skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, let's revert to 1988! Great solution! Muchly of advance!
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates Musical-Comedy Headed to Broadway
Yeah I was using that as a transition to talk about Mike's other contributions. His bitcoinj contributions are hundreds of thousands of lines. Also I said "Lines of code are only a proxy for impact" and unfortunately there's probably no realistic measure.

I'm not a bitcoind contributor and this is more of a generic observation about how open source projects are controlled in general.
“Interview with Girls of the Dark”
This is the whole point of a Phase 1 trial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_clinical_research#Ph...
Interestingly air marshalls get arrested more frequently than they make arrests (as of 2010 at least).

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/04/the_effective...
I don't think anyone claimed they shouldn't.
OAuth with JSON Web Tokens in .NET
I thought it was about about operating systems when I saw the name. Kind of like OSnews. Probably should've been OSSwatch.
Yeah, like GitHub. Can you believe how socialist their intro statement is:

"GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over 12.4 million people use GitHub to build amazing things together."

I mean, it doesn't use the word 'technical' once!
Yeah that's exactly what I think. Software forking (and even blockchain forking) allow us to "vote with our feet" so we don't need to mandate central control.
Blandford Manor Bans 'Problem Children' from Its Venue
This is pretty much where gun control is right now. Obama was in 'tears' using the Sandy Hook shooting to justify his executive orders, but those executive orders changed nothing that would've prevented the shooting from occurring. The shooter hadn't gotten his weapons through the supposed/alleged 'gun show loophole', for example.

It just lets him claim he 'did something', and makes the base democratic voters happy.
I'm not OP but the creator of this "game". Nice to see my experimentation here !

Sorry for that so bad crossbrowsing, clip-path property is not easy to use. Safari and IE won't work apparently.

Ask me anything about it, I'll take time to answer !
No one said or implied any of what you're saying. Did we or did we not get more money back from the banks than we gave? That was the question, and the answer was we did.

No one's making value judgements about that, it's just a statement of undeniably true fact. That is the literal definition of profit, and the US government made a profit on the loan.
Sure, but you severely limit your potential knowledge if you have to hunt down an expert in person to learn something (especially if you couldn't use the internet to find the expert!).

If you find yourself enthralled in a subject after learning about it on Wikipedia/YouTube you can still find an expert and learn even more. Being seconds away from being able to learn about anything in the world is extremely powerful.
I am now reading every article on the site, putting off more important things.
Study: Talent Gap Holds Back Blockchain in Capital Markets
Versus learning from the first person you come across in real life? Or not at all because it's all too hard compared with searching the net?
The BLS gives a further breakdown of part-time (defined as 1-34 hours) at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t08.htm .

What is your goal here? I think you agree with me that "Not to be pedantic .. the average full time worker only works 1700 hours a year" is actually incorrect, yes?

Are you trying to judge the accuracy of "an average American who works 50h a week,50 weeks out of the year"? If so, the second link I gave, to the Gallup poll, addresses that somewhat (see http://www.gallup.com/poll/175286/hour-workweek-actually-lon... ).

The question is "in a typical week, how may hours do you work?" Employed full-time said 46.7 hours, and employed part-time said 25.9 hours. Further, "Forty-three percent of U.S. adults in the August 2014 survey tell Gallup they are employed full time, down from about 50% in the Work and Education polls conducted each August before the 2007-2009 recession. Meanwhile, the percentage who work part time has consistently hovered near 9%." I figure that as:

>>> (46.7*0.43 + 25.9*0.09) / (0.43 + 0.09)
43.099999999999994

so the average working American works 43+ hours per week. Certainly not as extreme as 50 hours per week, but then again, as you point out, there's a skew to the numbers; and "average" could mean mean, or median, or even mode.

How do PT ads for "10, 15, or 20 hours of work a week" add up to that much time? I suspect that many part-time employees have multiple part-time jobs.

It's also true that people may lie to Gallup pollsters.
Their mobile app has advanced in leaps and bounds in the last year.

Also, payment is way easier than it was before. Less bouncing back and forth.
Don't recall saying anything about government or private companies. A bit strange to claim how only an individual can know what they need on an article about what people need. And I explicitly meant more prep than I can indeed do in 2 hours or with a month's discretionary income, not to mention the possibility of helping others do it.

I can see you're really chomping at the bit to attack, attack, attack somebody, but why don't you go find a better target? Or, failing that, stop jamming words in my mouth and then attacking those?
This series of posts has become quite the circle-jerk.
You don't test Phase 1 anticancer drugs in healthy volunteers. So likewise monoclonal antibodies for Parkinson's should probably be first tested in the affected population.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3678815/
In 16 years, this has only happened once. I had an application running on 64-bit MySQL. We had a legacy app running on 32-bit Oracle. New CTO came along and made me switch the new app to Oracle since he didn't want to support two DB platforms. Didn't have ORM or Stored Procs (MySQL didn't support SP at the time). The SQL wasn't that complicated, but it took me a week to convert the whole thing. Downgrading to 32-bit DB slowed it down considerably. I left the company once the update went live.
Ethyr: no-bullshit encrypted email, now on IndieGoGo
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10898507
The problem is actually the perception of a disease as handled- once it does no longer produce acute infections.

