jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In September, when i first heard about bitcoins (unsurprisingly from hacker news comments), they were 0.05 USD/BTC.

I won't be surprised by $5-$10 by the end of the year, it seems that they are getting traction.
I'd imagine that's only so if some human has intervened and told the "actual value" of something.

However, I'd imagine that in just as many cases, if not more, there is no real "actual value" -- only computers playing with each other.
Not ECMAScript Harmony! [1] And no, that isn't the definitive semantics of closing over mutable variables. It is one out of at least two possible semantics.

[1] http://brendaneich.com/2010/11/paren-free/ -- see the "Implicit Fresh Bindings" section.
I think it has to do with a reduced credit rating if they don't raise the limit (because they could then default on existing loans) which makes the interest on the debt higher, which makes US currency worth less?
Reducing the value of the dollar overseas to sell more sounds like madman logic to me - it only makes the wealthy, more weathy, not the average consumer.

We don't reduce the subsidies to those exporting more, so they will do fine.

But for the average person it will just make all your goods and services more expensive.
I've a similar question and was interested in answers, but absent any I'll share what little I know.

We are looking for a chat solution as well. The current lead candidate appears to be 'Campfire' from 37signals.

http://campfirenow.com

- Campfire is a web-based group chat tool that lets you set up password-protected chat rooms. Invite a client, colleague, or vendor to chat. Link to a room on your intranet for internal communications.
- web based, nothing to download or install
- free for up to four chatters on-line simultaneously, various paid plans
- iPhone, iPad, Android apps exist

Testing with the free trial will have to wait until after the holiday weekend.
Mal-wat?
For what it's worth, make that 195,001 and 187,001.
Your TL;DR requires me to read the article.
I wrote the headline; I'm British. It's always a little awkward to pick a term here, as we don't usually like to refer to ourselves at all much. "Brits" was too informal for this. UK citizens would have sounded a bit too Airstrip One. Britons has a nice newspaperly ring, but I agree with you that it is potentially a little corny, so I believe we only use it for this particular page.

I also have to deal with the trickiness that the text has to simultaneously address UK people wanting to take action, and explain the action to curious people outside of the UK.

For instance, the main action uses different language:

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-britain-s-lords-don-t-let-th...
I've been happily plugging away with Ubuntu on a Thinkpad T530 for a while now and an old Dell w/ an Intel Core 2 Duo for years before that. Both installs went smoothly.

The hassle involved in getting Ubuntu working on a MacBook is not representative of laptop installations in general. Macs are special beasts and looking at the relevant support wiki page there are all sorts of hoops that I just didn't have to jump through in either of my non-Mac installations. I'm sorry you had a poor experience!
Strong guarantees of privacy are essential to enable political dissent. Without it, opinions opposed to the prevailing majority view point are not only side-lined, but the very expression of an interest in them becomes a cause for controversy and social rebuke.

Without privacy individuals are unable to explore, consider and evaluate diverging ideals, and eventually reach new personal convictions which may in time turn the tide against the status quo. Instead, the fermentation of ideas is cut short, as most people are unable to stand the push-back inflicted on them by society at an early stage in their thought-process, leading to self-censorship and group-think.

Society incurs much more damage from so many angles, ranging from murders to car accidents to diseases, that it does not need to jump in such abject terror at the thought of political violence - still a comparatively rare occurence in most places on this earth - so as to trample on the very foundation of every democracy:

Which is the freedom of the individual in his own thoughts, to form his own personal opinions unimpeded by institutionalised social pressure.

The mass-scale erosion of privacy must be stopped before it is too late to reverse the trend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge

Get to work! :)
Google doesn't need the paltry revenue from the NSA for their bottom line, Assange plays guilt by association, but doesn't address motives.

I thought he addressed that right off the bat - they aren't seeking money from DC they are seeking favorable treatment from DC by doing favors for DC.
Both are unhealthy its not clear that fake sweeteners are better for you. Why tax a different kind of unhealthy less?
I just used Firefox's reader mode. Half the time it cuts through modal paywalls, if they loaded the content behind.
Indeed, a success story of simply "don't suck at thing X".

Fortunately Thing X actually has a lot of value to a lot of people. I enjoy seeing this story far more than Facebook et al.
"Any model created using biased data" from what I've seen from Ghebru, et al means: real day-to-day language that people actually use and vast majority have no issue with. Phrases like "woman doctor" "both genders", etc.

