skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't understand the purpose of at-most-once semantics in practice: So, you've got some process where you don't care if the message goes through, but you're willing spend money on the compute/storage for it anyway? Why bother?

For instance because the time for retransmission is higher than what someone (say an HTTP request) is going to wait for.
Is this just a market inefficiency? A cubicle with electricity and internet should cost more than a cubicle with bed and nothing else.
Working software =! All the features committed. It means it should be useable, even if only half the features were complete.

Also next time you plan a sprint, you reduce the commitment.
"Reproduction as a life goal"

Rate dropping in developed countries though? Did you mean consumerism?
This includes blocking access by web apps such as Dropbox to their local daemon, which currently rely on a public DNS record resolving to 127.0.0.1 and a secure localhost websocket server (using a certificate for the public DNS record's FQDN) to make the connection (with additional mutual authentication after the websocket handshake).

After this change, there will be no way for a web app to communicate directly with a locally installed daemon.
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The kind of people paying for Janes.com or AviationWeek can also get all their news for free from MilitaryNews.com or such, but still, these sites continue to flourish and they are only growing because having an AviationWeek subscription is a "status". The kind of niche that was reading the old, industry-centric GigaOm would have no problem paying for such a subscription.
+1 for a great app! It's a pity that it's a read-only view on Hacker News; you can't upvote stories, comment or submit anything. It puts you in lurking mode, alas.

And for the people thinking "How does that HackerWeb compare to the web app of Lim Chee Aun?": it's the same as http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/.
> In non-rent-controlled areas, rent is more expensive per month than buying the same sort of place...

Federal intervention has seriously distorted the home buying market with a variety of subsidies and tax writeoffs. Without this assistance, it would likely be substantially more expensive to buy than rent.
I'm sure convenience also played a part - just for the heck of it, I cooked a meal with purple carrots in it recently and they stained the fuck out of my kitchen bench, hands, and the vegetable soup they were in. It was like working with beetroot.
I'm really looking forward to the return of game centers / arcades to experience VR. I was a bit too young in the 80ies to see the end of the arcade craze that could even lead to coin shortages in Japan. I could even see asymmetric multiplayer games to come out of this - players sitting in arcades around virtual tables are the generals having a situation overview, while players on their home consoles are the FPS foot soldiers / pilots. Imagine planetary or space battles unfolding like that...

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders#Impact_and_legac...
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An other difference is that they specifically ask for a Japanese guarantor. I had for guarantor a Frenchman who've been living in Japan for 10 years, spoke Japanese, had a full time job at a public research institute, but it was very hard to find an agency who accepted to sign a lease with him as a guarantor because he wasn't Japanese.

The argument with the agent was often the same:
- because if there's a problem, communication will be hard
- but he speaks Japanese! And me too, as you can see!
- yes, it would be fine for me, but the landlord wouldn't accept!
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So what are you disagreeing with? Didn't the USA attack Iraq without justification? Did Iran fight wars I missed in the history books? Doesn't the USA have some quite backward Christians believing the earth is only a couple thousand years old and wanting to see all gays dead? Doesn't the USA still have capital punishment and makes use of it in 2015? Doesn't the USA use drones to kill people without due process? Didn't the USA torture people at detention site Cobalt or Guantanamo Bay? Doesn't the USA spy at its own people even if innocent? Didn't the USA stage a PR campaign leading to the Nayirah testimony? Didn't the USA present wrong evidence about weapons of mass destruction to the UN to justify the war against Iraq? Didn't the USA try to connect Saddam Hussein with 9/11?

And this is not a complete list, covers only pretty recent history and doesn't not mention any actions where the USA took indirect actions. Note that I wanted to make the statement sound provocative, see the related comments, but take out the rhetoric tone and you have proven facts. And that IS behaves even worse than the USA doesn't make the USA look any better, you are just setting the bar for what qualifies as a good peaceful country pretty low.

