skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have all the resources you need to live out the rest of your life, then you wouldn't. Most of us aren't so lucky.
Why do we need overhead power lines again? Distribute the generation of electricity (solar, fuel cell, wind) and connect it all via underground wiring.
> The idea goes back all the way to Adam Smith.

Adam Smith argued that landlords (those living off land rents) had interests aligned with the common good, as did wage laborers, but that capitalists in general had interests divergent from and often opposed to the common good of society. (See, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter 11.)
Sigh. We build machines to automate the repetitive, to eliminate the daily drudgery and to repeat steps with perfection (that we would repeat with perfection ourselves if only we were as focused as a machone). So why do we keep finding ourselves arguing that a lazy compiler, which offloads the work of a machine on to a dev team, is an acceptable compromise?
>But this is obviously not true, there is nothing that justifies the assumption that maximizing your gains will simultaneously maximize gains for society.

That's not clear to me at all. If society gets wealthier as people pursue their own interests there's more money to devote to things like cancer research.
That's the biggest problem I have with flight search as well- redirection.
Ah, sweet memories:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yL-u7lsMxk
If you look at the reactionless drive I linked to, and if it works and can be scaled up, and in the future we can have mini nuclear or fusion power plants, all of which I see is possible, then the only problem remaining is collision on the way to the star and whether astronauts can peacefully stay on a small spacecraft for several years, knowing they are travelling in a one way time machine and people on earth will die quickly as they travel above c (technically their destination becomes closer, rather than them actually travelling this fast) from their frame of reference. I think it is not unreasonable to expect all of these problems resolved within 500 years, making space travel between stars a possibility for humanity.
The funny thing about your post is that the law profession is one of the hardest hit by automation over the past few years... not exactly a safe haven for people fleeing other fields.

Automation isn't just about factories full of robots, it is about software allowing 1 professional to do the job that 10-20 people used to do.

A field doesn't have to be fully automated before automation destroys the economic viability of the field for possible newcomers to it.
That is an awesome idea. I just signed up and ready to use it to host my outdoor party.
So much cheaper to rent audio gears and party supplies than buying or renting from an event planning company.
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This will not cure any "low income folks" woes. Simply averaging the paychecks will not help the fact unexpected issues arise... or the fact that they don't earn enough to live a simple life.

This service at $3 is silly.
I don't think we need autonomous machines flying around polluting (noise and chemical) spaces.
Rust's concurrency primitives are as powerful as its semantic concepts are expressive - both stunningly so for a language that compiles to this level.

Yesterday I wrote a macro to build simple actors[1], without a care for robustness (this was just a rough draft and I didn't expect it to even work so quickly - amazingly it did!). Now I'm looking at how to fill it out and make it generally useful and get this: I didn't even try to handle failure yet, but it already responsibly joins the thread and deallocates its resources as soon as the actor can no longer receive messages. Automatically! As a natural consequence of Rust's memory model and type system. Despite the fact that Rust knows nothing about concurrency at the language level.

[1] https://github.com/withoutboats/Chekhov
Concerning std::allocator_traits, it reflects a deeper limitation of the language rather than just a library design flaw. If you had HKT, you could pass std::allocator to a template. You can't do that, you can only pass std::allocator<T> for some concrete T. Equivalently, in Haskell, you can pass IO as a type parameter, so you don't see the same kludges.

I definitely agree with the sentiment about subtype polymorphism.
Why do billionaires need profits? Probably different reasons for each person. For some, it's just a way of keeping score.
It's more than just possible, it's likely. They have recently had long flame wars because old timers don't want to, and think they shouldn't have to, learn about the git's "index" and think git should be changed to push on commit like cvs. Give them time.
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I didn't understand the concept. Who would use this? What are you solving?
I don't think you can conflate automated trading with HFT. You could certainly gain the benefits of automated training without HFT, something that would probably save a boatload of cash.
Definitely a good start for users looking to switch over from Windows
I haven't used a non-SSD in a dev machine for over 5 years. Sometimes people in the office fill their SSD C-drive and start working from D-drive. This is unacceptable and they get a bigger SSD.
Yeah, I was thinking along the same lines. This is a global problem and it needs to be addressed at global level. Assuming self driving cars (just one example) becomes a reality in at least western countries in the next decade, does any one have any plan to help those humans that are going to be replaced? I was only trying to point out that our current group of political leaders don't seem to think that far ahead. Ideas like basic income etc needs lots of planning, testing etc at smaller levels before they can be implemented at a larger scale if we want to keep social unrest to a minimum.
This is a very crucial point. Unfortunately, I cannot edit my post to point to it.
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Liked it! Would definitely try it if available at my location. What's the pricing? Revenue model?
I guess that's exactly what Google is using wifi data for.
I'm not so sure the pay is that much better after you factor in taxes and the cost of living. The difference would have to be enormous before I moved to NYC.
As someone who started with the same idea and eventually pivoted, I'd highly suggest focusing on one vertical. Concentrate on solving this problem for a narrow group (say, outdoorsy people) and move on to other equipment categories. It will also simplify the marketing and custom acquisition on your end.

