skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only people who waste time trying to reinvent the wheel are those who never use a wheel.

This is silly. Standard notation isn't absolutely perfect but it's pretty darn good. If a symphony can come out of dozens of musicians consistently by using standard notation I think we are OK.

I think the problem often has to do with not wanting to put in the time to master not only the notation and the instrument but also the hours and hours of work required to crate the synaptic connections necessary to read and play without thinking.

It's like complaining about vim because it is hard to learn. The problem isn't vim, the problem is the person who doesn't want to do the work.
Maybe there can be done restructuring instead of too much austerity.
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this paper still reads revolutionary now, but imagine how it felt to read it in 1993 and compare it with your average "system" either at home or at work.

windows for workgroups was released the same year, while we were struggling to set up IPX networks to play doom between two machines at home...
I am from France and I've lived in Bulgaria for a while. It's true fortunately/unfortunately. Ie., one of
the condition of Bulgary entry in Europe Union was the shudown of two nuclear reactor that was the same model than Thernobyl ones...
Ask HN: Does anyone else find the relentless grind of errors disheartening?
I love software development except that I find it is an absolutely relentless grind of error after error.

Is this anyone else's experience? Or do you find it all smooooooooth sailing?

Perhaps its just because I'm learning new stuff at the moment.
Sometimes people make things that already exist for practice, rather than to have the thing itself.

Does that make it more clear for you? Or do you want to troll some more?
Then why the fuselage of an airplane is smooth?
Feynman also said the following (in the "The Character of Physical Law" lectures):

Every one of our laws is a purely mathematical statement in rather complex and abstruse mathematics. Newton's statement of the law of gravitation is relatively simple mathematics. It gets more and more abstruse and more and more difficult as we go on. Why? I have not the slightest idea. It is only my purpose here to tell you about this fact. The burden of the lecture is just to emphasize the fact that it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics.
Yes, but then I just fix them and they're no longer errors.

Software errors are really the easiest kind of mistakes to fix. The compiler doesn't have any feelings, it doesn't care, it just prompts you to fix things until you get it right. Wait'll you blow up a relationship, or make a fool of yourself in public, or cost your company a few million dollars.
Thanks for the feedback. I think you're right, and that's definitely something I'm going to work on improving.
Maybe they could put some islands up for sale? They have tons of them. That kind of restructuring would make it easier to maintain their living standards.
Maybe you can observe and talk with them on a daily basis, walk in their footsteps, and see how exactly what information this gives you.

For example, it might be useful to see where these potential users aggregate when they first arrive. Church, known black-market-labor places where a "boss" will come and pick up a select number of people for the day. And go after these places..

A person coming in will probably seek the assistance of close family members, or seek the assistance of a trusted figure (hence my example of Church). Maybe it would be useful to talk with the representatives of these communities and explain to them what you are trying to do. I think they'll be pleased that someone even cares and will have a lot to say about the actual situation and you can use that to tweak it and make it fit..

They're not using the internet? It might make sense that they might not be able to afford a smartphone or a computer and internet access, etc. So I think it'd be good to talk to community leaders.

Good luck..
> the central thesis is silly

I thought it was an exploration, not a thesis. What do you think the thesis actually was?
I haven't decided yet, check out this link to decide for yourself:

https://leanpub.com/purescript/read#leanpub-auto-the-eff-mon...
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That's cool, I hadn't played any piece that uses the stacked staff (to my recollection anyway; it's been a good 15 years since I was actively training). It does work better for when the melody progresses into that range, true, but I think it's a "right tool for the job" situation. Often 8va's are used for when you want to raise a single note or chord one time, and that would be much more readable than a separate staff or ledger lines. It seems like it's a random access vs sequential read type thing. 8va is better if you're jumping to a far octave with no intermediate context; stacked staves would be better for when the melody incrementally takes you there.

I'd love to see what the equivalents of both approaches would be in this notation.
I know a lot of older folks that are very active in Second Life, find a good community and you can find lots of folk to connect with. If you get a creative community there are in-world building and graphics classes, games, events, exploration, and other pass-times. One of the best communities SL I know of is Raglan Shire, tiny AV community, no sex, violence stuff or anything like that, fun and very active. Second Life would take too much to explain, best to visit it Raglan Shire has a webpage it's http://www.raglanshire.com

Otherwise if you are in suburban area I bet there are a bunch of community groups, either to participate or volunteer in. The local senior centrer is a good start, either to work there or find out about other local groups... Library too.
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Read books by doing quizzes. It is free
I really like minihack as an iOS HN client. It's very polished.
Why "Boreal"?
This looks really nice. It'd be cool if you added the 1Password extension to make it easier to log into HN!
> Wouldn't they get a bigger sales by opening them up?

