skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would also include Ricochet[1] in the list of decentralized messaging tools, which is centered around Tor hidden services.

[1] https://ricochet.im
I don't expect any job actually programming pays more than that, even if you are literally doing 1 1/2 jobs (60 hrs/wk). Only way to get that kind of pay and work for someone else is as an executive and a higher up VP/CTO/CIO etc.

Keep that job and don't spend all that money in one place. You might be one of those folks who can retire while they are (relatively) young.
It's pretty difficult to defend the proposition that catching errors in unit tests is superior to not making them.
All I'm willing to say here is that I work in financial services.

Actually, one of the reasons why I mentioned patio11 above was because it would interesting to talk to him about this kind of stuff given he's also trying to change how tech companies hire talent.

I've thought about trying his star fighter project, but it's another example of "invest a lot of time on the side in doing something tangentially related to work that may be construed as fun, and you can maybe get an interview from it".

That's what has been illustrated in a lot of the comments on this thread. "Why not learn Ruby?" "Why not contribute to OSS on the side?" "Why not keep up with new technologies?" It's work, that's why. Sure, it can be fun and fulfilling but I already spend 55-60 hours a week doing this stuff, and I have other interests. Am I really expected to do all of this stuff on the side just to get a job at a highly desirable place like a YC startup?

Let's use star fighter as an example. I already work in financial services. To some people who work on apps and user interface design and have never worked in financial services before, I could get the appeal of working on something new... But to me, star fighter is just doing my job outside of work hours in an attempt to get another job. I would rather keep solving problems at my own company, and increase my value to them in the process...

...but that means I'll just write more "Enterprise" Java, and not learn new things! It's a catch-22.
All three of the photos in the article are taken within a block of each other, and I know the woman in the pea-coat walking away from the train.

Finland is a really small place.
I used to leave wide gaps, but then I found that market economics started to apply and my gaps were just filled by other drivers looking to arbitrage my attempts at stabilizing the economy. Making matters worse, they would just cut me off when their lane slowed, causing the market to suddenly crash in my lane. So now I leave no gaps.
The beauty of Uber is you don't have to order when you hit the street. Order when you are still in the office/pub etc. Obviously it's not nice to make the drivers wait, but at the same time you can let them almost arrive before heading to the street. Uber sends that 'arriving' pre-warning to let you know.
There are plenty of websites which exist that have two options for revenue, either take ads, or make people pay to view your content. Some websites are purely driven by the users' content, and there isn't a real revenue model, so that's what your left with, either the users pay, or someone else does. Bills gotta be paid, but when push comes to shove, users don't pay the bills for a lot of this type of content, so ad's are the only option left.

There is no middle ground. It's not as easy as "your website offers so little that it shouldn't exist", it's simply "users block ads, and they don't want to pay for access", so there's really no great options here.

However, ad's don't have to be pure evil. Sure they might be not be preferred, but we can totally create an environment in which we have non-intrusive, non-privacy invading advertisements, it's just a matter of figuring it out.
Ask HN: How to start developing distributed software?
I want to start building distributed applications like chats, forums, etc. What is the easiest way to start? What papers/software/blog posts, etc. to read?
There's not that much cutting art "web tech" here. In other areas though, there's loads of innovative tech here.
I've heard it surmised that the biggest advantage the United States has in terms of entrepreneurship is our incredibly lax bankruptcy laws. It's easy to start a company, fail, and maintain the ability to do it again. This is partly cultural (we don't look down on failure very much) but also is structural (failing doesn't ruin you for life). That isn't true of many countries.
Funny that they seem to have switched the paper's title and figures from Kevin Spacey to Tom Hanks http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.00752
Is there some leaked "source" that claims that Satoshi is American too ?

PS: Getting kidnapped for ransom is not so uncommon in third world countries.
I think you give Dora to much credit. Yes, the show has educational advisors, but I've always viewed that as a mechanism to gain parents trust to leave their children infront of the Dora marketing machine for 30mins a day.

