent those assumptions.

Just as physicists can reason about frictionless vacuums and use that to inform their understandings of the real world (with friction and air), economists can reason about perfectly rational actors with perfect and symmetric information, and use that to inform their understandings of the real world (with possibly irrational actors and asymmetric and/or imperfect information).

[0] https://xkcd.com/669/
Me myself living in small city in Europe. So it was a good starting point to kickstart my skills in programming, and hacking stuff together. Though the projects are mostly involving wordpress themes and etc. so it gets boring quite fast.
One thing I don't understand why not more american students geo-arbitrage. There are plenty of countries in Europe where university education is much cheaper, or even free. OK, maybe the top-top US universities might be a tad better than elsewhere, but the difference is at best small, especially at undergraduate level. All universities use similar textbooks, especially in introductory courses. Moreover the single biggest factor in how much you learn at university is how much effort you put in. Want to learn more? Party less ...

That way you can graduate debt-free, and have international experience and network, and might even have picked up a new language.

If you absolutely have to have a brand-name degree from an American university, get a masters. Much quicker and easier to get in.
While PPP is probably most important exchange rates matter too. Most people tend to bid/pay in USD. So for me when the GBP/USD was right I could charge the same as usual in USD but that translated to more money in GBP.
Well, right now, we're in a place where The Internet really only facilitates greater efficiency in telecommunications, and does so in such a way that can be distributed and encapsulated across many independent partitions.

In other words, whatever we would be capable of accomplishing with pen and ink on paper, and carrier pigeons, or smoke signals; that's what the internet does, but at nearly the speed of light, for volumes of data beyond anything worth attempting as a physical implementation.

In that sense, the only thing that denial of service really accomplishes for a hermit state like North Korea (which presumably attempts to censor the external internet for it's non-elite commoners already), is such that they lose face on "the world stage" where they receive no respect anyway.

The boundaries where things start to get ugly, in a new and truly modern sense, would be circumstances where autonomous weapons platforms run rampant, and inflict wide-spread death and destruction in various theaters of conflict at scales of their own choosing. I don't think that's a reality yet, at least not without a nuclear exchange. Drones, for the most part, are still essentially remote-controlled vehicles, operated by humans, particularly with respect to the decision to use force.

A scaled back version of that, which we might see emerge, before autonomous robots are used to crush a nation like it were a load of dirty laundry (or rather, before robots start to decide for themselves, which nations, or regions to crush), is infrastructure attacks that cripple things like electric and water services for extended periods, triggering cascades of famine and disease. For that to occur, a country would have to foolishly place all of its eggs in one basket, and lay prone to catastrophic failure without proper redundancies in place.
5 Early Lessons from Rapid, High Availability Scaling with Rails
6 things I learned from riding in a Google self-driving car
Mobile Now Accounts for 50.3% of All Ecommerce Traffic
For those looking to export your zone from Rackspace, the rackspace python library (prax) will let you:

https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/cloud_dn...

You could also do it via CURL: https://community.rackspace.com/products/f/25/p/1743/4945#49...
Prosecuting people for human rights abuses is not the same as criminalizing politics. It doesn't matter if they thought it was legal or even if it actually was legal.
I would have linked to the article itself[1], but the submission wouldn't work...

[1] http://theoatmeal.com/blog/google_self_driving_car
Hexapod with robot snakes for legs
This ranking uses a method called Borda Count (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borda_count). It can lead to quite arbitrary results, for a number of reasons. One example is that being 9th is three times better than being 11th, whereas being first is only marginally better (relatively spoken) than being third.

Better methods are readily available, for example Schulze's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method). I wonder how much these rankings would change...
Because the article was trying to say that Flatiron's costs were lower, yet they're charging more.

Granted, my calculations were dumb. I took the 4.3 years the article used as time to finish a 4-year degree and multiplied it by 52. Obviously, the number of actual weeks in-class is different, but I'd imagine most universities costs during the various breaks and lighter summer sessions aren't substantially less than in the middle of a fall or spring semester.
Have you actually driven or in fact spent any time in a Tesla?
You can burn or you can last, but you can't do both.