To remove this discourse from models ironically means applying a strong bias imho.
https://nano.org/ - That's the reply
Welcome to the world of aftermarket vehicle modifications.
Is this an acquihire? If not, why is the service being shut down? With 9 mil users and the size of the company, it doesn't seem like an acquihire!
Boeing sees Loyal Wingman / ATS as a way to stay in the game when LM owns the only 5th gen western manned aircraft. The dual seat Super Hornet is a better control aircraft than the JSF and has a huge power budget. Boeing have also been careful with the ITAR aspects so they can sell it outside of primary US alliance countries. A system with Israeli or even Indian electronics is a possibility.

I presume the French just want to save their aerospace industry. Before Corona Airbus was looking really screwed, with 777/787 being much more efficient than the A380, but with 737 MAX fiasco and limited intercontinental flights the A320neo is looking good. But I digress.
When you’re doing development work on any system, every resource is scarce.

I prefer to allocate that memory to a VM or sandboxed/instrumented debug binary instead of a “communicate by sending cats” application.

I want to reiterate that using resources carelessly just because they are abundant is bad resource management. If two or three applications are that careless, neither your RAM, nor your disk space is infinite anymore.

Microsoft Word for Mac uses less RAM and power than Evernote. That’s madness! I love Evernote, but eh, that’s a bit too much for a networked note editor.
I'm not sure if it's an option in the settings now or not but if you go to `about:config` in firefox and search for `browser.warnOnQuit` you can make sure that's set to `true`.

Another favorite of mine: `browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab` set to `false`. This lets me cmd-w as many times as i want but it won't close the window I have open.
> just that corporate backing is both not required

Sure, no one needs the backing of the corporation. But whoever gets to be the one doing the "ton of work" that you are asking for needs to be paid, do you agree?

Now, the question is: who is going to pay for that? Something more specific than "the community" would help. Are you willing to pay for it? How much? Can you get more people to commit to it? For how long?
The real bummer about this write-off is that it's binary based on the usage of the space - if you use it for _any_ non-business activities, you are unable to write it off. Compare to assets, where you write off the portion that you use for business. It makes it a fairly difficult writeoff to achieve for renters and people in small homes - who might be working out of their living room, kitchen, or bedroom most of the time.

Just a pet peeve of mine - it seems like it's well intentioned, but for many people who really could use it (people in small spaces starting their own business), it's not applicable. On the other hand, it can cut a nice chunk off of a big house's mortgage.

I say this as someone who has never been able to take advantage of the writeoff despite working from a small home for years.
Is it a human closing it or a bot? If you run an open source project there's a natural tendency to install a bot to auto-close all of the issues which people open because they didn't read the docs, want you to do free consulting for their business, have an irreproducible bug report, etc. and since most projects are short on labor that makes it somewhat inevitable that someone will enable the bot first and never get around to configuring it to, for example, not close an issue tagged as verified.
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1551/use-latex-to-pr...
Probably one of the cheaper and more effective NHS tech spends.
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Property rights are already voluntarily violated through taxation, this is just a more thorough example. Why should someone who hasn't earned property get to exercise rights over it? Society contributed to the wealth, the offspring may or may not have, but if they did they should have been paid before the elder in the situation passed on.

And to your second point, it's a chicken-and-egg problem. Because taxes are so vilified, we don't have the fiscal ability to take care of people as we should (in my opinion). If society at large had a form of basic income, that would answer your second point and one way to fund it would be to massively increase estate/inheritance taxes.
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Something like this could be a good upgrade for myself when my current phone breaks down.

I've been using an Xcover 271 for years. It gives me a couple of weeks of battery and, if I really need to, I can still use a simple web browser to look up timetables etc. (but it's enough of a burden that I won't use it for fun) and there's Google Maps preinstalled (also, a big slow for just browsing around but it has been a life-saver several times!)

But the Xcover is somewhat slow and because it has this 'ruggedised' brand image it costs more than it should. A very basic entry-level phone with technology that's five years newer but still costs nearly nothing is probably a good sweetspot. If it breaks the option of buying a replacement won't be considered any longer than one second.
The concept of chargebacks, as often applied in practice, seems absurd to me. If you have a credit card then you're also supposed to be a reasonably responsible adult. You shouldn't just get to use a mechanism intended for defense against theft and fraud just because you regret a purchase. Why can't the payment company simply accuse you of fraud when you attempt fraudulent chargebacks?
The complicating factor and essential difference for worker / manager / owner relationships is the power differential. It's one thing to be in a relationship of equals where neither party can "pull rank".

