skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't that we (I was a Lib Dem candidate in the election) promised it in the manifesto; it was that individual MPs made a personal promise to vote against an increase in tuition fees, and then voted for it.
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Where there's oil and gas there's Schlumberger, yet you won’t have heard of it
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And in 2 years of continuous mining it could generate $0.62 of bitcoin. Seems simpler to just ship it with the bitcoin preinstalled.
Are we products of nature or nurture? Science answers age-old question
We didn't want AV. It was the least-worst system we could talk the Tories into voting for a referendum on. We wanted STV.

We also thought that AV would probably increase the number of pro-PR MPs and therefore increase the chances of getting actual PR later.
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>Really? Because AV is what Ireland uses and called it PR-STV.

This is not correct. PR-STV requires multi-member constituencies (as they have in Ireland). AV is single-member constituencies and isn't PR.
I agree that society is becoming infantilized and this is a huge problem, but I'm going to call a complete miss on the attempt to identify the cause. For one thing, most adults are not fans of science fiction to any significant degree, which means it can't be a significant factor.
Haha.

(I really wish I had better upload speed.)
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> And as the big ASIC miners get more efficient, your device will generate even less revenue.

I think that the period where plain bitcoin was seen as a mere store of value is about to end. We are entering a more exciting period which is the "bitcoin as protocol" stage, where sub-currencies (like Colored Coins, BitShares, etc) will be more valuable than bitcoin itself. And for this, tiny amounts of btc suffice.

This is why I think that Balaji and his team are taking the right direction. The goal is trying to make the system as much autonomous and frictionless as possible.

The first key here is autonomy: IBM has already forked Ethereum for its IoT with SmartContracts (ADEPT) [0], where for instance fridges could detect when you're running low of X and place an order for you. Generating your own tokens gives you greater autonomy and makes you relatively independent of the big mining operations/pools.

The second key here is friction: the current state of UX in bitcoin-world (and crypto in general) is extremely horrible and preventing the big adoption everybody in the space is aiming for. So building and integrating a chip that generates tokens w/o the user intervention is one way of bypassing this huge UX flaw. Maybe is not the most efficient way but it's the first serious take we've seen.

Extrapolating:

Why should a user have to configure an account so your browser can generate/read http requests/responses? The same way, it makes sense being able to generate/read crypto tokens. The value of those tokens are not in the current (or future) stock valuation of bitcoin, but in the valuation of the objects that the tokens will be associated with: financial tools, real estate, legal contracts, etc

[0] https://www.theprotocol.tv/adept-demo-ibm-samsung/

PS: btw I think Ethereum and distributed PoW/PoS is a more efficient use of the blockchain tech.
Concrete is ugly, rough and it crumbles. Good stone is beautiful and very durable.
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I'm guessing you mean freelancing; why don't you give a little more detail on exactly what you can do? I suspect generalized advice will be less useful to you than specific advice.
Seems to be less about science fiction than about comic books a.k.a. graphic novels, and in that more restricted context he might have a point. Generalizing wildly, that sub-genre really is a bit more escapist than SF (including fantasy) overall. Escapism is a fine thing in moderation - all entertainment has it as one element - but it can also be overdone. SF more generally has as much interpersonal drama and social commentary as any other genre. If you want to see some truly inane movies, "romantic comedy" is the genre to look at. I guess taking pot shots at geeks was a better/safer way for a second-rate actor to get some publicity, though.
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Nothing, but it does gain another thing - text saying "I'm sorry, not available where you live." Which is kind of a dealbreaker.
Funny to see my Tumblr get voted up on HN. Here's a Wired article explaining the genesis: http://www.wired.com/2014/01/movie-fake-code/

I tried to follow its success with "Better Living Through Microcontrollers" which didn't take off for some reason :-)

http://bltuc.tumblr.com/
Does Ruby not have a virtualenv equivalent?

(I am reading through the comments trying to work out if I should learn Docker. I already know how to use a virtualenv and I already know how to use a VM.)
I'm happy for it to focus on Europe - get started on the UK quickly please. We may have lots of public transport but it's rarely a smooth journey!
Thanks for your awesome work ! I guess when the WebTorrent protocol will be implemented in libtorrent, suddenly, everything is going to change. Right now it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem but I'm really confident your project will enable a whole new class of applications which are not possible to build easily currently.
I'm a bit old school i guess i still have a wall of old CD's i probably won't ever need of programs, music, movies old outdated versions of software and backups.

CDs, DVDs and Blurays are just so cheap that i still write things to disk when I'm not certain i would need something in the future.

And i have to say it pays keeping things sometimes since the internet is ever changing and what used to be easy to find 10 years ago is almost impossible now.