This view of a long term problem, hinders actual solutions - like attempts to predict future mutations - and have medication already made, should the disease leave its reservoir and reappear. The black plague in Europe was "defeated" several times and returned.
Nobody's saying it should be illegal for them to censor. They're saying that they shouldn't censor.
John Titor Time Traveler from 2036 November 2000
I wrote a response to this because I recently shut down my company, but when I was finished I realized that none of the advice was actionable, and I didn't know of a good framework for this.

I visited a lot of coworking spaces and met people working on things that had been doing so for years with no traction. Some of the people clearly didn't what problem they are trying to solve. Some really solid advice or a framework for when to know your business is toast would be an anti-sv culture thing, but could be extremely useful for helping people get their life back on track.
The problem however is that a nation's currency is arguably the primary source of it's sovereignty. Whomever controls the currency primarily used in a nation, controls the nation

How does Canadian Tire Money work then? :^)
I just find it ironic that they're using the concept of sharing economy to get started and then want eliminate massive amounts of jobs to really rake in the money.
Would you port x86 code, like say the Apache web server, to this chip? Or is it basically a memory constrained little device that you are writing a driver for, from scratch?

Seems like you would learn the rules, even though they are a bit odd, easily enough while writing something from scratch, or maintaining an existing (somewhat) small driver program.

Agreed, though, be aware (or just beware?) that this chip is quite different, and new skills MUST be learned.
thanks Andy; this is helpful information.
Tumblr save Yahoo? Wow. The other day I logged into Tumblr for the first time in ages, and there was a HTML5 animation thing in the background which completely froze Safari on my recent MBP.

Completely unusable, even with the fans spinning so hard I thought the thing was going to take off.
> destructor leaks

Right, I'm not saying C++ is perfect either. I feel like Rust made a wrong turn here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3404ml/prepooping_you...

> reliance on macros

I'm referring specifically to try!.
Block size isn't a free parameter. The team behind btcd, a Bitcoin full node written in Go, made the following observations about block size [1]:

1. a 32 MB block, when filled with simple P2PKH transactions, can hold approximately 167,000 transactions, which, assuming a block is mined every 10 minutes, translates to approximately 270 tps

2. a single machine acting as a full node takes approximately 10 minutes to verify and process a 32 MB block, meaning that a 32 MB block size is near the maximum one could expect to handle with 1 machine acting as a full node

3. a CPU profile of the time spent processing a 32 MB block by a full node is dominated by ECDSA signature verification, meaning that with the current infrastructure and computer hardware, scaling above 300 tps would require a clustered full node where ECDSA signature checking is load balanced across multiple machines.

For context, a meager 300 tps is less than 10% of what VISA does - hence this solves no long standing problems in Bitcoin, yet it condemns all the nodes to run in compute clusters in datacenters. Naturally, "small blockists" as we're called, point out that this isn't how Bitcoin works today at all. Forcing nodes into compute clusters in remote datacenters is a major, sweeping departure from nodes running on home networks with consequences both forseeable and unforseeable.

[1]: https://blog.conformal.com/btcsim-simulating-the-rise-of-bit...
The current system for USD is pretty close to ideal. Short term money is creating through lending, long term money through bonds.

It's a great mechanism and could be readily adapted to digital currencies. Have a group of banks that may issue loans in the currency and have a central authority that will issue bonds and pay interest on them in the currency. Set the lending rate to under the bond rate to "bootstrap" the initial currency flow, then manage it from there.

Management could be automated by computers to constantly find the optimal rates for loans and bonds.
Historic+Secret+Societies+That+Are+Truly+Terrifying
TGN1412 was a different trial that happened in 2006: it's mentioned in the article as a similar incident because it hospitalized six men.
> nation's currency is arguably the primary source of it's sovereignty

Not really. Many countries do not mint their own currency, and other mint currency but peg its value to another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_substitution

What constitutes sovereignty is complex. It mostly comes down either legal recognition of sovereignty (de jure) or physical/guns on the ground control (de facto).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty
The controversy isn't black-and-white and I'm not sure why this letter is painting it that way. GitHub can be a major boon to open source and have core issues which make it incredibly frustrating to work with the service.

The dilemma is about the sum of the parts.
Interesting but not detailed. It says:

Lithium-ion: Li-ion is reasonably harmless but spent packs should be disposed of properly. This is done less to retrieve valuable metals as with lead acid, but for environmental reasons, especially with the growing volume used in consumer products. Li-ion contains harmful elements that are at the toxicity level of electronic devices.

