skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternative explanation: the growth of money manifests itself by inflating some prices before others, e.g. the stock market before groceries. After all, money must flow through the system before price levels reach an equilibrium that matches the new total amount of money. And if the State keeps printing more money, there is no "equilibrium", just unstable price signals until the next crash or major change in the rate of money growth.
There were similar interfaces on the Atari ST in the mid 1980s, see The Music Studio and Cubase.
I'm just commenting on why people consider having a car a necessity in the U.S.; the reasons for it are more complex. Population density is one reason, but infrastructure planning and preferences is a big part of it. Most Americans live in the populated parts of the country in or near a city, not in rural Nevada or Nebraska, so those huge expanses on their own don't make public-transit impractical (they do complicate intercity rail, but that's a different issue).

Urban sprawl does make things more difficult, but doing better than the current state would still be quite possible in many cities. For example, taking the two most recent cities I've lived in, Houston and Copenhagen have closer population densities than people may think in the majority of their commute basin. If you draw a circle with radius roughly 30 km from each city's downtown, both have a density of about 1,000/km^2. Yet Copenhagen has 5 commuter rail lines, a subway, and an extensive 24-hour bus network, while Houston has 3 light-rail lines and a pretty bad bus network. So of course it's harder to get around in Houston without a car, even in the dense parts (for example, it's a huge pain to get from a high-rise condo in the Galleria area to an office building downtown, even though these are both dense areas and only about 15km apart). Houston is slowly improving in the past 10 years, though.
The problem is that saying that consciousness emerges from neurons, or the configuration of neurons in the brain, or whatever doesn't provide any actual explanation. It doesn't give us any more information than we had before.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/
So, basically you're arguing never change anything because https://xkcd.com/1172/
What a stupid, long blog post
As others have said, the shortcomings of SMTP can look a lot like advantages, at least in terms of its simplicity and durability. When a protocol has survived and continued in use for so long there are usually deep-seated reasons why it is a fit for certain use cases. I don't want to go off on a chat vs. mail rant, but the following ...

>> You operate on a level of the entire messages flow. Forums, chats and web 2.0 networks are trying to make conversations feel as lightweight and barrier-free as possible.

... caught my eye. I manage a team of younger developers for whom real time chat is simply the way they grew up interacting. Everyone is signed into hangouts and "operating on a level of the entire messages flow" (sic) all day long. A large part of the interaction is off topic, vague, and ineffective. Here's an example from yesterday...

Dev 1: the repo url is wrong, I'm getting a 404.

Dev 1: wait, might be a typo.

Dev 1: my bad.

Everyone on the team received this message and presumably stopped their current mental task at least long enough to read it, as I did. In the end it had no impact whatsoever. The developer clearly should have thought through his problem before notifying the entire team that he had one. But this is how chat is used.

I've tried very often to get them to be more deliberate in chat communications, without any success. I have also tried to encourage complicated topics to move quickly to voice hangouts, with even less success. Streams of real time chat messages remains the primary way the group interacts, to the point where I have backed off my efforts and come to the conclusion that I'm likely the one who has to change.

That said, there will always be a need for deliberate communications within organizations. Email grew up as an analog for letters and memos, which served as deliberate, archived, time-stamped records of an important communication. They were considered, usually minimal (because they took effort to create), and got to the point. They were events, not streams of ephemera. I'm not sure that this constant buzz of chats does a good job of replacing that. So for that reason the sentence "You operate on a level of the entire messages flow" doesn't make me smile.
Top 11 so far:

(1) 678
(2) 306
(3) 292
(4) 280
(5) 278
(6) 274
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(11) 266
Well if 8 comes up the correct solution is to click the smaller number, so you can just do the math for 2-4-6
I think that is the point--to show that situations that seem like inspiring hero stories from one perspective, are actually more complicated from a broader view.
I've wanted this for just about forever as well. There is one project I've noticed on the EmacsWiki - http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WebKit . I haven't tried getting it up and running yet, would be curious if anyone here has.
These magazines always brings The Guy I Almost Was¹ to my mind (previously discussed on HN in 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=740760)

① http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/almostguy/
Thanks for the feedback and link, much appreciated. Since the application is fully client-side, anyone could download the site and run it locally without any issues. Maybe making this more apparent by providing a download link (similar to Bitcoin paper wallet) is a good idea.