For example the repetitive sing songs are not educations theory, simply an animation trick to fit the show to the timeslot available. Ie. Script ended 10seconds short, no problem just loop "I'm a map" 3 more times.
Classic marketing pitch from a little company that wants to claim it's much more significant than it is:

1. Claim a must-have set of requirements that ...
2. ... happen to match its product's feature set ...
3. ... but not its competitors.'

http://slamdata.com/whitepapers/characteristics-of-nosql-ana... is presumably the core of the argument.

I tend not to pay attention to such claims until the company rephrases them more honestly.

That said, a brief discussion of what is really happening is in http://www.dbms2.com/2015/09/10/mongodb-update/ Would more be better? Sure.
See also: FizzBuzz
> "What do you like to do on the weekends?"

I code for fun in Ada.
Meet the newest member of the PostgreSQL community: MongoDB, Inc
An Xbox One can easily sit on the shelf for 3-4, or even more, years before being sold. Not quite the typical use-case...
I was strictly speaking about getters and setters, and I do maintain that they are completely stupid and useless. If you're writing your 10 kLOC side-project, then sure, just use them and take comfort in knowing that there's a tool out there that you can just add to the toolset. You're (almost) the only one working on this project, there are no clear steps for how to setup a working environment because you gradually built it along the road.

But when you're on a 10 MLOC projects that's been touched by hundreds of people for decades, most of which just can't program and aren't there anymore to fix the mess they left, with untouched original parts still being the core of your system, with nobody having a clear picture of how the whole thing works because it's been divided in so many parts that interact through a poorly-defined, undocumented interface, then you become extremely wary of adding anything because you don't want to complicate things further, but you still have to make it work, because it actually solves a problem for the customer.

The more you can remove, and the less you need, the happier you will be. Using lombok or having the IDE do it may solve the problem, but there is a much better alternative: remove the problem altogether.
What do you think people would do to him? I'm not sure I understand the 'danger' you seem to perceive.
I've used a number of similar services; delicious, spurl and now diigo.

I've been very happy with diigo for a long time, but I feel like I'm a bit of an outlier on the service. Most users are in the education sphere, so using it to discover similar content to what I'm bookmarking isn't as good as what refind seems to surface.

Still, if anyone is looking around for something to use; diigo is worth checking out.
I wonder what actually qualifies as a musical hallucination? I listen to some fairly experimental music. I often hear sounds that remind me of that music, to the point that I perceive those sounds as music themselves. John Cage taught me this.
No, no, no, no. You miss the point.

If you claim to be a scientist, you leave your personal beliefs at the lab door and abide to the experimental results. If you cannot do that, you pick a different subject of study and let some other unbiased scientist pick on the thorny (for you) subject.

How would you feel if Hawkings were a Christian, and he would take money from the Pope and then wrote a report on how he saw Jesus in the black hole?
> I wonder if Steven Wright has any open source code that we could review.

I've been looking, and so far the only thing I've found is this: https://digital-forensics.sans.org/blog/2009/04/24/code-skil...
I just had my company go over and put this in the manual I basically took 3 days in the last two years i was like yeah we need to fix this.
Author here. The demo on the page is just meant to be an example. You would typically choose a mapping to your liking / kind of editor. In that sense paredit.js is meant more to be a "middleware" and the ace editor front-end is one way to make use of it. The project is used in cloxp [1,2] and atom-paredit [3]

[1] http://cloxp.github.io/cloxp-intro.html
[2] http://cloxp.lively-web.org/cloxp.html
[3] https://github.com/MarcoPolo/atom-paredit
"I really don't think submitting papers to similarly minded groups in the name of "peer review" is an uncommon occurrence"

Yes it is. It's not just uncommon, it's simply unacceptable in regular scientific research. Don't believe me, here's Prof. Happer's own words:

Verbatim from William Happer's email:

"For example, Golkany knew the names of the reviews he received, but for a journal, the peer reviewers would normally be anonymous.

