skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you make enough predictions, some will come true. Many psychics do this annually, and then at the end of the year gloat about their hits but don't mention the misses.
No. Bitcoin will survive because it invented a system you can trust without having to trust anyone else using the system. This literally had not been done before. All your arguments are irrelevant because they are missing this central point.
People often talk down on sex, I've noticed. Why is that so? Is it because people can use sex as an excuse to procrastinate?
Looks very promising. Like at the "stops me from building something I was about to build" level of promising. However, to get all the way there I need to know more about your team and generally anything else you can do that would build trust that you won't disappear, won't steal my data or access my servers, and won't get hacked - roughly in that order.

Unfortunately, chances are good that we will need to go with more established services for now, but we'll definitely be keeping an eye on you guys to see how things progress.
I read that, on average, it would take 700,000 years for a child sitting on a bench in the park (unaccompanied) to get kidnapped.
Do you think this argument is going to convince someone who enjoys shooting with film? I'm sure it won't, and that's interesting. The question comes up all over in art making, and it's never resolved through these kinds of arguments.

I don't think most people who enjoy shooting on film put it forward as better than digital. That's why you don't hear "a single argument in favour." It's not a question of better or worse.

As for your argument, "digital cameras can do everything film cameras do" is first of all wrong, and second of all irrelevant even if true.

Why wrong? Well, consider chemical crossprocessing, or the effects of expired film, or just the different tones of different types of stock. You might either be uninterested in such things, or think that these effects can be easily reproduced with postprocessing, but even in the latter case it's different, different skills are required, different tools, different mindsets.

Why irrelevant? Because at least some of the perceived value of film comes from the limitations themselves. That's something you can never get at through making the digital tools more advanced—in fact, it just gets worse. For someone who shoots on B&W film, the lack of color can be a feature. Even the small capacity of a film roll can be a boon; for example, it might give me a mindset of scarcity and significance.

There's a restaurant in Stockholm that only uses wood fire. I won't knock it until I've tasted it. And the presence of fire is something in itself, aside from culinary blind tests.
I see myself as a a producer and at the same time there's not anything I've produced that I'm very proud of. But at the same time I feel in my future is still my time to shine, so I keep working on improving myself.

With the above in mind, I guess I'm currently most proud of my decision last year to become freelancer. I feel as a freelancer it will be easier for me to reach my goals in producing some great software in the future.
- Work on becoming self-suficient. Don't rely on a job.

- Jobs are just a means to an end. Not the main part of your life.

- Stress is never worth the moments of happiness it creates. Hard work is.

- Put yourself through hell. You will find out who you are and what you want.

- Don't trust the media or mainstream thinking. They're in it for the money.

- Most people are emotional. If you use logic and reason, you will fail miserably.
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Datahand are also an alternative to traditional keyboards: http://octopup.org/computer/datahand
The only thing that matters- does it have cmd+d?
I had a similar experience in 2009. I'll never forget that one guy who took a chance on me.
> the few humans who optimize important bits of code to the maximum extent disagree

That sounds like selection bias. The only people who would spend time hand writing assembly are those who don't like compilers.
Langevin was ;)
> There is literally nothing that film cameras can do that digital camera's can't do, and in most cases do better.

Like the other posters, I disagree that this is relevant. However, there are no practically affordable large format digital cameras, and the depth of field effects and resolution that you can get from a 4x5 or 8x10 view camera still can't be obtained digitally. (At 2000dpi, 4x5 is 96MP and 8x10 is 320MP. You can get that resolution from a decent consumer flatbed.)
Yes, it did put people and property at risk -- and also forced their hand. It cost them an enormous amount of money to fix the bug, and if I had not gone public with it and put substantial pressure on them, it's very likely that we would be in a courtroom right now, as they attempt to keep it secret.

The bug existed for nearly 20 years, affecting over 4 million hotel rooms. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they knew about this vulnerability at least 10 years prior to my disclosure, having seen proof of that (in the form of a diagnostics device for dumping the memory of the locks, produced by TESA, the precursor to Onity). I've never seen proof that it was known before then, but given the nature of the bug, I'd be amazed if this wasn't known when the protocol was designed.

In short, this was the only way that I knew to guarantee that people would be made aware of this bug. Three years later, I couldn't be more confident that I made the right decision.
FRENCH SENATOR (via translator):
"Mr. Page, on page 1123 of Exhibit D we see that a signal component called NewInvSqPR is retrieved from a service of similar name. However, cross-referencing with Exhibit P, we see on page 8987 what appears to be a description of this service. This description leads with the text 'DEPRECATED DO NOT USE TO BE REPLACED BY Q2 2010'. Can you account for the current status of this service, and the provenance of any data it relies upon?