And by the way, this has nothing to do with a democratic society. You can have a perfect democracy and still behave evil against foreign nations. It actually is worse in the case of a democratic society because it implies that the actions were not done by a small evil regime but with support of the majority of the people.
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Yes, and it works fine (example : https://www.gitbook.com/book/bpesquet/programmation-orientee...).

You can even write multi-languages books.
> Shell scripting languages are famously obtuse and underpowered, and we've thought about how to cleanly merge shell scripting with a real language.

It was called REPL (Interlisp-D, Lisp Machine, Cedar, Oberon), Workspace (Smalltalk), but then UNIX won.
It would. There's an argument that something like only once, guaranteed and in-order delivery are business requirements which therefore have no place in the message layer - http://www.infoq.com/articles/no-reliable-messaging.
You can already do that: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brunoterkaly/archive/2014/06/11/mono...
Fully homomorphic encryption is a really big one. It allows to perform operations on an encrypted data - in theory you could run a computer program that would have it's memory contents encrypted at all times.

In case of cryptocurrencies it means that it's possible to create a cryptocurrency that has all the advantages of bitcoin, but also guarantees total anonymity - i.e. you're able to prove that you have the coins and not show where the coins come from.
Mixers would not be necessary, and it would not be possible to track the coins.

The practical implementation of this is called DarkCoin. When we were doing Orisi we considered launching a sidechain to Bitcoin that would do similar stuff. But abandoned the project - privacy is important, but we all know who would be the first clients would be ;)

Also, it is be possible to create computer programs that run on your computer and have their own money, but that money is impossible to be stolen from them (the private key is never decoded and never reaches the computer memory).

Imagine a frustration of a computer hacker that gets a program which will pay him 1 BTC if, and only if he solves a specific equation. The program is open-source, and yet there provably is no way to hack into it.

Or a program that sends you money when it sees phrase "XXX" on Hacker News (you cannot cheat by providing altered HN website, because the program verifies HN SSL certificate on a homomorphically encrypted virtual machine).
> They have extra units in their building (which is also where they live), and choose to leave it vacant rather than deal with the hassle of rent control.

Good for them. Better that they do this than take the rental income, and later whine about how terribly unfair renter protection laws are. :)

Based on my immensely scientific[0] survey of Internet Message Boards (and personal experience in the American Southeast), it seems that potential landlords sometimes forget that when they rent their property to others for use as the renters' home, the landlord loses almost all control over that property. This is right and just: everyone deserves a safe, secure, private place to live.

> Leaving units vacant is a rational way of dealing with SF's condo conversion laws.

Again, it's good for the landlords that they showed this much restraint.

The condo conversion laws prevent landlords from turning their apartment stock (that pays off smaller amounts over time) into condo stock (that pays off one large lump sum). These are sane and rational laws to have in cities that (for a variety of disgusting reasons) find themselves unable to create sufficient housing to meet demand.

[0] Ha!
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I would be interested in the source and how they defined the error rate. (Although I'm not sure error rates are the best way to define a doctors "productivity")
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Yeah. Despite the disclaimer, he then goes on to assume it's literally true. And, for relevance to this post, he does so in the story as well, in Chapter 28.

su3su2u1 (who is an actual physicist) discusses the problem in http://su3su2u1.tumblr.com/post/98526012853/chapter-28-hacki... :

> There is no “true math of quantum mechanics.” [...] These are different mathematical formulations, over different spaces, that are completely equivalent.

> What Hariezer is doing here isn’t separating the map and the territory, its reifying one particular map (configuration space)!

>I also find it amusing, in a physics elitist sort of way (sorry for the condescension) that Yudkowsky picks non-relativistic quantum mechanics as the final, ultimate reality. Instead of describing or even mentioning quantum field theory, which is the most low-level theory we (we being science) know of, Yudkowsky picks non-relativistic quantum mechanics, the most low-level theory HE knows.