I guess I'm somewhat of a collector just like the archive team.
Ugly -> taste, Rough -> you can have concrete with arbitrary levels of polish all the way up to shiny smooth if you finish it right, crumbling is a property common to all crystalline materials including all the stones found in nature, with the exception of some precious stones with incredible hardness.

That's why stones tend to be round, erosion gets the better of them over time. Concrete takes a long time to really set (depending on the thickness of the pour: up to centuries!) but can be used relatively quickly after the pouring in a load bearing construction.

And even if you don't particularly like the material, in the end it is what you can make out of it that is ugly or beautiful (Compare a bunker with say the CN Tower in Toronto or the Sydney Opera).

For the general use case of 'poured stone' concrete does quite well.
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There are 2 ways to do it:
1) Cold call on the phone or in-person. I did this for 9 month back in the day before I got my first client. It was uncomfortable for me as a young man but necessary.
2) Steal them. You probably hear this in lore of people leaving a company and then working for that company as a consultant. Not exactly. What I did was tell those clients while I was working for the man that I could do the work as "extra" work. It worked also.

I know, I know, it's not ethical but there is a saying in China "the first pan of gold is dirty".

So end-the-end both methods worked for me. My clients came, some much later that I wanted but came. It took months and some worked in 2-year cycles and and would not use me again for 2 years but they'd come back.

Good luck to you.

It gets easier after the first few. They wind up referring you to new clients. That part is great.
Nigerian here. Tecno is a very popular brand in Nigeria. Especially among the middle class.
Is that what your boss tells you whenever you ask for a raise ?

edit : that's not just a snarky comment. i always find it amusing whenever people advocate giving other's people's work away for free.
Yes, it does support WebSockets. There is an example of doing a WebSocket server using libh2o + libuv + libwslay in the repo.

I tinkered around with that a little, it seemed pretty solid.
https://github.com/qznc/dot/blob/master/config/fish/config.f...

I use something similar: tux instead of frogs and a personal fortunes file. Mine also prints the current date, hostname and uptime.
Coinado will require payment after beta period. We'll see how it goes...
As I see it, unless you can guarantee that you give zero false positives (which, knowing how certain users compose their mail, is arguably impossible) you still have to do it.

Also I suppose that the false positive/negative rate can only be given on a well defined corpus, I'm not sure there is one that is a good representation of the current and future spam trends, so in the end giving those numbers could be very misleading.
I'm seeing something similar; about 18 months ago I started walking to and from work (4 miles) and started cutting out sugary drinks.

I went from 325 lbs to 270 lbs in just over a year, but the last 6 months I've barely lost any weight, strangely enough though my body shape has still been changing for the better, as it's only in the last 3 months or so I've dropped another trouser size.
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I just tried this, came up with a not bad market value, but the jobs were totally off! As a developer I do not expect to see 5 jobs saying that I should be a lawyer!
One of the things I love about Asimov, is that no matter how much of his stuff I read, there's always something new out there.
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Sci-fi seems to mean 'anything that looks vaguely technical in a story'.

SF, especially, hard SF, has always tackled grown up questions.

Here are a few I have recently re-read:

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin,
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross,
Engines Of Light by Ken McLeod,
2001 by Arthur C. Clarke,
Robots of Dawn, etc. by Isaac Asimov.
There is an open letter signed by 65 advocacy organizations in 31 countries against Internet.org https://www.facebook.com/notes/accessnoworg/open-letter-to-m...
Will be very interesting to see how this develops. They can't be hit with DMCA takedowns since they don't actually host any content, and unlike torrent sites they don't even index it themselves, so there's literally nothing for regulators to take down. They just turn torrents into HTTP downloads.

All the same, I can't see the media companies letting something like this grow to a reasonable size. It'll be interesting to see what the attack is when it comes.
Oh no, not that price <=> scarcity theory again.... A van gogh isn't more expensive than my drawing because they're rarer or built with rarer materials. Intrinsic value is much more complicated and subtle than that... Giving money for something is also a mean to encourage people to produce more content, for example. It's also a way to say "thank you, keep going on please".

edit : or maybe that's what you meant too, in which case i'm sorry for the comment.
All achievements can't be judged by their ability to make money. /The Swedish socialist
The comment that this page reiterates concerns the garish, collectible candy that Marvel and DC have made their stock-in-trade.

Folks who prefer their science fiction from the likes of Jack Womack, Cormack McCarthy or any of the masters of science fiction need not be concerned.

Move along please, there's nothing to see here.
If you want something like that but with more rigor check out http://lesswrong.com/lw/gu1/decision_theory_faq/.
also known as deflation.
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This doesn't come off as particularly convincing. Is the argument that Fast and Furious movies are "challenging, emotional journeys" while Iron Man isn't?

