skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During the transaction spam, Bitcoin was all but unusable with the standard wallet software. The price went up. Whatever the Bitcoin price depends on, it sure isn't whether it's usable.
iStats CLI: OS X Hardware Stats from the Command-Line
Canadian here, and I find that most of my peers (30s) use their credit cards for almost everything and their debit cards collect dust. The reasons are several:

1) CCs offer rewards (travel, cash back), usually in the range of 2% of purchases

2) CCs offer insurance and extended warranties on some purchases.

3) CCs help you build a good credit rating, which is important for someone who intends to apply for a mortgage at some point.

4) CC offer superior protection to debit cards. Yes, CC fraud may be easy, but as the card holder you will almost never be on the hook.

I've had my CC compromised, the bank detected it immediately and issued me a new one. Never was there any question who would bear the cost of the 5-figures that the fraudster spent. My brother had his debit card compromised once and the story was completely different. The bank wanted him to prove that the fraudulent transactions were not his and he had to go to great lengths to do so.

My personal preferred order of payment is:

CC

Cash

Debit (last resort)
Every day from the ring on your finger to the circuits in your electronics that you're using to access this webpage (in addition to many other uses).
More than just an OS, I think what they've built is a Network OS (NOS) on top of Linux. They have been involved in Switch Abstraction Interface(SAI) specifications from Open Compute Networking Projects from early days. I am excited what this brings on the table in Software Defined Networking. I really hope they open source their SAI implementation, and their NOS can be used with ONIE. So I could get a bare metal switch, install their NOS, and build network apps for my use-cases.
This is stupid...
Python may be high level in terms of relative distance to the hardware but it's not particularly high level in terms of the abstractions available. If you watch the video on the site linked you'll see that the programming style is not all that different from what you'd see if you were programming the NES in C.
Considering multiple VMs share the same CPU, at times, I don't see it as a very convenient solution unless marketed as a "premium" package which very few will purchase given that these "attacks" are not that easy to carry out.
A wearable device?
Cleaner redirection in Perl Dancer
At $250, it's basically the same price as a wooden desk (in fact, I bought a tempered glass + wood desk at 40% of this desk's price) so they have to be pushing their luck there. If it really costs that much, then it's not such a great deal after all. If it was around $60...maybe $75... I would have seriously considered getting one, though.
Microservices in C# Part 5: Autoscaling
Explore modern experimental physics
Co-workers clock each other in and out Lol
All that stuff could probably be done with apt, yum, dnf or any other package manager though. The reason they're better is because you have some fairly skilled contributors acting as the gatekeeper of the projects.

Now the nice thing about docker is you could have spent about 5 minutes to trivially docker run the app, decide if it's actually worth the effort, then untangle the mess beneath.

That's a net win in my eyes, though by the time I actually run something in production, I generally try and untangle the mess before I do. I also find it's easier to get help developers deliver something legible as sadly many of them often don't even know which packages they installed to get something running.

Listen, I'm not saying it's perfect. I specifically really don't like that Docker is basically root without Selinux (which is often turned off). I'm happy to see docker be replaced. I am however, not really interested in returning to puppet modules to handle dependencies when a container is, in my opinion, so much better.
If the 5 subjects capture all the relevant differences among humans then sure. But, for example, what if they inadvertently selected only heavy coffee drinkers? That being said, I think the strength of their paper might be the molecular experiments they did on cultured cells. The media articles lead with the human experiments because that might be more relatable.
There are many approaches to data consistency, including for example Eventual consistency, not only in databases but in any parallel programming. Different CPU architectures for example for years provided different memory consistency models with trade-offs of performance and being usable for application programmers.

It is important however behavior in this case is clearly documented.

I think there is decent documentation about Innodb describing how transactions work in Innodb http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-transaction-mo...

Galera would benefit having more clear documentation about what data consistency model exactly it provides.

At the same time Percona XtraDB Cluster, MariaDB Cluster can be used to built reliable applications assuming you're writing to their consistency model correctly.
Version detection versus feature detection
After recovering from a moment of awe, I wonder why can't the photos be in color if it has full spectrum visible light sensors? From the description:

"Ralph consists of three panchromatic (black-and-white) and four color imagers inside its Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), as well as an infrared compositional mapping spectrometer called the Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA)."
Windows 10, the stealth OS
I've been noticing that as a nasty habit picking up steam on HN. It's usually the commenter talking down to a previous commenter.
These shots are outstanding, I can make out very familiar glacial features (carved by solid nitrogen!)
>The intention with EU regulations like these is

Regulatory capture is almost always given some reason behind it. As such when determining if something was regulatory capture, the stated reasoning behind it is ignored, which is why I was asking to what extent did multinational organizations influence this decision.
Amazon Exho/Alexa is doing overall a good job in my house. Yes technicality it can listen to every words we say at home, but until now it didn't bother me much.
I found out recently one guy that had the time to get Amazon Alexa SDK / voices to work in conjunction with my Nest thermostat and recently SmartThings did integrate with the Echo too.
So it is now extremely convenient for asking Alexa to set the temperature by voice without the need to lookup for my phone or tablet, same in the evening to simply turn on the lights in a few places.
I do think that Voice Control in home automation is going to be a big plus.
What's with the EU and bringing in new financial regulations for Merchants around Christmas time??

