skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Right now our focus is on building out the base infrastructure so that there is actually a place to build the revenue producing business we'd like to have, and then we hope to circulate that back into building more good technology." - Greg Maxwell (nullc)
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2k3u97/we_are_bitcoin...

"A lot of people think that Lightning is supposed to be some separate thing as well, but that's also planned to be transparently added to Bitcoin Core at some point. "
- Michael Marquardt (theymos)

"without an effective block limit and a functioning fee market the rational fee level is ~0; since POW security can adapt to any level, difficulty can fall to zero if fees are only paying for cpu and bandwidth, and then the system is left insecure" - Greg Maxwell (nullc)
https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/358dz7/a_nondevs_pe...

"Fees approach zero without block constraints. Therefore, we need a low blocksize limit and layer 2 solutions like Lightning." - Lightning Network dev Joseph Poon
https://youtu.be/fst1IK_mrng?t=1h31m29s

"Some people have called the prospect of limited block space and the development of a fee market a change in policy compared to the past. I respectfully disagree with that. " - Pieter Wuille
http://cointelegraph.com/news/114966/garzik-predicts-chaos-i...

Just a few I found in 10 minutes.
The thing is, people believe these guys because they come up with sophisticated stuff that looks like science fiction. It's science fiction, then it must bring lots of money, right?

This stuff works this way:

1. I come up to you and tell you that we can make risk-free* money by insuring (simplified all the BS) the price of oil for the government of Mexico. Isn't that sweet?

2. I come to the government of Mexico and tell them that they can forget about price variation and the risk of it going down. We are going to insure it for you!

So what happens?

1. The price goes up, or stays the same. We make money. I become rich. You make some interest on your capital. We celebrate. I write about it. I write a book about it. How we made lots of money and beat the hell out of the market.

2. The price goes down, really down. You lose money. You lose your capital. Your money simply disappears. I don't celebrate. Maybe I consider changing careers. And sure thing, I'll write about it. "How it all went wrong". And yeah, I still become rich.

well. Quite a world we live in.
Looks like some nice additions. I try to limit the use of .try in rails, however when working with legacy codebases it is much nicer then:

if @user && @user.address && @user.address.city
city = @user.address.city
end

Even though I write less Ruby then I once did, I still credit it as the language which shaped my career the most. I have worked so many great jobs because of Ruby.
There isn't really anyway to monkeypatch `try` to use the operator. `try` API is inherently based on metaprogramming (passing a symbol to call), and have different semantics than the operator (by default it won't throw if a non-existent method is called in a non-nil object, while the operator will thrown a NoMethodError)

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/4-2-stable/activesupport...
I use this url to use google.com https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&ned=us&tab=nw&gws_rd=ssl,...
I could argue that making the opposite claim is a pretty gross overgeneralization. It's good that your family is prepared for retirement, but most people aren't.
But just certain people for certain jobs, right? We don't need to make women feel welcome in the mining community or men in the nursing one, do we?
So to what stage of human development is this comparable? How long until crows are building computers?
Neat! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/KJ137266.1
If a single person with a laptop can damage your whole network, you have completely different issues.
Where does one find 10us reads? The NAND is usually with a Tread of 50 to 100 us so just the NAND operation itself is more than 10us.

Tprog is around 1ms and Terase can be upwards of 2ms.

All in all this means a large variability in read performance depending on what other actions are done on the SSD and how well the SSD manages the writes and erase operations in the background.

This doesn't even change with the interface (SAS/SATA/PCIe), those add their own queues, link errors and thus variability.

Then you have the differences in over provisioning that allow high OP drives to mask out better the programming and erase processes.
The stock market has a winning history because it is, to some degree, a pyramid scheme -- a growing population == more entrants paying out those who entered earlier. When the population stops growing, that premise no longer holds. See: Japan.
I agree with your conclusion, but disagree with your suggestion that you have any insight into my relationship with my parents. I also advocate a shift back to "family-orienting" living, and live my life accordingly. I'm just looking at big picture trends and simple demographics.
It is weird. A possible justification is that there are terrorist watch lists and no fly lists, and we check your name against those lists to make sure you are not a bad guy. ID is required to make sure you are who you say you are, so the check against the lists is accurate.

