skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have literally a thousand or so floppies (apple II, PC, some CPM). The vast majority weren't legitimate. A few years ago I went through and retrieved some of the ones with my own personal work on them. But the vast majority sit around waiting for the oxide to fall off.

I was actually thinking the other day it might be amusing to upload the text editor I wrote in applesoft basic to github.

I was lucky I guess, most of the ones I recovered worked, but the recovery process (IIGS, via appletalk to 68k mac, to pc via ethernet) is such a PITA, I quit after the first 5 or 6...

I figured that most of the games and apps were available in some of the abandonware collections that my pirated copies weren't really worth recovering.
It's a sufficiently malleable language where you can express ideas from radically different languages with differing philosophies (FP, OO, immutability etc)
> Even if I knew about the technology before working there, I would still technically be violating a NDA.

You might be in danger of someone arguing you are violating the NDA, and this might be sufficient liability that you don't want to take that risk, but "technically" you would not be violating almost any reasonable NDA (of course, someone could draft one that was insane) if you learned the information in question through a source that is not covered by the NDA (and this is true even if you "learned" the information a second time due to it being disclosed in some other way later).
This is a problematic situation for Luckey. It really depends on the contract he signed for TRT and what type of feedback he was getting. It appeared that he was technically under TRT contract during the time he developed the Kickstarter campaign - early 2012.

It is one thing to quit a position with a company and then create a competing product -- that happens all the time -- but it is a lot different to be contracted by a company to develop a product while at the same time clearly developing a competing product to the company you are contracting with -- getting the IP straight can be very problematic, and it does seem like a clear conflict of interest.

I would never recommend doing something like that.
There are many projects[1] and services[2] using OSM data for route planning. As your sibling comment mentions, Mapquest Open is among them.

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing#Developers

[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing/online_routers#Ro...
I appreciate you clarifying on that.
Quoted from below, on whether income is relevant as a measure

http://www.propertarianism.com/2015/05/19/income-as-a-measur...

"The question is better served by how we spend our time, what we consume, and what we worry about, than any measure of income. Income is a poor proxy for measuring inter-temporal changes in consumption, and is only a useful measure of temporal asymmetry.

What is for example, the cost of not fearing the soviet union, the change in crime in Boston and new York?

Conversely, what is the cost of increase in political friction due to immigration? What is the cost of the conflict over Obamacare? What is the cost of maintaining the post-war empire (probably neutral). What is the cost of outsourcing? What is the cost of failing to reform education?

Income is the least important of these measures. And that is precisely why it’s the topic of conversation: because it is the least important but the most emotionally loaded topic. It is an elaborate pseudoscientific distraction for purely political purposes."

Interesting. I do not necessarily endorse this but he has influenced me much.
If he took actual materials, they may have a case. Otherwise, sounds baseless. You can't own someone's career experience.
Most fantasy readers tend to dismiss Feist's work, it's good to find someone else who appreciates it.
The Trillion Fold Increase in Computing Power, Visualized
Of course. There is no ill will toward or deemphasis of Nash Equilibria. :)

Merely, it's a shame that MORE of Nash's contributions haven't been as popularly traded. This popular science emphasis at the opportunity cost of others leads to the impression that this is all Nash has contributed. That's all I was getting at. :)
On the other hand, if you pay off that debt, you're entirely removing the risk of default, which means you can take on more risk with the remaining capital, and don't have to have 6 months of debt repayments in your emergency fund.
The issue likely isn't an NDA but rather IP assignment clauses in contracts. These types of IP assignment clauses are legal and mean that inventions and developments an employee or contract develops during the course of their engagement become property of their employer.

Most companies that deal with IP need to have such clauses in their agreements otherwise they could fail due diligence.

It would be surprising if the TRT-Luckey agreement didn't have IP assignment clauses.
A company can own someones inventions that were developed during the course of a contract or employment is the agreement is done in such a way to assign them. It isn't automatic, but it is a real thing and can lead to legal trouble:

http://www.marsdd.com/mars-library/intellectual-property-pro...