What I do find a bit concerning is the avalanche of super hero movies. While I've been raised on a diet of French and US comics, and like a good braindead super hero movie (or even less braindead, like Watchmen), monocultures are not a good thing. More variety would be nice. But thinking they are more silly than generic Hollywood blockbusters is a weird complaint.
As somebody in the same predicament and locale, I often find myself wondering whether it is any less objectionable to rent a VPN connection through the States.
Surprised that they mention PostgreSQL. Surprised even more that they seem to admit PostgreSQL is more advanced now than what they are releasing next year.

However, they incorrectly mention that PostgreSQL supports BSON. It doesn't. It rather has a data type called "jsonb", which is a binary JSON serialization, but has nothing to do with BSON (which happens to be MongoDB's serialization format, and a relatively poor one, by the way).

Edit: blog post has been updated by the author to reflect that the type is now "jsonb" rather than BSON. Thank you!
This is my tentative life plan...assuming I can convince my parents that this is, in the long run, the best use of my time for the summer instead of working somewhere else. This brings into question though how big of a project are we talking? I always hear this advice tossed around, yet never with any specifics regarding time spent/users/LOC/metric of choice.
> Adults are watching this stuff, and taking it seriously!

Wait, seriously how? Who? How many of them?

> Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys.

Charlie Chaplin. Laurel and Hardy. Buster Keaton. John Wayne. Die Hard. Lethal Weapon. Airplane.

The World's End.

> Now we’re really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk just had a fight with a robot.”

Yep. I took an afternoon off to treat a few people to Age of Ultron. It was awesome. Afterward, I went back to work.

I think this article can go sit right next to the nonsense about Clint Eastwood and the empty chair: "Person states opinions about society and ends up in the news because they're an actor, more at 11."
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See the "Cookie Consent"?

Don't do that.
Is there some browser extension to filter HN based on target domains?
So we went from one hard problem (the decision itself), to another another harder problem (ranking things on a scale).
A bad case of rose tinted spectacles.
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1) Create 1 page CV, add extra pages for detailed work history.

2) Submit to jobsites knowing rates you should get.

3) Wait about 2 hours. Pick up phone.

-- Agent will identify you are 'new' and will try and offer lower rates.

-- Ensure Agent only submits CV to companies you agree.

4) Go to interviews

5) Accept job. Register company and bank account.

6) Accept agent is making money off you but pays you almost immediately.

7) Profit

If you are looking for more freelance work, then I suggest you attend various meetups and tech events and get your name out there. I would also strongly suggest you consider using elance to 'farm out' work that you could do yourself at a cheaper rate and then you can 'audit' the work. Never farm out work you could not have completed yourself. You will get let down. You will have to get your hands dirty.
I completely agree. Both genres are filled with thought-provoking commentary. The reason why adults enjoy comic books is because of this commentary told in a more appealing way.
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> I think there really is music that is clearly better, but only subjectively.

Hmm... it looks like we agree much more on this point than I thought.
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Interestingly this really is a click bait title, rather than the usual one that we misidentify identify as such as "Ten Ways a Programming Language is like a Religion."

This time.com title encourages you to click it with the bait of finding out who the billionaire is, the implication that they became self-made because of this easy trick and not stating the trick. Thus it is bait to lure a user in.

The misdiagnosed versions state exactly what the topic is about but encourages you with the promise of good content. The sting the user gets is that they notice that it is bad content, and the user reacts based on their experience.

In summary, a click bait title, like in this submission is a finely crafted memetic call. The more common observed "click bait" articles are more disappointing in content.

Click bait is about the click, not the content.
You might also find Charlie Munger's mental models useful:

http://www.thinkmentalmodels.com/
Popcorn time never pretended to be legal. It just provided great user experience to "old" torrenting.
My point on historical systems is not that they are right, but that something better has never been implemented. Probably means it isn't an easy problem, and that the solution needs to be defined properly - rather than proclaimed "there must be a better way".

I'm not trying to straw man or anything, i'm genuinely interested.

Living without making any contribution to taxes is a net drain. That's not nonsense, at all. Whether you want to enable that choice for anyone is most definitely a choice/view. The NHS, housing, police state, roads, etc all this shit costs labour and money. The fact that pensioners are the largest benefit drain and are predicted to increase significantly as a population is of note. Lazy isn't really the point. The argument isn't even about being lazy, you can be lazy as long as you aren't funding it using "other peoples" labour. That's what you'll find a decent proportion of the population are against.

So is the plan to nationalise ownership of all housing to allow free accommodation for all? Or simply to cap rents on a national/regional/other level?

Distribution of capital and inheritance is a root cause of the problem at the moment in terms of housing prices. Those who can afford the deposit and those who cannot. Not easily solved. Similarly lending practices strongly favour buy to let.

