skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> even getting to the stage of seeing a doctor can fail, because suddenly everything is 'pointless' (bad wording. sorry.)

Everything actually is pointless, since all matter and energy will dissipate from entropy on a long enough time span. Also everyone you know will be dead in 100 years, most likely.

Also most of these people would go see their doctor if there was a million dollars in gold waiting there for them. It's not that 'everything is pointless' is the reason preventing them, but rather that there isn't enough significance in seeing the doctor.
Try posting on some of these sites.
https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup
"Piracy is not a people problem. It’s a service problem. A problem created by an industry that portrays innovation as a threat to their antique recipe to collect value. It seems to everyone that they just don’t care."

I remember hearing when piracy became mainstream (and even a decade later) that:

1) It was only going to help the artists.
2) People that pirate buy, so there would be no loss in revenue.

It really only ended up hurting the indy artist that wanted to eek out a living selling music online, because now that we have generations of kids growing up with free music, they feel they are entitled to it and will not pay for it.

Larger artists were hurt too, but they will still make a pretty good living. It also means that if you are a smaller artist and want to get signed, it's that much harder (again, only hurting the smaller artist).

It's also ironic because the mere fact that so many people are pirating will mean companies will put less money into those works in the future (because they aren't recouping investment costs) meaning less of a chance you will get what you want by pirating (no DRM, released in all areas, etc).

I predicted that it would gut and decimate the industry 15 years ago when Napster came out, and I was right.
Compounding interest? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_interest
More readable (but still somewhat annoying, it's on Google Plus) link to the post is:

https://plus.google.com/+RefurioAnachro/posts/Q2nDr5phZfQ
Calaveras County, 90 Miles south.

Working on a better community directory and more web-app ( doplaces.com ), other than that spent the past couple decades working on applications for a non-profit (data collection, management and reporting) so developing an architecture (wouldn't call it a framework) along those lines; SAAS is something I've been thinking of - more for managing more wide-ranging distributed updates. you can see a few of the things I mess with at larrymade.com and portcommodore.com
Just curious; what did you use to build this?
Hi, thanks for your schedule; was wondering if you can give more details for what exercises you do during your daily regular practice (30-45min) vs. the long practice (3 hrs), e.g., improvisation/repertoire/mechanics?
>>A better comparison would be with another language that uses automatic memory management…<<

The default comparison is to Java: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/lisp.html

>>I'm assuming the optimization/safety settings are…<<

They are shown: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...
To me -- someone reasonably tech-savvy and with questionable artistic taste -- the whole "web became a worse place when designers got involved" has a lot more to do with the entire ecosystem and a lot less to do with the design itself.

I don't really miss Geocieties. I do, however:

* Think it's unpardonable that web pages are about as snappy as they were ten years ago, despite including about the same amount of information, while the available speed and bandwidth have increased at least ten times, not to mention computing power.

* Have to keep a full array of extensions and browser hacks in order to keep my own fucking choice of font types and especially sizes. If I wanted to see brilliant examples of typography and calligraphy, I'd have gone buy a book or visited a bloody exhibition.

* Miss the days when I could move around without having my ass tracked at every corner and having to keep an array of extension and browser hacks just so that I don't get spammed with questionable, sometimes outright tracking-based scams at every step.

The web can hardly be called "friendly" when the experience of browsing it without at least three or four extensions that deal with innovations in e-marketing, web design and development is so painful.

Saying that the web "got worse" in the last ten years is certainly midway between "you're not sure what Netscape is, right?" and "I bet you also think Motif was fucking sweet". But a lot of people who have seen it grow (myself included) are certainly disappointed at the huge, gaping chasm between what we dreamed it would be and what it turned out.
Everyone should switch to Portage. It's like a superset of every package manager.
> "You're talking about something like marginal utility."

No, I was using marginal utility to demonstrate that the relationship between total wealth and the utility provided by that wealth is non-linear.

To complete the full thought: Marginal utility is the first derivative of utility. If marginal utility is constant, then overall utility is linear. If marginal utility trends downward then the overall utility is non-linear. Since we appear to agree that marginal utility tends to decrease, then calculus forces us to agree that the utility that someone derives from wealth has a non-linear relationship with that wealth.

> "what if the poor people you're helping through harming others don't use the money wisely"

I think it's a fair question, but it seems hypocritical to ask immediately after asking: "why would anyone else have the right to decide how their property is allocated or used".

However, every study I've seen done on this issue has shown that unconditional cash transfers to impoverished people tends to be used reasonably well[1]. Certainly there will be some people who choose not to use redistributed income well, just as there are some people who have lots of capital who choose not to use their income well.