.

.

Unless we decide to submit the piece to a regular journal, with all the complications of delay, possibly quixotic editors and reviewers that is the best we can do, and I think it would be fine to call it a peer review"

He knows exactly what he's doing is wrong and why. He's deliberately engaging in a a sleight of hand in order to deceive the casual reader/listener with the words "peer review".
they keep their money in banks, which most certainly have full security detail.
Yeah actually that is a really good point. The place is integral for connectivity on the west coast.
That's mostly evidence for my theory: he's an egomaniac trying to sell a story. Almost all of this goes back to him or the leaker as a matter of faith. It all appears way after Bitcoin appears. Everything about how he presents himself comes off as playing to a mystique to draw people in.

I'd buy the leaks if the hacker posted a message as Satoshi using stolen credential and linked to this article. Meanwhile, the "hacker" is probably Wright with nothing to do with Satoshi other than make money on his name.
I left this page open overnight on thedailybest.com and woke up in morning with "FirefoxPatch.exe" attempting to download (clean install of W10). Will not visit this site again.
We pay $300/mo for 35/5 TWC Business Class in West LA. It's a complete rip off, but there are few other options. Verizon DSL is available up to 5Mbps, or we could hard wire a T1 for $1k/month.

I'm optimistic about Google Fiber but I'll believe it when I see it.
Yahoo kills $32bn Alibaba stake spin-off
I think most of the controversy around the Planned Parenthood tapes was around the editing not the style of journalism.
I give a lot of credit to "The Electric Company" as well. Because the episodes were repeated so much, some of these memes still stick with me today, including "You Drive Me Up the Wall" which packed humor, double-meaning of phrases, idiom, and reading into one little skit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6eNoTF_hNY
It's being flagged down by the 'oh no they're going to kill satoshi' crowd; based on pts and time it should be the #1 post atm.
He's presumably a computer geek sitting on a fortune that can be stolen and transferred without FinCEN knowing or able to do crap. I think that's enough reason to keep his identity secret.
> (until very recently)

What happened?
First month is free, and contract doesn't kick in until after that. For me the math worked:

Was paying $100/month for 20Mb Comcast. Now paying $40/month for 30Mb Sonic. Penalty for breaking the 12 month contract early is $150. So after 2.5 months of good service, I'm in the black even if I have to cancel early.

Anecdotally, their technicians were the smartest I've ever met. I learned a lot about DSL and how they get 30MB out of 2 lines. I also learned that my 2014 MacBook pro can't even handle more than ~20Mb over wifi. My iPhone 6S is now running at about 27Mb, and I get 35Mb when wired to the router. I'm in the Inner Richmond.
Born to Be Conned
Depends on what you compare it to. Less huge than replacing oil and coal?

Besides, you don't need to check for current, you check for prices. Which would be simpler.
500 million, but Not a Single One More
It does work with SmartOS
GitLab support is on the roadmap. If you need it asap we can prioritize it high for you - email me rsingh@distelli.com and we can come up with a shared schedule.

Same with 2FA. Its on the roadmap and we can accelerate that as well. Search in docs is work in progress currently.
Silent Disco?
I'm in Seattle, and I have gigabit (www.gowaveg.com) in my apartment. It's $80/month, and I get ~15ms latency to AWS West (Oregon). It's wonderful.

Wave G has an interesting model - they mainly hook up apartment buildings (it used to be called "Condo Internet"). They are experimenting with hooking up houses on the street as well - they're doing fiber to the home in the Eastlake area, but I don't know if that's working out yet.

I love them. When we moved to Seattle we only looked at apartments that had Wave G service. I'm going to be very sad when we move out of Seattle and have to return to normal Internet. But so far this model is encouraging, if non-inclusive to people outside the nice apartments.
I've only interviewed at one, but yes, it was the exact same for me. They asked me about school projects and times I acted like a "leader". No technical questions whatsoever, other than asking stuff like what programming languages I liked.