Patrick is a wonderful example of a person who takes the middle road and actually put quite a lot of effort into making sure he stays there rather than letting himself be sucked in by the grow like crazy game or the never launch anything game.

He is happy, he is not trying to be happy. That alone is something most people will never experience and measured in that he is a billionaire.
I just paid off the remainder of my loan today in one lump sum ($40K), enough was enough.

Taking into account the fixed 6.5% interest rate the government backed lender was happily reeling in, and my skeptism that the stock market can continue to rise against printing press backed economies, I thought, screw it, let's just get it over with.

Not sure what things are like outside the States, but within the easy-money-for-18-year-old-kids market, it's a serious racket -- I had little awareness at that age of what I was getting into, and only later did I realize that, hmmm, the bachelor's in literature and master's in psychology...were pretty much completely useless given my profession: computer programmer o_O
Of course some people do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8766609 - someone always does.
Fair enough: Schwab's login mechanism ignores the case of the passwords.
It's in the UDHR (article 5) and the ICCPR (article 7), so most countries have firm legal restrictions against torture.
This is an example of borrowing money to invest it ie leverage. Leverage can be a very powerful multiplier for wealth accumulation, but it is just a big an amplifier for downside risk. Once you move into leveraged investing you need to be much more sophisticated about your risk management. For instance, it is trivially easy to see a situation that involves correlated risks. That is, a massive stock downturn which causes the author to lose their job. They are then stuck not just with their paper losses (remember that they haven't made any profit yet) but they also do not have the ability to pay off their debt.
I don't believe the claim of good faith that you propose: I think that they knew they were committing crimes and that they intended to get away with it, because they could count on people like you to not hold them accountable.

I'm so displeased with the government taking actions like this, I think it's preferable if we do cause a massive panic and shut down the system at a high level -- even while we let some of the bureaucracies run -- until we can sort this out.

I think that we need to make it clear that it's unacceptable to cross some lines in the name of "making a hard choice", and that there are personal consequences to signing off on those kinds of crimes -- that as a nation, we mean it when we declare certain kinds of actions beyond the authorization of government.

Were it more timely, I also think that we should prosecute on a number of the other things you listed. Alas, we didn't, because of thinking like yours, and it seems merely to have encouraged more lawlessness from officials.

You didn't actually propose fixing anything: you merely advocated doing more of the same and hoping that it just gets better, nor did you propose any reason that prosecuting people for knowingly breaking the law wouldn't lead to a change in the behavior of officials.

Your answer was a non-answer.
This sounds useful. I'm going to be following 302s shortly to expose possible security and nsfw URLs along the way. It will be easy enough to show the unpacking after an URL is submitted.
i don't know if they have the capabilities to wage a war on two fronts. They're getting ready to crush Iggy Azalea as best as I can tell.
Surprise, I don't care what the car looks like if I'm paying per trip to get me from A to B.

Do you complain about the fashion sense of the BART?
I don't think that what he means. He doesn't say that you have invest in stock market; rather, at least investigate your options, instead of focusing solely on repaying the debt.
Ditch the Hotel Key Card and Grab a Smartphone Instead
We take down governments in our sleep and replace them with our own puppets.

Except for the fact that the Chinese protect that particular government, and that makes thing a lot stickier.
'or the never launch anything game'

I just realized that I am a part of this :(
As far as I'm concerned, Buzz and Neil landed on the moon at the same time, so they are both first.
It's really a shame they're so bad at all of this. I've had nothing but a fantastic experience when dealing with them for my Investing and Checking accounts.
I don't know Curata, but Beatrix bills itself as your social media assistant. I'm checking out twibbl.io right now. It's great because it pulls in images along with tweets. Everything else is a total mess right now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion

With nuclear pulse propulsion, we could send a craft to Mars in 2-3 weeks, safely, any time, and on the cheap.

The mass that can be transported is quite enormous, so we could piecemeal launch the components of a huge habitat and vast amounts of supplies into an outer orbit of Earth, robotically load them onto the pulse ship, and then shoot that baby to Mars.