> "why would anyone else have the right to decide how your property is allocated or used"

This one you'll have to take up with the Supreme Court, Congress, the United States Treasury, and the Internal Revenue Service who all take it as a given that the United States Government has the right to decide how your property is allocated or used.

Again, as mentioned in our other comment thread, since you seem to be advocating for zero taxes and zero government spending, I don't think we can come to any meaningful resolution on these issues in a text-format over the internet.

I think this is the critical point of our disagreements over UBI — you find all government spending to be theft and morally wrong. This isn't an argument against UBI, but an argument against the entire system of governance that the world has adopted. That's totally fine, but it's not an argument that I'm prepared to consider on this particular forum. If you want to continue this discussion, let's do so in person or over the phone sometime.

[1] One example of a study showing gains from unconditional cash transfers: http://www.princeton.edu/~joha/publications/Haushofer_Shapir...
Ironically, package formats have already been standardized: it's RPM, as per the Linux Standard Base (LSB).

Naturally no one fully obeys it, because LSB is a mediocre standard in general.
> max-width on the content would do wonders for readability.

Or you can resize your window?
Wouldn't it be much easier to write such a program in... Lisp?

(To make it a challenge, could it be done with a single call to "format" in Common Lisp?)
Can't you change the default font in your browser?
They tried this in Afghanistan [0], and (spoiler alert) it didn't work.

[0] http://www.thenation.com/article/how-us-funds-taliban
Just after I wrote that, I thought "I'm pretty sure Scotland has advocates, maybe I should update my comment."
The problem with this is that it's an add-on to a bloated behemoth that takes 10 GB and a reboot to install and nearly that much memory to run. PyCharm has a lot going for it simply by being not that.
"If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't."

I guess this can be applied to any system. An advanced system and one that can be understood easily don't seem to be compatible.
Yes, all true, but you'd have to be depressed to not have the cognitive biases which prevent you from making this more than an academic observation.
Append has amortized O(1) time at all slice sizes.
In case anyone hasn't seen this image on Twitter already:

"What David Cameron said actually seems perfectly reasonable if you're a comic book supervillain."

https://twitter.com/BrigonChomhgail/status/59882827345232691...
It's still interesting as an educational platform. For instance, being able to switch into assembly-style code in context with other high-level functionality can help communicate some key programming concepts.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/214379695/micro-python-...
My statement implied that it would take place in an emergency situation before his time is up, not some kind of life-extension technology.
Given that the package manager is the backbone that makes the Linux distribution (in most cases), it's not low stakes at all.
And why we probably won't get one.
Good food.
I can't tell if this is a joke, therefore I'm coining Stavros' law:

Without a clear indicator of an author's intention, it is often impossible to tell the difference between a startup direction and a parody of one.
For young kids I can see the arguments, but for 16 year olds I think the benefits are worth a lot.
I modified my original comment, so I guess I'll rewrite it. And I totally agree.
Deliveries is pretty good ... http://junecloud.com/
If you want to go that route, have a contractor review at various stages. It shouldn't take more than an hour or two, and most contractors will do it with the hope that if you make it big you will remember them and their services.
Yeah, I am still working on that. You will notice my HN profile is less than a day old.
>The heads and platter might operate fine at the higher capacity, or they might not.

If it's literally the exact same hardware, but different firmware, then they most definitely should perform exactly the same.
Some of the most performant games ever created were written in Lisp or a variant of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp

Million polygon levels running at 60fps when the majority of games on that system had 1-2 orders of magnitude less geometry and ran at 30fps and were written in C/C++

I'm NOT saying therefore RMS should have used lisp instead of C but I am suggesting that any perf objections or memory objections are mostly not factual. It's perfectly possible to make a performant non-memory hungry lisp.
Nice strawman. Limiting your free speech by detaining you if you joke about bombs when talking to airport security is completely reasonable. It's very well defined and limited, and giving up this right causes you no harm physically or mentally. Also, there's no slippery slope involved. I dislike airport security as well, but some of the things they do are reasonable.
Learning to Program
Whats the best way for a student who will be studying computer science this fall with no programming experience to begin learning to program?
http://lucianmarin.com/archive/sublevel.html
Would you be able to provide details? I don't know what has been debunked, or how.
Ruby on Rails, Bootstrap, some python for scraping data.
How so? I don't think you can do that with apt alone, you need apt-file (which is a separate tool).
> Bates was arrested and taken to the Rockland Police Department, where he was interviewed. He waived his Miranda Rights ...

> ... He also consented to a search of his laptop and iPhone and gave officers the passwords to his e-mail and Skype accounts.