Of course, there is no complete list of bad guys who want to do bad things. If you are set on doing harm and are minimally organized, you can probably find someone not on the lists. And there are false positives on the lists we have.
Yes please!

http://imgur.com/KzShplA
Kevo smart lock hacked
I can tell you that EMC and IBM both use the same drives from the same batch in an entire system of tens to hundreds of drives and while I don't know about all cases completely I did oversee a large number of systems and drives and there was never a double disk failure we had that completely took two drives. With a proper background media scan procedure you also reduce the risk of a media problem in two different drives.

Ofcourse, the SSDs we use are properly vetted for design issues and bugs in the firmware actually get fixed for us in a relatively timely manner. You get that level of service with the associated large volume.
This is not so bad as most seem to think. Consider deep deep north with no sun, no wind and -40C. Pre-charged lithiums are dead too, unless you keep them warm in your trouser pocket.

At this moment however, peltier element ( https://youtu.be/R1A5qc872Ks ) makes more sense, mostly because you can use the wasted energy to boil rice or warm up your hut.
(IBMer working on said JIT here)

As Chris Seaton points out as well, we're not really open source yet. Working on getting there, but it's going to take time. The important thing now is that we can start talking with the community and making it more likely that when we do get open source, it can happen in a way consumable by the Ruby community.
I haven't heard that description of dropout and I love it. It's going to be my go to description now.
The argument here is that monopolies can only exist when the State is protecting them. In a free market with no State intervention, if an actor misbehave by abusing its position, it creates a business opportunity for competing services to spring. See the taxi industry, they offered very bad services, refusing rides, mistreating customers etc so what happened? Uber, Lyft and others saw the business opportunity to offer cheaper, more efficient services. Only in cities where the government banned the competition is the taxi industry allowed to continue its monopolistic abuses.
It's really sad that it is such a stigma in this country for the family to stick together. One can be successful AND BE PART of a loving, nurturing, close family.
Over the next few years, someone should also look into how much of that "philanthropy" money is going into Internet.org from Zuckerberg - mainly because I'd hate for him to get away with most people believing he's giving away his fortune for the good of mankind, when in fact he'd just be propping up Facebook, but with fewer taxes on his money.
You pretty much hit the nail on the head here. It really is alarming to think that we have not started to plan for this almost inevitable scenario in ~20 years time. We need to begin re-thinking our role as humans in an economy which increasingly does not require us.
That's like the subreddit "cscareerquestions" which is mostly about software engineering jobs.
Ad Blocking on a Whole New Level in Android Mobiles
The Argument for Universal Basic Income
One can see tens of ms from an SSD if you run it long enough and hard enough. It is also possible to get hundreds of ms and even seconds if the SSD is getting bad.

It's true that 99% of your IOs will see service time of below 1ms but it's the other 1% that really matters to avoid getting late night calls or even a mid-day crisis.
Figuring out what your company is all about
If a business initiates force against you or damages your property, you should have the legal right to attack them.
The problem with this list is it essentially reads as if it were compiled by someone who just reads TechCrunch/Hacker News/Twitter all the time. There's no insight and it could easily be someone's investor portfolio, as someone else mentions (even though it is started by a student). The most telling aspect is how strongly it's influenced by "what's hot" right now. There are now a bunch of AI teams at large and small companies, which is a new addition to the list that wasn't there before. Has the author actually worked there or personally known people that worked there? Or is the author just jumping on the ML bandwagon in tech?
Wyoming?
That's partially true, but it does seem to find it's way in production on lots of low traffic sites.
You do know that "korv" is simply the Swedish word for "sausage" right?

