skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're saying "Philosopher or writer", Ovid, Virgil, Horace, Catullus, Tacitus, Pliny, Juvenal, Livy, Cicero and Martial. Of whom I suppose I find Ovid, Catullus, Livy, Cicero and Virgil enjoyable to read, others would disagree or choose different writers I am sure.

In terms of philosophers alone, I suppose only Cicero or Seneca would spring to mind, and Seneca in particular followed closely in Epicurus' footsteps (I think, it's been a long long time, please correct if wrong).

These are just people who I am aware are widely read today, I can say nothing for their barbarity or otherwise. I don't know anything about Plotinus, for example, and I don't even know which Marcus you refer to, so I am hardly a very reliable source.
Yeah, once you go to UTC half the world will have two dates for every daylight period, which is just the tip of the iceberg of the practical nightmares which will ensue.

Sometimes software engineers can get tunnel vision about the benefits of a particular reductive paradigm shift.
Is that a vertical tab, or a line break? It seems much more consistent with the behavior of <br> in HTML documents (i.e. new line but not new paragraph/bullet/whatever).
One thing I see in the VC to Founder relationship is that it is not primarily going to be driven by relative social status. Sure a particular investor may make as soft landing for a founder based in part or in whole on affection, but the idea of making a hard landing for a founder out of a concern that the founder's success would knock the VC down in the butt sniffing order of the pack, isn't going to be part of their calculus. Indeed, "It's great if you get rich off this deal" can legitimately be a part of the VC to founder relationship.

In terms of follow on, my suspicion is that a lot of these incredible valuations are not the VC's investing $100's of millions with expectations of 100x returns, but rather acting as agents for traditional capital transactions carried out by institutional investors. With a 1x liquidation preference and bond yields near zero, the risk reward ratio of an investment in an Uber or AirBnB starts to fall in line with a REIT and to become attractive to an institution like an insurance company.

At least that's my take from way on the outside.
I was astounded! But then, so were the guys at Unreal:

https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?58385-Koola-s...
Introductory R for Python Programmers
GraphQL seems to go hand-in-hand with Relay, and there's a talk on mutations in Relay here:

https://speakerdeck.com/laneyk/mutations-in-relay

That might provide the answers you're looking for. It's worth reading all the notes as I think this is the best resource for understanding how React + Relay + GraphQL really works.

You basically use GraphQL with a payload (the data to mutate and the mutation type) to select what to change and what data is returned after the change.
Or make x negative - the rule gives it "no".
I have never seen very realistic fire in any games! Is there a substantial challenge in fire simulation vs say water?
The example code (linked to directly from that page) is cool. I think the whois client is especially nice:

http://www.basic-converter.org/whois.bac.html

It's just a very simple way to talk over a network.

Mainly, though, this project is simply cool. It's a shell script which takes a useful dialect of BASIC and converts it into odd but not totally unreadable C. It helps this is a more Pascal-like BASIC instead of being an Object-Oriented BASIC; even so, some of the translations are fairly clever.

I actually found out about this via the GnuCOBOL FAQ. I found out about that because I'm just an odd kind of individual.

http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/gnucobol/#bacon

In fact, the author of the GnuCOBOL FAQ sums up my feelings about BaCon quite well:

> Nicely done. Not a toy.
> A mere 8 percent heard at least three nos

I guessed correctly with only 2 nos. Since there is no penalty for guessing incorrectly here, I felt safe enough with my theory. I might have checked for more nos, if I had to announce my theory publicly (Twitter, comment, etc). However, I also knew about Confirmation Bias beforehand.
He didn't just steal bitcoins either:

Among the crimes he confessed to, Force said he had agreed to a contract with 21st Century Fox last year to help make a film about the Silk Road investigation, without the permission of his supervisors. That deal called for him to be paid up to $240,000.

Force also invested in a company that brokered Bitcoin and served as its chief compliance officer while still with the DEA.

During his time with the company, Force used his position to seize $300,000 from a customer and transfer it to his private account, authorities said.