I left feeling very confused, but after I received the offer, I realized it was basically a grunt work position, despite what the original job listing said.
The key is to be happy that you're helping other people change lanes more easily (often a hard thing to do in traffic). It's not going to make much difference in your arrival time.
I'm upvoting you so that others can see an example of incorrect thinking for traffic problems.

Throughput is only one goal for traffic. One can see immediately that a minute of flow at 15mph is equivalent to a minute of stop/go traffic at 30mph equally divided. Similarly, a minute of flow at 15mph is less than a minute of stop/go traffic at 45mph. The latter is NOT the goal of a congruent traffic system because it will result in decreased safety. Eliminating gridlock is a priority for all traffic engineers.

The more important goal for traffic is safety. It is also immediately evident that constant, predictable traffic patterns result in lower accident rates than unpredictable changes like those found in stop and go traffic. Stop and go traffic encourages tailgating, aggressive lane changing, and aggravated driving.

The phrase "you have more space you have more time" does not imply "MORE traffic". It is actually the people driving with this type of mindset that create the traffic, not the person in front.
I should have said "isn't a valid case of legal free speech in the United States".
Confirming it based on the same leaked information which can't entirely be corroborated.
Excellent, I await an actual gigabit connection and support people that actually know what their doing.
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Wait till this is on dating sites so you can see people's mannerisms before you meet them.
I'm glad you wrote because I was wondering about that. The stuff I've seen on Satoshi seemed to indicate a precise, engineer's mind. He should also have a certain programming and writing style with quirks that would be hard to entirely eliminate in revision. My method would be to compare the code/writing of the "maybe Satoshi" to Satoshi's.

Your comparison indicates they're highly unlikely to be the same person. Come to think of it, Wrights words are one of the only things we can attribute to him and evaluate in this. The rest can be made up crap and probably is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10699846
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I think there is probably value for inexperienced programmers, or people that don't know how to properly write their resume, but for experience programmers, it seems like an unnecessary extra step. Going through a bunch of interview questions from TripleByte just to skip a 45 minute phone screen is absolutely unnecessary and not worth it, especially since you will have to go through the entire onsite anyway.

As I mentioned, I had about a dozen interviews, with both YC and non-YC companies, and had no trouble getting contacted directly by any company.
I can't remember the last time I was happy sitting in traffic, or feeling empathetic. If I have to slam on my brakes because others are feeling particularly opportunistic, it will only lead to cynicism.
I feel like they'd at least be smart enough to use a tumbler if they were pulling it from known seized funds. They could also just give the investigator a $300 prepaid debit card card and have him buy some BTC on Coinbase.
> I thought basic income and negative income tax were two different concepts?

Unconditional basic income in a progressive tax system is equivalent to a form of negative income tax system. You can achieve exactly the results of the UBI as an NIT, if you set the parameters correctly.

NIT looks income conditional (since additional income will reduce the tax subsidy by some proportion), but that's no different than additional income being taxable in a UBI system.

(Though many NIT proposals, including, IIRC, Friedman's original, reduce the incentive to work compared to a simple UBI on top of the existing tax system because the effective tax rate on the first effective "bracket" of income on top of the UBI is very high -- 50% in Friedman's proposal -- which retains some of the seen-as-adverse effects of means-tested social benefit programs that NIT/UBIs are usually proposed as an alternative to.)
There are many people here who spend their day job writing algorithms to monitor people's responses to certain stimuli -even down to the individual level - in order profile users and tailor services to ensure that a few advertising cents per person are spent efficiently.

I'm genuinely unable to fathom why when it comes to solving the diverse, expensive and very real problems a social safety net is designed to capture, that "give everyone a fixed large chunk of cash each year" is so widely perceived as the "most efficient" solution on here.