It's a really interesting problem to solve and I'm still bummed to this day I spent a year on it with nothing to show. I hope you solve the puzzle. Good luck.
It's too bad the constraint wasn't what you said it was, because then you could do:

for ( int i = 0144;

or

for ( int i = 0x64;

Unfortunately, the constraint was "for ( int i = 0;". :-/
> The climate of the Cretaceous

The Cretaceous isn't when the fossil fuels were formed; that was much earlier, during the Carboniferous. Global temperatures don't actually correlate very well over geologic time scales with the amount of carbon sequestered in fossil fuels:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#Flu...
https://github.com/zafartahirov/OfficeDocs

Hope it helps
I'm not sure... I think there's quite a bit of genuine development. But at the end of the day, it appears anything you can build on ethereum you can build on bitcoin.

Beyond that they did this huge crowd funding which was quite strange, not through investments or donations (ownership or charity/support), but rather through selling ethers, which is a bit like an API selling an access token. Only the ethers sold for upwards of $15-20 million as far as I remember, while not having any real value, and not being necessary in large volumes for developers to work with. They said it wasn't an investment, yet sold it as such. Nobody got any ownership, yet people didn't give them $15 million+ out of charity or support, either. They also had this strange scheme where the price continued going up, again, as if it was an investment that was 'on sale' and if you didn't buy now, it'd only become more expensive, in the span of like a few weeks while whatever you were supposed to buy (ethers) didn't go up in value, and in fact, remained non-existent as you couldn't use them as it my next point: vaporware.

Sot the fact it's still vaporware (can change, but factually speaking its vaporware today) and the fact that nothing ethereum does can't be done on existing platforms, which unlike ethereum actually exist, work, are used by large companies and has network effects, and the focus on Vitalik being some brilliant 20 year old next Zuckerberg, it's very much reminiscent of pump & dump.

We'll have to see. They've got the money, the team, a paper, and some promises for a 2015 launch. So we should know soon enough. I've got modest hope, but I'm not terribly excited.
Nice, but a problem with this approach is that strace is not "re-entrant". That is you can't strace a program that uses strace (or more precisely, the ptrace syscall).
I think what you miss is that RMS has argued against other things on the exact kind of indirect support for non-free software argument as was directed at his recommendation to buy directly from publishers; it rests on RMS's use of that criticism rather than the assumption that the criticism is valid.
> Thanks for all the suggestions. We are two techies and one more of a marketing person. How did you guess? :)

because I would likely do the same thing and hope HN/Reddit/some-other-once-of-promo tool would make my cool/interesting webapp get a little successful.

Truth be told, the marketing and labour-intensive work (like even going as far as renting things on behalf of friends/family) is shittier and harder than all the tech work.

Another truth be told, I just want to randomly see you succeed. Somebody deserves a lucky break and maybe this weekend it is rentever!
Damaging economic sanctions in trade for the right to support Crimea (which has no land route to Russia) during a time of general budgetary problems caused by low oil prices?

It looks to me like an expensive reactionary measure provoked by the US' idiotic interference in Ukrainian politics...

What am I missing? Is there some reason Russia desperately wanted Crimea, or turmoil and devastation in Ukraine?
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any1 received interview rejection or invite emails for this 10th April 2015 batch ?
I thought that algorithms couldn't be patented?
Sounds like you want a Rust port of Shen[1]. AFAIK there are no real[2] efforts to do that... yet.

[1] http://shenlanguage.org

[2] https://github.com/michaelsbradleyjr/shen.rs
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Here's an example of someone from Linked-In describing a "low latency" setup with a 6GiB heap.

https://engineering.linkedin.com/garbage-collection/garbage-...

I've heard similar things from folks at Twitter, IIRC. But I do find the whole thing kind of mysterious, I have to admit. I'd love to learn that I was wrong.
Is your name John Nash?
Amazon's been ripping on the FAA since the beginning, about how the FAA needs to do XYZ+5001 things. And yet Amazon has hardly come up with a plan of its own to answer some basic questions such as yours.

