jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
To get the bitcoins you need a broker, an exchange, or buy them in person. Check out Coinbase, Kraken, and Localbitcoins.

To keep your coins safe you can use Electrum. It will generate a "seed" that you need to print or write down and keep it safe. The wallet will use that seed to generate addresses you can use to receive bitcoins. If you are into Linux, you can use a Tails DVD to generate the seed in a clean environment, which is safer. I think the last version added Electrum so you won't need to install anything extra.

Another option is to use multi-signature online wallets like Coinkite (I think Coinbase offers multi-signature too now).
>> [e.g. These agents were not involved]

i.e. not e.g.
I agree. If he fails to deliver, his support will wane. It is intriguing to think how it will change people's mindset, to what direction and to what degree, if it happens.

China and the world have been undergoing changes in a fast pace unseen before in the history of human society. It is becoming harder and harder to analyze and predict.
Inequality is also explained, to a shocking extent, by housing. And housing is a euphemism for land.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/19/m...

Rent rises whenever things improve, but those returns don't help everyone, nor do they help the people responsible for the improvements. Rather, they help the select fortunate landholders who are profiting by owning prime locations, particularly urban locations.
> John Oliver was only hired on the daily show in July 2006. 2006 was a year full of evidence and disclosures of voting machine security issues.

Is his date of hire relevant to this conversation?

> Do you have a bias?

Not only do I have bias, but I suspect I also suffer from shortcomings in knowledge as well as precision in my thinking.

Do you suffer at all from these three things, or anything else that I may have overlooked? If no, how did you obtain that knowledge?
But on other side of free exchange of ideas we have this idea of cancellation, which results from freedom of speech + freedom of association. As part of freedom of speech, we can also use that speech to narrate moral perspectives of whether some speech is good or bad.
> How is this relevant? We don't have a Trump-led dictatorship in the US.

Precisely what would we have gotten if those insurrectionists had succeeded in neutralizing the legislative branch?

> And since when is "Well it's not as bad as a <insert really bad scenario>" a well thought out argument?

It's an argument that is sufficiently well thought out when we are literally faced with a choice between A and B. We can do whatever we can now to prevent this movement from continuing to gain momentum or we can allow ourselves to be overrun by the movement.
I live in the US. The specific thing I am talking about here is a) the expectation the protest would turn violent and b) the expectation that the protestors would storm the capitol. This thread is already too deep and I'm getting a bit burned out on responding to everything here, but in general my own bubble (point taken, no offense intended) implied the former was unlikely (through the eyes of centrist Republicans) and the latter was a fever dream but never actually could manifest in reality.
I think both of those are invalid if we're talking about WikiLeaks, no?
Right, and we don't know, which means we should audit aggressively and assume these things may still be open attack vectors. You don't hang out with the backdoor open waiting for your friend to let you know.
You can watch the episode of JRE to see the contempt Jack Conte has for creators. For example banning people because just because he disagrees with them, not because they violated any terms of service on the platform.

Also, Patreon is sorely lacking in utility for users, so many missed opportunities for social networking, functionality, and usability.

Everything I've ever read or seen by Sahil Lavingia has shown his dedication to fostering creatives.
With $40k a year you can live with the rich in some Latin American countries, if you can also spend 250k/350k on buying your own place in a high rise with private security or a gated community. You won't have access to Amazon and be able to buy all the top notch gear for your new hobbies in a week like as a tech worker in the US, but you can have a nice house with cleaning staff, a nice car or just take Uber or private cars everywhere, and do fancy dining two or three times per week.

The median American household doesn't have all this luxuries.
But social media has their cake and eats it too.

They're granted immunity from lawsuits from the government because they're a dumb pipe, but then they censor/promote as if they are a publisher.

A business can't sue facebook for allowing a BLM riot to organize on its platform that destroyed their storefront, and similarly they have no recourse when said business gets a facebook page deleted because they complained about it.
Doing that on a Mac is...more complicated. There's only one company (Rogue Amoeba) that does virtual audio devices (https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/) and it's $100.

Incidentally I purchased an Elgato Wave:3 Mic (https://www.elgato.com/en/wave-3) because it includes a free virtual audio device for Mac, which piqued my curiosity. It turns out that Rogue Ameoba provides the extension for virtual audio devices, so it's a good value!

