skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just thinking about that. It has this post-apocalyptic feel to it. It's primitive yet advanced at the same time.
A lot of results points to consciousness having no input in decision making process at all, it merely receives data and builds narrative to legitimize itself.

Edit:

holy crap I had a revelation (that a lot of people probably already had before). Consciousness is lagging after actual decision making process (sometimes up to 150ms according to some studies). What if consciousness is an additional layer of back propagation mechanism for our brain? Analyse the decision post facto taking bigger picture into account, make corrective action if bad outcome. Its just a small process governing a bunch of primitive NNs.
what is preventing someone from goatse'ing this thing ?
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This is actually a very well known best practice in C++, so common that it has an acronynm RAII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initia...
Again, what @jarcane said.

There are more than zero people in the US making great kitchen knives. The number is, fortunately, growing. I'm in talks with two US makers and a Canadian, in addition to a couple from Europe.

As has already been said, it is a matter of economics and culture. High-end American makers are able to consistently get more money from outdoor knives. Not to discredit that category of knives, but rough outdoor knives can be made much more easily and emphasize toughness and wear resistance and aesthetics at the upper end, with subtle elements of cutting performance being difficult to evaluate. We have a long history of sought-after outdoor and pocket knives in the US. For this, Japanese knifemakers turn to the US and studied with people like Bob Loveless.

Despite outdoor and pocket knives being cherished, the orientation to kitchen knives in the US has long been held as utilitarian. My guess as to why? Because kitchen knives were tools for women, and chefs (a class of people long thought of as outcasts) bought from Europe when they cared. The client base of most all custom or upgraded or modified consumable tools/vehicles/electronics/etc. is male dominated. We don't have a strong history of swordmaking and we readily abandoned them in favor of guns. Guns not being a significant part of Japan's industrial history, the Japanese continued their craft of swords until public carry was outlawed. A lot of these multi-generational swordmaking families found a market in making kitchen knives.

I would totally support you in learning knifemaking. I think it's an awesome craft. Reading about how to make high-performing kitchen knives though, might first require learning to read Japanese. Great kitchen knives can be made within your first few years, but it's rare, and at the end your knives will be more expensive than their Japanese counterparts.

Chefs don't need to import knives from Japan, they can get them all over the US. Sure we want a strong knife in our restaurant kitchens, but it's a tool that we're attached to for 16 hours a day. It's an extension of who we are as chefs, and you can tell a lot about one based on their knives. I demanded finesse from my cooks, and it's hard to understand finesse with a hamhanded tool.
it's a marketplace

marketplaces have strong network effects
It adds no security. Assuming you use keypairs the attacker either has your private key or he doesn't. If they compromise your client to the point of having your private key they are likely to have access to whatever port knocker magic you have in place.
It's a bit confusing. It's probably best to underline the external links.
To be fair, you'll also need to consider if there is a power imbalance with the company and the investor. Co-founder are the "smaller guys" here.
High performance servers without the event loop
Not all contracts... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_frauds
GHC has great optimizations within the scope of modules (and seems to balance for the right level of polymorphism/modularity/linking), and can inline some things across module boundaries. But at the level of entire programs more advanced optimizations are possible; I gather there are tradeoffs too.

http://mlton.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2tpmbo/what_on_ear...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4720499/possible-optimiza...
The most interesting takeaway for me is the spreadsheet of stats. I find it highly motivating to see how meager their start was. You hear all the time from startups, "We weren't an overnight success. We worked hard for years...", but seeing stats like these in hindsight really sends that message.
Seems like quite a bit of work to avoid a few connections an hour. Are you paying $0.01 per byte for syslog entries or something?

Who cares about a few connections per hour if the sun will die before they brute force your private key?
The answer about the McLaren is my favourite of the bunch.
Journaling? So futuristic.

Ah, good times. I wonder... does anyone have numbers on how long it takes to fsck big drives using ext2?
You could equally say:

"Docs were finished, a "closing dinner" was had, a handshake was made on the deal, and then the investor didn't sign"
Someone who just considers it beneficial as physical activity might, like this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9933248
What petewailes said. They the exposure has increased exponentially, the monetized result of that has been the sale of machined knives.

Many craftspeople of many industries in Japan, have a surprisingly limited exposure on the internet. The known names definitely have year long waits now, but there's still room.
If it's bad form for a VC to break a handshake deal, it's equally-bad for a startup too... no? Doesn't that reflect poorly upon the founders?