This guy was dirty, probably from the get go. It really makes you wonder if this will give Ulbricht more life in a new trial. I mean, this guy did stuff that was flat out against the law, and really compromises his integrity with regards to the trial. There's no telling what other sketchy stuff he did to get this conviction.

And he's not the only dirty cop who was on the case either:

http://www.coindesk.com/secret-service-plead-guilty-silk-roa...

US Secret Service special agent Shaun Bridges will plead guilty to charges of money laundering and wire fraud stemming from the government investigation into the illicit online black market Silk Road.

This case is rife with corruption
What are the odds that he decides his first and last heist is multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars of bitcoin? I'd bet anyone dinner this asshole has been stealing from drug busts routinely for years.
What was the technology stack driving the original Ultima Online servers?
function judgeSentence(sentence, numNo)

var probablyWrong = ["doubl", "expon", "multipl", "^", "", "power", "two", "2", "twice", "as big", "nth", "rais"];

var seemsRight = ["larger", "increas", "greater", "small", "less", "big", ">", "<", "go up", "ascending"],
weaselWords = ['but ', 'not ', 'odd'];

Been expecting something more interesting than that
The message format looks like something from UptimeRobot.
Data Storage: The Difference Between Backups and Archives
GraphQL doesn't prescribe a particular approach to mutations; it allows the server developer to specify what mutations are available. For example, at Facebook we have a storyCreate mutation, and a friendRequestAdd mutation.

Mutations are just top level fields, but with side effects; because they are fields, the client sends up a selection set with the mutation. This allows the client to receive whatever data it needs to refresh, as the response to the mutation.

GraphQL was originally designed for reads, but we added write support to solve the parallel problem we were having with writes: different clients wanted different data back from the server after they performed a write. GraphQL gave us that capability.
For a more extensive version of this article, see "Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)":

http://www.amazon.com/Mistakes-Were-Made-But-Not/dp/14915141...
Lots of great insights in this article! I especially liked the part where he advises us to treat freelancing as a business.
From your previous comment complaining about HN:

"The internet doesn't need another reddit, it's bad enough as it is."

Yet you insist on making comments that only belong on reddit. Can I convince you to delete your account?
"Ignorantly" called bums. The definition of "bum" is a vagrant; a perfectly accurate definition for many of the homeless. However, that being aside, "No homeless in the Soviet Union.." Hmm. I guess if you count being shipped to a brutal gulag in Siberia a "home," then yes. There were no homeless in the Soviet Union. If you failed to work in the Soviet Union, that was considered a crime against the state and thus you were sent to a camp. This would happen even if you didn't have a job nor could you get one. This "crime" was also common in East Germany as well. So technically, there was no unemployment in the Soviet Union either. Full employment is actually not desired in an economy for a variety of reasons. Here's an old paper on the subject: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40729034?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con...

The Soviet Union was hell, the same for East Germany. There was a reason there were weeks of parties in Berlin when the wall came down. There aren't any homeless in North Korea either.. doesn't mean it's even remotely close to a model society.
Cicero.

Philosophers are rather beside the point though: for every famous philosopher, ancient Greece had a million farmers, merchants, seafarers and slaves. I'm not persuaded medieval Britain was more enlightened than modern Britain because Shakespeare was a more insightful commentator on the human condition than JK Rowling, and the same applies to not unduly revering the societies of classical antiquity because some of the works of their educated elites have survived to the present day.
You can't effectively criticise a language without actually knowing it. That's why you're being downvoted.

The example you gave is using the lowest level primitives to printing with zero syntactic sugar. It's equivalent to writing the following in JavaScript (assuming functions called 'display' and 'newline':

(function () {
var hello = function() {
display('Hello world');
newline();
};
hello();
})();

Practical Scheme implementations include additional macros that add syntactic sugar so you an use much more straightforward mechanisms to do things.
Good point! More stay at home parents is another benefit of BI that I haven't even thought of yet. I get more sold on this idea the more I read about it.
Ways to Curb Bad Ratings from the App Store
This entire story was very weird, if you give Wired 100% credibility.