In my experience, there are many managers who when confronted with their own performance shortcomings will tend to pull rank and resort to authority. Once this happens, there's no trust from the employee. I.e. as a manager, you can be arbitrarily bad at your job and my only recourse is to find a new manager or to leave the company. I accept that that's the way the world works, but it shows that true trust is difficult to maintain when one party has more power than the other, and a tendency to use it without consequences.
> Normally, non-cacheable page fragments would make every page uncacheable.

AFAICT, ASP.NET supported partial output caching since 2003. And, it can store multiple versions of a cached item via a user-defined parameter (a property on the cached control class). It seems it might be possible to simply create a property that returns the user ID and let the cache vary on that.

Of course, this uses the Web Forms controls-based system, which isn't very popular. But calling this type of caching new seems a bit of a stretch.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k4he1ds5%28v=vs.71%2...

Edit: And here's a link talking about VaryByCustom, complete with example code that uses the version of the browser to generate unique per-browser-version caches.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5ecf4420%28v=vs.71%2...
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Ok I tried the product and here are my suggestions:

1) Use Google Connect/Yahoo or something so that you can access my Contacts list

2) It is the same as opening a browser window with email app since the contacts are not there already or shown in a dropdown.

3)The problem is not that I have to move away from the page to share it. The pain comes in moving away and doing stuff. If I have to move away to find that one email id, it is of no use.

4) Who would save Contacts in a seperate list? No CSV Upload is not the solution.
> Presumably if someone has reverse engineered Dropship¹ then we're not far off having an FOSS Dropbox-a-like to use it with?

That's a pretty big stretch. You believe the client-side code to trigger download of a file that doesn't exist on the system is "not far off from having an FOSS Dropbox-a-like"? That's like finding a hub cap in the woods, and deciding you've almost got all the parts needed to construct a car.

I don't believe Dropbox is using any techniques that are secret; I believe anyone with the know-how, and time, and inclination, could use publicly available algorithms to replicate everything Dropbox has done. The "secret sauce" is not the protocol. There are a number of protocols for doing versioned filed storage (WebDAV, for instance) and a number of protocols for transferring only the parts of files which have changed (rsync, for instance). The hard part is in putting them all together, not in any magic to be found in a few lines of code.

I highly doubt this is all a conspiracy to prevent people from building a FOSS "Dropbox-a-like". People can already do that, without needing any Dropbox magic. Oddly enough, no one has. I reckon it's because it's really hard to put all those pieces together in a way that works easily for end users. Highly technical users have had these kinds of capabilities for years in the form of version control systems, rsync, etc. Open Source developers have solved the hard algorithmic problems already (and Dropbox is standing on their shoulders). What Dropbox did is make it accessible and usable by anyone.

Do people really need any explanation other than, "Somebody made a mistake and sent out the wrong email"? They don't strike me as being particularly evil guys when I've met some of them, and while they aren't bastions of Open Source generosity as far as I know, they also never seemed to be anti-Open Source, to me.
I've been thinking about faster-than-light communication recently.

Consider gravity. Is its effect instantaneous? That is, gravity varies as the inverse of the square distance between two bodies. If, say, the Earth were to suddenly get much closer to the Moon, would that gravitational effect be "instant"? Or does it propagate at the speed of light?

If gravitation is somehow "instant", then one could imagine an apparatus which allows you to transmit information instantaneously. (You would need a way to measure the effect of gravity from the sending body; perhaps by measuring the height of waves formed in a planetary-sized sphere of water.)
perhaps a nice cheat sheet may be up your street? I found looking at a blueprint one a nice way to get an overview of what is available.
True, but his new job won't have much to do with undergraduate degrees; the Media Lab is a research-only lab that doesn't have an undergraduate program (some of the profs do also teach in MIT's undergraduate programs, but in that capacity they'll report to someone other than Ito).
It's neither evil nor incompetent. It is simply a business model. Automate what you can and let the rest fail. If any individual case becomes a public embarrassment, resolve that particular case amicably without fixing the root cause.

The unfortunate thing is just that we as users of these services are not given the choice to pay up for reasonable customer support.
First of all, I'm brazilian.

I study computer science and things are bad here. I'm very lucky to be able to understand english well enough to have studied most of courses MIT OCW have that are interesting to me. Teachers here "teach" in a different way, it's sad. Currently, there's much potential being lost.

People here are educated to get a job and work to buy a car, house and consume a lot, which is actually perfect how the way things are in the world right now(be careful US, we have more stupid consumers than you). They are good robots to get things done to get paid.