EDIT: Accord to the actual complaint Luckey signed a confidentiality + exclusivity agreement regarding the TRT stuff that has a term of five years: "On August 1, 2011, Luckey executed a written 'Nondisclosure, exclusivity and payments agreement' contract with Seidl on behalf of the Partnership. Two witnesses also executed the agreement on behalf of Luckey at Luckey’s direction: Tom Allan and Jeff Bacon."
In China, even part of real cities are ghost-like. I have a friend who has family in China, and each of their relatives have one or more empty apartments there. They do this because it is one of the few investments Chinese are allowed to make, and they don't need to pay property taxes. If you consider this, ghost cities are not even the biggest problem with Chinese real estate.

I see this as a pyramid scheme. The local municipalities can get away with not charging taxes because so many new construction is going on. But a few years from now when construction has slowed down, they will need money for schools, hospitals, etc. By that time they will have to charge taxes and it will become a losing proposition to maintain empty properties.
And, bafflingly, it doesn't even give examples of all the fonts.
I think it's just that Sundays are slower.
There is'nt less incentive to work I dont know how you would conclude such a thing.

With unconditional basic income there is always an incentive to work since it will always benefit you even just for a day. You aren't going to live like a king on basic income, not even close.
> The seat belt left a perfect imprint of a bruise, down to the stitching on my chest and waste

One of the serious accidents I was in (my grandmother turned a corner very slowly and the other driver was going 130km/h, with a pregnant lady in the passengers seat) did the exact same thing to me. I also got a black eye; apparently right as the accident happened I entered the brace position so quickly I hit my eye socket on my own knee!
Comic Sans and/or XKCD-style charts[1][2] certainly are useful if you want to convey the back-of-the-envelope nature of your findings.

[1] https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/why_xkcd_style_graph...
[2] http://dan.iel.fm/xkcd/
I've definitely looked at some of the obviously failed, mid-construction casinos in Vegas that crop up from time to time with fascination
> Now I understand why there are so many mentally ill homeless folks. The state of being homeless is very depressing and can bring about mental illness in the previously undiagnosed.

I'm not sure this is actually the explanation he thinks it is. A significant portion of homeless people had mental illnesses before losing their house. In many cases, illnesses like schizophrenia or untreated mood disorders contribute to homelessness by making it harder to maintain the social connections that form a safety net for many people (for instance, if the poster had driven away all his friends with manic episodes before becoming homeless, nobody would have been around to lend him a car and go get a new contracting job).
Excellent comment. China overdid their stimulus package in 2008 because of the need to keep the jobs coming. If would have been much better for them if they had used 2008 to slow the growth rhythm to something sustainable (4 to 5%). I think they are now headed to a very difficult transition, probably Japanese-style, because of so much debt.
Okay, that's technically true, but that's a distraction. My point is that increasing minimum wage rewards businesses who already paid a living wage.

Ultimately I've seen zero evidence that raising the minimum wage has any negative effects on the economy. There are only hypotheses about how it could affect it negatively, but economies are too complicated for us to be making decisions based on hypotheses without evidence.
The intersection of Good/Needed Ideas and Ideas That Turn a Profit is slim.
Administration isn't all there is to controlling whether someone is getting the right benefits or not.
Here is my high-level hypothesis, sans numbers: most workers produce far less real value than what they are paid. At one end you have many white-collar jobs that are glorified seat fillers, padding budgets for their departments. At the other end, you have blue-collar jobs whose value is artificially inflated by a minimum wage (or, wastefully shipping work overseas, and finished products back.)