FAR 91.119 in part says:
"no person may operate an aircraft below...an altitude allowing, if a power unit fails, an emergency landing without undue hazard to persons or property on the surface."

There are numerous regulations that should apply to drones, just as there are ones that shouldn't, and ones yet to be written unique to drones. But has Amazon provided any input on the existing regulatory paradigm? I haven't heard anything but whining.

I don't see how, or why, an autonomous aircraft should be exempt from the regulation cited above. It's the same thing we expect of other aircraft. We're talking about ~50lb (plus or minus, what, 40lb?), at up to 400' above the ground, at up to 100mph. As a pilot of both single and multi-engine airplanes, I'm very appropriately expected to be at an altitude and location that in the event of a power plant failure I can prevent on-ground injuries. We can't just let companies throw up their hands and say "yeah, it's a problem we're working on, but we must not have deliveries impeded in the meantime!"
I agree with your last sentence, but not your third last. Society could easily afford to invest far more in research than it does, and the investment would be repaid many times over; unfortunately it has not chosen to do so. I don't believe this is a fundamental choice. People really do want things like clean energy and cures for cancer. It's just that the issue of adequately funding such has slipped down the cracks of politics.

If your comparative advantage is in politics, I would recommend that as the single most important potentially solvable problem of our time.

If your comparative advantage is in STEM, mind you, I think it's perfectly sensible to stay out of the rat race for the handful of physics professor jobs and become a programmer or petroleum engineer instead.
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Basically, this gem generates RSpec tests for your model. I had an idea for this gem, and put together a beta version of it during the last week. The coverage is not extensive, but I think this is a good starting point.

Please let me know what you think.
What's going on here is a bit of shorthand. If you don't use the shorthand, the signature looks like:

fn access<'a, T: Send>(guard: &'a mut MutexGuard<T>) -> &'a mut T;

This says that the incoming borrow and the returned borrows have identical scopes (officially called "lifetimes" in Rust; 'a here is a lifetime variable.) It's a very typical pattern: if you return some borrowed data, it generally comes from a borrow you were given, and the shorthand allows you to leave this implicit in cases where it's clear.

EDIT FOR CLARITY: in particular, you're saying that if you take a "sublease" from something you've already borrowed, that sublease is valid for no longer than the original lease. So for example if you borrow a field out of a borrowed structure, the access to the field can last no longer than you had access to the original structure. In this case, we're saying that access to the data lasts no longer than the lock is held.

I'd recommend http://blog.skylight.io/rust-means-never-having-to-close-a-s... if you want to get a bit more of a feel for how this works.

The details about the shorthand are here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/141
It depends on the loan size. If the loan is $1000 then that's 1.2% interest per month. They can make money with that, and maybe their average loan size is smaller than that in which case the effective APR is even higher.
Yeah... we need decentralization, but I can't tell Ethereum apart from any of the other many proponents who have claimed to have invented that system and technology. If we were to apply a tech adaptation of Aaronson's red flags for outrageous math claims to Ethereum (http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=458) I'm convinced we'd walk away immediately.
"The consensus is, however, that there are at least 25 million current displaced people from climate events."

Human caused climate events? Source?

Let's get out of the weeds back and back up to the original point. Well funded models have failed in their predictions. Many.

"there are thousands of people currently working on filling us in on that knowledge"

Great. I am in sure in time we will become much better at modeling complex systems. But I hope you understand my skepticism of this article.
I suppose my question is better framed as - why is the cost of trading so high? Presumably the stock exchange will charge per transaction, but if I have 100bn invested across 10,000 equities, at a dollar a piece, that's 10M shares. If I make transactions of just 100 stocks per time, that's a whole refresh in 100,000 transactions. Do that 12 times a year at 5 dollars per transaction and I see a mere 6 million cost to look after 100bn in invested funds.

So ... What am I missing. Exchanges all use electronic trading now, Charles Schwann would give me 5 bucks per transaction.

Why does anyone pay percentages?
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Ethereum seems like a decentralized consensus-driven trustless COMPUTER that anyone can use -- it's not just a database.

Anyone can pay to start and run a process ("contract" in ethereum-speak) that runs arbitrary (albeit sandboxed) code. Like you mentioned, processes can store data. Processes can also send and receive messages ("transactions" in ethereum-speak) with users and with other processes.
I wonder how all of my EE professors feel that I dropped out of the academia track to be a code monkey for $$$.
I'm taking it as a cheap form of certification. Pretty good for new users overall, intermediate users may learn from a chapter or two.
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The case where this is relevant is in decentralized source control. The only project I know of that set out to tackle this is dead in the water:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/612530753/gitchain/post...
I'd just be a little bit afraid of security issues no? There have been a couple of uTorrent vulnerabilities in the past.