Furthermore, after the NewInvSqPR is retrieved, if that indeed ever does take place, the resulting data is placed into a field in a ranking output message, but it is unclear from where that field is read. On page 6766 of Exhibit E, the field appears to be cleared, but the surrounding functionality looks like it is disabled by a flag. Can you explain to this chamber the meaning of this information, specifically with regards to ranking of Google properties relative to competing vertical search websites?"

LARRY PAGE: "..."
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https://medium.com/@cba/film-photography-for-rationalists-64...

I wrote this to address exactly this intuition about film.

But tl;dr, the experience of shooting film and digital have huge differences and the photos you get at the end are influenced by the process of taking them. They are not just pixels that exist in a vacuum.
And, Kurosawa himself borrowed heavily from old American westerns. His famous samurai standoffs a were basically gunfights-at-dawn but with swords.

In turn, Kurosawa influenced many later westerns to the point that some of his samurai movies were remade as cowboy movies.
As long as people who trust the system also trust untrustworthy others using the system, that perk is not going to be particularly relevant.
Figure out who you are and why you do what you do, then when you know who you are, stop trying to be anything else.
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The German original (linked there) says "durch einen lustigen Witz", which I would have understood as 'by means of a funny joke'.

It's a pretty amusing way for Einstein to describe his derivation, anyway.
That attitude might work for a social network for cats, but it's not going to fly if you're asking users to trust you with their production servers.
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I did a radical switch to an Alphagrip keyboard, which is still membrane switches (as far as I can tell). No more random twinges of pain. The primary difference is that I no longer wrest my wrists on anything (even a gel type pad), but it could also be that I don't use as much force to activate the keys when my fingers are already there.
This was what I worked out, without much effort. A perpetual license for prints, but I couldn't sell the works.
I think you'll find this interesting then :
http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/triumph-of-the-cyborg...

Basically , a professor created an AI composer and he claims all great works are made by subconsciously splicing together bits of other works and a machine that does this can be truly creative.

Here it's imitating Mozart :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vctssFH-M5c

It's quite lacking in overall structure but there's definitely something interesting going on here.
I beat it. http://imgur.com/9D6144h
The problem with the "win friends and influence people" method is that some people just listen to the positive parts and go right on their way never improving.

We aren't selling cars nor running for office where "win friends" is particularly useful.
I'm also not saying we should be deliberately nasty or personally demeaning. But we shouldn't let shit pass just to be nice either. There is far too much of that nonsense in the world, and the net effect of it is a theft from everyone.

We should try to be our best. We should ask others to be their best. We should always be positive and helpful and teach others what we can. But we should also be direct when something is wrong and we know better. This in the best interest of the person, the project and the organization. The ability to give and to accept honest criticism with the goal of improvement is unfortunately strikingly rare.

When we don't know better we should keep our mouths shut rather than bluffing and blustering our way along. If I had 10 bucks for every loudmouth know-nothing trying to impress everyone or score political points I have met in life I'd be rich. The tech scene is particularly full of these kind of blowhards in my experience. Some people have a hard time telling the difference between positive honest criticism and ego driving showing off. And some people just plain don't know what they are talking about but talk anyway. This kind particularly needs to be called out in the most direct manner possible for the best interest of everyone involved.
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Google doesn't want competition

That is a statement that reveals more about your own biases than it does about Google. There is no evidence indicating Google doesn't want competition.

If french businesses can and will produce competitive search products then they wouldn't need the market leader to leave the market to give them the opportunity. There is 0 barrier to entry here. Anyone can spider the same pages Google does. Anyone can develop ML algorithms to rank them. The only thing keeping Google at the top of search is how good they are at it.

Google is global leaving France wouldn't hurt them.
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That's true so I assume that the author is talking about ajax requests. I have a rule to always disable buttons that trigger ajax requests until they finish. Not only does this reduce double-submissions, it makes it clear to the user that their click was successful and to wait for the action to complete.
I searched "dune star wars plot similarities" and got back plenty of hits, and the articles look pretty long-winded at a glance. You can probably find something convincing in those results.
So you give that info to a 3rd party and thats it?
In short, "you be you." There is room for what you like, never mind the popular opinion.
Is there someone who sells assembled open hardware ergodox or variant keyboards already? You can DIY but my time is limited. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ5qWBOG8Oo
Completely agree. I shoot B&W film as well, and I enjoy the whole process: from the manipulation of my old Voigtländer, to the smell of the chemicals, the image appearing on the paper, and the prints I end up with. Which is not to say I don't like taking pictures with my phone, or a good digital camera. It's just another kind of pursuit. I also find that the end result of taking photos with film tends to be a physical object, the print, while my digital photos tend to end up as images in my computer.
> If his statement about what he thinks the advantages are is accurate , and what we do, i'm 100% positive that GCC + FDO either already does, or could be tuned without a ton of work, to beat Mike Pall for this kind of loop.