In a UBI world (also assuming socialized medicine), neither minimum wage nor de facto salary+benefits would be necessary, and labor would be free to seek its true market value, as the competition becomes over status rather than survival. My hunch is that even if all work was taxed (flat or progressive) to pay for it, the actual purchasing power of the dollar would increase to offset it due a more efficient market. (It would also be offset by the elimination of means-testing and beauracracy in existing social programs, as well as enabling a great deal more education and entrepreneurship.)

Admittedly, the idea is abstract and hand-wavy. But it's worth considering.
Lets say I want to solve a problem, but I have no idea if it is solvable in polynomial time. Is there a website or a book where I can look that up?
Reading that is pretty damning if and only if the prototype that Luckey developed for TRT was very similar to the Oculus Rift prototype. That isn't made clear in the filing.

But the general circumstances are pretty suspicious.
Heh. Haters gonna hate.

Okay, very glad to hear that there's still work being done on that end. I'll start sending solutions in then :3
The concrete China uses is pretty cheap actually, and the labor used to put it together is fairly unskilled. They have to build much thicker as a result, which leads to higher maintenance costs (which isn't done) and much quicker degradation.
I don't get it either. I have a few coworkers (in Cleveland) who have started on the Soylent thing for breakfast / lunch, and it seems insane. I personally relish the chance to take a break for lunch / coffee / etc. and spend a few minutes decompressing / socializing and find myself re-energized to continue working.

I'll be starting a new position with Google[x] in Mountain View and the meals are one of the things I really look forward to - not so much because they're free food, but because socializing at lunch can make such a big difference in terms of building community / "company culture". Some of my fondest memories of college were regular lunch gatherings at the cafeterias -- sharing a meal is such a fundamental human thing, and giving it up for some "scientific" meal replacement just seems like one more way to remove our humanity.
Maintaining savings is very important. I've regretted this mistake many times.
Peter Harmy's Star Wars (De-Specialized Edition)
" in some foreign language" is indeed irrelevant, I don't believe the "some dude yelling" (talking) is however. I've read different studies that suggest talking on the phone even while using bluetooth is severely distracting for the driver.

Andedotally, I've been in cars with taxi drivers who were on the phone when I got in and talked for the entire ride, whilst navigating a city traffic, while also looking at their gps to work out where I needed to go. I did not feel safe in the slightest.

If it ever happens again I'd like to think I could ask them in a polite way to end the conversation or exit the cab, but how?
I"m glad I'm not the only one. I couldn't find where the print option went a couple of days ago and was feeling kind of embarrassed. After less than a minute of looking around without finding it, I just headed over to Bing maps and got it done.
> Even if the economy is poor, people are much more free because they don't take insane debts. I think american culture really needs to remember that debt is dangerous.

One of the greatest things my very successful Grandfather taught me was to never go into debt for anything that doesn't make you money, and even then be careful. He was right, too, and it's helped me through some times in which I've been tempted to go and get that nice car, buy those nice toys, get that $10k limit credit card. I don't even use a credit card, and I'm 24 and relatively successful; if I need a "loan", then I loan it to myself out of my savings account.

When I was 17, I was homeless. I lived out of my car for 6 months, got a job delivering pizzas to pay for my own food. I wouldn't wish homelessness on my worst enemy, but living through it has helped me learn how to be properly self-sufficient and has given me the mental tools to tough out some pretty crappy situations over the years. It's interesting how that goes.
>we're clear on the fact that for quite a bit of time to come, cryonics is a vulnerable storage facility critically dependent on the infrastructure and benevolent indifference of our civilization

Right, I agree. I was wondering about evaluating the potential business or philanthropic benefits of interventions on cryonics; e.g. funding research on effectiveness of current protocols or on developing better protocols, seeding larger operations and capturing economies of scale, advertising/PR, lobbying for rights, etc. I haven't properly thought this through at all, but I suspect that there might actually be a pretty good philanthropic argument for some kind of preservation.