It felt to me like Feds wanted to do everything in their power to put him down for lifetime, and I wouldn't be surprise if more skeletons come to the light.

Namely, the part about him hiring a hit man was very fishy. First it was his coworker that agreed to helped Feds to play dead, but then you had some bikers performing multiple hits (supposedly all successful) on people Ross wanted dead. Uhm, so basically a motorbike gang agreed to play along with Feds, plus many "victims" agreed to disappear and play dead for months so that Ross is convinced all that money he paid the gang were for successful hits. Maybe in a Grisham book, but in real life things like that don't line up this good.

Then Feds didn't hesitate to tell judge about all this, but then they decided not to use "evidence" of Ross ordering hits, and focus only on his drug business.

So basically you have a judge that looks at a person that supposedly order multiple hits, who also created website to exchange some drugs. No wonder he got lifetime behind bars.

I don't think drug dealers go to jail for lifetime.

Another thing that struck me was allowing testimony of parents of a teen that drug himself to dead. Seriously? Sure, had not SR, he probably would have never found access to drugs somewhere else.. NOT. How about looking into the quality of their parenthood? Environment he lived in? His school and friends problems? etc etc. But no! Just exactly when was the last time you seen a family trying to shut down Ford car company and put the CEO behind bars because their two young children burnt to death in a car accident caused by a Ford vehicle??

EDIT: my point about Ford was that when did you see last time a car company CEO being found guilty and put in jail for lifetime because his company's vehicles are responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, including young children.

(never)
A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving – The New York Times
I'm not sure how the anecdote here is related to the opinion. They don't seem to support each other in an obvious way. As for the bums/homeless/etc, I'm not sure that being unable to find them is always a strict win: it's easy enough to disappear undesirables to prisons or camps (or just shallow graves).
Who wants to be Jobs or Gates or Zuckerberg anyway?

Of course we all do, but that's pure ego. Each one of them was brilliant, there is no discounting that, but you also can't ignore the role that luck played. You can't just be brilliant and you can't just be lucky, you really have to be both to have the kind of success they did. It's not surprising that they are anomalies, hoping to recreate their success is like hoping to find a winning lottery ticket.

We shouldn't put any of them on a pedestal anyway. The empires of each of them was built on locking people into their closed systems at any cost. Jobs did some remarkable things, Zuck seems like he's going to do positive things with his fortune, and Gates might eliminate the world of a lot of disease, but you only have to look at past cutthroat titans like Andrew Carnegie to know that redemptive actions like that leave behind at best an ambiguous legacy.

There was a great piece on Grantland this week talking about Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and Microserfs. It had this bit which I thought was really interesting:

"The moment reads two ways. Either it’s about Zuckerberg, for all his billions, being Just Like Us — a slave to the same digital toy to which we’ve subcontracted management of our memories, our personal interactions, and our sense of self-worth — or it’s about how Facebook, born of Zuckerberg’s sense of exclusion, has made us just like him. The notion that the tech visionaries whose inventions colonize our daily lives are actually uploading the virus of their personalities to the global unconscious is an idea that floats through The Social Network; it’s the engine that powers Alex Gibney’s forthcoming documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, which stops just short of postulating that every iPhone includes a fragment of poor angry uncharitable emotionally stunted Steve’s immortal soul, like a sliver of wormwood from Mordor."

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/silicon-valley-hal...

If you want to be like Zuck, what is it about you that you are going to infect the world with?
That makes an assumption about deployment. It assumes that you only provision a server once and you deploy many times. There are operational models where the provisioning of the server themselves is the deployment step.
> There is not one correct answer. (x, 2x, 4x) gives you a "yes" every time

Not true. What if x is negative?
Yup. I can imagine also the ease of having to only deal with a limited pool of private funders - all of whom are known quantities vs. faceless public funds - would be also be a key benefit.
"We’ve chosen a rule that some sequences of three numbers obey — and some do not. Your job is to guess what the rule is."