Last year it was VATMOSS on 1 January (when lots of people are on leave and lots of purchases are made due to stores running sales, especially online).

ONS retail sales per week in the UK are £9B in December vs. £7B in April or June (last 12 months figures, http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/rsi/retail-sales/index.html).
Not to be discouraging, but I think research along these lines http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.08895 stands an exponentially better chance of leading towards what OP is talking about. For anyone interested in "building AI", read that paper and all it's references.
I've had a treadmill desk for several years now and haven't noticed any issues with this. It's fine to walk when you're just reading or doing light tasks. I do need to sit when doing concentration heavy work though.
Sorry you had a bad experience on the weekend. I've been a volunteer for 4 years so I have seen all permutations of teams that come to startup weekend (been to at least 30 events).

People who come to SW and look at is as a free way to get something built for their startup are not the target. It makes it a bit predatory and you get the reactions that you experienced. I try to warn people of this but some folks have their own ideas.

Coming with a team already formed also isn't ideal. The point of the weekend is not to start a company, its to work alongside other people and go through the exercise. With that mindset, you won't be disappointed when you "lose" but you'll gain some experience and grow your network. Thats the main point of going to the event.

If someone already is thinking about equity and contracts while doing a SW, run the other way. Its the wrong attitude for starting a company in general and in my experience generally ends up badly as they focus on the wrong things at the wrong times in other ways as well.
> Do you doubt your skills?

Not in my field, but perhaps the CtH position doesn't actually want quite what I am good at, and we didn't figure that out beforehand.

> Why are you interviewing if you're employed at a good company?

Because I've been there a long time and I'm bored, or because my boss isn't bad but isn't the best, or because opportunities for advancement seem slim, or because I want a shorter commute, or because the prospective company has a great reputation, or because I think I could work with better engineers somewhere else, or because...

I wouldn't take the chance at a CtH job because there's a significant probability that I end up totally out of a job, rather than employed in an OK (but not great) job.

Of course it's possible that I would accept a FT position and it would turn out just as poorly as a CtH that didn't work out; I would just expect that the probability of it not working out is much higher in a CtH scenario because the company I'm working for has invested far less in me than one that has hired me full time.
Exactly. In fact as a team I believe they have the power to vote him off the team. Since he registered the name and domain they can simply come up with a new name, move the code to their new domain and continue working on the startup. Billy has zero rights to the code and as such should not be allowed to make any use of it.

This pretty much leaves Billy in the same spot he's been for the last 18 months.
He is pushing back. He clearly thinks other people have value, otherwise he wouldn't have agreed to work with a business person at all.
And between members of a species - virii when reproducing using host cells can end up with transcription errors just as normal dna transcription does - and the host's genes end up part of the virus, which then infects others - this is how virii mutate and jump species.

Within 20 years gaian thinking probably won't seem so silly - we are part of a macro organism.
Read this the other day, relevant too; from an Apple UI/UX guy who just doesn't get it anymore either https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-apples-products-so-confus...
> only a dumb one would be afraid of being caught in line

Really? You begin to say they are statically insignificant and then follow by saying they wouldn't care with failed operations. That doesn't seems like an intelligent solution when you doesn't have much opportunities. I'm pretty sure by giving your life you would hope to kill more than a few dozen people... which you can do pretty much anywhere.

Sadly, any potential solutions will always seems like they aren't effective because of the likelihood of an attack.

> Why do we assume only planes will be attacked?

Who assume that? I don't...

All we can do is minimize the ratio effort:death, that include not having a huge crowd in a confined space. I remember a documentary about train technology to limit death in trains, I don't remember the conclusion, but the goal wasn't to stop explosion, just to limit death. Sure any death is bad but no solution will be perfect.
The topic is interesting but this analysis/write up is very weak. I have a bunch of question but here are some:

1. Why only two data points? That doesn't really provide us with enough information to make a judgement about ubers surge pricing algorithm.