Society could save big on healthcare (not to mention the disutility of being kept alive to the bitter end) by preserving anyone whose health is in severe decline; anyone who has brain cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, etc.; anyone with imminently terminal diseases; and so on, all voluntarily of course. I believe end-of-life healthcare can typically cost tens of thousands of dollars, which is commensurate with preservation costs.

Further, it seems like I'd much rather save one person to live a long life (at the very least, thousands of years), than save two lives to live a standard life of ~50 more years. Though admittedly this depends on what you think your terminal values are, and also on difficult-to-estimate effects, e.g. the instrumental benefits of having more people alive now to help with morale or with doing stuff. And for obvious reasons this is uncomfortable to have to consider, and even more uncomfortable to actually propose as philanthropic policy.
Am I missing something? Why haven't you tried getting a low-pay day-job (like cashier in mcdonald's) to get on your feet?

Also, I've heard a lot about american welfare programs, how come you weren't applicable?
Learner's TV
I've been wondering, how does Grails compare with other JVM web frameworks in 2015? I like the rapid development/convention over configuration approach, but I'm cautious about dynamic typing, and for some reason the syntax puts me off (lack of punctuation makes everything blend together?).
Haven't tried yet but reading the feature list alone I'm sold !
IIRC the xfiles episode was a parody, the "lazurus pot" wasn't real. And the recovered audio of Jesus was him saying "I am the walrus.".
It's deterministic. Basically it's a state machine and the state transition table itself is the key, iiuc.

A few years ago I implemented it with software: http://blog.practical-scheme.net/gauche/20120715-nash-cipher...
Alright. But honestly, if I got my namesake on some kind of fundamental theory, I'd be pretty ok with everything else being forgotten.

I can imagine the awkwardness of grad students presenting their work in a room where he was present ... "and so-and-so forms a nash equilibrium ... (silence, looking for approval from Johns face, sigh of relief from grad student when professor does not shake head in dismay)"
I was just thinking somewhat the same thing, making my son familiar with mono-spaced fonts, so when he found some source code, it'll be like home to him when he grows up...

guess it's going to work, to some extent

p/s: he's just 4yo now
I find the Google apps have the most complicated and confusing UIs of all the apps I use.
Fin tech startups targeting the millennials
I'm not European but:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102074/Spain-haunte...

although things seem to be improving there:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/350b9c8c-43f4-11e4-8abd-00144feabd...
I don't know any popular language that is able to do this.

Wikipedia lists ML and Haskell - are they missing some detail?
It would be fascinating if they could release the anonymized raw data though. I'm curious about the vague statement "people are much more likely to believe something written in Baskerville than any of the other fonts." For example, I want to know the sample size and the significance level at which the conclusion is obtained.
I can't say what you saw, but there is no hamburger button and just a printer button now. Regardless, it seems odd one would look for a print button on a page itself and not just print with the browser's print options.
"Now, Morris is the first to admit that this wasn’t exactly a true scientific experiment, but you know what? That’s okay!"

No its not ok because it means that the findings, however fascinating, can't be accepted.
(Shrug) I don't enjoy your implication that you should be allowed to re-engineer society singlehandedly. We'll have to agree to disagree.
If you want to ship "x in 24 days" code, that's up to you.

Aerospace code isn't "engineered" better. It's simply done with an eye towards accountability.

So really - not slowing down enough to finish something is a competitive edge? I don't believe you. We are not talking about that much time here.
I hate to be one of those guys who nit-picks and calls out too many specifics on stories, because I know how annoying that can be when you genuinely are telling the truth and someone is trying to pick it apart. That being said, I have similar questions here.

> Money was flowing in like gangbusters. I had a house which I was renting out to people to make passive income, a posh apartment, and a sports car (vroom). Material-wise, I had everything I needed and could ever want. I was “successful” and doing great. But in the fall of 2008 things went south.

> I went from making > 100K/year to literally 500/mo. [...] Rent was due and I had $400 to my name

How, between owning a home, a sports car, and making 100K a year in a relatively low cost-of-living area did this person "suddenly" only have $400 to their name?