Poor guy. I think he should have talked to a lawyer first before doing all of that.
See my other comment. There are fast lisps.
Oh yeah that is a little more complicated. I'd still imagine that he might choose death, I suppose that will be a real test to his ideology if it ever occurs.
Out of curiosity, why not fix something if broken? Why is there is always a half baked alternative that has a different set of problems. Instead of replacing what is perceived broken you can just fix it also keeping the good parts. I have several systems deeply vested in in the yum/rpm ecosystem and I see very little chance that a new package manager is going to offer that much new features that I need while keeping the features I already like from yum.

From the article:

"undocumented API, broken dependency solving algorithm and inability to refactor internal functions. The last mentioned issue is connected with the lack of documentation. "

Well some of them I don't care about as a user of yum some of them I can verify not true (documentation) and some of them I care about and it works for my use-cases (dependency solving algorithm).
I think you are absolutely right. It's not content providers that are pushing for DRM, it's content producers. There's absolutely no way a rightsholder would let Netflix show their content if, god forbid, there was any remote possibility that a user could download and use their content outside of a controlled environment.

In some ways it parallels internet piracy. ISPs for the most part are sick of policing their users and sending out C&D letters for copyright infringement, but they more or less have to due to pressure from major studios.
4096 RSA key in the strongset factored?
Or you can resize the screen of your phone with your fingers?
When startup founders ask for an NDA before talking to you, that's another red flag.

So they have another full-time job, and they're doing this on the side without full-time effort? You're the startup's only full-time employee?
"X is dead, long live Y" is dead. Long live original headlines.
It's actually one alternative to Python 2/3 compatibility, working around the fact that print is a statement in 2, and just a function in 3.

The more common way is "from __future__ import print_function" of course, but I've seen code that does sys.stdout.write instead -- nothing wrong about that (especially if your code usually uses streams for stuff)
I don't understand why these need to use swear words and aggressive tone? Wouldn't it work just as well without them?
Paper Toy for Project Managers: Cost-Time-Quality
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If designers understood the concept of "limited bandwidth" and "when in doubt, do less", I'd have a lot more sympathy for them.
There is no overpopulation and no realistic prospect of it. It is a myth, a mistaken belief arising as a consequence of the fundamental Malthusian misunderstanding of human action and economics - that what is now is what will be in the future, the false prediction of stasis rather than technological progress and change, the constant creation of new resources and more efficient use of old ones. There is inhumanity and kleptocracy and poverty in plenty in this world, and much could be done about it, but those issues are not a function of the number of people involved. They are a function of societal organization, of disuse of resources, and individual willingness to let evil be done. All of that takes place in the midst of plentiful resources, were they actually being used.

Demographic Consequences of Defeating Aging:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192186/

Too many people? No, too many Malthusians:
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/7723

Superlongevity Without Overpopulation:
https://books.google.com/books?id=EakLzDV-xJ0C&pg=PA169&lpg=...

The Eternal Return of Overpopulation:
http://reason.com/archives/2010/10/19/the-eternal-return-of-...
Alright, but it's a crucial thing to approach 'real' or 'boring' with a smart, lazy, peaceful and patient mindset.

The kid psychology is great, I abused it as an adult to keep doing things even though I failed. But it's only part of the solution, otherwise you diverge and never progress really. Kids do progress (beside a natural libido and brain state eager to learn) because they aim at things at their level (with other kids of their level), and have good tests to ensure quality (real life like balancing on a bike, or teachers). To me this is the process that breed internal change.

With time you learn to balance not caring too much with moments of diligent precision so you feel good without wasting time.
Site promptly collapsed. I'll need to have a word with admins. Meanwhile, here's a link to a text-only cached version: http://bit.ly/1dbgW1J
> his creed to stick to his principles is very similar to some extreme left organizations

ayy lmao
A simple formula to make a Game
Just read it. Looking at the partnership in a new light now, and will work towards breaking up. I'm the visionary, and my partner is not the right integrator, if one at all. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
The down side of this is that later adding a command which forces another letter to be typed breaks previous scripts and finger memory.
Because all those engineers are already employed, or if they're not, they have their own projects they're working on.
Note that insofar as lack of empathy goes, Ava might be said to have the same lack of concern for the wellbeing of others as does Nathan, who like her manipulated Caleb for personal aims and like her seemed to be unconcerned about caging other sentient creatures. So it's all very entwined, at least in terms of storyline. Whether it's intentional or not I cannot really say.
“VENOM” FUD Attack – Like “Heartbleed” FUD Attack – Linked to Microsoft
In fact, by considering diagrams left as exercise you will learn even more! :)
Well a package manager does much more than verify downloads, but sure you can think of it as a single featured package manager.
Deliveries still contacts the USPS's website...
Why did Kyoko strip off her skin to reveal herself to be an android then?
I don't mind a touch screen on an iPad. But my Surface attracts fingerprints like nothing else (I have generally oily fingertips--it's not a function of washing, it manifests very shortly after I wash my hands), and it's really hard to keep it clean. If I use it for a full day, I probably wipe it down six or seven times. It's super distracting when I'm writing code or something.
you don't build a product around a product with 90% same name, it took me 5 min to figure your blog is not of ycombinator, at first seriously, i rejoiced as a designer, that 'finally' design is showing signs of improvments. but only to find, it was of a side-project built around ycombinators's news section. bad choice of name. project is cool.

