skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got any recommendations for resources to get started creating one's own language?
That's odd. At least, they don't ask about astrological signs. I hope that they don't.
"I am a Libra of Libras" sounds like "I'm a crackpot of crackpots" to me.
Remember that working in The City also means you'll need to sell your soul. I started off there and hated everything - work-life balance, the culture, the work - some seem to enjoy the money but to me it's not worth it.
Minor nitpick:

>This flies in the face of the theories of Turing and von Neumann, which define the basic principles of the stored-program computer. Code and data are the same, or at least they can be.

Turing and von Neumann were very aware of the looseness of the code-data distinction. That looseness is formally encoded in the S-m-n theorem, but without even going to those extremes, it's a basic prerequisite for the statement of the Halting Problem itself.
As a Slav, I actually really enjoy giving and receiving smiles (from strangers and friends).
Also, I find Americans (especially in the service sector) a lot more smiley and cheery than Canadians, so it's more than US vs Europe, I think it's a uniquely US trait (I lived in all three)

I found this bit interesting:
"Admittedly, the dynamism of Western capitalism depends upon people who work with missionary zeal, who refuse to accept that a job is merely a job. It must be something more — a vocation, an adventure, a journey to higher heights."

He has something there. Easiest way to make people your slaves (this is a metaphor, in case it's not obvious) it's to convince them that pushing papers in some dreary cubicle for peanuts is somehow a mission, a source of pride.
I agree in the long run.

But you don't have to get very old before it's obvious that a lot of ageing is an accumulation of small infirmities that build up over time. There may well be a switch that can turn on or off the dramatic downturn that occurs in old age (perhaps to do with telomeres, or lossy DNA replication, or whatever), but it seems unlikely the same switch will also reverse that accumulation of infirmities. Returning a 60 year old body to the same maintenance processes as a 20 year old body won't fix torn cartilage, sciatica, or cardiovascular damage. So obviously we should be investigating the former processes, but the techniques for the latter small problems must be substantially fixed beforehand, or else we'll end up in this nightmarish middle zone of people getting more and more unwell, but not dying.
You do understand that flash erase blocks are around 128KB now, right? Random writes to a SSD can only be write-combined to a point. Once the SSD has to actually start erasing blocks and doing collections of those randomly combined sectors things can get dicey real fast in the face of further random writes. It doesn't have a magic wand. The point is that the SSD has no way to determine ahead of time what the rewrite order is going to be as random blocks continue to get written. You can rationalize it all you want, the write amplification is going to happen everywhere in the chain to one degree or another. For that matter, filesystems are ganging blocks together now too (and have been for a long time). It is not uncommon to see 16KB-64KB filesystem block sizes.

Nobody gives a shit about a mere 100GB in physical writes to a storage subsystem in a day. A single consumer 512GB crucial can handle a rate like that for almost 30 years.

Write amplification effects are not to be underestimated, but fortunately there are only a very few situations where it's an issue. And as I said, the situations can be largely mitigated by database writers getting off their butts and fixing their backends to push the complexity to the indexes and away from trying to optimize the linear layout of the database by seek-writing into it.

-Matt
What other predictions do you have about the financial world? I bet you could make a mint!
Assuming your startup idea is SaaS/web app...

Search on:

* /r/startups and /r/entrepreneur on reddit

* betalist.com

* startuplist.com

* techcrunch

* thenextweb

* venturebeat

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As a parent I find this totally outrageous
From looking at this paper [1], it looks lie the Riemann hypothesis is not technically necessary, but simplifies an otherwise prohibitively difficult computation.

[1] https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL8/Caldwell/caldwell7...
This is the real insight that to few companies understand. Possibly because of relative lack of experience of management and/or HR department.

If you're in SF and your rent is rising by 10% p/a then your salary needs to be keeping track unless you already have FU money.

Or you work a couple of years to get a little vested, then jump ship using your unvested equity as a bargaining chip in your next negotiation "I'd be leaving so much on the table..."

I guess that there's a reason that the average tenure is ~2 years
I think the offshore glory days are already slipping away. We have South American partners who are charging nearly the same rates as us.
The cost of living in california also varies widely!
That's just the hormones speaking. Once you pass your first millenia, you gain a perspective on things that significantly improves your life.
The advice here and in your link are very well thought out. I have too founded 2 companies, 1 died - 1 under $10M. I have a penchant for the work in startups - but without a significant stake, it's hard to quantify putting in the hours at a significantly reduced rate.
Yeah, I have to google the precise path every time I need it: https://help.github.com/articles/checking-out-pull-requests-...
Richard Stallman

https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/forum/m/#!msg/myso...
They're distinguished as you type in Vimperator, and you can arrow up/down through the list to specific targets.
How to be positive at work?
If you lose my money that I trusted in your startup, I would file a lawsuit. Whether or not the law is murky, you'll be tied up in legal issues for a long time. Even if the law says you're not legally liable (unlikely), your legal fees would put you in a world of hurt for a long time.