> So this is more bad pedagogy: timeless physics isn’t even a map, it's the idea of a map. [...] It seems very odd to just toss in a somewhat obscure idea as the pinnacle of physics.
True, also the problem with things like Quora is you end up with dogma or regurgitation accumulating most of the upvotes, like hundreds of answers that say "if you're not paying for it, you are the product."
What was interesting is that the higher-performing group (Alpha) was stuck less often that the lower-performing group (Gamma). Is this the next programming motto after "Don't Repeat Yourself"?

Don't Get Stuck!

Now how does one avoid getting stuck while programming? I still get stuck a lot, but these really helped:

- Test what you write as quickly as you can.

- Hold it in your head! Or you won't have a clue what all your code, together, is doing.

- To get started, ask yourself, what is the simplest thing that could possibly work?
Minecraft is fun. However I'd clearly state that Minecraft, especially the early multi-player stuff that Notch worked on, /was/ a disaster.

Only now, three numbering schemes later (alpha, beta, release), in release version 1.8, does the core game actually have features such as abstracting implementation IDs from object types (EG: now there is minecraft:glass to resolve instead of remembering decimal value 20. Though mods for r1.8 are only just beginning, so that scoping might not yet exist.)
> This way it's protected (patented)

Protected from what ?
GitHub and BitBucket are going to delete sources after a period of time? Could you please point me to that licence agreement paragraph? Are museums going to throw away paintings in 50-100 years as well?
> I figure you could setup a 3D 360 camera in front of a group of volunteers, and then just use that video for the VR experience.

If it is indeed immersive, the silence following the delivery of a killer joke would be excruciating.
I can see how collaborating together on problems is effective (much like a shared whiteboard currently available) but virtually getting up and virtually walking over to another person to see them and help them does not appear to be a problem that needs to be solved! In all reality, this moving around is just a waste of time. Travelling and motion is always a waste of time, which is why the ability to video conference is sometimes (always?) preferred to flying across the world to have a 15 minute meeting.
Why Pi Day Doesn't Work in the UK but Does in the US
You only hear about that bad ones, there's plenty of good ones.
If you rent out property for residential use anywhere in the US, you do lose control of what you can do with it, outside the bounds of your leasing agreement and local law regarding the topic.

Most jurisdictions recognize the need for a person to have a safe, personal, private space in order to have a happy and productive life. It is a recognition of this fact that causes most places to agree that a man's home is his castle, even if he is renting his home from another.
An Infinite Regress. Of Dumb
IDC Widens Global 2015 PC Shipments Outlook to 4.9% Decline
You could have a global setting which is used by all apps supporting that theme.
Note that Timeless Decision Theory is alluded to in HPMOR, for on-topic relevance of R-k-'s B-s-l-sk (chapter 14). http://su3su2u1.tumblr.com/post/98528318928/bartlebyshop-i-s...
Why apple did this, why single port?
Is it really future of laptops. I am scared that this big people are driving unnecessarily our choice.
Ask HN: Web IDEs with hosted VMs?
I have been using Cloud9 for quite some time but problems with disconnecting etc. are increasing in numbers very, very fast during the past month. I have no clue about what's behind that.

So I'm looking for a new web IDE.

What I need:

Preferrably Ubuntu box with not that much power
SFTP and/or SSH access to my own server
Doesn't have to be online when I'm not using it
5-15 USD / month

Codebox.io looks great but signups are disabled for some reason. Other options?
I think they should add two things:

- Add "Reader" Accounts, so people can add Books to their collection etc.

- Add "Download All Formats" Link for public Books. Many People have different Devices and it might be handy to download all Formats at once.
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This would be a disaster for those living in repressive/dictatorial regimes.
Essentially handing them the keys to your e-mail.
There are MathJAX and KaTeX plugins:

http://plugins.gitbook.com/
Shouldn't programs simply support a @args.txt argument which references a file containing more arguments to the program? Most build tools I've seen do that and it makes command-line length limits mostly a moot point.
Pretty cool, but I feel unsure what output something will produce. Look:

a = $(ls)
a # '1\n2\n3\n4\n'
b = `ls`
b # [] <-- What?!