The separate ideal world argument that BI would ensure that people don't "have to" work (unless they're foreign, obviously) obviously flies a little in the face of the efficiency argument too.
Satoshi is very probably Nick Szabo...
This story is so vague, it is basically meaningless. The limited experiment may or may not happen in x years.

I understand that people here WANT it to happen and therefore discuss it as if it WILL happen. Unfortunately reality is going to get in the way.
The sinister thing about this is it allows people to divine their own truths and meanings from seemingly "objective" fact, more often then not just reinforcing previous biases and predispositions. This can also be used to explain away a problem with a position or argument that a journalist favors.
The truth will out, complicated character-assassination plots notwithstanding.
Avatars in multiplayer games.
Well in 2014 they did finally repeal the rule that prevented the network hardware from being installed:
http://www.geekwire.com/2014/seattle-approves-bill-allows-fi...

Then they fixed the TV franchise issues:
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/seattle-city-council-approves-l...

As a result of the first CenturyLink started rolling out (expensive) fiber, and after the second CL started offering Prism TV. So I think most of the blocking issues have been fixed now. Remains to be seen if/when Google Fiber will reconsider Seattle.
If you're good at stats and scientific writing, there is money to be made in ghost writing research papers for pharma. They give you the raw trials data, you work it up and write the analysis.
When it snows, does your town pick up shovels or call for reinforcements?
A/B testing has two big and obvious problems. One is that A/B testing can only lead to a local maxima in the best case scenario. The other is that A/B testing, being about statistical hypothesis testing, is prone to interpretation problems, which is why the changes you introduce in the variation have to be small, otherwise you don't know what you're measuring.

In other words, yes it can help you optimize the color or size of a Buy Now button. But it can't help you build a product.
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They weren't actually hacked as far as anyone knows. They just discovered a private key had been leaked and invalid the certificate.

But yeah, their services are buggy as crap.
Much more likely, it seems, is that he's concerned about the blocksize debate and wants to come up with a sound technical solution. If Satoshi is smart, he understands that 'governing' Bitcoin is the greatest challenge. Removing himself from a dictator role was a smart move, but we're seeing some structural issues in the current leadership. If he did return, I think it would be to revisit how to navigate the future of Bitcoin.

If he wants to unload the coins, it's pretty simple: make a series of transactions that are time-locked to happen at particular intervals. Because other market participants know the coins won't be unloaded at once, but at regular intervals, there is no panic event. The selling pressure (and more importantly, the knowledge of the selling pressure) would affect the price, but not in a catastrophic event.

I also think people regularly underestimate the role of ideology in what happens to those coins. Not everyone is so motivated by a fortune that they'd risk their wonderful creation. The fact that they haven't moved yet is compelling evidence, though obviously precludes nothing.
I was referring to the pro-growth/housing measures that won in the municipal election last month. Though it's hardly disruption, as it is "finally dealing with."
Are you sure it isn't 300/20?

(also you have a pretty good deal - I have 200/20 for $80)
Possibly because we could all make arguments for why google could pick where we live to install fiber.
"comparisons of different archived versions of the three smoking gun posts from Wright’s blog show that he did edit all three—to insert evidence of his bitcoin history. The PGP key associated with Nakamoto’s email address and references to an upcoming “cryptocurrency paper” and “triple entry accounting” were added sometime after 2013."
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I'm not a java programmer (my knee jerk reaction to quickly bang out an MVP would mostly be python), but this negative attitude towards Java seems unfair. There's a lot more to the Java universe than just enterprise Java. There are companies using Java that do cool stuff at large scale, and very reliable. Netflix is heavily Java, and nobody would (at least I wouldn't) argue that their tech is dull. Even if you are looking for pure hip factor, there's things like vert.x, and all these other JVM languages, which are not Java per se, but one of the selling points of those languages is it can utilize tons of libraries in the java ecosystem if needed. The last argument against java would be its verbosity and productivity (lack of), but I'd argue Java has one of the best IDE support among all languages, which helps alleviate the problem significantly.
McCaul wants new commission on encryption and law enforcement