They need a boss basically, they are educated to be the employee. Awesome for US companies that come here.

I see a good future ahead for our economy, but who is going to get really rich here are people from the outside, the rest are basically going to beneficit from a higher salary and more power to consume crap.
Given that the article is from 2006 that'd be some prescient writing.

Also at the time of this article they had their own custom language Wasabi. This article explaining Wasabi is dated a month after the original article:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html

It's based on VBScript, not C#.
This is correct, as I understand it. You can disable networking in the XMB for the same effect.
I wrote about a similar issue some time ago: http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/the-5-guerrilla-user-test/
Because if they all had a copy of the book, that would be 6 in circulation. But only 1 is in circulation.
Yeah, I got news.ycombinator.com stuck on "new", refreshing it from time to time, about once or twice a day. Since the front page stories make it to @newsycombinator on Twitter, I only check that page when I have more free time than I can handle, or when it feels like a story might have interesting comments.
Sounds good on the face of it, except that the evidence points in a completely different direction.

Have you ever seen any of these wealthy people you mention go to Washington to champion a strong dollar policy? I haven't. Have you ever seen Hu Jintao go to Washington to call for a stronger dollar? I have. We all have.

Perhaps the truth is closer to this: The US is in a huge amount of dollar debt, and those dollars will become weaker. It's the countries who are owed money (China) who are generally the inflation fighters.
I spend most of my time on new, very little on the page. What bubbles up to the main page is sometimes interesting to me, but not often. Most of the stuff I find interesting never gets more than 2-4 votes; /newest is the place for me.
Anyone recommend an exchange for buying and selling bitcoins with Paypal? Thinness of the market doesn't particularly matter - I'm not interested in speculation or arbitrage but rather adding bitcoin support to my site.
Older hands are encouraged to scan the "new" page to upvote those that are "in sync" and "on topic," and flag those that are completely unsuitable. Lately, though, it seems that the older hands are simply overwhelmed, and there's a wider and wider spread of material getting upvoted.
I have heard this recycled notion about carbs being scarce many times, but in this context it makes little sense. If fat adaptation is so efficient at converting food to energy and there is more fat around than carbs, why would the craving for carbs evolve even? I have also done keto a couple times and my experience is the same — in a month I just can’t stand anymore meat and bacon and going back to a balanced diet feels very good. I also can‘t stuff myself with carbs and start seeking both protein rich foods and fatty. Would question the whole „carbs where scarce, so we evolved to overfeed on them“ dogma. Why would fruits be more scarce for a non predator (as where human ancestors), than meat? It feels like a whole lot is missing in the story.
er, actually, its 2021 now. gotta retrain that muscle memory to reach for the 1 instead of the 0.
Well my experience is colored by having moved here from Chicago, which is a city with a lot more going on, while at the same time having at least 40% lower housing cost. Prices are quite comparable to those in parts of say Brooklyn, but there's almost no cool cultural sustenance to make up for it. Just a bunch of biotech bros, doctors and university students.
Fun fact: your water company probably has TVs in the control room specifically so the operators can now when those flush breaks are coming up and ensure the water towers have enough water at those times.

(I interned at a water treatment plant a while ago. Watching the 30 million gallon cleartanks drain when the plant lost power really hit home (at ~6-7 million gallon/hr) how much water an entire city uses.)
But every year we have excess mortality caused by cuts to service. That's literally people dying because of poor funding choices. What do you expect to see? Ambos on fire?
As mentioned elsewhere in the discussion they now provide a way to migrate data from one iPhone to a another, but that's assuming that you have the old device still.
Sorry, maybe that's not clear; I have multiple phone numbers.

Does that mean I have to unregister and reregister to get my other identity? Or does Signal support multiple identities?
On revision 2.0 and later Apple has included a lot of modern stuff like: ARC, properties, literals, blocks, fast enumeration, etc.
While it probably wouldn't be a trivial feature, I would love this to be integrated with Chromecast in some way.
This is a nice response
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/15...
Please don't tell me what the Japanese are willing to pay for.

I'm going there for vacation this year -- and I'm nervous enough as it is, wondering what kind of country invents tentacle porn... :-)

Edit: I mean, I'm a fan of HP Lovecraft and all, but...
> lezass.com (French for "the zass")

I have to say, not the first thing that came to mind.

It would be interesting to see how this would map out if you went further to 3,4 and 4,3 domain names. I'm sure there are quite a bit more 4 letter words though, so that would be another thing to sort through.