At what price does recovering LI make sense? Must recycling be done with lead acid? Are there other ways in the works? How much energy does recycling LI take, versus mining it?
You're probably right! I don't use organization accounts so I'm not sure what was the issue, it would be to prevent haters to troll on every project of a particular company?
Came here for the exact same comment. And, while at it, consider also FOSSwatch, as the free software people do not think that open soure includes their philosophy.
I think you underestimate inertia. Once encrypting JS is just a checkbox in your IDE, management and lazy developers will just check it.
This drug was tested on chimps before humans. It's right in the article.
Invoices can contain credits as well as charges. In some cases these might net out to zero but there would still be a legitimate reason to send the invoice showing that detail.
Yes, but most fraud is hitting merchants via charge back and they don't like it. Bitcoin reduces merchant fraud, and that's the point; it's cash, when you buy something with cash you don't get to take it back after you get home. Cash is always more risky for the customer, but you can build up escrow systems on top of said cash system to handle customer fraud issues. Bitcoin solves the merchant fraud problem by giving them an option besides the fraud ridden and unsafe credit card system and the evil charge back that hurts so bad. It's hard to sell things online when you have to deal with card fraud and charge backs.

This notion that "customers" must have fraud protection is false; people use cash every day without any fraud protection. The credit card companies have sold people on the idea of fraud protection because it's necessary in a system when you give your private key (card number) to every merchant you deal with and your private key is often stolen. Credit card protection is a solution to a badly designed pull based credit card system; it solves a self created problem. A cash based system like bitcoin does not require fraud protection, it's cash.
Training near your 1-rep max is as much about training your nervous system as it is your musculoskeletal system.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golgi_tendon_reflex
and
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-golgi-tendon-reflex.htm
These systems fulfills all the requirements in yesterday's world. And more importantly, they fulfill the requirements of the company's operating organization; not their customer's.

Modern customers want real-time data and analysis. They want all of their information available on the web, mobile, sms, email, API. They want a modern technology experience.

A DOS program consuming data via EDI and Excel-based input is a good candidate for the worst technology to do these types of things.
I assume this is a response to the "Dear Github" letter. I'm fairly certain that everyone involved in that letter (including myself), is very appreciative of Github and its impact on OSS. That letter didn't feel ungrateful or malicious at all to me, but I sure hope it didn't come off that way to others.

What I do frequently see with Github, is that they've managed to work their way into almost being beyond reproach. This letter feels like an example of that...Almost like Github needs someone to stand up for it in light of some meanies picking on it.

It's a good product. We should give credit where credit is due, just don't forget it's a product. A (by all indications), very profitable product that wants to make money off you. That is its goal and purpose in life, and OSS furthers it. For the record, I think this is a good and healthy relationship, but we shouldn't pretend it's some FOSS group or non-profit out struggling to provide us with Git hosting.
Braintree as well, which has a site and api that work very well. PayPal's on the other hand...
A single caretaker. Not even the self-proclaimed regent lives there. Yours is hardly a convincing argument.
I knew about the chat, but it's not really the same thing at all. That's as if Facebook removed the ability to comment on posts, but said "Oh it's cool, we still have chat!"

It works ok, as you say, if you just want to say "Great job," but it's not the same use case.
What I meant is, who do you give a vote, and what do they get to vote on?

If I were a developer, I wouldn't want to work on things that the vocal/voting people want to use. I want to work on the topics that I like. Even if the participants voted on something, it is not binding to anybody.
By coincidence I just did a couple of CNC cutting gigs. It just came out of nowhere. It's not programming but still interesting and really refreshing since it's tangible. You can learn simple stuff quickly.

I have to disappoint you. Finding clients is always time-consuming. Not really painful but sometimes can be hard and you feel like there are 1m thick steel walls everywhere.
Lords urge government to reconsider national ID card
Ah, this seems very interesting, but I am sadly not sure I would pay $35.95 for access.
Unfortunately they are also the most efficient way to move a disproportionate amount of cargo over international waters, they get terrible "mileage" but when you consider tonne/miles instead of raw distance per gallon of fuel they are "efficient" compared to alternatives.

Unless we plan on equipping civilian vessels with nuclear reactors or somehow make storing gigantic hydrogen fuel cells safe the situation isn't going to change much.
I am not at home, but as I recall, the kernel freezes during boot for both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions. The 32 bit version of OpenBSD also freezes during kernel boot but the 64 bit version does not. I know it is not an EFI issue as legacy booting is turned on.
I hear it's incredible in QC
IMHO, agile is a bad fit for a lot of legacy, heavily-employeed companies.