> I was facing a $1,500.00 mortgage, utilities, etc. Again, no money to pay any of this so I had to let it go into foreclosure.

Selling the home wasn't an option?

> The only thing I had left was my turbocharged 350z which I started to live in as soon as I moved out of my apartment.

Selling the car wasn't an option? Despite this "gangbuster" income, the poster had no savings?

Anyway, I'm not saying this is made up, and I'm sorry the poster had to go through this. I'm just surprised one of the lessons that was learned wasn't the value of being financially responsible.
I have been living in China for ten years now, and every time I go to some forgotten fourth tier city or to remote suburbs, I am amazed that so many people live there in a relative harmony and strangers and foreigner can walk around without any risk for their lives or wallets. Nothing compared to so called developed countries whose suburbs cops and even firefighter don't dare going.
That's pretty far from your original statement. Which isn't to say that's not what you _meant_ in your original statement; just that it's not how I (and minimally the GP) read it.
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Re: 911 - I've worked in 9-1-1 for VoIP off and on for years, and founded the first VoIP focused 911 provider. There's a massive amount of idiocy in telecom, VoIP, and 911. One company I know of turned off their alarming system that monitored the online database to the 9-1-1 system. The replication link died and no one noticed... for a whole month. And then they only noticed due to billing discrepancies as calls were routed to the wrong place. "Oops". Other proposals I've seen for 911 have put user safety way down the list, to save money.

And recently, Intrado, the big 911 company, had their system go off due to a hard coded limit on the number of calls that could ever run through it. Took down 911 for many people for nearly a day.

And not to mention how they handled address updates - in short, users would be sent to the wrong state, knowingly, until "data validation" workers manually fixed things. And they thought this was swell. (Bottom line, don't trust 9-1-1 over VoIP until you've verified it.)

Even across the US, just the format of some 911 operator consoles' data exchange isn't consistent. One PSAP was complaining that their system would show invalid data for certain calls containing lat/long, just because they were flagged as VoIP. Some dumb vendor made a poor assumption, and wrote a fail-close system that affected real people. Oops.

And next gen 911? It's been a while since I've seen the working group plans, but they basically wanted to connect every PSAP (locally underfunded answering points, about 7000 in the US) to the Internet. I don't think anyone knows how to secure such a thing, let alone when each node is autonomous. I'll let you think about how awesomely that can fail.

(All this said, the people answering the phones do an incredibly hard job for little compensation. I still almost start crying just remembering a call I audited when they weren't connected right -- company forgot to provision some payphones, panicked woman was literally dying and didn't know where she was (call disconnected with no definitive resolution, but I believe she saw a passing patrol and was able to get assistance). I've no idea how responders can handle that kind of load every day... OTOH the majority of calls are just idiots calling for non emergencies.)

The real telco engineering was possible inside a very closed and end-to-end operated system. Even then, we saw fun stuff like inband signaling allowing random end nodes to takeover the system.

I'd be shocked if banking was a whole ton better - everything indicates they're just as incompetent.
Popup blockers should be illegal!
I don't think languages can be smarter than the people who use them. Maybe if we ran the tape again this time, Ada would win. But I doubt it.
I don't know for Chinese gov but I know for sure that Chinese families are not used to buy expensive things with money they don't have, so no, I don't agree: China as a whole has a lot of real money in the pockets.
What about the problem of a solution to P and NP being ambiguous for practical uses? I read this argument somewhere, but can't find it now:

Case 1, it's proved that P = NP, and the complexity of solving an NP problem is N^1000. Case 2, it's proved that P != NP, and the complexity of solving an NP problem is N^log log log log N.

In both cases, the result is technically correct (case 1 is polynomial, case 2 is exponential), but from a practical standpoint this proof that P != NP is much more world changing than this proof that P = NP. For example, you'd have to have a problem size that's measured in hundreds of digits before even getting to N^3!