I love the gauntlet-throwing fire in this statement, and I only wish that it was practical to arrange for a showdown on this to actually happen. Especially since it would do nothing but improve the state of the art on both sides, and be a great case study in the capabilities and limitations of compilers.

Unfortunately I think it is impractical to actually have an apples-to-apples showdown because of the fact that the two interpreters use different byte-code. Writing a pure-C interpreter for LuaJIT would be non-trivial.
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The problem with your examples is one of supply. It is not a guarantee that any company will be around to make the film in the future.
War: the engine of invention.
Excellent reading. I smiled at this “Unlike the dSLR, this camera isn’t a black box”.
The footnote to the German original says that the derivation is described in more detail in this letter to Lorentz:

http://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol5-trans/249

(It's the section beginning "I have little that is new to report in physics".)
There is a lot of crap out there but on the other hand many consider it to be a new Golden Age of Television. Granted I think the sans-advertisements HBO has as much to do with this as its ad-driven counterparts.

Breaking Bad and Mad Men? I think those are examples of great commercial television.

I think one could easily go without though and probably live a richer life if you choose a more productive alternate activity in its place. But sometimes you just want to zone out on some pop drama for an hour.
Pizza doesn't go in a pot.
linux tool that i wrote without adequate knowledge of file-system and internet connection. Later Receiving FOSS awards and featuring in Linux magazine(Jun-2008 edition) http://www.giis.co.in/LFY.png
No, its not. It's a matter of perspective.
Why does any business want competition? I wasn't criticising Google on this particular point; it's an obvious and well-known fact of capitalism.

> The only thing keeping Google at the top of search is how good they are at it.

As far as I'm aware, other search engines are usually competitive in blind tests for quality. Other things keeping Google at the top include: their incumbency; anti-competitive practices such as browser bundling.
I know that authors don't write the headlines, but the New York Times article they linked to (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/business/ben-bernanke-w...) is at least accurate: Bernanke will be an adviser.

I clicked this link bait assuming he was leaving the Brookings Institution.
This looks very interesting.. what is the backstory behind it? also you mentioned you are non-technical, so how did you go about building it and what is the tech stack you choose?
You are comparing vinyl to film but in the way you are doing it you are implicitly comparing the experience of the consumer of the audio with the producer of the image.

It is interesting though, that the "analog vs. digital" takes place both in photography and music in both the production and consumption stages. You can record analog or digital and listen to analog or digital sources of the recording. Likewise with photography, you can use a digital or film camera and then you can view the image on a print from a darkroom or on your computer monitor.

It seemed as though you were using the term "hipster" to imply vinyl was more about style and trend. If that is the case, I wouldn't characterize the sonic differences between analog and digital recordings as simply "hipster" differences. There is a quantifiable difference between an analog and digital wave. Not saying one is better than the other but they are different.

Your argument that the differences with film vs. digital seemed to boil down to the economics of the two mediums not any aesthetic difference. That is interesting because off the top of my head I don't think there is any scenario in music recording where it becomes cheaper to go analog. I believe, in general, analog recording is more expensive.
The technology is brilliant, perhaps I should have used "Napster" as an analogy which was eventually replaced with iTunes, Spotify and others.

I do not believe the digital currency known as Bitcoin will survive unless governments and government regulation is installed. I do believe digital currency is the future.
Not only these features are already in Sublime. They were there long before Atom was released. They also work much better than in Atom. For example, the fuzzy file finder feels slow with a 50K files repo. Go to symbol doesn't work with many languages, e.g. Perl.

Also, I miss a few things in Atom: Macro recording. Go to Symbol in Project.
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Yeah, we're definitely old. I was working my first developer gig at a company that had a commercial TCP/IP stack for Win 3.1+. Trumpet came up all the time especially from customers that were trying to get a better deal.

Sort of a tangent but I still remember building a SOCKS client on top of Winsock using undocumented Windows APIs. It was great that you could simply ask Windows to alias your code segment register to look like a data segment register and then replace the first 5 bytes of function calls to jump where you wanted it to go. And DLLs were in the global space back then. So it changed it for every app using that DLL. Those were fun days.
This "game controller"?

http://www.amazon.com/iGrip-Ergonomic-Keyboard-by-AlphaGrip/...