I have a GitHub project (https://github.com/cxam/passed.pw) open at the moment to track issues and plan to make this open source soon after fixing any bugs found during the initial trials.

All the libraries used in this project are open source and I have listed these on the about page with the relevant links.
NHS is quite saturated, the road network and Internet are working way over capacity.
I’m an indie game developer who bet $200,000 and lost
So if the government taxed each corporation $1000 per employee, then gave you that $1000 back at the end of the year, that would mean your wages were less by $1000 a year?

it's not reasonable to argue that "real compensation" has increased between year X and year Y by counting tax burdens in year Y but not in year X.

It is when the government introduces new "taxes" in year Y, which would have been equivalent to salary in year X.
Ha this isn't spam just someone who use to have their own plan and was paying more then double for a lesser service(sprint).
Books: the Kate Greenaway (for excellent illustration) and the Carnegie Medal (prose) are good starting points.

Cuisenaire rods (but ignore the workbooks): http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00074U7SO/

Then craft stuff (the obvious pens, glue, paint, glitter, and scrap, but also the industrial scrap for larger projects). There are places around the UK; there's probably similar in other countries: http://www.grcltd.org/mobile/about-us/ (sorry for mobile link.)

Find a good craft site. Here's one example: http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/beginner-biology.php (it's an amazing site).

A nice magnifier; eventually a microscope and binoculars.

Blackboard paint. Or any flat matte paint with a small amount of grout well mixed in. (Make sure you sand the surface properly before painting.) tables and walls and doors (make sure it's not a door that gets used much) are good targets for blackboard paint.

Cooking implements. You can, with a bit of effort, find small cooking equipment which does make things easier.

Gardening equipment is good. Wash hands after; don't let children eat random leaves unless you know they're safe and have had the discussion about some plants being dangerous. You can get reasonably good garden tools for children.

As for an actual game: bohnanza ( the bean game) is fun. Not sure how well it works for children yet.
I hate to sound synical but Ive both invented this ui and seen others invent it a few times over. Even so I do commend the effort and thought process that went in to the post.

Edit: To see a fully functional version check out http://plugg.io
Also why no mention for the enum, the other value type that allows for pattern matching?
Currently, lifetimes are based entirely on lexical scope. So for example, this doesn't work:

fn main() {
let mut x = 10;
let y = &mut x;
*y = 11;

println!("{}", x);
}

This will complain

error: cannot borrow `x` as immutable because it is also borrowed as mutable

This is because an `&mut` borrow is exclusive: while `y` is alive, we cannot use `x`. We can fix this by making a new scope for `y`:

fn main() {
let mut x = 10;

{
let y = &mut x;
*y = 11;
}

println!("{}", x);
}

This works, and will print `11`.

Non-lexical lifetimes would allow the compiler to demonstrate that these two things are the same, and allow the first one to compile with the behavior of the second.

It's an interesting tradeoff, because right now, the rules are very simple and conservative. Scope is fairly easy to reason about. Non-lexical lifetimes would make certain things easier, but also a bit harder to reason about, because the rules are more complex.
Yeah, Picq even made a music CD based on his music from Dune, and it's really good.
The problem with that is that it infantilizes a whole people. Yes, it is unfortunate the conditions[0] that some blacks live in, but there has to be a point, a line that is not crossed and if it is the individual is held fully responsible. Why shouldn't all adults be held responsible for their actions? What good does it do to send an infantilizing message saying, "If you want to commit a heinous and horrific murder, don't worry we'll take the blame :)"?