I'm torn on the withholding thing. I see both sides (and I've spent plenty of time on the dole, and been sanctioned on more than one occasion). I met all sorts of people at workshops and training sessions. I saw a fundamentally broken welfare system, I saw a lot of people paid to push paper, I saw people who thought they were exploiting it, and I saw some people who were both down on their luck and genuinely fascinating.

I'm not actually against a citizens wage (whatever it's called) - I think it'd be really interesting. I'm just not sure how viable it is long term. I'd happily vote for greens again if they had a shot at implementing it.

We doubtless have very different value systems / views though.
Or not ^_^ Have a look at ToroDB (https://github.com/torodb/torodb). It is a mongo-compatible database sitting on top of PostgreSQL. You don't need thought, just use it :)

Disclaimer: I'm a ToroDB developer
>> Just look at Spotify.

They lost over €150m last year and their losses have been growing. Content creators seem to dislike them and want an alternative. Just because you can do something and some people will pay doesn't mean it makes business sense.
I would like to mention that DC, under its Vertigo imprint, has published some terrific adult-oriented comics (including Sandman). Not all comics involve dimension-hoping shapeshifting vampires from outer space out to destroy NY (and even some "regular" comics, like Frank Miller's Daredevil, have had some good plotting, art and character development).
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I tried 3-4 sites and they all seem to be working well.
The only advice I can come with is that you should add some instructions or maybe change the text of the bookmarklet as I first thought it was a button.
not only in the UK
Lack of legal pathways to content are the only reason I watch any pirated content at all. Plenty of TV shows that I want to see are made in foreign countries and don't come to my country at all or come years late, and even when they do require me to sit behind a TV screen at a particular hour, or remember to program a recorder to write it to a hard drive, which is impossibly archaic. Ofcourse, the best shows are behind pay-walls, but even if I pay the hundreds of euros per month to get past all the paywalls of all the services, the combined offering is quite poor.

It's quite simple: give me spotify premium or give me itunes, but for video content. I want to have everything ever made, as soon as it is made (none of that "it's in the theatre so you have to wait" B.S.), either for a fixed reasonable monthly rental fee, or for a fixed reasonable purchasing price. I want that content on every device I have, on-demand, in the best possible quality. I'm ok with DRM for rental as long as it does not prevent access on the devices I own (ipad, windows tablet, laptop, apple tv, etc...). I'm not ok with DRM for purchasing, because when I buy something I want to own it forever. Give me that and I'll gladly pay for it, but the movie and TV industry simply doesn't want my money it seems. I pay for netflix, because that's basically the best I can get, but it's not even close to what I want.

The music industry eventually figured this stuff out and I don't pirate any music at all anymore. I still hold out hope that eventually the movie and TV industry will stop refusing to take my money.
Crytek produced Far Cry 1 and the next game was Crysis 1. The AI system evolved of course. On the other side you Crysis 1 also uses a lot of scripted sequences for cinematic purposes too. Far Cry 2-4 were developed by another studio based on a fork of the engine.
Hit the virtual pavement.

When I decided to take on a new consulting client I researched the local businesses and created a list of around 10 that could potentially need programming work and matched my area of programming background. I then did email contacts to arrange an in-person meeting. (face-to-face is very important)

I was lucky and found a small company (just two guys) right away that were changing their focus from print/radio/tv healthcare messaging to internet and mobile. It started out as a normal hourly rate, but I eventually negotiated to a revenue sharing model and then later I negotiated to own 13% of the company + revenue sharing. This happened over the course of about 10 years and it's still going strong. (I started with my high normal consulting rate and then later cut that in half as part of the revenue sharing agreement, then much later when I took ownership of the company I now no longer charge hourly and am paid entirely through the revenue sharing)

I've also used other people I've worked with in the past to help me in my consulting projects. So if you have friends or professional contacts that you've worked well with in the past it works to contact them. Word of mouth goes a long way in this business. And I've also met potential clients at local meet ups, but those have yet to pan out but I think if I really pushed it I could get some work out of them.

Also, if you have a tech incubator in your area try to meet up with the startups in the incubator. I've done that in two cities (one in CA, one in Europe) and it's worked well.

Also, be aware of scummy people and any decisions that you make that can affect your future career. I lived near the 'other' valley where most porn is produced and received unsolicited contacts from small porn companies. I didn't take on any of those projects which is good because later I did consulting in Defense and NSA projects and also worked for a major San Jose based tech company for a couple of years.
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It's the classic Seinfeld "muffin tops" problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6jGeIwebvk

Giving away free stuff isn't enough. People feel entitled to the best stuff for free, not just the free stuff you gave them. And if you offer the alternative of "then don't use the free stuff we're trying to give you" all you'll do is make them more angry at you.

You just can't stop people from looking a gift horse in the mouth.