Because of these little surprises I cannot really feel confident using it.
> We were all born without any knowledge whatsoever of how the world works

Is that really true? A google for "babies are hardwired to" brings up a enormous number of results.
Assuming one has a smartphone, they don't even need the password to login. They already have access to your mailbox.

If one doesn't have a smartphone, then they need to first find out your email then try to login. By the time that is figured out you might have disabled it by logging to your account from somewhere else.
* For most things: All Financial times podcasts. Especially 'World Weekly with Gideon Rachman'.

* Foreign Affairs. Only updated every few weeks, but mostly interesting.

* New Yorker Comment podcast.

* If you are (like me) trying to learn German: 'Bayern 2 - radioWissen', 'DW Wirtschaft'.
Yes, there is a lot more going on:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/

Rent control isn't the answer, though. More housing is.
I contribute occasionally to Trip Advisor but realize that I don't know who owns my reviews: them or me?

Could I export my reviews from there and put them elsewhere if I wanted to?
I agree. Handmade is such a silly buzzword. As it turns out, Chinese sweatshops make a whole lot of handmade stuff! c: There's nothing inherently wrong with machine-made stuff.
I found this article frustrating for its avoidance of assigning blame or fault to any of the decisions described.

For example: It seems pretty clear that a bunch of work was done on a research product for GigaOm, but their thinking around it was very off target. $79/year is less than a Netflix account costs. Yet, the author doesn't come out and say "and this proved to be a big mistake."

GigaOm sounds like a scenario where people were "playing startup" for several years and eventually reality set in. They appear to have never been profitable, yet they acquired a company, took out a disastrous loan and raised more and more money. From what I'm reading in articles like this, the people running GigaOm sound like they made a lot of dumb decisions, yes, but it also sounds like GigaOm was never really a real business at any point.
> The issue is that some people seem to believe that once they are on someone's property, that person loses the future ability to determine how that property is used...

Here's the thing, though. It's not as if existing rent control regulation catches landlords by surprise. If a prospective landlord is so unprepared as to be unaware of the rent control status of a property that he's planning on purchasing, then he's likely to do very poorly with pretty much all of the tasks that being a landlord requires of him.

In short, the fact that landlords rent out rent-controlled units is proof positive that they understand and accept the restraints imposed on them by rent control regulations. The fact that rent controlled apartments continue to be rented in SF (rather than withdrawn from the market for five years and converted into condos, as the law allows) is proof that rent control is not draining the lifeblood out of landlords.

The insane rents in SF are not due to rent control (how could they be?), but due to the pathological lack of new residential construction.
This is pretty interesting. For the book I'm co-authoring at the moment[0] I ended up putting together my own toolchain, including:

1. A dead-simple web IDE for asciidoc with live preview[1]

2. A script for checking for common AsciiDoc mistakes (e.g. an unterminated table will mess up all text following it).

3. A script which enforces the house style.

4. A makefile which runs docker (of course) to build the book with Manning styling.

5. A buildbot configuration on my server to run 2, 3 and 4 above on `git push` and move the generated pdf and docx into a directory served by nginx.

Though it may seem like a lot, this investment has been totally worth it - the ability to push a change and be viewing the updated pdf in ~1 minute is very liberating. I can't imagine what it'd be like to not have this kind of thing in place. I can share some more of the above if there's interest.

If you're ever thinking of writing a book yourself, I'd highly recommend making the investment into a process like the above (or a tool like GitBook, though I've never tried it and it seems to be more than just a build tool) so you can get the boring stuff out of the way and focus on what you want to be doing - writing.