Another option for both Win/Mac is the Blue Yeti X (https://www.bluemic.com/en-us/products/yeti-x/), which has Blue Voice to denoise/noise gate/equalize audio without additional drivers aside from the base software (I use a headset which supports Blue Voice and it's ok, but def not as good as RNNVoice)
Of course Microsoft bought Rare Ltd., so I guess they thought they might as well acquire some Nintendoish IP one way or another.
> About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth & half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure continuation of life (of all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens & we destroy ourselves
As CNN would say.. Fiery but mostly peaceful protest
True, it is the a private business. But the idea of freedom of speech is so ingrained in our collective conscious as a priority, It is a principle of fairness. Social media is akin to the public square. Sure, they've got the right to do it, but still comes off as unfair.
The programming on Fox broadcast channels is different than Fox News, which is specifically transmitted via cable or satellite and, legally, not via public airwaves. Fox broadcast channels are subject to the same laws as other broadcast channels.
I practice being cold on purpose too. It was about 0C today and I have a shirt and thin jumper on (I have a jacket in my bag in case of rain). I think the metabolic effects are potentially interesting, but I actually do it for another reason: The stoic idea of exposing oneself to voluntary discomfort. [1]

"While everyone around me is complaining about how cold it is or about how hungry they are I am content and comfortable with fewer layers of clothing and less food. I am just happy to be alive, as I have voluntarily endured much harsher situations.

This practice of voluntary discomfort that Stoicism does more than just make you appreciate comfort, it teaches you to have a high tolerance of that which is uncomfortable and you will always be content; it is something that you should practice at least a few times a month because you grow confident that if you can survive these minor periods of discomfort, you can also survive major discomforts as well."

I will always remember as part of Royal Marines commando training doing situps in a freezing stream in November on Dartmoor laughing hysterially with 20 other men about how freezing we were while the the training team looked on shouting "Come on men, this builds character!". They were right!

[1] http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/how-to-practic...
Exactly, it is silly to consider Erlang a "pet language", it is an industry hardened language designed for the a near cousin to problem domain of WhatsApp. 20+ years routing billions of calls a day under soft real-time, high reliability requirements... because you simply expect your phone to work, even phone calls from one end of the world to the other.
Unreinforced brick construction is actually illegal in many parts of California, possibly all. It's pretty easy to reinforce, though; if you sink rebar through the brickwork every now & again, it's as resilient as concrete and arguably prettier.

Admittedly this is much easier in new construction...
I'm not sure I'd describe GR and the foundations of QM as 'low hanging fruit.'

Einstein seems smarter because he was smarter. He didn't transform one small area of physics, he solved a lot of problems that were out at the edges and introduced new ideas that made them tractable.

Of course other people helped, and some of those other people might have created GR eventually.

But he was the only one to pull it all together.

In physics now there are plenty of people with world-class math talent, but no one with Einstein's intuition, insight, and creativity.

Which is why I think progress on the really hard problems has become glacial. Those problems always need deep creative insight, and math alone isn't enough.
Anyone fancy a game of dejarik? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO6M4ngKRp0
Bitvise server is $100, but now you want both simple and free? It's well worth the $100 IMO as it's pretty easy to setup and manage accounts and keys. You only said "simple" before, and I consider it pretty simple to get up and running. I didn't pay for it, but $100 one time is pretty negligible for what we use it for.
I think the implied threat to personal safety is more jarring than obnoxious phone calls, but this is so far off topic it belongs elsewhere.

The kinds of harassment we've seen come out of one man's personal crusade against an ex-girlfriend are disgusting, and it's incumbent upon all of us to discourage it.
> don't really feel like Metro is going towards OS X at all, they seem to be strongly going their own way.

I actually meant the desktop parts, no metro. For example, the taskbar is becoming more dock-like in every release.

> Interesting, any specific examples? I'm genuinely curious.

It's somewhat hard to nail down. I find it much more mouse heavy. I find the window management to be annoying; I prefer full-screen apps with dockable panels to the mess of random windows normally found in OS X apps. I definitely feel having one menu bar WAY at the top of a single screen to be insane. I'm sitting in front of 2 24" monitors kinda makes OS X seem a bit underwhelming. On Windows, I have two task bars showing different tasks for each window. Two start menus (thanks Classicshell) and my apps have their own menus.

It seems like the apps have a lot of style-over-substance going on. Code editors with pop-out drawers which are both stupid and a waste of pixels.

> File renaming: "Enter" to rename a file vs "F2" (something I happily accepted as random dogma, but now it's "??")

F2 works but I never use it. I always just click twice to rename.

> Window management: being able to close all windows without exiting the app itself (handy when I'm clearing clutter but I don't want to pay a cost for restarting a big application, or if I simply just didn't realize it was the last window when I closed it, and now I have to relaunch the application)

Most Windows applications are MDI or tabbed so this seems like less of issue. Even a lot of OS X apps are tabbed. I actually hate what you like: nothing but the menu bar open indicating that the app is in focus and running. I've been confused by that a few times.

> Scrolling: Being able to scroll any window whether or not it's the active application, so long as the mouse cursor is hovering over content.