Do you think "affluenza"[1] was a worthy defence and justified not holding the person in Texas who killed people while drunk driving accountable?

Also, how does your assertion that poverty among blacks is the main if not sole cause of their elevated murder rates square with the fact that the murder rates among impoverished whites is not comparable?

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[0]It is also unfortunate and misguided to place responsibility and thus responsibility to solve the problem solely on outside groups. What outside group or society should we blame for the relatively materially impoverished state of some Australian Aborigine, Papua New Guinean, Sub-Saharan African, and American Indian groups that was discovered upon their first contact with other groups? Some people just live in different ways, owing in part to the selection pressure of the environments they evolved in over many years, there's no reason to blame anyone for that.

[1]https://duckduckgo.com/?q=texas+jury+affluenza
To Schema on Read or to Schema on Write, That Is the Hadoop Data Lake Question
Ha, yes. Always comes up in my head too.

But the best Electric Sheep comic was Delta Thrives. I look at it several times a year still. Gorgeous stuff.

http://e-sheep.sansara.net.ua/www.e-sheep.com/delta/heartoft...
> A mathematical model of hurricanes won't create rain

What about a detailed simulation of global climate at a granularity of, let's say, individual quarks. Is there a point at which a map is so detailed that it becomes, in some sense at least, itself a territory?
Developer Network Small-C Compiler book on CD-ROM (2005)
There was a discussion about Mondo 2000 here on HN maybe a year ago, and I remember someone commenting that they & all their friends growing up in California saw Mondo as a huge joke. Their parents and older friends were all working with VR and the Internet and it was nothing like Mondo made it out to be. They couldn't believe anybody took it seriously.

One of the replies really resonated with me. Growing up in the midwest in the mid-90s, where scarcely anyone had heard of the Internet, Mondo was paradise. It portrayed a humanistic, technophilic world of sex, drugs, and high technology so far away from the humble, conservative "Breadbasket of North America" around us.

I have a full run of Mondo 2000 I intend to scan someday. Flipping through those back issues, it really does feel silly today. But back then, each of those issues symbolized hope for me. I kept a stack next to my bed for inspiration. I would dream about the future I was about to create.

Looking back, that's why I was so disappointed with college the first time around. I spent the last couple years of high school drooling over virtual reality rigs and cyberspace, only to have a required COBOL class my freshman year. I dreamed of dropping out and moving to San Francisco where all the cool people were, people who understood technology and the limitless future that lies before us.

Timothy Leary was my hero, and I wept the day he died. I tried reading Chaos and Cyberculture[1] again a couple years ago and it felt like barely-coherent word vomit. But in 1994 it blew my mind.

I worry that this will be the legacy of Mondo 2000 and its ilk. Taken out of context, I'd say it's 90% "weird for the sake of weird" crap. Although I must say that it's beautifully illustrated crap, pushing the limits of 1990s hardware and software. And that's the thing - so much of Mondo's value is in its context. The team behind Mondo were cyberspace missionaries spinning tales of a digital utopia, inspiring us to realize it. When the mainstream went grunge, they went digital. I feel like my passion for open source today springs from that same dream of a global kumbaya we were promised decades ago.

[1] https://drytoasts.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/timothy-leary-...
Considering that Python 3 remains slower than Python 2 on many benchmarks, what you're suggesting would be an interesting feature for Cython/Python 3 -- "Compile your Python 3 code with Cython and get 100%* speedup (*on average)".

However, as I understand, Py3's type hints are derived from a previously available module (which I think also worked with Py2). So why would they add compatibility for that now? Why not just write your own parser that reads types annotations and then outputs Cython-equivalent variables declartions?

There are also some Cython specific types that you won't find, for example the functions can be either cdef or cpdef, depending if you plan to use them from C only, or C and Python.