What you had was probably "Potatiskorv" or "Potato Sausage": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potatiskorv
> Monopolizing force and using it to promote egalitarian principles is a fundamental part of what makes Western civilization.

Yes, I think giving up force to a monopoly is a terrible idea. Also, I don't see how forbidding two consenting adults from committing victim-less crimes (ie non-legal mutual contracts) is promoting equality. If anything, it's promoting tyranny.

> and I think you'll find yourself part of a vanishingly small minority in believing so (very fortunately, even for you, even if you don't realize it).

Yeah, I was told the same thing living in a very religious country when telling people about my atheism so I'm used to this kind of patronizing. Funny how Statism sounds exactly like religion. Bastiat was right when he said the State replaced the Church with little differences.
Show HN: Curated News from Hacker News, Designer News, Product Hunt and 9 More
There's also salesforce's apex
Cool, thanks for clearing that up. And thanks for working on this, I know with the questions it can sometimes seem like it's not appreciated... :)
Perhaps it's not demand but supply? I imagine there are probably significantly more GBAs (as the market grew) out there than original gameboys... Especially considering the original is older so fewer are likely functional.
The problem is not being near family. It's being near family and working in the fields that we want, or for pay that can support our own families the way we want to. I couldn't get a job paying better than $60k a year in the town my parents live in as a programmer. And there are so few I'd be lucky to get even that.
If you like hilarious, sardonic, but also sincere writing, you should read, "Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?" by Dave Eggers. He founded McSweeny's.

It's a fictional story read as a dialogue (Socratic method). It's not stuffy post-modern fiction. Very readable.

http://www.amazon.com/Your-Fathers-Where-Prophets-Forever/dp...
> Once things moved on to Quake a lot of my friends lost interest in trying to "figure it out" as the editor was more challenging.

Moving to constructive solid geometry (CSG) map editing was really hard for a lot of people, myself included. I ended up learning on Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight, which was subtractive and a lot more like how Doom felt to me.
No. We might have fusion power plants within a few decades, but those will use deuterium and tritium as fuels, not Helium-3. Helium-3 fusion has some advantages, but it's more difficult and it might not happen within our lifetime.
It's not done yet but super useful as is! I'm thinking of adding a music section powered by hypem.

I would love to hear your thoughts! Do you like seeing posts from multiple websites in one feed?
I just spent the last couple of nights watching Doom II playthroughs on Youtube and now this shows up on HN. Sweet!

I still have the (unfinished) wad I created back in the late 90s using WADED from the Tricks of the Doom Programming Gurus. Barely rescued it from a floppy disk over a decade ago that reported the file size as over a gig. Now that I think about it, I hope the CD I recorded to is still good.
> dcraw from Dave Coffin has been online for ages and is the basis (in a way or another) of most of open source RAW processing software.

That is actually not true. Yes, _some_ free/libre apps do use, but if you look closer, they probably make 1/2 of free software, and it's the least capable half.
A radio telescope on the far side of the Moon would have the advantage of being shielded from all the radio interference from Earth.

I'm not sure that there are any advantages to placing an optical telescope on the Moon rather than in space.
I've seen crows in Berlin on multiple occasions dropping chestnuts on the road near traffic lights, wait until they are cracked open by cars driving over them, then picking up the marrow when the traffic light goes red. Probably not as advanced as tool usage but still impressive to watch.
I also make mine available online but do it a bit different.

I have a public dotfiles project on Github. In addition to my dotfiles it includes a symmetrically encrypted tarfile of a secrets folder that contains keys and other sensitive info.

To recover my keys I only need access to github, gpg and the password for the encrypted tarfile.
Nah, I must have missed yours.
Difference Between Convert.ToInt32(), Int32.Parse() and Int32.TryParse()
It's got an elegant syntax, great for meta-programming (tends to be useful in large and/or complex applications), strong community (there are gems for almost everything, i.e. no need to reinvent the wheel over and over again).