Yeah, you got me there. For the longest time, OS X was missing some really obvious stuff though. Like resizing windows from any corner! I found nothing more annoying than having to move a window around to then resize it.

> Not to say everything is more logical, just common things I do. The screen capture shortcut is totally bizarre to me, I have to google it every time.

SHIFT-PRNTSCN? It's got a labeled key on the keyboard!
I think Steven Pinker had good takes on mimicking human cognition in his book, How the Mind Works along with describing Computational Theory of the Mind (CTM) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_theory_of_mind
Out of curiousity, why go with AWS when Linode, Digitalocean, etc appear to be so much more cost effective? Is the simplicity of spinning up AWS instances really great enough to counterbalance what appears to be a significantly greater cost? Is it the flexibility of different AWS services?
Question is, will they start redirecting shortened links via affiliates to generate additional revenue?
I'm waiting for Google to open up an API or dashboard on top of Caffeine to compete with some of the monitoring tools like Radian6 and Jive. They could own that space and it's growing like crazy right now. Plus, we don't need any more companies coming out with "social web" search engines.
"Guys who would never buy Smirnoff before are even buying it now to shield against attacks"

What, "I'm not playing your dumb game, dude" not an option?
Looks like a pretty spectacular way to get yourself killed. Am I the only one thinking about what would happen if the slip coach didn't fully lock and then came loose while passengers were leaving or entering it from the main train?
I'll likely end up doing this. At least, that's the plan. Right now I'm just waiting until my lease is up at the end of July to go anywhere. This is the first 'feeler' I've put out just to see if anyone is awesome and helpful enough to take a chance on me. If nothing works out, I'll just be submitting resumes.

I'm nervous that I won't look that great on paper, at least compared to recent Stanford grads and whatnot that are clearly more qualified. On paper, all I've got on them is that I'll work for cheap. I'm on of those people you kind of just have to meet, or at least I'd like to think so. If I can sit down across from someone, I'm confident I can make them excited to work with me.
You could try http://purepistos.net/diakonos/
Solving customer needs takes creativity. If you are having fun, you are more creative.
The only publishers that this will affect are the ones that ignore readability and user experience. That's the only time you'd use this feature. I think letting users punish poor design is brilliant way to create the right incentives.
Thanks for the reply.
Twitter + firefox would do it for me.
The music businesses wouldn't be worth anywhere near that much. And it would help Google's goal of making the world's information universally accessible and useful.
They process cashouts through intermediaries, essentially laundering the cashout money. This is one of the main crimes they are being charged with. In addition to the domain names, the FBI also seized all of the funds they could that were being used in handling cashouts.
What kind of outrageous claims? (Just curious)

To me what is shocking is that most people thing the Federal Reserve (which is probably the most powerful institution in the country) is part of the government and not privately owned.

I work for a very large bank and most employees here think you're crazy if you tell them the Fed is a private bank.
I think he's saying 11,000 page views since inception.
You make it sound like CPAN has "an aggressive authoritarian requirement on documentation, coding standards, and unit testing" (or at least that Lisp would need that to make a hypothetical LPAN successful).

CPAN definitely does not have that. What it does have are fairly strong social pressures in favor of those things, and extensive frameworks making it easier to provide those things (I'm thinking in particular of cpantesters.org providing free cross-platform unit testing support for all of CPAN).
I remember playing the free mod from 2013. Got the Steam version about a year ago, played through it, and loved it. Looking forward to what these people do next.
Yeah, welcome! I'm just glad you're getting something out of it.

And I hope whatever you're going through gets better soon... hit me up if I can help.
the difference between 600 cycles (best 18650) and 4000 cycles is night and day. There's already Lithium Phosphate that is warranted for 6000-8000 cycles. That's 19 years. With 600 cycles your battery will hit the landfield in 2 years. A Lithium Phosphate battery will last 19 years before it has to go to the landfield.
Nobody takes the environmental cost in consideration until you take away the subsidies and look at the real numbers.
I don't really see the problem with having tilted floors compared to the risk of, oh dying in a structural collapse
Actually, AMD basically forgot to implement the instruction. It was in the manuals.
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The key to any early stage investing is betting on the team involved. I agree valuation really matters, but getting in with a great team is more important than the perfect valuation.
The aspect of university which can be replicated in self study is the aquisition of knowledge from a source. Regardless of the source, your professor saying "Display text in Python with the 'print' command." or you reading it in a book, you will need to put in the same mental effort to learn it. This process is the core aspect of education.

What university provides is a number of side things which assist in this process.

1. An expert in the field who can advise you from experience what information is important, where the best information sources are, and in which order to approach things.