When you're transacting in something of value (whether that be money, digital currency, or pokemon cards) for your users, you better be sure to take it seriously.
GameStop's training video on speaking to women remains ridiculous
Server hardware is usually obsolete long before it stops working.
I completely agree with you :) there.
> "Additionally, many (most?) feminists believe in "intersectionality", the belief that sexism, racism, classism, ableism, and heterosexism act in intersecting ways"

Yes, of course they intersect, at their core they're all the same thing; judgements made based on human traits.

What does it matter whether people are judged based on gender, skin colour, etc... ? The point is, the judgements are being made whilst we build a picture of the world around us. The danger only comes when irrational traits are associated, when those being judged are not careful about self-fulfilling prophecies, and when people forget that stereotypes are a shortcut, never the whole picture.
"require refocusing our diets on minimally processed foods that are naturally nutrient-rich"

Great, I'd like to start today. What do I eat? Where do I get it? I already try to do this, but with all this conflicting information out there how am I supposed to know what to do exactly.

Too many articles bemoan the state of nutrition, in the United States in particular, but provide no actionable guidance to the reader.
I've got to say, I'm a bit perplexed at distros being based on what are effectively different Debian package seeds / dselect files.
This is totally understandable, because in many ways programming is a "market for lemons": good programmers disappear off the market, there is a high chance you'll hire a bad one, and there is severe information asymmetry because it's so hard to tell how someone will perform.

But if it's true that good employees wind up in golden handcuffs, companies should advertise that! It's been several years since I've seen a salary that is competitive with freelancing, but if a company had a published plan about performance-based raises and could point to some happy employees who could verify that theory aligns with practice, I'd be more willing to consider their offer. Conventional wisdom is the opposite: the only way to get a decent raise is to leave. One obstacle to using high raises to attract talent is that a company would have to be more transparent about what salaries everyone is earning.
Basically only buy SSD brands who either are chip fabs or have a relationship with a single chip fab. So. Intel, Crucial, Samsung, maybe one or two others. And that's it. And frankly I have to say that only Intel and Crucial have been really proactive about engineered fixes for failure cases. Never buy SSDs from second-tier vendors such as Kingston who always use the cheapest third-party flash chips they can find. There are literally dozens of those sorts of vendors. Hundreds, even.

-Matt
Maybe you are thinking of “Friendly C”, which is more a pledge compiler authors could take not to be too creative in their quest for improved benchmark results.

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1180

According to the article, OpenBSD changes how GCC's optimization options get enabled with global `-Ox` options, so OpenBSD has a “Friendly C” compiler of sort.
> If you believe this, you shouldn't be handling people's money.

That's true, but who's going to make that happen?

In traditional society, there are laws about who can be a bank and how carefully you need to treat people's money (and often government programs to reimburse customers when good-faith banking efforts fail). Quite a fraction of Bitcoin users are in Bitcoin because, to first order, they want to move away from that model.

So the free market needs to not let their money be handled by people who believe that, and it's not yet clear they care. Probably they will, in a few years.
Ask HN: H1B Guy , middle class family, ambition to hit big, too much to ask?
I am on H1B visa working for a tech giant. I am thankful to US and its people for giving me this opportunity. I come from a middle class family in India.
At my last two jobs I went through same interview process that a US based candidate would go ( 6+ interviews , 4 white boarding sessions).
While things are okay, I feel like doing job on H1B visa always put ceiling on maximum you earn despite having good potential.

I would like to start a company and create jobs, make meaningful contribution to society , solve prevalent problems and earn money for me as well ( 5M to 10M exit at least for 1M raised capital )

What are my options and chances to start company here in US ?
I understand that I can not start company on H1B so may be I will have go back and come on business visa to open branch office.

Thoughts ? Any HNer has done this ?
In fairness you don't have a Houston address ;)

If you want some stability live in a deed restricted neighborhood.
> Bitcoins are just sequences of ones and zeros.

Not exactly, and that is what makes them interesting. The ones and zeros are part of what is essentially a digital 'tally stick' [1] where the account has a set of them and there is this globally shared data structure which has a matching set of them.

There is some secret data the user has which allows them to "unlock" their ones and zeros and rewrite them so that they can rewrite them to say "these are not my ones and zeros". And that transaction is combined with another one of the form "these ARE my ones and zeros", and after a minimum number of copies of the global list has that information the transaction can be said to be complete.