2. Why not look at an example where an increase in demand is not predictable (ie end of a concert) if this issue was mentioned as a weakness in the first example in the study.

3. Is it really the case that NYC cab drivers are sitting at home monitoring surge pricing at 11pm before deciding whether to get in their car and drive to Manhattan or wherever there is high demand for rides in the city to start giving rides? It seems most likely the case that drivers would assume there would be some surge and would already be on the road esp in a place like NYC on New Year's Eve. It's not clear to me that this data point really works. I can't imagine a driver is sitting with his family celebrating nye and waiting for surge pricing somewhere in NYC before hopping in his car to give a ride.
There's not really any good reason to expect arrival costs to be the same as departure costs for a given location. For instance, it takes much longer to board a plane than disembark, which means there's a comparative premium on leaving from less efficient airports. So even if it weren't about maximizing price, you'd expect different costs for different directions.
> So a sensitive mic per room

Definitely exists, but it won't be inexpensive, particularly if you want only one to cover a large room. You'll be looking for a directional microphone, with a roughly 90 degree cone. Having more than one would be a boon, the narrower the cone, the greater the range (in theory).

> how does one tackle e.g. the privacy problem

If you control the hardware doing the voice processing, it's quite simple: don't log the transcripts or save the audio files. If you can have a set of "this is a command" keywords it makes it even easier, since you can shut off the recognition while a conversation is going on, so long as it didn't start with the command keywords. If you don't control the hardware, you have to place your trust in the person who does control the hardware.
Yeah but in the meantime I still have my actual cash.
My sympathies to you - I am going through something similar - I just kicked out my partner (and shutting down one of my companies as a consequence) who was supposed to handle business side of our e-commerce company that I almost-100% automated as he started to express exactly the same attitude as Billy. He had 50% profit share yet became lazy to the point of refusing to deal with customer returns and customer communication unless those are fully automated as well (the company has 100 seller rating on Amazon, dozens of 5-star feedback only, significant revenue and was profitable for what amounts to 5-10 minutes of effort a day).

Funny thing is I can respawn such a company in a week, yet all I got was some stupid power game with very little work from his side and behaving like he was my boss and I was his slave, working on his "ideas" (while he was invited by me into this company based on the ideas I already executed in other companies I created prior to this one and his task was to get the business-stuff load off me so that I could focus on creating "intelligent" automated systems instead of dealing with the boring business side).

Fail fast, kick out people that went full retard, they aren't worth your time nor effort, seriously. You can do way better on your own.
The idea of the event is to get people to work together for the weekend, see if they like working with each other, expand their network etc. Its not to do work on someone elses startup. I've seen many teams that randomly formed at Startup Weekend go on to build a real startup afterwards.
I loved this game! So vast.
Eh, I remember the early days of Google, their results really were a LOT better than the existing competition (AltaVista? other?). Whether that was mostly due to the PageRank 'secret' or not, I couldn't say (and we all know at this point Google's relevance algorithms are orders of magnitude more complex than a 'PageRank secret'), but people didn't just start using Google because it was fast, but because they found what they were looking for much better than in existing solutions. In my memory.
Of course the data was held back, it would hurt sales. This is extremely typical of psychiatric drugs. Typically we only find these things out after the drug has been on the market for a number of years, with predictable (had we known!) consequences.

Pharmas need to be held accountable for this bad behavior and all clinical trial results (including negative results) need to be 100% transparent. I am going to be blunt: this would massively hurt their bottom line. Because accountability would hurt the pharmas bottom line, it will be like pulling teeth to get any kind of legislation to fix this problem-- they love to buy politicians specifically because it protects them in times like these where they have done wrong. We need to stop allowing "because money" to be a valid reason for allowing people to get hurt.

Psychiatric drugs are huge cash cows and are very frequently (see numerous meta-analyses) only dubiously or narrowly effective. They're a stopgap for a missing mental healthcare system, and allowed a lot of leeway because of this.
Indeed. Some very smart people built the Internet over a few decades. Appropriating the work and effort of so many other people is disingenuous. Building a website does not equal "building the Internet."
CodeNow (YC W14 Non-Profit) Is Hiring an Alumni Relations Manager in NYC
Yeah but it's not proper style.
And as someone who's almost 55, we learned it from your generation, the memories were still very fresh.

And probably because I'm into these sorts of things, I also remember Sabin, who created the oral vaccine that was essential for eradication, as Wikipedia puts it:

The Sabin vaccine worked in the intestines to block the poliovirus from entering the bloodstream. In the intestines, Sabin had discovered, the poliovirus multiplied and attacked. Thus, the oral vaccine broke the chain of transmission of the virus and allowed for the possibility that polio might one day be eradicated.