My mistake was to assume that choosing the first number uniquely defines the next ones in the sequence. Since, you know, like all the sequence puzzles I've seen before worked like that, and I didn't read it rigorously enough. Oh, by the way, the doubling thing is wrong if you use negative numbers (wrong as in it gives false positives, instead of just false negatives). But the problem definition doesn't even tell what set of numbers we're operating on.

Finding the rule the sequences obey is impossible since it could be that all cases follow a simple rule except for one triplet which you're unlikely to find. It's trivially easy to fool the user into finding a wrong rule.
2nd graf: suggests Craigslist "abused" the CFAA to "kill" a company. Instead, Craigslist relied on the one private cause of action in the US code specific to enforcement of ToS's --- a limited cause, with limited damages. It was inaccurate to call this an "abuse" (it's the whole intent of 1030g!) and misleading to invoke the CFAA boogeyman over it.

4th graf: Claims Craigslist relied on a "tortured" definition of CFAA, linking to another Techdirt story about a judge's upholding of Craigslist's claims on two different counts. "Torturous" here means "the suggestion that access was unauthorized after Padmapper received a cease and desist from Craigslist's lawyers, and changed IP addresses to evade a ban.

6th graf: Techdirt grossly misrepresents Orin Kerr, perhaps assuming readers won't click through to the Volokh story they quote out of context. Kerr sees the ruling as a missed opportunity to more rigidly define "unauthorized access" as "circumvention of technical controls" but does not disagree with the ruling. HN readers in general would not be happier in a world where Kerr's view of the CFAA was reliably enforced.

Most importantly, I think: the article also never makes the argument it teases in its headline: at no point is it ever made clear how Newmark has "made the CFAA worse".

This is a defect density rate worthy of early-period PHP Wordpress.

Your normal instinct about Techdirt is almost always going to be right. It's not a good site. I'm glad it's penalized. Penalize it more.
Wonder how long we will be stuck in a 99.X% era of realism. Our brains still picks up the small things and tips us off that something isn't right. Especially when things start to move about.

Not that it's not cool to be on this journey. Every one of these iteration towards realism gets me excited.
From the link you posted: As if anyone would think it did. Could anyone be so naive as to think that resembling Zuck would be enough to make a founder succeed? And is it plausible that we, of all people, who'd interviewed thousands of founders, would think such a thing?

This undermines the argument. Clearly very many people, in very many areas of our society, filter those they do business with based on appearance. It would be naive to think otherwise about society and the business world (though applying the generality to a specific person, such as Paul, is a mistake).

I thought the original quote represented Paul well -- it demonstrated awareness of the very human weakness in all of us, to instinctively prefer people like ourselves. Having the instinct doesn't mean Paul acts on it, or that it's his only instinct; being aware of it is what enables people to control it (or control for it).

EDIT: Added a few sentences.
For some more down-to earth lessons from freelancing, check my post on the topic:

http://www.developingandrails.com/2015/06/freelancing-with-f...
Based on our experience after developing a lot of apps we have collected some tips on how you can get better reviews on the AppStore. Any other suggestion will be welcome.
Ah no. Some benefits would become obsolete, The Netherlands already gives basic income to artists and people with work prohibiting disabilities for example. But it's obviously not a substitute for health insurance and other public health care systems.

The idea is that it would reduce the expense on health care services because people would become ill less often. Whether this is true remains to be tested on a larger scale, but I think some research has pointed to this being the case.

I think you are right, 500 euro would be extra spending money, not a basic income and quite possibly would have the reverse effect. It's why the basic income in Utrecht is 900, which is enough to live off as a single person.
Yes, we have regular meetings where we worship a statue of Roy Fielding and debate the merits of HAL over JSON Hyper Schema. Long live HATEOAS!
Nominate a free software community contributor in Cascadia
Not sure about the S/38 but IBM i (AS/400) documentation for programming MI (machine interface) is available [1].

I once wrote an XMODEM crc16 routine in MI because I didn't have the C compiler available and I couldn't get RPG to calculate it fast enough to saturate the modem line.