Would it be incorrect in saying that agile has an implicit position of "if you don't trust this developer, fire them"? Which I think is much more of an option in a startup than some politicized offices.
Thank you! Incomplete though that may have been, it still was very educational.
Because Disney.

They drew from the works of The Brothers Grimm, and once established, refused to contribute their own works back in like kind.
> Interesting. Is this a new thing?

What is the single "thing" you're referring to and what is "new" relative to?

I interpret hahainternet's comment to refer to at least three new things in Perl 6 relative to Perl 5: Perl 6 has a carefully developed type system, roles support parametric polymorphism, and both static and dynamic type constraints on parameters are supported.

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You earlier wrote "If you want two different behaviours, write two different functions". But hahainternet had written two different functions. This suggests you hadn't then yet taken on board what multidispatch is (a fundamental innovation -- from the 80s iirc -- related to declaring and calling functions).

Then you responded to hahainternet's "This would bloat a 4 function stack into something like 20 different functions." with "Let the difference in behaviour live somewhere more appropriate ... on an object that contains the data (OO style) ..." without realizing that that's less appropriate, not more:

"In the presence of multiple dispatch, the traditional idea of methods as being defined in classes and contained in objects becomes less appealing" (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch).

A similar argument applies to callbacks.

All in all I'm guessing you haven't yet seen the light about multidispatch and a read of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch#Perl_6 might help clear some things up.
100 years ago, American women competed in Venus de Milo competitions
I'm honestly not sure (I don't have a Tumblr myself; I just read my wife's blog!) I think that probably users could block comments from people, or have some kind of moderation over their own, but I'm not sure about flagging or any system globally.
Fakespot should create a chrome extension - extremely useful when I navigate Amazon.com
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Why not let it write movie reviews forever? Perhaps they're really good reviews. I'd say Roger Ebert had a life well lived. Making such a decision is probably a sign that we really had achieved AGI.

Likewise, if people can use Bitcoin or some other digital currency to achieve some measure of independence from existing states, it will have achieved something important. Perhaps something important of the scale you mention will come about, but it will take more time.
I was confused too, but discovered that on OSX, the game never starts in Chrome or Safari, but it works in Firefox.

In Chrome & Safari, even if you reload with the mouse over the white box, any mouse or keyboard event at all results in You Lose.

In Firefox, this is a very cool exercise!

It got a lot easier to win as soon as I stopped trying to only move left/right, and started moving up/down too.
Really easy to beat on mobile. Just tap the white box, then sit back and watch. :)
Goldman Sachs risk assessment division assessed risks to them very accurately.
No matter what crazy optimized-for-decentralization algorithm you come up with to mine cryptocurrency, large investors are going to buy a ton of it and put it in datacenters in China. Newbies and people invested in alternative attempts at Proof of Work often complain about this longstanding issue while utterly failing to solve it themselves.
Got it, it's easy to cheat but the challenge is more in the development. Nice hack ;)
Silicon Valley Is Like Cheap Fashion
Yishan Wong writes a lot about that to.
http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/
Machine Learning Trends: An Interview with Wise.io CEO, Jeff Erhardt
I think part and parcel of this issue is just how much capital investment the nascent bitcoin saw before its technical limitations and capabilities were known. Capital investment brings conservatism where new technologies thrive on the freedom to evolve. These opposing forces are apparently a key existential threat to bitcoin now.
Because they're Twitter and apt to invest in a panoply of diverse products to cater to different styles of learning.

Not that Twitter especially cares for learning, although it is no secret we tend to come back to products that we learn from. (Learning being an ingrained human trait that has not gone away)
Golang, ORMs, and why I am still not using one
It mostly comes down either legal recognition of sovereignty (de jure) or physical/guns on the ground control (de facto).

It usually comes down to the latter. De jure sovereignty without physical control gets overrun by de facto.

I wonder if either Japan or China would grant de jure sovereignty to a seasteading platform anchored to that sinking island both of them want so badly? Then the new nation could grant their supporter some economic rights in exchange for military support.
You'd really have to be clueless to go bankrupt after a big lotto win.

For any of the three lucky winners, here's my suggestion:

Let's say you won $160 million. Take 5% off the top, so that's $8 million, and invest the rest conservatively with a target appreciation of 5% per year (get a GOOD financial advisor).

Your goal is to live for five years on the $8 million. Let's say you spend $4 million in the first year on a nice new house/estate, pay off all your debts, and buy a few toys like cars. That leaves you with a $1 million a year budget for the next four years - which should be plenty even including around the world vacations etc.

If you've hit your 5% investment goal, your nest egg is now worth $193 million - $33 million more than you started with. Now, take $15 million for your next five years - you've got a $3 million a year lifestyle now (though you will have to pay some tax on that for long-term capital gains). That left $178 million in your account. After the next five years, it's worth $228 million. And so on...