I still see value in learning Cython as a complement to Python, for the cases where you need to get "closer to the metal". It's not so much more, and it helps a lot in performance.
iOS 8 only if that matters to anyone. I had apparently never updated this iphone ( not my main phone ) and never noticed until now, so thanks for the reminder Juan!
The physics of floating screwdrivers [video]
I would ask someone to review it. And I would paste link to my Github into e-mail/facebook message/post on forum/job resumee etc. Just like that.
This is how self-driving vehicles will get adopted - if enough articles come out showing just how bad humans are at driving, there will be a public safety call to first introduce and then mandate autonomous vehicles.
What are the biggest problems programmers have?
What are the top issues you as a programmer have, especially technical issues?
> But if you take Death per thousands, you can see India is at parity with the world. Ref: http://qz.com/216766/despite-what-you-may-think-indias-hardl....

Why would you bother to point this out when you already explained in your earlier statistic, about death per vehicles, why going by population is a ridiculous comparison? (India is a poor country with relatively few automobiles, yet the death numbers are sky high and comparable to countries with more automobiles.)
I think of the inforcing of style (snake_case CamelCase) is great, because it makes code more readable.
The graphic overlaid on the piano keys was much easier to read - as easy as guitar tabs. Why didn't he just do it all that way.
Show HN: Map of all professional baseball team in the U.S
I have started working on a side project and would love for ya'll to take a look and provide some feedback. I built a website that maps all of the professional baseball teams across the U.S. b/c there was no existing way for me to see this. http://www.thebaseballmap.com is what I have as of right now. Currently the map plots MLB, AAA, AA, A, and Rookie level ball. Those are all the blue dots. I'd love for the map to also plot historical baseball locations, which I've started doing with the red dots.

If you are a baseball fan and I can have 2 min. of your time for some feedback, keep reading! Otherwise, Happy Fourth!

Some questions I have:

Should the app focus more on plotting all of the teams of the past/present or on plotting the stadiums of the past/present? Similar. but not the same.

Specifically, would you be more interested in viewing info about the stadiums, and leaving comments/ratings for those stadiums?

If I implemented user submission, would you contribute a baseball related location to the map?

What sort of related locations would you be interested in contributing/viewing?
Values can't be mutated if they're Ivars and you're in a non-mutating func. Non-mutating funcs are unique to value semantics.
'Most of the US' is rural, if you weight by area. But most people live in suburban areas, which are dense enough to support public transit if they weren't designed in such a pedestrian-hostile fashion.
Not the same - look at the per-person overhead costs of insurance compared to a single-payer system, they're gigantic.
Rule by a Foreign Power Considered Harmful (1776)
I challenge "easily printable." This way of writing sheet music is vastly more space inefficient. Each beat requires an entire row of space, whereas a beat in sheet music might require 3 square inches at most. Having many pages of sheet music, like in coding, makes it much harder to understand the song as a whole and navigate repeats.

I do like the fact that — unlike with sheet music - the 12 semi-tones are spaced evenly, as they are in reality. This allows for fast visual recognition of chord types and intervals.
Clickable Link: http://www.thebaseballmap.com
Disclosure - this is a local startup and though I don't know the founder (or founders, I don't even know) I did fall in love with this app at an open house a few years ago. I am always biased in favour of entrepreneurs, but I double down on local entrepreneurs.

Disclosure 2 - I'm generally a horrible musician, but when I was very young, my Grandma Yvette taught me to play the fiddle before the Suzuki program tried to save me and show me the violin. French Canadian fiddle music is all about patterns and so it's possible that that shaped my brain to look at music and its theory as a set of patterns.

However, those aside, I wonder about a tool like Musix (or Musix Pro) for notation. Within about five minutes of playing with the app, I felt like I had absorbed more real, practical music theory than in my years of formal instruction. Entire melodies started to make intuitive sense to me.