It's so important that YC went through the effort to codify the process: http://www.ycombinator.com/handshake/
This is why I don't write Haskell tutorials. I am learning and would love to write them, but I don't want to pollute the space when more experienced Haskellers can write better ones. I just need to be patient :-). Actually I do write them but just keep them on my dropbox (private) for a memory refresh on a topic later on.
Most anything you'd want to do with this is illegal due to FCC rules against encryption colliding with the need for computer security and now the recent push for https everywhere.
In math this is often called "conjugation". It's also sometimes called "commutation".
So cool. YC is revolutionizing itself these days. YC Fellows, Pro Rata. Many things people have suggested they might or would do are now coming to pass. What's next ?
I am not sure Muslims claim this. Actually it is a well known fact that there were several copies, but they were all gathered and burned after ONE was approved by Usman.
Thanks! Feedback is a great gift. I appreciate it regardless of whether or not you ever buy from me. I'll keep the articles coming...
We added the date to the title. We also changed the title (with its linkbait 'you') to a representative phrase from the article. We can change it again if anyone suggests a better.
I think we are talking past each other here. Any competitor with an equal number of drivers can offer the equivalent to Uber pool in a market.

I was referring to a business model where Uber cut prices in a small market when a new competitor enters to kill them before they can get going. This model works really well once you are an established business (the Standard Oil model) hence why it is illegal.
Your speculation != evidence
(native german speaker here)

I also have an issue with the sensationalist reporting of "treason" charges.

"Treason" is a correct translation for "Landesverrat" ("land treason"), similar to "high treason" being "Hochverrat".

The thing is, for all I can tell, there are no "Landesverrat" (StGB §94) charges. If anything, there would be charges for the lesser act of "disclosure of state secrets" (StGB §95, right below)

Yet, the press speaks of "Geheimnisverrat" (disclosure of secrets):
http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2015-07/verfassungssc...

That would most likely be the §353b you mention.

I don't think it would be controversial to consider the disclosure of secret documents as what it is: disclosure of secret documents. However, even with prosecution under §353b there is still the requirement of "threatening important public interest".

These seem to be ordinary (and expected) legal proceedings, no need to blow it out of proportion.
Please don't post comments unless they are civil and substantive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Packet radio was my first introduction to the Internet and Linux(late 1993). I was on a weekend campout as a Boy Scout and the local ham club did a demo for us. Already being a (young) computer nerd, packet radio was the most interesting part to me. A few months later I took the test and received my first ham radio license. Thanks to digipeaters and an Internet gateway (for the "converse" server), I was able to sit in my (very rural) home and chat with folks on other continents a couple of years before dial-up was even available in my area and my station's hostname and IP address are still present in the ampr.org DNS zone twenty years later. --n9wwv
If this is their business model it is a very interesting one. Create continual legal battles with the local authorities to scare off new entrants to the market.

I wonder if any business has ever used this model successfully before?
No denying that, though sometimes I wonder why. For fun google for "bruce schenier $mammal" theres a good chance you'll find a blog post with him putting out an odd analogy.
Unless there's a contract signed at the start that says "no verbal agreement in this process counts as a contract".

Note, that's 100% true (clarifications may stand, IANAL), but I wouldn't be surprised if the VC took steps to ensure no deal was done until the paper was signed.
Wow, thanks for the link. That's really interesting. Most of those seemed like pretty obvious safety stops, except for the $500 in goods maximum. That one sort of renders verbal contracts useless in nearly all cases, unless I'm misunderstanding.
Hey! Can you describe your project in greater detail or link me to a spec? I’ll be in touch soon. We’re running behind due to the Techcrunch launch :)
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i want a youporn clone
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hello?
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I need this done ASAP
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can you agree to equity share?
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once I market it it will be HUGE
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we take equity on some projects :) However we dont really discount the projects that much
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for them what's your budget here?
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well 1k to start
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And we would be just as critical of that investor.
That's only in the US. Not on your boat in international waters, in any developing country, etc.
It's actually Haskell's `over`. (Not `under`, interestingly)

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-4.12.1/docs/Control-...
'filter' :)

Perhaps I should have said software rather than websites specifically, since websites tend to conflate both 'search' and 'filter' into the one function. They are pretty similar.
Ask HN: Does this seem like an interesting idea?
It seems that it's fairly easy if you're recently out of college to find a cofounder and do a startup. However, once you've moved and been in a job for a while, your network dissipates. Would it be interesting to have some community that would allow you, as an employed hacker, to find other hackers to work on side projects with?

The idea here is that people join medium-sized startups to find people to potentially work with on bigger projects. Eventually you can quit your job and go work on the startup full time.

I've thought about putting together an e-mail list of people who want to work on side projects. There are people with ideas, and there are people who just want to join someone and hack on something.