If the user were to attempt to reassert their ownership of the ones and zeros (they have all of the original data still) the global list which everyone else can see shows that have given up those ones and zeros in the past. And there is nothing the user can do to change the global list at that point. Its like the master tally stick was swapped out in the vault and their half no longer matches any part of it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_stick
You do understand that flash erase blocks are around 128KB now, right?

How is that relevant to your wrong claim about database 128-byte writes? You word that as if you're correcting me.

I don't even know what point you're trying to make anymore, but you're trying to buttress your argument with what can best be described as diversions.

Most people write far less than they think. Databases aren't particularly magical, any more than the web server log file that is written to a line at a time. Yes, people "give a shit" about a "mere" 100GB of writes, because the vast majority of real projects, including at major corporations, write far less than that per day. So are we just talking about dick measuring now?
I have the same feeling, I did have a lot of fun as a consultant. I am trying to find my way around it, if you have some good ideas, feel free to ping me, I would love to hear it.
>nothing, because they are not a bank,

Are you implying that a bank would somehow be held accountable for breaking the law or ripping people off? Since when?
The blood type obsession thing is basically their version of astrological signs. Wikipedia has more about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_types_in_Japanese_culture
I think you may have been too subtle. :)
We are? I mean, perhaps, on the tram, people are neutral. And cashiers don't smile, ever.

But whenever you see a group of Czechs doing something, we are all laughs and smiles. Friends, colleagues, coworkers ... even at work, we spend a lot of time telling stupid jokes, laughing and goofing around.

There's no forced smile, no, but there's a lot of fun.
This guy challanged the police officers big time
This is actually pretty common. There was a time when not every CPU had a FPU and floating point operations were emulated in software if required. Or doing 64 bit integer operations on a 32 bit CPU. Or doing arbitrary precision arithmetics on todays CPUs. You do it just like in school, piece by piece, but instead of single digits you use the largest registers available. If you really like it slow you could of course also just use plain strings to represent numbers and do all math on a char by char, digit by digit basis.
"We noticed the hot wallets dwindling but assuming it was members moving their funds off site during the DDOS, we loaded all the cold balances onto the site so that users would not have withdrawals interrupted during our periods of up time.This fatal mistake allowed Ambiorx to continue to drain the site." -- World's stupidest bitcoin exchange admins, or some of the ballsiest? Inside job?
If the food has what we need how is it necessarily low quality?

This just sounds like the naturalistic fallacy.
So, if providers were responding correctly to incentives in the Bitcoin exchange marketplace, they'd be both ignoring security, and making themselves difficult to find or identify. Got it.
I tell this to Americans because I don't want to hear their views on politics.
As that paper very first assumption is both unlikely and shows a complete lack of imagination, I think its results are dubious. In addition, I seriously doubt that we hae the math to be able to predict this.

Here is what the paper says:

Let us start with the worst-case scenario (for overpopulation)—physical immortality... Consider a situation, when parents produce less than 2 children on average, so that each next generation is smaller than the previous one... This conclusion does not require any complex calculations and questionable assumptions, but follows directly from the calculus, and the property of infinite geometric series to converge

Well, I beg to differ with the "questionable assumption" part. Why would anyone think that in infinite time, parents will have, on average, less than two children?

And here's the lack of imagination: the whole (cultural) concept of "parents" and family dissolves when there's no death. If you marry at 1000, and stay married to your wife for 5000 years (producing one child), chances are that by the time you're 50000 you've likely forgotten your wife's name, and your only child's too. In fact, you won't even remember that happened (well, maybe you'll remember your first time around, but by your 200th marriage, you won't remember how many children you had with your 37th wife).

Of course, I may be suffering from lack of imagination, and the structure of society will be completely different. The point is that making any assumption on human behavior after such a revolution of much of what makes us human, is preposterous. Immortal humans will behave in ways that we cannot predict, and we therefore cannot predict how the population will grow.
Possiblely, but in light of the protracted duration of the DDoS, it makes sense that people would be moving their holdings off-exchange when they could connect. If the withdrawal addresses were all different -- and from what Excoin posted on their site it looks like the party responsible used multiple BTC and NBT addresses to move the funds -- multiples of small to moderate amounts of coins being requested doesn't sound out of the question.

In retrospect, it was a horrible decision not to research these transactions in depth as they happened, but the Excoin team was fighting a "bigger" fire at the time with the DDoS.
Its a redefinition game. Notice how vital it is for proponents to describe the path of an (admittedly very fast) bit of light as "at the same time" when it obviously is not.