At these prices, they aren't making any money on the phone - perhaps even subsidizing it. So they might get bigger sales, but they won't be making more money (or even losing more). Keep in mind that the old .com adage "We're losing on every sale, but we're making up for it in volume" is not the way to success.

Also note that the models you linked to are vendor locked. This almost surely means vendor subsidized as well - if you find the unlocked version of the same phone, it will likely be $30-$50 more.
Could you elaborate on common deficiencies? What does Luabind get right? What are its shortcomings?
Did you guys try Emacs' org-mode? I feel its syntax to be similar to markdown but way more powerful.
If the creditor is a bank, they're also creating money when they loan it out. Who is being robbed again?

In theory, it's either the shareholders, boldholders, or the broader citizenry that carry the risk in the banking system. So far Europe's governments have hung the risk on its citizens because either the banking system is too fragile to handle large defaults, or they want to preserve their bond holder and shareholder friends. probably a mix of both since they convinced €140b worth of bondholders to take a 50% haircut on Greece back in 2012. the hedge funds really were the main case of anyone getting "robbed" but that's what we call "credit risk".

The ECB can't handle Greece on its own because it has much stricter rules than a sovereign central bank would. It's bad financial architecture.

Per your last statement, there are MANY U.S. States, especially in the south, that have spent more than they earn at times during the financial crisis. I don't mean government spending, I mean taxes vs. transfers - wherein the Federal government is keeping the people in that state afloat. You don't read about those as much in the papers because we have a fiscal union and automatic stabilizers designed to help our neighbours out when they have problems. Europe lacks this.

Economics is not a morality play of evil debtors and angelic creditors or vice versa. Creditors can and should be wiped out when they make stupid loans. Debtors can and should be held to account but given forgiveness when they screw up (with limits on their ability and size of future screw ups). Failures to do either lead to systemic failures and/or revolutions. This has happened throughout history and will continue to happen regardless of your political system - monarchy, democracy, oligarchy, and anarchy.
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>So we just ignore the fact that the Greek government misrepresented their economic state

Not until the Goldman Sachs executives who helped misrepresent their finances are doing the perp walk, no.
Why not both? I want good defaults, and also the ability to change the things that I might want tweaked for whatever reason down the line. A powerful preferences interface is the software equivalent of opening up the hood of a car -- just because I want it to run well doesn't mean I'm not gonna poke around.
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Linters are a huge help for me since I fix as I create. Testing also helps since its far easier to have an automated build and test process that will tell me what went wrong then having to manually compile and check each part for erros.
> have you ever tried to discern a gcc command with 12 compilation flags enabled?

This isn't a 'discoverability' problem - the problem is the complex task. Most of what you're doing on the commandline isn't "gcc with 12 compilation flags". "How do I print this document?" is an example of poor discoverability on the CLI; command flags are not.
You could have said over 120k but decided to round down. Hm.
Thank you. You've communicated why many users find CLIs intimidating better than I've been able to. Faced with a new GUI program, even on an unfamiliar operating system, an average user can usually click around and experiment enough to figure out the basics in a few minutes. This is impossible with an unfamiliar CLI, or with programs like Vim, and what help functions exist (if you can find them) are usually strongly geared towards refreshing an experienced user's memory rather than educating a newbie (man pages in particular are often less than helpful to anyone who doesn't already know how to use the program in question).
Nice, reminds me of the Chrome extension I built a few months back. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/googlifier/lblbdli...
This is a game framework with a simple story.In fact the last screenshots is use magic skill not a gravity.
> As an advanced user ... I want defaults that are good enough that I never want to change them.

Reminds me of the old linux joke: newbies use the default kernel because it 'just works'; power users compile their own kernels to get every last scrap of power possible; and advanced users use the default kernel because it 'just works'...
Use runbook.io and load balancers.....done.
Much of my development seems to happen outside of compilers, in browsers, in build systems, trying to make things integrate and talk to each other - areas where there is no formal error checking capability. Ugh.
Economic hit man explains how IMF and World Bank exploit debtor nations
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I just read this Duke law paper[1] saying that in 2012 Greek creditors took a 64% haircut. I had not realized they had received such debt relief already. From the report:

"Within the class of high- and middle-income countries, only three restructuring cases were harsher on private creditors: Iraq in 2006 (91%), Argentina in 2005 (76%) and Serbia and Montenegro in 2004 (71%). There are a number of cases of highly indebted poor countries, such as Yemen, Bolivia, and Guyana, that imposed higher losses on their private creditors. However, the Greek haircut exceeds those imposed in the Brady deals of the 1990s (the highest was Peru 1997, with 64 per cent), and it is also higher than Russia’s coercive 2000 exchange (51%)....the 2012 Greek exchange was exceptional in size, exceeding the next largest sovereign credit event in modern history, which to our knowledge wasRussia’s default on 1.7 billion British pounds in 1918, equivalent to just under 100 billion in 2011 Euros. The Greek exchange also easily surpasses the German default of 1932-33, the largest depression-era default on foreign bonds, comprising 2.2bn US$ at the time, or approximately 26 billion in 2011 Euros."