If this seems interesting, how would you structure this? Would an e-mail list be good enough?
Agree, the received wisdom has always been database vendor choice as a ten-year commitment, as opposed to almost anything else. It's a reason to avoid databases :)
There's a beautiful example of this in the J implementation of continuous knapsack on Rosetta Code:
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem/Continuous#J
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While I completely agree, the sheer amount of "proto-duction" projects that are floating around and that I've had to try and maintain over the years makes an interesting argument for statically typed languages, I think!
If there's one thing I've learned since working at startups and rounds of funding it's definitely:

The deal isn't done until the money is in the bank
It's a handy tool. I'm surprised by how smart the bot is to parse my command.
Today, 30 years ago, Commodore introduced the Amiga
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It has more or less the same legal meaning.

I have seen no evidence for any "treason" charges (according to §94 StGB), the charges are most likely "disclosure of secrets" (§353b StGB).

The cause for the confusion of the terms is most likely the relation of the words.

"Verrat" -> "the act of treason"
"Verräter" -> "traitor"

versus:

"jemanden etwas verraten" -> "to disclose something to someone"
"Geheimnisverrat" -> "disclosure of secrets"
Yes! Exactly this! The problem is that the majority of available AEB-L knives aren't treated in ways that display the potential of AEB-L. Devin Thomas is the only maker I know that spent years developing metallurgical research on AEB-L, bringing it to perform as well as, or better than, anything out there. ZDP-189 is another great modern stainless.
Yes, anybody who sees Tolstoy as some saint ought to read Troyat's excellent biography of him. Tolstoy was a great novelist and a powerful personality, but a vain and hypocritical man.
Any new business can establish an equivalent to uberpool once they have critical mass. Since many markets are small the relatively cost of establishing this mass is not excessive.
To clarify--this was something I was interested in helping with, until I saw the license.
So I do something perhaps similar to Bush's trail idea and perhaps not. I use google bookmarks to build my own set of links for a number of given topics (tags). I've put the javascript for adding as bookmark into a bookmark item so throwing the URL to something interesting and tagging it with subject tags relevant to me is as easy as selecting a menu item. To date I have over 1359 tags. For a given tag, say MPLS, overlay transport, civil war, central african precolonial women's rights, or hubble pics, I end up with a list of links to documents about that topic interesting to me. For the most part I keep the tags narrowly focused and nearly always have multiple tags per link. So the tags roughly correlate to trails, although obviously not completely. But, as I understand Bush's thinking on it, kind of.
ext2 is a lot smaller than ext4.

Then again, if you need to build an extremely tiny system, you probably want something even tinier than ext2.
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"Typically require less design upfront"

I disagree with this (possibly depending on your particular value of "require"). The assistance that static typing can give in refactoring means I don't have to be nearly as confident in my initial design. Without the types, it's a lot more important that I get everything right initially. I find this to be true even when prototyping.
each market is isolated then the network effect is small

Each market isn't isolated.

I think the core difference of our perspectives is that I don't think we have a commoditized business, which you clearly think we do.
On-Demand Doctor Apps Bring Uber Approach to Medicine
Exactly. If you know a competitor can provide the equivalent service quality, but at significantly lower price, then users will switch. In a small market it is not too hard to let potential users know you exist and install your app.
I remember that as well. I took a while to upgrade to ext3, and a much longer while to upgrade to ext4 (long after ext4dev became ext4). For most types of software, I like novelty. For filesystems, I like boring; boring is good.
This is totally illegal. As I mentioned before this might be their model, but I hope not.
Cool logo. Can I leave messages in a location? I think that'd be a neat feature.

You should also make a Web app. This is too simple to make me want to download it, and get people nearby to download it.
Firmly in the pocket of Big Lol
Sure, but you probably shouldn't model the power function as an object (and philosophically, the point of RAII is resource management, not getting function inverses).
The Military-Industrial-Lol Complex, in fact - and the Build-a-lollers.
Wow. I so want this! However the exchange rate blows it out to 120 AUD, and I'm a poor student.
Technically speaking, a recorded verbal contract isn't simply spoken word - it is a matter of record. It's just that the record is an audio file instead of a piece of paper.

About 11 years ago I did a short stint as a customer support bloke for a telco here in Australia. Recorded verbal contracts were the new fashion, and made life easier for switching phone companies. But every 'verbal' recording started with boilerplate stating that this was a recorded conversation, and constituted a contract. The content was specific points, like in a paper document. It was not a casual conversation. Things may have changed here in the meantime, but that's the way it was then.

I also think that a unilateral audio recording wouldn't stand in a lot of places, given that it's illegal in some places to record a private conversation without informing the other party.
Every release of the Chromium, the open-source version of Chrome, is available for download:

https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-sn...