How effective are you with it? Looks like a bit of a learning curve.
Meditate 2 hours a day. Be patient and you'll see a dramatic difference.
Other than startup time (a couple seconds), I don't notice any slowness at all. Never is there a point where I think "wish I was using Sublime, because this is slow."
Sounds like Albert wanted to bone Marie :P
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That's really awesome!

Although the nitpicker in me has to point out that the film is heavily edited to fit the dialogue (there's a shot at about 3'25" where you can see them bombing a paper cross pinned to the cliff which is taken from earlier in the film when 633 squadron are training in the Scottish highlands).

I remember reading somewhere that many of the dog fights in Star Wars were copied from the film The Battle Of Britain, but then that, 633 Squadron and many other classic British war movies were made by people who actually fought in the war. If you want a film to look realistic, and you weren't there yourself, copying from films made by those who were is probably the next best thing.
'That thing you're doing, you're much better at it than you realise'

To which I hope my younger self would retort

'That thing you're doing, you're not half as good at it as you think you are'
I think it is because a lot of people waste a lot of time thinking and fantasizing instead of living. And a lot of that thinking, especially recurring thoughts, is sexual in nature.
Why worry now? We'll deal with that when we get there.
If you think that is pathetic, you should see how much time photographers spend arguing about who is a real photographer because of the size of the digital sensor.

It all boils down to about one or two stops, but by how people argue about it you'd think one was shooting with a Fisher Price Barbie camera and the other a Large format Hasselblad.

Honestly photography is all about: Skill (practice), luck, and branding in that order. You can improve your "luck" by being at interesting locations or events for your style, but ultimately sometimes you get the shot and sometimes you don't.
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The Matias Ergo Pro uses a standard TRRS connector between its two halves. You can buy essentially any length on <insert your favorite commodity cable dealer here>.
I shoot film, mostly black and white, on a regular basis[1]. I got into it a year ago January after shooting digitally[2] for the last several years before that. There is a lot to be said for working in the medium and printing optically in a wet darkroom. It's made me a much more patient, slower photographer. It's made me think more about my composition. And, it's also given me a much better sense of camaraderie than I get with a digital camera (I work in a public darkroom, and I've become good friends with a number of other regulars).

If this sounds interesting to you, I highly recommend picking up a film camera and giving it a shot. I put together a blog post a few months back describing a full film kit you can put together for under $200, complete with film developing: http://www.ishootfilm.org/blog/2014/10/18/10-the-best-film-c...

And, if you are interested in learning more about developing your own film and making your own prints, I have a list of darkrooms (and photo labs) here: http://www.ishootfilm.org/businesses

[1] Like, 'every day' regular.

[2] I still do. I took a couple hundred photos at a friend's birthday party last night with my digital Fuji X100S.
Making and keeping friends requires effort.
Hi, I am you from decades in the future. I have experienced some crazy stuff, highs and lows, and I would like give you the benefit of my wisdom.

I'd like to but I still don't know shit. Just keep doing what you are doing I guess. Maybe eat a little less. I am still struggling to lose all that weight you put on me.
Massdrop.com often has a pre-built option for their ergodox sales. (You do pay a premium for that service, though)
Any plans to have direct integration with cloud providers (AWS, DO, etc.) so that the command doesn't need to be run by hand and we can instead just spin up servers directly?
That depends on how you define fair, I guess. If this isn't a hardcoded bonus for "google.com" and instead all established, high-PageRank sites receive the same benefit, is it still not fair?

There's a not well-known component of Google ranking that acts sort of like a slow-moving, domain-wide PageRank. And because they launched domains.google.com as a subdomain of google.com, which contains PageRank 10 pages and is therefore very trusted, the assumption is that domains.google.com is also very trusted, even though it currently seems to have no inbound links from other google.com pages.

This effect is usually hidden because it's rare to have a highly ranked page with no obvious inbound links competing on an established keyword.
Depends what you're making. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html can apply - what I'm working on right now with Spark I dread to think how you'd do reliably in any other language.

> $500 a day to pay for a scala engineer. Not a word about the bottom line.

Maybe - I don't make that much and I have 5 years' Scala experience. (I have a relaxed environment and great culture though, so I'm not complaining). What I really don't get is Java companies where developers are chomping at the bit to use Scala and management says no - your devs are volunteering to become devs that companies would pay 2x for, the least you can do is let them.
>Bitcoin is unregulated.

So are cash transactions.

>practically impossible to tax

So are cash transactions.

>unappreciated by most governments

So are cash transactions [0].

>it's not going to survive if it does not make compromises and become regulated, traceable, and taxable.

Bitcoin is a protocol, that can not "make compromises". Can Http make compromises?

[0] http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.ca/2015/03/cash-dinos...
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