2. Feedback on how well you understand the material via discussion groups, assignments and examinations.

3. The opportunity to ask questions about the material.

These sound cliched but they are really important. The alternative is a person who is doing something in an inefficient way because they don't know the better way, they don't even know that there is a better way, and the answers they are producing are incorrect because they are blindly applying the inefficient method when it doesn't work in this case.

University also provides access to credentials through grades and letters of recommendation, a network of peers who will likely end up in a similar industry to you, and various social/clubs things.

My advice would be to pick courses with these advantages in mind.

- Do I know how I would learn this field? Maybe the topic is so large or new that there is no standard text and you will need a guide.

- Could I obtain easy feedback if I self-studied? You can check arithmetic on a calculator but it's harder to look at a piece of your writing and know if you are improving and what needs correction.

- Do I want to build connections with this industry? Selling software to engineers might be easier if you know something about the domain, and know some engineers who can vouch for you and tell you what problems they have.
Maybe it is because I'm not a real coder, but whenever I'm working on some project (usually front-end web design) I find myself checking resources and other code examples often.

How do you guys deal with these while 'in the zone'? Got a book or notes lying around? Or are visiting the web/irc to get unstuck?
You say funny things.
Not everything can be built with high-level languages. Some people work on operating systems, others on database systems, etc.
So stop this nonsense, I have some breaking news for you: not everyone writes web applications these days.
It's the application. Gmail is a hosting service for your email, but it's also a fabulous intuitive email webapp. I am sure many companies/people would purchase an internally hosted gmail appliance (heck, maybe a whole google apps appliance), if they could. I think that's one reason that many of us end up in this situation.
The interesting thing about the gold market is that there is 40x more "paper" gold ownership then there is actual gold in the world.

They can do this because the rules say if someone calls in their gold, they can just give them the value of it in dollars if there is not enough metal to cover it.
As a regular vim user, I recommend vimpulse if you want vim-like keybindings in emacs. IIRC, it even introduces some ":" functionality. It is still a pale imitation, but it is better than wrestling with default emacs keybindings in typical editing.
These are in Jeff's chart. And really most of them shouldn't be: they aren't "rare" pronunciations -- they're non-existent pronunciations. Nobody uses them, except to point out how silly INTERCAL is. And rightly so, since INTERCAL was created to be unusable.

However, there are a couple that, despite the INTERCAL authors' best efforts, have entered common usage, according to the chart: "mesh" and "splat".
I don't see what that has to do with this system. It doesn't say how employees are ranked, just that are ranked.
> By permanent battery I mean a battery that can supply current indefinitely without needing to be charged.

Yes, and there's no such thing. Also, they're not equivalent to a permanent magnet.

> The second law is meaningless.

Well, since you aren't here to discuss physics, have a nice day.
Yes, you can. It's the only way to deal with a Gish Gallop.

The very first item I clicked was an item where apparently saying one group can do nothing right, and then later saying a different group can do right, is a contradiction.

This could have been an interesting resource, but as it stands, there's too much manure to sieve through.
What you say is very true. PHP is in the same boat that JavaScript is in. Their very severe, yet very inherent, language flaws just cannot be covered up with one library or framework after another.

The only real option is to give up backward compatibility, to then throw out every broken language feature, and to then reimplement them properly. Unfortunately for those two languages, that would involve an awful lot of stuff getting thrown out and reimplemented, which is very likely why it hasn't happened yet.

Given how much core functionality needs to be reworked in both cases, I don't think they can really be saved. There are numerous other better languages out there, and it's easier just to use them instead of trying to salvage PHP or JavaScript.
A fixed php would be a different language. The differences between Python 2.x and 3.0 would be minor compared to what would need to be fixed in php... and look how well that migration has worked out for python.
false dilemma?

or what's the connection to imperialism there, are we supposed to pick one or the other?
This is pretty much the plot of the two most recent episodes of The BlackList.

http://www.nbc.com/the-blacklist
Hm, interesting point. Although I don't think it will be a lot of data, but I'll look into it when I have it up and running.
It would consist of just two or three remaining teams being able to raise the funds to compete...

Or in other words, it would no longer exists, because the public would lose interest in the lack of competition.
No, the buck stops with his party, and his party would want a political future rather than risk losing power. Corporate interests are just too strong and no party can afford to completely alienate big business.
I think it's reasonable to say the PRC is doing it. I believe the PRC is doing it. That doesn't mean it can be legally shown that the PRC is doing it.
This site: http://www.flemming-hamburg.de/patlist.htm, also in German, is linked from the Sheffield Arts Tower wikipedia entry; it's got a bit more info for ubercompletists
It's a choice between security and corruption. How much secrecy contributes to either is up for debate. The irony is that it's all top secret so there's no way any of us can know for sure.