[1]: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_71/a...
How Physics Will Change–and Change the World–in 100 Years
Chrome Address Bar Spoofing
I got 7 yes, 5 no, and was still wrong. Maybe I'm just dumb.
Indeed! It keeps the beer cold and the hackers awake.
The purpose is not to see if people use randomized inputs, or even if they're capable of analyzing data. It is to see if people are willing to challenge their own notions. The "misleading" sample is then just right.

Even in real life, no discrete categorization hypothesis should be accepted if you've only seen data matching one of the categories.
That page prints the nyt logo in the javacript console (will probably look messed up here):

0000000 000 0000000
111111111 11111111100 000 111111111
00000 111111111111111111 00000 000000
000 1111111111111111111111111100000 000
000 1111 1111111111111111100 000
000 11 0 1111111100 000
000 1 00 1 000
000 00 00 1 000
000 000 00000 1 000
00000 0000 00000000 1 00000
11111 000 00 000000 000 11111
00000 0000 000000 00000 00000
000 10000 000000 000 0000
000 00000 000000 1 000
000 000000 10000 1 0 000
000 1000000 00 1 00 000
000 1111111 1 0000 000
000 1111111100 000000 000
0000 111111111111111110000000 0000
111111111 111111111111100000 111111111
0000000 00000000 0000000

NYTimes.com: All the code that's fit to printf()
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There are only two kinds of criminals. The "long history of violence and trouble" type and the "honors student with a lapse in judgement" type.

Same thing whenever somebody goes on a shooting rampage. All the neighbors either say "I always knew there was something strange with that boy" or they say "I can't believe it, he was such a sweet kid".
> Nothing assumes people wanting to share.

It assumes once workers won the surpluses won't decrease.

This turned out to be false assumption, because people don't like to share, so they don't work as well if they only get part of the fruits of their work, as they would if they got most of the fruits of their work for themselves.
> The primary roles are the cryptographic officers, these are Internet community members who attend key signing ceremonies to observe use of the KSK.

While I realize those key signing ceremonies are probably just a bunch of people sitting around playing games on their phones, waiting around for their turn to give their keys to someone who's typing in all of the appropriate commands, I want to believe they're in some sort of dungeon, wearing black, hooded robes and chanting Gregorian chants while doing it.

I dunno, maybe I'm just weird.
The DNS for .cc is run by Verisign, who also run DNS for .com and .net. I wouldn't worry about .cc when it comes to namserver reliability.
I agree on the overhead. There are information available only at run-time that could be (and actually has been, in case of interpreter like PicoLisp) used to have better optimization compared to compiled code. It isn't technically faster or slower.

Edited: Correct my bad grammar.
That is confirmation bias. That's the whole point.
Open organizations don't need to serve Kool-Aid
"On the contrary Rust has more semantics that are closer to these languages than Go has."

Uh... goodness gracious no. Going from Python to Go is a bit of a learning experience, and you might lose some features you're used to while gaining some new ones you're not very used to, but it's not too big a deal. Going from Python to Rust is halfway as hard as going from Python to Haskell. Radically different philosophies, radically different semantics (GC to no GC is shocking enough, but Rust takes "no GC" to new heights of foreignness).

The first program a Pythonista writes in Go will pretty much work. The first program a Pythonista writes in Rust will explode into a half-page compiler error discussing concepts they've never heard of before.

None of this is a criticism of Rust... I applaud Rust for getting itself a good distance away from Python! In 40 years I think "imperative languages with no built-in ownership concepts" will be regarded in much the same way we regard line numbers today... "How did you ever use that? Are you serious? Who would ever think that was a good idea?" (Well, you had to be there...) But in the meantime, it's no contest... Go is way closer to Python than Rust is, and yeah, to some extent I personally consider that a criticism of Go. (I like Go for work, but to some extent I see it as a last-generation final refinement of its ideas, whereas Rust is a one of the first usable languages of the next generation. Both have their place. I suppose that doubles as my own explanation of why they aren't competitors, or at least, not direct competitors.)