It's used by some interesting applications, such as Github, Shopify, Heroku, Square, Zendesk and AirBnB.
Ask HN: Why is HN Christmas theme using the deprecated font tag?
Extracted from http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/darktable-2-0-relea...:

> The port to Gtk+3 widget set is yet another major change that you might or might not care about much. It's mostly to bring darktable up to date with recent changes in Gtk+ and simplify support for HiDPI displays (think Retina, 4K, 5K etc.)
Funny Indian Video (MUST WATCH)
> Our favorite editor at the time was DEU

DCK (Doom Construction Kit) was a huge game-changer when it arrived IMO. One of the most user-friendly DOS applications I had ever used. I just loved working in DCK. Only the Build Editor managed to rival it. Ben Morris later went on to work on WorldCraft/Hammer at Valve.
Shortly before the crisis broke, Naseem Taleb came to the office to meet me and my colleagues. Hilarious character, and irreverent. He told us calculations were stupid and reminded us about ludic fallacies, narrative fallacies, and so on.

My colleagues still contrived to lose $250M over about 8 weeks, blowing up the firm and the investors. One investor lost his job immediately because of it. The money was lost in very obvious way, somewhat similar to what this guy was up to, a big options trade gone wrong, in a market that was not big enough for the biggest fish to escape.

What's sad is people understand the basic statistical principles. You don't know if the future will be like the past. Things move together in a crisis. The more independent tests you make, the more confident you can be in a result. (Ie if you can guess a daily coin flip right 55% of the time, that's better that being able to guess an annual coin flip 80% of the time.) And so on. But somehow investors are almost blind to everything other than recent return.
On Time V2 – Dynamic Apps with Tasker Support
Misleading headline. Should be 'What I learned from losing $200M of other people's money'. The answer is, of course, nothing.
What Happens to Hermione in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Infossible
And here I am, working over SSH -- every stroke requires a round-trip. Over a high-latency link, that's sometimes a few seconds between a batch of characters appear :-)
there was no mention of philanthropy, it was PR stunt.

All Zuckerburg did was move his wealth to a private LLC, it's the degenerate media and press that interpreted it as "philanthropy", probably to get some Likes on their FB post.
It's a good point that a lot of editor latency issues aren't specific to typing. One thing that has always annoyed me is if an editor has slow find-and-replace for large files or projects.

I also find it interesting that you claim that humans don't notice latency under 100ms as though it is established fact, considering the OP spends basically the whole first section trying to debunk that incorrect but commonly quoted belief.
It was the same for me. Where I'm from I'd have been very lucky to have made the equivalent of 20k USD per year as a programmer and there were/are very few positions available.
Merry Christmas Everyone!

I created HitByWords this year, an iOS app which helps people explore news with Google Trends.

This is totally a passion project since I got a day job and only can spend my spare time building it. Due to serious time and budget constrains, I am only able to develop this app piece by piece. Though I am very enjoy the process :)

The motivation to build this app is I read news everyday but sometimes I cannot relate some reports. But I feel if a report is published by a credible news source, the event or accident is supposed to be crucial for some people in the world and I should feel sympathy. Like today an astronaut phones wrong number from space and I found people in London, Birmingham and Manchester have high interest in "Tim Peake" through Google Trends, which makes me feel this is a real thing.

I still have a lot of ideas to implement and try to make this app a better tool to explore news.

Hope my explanation is clear enough since English is not my first language.

Questions, comments, and suggestions are welcomed.

[0] http://www.hitbywords.com/
[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hitbywords-browse-explore/id...
> How is drug use a character trait?

Some people will observe the effect of drugs on themselves and avoid them or limit the consumption because of it.

Some people will actively seek drugs despite the risks and downsides because they want an easy solution for life's problems and that's the character trait I mean.
We do. But as programmers, we're generally not in a position to do anything about those.
From wikipedia:

The rover, Yutu, reached the moon on 2013/12/14, encountered operational difficulties after about one earthly month, though it continued to gather useful information for some months afterward.