I know it does not matter to ycombinator, because they are cool guys. but know the 'consumer confusion' thing?
Properly weighing the cost and value of things is key. I try to be somewhat frugal not out of a desire to deprive myself but because by doing so I can move myself more quickly toward being financially independent, and because a lot of the things I could spend money on aren't actually providing me much value. I spent a few hours today walking to/through a local botanical garden, paying nothing to drink in nature that I had been missing for a long time, and I think I got more great memories out of that than I ever had from going to Starbucks.

There's a trend of moving from "spend money on things" to "spend money on experiences," but my concern is that that second bit of advice can let us fall into things that we're told are experiences but are really just habits.
"Also, you can't possibly argue that C satisfies all, or even most, of the milestones given for "Are we web yet?""

C has all the libraries. Like, all of them, ever. I don't like it necessarily, but it's true. It has all the HTTP servers, all the database drivers, all the email and all of the "misc".

(Yes, not literally all. But it's a closer thing than we'd like to admit!)

Except for the fact that it's basically completely unsuitable for use in a network environment due to its design flaws, and one "security-focused" framework can't change that because you've still got all the rest of C's problems and large set of libraries that also really shouldn't be put on the network (and frankly I still trust the "security-focused" framework about as far as I can throw its immaterial self, because it's still written in C), C would be the perfect web programming language, and passes, yes, darned near everything.

Also, I don't know if you got here after the message was deleted. I think my reply makes more sense in the original context it appeared in.
This is one of Germany's most popular blogs: http://blog.fefe.de/

It even is themeable: http://blog.fefe.de/?css=bild.css (to make it look like the German tabloid BILD) the CSS links can be external, as well, and an empty css parameter clears the theme cookie.

That's what I consider plain and informative.
> I think the biggest difference is that cars are physical objects which require nontrivial resources to produce

I disagree. Software, too, requires nontrivial resources to produce.

I guess what I'm arguing is that inherent value for both is in production / design. When you buy a vehicle, you're paying for the design, the function, etc..., not the physical materials. However, the object being purchased in the case of a vehicle must manifest itself through physical materials, and so the physical materials are the barrier for reproduction / distribution. This barrier forces payment towards the production / design.

In the software case, the barrier is artificially introduced by closing the source. This seems to be the way many force payment to the production / design of software. But naturally this cripples the users freedom.
Strongly anti- (or pro) corporation and government posts will be dinged by the filters. I forget the exact names for them, they exist to reduce arguments.
He's not counting inflation and 11.3% is a super optimistic expectation of future S&P500 returns. A more conservative estimate for real returns would be 6.5% [1] (and internationally returns to equities actually average lower). When I punch those numbers into a calculator [2] I get $65k which is ahem not as impressive.

[1] http://www.nickinrichland.com/starbucks-broke/

[2] http://www.moneychimp.com/calculator/compound_interest_calcu...
Assuming 11.3% real annual return is kind of crazy. Unless your name is Warren Buffet, you aren't going to achieve that.
Fascinating - what I'd love to see is the debate (probably in annotations) vs how verses are interpreted.
Exactly. 11% returns is crazy high and a 44 year window is quite long. Under more realistic assumptions it's mid-5-figures.
The video displays a world map with the locations where they found enough photos to make time lapses. Does anyone has a link to this map? It would be great to discover the best time of the year to visit some places, like Salto Angel, the waterfall in Venezuela, or Lençóis, in Maranhão State - Brazil.
First time I've heard that one. Most people usually throw a robot apocalypse in there.
Somehow this doesn't seem correct. If statements were truly "first class", one should be able to programmatically put statements together and execute them (without using the loophole of simply calling the compiler).
Yeah he also supports other very questionable things:

https://stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html

"05 June 2006 (Dutch paedophiles form political party)
Dutch pedophiles have formed a political party to campaign for legalization.

I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."
What is "Give me free software, or give me death"?
Because large companies have come to falsely believe that supply and demand don't apply to them. Large companies want people with Windows and Linux experience, mostly to work on dreary Windows projects, at code-monkey prices. Pay more, and you'll see more good candidates.
Infinite Worlds: A Journey Through Parallel Universes