[1] http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...
I had a bad anxiety attack one time. The room I was in felt like it was undulating. Everything started to become fluid like. I can't explain it, and should probally draw it, but years later I still wonder if that's the way the real world actually looks?

Never told anyone--out of fear it could happen again.
I had a fairly extensive collection of M2000 issues inherited from my older brother. Also had a copy of the 'Mondo 2000 User's Guide' book. All were stolen during a house party in 2010 that went limbic :-(
i have been reading this same type of article since i was in school..and that's before the y2k !
These users want familiarity, and get false simplicity / silo-lock-in. I'm not fond of giving emacs to everyone anymore, but even the simple fact of showing that simple text can be transformed into formatted beauty can open their mind.

Otherwise, IMO, they don't understand they have a computer wanting to compute for them, they see a weird typewriter simulator that they should appease as much as possible otherwise that god might crash taking their hard (because the software is obscure) work down the drain.

Now I also find markdown good enough. Headers, paragraphs, lists, quotes, links... Gruber's page list 10 kinds, easy to remember for anyone; balanced, minimal and generic document feature set.
Elasticsearch is built on top of Apache Lucene and is very similar to technologies like Solr but with a nicer interface (really more like SolrCloud these days).

It is different in that it provides higher level APIs and distributed functionality on top of Lucene. For example, one Elasticsearch index might contain multiple Lucene indices spread across multiple machines, but your application treats it as a single "index".
To clarify, the issue isn't SPV mining - the issue is not validating your mined blocks with the latest version when submitting. Even if the pools were SPV mining, their invalid chains would only be 1 block deep as the core client will reject any further blocks.
The presentation of the problem -- and I know that trusting the problem state is unwise sometimes in cognitive-bias tests, since many such tests are actually designed to be "we said we were asking X but actually meant Y" -- indicated a simple rule, rather than one which would behave differently on different classes of numbers.

So after the tests listed above I felt confident enough to guess.
No, any block building on a invalid block is automatically invalid.
Imagine what might happen if HN spent as much time maintaining Plan 9 as we spend talking about it.
I wish they did this and had a better search interface. Their current "all in one bar + suggest" functionality works somewhat poorly for me.

Also I feel like they could reduce the needs for super great API docs if they had something like a query optimizer so that I don't have to care about the exact way that ES translates my queries into Lucene queries. My favorite bit is how if you permute your filters and queries in the wrong order you end up completely killing your performance (filter then query or query then filter).
I made a number of boards this way. Routing the wires neatly was cool, but detrimental to circuit performance. It increased capacitive and inductive coupling between signals, reducing the maximum clock rate (for a digital circuit) or increasing noise (for an analog circuit). It was usually best to go straight from point to point.
I've actually found DuckDuckGo's search results to be on par with Google's for the most part.

Every now and then it falls short, but it seems to improve every day.

And, when all else fails, there's always the ol' !g bang to jump over to an encrypted Google search.
Can this have an API where content publishers will just choose passages from their texts (blog posts, articles) to quizz readers for?

Imagine I write something and I'll just select what I consider the key takeaways for a reader, write the questions and the answers, and Kibbit will generate the quizz (iframe). This would be nice (recap, test one's comprehension, etc).

The reader can choose to be quizzed again in a few days if he/she really wants to keep that information. They'd be sent an email to take the quizz again.

This looks cool, by the way.
Wrong on two levels:

Our physical intuitions are Galilean, not classical, mechanics (that is, they are non-Newtonian). For example, our intuitions tell us that an object set in motion eventually slows down and stops. That's Galilean (also termed "folk physics" or "naive physics", usually by cognitive scientists).

Most of us had to study formal physics to advance to Newtonian classical mechanics.

Quantum mechanics (QM) is completely non-intuitive, at least as far as intuition about either folk physics or Newtonian classical physics is concerned. IIRC Feynmann says as much in his book "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter", Chapter 28 beginning:

"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. —Richard Feynman

The quantum theory is not explicable in commonsense terms..."