From the OP:

"The rover has recently beamed back data"

I haven't found any explanation on how it started sending data again, if it just fixed itself, or if a patch was sent up etc...
Here comes SuperBoss
>Regardless, this has nothing to do with how the brain learns, but rather the function it has learned.

The learning rule and the hypothesis class together dictate what sort of function is learned.

>Even if a neural network somehow used entirely local learning rules, it could still be exploited with this method.

Yes, which is why current neural networks may not be the best learning method.
I spent many years building levels for Doom/Build engine games, and I also had trouble moving to the void-space model of the Quake engines. Unreal, with its subtractive CSG model, was the next step for me, and felt so right in comparison.
Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition Now Available on Mac, SteamOS and Linux
Using the new python API in Apache Flink v0.10.1
New Orleans Pelicans vs. Miami Heat Live S.t.r.e.a.m.i.n.g
Roller coasters it is.
Please add API in near future :)
New research on how Unicorn companies Grow
Links dont work on my iphone :(
I just did quick measurements for vim 7.4 and emacs 23.4.1 in xterm, rxvt/urxvt, and gnome-terminal. The results depend most strongly on the terminal type. emacs' latency is always a bit (0.1-0.3ms or so) lower than vim's. Apart from that, xterm was around 1.1ms, (u)rxvt around 17.5ms, and gnome-terminal around 26.2ms. I wonder where the delay in rxvt compared to xterm comes from.
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There isn't exactly a stigma regarding living in close proximity to your family. The thing is that previous generations fled the cities for the suburbs (partly because of racism), and since then we've realized suburbs are awful places and people are starting to move back. Most people's parents live in the suburbs, so if you want to live in a city you can't live nearby.
I definitely will, and I'll let you know when it's done. :)
Off topic. What's this Twitter feature calle? It looks neat.
Belmont: I think the MWRA water itself is OK, but then the local towns modify it. I remember Brookline water was even worse tasting somehow.
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Agreed. Been using Ruby for a few years now and it never stops being enjoyable. Hoping it keeps going for many more years!
Paper: http://m.jneurosci.org/content/35/46/15307.short
You perceive sensory inputs within a 100ms window as occurring simultaneously. That does not mean that you cannot notice the difference between a 10ms latency and 50ms latency. Your may well perceive variations of latency, just not on a conscious level as a delay. The author asserts that high subliminal latency leads to higher discomfort and decreased productivity. I cannot find any studies on this right now, but it should be pretty straightforward to measure experimentally.
lobste.rs code https://github.com/jcs/lobsters
This isn't very surprising to me. 18 miles away on average is probably significantly farther away than the rest of the world
Or the kids will say, "I'm sorry, but I'm moving where the jobs are, and I'm going to have a life of my own. I'll come visit you once a year, but I'm not giving up my life for yours."

The good parents will say, "Good! Don't sacrifice your chance for happiness for me. I'll make it through."
Let us not judge from Intellectual Ivory towers, the facts on the ground are 80% of Indians do not have internet access. You sometimes have to try "impure" methods. The question is still up in the air, whether FB Basics is gateway to full internet or if it is a walled garden. Either way, it is better than No Access. The immediate retort I get is, why not facebook provide free internet access to poor. Guys, is it their responsibility to give internet connection without any thing in return? How about asking that to your IAS uncle? or Politician neighbor.

The Net Neutrality activists of India, are bunch of middle class disconnected from poor activists. They think their idealogical purity is paramount than a dirty limited connection for the poor.

I am afraid populism will one more time win the day, while NN activists take a victory lap, the India's poor now will not have any form of connectivity.
The "Reply" button isn't working for me. I submitted an item, someone replied, I'm trying to reply to them, the cursor shows that I'm hovering over the button, the button changes color, but clicking does nothing.