I mention that in part because the only other vaccine developer I can remember (well, not counting Pasteur who's famous for a whole lot of things) is Jenner.
Ethical Adblocking
The near-term future for decentralization
Apple's 'Move to iOS' App Likely Rebranded Version of Existing Android App
With a throat mike, you could theoretically talk to your computer at a volume someone next to you could not hear.

I think voice interaction is inevitable - we can simply transfer information faster via vocal interactions than we can the keyboard or mouse (save for a few very fast typists or stenographers).
I think this series of articles :

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/miracleindustry/americas-...

is relevant in this context.
Wow, I was prescribed Paxil as a teenager for a year or so. Glad the only side effect I experienced was weight gain.
Raspberry PI 2 and analog input
It doesn't cut both ways because any common definition of God is inherently not testable, and thus excluded for science and notions such as evidence. It is a matter of faith which is largely a separate area of thought.

In short, regardless of what any individual believes, to science itself, God does not exist (unless He ever made Himself testable in some form).
How skydiving helped me become more successful in business
I think people irrationally get offended by swearing. There's a big difference between "you're gay" meant to insult somebody and "whatever gay shit you want" indicating that they think the content might be too unimportant, pretentious or touchy-feely. None of them have anything to do with actual homosexuals and doesn't sound like homophobia at all, just misunderstandings of different cultures.

That said, it can be a clue that the person might be generally disrespectful of others and to be on the lookout for real harm they may do. Though it's a dangerous slide from "does what bad people do" to "is a bad person" which is a kind of discrimination.
And why would I bother with the increased load time and complexity when I can use a framework that's natively supported? "Because Pollyfills" isn't a good enough argument.
I couldn't disargee more about Microsoft's current place in tech markets. They've lost quite a lot of weight since their 800lb gorilla days in the 90s.

They used to exploit their dominant market position to replace de-facto standards with their own: kerberos "extensions", creating ActiveX instead of just implementing NPAPI, removing JNI from the MS JVM. But they can't do that any more. They lost too much ground under Ballmer.

Now they're nearly tripping over themselves promoting their cross-platform tolerance. Run Linux in our cloud! Run our apps on all the platforms! Sync/connect our apps/devices to any service!

Source: Age 34, started with Linux in '97 (Slackware 3.2)
I've found it helpful to write several functions with the same name throughout the codebase. Also, when refactoring code, don't rewrite it completely, just clone the directory and append "_new".
No, they have debuggers and modern dev tools. They just prefer to read code from paper when they have to really focus on it for a long time.
Kartotherian: brand new OpenStreetMap tile server for Wikipedia
[source: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps#Getting_Started]

OpenStreetMap and the Wikimedia Discovery Department have collaborated to launch a new trial map tile rendering service available at https://maps.wikimedia.org . With this service we hope to encourage our community to create tools and integrations to develop new ways for readers and editors to discover Wikimedia content. We strongly believe that our knowledge engine needs to be powered by multiple entry points and think that maps are a key discovery tool.
Use your words.
Learning new programming languages
I call it the "Bill O'Reilly".

It's the either-or fallacy, also known as the false dilemma, and commonly employed by internet forum bullies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
They won't release it without your authorization - thus the access code request.
Awesome, does it work in shedskin ?

I remember them using a C64 emulator as one of the examples.
Inuit Study Adds Twist to Omega-3 Fatty Acids’ Health Story
A common response to these has been: "But you're using it wrong!!!!"

If your product is so complex or so ill-specified that full time testers can't make it work correctly, it's probably difficult for your developers to even understand or fix the problems.

We ignore how much of software development has become "it works for me under all of my default assumptions as the developer of the product—ship it," especially when faced with business deadlines and business management focused around business objectives (and maybe not so much around software quality or correctness).
No, it's a competitor to Arista, Cumulus, Pica8, OcNOS, FBOSS, etc.
That email from Billy seems pretty reasonable to me. Not to you guys more familiar with 'Startup Weekend' cultural expectations?
I am not a mean guy either, so sorry to be critical, but...

You are exactly the reason why people like Billy exist.
They take advantage of creative, perhaps brilliant people who are shockingly (shockingly, given their intelligence) naive from a life/business point of view.

It may be too long of a wait for the Karma to catch up with them :-)

Please don't enable them.
You might want to consider spending $90 for the waterproof top to protect your investment.
I guess what I mean is, "do people really need the credit card option? If you just demand they use PayPal and they want your unique service, then they'll find a way to pay".
I have nothing useful to add to the conversation. I just want to express my support for the author and my disdain for Billy.
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