Of course Feynman used his real-world physical intuition all the way through to his most abstract work. In one case he characterised the internal structure of the proton as being like "marbles inside a tin can." Try and write those equations!
This is very important. Many students hit a wall when physics passes beyond lay intuition and whatever may they already know well. Advancing in mathematics is essential to feeling comfortable in advanced physics.
I believe filters and queries are in the process of being merged. Quite possibly they are moving towards having some kind of planner.
With all due respect... What the hell are you talking about?
On page 44, in his interview with Jamie Zawinski:

Seibel: Have you read Knuth's, The Art5 of Computer Programming?

Zawinski: I haven't.

Check the book.
The Greeks who were forced by their strong desire to buy BMWs are victims. Do you want to blame the victims?
this wrapper seems to be leveraging the new C++ features to provide type-safe attribute maps, while avoiding dependencies on boost (for example, the other popular wrapper, luabind wrapper depends on boost). This is just from my initial reading.
You have to watch King of Kong documentary:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/

Here's a youtube clip of Billy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIBrcU768Cg

He is like a real life WWF wrestling character. You can't help love/hate him, he's just too over the top, and it's impossible to tell if he's partially taking the piss.
I think you'll find this interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nTnC0t7pzY
That was probably Billy's idea.
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/109395/why-arent-...
1. All of it. A difference in air pressure is just an abstraction for talking about forces on air particles. The description of what's going on with the screwdriver would be equivalent physically and much more intuitive if air pressure wasn't mentioned at all.

What's going on is the curved back pulls air around it, which deflects it downward, and that downward force on the air implies an upward force on the screwdriver. With the sharp edge back, this detaches the air flow instead, meaning there's much less deflection, and thus less force.

The air-deflection model is a much better intuition pump than the air pressure model. I think the historical dominance of the air pressure model is because it's easier to measure - just stick some air pressure gauges on surfaces, and you can calculate what that means for lift.
I can sketch you a graph of (x-1)(x-2)(x-3)(x-4), but it isn't because of intuition. It is because I know how to measure key characteristics of a polynomial (roots and asymptotes) and can smoothly interpolate (simple interpolation is maybe intuitive)
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I like the first half talking about the poor decision to link stock price with CEO's performance. Also, his ultimate conclusion is that the USA lost manufacturing industry and half of the car industry, but it doesn't have to lose the technology industry (Cringely thinks if the status quo is kept, the USA will indeed lost the tech industry). After reading his article, I strongly think Microsoft is positioned to realize this. Their CEO recently said something of this effect, 'Our goal is to solve more of our customers problems everyday. So that they can do things that add value in the world.' It's how I've viewed Apple (minus the past two years) and I think MSFT is on the right track.
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IE11 will be included with Windows 10 for the foreseeable future [1]. This should give site owners time to switch to HTML5.

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/mt163706.aspx
You don't see the code run in your head, though. You get a feel for how this design pattern works at a glance (intuition), or you carefully step through the code like a debugger.
Thanks for sharing. It's gorgeous for a green car. Tesla still has the upper hand. Teslas are fabulous!
I've been reading about Plan 9 lately but I am still missing why exactly (or more-or-less) Plan 9 (and Research Unix, similarly) fell out? From what I've read it seems like the lack of ubiquity forced the Plan 9 guys out of Plan 9 and back into Ubuntu or OpenBSD. From their discussions of rc, etc it seemed like the lack of users caused them to move away from it until it just completely fell apart... But I'm not sure?

And where is Plan 9 now? If I want to get involved should I look into 9front? Inferno? Or this guys github mirror [0] because the Plan 9 website is down?

I understand these are some smart guys, but the cat-v website makes a ton of divisive statements and "leaves it as an exercise to the reader" to figure out why they hold these views. The trolling isn't awful, but in general, I'm having a really tough time fighting my way into the Plan 9 circle.

How have you dealt with this? Aside from my initial (more historical) question, any suggestions for getting started? Is it even worth getting familiar with Plan 9 or rc or acme or sam or the plethora of ported tools? Or should I just wait until Russ Cox and Rob Pike come up with a production-ready OS?

No disrespect meant, just have a lot of questions.

[0] - https://github.com/0intro/plan9
I mean, it's a nice theory but it isn't actually true. There's tons of functionality which exists in many ribbon-ified programs but not actually accessible from the ribbon.

If you right click on the ribbon in many applications and select 'customize' you'll find all sorts of useful functionality. The customize window (at least in Excel 2010, which I happen to be looking at at the moment) has organization to help you find the stuff you can customize the ribbon with, and it even has a 'commands not in the ribbon' section!

Maybe the ribbon contained all functionality when it was first introduced (though I doubt it very much) but that certainly hasn't been true for years.