I wonder if a tool like Musix could be useful as a notation tool?? It still makes timing difficult to express and it would likely completely break with more complex pieces so I can't picture it seeing much uptake amongst highly experienced musicians, but I feel that if I had been exposed to an isomorphic notation at a young age, I'd be a significantly better musician today.

Anyone with more experience care to weigh in??
On a related note, I highly recommend the Pac-Man Dossier, which explains the game's mechanics: http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html
What do you call a motorcyclist without a helmet?

An organ donor.
I feel like an upvote doesn't do this comment justice. The Guy I Almost Was puts so much of the mid-90s "cyberculture" in perspective. I make a point of reading it every winter, when the dark grey New England skies leave me depressed and wondering if I chose the right career.
Ask HN: Should i work for free to have a portfolio?
Hi there,

i am a student at University finishing my School.
I would love to freelance afterwards, but i have absolutely 0 projects in my portfolio.
Should i work for free to have at least 3-4 Projects in my Portfolio?
It's a typical chicken or egg problem ...
You'll like the "Shadow" books then.

Enders game is a space battle thriller with a great twist.

Speaker is all about what do you consider "human" and what do you consider "alien". It was very mind expanding when I was 14.
Newbie here. Downloaded your app. I like a lot the design and layout.
True but I'm not sure what your point is. If you need a mutating struct method then of course you have to mark it as mutating.
Techniques to Improve Regex Performance
Show HN: Taylor, a personal travel assistant bot on Telegram
I think you're misreading this. I read it as saying that these things are sad design choices in many similar languages, but that Rust has avoided them. Nothing follows about them not having included other sad design choices that they're unaware of.

The point is that you can at least try to avoid the things you view as sad design choices--you're not necessarily stuck with them.
Thanks Marvel! Really appreciated your love, those comments encourage us to continue working :)
If I write <data> /dev/net/tcp can I read and get <data> back ?

Can I append <data> /dev/mouse ?

Sharing {open,read,write,close} interface, but with exception and different semantics leads to a weird flavour of genericity.
This is the hardest part of learning and teaching music. On one hand, it's hard to stay motivated when you're mangling Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, but almost any shortcut you take in this stage will retard your growth later...
Yes, it is http://casinorpg.com (the rest of our games don't use canvas).
Caveat Emptor: I used Vim for a long time, but switched to Emacs about 7 years ago. I still miss Vim, but would not give up Emacs for it.

Many consider Emacs' extension language, Emacs Lisp, to be significantly better than Vim's extension language, VimL. This makes it easier to develop better packages, and also to develop personal extensions/modifications.

This problem has lead to a number of attempts at fixing this:

1. "Evil" is an attempt to port Vim to Emacs, sans VimL. You should see it here: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil. Note: there have been a number of these in the past, and Evil is the latest project successor.

2. "Spacemacs" is an Emacs "distribution" of sorts that is trying to make the entire experience with Evil better: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

3. There are attempts to make VimL better, Neovim being the most notable: https://github.com/neovim/neovim
I'm not talking about the politically motivated definition of "hate crime." Look up "ipso facto."

I made the point that anyone who kills another individual for some trivial material gain, or other arbitrary reason, no doubt harbors more than a little hate for themselves, others and society.

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On a meta note, I wish people would learn to formulate their cases without leading with a blurt of things like "Wrong." Then they would hopefully devote a little more thought to the issues they are discussing, especially the important ones
How I met my identity thief
Ok, we changed it. Submitted title was "Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them".
The article is seemingly sensationalist for the sake of sensationalism?
Nice title!

And a related article: http://time.com/3933976/myths-fourth-of-july/
The cheapest fighter jet you can get is the L-39 Albatross from the 1960's which will run you between $200k-1mil depending on work required for flight worthiness while on the higher end a supersonic trainer like the F5 would run at least $2mil.

Considering how rare the parts are and the difficulty of finding someone qualified to actually do the work, $4mil is certainly very reasonable, especially if the Spitfire is actually flight worthy.