Probably the slowest part of the plan would be launching the stuff into orbit. They scrubbed the idea of launching using nuclear pulse propulsion because of the dangers of radioactive fallout. Too bad, because that would have made things even simpler.
To those that get hung up on the design: remember that this car is limited to 25 mph for regulatory reasons. Having a design that is closer to a bumper car than a model S seems fitting with that in mind.
Depends on your timeframe. The S&P returned -22% from 1/1/2000 to 1/1/2010, and only +43% from 1/1/2000 to today. The annualized return is nowhere near the 11% quoted in the article.
Yes can it really be the first cyber war if one side doesn't really have a cyber presence?
I'm sure some investors lost during that time and others made well over 10% during the same time periods.

I've always invested and paid minimums to student loans and mortgage. I also locked in student loans and mortgage at very low rates, plus the effective interest rate is lowered by the tax advantage.

I've been investing in low fee index funds, because I'm not a stock broker, since 2002 and I have averaged about 14% growth year over year. That is much higher than I expected, but even at a modest 6 or 7% annual growth I would still be well ahead of paying off my student loans and mortgage. I never carry a balance on higher interest forms of debt such as credit cards.
A Brand New World in Which Men Ruled
So the stock market has a little correction, and he loses his job in the resulting recession (a la 2008). The debt doesn't go down, the minimum payments remain the same, and now he has no income and half of the investment amount he once did. He has to take what was his "emergency fund" and use it to pay debt.

Debt is an awful burden to carry around for years. It limits potential decisions. When things go wrong in life, and they do, the timing is never great. Do "future you" a favor and ditch debt when you can.

Source: life experience
There could be a market for owning self-driving cars outside of major cities. Not everyone has access to a cab-like service now so unless that changes adding some sort of autopilot to regular cars would be useful.
some important people are embarrassed.

Which is pretty much exactly why it won't happen.
Except you don't know if the stock market is going to go up 20% (as per 2009 through today), or go down by 20% (as per 2007 or 2000).

Paying off your debts is reliable. Gambling your borrowed money on the stock market seems like poor advice in general, even if the historical average works out.

You gotta plan for the worst, and in the worst case, your money is worth half of what you put in two or three years from now AND you got a massive student loan burden.
> art in Florence, music in Vienna

The period of glory for one local school was much shorter than you can grasp with a superficial familiarity with the subject. And even during that period, the "lesser" centers were also important to the history of art.
I am pretty sure dferr is referring to the pea sorter.
I pre-ordered several coins in November 2013. I tried to retrieve my Coins during the beta, following through their convoluted "get an invite to our iOS app to request your coin" process. I did not receive even one coin. I have not heard from them since August. As far as my opinion is concerned, they're frauds.

They did have the courtesy to email me before Black Friday and offer me $1 off more preorders, though.
great talk! one touchstone i wish he would have embraced is woodworking. having listened to the talk, i can see how woodworking is experienced through many channels: tactile (hand planes, saws), visual, spatial, symbolic (plans, designs), auditory (sonic feedback tells you a lot of about the wood, and how well a tool is working), environmental (the workshop)... i feel like adopting his channels perspective helps me understand why that activity is so engaging. certainly gives credence to his claims, too.
I'm not too impressed with the author's logic, but I think that if you have federally subsidized student loans (i.e. low interest rates) not paying down your loans is a good idea.

The reason is that net worth and liquidity are two very different things. I'd much rather have $20k in a checking account and a $40k student loan balance with a $500 monthly payment then a $20k student loan balance and a $500 monthly payment.

Secondly, given the that potentially some of the interest is deductible, and that the term on a student loan can be 10-25 years you can ~breakeven in the fixed income markets investing in bonds as opposed to paying down your student loan (or you can keep the maturity of those investments shorter, have a moderately negative carry, and be short interest rates)
Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses

And while we're at it, we should sanction those -- like the New York Times -- who enabled and shielded the torturers via a consistent editorial policy -- solidly in place for 12 years -- of never referring to the practice of torture by name, but instead employing that famous dystopian euphemism: "Harsh Interrogation Techniques."