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=6...
Ripple Labs is strong in the business development side. Stellar's new consensus system is very much different from Ripple's. I would say the Stellar's FB distribution is a major win since over 4 million people have signed up.
is your site still up? would be curious to take a look if it is.
I think this is fantastic idea. I really hope it takes off.
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Super useful! Thank you!
Nobody is to blame because there is nothing to blame anyone for.

Suppose I have a store card for a grocery store chain. If this grocery store sells my data to a health insurance company and the insurance company increases my premium based on my food purchasing habits, do you think it is fair? I am under the reasonable assumption that my purchase history is for the grocery chain only and in return for that data, I get some discounts on my purchases.

There was a case a while ago where a forum sold their users posts to a drug company. The forum members didn't expect that. Do you think it is fair?

In both examples above, the companies are most likely acting legally (After all, who reads 20 pages of legal crap before signing up for a forum) That doesn't mean it is the right thing to do.
Could I get really narrow and long? For skinny and tall people? Then other people can pay for wide and short, or whatever else they need... let's pay by cubic inches and weight, like freight!
Look, nobody disagrees with you that there's a risk of failure when people try building new things.

Are you saying you have citations that prove ShellingCoin won't work? Are you saying you have a citation from an ethereum developer that these ideas are 100% certain to work out on the first attempt?

If not, why are you complaining about people unconnected to you trying these new ideas out as an experiment? Nobody disagrees that these are new and untested ideas.
I think he should lament that people are leaving those fields, and going into a field which does absolutely nothing productive for humans and serves only to extract wealth from others.
The article is actually about creating wealth and benefitting society as a whole instead of rent-seeking, not the number of people in field X. The article points out some of the wealth-creation done by financiers and lawyers, and some of the rent-seeking behaviour.
Even expressly does not provide loans; since it uses an undisclosed algorithm to calculate "averages" that are expressly not actual averages, they can probably guarantee that they are more likely to be taking in funds that are above the "average" than paying out for below "average"; with an undisclosed algorithm, they could even guarantee that you can never receive more in "Boosts" than you've paid in previous deductions.

They also don't seem sure what their fee is -- their ToS says $5/week, other parts of the site say $3/wk.
Here's mine https://coachella-streamer.herokuapp.com/?ids=12,21,24,23,26...
Still waiting. Cross my fingers.
>_If society gets wealthier_ as people pursue their own interests there's more money to devote to things like cancer research.

The if is the crux. That money in very few countries find itself back into public good, in recent years.
everything mentioned can be done in C++11 and lthread_cpp

http://lthread-cpp.readthedocs.org
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i like the ember result... google one not so much

thanks!
A random example: you could implement online poker (which is currently banned in the US).

It'd be trustless (i.e., anyone can verify that they're not being cheated), and couldn't easily be taken down [1]

[1] https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/comment/2944/#Comment_...
> Simply averaging the paychecks

They aren't simply averaging; they expressly state that "average" is used loosely and they are using an undisclosed algorithm that is not a mathematical average.
That is why I said if you look closely you will not find such generic assertions. Another example is that Adam Smith realized how much efficiency can by gained by division of labor but he also said that this leads to inhuman labor conditions and should be avoided. But what is our reality? We pick the efficiency gain and ignore the negative effects as long as we can. If workers start complaining we do the bare minimum, rotate them through a couple of different tasks, but that is obviously far from trying to avoid division of labor as much as possible.
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From what I've seen in the past, they typically send them out in the evening.
This is a good thing. Intellectual property law is nonsense foisted on us by the MPAA and RIAA. If people are choosing to use the remixed version of your app, that's their decision, and you should respect the market's desire to use so-called "malware".

Have you considered adding "malware" to your app? Maybe that would help it be more popular.
What language would you naturally expect Jane Street to be creating a garbage collector for?
If you haven't already read them, Sam Harris' Free Will and Moral Landscape are totally worth reading.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1451683405

http://www.amazon.com/dp/143917122X
After they've built up a stockpile of money taking that Wall Street paycheck.
Well, I know of four systems that try to solve this problem: Codius, Counterparty, Ethereum, and Bithalo (in a limited sense.) I think all of the developers for each system would agree 100% that the other three have successfully solved the core problems, as well.

Nobody is making any extrordinary claims that they have some sort of magical technology that others can't duplicate (and all of them except bithalo are open source, making duplication easy.) The only question is which platform will be first to deliver an experience that will attract main stream users, in terms of stability and functionality.