[0] http://docker-in-practice.github.io/
[1] https://github.com/aidanhs/AsciiDocIde
Reddit is now ranked by traffic in the top 25 in the world and top 10 in US
A lot of philosophy also deals with this idea, but it's not like anyone takes the humanities seriously in the age of data.

At some points it certainly seems like we need to measure the pain in our foot and fit it to a curve, to know we've shot ourselves in it.
IDC Lowers PC Outlook for 2015, While the Long-Term Outlook Improves Slightly
Begs the question: "Is there a 'right' way to think about programming problems?"

My knee-jerk reaction would be "No! Everyone learns and thinks differently"-- but being able to put programming styles into buckets and correlate final grades from it suggests otherwise, doesn't it?
It's those exceptions that you glossed over in your initial comment that cause your assertion to be incorrect.

Landlords have a variety of legal options to terminate a rent-controlled lease. Those options are almost always less palatable than continuing the lease. This is by design, and -in areas with obscene housing supply issues- good for society. Housing security is far more important for societal well-being than the fullness of a landlord's wallet.
Very nice. I'll have to look at this in greater depth.
Tumblr blocks requests from Cloudflare

Edit: Sorry should source my claim.

Primary source: It reverted back to my .tumblr.com domain when I tried it

Also https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168566-H...
Huh? The idea was without rent stabilization or leveling, rent would magically be more stable then if mechanisms were in place.

We don't need to argue about this. Rent control has been removed from many communities, and the rent becomes much more volatile without the stabilization control.

There's lots of actual case study literature on this.

These things aren't mere untested hypothesis where our personal politics come in to play - they are well studied.
Off Topic: When I was in Sapporo, I spent a lot of time in Internet Cafes. I LOVED them. Huge up-to-date library, fast internet connection, free lunch, shower, sofa... This place was in the center of the city. Hotels in the same area would have costed 3/4 times that.

The only downside is the smoke. Too many people were smoking and polluting the cafe. As a minor, I could not go to the non-smoking area.
Hmm, a very good point and counterargument. I've come across this once or twice before but I realize I know frustratingly little about the student protests there in '69. Thanks @gen!

(Been to your blog before for motorcycle reasons. Big fan!)
It's amazing how the importance and prevalence of Trip Advisor are non-obvious to many hotel managers.

Responding to TP comments usually isn't very high on their priority list, and even lower is actually addressing the problems underlined in those comments.

And then they complain that bookings are going down, and come up with imaginary reasons.

Does Trip Advisor sell "trends" to hotels ("here are where your bookings are going" / "see how your competitors are doing", etc.)? If it doesn't it should -- that would be a big help.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/pages/terms.html says "All contents of this Website are: ©2015 TripAdvisor LLC. All rights reserved." but I can't immediately find where users grant this.
Is there a runnable, fully homomorphic encryption program that allows running turing complete languages?
You say they were entrepreneurs, not academics.

Also, THEY WERE RIGHT!!. 5 years ago you'd have failed miserably in the market with this.

The OLED screens alone had required billions of dollars in investment. Same with the inertial sensors, or small digital cameras and SSDs. All this tech has improved thanks to the smartphone boom in the last 5 years.

Obviously some day we will have flying cars, when we dominate all the anti gravity and the rest of the anti particles, and antimatter.

But if you try to make a business out of flying cars today, you will most likely fail because you got too early.
This is amazing. Any chance on Firefox/Open source?
Holy shit.

>If I wanted to rent my apartment out I wouldn't go searching for laws...

This is a dangerous level of ignorance.

When you rent a space that you own to another for residential use, you forfeit the vast majority of your privileges as a property owner. Pretty much every jurisdiction recognizes that a person requires a secure space to come home to in order to have a chance at a decent life.

If you're thinking about renting out your property, you're setting yourself up to be royally fucked if you don't familiarize yourself with the relevant laws.
Do you imply that someone should be able to be a millionaire, or even 'rich', solely by collecting rent on real property? Real property that is apparently not even properly maintained?

Talk about market inefficiencies.
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