Chromium does not auto-update.
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Are you sure you don't stand to make more money from its increasing scarcity and low EROEI rather than circumstances of plentiful supply? :)
This is also found in the Ruby hardware description language (not the same as the scripting language). A commonly-occurring pattern is:

R^~1 ; S ; R

where R and S are functions, ';' is composition ('.' in Haskell) and '^~1' is inverse. Usually this is for wiring (change order or grouping of wires to suit block S).

The wrinkle in Ruby is that R and S can be relations, not just functions, so data can flow both ways, just like actual hardware (can only flow from right to left in Haskell). Ruby won't try to guess the obverse function, unlike J.
To be fair Commodore and Atari were still making their own computers (Amiga/ST) in the early nineties. More accurate would be "consumer PC company that survived into the 1995s"
...and I should have said that you can replace the above by:

S \ R
As I mentioned in another comment, there is more upside to telling the answer publicly, as other employers can see it and respond with job offers.
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If they don't know, they can still file charges against "Unknown" ("Anzeige gegen Unbekannt")
It seems blindingly obvious what the grandparent's intent was in this context.

What is weird and tortured in this comparison?
Google is one of the few companies that can legitimately show active work in most every technical field. I think it would be a pretty serious issue but IANAL either.
No, that's not really communism either.
Followup – J Functions have inverses
The rocket can initiate range safety itself like that?? What happens if a pressure sensor in one of the tanks fails a second after liftoff?
> A verbal contract is just as legally binding as a written contract.

This is the general principle in Common Law taught to law students in Contracts 100, but it really depends on the subject of contract and jurisdiction.

For example, many jurisdictions have legislation requiring all real property sales to be in writing. Many others require certain financial instruments or transactions to be in writing. And so on.

So while a verbal agreement may raise questions of honour and sometimes equity ("equity" as in the body of law, not the moral concept), it can often be considered non-contractual.

IANAL, TINLA.
I was about to try out the latest versions of RHEL-based distros in the near future. You just gave me more incentive. :)
I hope the EFF updates their article.

Don't hold your breath.

People don't like to acknowledge it, but the EFF is a lobbying organisation with an agenda, not some kind of disinterested "super court for Internet issues".

And the last months have shown that they have a habit of "misunderstanding" things and writing over-sensationalist press releases.

I mean, virtually everytime some press release of the EFF is discussed on HN, commenters have quickly pointed out factual errors or non-sequiturs.
Yes they do. Nice to learn about even more projects than I thought existed.
>What do you consider "monopoly profits?" As of the 2013 leak, Uber was grossing $1bn in revenue [1]. Uber takes a 20% cut from each transaction, and has an extremely lean cost structure - drivers pay for gas, insurance, amortize vehicles, don't get any benefits, etc. Even if we assume costs to be 10% of revenue (which they aren't), Uber still would have earned a gross profit of $100m in 2013. Judging by Uber's current $50bn valuation, their revenues have grown anywhere from 3x-5x over the past 2 years

Assuming all this is correct (leaks sometimes are not) this does not solve the competition problem. The more money they make in a market the more attractive it comes for someone else to enter that market.

>You are right that there are low barriers to entry in this market - it's why most drivers do both Uber and Lyft. The underlying technology is the same, and the capital (drivers) is not proprietary and can be shared between different companies. However, if Uber were to stipulate that drivers sign an employment contract, and then enforce that they were not working for the competition, this would raise the barriers to entry for competitors. Likewise, there isn't much differentiation in the taxi market. It's nice if a driver comes with water and a nice-smelling car, but ultimately it's not a deal breaker.

The problem is the parts of their business that are unique have low barriers to entry, while the other parts are inherently inefficient (having each driver pay all the capital and running costs is more expensive than centralising). Sure the current taxi industry was ripe for innovation, but once that genie is out of the bottle there is nothing stopping someone else out ubering Uber. How does Uber stop this happening?
Right; communism isn't "those who work hard reap rewards", but rather "from each according to his ability to each according to his need" (by way of the collective: collect and redistribute).

However, in actual communist countries in the former Eastern Bloc, they also chanted opposite slogans like "let him who does not work, not eat!". Certain "anti-social elements" not making the mimimum effort were not to have their needs met by the collective.
Hey, I just submitted a pull request for the "exec" command :)
Its an interesting read to hear about other investors who have missed out on deals. I actually tried investing into a startup this year and completely failed due to governmental regulations. Even though i worked my ass off saving for 2 years to have discretionary income in order to invest as i wanted to I did not meet the requirements of being an "accredited investor" and so i missed out on the funding round. I spent at least a month getting everything ready and going back and forth with the founders meeting with them emailing them back and forth to find out from a newsletter that they had closed without me. I guess until the SEC opens it up i'm shit out of luck and am better off going to a roulette table at a casino...