By analogy, my coworker and I superficially drove home "at the same time" starting and stopping in about the same place, but it would be highly misguided to say we actually were coincident at any given instant, the commute was instantaneous, in some metaphysical sense we are the same we just look different sometimes, or there are not two coworkers but an infinity of coworkers in a multiverse commute. (edited to add, I'm not implying a hidden variable analogy which is obviously not how the real world works, more of a GIGO data analysis leads to weird conclusions analogy)

Light can behave like a wave or a particle. Nothing can directly detect both ways at the same time. Its perfectly acceptable to pipe the output of a gadget that sees "waves" to the input of a tester that sees "particles". Unsurprisingly, light, not having any hidden variables, doesn't know its own history very well and will happily be detected however you'd like to test it.

I think the author aims at the wrong target. The biggest problem with "quantum mystics" is TV grade technobabble and scam artists. Merely taking a fairy tale and saying its not fake anymore because "quantum" was sprinkled on it doesn't make it any less ridiculous. As we all here know, its like saying "security" is merely a checkbox, perhaps an include file setting, not something that has to be baked into the cake from the beginning.
Is there any build/install instructions? Want to play around :)

EDIT:

git clone git@github.com:jeorgun/Vivaldi.git
cd Vivaldi
# if you don't have boost then run
brew install boost
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. && make # cmake version 3 or greater is required
Even in The Cloud, I'm struggling to see the problem. If it was running on, say, Digital Ocean, I'd just stop the instance, create a snapshot and then launch a new instance from that snapshot (and with a new IP). I'm sure other clouds have similar tools.
I tell this to Americans because I don't want to hear their views on politics. Their whole political spectrum is away from that of what I feel comfortable with. It is a conversation that almost always leads me to feeling the underlying violence that regulates American life and I do not like it, do not want to be exposed to it.

Forcing people to smile is a good example of the violence within American culture.
Sketch 3.3 Beta is out and this is what you need to know
My limited understanding is that the repair processes also play a big part. For example bones become brittle because stem cells no longer fill the gaps as quickly as they appear. The body also fully replaces every cell every seven years. If they could find a way to just restore the repair mechanisms a whole host of problems could slowly start to disappear.
I am now comparing the bitcoin holders to regular banks' online systems in my mind and I wonder why bitcoin systems are constantly getting hacked while regular banks' are functioning properly. I am not really sure which one of these reasons are true;

- Code that is written for bitcoin banking is fairly new comparing the real banks' code which contains lots of vulnerabilities.

- These guys hold huge amount of money from other people which becomes very tempting so that some insiders decide to take it and make it look like they are hacked

- Law enforcements are not as high as comparing to stealing dollars to bitcoins which makes hackers to focus on bitcoin.

Not really sure and i am really not an expert on bitcoin systems, i just wonder.
they are already monetizing, just not for the software. Olark is great, but I am sorry to say their app kills Olark..and their new dashboard is feature packed
simplified cheatsheet: rice, beans, nuts, fruits, vegetables, eggs, milk (for calcium and vitamin D)

prepare in variety of ways. hot or cold. add spices for taste. sometimes meat for protein and iron. walnuts for omega 3 fatty acids which brain needs but body can't produce. eat healthy snacks like washed pre-peeled carrots, etc.

I'd argue this is well-solved, well-known and already well and often communicated.

for example, there are books on this topic. many. anyone can read today.
Thanks! I think with programming languages its important that it looks just strange enough. Luckily I have a few simple ideas that drive most of those unique syntaxes, hopefully making the uniqueness both justifiable and attention-grabbing. Otherwise, its just the language that I want to program in every day, and I hope others feel similarly.
Prime numbers aren't hard to generate; just generate a bunch of random numbers and test them quickly.
Financial prizes have worked for centuries. Have to be specific on a goal.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_%28book%29
The article never actually established what made food healthy. Just because something is "natural" does not make it good (and conversely, something being "unnatural" does not make it bad). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature

It made brief mention of a few chemicals the author claimed "processing" disrupted, but didn't really expand on that.

If the food has all the chemicals we need, what does it matter if it's "low quality" by the author's standard? If the food doesn't have all the chemicals we need and this isn't obvious, that's a failure of our nutrient tracking scheme.
lol, you have my blessings, cool graphics BTW
There used to be bit-slice processors that chained together narrow (eg. 4-bit) chips to build a wider processor. This is pretty much a software emulation of that technique, but lacking the parallelism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_slicing
So what was stolen, exactly?
But there _are_ coins, wether you carry them around or not is irrelevant, someone does.